NAACL 2021

941 papers

Query2Prod2Vec: Grounded Word Embeddings for eCommerce

Federico Bianchi, Jacopo Tagliabue, Bingqing Yu

Graph-based Multilingual Product Retrieval in E-Commerce Search

Hanqing Lu, Youna Hu, Tong Zhao, Tony Wu, Yiwei Song

Language Scaling for Universal Suggested Replies Model

Qianlan Ying, Payal Bajaj, Budhaditya Deb, Yu Yang, Wei Wang

An Emotional Comfort Framework for Improving User Satisfaction in E-Commerce Customer Service Chatbots

Shuangyong Song, Chao Wang, Haiqing Chen, Huan Chen

Practical Transformer-based Multilingual Text Classification

Cindy Wang, Michele Banko

LightSeq: A High Performance Inference Library for Transformers

Xiaohui Wang, Ying Xiong, Yang Wei, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Autocorrect in the Process of Translation — Multi-task Learning Improves Dialogue Machine Translation

Tao Wang, Chengqi Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li, Deyi Xiong

Should we find another model?: Improving Neural Machine Translation Performance with ONE-Piece Tokenization Method without Model Modification

Chanjun Park, Sugyeong Eo, Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim

Cross-lingual Supervision Improves Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

Mingxuan Wang, Hongxiao Bai, Hai Zhao, Lei Li

Addressing the Vulnerability of NMT in Input Perturbations

Weiwen Xu, Ai Ti Aw, Yang Ding, Kui Wu, Shafiq Joty

Proteno: Text Normalization with Limited Data for Fast Deployment in Text to Speech Systems

Shubhi Tyagi, Antonio Bonafonte, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Javier Latorre

A Hybrid Approach to Scalable and Robust Spoken Language Understanding in Enterprise Virtual Agents

Ryan Price, Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Narendra Gupta, Yeon-Jun Kim, Shahab Jalalvand

Continuous Model Improvement for Language Understanding with Machine Translation

Abdalghani Abujabal, Claudio Delli Bovi, Sungho Ryu, Turan Gojayev, Fabian Triefenbach

Bootstrapping a Music Voice Assistant with Weak Supervision

Sergio Oramas, Massimo Quadrana, Fabien Gouyon

Contextual Domain Classification with Temporal Representations

Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Yipeng Shi, Chentao Ye, Yang Fan, Weitong Ruan

Pretrain-Finetune Based Training of Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems in a Real-World Setting

Manisha Srivastava, Yichao Lu, Riley Peschon, Chenyang Li

Entity Resolution in Open-domain Conversations

Mingyue Shang, Tong Wang, Mihail Eric, Jiangning Chen, Jiyang Wang

Optimizing NLU Reranking Using Entity Resolution Signals in Multi-domain Dialog Systems

Tong Wang, Jiangning Chen, Mohsen Malmir, Shuyan Dong, XIN HE

Identifying and Resolving Annotation Changes for Natural Language Understanding

Jose Garrido Ramas, Giorgio Pessot, Abdalghani Abujabal, Martin Rajman

When does text prediction benefit from additional context? An exploration of contextual signals for chat and email messages

Stojan Trajanovski, Chad Atalla, Kunho Kim, Vipul Agarwal, Milad Shokouhi

Crowdsourcing Natural Language Data at Scale: A Hands-On Tutorial

Alexey Drutsa, Dmitry Ustalov, Valentina Fedorova, Olga Megorskaya, Daria Baidakova

Beyond Paragraphs: NLP for Long Sequences

Iz Beltagy, Arman Cohan, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Sewon Min, Matthew E. Peters

A Tutorial on Evaluation Metrics used in Natural Language Generation

Mitesh M. Khapra, Ananya B. Sai

Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing

Lingfei Wu, Yu Chen, Heng Ji, Yunyao Li

Fine-grained Interpretation and Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models

Hassan Sajjad, Narine Kokhlikyan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani

Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond

Andrew Yates, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin

Towards Multi-Modal Text-Image Retrieval to improve Human Reading

Florian Schneider, Özge Alaçam, Xintong Wang, Chris Biemann

Hie-BART: Document Summarization with Hierarchical BART

Kazuki Akiyama, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya

Emotion Classification in a Resource Constrained Language Using Transformer-based Approach

Avishek Das, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Iqbal H. Sarker

Sentence Concatenation Approach to Data Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Seiichiro Kondo, Kengo Hotate, Tosho Hirasawa, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi

Parallel sentences mining with transfer learning in an unsupervised setting

Yu Sun, Shaolin Zhu, Feng Yifan, Chenggang Mi

Comparison of Grammatical Error Correction Using Back-Translation Models

Aomi Koyama, Kengo Hotate, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi

Multi-Task Learning of Generation and Classification for Emotion-Aware Dialogue Response Generation

