ACL

Happy Dance, Slow Clap: Using Reaction GIFs to Predict Induced Affect on Twitter

Boaz Shmueli, Soumya Ray, Lun-Wei Ku

Comments To be published in ACL 2021. 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

VisualSparta: An Embarrassingly Simple Approach to Large-scale Text-to-Image Search with Weighted Bag-of-words

Xiaopeng Lu, Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee

Comments Accepted to ACL2021 (10 pages)

Unified Dual-view Cognitive Model for Interpretable Claim Verification

Lianwei Wu, Yuan Rao, Yuqian Lan, Ling Sun, Zhaoyin Qi

Comments ACL 2021

Manual Evaluation Matters: Reviewing Test Protocols of Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

Tianyu Gao, Xu Han, Keyue Qiu, Yuzhuo Bai, Zhiyu Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou

Comments ACL 2021 Findings

Long Text Generation by Modeling Sentence-Level and Discourse-Level Coherence

Jian Guan, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Minlie Huang

Comments ACL 2021 Long Paper

OpenMEVA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Open-ended Story Generation Metrics

Jian Guan, Zhexin Zhang, Zhuoer Feng, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang

Comments ACL 2021 Long Paper

Effective Attention Sheds Light On Interpretability

Kaiser Sun, Ana Marasović

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL 2021

A Top-Down Neural Architecture towards Text-Level Parsing of Discourse Rhetorical Structure

Longyin Zhang, Yuqing Xing, Fang Kong, Peifeng Li, Guodong Zhou

Comments Accepted by ACL2020

Understanding the Properties of Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding in Neural Machine Translation

Mathias Müller, Rico Sennrich

Comments V1: ACL 2021 camera-ready

Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Facts: A Graph-based Approach

Quan Wang, Haifeng Wang, Yajuan Lyu, Yong Zhu

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL 2021

Relation Classification with Entity Type Restriction

Shengfei Lyu, Huanhuan Chen

Comments 6 pages,3 figures, accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Findings

LEWIS: Levenshtein Editing for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Machel Reid, Victor Zhong

Comments ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Findings)

REPT: Bridging Language Models and Machine Reading Comprehension via Retrieval-Based Pre-training

Fangkai Jiao, Yangyang Guo, Yilin Niu, Feng Ji, Feng-Lin Li, Liqiang Nie

Comments 14 pages, 3 figures, Findings of ACL 2021

Factoring Statutory Reasoning as Language Understanding Challenges

Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme

Comments 18 pages, 3 figures. To appear in ACL 2021

Automatic Fake News Detection: Are Models Learning to Reason?

Casper Hansen, Christian Hansen, Lucas Chaves Lima

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021

How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies

Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

Comments ACL 2021 (Long Paper)

Out-of-Manifold Regularization in Contextual Embedding Space for Text Classification

Seonghyeon Lee, Dongha Lee, Hwanjo Yu

Comments ACL2021 main conference

Neural-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoner with Relation Predictors

Farhad Moghimifar, Lizhen Qu, Yue Zhuo, Gholamreza Haffari, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Comments ACL2021

Conversational Negation using Worldly Context in Compositional Distributional Semantics

Benjamin Rodatz, Razin A. Shaikh, Lia Yeh

Comments 13 pages, 5 figures, To be published in Proceedings of SEMSPACE 2021 and to appear in the ACL anthology

Are Larger Pretrained Language Models Uniformly Better? Comparing Performance at the Instance Level

Ruiqi Zhong, Dhruba Ghosh, Dan Klein, Jacob Steinhardt

Comments ACL 2021 Findings. Code and data: https://github.com/ruiqi-zhong/acl2021-instance-level

MATE-KD: Masked Adversarial TExt, a Companion to Knowledge Distillation

Ahmad Rashid, Vasileios Lioutas, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021

Glancing Transformer for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation

Lihua Qian, Hao Zhou, Yu Bao, Mingxuan Wang, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Lei Li

Comments 9 pages, 7 figures, ACL2021

OutFlip: Generating Out-of-Domain Samples for Unknown Intent Detection with Natural Language Attack

DongHyun Choi, Myeong Cheol Shin, EungGyun Kim, Dong Ryeol Shin

Comments 9 pages, 3 figures; to be appear in ACL Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot

Philippe Laban, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst

Comments ACL2020 Demo Track, 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal ref ACL Demos (2020) 380-387

The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examples

Philippe Laban, Andrew Hsi, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst

Comments ACL2020, 16 pages, 9 figures

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics (2020) 5135-5150

Investigating the Reordering Capability in CTC-based Non-Autoregressive End-to-End Speech Translation

Shun-Po Chuang, Yung-Sung Chuang, Chih-Chiang Chang, Hung-yi Lee

Comments Accepted in Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Rationalization through Concepts

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Comments Accepted at ACL 2021 (findings). 15 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables

Accountable Error Characterization

Amita Misra, Zhe Liu, Jalal Mahmud

Comments Proceedings of the First Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing, TrustNLP@NAACL-HLT 2021, June 10, 2021, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

Assessing the Syntactic Capabilities of Transformer-based Multilingual Language Models

Laura Pérez-Mayos, Alba Táboas García, Simon Mille, Leo Wanner

Comments To be published in Findings of ACL 2021

DocOIE: A Document-level Context-Aware Dataset for OpenIE

Kuicai Dong, Yilin Zhao, Aixin Sun, Jung-Jae Kim, Xiaoli Li

Comments To appear in Findings of ACL 2021