EACL 2021

744 papers

“Sharks are not the threat humans are”: Argument Component Segmentation in School Student Essays

Tariq Alhindi, Debanjan Ghosh

Automated Classification of Written Proficiency Levels on the CEFR-Scale through Complexity Contours and RNNs

Elma Kerz, Daniel Wiechmann, Yu Qiao, Emma Tseng, Marcus Ströbel

Virtual Pre-Service Teacher Assessment and Feedback via Conversational Agents

Debajyoti Datta, Maria Phillips, James P. Bywater, Jennifer Chiu, Ginger S. Watson

C-Test Collector: A Proficiency Testing Application to Collect Training Data for C-Tests

Christian Haring, Rene Lehmann, Andrea Horbach, Torsten Zesch

Interventions Recommendation: Professionals’ Observations Analysis in Special Needs Education

Javier Muñoz, Felipe Bravo-Marquez

Automatically Generating Cause-and-Effect Questions from Passages

Katherine Stasaski, Manav Rathod, Tony Tu, Yunfang Xiao, Marti A. Hearst

On the application of Transformers for estimating the difficulty of Multiple-Choice Questions from text

Luca Benedetto, Giovanni Aradelli, Paolo Cremonesi, Andrea Cappelli, Andrea Giussani

Assessing Grammatical Correctness in Language Learning

Anisia Katinskaia, Roman Yangarber

Estonian as a Second Language Teacher’s Tools

Tiiu Üksik, Jelena Kallas, Kristina Koppel, Katrin Tsepelina, Raili Pool

Towards a Data Analytics Pipeline for the Visualisation of Complexity Metrics in L2 writings

Thomas Gaillat, Anas Knefati, Antoine Lafontaine

Data Strategies for Low-Resource Grammatical Error Correction

Simon Flachs, Felix Stahlberg, Shankar Kumar

Training and Domain Adaptation for Supervised Text Segmentation

Goran Glavaš, Ananya Ganesh, Swapna Somasundaran

Parsing Argumentative Structure in English-as-Foreign-Language Essays

Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Simone Teufel, Takenobu Tokunaga

Essay Quality Signals as Weak Supervision for Source-based Essay Scoring

Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman

Document-level grammatical error correction

Zheng Yuan, Christopher Bryant

Identifying negative language transfer in learner errors using POS information

Leticia Farias Wanderley, Carrie Demmans Epp

Character Set Construction for Chinese Language Learning

Chak Yan Yeung, John Lee

Broad Linguistic Complexity Analysis for Greek Readability Classification

Savvas Chatzipanagiotidis, Maria Giagkou, Detmar Meurers

Synthetic Data Generation for Grammatical Error Correction with Tagged Corruption Models

Felix Stahlberg, Shankar Kumar

Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning

Haemanth Santhi Ponnusamy, Detmar Meurers

Text Simplification by Tagging

Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Vipul Raheja, Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi

Negation Scope Resolution for Chinese as a Second Language

Mengyu Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Shuqiao Sun, Weiwei Sun

Domain Adaptation for NMT via Filtered Iterative Back-Translation

Surabhi Kumari, Nikhil Jaiswal, Mayur Patidar, Manasi Patwardhan, Shirish Karande

Semantic Parsing of Brief and Multi-Intent Natural Language Utterances

Logan Lebanoff, Charles Newton, Victor Hung, Beth Atkinson, John Killilea

Few-Shot Learning of an Interleaved Text Summarization Model by Pretraining with Synthetic Data

Sanjeev Kumar Karn, Francine Chen, Yan-Ying Chen, Ulli Waltinger, Hinrich Schütze

Analyzing the Domain Robustness of Pretrained Language Models, Layer by Layer

Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Laiba Mehnaz, Bhavitvya Malik, Abdul Waheed, Devamanyu Hazarika

Gradual Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation

Haoran Xu, Seth Ebner, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme

Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing through Contextual Embedding Transformation

Haoran Xu, Philipp Koehn

Effective Distant Supervision for Temporal Relation Extraction

Xinyu Zhao, Shih-Ting Lin, Greg Durrett

On the Effectiveness of Dataset Embeddings in Mono-lingual,Multi-lingual and Zero-shot Conditions

Rob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Barbara Plank

User Factor Adaptation for User Embedding via Multitask Learning

Xiaolei Huang, Michael J. Paul, Franck Dernoncourt, Robin Burke, Mark Dredze

An Empirical Study of Compound PCFGs

Yanpeng Zhao, Ivan Titov

Dependency Parsing Evaluation for Low-resource Spontaneous Speech

Zoey Liu, Emily Prud’hommeaux

Trajectory-Based Meta-Learning for Out-Of-Vocabulary Word Embedding Learning

Gordon Buck, Andreas Vlachos

On the Hidden Negative Transfer in Sequential Transfer Learning for Domain Adaptation from News to Tweets

Sara Meftah, Nasredine Semmar, Youssef Tamaazousti, Hassane Essafi, Fatiha Sadat

Locality Preserving Loss: Neighbors that Live together, Align together

Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Francis Ferraro, Tim Oates

BERTologiCoMix: How does Code-Mixing interact with Multilingual BERT?

