ACL

MECT: Multi-Metadata Embedding based Cross-Transformer for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Shuang Wu, Xiaoning Song, Zhenhua Feng

Comments Accepted to ACL-2021

Nearest neighbour approaches for Emotion Detection in Tweets

Olha Kaminska, Chris Cornelis, Veronique Hoste

Comments The paper was presented at EACL 2021 during the WASSA workshop as a poster and published at ACL Anthology

Parameter Selection: Why We Should Pay More Attention to It

Jie-Jyun Liu, Tsung-Han Yang, Si-An Chen, Chih-Jen Lin

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Putting words into the system's mouth: A targeted attack on neural machine translation using monolingual data poisoning

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman, Ahmed El-Kishky, Yuqing Tang, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

Comments Findings of ACL, to appear

Noise Stability Regularization for Improving BERT Fine-tuning

Hang Hua, Xingjian Li, Dejing Dou, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Jiebo Luo

Comments Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

StructFormer: Joint Unsupervised Induction of Dependency and Constituency Structure from Masked Language Modeling

Yikang Shen, Yi Tay, Che Zheng, Dara Bahri, Donald Metzler, Aaron Courville

Comments Published as a conference paper at ACL 2021

UniRE: A Unified Label Space for Entity Relation Extraction

Yijun Wang, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu, Hao Zhou, Lei Li, Junchi Yan

Comments ACL2021

Learning Syntactic Dense Embedding with Correlation Graph for Automatic Readability Assessment

Xinying Qiu, Yuan Chen, Hanwu Chen, Jian-Yun Nie, Yuming Shen, Dawei Lu

Comments Accepted to the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021)

TAN-NTM: Topic Attention Networks for Neural Topic Modeling

Madhur Panwar, Shashank Shailabh, Milan Aggarwal, Balaji Krishnamurthy

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

Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation

Alexandra DeLucia, Aaron Mueller, Xiang Lisa Li, João Sedoc

Comments 20 pages. Updated to the accepted version in Workshop on Generation Evaluation and Metrics at ACL 2021 (GEM'21)

Can Transformer Models Measure Coherence In Text? Re-Thinking the Shuffle Test

Philippe Laban, Luke Dai, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst

Comments Accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (short paper), 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)

Keep it Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text

Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Marti A. Hearst

Comments Accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021, 14 pages, 7 figures

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)

Cross-Lingual Transfer in Zero-Shot Cross-Language Entity Linking

Elliot Schumacher, James Mayfield, Mark Dredze

Comments Accepted in the Findings of ACL 2021

Robustifying Multi-hop QA through Pseudo-Evidentiality Training

Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sang-eun Han, Dohyeon Lee

Comments Accepted to ACL2021 (main conference)

Time-Aware Ancient Chinese Text Translation and Inference

Ernie Chang, Yow-Ting Shiue, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Vera Demberg

Comments Accepted at LChange at ACL 2021

On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation

Ernie Chang, Xiaoyu Shen, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Vera Demberg

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021

Plot and Rework: Modeling Storylines for Visual Storytelling

Chi-Yang Hsu, Yun-Wei Chu, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Lun-Wei Ku

Comments 9 pages, ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Findings

Explainable Prediction of Text Complexity: The Missing Preliminaries for Text Simplification

Cristina Garbacea, Mengtian Guo, Samuel Carton, Qiaozhu Mei

Comments ACL 2021

Probabilistic Graph Reasoning for Natural Proof Generation

Changzhi Sun, Xinbo Zhang, Jiangjie Chen, Chun Gan, Yuanbin Wu, Jiaze Chen, Hao Zhou, Lei Li

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL2021

Mind Your Outliers! Investigating the Negative Impact of Outliers on Active Learning for Visual Question Answering

Siddharth Karamcheti, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning

Comments Accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021. 17 pages, 16 Figures

Training Adaptive Computation for Open-Domain Question Answering with Computational Constraints

Yuxiang Wu, Pasquale Minervini, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel

Comments 7 pages, 1 figure, to be published in ACL-IJCNLP 2021

DeepRapper: Neural Rap Generation with Rhyme and Rhythm Modeling

Lanqing Xue, Kaitao Song, Duocai Wu, Xu Tan, Nevin L. Zhang, Tao Qin, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 main conference

Neural-Symbolic Solver for Math Word Problems with Auxiliary Tasks

Jinghui Qin, Xiaodan Liang, Yining Hong, Jianheng Tang, Liang Lin

Comments ACL 2021

RiddleSense: Reasoning about Riddle Questions Featuring Linguistic Creativity and Commonsense Knowledge

Bill Yuchen Lin, Ziyi Wu, Yichi Yang, Dong-Ho Lee, Xiang Ren

Comments Accepted to ACL 2021 (Findings). Project page: https://inklab.usc.edu/RiddleSense

ExplainaBoard: An Explainable Leaderboard for NLP

Pengfei Liu, Jinlan Fu, Yang Xiao, Weizhe Yuan, Shuaicheng Chang, Junqi Dai, Yixin Liu, Zihuiwen Ye, Zi-Yi Dou, Graham Neubig

Comments ACL2021 Demo Track

Multimodal Graph-based Transformer Framework for Biomedical Relation Extraction

Sriram Pingali, Shweta Yadav, Pratik Dutta, Sriparna Saha

Comments To appear in Findings of ACL 2021

CLINE: Contrastive Learning with Semantic Negative Examples for Natural Language Understanding

Dong Wang, Ning Ding, Piji Li, Hai-Tao Zheng

Comments ACL 2021, Main Conference, Long Paper

Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation

Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frédéric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia

Comments ACL Findings 2021

Capturing Event Argument Interaction via A Bi-Directional Entity-Level Recurrent Decoder

Xiangyu Xi, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, Quanxiu Wang, Huixing Jiang, Wei Wu

Journal ref ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Reinforcement Learning for Abstractive Question Summarization with Question-aware Semantic Rewards

Shweta Yadav, Deepak Gupta, Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman

Comments To appear at ACL 2021