EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation

Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze, Iryna Gurevych

AuGPT: Auxiliary Tasks and Data Augmentation for End-To-End Dialogue with Pre-Trained Language Models

Jonas Kulhanek, Vojtěch Hudeček, Tomáš Nekvinda, Ondřej Dušek

Dialogue Response Generation via Contrastive Latent Representation Learning

Shuyang Dai, Guoyin Wang, Sunghyun Park, Sungjin Lee

Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI

Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao, Zheng Chen, Saurabh Gupta

Learning to Learn End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog From Related Dialog Tasks

Janarthanan Rajendran, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Satinder Baveja

Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Joint Slot Modeling

Ting-Rui Chiang, Yi-Ting Yeh

PLATO-KAG: Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation via Joint Modeling

Xinxian Huang, Huang He, Siqi Bao, Fan Wang, Hua Wu

CS-BERT: a pretrained model for customer service dialogues

peiyao wang, Joyce Fang, Julia Reinspach

Semi-supervised Intent Discovery with Contrastive Learning

Xiang Shen, Yinge Sun, Yao Zhang, Mani Najmabadi

Collaborative Data Relabeling for Robust and Diverse Voice Apps Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants

Qian Hu, Thahir Mohamed, Wei Xiao, Zheng Gao, Xibin Gao

XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot

Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto

What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts

James D. Finch, Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi

Amendable Generation for Dialogue State Tracking

Xin Tian, Liankai Huang, Yingzhan Lin, Siqi Bao, Huang He

On the Robustness of Intent Classification and Slot Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialog Systems to Real-world Noise

Sailik Sengupta, Jason Krone, Saab Mansour

Not So Fast, Classifier – Accuracy and Entropy Reduction in Incremental Intent Classification

Lianna Hrycyk, Alessandra Zarcone, Luzian Hahn

Overcoming Conflicting Data when Updating a Neural Semantic Parser

David Gaddy, Alex Kouzemtchenko, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Prateek Kolhar, Rushin Shah

Multilingual Paraphrase Generation For Bootstrapping New Features in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Subhadarshi Panda, Caglar Tirkaz, Tobias Falke, Patrick Lehnen

Personalized Extractive Summarization Using an Ising Machine Towards Real-time Generation of Efficient and Coherent Dialogue Scenarios

Hiroaki Takatsu, Takahiro Kashikawa, Koichi Kimura, Ryota Ando, Yoichi Matsuyama

Few-Shot Intent Classification by Gauging Entailment Relationship Between Utterance and Semantic Label

Jin Qu, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou

Taking Things Personally: Third Person to First Person Rephrasing

Marcel Granero Moya, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras

Automatic Resolution of Domain Name Disputes

Wayan Oger Vihikan, Meladel Mistica, Inbar Levy, Andrew Christie, Timothy Baldwin

Semi-automatic Triage of Requests for Free Legal Assistance

Meladel Mistica, Jey Han Lau, Brayden Merrifield, Kate Fazio, Timothy Baldwin

Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification

Nut Limsopatham

Automating Claim Construction in Patent Applications: The CMUmine Dataset

Ozan Tonguz, Yiwei Qin, Yimeng Gu, Hyun Hannah Moon

Learning from Limited Labels for Long Legal Dialogue

Jenny Hong, Derek Chong, Christopher Manning

Summarization of German Court Rulings

Ingo Glaser, Sebastian Moser, Florian Matthes

Named Entity Recognition in Historic Legal Text: A Transformer and State Machine Ensemble Method

Fernando Trias, Hongming Wang, Sylvain Jaume, Stratos Idreos

Supervised Identification of Participant Slots in Contracts

Dan Simonson

Legal Terminology Extraction with the Termolator

Nhi Pham, Lachlan Pham, Adam L. Meyers

Capturing Logical Structure of Visually Structured Documents with Multimodal Transition Parser

Yuta Koreeda, Christopher Manning

SPaR.txt, a Cheap Shallow Parsing Approach for Regulatory Texts

Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson

GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval

Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel

Searching for Legal Documents at Paragraph Level: Automating Label Generation and Use of an Extended Attention Mask for Boosting Neural Models of Semantic Similarity

Li Tang, Simon Clematide

A Free Format Legal Question Answering System

Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana Punuru, Chad Morris, Sanjay Sharma, Bert Staub

Few-shot and Zero-shot Approaches to Legal Text Classification: A Case Study in the Financial Sector

Rajdeep Sarkar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Jay Megaro, John Mariano, Vall Herard

