EMNLP 2020

1,823 papers

Tensorized Embedding Layers

Oleksii Hrinchuk, Valentin Khrulkov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Elena Orlova, Ivan Oseledets

Exploiting Unsupervised Data for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Wenxiang Jiao, Michael Lyu, Irwin King

Robust Backed-off Estimation of Out-of-Vocabulary Embeddings

Nobukazu Fukuda, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Extremely Low Bit Transformer Quantization for On-Device Neural Machine Translation

Insoo Chung, Byeongwook Kim, Yoonjung Choi, Se Jung Kwon, Yongkweon Jeon

On the Sub-layer Functionalities of Transformer Decoder

Yilin Yang, Longyue Wang, Shuming Shi, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee

Understanding User Resistance Strategies in Persuasive Conversations

Youzhi Tian, Weiyan Shi, Chen Li, Zhou Yu

Hierarchical Region Learning for Nested Named Entity Recognition

Xinwei Long, Shuzi Niu, Yucheng Li

Tri-Train: Automatic Pre-Fine Tuning between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning for SciNER

Qingkai Zeng, Wenhao Yu, Mengxia Yu, Tianwen Jiang, Tim Weninger

TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

Isabel Cachola, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan, Daniel Weld

Probabilistic Case-based Reasoning for Open-World Knowledge Graph Completion

Rajarshi Das, Ameya Godbole, Nicholas Monath, Manzil Zaheer, Andrew McCallum

Finding Friends and Flipping Frenemies: Automatic Paraphrase Dataset Augmentation Using Graph Theory

Hannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans

ZEN: Pre-training Chinese Text Encoder Enhanced by N-gram Representations

SHIZHE DIAO, Jiaxin Bai, Yan Song, Tong Zhang, Yonggang Wang

BERT-QE: Contextualized Query Expansion for Document Re-ranking

Zhi Zheng, Kai Hui, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Compressing Transformer-Based Semantic Parsing Models using Compositional Code Embeddings

Prafull Prakash, Saurabh Kumar Shashidhar, Wenlong Zhao, Subendhu Rongali, Haidar Khan

Automatic Term Name Generation for Gene Ontology: Task and Dataset

Yanjian Zhang, Qin Chen, Yiteng Zhang, zhongyu wei, Yixu Gao

Learning to Classify Events from Human Needs Category Descriptions

Haibo Ding, Zhe Feng

Language-Conditioned Feature Pyramids for Visual Selection Tasks

Taichi Iki, Akiko Aizawa

Guiding Attention for Self-Supervised Learning with Transformers

Ameet Deshpande, Karthik Narasimhan

Thinking Like a Skeptic: Defeasible Inference in Natural Language

Rachel Rudinger, Vered Shwartz, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maxwell Forbes

MMFT-BERT: Multimodal Fusion Transformer with BERT Encodings for Visual Question Answering

Aisha Urooj, Amir Mazaheri, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo, Mubarak Shah

Multi-hop Question Generation with Graph Convolutional Network

Dan Su, Yan Xu, Wenliang Dai, Ziwei Ji, Tiezheng Yu

Exploring BERT’s Sensitivity to Lexical Cues using Tests from Semantic Priming

Kanishka Misra, Allyson Ettinger, Julia Rayz

Byte Pair Encoding is Suboptimal for Language Model Pretraining

Kaj Bostrom, Greg Durrett

Visuo-Linguistic Question Answering (VLQA) Challenge

Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral

Long Document Ranking with Query-Directed Sparse Transformer

Jyun-Yu Jiang, Chenyan Xiong, Chia-Jung Lee, Wei Wang

Structural and Functional Decomposition for Personality Image Captioning in a Communication Game

Minh Thu Nguyen, Duy Phung, Minh Hoai, Thien Huu Nguyen

Why and when should you pool? Analyzing Pooling in Recurrent Architectures

Pratyush Maini, Keshav Kolluru, Danish Pruthi, Mausam

The Dots Have Their Values: Exploiting the Node-Edge Connections in Graph-based Neural Models for Document-level Relation Extraction

Hieu Minh Tran, Minh Trung Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen

Decoding Language Spatial Relations to 2D Spatial Arrangements

Gorjan Radevski, Guillem Collell, Marie-Francine Moens, Tinne Tuytelaars

Improving Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Gated Graph Convolutional Networks and Syntax-based Regulation

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Nasim Nouri, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Hung Tran, Dejing Dou

An Empirical Investigation of Beam-Aware Training in Supertagging

Renato Negrinho, Matthew R. Gormley, Geoff Gordon

Learning to Learn to Disambiguate: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Word Sense Disambiguation

