Microsoft at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

DeepRapper: Neural Rap Generation with Rhyme and Rhythm Modeling

Lanqing Xue, Kaitao Song, Duocai Wu, Xu Tan, Nevin L. Zhang, Tao Qin, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu

AdvPicker: Effectively Leveraging Unlabeled Data via Adversarial Discriminator for Cross-Lingual NER

Weile Chen, Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Börje F. Karlsson, Yi Guan

SocAoG: Incremental Graph Parsing for Social Relation Inference in Dialogues

Liang Qiu, Yuan Liang, Yizhou Zhao, Pan Lu, Baolin Peng, Zhou Yu, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu

An Improved Model for Voicing Silent Speech

David Gaddy, Dan Klein

Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets

Su Lin Blodgett, Gilsinia Lopez, Alexandra Olteanu, Robert Sim, Hanna Wallach

Robust Knowledge Graph Completion with Stacked Convolutions and a Student Re-Ranking Network

Justin Lovelace, Denis Newman-Griffis, Shikhar Vashishth, Jill Fain Lehman, Carolyn Penstein Rosé

A Dataset and Baselines for Multilingual Reply Suggestion

Mozhi Zhang, Wei Wang, Budhaditya Deb, Guoqing Zheng, Milad Shokouhi, Ahmed Awadallah

A Survey of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in NLP

Anjalie Field, Su Lin Blodgett, Zeerak Waseem, Yulia Tsvetkov

EarlyBERT: Efficient BERT Training via Early-bird Lottery Tickets

Xiaohan Chen, Yu Cheng, Shuohang Wang, Zhe Gan, Atlas Wang, Jingjing Liu

KaggleDBQA: Realistic Evaluation of Text-to-SQL Parsers

Chia-Hsuan Lee, Alex Polozov, Matthew Richardson

An Empirical Study on Hyperparameter Optimization for Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Language Models

Xueqing Liu, Chi Wang

LayoutLMv2: Multi-modal Pre-training for Visually-Rich Document Understanding

Yang Xu, Yiheng Xu, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Guoxin Wang, Yijuan Lu, Dinei Florencio, Cha Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Lidong Zhou

UnitedQA: A Hybrid Approach for Open Domain Question Answering

Hao Cheng, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Wei Chen, Jianfeng Gao

Consistency Regularization for Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning

Bo Zheng, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Wenhui Wang, Zewen Chi, Saksham Singhal, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Xia Song, Furu Wei

Improving Pretrained Cross-Lingual Language Models via Self-Labeled Word Alignment

Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Bo Zheng, Shaohan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao, Heyan Huang, Furu Wei

Value-Agnostic Conversational Semantic Parsing

Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Subhro Roy, Yuchen Zhang, Alexander Kyte, Alan Guo, Sam Thomson, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Jason Wolfe, Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein

ReTraCk: A Flexible and Efficient Framework for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Shuang Chen, Qian Liu, Zhiwei Yu, Chin-Yew Lin, Jian-Guang Lou, Feng Jiang

Generation-Augmented Retrieval for Open-domain Question Answering

Yuning Mao, Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jianfeng Gao, Jiawei Han, Wei Chen

RADDLE: An Evaluation Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Robust Task-oriented Dialog Systems

Baolin Peng, Chunyuan Li, Zhu Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Jinchao Li, Jianfeng Gao

Few-Shot Text Ranking with Meta Adapted Synthetic Weak Supervision

Si Sun, Yingzhuo Qian, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Kaitao Zhang, Jie Bao, Zhiyuan Liu, Paul Bennett

Syntax-Enhanced Pre-trained Model

Zenan Xu, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Qinliang Su, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong (YIMING), Wanjun Zhong, Xiaojun Quan, Nan Duan, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)

HieRec: Hierarchical User Interest Modeling for Personalized News Recommendation

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Peiru Yang, Yang Yu, Xing Xie, Yongfeng Huang

PP-Rec: News Recommendation with Personalized User Interest and Time-aware News Popularity

Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang

Hi-Transformer: Hierarchical Interactive Transformer for Efficient and Effective Long Document Modeling

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang

CoSQA: 20,000+ Web Queries for Code Search and Question Answering

Junjie Huang, Duyu Tang, Linjun Shou (寿林钧), Ming Gong (YIMING), Ke Xu, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Ming Zhou, Nan Duan

Instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction with Shallow Aggressive Decoding

Xin Sun, Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Houfeng Wang

Issues with Entailment-based Zero-shot Text Classification

Tingting Ma, Jin-Ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin, Tiejun Zhao

Keep It Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text

Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Marti A. Hearst

Super Tickets in Pre-Trained Language Models: From Model Compression to Improving Generalization

Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Minshuo Chen, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Tuo Zhao, Wei Chen

Polyjuice: Generating Counterfactuals for Explaining, Evaluating, and Improving Models

Tongshuang Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel S. Weld

ADEPT: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task

Ali Emami, Ian Porada, Alexandra Olteanu, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents

Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Lei Zhang, Yue Dong, Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, Daqing He