COLING 2020

1,035 papers

Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees: Multi-head Attention for Joint Classification on Different Compositional Levels

Miruna Pislar, Marek Rei

Evaluating Pretrained Transformer-based Models on the Task of Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition

Cedric Lothritz, Kevin Allix, Lisa Veiber, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein

What Meaning-Form Correlation Has to Compose With: A Study of MFC on Artificial and Natural Language

Timothee Mickus, Timothée Bernard, Denis Paperno

An analysis of language models for metaphor recognition

Arthur Neidlein, Philip Wiesenbach, Katja Markert

Bridging Resolution: A Survey of the State of the Art

Hideo Kobayashi, Vincent Ng

Target Word Masking for Location Metonymy Resolution

Haonan Li, Maria Vasardani, Martin Tomko, Timothy Baldwin

Synonym Knowledge Enhanced Reader for Chinese Idiom Reading Comprehension

Siyu Long, Ran Wang, Kun Tao, Jiali Zeng, Xinyu Dai

Invertible Tree Embeddings using a Cryptographic Role Embedding Scheme

Coleman Haley, Paul Smolensky

CoLAKE: Contextualized Language and Knowledge Embedding

Tianxiang Sun, Yunfan Shao, Xipeng Qiu, Qipeng Guo, Yaru Hu

The Devil is in the Details: Evaluating Limitations of Transformer-based Methods for Granular Tasks

Brihi Joshi, Neil Shah, Francesco Barbieri, Leonardo Neves

Picking BERT’s Brain: Probing for Linguistic Dependencies in Contextualized Embeddings Using Representational Similarity Analysis

Michael Lepori, R. Thomas McCoy

Increasing Learning Efficiency of Self-Attention Networks through Direct Position Interactions, Learnable Temperature, and Convoluted Attention

Philipp Dufter, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze

Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval with Smooth Learning

Jiapeng Liu, Xiao Zhang, Dan Goldwasser, Xiao Wang

Deep Inside-outside Recursive Autoencoder with All-span Objective

Ruyue Hong, Jiong Cai, Kewei Tu

Specializing Word Vectors by Spectral Decomposition on Heterogeneously Twisted Graphs

Yuanhang Ren, Ye Du

Rethinking Skip Connection with Layer Normalization

Fenglin Liu, Xuancheng Ren, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xu Sun, Yuexian Zou

Incorporating Noisy Length Constraints into Transformer with Length-aware Positional Encodings

Yui Oka, Katsuki Chousa, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura

Distill and Replay for Continual Language Learning

Jingyuan Sun, Shaonan Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

Automatic Discovery of Heterogeneous Machine Learning Pipelines: An Application to Natural Language Processing

Suilan Estevez-Velarde, Yoan Gutiérrez, Andrés Montoyo, Yudivián Almeida Cruz

Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution

David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li

Multitask Learning-Based Neural Bridging Reference Resolution

Juntao Yu, Massimo Poesio

Dual-decoder Transformer for Joint Automatic Speech Recognition and Multilingual Speech Translation

Hang Le, Juan Pino, Changhan Wang, Jiatao Gu, Didier Schwab

Decolonising Speech and Language Technology

Steven Bird

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Incremental Speech Recognition and Diarization for Conversational AI

Angus Addlesee, Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi

Attentively Embracing Noise for Robust Latent Representation in BERT

Gwenaelle Cunha Sergio, Dennis Singh Moirangthem, Minho Lee

Federated Learning for Spoken Language Understanding

Zhiqi Huang, Fenglin Liu, Yuexian Zou

Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training

John Lee, Benjamin Tsou, Tianyuan Cai

Towards the First Machine Translation System for Sumerian Transliterations

Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos, Émilie Pagé-Perron

Designing Templates for Eliciting Commonsense Knowledge from Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Jheng-Hong Yang, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Rodrigo Nogueira, Ming-Feng Tsai, Chuan-Ju Wang

Handling Anomalies of Synthetic Questions in Unsupervised Question Answering

Giwon Hong, Junmo Kang, Doyeon Lim, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Mixup-Transformer: Dynamic Data Augmentation for NLP Tasks

Lichao Sun, Congying Xia, Wenpeng Yin, Tingting Liang, Philip Yu

Optimizing Transformer for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Ali Araabi, Christof Monz

Enabling Interactive Transcription in an Indigenous Community

Eric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier

Collective Wisdom: Improving Low-resource Neural Machine Translation using Adaptive Knowledge Distillation

Fahimeh Saleh, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari

Manifold Learning-based Word Representation Refinement Incorporating Global and Local Information

Wenyu Zhao, Dong Zhou, Lin Li, Jinjun Chen

Sentence Analogies: Linguistic Regularities in Sentence Embeddings

Xunjie Zhu, Gerard de Melo

An Empirical Study of the Downstream Reliability of Pre-Trained Word Embeddings

Anthony Rios, Brandon Lwowski

SLICE: Supersense-based Lightweight Interpretable Contextual Embeddings

Cindy Aloui, Carlos Ramisch, Alexis Nasr, Lucie Barque

An Unsupervised Method for Learning Representations of Multi-word Expressions for Semantic Classification

Robert Vacareanu, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Rebecca Sharp, Mihai Surdeanu

Verbal Multiword Expression Identification: Do We Need a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut?

