Accepted Papers
Authors with Google affiliation listed in bold.
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Long Papers
Learning to Represent Image and Text with Denotation Graphs
Bowen Zhang*, Hexiang Hu*, Vihan Jain, Eugene Ie, Fei Sha
Zoom Q&A Session 4C: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
01:00 UTC/GMT
Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation with Latent Alignments
Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Saurabh Saxena, Mohammad Norouzi
Gather Session 1A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality
02:00 UTC/GMT
Local Additivity Based Data Augmentation for Semi-supervised NER
Jiaao Chen, Zhenghui Wang, Ran Tian, Zichao Yang, Diyi Yang
Gather Session 1B: Machine Learning for NLP
02:00 UTC/GMT
ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset
Ankur Parikh, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Diyi Yang, Dipanjan Das
Gather Session 1I: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language Generation
02:00 UTC/GMT
BLEU might be Guilty but References are not Innocent
Markus Freitag, David Grangier, Isaac Caswell
Zoom Q&A Session 1B: Machine Translation and Multilinguality
16:00 UTC/GMT
ETC: Encoding Long and Structured Inputs in Transformers
Joshua Ainslie, Santiago Ontanon, Chris Alberti, Vaclav Cvicek, Zachary Fisher, Philip Pham , Anirudh Ravula, Sumit Sanghai, Qifan Wang, Li Yang
Zoom Q&A Session 2A: Machine Learning for NLP
17:00 UTC/GMT
Data Weighted Training Strategies for Grammatical Error Correction
Jared Lichtarge, Chris Alberti, Shankar Kumar Zoom
Q&A Session 2B: NLP Applications
17:00 UTC/GMT
Short Papers
Small but Mighty: New Benchmarks for Split and Rephrase
Li Zhang, Huaiyu Zhu, Siddhartha Brahma, Yunyao Li
Gather Session 1I: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language Generation
02:00 UTC/GMT
Pre-Training Transformers as Energy-Based Cloze Models
Kevin Clark, Minh-Thang Luong, Quoc Le, Christopher D. Manning
Zoom Q&A Session 2A: Machine Learning for NLP
17:00 UTC/GMT
Long Papers
Widget Captioning: Generating Natural Language Description for Mobile User Interface Elements
Yang Li, Gang Li, Luheng He, Jingjie Zheng, Hong Li, Zhiwei Guan
Zoom Q&A Session 9A: Speech and Multimodality
00:00 UTC/GMT
An Empirical Study of Generation Order for Machine Translation
William Chan, Mitchell Stern, Jamie Kiros, Jakob Uszkoreit
Zoom Q&A Session 10C: Machine Translation and Multilinguality
01:00 UTC/GMT
Asking without Telling: Exploring Latent Ontologies in Contextual Representations
Julian Michael*, Jan A. Botha, Ian Tenney
Gather Session 4I: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing
02:00 UTC/GMT
Interpreting Open-Domain Modifiers: Decomposition of Wikipedia Categories into Disambiguated Property-Value Pairs
Marius Pasca
Gather Session 4G: NLP Applications; Semantics: Lexical Semantics
02:00 UTC/GMT
Template Guided Text Generation for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Mihir Kale, Abhinav Rastogi
Gather Session 4H: Discourse and Pragmatics; Language Generation
02:00 UTC/GMT
LAReQA: Language-agnostic answer retrieval from a multilingual pool
Uma Roy, Noah Constant, Rami Al-Rfou, Aditya Barua, Aaron Phillips, Yinfei Yang
Gather Session 4A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality
02:00 UTC/GMT
Type B Reflexivization as an Unambiguous Testbed for Multilingual Multi-Task Gender Bias
Ana Valeria González, Maria Barrett, Rasmus Hvingelby, Kellie Webster, Anders Søgaard
Gather Session 2F: Discourse and Pragmatics; Machine Translation and Multilinguality
10:00 UTC/GMT
Are All Good Word Vector Spaces Isomorphic?
