EMNLP 2020

1,823 papers

IGT2P: From Interlinear Glossed Texts to Paradigms

Sarah Moeller, Ling Liu, Changbing Yang, Katharina Kann, Mans Hulden

Tackling the Low-resource Challenge for Canonical Segmentation

Manuel Mager, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Katharina Kann

Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement

Aditi Chaudhary, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Adithya Pratapa, David R. Mortensen, Zaid Sheikh

COD3S: Diverse Generation with Discrete Semantic Signatures

Nathaniel Weir, João Sedoc, Benjamin Van Durme

Blank Language Models

Tianxiao Shen, Victor Quach, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Controllable Meaning Representation to Text Generation: Linearization and Data Augmentation Strategies

Chris Kedzie, Kathleen McKeown

Seq2Edits: Sequence Transduction Using Span-level Edit Operations

Felix Stahlberg, Shankar Kumar

CAT-Gen: Improving Robustness in NLP Models via Controlled Adversarial Text Generation

Tianlu Wang, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Ben Packer, Kang Li

Facilitating the Communication of Politeness through Fine-Grained Paraphrasing

Liye Fu, Susan Fussell, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Zero-Shot Crosslingual Sentence Simplification

Jonathan Mallinson, Rico Sennrich, Mirella Lapata

Sound Natural: Content Rephrasing in Dialog Systems

Arash Einolghozati, Anchit Gupta, Keith Diedrick, Sonal Gupta

Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Compositional Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing

Xilun Chen, Asish Ghoshal, Yashar Mehdad, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sonal Gupta

Simple Data Augmentation with the Mask Token Improves Domain Adaptation for Dialog Act Tagging

Semih Yavuz, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Richard Socher

Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Few-Shot Intent Detection by Transferring Natural Language Inference

Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu, Chien-Sheng Wu, Yao Wan

End-to-End Slot Alignment and Recognition for Cross-Lingual NLU

Weijia Xu, Batool Haider, Saab Mansour

Probing Task-Oriented Dialogue Representation from Language Models

Chien-Sheng Wu, Caiming Xiong

Conversational Semantic Parsing

Armen Aghajanyan, Jean Maillard, Akshat Shrivastava, Keith Diedrick, Michael Haeger

Multilevel Text Alignment with Cross-Document Attention

Xuhui Zhou, Nikolaos Pappas, Noah A. Smith

Training for Gibbs Sampling on Conditional Random Fields with Neural Scoring Factors

Sida Gao, Matthew R. Gormley

Semantic Label Smoothing for Sequence to Sequence Problems

MICHAL LUKASIK, Himanshu Jain, Aditya Menon, Seungyeon Kim, Srinadh Bhojanapalli

We Can Detect Your Bias: Predicting the Political Ideology of News Articles

Ramy Baly, Giovanni Da San Martino, James Glass, Preslav Nakov

On Losses for Modern Language Models

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Frank Rudzicz

Does the Objective Matter? Comparing Training Objectives for Pronoun Resolution

Yordan Yordanov, Oana-Maria Camburu, Vid Kocijan, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Entities as Experts: Sparse Memory Access with Entity Supervision

Thibault Fevry, Livio Baldini Soares, Nicholas FitzGerald, Eunsol Choi, Tom Kwiatkowski

Be More with Less: Hypergraph Attention Networks for Inductive Text Classification

Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Jundong Li, Dingcheng Li, Huan Liu

Analyzing Redundancy in Pretrained Transformer Models

Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Yonatan Belinkov

Assessing Phrasal Representation and Composition in Transformers

Lang Yu, Allyson Ettinger

Dissecting Span Identification Tasks with Performance Prediction

Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, Sebastian Padó

Analyzing Individual Neurons in Pre-trained Language Models

Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Yonatan Belinkov

An Empirical Investigation Towards Efficient Multi-Domain Language Model Pre-training

Kristjan Arumae, Qing Sun, Parminder Bhatia

Utility is in the Eye of the User: A Critique of NLP Leaderboards

Kawin Ethayarajh, Dan Jurafsky

Unsupervised Parsing with S-DIORA: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders

Andrew Drozdov, Subendhu Rongali, Yi-Pei Chen, Tim O’Gorman, Mohit Iyyer

Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Truly Low-Resource Scenarios

