ACL

Improving Entity Linking through Semantic Reinforced Entity Embeddings

Feng Hou, Ruili Wang, Jun He, Yi Zhou

Comments 6 pages, 3 figures, ACL 2020

Journal ref Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Code to Comment Translation: A Comparative Study on Model Effectiveness & Errors

Junayed Mahmud, Fahim Faisal, Raihan Islam Arnob, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran

Comments Accepted to the 2021 NLP4Prog Workshop co-located with 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)

What Context Features Can Transformer Language Models Use?

Joe O'Connor, Jacob Andreas

Comments 14 pages, 7 figures, to be published at ACL 2021

Unsupervised Enrichment of Persona-grounded Dialog with Background Stories

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley, Harsh Jhamtani

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021 for oral presentation

DialogSum: A Real-Life Scenario Dialogue Summarization Dataset

Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Liang Chen, Yue Zhang

Comments ACL findings

Evidence-based Factual Error Correction

James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos

Comments Accepted at ACL2021

SSMix: Saliency-Based Span Mixup for Text Classification

Soyoung Yoon, Gyuwan Kim, Kyumin Park

Comments Findings of ACL 2021

The Possible, the Plausible, and the Desirable: Event-Based Modality Detection for Language Processing

Valentina Pyatkin, Shoval Sadde, Aynat Rubinstein, Paul Portner, Reut Tsarfaty

Comments ACL 2021

Language Tags Matter for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Liwei Wu, Shanbo Cheng, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Comments 7 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by the Findings of ACL2021

Stacked Acoustic-and-Textual Encoding: Integrating the Pre-trained Models into Speech Translation Encoders

Chen Xu, Bojie Hu, Yanyang Li, Yuhao Zhang, shen huang, Qi Ju, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu

Comments ACL 2021

Learning to Generate Task-Specific Adapters from Task Description

Qinyuan Ye, Xiang Ren

Comments Accepted to ACL 2021. Camera-ready version. Code: https://github.com/INK-USC/hypter

NeurST: Neural Speech Translation Toolkit

Chengqi Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, Qianqian Dong, Rong Ye, Lei Li

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 (system demonstration)

Meaning Representation of Numeric Fused-Heads in UCCA

Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich

Comments UnImplicit Workshop at ACL 2021 (abstract)

Self-Guided Contrastive Learning for BERT Sentence Representations

Taeuk Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee

Comments ACL 2021

Learning to Bridge Metric Spaces: Few-shot Joint Learning of Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Cheng Chen, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 findings

Probing Pre-Trained Language Models for Disease Knowledge

Israa Alghanmi, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 Findings

Cascaded Span Extraction and Response Generation for Document-Grounded Dialog

Nico Daheim, David Thulke, Christian Dugast, Hermann Ney

Comments Accepted by 1st DialDoc Workshop at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Mitigating Biases in Toxic Language Detection through Invariant Rationalization

Yung-Sung Chuang, Mingye Gao, Hongyin Luo, James Glass, Hung-yi Lee, Yun-Nung Chen, Shang-Wen Li

Comments The 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms at ACL 2021

Automatic Document Sketching: Generating Drafts from Analogous Texts

Zeqiu Wu, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Yizhe Zhang, Bill Dolan

Comments Findings of ACL 2021

A Mutual Information Maximization Approach for the Spurious Solution Problem in Weakly Supervised Question Answering

Zhihong Shao, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, Minlie Huang

Comments ACL2021 main conference

Common Sense Beyond English: Evaluating and Improving Multilingual Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Seyeon Lee, Xiaoyang Qiao, Xiang Ren

Comments Accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (long paper at main conference). Project website: https://inklab.usc.edu/XCSR/

Don't Rule Out Monolingual Speakers: A Method For Crowdsourcing Machine Translation Data

Rajat Bhatnagar, Ananya Ganesh, Katharina Kann

Comments 5 pages, 1 figure, ACL-IJCNLP 2021 submission, Natural Language Processing, Data Collection, Monolingual Speakers, Machine Translation, GIFs, Images

Direct Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation Assisted by Synchronized Streaming ASR

Junkun Chen, Mingbo Ma, Renjie Zheng, Liang Huang

Comments accepted by Findings of ACL 2021

BoB: BERT Over BERT for Training Persona-based Dialogue Models from Limited Personalized Data

Haoyu Song, Yan Wang, Kaiyan Zhang, Wei-Nan Zhang, Ting Liu

Comments ACL 2021

Accelerating BERT Inference for Sequence Labeling via Early-Exit

Xiaonan Li, Yunfan Shao, Tianxiang Sun, Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang

Comments Accepted to the ACL 2021

Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization with Limited Parallel Resources

Yu Bai, Yang Gao, Heyan Huang

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

Hung Le, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur

Comments 20 pages, 14 figures, 8 tables

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)

Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Unsupervised Bitext Construction and Word Alignment

Haoyue Shi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sida I. Wang

Comments ACL-IJCNLP 2021 camera-ready version, with full supplementary material

Causal Effects of Linguistic Properties

Reid Pryzant, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky, Victor Veitch, Dhanya Sridhar

Comments To appear at NAACL 2021 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

Span-based Semantic Parsing for Compositional Generalization

Jonathan Herzig, Jonathan Berant

Comments ACL 2021 camera ready