Schedule

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Nov 16th
14:45
[UTC+00:00]
15 minutes

Opening Remarks

Nov 16th
15:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Keynote I: Claire Cardie

Nov 16th
16:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 1A: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Chair: Chenghua Lin (Sheffield)
  • Detecting Attackable Sentences in Arguments
  • Extracting Implicitly Asserted Propositions in Argumentation
  • Quantitative Argument Summarization and Beyond: Cross-Domain Key Point Analysis
  • Unsupervised Stance Detection for Arguments from Consequences

Zoom Q&A Session 1B: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Colin Cherry (Google)
  • BLEU might be Guilty but References are not Innocent
  • Statistical Power and Translationese in Machine Translation Evaluation
  • Simulated Multiple Reference Training Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation
  • Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation in Many Languages via Zero-Shot Paraphrasing
  • Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation

Zoom Q&A Session 1C: Question Answering

Chair: Avi Sil (IBM Research)
  • PRover: Proof Generation for Interpretable Reasoning over Rules
  • Learning to Explain: Datasets and Models for Identifying Valid Reasoning Chains in Multihop Question-Answering
  • Self-Supervised Knowledge Triplet Learning for Zero-Shot Question Answering
  • More Bang for Your Buck: Natural Perturbation for Robust Question Answering
  • What Does My QA Model Know? Devising Controlled Probes using Expert

Zoom Q&A Session 1D: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Chair: Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich)
  • A Matter of Framing: The Impact of Linguistic Formalism on Probing Results
  • Information-Theoretic Probing with Minimum Description Length
  • Intrinsic Probing through Dimension Selection
  • Learning Which Features Matter: RoBERTa Acquires a Preference for Linguistic Generalizations (Eventually)
Nov 16th
17:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 2A: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Dani Yogatama
  • KERMIT: Complementing Transformer Architectures with Encoders of Explicit Syntactic Interpretations
  • ETC: Encoding Long and Structured Inputs in Transformers
  • Pre-Training Transformers as Energy-Based Cloze Models
  • Calibration of Pre-trained Transformers

Zoom Q&A Session 2B: NLP Applications

Chair: Maria Liakata
  • Data Weighted Training Strategies for Grammatical Error Correction
  • Near-imperceptible Neural Linguistic Steganography via Self-Adjusting Arithmetic Coding
  • Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification
  • FIND: Human-in-the-Loop Debugging Deep Text Classifiers
  • Conversational Document Prediction to Assist Customer Care Agents

Zoom Q&A Session 2C: Dialog and Interactive Systems

Chair: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (UIUC)
  • Incremental Processing in the Age of Non-Incremental Encoders: An Empirical Assessment of Bidirectional Models for Incremental NLU
  • Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis
  • Augmented Natural Language for Generative Sequence Labeling
  • Dialogue Response Ranking Training with Large-Scale Human Feedback Data

Zoom Q&A Session 2D: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

Chair: Eduardo Blanco (UNT)
  • Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-SQL with Distilled Test Suites
  • Cross-Thought for Sentence Encoder Pre-training
  • AutoQA: From Databases To QA Semantic Parsers With Only Synthetic Training Data
  • Sketch-Driven Regular Expression Generation from Natural Language and Examples
Nov 16th
23:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Industry Panel: Fei Sha, Chin-Yew Lin, Kristina Toutanova, Daniel Marcu, Joel Tetreault, João Graça

Nov 17th
00:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 3A: Summarization

Chair: Massimo Piccardi (UTS)
  • A Spectral Method for Unsupervised Multi-Document Summarization
  • What Have We Achieved on Text Summarization?
  • Q-learning with Language Model for Edit-based Unsupervised Summarization
  • Friendly Topic Assistant for Transformer Based Abstractive Summarization

Zoom Q&A Session 3B: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Wray Buntine (Monash)
  • Contrastive Distillation on Intermediate Representations for Language Model Compression
  • TernaryBERT: Distillation-aware Ultra-low Bit BERT
  • Repulsive Attention: Rethinking Multi-head Attention as Bayesian Inference
  • Self-Supervised Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Natural Language Classification Tasks
  • Efficient Meta Lifelong-Learning with Limited Memory

Zoom Q&A Session 3C: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Lei Li (ByteDance)
  • Don't Use English Dev: On the Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Evaluation of Contextual Embeddings
  • Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
  • A Supervised Word Alignment Method based on Cross-Language Span Prediction using Multilingual BERT
  • Accurate Word Alignment Induction from Neural Machine Translation
  • ChrEn: Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization

Zoom Q&A Session 3D: Computational Social Science and Social Media

Chair: Alice Oh
  • Unsupervised Discovery of Implicit Gender Bias
  • Condolence and Empathy in Online Communities
  • An Embedding Model for Estimating Legislative Preferences from the Frequency and Sentiment of Tweets
  • Measuring Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks
  • Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms
Nov 17th
01:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 4A: Information Extraction

Chair: Eunsol Choi
  • Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions
  • Connecting the Dots: Event Graph Schema Induction with Path Language Modeling
  • Joint Constrained Learning for Event-Event Relation Extraction
  • Incremental Event Detection via Knowledge Consolidation Networks
  • Semi-supervised New Event Type Induction and Event Detection

Zoom Q&A Session 4B: Language Generation

Chair: Greg Durrett
  • Language Generation with Multi-Hop Reasoning on Commonsense Knowledge Graph
  • Reformulating Unsupervised Style Transfer as Paraphrase Generation
  • PAIR: Planning and Iterative Refinement in Pre-trained Transformers for Long Text Generation
  • Plan ahead: Self-Supervised Text Planning for Paragraph Completion Task
  • Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning

Zoom Q&A Session 4C: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

Chair: Xin Eric Wang (UCSC)
  • Where Are You? Localization from Embodied Dialog
  • Learning to Represent Image and Text with Denotation Graph
  • Video2Commonsense: Generating Commonsense Descriptions to Enrich Video Captioning
  • Does my multimodal model learn cross-modal interactions? It’s harder to tell than you might think!
  • MUTANT: A Training Paradigm for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Visual Question Answering

Zoom Q&A Session 4D: Dialog and Interactive Systems

Chair: Kevin Small (Amazon)
  • Mitigating Gender Bias for Neural Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Learning
  • Will I Sound Like Me? Improving Persona Consistency in Dialogues through Pragmatic Self-Consciousness
  • TOD-BERT: Pre-trained Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Dialogue
  • RiSAWOZ: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset with Rich Semantic Annotations for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modeling
  • Filtering Noisy Dialogue Corpora by Connectivity and Content Relatedness
Nov 17th
02:00
[UTC+00:00]
120 minutes

Gather Session 1A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

  • Shallow-to-Deep Training for Neural Machine Translation
  • Iterative Refinement in the Continuous Space for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation
  • Why Skip If You Can Combine: A Simple Knowledge Distillation Technique for Intermediate Layers
  • Multi-task Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
  • Token-level Adaptive Training for Neural Machine Translation
  • Multi-Unit Transformers for Neural Machine Translation
  • On the Sparsity of Neural Machine Translation Models
  • Incorporating a Local Translation Mechanism into Non-autoregressive Translation
  • Self-Paced Learning for Neural Machine Translation
  • Long-Short Term Masking Transformer: A Simple but Effective Baseline for Document-level Neural Machine Translation
  • Pre-tokenization of Multi-word Expressions in Cross-lingual Word Embeddings
  • Generating Diverse Translation from Model Distribution with Dropout
  • Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation with Latent Alignments

Gather Session 1B: Machine Learning for NLP

  • Local Additivity Based Data Augmentation for Semi-supervised NER
  • Grounded Compositional Outputs for Adaptive Language Modeling
  • SSMBA: Self-Supervised Manifold Based Data Augmentation for Improving Out-of-Domain Robustness
  • SetConv: A New Approach for Learning from Imbalanced Data
  • Scalable Multi-Hop Relational Reasoning for Knowledge-Aware Question Answering
  • Improving Bilingual Lexicon Induction for Low Frequency Words
  • BERT-of-Theseus: Compressing BERT by Progressive Module Replacing
  • Learning VAE-LDA Models with Rounded Reparameterization Trick
  • Calibrated Language Model Fine-Tuning for In- and Out-of-Distribution Data
  • Scaling Hidden Markov Language Models
  • Coding Textual Inputs Boosts the Accuracy of Neural Networks
  • Learning from Task Descriptions

