COLING 2022

931 papers

Adaptive Meta-learner via Gradient Similarity for Few-shot Text Classification

Tianyi Lei, Honghui Hu, Qiaoyang Luo, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang

MaxMatch-Dropout: Subword Regularization for WordPiece

Tatsuya Hiraoka

Reweighting Strategy Based on Synthetic Data Identification for Sentence Similarity

TaeHee Kim, ChaeHun Park, Jimin Hong, Radhika Dua, Edward Choi

Sentence-aware Adversarial Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification

Suhe Wang, Xiaoyuan Liu, Bo Liu, Diwen Dong

Learn2Weight: Parameter Adaptation against Similar-domain Adversarial Attacks

Siddhartha Datta

An Information Minimization Based Contrastive Learning Model for Unsupervised Sentence Embeddings Learning

Shaobin Chen, Jie Zhou, Yuling Sun, Liang He

KNOT: Knowledge Distillation Using Optimal Transport for Solving NLP Tasks

Rishabh Bhardwaj, Tushar Vaidya, Soujanya Poria

A Closer Look at Parameter Contributions When Training Neural Language and Translation Models

Raúl Vázquez, Hande Celikkanat, Vinit Ravishankar, Mathias Creutz, Jörg Tiedemann

PARSE: An Efficient Search Method for Black-box Adversarial Text Attacks

Pengwei Zhan, Chao Zheng, Jing Yang, Yuxiang Wang, Liming Wang

Attention Networks for Augmenting Clinical Text with Support Sets for Diagnosis Prediction

Paul Grundmann, Tom Oberhauser, Felix Gers, Alexander Löser

WARM: A Weakly (+Semi) Supervised Math Word Problem Solver

Oishik Chatterjee, Isha Pandey, Aashish Waikar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Text Classification via Meta Self-Paced Learning

Nghia Ngo Trung, Linh Ngo Van, Thien Huu Nguyen

Classical Sequence Match Is a Competitive Few-Shot One-Class Learner

Mengting Hu, Hang Gao, Yinhao Bai, Mingming Liu

Pro-KD: Progressive Distillation by Following the Footsteps of the Teacher

Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Aref Jafari, Puneeth S.M. Saladi, Pranav Sharma, Ali Saheb Pasand

CILDA: Contrastive Data Augmentation Using Intermediate Layer Knowledge Distillation

Md Akmal Haidar, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Abbas Ghaddar, Khalil Bibi, Phillippe Langlais

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion with Approximated Gaussian Process Embedding

Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou

Topology Imbalance and Relation Inauthenticity Aware Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks for Fake News Detection

Li Gao, Lingyun Song, Jie Liu, Bolin Chen, Xuequn Shang

Accelerating Inference for Pretrained Language Models by Unified Multi-Perspective Early Exiting

Jun Kong, Jin Wang, Liang-Chih Yu, Xuejie Zhang

Where Does Linguistic Information Emerge in Neural Language Models? Measuring Gains and Contributions across Layers

Jenny Kunz, Marco Kuhlmann

Equivariant Transduction through Invariant Alignment

Jennifer C. White, Ryan Cotterell

MockingBERT: A Method for Retroactively Adding Resilience to NLP Models

Jan Jezabek, Akash Singh

Large Sequence Representation Learning via Multi-Stage Latent Transformers

Ionut-Catalin Sandu, Daniel Voinea, Alin-Ionut Popa

DoubleMix: Simple Interpolation-Based Data Augmentation for Text Classification

Hui Chen, Wei Han, Diyi Yang, Soujanya Poria

Ask Question First for Enhancing Lifelong Language Learning

Han Wang, Ruiliu Fu, Xuejun Zhang, Jun Zhou, Qingwei Zhao

A Simple Log-based Loss Function for Ordinal Text Classification

François Castagnos, Martin Mihelich, Charles Dognin

SHAP-Based Explanation Methods: A Review for NLP Interpretability

Edoardo Mosca, Ferenc Szigeti, Stella Tragianni, Daniel Gallagher, Georg Groh

Don’t Judge a Language Model by Its Last Layer: Contrastive Learning with Layer-Wise Attention Pooling

Dongsuk Oh, Yejin Kim, Hodong Lee, H. Howie Huang, Heuiseok Lim

Token and Head Adaptive Transformers for Efficient Natural Language Processing

Chonghan Lee, Md Fahim Faysal Khan, Rita Brugarolas Brufau, Ke Ding, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Mitigating the Diminishing Effect of Elastic Weight Consolidation

Canasai Kruengkrai, Junichi Yamagishi

Noise Learning for Text Classification: A Benchmark

Bo Liu, Wandi Xu, Yuejia Xiang, Xiaojun Wu, Lejian He

Reinforcement Learning with Large Action Spaces for Neural Machine Translation

Asaf Yehudai, Leshem Choshen, Lior Fox, Omri Abend

A Weak Supervision Approach for Predicting Difficulty of Technical Interview Questions

