EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Connecting Attributions and QA Model Behavior on Realistic Counterfactuals

Xi Ye, Rohan Nair, Greg Durrett

Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories

Mor Geva, Roei Schuster, Jonathan Berant, Omer Levy

Exploring Strategies for Generalizable Commonsense Reasoning with Pre-trained Models

Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis, Satoru Ozaki, Eric Nyberg

Toward Deconfounding the Effect of Entity Demographics for Question Answering Accuracy

Maharshi Gor, Kellie Webster, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Multi-Vector Attention Models for Deep Re-ranking

Giulio Zhou, Jacob Devlin

PDALN: Progressive Domain Adaptation over a Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

Tao Zhang, Congying Xia, Philip S. Yu, Zhiwei Liu, Shu Zhao

Corpus-based Open-Domain Event Type Induction

Jiaming Shen, Yunyi Zhang, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han

Crosslingual Transfer Learning for Relation and Event Extraction via Word Category and Class Alignments

Minh Van Nguyen, Tuan Ngo Nguyen, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen

Modeling Document-Level Context for Event Detection via Important Context Selection

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Minh Van Nguyen, Nghia Ngo Trung, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen

Extracting Material Property Measurement Data from Scientific Articles

Gihan Panapitiya, Fred Parks, Jonathan Sepulveda, Emily Saldanha

Learning from Noisy Labels for Entity-Centric Information Extraction

Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen

ECONET: Effective Continual Pretraining of Language Models for Event Temporal Reasoning

Rujun Han, Xiang Ren, Nanyun Peng

Incorporating medical knowledge in BERT for clinical relation extraction

Arpita Roy, Shimei Pan

Data Augmentation for Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

Shuguang Chen, Gustavo Aguilar, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio

Towards Realistic Few-Shot Relation Extraction

Sam Brody, Sichao Wu, Adrian Benton

Adversarial Attack against Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment

Zeru Zhang, Zijie Zhang, Yang Zhou, Lingfei Wu, Sixing Wu

Fine-grained Entity Typing without Knowledge Base

Jing Qian, Yibin Liu, Lemao Liu, Yangming Li, Haiyun Jiang

Unsupervised Paraphrasing Consistency Training for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition

Rui Wang, Ricardo Henao

Modular Self-Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction

Sheng Zhang, Cliff Wong, Naoto Usuyama, Sarthak Jain, Tristan Naumann

Lifelong Event Detection with Knowledge Transfer

Pengfei Yu, Heng Ji, Prem Natarajan

Learning Prototype Representations Across Few-Shot Tasks for Event Detection

Viet Lai, Franck Dernoncourt, Thien Huu Nguyen

Document-level Entity-based Extraction as Template Generation

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Sam Tang, Nanyun Peng

Moving on from OntoNotes: Coreference Resolution Model Transfer

Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme

ChemNER: Fine-Grained Chemistry Named Entity Recognition with Ontology-Guided Distant Supervision

Xuan Wang, Vivian Hu, Xiangchen Song, Shweta Garg, Jinfeng Xiao

Learning Constraints and Descriptive Segmentation for Subevent Detection

Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth

The Future is not One-dimensional: Complex Event Schema Induction by Graph Modeling for Event Prediction

Manling Li, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Lifu Huang, Kyunghyun Cho

Refocusing on Relevance: Personalization in NLG

Shiran Dudy, Steven Bedrick, Bonnie Webber

AESOP: Paraphrase Generation with Adaptive Syntactic Control

Jiao Sun, Xuezhe Ma, Nanyun Peng

Journalistic Guidelines Aware News Image Captioning

Xuewen Yang, Svebor Karaman, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes

Profanity-Avoiding Training Framework for Seq2seq Models with Certified Robustness

Hengtong Zhang, Tianhang Zheng, Yaliang Li, Jing Gao, Lu Su

Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Pretrained Language Models

Tong Niu, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Huan Wang

Generating Self-Contained and Summary-Centric Question Answer Pairs via Differentiable Reward Imitation Learning

Li Zhou, Kevin Small, Yong Zhang, Sandeep Atluri

Exposure Bias versus Self-Recovery: Are Distortions Really Incremental for Autoregressive Text Generation?