Tatsuya Ide, Daisuke Kawahara

Seed Word Selection for Weakly-Supervised Text Classification with Unsupervised Error Estimation

Yiping Jin, Akshay Bhatia, Dittaya Wanvarie

Morphology-Aware Meta-Embeddings for Tamil

Arjun Sai Krishnan, Seyoon Ragavan

Shuffled-token Detection for Refining Pre-trained RoBERTa

Subhadarshi Panda, Anjali Agrawal, Jeewon Ha, Benjamin Bloch

Exploration and Discovery of the COVID-19 Literature through Semantic Visualization

Jingxuan Tu, Marc Verhagen, Brent Cochran, James Pustejovsky

A Sliding-Window Approach to Automatic Creation of Meeting Minutes

Jia Jin Koay, Alexander Roustai, Xiaojin Dai, Fei Liu

Open-Domain Question Answering with Pre-Constructed Question Spaces

Jinfeng Xiao, Lidan Wang, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Tong Sun

Multi-Modal Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired

Hiba Ahsan, Daivat Bhatt, Kaivan Shah, Nikita Bhalla

Syntax-Based Attention Masking for Neural Machine Translation

Colin McDonald, David Chiang

Parallel Text Alignment and Monolingual Parallel Corpus Creation from Philosophical Texts for Text Simplification

Stefan Paun

Towards Layered Events and Schema Representations in Long Documents

Hans Ole Hatzel, Chris Biemann

Representations of Meaning in Neural Networks for NLP: a Thesis Proposal

Tomáš Musil

Negation typology and general representation models for cross-lingual zero-shot negation scope resolution in Russian, French, and Spanish.

Anastassia Shaitarova, Fabio Rinaldi

IceSum: An Icelandic Text Summarization Corpus

Jón Daðason, Hrafn Loftsson, Salome Sigurðardóttir, Þorsteinn Björnsson

Sampling and Filtering of Neural Machine Translation Distillation Data

Vilém Zouhar

MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri

RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System

Haoyang Wen, Ying Lin, Tuan Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Sha Li

Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Anish Acharya, Suranjit Adhikari, Sanchit Agarwal, Vincent Auvray, Nehal Belgamwar

Supporting Spanish Writers using Automated Feedback

Aoife Cahill, James Bruno, James Ramey, Gilmar Ayala Meneses, Ian Blood

TextEssence: A Tool for Interactive Analysis of Semantic Shifts Between Corpora

Denis Newman-Griffis, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Adam Perer, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Harry Hochheiser

ActiveAnno: General-Purpose Document-Level Annotation Tool with Active Learning Integration

Max Wiechmann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

Interactive Plot Manipulation using Natural Language

Yihan Wang, Yutong Shao, Ndapa Nakashole

Improving Evidence Retrieval for Automated Explainable Fact-Checking

Chris Samarinas, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee

Multifaceted Domain-Specific Document Embeddings

Julian Risch, Philipp Hager, Ralf Krestel

COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation

Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Xuan Wang, Nikolaus Parulian, Guangxing Han

EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiao Sun, Mu Yang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Nuan Wen

Robustness Gym: Unifying the NLP Evaluation Landscape

Karan Goel, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Jesse Vig, Zachary Taschdjian, Mohit Bansal

FITAnnotator: A Flexible and Intelligent Text Annotation System

Yanzeng Li, Bowen Yu, Li Quangang, Tingwen Liu

DiSCoL: Toward Engaging Dialogue Systems through Conversational Line Guided Response Generation

Sarik Ghazarian, Zixi Liu, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xuezhe Ma, Aram Galstyan

NAMER: A Node-Based Multitasking Framework for Multi-Hop Knowledge Base Question Answering

Minhao Zhang, Ruoyu Zhang, Lei Zou, Yinnian Lin, Sen Hu

Machine-Assisted Script Curation

Manuel Ciosici, Joseph Cummings, Mitchell DeHaven, Alex Hedges, Yash Kankanampati

PhoNLP: A joint multi-task learning model for Vietnamese part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing

Linh The Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen

ReinforceBug: A Framework to Generate Adversarial Textual Examples

Bushra Sabir, Muhammad Ali Babar, Raj Gaire

Inference Time Style Control for Summarization

Shuyang Cao, Lu Wang

Improving Faithfulness in Abstractive Summarization with Contrast Candidate Generation and Selection

