EACL 2024

766 papers

Large-Scale Bitext Corpora Provide New Evidence for Cognitive Representations of Spatial Terms

Peter Viechnicki, Kevin Duh, Anthony Kostacos, Barbara Landau

The Role of Data Curation in Image Captioning

Wenyan Li, Jonas Lotz, Chen Qiu, Desmond Elliott

Document Structure in Long Document Transformers

Jan Buchmann, Max Eichler, Jan-Micha Bodensohn, Ilia Kuznetsov, Iryna Gurevych

Bias in Opinion Summarisation from Pre-training to Adaptation: A Case Study in Political Bias

Nannan Huang, Haytham Fayek, Xiuzhen Zhang

Where Do We Go From Here? Multi-scale Allocentric Relational Inferencefrom Natural Spatial Descriptions

Tzuf Paz-Argaman, John Palowitch, Sayali Kulkarni, Jason Baldridge, Reut Tsarfaty

Cross-Lingual Transfer from Related Languages: Treating Low-Resource Maltese as Multilingual Code-Switching

Kurt Micallef, Nizar Habash, Claudia Borg, Fadhl Eryani, Houda Bouamor

Moderation in the Wild: Investigating User-Driven Moderation in Online Discussions

Neele Falk, Eva Vecchi, Iman Jundi, Gabriella Lapesa

Leveraging Multi-lingual Positive Instances in Contrastive Learning to Improve Sentence Embedding

Kaiyan Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Xin-Qiang Cai, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Automated Cognate Detection as a Supervised Link Prediction Task with Cognate Transformer

V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu, Arnab Bhattacharya

LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions

Minghao Wu, Abdul Waheed, Chiyu Zhang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Alham Fikri Aji

Meme-ingful Analysis: Enhanced Understanding of Cyberbullying in Memes Through Multimodal Explanations

Prince Jha, Krishanu Maity, Raghav Jain, Apoorv Verma, Sriparna Saha

Entity-level Factual Adaptiveness of Fine-tuning based Abstractive Summarization Models

Jongyoon Song, Nohil Park, Bongkyu Hwang, Jaewoong Yun, Seongho Joe

Unsupervised Contrast-Consistent Ranking with Language Models

Niklas Stoehr, Pengxiang Cheng, Jing Wang, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Rajarshi Bhowmik

VOLTAGE: A Versatile Contrastive Learning based OCR Methodology for ultra low-resource scripts through Auto Glyph Feature Extraction

Prawaal Sharma, Poonam Goyal, Vidisha Sharma, Navneet Goyal

Quality Does Matter: A Detailed Look at the Quality and Utility of Web-Mined Parallel Corpora

Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa de Silva, Menan Velayuthan, Aloka Fernando, Charitha Rathnayake

Improving the TENOR of Labeling: Re-evaluating Topic Models for Content Analysis

Zongxia Li, Andrew Mao, Daniel Stephens, Pranav Goel, Emily Walpole

Centering the Speech Community

Steven Bird, Dean Yibarbuk

AnthroScore: A Computational Linguistic Measure of Anthropomorphism

Myra Cheng, Kristina Gligoric, Tiziano Piccardi, Dan Jurafsky

Scaling up Discovery of Latent Concepts in Deep NLP Models

Majd Hawasly, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani

Desiderata For The Context Use Of Question Answering Systems

Sagi Shaier, Lawrence Hunter, Katharina von der Wense

Comparing Template-based and Template-free Language Model Probing

Sagi Shaier, Kevin Bennett, Lawrence Hunter, Katharina von der Wense

Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation

Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

Minghao Wu, Yufei Wang, George Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

A* shortest string decoding for non-idempotent semirings

Kyle Gorman, Cyril Allauzen

ConstraintChecker: A Plugin for Large Language Models to Reason on Commonsense Knowledge Bases

Quyet V. Do, Tianqing Fang, SHIZHE DIAO, Zhaowei Wang, Yangqiu Song

Examining Gender and Racial Bias in Large Vision–Language Models Using a Novel Dataset of Parallel Images

Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Quantifying the Hyperparameter Sensitivity of Neural Networks for Character-level Sequence-to-Sequence Tasks

Adam Wiemerslage, Kyle Gorman, Katharina von der Wense

Generation-driven Contrastive Self-training for Zero-shot Text Classification with Instruction-following LLM

Ruohong Zhang, Yau-Shian Wang, Yiming Yang

Code-Switched Language Identification is Harder Than You Think

Laurie Burchell, Alexandra Birch, Robert Thompson, Kenneth Heafield

MAFIA: Multi-Adapter Fused Inclusive Language Models

Prachi Jain, Ashutosh Sathe, Varun Gumma, Kabir Ahuja, Sunayana Sitaram

GAINER: Graph Machine Learning with Node-specific Radius for Classification of Short Texts and Documents

