NAACL

Limitations of Autoregressive Models and Their Alternatives

Chu-Cheng Lin, Aaron Jaech, Xin Li, Matthew R. Gormley, Jason Eisner

Comments NAACL 2021 (same content, more relaxed layout)

Determining the Credibility of Science Communication

Isabelle Augenstein

Journal ref In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP at NAACL 2021)

Fine-grained Interpretation and Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models

Hassan Sajjad, Narine Kokhlikyan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani

Comments Accepted at NAACL Tutorial

Supporting Clustering with Contrastive Learning

Dejiao Zhang, Feng Nan, Xiaokai Wei, Shangwen Li, Henghui Zhu, Kathleen McKeown, Ramesh Nallapati, Andrew Arnold, Bing Xiang

Comments NAACL 2021

Natural Language Processing 4 All (NLP4All): A New Online Platform for Teaching and Learning NLP Concepts

Rebekah Baglini, Arthur Hjorth

Comments Accepted to the 5th Workshop on Teaching NLP at NAACL-HLT 2021

Investigating Code-Mixed Modern Standard Arabic-Egyptian to English Machine Translation

El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Comments CALCS2021, colocated with NAACL-2021

Lattice-BERT: Leveraging Multi-Granularity Representations in Chinese Pre-trained Language Models

Yuxuan Lai, Yijia Liu, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Dongyan Zhao

Comments Accepted at NAACL 2021, 16 pages, https://github.com/alibaba/AliceMind/tree/main/LatticeBERT

KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks

Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Angela Fan, Patrick Lewis, Majid Yazdani, Nicola De Cao, James Thorne, Yacine Jernite, Vladimir Karpukhin, Jean Maillard, Vassilis Plachouras, Tim Rocktäschel, Sebastian Riedel

Comments accepted at NAACL 2021

Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generation

Sarik Ghazarian, Zixi Liu, Akash SM, Ralph Weischedel, Aram Galstyan, Nanyun Peng

Comments NAACL 2021

CoRT: Complementary Rankings from Transformers

Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel

Comments NAACL-HLT 2021, Long Paper

Journal ref Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 4194-4204). Anthology ID: 2021.naacl-main.331

How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-Driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li, Arthur Szlam, Tim Rocktäschel, Jason Weston

Comments In NAACL 2021

Multi-Task Learning of Generation and Classification for Emotion-Aware Dialogue Response Generation

Tatsuya Ide, Daisuke Kawahara

Comments NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2021

Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers

Shikib Mehri, Mihail Eric

Comments NAACL 2021

View Distillation with Unlabeled Data for Extracting Adverse Drug Effects from User-Generated Data

Payam Karisani, Jinho D. Choi, Li Xiong

Comments NAACL 2021 (workshops)

RST Parsing from Scratch

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li

Comments Accepted to NAACL 2021

Designing a Minimal Retrieve-and-Read System for Open-Domain Question Answering

Sohee Yang, Minjoon Seo

Comments NAACL 2021 (short)

Self-Training for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation in Unbalanced Training Data Scenarios

Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Tiejun Zhao

Comments Accepted by NAACL 2021

A Non-Linear Structural Probe

Jennifer C. White, Tiago Pimentel, Naomi Saphra, Ryan Cotterell

Comments Accepted at NAACL 2021

Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency

Adyasha Maharana, Darryl Hannan, Mohit Bansal

Comments NAACL 2021 (16 pages)

CREAD: Combined Resolution of Ellipses and Anaphora in Dialogues

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Shruti Bhargava, Jiarui Lu, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Lin Li, Hong Yu

Comments Accepted as a long paper in the main conference by NAACL 2021

gComm: An environment for investigating generalization in Grounded Language Acquisition

Rishi Hazra, Sonu Dixit

Comments Accepted in NAACL 2021 workshop: Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.05011

Hurdles to Progress in Long-form Question Answering

Kalpesh Krishna, Aurko Roy, Mohit Iyyer

Comments NAACL 2021 camera ready (18 pages)

MUSER: MUltimodal Stress Detection using Emotion Recognition as an Auxiliary Task

Yiqun Yao, Michalis Papakostas, Mihai Burzo, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea

Comments NAACL 2021 accepted

Multi-Modal Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired

Hiba Ahsan, Nikita Bhalla, Daivat Bhatt, Kaivankumar Shah

Comments 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accepted to NAACL-HLT SRW 2021

AMR Parsing with Action-Pointer Transformer

Jiawei Zhou, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Radu Florian

Comments Accepted at NAACL 2021

Technical Question Answering across Tasks and Domains

Wenhao Yu, Lingfei Wu, Yu Deng, Qingkai Zeng, Ruchi Mahindru, Sinem Guven, Meng Jiang

Comments NAACL 2021

Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media

MeiXing Dong, Xueming Xu, Yiwei Zhang, Ian Stewart, Rada Mihalcea

Comments 10 pages, Accepted to be published at SocialNLP at NAACL'21

The Flipped Classroom model for teaching Conditional Random Fields in an NLP course

Manex Agirrezabal

Comments Accepted to the 5th Workshop on Teaching NLP at NAACL-HLT 2021

The Online Pivot: Lessons Learned from Teaching a Text and Data Mining Course in Lockdown, Enhancing online Teaching with Pair Programming and Digital Badges

Beatrice Alex, Clare Llewellyn, Pawel Michal Orzechowski, Maria Boutchkova

Comments 11 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP @ NAACL 2021

From Masked Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding

Rob van der Goot, Ibrahim Sharaf, Aizhan Imankulova, Ahmet Üstün, Marija Stepanović, Alan Ramponi, Siti Oryza Khairunnisa, Mamoru Komachi, Barbara Plank

Comments To appear in the proceedings of NAACL 2021