ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Are Missing Links Predictable? An Inferential Benchmark for Knowledge Graph Completion

Yixin Cao, Xiang Ji, Xin Lv, Juanzi Li, Yonggang Wen

The statistical advantage of automatic NLG metrics at the system level

Johnny Wei, Robin Jia

Privacy at Scale: Introducing the PrivaSeer Corpus of Web Privacy Policies

Mukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson, C Lee Giles

Neural semi-Markov CRF for Monolingual Word Alignment

Wuwei Lan, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu

Evaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs

Iman Munire Bilal, Bo Wang, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter, Adam Tsakalidis

Joint Verification and Reranking for Open Fact Checking Over Tables

Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih

Inter-GPS: Interpretable Geometry Problem Solving with Formal Language and Symbolic Reasoning

Pan Lu, Ran Gong, Shibiao Jiang, Liang Qiu, Siyuan Huang

Mid-Air Hand Gestures for Post-Editing of Machine Translation

Rashad Albo Jamara, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger, Josef van Genabith

Multimodal Multi-Speaker Merger & Acquisition Financial Modeling: A New Task, Dataset, and Neural Baselines

Ramit Sawhney, Mihir Goyal, Prakhar Goel, Puneet Mathur, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Learning Latent Structures for Cross Action Phrase Relations in Wet Lab Protocols

Chaitanya Kulkarni, Jany Chan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Raghu Machiraju

Metaphor Generation with Conceptual Mappings

Kevin Stowe, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Nanyun Peng, Smaranda Muresan, Iryna Gurevych

Polyjuice: Generating Counterfactuals for Explaining, Evaluating, and Improving Models

Tongshuang Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel Weld

DExperts: Decoding-Time Controlled Text Generation with Experts and Anti-Experts

Alisa Liu, Maarten Sap, Ximing Lu, Swabha Swayamdipta, Chandra Bhagavatula

Language Model Augmented Relevance Score

Ruibo Liu, Jason Wei, Soroush Vosoughi

Question Answering Over Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Apoorv Saxena, Soumen Chakrabarti, Partha Talukdar

End-to-End Training of Neural Retrievers for Open-Domain Question Answering

Devendra Sachan, Mostofa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Neel Kant, Wei Ping

Learning Dense Representations of Phrases at Scale

Jinhyuk Lee, Mujeen Sung, Jaewoo Kang, Danqi Chen

On the Efficacy of Adversarial Data Collection for Question Answering: Results from a Large-Scale Randomized Study

Divyansh Kaushik, Douwe Kiela, Zachary C. Lipton, Wen-tau Yih

Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes

Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri

Regression Bugs Are In Your Model! Measuring, Reducing and Analyzing Regressions In NLP Model Updates

Yuqing Xie, Yi-An Lai, Yuanjun Xiong, Yi Zhang, Stefano Soatto

Accelerating Text Communication via Abbreviated Sentence Input

Jiban Adhikary, Jamie Berger, Keith Vertanen

Multi-hop Graph Convolutional Network with High-order Chebyshev Approximation for Text Reasoning

Shuoran Jiang, Qingcai Chen, Xin Liu, Baotian Hu, Lisai Zhang

Determinantal Beam Search

Clara Meister, Martina Forster, Ryan Cotterell

A Novel Estimator of Mutual Information for Learning to Disentangle Textual Representations

Pierre Colombo, Pablo Piantanida, Chloé Clavel

Super Tickets in Pre-Trained Language Models: From Model Compression to Improving Generalization

Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Minshuo Chen, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu

GhostBERT: Generate More Features with Cheap Operations for BERT

Zhiqi Huang, Lu Hou, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Xiao Chen

Length-Adaptive Transformer: Train Once with Length Drop, Use Anytime with Search

Gyuwan Kim, Kyunghyun Cho

CCMatrix: Mining Billions of High-Quality Parallel Sentences on the Web

Holger Schwenk, Guillaume Wenzek, Sergey Edunov, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin

Beyond Offline Mapping: Learning Cross-lingual Word Embeddings through Context Anchoring

Aitor Ormazabal, Mikel Artetxe, Aitor Soroa, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre

Measuring and Increasing Context Usage in Context-Aware Machine Translation

Patrick Fernandes, Kayo Yin, Graham Neubig, André F. T. Martins

Selective Knowledge Distillation for Neural Machine Translation

Fusheng Wang, Jianhao Yan, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou

BERTGen: Multi-task Generation through BERT

Faidon Mitzalis, Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia

Controllable Open-ended Question Generation with A New Question Type Ontology

Shuyang Cao, Lu Wang

DYPLOC: Dynamic Planning of Content Using Mixed Language Models for Text Generation

Xinyu Hua, Ashwin Sreevatsa, Lu Wang

OpenMEVA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Open-ended Story Generation Metrics

Jian Guan, Zhexin Zhang, Zhuoer Feng, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding

Long Text Generation by Modeling Sentence-Level and Discourse-Level Coherence

Jian Guan, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding

Keep It Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text

Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Marti A. Hearst

A Neural Transition-based Model for Argumentation Mining

Jianzhu Bao, Chuang Fan, Jipeng Wu, Yixue Dang, Jiachen Du

Argument Pair Extraction via Attention-guided Multi-Layer Multi-Cross Encoding

Liying Cheng, Tianyu Wu, Lidong Bing, Luo Si

Multi-Label Few-Shot Learning for Aspect Category Detection

Mengting Hu, Shiwan Zhao, Honglei Guo, Chao Xue, Hang Gao

Dual Graph Convolutional Networks for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Ruifan Li, Hao Chen, Fangxiang Feng, Zhanyu Ma, Xiaojie Wang

StructuralLM: Structural Pre-training for Form Understanding

Chenliang Li, Bin Bi, Ming Yan, Wei Wang, Songfang Huang

Document-level Event Extraction via Parallel Prediction Networks

Hang Yang, Dianbo Sui, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

CLEVE: Contrastive Pre-training for Event Extraction

Ziqi Wang, Xiaozhi Wang, Xu Han, Yankai Lin, Lei Hou

Unleash GPT-2 Power for Event Detection

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Viet Lai, Franck Dernoncourt, Thien Huu Nguyen

Fine-grained Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature based on Knowledge-enriched Abstract Meaning Representation

Zixuan Zhang, Nikolaus Parulian, Heng Ji, Ahmed Elsayed, Skatje Myers

Joint Biomedical Entity and Relation Extraction with Knowledge-Enhanced Collective Inference

Tuan Lai, Heng Ji, ChengXiang Zhai, Quan Hung Tran

Learning from Miscellaneous Other-Class Words for Few-shot Named Entity Recognition

Meihan Tong, Shuai Wang, Bin Xu, Yixin Cao, Minghui Liu

PRGC: Potential Relation and Global Correspondence Based Joint Relational Triple Extraction

Hengyi Zheng, Rui Wen, Xi Chen, Yifan Yang, Yunyan Zhang

An End-to-End Progressive Multi-Task Learning Framework for Medical Named Entity Recognition and Normalization

Baohang Zhou, Xiangrui Cai, Ying Zhang, Xiaojie Yuan

SENT: Sentence-level Distant Relation Extraction via Negative Training

Ruotian Ma, Tao Gui, Linyang Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

CIL: Contrastive Instance Learning Framework for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

Tao Chen, Haizhou Shi, Siliang Tang, Zhigang Chen, Fei Wu

BERTifying the Hidden Markov Model for Multi-Source Weakly Supervised Named Entity Recognition

Yinghao Li, Pranav Shetty, Lucas Liu, Chao Zhang, Le Song

Attend What You Need: Motion-Appearance Synergistic Networks for Video Question Answering

Ahjeong Seo, Gi-Cheon Kang, Joonhan Park, Byoung-tak Zhang

Good for Misconceived Reasons: An Empirical Revisiting on the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation

Zhiyong Wu, Lingpeng Kong, Wei Bi, Xiang Li, Ben Kao

PhotoChat: A Human-Human Dialogue Dataset With Photo Sharing Behavior For Joint Image-Text Modeling

Xiaoxue Zang, Lijuan Liu, Maria Wang, Yang Song, Hao Zhang

Learn to Resolve Conversational Dependency: A Consistency Training Framework for Conversational Question Answering

Gangwoo Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Jungsoo Park, Jaewoo Kang

xMoCo: Cross Momentum Contrastive Learning for Open-Domain Question Answering

Nan Yang, Furu Wei, Binxing Jiao, Daxing Jiang, Linjun Yang

Robustifying Multi-hop QA through Pseudo-Evidentiality Training

Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sang-eun Han, Dohyeon Lee

Generating Query Focused Summaries from Query-Free Resources

Yumo Xu, Mirella Lapata

Focus Attention: Promoting Faithfulness and Diversity in Summarization

Rahul Aralikatte, Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Sascha Rothe, Ryan Mcdonald

Capturing Relations between Scientific Papers: An Abstractive Model for Related Work Section Generation

Xiuying Chen, Hind Alamro, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Xiangliang Zhang

BASS: Boosting Abstractive Summarization with Unified Semantic Graph

Wenhao Wu, Wei Li, Xinyan Xiao, Jiachen Liu, Ziqiang Cao

RepSum: Unsupervised Dialogue Summarization based on Replacement Strategy

Xiyan Fu, Yating Zhang, Tianyi Wang, Xiaozhong Liu, Changlong Sun

Long-Span Summarization via Local Attention and Content Selection

Potsawee Manakul, Mark Gales

TGEA: An Error-Annotated Dataset and Benchmark Tasks for TextGeneration from Pretrained Language Models

