EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning for Short Text Classification

Yaqing Wang, Song Wang, Quanming Yao, Dejing Dou

Layer-wise Model Pruning based on Mutual Information

Chun Fan, Jiwei Li, Tianwei Zhang, Xiang Ao, Fei Wu

Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Text-Based Policy Learning

Subhajit Chaudhury, Prithviraj Sen, Masaki Ono, Daiki Kimura, Michiaki Tatsubori

Scalable Font Reconstruction with Dual Latent Manifolds

Nikita Srivatsan, Si Wu, Jonathan Barron, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning

Brian Lester, Rami Al-Rfou, Noah Constant

GAML-BERT: Improving BERT Early Exiting by Gradient Aligned Mutual Learning

Wei Zhu, Xiaoling Wang, Yuan Ni, Guotong Xie

Backdoor Attacks on Pre-trained Models by Layerwise Weight Poisoning

Linyang Li, Demin Song, Xiaonan Li, Jiehang Zeng, Ruotian Ma

Augmenting BERT-style Models with Predictive Coding to Improve Discourse-level Representations

Vladimir Araujo, Andrés Villa, Marcelo Mendoza, Marie-Francine Moens, Alvaro Soto

Is this the end of the gold standard? A straightforward reference-less grammatical error correction metric

Md Asadul Islam, Enrico Magnani

Adversarial Mixing Policy for Relaxing Locally Linear Constraints in Mixup

Guang Liu, Yuzhao Mao, HUANG Hailong, Gao Weiguo, Li Xuan

Explore Better Relative Position Embeddings from Encoding Perspective for Transformer Models

Anlin Qu, Jianwei Niu, Shasha Mo

A Simple and Effective Positional Encoding for Transformers

Pu-Chin Chen, Henry Tsai, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Hyung Won Chung, Yin-Wen Chang

Modeling Human Sentence Processing with Left-Corner Recurrent Neural Network Grammars

Ryo Yoshida, Hiroshi Noji, Yohei Oseki

Linguistic Dependencies and Statistical Dependence

Jacob Louis Hoover, Wenyu Du, Alessandro Sordoni, Timothy J. O’Donnell

Lifelong Explainer for Lifelong Learners

Xuelin Situ, Sameen Maruf, Ingrid Zukerman, Cecile Paris, Gholamreza Haffari

Rethinking Denoised Auto-Encoding in Language Pre-Training

Fuli Luo, Pengcheng Yang, Shicheng Li, Xuancheng Ren, Xu Sun

What’s Hidden in a One-layer Randomly Weighted Transformer?

Sheng Shen, Zhewei Yao, Douwe Kiela, Kurt Keutzer, Michael Mahoney

Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little

Koustuv Sinha, Robin Jia, Dieuwke Hupkes, Joelle Pineau, Adina Williams

A Bayesian Framework for Information-Theoretic Probing

Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell

Relation Extraction with Word Graphs from N-grams

Han Qin, Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song

Simple and Effective Unsupervised Redundancy Elimination to Compress Dense Vectors for Passage Retrieval

Xueguang Ma, Minghan Li, Kai Sun, Ji Xin, Jimmy Lin

From Alignment to Assignment: Frustratingly Simple Unsupervised Entity Alignment

Xin Mao, WenTing Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan

Dealing with Typos for BERT-based Passage Retrieval and Ranking

Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

RocketQAv2: A Joint Training Method for Dense Passage Retrieval and Passage Re-ranking

Ruiyang Ren, Yingqi Qu, Jing Liu, Wayne Xin Zhao, Qiaoqiao She

Efficient-FedRec: Efficient Federated Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving News Recommendation

Jingwei Yi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Ruixuan Liu, Guangzhong Sun

Weakly-supervised Text Classification Based on Keyword Graph

Lu Zhang, Jiandong Ding, Yi Xu, Yingyao Liu, Shuigeng Zhou

TransPrompt: Towards an Automatic Transferable Prompting Framework for Few-shot Text Classification

Chengyu Wang, Jianing Wang, Minghui Qiu, Jun Huang, Ming Gao

Less is More: Pretrain a Strong Siamese Encoder for Dense Text Retrieval Using a Weak Decoder

Shuqi Lu, Di He, Chenyan Xiong, Guolin Ke, Waleed Malik

Synchronous Dual Network with Cross-Type Attention for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

Hui Wu, Xiaodong Shi

Entity Relation Extraction as Dependency Parsing in Visually Rich Documents

Yue Zhang, Zhang Bo, Rui Wang, Junjie Cao, Chen Li

Low-resource Taxonomy Enrichment with Pretrained Language Models

Kunihiro Takeoka, Kosuke Akimoto, Masafumi Oyamada

Gradient Imitation Reinforcement Learning for Low Resource Relation Extraction

Xuming Hu, Chenwei Zhang, Yawen Yang, Xiaohe Li, Li Lin

Importance Estimation from Multiple Perspectives for Keyphrase Extraction

Mingyang Song, Liping Jing, Lin Xiao

Machine Reading Comprehension as Data Augmentation: A Case Study on Implicit Event Argument Extraction

