EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Don’t Search for a Search Method — Simple Heuristics Suffice for Adversarial Text Attacks

Nathaniel Berger, Stefan Riezler, Sebastian Ebert, Artem Sokolov

What’s in Your Head? Emergent Behaviour in Multi-Task Transformer Models

Mor Geva, Uri Katz, Aviv Ben-Arie, Jonathan Berant

Enjoy the Salience: Towards Better Transformer-based Faithful Explanations with Word Salience

George Chrysostomou, Nikolaos Aletras

Bayesian Topic Regression for Causal Inference

Maximilian Ahrens, Julian Ashwin, Jan-Peter Calliess, Vu Nguyen

Balancing Methods for Multi-label Text Classification with Long-Tailed Class Distribution

Yi Huang, Buse Giledereli, Abdullatif Köksal, Arzucan Özgür, Elif Ozkirimli

Deep Attention Diffusion Graph Neural Networks for Text Classification

Yonghao Liu, Renchu Guan, Fausto Giunchiglia, Yanchun Liang, Xiaoyue Feng

Efficient Mind-Map Generation via Sequence-to-Graph and Reinforced Graph Refinement

Mengting Hu, Honglei Guo, Shiwan Zhao, Hang Gao, Zhong Su

Matching-oriented Embedding Quantization For Ad-hoc Retrieval

Shitao Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yingxia Shao, Defu Lian, Xing Xie

Time-dependent Entity Embedding is not All You Need: A Re-evaluation of Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion Models under a Unified Framework

Zhen Han, Gengyuan Zhang, Yunpu Ma, Volker Tresp

Back to the Basics: A Quantitative Analysis of Statistical and Graph-Based Term Weighting Schemes for Keyword Extraction

Asahi Ushio, Federico Liberatore, Jose Camacho-Collados

Honey or Poison? Solving the Trigger Curse in Few-shot Event Detection via Causal Intervention

Jiawei Chen, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Extracting Event Temporal Relations via Hyperbolic Geometry

Xingwei Tan, Gabriele Pergola, Yulan He

TDEER: An Efficient Translating Decoding Schema for Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations

Xianming Li, Xiaotian Luo, Chenghao Dong, Daichuan Yang, Beidi Luan

Low-Rank Subspaces for Unsupervised Entity Linking

Akhil Arora, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Robert West

Data-QuestEval: A Referenceless Metric for Data-to-Text Semantic Evaluation

Clement Rebuffel, Thomas Scialom, Laure Soulier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Sylvain Lamprier

Paraphrasing Compound Nominalizations

John Lee, Ho Hung Lim, Carol Webster

A Bag of Tricks for Dialogue Summarization

Muhammad Khalifa, Miguel Ballesteros, Kathleen McKeown

Document-Level Text Simplification: Dataset, Criteria and Baseline

Renliang Sun, Hanqi Jin, Xiaojun Wan

Text Detoxification using Large Pre-trained Neural Models

David Dale, Anton Voronov, Daryna Dementieva, Varvara Logacheva, Olga Kozlova

CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning

Richard Plant, Dimitra Gkatzia, Valerio Giuffrida

Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges of Efficient Transformer Quantization

Yelysei Bondarenko, Markus Nagel, Tijmen Blankevoort

AdapterDrop: On the Efficiency of Adapters in Transformers

Andreas Rücklé, Gregor Geigle, Max Glockner, Tilman Beck, Jonas Pfeiffer

A Semantic Filter Based on Relations for Knowledge Graph Completion

Zongwei Liang, Junan Yang, Hui LIU, Keju Huang

Dynamic Forecasting of Conversation Derailment

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard

Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance

Carel van Niekerk, Andrey Malinin, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin

Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking via Cross-Task Transfer

Zhaojiang Lin, Bing Liu, Andrea Madotto, Seungwhan Moon, Zhenpeng Zhou

A Collaborative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dialog Action Decomposition

Huimin Wang, Kam-Fai Wong

Knowledge-Aware Graph-Enhanced GPT-2 for Dialogue State Tracking

Weizhe Lin, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Bill Byrne

Q2: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering

Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Roee Aharoni, Ella Neeman, Idan Szpektor

Proxy Indicators for the Quality of Open-domain Dialogues

Rostislav Nedelchev, Jens Lehmann, Ricardo Usbeck

Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System

Zujie Liang, Huang Hu, Can Xu, Jian Miao, Yingying He

#HowYouTagTweets: Learning User Hashtagging Preferences via Personalized Topic Attention

Yuji Zhang, Yubo Zhang, Chunpu Xu, Jing Li, Ziyan Jiang

Come hither or go away? Recognising pre-electoral coalition signals in the news

Ines Rehbein, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Anna Adendorf, Oke Bahnsen, Lukas Stoetzer

Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images

Danae Sánchez Villegas, Nikolaos Aletras

Classifying Dyads for Militarized Conflict Analysis

Niklas Stoehr, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Samin Ahbab, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell

Language-agnostic Representation from Multilingual Sentence Encoders for Cross-lingual Similarity Estimation

Nattapong Tiyajamorn, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase, makoto onizuka

LM-Critic: Language Models for Unsupervised Grammatical Error Correction

Michihiro Yasunaga, Jure Leskovec, Percy Liang

Connect-the-Dots: Bridging Semantics between Words and Definitions via Aligning Word Sense Inventories

Wenlin Yao, Xiaoman Pan, Lifeng Jin, Jianshu Chen, Dian Yu

ExplaGraphs: An Explanation Graph Generation Task for Structured Commonsense Reasoning

Swarnadeep Saha, Prateek Yadav, Lisa Bauer, Mohit Bansal

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers

Richard Shin, Christopher Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy

Controllable Semantic Parsing via Retrieval Augmentation

Panupong Pasupat, yuan zhang, Kelvin Guu

A Secure and Efficient Federated Learning Framework for NLP

Chenghong Wang, Jieren Deng, Xianrui Meng, Yijue Wang, Ji Li

Word-Level Coreference Resolution

Vladimir Dobrovolskii

Highly Parallel Autoregressive Entity Linking with Discriminative Correction

Nicola De Cao, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov

Universal-KD: Attention-based Output-Grounded Intermediate Layer Knowledge Distillation

Yimeng Wu, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Abbas Ghaddar, Md Akmal Haidar, Ali Ghodsi

When Attention Meets Fast Recurrence: Training Language Models with Reduced Compute

Tao Lei

Learning with Different Amounts of Annotation: From Zero to Many Labels

Shujian Zhang, Chengyue Gong, Eunsol Choi

MATE: Multi-view Attention for Table Transformer Efficiency

Julian Eisenschlos, Maharshi Gor, Thomas Müller, William Cohen

Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Generation

Mingkai Deng, Bowen Tan, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric Xing, Zhiting Hu

RICA: Evaluating Robust Inference Capabilities Based on Commonsense Axioms

Pei Zhou, Rahul Khanna, Seyeon Lee, Bill Yuchen Lin, Daniel Ho

ESTER: A Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset for Reasoning about Event Semantic Relations

Rujun Han, I-Hung Hsu, Jiao Sun, Julia Baylon, Qiang Ning

On the Challenges of Evaluating Compositional Explanations in Multi-Hop Inference: Relevance, Completeness, and Expert Ratings

Peter Jansen, Kelly J. Smith, Dan Moreno, Huitzilin Ortiz

CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning

Jack Hessel, Ari Holtzman, Maxwell Forbes, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi

MSˆ2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies

Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen, Bailey Kuehl, Lucy Lu Wang

Effective Sequence-to-Sequence Dialogue State Tracking

Jeffrey Zhao, Mahdis Mahdieh, Ye Zhang, Yuan Cao, Yonghui Wu

Investigating Robustness of Dialog Models to Popular Figurative Language Constructs

Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Intent Detection from Spoken Data

Daniela Gerz, Pei-Hao Su, Razvan Kusztos, Avishek Mondal, Michał Lis

Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Zhenpeng Zhou, Seungwhan Moon, Paul Crook

Towards Automatic Evaluation of Dialog Systems: A Model-Free Off-Policy Evaluation Approach

Haoming Jiang, Bo Dai, Mengjiao Yang, Tuo Zhao, Wei Wei

Conversational Multi-Hop Reasoning with Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Symbolic Logic Rules

Forough Arabshahi, Jennifer Lee, Antoine Bosselut, Yejin Choi, Tom Mitchell

ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI

Amanda Cercas Curry, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser

SituatedQA: Incorporating Extra-Linguistic Contexts into QA

Michael Zhang, Eunsol Choi

Explaining Answers with Entailment Trees

Bhavana Dalvi, Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, Zhengnan Xie, Hannah Smith

Learning with Instance Bundles for Reading Comprehension

Dheeru Dua, Pradeep Dasigi, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner

Will this Question be Answered? Question Filtering via Answer Model Distillation for Efficient Question Answering

Siddhant Garg, Alessandro Moschitti

How much coffee was consumed during EMNLP 2019? Fermi Problems: A New Reasoning Challenge for AI

Ashwin Kalyan, Abhinav Kumar, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Ashish Sabharwal, Peter Clark

Universal Simultaneous Machine Translation with Mixture-of-Experts Wait-k Policy

Shaolei Zhang, Yang Feng

Uncertainty-Aware Balancing for Multilingual and Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation Training

