NAACL 2022

1,057 papers

Automatic Exploration of Textual Environments with Language-Conditioned Autotelic Agents

Laetitia Teodorescu, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Pierre-yves Oudeyer

A Sequence Modelling Approach to Question Answering in Text-Based Games

Gregory Furman, Edan Toledo, Jonathan Shock, Jan Buys

Craft an Iron Sword: Dynamically Generating Interactive Game Characters by Prompting Large Language Models Tuned on Code

Ryan Volum, Sudha Rao, Michael Xu, Gabriel DesGarennes, Chris Brockett

A Minimal Computational Improviser Based on Oral Thought

Nick Montfort, Sebastian Bartlett Fernandez

A Systematic Survey of Text Worlds as Embodied Natural Language Environments

Peter Jansen

HATE-ITA: Hate Speech Detection in Italian Social Media Text

Debora Nozza, Federico Bianchi, Giuseppe Attanasio

Revisiting Queer Minorities in Lexicons

Krithika Ramesh, Sumeet Kumar, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh

Targeted Identity Group Prediction in Hate Speech Corpora

Pratik Sachdeva, Renata Barreto, Claudia Von Vacano, Chris Kennedy

Users Hate Blondes: Detecting Sexism in User Comments on Online Romanian News

Andreea Moldovan, Karla Csuros, Ana-Maria Bucur, Loredana Bercuci

Flexible text generation for counterfactual fairness probing

Zee Fryer, Vera Axelrod, Ben Packer, Alex Beutel, Jilin Chen

Towards a Multi-Entity Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Characterizing Directed Social Regard in Online Messaging

Joan Zheng, Scott Friedman, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Ian Magnusson, Ruta Wheelock

Accounting for Offensive Speech as a Practice of Resistance

Mark Díaz, Razvan Amironesei, Laura Weidinger, Iason Gabriel

Hate Speech Criteria: A Modular Approach to Task-Specific Hate Speech Definitions

Urja Khurana, Ivar Vermeulen, Eric Nalisnick, Marloes Van Noorloos, Antske Fokkens

Distributional properties of political dogwhistle representations in Swedish BERT

Niclas Hertzberg, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Gregor Rettenegger

Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models

Paul Röttger, Haitham Seelawi, Debora Nozza, Zeerak Talat, Bertie Vidgen

DeTox: A Comprehensive Dataset for German Offensive Language and Conversation Analysis

Christoph Demus, Jonas Pitz, Mina Schütz, Nadine Probol, Melanie Siegel

Enriching Abusive Language Detection with Community Context

Haji Mohammad Saleem, Jana Kurrek, Derek Ruths

Resources for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection

Ayme Arango Monnar, Jorge Pérez, Barbara Poblete, Magdalena Saldaña, Valentina Proust

Free speech or Free Hate Speech? Analyzing the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Parler

Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur

Cleansing & expanding the HURTLEX(el) with a multidimensional categorization of offensive words

Vivian Stamou, Iakovi Alexiou, Antigone Klimi, Eleftheria Molou, Alexandra Saivanidou

Lost in Distillation: A Case Study in Toxicity Modeling

Alyssa Chvasta, Alyssa Lees, Jeffrey Sorensen, Lucy Vasserman, Nitesh Goyal

The subtle language of exclusion: Identifying the Toxic Speech of Trans-exclusionary Radical Feminists

Christina Lu, David Jurgens

StereoKG: Data-Driven Knowledge Graph Construction For Cultural Knowledge and Stereotypes

Awantee Deshpande, Dana Ruiter, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow

Counter-TWIT: An Italian Corpus for Online Counterspeech in Ecological Contexts

Pierpaolo Goffredo, Valerio Basile, Bianca Cepollaro, Viviana Patti

“Zo Grof !”: A Comprehensive Corpus for Offensive and Abusive Language in Dutch

Ward Ruitenbeek, Victor Zwart, Robin Van Der Noord, Zhenja Gnezdilov, Tommaso Caselli

Improving Generalization of Hate Speech Detection Systems to Novel Target Groups via Domain Adaptation

Florian Ludwig, Klara Dolos, Torsten Zesch, Eleanor Hobley

Towards Automatic Generation of Messages Countering Online Hate Speech and Microaggressions

Mana Ashida, Mamoru Komachi

Separating Hate Speech and Offensive Language Classes via Adversarial Debiasing

Shuzhou Yuan, Antonis Maronikolakis, Hinrich Schütze

Looking from the Inside: How Children Render Character’s Perspectives in Freely Told Fantasy Stories

Max van Duijn, Bram van Dijk, Marco Spruit

Narrative Detection and Feature Analysis in Online Health Communities

Achyutarama Ganti, Steven Wilson, Zexin Ma, Xinyan Zhao, Rong Ma

Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data

Dominik Stammbach, Maria Antoniak, Elliott Ash

GisPy: A Tool for Measuring Gist Inference Score in Text

Pedram Hosseini, Christopher Wolfe, Mona Diab, David Broniatowski

GPT-2-based Human-in-the-loop Theatre Play Script Generation

Rudolf Rosa, Patricia Schmidtova, Ondřej Dušek, Tomáš Musil, David Mareček

How to be Helpful on Online Support Forums?

