EMNLP 2021

1,847 papers

Semantic Alignment with Calibrated Similarity for Multilingual Sentence Embedding

Jiyeon Ham, Eun-Sol Kim

An Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Jinchao Zhang, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

Towards Developing a Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering System by Knowledge Distillation

Humair Raj Khan, Deepak Gupta, Asif Ekbal

“Let Your Characters Tell Their Story”: A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understanding

Faeze Brahman, Meng Huang, Oyvind Tafjord, Chao Zhao, Mrinmaya Sachan

APGN: Adversarial and Parameter Generation Networks for Multi-Source Cross-Domain Dependency Parsing

Ying Li, Meishan Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Zhefeng Wang

When in Doubt: Improving Classification Performance with Alternating Normalization

Menglin Jia, Austin Reiter, Ser-Nam Lim, Yoav Artzi, Claire Cardie

Sent2Span: Span Detection for PICO Extraction in the Biomedical Text without Span Annotations

Shifeng Liu, Yifang Sun, Bing Li, Wei Wang, Florence T. Bourgeois

Optimal Neural Program Synthesis from Multimodal Specifications

Xi Ye, Qiaochu Chen, Isil Dillig, Greg Durrett

TIAGE: A Benchmark for Topic-Shift Aware Dialog Modeling

Huiyuan Xie, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Zhiyuan Liu, Ann Copestake

Improving Dialogue State Tracking with Turn-based Loss Function and Sequential Data Augmentation

Jarana Manotumruksa, Jeff Dalton, Edgar Meij, Emine Yilmaz

Conical Classification For Efficient One-Class Topic Determination

Sameer Khanna

Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource Abstractive Summarization

Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman, Mohamed Elaraby

Char2Subword: Extending the Subword Embedding Space Using Robust Character Compositionality

Gustavo Aguilar, Bryan McCann, Tong Niu, Nazneen Rajani, Nitish Shirish Keskar

BERT might be Overkill: A Tiny but Effective Biomedical Entity Linker based on Residual Convolutional Neural Networks

Tuan Lai, Heng Ji, ChengXiang Zhai

Learning from Language Description: Low-shot Named Entity Recognition via Decomposed Framework

Yaqing Wang, Haoda Chu, Chao Zhang, Jing Gao

ProtoInfoMax: Prototypical Networks with Mutual Information Maximization for Out-of-Domain Detection

Iftitahu Nimah, Meng Fang, Vlado Menkovski, Mykola Pechenizkiy

Profiling News Discourse Structure Using Explicit Subtopic Structures Guided Critics

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang

HypoGen: Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledge

Yufei Tian, Arvind krishna Sridhar, Nanyun Peng

Rethinking Sentiment Style Transfer

Ping Yu, Yang Zhao, Chunyuan Li, Changyou Chen

A Conditional Generative Matching Model for Multi-lingual Reply Suggestion

Budhaditya Deb, Guoqing Zheng, Milad Shokouhi, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization

Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Shashi Narayan, Verena Rieser, Ioannis Konstas

Entity-Based Semantic Adequacy for Data-to-Text Generation

Juliette Faille, Albert Gatt, Claire Gardent

Cross-lingual Transfer for Text Classification with Dictionary-based Heterogeneous Graph

Nuttapong Chairatanakul, Noppayut Sriwatanasakdi, Nontawat Charoenphakdee, Xin Liu, Tsuyoshi Murata

Don’t Miss the Potential Customers! Retrieving Similar Ads to Improve User Targeting

Yi Feng, Ting Wang, Chuanyi Li, Vincent Ng, Jidong Ge

SciXGen: A Scientific Paper Dataset for Context-Aware Text Generation

Hong Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Hideki Nakayama

An Edge-Enhanced Hierarchical Graph-to-Tree Network for Math Word Problem Solving

Qinzhuo Wu, Qi Zhang, zhongyu wei

Topic-Guided Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization

Peng Cui, Le Hu

Mapping Language to Programs using Multiple Reward Components with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

Uni-FedRec: A Unified Privacy-Preserving News Recommendation Framework for Model Training and Online Serving

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie

EfficientBERT: Progressively Searching Multilayer Perceptron via Warm-up Knowledge Distillation

Chenhe Dong, Guangrun Wang, Hang Xu, jiefeng peng, Xiaozhe Ren

Inconsistency Matters: A Knowledge-guided Dual-inconsistency Network for Multi-modal Rumor Detection

Mengzhu Sun, Xi Zhang, Jianqiang Ma, Yazheng Liu

Modeling Concentrated Cross-Attention for Neural Machine Translation with Gaussian Mixture Model

Shaolei Zhang, Yang Feng

EventKE: Event-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Embedding

Zixuan Zhang, Hongwei Wang, Han Zhao, Hanghang Tong, Heng Ji

End-to-end Neural Information Status Classification

Yufang Hou

Constructing contrastive samples via summarization for text classification with limited annotations