Caroline Pasquer, Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Jean-Yves Antoine

Homonym normalisation by word sense clustering: a case in Japanese

Yo Sato, Kevin Heffernan

Temporal Relations Annotation and Extrapolation Based on Semi-intervals and Boundig Relations

Alejandro Pimentel, Gemma Bel Enguix, Gerardo Sierra Martínez, Azucena Montes

Sentence Matching with Syntax- and Semantics-Aware BERT

Tao Liu, Xin Wang, Chengguo Lv, Ranran Zhen, Guohong Fu

What Does This Acronym Mean? Introducing a New Dataset for Acronym Identification and Disambiguation

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Hung Tran, Thien Huu Nguyen

Conception: Multilingually-Enhanced, Human-Readable Concept Vector Representations

Simone Conia, Roberto Navigli

Transformation of Dense and Sparse Text Representations

Wenpeng Hu, Mengyu Wang, Bing Liu, Feng Ji, Jinwen Ma

Multi-level Alignment Pretraining for Multi-lingual Semantic Parsing

Bo Shao, Yeyun Gong, Weizhen Qi, Nan Duan, Xiaola Lin

Emotion Classification by Jointly Learning to Lexiconize and Classify

Deyu Zhou, Shuangzhi Wu, Qing Wang, jun xie, Zhaopeng Tu

LadaBERT: Lightweight Adaptation of BERT through Hybrid Model Compression

Yihuan Mao, Yujing Wang, Chufan Wu, Chen Zhang, Yang Wang

RANCC: Rationalizing Neural Networks via Concept Clustering

Housam Khalifa Bashier, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel

Task-Aware Representation of Sentences for Generic Text Classification

Kishaloy Halder, Alan Akbik, Josip Krapac, Roland Vollgraf

Dual Attention Network for Cross-lingual Entity Alignment

Jian Sun, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Dual Attention Model for Citation Recommendation

Yang Zhang, Qiang Ma

Interactively-Propagative Attention Learning for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

Huibin Ruan, Yu Hong, Yang Xu, Zhen Huang, Guodong Zhou

Bridge the Gap: High-level Semantic Planning for Image Captioning

Chenxi Yuan, Yang Bai, Chun Yuan

Geo-Aware Image Caption Generation

Sofia Nikiforova, Tejaswini Deoskar, Denis Paperno, Yoad Winter

Interactive Key-Value Memory-augmented Attention for Image Paragraph Captioning

Chunpu Xu, Yu Li, Chengming Li, Xiang Ao, Min Yang

Finding the Evidence: Localization-aware Answer Prediction for Text Visual Question Answering

Wei Han, Hantao Huang, Tao Han

VICTR: Visual Information Captured Text Representation for Text-to-Vision Multimodal Tasks

Caren Han, Siqu Long, Siwen Luo, Kunze Wang, Josiah Poon

Studying Taxonomy Enrichment on Diachronic WordNet Versions

Irina Nikishina, Varvara Logacheva, Alexander Panchenko, Natalia Loukachevitch

Event Coreference Resolution with their Paraphrases and Argument-aware Embeddings

Yutao Zeng, Xiaolong Jin, Saiping Guan, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

QANom: Question-Answer driven SRL for Nominalizations

Ayal Klein, Jonathan Mamou, Valentina Pyatkin, Daniela Stepanov, Hangfeng He

Definition Frames: Using Definitions for Hybrid Concept Representations

Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Artidoro Pagnoni, Eduard Hovy

Learning Semantic Correspondences from Noisy Data-text Pairs by Local-to-Global Alignments

Feng Nie, Jinpeng Wang, Chin-Yew Lin

Coordination Boundary Identification without Labeled Data for Compound Terms Disambiguation

Yuya Sawada, Takashi Wada, Takayoshi Shibahara, Hiroki Teranishi, Shuhei Kondo

Modality Enriched Neural Network for Metaphor Detection

Mingyu Wan, Baixi Xing

When Beards Start Shaving Men: A Subject-object Resolution Test Suite for Morpho-syntactic and Semantic Model Introspection

Patricia Fischer, Daniël de Kok, Erhard Hinrichs

Leveraging WordNet Paths for Neural Hypernym Prediction

Yejin Cho, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Yifan Gao, Katrin Erk

Normalizing Compositional Structures Across Graphbanks

Lucia Donatelli, Jonas Groschwitz, Matthias Lindemann, Alexander Koller, Pia Weißenhorn

