EMNLP 2020

1,823 papers

Interactive Fiction Game Playing as Multi-Paragraph Reading Comprehension with Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoxiao Guo, Mo Yu, Yupeng Gao, Chuang Gan, Murray Campbell

Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims

Neema Kotonya, Francesca Toni

Fortifying Toxic Speech Detectors Against Veiled Toxicity

Xiaochuang Han, Yulia Tsvetkov

Where Are the Facts? Searching for Fact-checked Information to Alleviate the Spread of Fake News

Nguyen Vo, Kyumin Lee

Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media

Shamik Roy, Dan Goldwasser

A Time-Aware Transformer Based Model for Suicide Ideation Detection on Social Media

Ramit Sawhney, Harshit Joshi, Saumya Gandhi, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Translation Artifacts in Cross-lingual Transfer Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre

MAD-X: An Adapter-Based Framework for Multi-Task Cross-Lingual Transfer

Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić, Iryna Gurevych, Sebastian Ruder

Detecting Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation for Model-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks

Denis Emelin, Ivan Titov, Rico Sennrich

Language Model Prior for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Christos Baziotis, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

On the Role of Supervision in Unsupervised Constituency Parsing

Haoyue Shi, Karen Livescu, Kevin Gimpel

Towards Debiasing NLU Models from Unknown Biases

Prasetya Ajie Utama, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Iryna Gurevych

Causal Inference of Script Knowledge

Noah Weber, Rachel Rudinger, Benjamin Van Durme

PARADE: A New Dataset for Paraphrase Identification Requiring Computer Science Domain Knowledge

Yun He, Zhuoer Wang, Yin Zhang, Ruihong Huang, James Caverlee

Semantic Role Labeling as Syntactic Dependency Parsing

Tianze Shi, Igor Malioutov, Ozan Irsoy

Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific Claims

David Wadden, Shanchuan Lin, Kyle Lo, Lucy Lu Wang, Madeleine van Zuylen

Which *BERT? A Survey Organizing Contextualized Encoders

Patrick Xia, Shijie Wu, Benjamin Van Durme

An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification Including Few and Zero-Shot Labels

Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Sotiris Kotitsas, Prodromos Malakasiotis, Nikolaos Aletras

HABERTOR: An Efficient and Effective Deep Hatespeech Detector

Thanh Tran, Yifan Hu, Changwei Hu, Kevin Yen, Fei Tan

Keeping Up Appearances: Computational Modeling of Face Acts in Persuasion Oriented Discussions

Ritam Dutt, Rishabh Joshi, Carolyn Rose

Centering-based Neural Coherence Modeling with Hierarchical Discourse Segments

Sungho Jeon, Michael Strube

MEGA RST Discourse Treebanks with Structure and Nuclearity from Scalable Distant Sentiment Supervision

Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini

PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction

Xinyao Ma, Maarten Sap, Hannah Rashkin, Yejin Choi

“I’d rather just go to bed”: Understanding Indirect Answers

Annie Louis, Dan Roth, Filip Radlinski

Textual Data Augmentation for Efficient Active Learning on Tiny Datasets

Husam Quteineh, Spyridon Samothrakis, Richard Sutcliffe

Feature Adaptation of Pre-Trained Language Models across Languages and Domains with Robust Self-Training

Hai Ye, Qingyu Tan, Ruidan He, Juntao Li, Hwee Tou Ng

BERT Knows Punta Cana is not just beautiful, it’s gorgeous: Ranking Scalar Adjectives with Contextualised Representations

Aina Garí Soler, Marianna Apidianaki

Relation-aware Graph Attention Networks with Relational Position Encodings for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Taichi Ishiwatari, Yuki Yasuda, Taro Miyazaki, Jun Goto

Message Passing for Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graphs

Mikhail Galkin, Priyansh Trivedi, Gaurav Maheshwari, Ricardo Usbeck, Jens Lehmann

Debiasing knowledge graph embeddings

Joseph Fisher, Arpit Mittal, Dave Palfrey, Christos Christodoulopoulos

Embedding Words in Non-Vector Space with Unsupervised Graph Learning

Max Ryabinin, Sergei Popov, Liudmila Prokhorenkova, Elena Voita

DyERNIE: Dynamic Evolution of Riemannian Manifold Embeddings for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Zhen Han, Peng Chen, Yunpu Ma, Volker Tresp

A Rigorous Study on Named Entity Recognition: Can Fine-tuning Pretrained Model Lead to the Promised Land?

