ACL

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, Jinxia Xie, Pengsheng Huang

Comments To appear in ACL 2021

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

Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He

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

Improving Dialog Systems for Negotiation with Personality Modeling

Runzhe Yang, Jingxiao Chen, Karthik Narasimhan

Comments ACL 2021. 12 pages, 3 figures

Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network

Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu

Comments Accepted to ACL 2020, 10 pages, 6 figures

Weakly Supervised Pre-Training for Multi-Hop Retriever

Yeon Seonwoo, Sang-Woo Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Alice Oh

Comments ACL-Findings 2021

A Neural Edge-Editing Approach for Document-Level Relation Graph Extraction

Kohei Makino, Makoto Miwa, Yutaka Sasaki

Comments Accepted for publication at the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings-ACL2021), 2021. 10 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables

PRGC: Potential Relation and Global Correspondence Based Joint Relational Triple Extraction

Hengyi Zheng, Rui Wen, Xi Chen, Yifan Yang, Yunyan Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Ningyu Zhang, Bin Qin, Ming Xu, Yefeng Zheng

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

GEM: A General Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Tasks

Lin Su, Nan Duan, Edward Cui, Lei Ji, Chenfei Wu, Huaishao Luo, Yongfei Liu, Ming Zhong, Taroon Bharti, Arun Sacheti

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL 2021

LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

Hang Jiang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, Alexander Gray

Comments Accepted to ACL 2021

Multi-Task Learning and Adapted Knowledge Models for Emotion-Cause Extraction

Elsbeth Turcan, Shuai Wang, Rishita Anubhai, Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Smaranda Muresan

Comments 15 pages, 6 figures. Findings of ACL 2021

Element Intervention for Open Relation Extraction

Fangchao Liu, Lingyong Yan, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Comments Accepted to ACL2021(main conference)

Biomedical Interpretable Entity Representations

Diego Garcia-Olano, Yasumasa Onoe, Ioana Baldini, Joydeep Ghosh, Byron C. Wallace, Kush R. Varshney

Comments Accepted into Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Scalable Approach for Normalizing E-commerce Text Attributes (SANTA)

Ravi Shankar Mishra, Kartik Mehta, Nikhil Rasiwasia

Comments Accepted in ECNLP workshop of ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp)

DocNLI: A Large-scale Dataset for Document-level Natural Language Inference

Wenpeng Yin, Dragomir Radev, Caiming Xiong

Comments ACL'21 Findings Camera-ready

X-FACT: A New Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Fact Checking

Ashim Gupta, Vivek Srikumar

Comments ACL 2021; For data and code, see https://github.com/utahnlp/x-fact/

De-biasing Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via Causal Intervention

Wenkai Zhang, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Comments Accepted to ACL2021(main conference)

Text2Event: Controllable Sequence-to-Structure Generation for End-to-end Event Extraction

Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Jin Xu, Xianpei Han, Jialong Tang, Annan Li, Le Sun, Meng Liao, Shaoyi Chen

Comments Accepted to ACL2021 (main conference)

Knowledgeable or Educated Guess? Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Bases

Boxi Cao, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Lingyong Yan, Meng Liao, Tong Xue, Jin Xu

Comments Accepted to ACL2021(main conference)

An Empirical Study on Hyperparameter Optimization for Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Language Models

Xueqing Liu, Chi Wang

Comments To appear in ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling

Di Jin, Seokhwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Comments Presented as a DIALDOC workshop paper at ACL 2021

Out-of-Scope Intent Detection with Self-Supervision and Discriminative Training

Li-Ming Zhan, Haowen Liang, Bo Liu, Lu Fan, Xiao-Ming Wu, Albert Y. S. Lam

Comments Published as long oral paper in ACL 2021

AGGGEN: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating

Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Ioannis Konstas

Comments Correct the first citation in the Zero-shot Few-shot scenarios paragraph in Section 7

Journal ref Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2021)

DESCGEN: A Distantly Supervised Dataset for Generating Abstractive Entity Descriptions

Weijia Shi, Mandar Joshi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Journal ref ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Neural semi-Markov CRF for Monolingual Word Alignment

Wuwei Lan, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu

Comments Accepted to ACL 2021

Volta at SemEval-2021 Task 9: Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables using TAPAS and Transfer Learning

Devansh Gautam, Kshitij Gupta, Manish Shrivastava

Comments 9 pages, accepted at SemEval-2021 co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Seeing past words: Testing the cross-modal capabilities of pretrained V&L models on counting tasks

Letitia Parcalabescu, Albert Gatt, Anette Frank, Iacer Calixto

Comments Paper accepted for publication at MMSR 2021; 13 pages, 3 figures, 7 Tables

Journal ref Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR), 2021, Groningen, Netherlands (Online), Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 32--44

Pre-training is a Hot Topic: Contextualized Document Embeddings Improve Topic Coherence

Federico Bianchi, Silvia Terragni, Dirk Hovy

Comments Updated version. Published as a conference paper at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Revisiting the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Samuel Kiegeland, Julia Kreutzer

Journal ref North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, 1673-1681

From Discourse to Narrative: Knowledge Projection for Event Relation Extraction

Jialong Tang, Hongyu Lin, Meng Liao, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Weijian Xie, Jin Xu

Comments 11 pages

Journal ref ACL 2021

Alternated Training with Synthetic and Authentic Data for Neural Machine Translation

Rui Jiao, Zonghan Yang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu

Comments ACL 2021, Short Findings