ACL

How Did This Get Funded?! Automatically Identifying Quirky Scientific Achievements

Chen Shani, Nadav Borenstein, Dafna Shahaf

Comments To be published in the main conference of ACL-IJCNLP2021. Code and dataset can be found here: https://github.com/nadavborenstein/Iggy

Empowering Language Understanding with Counterfactual Reasoning

Fuli Feng, Jizhi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Hanwang Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL'21

Do Grammatical Error Correction Models Realize Grammatical Generalization?

Masato Mita, Hitomi Yanaka

Comments ACL 2021 (Findings)

Embracing Ambiguity: Shifting the Training Target of NLI Models

Johannes Mario Meissner, Napat Thumwanit, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Comments Accepted to ACL 2021

Meta-Learning with Variational Semantic Memory for Word Sense Disambiguation

Yingjun Du, Nithin Holla, Xiantong Zhen, Cees G. M. Snoek, Ekaterina Shutova

Comments 15 pages, 5 figures

Journal ref ACL-IJCNLP 2021

MergeDistill: Merging Pre-trained Language Models using Distillation

Simran Khanuja, Melvin Johnson, Partha Talukdar

Comments ACL 2021 Findings

Improving Automated Evaluation of Open Domain Dialog via Diverse Reference Augmentation

Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Comments Findings of ACL 2021

W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework

Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

Comments 9 pages, Accepted at ACL 2021

AdvPicker: Effectively Leveraging Unlabeled Data via Adversarial Discriminator for Cross-Lingual NER

Weile Chen, Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Börje F. Karlsson, Yi Guan

Comments This paper has been accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

DynaEval: Unifying Turn and Dialogue Level Evaluation

Chen Zhang, Yiming Chen, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Yan Zhang, Thomas Friedrichs, Grandee Lee, Haizhou Li

Comments ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Main conference, Long paper)

SpanNER: Named Entity Re-/Recognition as Span Prediction

Jinlan Fu, Xuanjing Huang, Pengfei Liu

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 (Main track)

KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction

Abhishek Nadgeri, Anson Bastos, Kuldeep Singh, Isaiah Onando Mulang', Johannes Hoffart, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Vijay Saraswat

Comments ACL 2021 (findings)

Learning Relation Alignment for Calibrated Cross-modal Retrieval

Shuhuai Ren, Junyang Lin, Guangxiang Zhao, Rui Men, An Yang, Jingren Zhou, Xu Sun, Hongxia Yang

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference (Long Paper)

Dodrio: Exploring Transformer Models with Interactive Visualization

Zijie J. Wang, Robert Turko, Duen Horng Chau

Comments 10 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to ACL 2021. For a demo video, see https://youtu.be/qB-T9j7UTgE . For a live demo, see https://poloclub.github.io/dodrio/

Intent Classification and Slot Filling for Privacy Policies

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Jianfeng Chi, Tu Le, Thomas Norton, Yuan Tian, Kai-Wei Chang

Comments ACL 2021 (camera ready)

Better Robustness by More Coverage: Adversarial Training with Mixup Augmentation for Robust Fine-tuning

Chenglei Si, Zhengyan Zhang, Fanchao Qi, Zhiyuan Liu, Yasheng Wang, Qun Liu, Maosong Sun

Comments ACL 2021 (Findings)

GO FIGURE: A Meta Evaluation of Factuality in Summarization

Saadia Gabriel, Asli Celikyilmaz, Rahul Jha, Yejin Choi, Jianfeng Gao

Comments ACL 2021 Findings

Challenges in Information-Seeking QA: Unanswerable Questions and Paragraph Retrieval

Akari Asai, Eunsol Choi

Comments Published as a conference paper at ACL 2021 (long). Our code and annotated data are publicly available at https://github.com/AkariAsai/unanswerable_qa

Cluster-Former: Clustering-based Sparse Transformer for Long-Range Dependency Encoding

Shuohang Wang, Luowei Zhou, Zhe Gan, Yen-Chun Chen, Yuwei Fang, Siqi Sun, Yu Cheng, Jingjing Liu

Comments ACL Findings 2021, 11 pages

Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Xiao Bai, Soomin Lee, Kai-Wei Chang

Comments ACL 2021 (camera ready)

Understanding and Countering Stereotypes: A Computational Approach to the Stereotype Content Model

Kathleen C. Fraser, Isar Nejadgholi, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Comments In Proceedings of 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)

CLIP: A Dataset for Extracting Action Items for Physicians from Hospital Discharge Notes

James Mullenbach, Yada Pruksachatkun, Sean Adler, Jennifer Seale, Jordan Swartz, T. Greg McKelvey, Hui Dai, Yi Yang, David Sontag

Comments ACL 2021

COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion

Debjit Paul, Anette Frank

Comments ACL 2021

Entity Concept-enhanced Few-shot Relation Extraction

Shan Yang, Yongfei Zhang, Guanglin Niu, Qinghua Zhao, Shiliang Pu

Comments Accepted at ACL2021

Prediction or Comparison: Toward Interpretable Qualitative Reasoning

Mucheng Ren, Heyan Huang, Yang Gao

Comments 12 pages. Accepted as ACL2021 Findings

Learning Slice-Aware Representations with Mixture of Attentions

Cheng Wang, Sungjin Lee, Sunghyun Park, Han Li, Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya

Comments Findings of the ACL: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

AdaTag: Multi-Attribute Value Extraction from Product Profiles with Adaptive Decoding

Jun Yan, Nasser Zalmout, Yan Liang, Christan Grant, Xiang Ren, Xin Luna Dong

Comments Accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training

Yanda Chen, Chris Kedzie, Suraj Nair, Petra Galuščáková, Rui Zhang, Douglas W. Oard, Kathleen McKeown

Comments ACL 2021 main conference

Modeling the Unigram Distribution

Irene Nikkarinen, Tiago Pimentel, Damián E. Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

Comments Irene Nikkarinen and Tiago Pimentel contributed equally to this work. Accepted to the findings of ACL 2021. Code available in https://github.com/irenenikk/modelling-unigram

AgreeSum: Agreement-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Adam D. Lelkes, Vinh Q. Tran, Cong Yu

Comments Findings of ACL 2021