EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

MeLT: Message-Level Transformer with Masked Document Representations as Pre-Training for Stance Detection

Matthew Matero, Nikita Soni, Niranjan Balasubramanian, H. Andrew Schwartz

A Discourse-Aware Graph Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Multi-Party Conversation

Yang Sun, Nan Yu, Guohong Fu

Hyperbolic Hierarchy-Aware Knowledge Graph Embedding for Link Prediction

Zhe Pan, Peng Wang

Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Acceptability Judgments with the Italian CoLA corpus

Daniela Trotta, Raffaele Guarasci, Elisa Leonardelli, Sara Tonelli

KFCNet: Knowledge Filtering and Contrastive Learning for Generative Commonsense Reasoning

Haonan Li, Yeyun Gong, Jian Jiao, Ruofei Zhang, Timothy Baldwin

Lexicon-Based Graph Convolutional Network for Chinese Word Segmentation

Kaiyu Huang, Hao Yu, Junpeng Liu, Wei Liu, Jingxiang Cao

On the Complementarity between Pre-Training and Back-Translation for Neural Machine Translation

Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao

Minimizing Annotation Effort via Max-Volume Spectral Sampling

Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras

Knowledge-Interactive Network with Sentiment Polarity Intensity-Aware Multi-Task Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Yunhe Xie, Kailai Yang, Chengjie Sun, Bingquan Liu, Zhenzhou Ji

Adapting Language Models for Zero-shot Learning by Meta-tuning on Dataset and Prompt Collections

Ruiqi Zhong, Kristy Lee, Zheng Zhang, Dan Klein

Automatic Discrimination between Inherited and Borrowed Latin Words in Romance Languages

Alina Maria Cristea, Liviu P. Dinu, Simona Georgescu, Mihnea-Lucian Mihai, Ana Sabina Uban

“Be nice to your wife! The restaurants are closed”: Can Gender Stereotype Detection Improve Sexism Classification?

Patricia Chiril, Farah Benamara, Véronique Moriceau

Progressive Transformer-Based Generation of Radiology Reports

Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Nicolas Perez Gonzalez, Thomas Frauenfelder, Koji Fujimoto, Michael Krauthammer

Counter-Interference Adapter for Multilingual Machine Translation

Yaoming Zhu, Jiangtao Feng, Chengqi Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Analysis of Language Change in Collaborative Instruction Following

Anna Effenberger, Rhia Singh, Eva Yan, Alane Suhr, Yoav Artzi

Open-Domain Contextual Link Prediction and its Complementarity with Entailment Graphs

Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Shay B. Cohen, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman

Multilingual AMR Parsing with Noisy Knowledge Distillation

Deng Cai, Xin Li, Jackie Chun-Sing Ho, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Wav-BERT: Cooperative Acoustic and Linguistic Representation Learning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Guolin Zheng, Yubei Xiao, Ke Gong, Pan Zhou, Xiaodan Liang

A Comprehensive Comparison of Word Embeddings in Event & Entity Coreference Resolution.

Judicael Poumay, Ashwin Ittoo

AEDA: An Easier Data Augmentation Technique for Text Classification

Akbar Karimi, Leonardo Rossi, Andrea Prati

Multilingual Translation via Grafting Pre-trained Language Models

Zewei Sun, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization

Md Rizwan Parvez, Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang

Improving Numerical Reasoning Skills in the Modular Approach for Complex Question Answering on Text

Xiao-Yu Guo, Yuan-Fang Li, Gholamreza Haffari

Adversarial Examples for Evaluating Math Word Problem Solvers

Vivek Kumar, Rishabh Maheshwary, Vikram Pudi

DialogueTRM: Exploring Multi-Modal Emotional Dynamics in a Conversation

Yuzhao Mao, Guang Liu, Xiaojie Wang, Weiguo Gao, Xuan Li

Controlled Neural Sentence-Level Reframing of News Articles

Wei-Fan Chen, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth

Cross-Lingual Leveled Reading Based on Language-Invariant Features

Simin Rao, Hua Zheng, Sujian Li

Patterns of Polysemy and Homonymy in Contextualised Language Models

Janosch Haber, Massimo Poesio

CDLM: Cross-Document Language Modeling

Avi Caciularu, Arman Cohan, Iz Beltagy, Matthew Peters, Arie Cattan

Subword Mapping and Anchoring across Languages

Giorgos Vernikos, Andrei Popescu-Belis

CodeQA: A Question Answering Dataset for Source Code Comprehension

Chenxiao Liu, Xiaojun Wan

Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing by Learning from Mistakes

Jiaqi Guo, Jian-Guang Lou, Ting Liu, Dongmei Zhang

Learning Numeracy: A Simple Yet Effective Number Embedding Approach Using Knowledge Graph