Gather Session 1C: Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics; Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

  • Latent Geographical Factors for Analyzing the Evolution of Dialects in Contact
  • Predicting Reference: What do Language Models Learn about Discourse Models?
  • Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach
  • Benchmarking Meaning Representations in Neural Semantic Parsing
  • Analogous Process Structure Induction for Sub-event Sequence Prediction
  • SLM: Learning a Discourse Language Representation with Sentence Unshuffling
  • Detecting Fine-Grained Cross-Lingual Semantic Divergences without Supervision by Learning to Rank
  • A Bilingual Generative Transformer for Semantic Sentence Embedding
  • Semantically Inspired AMR Alignment for the Portuguese Language
  • An Unsupervised Sentence Embedding Method by Mutual Information Maximization
  • Compositional Phrase Alignment and Beyond

Gather Session 1D: Information Extraction

  • Table Fact Verification with Structure-Aware Transformer
  • Double Graph Based Reasoning for Document-level Relation Extraction
  • Event Extraction as Machine Reading Comprehension
  • MAVEN: A Massive General Domain Event Detection Dataset
  • Knowledge Graph Alignment with Entity-Pair Embedding
  • Adaptive Attentional Network for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion
  • Pre-training Entity Relation Encoder with Intra-span and Inter-span Information
  • Two are Better than One: Joint Entity and Relation Extraction with Table-Sequence Encoders

Gather Session 1E: Dialog and Interactive Systems

  • BiST: Bi-directional Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video-Grounded Dialogues
  • UniConv: A Unified Conversational Neural Architecture for Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialogues
  • GraphDialog: Integrating Graph Knowledge into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
  • Structured Attention for Unsupervised Dialogue Structure Induction
  • Cross Copy Network for Dialogue Generation
  • Multi-turn Response Selection using Dialogue Dependency Relations
  • Parallel Interactive Networks for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Generation
  • SlotRefine: A Fast Non-Autoregressive Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Gather Session 1F: Computational Social Science and Social Media; NLP Applications

  • Hashtags, Emotions, and Comments: A Large-Scale Dataset to Understand Fine-Grained Social Emotions to Online Topics
  • Named Entity Recognition for Social Media Texts with Semantic Augmentation
  • Coupled Hierarchical Transformer for Stance-Aware Rumor Verification in Social Media Conversations
  • Social Media Attributions in the Context of Water Crisis
  • Towards Medical Machine Reading Comprehension with Structural Knowledge and Plain Text
  • Generating Radiology Reports via Memory-driven Transformer
  • Planning and Generating Natural and Diverse Disfluent Texts as Augmentation for Disfluency Detection
  • Predicting Clinical Trial Results by Implicit Evidence Integration
  • Explainable Clinical Decision Support from Text
  • Routing Enforced Generative Model for Recipe Generation
  • A Knowledge-driven Generative Model for Multi-implication Chinese Medical Procedure Entity Normalization
  • Combining Automatic Labelers and Expert Annotations for Accurate Radiology Report Labeling Using BERT

Gather Session 1G: Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Speech and Multimodality

  • Beyond [CLS] through Ranking by Generation
  • Tired of Topic Models? Clusters of Pretrained Word Embeddings Make for Fast and Good Topics too!
  • Multi-document Summarization with Maximal Marginal Relevance-guided Reinforcement Learning
  • Improving Neural Topic Models using Knowledge Distillation
  • Short Text Topic Modeling with Topic Distribution Quantization and Negative Sampling Decoder
  • Querying Across Genres for Medical Claims in News
  • Incorporating Multimodal Information in Open-Domain Web Keyphrase Extraction
  • CMU-MOSEAS: A Multimodal Language Dataset for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French
  • Combining Self-Training and Self-Supervised Learning for Unsupervised Disfluency Detection
  • Multimodal Routing: Improving Local and Global Interpretability of Multimodal Language Analysis
  • Multistage Fusion with Forget Gate for Multimodal Summarization in Open-Domain Videos

Gather Session 1H: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond; Question Answering

  • Visually Grounded Continual Learning of Compositional Phrases
  • MAF: Multimodal Alignment Framework for Weakly-Supervised Phrase Grounding
  • Domain-Specific Lexical Grounding in Noisy Visual-Textual Documents
  • HERO: Hierarchical Encoder for Video+Language Omni-representation Pre-training
  • Vokenization: Improving Language Understanding with Contextualized, Visual-Grounded Supervision
  • Detecting Cross-Modal Inconsistency to Defend Against Neural Fake News
  • Look at the First Sentence: Position Bias in Question Answering
  • ProtoQA: A Question Answering Dataset for Prototypical Common-Sense Reasoning
  • IIRC: A Dataset of Incomplete Information Reading Comprehension Questions
  • Unsupervised Adaptation of Question Answering Systems via Generative Self-training
  • TORQUE: A Reading Comprehension Dataset of Temporal Ordering Questions

Gather Session 1I: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language Generation

  • An Information Bottleneck Approach for Controlling Conciseness in Rationale Extraction
  • LOGAN: Local Group Bias Detection by Clustering
  • RNNs can generate bounded hierarchical languages with optimal memory
  • Detecting Independent Pronoun Bias with Partially-Synthetic Data Generation
  • ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset
  • ENT-DESC: Entity Description Generation by Exploring Knowledge Graph
  • Small but Mighty: New Benchmarks for Split and Rephrase
  • De-Biased Court’s View Generation with Causality
  • Online Back-Parsing for AMR-to-Text Generation
  • Reading Between the Lines: Exploring Infilling in Visual Narratives
  • Acrostic Poem Generation

Gather Session 1J: Demos

  • OpenUE: An Open Toolkit of Universal Extraction from Text
  • Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing the Embeddings of Words and Entities from Wikipedia
  • CoSaTa: A Constraint Satisfaction Solver and Interpreted Language for Semi-Structured Tables of Sentences
  • The Language Interpretability Tool: Extensible, Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for NLP Models
  • SIMULEVAL: An Evaluation Toolkit for Simultaneous Translation
  • WantWords: An Open-source Online Reverse Dictionary System

Gather Session 1K: Sponsor Booths

Nov 17th
08:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 5A: Information Extraction

Chair: Kang Liu
  • Enhancing Aspect Term Extraction with Soft Prototypes
  • FedED: Federated Learning via Ensemble Distillation for Medical Relation Extraction
  • Multimodal Joint Attribute Prediction and Value Extraction for E-commerce Product
  • A Predicate-Function-Argument Annotation of Natural Language for Open-Domain Information eXpression

Zoom Q&A Session 5B: Language Generation

Chair: Lei Li (ByteDance)
  • Retrofitting Structure-aware Transformer Language Model for End Tasks
  • Lightweight, Dynamic Graph Convolutional Networks for AMR-to-Text Generation
  • Modeling Global and Local Node Contexts for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs
  • If beam search is the answer, what was the question?
  • A* Beam Search

Zoom Q&A Session 5C: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Reza Haffari (Monash University)
  • Understanding the Mechanics of SPIGOT: Surrogate Gradients for Latent Structure Learning
  • Is the Best Better? Bayesian Statistical Model Comparison for Natural Language Processing
  • Exploring Logically Dependent Multi-task Learning with Causal Inference
  • Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models
  • Interactive Text Ranking with Bayesian Optimisation: A Case Study on Community QA and Summarisation

Zoom Q&A Session 5D: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh)
  • Dynamic Context Selection for Document-level Neural Machine Translation via Reinforcement Learning
  • Data Rejuvenation: Exploiting Inactive Training Examples for Neural Machine Translation
  • Pronoun-Targeted Fine-tuning for NMT with Hybrid Losses
  • Learning Adaptive Segmentation Policy for Simultaneous Translation
  • Learn to Cross-lingual Transfer with Meta Graph Learning Across Heterogeneous Languages
Nov 17th
09:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 6A: Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

