ACL

Break, Perturb, Build: Automatic Perturbation of Reasoning Paths Through Question Decomposition

Mor Geva, Tomer Wolfson, Jonathan Berant

Comments Accepted for publication in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021. Author's final version

Machine Translation into Low-resource Language Varieties

Sachin Kumar, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Shuly Wintner, Yulia Tsvetkov

Comments The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)

Family of Origin and Family of Choice: Massively Parallel Lexiconized Iterative Pretraining for Severely Low Resource Machine Translation

Zhong Zhou, Alex Waibel

Journal ref In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Research in Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP of the 20th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies in 2021

Verb Knowledge Injection for Multilingual Event Processing

Olga Majewska, Ivan Vulić, Goran Glavaš, Edoardo M. Ponti, Anna Korhonen

Comments 19 pages, 1 figure, 8 tables

Journal ref Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Volume 1 Long Papers 6952-6969

SemEval-2021 Task 11: NLPContributionGraph -- Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions for a Research Knowledge Graph

Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer, Ted Pedersen

Comments 13 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables

Journal ref Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), (pp. 364-376), ACL

CTC-based Compression for Direct Speech Translation

Marco Gaido, Mauro Cettolo, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Comments Accepted at EACL2021

Journal ref Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (2021), 690-696

Investigation on Data Adaptation Techniques for Neural Named Entity Recognition

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, David Thulke, Weiyue Wang, Christian Dugast, Hermann Ney

Comments ACL SRW 2021 - camera ready

Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline

David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir, David Mortensen, Suzanne Stevenson

Comments Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021, 16 pages

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

Yuta Koreeda, Christopher D. Manning

Comments Accepted at the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021

Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets

Shraman Pramanick, Dimitar Dimitrov, Rituparna Mukherjee, Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Comments harmful memes, multimodality, social media

Journal ref ACL-2021 (Findings)

VLM: Task-agnostic Video-Language Model Pre-training for Video Understanding

Hu Xu, Gargi Ghosh, Po-Yao Huang, Prahal Arora, Masoumeh Aminzadeh, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Florian Metze, Luke Zettlemoyer

Comments 9 pages, ACL Findings 2021

Paraphrases as Foreign Languages in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel

Journal ref Proceedings of 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Student Research Workshop, 2019

Does My Representation Capture X? Probe-Ably

Deborah Ferreira, Julia Rozanova, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Marco Valentino, André Freitas

Comments ACL 2021 (System Demonstrations)

Marked Attribute Bias in Natural Language Inference

Hillary Dawkins

Comments 9+4 pages. Published in Findings of the ACL (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021, 4214-4226 (2021)

Decomposing and Recomposing Event Structure

William Gantt, Lelia Glass, Aaron Steven White

Comments Accepted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach

Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng

Comments machine translation, morphologically complex languages, paraphrases (word, phrase, and sentence level), infelctional morphology, derivational morphology, Malay, Indonesian

Journal ref ACL-2011

Faithful Target Attribute Prediction in Neural Machine Translation

Xing Niu, Georgiana Dinu, Prashant Mathur, Anna Currey

Comments Withdrawn from Findings of ACL 2021

Identifying Hijacked Reviews

Monika Daryani, James Caverlee

Comments To be published in ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP)

SOLID: A Large-Scale Semi-Supervised Dataset for Offensive Language Identification

Sara Rosenthal, Pepa Atanasova, Georgi Karadzhov, Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov

Comments offensive language, hate speech, cyberbullying, cyber-aggression, taxonomy for offensive language identification

Journal ref ACL-2021 (Findings)

Awakening Latent Grounding from Pretrained Language Models for Semantic Parsing

Qian Liu, Dejian Yang, Jiahui Zhang, Jiaqi Guo, Bin Zhou, Jian-Guang Lou

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 Findings. The first three authors contributed equally

HyperExpan: Taxonomy Expansion with Hyperbolic Representation Learning

Mingyu Derek Ma, Muhao Chen, Te-Lin Wu, Nanyun Peng

Comments To appear in Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021

Energy-Based Reranking: Improving Neural Machine Translation Using Energy-Based Models

Sumanta Bhattacharyya, Amirmohammad Rooshenas, Subhajit Naskar, Simeng Sun, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum

Journal ref Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4528-4537, 2021

Incorporating Temporal Information in Entailment Graph Mining

Liane Guillou, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman

Comments L. Guillou, S. Bijl de Vroe, M.J. Hosseini, M. Johnson, and M. Steedman. 2020. Incorporating temporal information in entailment graph mining. In Proceedings of the Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs), pages 60-71, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics

Journal ref In Proceedings of TextGraphs 2020, pages 60-71, Barcelona, Spain (Online)

Modality and Negation in Event Extraction

Sander Bijl de Vroe, Liane Guillou, Miloš Stanojević, Nick McKenna, Mark Steedman

Comments S. Bijl de Vroe, L. Guillou, M. Stanojević, N. McKenna, and M. Steedman. 2021. Modality and Negation in Event Extraction. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021), pages 31-42, online. Association for Computational Linguistics

Journal ref In Proceedings of CASE 2021, pages 31-42, online. Association for Computational Linguistics

Human-in-the-Loop for Data Collection: a Multi-Target Counter Narrative Dataset to Fight Online Hate Speech

Margherita Fanton, Helena Bonaldi, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Marco Guerini

Comments To appear at ACL 2021 (long paper)

Task-adaptive Pre-training of Language Models with Word Embedding Regularization

Kosuke Nishida, Kyosuke Nishida, Sen Yoshida

Comments ACL Findings 2021

Are VQA Systems RAD? Measuring Robustness to Augmented Data with Focused Interventions

Daniel Rosenberg, Itai Gat, Amir Feder, Roi Reichart

Comments ACL 2021. Our code and data are available at https://danrosenberg.github.io/rad-measure/

Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes

Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino

Comments propaganda, disinformation, fake news, memes, multimodality. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2105.09284

Journal ref ACL-2021

Directed Acyclic Graph Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition

Weizhou Shen, Siyue Wu, Yunyi Yang, Xiaojun Quan

Comments Accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference

Improving Gradient-based Adversarial Training for Text Classification by Contrastive Learning and Auto-Encoder

Yao Qiu, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou

Comments Accepted as a long paper at ACL 2021 (Findings)