Ivan Vulić, Sebastian Ruder, Anders Søgaard
Gather Session 2L: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
10:00 UTC/GMT
Surprisal Predicts Code-Switching in Chinese-English Bilingual Text
Jesús Calvillo, Le Fang, Jeremy Cole, David Reitter
Zoom Q&A Session 7B: Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
16:00 UTC/GMT
Stepwise Extractive Summarization and Planning with Structured Transformers
Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Jakub Adamek, Daniele Pighin, Blaz Bratanic, Ryan McDonald
Zoom Q&A Session 7D: Summarization
16:00 UTC/GMT
Human-centric dialog training via offline reinforcement learning
Natasha Jaques, Judy Hanwen Shen, Asma Ghandeharioun, Agata Lapedriza, Noah Jones, Shixiang Gu, Rosalind Picard
Zoom Q&A Session 7A: Dialog and Interactive Systems
16:00 UTC/GMT
Room-Across-Room: Multilingual Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dense Spatiotemporal Grounding
Alexander Ku, Peter Anderson, Roma Patel, Eugene Ie, Jason Baldridge
Zoom Q&A Session 8D: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
17:00 UTC/GMT
Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification
Prithviraj Sen, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Matthias Boehm, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
Zoom Q&A Session 8B: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
17:00 UTC/GMT
Entities as Experts: Sparse Memory Access with Entity Supervision
Thibault Févry, Livio Baldini Soares, Nicholas FitzGerald, Eunsol Choi, Tom Kwiatkowski
Gather Session 3C: Machine Learning for NLP
18:00 UTC/GMT
Seq2Edits: Sequence Transduction Using Span-level Edit Operations
Felix Stahlberg, Shankar Kumar Gather
Session 3D: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Language Generation
18:00 UTC/GMT
Text Segmentation by Cross Segment Attention
Michal Lukasik, Boris Dadachev, Kishore Papineni, Goncalo Simoes
Gather Session 3B: NLP Applications
18:00 UTC/GMT
Short Papers
Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking
Julia Kreutzer, George Foster, Colin Cherry
Zoom Q&A Session 10A: Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
01:00 UTC/GMT
Supervised Seeded Iterated Learning for Interactive Language Learning
Yuchen Lu, Soumye Singhal, Florian Strub, Olivier Pietquin, Aaron Courville
Zoom Q&A Session 7A: Dialog and Interactive Systems
16:00 UTC/GMT
How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model?
Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer
Gather Session 3G: Question Answering; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing
18:00 UTC/GMT
CAT-Gen: Improving Robustness in NLP Models via Controlled Adversarial Text Generation
Tianlu Wang*, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Ben Packer, Kang Li, Jilin Chen, Alex Beutel, Ed Chi
Gather Session 3D: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Language Generation
18:00 UTC/GMT
Semantic label smoothing for sequence to sequence problems
Michal Lukasik, Himanshu Jain, Aditya Menon, Seungyeon Kim, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Felix Yu, Sanjiv Kumar
Gather Session 3C: Machine Learning for NLP
18:00 UTC/GMT
Improving Multilingual Models with Language-Clustered Vocabularies
Hyung Won Chung, Dan Garrette, Kiat Chuan Tan, Jason Riesa
Gather Session 3A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality
18:00 UTC/GMT
Long Papers
"I’d rather just go to bed": Understanding Indirect Answers
Annie Louis, Dan Roth, Filip Radlinski
Zoom Q&A Session 13A: Discourse and Pragmatics
16:00 UTC/GMT
Entity Linking in 100 Languages
Jan A. Botha, Zifei Shan, Daniel Gillick
Zoom Q&A Session 14D: Information Extraction
17:00 UTC/GMT
TeaForN: Teacher-Forcing with N-grams
Sebastian Goodman, Nan Ding, Radu Soricut
Gather Session 5G: Language Generation; Semantics: Lexical Semantics
18:00 UTC/GMT
Collecting Entailment Data for Pretraining: New Protocols and Negative Results
Samuel R. Bowman*, Jennimaria Palomaki, Livio Baldini Soares, Emily Pitler
Gather Session 5B: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
18:00 UTC/GMT
CapWAP: Captioning with a Purpose