Sebastin Santy, Anirudh Srinivasan, Monojit Choudhury

Domain adaptation in practice: Lessons from a real-world information extraction pipeline

Timothy Miller, Egoitz Laparra, Steven Bethard

MultiReQA: A Cross-Domain Evaluation forRetrieval Question Answering Models

Mandy Guo, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Qinlan Shen, Noah Constant

Addressing Zero-Resource Domains Using Document-Level Context in Neural Machine Translation

Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser

Cross-Lingual Transfer with MAML on Trees

Jezabel Garcia, Federica Freddi, Jamie McGowan, Tim Nieradzik, Feng-Ting Liao

Genres, Parsers, and BERT: The Interaction Between Parsers and BERT Models in Cross-Genre Constituency Parsing in English and Swedish

Daniel Dakota

Challenges in Annotating and Parsing Spoken, Code-switched, Frisian-Dutch Data

Anouck Braggaar, Rob van der Goot

Bridging the gap between supervised classification and unsupervised topic modelling for social-media assisted crisis management

Mikael Brunila, Rosie Zhao, Andrei Mircea, Sam Lumley, Renée Sieber

The impact of domain-specific representations on BERT-based multi-domain spoken language understanding

Judith Gaspers, Quynh Do, Tobias Röding, Melanie Bradford

Conditional Adversarial Networks for Multi-Domain Text Classification

Yuan Wu, Diana Inkpen, Ahmed El-Roby

Pseudo-Label Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Contextual Embeddings

Tianyu Chen, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Jianxin Li

Multidomain Pretrained Language Models for Green NLP

Antonis Maronikolakis, Hinrich Schütze

Advances and Challenges in Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

Rui Wang, Hai Zhao

Reviewing Natural Language Processing Research

Kevin Cohen, Karën Fort, Margot Mieskes, Aurélie Névéol, Anna Rogers

Tutorial: End-to-End Speech Translation

Jan Niehues, Elizabeth Salesky, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri

Aggregating and Learning from Multiple Annotators

Silviu Paun, Edwin Simpson

Unsupervised Natural Language Parsing (Introductory Tutorial)

Kewei Tu, Yong Jiang, Wenjuan Han, Yanpeng Zhao

Why Find the Right One?

Payal Khullar

Explaining and Improving BERT Performance on Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Severin Laicher, Sinan Kurtyigit, Dominik Schlechtweg, Jonas Kuhn, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Beyond the English Web: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual and Lightweight Monolingual Classification of Registers

Liina Repo, Valtteri Skantsi, Samuel Rönnqvist, Saara Hellström, Miika Oinonen

Making Use of Latent Space in Language GANs for Generating Diverse Text without Pre-training

Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

The Effectiveness of Morphology-aware Segmentation in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos

TMR: Evaluating NER Recall on Tough Mentions

Jingxuan Tu, Constantine Lignos

Semantic-aware transformation of short texts using word embeddings: An application in the Food Computing domain

Andrea Morales-Garzón, Juan Gómez-Romero, Maria J. Martin-Bautista

Towards Personalised and Document-level Machine Translation of Dialogue

Sebastian Vincent

Relating Relations: Meta-Relation Extraction from Online Health Forum Posts

Daniel Stickley

Development of Conversational AI for Sleep Coaching Programme

Heereen Shim

A Little Pretraining Goes a Long Way: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing Task for Low-resource Morphologically Rich Languages

Jivnesh Sandhan, Amrith Krishna, Ashim Gupta, Laxmidhar Behera, Pawan Goyal

Emoji-Based Transfer Learning for Sentiment Tasks

Susann Boy, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow

Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition

Alexandra Mayn, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow

Multilingual Email Zoning

Bruno Jardim, Ricardo Rei, Mariana S. C. Almeida

Discrete Reasoning Templates for Natural Language Understanding

Hadeel Al-Negheimish, Pranava Madhyastha, Alessandra Russo

Contrasting distinct structured views to learn sentence embeddings

Antoine Simoulin, Benoit Crabbé

Siamese Neural Networks for Detecting Complementary Products

Marina Angelovska, Sina Sheikholeslami, Bas Dunn, Amir H. Payberah

BERT meets Cranfield: Uncovering the Properties of Full Ranking on Fully Labeled Data

