EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Neuralizing Regular Expressions for Slot Filling

Chengyue Jiang, Zijian Jin, Kewei Tu

Bridge to Target Domain by Prototypical Contrastive Learning and Label Confusion: Re-explore Zero-Shot Learning for Slot Filling

Liwen Wang, Xuefeng Li, Jiachi Liu, Keqing He, Yuanmeng Yan

Revisiting Tri-training of Dependency Parsers

Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster

Enriching and Controlling Global Semantics for Text Summarization

Thong Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu, Truc Lu, Tho Quan

Learning Opinion Summarizers by Selecting Informative Reviews

Arthur Bražinskas, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

Models and Datasets for Cross-Lingual Summarisation

Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Mirella Lapata

ARMAN: Pre-training with Semantically Selecting and Reordering of Sentences for Persian Abstractive Summarization

Alireza Salemi, Emad Kebriaei, Ghazal Neisi Minaei, Azadeh Shakery

BARThez: a Skilled Pretrained French Sequence-to-Sequence Model

Moussa Kamal Eddine, Antoine Tixier, Michalis Vazirgiannis

Sparsity and Sentence Structure in Encoder-Decoder Attention of Summarization Systems

Potsawee Manakul, Mark Gales

Caption Enriched Samples for Improving Hateful Memes Detection

Efrat Blaier, Itzik Malkiel, Lior Wolf

A Unified Speaker Adaptation Approach for ASR

Yingzhu Zhao, Chongjia Ni, Cheung-Chi Leung, Shafiq Joty, Eng Siong Chng

Looking for Confirmations: An Effective and Human-Like Visual Dialogue Strategy

Alberto Testoni, Raffaella Bernardi

Rˆ3Net:Relation-embedded Representation Reconstruction Network for Change Captioning

Yunbin Tu, Liang Li, Chenggang Yan, Shengxiang Gao, Zhengtao Yu

Language Models are Few-Shot Butlers

Vincent Micheli, Francois Fleuret

Progressively Guide to Attend: An Iterative Alignment Framework for Temporal Sentence Grounding

Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Pan Zhou

Adaptive Proposal Generation Network for Temporal Sentence Localization in Videos

Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Jianfeng Dong, Pan Zhou

PASTE: A Tagging-Free Decoding Framework Using Pointer Networks for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Rajdeep Mukherjee, Tapas Nayak, Yash Butala, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Pawan Goyal

Exploring Non-Autoregressive Text Style Transfer

Yun Ma, Qing Li

Collaborative Learning of Bidirectional Decoders for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Yun Ma, Yangbin Chen, Xudong Mao, Qing Li

Towards Label-Agnostic Emotion Embeddings

Sven Buechel, Luise Modersohn, Udo Hahn

Cross-lingual Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Aspect Term Code-Switching

Wenxuan Zhang, Ruidan He, Haiyun Peng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation

Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing

Does Social Pressure Drive Persuasion in Online Fora?

Ayush Jain, Shashank Srivastava

BERT4GCN: Using BERT Intermediate Layers to Augment GCN for Aspect-based Sentiment Classification

Zeguan Xiao, Jiarun Wu, Qingliang Chen, Congjian Deng

Improving Multimodal Fusion with Hierarchical Mutual Information Maximization for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria

An Empirical Study on Leveraging Position Embeddings for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction

Samuel Mensah, Kai Sun, Nikolaos Aletras

YASO: A Targeted Sentiment Analysis Evaluation Dataset for Open-Domain Reviews

Matan Orbach, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Artem Spector, Ranit Aharonov, Yoav Katz

Unimodal and Crossmodal Refinement Network for Multimodal Sequence Fusion

Xiaobao Guo, Adams Kong, Huan Zhou, Xianfeng Wang, Min Wang

Bridging Perception, Memory, and Inference through Semantic Relations

Johanna Björklund, Adam Dahlgren Lindström, Frank Drewes

Revisiting Self-training for Few-shot Learning of Language Model

Yiming Chen, Yan Zhang, Chen Zhang, Grandee Lee, Ran Cheng

NB-MLM: Efficient Domain Adaptation of Masked Language Models for Sentiment Analysis

Nikolay Arefyev, Dmitrii Kharchev, Artem Shelmanov

Cross-lingual Sentence Embedding using Multi-Task Learning

Koustava Goswami, Sourav Dutta, Haytham Assem, Theodorus Fransen, John P. McCrae

Integrating Personalized PageRank into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation

Ahmed El Sheikh, Michele Bevilacqua, Roberto Navigli

A Differentiable Relaxation of Graph Segmentation and Alignment for AMR Parsing

Chunchuan Lyu, Shay B. Cohen, Ivan Titov

Avoiding Inference Heuristics in Few-shot Prompt-based Finetuning

Prasetya Utama, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Victor Sanh, Iryna Gurevych

Distilling Relation Embeddings from Pretrained Language Models

Asahi Ushio, Jose Camacho-Collados, Steven Schockaert

Text AutoAugment: Learning Compositional Augmentation Policy for Text Classification

Shuhuai Ren, Jinchao Zhang, Lei Li, Xu Sun, Jie Zhou

Cross-Domain Label-Adaptive Stance Detection

Momchil Hardalov, Arnav Arora, Preslav Nakov, Isabelle Augenstein

Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Chengjin Xu, Fenglong Su, Jens Lehmann

SPARQLing Database Queries from Intermediate Question Decompositions

Irina Saparina, Anton Osokin

Data Augmentation with Hierarchical SQL-to-Question Generation for Cross-domain Text-to-SQL Parsing

Kun Wu, Lijie Wang, Zhenghua Li, Ao Zhang, Xinyan Xiao

Enhancing the Context Representation in Similarity-based Word Sense Disambiguation

Ming Wang, Jianzhang Zhang, Yinglin Wang

Benchmarking Commonsense Knowledge Base Population with an Effective Evaluation Dataset

Tianqing Fang, Weiqi Wang, Sehyun Choi, Shibo Hao, Hongming Zhang

NeuTral Rewriter: A Rule-Based and Neural Approach to Automatic Rewriting into Gender Neutral Alternatives

Eva Vanmassenhove, Chris Emmery, Dimitar Shterionov

What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think

David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser

Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Matthew Purver

Global Explainability of BERT-Based Evaluation Metrics by Disentangling along Linguistic Factors

Marvin Kaster, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger

Is Multi-Hop Reasoning Really Explainable? Towards Benchmarking Reasoning Interpretability

Xin Lv, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu

IndoNLG: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating Indonesian Natural Language Generation

Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Indra Winata, Bryan Wilie, Karissa Vincentio, Xiaohong Li

MLEC-QA: A Chinese Multi-Choice Biomedical Question Answering Dataset

Jing Li, Shangping Zhong, Kaizhi Chen

BeliefBank: Adding Memory to a Pre-Trained Language Model for a Systematic Notion of Belief

Nora Kassner, Oyvind Tafjord, Hinrich Schütze, Peter Clark

Improving Question Answering Model Robustness with Synthetic Adversarial Data Generation

Max Bartolo, Tristan Thrush, Robin Jia, Sebastian Riedel, Pontus Stenetorp

Structured Context and High-Coverage Grammar for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

Pierre Marion, Pawel Nowak, Francesco Piccinno

Expanding End-to-End Question Answering on Differentiable Knowledge Graphs with Intersection

Priyanka Sen, Armin Oliya, Amir Saffari

English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A Survey

Daria Dzendzik, Jennifer Foster, Carl Vogel

Finnish Dialect Identification: The Effect of Audio and Text

Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter

ClauseRec: A Clause Recommendation Framework for AI-aided Contract Authoring

Vinay Aggarwal, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandhavelu N, Rajiv Jain

Self-Supervised Detection of Contextual Synonyms in a Multi-Class Setting: Phenotype Annotation Use Case

Jingqing Zhang, Luis Bolanos Trujillo, Tong Li, Ashwani Tanwar, Guilherme Freire

To Share or not to Share: Predicting Sets of Sources for Model Transfer Learning

Lukas Lange, Jannik Strötgen, Heike Adel, Dietrich Klakow

Towards Zero-shot Commonsense Reasoning with Self-supervised Refinement of Language Models

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

Multi-Class Grammatical Error Detection for Correction: A Tale of Two Systems

Zheng Yuan, Shiva Taslimipoor, Christopher Davis, Christopher Bryant

Detect and Classify – Joint Span Detection and Classification for Health Outcomes

Micheal Abaho, Danushka Bollegala, Paula Williamson, Susanna Dodd

CodeT5: Identifier-aware Unified Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Models for Code Understanding and Generation

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

Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Miaoran Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer

STaCK: Sentence Ordering with Temporal Commonsense Knowledge

Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria

BERT-Beta: A Proactive Probabilistic Approach to Text Moderation

Fei Tan, Yifan Hu, Kevin Yen, Changwei Hu

Parallel Refinements for Lexically Constrained Text Generation with BART

Xingwei He

Unsupervised Multi-View Post-OCR Error Correction With Language Models

Harsh Gupta, Luciano Del Corro, Samuel Broscheit, Johannes Hoffart, Eliot Brenner

Meta-LMTC: Meta-Learning for Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification

Ran Wang, Xi’ao Su, Siyu Long, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang

Cross-Policy Compliance Detection via Question Answering

Marzieh Saeidi, Majid Yazdani, Andreas Vlachos

Multi-Sentence Resampling: A Simple Approach to Alleviate Dataset Length Bias and Beam-Search Degradation

Ivan Provilkov, Andrey Malinin

Comparing Feature-Engineering and Feature-Learning Approaches for Multilingual Translationese Classification

Daria Pylypenko, Kwabena Amponsah-Kaakyire, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Josef van Genabith, Cristina España-Bonet

Role of Language Relatedness in Multilingual Fine-tuning of Language Models: A Case Study in Indo-Aryan Languages

Tejas Dhamecha, Rudra Murthy, Samarth Bharadwaj, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Efficient Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Alexandre Berard, Dain Lee, Stéphane Clinchant, Kweonwoo Jung, Vassilina Nikoulina

Vision Matters When It Should: Sanity Checking Multimodal Machine Translation Models

Jiaoda Li, Duygu Ataman, Rico Sennrich

Discrete and Soft Prompting for Multilingual Models

Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze

One Source, Two Targets: Challenges and Rewards of Dual Decoding

Jitao Xu, François Yvon

Wino-X: Multilingual Winograd Schemas for Commonsense Reasoning and Coreference Resolution

Denis Emelin, Rico Sennrich

Rethinking Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Multi-Task Learning Approach

Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

Effective Fine-Tuning Methods for Cross-lingual Adaptation

Tao Yu, Shafiq Joty

Language Modeling, Lexical Translation, Reordering: The Training Process of NMT through the Lens of Classical SMT

Elena Voita, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov

Improving the Quality Trade-Off for Neural Machine Translation Multi-Domain Adaptation

Eva Hasler, Tobias Domhan, Jonay Trénous, Ke Tran, Bill Byrne

Graph Algorithms for Multiparallel Word Alignment

Ayyoob Imani, Masoud Jalili Sabet, Lütfi Kerem Senel, Philipp Dufter, François Yvon

An Empirical Investigation of Word Alignment Supervision for Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Alessandro Raganato, Raúl Vázquez, Mathias Creutz, Jörg Tiedemann

Document Graph for Neural Machine Translation

Mingzhou Xu, Liangyou Li, Derek F. Wong, Qun Liu, Lidia S. Chao

Machine Translation Decoding beyond Beam Search

Rémi Leblond, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Laurent Sifre, Miruna Pislar, Lespiau Jean-Baptiste

A Strong Baseline for Query Efficient Attacks in a Black Box Setting

Rishabh Maheshwary, Saket Maheshwary, Vikram Pudi

FAME: Feature-Based Adversarial Meta-Embeddings for Robust Input Representations

Lukas Lange, Heike Adel, Jannik Strötgen, Dietrich Klakow

RAP: Robustness-Aware Perturbations for Defending against Backdoor Attacks on NLP Models

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Jie Zhou, Xu Sun

Learning Neural Ordinary Equations for Forecasting Future Links on Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Zhen Han, Zifeng Ding, Yunpu Ma, Yujia Gu, Volker Tresp

BiQUE: Biquaternionic Embeddings of Knowledge Graphs

Jia Guo, Stanley Kok

Code-switched inspired losses for spoken dialog representations

Pierre Colombo, Emile Chapuis, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel

TimeTraveler: Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting

Haohai Sun, Jialun Zhong, Yunpu Ma, Zhen Han, Kun He

Synthetic Textual Features for the Large-Scale Detection of Basic-level Categories in English and Mandarin

Yiwen Chen, Simone Teufel

On Homophony and Rényi Entropy

Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Simone Teufel, Ryan Cotterell

Is Information Density Uniform in Task-Oriented Dialogues?

Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández

Contrasting Human- and Machine-Generated Word-Level Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

Maximilian Mozes, Max Bartolo, Pontus Stenetorp, Bennett Kleinberg, Lewis Griffin

Sequence Length is a Domain: Length-based Overfitting in Transformer Models

Dušan Variš, Ondřej Bojar

Locke’s Holiday: Belief Bias in Machine Reading

Anders Søgaard

Adversarial Attacks on Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Instance Attribution Methods

Peru Bhardwaj, John Kelleher, Luca Costabello, Declan O’Sullivan