Schedule

Session 2: Applications

11:00 - Evaluating Factual Consistency of Texts with Semantic Role Labeling

Jing Fan, Dennis Aumiller and Michael Gertz

11:15 - CRAPES:Cross-modal Annotation Projection for Visual Semantic Role Labeling

Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Martha Palmer and Christoffer Heckman

11:30 - Robust Integration of Contextual Information for Cross-Target Stance Detection

Andreas Waldis, Tilman Beck and Iryna Gurevych

11:45 - Generative Data Augmentation for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

An Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Youmi Ma, Ao Liu and Naoaki Okazaki

12:00 - Language models are not naysayers: an analysis of language models on negation benchmarks

Thinh Hung Truong, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor and Trevor Cohn

12:15 - Estimating Semantic Similarity between In-Domain and Out-of-Domain Samples

Rhitabrat Pokharel and Ameeta Agrawal

12:25 - How Are Idioms Processed Inside Transformer Language Models?

Ye Tian, Isobel James and Hye Son

Session 3: Discourse & Semantic Composition

14:00 - Arithmetic-Based Pretraining – Improving Numeracy of Pretrained Language Models

Dominic Petrak, Nafise Sadat Moosavi and Iryna Gurevych

14:15 - Functional Distributional Semantics at Scale

Chun Hei Lo, Hong Cheng, Wai Lam and Guy Emerson

14:30 - Syntax and Semantics Meet in the "Middle": Probing the Syntax-Semantics Interface of LMs Through Agentivity

Lindia Tjuatja, Emmy Liu, Lori Levin and Graham Neubig

14:45 - Monolingual Phrase Alignment as Parse Forest Mapping

Sora Kadotani and Yuki Arase

15:00 - Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling

Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Mehdi Rezaee and Francis Ferraro

15:10 - Does Character-level Information Always Improve DRS-based Semantic Parsing?

Tomoya Kurosawa and Hitomi Yanaka

15:20 - Query Generation Using GPT-3 for CLIP-Based Word Sense Disambiguation for Image Retrieval

Xiaomeng Pan, Zhousi Chen and Mamoru Komachi

Session 4: In-person Posters

• Robust Integration of Contextual Information for Cross-Target Stance Detection

Andreas Waldis, Tilman Beck and Iryna Gurevych

• Improving Toponym Resolution with Better Candidate Generation, Transformer-based Reranking, and Two-Stage Resolution

Zeyu Zhang and Steven Bethard

• Estimating Semantic Similarity between In-Domain and Out-of-Domain Samples

Rhitabrat Pokharel and Ameeta Agrawal

• Query Generation Using GPT-3 for CLIP-Based Word Sense Disambiguation for Image Retrieval

Xiaomeng Pan, Zhousi Chen and Mamoru Komachi

• Scalable Performance Analysis for Vision-Language Models

Santiago Castro, Oana Ignat and Rada Mihalcea

• Is Shortest Always Best? The Role of Brevity in Logic-to-Text Generation

Eduardo Calò, Jordi Levy, Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter

• Guiding Zero-Shot Paraphrase Generation with Fine-Grained Control Tokens

Teemu Vahtola, Mathias Creutz and Jörg Tiedemann

• Seeking Clozure: Robust Hypernym extraction from BERT with Anchored Prompts

Chunhua Liu, Trevor Cohn and Lea Frermann

• Leveraging Active Learning to Minimise SRL Annotation Across Corpora

Skatje Myers and Martha Palmer

• Functional Distributional Semantics at Scale

Chun Hei Lo, Hong Cheng, Wai Lam and Guy Emerson

• Representation of Lexical Stylistic Features in Language Models' Embedding Space

Qing Lyu, Marianna Apidianaki and Chris Callison-Burch

• A Tale of Two Laws of Semantic Change: Predicting Synonym Changes with Distributional Semantic Models

Bastien Lietard, Mikaela Keller and Pascal Denis

• LEXPLAIN: Improving Model Explanations via Lexicon Supervision

Orevaoghene Ahia, Hila Gonen, Vidhisha Balachandran, Yulia Tsvetkov and Noah A. Smith

• „Mann" is to "Donna” as「国王」is to « Reine » Adapting the Analogy Task for Multilingual and Contextual Embeddings

Timothee Mickus, Eduardo Calò, Léo Jacqmin, Denis Paperno and Mathieu Constant

• FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms

Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Chirino Trujillo, Yuan Zhao, Olumide Ojo, Diana Cuervas Plancarte, Anna Feldman and JIng Peng