Semantic Role Labeling with Heterogeneous Syntactic Knowledge

Qingrong Xia, Rui Wang, Zhenghua Li, Yue Zhang, Min Zhang

Logic-guided Semantic Representation Learning for Zero-Shot Relation Classification

Juan Li, Ruoxu Wang, Ningyu Zhang, Wen Zhang, Fan Yang

Comparison by Conversion: Reverse-Engineering UCCA from Syntax and Lexical Semantics

Daniel Hershcovich, Nathan Schneider, Dotan Dvir, Jakob Prange, Miryam de Lhoneux

End to End Chinese Lexical Fusion Recognition with Sememe Knowledge

Yijiang Liu, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji

Solving Math Word Problems with Multi-Encoders and Multi-Decoders

Yibin Shen, Cheqing Jin

Autoregressive Affective Language Forecasting: A Self-Supervised Task

Matthew Matero, H. Andrew Schwartz

A Tale of Two Linkings: Dynamically Gating between Schema Linking and Structural Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsing

Sanxing Chen, Aidan San, Xiaodong Liu, Yangfeng Ji

One Comment from One Perspective: An Effective Strategy for Enhancing Automatic Music Comment

Tengfei Huo, Zhiqiang Liu, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou

Computational Modeling of Affixoid Behavior in Chinese Morphology

Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Pei-Yi Chen, Sara Court

Analogy Models for Neural Word Inflection

Ling Liu, Mans Hulden

Morphologically Aware Word-Level Translation

Paula Czarnowska, Sebastian Ruder, Ryan Cotterell, Ann Copestake

Noise Isn’t Always Negative: Countering Exposure Bias in Sequence-to-Sequence Inflection Models

Garrett Nicolai, Miikka Silfverberg

Does Chinese BERT Encode Word Structure?

Yile Wang, Leyang Cui, Yue Zhang

“Judge me by my size (noun), do you?” YodaLib: A Demographic-Aware Humor Generation Framework

Aparna Garimella, Carmen Banea, Nabil Hossain, Rada Mihalcea

Generating Instructions at Different Levels of Abstraction

Arne Köhn, Julia Wichlacz, Álvaro Torralba, Daniel Höller, Jorg Hoffmann

Adapting a Language Model for Controlled Affective Text Generation

Tushar Goswamy, Ishika Singh, Ahsan Barkati, Ashutosh Modi

Knowledge-enriched, Type-constrained and Grammar-guided Question Generation over Knowledge Bases

Sheng Bi, Xiya Cheng, Yuan-Fang Li, Yongzhen Wang, Guilin Qi

Reinforced Multi-task Approach for Multi-hop Question Generation

Deepak Gupta, Hardik Chauhan, Ravi Tej Akella, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Robust Machine Reading Comprehension by Learning Soft labels

Zhenyu Zhao, Shuangzhi Wu, Muyun Yang, Kehai Chen, Tiejun Zhao

Conversational Machine Comprehension: a Literature Review

Somil Gupta, Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat, Hong Yu

Syntactic Graph Convolutional Network for Spoken Language Understanding

Keqing He, Shuyu Lei, Yushu Yang, Huixing Jiang, Zhongyuan Wang

Neural Networks approaches focused on French Spoken Language Understanding: application to the MEDIA Evaluation Task

Sahar Ghannay, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset

Cross-lingual Machine Reading Comprehension with Language Branch Knowledge Distillation

Junhao Liu, Linjun Shou, Jian Pei, Ming Gong, Min Yang

To What Degree Can Language Borders Be Blurred In BERT-based Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding?

Quynh Do, Judith Gaspers, Tobias Roeding, Melanie Bradford

NUT-RC: Noisy User-generated Text-oriented Reading Comprehension

Rongtao Huang, Bowei Zou, Yu Hong, Wei Zhang, AiTi Aw

ForceReader: a BERT-based Interactive Machine Reading Comprehension Model with Attention Separation

Zheng Chen, Kangjian Wu

Automated Graph Generation at Sentence Level for Reading Comprehension Based on Conceptual Graphs

Wan-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Shien Lu

Joint Event Extraction with Hierarchical Policy Network

Peixin Huang, Xiang Zhao, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zhen Tan, Weidong Xiao

Molweni: A Challenge Multiparty Dialogues-based Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset with Discourse Structure

Jiaqi Li, Ming Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Zihao Zheng, Zekun Wang

Incorporating Syntax and Frame Semantics in Neural Network for Machine Reading Comprehension

Shaoru Guo, Yong Guan, Ru Li, Xiaoli Li, Hongye Tan

Learn with Noisy Data via Unsupervised Loss Correction for Weakly Supervised Reading Comprehension

Xuemiao Zhang, Kun Zhou, Sirui Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang