ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Learning to Perturb Word Embeddings for Out-of-distribution QA

Seanie Lee, Minki Kang, Juho Lee, Sung Ju Hwang

Exploring Distantly-Labeled Rationales in Neural Network Models

Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

Crowdsourcing Learning as Domain Adaptation: A Case Study on Named Entity Recognition

Xin Zhang, Guangwei Xu, Yueheng Sun, Meishan Zhang, Pengjun Xie

Rethinking Stealthiness of Backdoor Attack against NLP Models

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Jie Zhou, Xu Sun

De-Confounded Variational Encoder-Decoder for Logical Table-to-Text Generation

Wenqing Chen, Jidong Tian, Yitian Li, Hao He, Yaohui Jin

Unified Interpretation of Softmax Cross-Entropy and Negative Sampling: With Case Study for Knowledge Graph Embedding

Hidetaka Kamigaito, Katsuhiko Hayashi

BanditMTL: Bandit-based Multi-task Learning for Text Classification

Yuren Mao, Zekai Wang, Weiwei Liu, Xuemin Lin, Wenbin Hu

Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs

Ofir Press, Noah A. Smith, Mike Lewis

Defense against Synonym Substitution-based Adversarial Attacks via Dirichlet Neighborhood Ensemble

Yi Zhou, Xiaoqing Zheng, Cho-jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang, Xuanjing Huang

Article Reranking by Memory-Enhanced Key Sentence Matching for Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims

Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao, Xueyao Zhang, Xirong Li, Lei Zhong

PP-Rec: News Recommendation with Personalized User Interest and Time-aware News Popularity

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang

HieRec: Hierarchical User Interest Modeling for Personalized News Recommendation

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Peiru Yang, Yang Yu

Counterfactual Inference for Text Classification Debiasing

Chen Qian, Fuli Feng, Lijie Wen, Chunping Ma, Pengjun Xie

Matching Distributions between Model and Data: Cross-domain Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Bo Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yun Liu, Lei Cheng, Zhoujun Li

Syntax-Enhanced Pre-trained Model

Zenan Xu, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Qinliang Su, Linjun Shou

On Sample Based Explanation Methods for NLP: Faithfulness, Efficiency and Semantic Evaluation

Wei Zhang, Ziming Huang, Yada Zhu, Guangnan Ye, Xiaodong Cui

Enabling Lightweight Fine-tuning for Pre-trained Language Model Compression based on Matrix Product Operators

Peiyu Liu, Ze-Feng Gao, Wayne Xin Zhao, Zhi-Yuan Xie, Zhong-Yi Lu

Alignment Rationale for Natural Language Inference

Zhongtao Jiang, Yuanzhe Zhang, Zhao Yang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models

Moin Nadeem, Anna Bethke, Siva Reddy

Learning to Explain: Generating Stable Explanations Fast

Xuelin Situ, Ingrid Zukerman, Cecile Paris, Sameen Maruf, Gholamreza Haffari

Language Model Evaluation Beyond Perplexity

Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell

Positional Artefacts Propagate Through Masked Language Model Embeddings

Ziyang Luo, Artur Kulmizev, Xiaoxi Mao

CTFN: Hierarchical Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Using Coupled-Translation Fusion Network

Jiajia Tang, Kang Li, Xuanyu Jin, Andrzej Cichocki, Qibin Zhao

Text-Free Image-to-Speech Synthesis Using Learned Segmental Units

Wei-Ning Hsu, David Harwath, Tyler Miller, Christopher Song, James Glass

LexFit: Lexical Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Language Models

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

Meta-Learning with Variational Semantic Memory for Word Sense Disambiguation

Yingjun Du, Nithin Holla, Xiantong Zhen, Cees Snoek, Ekaterina Shutova

Obtaining Better Static Word Embeddings Using Contextual Embedding Models

Prakhar Gupta, Martin Jaggi

A Knowledge-Guided Framework for Frame Identification

Xuefeng Su, Ru Li, Xiaoli Li, Jeff Z. Pan, Hu Zhang

Word Sense Disambiguation: Towards Interactive Context Exploitation from Both Word and Sense Perspectives

Ming Wang, Yinglin Wang

Lower Perplexity is Not Always Human-Like

Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Takumi Ito, Ryo Yoshida, Masayuki Asahara

A Cognitive Regularizer for Language Modeling

Jason Wei, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell

Learning Event Graph Knowledge for Abductive Reasoning

Li Du, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Bing Qin

Bootstrapped Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning

Yan Zhang, Ruidan He, Zuozhu Liu, Lidong Bing, Haizhou Li

Data Augmentation with Adversarial Training for Cross-Lingual NLI

Xin Dong, Yaxin Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Dongkuan Xu, Gerard de Melo