JuriBERT: A Masked-Language Model Adaptation for French Legal Text

Stella Douka, Hadi Abdine, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Rajaa El Hamdani, David Restrepo Amariles

jurBERT: A Romanian BERT Model for Legal Judgement Prediction

Mihai Masala, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban, Marina Cidota, Horia Velicu

Machine Extraction of Tax Laws from Legislative Texts

Elliott Ash, Malka Guillot, Luyang Han

Multi-granular Legal Topic Classification on Greek Legislation

Christos Papaloukas, Ilias Chalkidis, Konstantinos Athinaios, Despina Pantazi, Manolis Koubarakis

A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19

Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie de Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries, Clara Egger, Tommaso Caselli

Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language

Mohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Noga Berger, Carmit Klar Chalamish, Renana Keydar

Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark

Joel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer

Named Entity Recognition in the Romanian Legal Domain

Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Carol Luca Gasan, Vlad Coneschi, Alexandru Ianov

A Corpus for Multilingual Analysis of Online Terms of Service

Kasper Drawzeski, Andrea Galassi, Agnieszka Jablonowska, Francesca Lagioia, Marco Lippi

A New Dataset and Efficient Baselines for Document-level Text Simplification in German

Annette Rios, Nicolas Spring, Tannon Kew, Marek Kostrzewa, Andreas Säuberli

TLDR9+: A Large Scale Resource for Extreme Summarization of Social Media Posts

Sajad Sotudeh, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, Nazli Goharian

SUBSUME: A Dataset for Subjective Summary Extraction from Wikipedia Documents

Nishant Yadav, Matteo Brucato, Anna Fariha, Oscar Youngquist, Julian Killingback

Modeling Endorsement for Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization

Logan Lebanoff, Bingqing Wang, Zhe Feng, Fei Liu

Are We Summarizing the Right Way? A Survey of Dialogue Summarization Data Sets

Don Tuggener, Margot Mieskes, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak

Context or No Context? A preliminary exploration of human-in-the-loop approach for Incremental Temporal Summarization in meetings

Nicole Beckage, Shachi H Kumar, Saurav Sahay, Ramesh Manuvinakurike

EASE: Extractive-Abstractive Summarization End-to-End using the Information Bottleneck Principle

Haoran Li, Arash Einolghozati, Srinivasan Iyer, Bhargavi Paranjape, Yashar Mehdad

Wenyi Tay, Xiuzhen Zhang, Stephen Wan, Sarvnaz Karimi

Capturing Speaker Incorrectness: Speaker-Focused Post-Correction for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

Dongyub Lee, Jungwoo Lim, Taesun Whang, Chanhee Lee, Seungwoo Cho

Evaluation of Abstractive Summarisation Models with Machine Translation in Deliberative Processes

Miguel Arana-Catania, Rob Procter, Yulan He, Maria Liakata

Evaluation of Summarization Systems across Gender, Age, and Race

Anna Jørgensen, Anders Søgaard

A Novel Wikipedia based Dataset for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Summarization

Mehwish Fatima, Michael Strube

Rewards with Negative Examples for Reinforced Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization

Khalil Mrini, Can Liu, Markus Dreyer

Knowledge and Keywords Augmented Abstractive Sentence Summarization

Shuo Guan

Template-aware Attention Model for Earnings Call Report Generation

Yangchen Huang, Prashant K. Dhingra, Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri

Sentence-level Planning for Especially Abstractive Summarization

Andreas Marfurt, James Henderson

Simple and Efficient ways to Improve REALM

Vidhisha Balachandran, Ashish Vaswani, Yulia Tsvetkov, Niki Parmar

Semantic Answer Similarity for Evaluating Question Answering Models

Julian Risch, Timo Möller, Julian Gutsch, Malte Pietsch

Investigating Post-pretraining Representation Alignment for Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos

GANDALF: a General Character Name Description Dataset for Long Fiction

Fredrik Carlsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Fredrik Olsson, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten

Unsupervised Multiple Choices Question Answering: Start Learning from Basic Knowledge

Chi-Liang Liu, Hung-yi Lee

ParaShoot: A Hebrew Question Answering Dataset

Omri Keren, Omer Levy

Bilingual Alignment Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer

Ziqing Yang, Wentao Ma, Yiming Cui, Jiani Ye, Wanxiang Che

Eliciting Bias in Question Answering Models through Ambiguity

Andrew Mao, Naveen Raman, Matthew Shu, Eric Li, Franklin Yang

Multi-modal Retrieval of Tables and Texts Using Tri-encoder Models

Bogdan Kostić, Julian Risch, Timo Möller

What Can a Generative Language Model Answer About a Passage?