Chair: Mark Johnson
  • Syntactic Structure Distillation Pretraining for Bidirectional Encoders
  • UDapter: Language Adaptation for Truly Universal Dependency Parsing
  • Uncertainty-Aware Label Refinement for Sequence Labeling
  • Adversarial Attack and Defense of Structured Prediction Models
  • Position-Aware Tagging for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Zoom Q&A Session 6B: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne)
  • Simultaneous Machine Translation with Visual Context
  • XCOPA: A Multilingual Dataset for Causal Commonsense Reasoning
  • The Secret is in the Spectra: Predicting Cross-lingual Task Performance with Spectral Similarity Measures
  • Bridging Linguistic Typology and Multilingual Machine Translation with Multi-View Language Representations
  • Semantic Drift in Multilingual Representations

Zoom Q&A Session 6C: Question Answering

Chair: Wanxiang Che
  • AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering
  • Context-Aware Answer Extraction in Question Answering
  • What do Models Learn from Question Answering Datasets?
  • Discern: Discourse-Aware Entailment Reasoning Network for Conversational Machine Reading

Zoom Q&A Session 6D: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

Chair: Gabriel Stanovsky (Hebrew University)
  • A Method for Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset based on Basic Events
  • Neural Deepfake Detection with Factual Structure of Text
  • MultiCQA: Zero-Shot Transfer of Self-Supervised Text Matching Models on a Massive Scale
  • XL-AMR: Enabling Cross-Lingual AMR Parsing with Transfer Learning Techniques
  • Improving AMR Parsing with Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training
Nov 17th
10:00
[UTC+00:00]
120 minutes

Gather Session 2A: Machine Learning for NLP

  • Exploring the Linear Subspace Hypothesis in Gender Bias Mitigation
  • Lifelong Language Knowledge Distillation
  • Sparse Parallel Training of Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Topic Models
  • Multi-label Few/Zero-shot Learning with Knowledge Aggregated from Multiple Label Graphs
  • Word Rotator's Distance
  • Disentangle-based Continual Graph Representation Learning
  • Semi-Supervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Two-way Interaction
  • Wasserstein Distance Regularized Sequence Representation for Text Matching in Asymmetrical Domains
  • A Simple Approach to Learning Unsupervised Multilingual Embeddings
  • Bootstrapped Q-learning with Context Relevant Observation Pruning to Generalize in Text-based Games
  • BERT-EMD: Many-to-Many Layer Mapping for BERT Compression with Earth Mover's Distance
  • Slot Attention with Value Normalization for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Gather Session 2B: Dialog and Interactive Systems

  • Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained Language Models
  • MinTL: Minimalist Transfer Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
  • Variational Hierarchical Dialog Autoencoder for Dialog State Tracking Data Augmentation
  • Bridging the Gap between Prior and Posterior Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation
  • Counterfactual Off-Policy Training for Neural Dialogue Generation
  • Dialogue Distillation: Open-Domain Dialogue Augmentation Using Unpaired Data
  • Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning via Monte Carlo Tree Search with Dueling Network
  • Learning a Simple and Effective Model for Multi-turn Response Generation with Auxiliary Tasks
  • AttnIO: Knowledge Graph Exploration with In-and-Out Attention Flow for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue
  • Amalgamating Knowledge from Two Teachers for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Adversarial Training

Gather Session 2C: Information Extraction

  • Learning from Context or Names? An Empirical Study on Neural Relation Extraction
  • SelfORE: Self-supervised Relational Feature Learning for Open Relation Extraction
  • Denoising Relation Extraction from Document-level Distant Supervision
  • Let's Stop Incorrect Comparisons in End-to-end Relation Extraction!
  • Exposing Shallow Heuristics of Relation Extraction Models with Challenge Data
  • Global-to-Local Neural Networks for Document-Level Relation Extraction
  • Recurrent Interaction Network for Jointly Extracting Entities and Classifying Relations
  • Temporal Knowledge Base Completion: New Algorithms and Evaluation Protocols
  • OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction

Gather Session 2D: NLP Applications; Semantics: Lexical Semantics

  • Public Sentiment Drift Analysis Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-encoder
  • Point to the Expression: Solving Algebraic Word Problems using the Expression-Pointer Transformer Model
  • Deep Attentive Learning for Stock Movement Prediction From Social Media Text and Company Correlations
  • Semantically-Aligned Universal Tree-Structured Solver for Math Word Problems
  • Neural Topic Modeling by Incorporating Document Relationship Graph
  • Selection and Generation: Learning towards Multi-Product Advertisement Post Generation
  • Form2Seq : A Framework for Higher-Order Form Structure Extraction
  • Task-oriented Domain-specific Meta-Embedding for Text Classification
  • Don't Neglect the Obvious: On the Role of Unambiguous Words in Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Exploring Semantic Capacity of Terms
  • Within-Between Lexical Relation Classification
  • With More Contexts Comes Better Performance: Contextualized Sense Embeddings for All-Round Word Sense Disambiguation

Gather Session 2E: Machine Translation and Multilinguality; Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

  • Translation Quality Estimation by Jointly Learning to Score and Rank
  • CSP:Code-Switching Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
  • Pre-training Multilingual Neural Machine Translation by Leveraging Alignment Information
  • Towards Enhancing Faithfulness for Neural Machine Translation
  • COMET: A Neural Framework for MT Evaluation
  • LNMap: Departures from Isomorphic Assumption in Bilingual Lexicon Induction Through Non-Linear Mapping in Latent Space
  • Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation
  • Can Automatic Post-Editing Improve NMT?
  • Domain Adaptation of Thai Word Segmentation Models using Stacked Ensemble
  • DagoBERT: Generating Derivational Morphology with a Pretrained Language Model
  • Attention Is All You Need for Chinese Word Segmentation
  • A Joint Multiple Criteria Model in Transfer Learning for Cross-domain Chinese Word Segmentation

Gather Session 2F: Discourse and Pragmatics; Machine Translation and Multilinguality

  • TED-CDB: A Large-Scale Chinese Discourse Relation Dataset on TED Talks
  • QADiscourse - Discourse Relations as QA Pairs: Representation, Crowdsourcing and Baselines
  • Discourse Self-Attention for Discourse Element Identification in Argumentative Student Essays
  • Self-Induced Curriculum Learning in Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation
  • Towards Reasonably-Sized Character-Level Transformer NMT by Finetuning Subword Systems
  • Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages
  • Direct Segmentation Models for Streaming Speech Translation
  • Not Low-Resource Anymore: Aligner Ensembling, Batch Filtering, and New Datasets for Bengali-English Machine Translation
  • Type B Reflexivization as an Unambiguous Testbed for Multilingual Multi-Task Gender Bias
  • Losing Heads in the Lottery: Pruning Transformer Attention in Neural Machine Translation
  • Reusing a Pretrained Language Model on Languages with Limited Corpora for Unsupervised NMT

Gather Session 2G: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

  • STL-CQA: Structure-based Transformers with Localization and Encoding for Chart Question Answering
  • Learning to Contrast the Counterfactual Samples for Robust Visual Question Answering
  • Learning Physical Common Sense as Knowledge Graph Completion via BERT Data Augmentation and Constrained Tucker Factorization
  • A Visually-grounded First-person Dialogue Dataset with Verbal and Non-verbal Responses
  • Cross-Media Keyphrase Prediction: A Unified Framework with Multi-Modality Multi-Head Attention and Image Wordings
  • VD-BERT: A Unified Vision and Dialog Transformer with BERT
  • The Grammar of Emergent Languages
  • Sub-Instruction Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation

Gather Session 2H: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

  • Hate-Speech and Offensive Language Detection in Roman Urdu
  • Suicidal Risk Detection for Military Personnel
  • Comparative Evaluation of Label-Agnostic Selection Bias in Multilingual Hate Speech Datasets
  • HENIN: Learning Heterogeneous Neural Interaction Networks for Explainable Cyberbullying Detection on Social Media
  • Reactive Supervision: A New Method for Collecting Sarcasm Data
  • Convolution over Hierarchical Syntactic and Lexical Graphs for Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis
  • Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning Networks for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis
  • Aspect Sentiment Classification with Aspect-Specific Opinion Spans
  • Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction as Sequence Labeling Based on A Novel Tagging Scheme
  • End-to-End Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction based on Sliding Window Multi-Label Learning
  • Multi-modal Multi-label Emotion Detection with Modality and Label Dependence
  • Tasty Burgers, Soggy Fries: Probing Aspect Robustness in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Gather Session 2I: Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Language Generation

  • Top-Rank-Focused Adaptive Vote Collection for the Evaluation of Domain-Specific Semantic Models
  • Meta Fine-Tuning Neural Language Models for Multi-Domain Text Mining
  • Incorporating Behavioral Hypotheses for Query Generation
  • Conditional Causal Relationships between Emotions and Causes in Texts
  • COMETA: A Corpus for Medical Entity Linking in the Social Media
  • MEGATRON-CNTRL: Controllable Story Generation with External Knowledge Using Large-Scale Language Models
  • Incomplete Utterance Rewriting as Semantic Segmentation
  • Improving Grammatical Error Correction Models with Purpose-Built Adversarial Examples
  • Homophonic Pun Generation with Lexically Constrained Rewriting
  • How to Make Neural Natural Language Generation as Reliable as Templates in Task-Oriented Dialogue
  • Multilingual AMR-to-Text Generation

Gather Session 2J: Question Answering; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

  • Don't Read Too Much Into It: Adaptive Computation for Open-Domain Question Answering
  • Multi-Step Inference for Reasoning Over Paragraphs
  • Learning a Cost-Effective Annotation Policy for Question Answering
  • Scene Restoring for Narrative Machine Reading Comprehension
  • A Simple and Effective Model for Answering Multi-span Questions
  • Parsing Gapping Constructions Based on Grammatical and Semantic Roles
  • Span-based discontinuous constituency parsing: a family of exact chart-based algorithms with time complexities from O(n^6) down to O(n^3)
  • Some Languages Seem Easier to Parse Because Their Treebanks Leak
  • Discontinuous Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling
  • Modularized Syntactic Neural Networks for Sentence Classification

Gather Session 2K: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Summarization

  • Pareto Probing: Trading Off Accuracy for Complexity
  • Interpretation of NLP models through input marginalization
  • Generating Label Cohesive and Well-Formed Adversarial Claims
  • Cold-Start and Interpretability: Turning Regular Expressions into Trainable Recurrent Neural Networks
  • A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text Classification
  • Modeling Content Importance for Summarization with Pre-trained Language Models
  • Unsupervised Reference-Free Summary Quality Evaluation via Contrastive Learning
  • Neural Extractive Summarization with Hierarchical Attentive Heterogeneous Graph Network
  • Coarse-to-Fine Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization
  • Pre-training for Abstractive Document Summarization by Reinstating Source Text

Gather Session 2L: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

  • Are All Good Word Vector Spaces Isomorphic?
  • When BERT Plays the Lottery, All Tickets Are Winning
  • On the weak link between importance and prunability of attention heads
  • Towards Interpreting BERT for Reading Comprehension Based QA
  • How do Decisions Emerge across Layers in Neural Models? Interpretation with Differentiable Masking
  • Alignment-free Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling
  • Leveraging Declarative Knowledge in Text and First-Order Logic for Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection
  • X-SRL: A Parallel Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Labeling Dataset
  • Graph Convolutions over Constituent Trees for Syntax-Aware Semantic Role Labeling
  • Fast semantic parsing with well-typedness guarantees

Gather Session 2M: Demos

  • BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets
  • AdapterHub: A Framework for Adapting Transformers
  • SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search
  • BENNERD: A Neural Named Entity Linking System for COVID-19
  • Langsmith: An Interactive Academic Text Revision System
  • IsOBS: An Information System for Oracle Bone Script

Gather Session 2N: Sponsor Booths

Nov 17th
15:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Ethics Panel: Publishing in an era of Responsible AI: How can NLP be proactive? Considerations and Implications; Moderator: Mona Diab; Panelists: Emily Bender, Rosie Campbell, Allan Dafoe, Pascale Fung, Meg Mitchell, Saif Mohammad

Nov 17th
16:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 7A: Dialog and Interactive Systems

Chair: Seokhwan Kim (Amazon Alexa AI)
  • Improving Out-of-Scope Detection in Intent Classification by Using Embeddings of the Word Graph Space of the Classes
  • Supervised Seeded Iterated Learning for Interactive Language Learning
  • Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems
  • Human-centric dialog training via offline reinforcement learning

Zoom Q&A Session 7B: Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

Chair: Roger Levy
  • Speakers Fill Lexical Semantic Gaps with Context
  • Investigating Cross-Linguistic Adjective Ordering Tendencies with a Latent-Variable Model
  • Surprisal Predicts Code-Switching in Chinese-English Bilingual Text
  • Word Frequency Does Not Predict Grammatical Knowledge in Language Models
  • BLiMP: The Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for English

Zoom Q&A Session 7C: Semantics: Lexical Semantics

Chair: Michael Roth (UStuttgart)
  • Improving Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations
  • Towards Better Context-aware Lexical Semantics:Adjusting Contextualized Representations through Static Anchors
  • Sequential Modelling of the Evolution of Word Representations for Semantic Change Detection
  • Do "Undocumented Workers" == "Illegal Aliens"? Differentiating Denotation and Connotation in Vector Spaces

Zoom Q&A Session 7D: Summarization

Chair: Asma Ben Abacha (NLM/NIH)
  • Multi-View Sequence-to-Sequence Models with Conversational Structure for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization
  • Few-Shot Learning for Opinion Summarization
  • Learning to Fuse Sentences with Transformers for Summarization
  • Stepwise Extractive Summarization and Planning with Structured Transformers
Nov 17th
17:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 8A: Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Chair: Matthias Petri
  • CLIRMatrix: A massively large collection of bilingual and multilingual datasets for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
  • SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search
  • Modularized Transfomer-based Ranking Framework
  • Ad-hoc Document Retrieval using Weak-Supervision with BERT and GPT2

Zoom Q&A Session 8B: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Chair: Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA)
  • Adversarial Semantic Collisions
  • Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification
  • AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated Prompts
  • Learning Variational Word Masks to Improve the Interpretability of Neural Text Classifiers

Zoom Q&A Session 8C: Language Generation

Chair: Yannis Konstas (Heriot-Watt)
  • Sparse Text Generation
  • PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking
  • Do sequence-to-sequence VAEs learn global features of sentences?
  • Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring
  • Generating Dialogue Responses from a Semantic Latent Space

Zoom Q&A Session 8D: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

Chair: Florian Metze (Facebook AI)
  • Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts
  • Visually Grounded Compound PCFGs
  • ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations
  • Room-Across-Room: Multilingual Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dense Spatiotemporal Grounding
  • SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning
Nov 17th
18:00
[UTC+00:00]
120 minutes

Gather Session 3A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

  • Identifying Elements Essential for BERT’s Multilinguality
  • On Negative Interference in Multilingual Models: Findings and A Meta-Learning Treatment
  • Monolingual Adapters for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation
  • Do Explicit Alignments Robustly Improve Multilingual Encoders?
  • From Zero to Hero: On the Limitations of Zero-Shot Language Transfer with Multilingual Transformers
  • Distilling Multiple Domains for Neural Machine Translation
  • Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation
  • A Streaming Approach For Efficient Batched Beam Search
  • Improving Multilingual Models with Language-Clustered Vocabularies
  • Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning
  • The Multilingual Amazon Reviews Corpus

Gather Session 3B: NLP Applications

  • Optimus: Organizing Sentences via Pre-trained Modeling of a Latent Space
  • BioMegatron: Larger Biomedical Domain Language Model
  • Text Segmentation by Cross Segment Attention
  • RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark
  • An Empirical Study of Pre-trained Transformers for Arabic Information Extraction
  • TNT: Text Normalization based Pre-training of Transformers for Content Moderation
  • Methods for Numeracy-Preserving Word Embeddings
  • An Empirical Investigation of Contextualized Number Prediction
  • Modeling the Music Genre Perception across Language-Bound Cultures
  • Joint Estimation and Analysis of Risk Behavior Ratings in Movie Scripts

