ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Shinhyeok Oh, Dongyub Lee, Taesun Whang, IlNam Park, Seo Gaeun

Thank you BART! Rewarding Pre-Trained Models Improves Formality Style Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

Zero-shot Fact Verification by Claim Generation

Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang

In Factuality: Efficient Integration of Relevant Facts for Visual Question Answering

Peter Vickers, Nikolaos Aletras, Emilio Monti, Loic Barrault

OntoGUM: Evaluating Contextualized SOTA Coreference Resolution on 12 More Genres

Yilun Zhu, Sameer Pradhan, Amir Zeldes

An Empirical Study on Adversarial Attack on NMT: Languages and Positions Matter

Zhiyuan Zeng, Deyi Xiong

Training Adaptive Computation for Open-Domain Question Answering with Computational Constraints

Yuxiang Wu, Pasquale Minervini, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel

Exploration and Exploitation: Two Ways to Improve Chinese Spelling Correction Models

Chong Li, Cenyuan Zhang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang

An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov

AligNarr: Aligning Narratives on Movies

Paramita Mirza, Mostafa Abouhamra, Gerhard Weikum

Discrete Cosine Transform as Universal Sentence Encoder

Nada Almarwani, Mona Diab

DefSent: Sentence Embeddings using Definition Sentences

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Exploring Listwise Evidence Reasoning with T5 for Fact Verification

Kelvin Jiang, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin

Happy Dance, Slow Clap: Using Reaction GIFs to Predict Induced Affect on Twitter

Boaz Shmueli, Soumya Ray, Lun-Wei Ku

Measuring and Improving BERT’s Mathematical Abilities by Predicting the Order of Reasoning.

Piotr Piękos, Mateusz Malinowski, Henryk Michalewski

On Orthogonality Constraints for Transformers

Aston Zhang, Alvin Chan, Yi Tay, Jie Fu, Shuohang Wang

Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation

Xin Zheng, Zhirui Zhang, Junliang Guo, Shujian Huang, Boxing Chen

Modeling Task-Aware MIMO Cardinality for Efficient Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Hongfei Xu, Qiuhui Liu, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong

Men Are Elected, Women Are Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia

Jiao Sun, Nanyun Peng

Quantifying and Avoiding Unfair Qualification Labour in Crowdsourcing

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

Using Adversarial Attacks to Reveal the Statistical Bias in Machine Reading Comprehension Models

Jieyu Lin, Jiajie Zou, Nai Ding

Zero-shot Event Extraction via Transfer Learning: Challenges and Insights

Qing Lyu, Hongming Zhang, Elior Sulem, Dan Roth

ROPE: Reading Order Equivariant Positional Encoding for Graph-based Document Information Extraction

Chen-Yu Lee, Chun-Liang Li, Chu Wang, Renshen Wang, Yasuhisa Fujii

PRAL: A Tailored Pre-Training Model for Task-Oriented Dialog Generation

Jing Gu, Qingyang Wu, Chongruo Wu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu

On Positivity Bias in Negative Reviews

Madhusudhan Aithal, Chenhao Tan

eMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Tasks

Tiberiu Sosea, Cornelia Caragea

MOLEMAN: Mention-Only Linking of Entities with a Mention Annotation Network

Nicholas FitzGerald, Dan Bikel, Jan Botha, Daniel Gillick, Tom Kwiatkowski

Enhancing Descriptive Image Captioning with Natural Language Inference

Zhan Shi, Hui LIU, Xiaodan Zhu

Neural Retrieval for Question Answering with Cross-Attention Supervised Data Augmentation

Yinfei Yang, Ning Jin, Kuo Lin, Mandy Guo, Daniel Cer

A Semantics-aware Transformer Model of Relation Linking for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Tahira Naseem, Srinivas Ravishankar, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Young-Suk Lee

Reinforcement Learning for Abstractive Question Summarization with Question-aware Semantic Rewards

Shweta Yadav, Deepak Gupta, Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman

Higher-order Derivatives of Weighted Finite-state Machines

Ran Zmigrod, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell

Multilingual Agreement for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang

Anchor-based Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages

Tobias Eder, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser

UMIC: An Unreferenced Metric for Image Captioning via Contrastive Learning

Hwanhee Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Kyomin Jung

WikiSum: Coherent Summarization Dataset for Efficient Human-Evaluation

Nachshon Cohen, Oren Kalinsky, Yftah Ziser, Alessandro Moschitti

How effective is BERT without word ordering? Implications for language understanding and data privacy

Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield

A Span-based Dynamic Local Attention Model for Sequential Sentence Classification

Xichen Shang, Qianli Ma, Zhenxi Lin, Jiangyue Yan, Zipeng Chen

Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning

Abiola Obamuyide, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia

What’s in the Box? An Analysis of Undesirable Content in the Common Crawl Corpus

Alexandra Luccioni, Joseph Viviano

An Improved Model for Voicing Silent Speech

David Gaddy, Dan Klein

Enforcing Consistency in Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing

Nitish Gupta, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner

AND does not mean OR: Using Formal Languages to Study Language Models’ Representations

Aaron Traylor, Roman Feiman, Ellie Pavlick

Doing Good or Doing Right? Exploring the Weakness of Commonsense Causal Reasoning Models

Mingyue Han, Yinglin Wang

Relative Importance in Sentence Processing

Nora Hollenstein, Lisa Beinborn

The Case for Translation-Invariant Self-Attention in Transformer-Based Language Models

Ulme Wennberg, Gustav Eje Henter

Is Sparse Attention more Interpretable?

Clara Meister, Stefan Lazov, Isabelle Augenstein, Ryan Cotterell

Machine Translation into Low-resource Language Varieties

Sachin Kumar, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Shuly Wintner, Yulia Tsvetkov

Gender bias amplification during Speed-Quality optimization in Neural Machine Translation

Adithya Renduchintala, Denise Diaz, Kenneth Heafield, Xian Li, Mona Diab

N-Best ASR Transformer: Enhancing SLU Performance using Multiple ASR Hypotheses

Karthik Ganesan, Pakhi Bamdev, Jaivarsan B, Amresh Venugopal, Abhinav Tushar

Saying No is An Art: Contextualized Fallback Responses for Unanswerable Dialogue Queries

Ashish Shrivastava, Kaustubh Dhole, Abhinav Bhatt, Sharvani Raghunath

Automatic Fake News Detection: Are Models Learning to Reason?

Casper Hansen, Christian Hansen, Lucas Chaves Lima

How Helpful is Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Table-to-Text Generation?

Sayan Ghosh, Zheng Qi, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava

Are VQA Systems RAD? Measuring Robustness to Augmented Data with Focused Interventions

Daniel Rosenberg, Itai Gat, Amir Feder, Roi Reichart

Video Paragraph Captioning as a Text Summarization Task

Hui LIU, Xiaojun Wan

Attention Flows are Shapley Value Explanations

Kawin Ethayarajh, Dan Jurafsky

Counterfactuals to Control Latent Disentangled Text Representations for Style Transfer

Sharmila Reddy Nangi, Niyati Chhaya, Sopan Khosla, Nikhil Kaushik, Harshit Nyati

Uncertainty and Surprisal Jointly Deliver the Punchline: Exploiting Incongruity-Based Features for Humor Recognition

Yubo Xie, Junze Li, Pearl Pu

Difficulty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation

Runzhe Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao

Enhancing Entity Boundary Detection for Better Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Chun Chen, Fang Kong

Coreference Resolution without Span Representations

Yuval Kirstain, Ori Ram, Omer Levy

On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation

Ernie Chang, Xiaoyu Shen, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Vera Demberg

Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References

Nir Sweed, Dafna Shahaf

Vocabulary Learning via Optimal Transport for Neural Machine Translation

Jingjing Xu, Hao Zhou, Chun Gan, Zaixiang Zheng, Lei Li

Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing

Kayo Yin, Amit Moryossef, Julie Hochgesang, Yoav Goldberg, Malihe Alikhani

UnNatural Language Inference

Koustuv Sinha, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau, Adina Williams