Zhilin Wang, Pablo E. Torres

Compositional Generalization for Kinship Prediction through Data Augmentation

Kangda Wei, Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

Uncovering Surprising Event Boundaries in Narratives

Zhilin Wang, Anna Jafarpour, Maarten Sap

Searching for PETs: Using Distributional and Sentiment-Based Methods to Find Potentially Euphemistic Terms

Patrick Lee, Martha Gavidia, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng

“Devils Are in the Details”: Annotating Specificity of Clinical Advice from Medical Literature

Yingya Li, Bei Yu

Pragmatic and Logical Inferences in NLI Systems: The Case of Conjunction Buttressing

Paolo Pedinotti, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci

Pre-trained Language Models’ Interpretation of Evaluativity Implicature: Evidence from Gradable Adjectives Usage in Context

Yan Cong

Challenges in Applying Explainability Methods to Improve the Fairness of NLP Models

Esma Balkir, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Isar Nejadgholi, Kathleen Fraser

An Empirical Study on Pseudo-log-likelihood Bias Measures for Masked Language Models Using Paraphrased Sentences

Bum Chul Kwon, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya

The Irrationality of Neural Rationale Models

Yiming Zheng, Serena Booth, Julie Shah, Yilun Zhou

Explaining Neural NLP Models for the Joint Analysis of Open-and-Closed-Ended Survey Answers

Edoardo Mosca, Katharina Harmann, Tobias Eder, Georg Groh

The Cycle of Trust and Responsibility in Outsourced AI

Maximilian Castelli, Linda C. Moreau

Does Moral Code have a Moral Code? Probing Delphi’s Moral Philosophy

Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Esma Balkir

Attributing Fair Decisions with Attention Interventions

Ninareh Mehrabi, Umang Gupta, Fred Morstatter, Greg Ver Steeg, Aram Galstyan

An Encoder Attribution Analysis for Dense Passage Retriever in Open-Domain Question Answering

Minghan Li, Xueguang Ma, Jimmy Lin

Hierarchical Control of Situated Agents through Natural Language

Shuyan Zhou, Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig

Knowledge Transfer between Structured and Unstructured Sources for Complex Question Answering

Lingbo Mo, Zhen Wang, Jie Zhao, Huan Sun

Transfer Learning and Masked Generation for Answer Verbalization

Sebastien Montella, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Frédéric Béchet, Johannes Heinecke, Alexis Nasr

Table Retrieval May Not Necessitate Table-specific Model Design

Zhiruo Wang, Zhengbao Jiang, Eric Nyberg, Graham Neubig

Learning Open Domain Multi-hop Search Using Reinforcement Learning

Enrique Noriega-Atala, Mihai Surdeanu, Clayton Morrison

Strategies to Improve Few-shot Learning for Intent Classification and Slot-Filling

Samyadeep Basu, Amr Sharaf, Karine Ip Kiun Chong, Alex Fischer, Vishal Rohra

Modeling Compositionality with Dependency Graph for Dialogue Generation

Xiaofeng Chen, Yirong Chen, Xiaofen Xing, Xiangmin Xu, Wenjing Han

FabKG: A Knowledge graph of Manufacturing Science domain utilizing structured and unconventional unstructured knowledge source

Aman Kumar, Akshay Bharadwaj, Binil Starly, Collin Lynch

Online Coreference Resolution for Dialogue Processing: Improving Mention-Linking on Real-Time Conversations

Liyan Xu, Jinho D. Choi

Capturing the Content of a Document through Complex Event Identification

Zheng Qi, Elior Sulem, Haoyu Wang, Xiaodong Yu, Dan Roth

Event Causality Identification via Generation of Important Context Words

Hieu Man, Minh Nguyen, Thien Nguyen

Unsupervised Reinforcement Adaptation for Class-Imbalanced Text Classification

Yuexin Wu, Xiaolei Huang

What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Speech acts and Communicative Intentions for Urgency Detection

Enzo Laurenti, Nils Bourgon, Farah Benamara, Alda Mari, Véronique Moriceau

PropBank Comes of Age—Larger, Smarter, and more Diverse

Sameer Pradhan, Julia Bonn, Skatje Myers, Kathryn Conger, Tim O’Gorman

Pretraining on Interactions for Learning Grounded Affordance Representations

Jack Merullo, Dylan Ebert, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick

“What makes a question inquisitive?” A Study on Type-Controlled Inquisitive Question Generation