Gather Session 3C: Machine Learning for NLP

  • Be More with Less: Hypergraph Attention Networks for Inductive Text Classification
  • Entities as Experts: Sparse Memory Access with Entity Supervision
  • Does the Objective Matter? Comparing Training Objectives for Pronoun Resolution
  • On Losses for Modern Language Models
  • We Can Detect Your Bias: Predicting the Political Ideology of News Articles
  • Semantic Label Smoothing for Sequence to Sequence Problems
  • Training for Gibbs Sampling on Conditional Random Fields with Neural Scoring Factors
  • Multilevel Text Alignment with Cross-Document Attention

Gather Session 3D: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Language Generation

  • A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health Support
  • Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling
  • Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice
  • Quantifying Intimacy in Language
  • Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis
  • Zero-Shot Crosslingual Sentence Simplification
  • Facilitating the Communication of Politeness through Fine-Grained Paraphrasing
  • On the Reliability and Validity of Detecting Approval of Political Actors in Tweets
  • CAT-Gen: Improving Robustness in NLP Models via Controlled Adversarial Text Generation
  • Seq2Edits: Sequence Transduction Using Span-level Edit Operations
  • Controllable Meaning Representation to Text Generation: Linearization and Data Augmentation Strategies
  • Blank Language Models
  • COD3S: Diverse Generation with Discrete Semantic Signatures

Gather Session 3E: Information Extraction; Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

  • Weakly Supervised Subevent Knowledge Acquisition
  • Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling
  • Annotating Temporal Dependency Graphs via Crowdsourcing
  • Introducing a New Dataset for Event Detection in Cybersecurity Texts
  • CHARM: Inferring Personal Attributes from Conversations
  • Event Detection: Gate Diversity and Syntactic Importance Scores for Graph Convolution Neural Networks
  • Severing the Edge Between Before and After: Neural Architectures for Temporal Ordering of Events
  • Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement
  • Tackling the Low-resource Challenge for Canonical Segmentation
  • IGT2P: From Interlinear Glossed Texts to Paradigms

Gather Session 3F: Dialog and Interactive Systems; Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

  • Conversational Semantic Parsing
  • Probing Task-Oriented Dialogue Representation from Language Models
  • End-to-End Slot Alignment and Recognition for Cross-Lingual NLU
  • Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Few-Shot Intent Detection by Transferring Natural Language Inference
  • Simple Data Augmentation with the Mask Token Improves Domain Adaptation for Dialog Act Tagging
  • Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Compositional Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing
  • Sound Natural: Content Rephrasing in Dialog Systems
  • Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models
  • Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models
  • Generating Image Descriptions via Sequential Cross-Modal Alignment Guided by Human Gaze

Gather Session 3G: Question Answering; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

  • How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model?
  • EXAMS: A Multi-subject High School Examinations Dataset for Cross-lingual and Multilingual Question Answering
  • End-to-End Synthetic Data Generation for Domain Adaptation of Question Answering Systems
  • Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation
  • ISAAQ - Mastering Textbook Questions with Pre-trained Transformers and Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention
  • SubjQA: A Dataset for Subjectivity and Review Comprehension
  • Keep it Surprisingly Simple: A Simple First Order Graph Based Parsing Model for Joint Morphosyntactic Parsing in Sanskrit
  • Unsupervised Parsing via Constituency Tests
  • Please Mind the Root: Decoding Arborescences for Dependency Parsing
  • Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Truly Low-Resource Scenarios
  • Unsupervised Parsing with S-DIORA: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders

Gather Session 3H: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

  • Utility is in the Eye of the User: A Critique of NLP Leaderboards
  • An Empirical Investigation Towards Efficient Multi-Domain Language Model Pre-training
  • Analyzing Individual Neurons in Pre-trained Language Models
  • Dissecting Span Identification Tasks with Performance Prediction
  • Assessing Phrasal Representation and Composition in Transformers
  • Analyzing Redundancy in Pretrained Transformer Models
  • GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations
  • Character-level Representations Improve DRS-based Semantic Parsing Even in the Age of BERT
  • Infusing Disease Knowledge into BERT for Health Question Answering, Medical Inference and Disease Name Recognition
  • CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models
  • "You are grounded!": Latent Name Artifacts in Pre-trained Language Models
  • Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk
  • Reasoning about Goals, Steps, and Temporal Ordering with WikiHow

Gather Session 3I: Demos

  • ARES: A Reading Comprehension Ensembling Service
  • Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
  • HUMAN: Hierarchical Universal Modular ANnotator
  • DeezyMatch: A Flexible Deep Learning Approach to Fuzzy String Matching
  • InVeRo: Making Semantic Role Labeling Accessible with Intelligible Verbs and Roles
  • ENTYFI: A System for Fine-grained Entity Typing in Fictional Texts

Gather Session 3J: Sponsor Booths

Nov 17th
23:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Keynote II: Rich Caruana

Nov 18th
00:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 9A: Speech and Multimodality

  • Widget Captioning: Generating Natural Language Description for Mobile User Interface Elements
  • Unsupervised Natural Language Inference via Decoupled Multimodal Contrastive Learning
  • Digital Voicing of Silent Speech
  • Sparse Transcription

Zoom Q&A Session 9B: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Wenhu Chen (UCSB)
  • Imitation Attacks and Defenses for Black-box Machine Translation Systems
  • Sequence-Level Mixed Sample Data Augmentation
  • Consistency of a Recurrent Language Model With Respect to Incomplete Decoding
  • An Exploration of Arbitrary-Order Sequence Labeling via Energy-Based Inference Networks
  • Ensemble Distillation for Structured Prediction: Calibrated, Accurate, Fast - Choose Three

Zoom Q&A Session 9C: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Chair: Zhongyu Wei (Fudan University)
  • Inducing Target-Specific Latent Structures for Aspect Sentiment Classification
  • Affective Event Classification with Discourse-enhanced Self-training
  • Deep Weighted MaxSAT for Aspect-based Opinion Extraction
  • Multi-view Story Characterization from Movie Plot Synopses and Reviews
Nov 18th
01:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 10A: Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

Chair: Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich)
  • Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding
  • Measuring the Similarity of Grammatical Gender Systems by Comparing Partitions
  • RethinkCWS: Is Chinese Word Segmentation a Solved Task?
  • Learning to Pronounce Chinese Without a Pronunciation Dictionary

Zoom Q&A Session 10B: Information Extraction

Chair: Jing Huang (JD AI Research)
  • Dynamic Anticipation and Completion for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Sparse Knowledge Graph
  • Knowledge Association with Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  • Domain Knowledge Empowered Structured Neural Net for End-to-End Event Temporal Relation Extraction
  • TeMP: Temporal Message Passing for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Zoom Q&A Session 10C: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook AI)
  • Understanding the Difficulty of Training Transformers
  • An Empirical Study of Generation Order for Machine Translation
  • Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking
  • Reproducible and Efficient Benchmarks for Hyperparameter Optimization of Neural Machine Translation Systems

Zoom Q&A Session 10D: Question Answering

Chair: Danqi Chen (Princeton)
  • AmbigQA: Answering Ambiguous Open-domain Questions
  • Tell Me How to Ask Again: Question Data Augmentation with Controllable Rewriting in Continuous Space
  • Training Question Answering Models From Synthetic Data
  • Few-Shot Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering via Meta Reinforcement Learning
Nov 18th
02:00
[UTC+00:00]
120 minutes

