Volume 11

Table of contents

1. INSCIT: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions

   Zeqiu Wu, Ryu Parish, Hao Cheng, Sewon Min, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mari Ostendorf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

   Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

2. Evaluating Transformer Models and Human Behaviors on Chinese Character Naming

   Xiaomeng Ma, Lingyu Gao

   Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

3. Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

   Jintao Wen, Geng Tu, Rui Li, Dazhi Jiang, Wenhua Zhu

   Article at MIT Press

4. MACSum: Controllable Summarization with Mixed Attributes

   Yusen Zhang, Yang Liu, Ziyi Yang, Yuwei Fang, Yulong Chen, Dragomir Radev, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Rui Zhang

   Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

5. Pre-train, Prompt and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modelling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems

   Peng Liu, Lemei Zhang, Jon Atle Gulla

   Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

6. MIRACL: A Multilingual Retrieval Dataset Covering 18 Diverse Languages

   Xinyu Zhang, Nandan Thakur, Odunayo Ogundepo, Ehsan Kamalloo, David Alfonso Hermelo, Xiaoguang Li, Qun Liu, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Jimmy Lin

   Article at MIT Press Presented at NAACL 2024

7. MissModal: Increasing Robustness to Missing Modality in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

   Ronghao Lin, Haifeng Hu

   Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

8. Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequences

   Xudong Hong, Asad Sayeed, Khushboo Mehra, Vera Demberg, Bernt Schiele

   Presented at EACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

9. OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction

   Linfeng Song, Ante Wang, Xiaoman Pan, Hongming Zhang, Dian Yu, Lifeng Jin, Haitao Mi, Jinsong Su, Yue Zhang, Dong Yu

   Article at MIT Press

10. Introduction to Mathematical Language Processing: Informal Proofs, Word Problems, and Supporting Tasks

    Jordan Meadows, Andre Freitas

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

11. Naturalistic Causal Probing for Morpho-Syntax

    Afra Amini, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

12. How much do language models copy from their training data? Evaluating linguistic novelty in text generation using RAVEN

    Richard Thomas McCoy, Paul Smolensky, Tal Linzen, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

13. Collective Human Opinions in Semantic Textual Similarity

    Wang Yuxia, Shimin Tao, Ning Xie, Hao Yang, Karin Verspoor, Timothy Baldwin

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

14. FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

    Parker Riley, Timothy Dozat, Jan A Botha, Xavier Garcia, Dan Garrette, Jason Riesa, Orhan Firat, Noah Constant

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

15. DMDD: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dataset Mentions Detection

    Huitong Pan, Qi Zhang, Cornelia Caragea, Eduard Dragut, Longin Jan Lateckit

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

16. On the Robustness of Dialogue History Representation in Conversational Question Answering: A Comprehensive Study and a New Prompt-based Method

    Zorik Gekhman, Nadav Oved, Orgad Keller, Idan Szpektor, Roi Reichart

    Presented at EMNLP 2023 Article at MIT Press

17. Evaluating a Century of Progress on the Cognitive Science of Adjective Ordering

    William Dyer, Charles J. Torres, Gregory Scontras, Richard Futrell

    Presented at NAACL 2024 Article at MIT Press

18. U-CORE: A Unified Deep Cluster-wise Contrastive Framework for Open Relation Extraction

    Jie Zhou, Shenpo Dong, Yunxin Huang, Meihan Wu, Haili Li, Jingnan Wang, Hongkui Tu, Xiaodong Wang

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

19. How Abstract Is Linguistic Generalization in Large Language Models? Experiments with Argument Structure

    Michael Wilson, Jackson Petty, Robert Frank

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

20. Hallucinations in Large Multilingual Translation Models

    Nuno M. Guerreiro, Duarte M. Alves, Jonas Waldendorf, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch, Pierre Colombo, André F.T. Martins

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

21. On the Effect of Anticipation on Reading Times

    Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ethan G. Wilcox, Roger Levy, Ryan Cotterell

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2024

22. Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions

    Zoey Liu, Emily Prud'hommeaux

    Article at MIT Press Presented at NAACL 2024

23. Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations

    Daniel Russo, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Marco Guerini

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

24. Multi3WOZ: A Multilingual, Multi-Domain, Multi-Parallel Dataset for Training and Evaluating Culturally Adapted Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