Minghao Wu, Yitong Li, Meng Zhang, Liangyou Li, Gholamreza Haffari

Learning Kernel-Smoothed Machine Translation with Retrieved Examples

Qingnan Jiang, Mingxuan Wang, Jun Cao, Shanbo Cheng, Shujian Huang

Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization

Yilin Yang, Akiko Eriguchi, Alexandre Muzio, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee

Don’t Go Far Off: An Empirical Study on Neural Poetry Translation

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Arkadiy Saakyan, Smaranda Muresan

Robust Open-Vocabulary Translation from Visual Text Representations

Elizabeth Salesky, David Etter, Matt Post

Perturbation CheckLists for Evaluating NLG Evaluation Metrics

Ananya B. Sai, Tanay Dixit, Dev Yashpal Sheth, Sreyas Mohan, Mitesh M. Khapra

ValNorm Quantifies Semantics to Reveal Consistent Valence Biases Across Languages and Over Centuries

Autumn Toney, Aylin Caliskan

On the Influence of Masking Policies in Intermediate Pre-training

Qinyuan Ye, Belinda Z. Li, Sinong Wang, Benjamin Bolte, Hao Ma

CrossFit: A Few-shot Learning Challenge for Cross-task Generalization in NLP

Qinyuan Ye, Bill Yuchen Lin, Xiang Ren

AM2iCo: Evaluating Word Meaning in Context across Low-Resource Languages with Adversarial Examples

Qianchu Liu, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Diana McCarthy, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts

Adithya Pratapa, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Shruti Rijhwani, Aditi Chaudhary, David R. Mortensen

Does It Capture STEL? A Modular, Similarity-based Linguistic Style Evaluation Framework

Anna Wegmann, Dong Nguyen

I Wish I Would Have Loved This One, But I Didn’t – A Multilingual Dataset for Counterfactual Detection in Product Review

James O’Neill, Polina Rozenshtein, Ryuichi Kiryo, Motoko Kubota, Danushka Bollegala

DWUG: A large Resource of Diachronic Word Usage Graphs in Four Languages

Dominik Schlechtweg, Nina Tahmasebi, Simon Hengchen, Haim Dubossarsky, Barbara McGillivray

Back-Training excels Self-Training at Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Question Generation and Passage Retrieval

Devang Kulshreshtha, Robert Belfer, Iulian Vlad Serban, Siva Reddy

Entity-Based Knowledge Conflicts in Question Answering

Shayne Longpre, Kartik Perisetla, Anthony Chen, Nikhil Ramesh, Chris DuBois

Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn’t Always Right

Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Vered Shwartz, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Have You Seen That Number? Investigating Extrapolation in Question Answering Models

Jeonghwan Kim, Giwon Hong, Kyung-Min Kim, Junmo Kang, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Synthetic Data Augmentation for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Arij Riabi, Thomas Scialom, Rachel Keraron, Benoît Sagot, Djamé Seddah

Generative Context Pair Selection for Multi-hop Question Answering

Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Patrick Ng, Ben Athiwaratkun, Bing Xiang

Joint Passage Ranking for Diverse Multi-Answer Retrieval

Sewon Min, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Kristina Toutanova, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

MultiEURLEX - A multi-lingual and multi-label legal document classification dataset for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer

Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Ion Androutsopoulos

Students Who Study Together Learn Better: On the Importance of Collective Knowledge Distillation for Domain Transfer in Fact Verification

Mitch Paul Mithun, Sandeep Suntwal, Mihai Surdeanu

Numeracy enhances the Literacy of Language Models

Avijit Thawani, Jay Pujara, Filip Ilievski

Continuous Entailment Patterns for Lexical Inference in Context

Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze

Generating Datasets with Pretrained Language Models

Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze

Aligning Actions Across Recipe Graphs

Lucia Donatelli, Theresa Schmidt, Debanjali Biswas, Arne Köhn, Fangzhou Zhai

When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro?: Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection

Aditi Chaudhary, Kayo Yin, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig

SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings

Tianyu Gao, Xingcheng Yao, Danqi Chen

Implicit Sentiment Analysis with Event-centered Text Representation

Deyu Zhou, Jianan Wang, Linhai Zhang, Yulan He

CLASSIC: Continual and Contrastive Learning of Aspect Sentiment Classification Tasks

Zixuan Ke, Bing Liu, Hu Xu, Lei Shu

Few-Shot Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Sequential Prototypical Networks

Gaël Guibon, Matthieu Labeau, Hélène Flamein, Luce Lefeuvre, Chloé Clavel

SYSML: StYlometry with Structure and Multitask Learning: Implications for Darknet Forum Migrant Analysis

Pranav Maneriker, Yuntian He, Srinivasan Parthasarathy