Gather Session 4A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

  • Iterative Domain-Repaired Back-Translation
  • Dynamic Data Selection and Weighting for Iterative Back-Translation
  • Revisiting Modularized Multilingual NMT to Meet Industrial Demands
  • LAReQA: Language-Agnostic Answer Retrieval from a Multilingual Pool
  • OCR Post Correction for Endangered Language Texts
  • X-FACTR: Multilingual Factual Knowledge Retrieval from Pretrained Language Models
  • CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs
  • Localizing Open-Ontology QA Semantic Parsers in a Day Using Machine Translation
  • Interactive Refinement of Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings
  • Exploiting Sentence Order in Document Alignment
  • XGLUE: A New Benchmark Datasetfor Cross-lingual Pre-training, Understanding and Generation

Gather Session 4B: Machine Learning for NLP

  • Structure Aware Negative Sampling in Knowledge Graphs
  • Neural Mask Generator: Learning to Generate Adaptive Word Maskings for Language Model Adaptation
  • Autoregressive Knowledge Distillation through Imitation Learning
  • Recall and Learn: Fine-tuning Deep Pretrained Language Models with Less Forgetting
  • T3: Tree-Autoencoder Constrained Adversarial Text Generation for Targeted Attack
  • Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
  • Effective Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Adversarially Trained Language Models
  • BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification
  • Adversarial Self-Supervised Data-Free Distillation for Text Classification
  • BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERT
  • The Thieves on Sesame Street are Polyglots - Extracting Multilingual Models from Monolingual APIs

Gather Session 4C: Information Extraction

  • Coarse-to-Fine Pre-training for Named Entity Recognition
  • Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment
  • Simple and Effective Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition with Structured Nearest Neighbor Learning
  • Learning Structured Representations of Entity Names using ActiveLearning and Weak Supervision
  • Entity Enhanced BERT Pre-training for Chinese NER
  • Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity Retrieval
  • A Dataset for Tracking Entities in Open Domain Procedural Text
  • Design Challenges in Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking
  • Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions
  • LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attention

Gather Session 4D: Dialog and Interactive Systems

  • Towards Persona-Based Empathetic Conversational Models
  • Personal Information Leakage Detection in Conversations
  • Response Selection for Multi-Party Conversations with Dynamic Topic Tracking
  • Regularizing Dialogue Generation by Imitating Implicit Scenarios
  • MovieChats: Chat like Humans in a Closed Domain
  • Conundrums in Entity Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State of the Art
  • Semantic Role Labeling Guided Multi-turn Dialogue ReWriter
  • Continuity of Topic, Interaction, and Query: Learning to Quote in Online Conversations
  • Profile Consistency Identification for Open-domain Dialogue Agents

Gather Session 4E: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

  • A Multi-Task Incremental Learning Framework with Category Name Embedding for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis
  • Train No Evil: Selective Masking for Task-Guided Pre-Training
  • SentiLARE: Sentiment-Aware Language Representation Learning with Linguistic Knowledge
  • Weakly-Supervised Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Joint Aspect-Sentiment Topic Embedding
  • APE: Argument Pair Extraction from Peer Review and Rebuttal via Multi-task Learning
  • Diversified Multiple Instance Learning for Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification
  • Identifying Exaggerated Language
  • Unified Feature and Instance Based Domain Adaptation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Gather Session 4F: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

  • Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings
  • Solving Historical Dictionary Codes with a Neural Language Model
  • Toward Micro-Dialect Identification in Diaglossic and Code-Switched Environments
  • Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation
  • Grounded Adaptation for Zero-shot Executable Semantic Parsing
  • An Imitation Game for Learning Semantic Parsers from User Interaction
  • IGSQL: Database Schema Interaction Graph Based Neural Model for Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL Generation
  • "What Do You Mean by That?" A Parser-Independent Interactive Approach for Enhancing Text-to-SQL
  • DuSQL: A Large-Scale and Pragmatic Chinese Text-to-SQL Dataset
  • Mention Extraction and Linking for SQL Query Generation
  • Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL

Gather Session 4G: NLP Applications; Semantics: Lexical Semantics

  • An Element-aware Multi-representation Model for Law Article Prediction
  • Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inferenceover Temporal Knowledge Graphs
  • Multi-resolution Annotations for Emoji Prediction
  • Less is More: Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification
  • MODE-LSTM: A Parameter-efficient Recurrent Network with Multi-Scale for Sentence Classification
  • Assessing the Helpfulness of Learning Materials with Inference-Based Learner-Like Agent
  • HSCNN: A Hybrid-Siamese Convolutional Neural Network for Extremely Imbalanced Multi-label Text Classification
  • Multi-Stage Pre-training for Automated Chinese Essay Scoring
  • When Hearst Is not Enough: Improving Hypernymy Detection from Corpus with Distributional Models
  • Interpreting Open-Domain Modifiers: Decomposition of Wikipedia Categories into Disambiguated Property-Value Pairs
  • A Synset Relation-enhanced Framework with a Try-again Mechanism for Word Sense Disambiguation

Gather Session 4H: Discourse and Pragmatics; Language Generation

  • BERT-enhanced Relational Sentence Ordering Network
  • Online Conversation Disentanglement with Pointer Networks
  • VCDM: Leveraging Variational Bi-encoding and Deep Contextualized Word Representations for Improved Definition Modeling
  • Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: A Style Transfer Approach for Simile Generation
  • STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation
  • Substance over Style: Document-Level Targeted Content Transfer
  • Improving Low Compute Language Modeling with In-Domain Embedding Initialisation
  • Template Guided Text Generation for Task-Oriented Dialogue
  • MOCHA: A Dataset for Training and Evaluating Generative Reading Comprehension Metrics
  • Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension

Gather Session 4I: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

  • Asking without Telling: Exploring Latent Ontologies in Contextual Representations
  • Pretrained Language Model Embryology: The Birth of ALBERT
  • Learning Music Helps You Read: Using Transfer to Study Linguistic Structure in Language Models
  • What Do Position Embeddings Learn? An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Language Model Positional Encoding
  • Birds have four legs?! NumerSense: Probing Numerical Commonsense Knowledge of Pre-Trained Language Models
  • AIN: Fast and Accurate Sequence Labeling with Approximate Inference Network
  • HIT: Nested Named Entity Recognition via Head-Tail Pair and Token Interaction
  • Supertagging Combinatory Categorial Grammar with Attentive Graph Convolutional Networks
  • DAGA: Data Augmentation with a Generation Approach for Low-resource Tagging Tasks
  • Interpretable Multi-dataset Evaluation for Named Entity Recognition
  • Adversarial Semantic Decoupling for Recognizing Open-Vocabulary Slots

Gather Session 4J: Question Answering; Summarization

  • Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization
  • Towards Interpretable Reasoning over Paragraph Effects in Situation
  • Question Directed Graph Attention Network for Numerical Reasoning over Text
  • Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering
  • Distilling Structured Knowledge for Text-Based Relational Reasoning
  • Diverse, Controllable, and Keyphrase-Aware: A Corpus and Method for News Multi-Headline Generation
  • Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summarization Models
  • Compressive Summarization with Plausibility and Salience Modeling
  • Multi-XScience: A Large-scale Dataset for Extreme Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles
  • Understanding Neural Abstractive Summarization Models via Uncertainty
  • Better Highlighting: Creating Sub-Sentence Summary Highlights
  • Summarizing Text on Any Aspects: A Knowledge-Informed Weakly-Supervised Approach

Gather Session 4K: Demos

  • NeuralQA: A Usable Library for Question Answering (Contextual Query Expansion + BERT) on Large Datasets
  • Youling: an AI-assisted Lyrics Creation System
  • TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks, Data Augmentation, and Adversarial Training in NLP
  • Easy, Reproducible and Quality-Controlled Data Collection with CROWDAQ
  • NeuSpell: A Neural Spelling Correction Toolkit

Gather Session 4L: Sponsor Booths

Nov 18th
08:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 11A: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Chair: Yonatan Belinkov
  • Compositional and Lexical Semantics in RoBERTa, BERT and DistilBERT: A Case Study on CoQA
  • Attention is Not Only a Weight: Analyzing Transformers with Vector Norms
  • F1 is Not Enough! Models and Evaluation Towards User-Centered Explainable Question Answering
  • On the Ability and Limitations of Transformers to Recognize Formal Languages

