ACL

Cross-Modality Relevance for Reasoning on Language and Vision

Chen Zheng, Quan Guo, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Comments Accepted by ACL 2020

Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension

Bo Zheng, Haoyang Wen, Yaobo Liang, Nan Duan, Wanxiang Che, Daxin Jiang, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu

Comments ACL2020

Diversifying Dialogue Generation with Non-Conversational Text

Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Sanqiang Zhao, Xiao Zhou, Pengwei Hu, Randy Zhong, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou

Comments Accepted to ACL 2020 (long)

ENGINE: Energy-Based Inference Networks for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

Lifu Tu, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel

Comments ACL 2020 camera-ready version

SpellGCN: Incorporating Phonological and Visual Similarities into Language Models for Chinese Spelling Check

Xingyi Cheng, Weidi Xu, Kunlong Chen, Shaohua Jiang, Feng Wang, Taifeng Wang, Wei Chu, Yuan Qi

Comments Accepted by ACL2020

Learning to Customize Model Structures for Few-shot Dialogue Generation Tasks

Yiping Song, Zequn Liu, Wei Bi, Rui Yan, Ming Zhang

Comments To appear at ACL 2020

Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Better Language Modeling: A Syntactic Distance Approach

Wenyu Du, Zhouhan Lin, Yikang Shen, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Yoshua Bengio, Yue Zhang

Comments ACL20

Prta: A System to Support the Analysis of Propaganda Techniques in the News

Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Yifan Zhang, Seunghak Yu, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Preslav Nakov

Comments propaganda, disinformation, fake news, media bias, COVID-19

Journal ref ACL-2020

WinoWhy: A Deep Diagnosis of Essential Commonsense Knowledge for Answering Winograd Schema Challenge

Hongming Zhang, Xinran Zhao, Yangqiu Song

Comments Accepted by ACL 2020

On the Robustness of Language Encoders against Grammatical Errors

Fan Yin, Quanyu Long, Tao Meng, Kai-Wei Chang

Comments ACL 2020

Learning and Evaluating Emotion Lexicons for 91 Languages

Sven Buechel, Susanna Rücker, Udo Hahn

Comments ACL 2020 Camera-Ready

MultiQT: Multimodal Learning for Real-Time Question Tracking in Speech

Jakob D. Havtorn, Jan Latko, Joakim Edin, Lasse Borgholt, Lars Maaløe, Lorenzo Belgrano, Nicolai F. Jacobsen, Regitze Sdun, Željko Agić

Comments Accepted at ACL 2020

One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of Keyphrases

Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He, Adam Trischler

Comments ACL 2020

Neighborhood Matching Network for Entity Alignment

Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao

Comments 11 pages, accepted by ACL 2020

Simultaneous paraphrasing and translation by fine-tuning Transformer models

Rakesh Chada

Comments Accepted to ACL 2020 4th workshop on Neural Generation and Translation

MART: Memory-Augmented Recurrent Transformer for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning

Jie Lei, Liwei Wang, Yelong Shen, Dong Yu, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

Comments ACL 2020 (12 pages)

Empowering Active Learning to Jointly Optimize System and User Demands

Ji-Ung Lee, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

Comments To appear as a long paper in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020). Download our code and simulated user models at github: https://github.com/UKPLab/acl2020-empowering-active-learning

Generalized Entropy Regularization or: There's Nothing Special about Label Smoothing

Clara Meister, Elizabeth Salesky, Ryan Cotterell

Comments Published as long paper at ACL 2020

Every Document Owns Its Structure: Inductive Text Classification via Graph Neural Networks

Yufeng Zhang, Xueli Yu, Zeyu Cui, Shu Wu, Zhongzhen Wen, Liang Wang

Comments To appear at ACL 2020

TVQA+: Spatio-Temporal Grounding for Video Question Answering

Jie Lei, Licheng Yu, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

Comments ACL 2020 camera-ready (15 pages)

Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations

Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Marek Rei, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen

Comments ACL 2020 (Long paper)

Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models

Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Douglas Eck, Chris Callison-Burch

Comments ACL 2020 short paper

Leveraging Monolingual Data with Self-Supervision for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Aditya Siddhant, Ankur Bapna, Yuan Cao, Orhan Firat, Mia Chen, Sneha Kudugunta, Naveen Arivazhagan, Yonghui Wu

Journal ref ACL 2020

Posterior Control of Blackbox Generation

Xiang Lisa Li, Alexander M. Rush

Comments Accepted for publication at ACL 2020

What Was Written vs. Who Read It: News Media Profiling Using Text Analysis and Social Media Context

Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, James Glass, Preslav Nakov

Comments Factuality of reporting, fact-checking, political ideology, media bias, disinformation, propaganda, social media, news media

Journal ref ACL-2020

Temporal Common Sense Acquisition with Minimal Supervision

Ben Zhou, Qiang Ning, Daniel Khashabi, Dan Roth

Comments Accepted by ACL 2020

Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards

Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Comments 14 pages, 6 figures, code available through the Cornell Conversational Analysis Toolkit (https://convokit.cornell.edu/). in Proceedings of ACL, 2020

Learning Implicit Text Generation via Feature Matching

Inkit Padhi, Pierre Dognin, Ke Bai, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Youssef Mroueh, Payel Das

Comments ACL 2020

Autoencoding Pixies: Amortised Variational Inference with Graph Convolutions for Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Emerson

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

To Test Machine Comprehension, Start by Defining Comprehension

Jesse Dunietz, Gregory Burnham, Akash Bharadwaj, Owen Rambow, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, David Ferrucci

Comments Camera-ready ACL 2020 paper (Theme track). 9 pages; 3 figures; 1 table