ACL 2021

1,634 papers

I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling

Yixin Nie, Mary Williamson, Mohit Bansal, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

InfoSurgeon: Cross-Media Fine-grained Information Consistency Checking for Fake News Detection

Yi Fung, Christopher Thomas, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Sandeep Polisetty, Heng Ji

Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection

Bertie Vidgen, Tristan Thrush, Zeerak Waseem, Douwe Kiela

A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies

A. Seza Doğruöz, Sunayana Sitaram, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Measuring Conversational Uptake: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions

Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Zid Mancenido, Julie Cohen, Heather Hill

Changes in European Solidarity Before and During COVID-19: Evidence from a Large Crowd- and Expert-Annotated Twitter Dataset

Alexandra Ils, Dan Liu, Daniela Grunow, Steffen Eger

Topic-Aware Evidence Reasoning and Stance-Aware Aggregation for Fact Verification

Jiasheng Si, Deyu Zhou, Tongzhe Li, Xingyu Shi, Yulan He

Stance Detection in COVID-19 Tweets

Kyle Glandt, Sarthak Khanal, Yingjie Li, Doina Caragea, Cornelia Caragea

Syntopical Graphs for Computational Argumentation Tasks

Joe Barrow, Rajiv Jain, Nedim Lipka, Franck Dernoncourt, Vlad Morariu

Topic-Driven and Knowledge-Aware Transformer for Dialogue Emotion Detection

Lixing Zhu, Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He

Improving Formality Style Transfer with Context-Aware Rule Injection

Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu

Directed Acyclic Graph Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition

Weizhou Shen, Siyue Wu, Yunyi Yang, Xiaojun Quan

Factuality Assessment as Modal Dependency Parsing

Jiarui Yao, Haoling Qiu, Jin Zhao, Bonan Min, Nianwen Xue

MECT: Multi-Metadata Embedding based Cross-Transformer for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Shuang Wu, Xiaoning Song, Zhenhua Feng

Leveraging Type Descriptions for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition and Classification

Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos, Ryan Mcdonald

A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang

Challenges in Information-Seeking QA: Unanswerable Questions and Paragraph Retrieval

Akari Asai, Eunsol Choi

Language Model as an Annotator: Exploring DialoGPT for Dialogue Summarization

Xiachong Feng, Xiaocheng Feng, Libo Qin, Bing Qin, Ting Liu

BACO: A Background Knowledge- and Content-Based Framework for Citing Sentence Generation

Yubin Ge, Ly Dinh, Xiaofeng Liu, Jinsong Su, Ziyao Lu

Towards Table-to-Text Generation with Numerical Reasoning

Lya Hulliyyatus Suadaa, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura, Hiroya Takamura

Reflective Decoding: Beyond Unidirectional Generation with Off-the-Shelf Language Models

Peter West, Ximing Lu, Ari Holtzman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang

AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating

Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Ioannis Konstas

Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing

Tom Hosking, Mirella Lapata

Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention

Wasi Ahmad, Xiao Bai, Soomin Lee, Kai-Wei Chang

Assessing Emoji Use in Modern Text Processing Tools

Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Gerard de Melo

CLIP: A Dataset for Extracting Action Items for Physicians from Hospital Discharge Notes

James Mullenbach, Yada Pruksachatkun, Sean Adler, Jennifer Seale, Jordan Swartz

Automated Generation of Storytelling Vocabulary from Photographs for use in AAC

Mauricio Fontana de Vargas, Karyn Moffatt

Towards Argument Mining for Social Good: A Survey

Eva Maria Vecchi, Neele Falk, Iman Jundi, Gabriella Lapesa

On Finding the K-best Non-projective Dependency Trees

Ran Zmigrod, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell

Exploiting Language Relatedness for Low Web-Resource Language Model Adaptation: An Indic Languages Study

Yash Khemchandani, Sarvesh Mehtani, Vaidehi Patil, Abhijeet Awasthi, Partha Talukdar

Diverse Pretrained Context Encodings Improve Document Translation

Domenic Donato, Lei Yu, Chris Dyer

Attention Calibration for Transformer in Neural Machine Translation

Yu Lu, Jiali Zeng, Jiajun Zhang, Shuangzhi Wu, Mu Li

Common Sense Beyond English: Evaluating and Improving Multilingual Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Seyeon Lee, Xiaoyang Qiao, Xiang Ren

Improving Zero-Shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, James Cross, Francisco Guzmán, Xian Li

Measure and Evaluation of Semantic Divergence across Two Languages

Syrielle Montariol, Alexandre Allauzen

Align Voting Behavior with Public Statements for Legislator Representation Learning

Xinyi Mou, zhongyu wei, Lei Chen, Shangyi Ning, Yancheng He

What Ingredients Make for an Effective Crowdsourcing Protocol for Difficult NLU Data Collection Tasks?

