ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Language Models Use Monotonicity to Assess NPI Licensing

Jaap Jumelet, Milica Denic, Jakub Szymanik, Dieuwke Hupkes, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

How transfer learning impacts linguistic knowledge in deep NLP models?

Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi

Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan

Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Casimiro Pio Carrino, Carlos Rodriguez-Penagos, Ona de Gibert Bonet, Carme Armentano-Oller

Rule Augmented Unsupervised Constituency Parsing

Atul Sahay, Anshul Nasery, Ayush Maheshwari, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Rishabh Iyer

DocNLI: A Large-scale Dataset for Document-level Natural Language Inference

Wenpeng Yin, Dragomir Radev, Caiming Xiong

BatchMixup: Improving Training by Interpolating Hidden States of the Entire Mini-batch

Wenpeng Yin, Huan Wang, Jin Qu, Caiming Xiong

Adapting Monolingual Models: Data can be Scarce when Language Similarity is High

Wietse de Vries, Martijn Bartelds, Malvina Nissim, Martijn Wieling

Enhancing the Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation in Latent Space

Zhangming Chan, Lemao Liu, Juntao Li, Haisong Zhang, Dongyan Zhao

Climbing the Tower of Treebanks: Improving Low-Resource Dependency Parsing via Hierarchical Source Selection

Goran Glavaš, Ivan Vulić

Do It Once: An Embarrassingly Simple Joint Matching Approach to Response Selection

Linhao Zhang, Dehong Ma, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang

John praised Mary because _he_? Implicit Causality Bias and Its Interaction with Explicit Cues in LMs

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Mark Anderson, Anders Søgaard

TILGAN: Transformer-based Implicit Latent GAN for Diverse and Coherent Text Generation

SHIZHE DIAO, Xinwei Shen, Kashun Shum, Yan Song, Tong Zhang

Sketch and Refine: Towards Faithful and Informative Table-to-Text Generation

Peng Wang, Junyang Lin, An Yang, Chang Zhou, Yichang Zhang

Strong and Light Baseline Models for Fact-Checking Joint Inference

Kateryna Tymoshenko, Alessandro Moschitti

EBERT: Efficient BERT Inference with Dynamic Structured Pruning

Zejian Liu, Fanrong Li, Gang Li, Jian Cheng

A Multi-Task Approach for Improving Biomedical Named Entity Recognition by Incorporating Multi-Granularity information

Yiqi Tong, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi

Named Entity Recognition via Noise Aware Training Mechanism with Data Filter

Xiusheng Huang, Yubo Chen, Shun Wu, Jun Zhao, Yuantao Xie

On the Language Coverage Bias for Neural Machine Translation

Shuo Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Zhixing Tan, Shuming Shi, Maosong Sun

Cross-Domain Review Generation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Jianfei Yu, Chenggong Gong, Rui Xia

Multilingual Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation

Philip Arthur, Dongwon Ryu, Gholamreza Haffari

BioGen: Generating Biography Summary under Table Guidance on Wikipedia

Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Chang Liu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

What Would a Teacher Do? Predicting Future Talk Moves

Ananya Ganesh, Martha Palmer, Katharina Kann

A Text-Centered Shared-Private Framework via Cross-Modal Prediction for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Yang Wu, Zijie Lin, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Li-Nan Zhu

Investigating Memorization of Conspiracy Theories in Text Generation

Sharon Levy, Michael Saxon, William Yang Wang

As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzmán, Ahmed El-Kishky, Benjamin Rubinstein

Use of Formal Ethical Reviews in NLP Literature: Historical Trends and Current Practices

Sebastin Santy, Anku Rani, Monojit Choudhury

XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages

Tahmid Hasan, Abhik Bhattacharjee, Md. Saiful Islam, Kazi Mubasshir, Yuan-Fang Li

Rule-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Zhongni Hou, Xiaolong Jin, Zixuan Li, Long Bai

Automatic Construction of Sememe Knowledge Bases via Dictionaries

Fanchao Qi, Yangyi Chen, Fengyu Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiao Chen

Analyzing Code Embeddings for Coding Clinical Narratives

Wei Shi, Jiewen Wu, Xiwen Yang, Nancy Chen, Ivan Ho Mien

Fingerprinting Fine-tuned Language Models in the Wild

Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zubair Shafiq

Semi-Supervised Data Programming with Subset Selection

Ayush Maheshwari, Oishik Chatterjee, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Rishabh Iyer

HIT - A Hierarchically Fused Deep Attention Network for Robust Code-mixed Language Representation

Ayan Sengupta, Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md. Shad Akhtar

Direct Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation Assisted by Synchronized Streaming ASR