Zoom Q&A Session 11B: NLP Applications

Chair: Shashi Narayan (Google)
  • An Unsupervised Joint System for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Parsing
  • DGST: a Dual-Generator Network for Text Style Transfer
  • A Knowledge-Aware Sequence-to-Tree Network for Math Word Problem Solving
  • Generating Fact Checking Briefs
  • Improving the Efficiency of Grammatical Error Correction with Erroneous Span Detection and Correction

Zoom Q&A Session 11C: Question Answering

Chair: Alice Oh
  • Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation for Reading Comprehension
  • Coreferential Reasoning Learning for Language Representation
  • Is Graph Structure Necessary for Multi-hop Question Answering?
  • oLMpics - On what Language Model Pre-training Captures

Zoom Q&A Session 11D: Semantics: Lexical Semantics

Chair: Aline Villavicencio
  • XL-WiC: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Semantic Contextualization
  • Generationary or "How We Went beyond Word Sense Inventories and Learned to Gloss"
  • Probing Pretrained Language Models for Lexical Semantics
  • Nurse is Closer to Woman than Surgeon? Mitigating Gender-Biased Proximities in Word Embeddings
Nov 18th
09:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 12A: Dialog and Interactive Systems

Chair: Sakriani Sakti (NAIST/RIKEN AIP)
  • Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding with Regularized Representation Alignment
  • SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package
  • Neural Conversational QA: Learning to Reason vs Exploiting Patterns
  • Improving Dialog Evaluation with a Multi-reference Adversarial Dataset and Large Scale Pretraining

Zoom Q&A Session 12B: Information Extraction

Chair: Aurélie Névéol (CNRS, LIMSI)
  • Counterfactual Generator: A Weakly-Supervised Method for Named Entity Recognition
  • Understanding Procedural Text using Interactive Entity Networks
  • A Rigorous Study on Named Entity Recognition: Can Fine-tuning Pretrained Model Lead to the Promised Land?
  • Nested Named Entity Recognition via Second-best Sequence Learning and Decoding

Zoom Q&A Session 12C: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Sebastian Ruder
  • DyERNIE: Dynamic Evolution of Riemannian Manifold Embeddings for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
  • Embedding Words in Non-Vector Space with Unsupervised Graph Learning
  • Debiasing knowledge graph embeddings
  • Message Passing for Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graphs
  • PERL: Pivot-based Domain Adaptation for Pre-trained Deep Contextualized Embedding Models

Zoom Q&A Session 12D: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Chair: Rui Xia
  • Relation-aware Graph Attention Networks with Relational Position Encodings for Emotion Recognition in Conversations
  • BERT Knows Punta Cana is not just beautiful, it's gorgeous: Ranking Scalar Adjectives with Contextualised Representations
  • Feature Adaptation of Pre-Trained Language Models across Languages and Domains with Robust Self-Training
  • Textual Data Augmentation for Efficient Active Learning on Tiny Datasets
Nov 18th
15:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Keynote III: Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Nov 18th
16:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 13A: Discourse and Pragmatics

Chair: Vincent Ng
  • "I'd rather just go to bed": Understanding Indirect Answers
  • PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction
  • MEGA RST Discourse Treebanks with Structure and Nuclearity from Scalable Distant Sentiment Supervision
  • Centering-based Neural Coherence Modeling with Hierarchical Discourse Segments
  • Keeping Up Appearances: Computational Modeling of Face Acts in Persuasion Oriented Discussions

Zoom Q&A Session 13B: NLP Applications

Chair: Thamar Solorio
  • To Schedule or not to Schedule: Extracting Task Specific Temporal Entities and Associated Negation Constraints
  • Predicting In-game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players
  • An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification Including Few and Zero-Shot Labels
  • Which *BERT? A Survey Organizing Contextualized Encoders
  • Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific Claims

Zoom Q&A Session 13C: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

Chair: Annemarie Friedrich (Bosch)
  • Semantic Role Labeling as Syntactic Dependency Parsing
  • PARADE: A New Dataset for Paraphrase Identification Requiring Computer Science Domain Knowledge
  • Causal Inference of Script Knowledge
  • Towards Debiasing NLU Models from Unknown Biases

Zoom Q&A Session 13D: Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

Chair: Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich)
  • Tractable Lexical-Functional Grammar
  • Efficient Outside Computation
  • Consistent Unsupervised Estimators for Anchored PCFGs
  • The Return of Lexical Dependencies: Neural Lexicalized PCFGs
  • On the Role of Supervision in Unsupervised Constituency Parsing
Nov 18th
17:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 14A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Chair: Julia Kreutzer (Google)
  • Language Model Prior for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
  • Detecting Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation for Model-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks
  • MAD-X: An Adapter-Based Framework for Multi-Task Cross-Lingual Transfer
  • Translation Artifacts in Cross-lingual Transfer Learning
  • Consistent Transcription and Translation of Speech

Zoom Q&A Session 14B: Computational Social Science and Social Media

Chair: Dong Nguyen
  • A Time-Aware Transformer Based Model for Suicide Ideation Detection on Social Media
  • Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media
  • Where Are the Facts? Searching for Fact-checked Information to Alleviate the Spread of Fake News
  • Fortifying Toxic Speech Detectors Against Veiled Toxicity
  • Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims

Zoom Q&A Session 14C: Machine Learning for NLP

Chair: Yishu Miao (Imperial College London)
  • Interactive Fiction Game Playing as Multi-Paragraph Reading Comprehension with Reinforcement Learning
  • A Neural Generative Model for Joint Learning Topics and Topic-Specific Word Embeddings
  • Topic Modeling in Embedding Spaces
  • DORB: Dynamically Optimizing Multiple Rewards with Bandits

Zoom Q&A Session 14D: Information Extraction

Chair: Heng Ji (UIUC & Amazon)
  • MedFilter: Improving Extraction of Task-relevant Utterances through Integration of Discourse Structure and Ontological Knowledge
  • Hierarchical Evidence Set Modeling for Automated Fact Extraction and Verification
  • Program Enhanced Fact Verification with Verbalization and Graph Attention Network
  • Constrained Fact Verification for FEVER
  • Entity Linking in 100 Languages
Nov 18th
18:00
[UTC+00:00]
120 minutes

Gather Session 5A: Machine Learning for NLP

  • PatchBERT: Just-in-Time, Out-of-Vocabulary Patching
  • On the importance of pre-training data volume for compact language models
  • Plug and Play Autoencoders for Conditional Text Generation
  • Exploring and Predicting Transferability across NLP Tasks
  • To BERT or Not to BERT: Comparing Task-specific and Task-agnostic Semi-Supervised Approaches for Sequence Tagging
  • Cold-start Active Learning through Self-supervised Language Modeling
  • Active Learning for BERT: An Empirical Study
  • Transformer Based Multi-Source Domain Adaptation
  • Vector-Vector-Matrix Architecture: A Novel Hardware-Aware Framework for Low-Latency Inference in NLP Applications

Gather Session 5B: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

  • Discriminatively-Tuned Generative Classifiers for Robust Natural Language Inference
  • New Protocols and Negative Results for Textual Entailment Data Collection
  • The Curse of Performance Instability in Analysis Datasets: Consequences, Source, and Suggestions
  • Universal Natural Language Processing with Limited Annotations: Try Few-shot Textual Entailment as a Start
  • ConjNLI: Natural Language Inference Over Conjunctive Sentences
  • Data and Representation for Turkish Natural Language Inference
  • Multitask Learning for Cross-Lingual Transfer of Broad-coverage Semantic Dependencies
  • Precise Task Formalization Matters in Winograd Schema Evaluations
  • Avoiding the Hypothesis-Only Bias in Natural Language Inference via Ensemble Adversarial Training

Gather Session 5C: NLP Applications

  • Chapter Captor: Text Segmentation in Novels
  • Authorship Attribution for Neural Text Generation
  • NwQM: A neural quality assessment framework for Wikipedia
  • Towards Modeling Revision Requirements in wikiHow Instructions
  • Natural Language Processing for Achieving Sustainable Development: the Case of Neural Labelling to Enhance Community Profiling
  • HABERTOR: An Efficient and Effective Deep Hatespeech Detector
  • Competence-Level Prediction and Resume & Job Description Matching Using Context-Aware Transformer Models
  • Grammatical Error Correction in Low Error Density Domains: A New Benchmark and Analyses