Hanyu Duan, Yi Yang, Kar Yan Tam

Named Entity Recognition for Entity Linking: What Works and What’s Next

Simone Tedeschi, Simone Conia, Francesco Cecconi, Roberto Navigli

Uncovering the Limits of Text-based Emotion Detection

Nurudin Alvarez-Gonzalez, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicenç Gómez

Probing Pre-trained Language Models for Semantic Attributes and their Values

Meriem Beloucif, Chris Biemann

Classification and Geotemporal Analysis of Quality-of-Life Issues in Tenant Reviews

Adam Haber, Zeev Waks

Beyond Grammatical Error Correction: Improving L1-influenced research writing in English using pre-trained encoder-decoder models

Gustavo Zomer, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

WikiNEuRal: Combined Neural and Knowledge-based Silver Data Creation for Multilingual NER

Simone Tedeschi, Valentino Maiorca, Niccolò Campolungo, Francesco Cecconi, Roberto Navigli

Novel Natural Language Summarization of Program Code via Leveraging Multiple Input Representations

Fuxiang Chen, Mijung Kim, Jaegul Choo

Informed Sampling for Diversity in Concept-to-Text NLG

Giulio Zhou, Gerasimos Lampouras

Competence-based Curriculum Learning for Multilingual Machine Translation

Mingliang Zhang, Fandong Meng, Yunhai Tong, Jie Zhou

Collecting a Large-Scale Gender Bias Dataset for Coreference Resolution and Machine Translation

Shahar Levy, Koren Lazar, Gabriel Stanovsky

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models

Johannes Welbl, Amelia Glaese, Jonathan Uesato, Sumanth Dathathri, John Mellor

Give the Truth: Incorporate Semantic Slot into Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

Lulu Zhao, Weihao Zeng, Weiran Xu, Jun Guo

Attention-based Contrastive Learning for Winograd Schemas

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

Skim-Attention: Learning to Focus via Document Layout

Laura Nguyen, Thomas Scialom, Jacopo Staiano, Benjamin Piwowarski

Temporal Adaptation of BERT and Performance on Downstream Document Classification: Insights from Social Media

Paul Röttger, Janet Pierrehumbert

Wine is not v i n. On the Compatibility of Tokenizations across Languages

Antonis Maronikolakis, Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze

REBEL: Relation Extraction By End-to-end Language generation

Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Roberto Navigli

Refining BERT Embeddings for Document Hashing via Mutual Information Maximization

Zijing Ou, Qinliang Su, Jianxing Yu, Ruihui Zhao, Yefeng Zheng

What If Sentence-hood is Hard to Define: A Case Study in Chinese Reading Comprehension

Jiawei Wang, Hai Zhao, Yinggong Zhao, Libin Shen

RollingLDA: An Update Algorithm of Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Construct Consistent Time Series from Textual Data

Jonas Rieger, Carsten Jentsch, Jörg Rahnenführer

GiBERT: Enhancing BERT with Linguistic Information using a Lightweight Gated Injection Method

Nicole Peinelt, Marek Rei, Maria Liakata

A Neural Graph-based Local Coherence Model

Mohsen Mesgar, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Iryna Gurevych

Enhancing Dual-Encoders with Question and Answer Cross-Embeddings for Answer Retrieval

Yanmeng Wang, Jun Bai, Ye Wang, Jianfei Zhang, Wenge Rong

UniteD-SRL: A Unified Dataset for Span- and Dependency-Based Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Labeling

Rocco Tripodi, Simone Conia, Roberto Navigli

MIRTT: Learning Multimodal Interaction Representations from Trilinear Transformers for Visual Question Answering

Junjie Wang, Yatai Ji, Jiaqi Sun, Yujiu Yang, Tetsuya Sakai

Generate & Rank: A Multi-task Framework for Math Word Problems

Jianhao Shen, Yichun Yin, Lin Li, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang

Attribute Alignment: Controlling Text Generation from Pre-trained Language Models

Dian Yu, Zhou Yu, Kenji Sagae

Context-aware Entity Typing in Knowledge Graphs

Weiran Pan, Wei Wei, Xian-Ling Mao

GPT3Mix: Leveraging Large-scale Language Models for Text Augmentation

Kang Min Yoo, Dongju Park, Jaewook Kang, Sang-Woo Lee, Woomyoung Park

Leveraging Bidding Graphs for Advertiser-Aware Relevance Modeling in Sponsored Search

Shuxian Bi, Chaozhuo Li, Xiao Han, Zheng Liu, Xing Xie

Geo-BERT Pre-training Model for Query Rewriting in POI Search

Xiao Liu, Juan Hu, Qi Shen, Huan Chen

Is BERT a Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Learner? A Surprising Finding of Pre-trained Models’ Transferability

Wei-Tsung Kao, Hung-yi Lee

SideControl: Controlled Open-domain Dialogue Generation via Additive Side Networks

Wanyu Du, Yangfeng Ji

Devil’s Advocate: Novel Boosting Ensemble Method from Psychological Findings for Text Classification

