ACL

Prompting Contrastive Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning Tasks

Bhargavi Paranjape, Julian Michael, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Comments ACL 2021 Findings

Guiding Teacher Forcing with Seer Forcing for Neural Machine Translation

Yang Feng, Shuhao Gu, Dengji Guo, Zhengxin Yang, Chenze Shao

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference

Neural Combinatory Constituency Parsing

Zhousi Chen, Longtu Zhang, Aizhan Imankulova, Mamoru Komachi

Comments Findings of ACL 2021; 15 pages

Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

Sravana Reddy, Marina Lazarova, Yongze Yu, Rosie Jones

Comments ACL 2021

Robust Knowledge Graph Completion with Stacked Convolutions and a Student Re-Ranking Network

Justin Lovelace, Denis Newman-Griffis, Shikhar Vashishth, Jill Fain Lehman, Carolyn Penstein Rosé

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)

Length-Adaptive Transformer: Train Once with Length Drop, Use Anytime with Search

Gyuwan Kim, Kyunghyun Cho

Comments ACL 2021; 11 pages, 4 figures

Semi-Supervised Data Programming with Subset Selection

Ayush Maheshwari, Oishik Chatterjee, KrishnaTeja Killamsetty, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Rishabh Iyer

Comments Findings of ACL, 2021

N-Best ASR Transformer: Enhancing SLU Performance using Multiple ASR Hypotheses

Karthik Ganesan, Pakhi Bamdev, Jaivarsan B, Amresh Venugopal, Abhinav Tushar

Comments 6 pages, 3 figures, Accepted at ACL 2021 as a main conference paper

Writing by Memorizing: Hierarchical Retrieval-based Medical Report Generation

Xingyi Yang, Muchao Ye, Quanzeng You, Fenglong Ma

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021, Camera-ready version

Turn the Combination Lock: Learnable Textual Backdoor Attacks via Word Substitution

Fanchao Qi, Yuan Yao, Sophia Xu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Comments Accepted by the main conference of ACL-IJCNLP as a long paper. Camera-ready version

From Paraphrasing to Semantic Parsing: Unsupervised Semantic Parsing via Synchronous Semantic Decoding

Shan Wu, Bo Chen, Chunlei Xin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Weipeng Zhang, Jiansong Chen, Fan Yang, Xunliang Cai

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

Bridging Subword Gaps in Pretrain-Finetune Paradigm for Natural Language Generation

Xin Liu, Baosong Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Haibo Zhang, Weihua Luo, Min Zhang, Haiying Zhang, Jinsong Su

Comments Accepted by ACL2021

Probabilistic, Structure-Aware Algorithms for Improved Variety, Accuracy, and Coverage of AMR Alignments

Austin Blodgett, Nathan Schneider

Comments ACL 2021 Camera-ready

Progressive Multi-Granularity Training for Non-Autoregressive Translation

Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao, Zhaopeng Tu

Comments ACL 2021, Short Findings

UnNatural Language Inference

Koustuv Sinha, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau, Adina Williams

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021 (Long Paper), 9 pages + Appendix

Deciphering Implicit Hate: Evaluating Automated Detection Algorithms for Multimodal Hate

Austin Botelho, Bertie Vidgen, Scott A. Hale

Comments Please note the paper contains examples of hateful content

Journal ref Findings of ACL, 2021

Synthesizing Adversarial Negative Responses for Robust Response Ranking and Evaluation

Prakhar Gupta, Yulia Tsvetkov, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL 2021

A Template-guided Hybrid Pointer Network for Knowledge-basedTask-oriented Dialogue Systems

Dingmin Wang, Ziyao Chen, Wanwei He, Li Zhong, Yunzhe Tao, Min Yang

Comments DialDoc workshop@ACL-IJCNLP-2021

Marginal Utility Diminishes: Exploring the Minimum Knowledge for BERT Knowledge Distillation

Yuanxin Liu, Fandong Meng, Zheng Lin, Weiping Wang, Jie Zhou

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining Objectives for Machine Translation

Christos Baziotis, Ivan Titov, Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow

Comments Findings of ACL 2021

MusicBERT: Symbolic Music Understanding with Large-Scale Pre-Training

Mingliang Zeng, Xu Tan, Rui Wang, Zeqian Ju, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 Findings

AUGNLG: Few-shot Natural Language Generation using Self-trained Data Augmentation

Xinnuo Xu, Guoyin Wang, Young-Bum Kim, Sungjin Lee

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

Shades of BLEU, Flavours of Success: The Case of MultiWOZ

Tomáš Nekvinda, Ondřej Dušek

Comments Accepted to GEM Workshop at ACL 2021; for the source files, see https://github.com/Tomiinek/MultiWOZ_Evaluation

Convolutions and Self-Attention: Re-interpreting Relative Positions in Pre-trained Language Models

Tyler A. Chang, Yifan Xu, Weijian Xu, Zhuowen Tu

Comments Accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Combining Static Word Embeddings and Contextual Representations for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Jinpeng Zhang, Baijun Ji, Nini Xiao, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Yangbin Shi, Weihua Luo

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL2021

LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations

Ruisheng Cao, Lu Chen, Zhi Chen, Yanbin Zhao, Su Zhu, Kai Yu

Comments 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted to ACL 2021 main conference

NeuralLog: Natural Language Inference with Joint Neural and Logical Reasoning

Zeming Chen, Qiyue Gao, Lawrence S. Moss

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures, The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM2021) @ ACL2021

A Cognitive Regularizer for Language Modeling

Jason Wei, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell

Comments ACL 2021 Camera-ready (fixed ordering of affiliation emojis)

Code Generation from Natural Language with Less Prior and More Monolingual Data

Sajad Norouzi, Keyi Tang, Yanshuai Cao

Comments ACL 2021

Are BLEU and Meaning Representation in Opposition?

Ondřej Cífka, Ondřej Bojar

Comments ACL 2018; 10 pages + 2 page supplementary

Journal ref Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (2018) 1362-1371