    Songbo Hu, Han Zhou, Mete Hergul, Milan Gritta, Guchun Zhang, Ignacio Iacobacci, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

25. A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order

    Thomas Hikaru Clark, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Hahn, Ryan Cotterell, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

26. Exploring Contrast Consistency of Open-Domain Question Answering Systems on Minimally Edited Questions

    Zhihan Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Zheng Ning, Mingxuan Ju, Meng Jiang

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

27. Supervised Gradual Machine Learning for Aspect-Term Sentiment Analysis

    Yanyan Wang, Qun Chen, Murtadha Ahmed, Zhaoqiang Chen, Jing Su, Wei Pan, Zhanhuai Li

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

28. Can Authorship Representation Learning Capture Stylistic Features?

    Andrew Wang, Cristina Aggazzotti, Rebecca Kotula, Rafael Rivera-Soto, Marcus Bishop, Nicholas Oliver Andrews

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

29. Unleashing the True Potential of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Sequence Tagging and Structure Parsing

    Han He, Jinho D. Choi

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

30. Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages

    Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell, Roger Levy

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

31. Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection

    Weijia Xu, Sweta Agrawal, Eleftheria Briakou, Marianna Martindale, Marine Carpuat

    Presented at EMNLP 2023 Article at MIT Press

32. Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing

    Jipeng Qiang, Yang Li, Chaowei Zhang, Yun Li, Yi Zhu, Yunhao Yuan, Xindong Wu

    Article at MIT Press

33. ReCOGS: How Incidental Details of a Logical Form Overshadow an Evaluation of Semantic Interpretation

    Zhengxuan Wu, Christopher Manning, Christopher Potts

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

34. The Parallelism Tradeoff: Limitations of Log-Precision Transformers

    William Cooper Merrill, Ashish Sabharwal

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

35. Rank-Aware Negative Training for Semi-Supervised Text Classification

    Murtadha Ahmed, Shengfeng Pan, Wen Po, Jianlin Su, Xinxin Cao, Wenze Zhang, Yunfeng Liu

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

36. QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples

    Priyanka Agrawal, Chris Alberti, Fantine Huot, Joshua Maynez, Ji Ma, Sebastian Ruder, Kuzman Ganchev, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

37. Tracking Brand-Associated Polarity-Bearing Topics in User Reviews

    Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Hanqi Yan, Yulan He

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

38. PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling PArticipant STAtes in Narratives

    Sayontan Ghosh, Mahnaz Koupaee, Isabella Chen, Francis Ferraro, Nathanael Chambers, Niranjan Balasubramanian

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

39. Removing Backdoors in Pre-trained Models by Regularized Continual Pre-training

    Biru Zhu, Ganqu Cui, Yangyi Chen, Yujia Qin, Lifan Yuan, Chong Fu, Yangdong Deng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Ming Gu

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

40. Dubbing in Practice: A Large Scale Study of Human Localization With Insights for Automatic Dubbing

    William Brannon, Yogesh Virkar, Brian Thompson

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

41. Improving Multitask Retrieval by Promoting Task Specialization

    Wenzheng Zhang, Chenyan Xiong, Karl Stratos, Arnold Overwijk

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

42. Intent-calibrated Self-training for Answer Selection in Open-domain Dialogues

    Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

43. Directed Acyclic Transformer Pre-training for High-quality Non-autoregressive Text Generation

    Fei Huang, Pei Ke, Minlie Huang

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

44. Learning to Paraphrase Sentences to Different Complexity Levels

    Alison Hanyi Chi, Li-Kuang Chen, Yi-Chen Chang, Shu-Hui Lee, Jason S. Chang

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

45. Reasoning over Public and Private Data in Retrieval-Based Systems

    Simran Arora, Patrick Lewis, Angela Fan, Jacob Kahn, Christopher Ré

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

46. PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering

    Pengshan Cai, Zonghai Yao, Fei Liu, Dakuo Wang, Meghan Reilly, Huixue Zhou, Lingxi Li, Yi Cao, Alok Kapoor, Adarsha Bajracharya, Dan Berlowitz, Hong Yu

