EMNLP

Teach Me What to Say and I Will Learn What to Pick: Unsupervised Knowledge Selection Through Response Generation with Pretrained Generative Models

Ehsan Lotfi, Maxime De Bruyn, Jeska Buhmann, Walter Daelemans

Comments Accepted at ConvAI workshop (EMNLP 2021)

Truth-Conditional Captioning of Time Series Data

Harsh Jhamtani, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Comments EMNLP 2021

On the Complementarity between Pre-Training and Back-Translation for Neural Machine Translation

Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu

Comments Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2021

ContractNLI: A Dataset for Document-level Natural Language Inference for Contracts

Yuta Koreeda, Christopher D. Manning

Comments Accepted at the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021

Privacy enabled Financial Text Classification using Differential Privacy and Federated Learning

Priyam Basu, Tiasa Singha Roy, Rakshit Naidu, Zumrut Muftuoglu

Comments 4 pages. Accepted at ECONLP-EMNLP'21

TLDR9+: A Large Scale Resource for Extreme Summarization of Social Media Posts

Sajad Sotudeh, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, Nazli Goharian

Comments Accepted to New Frontiers in Summarization Workshop (EMNLP 2021)

MFAQ: a Multilingual FAQ Dataset

Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann, Walter Daelemans

Comments Accepted at MRQA workshop (EMNLP 2021)

Generalization in NLI: Ways (Not) To Go Beyond Simple Heuristics

Prajjwal Bhargava, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rogers

Comments Workshop on Insights from Negative Results (EMNLP 2021)

Putting Words in BERT's Mouth: Navigating Contextualized Vector Spaces with Pseudowords

Taelin Karidi, Yichu Zhou, Nathan Schneider, Omri Abend, Vivek Srikumar

Comments EMNLP 2021 camera-ready version

Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression

Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, Furu Wei

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2021 (main conference)

SPaR.txt, a cheap Shallow Parsing approach for Regulatory texts

Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson, Bimal Kumar

Comments To be published in the NLLP workshop at EMNLP 2021, 9 pages (15 including reference and appendices). For the ScotReg corpus, SPaR.txt dataset and code see: http://github.com/rubenkruiper/SPaR.txt

Leveraging Information Bottleneck for Scientific Document Summarization

Jiaxin Ju, Ming Liu, Huan Yee Koh, Yuan Jin, Lan Du, Shirui Pan

Comments Accepted at EMNLP 2021 Findings

Revisiting Self-Training for Few-Shot Learning of Language Model

Yiming Chen, Yan Zhang, Chen Zhang, Grandee Lee, Ran Cheng, Haizhou Li

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2021

Structured abbreviation expansion in context

Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat

Comments Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2021

Probing Language Models for Understanding of Temporal Expressions

Shivin Thukral, Kunal Kukreja, Christian Kavouras

Comments Accepted for publication in BlackboxNLP (EMNLP 2021)

Project Debater APIs: Decomposing the AI Grand Challenge

Roy Bar-Haim, Yoav Kantor, Elad Venezian, Yoav Katz, Noam Slonim

Comments EMNLP 2021 (Demonstrations)

Mapping Language to Programs using Multiple Reward Components with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

Comments Accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2021

Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation

Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Comments EMNLP 2021 Main Conference

Investigating Robustness of Dialog Models to Popular Figurative Language Constructs

Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Comments EMNLP 2021 Short Paper

Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models

Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan

Comments 15 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables

Journal ref Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2021

From None to Severe: Predicting Severity in Movie Scripts

Yigeng Zhang, Mahsa Shafaei, Fabio Gonzalez, Thamar Solorio

Comments Accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2021

Don't Search for a Search Method -- Simple Heuristics Suffice for Adversarial Text Attacks

Nathaniel Berger, Stefan Riezler, Artem Sokolov, Sebastian Ebert

Comments Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Main Conference)

Vyākarana: A Colorless Green Benchmark for Syntactic Evaluation in Indic Languages

Rajaswa Patil, Jasleen Dhillon, Siddhant Mahurkar, Saumitra Kulkarni, Manav Malhotra, Veeky Baths

Comments Accepted at the Multilingual Representation Learning workshop (EMNLP 2021)

Improving Punctuation Restoration for Speech Transcripts via External Data

Xue-Yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shashi Bhushan TN, Simon Corston-Oliver

Comments Accepted by W-NUT at EMNLP 2021

VideoCLIP: Contrastive Pre-training for Zero-shot Video-Text Understanding

Hu Xu, Gargi Ghosh, Po-Yao Huang, Dmytro Okhonko, Armen Aghajanyan, Florian Metze, Luke Zettlemoyer, Christoph Feichtenhofer

Comments EMNLP 2021

BERT4GCN: Using BERT Intermediate Layers to Augment GCN for Aspect-based Sentiment Classification

Zeguan Xiao, Jiarun Wu, Qingliang Chen, Congjian Deng

Comments To appear in EMNLP 2021, 8 pages, 2 figures

On the Influence of Masking Policies in Intermediate Pre-training

Qinyuan Ye, Belinda Z. Li, Sinong Wang, Benjamin Bolte, Hao Ma, Wen-tau Yih, Xiang Ren, Madian Khabsa

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2021. Camera-ready version

CrossFit: A Few-shot Learning Challenge for Cross-task Generalization in NLP

Qinyuan Ye, Bill Yuchen Lin, Xiang Ren

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2021. Camera-ready version. Code: https://github.com/INK-USC/CrossFit

Moving on from OntoNotes: Coreference Resolution Model Transfer

Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme

Comments EMNLP 2021

Inducing Transformer's Compositional Generalization Ability via Auxiliary Sequence Prediction Tasks

Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

Comments EMNLP 2021 (13 pages)