Accepted Papers

Thesis Proposals

Helping Developers Create Consistent Privacy Notices for Android Applications

Vijayanta Jain


Research Papers

An Adaptive Learning Method for Solving the Extreme Learning Rate Problem of Transformer

Jianbang Ding, Xuancheng Ren, Ruixuan Luo, Xu Sun and Xiaozhe REN


Investigation on Data Adaptation Techniques for Neural Named Entity Recognition

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, David Thulke, Weiyue Wang, Christian Dugast and Hermann Ney


Using Perturbed Length-aware Positional Encoding for Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation

Yui Oka, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura


Stage-wise Fine-tuning for Graph-to-Text Generation

Qingyun Wang, Semih Yavuz, Xi Victoria Lin, Heng Ji and Nazneen Fatema Rajani


Transformer-Based Direct Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation

Weiyue Wang, Zijian Yang, Yingbo Gao and Hermann Ney


AutoRC: Improving BERT Based Relation Classification Models via Architecture Search

Wei Zhu


How Low is Too Low? A Computational Perspective on Extremely Low-Resource Languages

Rachit Bansal, Himanshu Choudhary, Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Émilie Pagé-Perron and Jacob Dahl


On the Relationship between Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and Interfering Noise in Emergent Languages

Ryo Ueda and Koki Washio


Long Document Summarization in a Low Resource Setting using Pretrained Language Models

Ahsaas Bajaj, Pavitra Dangati, Kalpesh Krishna, Pradhiksha Ashok Kumar, Rheeya Uppaal, Bradford Windsor, Eliot Brenner, Dominic Dotterrer, Rajarshi Das and Andrew McCallum


Attending Self-Attention: A Case Study of Visually Grounded Supervision in Vision-and-Language Transformers

Jules Samaran, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu and Yuta Nakashima


Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network

Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu and Sadao Kurohashi


Stylistic approaches to predicting Reddit popularity in diglossia

Huikai Chua


"I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe": Hallucinating Entities in GuessWhat?!

Alberto Testoni and Raffaella Bernardi


How do different factors Impact the Inter-language Similarity? A Case Study on Indian languages

Sourav Kumar, Salil Aggarwal, Dipti Sharma and Radhika Mamidi


COVID-19 and Misinformation: A Large-Scale Lexical Analysis on Twitter

Dimosthenis Antypas, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alun Preece and David Rogers


Situation-Based Multiparticipant Chat Summarization: a Concept, an Exploration-Annotation Tool and an Example Collection

Anna Smirnova, Evgeniy Slobodkin and George Chernishev


Modeling Text using the Continuous Space Topic Model with Pre-Trained Word Embeddings

Seiichi Inoue, Taichi Aida, Mamoru Komachi and Manabu Asai


Semantics of the Unwritten: The Effect of End of Paragraph and Sequence Tokens on Text Generation with GPT2

He Bai, Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin, Luchen Tan, Kun Xiong, Wen Gao, Jie Liu and Ming Li


Data Augmentation with Unsupervised Machine Translation Improves the Structural Similarity of Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

Sosuke Nishikawa, Ryokan Ri and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka


Joint Detection and Coreference Resolution of Entities and Events with Document-level Context Aggregation

Samuel Kriman and Heng Ji


"Hold on honey, men at work": A semi-supervised approach to detecting sexism in sitcoms

Smriti Singh, Tanvi Anand, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury and Zeerak Waseem


Observing the Learning Curve of NMT Systems With Regard to Linguistic Phenomena

Patrick Stadler, Vivien Macketanz and Eleftherios Avramidis


Improving the Robustness of QA Models to Challenge Sets with Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation

Kazutoshi Shinoda, Saku Sugawara and Akiko Aizawa


Tools Impact on the Quality of Annotations for Chat Untangling

Jhonny Cerezo, Felipe Bravo-Marquez and Alexandre Bergel


How Many layers and Why? An analysis of the Model Depth in Transformers

Antoine Simoulin and Benoit Crabbé


A Multilingual Bag-of-Entities Model for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Text Classification

Sosuke Nishikawa, Ikuya Yamada, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Isao Echizen


Edit Distance Based Curriculum Learning for Paraphrase Generation

Sora Kadotani, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase and Makoto Onizuka


Changing the Basis of Contextual Representations with Explicit Semantics

Tamás Ficsor and Gábor Berend


Personal Bias in Prediction of Emotions Elicited by Textual Opinions

Piotr Miłkowski, Marcin Gruza, Kamil Kanclerz, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Damian Grimling and Jan Kocon


MVP-BERT: Multi-Vocab Pre-training for Chinese BERT

Wei Zhu


CMTA: COVID-19 Misinformation Multilingual Analysis on Twitter

Raj Pranesh, Mehrdad Farokhenajd, Ambesh Shekhar and Genoveva Vargas-Solar


Predicting pragmatic discourse features in the language of adults with autism spectrum disorder

Christine Yang, Duanchen Liu, Qingyun Yang, Zoey Liu and Emily Prud'hommeaux


Adversarial Datasets for NLI Tasks: the Case of the Chinese Causative-Passive Homonymy

Shanshan Xu and Katja Markert


SumPubMed: Summarization Dataset of PubMed Scientific Articles

Vivek Gupta, Prerna Bharti, Pegah Nokhiz and Harish Karnick


Topicalization in Language Models: A Case Study on Japanese

Riki Fujihara, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Kaori Abe and Kentaro Inui


Correcting Sense Annotations via Translations

Arnob Mallik and Grzegorz Kondrak


A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event

Lolo Aboufoul, Khyati Mahajan, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens and Samira Shaikh


Cross-lingual Evidence Improves Monolingual Fake News Detection

Daryna Dementieva and Alexander Panchenko


Vyākarana: A Colorless Green Benchmark for Syntactic Evaluation in Indic Languages

Rajaswa Patil, Jasleen Dhillon, Siddhant Mahurkar, Saumitra Kulkarni, Manav Malhotra and Veeky Baths


Neural Machine Translation with Synchronous Latent Phrase Structure

Shintaro Harada and Taro Watanabe


Zero Pronouns Identification based on Span prediction

Sei Iwata, Taro Watanabe and Masaaki Nagata


Revisiting Additive Compositionality: AND, OR and NOT Operations with Word Embeddings

Masahiro Naito, Sho Yokoi, Geewook Kim and Hidetoshi Shimodaira


On the differences between BERT and MT encoder spaces and how to address them in translation tasks

Raúl Vázquez, Hande Celikkanat, Mathias Creutz and Jörg Tiedemann


Synchronous Syntactic Attention for Transformer Neural Machine Translation

Hiroyuki Deguchi, Akihiro Tamura and Takashi Ninomiya