Adam Fisch*, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Jonathan Clark, Regina Barzilay
Gather Session 5F: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond; Speech and Multimodality
18:00 UTC/GMT
TESA: A Task in Entity Semantic Aggregation for Abstractive Summarization
Clément Jumel, Annie Louis, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Gather Session 5I: Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Summarization
18:00 UTC/GMT
Short Papers
Beyond Instructional Videos: Probing for More Diverse Visual-Textual Grounding on YouTube
Jack Hessel, Zhenhai Zhu, Bo Pang, Radu Soricut
Gather Session 5F: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond; Speech and Multimodality
18:00 UTC/GMT
Unsupervised Text Style Transfer with Padded Masked Language Models
Eric Malmi, Aliaksei Severyn, Sascha Rothe
Gather Session 5G: Language Generation; Semantics: Lexical Semantics
18:00 UTC/GMT
Towards Understanding Sample Variance in Visually Grounded Language Generation: Evaluations and Observations
Wanrong Zhu, Xin Wang, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang
Gather Session 5F: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond; Speech and Multimodality
18:00 UTC/GMT
Understanding tables with intermediate pre-training
Julian Eisenschlos, Syrine Krichene, Thomas Müller
Pruning Redundant Mappings in Transformer Models via Spectral-Normalized Identity Prior
Zi Lin, Jeremiah Liu, Zi Yang, Nan Hua, Dan Roth
Controlled Hallucinations: Learning to Generate Faithfully from Noisy Data
Katja Filippova
AirConcierge: Generating Task-Oriented Dialogue via Efficient Large-Scale Knowledge Retrieval
Chieh-Yang Chen, Pei-Hsin Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Da-Cheng Juan, Wei Wei, Jia-Yu Pan
FELIX: Flexible Text Editing Through Tagging and Insertion
Jonathan Mallinson, Aliaksei Severyn, Eric Malmi, Guillermo Garrido
Semantically Driven Sentence Fusion: Modeling and Evaluation
Eyal Ben-David, Orgad Keller, Eric Malmi, Idan Szpektor, Roi Reichart
Will it Unblend?
Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Jacob Eisenstein
Automatically Identifying Gender Issues in Machine Translation using Perturbations
Hila Gonen, Kellie Webster
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
∀, Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Salomon KABONGO KABENAMUALU, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen , Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Abbott , Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkadir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, ghollah kioko, Murhabazi Espoir, Elan van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Chinenye Emezue , Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing Sibanda, Blessing Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir
Zero-shot Entity Linking with Efficient Long Range Sequence Modeling
Zonghai Yao, Liangliang Cao, Huapu Pan
DiPair: Fast and Accurate Distillation for Trillion-ScaleText Matching and Pair Modeling
Jiecao Chen, Liu Yang, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky, Jung-Jung Yeh, Yun Zhou, Marc Najork, Danyang Cai, Ehsan Emadzadeh
CLAR: A Cross-Lingual Argument Regularizer for Semantic Role Labeling
Ishan Jindal, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Huaiyu Zhu
A Multilingual View of Unsupervised Machine Translation
Xavier Garcia, Pierre Foret, Thibault Sellam, Ankur Parikh
KoBE: Knowledge-Based Machine Translation Evaluation
Zorik Gekhman, Roee Aharoni, Genady Beryozkin, Markus Freitag, Wolfgang Macherey
SupMMD: A Sentence Importance Model for Extractive Summarisation using Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Umanga Bista, Alexander Mathews, Aditya Menon, Lexing Xie
Multichannel Generative Language Model: Learning All Possible Factorizations Within and Across Channels
Harris Chan, Jamie Kiros, William Chan
Probabilistic Case-based Reasoning in Knowledge Bases
Rajarshi Das, Ameya Godbole, Nicholas Monath, Manzil Zaheer, Andrew McCallum
Do Language Embeddings capture Scales?
Xikun Zhang*, Deepak Ramachandran, Ian Tenney, Yanai Elazar, Dan Roth Link to Paper