NAACL 2021

941 papers

COIL: Revisit Exact Lexical Match in Information Retrieval with Contextualized Inverted List

Luyu Gao, Zhuyun Dai, Jamie Callan

Controlling Dialogue Generation with Semantic Exemplars

Prakhar Gupta, Jeffrey Bigham, Yulia Tsvetkov, Amy Pavel

Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Derek Chen, Howard Chen, Yi Yang, Alexander Lin, Zhou Yu

Imperfect also Deserves Reward: Multi-Level and Sequential Reward Modeling for Better Dialog Management

Zhengxu Hou, Bang Liu, Ruihui Zhao, Zijing Ou, Yafei Liu

Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers

Shikib Mehri, Mihail Eric

Non-Autoregressive Semantic Parsing for Compositional Task-Oriented Dialog

Arun Babu, Akshat Shrivastava, Armen Aghajanyan, Ahmed Aly, Angela Fan

Bot-Adversarial Dialogue for Safe Conversational Agents

Jing Xu, Da JU, Margaret Li, Y-lan Boureau, Jason Weston

Learning Syntax from Naturally-Occurring Bracketings

Tianze Shi, Ozan Irsoy, Igor Malioutov, Lillian Lee

Outside Computation with Superior Functions

Parker Riley, Daniel Gildea

Supertagging-based Parsing with Linear Context-free Rewriting Systems

Thomas Ruprecht, Richard Mörbitz

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Type-aware Graph Convolutional Networks and Layer Ensemble

Yuanhe Tian, Guimin Chen, Yan Song

Emotion-Infused Models for Explainable Psychological Stress Detection

Elsbeth Turcan, Smaranda Muresan, Kathleen McKeown

Graph Ensemble Learning over Multiple Dependency Trees for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification

Xiaochen Hou, Peng Qi, Guangtao Wang, Rex Ying, Jing Huang

A Disentangled Adversarial Neural Topic Model for Separating Opinions from Plots in User Reviews

Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He

Multi-task Learning of Negation and Speculation for Targeted Sentiment Classification

Andrew Moore, Jeremy Barnes

Domain Adaptation for Arabic Cross-Domain and Cross-Dialect Sentiment Analysis from Contextualized Word Embedding

Abdellah El Mekki, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Ismail Berrada, Ahmed Khoumsi

Compositional Generalization for Neural Semantic Parsing via Span-level Supervised Attention

Pengcheng Yin, Hao Fang, Graham Neubig, Adam Pauls, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios

Incorporating External Knowledge to Enhance Tabular Reasoning

J. Neeraja, Vivek Gupta, Vivek Srikumar

Game-theoretic Vocabulary Selection via the Shapley Value and Banzhaf Index

Roma Patel, Marta Garnelo, Ian Gemp, Chris Dyer, Yoram Bachrach

FLIN: A Flexible Natural Language Interface for Web Navigation

Sahisnu Mazumder, Oriana Riva

Edge: Enriching Knowledge Graph Embeddings with External Text

Saed Rezayi, Handong Zhao, Sungchul Kim, Ryan Rossi, Nedim Lipka

Learning to Synthesize Data for Semantic Parsing

bailin wang, Wenpeng Yin, Xi Victoria Lin, Caiming Xiong

Learning from Executions for Semantic Parsing

bailin wang, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based Regularization

Yufan Huang, Yanzhe Zhang, Jiaao Chen, Xuezhi Wang, Diyi Yang

Learning to Decompose and Organize Complex Tasks

Yi Zhang, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Julia Kiseleva, Ryen White, Dan Roth

MUSER: MUltimodal Stress detection using Emotion Recognition as an Auxiliary Task

Yiqun Yao, Michalis Papakostas, Mihai Burzo, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea

Semantic Frame Forecast

Chieh-Yang Huang, Ting-Hao Huang

Cross-Lingual Word Embedding Refinement by ℓ1 Norm Optimisation

Xutan Peng, Chenghua Lin, Mark Stevenson

On the Embeddings of Variables in Recurrent Neural Networks for Source Code

Nadezhda Chirkova

Hyperparameter-free Continuous Learning for Domain Classification in Natural Language Understanding

Ting Hua, Yilin Shen, Changsheng Zhao, Yen-Chang Hsu, Hongxia Jin

Unified Pre-training for Program Understanding and Generation

Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang

Smoothing and Shrinking the Sparse Seq2Seq Search Space

Ben Peters, André F. T. Martins

Can Latent Alignments Improve Autoregressive Machine Translation?

Adi Haviv, Lior Vassertail, Omer Levy

How many data points is a prompt worth?