Arpita Kundu, Subhasish Ghosh, Pratik Saini, Tapas Nayak, Indrajit Bhattacharya

CitRet: A Hybrid Model for Cited Text Span Retrieval

Amit Pandey, Avani Gupta, Vikram Pudi

Eureka: Neural Insight Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Alex X. Zhang, Xun Liang, Bo Wu, Xiangping Zheng, Sensen Zhang

GraDA: Graph Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning

Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

HCLD: A Hierarchical Framework for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue System

Zhanyu Ma, Jian Ye, Xurui Yang, Jianfeng Liu

Taking Actions Separately: A Bidirectionally-Adaptive Transfer Learning Method for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Xiaolin Xing, Yu Hong, Minhan Xu, Jianmin Yao, Guodong Zhou

Applying Natural Annotation and Curriculum Learning to Named Entity Recognition for Under-Resourced Languages

Valeriy Lobov, Alexandra Ivoylova, Serge Sharoff

Evaluating Word Embeddings in Extremely Under-Resourced Languages: A Case Study in Bribri

Rolando Coto-Solano

Zero-shot Disfluency Detection for Indian Languages

Rohit Kundu, Preethi Jyothi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

When the Student Becomes the Master: Learning Better and Smaller Monolingual Models from mBERT

Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever

WordNet-QU: Development of a Lexical Database for Quechua Varieties

Nelsi Melgarejo, Rodolfo Zevallos, Hector Gomez, John E. Ortega

BRCC and SentiBahasaRojak: The First Bahasa Rojak Corpus for Pretraining and Sentiment Analysis Dataset

Nanda Putri Romadhona, Sin-En Lu, Bo-Han Lu, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

Byte-based Multilingual NMT for Endangered Languages

Mengjiao Zhang, Jia Xu

How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French

Ludovic Mompelat, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler

Towards Multi-Sense Cross-Lingual Alignment of Contextual Embeddings

Linlin Liu, Thien Hai Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Lidong Bing, Luo Si

A Simple and Effective Method to Improve Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

Kunbo Ding, Weijie Liu, Yuejian Fang, Weiquan Mao, Zhe Zhao

Improving Low-resource RRG Parsing with Cross-lingual Self-training

Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Jakub Waszczuk, Kilu von Prince, Tatiana Bladier

Noun Class Disambiguation in Runyankore and Related Languages

Joan Byamugisha

Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning

Jesujoba O. Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow

Global Readiness of Language Technology for Healthcare: What Would It Take to Combat the Next Pandemic?

Ishani Mondal, Kabir Ahuja, Mohit Jain, Jacki O’Neill, Kalika Bali

Persian Natural Language Inference: A Meta-learning Approach

Heydar Soudani, Mohammad Hassan Mojab, Hamid Beigy

Assessing Digital Language Support on a Global Scale

Gary F. Simons, Abbey L. L. Thomas, Chad K. K. White

Penalizing Divergence: Multi-Parallel Translation for Low-Resource Languages of North America

Garrett Nicolai, Changbing Yang, Miikka Silfverberg

Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning

Ernie Chang, Jesujoba O. Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Demberg

Fashioning Local Designs from Generic Speech Technologies in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Eric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier

Aligning Multilingual Embeddings for Improved Code-switched Natural Language Understanding

Barah Fazili, Preethi Jyothi

Revisiting Syllables in Language Modelling and Their Application on Low-Resource Machine Translation

Arturo Oncevay, Kervy Dante Rivas Rojas, Liz Karen Chavez Sanchez, Roberto Zariquiey

Does Meta-learning Help mBERT for Few-shot Question Generation in a Cross-lingual Transfer Setting for Indic Languages?

Aniruddha Roy, Rupak Kumar Thakur, Isha Sharma, Ashim Gupta, Amrith Krishna

Detecting Suicide Risk in Online Counseling Services: A Study in a Low-Resource Language

Amir Bialer, Daniel Izmaylov, Avi Segal, Oren Tsur, Yossi Levi-Belz

Noisy Label Regularisation for Textual Regression

Yuxia Wang, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Semantic Role Labeling as Dependency Parsing: Exploring Latent Tree Structures inside Arguments

Yu Zhang, Qingrong Xia, Shilin Zhou, Yong Jiang, Guohong Fu

A Transition-based Method for Complex Question Understanding

Yu Xia, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lyu, Sujian Li

Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation with Unified Sense Representation

Ying Su, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang

Transparent Semantic Parsing with Universal Dependencies Using Graph Transformations

Wessel Poelman, Rik van Noord, Johan Bos

Unsupervised Lexical Substitution with Decontextualised Embeddings

Takashi Wada, Timothy Baldwin, Yuji Matsumoto, Jey Han Lau

Fast and Accurate End-to-End Span-based Semantic Role Labeling as Word-based Graph Parsing