Negin Ghasemi, Djoerd Hiemstra

Model Agnostic Answer Reranking System for Adversarial Question Answering

Sagnik Majumder, Chinmoy Samant, Greg Durrett

Automatically Cataloging Scholarly Articles using Library of Congress Subject Headings

Nazmul Kazi, Nathaniel Lane, Indika Kahanda

A reproduction of Apple’s bi-directional LSTM models for language identification in short strings

Mads Toftrup, Søren Asger Sørensen, Manuel R. Ciosici, Ira Assent

A Computational Analysis of Vagueness in Revisions of Instructional Texts

Alok Debnath, Michael Roth

PENELOPIE: Enabling Open Information Extraction for the Greek Language through Machine Translation

Dimitris Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Papadakis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition

Nicole Macher, Badr M. Abdullah, Harm Brouwer, Dietrich Klakow

Have Attention Heads in BERT Learned Constituency Grammar?

Ziyang Luo

Computationally Efficient Wasserstein Loss for Structured Labels

Ayato Toyokuni, Sho Yokoi, Hisashi Kashima, Makoto Yamada

HULK: An Energy Efficiency Benchmark Platform for Responsible Natural Language Processing

Xiyou Zhou, Zhiyu Chen, Xiaoyong Jin, William Yang Wang

Conversational Agent for Daily Living Assessment Coaching Demo

Raymond Finzel, Aditya Gaydhani, Sheena Dufresne, Maria Gini, Serguei Pakhomov

PunKtuator: A Multilingual Punctuation Restoration System for Spoken and Written Text

Varnith Chordia

Which is Better for Deep Learning: Python or MATLAB? Answering Comparative Questions in Natural Language

Viktoriia Chekalina, Alexander Bondarenko, Chris Biemann, Meriem Beloucif, Varvara Logacheva

Domain Expert Platform for Goal-Oriented Dialog Collection

Didzis Gosko, Arturs Znotins, Inguna Skadiņa, Normunds Gruzitis, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne

OPUS-CAT: Desktop NMT with CAT integration and local fine-tuning

Tommi Nieminen

Breaking Writer’s Block: Low-cost Fine-tuning of Natural Language Generation Models

Alexandre Duval, Thomas Lamson, Gaël de Léséleuc de Kérouara, Matthias Gallé

ELITR Multilingual Live Subtitling: Demo and Strategy

Ondřej Bojar, Dominik Macháček, Sangeet Sagar, Otakar Smrz, Jonáš Kratochvíl

OCTIS: Comparing and Optimizing Topic models is Simple!

Silvia Terragni, Elisabetta Fersini, Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi, Pietro Tropeano, Antonio Candelieri

FrameForm: An Open-source Annotation Interface for FrameNet

Büşra Marşan, Olcay Taner Yıldız

Story Centaur: Large Language Model Few Shot Learning as a Creative Writing Tool

Ben Swanson, Kory Mathewson, Ben Pietrzak, Sherol Chen, Monica Dinalescu

Paladin: an annotation tool based on active and proactive learning

Minh-Quoc Nghiem, Paul Baylis, Sophia Ananiadou

A New Surprise Measure for Extracting Interesting Relationships between Persons

Hidetaka Kamigaito, Jingun Kwon, Young-In Song, Manabu Okumura

European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community

Georg Rehm, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajic, Victoria Arranz

T2NER: Transformers based Transfer Learning Framework for Named Entity Recognition

Saadullah Amin, Guenter Neumann

GCM: A Toolkit for Generating Synthetic Code-mixed Text

Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi, Anirudh Srinivasan, Tanuja Ganu, Monojit Choudhury, Sunayana Sitaram

SCoT: Sense Clustering over Time: a tool for the analysis of lexical change

Christian Haase, Saba Anwar, Seid Muhie Yimam, Alexander Friedrich, Chris Biemann

Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp): A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLP

Rob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Alan Ramponi, Ibrahim Sharaf, Barbara Plank

Graph Matching and Graph Rewriting: GREW tools for corpus exploration, maintenance and conversion

Bruno Guillaume

MadDog: A Web-based System for Acronym Identification and Disambiguation

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Thien Huu Nguyen

LOME: Large Ontology Multilingual Extraction

Patrick Xia, Guanghui Qin, Siddharth Vashishtha, Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen