EMNLP 2020

1,823 papers

Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: A Style Transfer Approach for Simile Generation

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Smaranda Muresan, Nanyun Peng

LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attention

Ikuya Yamada, Akari Asai, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, Yuji Matsumoto

Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions

Belinda Z. Li, Sewon Min, Srinivasan Iyer, Yashar Mehdad, Wen-tau Yih

Design Challenges in Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking

Xingyu Fu, Weijia Shi, Xiaodong Yu, Zian Zhao, Dan Roth

A Dataset for Tracking Entities in Open Domain Procedural Text

Niket Tandon, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Bhavana Dalvi, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Peter Clark

Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity Retrieval

Ledell Wu, Fabio Petroni, Martin Josifoski, Sebastian Riedel, Luke Zettlemoyer

Entity Enhanced BERT Pre-training for Chinese NER

Chen Jia, Yuefeng Shi, Qinrong Yang, Yue Zhang

Learning Structured Representations of Entity Names using Active Learning and Weak Supervision

Kun Qian, Poornima Chozhiyath Raman, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa

Simple and Effective Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition with Structured Nearest Neighbor Learning

Yi Yang, Arzoo Katiyar

Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment

Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua

Coarse-to-Fine Pre-training for Named Entity Recognition

Xue Mengge, Bowen Yu, Zhenyu Zhang, Tingwen Liu, Yue Zhang

VCDM: Leveraging Variational Bi-encoding and Deep Contextualized Word Representations for Improved Definition Modeling

Machel Reid, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yutaka Matsuo

Online Conversation Disentanglement with Pointer Networks

Tao Yu, Shafiq Joty

BERT-enhanced Relational Sentence Ordering Network

Baiyun Cui, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang

Summarizing Text on Any Aspects: A Knowledge-Informed Weakly-Supervised Approach

Bowen Tan, LIANHUI Qin, Eric Xing, Zhiting Hu

Better Highlighting: Creating Sub-Sentence Summary Highlights

SangWoo Cho, Kaiqiang Song, Chen Li, Dong Yu, Hassan Foroosh

Understanding Neural Abstractive Summarization Models via Uncertainty

Jiacheng Xu, Shrey Desai, Greg Durrett

Compressive Summarization with Plausibility and Salience Modeling

Shrey Desai, Jiacheng Xu, Greg Durrett

Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summarization Models

Meng Cao, Yue Dong, Jiapeng Wu, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Diverse, Controllable, and Keyphrase-Aware: A Corpus and Method for News Multi-Headline Generation

Dayiheng Liu, Yeyun Gong, Yu Yan, Jie Fu, Bo Shao

A Synset Relation-enhanced Framework with a Try-again Mechanism for Word Sense Disambiguation

Ming Wang, Yinglin Wang

Interpreting Open-Domain Modifiers: Decomposition of Wikipedia Categories into Disambiguated Property-Value Pairs

Marius Pasca

When Hearst Is not Enough: Improving Hypernymy Detection from Corpus with Distributional Models

Changlong Yu, Jialong Han, Peifeng Wang, Yangqiu Song, Hongming Zhang

The Thieves on Sesame Street are Polyglots - Extracting Multilingual Models from Monolingual APIs

Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERT

Linyang Li, Ruotian Ma, Qipeng Guo, Xiangyang Xue, Xipeng Qiu

Adversarial Self-Supervised Data-Free Distillation for Text Classification

Xinyin Ma, Yongliang Shen, Gongfan Fang, Chen Chen, Chenghao Jia

BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

Siddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan

Effective Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Adversarially Trained Language Models

Thuy-Trang Vu, Dinh Phung, Gholamreza Haffari

Structured Pruning of Large Language Models

Ziheng Wang, Jeremy Wohlwend, Tao Lei

T3: Tree-Autoencoder Constrained Adversarial Text Generation for Targeted Attack

Boxin Wang, Hengzhi Pei, Boyuan Pan, Qian Chen, Shuohang Wang

Autoregressive Knowledge Distillation through Imitation Learning

Alexander Lin, Jeremy Wohlwend, Howard Chen, Tao Lei

Neural Mask Generator: Learning to Generate Adaptive Word Maskings for Language Model Adaptation

