CoNLL 2021

52 papers

The Influence of Regional Pronunciation Variation on Children’s Spelling and the Potential Benefits of Accent Adapted Spellcheckers

Emma O’Neill, Joe Kenny, Anthony Ventresque, Julie Carson-berndsen

Predicting non-native speech perception using the Perceptual Assimilation Model and state-of-the-art acoustic models

Juliette MILLET, Ioana Chitoran, Ewan Dunbar

Analysing Human Strategies of Information Transmission as a Function of Discourse Context

Mario Giulianelli, Raquel Fernández

BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language

Philip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia, Dan Roth

The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency

Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky, Alessandro Sordoni, Romain Laroche

Automatic Error Type Annotation for Arabic

Riadh Belkebir, Nizar Habash

FAST: A carefully sampled and cognitively motivated dataset for distributional semantic evaluation

Stefan Evert, Gabriella Lapesa

A Data Bootstrapping Recipe for Low-Resource Multilingual Relation Classification

Arijit Nag, Bidisha Samanta, Animesh Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, Soumen Chakrabarti

MirrorWiC: On Eliciting Word-in-Context Representations from Pretrained Language Models

Qianchu Liu, Fangyu Liu, Nigel Collier, Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić

A Large-scale Comprehensive Abusiveness Detection Dataset with Multifaceted Labels from Reddit

Hoyun Song, Soo Hyun Ryu, Huije Lee, Jong Park

Controlling Prosody in End-to-End TTS: A Case Study on Contrastive Focus Generation

Siddique Latif, Inyoung Kim, Ioan Calapodescu, Laurent Besacier

Negation-Instance Based Evaluation of End-to-End Negation Resolution

Elizaveta Sineva, Stefan Grünewald, Annemarie Friedrich, Jonas Kuhn

Tackling Zero Pronoun Resolution and Non-Zero Coreference Resolution Jointly

Shisong Chen, Binbin Gu, Jianfeng Qu, Zhixu Li, An Liu

Cross-document Event Identity via Dense Annotation

Adithya Pratapa, Zhengzhong Liu, Kimihiro Hasegawa, Linwei Li, Yukari Yamakawa

Commonsense Knowledge in Word Associations and ConceptNet

Chunhua Liu, Trevor Cohn, Lea Frermann

Polar Embedding

Ran Iwamoto, Ryosuke Kohita, Akifumi Wachi

Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution

Laura Aina, Xixian Liao, Gemma Boleda, Matthijs Westera

Relation-aware Bidirectional Path Reasoning for Commonsense Question Answering

Junxing Wang, Xinyi Li, Zhen Tan, Xiang Zhao, Weidong Xiao

Deconstructing syntactic generalizations with minimalist grammars

Marina Ermolaeva

Grammatical Profiling for Semantic Change Detection

Andrey Kutuzov, Lidia Pivovarova, Mario Giulianelli

Scaffolded input promotes atomic organization in the recurrent neural network language model

Philip A. Huebner, Jon A. Willits

Modeling the Interaction Between Perception-Based and Production-Based Learning in Children’s Early Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge

Mitja Nikolaus, Abdellah Fourtassi

Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions

Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak, Matt Sharifi

Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives

Lalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger

NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English

Alicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt, Omar Agha, Soo-Hwan Lee

Imposing Relation Structure in Language-Model Embeddings Using Contrastive Learning

Christos Theodoropoulos, James Henderson, Andrei Catalin Coman, Marie-Francine Moens

Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation

Kevin Stowe, Nils Beck, Iryna Gurevych

Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline

Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Michael Lepioshkin, Jacob Goldberger

Understanding the Extent to which Content Quality Metrics Measure the Information Quality of Summaries

Daniel Deutsch, Dan Roth

A Coarse-to-Fine Labeling Framework for Joint Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Constituent Parsing

Yang Hou, Houquan Zhou, Zhenghua Li, Yu Zhang, Min Zhang

Tokenization Repair in the Presence of Spelling Errors

Hannah Bast, Matthias Hertel, Mostafa M. Mohamed

Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased Exposure

Jonathan Dunn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Explainable Natural Language to Bash Translation using Abstract Syntax Tree

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Shirish Shevade

A Multilingual Benchmark for Probing Negation-Awareness with Minimal Pairs

Mareike Hartmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Lukas Nielsen

Agree to Disagree: Analysis of Inter-Annotator Disagreements in Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Output

Maja Popović

Data Augmentation of Incorporating Real Error Patterns and Linguistic Knowledge for Grammatical Error Correction

Xia Li, Junyi He

Who’s on First?: Probing the Learning and Representation Capabilities of Language Models on Deterministic Closed Domains

David Demeter, Doug Downey

Counterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction

Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen, Yoav Goldberg

Understanding Guided Image Captioning Performance across Domains

Edwin G. Ng, Bo Pang, Piyush Sharma, Radu Soricut

Does language help generalization in vision models?

Benjamin Devillers, Bhavin Choksi, Romain Bielawski, Rufin VanRullen

Learning Zero-Shot Multifaceted Visually Grounded Word Embeddings via Multi-Task Training

Hassan Shahmohammadi, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, R. Harald Baayen

Enriching Language Models with Visually-grounded Word Vectors and the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms

Casey Kennington

Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents

Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu

Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color

Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich, Stella Frank, Ellie Pavlick

Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the Perspective of a Recurrent Neural Network

Verna Dankers, Anna Langedijk, Kate McCurdy, Adina Williams, Dieuwke Hupkes

The Low-Dimensional Linear Geometry of Contextualized Word Representations

Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas

Do pretrained transformers infer telicity like humans?

Yiyun Zhao, Jian Gang Ngui, Lucy Hall Hartley, Steven Bethard

On Language Models for Creoles

Heather Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Miryam de Lhoneux, Chen Qiu, Anders Søgaard

“It seemed like an annoying woman”: On the Perception and Ethical Considerations of Affective Language in Text-Based Conversational Agents

Lindsey Vanderlyn, Gianna Weber, Michael Neumann, Dirk Väth, Sarina Meyer

VQA-MHUG: A Gaze Dataset to Study Multimodal Neural Attention in Visual Question Answering

Ekta Sood, Fabian Kögel, Florian Strohm, Prajit Dhar, Andreas Bulling

Dependency Induction Through the Lens of Visual Perception

Ruisi Su, Shruti Rijhwani, Hao Zhu, Junxian He, Xinyu Wang

“It’s our fault!”: Insights Into Users’ Understanding and Interaction With an Explanatory Collaborative Dialog System

Katharina Weitz, Lindsey Vanderlyn, Ngoc Thang Vu, Elisabeth Andre