Yangkai Du, Tengfei Ma, Lingfei Wu, Fangli Xu, Xuhong Zhang

A Finer-grain Universal Dialogue Semantic Structures based Model For Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

Yuejie Lei, Fujia Zheng, Yuanmeng Yan, Keqing He, Weiran Xu

Generalization in Text-based Games via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Yunqiu Xu, Meng Fang, Ling Chen, Yali Du, Chengqi Zhang

Self Question-answering: Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis by Role Flipped Machine Reading Comprehension

Guoxin Yu, Jiwei Li, Ling Luo, Yuxian Meng, Xiang Ao

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation: Can Linguistic Hierarchies Help?

Fahimeh Saleh, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari, Lan Du

EDTC: A Corpus for Discourse-Level Topic Chain Parsing

Longyin Zhang, Xin Tan, Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou

Improving End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog System with A Simple Auxiliary Task

Yohan Lee

Combining Curriculum Learning and Knowledge Distillation for Dialogue Generation

Qingqing Zhu, Xiuying Chen, Pengfei Wu, Junfei Liu, Dongyan Zhao

CVAE-based Re-anchoring for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification

Zujun Dou, Yu Hong, Yu Sun, Guodong Zhou

Which is Making the Contribution: Modulating Unimodal and Cross-modal Dynamics for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Ying Zeng, Sijie Mai, Haifeng Hu

ArabicTransformer: Efficient Large Arabic Language Model with Funnel Transformer and ELECTRA Objective

Sultan Alrowili, K. Vijay-Shanker

TWT: Table with Written Text for Controlled Data-to-Text Generation

Tongliang Li, Lei Fang, Jian-Guang Lou, Zhoujun Li

Topic-Aware Contrastive Learning for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

Junpeng Liu, Yanyan Zou, Hainan Zhang, Hongshen Chen, Zhuoye Ding

An unsupervised framework for tracing textual sources of moral change

Aida Ramezani, Zining Zhu, Frank Rudzicz, Yang Xu

Past, Present, and Future: Conversational Emotion Recognition through Structural Modeling of Psychological Knowledge

Jiangnan Li, Zheng Lin, Peng Fu, Weiping Wang

Simulated Chats for Building Dialog Systems: Learning to Generate Conversations from Instructions

Biswesh Mohapatra, Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi

Learning and Evaluating a Differentially Private Pre-trained Language Model

Shlomo Hoory, Amir Feder, Avichai Tendler, Sofia Erell, Alon Peled-Cohen

Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE - Bias Annotations By Experts

Timo Spinde, Manuel Plank, Jan-David Krieger, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Winnowing Knowledge for Multi-choice Question Answering

Yeqiu Li, Bowei Zou, Zhifeng Li, Ai Ti Aw, Yu Hong

Exploiting Reasoning Chains for Multi-hop Science Question Answering

Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Huihui Zhang, Deng Cai, Wai Lam

Learning to Answer Psychological Questionnaire for Personality Detection

Feifan Yang, Tao Yang, Xiaojun Quan, Qinliang Su

Improving Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Hierarchical Pretraining and Topic Segment

MengNan Qi, Hao Liu, Yuzhuo Fu, Ting Liu

Effectiveness of Pre-training for Few-shot Intent Classification

Haode Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Li-Ming Zhan, JIAXIN CHEN, Guangyuan SHI

Less Is More: Domain Adaptation with Lottery Ticket for Reading Comprehension

Haichao Zhu, Zekun Wang, Heng Zhang, Ming Liu, Sendong Zhao

KERS: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Recommendation Dialog Systems with Multiple Subgoals

Jun Zhang, yan yang, Chencai Chen, Liang He, Zhou Yu

Learning to Ground Visual Objects for Visual Dialog

Feilong Chen, Xiuyi Chen, Can Xu, Daxin Jiang

Entity-level Cross-modal Learning Improves Multi-modal Machine Translation

Xin Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

Diversity and Consistency: Exploring Visual Question-Answer Pair Generation

Sen Yang, Qingyu Zhou, Dawei Feng, Yang Liu, CHAO LI

Exploring Decomposition for Table-based Fact Verification

Xiaoyu Yang, Xiaodan Zhu

Towards Document-Level Paraphrase Generation with Sentence Rewriting and Reordering

Zhe Lin, Yitao Cai, Xiaojun Wan

Compositional Generalization via Semantic Tagging

Hao Zheng, Mirella Lapata

CNNBiF: CNN-based Bigram Features for Named Entity Recognition

Chul Sung, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Steven Rennie, David Nahamoo

Task-adaptive Pre-training and Self-training are Complementary for Natural Language Understanding

