EMNLP 2020

1,823 papers

Pseudo-Bidirectional Decoding for Local Sequence Transduction

Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu

Semantically Driven Sentence Fusion: Modeling and Evaluation

Eyal Ben-David, Orgad Keller, Eric Malmi, Idan Szpektor, Roi Reichart

Inexpensive Domain Adaptation of Pretrained Language Models: Case Studies on Biomedical NER and Covid-19 QA

Nina Poerner, Ulli Waltinger, Hinrich Schütze

Open Domain Question Answering based on Text Enhanced Knowledge Graph with Hyperedge Infusion

Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Xu Wang

Research Replication Prediction Using Weakly Supervised Learning

Tianyi Luo, Xingyu Li, Hainan Wang, Yang Liu

Conditional Neural Generation using Sub-Aspect Functions for Extractive News Summarization

Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen

Balancing via Generation for Multi-Class Text Classification Improvement

Naama Tepper, Esther Goldbraich, Naama Zwerdling, George Kour, Ateret Anaby Tavor

exBERT: Extending Pre-trained Models with Domain-specific Vocabulary Under Constrained Training Resources

Wen Tai, H. T. Kung, Xin Dong, Marcus Comiter, Chang-Fu Kuo

Privacy-Preserving News Recommendation Model Learning

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie

Filtering before Iteratively Referring for Knowledge-Grounded Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

Jia-Chen Gu, Zhenhua Ling, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu

Improving Knowledge-Aware Dialogue Response Generation by Using Human-Written Prototype Dialogues

Sixing Wu, Ying Li, Dawei Zhang, Zhonghai Wu

Investigating Transferability in Pretrained Language Models

Alex Tamkin, Trisha Singh, Davide Giovanardi, Noah Goodman

Modeling Intra and Inter-modality Incongruity for Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection

Hongliang Pan, Zheng Lin, Peng Fu, Yatao Qi, Weiping Wang

TextHide: Tackling Data Privacy in Language Understanding Tasks

Yangsibo Huang, Zhao Song, Danqi Chen, Kai Li, Sanjeev Arora

A Compare Aggregate Transformer for Understanding Document-grounded Dialogue

Longxuan Ma, Wei-Nan Zhang, Runxin Sun, Ting Liu

Dynamically Updating Event Representations for Temporal Relation Classification with Multi-category Learning

Fei Cheng, Masayuki Asahara, Ichiro Kobayashi, Sadao Kurohashi

Optimizing Word Segmentation for Downstream Task

Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, Naoaki Okazaki

OptSLA: an Optimization-Based Approach for Sequential Label Aggregation

Nasim Sabetpour, Adithya Kulkarni, Qi Li

Parsing with Multilingual BERT, a Small Corpus, and a Small Treebank

Ethan C. Chau, Lucy H. Lin, Noah A. Smith

Evaluating Models’ Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets

Matt Gardner, Yoav Artzi, Victoria Basmov, Jonathan Berant, Ben Bogin

Examining the Ordering of Rhetorical Strategies in Persuasive Requests

Omar Shaikh, Jiaao Chen, Jon Saad-Falcon, Polo Chau, Diyi Yang

Language Generation via Combinatorial Constraint Satisfaction: A Tree Search Enhanced Monte-Carlo Approach

Maosen Zhang, Nan Jiang, Lei Li, Yexiang Xue

Biomedical Event Extraction with Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Mu Yang, Nanyun Peng

Unsupervised Relation Extraction from Language Models using Constrained Cloze Completion

Ankur Goswami, Akshata Bhat, Hadar Ohana, Theodoros Rekatsinas

What Can We Do to Improve Peer Review in NLP?

Anna Rogers, Isabelle Augenstein

FELIX: Flexible Text Editing Through Tagging and Insertion

Jonathan Mallinson, Aliaksei Severyn, Eric Malmi, Guillermo Garrido

Learning to Generate Clinically Coherent Chest X-Ray Reports

Justin Lovelace, Bobak Mortazavi

Quantifying the Contextualization of Word Representations with Semantic Class Probing

Mengjie Zhao, Philipp Dufter, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Hinrich Schütze

Dynamic Semantic Matching and Aggregation Network for Few-shot Intent Detection

Hoang Nguyen, Chenwei Zhang, Congying Xia, Philip Yu

FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset

Martin d’Hoffschmidt, Wacim Belblidia, Quentin Heinrich, Tom Brendlé, Maxime Vidal

Learning Robust and Multilingual Speech Representations

Kazuya Kawakami, Luyu Wang, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom, Aaron van den Oord

AutoETER: Automated Entity Type Representation for Knowledge Graph Embedding

Guanglin Niu, Bo Li, Yongfei Zhang, Shiliang Pu, Jingyang Li

HyperText: Endowing FastText with Hyperbolic Geometry

Yudong Zhu, Di Zhou, Jinghui Xiao, Xin Jiang, Xiao Chen

Undersensitivity in Neural Reading Comprehension

Johannes Welbl, Pasquale Minervini, Max Bartolo, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel

High-order Semantic Role Labeling

Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao, Rui Wang, Kevin Parnow

Using the Past Knowledge to Improve Sentiment Classification

Qi Qin, Wenpeng Hu, Bing Liu

LGPSolver - Solving Logic Grid Puzzles Automatically

Elgun Jabrayilzade, Selma Tekir

Multiˆ2OIE: Multilingual Open Information Extraction Based on Multi-Head Attention with BERT

Youngbin Ro, Yukyung Lee, Pilsung Kang

Semi-Supervised Learning for Video Captioning

Ke Lin, Zhuoxin Gan, Liwei Wang

Why do you think that? Exploring Faithful Sentence-Level Rationales Without Supervision

Max Glockner, Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych

Incorporating Stylistic Lexical Preferences in Generative Language Models

Hrituraj Singh, Gaurav Verma, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

GCDST: A Graph-based and Copy-augmented Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking

Peng Wu, Bowei Zou, Ridong Jiang, AiTi Aw

Make Templates Smarter: A Template Based Data2Text System Powered by Text Stitch Model

Bingfeng Luo, Zuo Bai, Kunfeng Lai, Jianping Shen

ESTeR: Combining Word Co-occurrences and Word Associations for Unsupervised Emotion Detection

Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Polina Rozenshtein, See-Kiong Ng

PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen

HybridQA: A Dataset of Multi-Hop Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data

Wenhu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Zhiyu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Hong Wang

Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning

Yiben Yang, Chaitanya Malaviya, Jared Fernandez, Swabha Swayamdipta, Ronan Le Bras

Transition-based Parsing with Stack-Transformers

Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Miguel Ballesteros, Tahira Naseem, Austin Blodgett, Radu Florian

LiMiT: The Literal Motion in Text Dataset

Irene Manotas, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Vadim Sheinin

Scene Graph Modification Based on Natural Language Commands

Xuanli He, Quan Hung Tran, Gholamreza Haffari, Walter Chang, Zhe Lin

Persian Ezafe Recognition Using Transformers and Its Role in Part-Of-Speech Tagging

Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian, Adel Rahimi

SeNsER: Learning Cross-Building Sensor Metadata Tagger

Yang Jiao, Jiacheng Li, Jiaman Wu, Dezhi Hong, Rajesh Gupta

Hybrid Emoji-Based Masked Language Models for Zero-Shot Abusive Language Detection

Michele Corazza, Stefano Menini, Elena Cabrio, Sara Tonelli, Serena Villata

Cross-lingual Alignment Methods for Multilingual BERT: A Comparative Study

Saurabh Kulshreshtha, Jose Luis Redondo Garcia, Ching-Yun Chang

A Study in Improving BLEU Reference Coverage with Diverse Automatic Paraphrasing

Rachel Bawden, Biao Zhang, Lisa Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar, Matt Post

Pretrained Language Models for Dialogue Generation with Multiple Input Sources

Yu Cao, Wei Bi, Meng Fang, Dacheng Tao

DocStruct: A Multimodal Method to Extract Hierarchy Structure in Document for General Form Understanding

Zilong Wang, Mingjie Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Ding Liang

AirConcierge: Generating Task-Oriented Dialogue via Efficient Large-Scale Knowledge Retrieval

Chieh-Yang Chen, Pei-Hsin Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Da-Cheng Juan, Wei Wei

Where to Submit? Helping Researchers to Choose the Right Venue

Konstantin Kobs, Tobias Koopmann, Albin Zehe, David Fernes, Philipp Krop

Sequential Span Classification with Neural Semi-Markov CRFs for Biomedical Abstracts

Kosuke Yamada, Tsutomu Hirao, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda, Masaaki Nagata

Controlled Hallucinations: Learning to Generate Faithfully from Noisy Data

Katja Filippova

Actor-Double-Critic: Incorporating Model-Based Critic for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Yen-chen Wu, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Milica Gasic

Improving QA Generalization by Concurrent Modeling of Multiple Biases

Mingzhu Wu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Andreas Rücklé, Iryna Gurevych

Event Extraction as Multi-turn Question Answering

Fayuan Li, Weihua Peng, Yuguang Chen, Quan Wang, Lu Pan

A Multi-task Learning Framework for Opinion Triplet Extraction

Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Benyou Wang

E-BERT: Efficient-Yet-Effective Entity Embeddings for BERT

Nina Poerner, Ulli Waltinger, Hinrich Schütze

Group-wise Contrastive Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation

Hengyi Cai, Hongshen Chen, Yonghao Song, Zhuoye Ding, Yongjun Bao

Syntactic and Semantic-driven Learning for Open Information Extraction

Jialong Tang, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Efficient Context and Schema Fusion Networks for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Su Zhu, Jieyu Li, Lu Chen, Kai Yu