Nikita Nangia, Saku Sugawara, Harsh Trivedi, Alex Warstadt, Clara Vania

A Dataset and Baselines for Multilingual Reply Suggestion

Mozhi Zhang, Wei Wang, Budhaditya Deb, Guoqing Zheng, Milad Shokouhi

Can vectors read minds better than experts? Comparing data augmentation strategies for the automated scoring of children’s mindreading ability

Venelin Kovatchev, Phillip Smith, Mark Lee, Rory Devine

AugNLG: Few-shot Natural Language Generation using Self-trained Data Augmentation

Xinnuo Xu, Guoyin Wang, Young-Bum Kim, Sungjin Lee

More Identifiable yet Equally Performant Transformers for Text Classification

Rishabh Bhardwaj, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Eduard Hovy

Uncovering Constraint-Based Behavior in Neural Models via Targeted Fine-Tuning

Forrest Davis, Marten van Schijndel

Comparing Test Sets with Item Response Theory

Clara Vania, Phu Mon Htut, William Huang, Dhara Mungra, Richard Yuanzhe Pang

Analyzing the Source and Target Contributions to Predictions in Neural Machine Translation

Elena Voita, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov

When Do You Need Billions of Words of Pretraining Data?

Yian Zhang, Alex Warstadt, Xiaocheng Li, Samuel R. Bowman

Multi-Task Retrieval for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks

Jean Maillard, Vladimir Karpukhin, Fabio Petroni, Wen-tau Yih, Barlas Oguz

Explainable Prediction of Text Complexity: The Missing Preliminaries for Text Simplification

Cristina Gârbacea, Mengtian Guo, Samuel Carton, Qiaozhu Mei

Selecting Informative Contexts Improves Language Model Fine-tuning

Richard Antonello, Nicole Beckage, Javier Turek, Alexander Huth

MATE-KD: Masked Adversarial TExt, a Companion to Knowledge Distillation

Ahmad Rashid, Vasileios Lioutas, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Unsupervised Out-of-Domain Detection via Pre-trained Transformers

Keyang Xu, Tongzheng Ren, Shikun Zhang, Yihao Feng, Caiming Xiong

The Art of Abstention: Selective Prediction and Error Regularization for Natural Language Processing

Ji Xin, Raphael Tang, Yaoliang Yu, Jimmy Lin

A DQN-based Approach to Finding Precise Evidences for Fact Verification

Hai Wan, Haicheng Chen, Jianfeng Du, Weilin Luo, Rongzhen Ye

Robust Knowledge Graph Completion with Stacked Convolutions and a Student Re-Ranking Network

Justin Lovelace, Denis Newman-Griffis, Shikhar Vashishth, Jill Fain Lehman, Carolyn Rose

Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets

Su Lin Blodgett, Gilsinia Lopez, Alexandra Olteanu, Robert Sim, Hanna Wallach

VoxPopuli: A Large-Scale Multilingual Speech Corpus for Representation Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning and Interpretation

Changhan Wang, Morgane Riviere, Ann Lee, Anne Wu, Chaitanya Talnikar

[RETRACTED] Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue

Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater

To POS Tag or Not to POS Tag: The Impact of POS Tags on Morphological Learning in Low-Resource Settings

Sarah Moeller, Ling Liu, Mans Hulden

The Possible, the Plausible, and the Desirable: Event-Based Modality Detection for Language Processing

Valentina Pyatkin, Shoval Sadde, Aynat Rubinstein, Paul Portner, Reut Tsarfaty

A Targeted Assessment of Incremental Processing in Neural Language Models and Humans

Ethan Wilcox, Pranali Vani, Roger Levy

Compositional Generalization and Natural Language Variation: Can a Semantic Parsing Approach Handle Both?

Peter Shaw, Ming-Wei Chang, Panupong Pasupat, Kristina Toutanova

Span-based Semantic Parsing for Compositional Generalization

Jonathan Herzig, Jonathan Berant

XLPT-AMR: Cross-Lingual Pre-Training via Multi-Task Learning for Zero-Shot AMR Parsing and Text Generation

Dongqin Xu, Junhui Li, Muhua Zhu, Min Zhang, Guodong Zhou

DeCLUTR: Deep Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Textual Representations

John Giorgi, Osvald Nitski, Bo Wang, Gary Bader

Integrated Directional Gradients: Feature Interaction Attribution for Neural NLP Models

Sandipan Sikdar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Kieran Heese

What Context Features Can Transformer Language Models Use?