Lingyu Gao, Debanjan Ghosh, Kevin Gimpel

Leveraging Three Types of Embeddings from Masked Language Models in Idiom Token Classification

Ryosuke Takahashi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

How Does Data Corruption Affect Natural Language Understanding Models? A Study on GLUE datasets

Aarne Talman, Marianna Apidianaki, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Jörg Tiedemann

DRS Parsing as Sequence Labeling

Minxing Shen, Kilian Evang

Improved Induction of Narrative Chains via Cross-Document Relations

Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme

Measuring Alignment Bias in Neural Seq2seq Semantic Parsers

Davide Locatelli, Ariadna Quattoni

A Generative Approach for Mitigating Structural Biases in Natural Language Inference

Dimion Asael, Zachary Ziegler, Yonatan Belinkov

Assessing the Limits of the Distributional Hypothesis in Semantic Spaces: Trait-based Relational Knowledge and the Impact of Co-occurrences

Mark Anderson, Jose Camacho-Collados

A Dynamic, Interpreted CheckList for Meaning-oriented NLG Metric Evaluation – through the Lens of Semantic Similarity Rating

Laura Zeidler, Juri Opitz, Anette Frank

Distilling Hypernymy Relations from Language Models: On the Effectiveness of Zero-Shot Taxonomy Induction

Devansh Jain, Luis Espinosa Anke

Comparison and Combination of Sentence Embeddings Derived from Different Supervision Signals

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Word-Label Alignment for Event Detection: A New Perspective via Optimal Transport

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Thien Nguyen

When Polysemy Matters: Modeling Semantic Categorization with Word Embeddings

Elizabeth Soper, Jean-Pierre Koenig

Dyna-bAbI: unlocking bAbI’s potential with dynamic synthetic benchmarking

Ronen Tamari, Kyle Richardson, Noam Kahlon, Aviad Sar-Shalom, Nelson F. Liu

Multilingual Extraction and Categorization of Lexical Collocations with Graph-aware Transformers

Luis Espinosa Anke, Alexander Shvets, Alireza Mohammadshahi, James Henderson, Leo Wanner

A Simple Unsupervised Approach for Coreference Resolution using Rule-based Weak Supervision

Alessandro Stolfo, Chris Tanner, Vikram Gupta, Mrinmaya Sachan

Pairwise Representation Learning for Event Coreference

Xiaodong Yu, Wenpeng Yin, Dan Roth

AnaLog: Testing Analytical and Deductive Logic Learnability in Language Models

Samuel Ryb, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández

Compositional generalization with a broad-coverage semantic parser

Pia Weißenhorn, Lucia Donatelli, Alexander Koller

Semantics-aware Attention Improves Neural Machine Translation

Aviv Slobodkin, Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend

DeepA2: A Modular Framework for Deep Argument Analysis with Pretrained Neural Text2Text Language Models

Gregor Betz, Kyle Richardson

What do Large Language Models Learn about Scripts?

Abhilasha Sancheti, Rachel Rudinger

OK Boomer: Probing the socio-demographic Divide in Echo Chambers

Henri-Jacques Geiss, Flora Sakketou, Lucie Flek

Towards Toxic Positivity Detection

Ishan Sanjeev Upadhyay, Kv Aditya Srivatsa, Radhika Mamidi

Identifying Human Needs through Social Media: A study on Indian cities during COVID-19

Sunny Rai, Rohan Joseph, Prakruti Singh Thakur, Mohammed Abdul Khaliq

A Comparative Study on Word Embeddings and Social NLP Tasks

Fatma Elsafoury, Steven R. Wilson, Naeem Ramzan

Leveraging Dependency Grammar for Fine-Grained Offensive Language Detection using Graph Convolutional Networks

Divyam Goel, Raksha Sharma

Detecting Rumor Veracity with Only Textual Information by Double-Channel Structure

Alex Gunwoo Kim, Sangwon Yoon

Exploiting Social Media Content for Self-Supervised Style Transfer

Dana Ruiter, Thomas Kleinbauer, Cristina España-Bonet, Josef van Genabith, Dietrich Klakow

Mask and Regenerate: A Classifier-based Approach for Unpaired Sentiment Transformation of Reviews for Electronic Commerce Websites.

Shuo Yang

ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus

Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos

PaVeDa - Pavia Verbs Database: Challenges and Perspectives

Chiara Zanchi, Silvia Luraghi, Claudia Roberta Combei

How Universal is Metonymy? Results from a Large-Scale Multilingual Analysis

Temuulen Khishigsuren, Gabor Bella, Thomas Brochhagen, Daariimaa Marav, Fausto Giunchiglia

Investigating Information-Theoretic Properties of the Typology of Spatial Demonstratives

Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald

Approaching Reflex Predictions as a Classification Problem Using Extended Phonological Alignments

Tiago Tresoldi

A Transformer Architecture for the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes

Giuseppe G. A. Celano