Intrinsic Dimensionality Explains the Effectiveness of Language Model Fine-Tuning

Armen Aghajanyan, Sonal Gupta, Luke Zettlemoyer

Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory

Deng Cai, Yan Wang, Huayang Li, Wai Lam, Lemao Liu

Scientific Credibility of Machine Translation Research: A Meta-Evaluation of 769 Papers

Benjamin Marie, Atsushi Fujita, Raphael Rubino

All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text

Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Suchin Gururangan

Mind Your Outliers! Investigating the Negative Impact of Outliers on Active Learning for Visual Question Answering

Siddharth Karamcheti, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-fei, Christopher Manning

Discriminative Reranking for Neural Machine Translation

Ann Lee, Michael Auli, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato

Beyond Noise: Mitigating the Impact of Fine-grained Semantic Divergences on Neural Machine Translation

Eleftheria Briakou, Marine Carpuat

Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?

Nada Aldarrab, Jonathan May

Language Embeddings for Typology and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning

Dian Yu, Taiqi He, Kenji Sagae

StructFormer: Joint Unsupervised Induction of Dependency and Constituency Structure from Masked Language Modeling

Yikang Shen, Yi Tay, Che Zheng, Dara Bahri, Donald Metzler

SpanNER: Named Entity Re-/Recognition as Span Prediction

Jinlan Fu, Xuanjing Huang, Pengfei Liu

Transition-based Bubble Parsing: Improvements on Coordination Structure Prediction

Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee

Hate Speech Detection Based on Sentiment Knowledge Sharing

Xianbing Zhou, Yang Yong, Xiaochao Fan, Ge Ren, Yunfeng Song

Conditional Generation of Temporally-ordered Event Sequences

Shih-Ting Lin, Nathanael Chambers, Greg Durrett

ReadOnce Transformers: Reusable Representations of Text for Transformers

Shih-Ting Lin, Ashish Sabharwal, Tushar Khot

ADEPT: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task

Ali Emami, Ian Porada, Alexandra Olteanu, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler

Improving Paraphrase Detection with the Adversarial Paraphrasing Task

Animesh Nighojkar, John Licato

ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, AbdelRahim Elmadany, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi

Sean Trott, Benjamin Bergen

TIMEDIAL: Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in Dialog

LIANHUI Qin, Aditya Gupta, Shyam Upadhyay, Luheng He, Yejin Choi

Cross-replication Reliability - An Empirical Approach to Interpreting Inter-rater Reliability

Ka Wong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo

DialogueCRN: Contextual Reasoning Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Xiaoyong Huai

Space Efficient Context Encoding for Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation with Graph Attention Transformer

Fabian Galetzka, Jewgeni Rose, David Schlangen, Jens Lehmann

Using Meta-Knowledge Mined from Identifiers to Improve Intent Recognition in Conversational Systems

Claudio Pinhanez, Paulo Cavalin, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro, Ana Appel, Heloisa Candello

The R-U-A-Robot Dataset: Helping Avoid Chatbot Deception by Detecting User Questions About Human or Non-Human Identity

David Gros, Yu Li, Zhou Yu

Lexical Semantic Change Discovery

Sinan Kurtyigit, Maike Park, Dominik Schlechtweg, Jonas Kuhn, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Dynamic Contextualized Word Embeddings

Valentin Hofmann, Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

Verb Knowledge Injection for Multilingual Event Processing

Olga Majewska, Ivan Vulić, Goran Glavaš, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Anna Korhonen

Learning Prototypical Functions for Physical Artifacts

Tianyu Jiang, Ellen Riloff

Dissecting Generation Modes for Abstractive Summarization Models via Ablation and Attribution

Jiacheng Xu, Greg Durrett

Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization with Limited Parallel Resources

Yu Bai, Yang Gao, Heyan Huang

EmailSum: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization

Shiyue Zhang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Mohit Bansal

Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization via Question Answering

Feng Nan, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Kathleen McKeown

ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining

Alexander Fabbri, Faiaz Rahman, Imad Rizvi, Borui Wang, Haoran Li