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

47. Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever

    Devendra Singh Sachan, Mike Lewis, Dani Yogatama, Luke Zettlemoyer, Joelle Pineau, Manzil Zaheer

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

48. Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations

    Shun Shao, Yftah Ziser, Shay Cohen

    Presented at EMNLP 2023 Article at MIT Press

49. Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching

    Shuly Wintner, Safaa Shehadi, Yuli Zeira, Doreen Osmelak, Yuval Nov

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

50. Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval

    Sheng-Chieh Lin, Minghan Li, Jimmy Lin

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

51. Design Choices for Crowdsourcing Implicit Discourse Relations: Revealing the Biases Introduced by Task Design

    Valentina Pyatkin, Frances Yung, Merel C.J. Scholman, Ido Dagan, Reut Tsarfaty, Vera Demberg

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

52. General then Personal: Decoupling and Pre-training for Personalized Headline Generation

    Yun-Zhu Song, Yi-Syuan Chen, Lu Wang, Hong-Han Shuai

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

53. Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing

    Yilin Niu, Fei Huang, Minlie Huang

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

54. Compositional Zero-Shot Domain Transfer with Text-to-Text Models

    Fangyu Liu, Qianchu Liu, Shruthi Bannur, Fernando Pérez-García, Naoto Usuyama, Sheng Zhang, Tristan Naumann, Aditya Nori, Hoifung Poon, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Ozan Oktay, Stephanie L Hyland

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

55. Bridging the Gap: A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation

    Patrick Fernandes, Aman Madaan, Emmy Liu, António Farinhas, Pedro Martins, Amanda Bertsch, José Souza, Shuyan Zhou, Tongshuang Wu, Graham Neubig, André Martins

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

56. Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing: A Survey

    Marcos Treviso, Ji-Ung Lee, Tianchu Ji, Betty van Aken, Qingqing Cao, Manuel R. Ciosici, Michael Hassid, Kenneth Heafield, Sara Hooker, Pedro Henrique Martins, André Filipe Torres Martins, Peter Milder, Colin Raffel, Jessica Zosa Forde, Emma Strubell, Edwin Simpson, Noam Slonim, Jesse Dodge, Iryna Gurevych, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Leon Derczynski, Roy Schwartz

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

57. In-Context Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

    Ori Ram, Yoav Levine, Itay Dalmedigos, Dor Muhlgay, Amnon Shashua, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham

    Article at MIT Press

58. Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences

    Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, Judith Degen, Sebastian Schuster

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

59. Optimal Transport Posterior Alignment for Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing

    Tom Sherborne, Mirella Lapata, Tom Hosking

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

60. Sub-Character Tokenization for Chinese Pretrained Language Models

    Chenglei Si, Zhengyan Zhang, Yingfa Chen, Fanchao Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Yasheng Wang, Qun Liu, Maosong Sun

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

61. Less is More: Mitigate Spurious Correlations for Open-Domain Dialogue Response Generation Models by Causal Discovery

    Tao Feng, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

    Presented at ACL 2023

62. AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR

    Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sahib Singh, Bonaventure F.P. Dossou, Joanne Osuchukwu, Salomey Osei, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Naome Etori, Clinton Mbataku

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

63. Visual Spatial Reasoning

    Fangyu Liu, Guy Emerson, Nigel Collier

    Presented at EMNLP 2023 Article at MIT Press

64. Translate-and-Test Transfer Learning for Cross-Lingual Text Classification

    Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Gholamreza Haffari, Massimo Piccardi

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

65. Calibrated Interpretation: Confidence Estimation in Semantic Parsing

    Elias Stengel-Eskin, Benjamin Van Durme

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

66. On Graph-based Reentrancy-free Semantic Parsing

    Alban Petit, Caio Corro

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

67. Transparency Helps Reveal When Language Models Learn Meaning

    Zhaofeng Wu, William Merrill, Hao Peng, Iz Beltagy, Noah Smith

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

68. An Efficient Self-Supervised Cross-View Training For Sentence Embedding

    peerat limkonchotiwat, Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Sarana Nutanong