Ramy Eskander, Smaranda Muresan, Michael Collins

Please Mind the Root: Decoding Arborescences for Dependency Parsing

Ran Zmigrod, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell

Unsupervised Parsing via Constituency Tests

Steven Cao, Nikita Kitaev, Dan Klein

Keep it Surprisingly Simple: A Simple First Order Graph Based Parsing Model for Joint Morphosyntactic Parsing in Sanskrit

Amrith Krishna, Ashim Gupta, Deepak Garasangi, Pavankumar Satuluri, Pawan Goyal

Joint Estimation and Analysis of Risk Behavior Ratings in Movie Scripts

Victor Martinez, Krishna Somandepalli, Yalda Tehranian-Uhls, Shrikanth Narayanan

Modeling the Music Genre Perception across Language-Bound Cultures

Elena V. Epure, Guillaume Salha, Manuel Moussallam, Romain Hennequin

An Empirical Investigation of Contextualized Number Prediction

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Daniel Spokoyny

Methods for Numeracy-Preserving Word Embeddings

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Shijing Si, Vivek Subramanian, Guoyin Wang, Devamanyu Hazarika

TNT: Text Normalization based Pre-training of Transformers for Content Moderation

Fei Tan, Yifan Hu, Changwei Hu, Keqian Li, Kevin Yen

An Empirical Study of Pre-trained Transformers for Arabic Information Extraction

Wuwei Lan, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark

Tatiana Shavrina, Alena Fenogenova, Emelyanov Anton, Denis Shevelev, Ekaterina Artemova

Text Segmentation by Cross Segment Attention

MICHAL LUKASIK, Boris Dadachev, Kishore Papineni, Gonçalo Simões

BioMegatron: Larger Biomedical Domain Language Model

Hoo-Chang Shin, Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina, Raul Puri, Mostofa Patwary

Optimus: Organizing Sentences via Pre-trained Modeling of a Latent Space

Chunyuan Li, Xiang Gao, Yuan Li, Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li

Generating Image Descriptions via Sequential Cross-Modal Alignment Guided by Human Gaze

Ece Takmaz, Sandro Pezzelle, Lisa Beinborn, Raquel Fernández

Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models

Robert Hawkins, Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas Griffiths, Adele Goldberg

Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models

Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Ryosuke Kohita, Roger Levy

Reasoning about Goals, Steps, and Temporal Ordering with WikiHow

Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch

Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk

Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi

Infusing Disease Knowledge into BERT for Health Question Answering, Medical Inference and Disease Name Recognition

Yun He, Ziwei Zhu, Yin Zhang, Qin Chen, James Caverlee

Character-level Representations Improve DRS-based Semantic Parsing Even in the Age of BERT

Rik van Noord, Antonio Toral, Johan Bos

GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations

Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Aditya Kalyanpur, Lori Moon, David Buchanan, Lauren Berkowitz

The Multilingual Amazon Reviews Corpus

Phillip Keung, Yichao Lu, György Szarvas, Noah A. Smith

Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning

Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Giannis Bekoulis, Johannes Bjerva, Isabelle Augenstein

Improving Multilingual Models with Language-Clustered Vocabularies

Hyung Won Chung, Dan Garrette, Kiat Chuan Tan, Jason Riesa

A Streaming Approach For Efficient Batched Beam Search

Kevin Yang, Violet Yao, John DeNero, Dan Klein

Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation

Nils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych

Distilling Multiple Domains for Neural Machine Translation

Anna Currey, Prashant Mathur, Georgiana Dinu

From Zero to Hero: On the Limitations of Zero-Shot Language Transfer with Multilingual Transformers

Anne Lauscher, Vinit Ravishankar, Ivan Vulić, Goran Glavaš

Do Explicit Alignments Robustly Improve Multilingual Encoders?

Shijie Wu, Mark Dredze

Monolingual Adapters for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Jerin Philip, Alexandre Berard, Matthias Gallé, Laurent Besacier

Pre-tokenization of Multi-word Expressions in Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

Naoki Otani, Satoru Ozaki, Xingyuan Zhao, Yucen Li, Micaelah St Johns

On Negative Interference in Multilingual Models: Findings and A Meta-Learning Treatment

Zirui Wang, Zachary C. Lipton, Yulia Tsvetkov

Identifying Elements Essential for BERT’s Multilinguality

Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze

SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang

Room-Across-Room: Multilingual Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dense Spatiotemporal Grounding

Alexander Ku, Peter Anderson, Roma Patel, Eugene Ie, Jason Baldridge

ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations

Weixin Liang, James Zou, Zhou Yu

Visually Grounded Compound PCFGs

Yanpeng Zhao, Ivan Titov

Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts

Ece Takmaz, Mario Giulianelli, Sandro Pezzelle, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández

Generating Dialogue Responses from a Semantic Latent Space

Wei-Jen Ko, Avik Ray, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin

Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Ralph Weischedel, Nanyun Peng

Do sequence-to-sequence VAEs learn global features of sentences?

Tom Bosc, Pascal Vincent

PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking

Hannah Rashkin, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yejin Choi, Jianfeng Gao

Sparse Text Generation

Pedro Henrique Martins, Zita Marinho, André F. T. Martins

Learning Variational Word Masks to Improve the Interpretability of Neural Text Classifiers

Hanjie Chen, Yangfeng Ji

AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated Prompts

Taylor Shin, Yasaman Razeghi, Robert L. Logan Iv, Eric Wallace, Sameer Singh

Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification

Prithviraj Sen, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Matthias Boehm

Adversarial Semantic Collisions

Congzheng Song, Alexander Rush, Vitaly Shmatikov

Ad-hoc Document Retrieval using Weak-Supervision with BERT and GPT2

Yosi Mass, Haggai Roitman

Modularized Transfomer-based Ranking Framework

Luyu Gao, Zhuyun Dai, Jamie Callan

SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

CLIRMatrix: A massively large collection of bilingual and multilingual datasets for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

Shuo Sun, Kevin Duh

Stepwise Extractive Summarization and Planning with Structured Transformers

Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Jakub Adamek, Daniele Pighin, Blaz Bratanic

Learning to Fuse Sentences with Transformers for Summarization

Logan Lebanoff, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Lidan Wang, Walter Chang

Few-Shot Learning for Opinion Summarization

Arthur Bražinskas, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

Multi-View Sequence-to-Sequence Models with Conversational Structure for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

Jiaao Chen, Diyi Yang

Are “Undocumented Workers” the Same as “Illegal Aliens”? Disentangling Denotation and Connotation in Vector Spaces

Albert Webson, Zhizhong Chen, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick

Compositional Demographic Word Embeddings

Charles Welch, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea

Towards Better Context-aware Lexical Semantics:Adjusting Contextualized Representations through Static Anchors

Qianchu Liu, Diana McCarthy, Anna Korhonen

Improving Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations

Yixing Luan, Bradley Hauer, Lili Mou, Grzegorz Kondrak

Word Frequency Does Not Predict Grammatical Knowledge in Language Models

Charles Yu, Ryan Sie, Nicolas Tedeschi, Leon Bergen

Surprisal Predicts Code-Switching in Chinese-English Bilingual Text

Jesús Calvillo, Le Fang, Jeremy Cole, David Reitter

Investigating Cross-Linguistic Adjective Ordering Tendencies with a Latent-Variable Model

Jun Yen Leung, Guy Emerson, Ryan Cotterell

Speakers Fill Lexical Semantic Gaps with Context

Tiago Pimentel, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Damian Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

Human-centric dialog training via offline reinforcement learning

Natasha Jaques, Judy Hanwen Shen, Asma Ghandeharioun, Craig Ferguson, Agata Lapedriza

Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems

Jan Deriu, Don Tuggener, Pius Von Däniken, Jon Ander Campos, Alvaro Rodrigo

Supervised Seeded Iterated Learning for Interactive Language Learning

Yuchen Lu, Soumye Singhal, Florian Strub, Olivier Pietquin, Aaron Courville

Improving Out-of-Scope Detection in Intent Classification by Using Embeddings of the Word Graph Space of the Classes

Paulo Cavalin, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro, Ana Appel, Claudio Pinhanez