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Structure-Tags Improve Text Classification for Scholarly Document Quality Prediction

Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Thomas van Dongen, Eleri Aedmaa, Herbert Teun Kruitbosch, Edwin A. Valentijn, Lambert Schomaker

Comments This new version of the paper brings the paper up-to-date with the improved paper, published at the First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing, at EMNLP 2020. .Additionally, minor corrections were made including addition of color to Figures 1,2. The changes in comparison to the first arXiv version are substantial, including various additional results, and substantial improvements to the text

Journal ref Proceedings of the First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. (2020) 158-167. EMNLP|SDP 2020 https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sdp-1.18

Fluent Response Generation for Conversational Question Answering

Ashutosh Baheti, Alan Ritter, Kevin Small

Comments 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics

NLPStatTest: A Toolkit for Comparing NLP System Performance

Haotian Zhu, Denise Mak, Jesse Gioannini, Fei Xia

Comments Will appear in AACL-IJCNLP 2020

Journal ref Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (2020) 40-46

Intent Detection with WikiHow

Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch

Comments In AACL-IJCNLP 2020

Journal ref Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (2020) 328-333

LXPER Index 2.0: Improving Text Readability Assessment Model for L2 English Students in Korea

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Lee

Comments NLP-TEA 2020, Association for Computational Linguistics

Journal ref Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, 2020

Conversational Word Embedding for Retrieval-Based Dialog System

Wentao Ma, Yiming Cui, Ting Liu, Dong Wang, Shijin Wang, Guoping Hu

Comments To appear at ACL 2020

TextBrewer: An Open-Source Knowledge Distillation Toolkit for Natural Language Processing

Ziqing Yang, Yiming Cui, Zhipeng Chen, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Shijin Wang, Guoping Hu

Comments To appear at ACL 2020 Demo Session

TurnGPT: a Transformer-based Language Model for Predicting Turn-taking in Spoken Dialog

Erik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020

Word-level Textual Adversarial Attacking as Combinatorial Optimization

Yuan Zang, Fanchao Qi, Chenghao Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Meng Zhang, Qun Liu, Maosong Sun

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020 as a long paper (a typo is corrected as compared with the official conference camera-ready version). 16 pages, 3 figures

Extractive Opinion Summarization in Quantized Transformer Spaces

Stefanos Angelidis, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Yoshihiko Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, Mirella Lapata

Comments To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL); 16 pages

Multi-Element Long Distance Dependencies: Using SPk Languages to Explore the Characteristics of Long-Distance Dependencies

Abhijit Mahalunkar, John D. Kelleher

Comments To appear in ACL 2019 workshop on Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.02966

Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution

Yang Trista Cao, Hal Daumé

Comments 28 pages; ACL version

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020) 4568-4595

Learning as Abduction: Trainable Natural Logic Theorem Prover for Natural Language Inference

Lasha Abzianidze

Comments Presented at *SEM, see the official link https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.starsem-1.3 The code available at https://github.com/kovvalsky/LangPro

Journal ref Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). ACL. pp. 20-31. 2020

Language Generation via Combinatorial Constraint Satisfaction: A Tree Search Enhanced Monte-Carlo Approach

Maosen Zhang, Nan Jiang, Lei Li, Yexiang Xue

Comments Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 1286-1298. November 16 - 20, 2020. 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 1286-1298. November 16 - 20, 2020. 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics

Improving Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Data

Jiawei Zhou, Phillip Keung

Comments Published in ACL 2020

Highway Transformer: Self-Gating Enhanced Self-Attentive Networks

Yekun Chai, Shuo Jin, Xinwen Hou

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020

Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles

Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Marco Moresi, Milica Gašić

Comments 7 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Findings of EMNLP 2020, code available at: https://gitlab.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/general/dsml/calibrating-dialogue-belief-state-distributions

Journal ref Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, Pages 3096-3102; Association for Computational Linguistics

Self-Attention with Cross-Lingual Position Representation

Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Dacheng Tao

Comments To appear in ACL 2020

What do we expect from Multiple-choice QA Systems?

Krunal Shah, Nitish Gupta, Dan Roth

Comments Findings of EMNLP 2020

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 pg. 3547-3553

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation for Reading Comprehension

Max Bartolo, Alastair Roberts, Johannes Welbl, Sebastian Riedel, Pontus Stenetorp

Journal ref Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 8, 2020 p.662-678

Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues

Hyundong Cho, Jonathan May

Comments ACL2020 Camera Ready; 9 pages + 5 page appendix

ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation

Yutao Zhu, Ruihua Song, Zhicheng Dou, Jian-Yun Nie, Jin Zhou

Comments ACL 2020 Camera Ready

Code and Named Entity Recognition in StackOverflow

Jeniya Tabassum, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Comments updated with better results. (To appear in ACL 2020)

CLAR: A Cross-Lingual Argument Regularizer for Semantic Role Labeling

Ishan Jindal, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Huaiyu Zhu

Comments EMNLP 2020, ACL Findings

Latent Compositional Representations Improve Systematic Generalization in Grounded Question Answering

Ben Bogin, Sanjay Subramanian, Matt Gardner, Jonathan Berant

Comments Accepted for publication in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020. Author's final version

Conversation Graph: Data Augmentation, Training and Evaluation for Non-Deterministic Dialogue Management

Milan Gritta, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ignacio Iacobacci

Comments Accepted at Transactions of Association of Computational Linguistics (to be presented at ACL 2021)

Learning Spoken Language Representations with Neural Lattice Language Modeling

Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

Comments Published in ACL 2020 as a short paper

PaperRobot: Incremental Draft Generation of Scientific Ideas

Qingyun Wang, Lifu Huang, Zhiying Jiang, Kevin Knight, Heng Ji, Mohit Bansal, Yi Luan

Comments 12 pages. Accepted by ACL 2019 Code and resource is available at https://github.com/EagleW/PaperRobot

Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism

Qingyun Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Lifu Huang, Spencer Whitehead, Boliang Zhang, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight

Comments * Equal contribution. 6 pages. Accepted by ACL 2018; The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/EagleW/Writing-editing-Network

A little goes a long way: Improving toxic language classification despite data scarcity

Mika Juuti, Tommi Gröndahl, Adrian Flanagan, N. Asokan

Comments To appear in Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020