Jian Liu, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Keyphrase Generation

Jiacheng Ye, Ruijian Cai, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang

MapRE: An Effective Semantic Mapping Approach for Low-resource Relation Extraction

Manqing Dong, Chunguang Pan, Zhipeng Luo

DyLex: Incorporating Dynamic Lexicons into BERT for Sequence Labeling

Baojun wang, Zhao Zhang, Kun Xu, Guang-Yuan Hao, Yuyang Zhang

An Empirical Study on Multiple Information Sources for Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Entity Typing

Yi Chen, Haiyun Jiang, Lemao Liu, Shuming Shi, Chuang Fan

Structure-Augmented Keyphrase Generation

Jihyuk Kim, Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang

A Novel Global Feature-Oriented Relational Triple Extraction Model based on Table Filling

Feiliang Ren, Longhui Zhang, Shujuan Yin, Xiaofeng Zhao, Shilei Liu

Uncertain Local-to-Global Networks for Document-Level Event Factuality Identification

Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Yuqing Yang, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Treasures Outside Contexts: Improving Event Detection via Global Statistics

Rui Li, Wenlin Zhao, Cheng Yang, Sen Su

MuVER: Improving First-Stage Entity Retrieval with Multi-View Entity Representations

Xinyin Ma, Yong Jiang, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang

Exploring Task Difficulty for Few-Shot Relation Extraction

Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Wei Lu

Syntactically-Informed Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Non-Parallel Data

Erguang Yang, Mingtong Liu, Deyi Xiong, Yujie Zhang, Yao Meng

Asking Questions Like Educational Experts: Automatically Generating Question-Answer Pairs on Real-World Examination Data

Fanyi Qu, Xin Jia, Yunfang Wu

Iterative GNN-based Decoder for Question Generation

Zichu Fei, Qi Zhang, Yaqian Zhou

Building the Directed Semantic Graph for Coherent Long Text Generation

Ziao Wang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Hongwei Du

ConRPG: Paraphrase Generation using Contexts as Regularizer

Yuxian Meng, Xiang Ao, Qing He, Xiaofei Sun, Qinghong Han

Adaptive Bridge between Training and Inference for Dialogue Generation

Haoran Xu, Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Zou, Hongshen Chen, Zhuoye Ding

Coupling Context Modeling with Zero Pronoun Recovering for Document-Level Natural Language Generation

Xin Tan, Longyin Zhang, Guodong Zhou

Integrating Semantic Scenario and Word Relations for Abstractive Sentence Summarization

Yong Guan, Shaoru Guo, Ru Li, Xiaoli Li, Hu Zhang

Transductive Learning for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Fei Xiao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Yan Wang, Huawei Shen

Definition Modelling for Appropriate Specificity

Han Huang, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase

Evaluating Debiasing Techniques for Intersectional Biases

Shivashankar Subramanian, Xudong Han, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Lea Frermann

FLiText: A Faster and Lighter Semi-Supervised Text Classification with Convolution Networks

Chen Liu, Zhang Mengchao, Fu Zhibing, Panpan Hou, Yu Li

RankNAS: Efficient Neural Architecture Search by Pairwise Ranking

Chi Hu, Chenglong Wang, Xiangnan Ma, Xia Meng, Yinqiao Li

Hierarchical Multi-label Text Classification with Horizontal and Vertical Category Correlations

Linli Xu, Sijie Teng, Ruoyu Zhao, Junliang Guo, Chi Xiao

Multimodal Phased Transformer for Sentiment Analysis

Junyan Cheng, Iordanis Fostiropoulos, Barry Boehm, Mohammad Soleymani

A Language Model-based Generative Classifier for Sentence-level Discourse Parsing

Ying Zhang, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Manabu Okumura

Not Just Classification: Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relation on Joint Modeling of Classification and Generation

Feng Jiang, Yaxin Fan, Xiaomin Chu, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

Improving Graph-based Sentence Ordering with Iteratively Predicted Pairwise Orderings

Shaopeng Lai, Ante Wang, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou, Yubin Ge

DialogueCSE: Dialogue-based Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings

Che Liu, Rui Wang, Jinghua Liu, Jian Sun, Fei Huang

EARL: Informative Knowledge-Grounded Conversation Generation with Entity-Agnostic Representation Learning

Hao Zhou, Minlie Huang, Yong Liu, Wei Chen, Xiaoyan Zhu

Transferable Persona-Grounded Dialogues via Grounded Minimal Edits

Chen Henry Wu, Yinhe Zheng, Xiaoxi Mao, Minlie Huang

Don’t be Contradicted with Anything! CI-ToD: Towards Benchmarking Consistency for Task-oriented Dialogue System