• Analyzing Syntactic Generalization Capacity of Pre-trained Language Models on Japanese Honorific Conversion

Ryo Sekizawa and Hitomi Yanaka

• Probing Out-of-Distribution Robustness of Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning

Hyunsoo Cho, Choonghyun Park, Junyeob Kim, Hyuhng Joon Kim, Kang Min Yoo and Sang-goo Lee

• Syntax and Semantics Meet in the "Middle": Probing the Syntax-Semantics Interface of LMs Through Agentivity

Lindia Tjuatja, Emmy Liu, Lori Levin and Graham Neubig

• Empirical Sufficiency Lower Bounds for Language Modeling with Locally-Bootstrapped Semantic Structures

Jakob Prange and Emmanuele Chersoni

• Revisiting Syntax-Based Approach in Negation Scope Resolution

Asahi Yoshida, Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara

• Limits for learning with language models

Nicholas Asher, Swarnadeep Bhar, Akshay Chaturvedi, Julie Hunter and Soumya Paul

• When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)

Reto Gubelmann, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Christina Niklaus and Siegfried Handschuh

• Adverbs, Surprisingly

Dmitry Nikolaev, Collin Baker, Miriam R. L. Petruck and Sebastian Padó

• Unsupervised Mapping of Arguments of Deverbal Nouns to Their Corresponding Verbal Labels

Aviv Weinstein and Yoav Goldberg

• DMLM: Descriptive Masked Language Modeling

Edoardo Barba, Niccolò Campolungo and Roberto Navigli

• Exploring Non-Verbal Predicates in Semantic Role Labeling: Challenges and Opportunities

Riccardo Orlando, Simone Conia and Roberto Navigli

• Unsupervised Paraphrasing of Multiword Expressions

Takashi Wada, Yuji Matsumoto, Timothy Baldwin and Jey Han Lau

• Incorporating Graph Information in Transformer-based AMR Parsing

Pavlo Vasylenko, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Abelardo Carlos Martínez Lorenzo and Roberto Navigli

• Additive manifesto decomposition: A policy domain aware method for understanding party positioning

Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev and Sebastian Padó

• RQUGE: Reference-Free Metric for Evaluating Question Generation by Answering the Question

Alireza Mohammadshahi, Thomas Scialom, Majid Yazdani, Pouya Yanki, Angela Fan, James Henderson, Marzieh Saeidi

• Figurative Language Processing: A Linguistically Informed Feature Analysis of the Behavior of Language Models and Humans

Hyewon Jang, Qi Yu, and Diego Frassinelli

Session 1: Virtual Poster Session

• Not All Counterhate Tweets Elicit the Same Replies: A Fine-Grained Analysis

Abdullah Albanyan, Ahmed Hassan and Eduardo Blanco

• KGLM: Integrating Knowledge Graph Structure in Language Models for Link Prediction

Jason Youn and Ilias Tagkopoulos

• Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal

Yan Cong, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu and Alessandro Lenci

• Language models are not naysayers: an analysis of language models on negation benchmarks

Thinh Hung Truong, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor and Trevor Cohn

• JSEEGraph: Joint Structured Event Extraction as Graph Parsing

Huiling You, Lilja Øvrelid and Samia Touileb

• Testing Paraphrase Models on Recognising Sentence Pairs at Different Degrees of Semantic Overlap

Qiwei Peng, David Weir and Julie Weeds

• Can Sequence-to-Sequence Transformers Naturally Understand Sequential Instructions?

Xiang Zhou, Aditya Gupta, Shyam Upadhyay, Mohit Bansal and Manaal Faruqui

• Can Pretrained Language Models Derive Correct Semantics from Corrupt Subwords under Noise?

Xinzhe Li, Ming Liu and Shang Gao

• True Detective: A Deep Abductive Reasoning Benchmark Undoable for GPT-3 and Challenging for GPT-4

Maksym Del and Mark Fishel

• PCFG-Based Natural Language Interface Improves Generalization for Controlled Text Generation

Jingyu Zhang, James Glass and Tianxing He

Session 2: Oral Presentations

12:00 - Limits for learning with language models

Nicholas Asher, Swarnadeep Bhar, Akshay Chaturvedi, Julie Hunter and Soumya Paul

12:15 - JSEEGraph: Joint Structured Event Extraction as Graph Parsing

Huiling You, Lilja Øvrelid and Samia Touileb