COLING 2022

931 papers

Competence-based Question Generation

Jingxuan Tu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky

An Augmented Benchmark Dataset for Geometric Question Answering through Dual Parallel Text Encoding

Jie Cao, Jing Xiao

Teaching Neural Module Networks to Do Arithmetic

Jiayi Chen, Xiao-Yu Guo, Yuan-Fang Li, Gholamreza Haffari

ArT: All-round Thinker for Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering

Jiawei Wang, Hai Zhao

Hierarchical Representation-based Dynamic Reasoning Network for Biomedical Question Answering

Jianguo Mao, Jiyuan Zhang, Zengfeng Zeng, Weihua Peng, Wenbin Jiang

Modeling Hierarchical Reasoning Chains by Linking Discourse Units and Key Phrases for Reading Comprehension

Jialin Chen, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Can We Guide a Multi-Hop Reasoning Language Model to Incrementally Learn at Each Single-Hop?

Jesus Lovon-Melgarejo, José G. Moreno, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Lynda Tamine

Evaluating and Mitigating Inherent Linguistic Bias of African American English through Inference

Jamell Dacon, Haochen Liu, Jiliang Tang

Self-Supervised Intermediate Fine-Tuning of Biomedical Language Models for Interpreting Patient Case Descriptions

Israa Alghanmi, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

Prompt Combines Paraphrase: Teaching Pre-trained Models to Understand Rare Biomedical Words

Haochun Wang, Chi Liu, Nuwa Xi, Sendong Zhao, Meizhi Ju

IMCI: Integrate Multi-view Contextual Information for Fact Extraction and Verification

Hao Wang, Yangguang Li, Zhen Huang, Yong Dou

Table-based Fact Verification with Self-labeled Keypoint Alignment

Guangzhen Zhao, Peng Yang

Perform like an Engine: A Closed-Loop Neural-Symbolic Learning Framework for Knowledge Graph Inference

Guanglin Niu, Bo Li, Yongfei Zhang, Shiliang Pu

Answering Numerical Reasoning Questions in Table-Text Hybrid Contents with Graph-based Encoder and Tree-based Decoder

Fangyu Lei, Shizhu He, Xiang Li, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

SISER: Semantic-Infused Selective Graph Reasoning for Fact Verification

Eunhwan Park, Jong-Hyeon Lee, DongHyeon Jeon, Seonhoon Kim, Inho Kang

Dynamic Relevance Graph Network for Knowledge-Aware Question Answering

Chen Zheng, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Bias at a Second Glance: A Deep Dive into Bias for German Educational Peer-Review Data Modeling

Thiemo Wambsganss, Vinitra Swamy, Roman Rietsche, Tanja Käser

Social Norms-Grounded Machine Ethics in Complex Narrative Situation

Tao Shen, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang

A Study of Implicit Bias in Pretrained Language Models against People with Disabilities

Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Mukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson

Quantifying Bias from Decoding Techniques in Natural Language Generation

Mayukh Das, Wolf Tilo Balke

Debiasing Isn’t Enough! – on the Effectiveness of Debiasing MLMs and Their Social Biases in Downstream Tasks

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki

Debiasing Word Embeddings with Nonlinear Geometry

Lu Cheng, Nayoung Kim, Huan Liu

Bigger Data or Fairer Data? Augmenting BERT via Active Sampling for Educational Text Classification

Lele Sha, Yuheng Li, Dragan Gasevic, Guanliang Chen

SOS: Systematic Offensive Stereotyping Bias in Word Embeddings

Fatma Elsafoury, Steve R. Wilson, Stamos Katsigiannis, Naeem Ramzan

From Polarity to Intensity: Mining Morality from Semantic Space

Chunxu Zhao, Pengyuan Liu, Dong Yu

Threat Scenarios and Best Practices to Detect Neural Fake News

Artidoro Pagnoni, Martin Graciarena, Yulia Tsvetkov

Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender

Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy

BERT-Flow-VAE: A Weakly-supervised Model for Multi-Label Text Classification

Ziwen Liu, Josep Grau-Bove, Scott Allan Orr

DPTDR: Deep Prompt Tuning for Dense Passage Retrieval

Zhengyang Tang, Benyou Wang, Ting Yao

MICO: Selective Search with Mutual Information Co-training

Zhanyu Wang, Xiao Zhang, Hyokun Yun, Choon Hui Teo, Trishul Chilimbi

Virtual Knowledge Graph Construction for Zero-Shot Domain-Specific Document Retrieval

Yeon Seonwoo, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Alice Oh

ConTextING: Granting Document-Wise Contextual Embeddings to Graph Neural Networks for Inductive Text Classification

Yen-Hao Huang, Yi-Hsin Chen, Yi-Shin Chen

Rethinking Data Augmentation in Text-to-text Paradigm

Yanan Chen, Yang Liu

Adaptive Feature Discrimination and Denoising for Asymmetric Text Matching

Yan Li, Chenliang Li, Junjun Guo

Complicate Then Simplify: A Novel Way to Explore Pre-trained Models for Text Classification

Xu Zhang, Zejie Liu, Yanzheng Xiang, Deyu Zhou

MuSeCLIR: A Multiple Senses and Cross-lingual Information Retrieval Dataset

Wing Yan Li, Julie Weeds, David Weir

Exploring Label Hierarchy in a Generative Way for Hierarchical Text Classification

Wei Huang, Chen Liu, Bo Xiao, Yihua Zhao, Zhaoming Pan

Dense Template Retrieval for Customer Support

Tiago Mesquita, Bruno Martins, Mariana Almeida

EM-PERSONA: EMotion-assisted Deep Neural Framework for PERSONAlity Subtyping from Suicide Notes

Soumitra Ghosh, Dhirendra Kumar Maurya, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Multi-Stage Framework with Refinement Based Point Set Registration for Unsupervised Bi-Lingual Word Alignment

Silviu Vlad Oprea, Sourav Dutta, Haytham Assem

LIME: Weakly-Supervised Text Classification without Seeds

Seongmin Park, Jihwa Lee

Parameter-Efficient Neural Reranking for Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Retrieval

Robert Litschko, Ivan Vulić, Goran Glavaš

Towards Robust Neural Retrieval with Source Domain Synthetic Pre-Finetuning

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli

Attribute Injection for Pretrained Language Models: A New Benchmark and an Efficient Method

Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-Woo Lee

E-VarM: Enhanced Variational Word Masks to Improve the Interpretability of Text Classification Models

Ling Ge, Chunming Hu, Guanghui Ma, Junshuang Wu, Junfan Chen

CONCRETE: Improving Cross-lingual Fact-checking with Cross-lingual Retrieval

Kung-Hsiang Huang, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji

A Domain Knowledge Enhanced Pre-Trained Language Model for Vertical Search: Case Study on Medicinal Products

Kesong Liu, Jianhui Jiang, Feifei Lyu

Addressing Leakage in Self-Supervised Contextualized Code Retrieval

Johannes Villmow, Viola Campos, Adrian Ulges, Ulrich Schwanecke

Locally Distributed Activation Vectors for Guided Feature Attribution

Housam K. B. Bashier, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel

Where to Attack: A Dynamic Locator Model for Backdoor Attack in Text Classifications

Heng-yang Lu, Chenyou Fan, Jun Yang, Cong Hu, Wei Fang

Community Topic: Topic Model Inference by Consecutive Word Community Discovery

Eric Austin, Osmar R. Zaiane, Christine Largeron

SelfMix: Robust Learning against Textual Label Noise with Self-Mixup Training

Dan Qiao, Chenchen Dai, Yuyang Ding, Juntao Li, Qiang Chen

Hierarchical Information Matters: Text Classification via Tree Based Graph Neural Network

Chong Zhang, He Zhu, Xingyu Peng, Junran Wu, Ke Xu

Semantic Sentence Matching via Interacting Syntax Graphs

Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen

Linguistically Motivated Features for Classifying Shorter Text into Fiction and Non-Fiction Genre

Arman Kazmi, Sidharth Ranjan, Arpit Sharma, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar

A Distance-Aware Multi-Task Framework for Conversational Discourse Parsing

Yaxin Fan, Peifeng Li, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zhu

ConnPrompt: Connective-cloze Prompt Learning for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

Wei Xiang, Zhenglin Wang, Lu Dai, Bang Wang

Dialo-AP: A Dependency Parsing Based Argument Parser for Dialogues

Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari

New or Old? Exploring How Pre-Trained Language Models Represent Discourse Entities

Sharid Loáiciga, Anne Beyer, David Schlangen

“No, They Did Not”: Dialogue Response Dynamics in Pre-trained Language Models

Sanghee J. Kim, Lang Yu, Allyson Ettinger

Topicalization in Language Models: A Case Study on Japanese

Riki Fujihara, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Kaori Abe, Ryoko Tokuhisa, Kentaro Inui

Towards Identifying Alternative-Lexicalization Signals of Discourse Relations

René Knaebel, Manfred Stede

A Survey in Automatic Irony Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Multi-X Perspectives

Qingcheng Zeng, An-Ran Li

Improving Commonsense Contingent Reasoning by Pseudo-data and Its Application to the Related Tasks

Kazumasa Omura, Sadao Kurohashi

The Role of Context and Uncertainty in Shallow Discourse Parsing

Katherine Atwell, Remi Choi, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani

Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author’s Presentation of Factuality

John Murzaku, Peter Zeng, Magdalena Markowska, Owen Rambow

Investigating the Performance of Transformer-Based NLI Models on Presuppositional Inferences

Jad Kabbara, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

End-to-End Neural Bridging Resolution

Hideo Kobayashi, Yufang Hou, Vincent Ng

Extractive Summarisation for German-language Data: A Text-level Approach with Discourse Features