Shilin Zhou, Qingrong Xia, Zhenghua Li, Yu Zhang, Yu Hong

Metaphor Detection via Linguistics Enhanced Siamese Network

Shenglong Zhang, Ying Liu

Emotion Enriched Retrofitted Word Embeddings

Sapan Shah, Sreedhar Reddy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

CILex: An Investigation of Context Information for Lexical Substitution Methods

Sandaru Seneviratne, Elena Daskalaki, Artem Lenskiy, Hanna Suominen

Towards Structure-aware Paraphrase Identification with Phrase Alignment Using Sentence Encoders

Qiwei Peng, David Weir, Julie Weeds

Does BERT Recognize an Agent? Modeling Dowty’s Proto-Roles with Contextual Embeddings

Mattia Proietti, Gianluca Lebani, Alessandro Lenci

Testing Large Language Models on Compositionality and Inference with Phrase-Level Adjective-Noun Entailment

Lorenzo Bertolini, Julie Weeds, David Weir

A Novel Multi-Task Learning Approach for Context-Sensitive Compound Type Identification in Sanskrit

Jivnesh Sandhan, Ashish Gupta, Hrishikesh Terdalkar, Tushar Sandhan, Suvendu Samanta

Word Sense Disambiguation with Knowledge-Enhanced and Local Self-Attention-based Extractive Sense Comprehension

Guobiao Zhang, Wenpeng Lu, Xueping Peng, Shoujin Wang, Baoshuo Kan

Zero-shot Script Parsing

Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller

Multilingual and Multimodal Topic Modelling with Pretrained Embeddings

Elaine Zosa, Lidia Pivovarova

Contrast Sets for Stativity of English Verbs in Context

Daniel Chen, Alexis Palmer

Modelling Frequency, Attestation, and Corpus-Based Information with OntoLex-FrAC

Christian Chiarcos, Elena-Simona Apostol, Besim Kabashi, Ciprian-Octavian Truică

Knowledge Is Flat: A Seq2Seq Generative Framework for Various Knowledge Graph Completion

Chen Chen, Yufei Wang, Bing Li, Kwok-Yan Lam

DynGL-SDP: Dynamic Graph Learning for Semantic Dependency Parsing

Bin Li, Miao Gao, Yunlong Fan, Yikemaiti Sataer, Zhiqiang Gao

COIN – an Inexpensive and Strong Baseline for Predicting Out of Vocabulary Word Embeddings

Andrew Schneider, Lihong He, Zhijia Chen, Arjun Mukherjee, Eduard Dragut

Modelling Commonsense Properties Using Pre-Trained Bi-Encoders

Amit Gajbhiye, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

Prepositions Matter in Quantifier Scope Disambiguation

Aleksander Leczkowski, Justyna Grudzińska, Manuel Vargas Guzmán, Aleksander Wawer, Aleksandra Siemieniuk

One Word, Two Sides: Traces of Stance in Contextualized Word Representations

Aina Garí Soler, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel

CINO: A Chinese Minority Pre-trained Language Model

Ziqing Yang, Zihang Xu, Yiming Cui, Baoxin Wang, Min Lin

Singlish Message Paraphrasing: A Joint Task of Creole Translation and Text Normalization

Zhengyuan Liu, Shikang Ni, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen

CSL: A Large-scale Chinese Scientific Literature Dataset

Yudong Li, Yuqing Zhang, Zhe Zhao, Linlin Shen, Weijie Liu

Measuring Robustness for NLP

Yu Yu, Abdul Rafae Khan, Jia Xu

ESimCSE: Enhanced Sample Building Method for Contrastive Learning of Unsupervised Sentence Embedding

Xing Wu, Chaochen Gao, Liangjun Zang, Jizhong Han, Zhongyuan Wang

ParaZh-22M: A Large-Scale Chinese Parabank via Machine Translation

Wenjie Hao, Hongfei Xu, Deyi Xiong, Hongying Zan, Lingling Mu

InferES : A Natural Language Inference Corpus for Spanish Featuring Negation-Based Contrastive and Adversarial Examples

Venelin Kovatchev, Mariona Taulé

ViNLI: A Vietnamese Corpus for Studies on Open-Domain Natural Language Inference

Tin Van Huynh, Kiet Van Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Noun-MWP: Math Word Problems Meet Noun Answers

Taehun Cha, Jaeheun Jung, Donghun Lee

QSTS: A Question-Sensitive Text Similarity Measure for Question Generation

Sujatha Das Gollapalli, See-Kiong Ng

Accounting for Language Effect in the Evaluation of Cross-lingual AMR Parsers

Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Extracting a Knowledge Base of COVID-19 Events from Social Media

Shi Zong, Ashutosh Baheti, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

MultiCoNER: A Large-scale Multilingual Dataset for Complex Named Entity Recognition

Shervin Malmasi, Anjie Fang, Besnik Fetahu, Sudipta Kar, Oleg Rokhlenko

Dynamic Nonlinear Mixup with Distance-based Sample Selection

Shaokang Zhang, Lei Jiang, Jianlong Tan

Accuracy meets Diversity in a News Recommender System

Shaina Raza, Syed Raza Bashir, Usman Naseem