Accepted Papers
Authors with Google affiliation listed in bold.
Demo Papers
Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval
Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad, Mandy Guo, Jax Law, Noah Constant, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil
Monday July 6, 2020 Demo Session 17:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 Demo Session 20:45 UTC+0
Short Papers
Reverse Engineering Configurations of Neural Text Generation Models
Yi Tay, Dara Bahri, Che Zheng, Clifford Brunk, Donald Metzler, Andrew Tomkins
Monday July 6, 2020 1A Generation-1 5:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Generation-8 20:00 UTC+0
Syntactic Data Augmentation Increases Robustness to Inference Heuristics
Junghyun Min, R. Thomas McCoy, Dipanjan Das, Emily Pitler, Tal Linzen
Monday July 6, 2020 4A Semantics: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics-1 17:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Semantics: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics-2 20:00 UTC+0
Leveraging Monolingual Data with Self-Supervision for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Aditya Siddhant, Ankur Bapna, Yuan Cao, Orhan Firat, Mia Chen, Sneha Kudugunta, Naveen Arivazhagan, Yonghui Wu
Monday July 6, 2020 4B Machine Translation-5 18:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Machine Translation-6 20:00 UTC+0
Long Papers
Cross-modal Language Generation using Pivot Stabilization for Web-scale Language Coverage
Ashish V. Thapliyal, Radu Soricut
Monday July 6, 2020 1A Generation-1 5:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Generation-8 20:00 UTC+0
Automatic Detection of Generated Text is Easiest when Humans are Fooled
Daphne Ippolito, Daniel Duckworth, Chris Callison-Burch, Douglas Eck
Monday July 6, 2020 3A Generation-5 12:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Generation-8 20:00 UTC+0
On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization
Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet, Ryan McDonald
Monday July 6, 2020 3B Summarization-2 13:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 4B Summarization-3 18:00 UTC+0
MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices
Zhiqing Sun, Hongkun Yu, Xiaodan Song, Renjie Liu, Yiming Yang, Denny Zhou
Monday July 6, 2020 4A Machine Learning for NLP-1 17:00 UTC+0
Monday July 6, 2020 5A Machine Learning for NLP-3 20:00 UTC+0
BabyWalk: Going Farther in Vision-and-Language Navigation by Taking Baby Steps
Wang Zhu, Hexiang Hu, Jiacheng Chen, Zhiwei Deng, Vihan Jain, Eugene Ie, Fei Sha
Monday July 6, 2020 5B Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond-2 21:00 UTC+0
TACL Papers
TYDI QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages
Jonathan H. Clark, Eunsol Choi, Michael Collins, Dan Garrette, Tom Kwiatkowski, Vitaly Nikolaev, Jennimaria Palomaki
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9B Question Answering-6 18:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 10A Question Answering-7 20:00 UTC+0
Short Papers
Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities
Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, Stephen Denuyl
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9B Ethics and NLP-4 18:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 10B Ethics and NLP-5 21:00 UTC+0
Long Papers
Dynamic Programming Encoding for Subword Segmentation in Neural Machine Translation
Xuanli He, Gholamreza Haffari, Mohammad Norouzi
Tuesday July 7, 2020 6A Machine Translation-7 5:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 7A Machine Translation-9 8:00 UTC+0
GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions
Dorottya Demszky, Dana Movshovitz-Attias, Jeongwoo Ko, Alan Cowen, Gaurav Nemade, Sujith Ravi
Tuesday July 7, 2020 7A Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining-3 8:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9B Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining-7 18:00 UTC+0
TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training
Jonathan Herzig, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Thomas Müller, Francesco Piccinno, Julian Eisenschlos
Tuesday July 7, 2020 7B Semantics: Sentence Level-3 9:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 8A Semantics: Sentence Level-4 12:00 UTC+0
Toxicity Detection: Does Context Really Matter?
John Pavlopoulos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Lucas Dixon, Nithum Thain, Ion Androutsopoulos
Tuesday July 7, 2020 7B NLP Applications-6 9:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 8B NLP Applications-7 13:00 UTC+0
(Re)construing Meaning in NLP
Sean Trott, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Nancy Chang, Nathan Schneider
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9A THEME-1 17:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 10A THEME-2 20:00 UTC+0
Pretraining with Contrastive Sentence Objectives Improves Discourse Performance of Language Models
Dan Iter, Kelvin Guu, Larry Lansing, Dan Jurafsky
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9A Machine Learning for NLP-10 17:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 10B Machine Learning for NLP-11 21:00 UTC+0
Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised Document-Level Question Answering
Hao Cheng, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova
Tuesday July 7, 2020 9B Question Answering-6 18:00 UTC+0
Tuesday July 7, 2020 10A Question Answering-7 20:00 UTC+0
TACL Papers
Phonotactic Complexity and Its Trade-offs. Transactions of the ACL (TACL), 8:1-18
Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Ryan Cotterell
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13B Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation-5 13:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 14A Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation-6 17:00 UTC+0
Short Papers
Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models
Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Douglas Eck, Chris Callison-Burch
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13A Generation-12 12:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15B Generation-15 21:00 UTC+0
Long Papers
AdvAug: Robust Adversarial Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation
Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang, Wolfgang Macherey, Jacob Eisenstein
Wednesday July 8, 2020 11A Machine Translation-13 5:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 12A Machine Translation-14 8:00 UTC+0
Named Entity Recognition as Dependency Parsing
Juntao Yu, Bernd Bohnet, Massimo Poesio
Wednesday July 8, 2020 11B Information Extraction-4 6:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 12B Information Extraction-6 9:00 UTC+0
Cross-modal Coherence Modeling for Caption Generation
Malihe Alikhani, Piyush Sharma, Shengjie Li, Radu Soricut, Matthew Stone Wednesday
July 8, 2020 11B Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond-5 6:00 UTC+0 Wednesday
July 8, 2020 12B Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond-6 9:00 UTC+0
Representation Learning for Information Extraction from Form-like Documents
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Navneet Potti, Sandeep Tata, James Bradley Wendt, Qi Zhao, Marc Najork
Wednesday July 8, 2020 11B Information Extraction-4 6:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15B Information Extraction-12 21:00 UTC+0
Low-Dimensional Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Ines Chami, Adva Wolf, Da-Cheng Juan, Frederic Sala, Sujith Ravi, Christopher Ré
Wednesday July 8, 2020 12A Machine Learning for NLP-13 8:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13A Machine Learning for NLP-15 12:00 UTC+0
What Question Answering can Learn from Trivia Nerds
Jordan Boyd-Graber, Benjamin Börschinger
Wednesday July 8, 2020 12B THEME-4 9:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13B THEME-5 13:00 UTC+0
Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation
Wei Wang, Ye Tian, Jiquan Ngiam, Yinfei Yang, Isaac Caswell, Zarana Parekh
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13B Machine Translation-15 13:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15A Machine Translation-17 20:00 UTC+0
Translationese as a Language in "Multilingual" NMT
Parker Riley, Isaac Caswell, Markus Freitag, David Grangier
Wednesday July 8, 2020 13B Machine Translation-15 13:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15B Machine Translation-18 21:00 UTC+0
Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Action Sequences
Yang Li, Jiacong He, Xin Zhou, Yuan Zhang, Jason Baldridge
Wednesday July 8, 2020 14A Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond-8 17:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15A Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond-9 20:00 UTC+0
BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text Generation
Thibault Sellam, Dipanjan Das, Ankur Parikh
Wednesday July 8, 2020 14A Generation-13 17:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15A Generation-14 20:00 UTC+0
Exploring Unexplored Generalization Challenges for Cross-Database Semantic Parsing
Alane Suhr, Ming-Wei Chang, Peter Shaw, Kenton Lee
Wednesday July 8, 2020 14A Semantics: Sentence Level-9 17:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15A Semantics: Sentence Level-10 20:00 UTC+0
Frugal Paradigm Completion
Alexander Erdmann, Tom Kenter, Markus Becker, Christian Schallhart
Wednesday July 8, 2020 14A Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation-6 17:00 UTC+0
Wednesday July 8, 2020 15B Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation-7 21:00 UTC+0