Sihao Chen, Fan Zhang, Kazoo Sone, Dan Roth

MediaSum: A Large-scale Media Interview Dataset for Dialogue Summarization

Chenguang Zhu, Yang Liu, Jie Mei, Michael Zeng

MM-AVS: A Full-Scale Dataset for Multi-modal Summarization

Xiyan Fu, Jun Wang, Zhenglu Yang

QMSum: A New Benchmark for Query-based Multi-domain Meeting Summarization

Ming Zhong, Da Yin, Tao Yu, Ahmad Zaidi, Mutethia Mutuma

AdaptSum: Towards Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Abstractive Summarization

Tiezheng Yu, Zihan Liu, Pascale Fung

Sliding Selector Network with Dynamic Memory for Extractive Summarization of Long Documents

Peng Cui, Le Hu

Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation

Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang

Designing a Minimal Retrieve-and-Read System for Open-Domain Question Answering

Sohee Yang, Minjoon Seo

DAGN: Discourse-Aware Graph Network for Logical Reasoning

Yinya Huang, Meng Fang, Yu Cao, Liwei Wang, Xiaodan Liang

RocketQA: An Optimized Training Approach to Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

Yingqi Qu, Yuchen Ding, Jing Liu, Kai Liu, Ruiyang Ren

Improving Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for Multilingual Question Answering over Knowledge Graph

Yucheng Zhou, Xiubo Geng, Tao Shen, Wenqiang Zhang, Daxin Jiang

Breadth First Reasoning Graph for Multi-hop Question Answering

Yongjie Huang, Meng Yang

TR-BERT: Dynamic Token Reduction for Accelerating BERT Inference

Deming Ye, Yankai Lin, Yufei Huang, Maosong Sun

Machine Translated Text Detection Through Text Similarity with Round-Trip Translation

Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Tran Thao, Seira Hidano, Ishita Gupta, Shinsaku Kiyomoto

Context-aware Decoder for Neural Machine Translation using a Target-side Document-Level Language Model

Amane Sugiyama, Naoki Yoshinaga

Rethinking Perturbations in Encoder-Decoders for Fast Training

Sho Takase, Shun Kiyono

Training Data Augmentation for Code-Mixed Translation

Abhirut Gupta, Aditya Vavre, Sunita Sarawagi

Non-Autoregressive Translation by Learning Target Categorical Codes

Yu Bao, Shujian Huang, Tong Xiao, Dongqi Wang, Xinyu Dai

Generative Imagination Elevates Machine Translation

Quanyu Long, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter

Tulika Saha, Apoorva Upadhyaya, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

SGG: Learning to Select, Guide, and Generate for Keyphrase Generation

Jing Zhao, Junwei Bao, Yifan Wang, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He

Multi-Grained Knowledge Distillation for Named Entity Recognition

Xuan Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Chenyang Tao, Junya Chen, Bing Xu

Jointly Extracting Explicit and Implicit Relational Triples with Reasoning Pattern Enhanced Binary Pointer Network

Yubo Chen, Yunqi Zhang, Changran Hu, Yongfeng Huang

Open Hierarchical Relation Extraction

Kai Zhang, Yuan Yao, Ruobing Xie, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu

RTFE: A Recursive Temporal Fact Embedding Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Youri Xu, Haihong E, Meina Song, Wenyu Song, Xiaodong Lv

Measuring the ‘I don’t know’ Problem through the Lens of Gricean Quantity

Huda Khayrallah, João Sedoc

Hierarchical Transformer for Task Oriented Dialog Systems

Bishal Santra, Potnuru Anusha, Pawan Goyal

Leveraging Slot Descriptions for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue StateTracking

Zhaojiang Lin, Bing Liu, Seungwhan Moon, Paul Crook, Zhenpeng Zhou

Adversarial Self-Supervised Learning for Out-of-Domain Detection

Zhiyuan Zeng, Keqing He, Yuanmeng Yan, Hong Xu, Weiran Xu

Augmenting Knowledge-grounded Conversations with Sequential Knowledge Transition

Haolan Zhan, Hainan Zhang, Hongshen Chen, Zhuoye Ding, Yongjun Bao

Unsupervised Concept Representation Learning for Length-Varying Text Similarity

Xuchao Zhang, Bo Zong, Wei Cheng, Jingchao Ni, Yanchi Liu

NL-EDIT: Correcting Semantic Parse Errors through Natural Language Interaction

Ahmed Elgohary, Christopher Meek, Matthew Richardson, Adam Fourney, Gonzalo Ramos

AMR Parsing with Action-Pointer Transformer

Jiawei Zhou, Tahira Naseem, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Radu Florian

Contextualized and Generalized Sentence Representations by Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning: A Case Study on Discourse Relation Analysis

Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Sadao Kurohashi