Junkun Chen, Mingbo Ma, Renjie Zheng, Liang Huang

Revisiting the Evaluation of End-to-end Event Extraction

Shun Zheng, Wei Cao, Wei Xu, Jiang Bian

PROST: Physical Reasoning about Objects through Space and Time

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Cory Paik, Alessandro Roncone, Katharina Kann

Modeling Event-Pair Relations in External Knowledge Graphs for Script Reasoning

Yucheng Zhou, Xiubo Geng, Tao Shen, Jian Pei, Wenqiang Zhang

Enhancing Dialogue-based Relation Extraction by Speaker and Trigger Words Prediction

Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li

Using Social and Linguistic Information to Adapt Pretrained Representations for Political Perspective Identification

Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser

Domain-Aware Dependency Parsing for Questions

Aparna Garimella, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li

Do Grammatical Error Correction Models Realize Grammatical Generalization?

Masato Mita, Hitomi Yanaka

Task-adaptive Pre-training of Language Models with Word Embedding Regularization

Kosuke Nishida, Kyosuke Nishida, Sen Yoshida

He is very intelligent, she is very beautiful? On Mitigating Social Biases in Language Modelling and Generation

Aparna Garimella, Akhash Amarnath, Kiran Kumar, Akash Pramod Yalla, Anandhavelu N

Constrained Labeled Data Generation for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition

Ruohao Guo, Dan Roth

Reordering Examples Helps during Priming-based Few-Shot Learning

Sawan Kumar, Partha Talukdar

Learning to Sample Replacements for ELECTRA Pre-Training

Yaru Hao, Li Dong, Hangbo Bao, Ke Xu, Furu Wei

An Investigation of Suitability of Pre-Trained Language Models for Dialogue Generation – Avoiding Discrepancies

Yan Zeng, Jian-Yun Nie

Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums

Allison Lahnala, Yuntian Zhao, Charles Welch, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Lawrence C An

Disentangled Code Representation Learning for Multiple Programming Languages

Jingfeng ZHANG, Haiwen Hong, Yin Zhang, Yao Wan, Ye Liu

Plot and Rework: Modeling Storylines for Visual Storytelling

Chi-Yang Hsu, Yun-Wei Chu, Ting-Hao Huang, Lun-Wei Ku

Inducing Semantic Roles Without Syntax

Julian Michael, Luke Zettlemoyer

Logic-Consistency Text Generation from Semantic Parses

Chang Shu, Yusen Zhang, Xiangyu Dong, Peng Shi, Tao Yu

One Teacher is Enough? Pre-trained Language Model Distillation from Multiple Teachers

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Yongfeng Huang

Leveraging Topic Relatedness for Argument Persuasion

Xinran Zhao, Esin Durmus, Hongming Zhang, Claire Cardie

How Does Distilled Data Complexity Impact the Quality and Confidence of Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation?

Weijia Xu, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Marine Carpuat

Analysis of Tree-Structured Architectures for Code Generation

Samip Dahal, Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Enhancing Chinese Word Segmentation via Pseudo Labels for Practicability

Kaiyu Huang, Junpeng Liu, Degen Huang, Deyi Xiong, Zhuang Liu

Benchmarking Neural Topic Models: An Empirical Study

Thanh-Nam Doan, Tuan-Anh Hoang

Verb Sense Clustering using Contextualized Word Representations for Semantic Frame Induction

Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Effective Batching for Recurrent Neural Network Grammars

Hiroshi Noji, Yohei Oseki

Modulating Language Models with Emotions

Ruibo Liu, Jason Wei, Chenyan Jia, Soroush Vosoughi

MLMLM: Link Prediction with Mean Likelihood Masked Language Model

Louis Clouatre, Philippe Trempe, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

PSED: A Dataset for Selecting Emphasis in Presentation Slides

Amirreza Shirani, Giai Tran, Hieu Trinh, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka

Federated Chinese Word Segmentation with Global Character Associations

Yuanhe Tian, Guimin Chen, Han Qin, Yan Song

Grounding ‘Grounding’ in NLP

Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Yonatan Bisk, Alan W Black

Answer Generation for Retrieval-based Question Answering Systems

Chao-Chun Hsu, Eric Lind, Luca Soldaini, Alessandro Moschitti

On the Copying Behaviors of Pre-Training for Neural Machine Translation

Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao

Memory-Efficient Differentiable Transformer Architecture Search

Yuekai Zhao, Li Dong, Yelong Shen, Zhihua Zhang, Furu Wei

Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence

Andrew Halterman, Katherine Keith, Sheikh Sarwar, Brendan O’Connor

VLM: Task-agnostic Video-Language Model Pre-training for Video Understanding

Hu Xu, Gargi Ghosh, Po-Yao Huang, Prahal Arora, Masoumeh Aminzadeh

Marked Attribute Bias in Natural Language Inference

Hillary Dawkins

Hierarchical Task Learning from Language Instructions with Unified Transformers and Self-Monitoring

Yichi Zhang, Joyce Chai

SMS Spam Detection Through Skip-gram Embeddings and Shallow Networks

Gustavo Sousa, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, João Paulo Papa, Ivan Rizzo Guilherme

Prompting Contrastive Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning Tasks

Bhargavi Paranjape, Julian Michael, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Unsupervised Label Refinement Improves Dataless Text Classification

Zewei Chu, Karl Stratos, Kevin Gimpel

Ethical-Advice Taker: Do Language Models Understand Natural Language Interventions?

Jieyu Zhao, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Kai-Wei Chang

On the Distribution, Sparsity, and Inference-time Quantization of Attention Values in Transformers

Tianchu Ji, Shraddhan Jain, Michael Ferdman, Peter Milder, H. Andrew Schwartz

Compositionality of Complex Graphemes in the Undeciphered Proto-Elamite Script using Image and Text Embedding Models

Logan Born, Kathryn Kelley, M. Willis Monroe, Anoop Sarkar

Effective Attention Sheds Light On Interpretability

Kaiser Sun, Ana Marasović

A Formidable Ability: Detecting Adjectival Extremeness with DSMs

Farhan Samir, Barend Beekhuizen, Suzanne Stevenson

New Dataset and Strong Baselines for the Grammatical Error Correction of Russian

Viet Anh Trinh, Alla Rozovskaya

Who Blames or Endorses Whom? Entity-to-Entity Directed Sentiment Extraction in News Text

Kunwoo Park, Zhufeng Pan, Jungseock Joo

Improving Automated Evaluation of Open Domain Dialog via Diverse Reference Augmentation

Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

HySPA: Hybrid Span Generation for Scalable Text-to-Graph Extraction

Liliang Ren, Chenkai Sun, Heng Ji, Julia Hockenmaier

Analyzing Stereotypes in Generative Text Inference Tasks

Anna Sotnikova, Yang Trista Cao, Hal Daume III, Rachel Rudinger

Learning Contextualized Knowledge Structures for Commonsense Reasoning

Jun Yan, Mrigank Raman, Aaron Chan, Tianyu Zhang, Ryan Rossi

Sequence Models for Computational Etymology of Borrowings

Winston Wu, Kevin Duh, David Yarowsky

Predicting in-hospital mortality by combining clinical notes with time-series data

Iman Deznabi, Mohit Iyyer, Madalina Fiterau

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Event Detection using Domain-specific Adapters

Nghia Ngo Trung, Duy Phung, Thien Huu Nguyen

On the Cost-Effectiveness of Stacking of Neural and Non-Neural Methods for Text Classification: Scenarios and Performance Prediction

Christian Gomes, Marcos Goncalves, Leonardo Rocha, Sergio Canuto

The Utility and Interplay of Gazetteers and Entity Segmentation for Named Entity Recognition in English

Oshin Agarwal, Ani Nenkova

Multi-Task Learning and Adapted Knowledge Models for Emotion-Cause Extraction

Elsbeth Turcan, Shuai Wang, Rishita Anubhai, Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Yaser Al-Onaizan

Minimally-Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars with Linguistic Priors

Ramy Eskander, Cass Lowry, Sujay Khandagale, Francesca Callejas, Judith Klavans

Cluster-Former: Clustering-based Sparse Transformer for Question Answering

Shuohang Wang, Luowei Zhou, Zhe Gan, Yen-Chun Chen, Yuwei Fang

Constructing Flow Graphs from Procedural Cybersecurity Texts

Kuntal Kumar Pal, Kazuaki Kashihara, Pratyay Banerjee, Swaroop Mishra, Ruoyu Wang

LEWIS: Levenshtein Editing for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Machel Reid, Victor Zhong

Scaling Within Document Coreference to Long Texts

Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Nicholas Monath, Kumar Shridhar, Manzil Zaheer, Mrinmaya Sachan

Perceptual Models of Machine-Edited Text

Elizabeth Merkhofer, Monica-Ann Mendoza, Rebecca Marvin, John Henderson

Learning Disentangled Latent Topics for Twitter Rumour Veracity Classification

John Dougrez-Lewis, Maria Liakata, Elena Kochkina, Yulan He

On the Gap between Adoption and Understanding in NLP

Federico Bianchi, Dirk Hovy