EMNLP

Bilingual Alignment Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer

Ziqing Yang, Wentao Ma, Yiming Cui, Jiani Ye, Wanxiang Che, Shijin Wang

Comments 5 pages; accepted to MRQA 2021 @ EMNLP 2021

Journal ref Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA 2021)

TWEETSUMM -- A Dialog Summarization Dataset for Customer Service

Guy Feigenblat, Chulaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Sznajder, Sachindra Joshi, David Konopnicki, Ranit Aharonov

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP (2021) 245--260

MS2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies

Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen, Bailey Kuehl, Lucy Lu Wang

Comments 8 pages of content, 20 pages including references and appendix. See https://github.com/allenai/ms2/ for code, https://ai2-s2-ms2.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ms_data_2021-04-12.zip for data (1.8G, zipped) Published in EMNLP 2021 @ https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.594/

How Emotionally Stable is ALBERT? Testing Robustness with Stochastic Weight Averaging on a Sentiment Analysis Task

Urja Khurana, Eric Nalisnick, Antske Fokkens

Comments Accepted at the second workshop on Evaluation & Comparison of NLP Systems, co-located at EMNLP 2021. Cite ACL version

Rationales for Sequential Predictions

Keyon Vafa, Yuntian Deng, David M. Blei, Alexander M. Rush

Comments Appeared in the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021)

Under the Hood: Using Diagnostic Classifiers to Investigate and Improve how Language Models Track Agreement Information

Mario Giulianelli, Jacqueline Harding, Florian Mohnert, Dieuwke Hupkes, Willem Zuidema

Comments Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers

Richard Shin, Christopher H. Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Jason Eisner, Benjamin Van Durme

Comments EMNLP 2021. Code is available at https://github.com/microsoft/semantic_parsing_with_constrained_lm

Convex Aggregation for Opinion Summarization

Hayate Iso, Xiaolan Wang, Yoshihiko Suhara, Stefanos Angelidis, Wang-Chiew Tan

Comments Findings of EMNLP 2021

Coral: An Approach for Conversational Agents in Mental Health Applications

Harsh Sakhrani, Saloni Parekh, Shubham Mahajan

Comments Accepted at the 5th Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP-WiNLP), 2021

Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Joint Slot Modeling

Ting-Rui Chiang, Yi-Ting Yeh

Comments Accepted to the 3rd Workshop on NLP for ConvAI in EMNLP 2021

Efficient Nearest Neighbor Language Models

Junxian He, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Comments EMNLP 2021. Update to fix typos. Code is at https://github.com/jxhe/efficient-knnlm

Variation and generality in encoding of syntactic anomaly information in sentence embeddings

Qinxuan Wu, Allyson Ettinger

Comments BlackBoxNLP, EMNLP

Does BERT Learn as Humans Perceive? Understanding Linguistic Styles through Lexica

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang, Lyle Ungar

Comments Accepted at EMNLP 2021 Main Conference, updated typos and Appendix

A Novel Corpus of Discourse Structure in Humans and Computers

Babak Hemmatian, Sheridan Feucht, Rachel Avram, Alexander Wey, Muskaan Garg, Kate Spitalnic, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick, Bjorn Sandstede, Steven Sloman

Comments In the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2021 (extended abstract). 3 pages

Learning Logic Rules for Document-level Relation Extraction

Dongyu Ru, Changzhi Sun, Jiangtao Feng, Lin Qiu, Hao Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Lei Li

Comments Appear at EMNLP 2021 main conference

Corrected CBOW Performs as well as Skip-gram

Ozan İrsoy, Adrian Benton, Karl Stratos

Comments Presented at WINR at EMNLP 2021, added discussion about FastText, more discussion about findings, additional results on C4 data, wording changes

Detecting Depression in Thai Blog Posts: a Dataset and a Baseline

Mika Hämäläinen, Pattama Patpong, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter

Comments Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (at EMNLP)

Efficient Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Alexandre Berard, Dain Lee, Stéphane Clinchant, Kweonwoo Jung, Vassilina Nikoulina

Comments EMNLP 2021 long paper

Mr. TyDi: A Multi-lingual Benchmark for Dense Retrieval

Xinyu Zhang, Xueguang Ma, Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin

Comments Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning at EMNLP 2021

WebSRC: A Dataset for Web-Based Structural Reading Comprehension

Xingyu Chen, Zihan Zhao, Lu Chen, Danyang Zhang, Jiabao Ji, Ao Luo, Yuxuan Xiong, Kai Yu

Comments EMNLP 2021

Finnish Dialect Identification: The Effect of Audio and Text

Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter

Comments EMNLP 2021

$k$Folden: $k$-Fold Ensemble for Out-Of-Distribution Detection

Xiaoya Li, Jiwei Li, Xiaofei Sun, Chun Fan, Tianwei Zhang, Fei Wu, Yuxian Meng, Jun Zhang

Comments To appear at EMNLP 2021

Case-based Reasoning for Natural Language Queries over Knowledge Bases

Rajarshi Das, Manzil Zaheer, Dung Thai, Ameya Godbole, Ethan Perez, Jay-Yoon Lee, Lizhen Tan, Lazaros Polymenakos, Andrew McCallum

Comments EMNLP 2021

Towards Label-Agnostic Emotion Embeddings

Sven Buechel, Luise Modersohn, Udo Hahn

Comments EMNLP 2021 camera-ready version

ValNorm Quantifies Semantics to Reveal Consistent Valence Biases Across Languages and Over Centuries

Autumn Toney-Wails, Aylin Caliskan

Comments 16 pages, 3 figures, 12 tables

Journal ref Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2021

Grounded Graph Decoding Improves Compositional Generalization in Question Answering

Yu Gai, Paras Jain, Wendi Zhang, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Dawn Song, Ion Stoica

Comments To be published in Findings of EMNLP 2021. Code available at https://github.com/gaiyu0/cfq

Adversarial Attacks on Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Instance Attribution Methods

Peru Bhardwaj, John Kelleher, Luca Costabello, Declan O'Sullivan

Comments 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021)

SeqScore: Addressing Barriers to Reproducible Named Entity Recognition Evaluation

Chester Palen-Michel, Nolan Holley, Constantine Lignos

Comments To appear in proceedings of Eval4NLP 2021 (EMNLP 2021 workshop)

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation with Multilingual Pretrained Encoders

Guanhua Chen, Shuming Ma, Yun Chen, Li Dong, Dongdong Zhang, Jia Pan, Wenping Wang, Furu Wei

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2021. Code is available [here](https://github.com/ghchen18/emnlp2021-sixt)

CSAGN: Conversational Structure Aware Graph Network for Conversational Semantic Role Labeling

Han Wu, Kun Xu, Linqi Song

Comments To appear in EMNLP 2021