Teven Le Scao, Alexander Rush

Diversity-Aware Batch Active Learning for Dependency Parsing

Tianze Shi, Adrian Benton, Igor Malioutov, Ozan Irsoy

Variance-reduced First-order Meta-learning for Natural Language Processing Tasks

Lingxiao Wang, Kevin Huang, Tengyu Ma, Quanquan Gu, Jing Huang

Clustering-based Inference for Biomedical Entity Linking

Rico Angell, Nicholas Monath, Sunil Mohan, Nishant Yadav, Andrew McCallum

Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning

Tommaso Fornaciari, Alexandra Uma, Silviu Paun, Barbara Plank, Dirk Hovy

UDALM: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation through Language Modeling

Constantinos Karouzos, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Alexandros Potamianos

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion using a Linear Temporal Regularizer and Multivector Embeddings

Chengjin Xu, Yung-Yu Chen, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Jens Lehmann

A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios

Michael A. Hedderich, Lukas Lange, Heike Adel, Jannik Strötgen, Dietrich Klakow

KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks

Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Angela Fan, Patrick Lewis, Majid Yazdani

Challenging distributional models with a conceptual network of philosophical terms

Yvette Oortwijn, Jelke Bloem, Pia Sommerauer, Francois Meyer, Wei Zhou

WEC: Deriving a Large-scale Cross-document Event Coreference dataset from Wikipedia

Alon Eirew, Arie Cattan, Ido Dagan

From Masked Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding

Rob van der Goot, Ibrahim Sharaf, Aizhan Imankulova, Ahmet Üstün, Marija Stepanović

Video Question Answering with Phrases via Semantic Roles

Arka Sadhu, Kan Chen, Ram Nevatia

Multilingual Multimodal Pre-training for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer of Vision-Language Models

Po-Yao Huang, Mandela Patrick, Junjie Hu, Graham Neubig, Florian Metze

Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency

Adyasha Maharana, Darryl Hannan, Mohit Bansal

DeCEMBERT: Learning from Noisy Instructional Videos via Dense Captions and Entropy Minimization

Zineng Tang, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal

EaSe: A Diagnostic Tool for VQA based on Answer Diversity

Shailza Jolly, Sandro Pezzelle, Moin Nabi

HONEST: Measuring Hurtful Sentence Completion in Language Models

Debora Nozza, Federico Bianchi, Dirk Hovy

Detoxifying Language Models Risks Marginalizing Minority Voices

Albert Xu, Eshaan Pathak, Eric Wallace, Suchin Gururangan, Maarten Sap

Towards a Comprehensive Understanding and Accurate Evaluation of Societal Biases in Pre-Trained Transformers

Andrew Silva, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Matthew Gombolay

Rethinking Network Pruning – under the Pre-train and Fine-tune Paradigm

Dongkuan Xu, Ian En-Hsu Yen, Jinxi Zhao, Zhibin Xiao

Highly Efficient Knowledge Graph Embedding Learning with Orthogonal Procrustes Analysis

Xutan Peng, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin, Mark Stevenson

Static Embeddings as Efficient Knowledge Bases?

Philipp Dufter, Nora Kassner, Hinrich Schütze

It’s Not Just Size That Matters: Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners

Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze

Learning to Recognize Dialect Features

Dorottya Demszky, Devyani Sharma, Jonathan Clark, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Jacob Eisenstein

Lifelong Learning of Hate Speech Classification on Social Media

Jing Qian, Hong Wang, Mai ElSherief, Xifeng Yan

Introducing CAD: the Contextual Abuse Dataset

Bertie Vidgen, Dong Nguyen, Helen Margetts, Patricia Rossini, Rebekah Tromble

What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law

Josef Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Niklas Stoehr, Ryan Cotterell, Simone Teufel

Modeling the Severity of Complaints in Social Media

Mali Jin, Nikolaos Aletras

Modeling Framing in Immigration Discourse on Social Media

Julia Mendelsohn, Ceren Budak, David Jurgens

The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical change

Jian Zhu, David Jurgens

WikiTalkEdit: A Dataset for modeling Editors’ behaviors on Wikipedia

Kokil Jaidka, Andrea Ceolin, Iknoor Singh, Niyati Chhaya, Lyle Ungar

Suicide Ideation Detection via Social and Temporal User Representations using Hyperbolic Learning

Ramit Sawhney, Harshit Joshi, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Lucie Flek

Automatic Classification of Neutralization Techniques in the Narrative of Climate Change Scepticism

Shraey Bhatia, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin

Framing Unpacked: A Semi-Supervised Interpretable Multi-View Model of Media Frames

Shima Khanehzar, Trevor Cohn, Gosia Mikolajczak, Andrew Turpin, Lea Frermann

COVID-19 Named Entity Recognition for Vietnamese

Thinh Hung Truong, Mai Hoang Dao, Dat Quoc Nguyen

Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge

Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley

StylePTB: A Compositional Benchmark for Fine-grained Controllable Text Style Transfer

Yiwei Lyu, Paul Pu Liang, Hai Pham, Eduard Hovy, Barnabás Póczos

KPQA: A Metric for Generative Question Answering Using Keyphrase Weights

Hwanhee Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Trung Bui

WRIME: A New Dataset for Emotional Intensity Estimation with Subjective and Objective Annotations

Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Chenhui Chu, Noriko Takemura, Yuta Nakashima, Hajime Nagahara

Are NLP Models really able to Solve Simple Math Word Problems?

