ACL 2021

1,634 papers

BinaryBERT: Pushing the Limit of BERT Quantization

Haoli Bai, Wei Zhang, Lu Hou, Lifeng Shang, Jin Jin

Convolutions and Self-Attention: Re-interpreting Relative Positions in Pre-trained Language Models

Tyler A. Chang, Yifan Xu, Weijian Xu, Zhuowen Tu

Subsequence Based Deep Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Puria Radmard, Yassir Fathullah, Aldo Lipani

Reservoir Transformers

Sheng Shen, Alexei Baevski, Ari Morcos, Kurt Keutzer, Michael Auli

Societal Biases in Language Generation: Progress and Challenges

Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Prem Natarajan, Nanyun Peng

Probing Toxic Content in Large Pre-Trained Language Models

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Xinran Zhao, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Dit-Yan Yeung

Improving Speech Translation by Understanding and Learning from the Auxiliary Text Translation Task

Yun Tang, Juan Pino, Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Dmitriy Genzel

Verb Metaphor Detection via Contextual Relation Learning

Wei Song, Shuhui Zhou, Ruiji Fu, Ting Liu, Lizhen Liu

Psycholinguistic Tripartite Graph Network for Personality Detection

Tao Yang, Feifan Yang, Haolan Ouyang, Xiaojun Quan

How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies

Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

End-to-End AMR Coreference Resolution

Qiankun Fu, Linfeng Song, Wenyu Du, Yue Zhang

Anonymisation Models for Text Data: State of the art, Challenges and Future Directions

Pierre Lison, Ildikó Pilán, David Sanchez, Montserrat Batet, Lilja Øvrelid

Learning Language and Multimodal Privacy-Preserving Markers of Mood from Mobile Data

Paul Pu Liang, Terrance Liu, Anna Cai, Michal Muszynski, Ryo Ishii

Reliability Testing for Natural Language Processing Systems

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Kathy Baxter, Araz Taeihagh, Gregory A. Bennett

Supporting Land Reuse of Former Open Pit Mining Sites using Text Classification and Active Learning

Christopher Schröder, Kim Bürgl, Yves Annanias, Andreas Niekler, Lydia Müller

Breaking Down Walls of Text: How Can NLP Benefit Consumer Privacy?

Abhilasha Ravichander, Alan W Black, Thomas Norton, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh

A Mutual Information Maximization Approach for the Spurious Solution Problem in Weakly Supervised Question Answering

Zhihong Shao, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, Minlie Huang

Check It Again:Progressive Visual Question Answering via Visual Entailment

Qingyi Si, Zheng Lin, Ming yu Zheng, Peng Fu, Weiping Wang

Generation-Augmented Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

Yuning Mao, Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jianfeng Gao

Dual Reader-Parser on Hybrid Textual and Tabular Evidence for Open Domain Question Answering

Alexander Hanbo Li, Patrick Ng, Peng Xu, Henghui Zhu, Zhiguo Wang

Supporting Cognitive and Emotional Empathic Writing of Students

Thiemo Wambsganss, Christina Niklaus, Matthias Söllner, Siegfried Handschuh, Jan Marco Leimeister

ILDC for CJPE: Indian Legal Documents Corpus for Court Judgment Prediction and Explanation

Vijit Malik, Rishabh Sanjay, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Shouvik Kumar Guha

Handling Extreme Class Imbalance in Technical Logbook Datasets

Farhad Akhbardeh, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Marcos Zampieri, Travis Desell

End-to-End Lexically Constrained Machine Translation for Morphologically Rich Languages

Josef Jon, João Paulo Aires, Dušan Variš, Ondřej Bojar

Towards User-Driven Neural Machine Translation

Huan Lin, Liang Yao, Baosong Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Haibo Zhang

A unified approach to sentence segmentation of punctuated text in many languages

Rachel Wicks, Matt Post

VECO: Variable and Flexible Cross-lingual Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation

Fuli Luo, Wei Wang, Jiahao Liu, Yijia Liu, Bin Bi

Point, Disambiguate and Copy: Incorporating Bilingual Dictionaries for Neural Machine Translation

Tong Zhang, Long Zhang, Wei Ye, Bo Li, Jinan Sun

Exploring Discourse Structures for Argument Impact Classification

Xin Liu, Jiefu Ou, Yangqiu Song, Xin Jiang

Adversarial Learning for Discourse Rhetorical Structure Parsing

Longyin Zhang, Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou

Which Linguist Invented the Lightbulb? Presupposition Verification for Question-Answering

Najoung Kim, Ellie Pavlick, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Deepak Ramachandran

ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences

Yanjun Gao, Ting-Hao Huang, Rebecca J. Passonneau

W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework

Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

A Neural Model for Joint Document and Snippet Ranking in Question Answering for Large Document Collections

Dimitris Pappas, Ion Androutsopoulos

Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training

Yanda Chen, Chris Kedzie, Suraj Nair, Petra Galuscakova, Rui Zhang

TAN-NTM: Topic Attention Networks for Neural Topic Modeling

Madhur Panwar, Shashank Shailabh, Milan Aggarwal, Balaji Krishnamurthy

Label-Specific Dual Graph Neural Network for Multi-Label Text Classification

Qianwen Ma, Chunyuan Yuan, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu

Towards Propagation Uncertainty: Edge-enhanced Bayesian Graph Convolutional Networks for Rumor Detection

Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu, Wei Zhou, Zhaojuan Yue, Songlin Hu

A Sweet Rabbit Hole by DARCY: Using Honeypots to Detect Universal Trigger’s Adversarial Attacks

Thai Le, Noseong Park, Dongwon Lee

Making Pre-trained Language Models Better Few-shot Learners

Tianyu Gao, Adam Fisch, Danqi Chen

H-Transformer-1D: Fast One-Dimensional Hierarchical Attention for Sequences

Zhenhai Zhu, Radu Soricut

TextSETTR: Few-Shot Text Style Extraction and Tunable Targeted Restyling

Parker Riley, Noah Constant, Mandy Guo, Girish Kumar, David Uthus

Self-Attention Networks Can Process Bounded Hierarchical Languages

Shunyu Yao, Binghui Peng, Christos Papadimitriou, Karthik Narasimhan

CogAlign: Learning to Align Textual Neural Representations to Cognitive Language Processing Signals

Yuqi Ren, Deyi Xiong

Surprisal Estimators for Human Reading Times Need Character Models

Byung-Doh Oh, Christian Clark, William Schuler

Structural Guidance for Transformer Language Models

Peng Qian, Tahira Naseem, Roger Levy, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo

CDRNN: Discovering Complex Dynamics in Human Language Processing

Cory Shain

NeuralWOZ: Learning to Collect Task-Oriented Dialogue via Model-Based Simulation

Sungdong Kim, Minsuk Chang, Sang-Woo Lee

Best of Both Worlds: Making High Accuracy Non-incremental Transformer-based Disfluency Detection Incremental

Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough

MPC-BERT: A Pre-Trained Language Model for Multi-Party Conversation Understanding

Jia-Chen Gu, Chongyang Tao, Zhenhua Ling, Can Xu, Xiubo Geng

Value-Agnostic Conversational Semantic Parsing

Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Subhro Roy, Yuchen Zhang, Alexander Kyte

HERALD: An Annotation Efficient Method to Detect User Disengagement in Social Conversations

Weixin Liang, Kai-Hui Liang, Zhou Yu

Measuring Fine-Grained Domain Relevance of Terms: A Hierarchical Core-Fringe Approach

Jie Huang, Kevin Chang, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-Mei Hwu

Exploring the Representation of Word Meanings in Context: A Case Study on Homonymy and Synonymy

Marcos Garcia

BERT is to NLP what AlexNet is to CV: Can Pre-Trained Language Models Identify Analogies?

Asahi Ushio, Luis Espinosa Anke, Steven Schockaert, Jose Camacho-Collados

Superbizarre Is Not Superb: Derivational Morphology Improves BERT’s Interpretation of Complex Words

Valentin Hofmann, Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

Knowing the No-match: Entity Alignment with Dangling Cases

Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu

Revisiting the Negative Data of Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

Chenhao Xie, Jiaqing Liang, Jingping Liu, Chengsong Huang, Wenhao Huang

LearnDA: Learnable Knowledge-Guided Data Augmentation for Event Causality Identification

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

Nested Named Entity Recognition via Explicitly Excluding the Influence of the Best Path

Yiran Wang, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto, Taro Watanabe

Document-level Event Extraction via Heterogeneous Graph-based Interaction Model with a Tracker

Runxin Xu, Tianyu Liu, Lei Li, Baobao Chang

Out-of-Scope Intent Detection with Self-Supervision and Discriminative Training

Li-Ming Zhan, Haowen Liang, Bo Liu, Lu Fan, Albert Y.S. Lam

Diversifying Dialog Generation via Adaptive Label Smoothing

Yida Wang, Yinhe Zheng, Yong Jiang, Minlie Huang

GTM: A Generative Triple-wise Model for Conversational Question Generation

Lei Shen, Fandong Meng, Jinchao Zhang, Yang Feng, Jie Zhou

Novel Slot Detection: A Benchmark for Discovering Unknown Slot Types in the Task-Oriented Dialogue System

Yanan Wu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Keqing He, Hong Xu, Yuanmeng Yan

Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems

Siyang Liu, Chujie Zheng, Orianna Demasi, Sahand Sabour, Yu Li

Prevent the Language Model from being Overconfident in Neural Machine Translation

Mengqi Miao, Fandong Meng, Yijin Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Jie Zhou

G-Transformer for Document-Level Machine Translation

Guangsheng Bao, Yue Zhang, Zhiyang Teng, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo

Rejuvenating Low-Frequency Words: Making the Most of Parallel Data in Non-Autoregressive Translation

Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao

Improving Pretrained Cross-Lingual Language Models via Self-Labeled Word Alignment

Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Bo Zheng, Shaohan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao

Consistency Regularization for Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning

Bo Zheng, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Wenhui Wang, Zewen Chi

Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing

Jeremy Barnes, Robin Kurtz, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal

Every Bite Is an Experience: Key Point Analysis of Business Reviews

Roy Bar-Haim, Lilach Eden, Yoav Kantor, Roni Friedman, Noam Slonim

Position Bias Mitigation: A Knowledge-Aware Graph Model for Emotion Cause Extraction

Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Gabriele Pergola, Yulan He

ERICA: Improving Entity and Relation Understanding for Pre-trained Language Models via Contrastive Learning

Yujia Qin, Yankai Lin, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li

Taming Pre-trained Language Models with N-gram Representations for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation

SHIZHE DIAO, Ruijia Xu, Hongjin Su, Yilei Jiang, Yan Song

Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize

Henry Conklin, bailin wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov

Probabilistic, Structure-Aware Algorithms for Improved Variety, Accuracy, and Coverage of AMR Alignments

Austin Blodgett, Nathan Schneider

Evidence-based Factual Error Correction

James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos

Modeling Transitions of Focal Entities for Conversational Knowledge Base Question Answering

Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang

TAT-QA: A Question Answering Benchmark on a Hybrid of Tabular and Textual Content in Finance

Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Youcheng Huang, Chao Wang, Shuo Zhang

Answering Ambiguous Questions through Generative Evidence Fusion and Round-Trip Prediction

Yifan Gao, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Zhiguo Wang

Joint Models for Answer Verification in Question Answering Systems

Zeyu Zhang, Thuy Vu, Alessandro Moschitti

Can Generative Pre-trained Language Models Serve As Knowledge Bases for Closed-book QA?

Cunxiang Wang, Pai Liu, Yue Zhang

Human-in-the-Loop for Data Collection: a Multi-Target Counter Narrative Dataset to Fight Online Hate Speech

Margherita Fanton, Helena Bonaldi, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Marco Guerini

MultiMET: A Multimodal Dataset for Metaphor Understanding

Dongyu Zhang, Minghao Zhang, Heting Zhang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin

Few-NERD: A Few-shot Named Entity Recognition Dataset

Ning Ding, Guangwei Xu, Yulin Chen, Xiaobin Wang, Xu Han

Annotating Online Misogyny

Philine Zeinert, Nanna Inie, Leon Derczynski

Fast and Accurate Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memory

Qiuxiang He, Guoping Huang, Qu Cui, Li Li, Lemao Liu

From Machine Translation to Code-Switching: Generating High-Quality Code-Switched Text

Ishan Tarunesh, Syamantak Kumar, Preethi Jyothi

Evaluating morphological typology in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer

Antonio Martínez-García, Toni Badia, Jeremy Barnes

How Good is Your Tokenizer? On the Monolingual Performance of Multilingual Language Models

Phillip Rust, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić, Sebastian Ruder, Iryna Gurevych

Online Learning Meets Machine Translation Evaluation: Finding the Best Systems with the Least Human Effort

Vânia Mendonça, Ricardo Rei, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha, Ana Lúcia Santos

Database reasoning over text

James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel

UnitedQA: A Hybrid Approach for Open Domain Question Answering

Hao Cheng, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen

Few-Shot Question Answering by Pretraining Span Selection

Ori Ram, Yuval Kirstain, Jonathan Berant, Amir Globerson, Omer Levy

Explanations for CommonsenseQA: New Dataset and Models

Shourya Aggarwal, Divyanshu Mandowara, Vishwajeet Agrawal, Dinesh Khandelwal, Parag Singla

A Semantic-based Method for Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering

Yilin Niu, Fei Huang, Jiaming Liang, Wenkai Chen, Xiaoyan Zhu

Meta-KD: A Meta Knowledge Distillation Framework for Language Model Compression across Domains

Haojie Pan, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Yichang Zhang, Yaliang Li

Learning Syntactic Dense Embedding with Correlation Graph for Automatic Readability Assessment

Xinying Qiu, Yuan Chen, Hanwu Chen, Jian-Yun Nie, Yuming Shen