A Linguistic Analysis of Visually Grounded Dialogues Based on Spatial Expressions

Takuma Udagawa, Takato Yamazaki, Akiko Aizawa

PolicyQA: A Reading Comprehension Dataset for Privacy Policies

Wasi Ahmad, Jianfeng Chi, Yuan Tian, Kai-Wei Chang

Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Hung Tran, Trung Bui, Walter Chang

Pruning Redundant Mappings in Transformer Models via Spectral-Normalized Identity Prior

Zi Lin, Jeremiah Liu, Zi Yang, Nan Hua, Dan Roth

Document Ranking with a Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Model

Rodrigo Nogueira, Zhiying Jiang, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin

Learning to Stop: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Urban Vision-Language Navigation

Jiannan Xiang, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang

From Disjoint Sets to Parallel Data to Train Seq2Seq Models for Sentiment Transfer

Paulo Cavalin, Marisa Vasconcelos, Marcelo Grave, Claudio Pinhanez, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro

Toward Recognizing More Entity Types in NER: An Efficient Implementation using Only Entity Lexicons

Minlong Peng, Ruotian Ma, Qi Zhang, Lujun Zhao, Mengxi Wei

Cascaded Semantic and Positional Self-Attention Network for Document Classification

Juyong Jiang, Jie Zhang, Kai Zhang

Revisiting Pre-Trained Models for Chinese Natural Language Processing

Yiming Cui, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Bing Qin, Shijin Wang

From Language to Language-ish: How Brain-Like is an LSTM’s Representation of Nonsensical Language Stimuli?

Maryam Hashemzadeh, Greta Kaufeld, Martha White, Andrea E. Martin, Alona Fyshe

NeuReduce: Reducing Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Expressions by Recurrent Neural Network

Weijie Feng, Binbin Liu, Dongpeng Xu, Qilong Zheng, Yun Xu

Empirical Studies of Institutional Federated Learning For Natural Language Processing

Xinghua Zhu, Jianzong Wang, Zhenhou Hong, Jing Xiao

Interpretable Entity Representations through Large-Scale Typing

Yasumasa Onoe, Greg Durrett

PBoS: Probabilistic Bag-of-Subwords for Generalizing Word Embedding

Zhao Jinman, Shawn Zhong, Xiaomin Zhang, Yingyu Liang

A structure-enhanced graph convolutional network for sentiment analysis

Fanyu Meng, Junlan Feng, Danping Yin, Si Chen, Min Hu

Few-Shot Multi-Hop Relation Reasoning over Knowledge Bases

Chuxu Zhang, Lu Yu, Mandana Saebi, Meng Jiang, Nitesh Chawla

ZEST: Zero-shot Learning from Text Descriptions using Textual Similarity and Visual Summarization

Tzuf Paz-Argaman, Reut Tsarfaty, Gal Chechik, Yuval Atzmon

Fixed Encoder Self-Attention Patterns in Transformer-Based Machine Translation

Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Jörg Tiedemann

Dynamic Data Selection for Curriculum Learning via Ability Estimation

John P. Lalor, Hong Yu

The workweek is the best time to start a family – A Study of GPT-2 Based Claim Generation

Shai Gretz, Yonatan Bilu, Edo Cohen-Karlik, Noam Slonim

Revisiting Representation Degeneration Problem in Language Modeling

Zhong Zhang, Chongming Gao, Cong Xu, Rui Miao, Qinli Yang

Bootstrapping a Crosslingual Semantic Parser

Tom Sherborne, Yumo Xu, Mirella Lapata

ConceptBert: Concept-Aware Representation for Visual Question Answering

François Gardères, Maryam Ziaeefard, Baptiste Abeloos, Freddy Lecue

Claim Check-Worthiness Detection as Positive Unlabelled Learning

Dustin Wright, Isabelle Augenstein

A Fully Hyperbolic Neural Model for Hierarchical Multi-Class Classification

Federico López, Michael Strube

Exploring Versatile Generative Language Model Via Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning

Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Pascale Fung

Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning

Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Michael Lyu

KorNLI and KorSTS: New Benchmark Datasets for Korean Natural Language Understanding

Jiyeon Ham, Yo Joong Choe, Kyubyong Park, Ilji Choi, Hyungjoon Soh

A Novel Workflow for Accurately and Efficiently Crowdsourcing Predicate Senses and Argument Labels

Youxuan Jiang, Huaiyu Zhu, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Yunyao Li, Walter Lasecki

Context-aware Stand-alone Neural Spelling Correction

Xiangci Li, Hairong Liu, Liang Huang