AutoTinyBERT: Automatic Hyper-parameter Optimization for Efficient Pre-trained Language Models

Yichun Yin, Cheng Chen, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Xiao Chen

Structural Pre-training for Dialogue Comprehension

Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Pre-training Universal Language Representation

Yian Li, Hai Zhao

From Paraphrasing to Semantic Parsing: Unsupervised Semantic Parsing via Synchronous Semantic Decoding

Shan Wu, Bo Chen, Chunlei Xin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Reasoning over Entity-Action-Location Graph for Procedural Text Understanding

Hao Huang, Xiubo Geng, Jian Pei, Guodong Long, Daxin Jiang

COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion

Debjit Paul, Anette Frank

Exploring Dynamic Selection of Branch Expansion Orders for Code Generation

Hui Jiang, Chulun Zhou, Fandong Meng, Biao Zhang, Jie Zhou

ConSERT: A Contrastive Framework for Self-Supervised Sentence Representation Transfer

Yuanmeng Yan, Rumei Li, Sirui Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Wei Wu

Improving Document Representations by Generating Pseudo Query Embeddings for Dense Retrieval

Hongyin Tang, Xingwu Sun, Beihong Jin, Jingang Wang, Fuzheng Zhang

Semi-Supervised Text Classification with Balanced Deep Representation Distributions

Changchun Li, Ximing Li, Jihong Ouyang

Few-Shot Text Ranking with Meta Adapted Synthetic Weak Supervision

Si Sun, Yingzhuo Qian, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Kaitao Zhang

VisualSparta: An Embarrassingly Simple Approach to Large-scale Text-to-Image Search with Weighted Bag-of-words

Xiaopeng Lu, Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee

Concept-Based Label Embedding via Dynamic Routing for Hierarchical Text Classification

Xuepeng Wang, Li Zhao, Bing Liu, Tao Chen, Feng Zhang

Writing by Memorizing: Hierarchical Retrieval-based Medical Report Generation

Xingyi Yang, Muchao Ye, Quanzeng You, Fenglong Ma

Early Detection of Sexual Predators in Chats

Matthias Vogt, Ulf Leser, Alan Akbik

Tail-to-Tail Non-Autoregressive Sequence Prediction for Chinese Grammatical Error Correction

Piji Li, Shuming Shi

Generating SOAP Notes from Doctor-Patient Conversations Using Modular Summarization Techniques

Kundan Krishna, Sopan Khosla, Jeffrey Bigham, Zachary C. Lipton

Personalized Transformer for Explainable Recommendation

Lei Li, Yongfeng Zhang, Li Chen

Lexicon Learning for Few Shot Sequence Modeling

Ekin Akyürek, Jacob Andreas

WARP: Word-level Adversarial ReProgramming

Karen Hambardzumyan, Hrant Khachatrian, Jonathan May

Risk Minimization for Zero-shot Sequence Labeling

Zechuan Hu, Yong Jiang, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang

R2D2: Recursive Transformer based on Differentiable Tree for Interpretable Hierarchical Language Modeling

Xiang Hu, Haitao Mi, Zujie Wen, Yafang Wang, Yi Su

Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning with Diff Pruning

Demi Guo, Alexander Rush, Yoon Kim

Turn the Combination Lock: Learnable Textual Backdoor Attacks via Word Substitution

Fanchao Qi, Yuan Yao, Sophia Xu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Knowledge-Enriched Event Causality Identification via Latent Structure Induction Networks

Pengfei Cao, Xinyu Zuo, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

StereoRel: Relational Triple Extraction from a Stereoscopic Perspective

Xuetao Tian, Liping Jing, Lu He, Feng Liu

Exploiting Document Structures and Cluster Consistencies for Event Coreference Resolution

Hieu Minh Tran, Duy Phung, Thien Huu Nguyen

MLBiNet: A Cross-Sentence Collective Event Detection Network

Dongfang Lou, Zhilin Liao, Shumin Deng, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen

A Span-Based Model for Joint Overlapped and Discontinuous Named Entity Recognition

Fei Li, Zhichao Lin, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji

De-biasing Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via Causal Intervention

Wenkai Zhang, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

GWLAN: General Word-Level AutocompletioN for Computer-Aided Translation

Huayang Li, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Shuming Shi

Mask-Align: Self-Supervised Neural Word Alignment

Chi Chen, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu

On Compositional Generalization of Neural Machine Translation

Yafu Li, Yongjing Yin, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang

Learning Span-Level Interactions for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Lu Xu, Yew Ken Chia, Lidong Bing

Employing Argumentation Knowledge Graphs for Neural Argument Generation

Khalid Al Khatib, Lukas Trautner, Henning Wachsmuth, Yufang Hou, Benno Stein

Search from History and Reason for Future: Two-stage Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin, Saiping Guan, Wei Li, Jiafeng Guo