Shiyang Li, Semih Yavuz, Wenhu Chen, Xifeng Yan

Structured abbreviation expansion in context

Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat

When Retriever-Reader Meets Scenario-Based Multiple-Choice Questions

Zixian Huang, Ao Wu, Yulin Shen, Gong Cheng, Yuzhong Qu

Calibrate your listeners! Robust communication-based training for pragmatic speakers

Rose Wang, Julia White, Jesse Mu, Noah Goodman

To Protect and To Serve? Analyzing Entity-Centric Framing of Police Violence

Caleb Ziems, Diyi Yang

Towards Improving Adversarial Training of NLP Models

Jin Yong Yoo, Yanjun Qi

Robust Fragment-Based Framework for Cross-lingual Sentence Retrieval

Nattapol Trijakwanich, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Raheem Sarwar, Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Exploiting Curriculum Learning in Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

Jinliang Lu, Jiajun Zhang

Leveraging Word-Formation Knowledge for Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation

Hua Zheng, Lei Li, Damai Dai, Deli Chen, Tianyu Liu

Few-Shot Table-to-Text Generation with Prototype Memory

Yixuan Su, Zaiqiao Meng, Simon Baker, Nigel Collier

Plan-then-Generate: Controlled Data-to-Text Generation via Planning

Yixuan Su, David Vandyke, Sihui Wang, Yimai Fang, Nigel Collier

Discovering Representation Sprachbund For Multilingual Pre-Training

Yimin Fan, Yaobo Liang, Alexandre Muzio, Hany Hassan, Houqiang Li

What Does Your Smile Mean? Jointly Detecting Multi-Modal Sarcasm and Sentiment Using Quantum Probability

Yaochen Liu, Yazhou Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang, Dawei Song

R2-D2: A Modular Baseline for Open-Domain Question Answering

Martin Fajcik, Martin Docekal, Karel Ondrej, Pavel Smrz

Knowledge-Guided Paraphrase Identification

Haoyu Wang, Fenglong Ma, Yaqing Wang, Jing Gao

Probing Across Time: What Does RoBERTa Know and When?

Leo Z. Liu, Yizhong Wang, Jungo Kasai, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith

Improving Empathetic Response Generation by Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations

Jun Gao, Yuhan Liu, Haolin Deng, Wei Wang, Yu Cao

An Uncertainty-Aware Encoder for Aspect Detection

Thi-Nhung Nguyen, Kiem-Hieu Nguyen, Young-In Song, Tuan-Dung Cao

Recall and Learn: A Memory-augmented Solver for Math Word Problems

Shifeng Huang, Jiawei Wang, Jiao Xu, Da Cao, Ming Yang

Learning Hard Retrieval Decoder Attention for Transformers

Hongfei Xu, Qiuhui Liu, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong

Recommend for a Reason: Unlocking the Power of Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Co-Extraction

Zeyu Li, Wei Cheng, Reema Kshetramade, John Houser, Haifeng Chen

How to Select One Among All ? An Empirical Study Towards the Robustness of Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Understanding

Tianda Li, Ahmad Rashid, Aref Jafari, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi

An Analysis of Euclidean vs. Graph-Based Framing for Bilingual Lexicon Induction from Word Embedding Spaces

Kelly Marchisio, Youngser Park, Ali Saad-Eldin, Anton Alyakin, Kevin Duh

Efficient Test Time Adapter Ensembling for Low-resource Language Varieties

Xinyi Wang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Sebastian Ruder, Graham Neubig

Learn Continually, Generalize Rapidly: Lifelong Knowledge Accumulation for Few-shot Learning

Xisen Jin, Bill Yuchen Lin, Mohammad Rostami, Xiang Ren

Rethinking Why Intermediate-Task Fine-Tuning Works

Ting-Yun Chang, Chi-Jen Lu

How Suitable Are Subword Segmentation Strategies for Translating Non-Concatenative Morphology?

Chantal Amrhein, Rico Sennrich

TSDAE: Using Transformer-based Sequential Denoising Auto-Encoderfor Unsupervised Sentence Embedding Learning

Kexin Wang, Nils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych

Stream-level Latency Evaluation for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Jorge Civera Saiz, Alfons Juan

FANATIC: FAst Noise-Aware TopIc Clustering

Ari Silburt, Anja Subasic, Evan Thompson, Carmeline Dsilva, Tarec Fares

Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society

Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Alex Nikolov

Saliency-based Multi-View Mixed Language Training for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Classification

Siyu Lai, Hui Huang, Dong Jing, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

Detecting Compositionally Out-of-Distribution Examples in Semantic Parsing

Denis Lukovnikov, Sina Däubener, Asja Fischer

Casting the Same Sentiment Classification Problem

Erik Körner, Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Gerhard Heyer, Martin Potthast