Douglas Summers-Stay, Claire Bonial, Clare Voss

Can Question Generation Debias Question Answering Models? A Case Study on Question–Context Lexical Overlap

Kazutoshi Shinoda, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Zero-Shot Clinical Questionnaire Filling From Human-Machine Interactions

Farnaz Ghassemi Toudeshki, Philippe Jolivet, Alexandre Durand-Salmon, Anna Liednikova

GermanQuAD and GermanDPR: Improving Non-English Question Answering and Passage Retrieval

Timo Möller, Julian Risch, Malte Pietsch

What Would it Take to get Biomedical QA Systems into Practice?

Gregory Kell, Iain Marshall, Byron Wallace, Andre Jaun

Rethinking the Objectives of Extractive Question Answering

Martin Fajcik, Josef Jon, Pavel Smrz

MFAQ: a Multilingual FAQ Dataset

Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann, Walter Daelemans

Cross-Lingual Training of Dense Retrievers for Document Retrieval

Peng Shi, Rui Zhang, He Bai, Jimmy Lin

Well-Defined Morphology is Sentence-Level Morphology

Omer Goldman, Reut Tsarfaty

[RETRACTED] Sequence Mixup for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Part-Of-Speech Tagging

Megh Thakkar, Vishwa Shah, Ramit Sawhney, Debdoot Mukherjee

[RETRACTED] DMix: Distance Constrained Interpolative Mixup

Ramit Sawhney, Megh Thakkar, Shrey Pandit, Debdoot Mukherjee, Lucie Flek

Regularising Fisher Information Improves Cross-lingual Generalisation

Asa Cooper Stickland, Iain Murray

Analysis of Zero-Shot Crosslingual Learning between English and Korean for Named Entity Recognition

Jongin Kim, Nayoung Choi, Seunghyun Lim, Jungwhan Kim, Soojin Chung

Multilingual Code-Switching for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Intent Prediction and Slot Filling

Jitin Krishnan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Hemant Purohit, Huzefa Rangwala

Shaking Syntactic Trees on the Sesame Street: Multilingual Probing with Controllable Perturbations

Ekaterina Taktasheva, Vladislav Mikhailov, Ekaterina Artemova

The Effectiveness of Intermediate-Task Training for Code-Switched Natural Language Understanding

Archiki Prasad, Mohammad Ali Rehan, Shreya Pathak, Preethi Jyothi

Improving the Diversity of Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Embedding Outputs

Monisha Jegadeesan, Sachin Kumar, John Wieting, Yulia Tsvetkov

Vyākarana: A Colorless Green Benchmark for Syntactic Evaluation in Indic Languages

Rajaswa Patil, Jasleen Dhillon, Siddhant Mahurkar, Saumitra Kulkarni, Manav Malhotra

VisualSem: a high-quality knowledge graph for vision and language

Houda Alberts, Ningyuan Huang, Yash Deshpande, Yibo Liu, Kyunghyun Cho

Mr. TyDi: A Multi-lingual Benchmark for Dense Retrieval

Xinyu Zhang, Xueguang Ma, Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin

Small Data? No Problem! Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages

Kelechi Ogueji, Yuxin Zhu, Jimmy Lin

On the Cross-lingual Transferability of Contextualized Sense Embeddings

Kiamehr Rezaee, Daniel Loureiro, Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Identifying the Importance of Content Overlap for Better Cross-lingual Embedding Mappings

Réka Cserháti, Gábor Berend

Analyzing the Effects of Reasoning Types on Cross-Lingual Transfer Performance

Karthikeyan K, Aalok Sathe, Somak Aditya, Monojit Choudhury

Multilingual and Multilabel Emotion Recognition using Virtual Adversarial Training

Vikram Gupta

Learning Cross-lingual Representations for Event Coreference Resolution with Multi-view Alignment and Optimal Transport

Duy Phung, Hieu Minh Tran, Minh Van Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen

Specializing Multilingual Language Models: An Empirical Study

Ethan C. Chau, Noah A. Smith

Do not neglect related languages: The case of low-resource Occitan cross-lingual word embeddings

Lisa Woller, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser

Clustering Monolingual Vocabularies to Improve Cross-Lingual Generalization

Riccardo Bassani, Anders Søgaard, Tejaswini Deoskar

Learning Contextualised Cross-lingual Word Embeddings and Alignments for Extremely Low-Resource Languages Using Parallel Corpora

Takashi Wada, Tomoharu Iwata, Yuji Matsumoto, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau

Language Models are Few-shot Multilingual Learners

Genta Indra Winata, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Rosanne Liu, Jason Yosinski