Hwiyeol Jo, Jaeseo Lim, Byoung-tak Zhang

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Method with Semantic-Structural Alignment for Dependency Parsing

Boda Lin, Mingzheng Li, Si Li, Yong Luo

Speaker Turn Modeling for Dialogue Act Classification

Zihao He, Leili Tavabi, Kristina Lerman, Mohammad Soleymani

proScript: Partially Ordered Scripts Generation

Keisuke Sakaguchi, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Niket Tandon, Peter Clark

Re-entry Prediction for Online Conversations via Self-Supervised Learning

Lingzhi Wang, Xingshan Zeng, Huang Hu, Kam-Fai Wong, Daxin Jiang

GenerativeRE: Incorporating a Novel Copy Mechanism and Pretrained Model for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

Jiarun Cao, Sophia Ananiadou

Detecting Polarized Topics Using Partisanship-aware Contextualized Topic Embeddings

Zihao He, Negar Mokhberian, António Câmara, Andres Abeliuk, Kristina Lerman

On the Effects of Transformer Size on In- and Out-of-Domain Calibration

Soham Dan, Dan Roth

Are Factuality Checkers Reliable? Adversarial Meta-evaluation of Factuality in Summarization

Yiran Chen, Pengfei Liu, Xipeng Qiu

Compositional Data and Task Augmentation for Instruction Following

Soham Dan, Xinran Han, Dan Roth

Few-Shot Novel Concept Learning for Semantic Parsing

Soham Dan, Osbert Bastani, Dan Roth

Self- and Pseudo-self-supervised Prediction of Speaker and Key-utterance for Multi-party Dialogue Reading Comprehension

YiYang Li, Hai Zhao

Mitigating Data Scarceness through Data Synthesis, Augmentation and Curriculum for Abstractive Summarization

Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman

Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward

Say ‘YES’ to Positivity: Detecting Toxic Language in Workplace Communications

Meghana Moorthy Bhat, Saghar Hosseini, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Paul Bennett, Weisheng Li

TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation

Adaku Uchendu, Zeyu Ma, Thai Le, Rui Zhang, Dongwon Lee

Retrieval, Analogy, and Composition: A framework for Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning

Zhan Shi, Hui LIU, Martin Renqiang Min, Christopher Malon, Li Erran Li

DIRECT: Direct and Indirect Responses in Conversational Text Corpus

Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase

Span Fine-tuning for Pre-trained Language Models

Rongzhou Bao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Retrieve, Discriminate and Rewrite: A Simple and Effective Framework for Obtaining Affective Response in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

Xin Lu, Yijian Tian, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin

An Explicit-Joint and Supervised-Contrastive Learning Framework for Few-Shot Intent Classification and Slot Filling

Han Liu, Feng Zhang, Xiaotong Zhang, Siyang Zhao, Xianchao Zhang

Grouped-Attention for Content-Selection and Content-Plan Generation

Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Xiaojie Wang, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Qingjun Cui

Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution Can Benefit from Parallel Texts Through Neural Transfer Learning

Masato Umakoshi, Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi

ContractNLI: A Dataset for Document-level Natural Language Inference for Contracts

Yuta Koreeda, Christopher Manning

Translation as Cross-Domain Knowledge: Attention Augmentation for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Segmenting and Labeling Tasks

Ruixuan Luo, Yi Zhang, Sishuo Chen, Xu Sun

Language Resource Efficient Learning for Captioning

Jia Chen, Yike Wu, Shiwan Zhao, Qin Jin

Span Pointer Networks for Non-Autoregressive Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing

Akshat Shrivastava, Pierce Chuang, Arun Babu, Shrey Desai, Abhinav Arora

RoR: Read-over-Read for Long Document Machine Reading Comprehension

Jing Zhao, Junwei Bao, Yifan Wang, Yongwei Zhou, Youzheng Wu

A Pretraining Numerical Reasoning Model for Ordinal Constrained Question Answering on Knowledge Base

Yu Feng, Jing Zhang, Gaole He, Wayne Xin Zhao, Lemao Liu

Enhancing Visual Dialog Questioner with Entity-based Strategy Learning and Augmented Guesser

Duo Zheng, Zipeng Xu, Fandong Meng, Xiaojie Wang, Jiaan Wang

Grounded Graph Decoding improves Compositional Generalization in Question Answering

Yu Gai, Paras Jain, Wendi Zhang, Joseph Gonzalez, Dawn Song

UnClE: Explicitly Leveraging Semantic Similarity to Reduce the Parameters of Word Embeddings

Zhi Li, Yuchen Zhai, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Kailiang Li

WIKIBIAS: Detecting Multi-Span Subjective Biases in Language

Yang Zhong, Jingfeng Yang, Wei Xu, Diyi Yang

fBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content

Diptanu Sarkar, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alexander Ororbia