Arkil Patel, Satwik Bhattamishra, Navin Goyal

ASAP: A Chinese Review Dataset Towards Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis and Rating Prediction

Jiahao Bu, Lei Ren, Shuang Zheng, Yang Yang, Jingang Wang

DA-Transformer: Distance-aware Transformer

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Yongfeng Huang

Be Careful about Poisoned Word Embeddings: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Embedding Layers in NLP Models

Wenkai Yang, Lei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xuancheng Ren, Xu Sun

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Concept Prerequisite Relation Learning in Educational Data

Chenghao Jia, Yongliang Shen, Yechun Tang, Lu Sun, Weiming Lu

Masked Conditional Random Fields for Sequence Labeling

Tianwen Wei, Jianwei Qi, Shenghuan He, Songtao Sun

A Global Past-Future Early Exit Method for Accelerating Inference of Pre-trained Language Models

Kaiyuan Liao, Yi Zhang, Xuancheng Ren, Qi Su, Xu Sun

Model Extraction and Adversarial Transferability, Your BERT is Vulnerable!

Xuanli He, Lingjuan Lyu, Qiongkai Xu, Lichao Sun

Generating An Optimal Interview Question Plan Using A Knowledge Graph And Integer Linear Programming

Soham Datta, Prabir Mallick, Sangameshwar Patil, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Girish Palshikar

Active2 Learning: Actively reducing redundancies in Active Learning methods for Sequence Tagging and Machine Translation

Rishi Hazra, Parag Dutta, Shubham Gupta, Mohammed Abdul Qaathir, Ambedkar Dukkipati

Towards Few-shot Fact-Checking via Perplexity

Nayeon Lee, Yejin Bang, Andrea Madotto, Pascale Fung

Personalized Response Generation via Generative Split Memory Network

Yuwei Wu, Xuezhe Ma, Diyi Yang

Counterfactual Supporting Facts Extraction for Explainable Medical Record Based Diagnosis with Graph Network

Haoran Wu, Wei Chen, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Everything Has a Cause: Leveraging Causal Inference in Legal Text Analysis

Xiao Liu, Da Yin, Yansong Feng, Yuting Wu, Dongyan Zhao

Align-Refine: Non-Autoregressive Speech Recognition via Iterative Realignment

Ethan A. Chi, Julian Salazar, Katrin Kirchhoff

Worldly Wise (WoW) - Cross-Lingual Knowledge Fusion for Fact-based Visual Spoken-Question Answering

Kiran Ramnath, Leda Sari, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Chang Yoo

SPLAT: Speech-Language Joint Pre-Training for Spoken Language Understanding

Yu-An Chung, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng

Searchable Hidden Intermediates for End-to-End Models of Decomposable Sequence Tasks

Siddharth Dalmia, Brian Yan, Vikas Raunak, Florian Metze, Shinji Watanabe

Source and Target Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation for End-to-end Speech Translation

Hirofumi Inaguma, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end ASR to jointly predict transcriptions and linguistic annotations

Motoi Omachi, Yuya Fujita, Shinji Watanabe, Matthew Wiesner

Target-Aware Data Augmentation for Stance Detection

Yingjie Li, Cornelia Caragea

Domain Divergences: A Survey and Empirical Analysis

Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan, Roger Zimmermann

Does syntax matter? A strong baseline for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with RoBERTa

Junqi Dai, Hang Yan, Tianxiang Sun, Pengfei Liu, Xipeng Qiu

Target-specified Sequence Labeling with Multi-head Self-attention for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction

Yuhao Feng, Yanghui Rao, Yuyao Tang, Ninghua Wang, He Liu

A Unified Span-Based Approach for Opinion Mining with Syntactic Constituents

Qingrong Xia, Bo Zhang, Rui Wang, Zhenghua Li, Yue Zhang

Why Do Document-Level Polarity Classifiers Fail?

Karen Martins, Pedro O.S Vaz-de-Melo, Rodrygo Santos

Non-Parametric Few-Shot Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation

Howard Chen, Mengzhou Xia, Danqi Chen