EMNLP

Scaling Hidden Markov Language Models

Justin T. Chiu, Alexander M. Rush

Comments 9 pages, accepted as a short paper at EMNLP 2020

Journal ref EMNLP 2020

Generating Image Descriptions via Sequential Cross-Modal Alignment Guided by Human Gaze

Ece Takmaz, Sandro Pezzelle, Lisa Beinborn, Raquel Fernández

Comments In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)

Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts

Ece Takmaz, Mario Giulianelli, Sandro Pezzelle, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández

Comments In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)

Character-level Representations Improve DRS-based Semantic Parsing Even in the Age of BERT

Rik van Noord, Antonio Toral, Johan Bos

Comments EMNLP 2020 (long)

CapWAP: Captioning with a Purpose

Adam Fisch, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Jonathan H. Clark, Regina Barzilay

Comments EMNLP 2020

Chapter Captor: Text Segmentation in Novels

Charuta Pethe, Allen Kim, Steven Skiena

Comments 11 pages, 10 figures, Accepted at EMNLP 2020 as a long paper

What time is it? Temporal Analysis of Novels

Allen Kim, Charuta Pethe, Steven Skiena

Comments EMNLP 2020

Detecting Emerging Symptoms of COVID-19 using Context-based Twitter Embeddings

Roshan Santosh, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Lyle H. Ungar, Sharath C. Guntuku

Comments In proceedings of EMNLP 2020 (Empirical Methods in NLP) workshop on COVID-19

Denoising Relation Extraction from Document-level Distant Supervision

Chaojun Xiao, Yuan Yao, Ruobing Xie, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Fen Lin, Leyu Lin

Comments EMNLP 2020 short paper

Learning to Model and Ignore Dataset Bias with Mixed Capacity Ensembles

Christopher Clark, Mark Yatskar, Luke Zettlemoyer

Comments In EMNLP Findings

Learning a Cost-Effective Annotation Policy for Question Answering

Bernhard Kratzwald, Stefan Feuerriegel, Huan Sun

Comments Accepted at EMNLP 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi Fasubaa, Tajudeen Kolawole, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo, Salomey Osei, Sackey Freshia, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa, Mofe Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Jane Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Emezue, Bonaventure Dossou, Blessing Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir

Comments Findings of EMNLP 2020; updated benchmarks

An Empirical Study of Pre-trained Transformers for Arabic Information Extraction

Wuwei Lan, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Comments 8 pages, EMNLP 2020

Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil

Comments Accepted in Findings of EMNLP 2020

EXAMS: A Multi-Subject High School Examinations Dataset for Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Question Answering

Momchil Hardalov, Todor Mihaylov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Yoan Dinkov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov

Comments EMNLP 2020, 17 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables

Quantifying Intimacy in Language

Jiaxin Pei, David Jurgens

Comments EMNLP 2020

MEGA RST Discourse Treebanks with Structure and Nuclearity from Scalable Distant Sentiment Supervision

Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini

Comments In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 9 pages

Competence-Level Prediction and Resume & Job Description Matching Using Context-Aware Transformer Models

Changmao Li, Elaine Fisher, Rebecca Thomas, Steve Pittard, Vicki Hertzberg, Jinho D. Choi

Comments Accepted by the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)

Entity Linking in 100 Languages

Jan A. Botha, Zifei Shan, Daniel Gillick

Comments 13 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables; published at EMNLP 2020

Context-Aware Answer Extraction in Question Answering

Yeon Seonwoo, Ji-Hoon Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Alice Oh

Comments EMNLP 2020

Improving Event Duration Prediction via Time-aware Pre-training

Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Alexander Rush, Claire Cardie

Comments to be published in Findings of EMNLP 2020

Extracting Chemical-Protein Interactions via Calibrated Deep Neural Network and Self-training

Dongha Choi, Hyunju Lee

Comments 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for the Findings of EMNLP

Generating Synthetic Data for Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing with Hierarchical Representations

Ke Tran, Ming Tan

Comments Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP, EMNLP 2020

Finding Friends and Flipping Frenemies: Automatic Paraphrase Dataset Augmentation Using Graph Theory

Hannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans

Comments EMNLP 2020 (Findings)

Detecting Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation for Model-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks

Denis Emelin, Ivan Titov, Rico Sennrich

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2020

Cross-Media Keyphrase Prediction: A Unified Framework with Multi-Modality Multi-Head Attention and Image Wordings

Yue Wang, Jing Li, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King

Comments EMNLP 2020 (14 pages)

DAGA: Data Augmentation with a Generation Approach for Low-resource Tagging Tasks

Bosheng Ding, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, Canasai Kruengkrai, Thien Hai Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Luo Si, Chunyan Miao

Comments Accepted by EMNLP 2020

Grid Tagging Scheme for Aspect-oriented Fine-grained Opinion Extraction

Zhen Wu, Chengcan Ying, Fei Zhao, Zhifang Fan, Xinyu Dai, Rui Xia

Comments Accepted by Findings of EMNLP

BERT-QE: Contextualized Query Expansion for Document Re-ranking

Zhi Zheng, Kai Hui, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Andrew Yates

Comments Accepted in EMNLP-Findings 2020

Weakly- and Semi-supervised Evidence Extraction

Danish Pruthi, Bhuwan Dhingra, Graham Neubig, Zachary C. Lipton

Comments Accepted to the Findings of EMNLP 2020, to be presented at BlackBoxNLP