EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

HyperExpan: Taxonomy Expansion with Hyperbolic Representation Learning

Mingyu Derek Ma, Muhao Chen, Te-Lin Wu, Nanyun Peng

Detect and Perturb: Neutral Rewriting of Biased and Sensitive Text via Gradient-based Decoding

Zexue He, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Julian McAuley

Textual Time Travel: A Temporally Informed Approach to Theory of Mind

Akshatha Arodi, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

NOAHQA: Numerical Reasoning with Interpretable Graph Question Answering Dataset

Qiyuan Zhang, Lei Wang, Sicheng Yu, Shuohang Wang, Yang Wang

Probing Commonsense Explanation in Dialogue Response Generation

Pei Zhou, Pegah Jandaghi, Hyundong Cho, Bill Yuchen Lin, Jay Pujara

ARCH: Efficient Adversarial Regularized Training with Caching

Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu

Attend, Memorize and Generate: Towards Faithful Table-to-Text Generation in Few Shots

Wenting Zhao, Ye Liu, Yao Wan, Philip Yu

Reconsidering the Past: Optimizing Hidden States in Language Models

Davis Yoshida, Kevin Gimpel

Leveraging Information Bottleneck for Scientific Document Summarization

Jiaxin Ju, Ming Liu, Huan Yee Koh, Yuan Jin, Lan Du

Subformer: Exploring Weight Sharing for Parameter Efficiency in Generative Transformers

Machel Reid, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yutaka Matsuo

How May I Help You? Using Neural Text Simplification to Improve Downstream NLP Tasks

Hoang Van, Zheng Tang, Mihai Surdeanu

Expected Validation Performance and Estimation of a Random Variable’s Maximum

Jesse Dodge, Suchin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith

Graph-Based Decoding for Task Oriented Semantic Parsing

Jeremy Cole, Nanjiang Jiang, Panupong Pasupat, Luheng He, Peter Shaw

Multi-task Learning to Enable Location Mention Identification in the Early Hours of a Crisis Event

Sarthak Khanal, Doina Caragea

Detecting Frames in News Headlines and Lead Images in U.S. Gun Violence Coverage

Isidora Tourni, Lei Guo, Taufiq Husada Daryanto, Fabian Zhafransyah, Edward Edberg Halim

Table-based Fact Verification With Salience-aware Learning

Fei Wang, Kexuan Sun, Jay Pujara, Pedro Szekely, Muhao Chen

NUANCED: Natural Utterance Annotation for Nuanced Conversation with Estimated Distributions

Zhiyu Chen, Honglei Liu, Hu Xu, Seungwhan Moon, Hao Zhou

Weakly Supervised Contrastive Learning for Chest X-Ray Report Generation

An Yan, Zexue He, Xing Lu, Jiang Du, Eric Chang

A Corpus-based Syntactic Analysis of Two-termed Unlike Coordination

Julie Kallini, Christiane Fellbaum

A Plug-and-Play Method for Controlled Text Generation

Damian Pascual, Beni Egressy, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell, Roger Wattenhofer

Benchmarking Meta-embeddings: What Works and What Does Not

Iker García-Ferrero, Rodrigo Agerri, German Rigau

From None to Severe: Predicting Severity in Movie Scripts

Yigeng Zhang, Mahsa Shafaei, Fabio Gonzalez, Thamar Solorio

Neural Unification for Logic Reasoning over Natural Language

Gabriele Picco, Thanh Lam Hoang, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez

Uncertainty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation

Taisiya Glushkova, Chrysoula Zerva, Ricardo Rei, André F. T. Martins

Using Optimal Transport as Alignment Objective for fine-tuning Multilingual Contextualized Embeddings

Sawsan Alqahtani, Garima Lalwani, Yi Zhang, Salvatore Romeo, Saab Mansour

Convex Aggregation for Opinion Summarization

Hayate Iso, Xiaolan Wang, Yoshihiko Suhara, Stefanos Angelidis, Wang-Chiew Tan

Contrastive Document Representation Learning with Graph Attention Networks

Peng Xu, Xinchi Chen, Xiaofei Ma, Zhiheng Huang, Bing Xiang

Uncovering Implicit Gender Bias in Narratives through Commonsense Inference

Tenghao Huang, Faeze Brahman, Vered Shwartz, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Parameter-Efficient Domain Knowledge Integration from Multiple Sources for Biomedical Pre-trained Language Models

Qiuhao Lu, Dejing Dou, Thien Huu Nguyen

Can NLI Models Verify QA Systems’ Predictions?