Minki Kang, Moonsu Han, Sung Ju Hwang

Structure Aware Negative Sampling in Knowledge Graphs

Kian Ahrabian, Aarash Feizi, Yasmin Salehi, William L. Hamilton, Avishek Joey Bose

Plug and Play Autoencoders for Conditional Text Generation

Florian Mai, Nikolaos Pappas, Ivan Montero, Noah A. Smith, James Henderson

Adversarial Semantic Decoupling for Recognizing Open-Vocabulary Slots

Yuanmeng Yan, Keqing He, Hong Xu, Sihong Liu, Fanyu Meng

Interpretable Multi-dataset Evaluation for Named Entity Recognition

Jinlan Fu, Pengfei Liu, Graham Neubig

DAGA: Data Augmentation with a Generation Approach for Low-resource Tagging Tasks

Bosheng Ding, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, Canasai Kruengkrai, Thien Hai Nguyen

Supertagging Combinatory Categorial Grammar with Attentive Graph Convolutional Networks

Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song, Fei Xia

HIT: Nested Named Entity Recognition via Head-Tail Pair and Token Interaction

Yu Wang, Yun Li, Hanghang Tong, Ziye Zhu

AIN: Fast and Accurate Sequence Labeling with Approximate Inference Network

Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang

XGLUE: A New Benchmark Dataset for Cross-lingual Pre-training, Understanding and Generation

Yaobo Liang, Nan Duan, Yeyun Gong, Ning Wu, Fenfei Guo

Exploiting Sentence Order in Document Alignment

Brian Thompson, Philipp Koehn

Interactive Refinement of Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Michelle Yuan, Mozhi Zhang, Benjamin Van Durme, Leah Findlater, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Localizing Open-Ontology QA Semantic Parsers in a Day Using Machine Translation

Mehrad Moradshahi, Giovanni Campagna, Sina Semnani, Silei Xu, Monica Lam

CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs

Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Philipp Koehn

X-FACTR: Multilingual Factual Knowledge Retrieval from Pretrained Language Models

Zhengbao Jiang, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Jun Araki, Haibo Ding, Graham Neubig

OCR Post Correction for Endangered Language Texts

Shruti Rijhwani, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig

LAReQA: Language-Agnostic Answer Retrieval from a Multilingual Pool

Uma Roy, Noah Constant, Rami Al-Rfou, Aditya Barua, Aaron Phillips

Revisiting Modularized Multilingual NMT to Meet Industrial Demands

Sungwon Lyu, Bokyung Son, Kichang Yang, Jaekyoung Bae

Dynamic Data Selection and Weighting for Iterative Back-Translation

Zi-Yi Dou, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig

Iterative Domain-Repaired Back-Translation

Hao-Ran Wei, Zhirui Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo

Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation

Sophie Groenwold, Lily Ou, Aesha Parekh, Samhita Honnavalli, Sharon Levy

Toward Micro-Dialect Identification in Diaglossic and Code-Switched Environments

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Lyle Ungar

Solving Historical Dictionary Codes with a Neural Language Model

Christopher Chu, Raphael Valenti, Kevin Knight

Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri

Few-Shot Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering via Meta Reinforcement Learning

Yuncheng Hua, Yuan-Fang Li, Gholamreza Haffari, Guilin Qi, Tongtong Wu

Training Question Answering Models From Synthetic Data

Raul Puri, Ryan Spring, Mohammad Shoeybi, Mostofa Patwary, Bryan Catanzaro

Tell Me How to Ask Again: Question Data Augmentation with Controllable Rewriting in Continuous Space

Dayiheng Liu, Yeyun Gong, Jie Fu, Yu Yan, Jiusheng Chen

AmbigQA: Answering Ambiguous Open-domain Questions

Sewon Min, Julian Michael, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking

Julia Kreutzer, George Foster, Colin Cherry

An Empirical Study of Generation Order for Machine Translation

William Chan, Mitchell Stern, Jamie Kiros, Jakob Uszkoreit

Understanding the Difficulty of Training Transformers

Liyuan Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen, Jiawei Han

TeMP: Temporal Message Passing for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Jiapeng Wu, Meng Cao, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG, William L. Hamilton

Domain Knowledge Empowered Structured Neural Net for End-to-End Event Temporal Relation Extraction

Rujun Han, Yichao Zhou, Nanyun Peng

Knowledge Association with Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Jian Dai

Dynamic Anticipation and Completion for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Sparse Knowledge Graph

Xin Lv, Xu Han, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu

Learning to Pronounce Chinese Without a Pronunciation Dictionary

Christopher Chu, Scot Fang, Kevin Knight

RethinkCWS: Is Chinese Word Segmentation a Solved Task?