Tianxing He, Jingzhao Zhang, Zhiming Zhou, James Glass

Paraphrase Generation: A Survey of the State of the Art

Jianing Zhou, Suma Bhat

Extract, Denoise and Enforce: Evaluating and Improving Concept Preservation for Text-to-Text Generation

Yuning Mao, Wenchang Ma, Deren Lei, Jiawei Han, Xiang Ren

Sentence-Permuted Paragraph Generation

Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Tong Zhao, Zhichun Guo, Meng Jiang

OSCaR: Orthogonal Subspace Correction and Rectification of Biases in Word Embeddings

Sunipa Dev, Tao Li, Jeff M Phillips, Vivek Srikumar

Lawyers are Dishonest? Quantifying Representational Harms in Commonsense Knowledge Resources

Ninareh Mehrabi, Pei Zhou, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren

Pre-train or Annotate? Domain Adaptation with a Constrained Budget

Fan Bai, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

Unsupervised Data Augmentation with Naive Augmentation and without Unlabeled Data

David Lowell, Brian Howard, Zachary C. Lipton, Byron Wallace

Improving and Simplifying Pattern Exploiting Training

Derek Tam, Rakesh R. Menon, Mohit Bansal, Shashank Srivastava, Colin Raffel

Consistent Accelerated Inference via Confident Adaptive Transformers

Tal Schuster, Adam Fisch, Tommi Jaakkola, Regina Barzilay

Signed Coreference Resolution

Kayo Yin, Kenneth DeHaan, Malihe Alikhani

Dialogue State Tracking with a Language Model using Schema-Driven Prompting

Chia-Hsuan Lee, Hao Cheng, Mari Ostendorf

MRF-Chat: Improving Dialogue with Markov Random Fields

Ishaan Grover, Matthew Huggins, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park

RAST: Domain-Robust Dialogue Rewriting as Sequence Tagging

Jie Hao, Linfeng Song, Liwei Wang, Kun Xu, Zhaopeng Tu

SIMMC 2.0: A Task-oriented Dialog Dataset for Immersive Multimodal Conversations

Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Alborz Geramifard, Babak Damavandi

Zero-Shot Dialogue Disentanglement by Self-Supervised Entangled Response Selection

Ta-Chung Chi, Alexander Rudnicky

A Label-Aware BERT Attention Network for Zero-Shot Multi-Intent Detection in Spoken Language Understanding

Ting-Wei Wu, Ruolin Su, Biing Juang

Multi-Modal Open-Domain Dialogue

Kurt Shuster, Eric Michael Smith, Da JU, Jason Weston

Just Say No: Analyzing the Stance of Neural Dialogue Generation in Offensive Contexts

Ashutosh Baheti, Maarten Sap, Alan Ritter, Mark Riedl

Aligning Multidimensional Worldviews and Discovering Ideological Differences

Jeremiah Milbauer, Adarsh Mathew, James Evans

Improved Latent Tree Induction with Distant Supervision via Span Constraints

Zhiyang Xu, Andrew Drozdov, Jay Yoon Lee, Tim O’Gorman, Subendhu Rongali

On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

Ofir Arviv, Dmitry Nikolaev, Taelin Karidi, Omri Abend

Genre as Weak Supervision for Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing

Max Müller-Eberstein, Rob van der Goot, Barbara Plank

WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs

Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea

Learning grounded word meaning representations on similarity graphs

Mariella Dimiccoli, Herwig Wendt, Pau Batlle Franch

Region under Discussion for visual dialog

Mauricio Mazuecos, Franco M. Luque, Jorge Sánchez, Hernán Maina, Thomas Vadora

LayoutReader: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Reading Order Detection

Zilong Wang, Yiheng Xu, Lei Cui, Jingbo Shang, Furu Wei

Can Language Models be Biomedical Knowledge Bases?

Mujeen Sung, Jinhyuk Lee, Sean Yi, Minji Jeon, Sungdong Kim

Long-Range Modeling of Source Code Files with eWASH: Extended Window Access by Syntax Hierarchy

Colin Clement, Shuai Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Michele Tufano, Dawn Drain

Can We Improve Model Robustness through Secondary Attribute Counterfactuals?

Ananth Balashankar, Xuezhi Wang, Ben Packer, Nithum Thain, Ed Chi

AVocaDo: Strategy for Adapting Vocabulary to Downstream Domain

Jimin Hong, TaeHee Kim, Hyesu Lim, Jaegul Choo

Filling the Gaps in Ancient Akkadian Texts: A Masked Language Modelling Approach

Koren Lazar, Benny Saret, Asaf Yehudai, Wayne Horowitz, Nathan Wasserman

Mixture-of-Partitions: Infusing Large Biomedical Knowledge Graphs into BERT

Zaiqiao Meng, Fangyu Liu, Thomas Clark, Ehsan Shareghi, Nigel Collier

Sequential Cross-Document Coreference Resolution

Emily Allaway, Shuai Wang, Miguel Ballesteros

Extracting Fine-Grained Knowledge Graphs of Scientific Claims: Dataset and Transformer-Based Results

Ian Magnusson, Scott Friedman

PRIDE: Predicting Relationships in Conversations

Anna Tigunova, Paramita Mirza, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum

Enhanced Language Representation with Label Knowledge for Span Extraction

Pan Yang, Xin Cong, Zhenyu Sun, Xingwu Liu

Fine-grained Entity Typing via Label Reasoning

Qing Liu, Hongyu Lin, Xinyan Xiao, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Are Transformers a Modern Version of ELIZA? Observations on French Object Verb Agreement

Bingzhi Li, Guillaume Wisniewski, Benoit Crabbé

Examining Cross-lingual Contextual Embeddings with Orthogonal Structural Probes

Tomasz Limisiewicz, David Mareček

Sociolectal Analysis of Pretrained Language Models

Sheng Zhang, Xin Zhang, Weiming Zhang, Anders Søgaard

Mind the Style of Text! Adversarial and Backdoor Attacks Based on Text Style Transfer

Fanchao Qi, Yangyi Chen, Xurui Zhang, Mukai Li, Zhiyuan Liu

Incorporating Residual and Normalization Layers into Analysis of Masked Language Models

Goro Kobayashi, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Sho Yokoi, Kentaro Inui

All Bark and No Bite: Rogue Dimensions in Transformer Language Models Obscure Representational Quality

William Timkey, Marten van Schijndel

Multi-granularity Textual Adversarial Attack with Behavior Cloning

Yangyi Chen, Jin Su, Wei Wei

Lying Through One’s Teeth: A Study on Verbal Leakage Cues

Min-Hsuan Yeh, Lun-Wei Ku

PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation

Long Doan, Linh The Nguyen, Nguyen Luong Tran, Thai Hoang, Dat Quoc Nguyen

We Need to Talk About train-dev-test Splits

Rob van der Goot

Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Julia Kiseleva, Aleksandr Chuklin, Jeff Dalton, Mikhail Burtsev

CodRED: A Cross-Document Relation Extraction Dataset for Acquiring Knowledge in the Wild

Yuan Yao, Jiaju Du, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Zhiyuan Liu

CSDS: A Fine-Grained Chinese Dataset for Customer Service Dialogue Summarization

Haitao Lin, Liqun Ma, Junnan Zhu, Lu Xiang, Yu Zhou

CHoRaL: Collecting Humor Reaction Labels from Millions of Social Media Users

Zixiaofan Yang, Shayan Hooshmand, Julia Hirschberg

The Effect of Round-Trip Translation on Fairness in Sentiment Analysis

Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Gammelgaard, Anders Søgaard

Semantics-Preserved Data Augmentation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Ting-Wei Hsu, Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Solving Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis as a Text Generation Task

Jian Liu, Zhiyang Teng, Leyang Cui, Hanmeng Liu, Yue Zhang

Joint Multi-modal Aspect-Sentiment Analysis with Auxiliary Cross-modal Relation Detection

Xincheng Ju, Dong Zhang, Rong Xiao, Junhui Li, Shoushan Li

Not All Negatives are Equal: Label-Aware Contrastive Loss for Fine-grained Text Classification

Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong

Dimensional Emotion Detection from Categorical Emotion

Sungjoon Park, Jiseon Kim, Seonghyeon Ye, Jaeyeol Jeon, Hee Young Park

End-to-End Learning of Flowchart Grounded Task-Oriented Dialogs

Dinesh Raghu, Shantanu Agarwal, Sachindra Joshi, Mausam

DuRecDial 2.0: A Bilingual Parallel Corpus for Conversational Recommendation

Zeming Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Wanxiang Che

CRFR: Improving Conversational Recommender Systems via Flexible Fragments Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs

Jinfeng Zhou, Bo Wang, Ruifang He, Yuexian Hou

Efficient Dialogue Complementary Policy Learning via Deep Q-network Policy and Episodic Memory Policy

Yangyang Zhao, Zhenyu Wang, Changxi Zhu, Shihan Wang

Contextualize Knowledge Bases with Transformer for End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Yanjie Gou, Yinjie Lei, Lingqiao Liu, Yong Dai, Chunxu Shen

Data-to-text Generation by Splicing Together Nearest Neighbors

Sam Wiseman, Arturs Backurs, Karl Stratos

Structural Adapters in Pretrained Language Models for AMR-to-Text Generation

Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Yue Zhang, Iryna Gurevych

Revisiting Pivot-Based Paraphrase Generation: Language Is Not the Only Optional Pivot

Yitao Cai, Yue Cao, Xiaojun Wan

Generic resources are what you need: Style transfer tasks without task-specific parallel training data

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

Mathematical Word Problem Generation from Commonsense Knowledge Graph and Equations

Tianqiao Liu, Qiang Fang, Wenbiao Ding, Hang Li, Zhongqin Wu