Jifan Chen, Eunsol Choi, Greg Durrett

Revisiting Robust Neural Machine Translation: A Transformer Case Study

Peyman Passban, Puneeth Saladi, Qun Liu

Searching for More Efficient Dynamic Programs

Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell, Jason Eisner

Towards Automatic Bias Detection in Knowledge Graphs

Daphna Keidar, Mian Zhong, Ce Zhang, Yash Raj Shrestha, Bibek Paudel

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Kurt Shuster, Spencer Poff, Moya Chen, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

Towards Realistic Single-Task Continuous Learning Research for NER

Justin Payan, Yuval Merhav, He Xie, Satyapriya Krishna, Anil Ramakrishna

Sequence-to-Lattice Models for Fast Translation

Yuntian Deng, Alexander Rush

LAMAD: A Linguistic Attentional Model for Arabic Text Diacritization

Raeed Al-Sabri, Jianliang Gao

ODIST: Open World Classification via Distributionally Shifted Instances

Lei Shu, Yassine Benajiba, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang

Adapting Entities across Languages and Cultures

Denis Peskov, Viktor Hangya, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Alexander Fraser

Distilling Knowledge for Empathy Detection

Mahshid Hosseini, Cornelia Caragea

Leveraging Pretrained Models for Automatic Summarization of Doctor-Patient Conversations

Longxiang Zhang, Renato Negrinho, Arindam Ghosh, Vasudevan Jagannathan, Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh

Post-Editing Extractive Summaries by Definiteness Prediction

Jad Kabbara, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

RelDiff: Enriching Knowledge Graph Relation Representations for Sensitivity Classification

Hitarth Narvala, Graham McDonald, Iadh Ounis

Token-wise Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen

Gated Transformer for Robust De-noised Sequence-to-Sequence Modelling

Ayan Sengupta, Amit Kumar, Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee, Suman Roy

Model-based analysis of brain activity reveals the hierarchy of language in 305 subjects

Charlotte Caucheteux, Alexandre Gramfort, Jean-Remi King

Unsupervised Chunking as Syntactic Structure Induction with a Knowledge-Transfer Approach

Anup Anand Deshmukh, Qianqiu Zhang, Ming Li, Jimmy Lin, Lili Mou

Generating Realistic Natural Language Counterfactuals

Marcel Robeer, Floris Bex, Ad Feelders

TAG: Gradient Attack on Transformer-based Language Models

Jieren Deng, Yijue Wang, Ji Li, Chenghong Wang, Chao Shang

Beyond Distillation: Task-level Mixture-of-Experts for Efficient Inference

Sneha Kudugunta, Yanping Huang, Ankur Bapna, Maxim Krikun, Dmitry Lepikhin

Do UD Trees Match Mention Spans in Coreference Annotations?

Martin Popel, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Anna Nedoluzhko, Michal Novák, Daniel Zeman

MSD: Saliency-aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Understanding

Woojeong Jin, Maziar Sanjabi, Shaoliang Nie, Liang Tan, Xiang Ren

Disentangling Generative Factors in Natural Language with Discrete Variational Autoencoders

Giangiacomo Mercatali, Andre Freitas

Exploring a Unified Sequence-To-Sequence Transformer for Medical Product Safety Monitoring in Social Media

Shivam Raval, Hooman Sedghamiz, Enrico Santus, Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad Ghassemi

Automatic Bilingual Markup Transfer

Thomas Zenkel, Joern Wuebker, John DeNero

Learning and Analyzing Generation Order for Undirected Sequence Models

Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims

Mourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Dina Demner-Fushman

A Computational Exploration of Pejorative Language in Social Media

Liviu P. Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Ana Sabina Uban, Marcos Zampieri

Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration

Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu

AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models

Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Edward Gow-Smith, Carolina Scarton, Aline Villavicencio

MURAL: Multimodal, Multitask Representations Across Languages

Aashi Jain, Mandy Guo, Krishna Srinivasan, Ting Chen, Sneha Kudugunta

Relation-Guided Pre-Training for Open-Domain Question Answering

Ziniu Hu, Yizhou Sun, Kai-Wei Chang

COSMic: A Coherence-Aware Generation Metric for Image Descriptions

Mert Inan, Piyush Sharma, Baber Khalid, Radu Soricut, Matthew Stone

mDAPT: Multilingual Domain Adaptive Pretraining in a Single Model

Rasmus Kær Jørgensen, Mareike Hartmann, Xiang Dai, Desmond Elliott

SupCL-Seq: Supervised Contrastive Learning for Downstream Optimized Sequence Representations

Hooman Sedghamiz, Shivam Raval, Enrico Santus, Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad Ghassemi

Detecting Community Sensitive Norm Violations in Online Conversations

Chan Young Park, Julia Mendelsohn, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Kinjal Jain, Tushar Kanakagiri