Jinlan Fu, Pengfei Liu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Measuring the Similarity of Grammatical Gender Systems by Comparing Partitions

Arya D. McCarthy, Adina Williams, Shijia Liu, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell

Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Lav Varshney, Min-Yen Kan

Multi-view Story Characterization from Movie Plot Synopses and Reviews

Sudipta Kar, Gustavo Aguilar, Mirella Lapata, Thamar Solorio

Deep Weighted MaxSAT for Aspect-based Opinion Extraction

Meixi Wu, Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan

Affective Event Classification with Discourse-enhanced Self-training

Yuan Zhuang, Tianyu Jiang, Ellen Riloff

Inducing Target-Specific Latent Structures for Aspect Sentiment Classification

Chenhua Chen, Zhiyang Teng, Yue Zhang

Ensemble Distillation for Structured Prediction: Calibrated, Accurate, Fast—Choose Three

Steven Reich, David Mueller, Nicholas Andrews

An Exploration of Arbitrary-Order Sequence Labeling via Energy-Based Inference Networks

Lifu Tu, Tianyu Liu, Kevin Gimpel

Consistency of a Recurrent Language Model With Respect to Incomplete Decoding

Sean Welleck, Ilia Kulikov, Jaedeok Kim, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Kyunghyun Cho

Sequence-Level Mixed Sample Data Augmentation

Demi Guo, Yoon Kim, Alexander Rush

Imitation Attacks and Defenses for Black-box Machine Translation Systems

Eric Wallace, Mitchell Stern, Dawn Song

Digital Voicing of Silent Speech

David Gaddy, Dan Klein

Unsupervised Natural Language Inference via Decoupled Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Wanyun Cui, Guangyu Zheng, Wei Wang

Widget Captioning: Generating Natural Language Description for Mobile User Interface Elements

Yang Li, Gang Li, Luheng He, Jingjie Zheng, Hong Li

SubjQA: A Dataset for Subjectivity and Review Comprehension

Johannes Bjerva, Nikita Bhutani, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan, Isabelle Augenstein

ISAAQ - Mastering Textbook Questions with Pre-trained Transformers and Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention

José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Raúl Ortega

Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation

Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto

End-to-End Synthetic Data Generation for Domain Adaptation of Question Answering Systems

Siamak Shakeri, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Feng Nan

EXAMS: A Multi-subject High School Examinations Dataset for Cross-lingual and Multilingual Question Answering

Momchil Hardalov, Todor Mihaylov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Yoan Dinkov, Ivan Koychev

How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model?

Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer

Severing the Edge Between Before and After: Neural Architectures for Temporal Ordering of Events

Miguel Ballesteros, Rishita Anubhai, Shuai Wang, Nima Pourdamghani, Yogarshi Vyas

Event Detection: Gate Diversity and Syntactic Importance Scores for Graph Convolution Neural Networks

Viet Dac Lai, Tuan Ngo Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen

CHARM: Inferring Personal Attributes from Conversations

Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates, Paramita Mirza, Gerhard Weikum

Introducing a New Dataset for Event Detection in Cybersecurity Texts

Hieu Man Duc Trong, Duc Trong Le, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Thuat Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen

Annotating Temporal Dependency Graphs via Crowdsourcing

Jiarui Yao, Haoling Qiu, Bonan Min, Nianwen Xue

Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling

Alan Ramponi, Rob van der Goot, Rosario Lombardo, Barbara Plank

Weakly Supervised Subevent Knowledge Acquisition

Wenlin Yao, Zeyu Dai, Maitreyi Ramaswamy, Bonan Min, Ruihong Huang

Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis

Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

Quantifying Intimacy in Language

Jiaxin Pei, David Jurgens

Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice

Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Benjamin Chen, Rebecca Warholic, Katrin Erk, Junyi Jessy Li

Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling

Faeze Brahman, Snigdha Chaturvedi

A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health Support

Ashish Sharma, Adam Miner, David Atkins, Tim Althoff