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

Understanding Procedural Text using Interactive Entity Networks

Jizhi Tang, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

Counterfactual Generator: A Weakly-Supervised Method for Named Entity Recognition

Xiangji Zeng, Yunliang Li, Yuchen Zhai, Yin Zhang

Neural Conversational QA: Learning to Reason vs Exploiting Patterns

Nikhil Verma, Abhishek Sharma, Dhiraj Madan, Danish Contractor, Harshit Kumar

SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package

Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo, Pawel Swietojanski, Verena Rieser

Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding with Regularized Representation Alignment

Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Peng Xu, Zhaojiang Lin, Pascale Fung

Probing Pretrained Language Models for Lexical Semantics

Ivan Vulić, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Robert Litschko, Goran Glavaš, Anna Korhonen

Generationary or “How We Went beyond Word Sense Inventories and Learned to Gloss”

Michele Bevilacqua, Marco Maru, Roberto Navigli

XL-WiC: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Semantic Contextualization

Alessandro Raganato, Tommaso Pasini, Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Is Graph Structure Necessary for Multi-hop Question Answering?

Nan Shao, Yiming Cui, Ting Liu, Shijin Wang, Guoping Hu

Coreferential Reasoning Learning for Language Representation

Deming Ye, Yankai Lin, Jiaju Du, Zhenghao Liu, Peng Li

Improving the Efficiency of Grammatical Error Correction with Erroneous Span Detection and Correction

Mengyun Chen, Tao Ge, Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Generating Fact Checking Briefs

Angela Fan, Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Guillaume Wenzek, Marzieh Saeidi

A Knowledge-Aware Sequence-to-Tree Network for Math Word Problem Solving

Qinzhuo Wu, Qi Zhang, Jinlan Fu, Xuanjing Huang

DGST: a Dual-Generator Network for Text Style Transfer

Xiao Li, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin, Ruizhe Li

An Unsupervised Joint System for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Parsing

Martin Schmitt, Sahand Sharifzadeh, Volker Tresp, Hinrich Schütze

On the Ability and Limitations of Transformers to Recognize Formal Languages

Satwik Bhattamishra, Kabir Ahuja, Navin Goyal

F1 is Not Enough! Models and Evaluation Towards User-Centered Explainable Question Answering

Hendrik Schuff, Heike Adel, Ngoc Thang Vu

Attention is Not Only a Weight: Analyzing Transformers with Vector Norms

Goro Kobayashi, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Sho Yokoi, Kentaro Inui

Compositional and Lexical Semantics in RoBERTa, BERT and DistilBERT: A Case Study on CoQA

Ieva Staliūnaitė, Ignacio Iacobacci

Unified Feature and Instance Based Domain Adaptation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Chenggong Gong, Jianfei Yu, Rui Xia

Identifying Exaggerated Language

Li Kong, Chuanyi Li, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo, Vincent Ng

Diversified Multiple Instance Learning for Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification

Yunjie Ji, Hao Liu, Bolei He, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu

APE: Argument Pair Extraction from Peer Review and Rebuttal via Multi-task Learning

Liying Cheng, Lidong Bing, Qian Yu, Wei Lu, Luo Si

Weakly-Supervised Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Joint Aspect-Sentiment Topic Embedding

Jiaxin Huang, Yu Meng, Fang Guo, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han

SentiLARE: Sentiment-Aware Language Representation Learning with Linguistic Knowledge

Pei Ke, Haozhe Ji, Siyang Liu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang

Train No Evil: Selective Masking for Task-Guided Pre-Training

Yuxian Gu, Zhengyan Zhang, Xiaozhi Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

A Multi-Task Incremental Learning Framework with Category Name Embedding for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis

Zehui Dai, Cheng Peng, Huajie Chen, Yadong Ding

Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL

Wenqiang Lei, Weixin Wang, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu

Mention Extraction and Linking for SQL Query Generation

Jianqiang Ma, Zeyu Yan, Shuai Pang, Yang Zhang, Jianping Shen

DuSQL: A Large-Scale and Pragmatic Chinese Text-to-SQL Dataset

Lijie Wang, Ao Zhang, Kun Wu, Ke Sun, Zhenghua Li

“What Do You Mean by That?” A Parser-Independent Interactive Approach for Enhancing Text-to-SQL

Yuntao Li, Bei Chen, Qian Liu, Yan Gao, Jian-Guang Lou

IGSQL: Database Schema Interaction Graph Based Neural Model for Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL Generation

Yitao Cai, Xiaojun Wan

An Imitation Game for Learning Semantic Parsers from User Interaction

Ziyu Yao, Yiqi Tang, Wen-tau Yih, Huan Sun, Yu Su

Grounded Adaptation for Zero-shot Executable Semantic Parsing

Victor Zhong, Mike Lewis, Sida I. Wang, Luke Zettlemoyer

Birds have four legs?! NumerSense: Probing Numerical Commonsense Knowledge of Pre-Trained Language Models