Benchmarking Scalable Methods for Streaming Cross Document Entity Coreference

Robert L Logan IV, Andrew McCallum, Sameer Singh, Dan Bikel

CoRI: Collective Relation Integration with Data Augmentation for Open Information Extraction

Zhengbao Jiang, Jialong Han, Bunyamin Sisman, Xin Luna Dong

AdaTag: Multi-Attribute Value Extraction from Product Profiles with Adaptive Decoding

Jun Yan, Nasser Zalmout, Yan Liang, Christan Grant, Xiang Ren

Element Intervention for Open Relation Extraction

Fangchao Liu, Lingyong Yan, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Trigger is Not Sufficient: Exploiting Frame-aware Knowledge for Implicit Event Argument Extraction

Kaiwen Wei, Xian Sun, Zequn Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Guo Zhi

How Knowledge Graph and Attention Help? A Qualitative Analysis into Bag-level Relation Extraction

Zikun Hu, Yixin Cao, Lifu Huang, Tat-Seng Chua

Recursive Tree-Structured Self-Attention for Answer Sentence Selection

Khalil Mrini, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

ForecastQA: A Question Answering Challenge for Event Forecasting with Temporal Text Data

Woojeong Jin, Rahul Khanna, Suji Kim, Dong-Ho Lee, Fred Morstatter

TWAG: A Topic-Guided Wikipedia Abstract Generator

Fangwei Zhu, Shangqing Tu, Jiaxin Shi, Juanzi Li, Lei Hou

Continuous Language Generative Flow

Zineng Tang, Shiyue Zhang, Hyounghun Kim, Mohit Bansal

One2Set: Generating Diverse Keyphrases as a Set

Jiacheng Ye, Tao Gui, Yichao Luo, Yige Xu, Qi Zhang

Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation

Xiang Lisa Li, Percy Liang

Weakly Supervised Named Entity Tagging with Learnable Logical Rules

Jiacheng Li, Haibo Ding, Jingbo Shang, Julian McAuley, Zhe Feng

How to Adapt Your Pretrained Multilingual Model to 1600 Languages

Abteen Ebrahimi, Katharina Kann

Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer

Wasi Ahmad, Haoran Li, Kai-Wei Chang, Yashar Mehdad

Energy-Based Reranking: Improving Neural Machine Translation Using Energy-Based Models

Sumanta Bhattacharyya, Amirmohammad Rooshenas, Subhajit Naskar, Simeng Sun, Mohit Iyyer

SemFace: Pre-training Encoder and Decoder with a Semantic Interface for Neural Machine Translation

Shuo Ren, Long Zhou, Shujie LIU, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking

Ashkan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Devin Gaffney, Scott A. Hale

Evaluation Examples are not Equally Informative: How should that change NLP Leaderboards?

Pedro Rodriguez, Joe Barrow, Alexander Hoyle, John P. Lalor, Robin Jia

Evaluating Entity Disambiguation and the Role of Popularity in Retrieval-Based NLP

Anthony Chen, Pallavi Gudipati, Shayne Longpre, Xiao Ling, Sameer Singh

Dependency-driven Relation Extraction with Attentive Graph Convolutional Networks

Yuanhe Tian, Guimin Chen, Yan Song, Xiang Wan

A Pre-training Strategy for Zero-Resource Response Selection in Knowledge-Grounded Conversations

Chongyang Tao, Changyu CHEN, Jiazhan Feng, Ji-Rong Wen, Rui Yan

Semantic Representation for Dialogue Modeling

Xuefeng Bai, Yulong Chen, Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang

RADDLE: An Evaluation Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Robust Task-oriented Dialog Systems

Baolin Peng, Chunyuan Li, Zhu Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Jinchao Li

Intent Classification and Slot Filling for Privacy Policies

Wasi Ahmad, Jianfeng Chi, Tu Le, Thomas Norton, Yuan Tian

Neural Stylistic Response Generation with Disentangled Latent Variables

Qingfu Zhu, Wei-Nan Zhang, Ting Liu, William Yang Wang

HiddenCut: Simple Data Augmentation for Natural Language Understanding with Better Generalizability

Jiaao Chen, Dinghan Shen, Weizhu Chen, Diyi Yang

Hierarchy-aware Label Semantics Matching Network for Hierarchical Text Classification

Haibin Chen, Qianli Ma, Zhenxi Lin, Jiangyue Yan

PairRE: Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Paired Relation Vectors

Linlin Chao, Jianshan He, Taifeng Wang, Wei Chu

Are Pretrained Convolutions Better than Pretrained Transformers?

Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Jai Prakash Gupta, Vamsi Aribandi, Dara Bahri