ACL

TriggerNER: Learning with Entity Triggers as Explanations for Named Entity Recognition

Bill Yuchen Lin, Dong-Ho Lee, Ming Shen, Ryan Moreno, Xiao Huang, Prashant Shiralkar, Xiang Ren

Comments Accepted to the ACL 2020. Project page: https://inklab.usc.edu/TriggerNER/ (Fixed a few typos and added a new figure.)

Journal ref Proc. of ACL 2020, page 8503--8511

S2ORC: The Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus

Kyle Lo, Lucy Lu Wang, Mark Neumann, Rodney Kinney, Dan S. Weld

Comments ACL 2020

Bilingual Dictionary Based Neural Machine Translation without Using Parallel Sentences

Xiangyu Duan, Baijun Ji, Hao Jia, Min Tan, Min Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo, Yue Zhang

Comments Accepted by ACL2020

Low Rank Fusion based Transformers for Multimodal Sequences

Saurav Sahay, Eda Okur, Shachi H Kumar, Lama Nachman

Comments ACL 2020 workshop on Second Grand Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language

Worse WER, but Better BLEU? Leveraging Word Embedding as Intermediate in Multitask End-to-End Speech Translation

Shun-Po Chuang, Tzu-Wei Sung, Alexander H. Liu, Hung-yi Lee

Comments Accepted by ACL 2020

Crossing Variational Autoencoders for Answer Retrieval

Wenhao Yu, Lingfei Wu, Qingkai Zeng, Shu Tao, Yu Deng, Meng Jiang

Comments Accepted to ACL 2020

On-The-Fly Information Retrieval Augmentation for Language Models

Hai Wang, David McAllester

Comments ACL 2020 NUSE Workshop

AdvAug: Robust Adversarial Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang, Wolfgang Macherey, Jacob Eisenstein

Comments published at ACL2020

MixingBoard: a Knowledgeable Stylized Integrated Text Generation Platform

Xiang Gao, Michel Galley, Bill Dolan

Comments accepted at ACL 2020

Successfully Applying the Stabilized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to the Transformer Architecture

Christopher Brix, Parnia Bahar, Hermann Ney

Comments Accepted at ACL2020; evaluation corrected: magnitude pruning may be useful to find winning lottery tickets

Empower Entity Set Expansion via Language Model Probing

Yunyi Zhang, Jiaming Shen, Jingbo Shang, Jiawei Han

Comments ACL 2020

Modeling Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions

Radhika Gaonkar, Heeyoung Kwon, Mohaddeseh Bastan, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Nathanael Chambers

Comments 6 pages, 2 figures, published in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

A Tale of Two Perplexities: Sensitivity of Neural Language Models to Lexical Retrieval Deficits in Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type

Trevor Cohen, Serguei Pakhomov

Comments To be published in the Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)

Efficient Second-Order TreeCRF for Neural Dependency Parsing

Yu Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang

Comments ACL 2020

Tetra-Tagging: Word-Synchronous Parsing with Linear-Time Inference

Nikita Kitaev, Dan Klein

Comments ACL 2020

Video-Grounded Dialogues with Pretrained Generation Language Models

Hung Le, Steven C. H. Hoi

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020 (Short Paper)

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics (2020) 5842-5848

Automatic Domain Adaptation Outperforms Manual Domain Adaptation for Predicting Financial Outcomes

Marina Sedinkina, Nikolas Breitkopf, Hinrich Schütze

Comments Accepted at ACL2019

Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering

Yufang Hou

Comments accepted at ACL2020. This version is slightly different than the ACL2020 camera-ready version. Thanks for Massimo Poesio's comments, I've made two small changes to describe GNOME and the work in Poesio et al. (2004) more accurately

A Methodology for Creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation

Jan Deriu, Katsiaryna Mlynchyk, Philippe Schläpfer, Alvaro Rodrigo, Dirk von Grünigen, Nicolas Kaiser, Kurt Stockinger, Eneko Agirre, Mark Cieliebak

Journal ref Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020

Extract with Order for Coherent Multi-Document Summarization

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Yllias Chali

Comments TextGraphs-11 at ACL 2017

Benchmark and Best Practices for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Embeddings

David Chang, Ivana Balazevic, Carl Allen, Daniel Chawla, Cynthia Brandt, Richard Andrew Taylor

Comments Accepted to BioNLP 2020 at ACL

Pointwise Paraphrase Appraisal is Potentially Problematic

Hannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans

Comments ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop

Journal ref Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (2020) 150-155

Differentiable Window for Dynamic Local Attention

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020

Efficient Constituency Parsing by Pointing

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020

Distill, Adapt, Distill: Training Small, In-Domain Models for Neural Machine Translation

Mitchell A. Gordon, Kevin Duh

Comments Accepted to WNGT 2020 Workshop at ACL 2020 Conference. Code is at http://github.com/mitchellgordon95/kd-aug

Improving Image Captioning with Better Use of Captions

Zhan Shi, Xu Zhou, Xipeng Qiu, Xiaodan Zhu

Comments ACL 2020

Modeling Global and Local Node Contexts for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs

Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Yue Zhang, Claire Gardent, Iryna Gurevych

Comments Accepted for publication in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020; Author's final version; pre-MIT Press publication version

A Novel Cascade Binary Tagging Framework for Relational Triple Extraction

Zhepei Wei, Jianlin Su, Yue Wang, Yuan Tian, Yi Chang

Comments Accepted by ACL 2020. Code and data are available at: https://github.com/weizhepei/CasRel

A Self-Training Method for Machine Reading Comprehension with Soft Evidence Extraction

Yilin Niu, Fangkai Jiao, Mantong Zhou, Ting Yao, Jingfang Xu, Minlie Huang

Comments 12 pages, accepted by ACL 2020

Span Selection Pre-training for Question Answering

Michael Glass, Alfio Gliozzo, Rishav Chakravarti, Anthony Ferritto, Lin Pan, G P Shrivatsa Bhargav, Dinesh Garg, Avirup Sil

Comments Accepted at ACL2020