Bill Yuchen Lin, Seyeon Lee, Rahul Khanna, Xiang Ren

“You are grounded!”: Latent Name Artifacts in Pre-trained Language Models

Vered Shwartz, Rachel Rudinger, Oyvind Tafjord

What Do Position Embeddings Learn? An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Language Model Positional Encoding

Yu-An Wang, Yun-Nung Chen

Learning Music Helps You Read: Using Transfer to Study Linguistic Structure in Language Models

Isabel Papadimitriou, Dan Jurafsky

Pretrained Language Model Embryology: The Birth of ALBERT

Cheng-Han Chiang, Sung-Feng Huang, Hung-yi Lee

Asking without Telling: Exploring Latent Ontologies in Contextual Representations

Julian Michael, Jan A. Botha, Ian Tenney

Distilling Structured Knowledge for Text-Based Relational Reasoning

Jin Dong, Marc-Antoine Rondeau, William L. Hamilton

Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Sewon Min, Patrick Lewis, Ledell Wu

Question Directed Graph Attention Network for Numerical Reasoning over Text

Kunlong Chen, Weidi Xu, Xingyi Cheng, Zou Xiaochuan, Yuyu Zhang

Towards Interpretable Reasoning over Paragraph Effects in Situation

Mucheng Ren, Xiubo Geng, Tao Qin, Heyan Huang, Daxin Jiang

Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization

Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam

Multi-Stage Pre-training for Automated Chinese Essay Scoring

Wei Song, Kai Zhang, Ruiji Fu, Lizhen Liu, Ting Liu

HSCNN: A Hybrid-Siamese Convolutional Neural Network for Extremely Imbalanced Multi-label Text Classification

Wenshuo Yang, Jiyi Li, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yanming Ye

MODE-LSTM: A Parameter-efficient Recurrent Network with Multi-Scale for Sentence Classification

Qianli Ma, Zhenxi Lin, Jiangyue Yan, Zipeng Chen, Liuhong Yu

Less is More: Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification

Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang

Multi-resolution Annotations for Emoji Prediction

Weicheng Ma, Ruibo Liu, Lili Wang, Soroush Vosoughi

Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inferenceover Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Woojeong Jin, Meng Qu, Xisen Jin, Xiang Ren

An Element-aware Multi-representation Model for Law Article Prediction

Huilin Zhong, Junsheng Zhou, Weiguang Qu, Yunfei Long, Yanhui Gu

Profile Consistency Identification for Open-domain Dialogue Agents

Haoyu Song, Yan Wang, Wei-Nan Zhang, Zhengyu Zhao, Ting Liu

Continuity of Topic, Interaction, and Query: Learning to Quote in Online Conversations

Lingzhi Wang, Jing Li, Xingshan Zeng, Haisong Zhang, Kam-Fai Wong

Semantic Role Labeling Guided Multi-turn Dialogue ReWriter

Kun Xu, Haochen Tan, Linfeng Song, Han Wu, Haisong Zhang

Conundrums in Entity Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State of the Art

Jing LU, Vincent Ng

MovieChats: Chat like Humans in a Closed Domain

Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Zhou Xiao, Zheng Zhang, Ernie Chang

Regularizing Dialogue Generation by Imitating Implicit Scenarios

Shaoxiong Feng, Xuancheng Ren, Hongshen Chen, Bin Sun, Kan Li

Response Selection for Multi-Party Conversations with Dynamic Topic Tracking

Weishi Wang, Steven C.H. Hoi, Shafiq Joty

Personal Information Leakage Detection in Conversations

Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu, Zeyu Gao, Gholamreza Haffari

Towards Persona-Based Empathetic Conversational Models

Peixiang Zhong, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Yong Liu, Chunyan Miao

Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension

Wei-Jen Ko, Te-yuan Chen, Yiyan Huang, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li

Plan ahead: Self-Supervised Text Planning for Paragraph Completion Task

Dongyeop Kang, Eduard Hovy

MOCHA: A Dataset for Training and Evaluating Generative Reading Comprehension Metrics

Anthony Chen, Gabriel Stanovsky, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner

Template Guided Text Generation for Task-Oriented Dialogue

Mihir Kale, Abhinav Rastogi

Substance over Style: Document-Level Targeted Content Transfer

Allison Hegel, Sudha Rao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Bill Dolan

STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation

Nader Akoury, Shufan Wang, Josh Whiting, Stephen Hood, Nanyun Peng