Libo Qin, Tianbao Xie, Shijue Huang, Qiguang Chen, Xiao Xu

Unsupervised Conversation Disentanglement through Co-Training

Hui LIU, Zhan Shi, Xiaodan Zhu

An Evaluation Dataset and Strategy for Building Robust Multi-turn Response Selection Model

Kijong Han, Seojin Lee, Dong-hun Lee

Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation

Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie LIU, Yue Zhang

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Investigating Appropriate Further Pre-training Approaches for Diverse Dialogue Tasks

Yao Qiu, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou

CSAGN: Conversational Structure Aware Graph Network for Conversational Semantic Role Labeling

Han Wu, Kun Xu, Linqi Song

Domain-Lifelong Learning for Dialogue State Tracking via Knowledge Preservation Networks

Qingbin Liu, Pengfei Cao, Cao Liu, Jiansong Chen, Xunliang Cai

More is Better: Enhancing Open-Domain Dialogue Generation via Multi-Source Heterogeneous Knowledge

Sixing Wu, Ying Li, Minghui Wang, Dawei Zhang, Yang Zhou

Intention Reasoning Network for Multi-Domain End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue

Zhiyuan Ma, Jianjun Li, Zezheng Zhang, Guohui Li, Yongjing Cheng

A Three-Stage Learning Framework for Low-Resource Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

Shilei Liu, Xiaofeng Zhao, Bochao Li, Feiliang Ren, Longhui Zhang

CoLV: A Collaborative Latent Variable Model for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

Haolan Zhan, Lei Shen, Hongshen Chen, Hainan Zhang

Generation and Extraction Combined Dialogue State Tracking with Hierarchical Ontology Integration

Xinmeng Li, Qian Li, Wansen Wu, Quanjun Yin

Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes

Hyunwoo Kim, Byeongchang Kim, Gunhee Kim

Thinking Clearly, Talking Fast: Concept-Guided Non-Autoregressive Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Yicheng Zou, Zhihua Liu, Xingwu Hu, Qi Zhang

Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding

Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaïane, Avishek Joey Bose

Effect of Visual Extensions on Natural Language Understanding in Vision-and-Language Models

Taichi Iki, Akiko Aizawa

Systematic Generalization on gSCAN: What is Nearly Solved and What is Next?

Linlu Qiu, Hexiang Hu, Bowen Zhang, Peter Shaw, Fei Sha

Visual Goal-Step Inference using wikiHow

Yue Yang, Artemis Panagopoulou, Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Mark Yatskar

CrossVQA: Scalably Generating Benchmarks for Systematically Testing VQA Generalization

Arjun Akula, Soravit Changpinyo, Boqing Gong, Piyush Sharma, Song-chun Zhu

Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue

Daniel Fried, Justin Chiu, Dan Klein

Broaden the Vision: Geo-Diverse Visual Commonsense Reasoning

Da Yin, Liunian Harold Li, Ziniu Hu, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang

You should evaluate your language model on marginal likelihood over tokenisations

Kris Cao, Laura Rimell

Fast WordPiece Tokenization

Xinying Song, Alex Salcianu, Yang Song, Dave Dopson, Denny Zhou

Minimal Supervision for Morphological Inflection

Omer Goldman, Reut Tsarfaty

Segment, Mask, and Predict: Augmenting Chinese Word Segmentation with Self-Supervision

Mieradilijiang Maimaiti, Yang Liu, Yuanhang Zheng, Gang Chen, Kaiyu Huang

Local Word Discovery for Interactive Transcription

William Lane, Steven Bird

CRYPTOGRU: Low Latency Privacy-Preserving Text Analysis With GRU

Bo Feng, Qian Lou, Lei Jiang, Geoffrey Fox

Fairness-aware Class Imbalanced Learning

Shivashankar Subramanian, Afshin Rahimi, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Lea Frermann

Reconstruction Attack on Instance Encoding for Language Understanding

Shangyu Xie, Yuan Hong

Modeling Disclosive Transparency in NLP Application Descriptions

Michael Saxon, Sharon Levy, Xinyi Wang, Alon Albalak, William Yang Wang

Style Pooling: Automatic Text Style Obfuscation for Improved Classification Fairness

FatemehSadat Mireshghallah, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Are Gender-Neutral Queries Really Gender-Neutral? Mitigating Gender Bias in Image Search

Jialu Wang, Yang Liu, Xin Wang

Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Challenges in Non-Binary Representation in Language Technologies

Sunipa Dev, Masoud Monajatipoor, Anaelia Ovalle, Arjun Subramonian, Jeff Phillips

Everything Is All It Takes: A Multipronged Strategy for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Information Extraction

Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Shijie Wu, Marc Marone, Haoran Xu, Seth Ebner

Robust Retrieval Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Slot Filling

Michael Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alfio Gliozzo