ACL

Bird's Eye: Probing for Linguistic Graph Structures with a Simple Information-Theoretic Approach

Yifan Hou, Mrinmaya Sachan

Comments Accepted for publication at ACL 2021. This is the camera ready version. Our implementation is available in https://github.com/yifan-h/Graph_Probe-Birds_Eye

Generating Landmark Navigation Instructions from Maps as a Graph-to-Text Problem

Raphael Schumann, Stefan Riezler

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021

ERICA: Improving Entity and Relation Understanding for Pre-trained Language Models via Contrastive Learning

Yujia Qin, Yankai Lin, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Heng Ji, Minlie Huang, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference

Benchmarking Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models

Chenglei Si, Ziqing Yang, Yiming Cui, Wentao Ma, Ting Liu, Shijin Wang

Comments ACL 2021 (Findings)

BASS: Boosting Abstractive Summarization with Unified Semantic Graph

Wenhao Wu, Wei Li, Xinyan Xiao, Jiachen Liu, Ziqiang Cao, Sujian Li, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference

Focus Attention: Promoting Faithfulness and Diversity in Summarization

Rahul Aralikatte, Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Sascha Rothe, Ryan McDonald

Comments ACL 2021

CoRT: Complementary Rankings from Transformers

Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel

Comments NAACL-HLT 2021, Long Paper

Journal ref Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 4194-4204). Anthology ID: 2021.naacl-main.331

Empirical Error Modeling Improves Robustness of Noisy Neural Sequence Labeling

Marcin Namysl, Sven Behnke, Joachim Köhler

Comments Accepted to appear in Findings of ACL 2021 (camera-ready version)

Dynamic Semantic Graph Construction and Reasoning for Explainable Multi-hop Science Question Answering

Weiwen Xu, Huihui Zhang, Deng Cai, Wai Lam

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL 2021

ConSERT: A Contrastive Framework for Self-Supervised Sentence Representation Transfer

Yuanmeng Yan, Rumei Li, Sirui Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Wei Wu, Weiran Xu

Comments Accepted by ACL2021, 10 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

Guiding the Growth: Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation through Step-by-Step Rewriting

Yi Cheng, Siyao Li, Bang Liu, Ruihui Zhao, Sujian Li, Chenghua Lin, Yefeng Zheng

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 (long paper)

Using Adversarial Attacks to Reveal the Statistical Bias in Machine Reading Comprehension Models

Jieyu Lin, Jiajie Zou, Nai Ding

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

CiteWorth: Cite-Worthiness Detection for Improved Scientific Document Understanding

Dustin Wright, Isabelle Augenstein

Comments 12 pages, 9 tables, 1 figure

Journal ref Findings of ACL 2021

On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text

Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Nikolaos Aletras

Comments Accepted at ACL Findings 2021

Positional Artefacts Propagate Through Masked Language Model Embeddings

Ziyang Luo, Artur Kulmizev, Xiaoxi Mao

Comments Accepted as long paper at ACL 2021

Few-Shot Upsampling for Protest Size Detection

Andrew Halterman, Benjamin J. Radford

Comments Accepted into Findings of ACL 2021

Cross-lingual Text Classification with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Ziyun Wang, Xuan Liu, Peiji Yang, Shixing Liu, Zhisheng Wang

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 (short paper)

StructuralLM: Structural Pre-training for Form Understanding

Chenliang Li, Bin Bi, Ming Yan, Wei Wang, Songfang Huang, Fei Huang, Luo Si

Comments Accepted by ACL2021 main conference

Retrieval Enhanced Model for Commonsense Generation

Han Wang, Yang Liu, Chenguang Zhu, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Yichong Xu, Michael Zeng

Comments Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

One2Set: Generating Diverse Keyphrases as a Set

Jiacheng Ye, Tao Gui, Yichao Luo, Yige Xu, Qi Zhang

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021

Controlling Text Edition by Changing Answers of Specific Questions

Lei Sha, Patrick Hohenecker, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Journal ref ACL 2021 findings

Structural Pre-training for Dialogue Comprehension

Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Comments Accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference

OntoEA: Ontology-guided Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Graph Embedding

Yuejia Xiang, Ziheng Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Xi Chen, Zhenxi Lin, Yefeng Zheng

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL 2021

A Computational Framework for Slang Generation

Zhewei Sun, Richard Zemel, Yang Xu

Comments Accepted for publication in TACL 2021. Author's final version

Journal ref Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021; 9 462-478

EmpLite: A Lightweight Sequence Labeling Model for Emphasis Selection of Short Texts

Vibhav Agarwal, Sourav Ghosh, Kranti Chalamalasetti, Bharath Challa, Sonal Kumari, Harshavardhana, Barath Raj Kandur Raja

Comments Accepted for publication in ICON 2020: 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

Journal ref 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Patna, India, December 18 - 21, 2020, pages 19-26, ACL Anthology: 2020.icon-1.3

ERNIE-Doc: A Retrospective Long-Document Modeling Transformer

Siyu Ding, Junyuan Shang, Shuohuan Wang, Yu Sun, Hao Tian, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Comments Accepted by ACL 2021 (main conference, long paper)

Improving BERT with Syntax-aware Local Attention

Zhongli Li, Qingyu Zhou, Chao Li, Ke Xu, Yunbo Cao

Comments In ACL Findings 2021

Few-Shot Event Detection with Prototypical Amortized Conditional Random Field

Xin Cong, Shiyao Cui, Bowen Yu, Tingwen Liu, Yubin Wang, Bin Wang

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021

Unsupervised Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Parallel Corpus Mining

Ivana Kvapilıkova, Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre, Ondřej Bojar

Comments ACL SRW 2020

Journal ref Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop, pages 255-262, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Rule Augmented Unsupervised Constituency Parsing

Atul Sahay, Anshul Nasery, Ayush Maheshwari, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Rishabh Iyer

Comments Accepted at Findings of ACL 2021. 10 Pages, 5 Tables, 2 Figures