Modeling Users and Online Communities for Abuse Detection: A Position on Ethics and Explainability

Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina Shutova

Distilling the Knowledge of Large-scale Generative Models into Retrieval Models for Efficient Open-domain Conversation

Beomsu Kim, Seokjun Seo, Seungju Han, Enkhbayar Erdenee, Buru Chang

Coreference-aware Surprisal Predicts Brain Response

Evan Jaffe, Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler

Self-Supervised Neural Topic Modeling

Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Martin Jaggi, Carsten Eickhoff

Transformer over Pre-trained Transformer for Neural Text Segmentation with Enhanced Topic Coherence

Kelvin Lo, Yuan Jin, Weicong Tan, Ming Liu, Lan Du

The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource Machine Translation

Orevaoghene Ahia, Julia Kreutzer, Sara Hooker

SD-QA: Spoken Dialectal Question Answering for the Real World

Fahim Faisal, Sharlina Keshava, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos

NewsBERT: Distilling Pre-trained Language Model for Intelligent News Application

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Yang Yu, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang

Translate & Fill: Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Synthetic Data

Massimo Nicosia, Zhongdi Qu, Yasemin Altun

SentNoB: A Dataset for Analysing Sentiment on Noisy Bangla Texts

Khondoker Ittehadul Islam, Sudipta Kar, Md Saiful Islam, Mohammad Ruhul Amin

SciCap: Generating Captions for Scientific Figures

Ting-Yao Hsu, C Lee Giles, Ting-Hao Huang

An animated picture says at least a thousand words: Selecting Gif-based Replies in Multimodal Dialog

Xingyao Wang, David Jurgens

Sometimes We Want Ungrammatical Translations

Prasanna Parthasarathi, Koustuv Sinha, Joelle Pineau, Adina Williams

Bandits Don’t Follow Rules: Balancing Multi-Facet Machine Translation with Multi-Armed Bandits

Julia Kreutzer, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov

Does Pretraining for Summarization Require Knowledge Transfer?

Kundan Krishna, Jeffrey Bigham, Zachary C. Lipton

Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Assessing Coherence of Text Classifiers

Shane Storks, Joyce Chai

Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness

Zhenhao Li, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia

RW-KD: Sample-wise Loss Terms Re-Weighting for Knowledge Distillation

Peng Lu, Abbas Ghaddar, Ahmad Rashid, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Ali Ghodsi

Automatic rule generation for time expression normalization

Wentao Ding, Jianhao Chen, Jinmao Li, Yuzhong Qu

Constructing Emotional Consensus and Utilizing Unpaired Data for Empathetic Dialogue Generation

Lei Shen, Jinchao Zhang, Jiao Ou, Xiaofang Zhao, Jie Zhou

Unpacking the Interdependent Systems of Discrimination: Ableist Bias in NLP Systems through an Intersectional Lens

Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

Modeling Mathematical Notation Semantics in Academic Papers

Hwiyeol Jo, Dongyeop Kang, Andrew Head, Marti A. Hearst

Investigating Numeracy Learning Ability of a Text-to-Text Transfer Model

Kuntal Kumar Pal, Chitta Baral

Knowledge-Enhanced Evidence Retrieval for Counterargument Generation

Yohan Jo, Haneul Yoo, JinYeong Bak, Alice Oh, Chris Reed

Knowledge Representation Learning with Contrastive Completion Coding

Bo Ouyang, Wenbing Huang, Runfa Chen, Zhixing Tan, Yang Liu

Locality Preserving Sentence Encoding

Changrong Min, Yonghe Chu, Liang Yang, Bo Xu, Hongfei Lin

How Does Fine-tuning Affect the Geometry of Embedding Space: A Case Study on Isotropy

Sara Rajaee, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Improving Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Auxiliary Source Languages

Weijia Xu, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Haoyang Huang

Data Efficient Masked Language Modeling for Vision and Language

Yonatan Bitton, Michael Elhadad, Gabriel Stanovsky, Roy Schwartz

Eliminating Sentiment Bias for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification with Unsupervised Opinion Extraction

Bo Wang, Tao Shen, Guodong Long, Tianyi Zhou, Yi Chang

Argumentation-Driven Evidence Association in Criminal Cases

Yefei Teng, Wenhan Chao

Comparing learnability of two dependency schemes: ‘semantic’ (UD) and ‘syntactic’ (SUD)

Ryszard Tuora, Adam Przepiórkowski, Aleksander Leczkowski

Extract, Integrate, Compete: Towards Verification Style Reading Comprehension

Chen Zhang, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

LMSOC: An Approach for Socially Sensitive Pretraining

Vivek Kulkarni, Shubhanshu Mishra, Aria Haghighi