Gather Session 5D: Information Extraction

  • Learning Collaborative Agents with Rule Guidance for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
  • Exploring Contextualized Neural Language Models for Temporal Dependency Parsing
  • Systematic Comparison of Neural Architectures and Training Approaches for Open Information Extraction
  • SeqMix: Augmenting Active Sequence Labeling via Sequence Mixup
  • AxCell: Automatic Extraction of Results from Machine Learning Papers
  • Knowledge-guided Open Attribute Value Extraction with Reinforcement Learning
  • DualTKB: A Dual Learning Bridge between Text and Knowledge Base
  • Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory

Gather Session 5E: Question Answering; Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

  • Hierarchical Graph Network for Multi-hop Question Answering
  • A Simple Yet Strong Pipeline for HotpotQA
  • Is Multihop QA in DiRe Condition? Measuring and Reducing Disconnected Reasoning
  • Unsupervised Question Decomposition for Question Answering
  • SRLGRN: Semantic Role Labeling Graph Reasoning Network
  • CancerEmo: A Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Detection
  • Exploring the Role of Argument Structure in Online Debate Persuasion
  • Zero-Shot Stance Detection: A Dataset and Model using Generalized Topic Representations
  • Sentiment Analysis of Tweets using Heterogeneous Multi-layer Network Representation and Embedding
  • Introducing Syntactic Structures into Target Opinion Word Extraction with Deep Learning
  • EmoTag1200 👍: Understanding the Association between Emojis 😄 and Emotions 😻
  • MIME: MIMicking Emotions for Empathetic Response Generation

Gather Session 5F: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond; Speech and Multimodality

  • Experience Grounds Language
  • Keep CALM and Explore: Language Models for Action Generation in Text-based Games
  • CapWAP: Image Captioning with a Purpose
  • What is More Likely to Happen Next? Video-and-Language Future Event Prediction
  • X-LXMERT: Paint, Caption and Answer Questions with Multi-Modal Transformers
  • Towards Understanding Sample Variance in Visually Grounded Language Generation: Evaluations and Observations
  • Beyond Instructional Videos: Probing for More Diverse Visual-Textual Grounding on YouTube
  • The importance of fillers for text representations of speech transcripts
  • The role of context in neural pitch accent detection in English
  • VolTAGE: Volatility Forecasting via Text Audio Fusion with Graph Convolution Networks for Earnings Calls
  • Effectively pretraining a speech translation decoder with Machine Translation data

Gather Session 5G: Language Generation; Semantics: Lexical Semantics

  • KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Generation
  • POINTER: Constrained Progressive Text Generation via Insertion-based Generative Pre-training
  • Unsupervised Text Style Transfer with Padded Masked Language Models
  • PALM: Pre-training an Autoencoding&Autoregressive Language Model for Context-conditioned Generation
  • Gradient-guided Unsupervised Lexically Constrained Text Generation
  • TeaForN: Teacher-Forcing with N-grams
  • Deconstructing word embedding algorithms
  • Compositional Demographic Word Embeddings
  • Sparsity Makes Sense: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Sparse Contextualized Word Representations

Gather Session 5H: Dialog and Interactive Systems; Discourse and Pragmatics

  • Iterative Feature Mining for Constraint-Based Data Collection to Increase Data Diversity and Model Robustness
  • Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking
  • doc2dial: A Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue Dataset
  • Interview: Large-scale Modeling of Media Dialog with Discourse Patterns and Knowledge Grounding
  • INSPIRED: Toward Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems
  • Information Seeking in the Spirit of Learning: A Dataset for Conversational Curiosity
  • Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation
  • Learning to Ignore: Long Document Coreference with Bounded Memory Neural Networks
  • Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution
  • Pre-training Mention Representations in Coreference Models

Gather Session 5I: Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Summarization

  • SynSetExpan: An Iterative Framework for Joint Entity Set Expansion and Synonym Discovery
  • Evaluating the Calibration of Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Trustworthy Link Prediction
  • Text Graph Transformer for Document Classification
  • CoDEx: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph Completion Benchmark
  • META: Metadata-Empowered Weak Supervision for Text Classification
  • Towards More Accurate Uncertainty Estimation In Text Classification
  • A Preliminary Exploration of GANs for Keyphrase Generation
  • TESA: A Task in Entity Semantic Aggregation for Abstractive Summarization
  • MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus
  • Intrinsic Evaluation of Summarization Datasets

Gather Session 5J: Demos

  • A Technical Question Answering System with Transfer Learning
  • Agent Assist through Conversation Analysis
  • LibKGE - A knowledge graph embedding library for reproducible research
  • RoFT: A Tool for Evaluating Human Detection of Machine-Generated Text
  • A Data-Centric Framework for Composable NLP Workflows
  • CoRefi: A Crowd Sourcing Suite for Coreference Annotation

Gather Session 5K: Sponsor Booths

Nov 18th
23:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 15A: Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Chair: Lifu Huang (Virginia Tech)
  • Exploiting Structured Knowledge in Text via Graph-Guided Representation Learning
  • Named Entity Recognition Only from Word Embeddings
  • Text Classification Using Label Names Only: A Language Model Self-Training Approach
  • Neural Topic Modeling with Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Training

Zoom Q&A Session 15B: NLP Applications

  • Data Boost: Text Data Augmentation Through Reinforcement Learning Guided Conditional Generation
  • A State-independent and Time-evolving Network for Early Rumor Detection in Social Media
  • PyMT5: multi-mode translation of natural language and Python code with transformers
  • PathQG: Neural Question Generation from Facts
  • What time is it? Temporal Analysis of Novels

Zoom Q&A Session 15C: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas

Chair: Siva Reddy (McGill/MILA)
  • COGS: A Compositional Generalization Challenge Based on Semantic Interpretation
  • An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation
  • On the Sentence Embeddings from Pre-trained Language Models
  • An Empirical Study on Robustness to Spurious Correlations using Pre-trained Language Models
  • What Can We Learn from Collective Human Opinions on Natural Language Inference Data?

Zoom Q&A Session 15D: Language Generation

  • Improving Text Generation with Student-Forcing Optimal Transport
  • UNION: An Unreferenced Metric for Evaluating Open-ended Story Generation
  • F^2-Softmax: Diversifying Neural Text Generation via Frequency Factorized Softmax
  • Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation with Distant Supervision
  • How Can We Know What Language Models Know
Nov 19th
00:00
[UTC+00:00]
60 minutes

Zoom Q&A Session 16A: Dialog and Interactive Systems

Chair: Linfeng Song (Tencent AI Lab)
  • Like hiking? You probably enjoy nature: Persona-grounded Dialog with Commonsense Expansions
  • A Probabilistic End-To-End Task-Oriented Dialog Model with Latent Belief States towards Semi-Supervised Learning
  • The World is Not Binary: Learning to Rank with Grayscale Data for Dialogue Response Selection
  • GRADE: Automatic Graph-Enhanced Coherence Metric for Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
  • MedDialog: Large-scale Medical Dialogue Datasets

Zoom Q&A Session 16B: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Chair: Lei Li (ByteDance)
  • An information theoretic view on selecting linguistic probes
  • With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility
  • Dataset Cartography: Mapping and Diagnosing Datasets with Training Dynamics
  • Evaluating and Characterizing Human Rationales

Zoom Q&A Session 16C: Summarization

Chair: Logan Lebanoff (UCF)
  • On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models
  • Multi-Fact Correction in Abstractive Text Summarization
  • Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text Summarization
  • Re-evaluating Evaluation in Text Summarization
  • VMSMO: Learning to Generate Multimodal Summary for Video-based News Articles
Nov 19th
01:00
[UTC+00:00]
45 minutes

Business Meeting

Nov 19th
01:45
[UTC+00:00]
5 minutes

Mini-break

Nov 19th
01:50
[UTC+00:00]
30 minutes

Best Paper Awards and Closing