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

69. Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue: Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue

    Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Benjamin Van Durme

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

70. Cross-functional Analysis of Generalisation in Behavioural Learning

    Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Benjamin Roth

    Presented at EMNLP 2023

71. DEIM Discover, Explain, Improve: An Automatic Slice Detection Benchmark for Natural Language Processing

    Wenyue Hua, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Yongfeng Zhang, Dong Yu

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

72. Abstractive Meeting Summarization: A Survey

    Virgile Rennard, Guokan Shang, Julie Hunter, Michalis Vazirgiannis

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

73. Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off"

    Yuchen Lian, Arianna Bisazza, Tessa Verhoef

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2023

74. MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference

    Yanran Chen, Steffen Eger

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

75. T2-NER: A Two-Stage Span-based Framework For Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates

    Peixin Huang, Xiang Zhao, Minghao Hu, Zhen Tan, Weidong Xiao

    Presented at EMNLP 2023 Article at MIT Press

76. Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint

    Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kuzman Ganchev, Annie Louis, Fantine Huot, Anders Sandholm, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2023

77. Direct Speech Translation for Automatic Subtitling

    Sara Papi, Marco Gaido, Alina Karakanta, Mauro Cettolo, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2024

78. Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering.

    Shamane Siriwardhana, Rivindu Weerasekera, Tharindu Kaluarachchi, Elliott Wen, Rajib Rana, Suranga Nanayakkara

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

79. Assessing the Capacity of Transformer to Abstract Syntactic Representations: A Contrastive Analysis Based on Long-distance Agreement

    Bingzhi Li, Guillaume Wisniewski, Benoît Crabbé

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

80. On the Role of Negative Precedent in Legal Outcome Prediction

    Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Simone Teufel

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

81. Meta-Learning a Cross-lingual Manifold for Semantic Parsing

    Tom Sherborne, Mirella Lapata

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

82. OPAL: Ontology-Aware Pretrained Language Model for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Zhi Chen, Yuncong Liu, Lu Chen, Su Zhu, Mengyue Wu, Kai Yu

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

83. Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation

    Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa, Alexander Gutkin

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

84. Locally Typical Sampling

    Clara Isabel Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Gian Wiher, Ryan Cotterell

    Presented at EMNLP 2022 Article at MIT Press

85. Improving Low-Resource Cross-lingual Parsing with Expected Statistic Regularization

    Thomas Effland, Michael Collins

86. Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation

    Olga Majewska, Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

    Article at MIT Press Article at MIT Press Presented at EACL 2023

87. Modelling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models

    Yingjin Song, Daniel Beck

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EACL 2023

88. FeelingBlue: A Corpus for Understanding the Emotional Connotation of Color in Context

    Amith Ananthram, Olivia Winn, Smaranda Muresan

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

89. An Empirical Survey of Data Augmentation for Limited Data Learning in NLP

    Jiaao Chen, Derek Tam, Colin Raffel, Mohit Bansal, Diyi Yang

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

90. Coreference Resolution through a seq2seq Transition-Based System

    Bernd Bohnet, Chris Alberti, Michael Collins

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

91. Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling

    Tu Anh Nguyen, Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet, Yossi Adi, Wei-Ning Hsu, Ali Elkahky, Paden Tomasello, Robin Algayres, Benoit Sagot, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

92. Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications

    Gilbert Badaro, Paolo Papotti, Mohammed Saeed

    Article at MIT Press

93. Discontinuous Combinatory Constituency Parsing

    Zhousi Chen, Mamoru Komachi

    Presented at EACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

94. Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models

    Maor Ivgi, Uri Shaham, Jonathan Berant

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

95. Hate Speech Classifiers Learn Normative Social Stereotypes

    Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mohammad Atari, Brendan Kennedy, Morteza Dehghani

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

96. Domain-Specific Word Embeddings with Structure Prediction

    David Lassner, Stephanie Brandl, Anne Baillot, Shinichi Nakajima

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press

97. Why Does Surprisal From Larger Transformer-Based Language Models Provide a Poorer Fit to Human Reading Times?

    Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler

    Presented at ACL 2023 Article at MIT Press