Jie He, Bo Peng, Yi Liao, Qun Liu, Deyi Xiong

Bridging Subword Gaps in Pretrain-Finetune Paradigm for Natural Language Generation

Xin Liu, Baosong Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Haibo Zhang, Weihua Luo

POS-Constrained Parallel Decoding for Non-autoregressive Generation

Kexin Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Dayiheng Liu, Weizhen Qi, Jiancheng Lv

Improving Encoder by Auxiliary Supervision Tasks for Table-to-Text Generation

Liang Li, Can Ma, Yinliang Yue, Dayong Hu

Guiding the Growth: Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation through Step-by-Step Rewriting

Yi Cheng, Siyao Li, Bang Liu, Ruihui Zhao, Sujian Li

PHMOSpell: Phonological and Morphological Knowledge Guided Chinese Spelling Check

Li Huang, Junjie Li, Weiwei Jiang, Zhiyu Zhang, Minchuan Chen

Automatic ICD Coding via Interactive Shared Representation Networks with Self-distillation Mechanism

Tong Zhou, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction with Shallow Aggressive Decoding

Xin Sun, Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Houfeng Wang

Multi-perspective Coherent Reasoning for Helpfulness Prediction of Multimodal Reviews

Junhao Liu, Zhen Hai, Min Yang, Lidong Bing

Controversy and Conformity: from Generalized to Personalized Aggressiveness Detection

Kamil Kanclerz, Alicja Figas, Marcin Gruza, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Jan Kocon

Cross-modal Memory Networks for Radiology Report Generation

Zhihong Chen, Yaling Shen, Yan Song, Xiang Wan

What is Your Article Based On? Inferring Fine-grained Provenance

Yi Zhang, Zachary Ives, Dan Roth

SMedBERT: A Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Model with Structured Semantics for Medical Text Mining

Taolin Zhang, Zerui Cai, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Bite Yang

Neural-Symbolic Solver for Math Word Problems with Auxiliary Tasks

Jinghui Qin, Xiaodan Liang, Yining Hong, Jianheng Tang, Liang Lin

Math Word Problem Solving with Explicit Numerical Values

Qinzhuo Wu, Qi Zhang, zhongyu wei, Xuanjing Huang

Lexicon Enhanced Chinese Sequence Labeling Using BERT Adapter

Wei Liu, Xiyan Fu, Yue Zhang, Wenming Xiao

MulDA: A Multilingual Data Augmentation Framework for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual NER

Linlin Liu, Bosheng Ding, Lidong Bing, Shafiq Joty, Luo Si

An In-depth Study on Internal Structure of Chinese Words

Chen Gong, Saihao Huang, Houquan Zhou, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang

A Unified Generative Framework for Various NER Subtasks

Hang Yan, Tao Gui, Junqi Dai, Qipeng Guo, Zheng Zhang

A Conditional Splitting Framework for Efficient Constituency Parsing

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li

Adapting Unsupervised Syntactic Parsing Methodology for Discourse Dependency Parsing

Liwen Zhang, Ge Wang, Wenjuan Han, Kewei Tu

Coreference Reasoning in Machine Reading Comprehension

Mingzhu Wu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Dan Roth, Iryna Gurevych

A Closer Look at Few-Shot Crosslingual Transfer: The Choice of Shots Matters

Mengjie Zhao, Yi Zhu, Ehsan Shareghi, Ivan Vulić, Roi Reichart

Transfer Learning for Sequence Generation: from Single-source to Multi-source

Xuancheng Huang, Jingfang Xu, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu

Importance-based Neuron Allocation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Wanying Xie, Yang Feng, Shuhao Gu, Dong Yu

Modeling Bilingual Conversational Characteristics for Neural Chat Translation

Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu, Jie Zhou

Rewriter-Evaluator Architecture for Neural Machine Translation

Yangming Li, Kaisheng Yao

CoSQA: 20,000+ Web Queries for Code Search and Question Answering

Junjie Huang, Duyu Tang, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Ke Xu

DynaEval: Unifying Turn and Dialogue Level Evaluation

Chen Zhang, Yiming Chen, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Yan Zhang, Thomas Friedrichs

MMGCN: Multimodal Fusion via Deep Graph Convolution Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Jingwen Hu, Yuchen Liu, Jinming Zhao, Qin Jin

DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

Hung Le, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard

Learning to Ask Conversational Questions by Optimizing Levenshtein Distance

Zhongkun Liu, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke

Generating Relevant and Coherent Dialogue Responses using Self-Separated Conditional Variational AutoEncoders

Bin Sun, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li, Jiamou Liu, Kan Li

A Human-machine Collaborative Framework for Evaluating Malevolence in Dialogues

Yangjun Zhang, Pengjie Ren, Maarten de Rijke

Maria: A Visual Experience Powered Conversational Agent

Zujie Liang, Huang Hu, Can Xu, Chongyang Tao, Xiubo Geng