ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Competence-based Multimodal Curriculum Learning for Medical Report Generation

Fenglin Liu, Shen Ge, Xian Wu

PLOME: Pre-training with Misspelled Knowledge for Chinese Spelling Correction

Shulin Liu, Tao Yang, Tianchi Yue, Feng Zhang, Di Wang

Unsupervised Extractive Summarization-Based Representations for Accurate and Explainable Collaborative Filtering

Reinald Adrian Pugoy, Hung-Yu Kao

LeeBERT: Learned Early Exit for BERT with cross-level optimization

Wei Zhu

EnsLM: Ensemble Language Model for Data Diversity by Semantic Clustering

Zhibin Duan, Hao Zhang, Chaojie Wang, Zhengjue Wang, Bo Chen

Rational LAMOL: A Rationale-based Lifelong Learning Framework

Kasidis Kanwatchara, Thanapapas Horsuwan, Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Boonserm Kijsirikul, Peerapon Vateekul

Marginal Utility Diminishes: Exploring the Minimum Knowledge for BERT Knowledge Distillation

Yuanxin Liu, Fandong Meng, Zheng Lin, Weiping Wang, Jie Zhou

ERNIE-Doc: A Retrospective Long-Document Modeling Transformer

SiYu Ding, Junyuan Shang, Shuohuan Wang, Yu Sun, Hao Tian

Lightweight Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Learning

Zhuoyuan Mao, Prakhar Gupta, Chenhui Chu, Martin Jaggi, Sadao Kurohashi

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Domains via Meta-Learning

Cheonbok Park, Yunwon Tae, TaeHee Kim, Soyoung Yang, MOHAMMAD AZAM KHAN

Cascade versus Direct Speech Translation: Do the Differences Still Make a Difference?

Luisa Bentivogli, Mauro Cettolo, Marco Gaido, Alina Karakanta, Alberto Martinelli

Guiding Teacher Forcing with Seer Forcing for Neural Machine Translation

Yang Feng, Shuhao Gu, Dengji Guo, Zhengxin Yang, Chenze Shao

[RETRACTED] Breaking the Corpus Bottleneck for Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation with Cross-Task Pre-training

Linqing Chen, Junhui Li, Zhengxian Gong, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo

Self-Training Sampling with Monolingual Data Uncertainty for Neural Machine Translation

Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Michael Lyu

OntoED: Low-resource Event Detection with Ontology Embedding

Shumin Deng, Ningyu Zhang, Luoqiu Li, Chen Hui, Tou Huaixiao

A Neural Transition-based Joint Model for Disease Named Entity Recognition and Normalization

Zongcheng Ji, Tian Xia, Mei Han, Jing Xiao

A Large-Scale Chinese Multimodal NER Dataset with Speech Clues

Dianbo Sui, Zhengkun Tian, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Text2Event: Controllable Sequence-to-Structure Generation for End-to-end Event Extraction

Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Jin Xu, Xianpei Han, Jialong Tang

Locate and Label: A Two-stage Identifier for Nested Named Entity Recognition

Yongliang Shen, Xinyin Ma, Zeqi Tan, SHUAI ZHANG, Wen Wang

Interpretable and Low-Resource Entity Matching via Decoupling Feature Learning from Decision Making

Zijun Yao, Chengjiang Li, Tiansi Dong, Xin Lv, Jifan Yu

Evaluating Evaluation Measures for Ordinal Classification and Ordinal Quantification

Tetsuya Sakai

Factoring Statutory Reasoning as Language Understanding Challenges

Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme

Assessing the Representations of Idiomaticity in Vector Models with a Noun Compound Dataset Labeled at Type and Token Levels

Marcos Garcia, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Carolina Scarton, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio

Towards Quantifiable Dialogue Coherence Evaluation

Zheng Ye, Liucun Lu, Lishan Huang, Liang Lin, Xiaodan Liang

Ruddit: Norms of Offensiveness for English Reddit Comments

Rishav Hada, Sohi Sudhir, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Saif M. Mohammad

Neural Bi-Lexicalized PCFG Induction

Songlin Yang, Yanpeng Zhao, Kewei Tu

The Limitations of Limited Context for Constituency Parsing

Yuchen Li, Andrej Risteski

Multi-View Cross-Lingual Structured Prediction with Minimum Supervision

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

Automated Concatenation of Embeddings for Structured Prediction

Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang

N-ary Constituent Tree Parsing with Recursive Semi-Markov Model

Xin Xin, Jinlong Li, Zeqi Tan

Stacked Acoustic-and-Textual Encoding: Integrating the Pre-trained Models into Speech Translation Encoders

Chen Xu, Bojie Hu, Yanyang Li, Yuhao Zhang, Shen Huang

Missing Modality Imagination Network for Emotion Recognition with Uncertain Missing Modalities

Jinming Zhao, Ruichen Li, Qin Jin

UNIMO: Towards Unified-Modal Understanding and Generation via Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning

Wei Li, Can Gao, Guocheng Niu, Xinyan Xiao, Hao Liu

LayoutLMv2: Multi-modal Pre-training for Visually-rich Document Understanding

Yang Xu, Yiheng Xu, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Furu Wei

Beyond Sentence-Level End-to-End Speech Translation: Context Helps

Biao Zhang, Ivan Titov, Barry Haddow, Rico Sennrich

Multi-stage Pre-training over Simplified Multimodal Pre-training Models

Tongtong Liu, Fangxiang Feng, Xiaojie Wang

LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations

Ruisheng Cao, Lu Chen, Zhi Chen, Yanbin Zhao, Su Zhu

Self-Guided Contrastive Learning for BERT Sentence Representations

Taeuk Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee

KACE: Generating Knowledge Aware Contrastive Explanations for Natural Language Inference

Qianglong Chen, Feng Ji, Xiangji Zeng, Feng-Lin Li, Ji Zhang

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue

Karin Sevegnani, David M. Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser

Comprehensive Study: How the Context Information of Different Granularity Affects Dialogue State Tracking?

Puhai Yang, Heyan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao

Robustness Testing of Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialog

Jiexi Liu, Ryuichi Takanobu, Jiaxin Wen, Dazhen Wan, Hongguang Li

PROTAUGMENT: Unsupervised diverse short-texts paraphrasing for intent detection meta-learning

Thomas Dopierre, Christophe Gravier, Wilfried Logerais

Enhancing the generalization for Intent Classification and Out-of-Domain Detection in SLU

Yilin Shen, Yen-Chang Hsu, Avik Ray, Hongxia Jin

Discovering Dialogue Slots with Weak Supervision

Vojtěch Hudeček, Ondřej Dušek, Zhou Yu

A Unified Generative Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Hang Yan, Junqi Dai, Tuo Ji, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang

A Hierarchical VAE for Calibrating Attributes while Generating Text using Normalizing Flow

Bidisha Samanta, Mohit Agrawal, Niloy Ganguly

DynaSent: A Dynamic Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis

Christopher Potts, Zhengxuan Wu, Atticus Geiger, Douwe Kiela

Style is NOT a single variable: Case Studies for Cross-Stylistic Language Understanding

Dongyeop Kang, Eduard Hovy

Distributed Representations of Emotion Categories in Emotion Space

Xiangyu Wang, Chengqing Zong

ExCAR: Event Graph Knowledge Enhanced Explainable Causal Reasoning

Li Du, Xiao Ding, Kai Xiong, Ting Liu, Bing Qin

Tree-Structured Topic Modeling with Nonparametric Neural Variational Inference

Ziye Chen, Cheng Ding, Zusheng Zhang, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie

CLINE: Contrastive Learning with Semantic Negative Examples for Natural Language Understanding

Dong Wang, Ning Ding, Piji Li, Haitao Zheng

Chase: A Large-Scale and Pragmatic Chinese Dataset for Cross-Database Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL

Jiaqi Guo, Ziliang Si, Yu Wang, Qian Liu, Ming Fan

Better than Average: Paired Evaluation of NLP systems

Maxime Peyrard, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger, Robert West

An Empirical Study on Hyperparameter Optimization for Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Language Models

Xueqing Liu, Chi Wang

QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus

Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali

KaggleDBQA: Realistic Evaluation of Text-to-SQL Parsers

Chia-Hsuan Lee, Oleksandr Polozov, Matthew Richardson

SMURF: SeMantic and linguistic UndeRstanding Fusion for Caption Evaluation via Typicality Analysis

Joshua Feinglass, Yezhou Yang

Integrating Semantics and Neighborhood Information with Graph-Driven Generative Models for Document Retrieval

Zijing Ou, Qinliang Su, Jianxing Yu, Bang Liu, Jingwen Wang

Data Augmentation for Text Generation Without Any Augmented Data

Wei Bi, Huayang Li, Jiacheng Huang

On the Effectiveness of Adapter-based Tuning for Pretrained Language Model Adaptation

Ruidan He, Linlin Liu, Hai Ye, Qingyu Tan, Bosheng Ding

EarlyBERT: Efficient BERT Training via Early-bird Lottery Tickets

Xiaohan Chen, Yu Cheng, Shuohang Wang, Zhe Gan, Zhangyang Wang

Changing the World by Changing the Data

Anna Rogers

PlotCoder: Hierarchical Decoding for Synthesizing Visualization Code in Programmatic Context

Xinyun Chen, Linyuan Gong, Alvin Cheung, Dawn Song

Mitigating Bias in Session-based Cyberbullying Detection: A Non-Compromising Approach

Lu Cheng, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, Huan Liu

IrEne: Interpretable Energy Prediction for Transformers

Qingqing Cao, Yash Kumar Lal, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

Explaining Relationships Between Scientific Documents

Kelvin Luu, Xinyi Wu, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Kyle Lo, Isabel Cachola

COVID-Fact: Fact Extraction and Verification of Real-World Claims on COVID-19 Pandemic

Arkadiy Saakyan, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Smaranda Muresan

BERTAC: Enhancing Transformer-based Language Models with Adversarially Pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks

Jong-Hoon Oh, Ryu Iida, Julien Kloetzer, Kentaro Torisawa

Optimizing Deeper Transformers on Small Datasets

Peng Xu, Dhruv Kumar, Wei Yang, Wenjie Zi, Keyi Tang

Weight Distillation: Transferring the Knowledge in Neural Network Parameters

Ye Lin, Yanyang Li, Ziyang Wang, Bei Li, Quan Du

ChineseBERT: Chinese Pretraining Enhanced by Glyph and Pinyin Information

Zijun Sun, Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Yuxian Meng, Xiang Ao

Modeling Fine-Grained Entity Types with Box Embeddings

Yasumasa Onoe, Michael Boratko, Andrew McCallum, Greg Durrett

PIGLeT: Language Grounding Through Neuro-Symbolic Interaction in a 3D World

Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Matthew Peters, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Aniruddha Kembhavi

Edited Media Understanding Frames: Reasoning About the Intent and Implications of Visual Misinformation

Jeff Da, Maxwell Forbes, Rowan Zellers, Anthony Zheng, Jena D. Hwang

Control Image Captioning Spatially and Temporally

Kun Yan, Lei Ji, Huaishao Luo, Ming Zhou, Nan Duan

Hierarchical Context-aware Network for Dense Video Event Captioning

Lei Ji, Xianglin Guo, Haoyang Huang, Xilin Chen

Glancing Transformer for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation

Lihua Qian, Hao Zhou, Yu Bao, Mingxuan Wang, Lin Qiu

UXLA: A Robust Unsupervised Data Augmentation Framework for Zero-Resource Cross-Lingual NLP

M Saiful Bari, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty

Crafting Adversarial Examples for Neural Machine Translation

Xinze Zhang, Junzhe Zhang, Zhenhua Chen, Kun He

Contributions of Transformer Attention Heads in Multi- and Cross-lingual Tasks

Weicheng Ma, Kai Zhang, Renze Lou, Lili Wang, Soroush Vosoughi

RedditBias: A Real-World Resource for Bias Evaluation and Debiasing of Conversational Language Models

Soumya Barikeri, Anne Lauscher, Ivan Vulić, Goran Glavaš

Intrinsic Bias Metrics Do Not Correlate with Application Bias

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Rebecca Marchant, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Mugdha Pandya, Adam Lopez

A Survey of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in NLP

Anjalie Field, Su Lin Blodgett, Zeerak Waseem, Yulia Tsvetkov

Bad Seeds: Evaluating Lexical Methods for Bias Measurement

Maria Antoniak, David Mimno

Poisoning Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Relation Inference Patterns

Peru Bhardwaj, John Kelleher, Luca Costabello, Declan O’Sullivan

Knowledgeable or Educated Guess? Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Bases

Boxi Cao, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Lingyong Yan

Bird’s Eye: Probing for Linguistic Graph Structures with a Simple Information-Theoretic Approach

Yifan Hou, Mrinmaya Sachan

Causal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models

Matthew Finlayson, Aaron Mueller, Sebastian Gehrmann, Stuart Shieber, Tal Linzen

Implicit Representations of Meaning in Neural Language Models

Belinda Z. Li, Maxwell Nye, Jacob Andreas

Improving Named Entity Recognition by External Context Retrieving and Cooperative Learning

Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang

Ultra-Fine Entity Typing with Weak Supervision from a Masked Language Model

Hongliang Dai, Yangqiu Song, Haixun Wang

Named Entity Recognition with Small Strongly Labeled and Large Weakly Labeled Data

Haoming Jiang, Danqing Zhang, Tianyu Cao, Bing Yin, Tuo Zhao

A Systematic Investigation of KB-Text Embedding Alignment at Scale

Vardaan Pahuja, Yu Gu, Wenhu Chen, Mehdi Bahrami, Lei Liu

A Joint Model for Dropped Pronoun Recovery and Conversational Discourse Parsing in Chinese Conversational Speech

Jingxuan Yang, Kerui Xu, Jun Xu, Si Li, Sheng Gao

Dialogue Response Selection with Hierarchical Curriculum Learning

Yixuan Su, Deng Cai, Qingyu Zhou, Zibo Lin, Simon Baker

Discovering Dialog Structure Graph for Coherent Dialog Generation

Jun Xu, Zeyang Lei, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu

A Sequence-to-Sequence Approach to Dialogue State Tracking

Yue Feng, Yang Wang, Hang Li