Naganand Yadati

NNOSE: Nearest Neighbor Occupational Skill Extraction

Mike Zhang, Rob van der Goot, Min-Yen Kan, Barbara Plank

FAIR: Filtering of Automatically Induced Rules

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Ayush Maheshwari, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Finding a Needle in the Adversarial Haystack: A Targeted Paraphrasing Approach For Uncovering Edge Cases with Minimal Distribution Distortion

Aly Kassem, Sherif Saad

Towards Hierarchical Spoken Language Disfluency Modeling

Jiachen Lian, Gopala Anumanchipalli

SentenceLDA: Discriminative and Robust Document Representation with Sentence Level Topic Model

Taehun Cha, Donghun Lee

LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models

Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi

PEARL: Prompting Large Language Models to Plan and Execute Actions Over Long Documents

Simeng Sun, Yang Liu, Shuohang Wang, Dan Iter, Chenguang Zhu

Exploring the Robustness of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Colloquial German Varieties

Ekaterina Artemova, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank

Semantic Sensitivities and Inconsistent Predictions: Measuring the Fragility of NLI Models

Erik Arakelyan, Zhaoqi Liu, Isabelle Augenstein

Fréchet Distance for Offline Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems with Sparse Labels

Negar Arabzadeh, Charles Clarke

From Text Segmentation to Smart Chaptering: A Novel Benchmark for Structuring Video Transcriptions

Fabian Retkowski, Alexander Waibel

EXPLORER: Exploration-guided Reasoning for Textual Reinforcement Learning

Kinjal Basu, Keerthiram Murugesan, Subhajit Chaudhury, Murray Campbell, Kartik Talamadupula

UNSEE: Unsupervised Non-contrastive Sentence Embeddings

Ömer Çağatan

Align and Augment: Generative Data Augmentation for Compositional Generalization

Francesco Cazzaro, Davide Locatelli, Ariadna Quattoni

MultiMUC: Multilingual Template Filling on MUC-4

William Gantt, Shabnam Behzad, Hannah An, Yunmo Chen, Aaron Steven White

How Transferable are Attribute Controllers on Pretrained Multilingual Translation Models?

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

CEAN: Contrastive Event Aggregation Network with LLM-based Augmentation for Event Extraction

Zihao Meng, Tao Liu, Heng Zhang, Kai Feng, Peng Zhao

Zero-shot Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource Languages Using a Multilingual Sentiment Lexicon

Fajri Koto, Tilman Beck, Zeerak Talat, Iryna Gurevych, Timothy Baldwin

Like a Good Nearest Neighbor: Practical Content Moderation and Text Classification

Luke Bates, Iryna Gurevych

Asking the Right Question at the Right Time: Human and Model Uncertainty Guidance to Ask Clarification Questions

Alberto Testoni, Raquel Fernández

FinBPM: A Framework for Portfolio Management-based Financial Investor Behavior Perception Model

Zhilu Zhang, Procheta Sen, Zimu Wang, Ruoyu Sun, Zhengyong Jiang

SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Hannah Liu, Xiaoyu Shen, Nikita Vassilyev, Jesujoba O. Alabi

Language Models as Inductive Reasoners

Zonglin Yang, Li Dong, Xinya Du, Hao Cheng, Erik Cambria

Few-Shot Data Synthesis for Open Domain Multi-Hop Question Answering

Mingda Chen, Xilun Chen, Wen-tau Yih

A Comparative Multidimensional Analysis of Empathetic Systems

Andrew Lee, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Larry Ann, Rada Mihalcea

OpenPI2.0: An Improved Dataset for Entity Tracking in Texts

Li Zhang, Hainiu Xu, Abhinav Kommula, Chris Callison-Burch, Niket Tandon

Parameter-Efficient Conversational Recommender System as a Language Processing Task

Mathieu Ravaut, Hao Zhang, Lu Xu, Aixin Sun, Yong Liu

LLM Comparative Assessment: Zero-shot NLG Evaluation through Pairwise Comparisons using Large Language Models

Adian Liusie, Potsawee Manakul, Mark Gales

GEAR: Augmenting Language Models with Generalizable and Efficient Tool Resolution

Yining Lu, Haoping Yu, Daniel Khashabi

Archer: A Human-Labeled Text-to-SQL Dataset with Arithmetic, Commonsense and Hypothetical Reasoning

Danna Zheng, Mirella Lapata, Jeff Pan

Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs

Simone Balloccu, Patricia Schmidtova, Mateusz Lango, Ondřej Dušek

Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models

Dor Muhlgay, Ori Ram, Inbal Magar, Yoav Levine, Nir Ratner

Anisotropy Is Inherent to Self-Attention in Transformers

Nathan Godey, Éric Clergerie, Benoît Sagot

Multi-Relational Hyperbolic Word Embeddings from Natural Language Definitions

Marco Valentino, Danilo Carvalho, Andre Freitas

Enhancing Ethical Explanations of Large Language Models through Iterative Symbolic Refinement

Xin Quan, Marco Valentino, Louise Dennis, Andre Freitas