ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Leveraging Abstract Meaning Representation for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Pavan Kapanipathi, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Srinivas Ravishankar, Salim Roukos, Alexander Gray

Synthesizing Adversarial Negative Responses for Robust Response Ranking and Evaluation

Prakhar Gupta, Yulia Tsvetkov, Jeffrey Bigham

Differential Privacy for Text Analytics via Natural Text Sanitization

Xiang Yue, Minxin Du, Tianhao Wang, Yaliang Li, Huan Sun

Explaining NLP Models via Minimal Contrastive Editing (MiCE)

Alexis Ross, Ana Marasović, Matthew Peters

Named Entity Recognition through Deep Representation Learning and Weak Supervision

Jerrod Parker, Shi Yu

Are Larger Pretrained Language Models Uniformly Better? Comparing Performance at the Instance Level

Ruiqi Zhong, Dhruba Ghosh, Dan Klein, Jacob Steinhardt

Assessing the Syntactic Capabilities of Transformer-based Multilingual Language Models

Laura Pérez-Mayos, Alba Táboas García, Simon Mille, Leo Wanner

Using surprisal and fMRI to map the neural bases of broad and local contextual prediction during natural language comprehension

Shohini Bhattasali, Philip Resnik

Investigating Transfer Learning in Multilingual Pre-trained Language Models through Chinese Natural Language Inference

Hai Hu, He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, Yina Patterson

A Non-Autoregressive Edit-Based Approach to Controllable Text Simplification

Sweta Agrawal, Weijia Xu, Marine Carpuat

Summary Grounded Conversation Generation

Chulaka Gunasekara, Guy Feigenblat, Benjamin Sznajder, Sachindra Joshi, David Konopnicki

Multimodal Graph-based Transformer Framework for Biomedical Relation Extraction

Sriram Pingali, Shweta Yadav, Pratik Dutta, Sriparna Saha

On the Lack of Robust Interpretability of Neural Text Classifiers

Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Michele Donini, Dylan Slack, Cédric Archambeau, Sanjiv Das

Modeling the Unigram Distribution

Irene Nikkarinen, Tiago Pimentel, Damian Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

Few-Shot Upsampling for Protest Size Detection

Andrew Halterman, Benjamin J. Radford

The interplay between language similarity and script on a novel multi-layer Algerian dialect corpus

Samia Touileb, Jeremy Barnes

Probing Multi-modal Machine Translation with Pre-trained Language Model

Kong Yawei, Kai Fan

Do Language Models Perform Generalizable Commonsense Inference?

Peifeng Wang, Filip Ilievski, Muhao Chen, Xiang Ren

Analyzing Online Political Advertisements

Danae Sánchez Villegas, Saeid Mokaram, Nikolaos Aletras

Detecting Domain Polarity-Changes of Words in a Sentiment Lexicon

Shuai Wang, Guangyi Lv, Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu

Implications of Using Internet Sting Corpora to Approximate Underage Victims

Tatiana Ringenberg, Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Julia Rayz

Probing Image-Language Transformers for Verb Understanding

Lisa Anne Hendricks, Aida Nematzadeh

ProofWriter: Generating Implications, Proofs, and Abductive Statements over Natural Language

Oyvind Tafjord, Bhavana Dalvi, Peter Clark

Transforming Term Extraction: Transformer-Based Approaches to Multilingual Term Extraction Across Domains

Christian Lang, Lennart Wachowiak, Barbara Heinisch, Dagmar Gromann

An Exploratory Analysis of the Relation between Offensive Language and Mental Health

Ana-Maria Bucur, Marcos Zampieri, Liviu P. Dinu

On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text

Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Nikolaos Aletras

How to Split: the Effect of Word Segmentation on Gender Bias in Speech Translation

Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Learning Robust Latent Representations for Controllable Speech Synthesis

Shakti Kumar, Jithin Pradeep, Hussain Zaidi

Biomedical Interpretable Entity Representations

Diego Garcia-Olano, Yasumasa Onoe, Ioana Baldini, Joydeep Ghosh, Byron Wallace

It’s All in the Heads: Using Attention Heads as a Baseline for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Commonsense Reasoning

Alexey Tikhonov, Max Ryabinin

Not Far Away, Not So Close: Sample Efficient Nearest Neighbour Data Augmentation via MiniMax

Ehsan Kamalloo, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Peyman Passban, Ali Ghodsi

Towards Protecting Vital Healthcare Programs by Extracting Actionable Knowledge from Policy

Vanessa Lopez, Nagesh Yadav, Gabriele Picco, Inge Vejsbjerg, Eoin Carrol

Substructure Substitution: Structured Data Augmentation for NLP

Haoyue Shi, Karen Livescu, Kevin Gimpel

Generating Informative Conclusions for Argumentative Texts

Shahbaz Syed, Khalid Al Khatib, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast

Annotations Matter: Leveraging Multi-task Learning to Parse UD and SUD

Zeeshan Ali Sayyed, Daniel Dakota

Multilingual Translation from Denoising Pre-Training

Yuqing Tang, Chau Tran, Xian Li, Peng-Jen Chen, Naman Goyal

How well do you know your summarization datasets?

Priyam Tejaswin, Dhruv Naik, Pengfei Liu

WeaQA: Weak Supervision via Captions for Visual Question Answering

Pratyay Banerjee, Tejas Gokhale, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral

“We will Reduce Taxes” - Identifying Election Pledges with Language Models

Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy, Elin Naurin, Julia Runeson, Robert Thomson

BERT Busters: Outlier Dimensions that Disrupt Transformers

Olga Kovaleva, Saurabh Kulshreshtha, Anna Rogers, Anna Rumshisky

AgreeSum: Agreement-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Adam Lelkes, Vinh Tran, Cong Yu

To Point or Not to Point: Understanding How Abstractive Summarizers Paraphrase Text

Matt Wilber, William Timkey, Marten van Schijndel

Figurative Language in Recognizing Textual Entailment

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Debanjan Ghosh, Adam Poliak, Smaranda Muresan

Representing Syntax and Composition with Geometric Transformations

Lorenzo Bertolini, Julie Weeds, David Weir, Qiwei Peng

A Joint Model for Structure-based News Genre Classification with Application to Text Summarization

Zeyu Dai, Ruihong Huang

Does Robustness Improve Fairness? Approaching Fairness with Word Substitution Robustness Methods for Text Classification

Yada Pruksachatkun, Satyapriya Krishna, Jwala Dhamala, Rahul Gupta, Kai-Wei Chang

Disfl-QA: A Benchmark Dataset for Understanding Disfluencies in Question Answering

Aditya Gupta, Jiacheng Xu, Shyam Upadhyay, Diyi Yang, Manaal Faruqui

Hyperbolic Temporal Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Relational and Time Curvatures

Sebastien Montella, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Johannes Heinecke

Neural Entity Recognition with Gazetteer based Fusion

Qing Sun, Parminder Bhatia

Grammatical Error Correction as GAN-like Sequence Labeling

Kevin Parnow, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao

DoT: An efficient Double Transformer for NLP tasks with tables

Syrine Krichene, Thomas Müller, Julian Eisenschlos

BERT-Proof Syntactic Structures: Investigating Errors in Discontinuous Constituency Parsing

Maximin Coavoux

Defending Pre-trained Language Models from Adversarial Word Substitution Without Performance Sacrifice

Rongzhou Bao, Jiayi Wang, Hai Zhao

Detecting Bot-Generated Text by Characterizing Linguistic Accommodation in Human-Bot Interactions

Paras Bhatt, Anthony Rios

SSMix: Saliency-Based Span Mixup for Text Classification

Soyoung Yoon, Gyuwan Kim, Kyumin Park

Is the Lottery Fair? Evaluating Winning Tickets Across Demographics

Victor Petrén Bach Hansen, Anders Søgaard

Insertion-based Tree Decoding

Denis Lukovnikov, Asja Fischer

Learning to Bridge Metric Spaces: Few-shot Joint Learning of Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Cheng Chen, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

Manifold Adversarial Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Guandan Chen, Kai Fan, Kaibo Zhang, Boxing Chen, Zhongqiang Huang

IndoCollex: A Testbed for Morphological Transformation of Indonesian Colloquial Words

Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Afra Feyza Akyürek, Suci Fitriany, Alham Fikri Aji

Dialogue Graph Modeling for Conversational Machine Reading

Siru Ouyang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Enhancing Zero-shot and Few-shot Stance Detection with Commonsense Knowledge Graph

Rui Liu, Zheng Lin, Yutong Tan, Weiping Wang

Probabilistic Graph Reasoning for Natural Proof Generation

Changzhi Sun, Xinbo Zhang, Jiangjie Chen, Chun Gan, Yuanbin Wu

Learning a Reversible Embedding Mapping using Bi-Directional Manifold Alignment

Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Francis Ferraro, Tim Oates

Improve Query Focused Abstractive Summarization by Incorporating Answer Relevance

Dan Su, Tiezheng Yu, Pascale Fung

IgSEG: Image-guided Story Ending Generation

Qingbao Huang, Chuan Huang, Linzhang Mo, Jielong Wei, Yi Cai

How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact

Zhijing Jin, Geeticka Chauhan, Brian Tse, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea

Self-Supervised Document Similarity Ranking via Contextualized Language Models and Hierarchical Inference

Dvir Ginzburg, Itzik Malkiel, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Noam Koenigstein

Adjacency List Oriented Relational Fact Extraction via Adaptive Multi-task Learning

Fubang Zhao, Zhuoren Jiang, Yangyang Kang, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu

Decoupled Dialogue Modeling and Semantic Parsing for Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL

Zhi Chen, Lu Chen, Hanqi Li, Ruisheng Cao, Da Ma

Retrieval Enhanced Model for Commonsense Generation

Han Wang, Yang Liu, Chenguang Zhu, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong

Provably Secure Generative Linguistic Steganography

Siyu Zhang, Zhongliang Yang, Jinshuai Yang, Yongfeng Huang

AugVic: Exploiting BiText Vicinity for Low-Resource NMT

Tasnim Mohiuddin, M Saiful Bari, Shafiq Joty

Probing Pre-Trained Language Models for Disease Knowledge

Israa Alghanmi, Luis Espinosa Anke, Steven Schockaert

Latent Reasoning for Low-Resource Question Generation

Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, Rui Zhang

Language Tags Matter for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Liwei Wu, Shanbo Cheng, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Inspecting the concept knowledge graph encoded by modern language models

Carlos Aspillaga, Marcelo Mendoza, Alvaro Soto

Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Term-level De-noising

Wen Zheng, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ke Zhou

Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining Objectives for Machine Translation

Christos Baziotis, Ivan Titov, Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow

Combining Static Word Embeddings and Contextual Representations for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Jinpeng Zhang, Baijun Ji, Nini Xiao, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang

On the Interaction of Belief Bias and Explanations

Ana Valeria González, Anna Rogers, Anders Søgaard

Modeling the Influence of Verb Aspect on the Activation of Typical Event Locations with BERT

Won Ik Cho, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang

Hypernym Discovery via a Recurrent Mapping Model

Yuhang Bai, Richong Zhang, Fanshuang Kong, Junfan Chen, Yongyi Mao

FrameNet-assisted Noun Compound Interpretation

Girishkumar Ponkiya, Diptesh Kanojia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Girish Palshikar

On Sparsifying Encoder Outputs in Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Biao Zhang, Ivan Titov, Rico Sennrich

MergeDistill: Merging Language Models using Pre-trained Distillation

Simran Khanuja, Melvin Johnson, Partha Talukdar

Automatic Rephrasing of Transcripts-based Action Items

Amir Cohen, Amir Kantor, Sagi Hilleli, Eyal Kolman

Energy-based Unknown Intent Detection with Data Manipulation

Yawen Ouyang, Jiasheng Ye, Yu Chen, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang

Learning Sequential and Structural Information for Source Code Summarization

YunSeok Choi, JinYeong Bak, CheolWon Na, Jee-Hyong Lee

Do Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Models Contain Language Pair Specific Attention Heads?

Zae Myung Kim, Laurent Besacier, Vassilina Nikoulina, Didier Schwab

HacRED: A Large-Scale Relation Extraction Dataset Toward Hard Cases in Practical Applications

Qiao Cheng, Juntao Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Jin Zhao, Jiaqing Liang

ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation

Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Yoshinobu Kano, Kumari Deepshikha

Progressive Multi-Granularity Training for Non-Autoregressive Translation

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

Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets

Shraman Pramanick, Dimitar Dimitrov, Rituparna Mukherjee, Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar

Don’t Miss the Labels: Label-semantic Augmented Meta-Learner for Few-Shot Text Classification

Qiaoyang Luo, Lingqiao Liu, Yuhao Lin, Wei Zhang

Understanding Feature Focus in Multitask Settings for Lexico-semantic Relation Identification

Houssam Akhmouch, Gaël Dias, José G. Moreno

When Time Makes Sense: A Historically-Aware Approach to Targeted Sense Disambiguation

Kaspar Beelen, Federico Nanni, Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kasra Hosseini, Giorgia Tolfo

Contrastive Aligned Joint Learning for Multilingual Summarization

Danqing Wang, Jiaze Chen, Hao Zhou, Xipeng Qiu, Lei Li

Two Parents, One Child: Dual Transfer for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Meng Zhang, Liangyou Li, Qun Liu

Transformer-Exclusive Cross-Modal Representation for Vision and Language

Andrew Shin, Takuya Narihira