Freya Hewett, Manfred Stede

TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph

Zhitong Yang, Bo Wang, Jinfeng Zhou, Yue Tan, Dongming Zhao

Speaker Clustering in Textual Dialogue with Pairwise Utterance Relation and Cross-corpus Dialogue Act Supervision

Zhihua Su, Qiang Zhou

DialMed: A Dataset for Dialogue-based Medication Recommendation

Zhenfeng He, Yuqiang Han, Zhenqiu Ouyang, Wei Gao, Hongxu Chen

Generalized Intent Discovery: Learning from Open World Dialogue System

Yutao Mou, Keqing He, Yanan Wu, Pei Wang, Jingang Wang

Towards Enhancing Health Coaching Dialogue in Low-Resource Settings

Yue Zhou, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Lisa Sharp, Bing Liu

DialogueEIN: Emotion Interaction Network for Dialogue Affective Analysis

Yuchen Liu, Jinming Zhao, Jingwen Hu, Ruichen Li, Qin Jin

Does GPT-3 Generate Empathetic Dialogues? A Novel In-Context Example Selection Method and Automatic Evaluation Metric for Empathetic Dialogue Generation

Young-jun Lee, Chae-Gyun Lim, Ho-Jin Choi

Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation Planning

Yosuke Kishinami, Reina Akama, Shiki Sato, Ryoko Tokuhisa, Jun Suzuki

MulZDG: Multilingual Code-Switching Framework for Zero-shot Dialogue Generation

Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang

Pan More Gold from the Sand: Refining Open-domain Dialogue Training with Noisy Self-Retrieval Generation

Yihe Wang, Yitong Li, Yasheng Wang, Fei Mi, Pingyi Zhou

Towards Multi-label Unknown Intent Detection

Yawen Ouyang, Zhen Wu, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

Tracking Satisfaction States for Customer Satisfaction Prediction in E-commerce Service Chatbots

Yang Sun, Liangqing Wu, Shuangyong Song, Xiaoguang Yu, Xiaodong He

Distribution Calibration for Out-of-Domain Detection with Bayesian Approximation

Yanan Wu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Keqing He, Yutao Mou, Pei Wang

Semantic-based Pre-training for Dialogue Understanding

Xuefeng Bai, Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang

CoHS-CQG: Context and History Selection for Conversational Question Generation

Xuan Long Do, Bowei Zou, Liangming Pan, Nancy F. Chen, Shafiq Joty

ET5: A Novel End-to-end Framework for Conversational Machine Reading Comprehension

Xiao Zhang, Heyan Huang, Zewen Chi, Xian-Ling Mao

SPACE-2: Tree-Structured Semi-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understanding

Wanwei He, Yinpei Dai, Binyuan Hui, Min Yang, Zheng Cao

A Multi-Dimensional, Cross-Domain and Hierarchy-Aware Neural Architecture for ISO-Standard Dialogue Act Tagging

Stefano Mezza, Wayne Wobcke, Alan Blair

Using Multi-Encoder Fusion Strategies to Improve Personalized Response Selection

Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari

Section-Aware Commonsense Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained Language Model

Sixing Wu, Ying Li, Ping Xue, Dawei Zhang, Zhonghai Wu

Slot Dependency Modeling for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Qingyue Wang, Yanan Cao, Piji Li, Yanhe Fu, Zheng Lin

Joint Goal Segmentation and Goal Success Prediction on Multi-Domain Conversations

Meiguo Wang, Benjamin Yao, Bin Guo, Xiaohu Liu, Yu Zhang

Open-Domain Dialog Evaluation Using Follow-Ups Likelihood

Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann, Walter Daelemans

SelF-Eval: Self-supervised Fine-grained Dialogue Evaluation

Longxuan Ma, Ziyu Zhuang, Weinan Zhang, Mingda Li, Ting Liu

CorefDiffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations

Lin Xu, Qixian Zhou, Jinlan Fu, Min-Yen Kan, See-Kiong Ng

CGIM: A Cycle Guided Interactive Learning Model for Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue

Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Tianbao Xie, Qian Liu, Shijue Huang

A Closer Look at Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Intent Detection

Li-Ming Zhan, Haowen Liang, Lu Fan, Albert Y.S. Lam, Xiao-ming Wu

DialAug: Mixing up Dialogue Contexts in Contrastive Learning for Robust Conversational Modeling

Lahari Poddar, peiyao wang, Julia Reinspach

PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation

Kshitij Mishra, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Palak Totala, Asif Ekbal

GRASP: Guiding Model with RelAtional Semantics Using Prompt for Dialogue Relation Extraction

Junyoung Son, JINSUNG KIM, Jungwoo Lim, Heuiseok Lim

CR-GIS: Improving Conversational Recommendation via Goal-aware Interest Sequence Modeling

Jinfeng Zhou, Bo Wang, Zhitong Yang, Dongming Zhao, Kun Huang