Joe O’Connor, Jacob Andreas

Learning Faithful Representations of Causal Graphs

Ananth Balashankar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Multilingual Speech Translation from Efficient Finetuning of Pretrained Models

Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Yun Tang, Chau Tran, Yuqing Tang

Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Unsupervised Bitext Construction and Word Alignment

Haoyue Shi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sida I. Wang

Adapting High-resource NMT Models to Translate Low-resource Related Languages without Parallel Data

Wei-Jen Ko, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Naman Goyal

Do Context-Aware Translation Models Pay the Right Attention?

Kayo Yin, Patrick Fernandes, Danish Pruthi, Aditi Chaudhary, André F. T. Martins

LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

Hang Jiang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa

Discontinuous Named Entity Recognition as Maximal Clique Discovery

Yucheng Wang, Bowen Yu, Hongsong Zhu, Tingwen Liu, Nan Yu

Compare to The Knowledge: Graph Neural Fake News Detection with External Knowledge

Linmei Hu, Tianchi Yang, Luhao Zhang, Wanjun Zhong, Duyu Tang

AdvPicker: Effectively Leveraging Unlabeled Data via Adversarial Discriminator for Cross-Lingual NER

Weile Chen, Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Börje F. Karlsson, Yi Guan

From Discourse to Narrative: Knowledge Projection for Event Relation Extraction

Jialong Tang, Hongyu Lin, Meng Liao, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han

CitationIE: Leveraging the Citation Graph for Scientific Information Extraction

Vijay Viswanathan, Graham Neubig, Pengfei Liu

Increasing Faithfulness in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Controllable Features

Hannah Rashkin, David Reitter, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Dipanjan Das

Learning from Perturbations: Diverse and Informative Dialogue Generation with Inverse Adversarial Training

Wangchunshu Zhou, Qifei Li, Chenle Li

Improving Dialog Systems for Negotiation with Personality Modeling

Runzhe Yang, Jingxiao Chen, Karthik Narasimhan

TicketTalk: Toward human-level performance with end-to-end, transaction-based dialog systems

Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi, Saravanan Ganesh, Mihir Kale

SocAoG: Incremental Graph Parsing for Social Relation Inference in Dialogues

Liang Qiu, Yuan Liang, Yizhou Zhao, Pan Lu, Baolin Peng

Breaking Down the Invisible Wall of Informal Fallacies in Online Discussions

Saumya Sahai, Oana Balalau, Roxana Horincar

Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

Sravana Reddy, Mariya Lazarova, Yongze Yu, Rosie Jones

Structurizing Misinformation Stories via Rationalizing Fact-Checks

Shan Jiang, Christo Wilson

Understanding and Countering Stereotypes: A Computational Approach to the Stereotype Content Model

Kathleen C. Fraser, Isar Nejadgholi, Svetlana Kiritchenko

OoMMix: Out-of-manifold Regularization in Contextual Embedding Space for Text Classification

Seonghyeon Lee, Dongha Lee, Hwanjo Yu

COSY: COunterfactual SYntax for Cross-Lingual Understanding

Sicheng Yu, Hao Zhang, Yulei Niu, Qianru Sun, Jing Jiang

Parameter-efficient Multi-task Fine-tuning for Transformers via Shared Hypernetworks

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Sebastian Ruder, Mostafa Dehghani, James Henderson

Structural Knowledge Distillation: Tractably Distilling Information for Structured Predictor

Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Zhaohui Yan, Zixia Jia, Nguyen Bach

Cascaded Head-colliding Attention

Lin Zheng, Zhiyong Wu, Lingpeng Kong

KM-BART: Knowledge Enhanced Multimodal BART for Visual Commonsense Generation

Yiran Xing, Zai Shi, Zhao Meng, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Yunpu Ma

Learning Relation Alignment for Calibrated Cross-modal Retrieval

Shuhuai Ren, Junyang Lin, Guangxiang Zhao, Rui Men, An Yang

E2E-VLP: End-to-End Vision-Language Pre-training Enhanced by Visual Learning

Haiyang Xu, Ming Yan, Chenliang Li, Bin Bi, Songfang Huang

Generating Landmark Navigation Instructions from Maps as a Graph-to-Text Problem

Raphael Schumann, Stefan Riezler

Improving the Faithfulness of Attention-based Explanations with Task-specific Information for Text Classification

George Chrysostomou, Nikolaos Aletras

Explaining Contextualization in Language Models using Visual Analytics

Rita Sevastjanova, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Christin Beck, Hanna Schäfer, Mennatallah El-Assady

Examining the Inductive Bias of Neural Language Models with Artificial Languages

Jennifer C. White, Ryan Cotterell

Hidden Killer: Invisible Textual Backdoor Attacks with Syntactic Trigger

Fanchao Qi, Mukai Li, Yangyi Chen, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu

Introducing Orthogonal Constraint in Structural Probes

Tomasz Limisiewicz, David Mareček

DESCGEN: A Distantly Supervised Datasetfor Generating Entity Descriptions

Weijia Shi, Mandar Joshi, Luke Zettlemoyer