Nithin Holla, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina Shutova

PrivNet: Safeguarding Private Attributes in Transfer Learning for Recommendation

Guangneng Hu, Qiang Yang

SMRT Chatbots: Improving Non-Task-Oriented Dialog with Simulated Multiple Reference Training

Huda Khayrallah, João Sedoc

The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political Discourse

Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Verna Dankers, David Abadi, Agneta Fischer, Ekaterina Shutova

On the Branching Bias of Syntax Extracted from Pre-trained Language Models

Huayang Li, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Shuming Shi

Improving Limited Labeled Dialogue State Tracking with Self-Supervision

Chien-Sheng Wu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Caiming Xiong

LIMIT-BERT : Linguistics Informed Multi-Task BERT

Junru Zhou, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao, Shuailiang Zhang

Parsing All: Syntax and Semantics, Dependencies and Spans

Junru Zhou, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao

Internal and external pressures on language emergence: least effort, object constancy and frequency

Diana Rodríguez Luna, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Dieuwke Hupkes, Elia Bruni

Consistent Response Generation with Controlled Specificity

Junya Takayama, Yuki Arase

Visually-Grounded Planning without Vision: Language Models Infer Detailed Plans from High-level Instructions

Peter Jansen

How Effective is Task-Agnostic Data Augmentation for Pretrained Transformers?

Shayne Longpre, Yu Wang, Chris DuBois

A BERT-based Distractor Generation Scheme with Multi-tasking and Negative Answer Training Strategies.

Ho-Lam Chung, Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan

Beyond Language: Learning Commonsense from Images for Reasoning

Wanqing Cui, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

A Pointer Network Architecture for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Tagging

Amit Seker, Reut Tsarfaty

Leakage-Adjusted Simulatability: Can Models Generate Non-Trivial Explanations of Their Behavior in Natural Language?

Peter Hase, Shiyue Zhang, Harry Xie, Mohit Bansal

What’s so special about BERT’s layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models

Wietse de Vries, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Malvina Nissim

BERT for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Reverse Dictionary

Hang Yan, Xiaonan Li, Xipeng Qiu, Bocao Deng

The birth of Romanian BERT

Stefan Dumitrescu, Andrei-Marius Avram, Sampo Pyysalo

Looking inside Noun Compounds: Unsupervised Prepositional and Free Paraphrasing

Girishkumar Ponkiya, Rudra Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Girish Palshikar

Training Flexible Depth Model by Multi-Task Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Qiang Wang, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu

How Can Self-Attention Networks Recognize Dyck-n Languages?

Javid Ebrahimi, Dhruv Gelda, Wei Zhang

Detecting Media Bias in News Articles using Gaussian Bias Distributions

Wei-Fan Chen, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth

A Shared-Private Representation Model with Coarse-to-Fine Extraction for Target Sentiment Analysis

Peiqin Lin, Meng Yang

Vocabulary Adaptation for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation

Shoetsu Sato, Jin Sakuma, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Contract Discovery: Dataset and a Few-Shot Semantic Retrieval Challenge with Competitive Baselines

Łukasz Borchmann, Dawid Wiśniewski, Andrzej Gretkowski, Izabela Kosmala, Dawid Jurkiewicz

Query-Key Normalization for Transformers

Alex Henry, Prudhvi Raj Dachapally, Shubham Shantaram Pawar, Yuxuan Chen

Improving Named Entity Recognition with Attentive Ensemble of Syntactic Information

Yuyang Nie, Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song, Xiang Ao, Xiang Wan

Factorized Transformer for Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation

Yongchao Deng, Hongfei Yu, Heng Yu, Xiangyu Duan, Weihua Luo

Multichannel Generative Language Model: Learning All Possible Factorizations Within and Across Channels

Harris Chan, Jamie Kiros, William Chan

Assessing Human-Parity in Machine Translation on the Segment Level

Yvette Graham, Christian Federmann, Maria Eskevich, Barry Haddow

#Turki$hTweets: A Benchmark Dataset for Turkish Text Correction

Asiye Tuba Koksal, Ozge Bozal, Emre Yürekli, Gizem Gezici

Poison Attacks against Text Datasets with Conditional Adversarially Regularized Autoencoder

Alvin Chan, Yi Tay, Yew-Soon Ong, Aston Zhang

TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding

Xiaoqi Jiao, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Xiao Chen

Reference Language based Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

No Answer is Better Than Wrong Answer: A Reflection Model for Document Level Machine Reading Comprehension

Xuguang Wang, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Nan Duan, Daxin Jiang

Connecting the Dots: A Knowledgeable Path Generator for Commonsense Question Answering

Peifeng Wang, Nanyun Peng, Filip Ilievski, Pedro Szekely, Xiang Ren

Towards Low-Resource Semi-Supervised Dialogue Generation with Meta-Learning

Yi Huang, Junlan Feng, Shuo Ma, Xiaoyu Du, Xiaoting Wu

SupMMD: A Sentence Importance Model for Extractive Summarization using Maximum Mean Discrepancy

Umanga Bista, Alexander Mathews, Aditya Menon, Lexing Xie

An Empirical Methodology for Detecting and Prioritizing Needs during Crisis Events

M. Janina Sarol, Ly Dinh, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Chieh-Li Chin, Pingjing Yang

STANDER: An Expert-Annotated Dataset for News Stance Detection and Evidence Retrieval

Costanza Conforti, Jakob Berndt, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Flavio Toxvaerd

A Pilot Study of Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing for Vietnamese

Anh Tuan Nguyen, Mai Hoang Dao, Dat Quoc Nguyen

Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Inference

Siddharth Vashishtha, Adam Poliak, Yash Kumar Lal, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White

Large Product Key Memory for Pretrained Language Models

Gyuwan Kim, Tae Hwan Jung

Adversarial Training for Code Retrieval with Question-Description Relevance Regularization

Jie Zhao, Huan Sun

WikiLingua: A New Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization

Faisal Ladhak, Esin Durmus, Claire Cardie, Kathleen McKeown

Determining Event Outcomes: The Case of #fail

Srikala Murugan, Dhivya Chinnappa, Eduardo Blanco

Effects of Naturalistic Variation in Goal-Oriented Dialog

Jatin Ganhotra, Robert Moore, Sachindra Joshi, Kahini Wadhawan

NLP Service APIs and Models for Efficient Registration of New Clients

Sahil Shah, Vihari Piratla, Soumen Chakrabarti, Sunita Sarawagi

More Embeddings, Better Sequence Labelers?

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

Generalizable and Explainable Dialogue Generation via Explicit Action Learning

Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, Rui Zhang

Making Information Seeking Easier: An Improved Pipeline for Conversational Search

Vaibhav Kumar, Jamie Callan

Weakly- and Semi-supervised Evidence Extraction

Danish Pruthi, Bhuwan Dhingra, Graham Neubig, Zachary C. Lipton

Finding the Optimal Vocabulary Size for Neural Machine Translation

Thamme Gowda, Jonathan May

MCMH: Learning Multi-Chain Multi-Hop Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Lu Zhang, Mo Yu, Tian Gao, Yue Yu

Towards Context-Aware Code Comment Generation

Xiaohan Yu, Quzhe Huang, Zheng Wang, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

Fluent and Low-latency Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Self-adaptive Training

Renjie Zheng, Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng, Kaibo Liu, Jiahong Yuan

ArraMon: A Joint Navigation-Assembly Instruction Interpretation Task in Dynamic Environments

Hyounghun Kim, Abhaysinh Zala, Graham Burri, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

Joint Turn and Dialogue level User Satisfaction Estimation on Multi-Domain Conversations

Praveen Kumar Bodigutla, Aditya Tiwari, Spyros Matsoukas, Josep Valls-Vargas, Lazaros Polymenakos

Incremental Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Prefix-to-Prefix Framework

Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng, Kaibo Liu, Renjie Zheng, Hairong Liu

It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation

Md Mosharaf Hossain, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Eduardo Blanco, Alexis Palmer

Salvador Medina Maza, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Eduard Hovy, Alexander Hauptmann

Inserting Information Bottlenecks for Attribution in Transformers

Zhiying Jiang, Raphael Tang, Ji Xin, Jimmy Lin

Question Answering with Long Multiple-Span Answers

Ming Zhu, Aman Ahuja, Da-Cheng Juan, Wei Wei, Chandan K. Reddy

Reevaluating Adversarial Examples in Natural Language

John Morris, Eli Lifland, Jack Lanchantin, Yangfeng Ji, Yanjun Qi

Modeling Preconditions in Text with a Crowd-sourced Dataset

Heeyoung Kwon, Mahnaz Koupaee, Pratyush Singh, Gargi Sawhney, Anmol Shukla

Controllable Text Generation with Focused Variation

Lei Shu, Alexandros Papangelis, Yi-Chia Wang, Gokhan Tur, Hu Xu

Context Analysis for Pre-trained Masked Language Models

Yi-An Lai, Garima Lalwani, Yi Zhang

Do Models of Mental Health Based on Social Media Data Generalize?

Keith Harrigian, Carlos Aguirre, Mark Dredze