July 10, 2022 – July 15, 2022

Microsoft at NAACL 2022

Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7)

Location: Seattle, Washington

All times are in PDT (UTC -7)

09:00 Tutorial

New Frontiers of Information Extraction

Muhao Chen, Lifu Huang, Manling Li (2021-2022 PhD Fellow), Ben Zhou, Heng Ji, Dan Roth
09:00 Tutorial

Human-Centered Evaluation of Explanations

Jordan Boyd-Graber, Samuel Carton, Shi Feng, Vera Liao, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Smith-Renner, Chenhao Tan
09:00 Workshop

Affinity Workshop: Queer in AI

Luca Soldaini, Sharvani Jha, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Jeffrey Xiong, Hetvi J, Ava Asmani

Sponsored by Microsoft
09:00 Workshop

Affinity Workshop: Widening NLP

Shaily Bhatt, Sunipa Dev, Bonaventure Dossou, Tirthankar Ghosal, Hatem Haddad, Haley M. Lepp, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Surangika Ranathunga, Xanda Schofield, Isidora Tourni, Weijia Xu

Advisory Board: Kalika Bali, Hal Daumé III, Jason Eisner
09:00 Workshop

Affinity Workshop: LatinX in AI

Javier Turek, María Leonor Pacheco, Diana Galván Sosa, Pablo Rivas, Maria Luisa Santiago, Errol Wilderd, Omar Uriel Espejel Díaz, Miguel Gonzales, Jose Angel Daza

Keynote Speaker: Maria Pacheco (2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant Fellow)

Sponsored by Microsoft
09:00 Workshop

Affinity Workshop: North Africans in NLP

Asma Ben Abacha, Khalil Mrini, Meriem Beloucif, Nedjma Ousidhoum

10:45 – 12:15 Talk session

Dialogue
Related Publications
- Stylized Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation via Disentangled Template Rewriting
  
  Qingfeng Sun, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Yujing Wang, Jian Miao, Xiubo Geng, Yining Chen, Fei Xu, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)
10:45 – 12:15 Poster session

Human-Centered NLP

Poster Session 2: July 13
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- What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research
  
  Maartje Ter Hoeve, Julia Kiseleva, Maarten de Rijke
10:45 – 12:15 Poster session

Machine Translation

Poster Session 2: July 12
Related Publications
- Building Multilingual Machine Translation Systems That Serve Arbitrary X-Y Translations
  
  Akiko Eriguchi, Shufang Xie, Tao Qin, Hany Hassan Awadalla
14:30 – 16:00 Talk session

Interpretability
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- ExSum: From Local Explanations to Model Understanding
  
  Yilun Zhou, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Julie Shah
14:30 – 16:00 Talk session

Semantics
14:30 – 16:00 Talk session

Language Resources & Evaluation 1
Related Publications
- A Few Thousand Translations Go A Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
  
  David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris C. Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen H. Muhammad, Guyo Dub Jarso, Oreen Yousuf, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Gilles Hacheme, Eric Peter Wairagala, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Benjamin A. Ajibade, Tunde O. Ajayi, Yvonne Wambui Gitau, Jade Abbott, Mohamed Ahmed, Millicent Ochieng, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Victoire M. Koagne, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Valencia Wagner, Idris Abdulmumin, Ayodele Awokoya, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Sibanda, Andiswa Bukula, Sam Manthalu
14:30 – 16:00 Talk session

Machine Translation 1
Related Publications
- BlonDe: An Automatic Evaluation Metric for Document-level Machine Translation
  
  Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Jian Yang, Haoyang Huang, Rico Sennrich, Ryan Cotterell, Mrinmaya Sachan, Ming Zhou
14:30 – 16:00 Poster session

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Poster Session 2: July 12
Related Publications
- Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with a Unified Knowledge Representation
  
  Yu Li, Baolin Peng, Yelong Shen, Yi Mao, Lars Liden, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao

08:00 – 09:00 Talk session

Language Resources & Evaluation 2
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- WALNUT: A Benchmark on Semi-weakly Supervised Learning for Natural Language Understanding
  
  Guoqing Zheng, Giannis Karamanolakis, Kai Shu, Ahmed Awadallah
08:00 – 09:00 Poster session

Machine Learning for NLP: Classification and Structured Prediction Models
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- On the Effectiveness of Sentence Encoding for Intent Detection Meta-Learning
  
  Tingting Ma, Qianhui Wu, Zhiwei Yu, Tiejun Zhao, Chin-Yew Lin
10:45 – 12:15 Talk session

Language Grounding to Vision 1
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- KAT: A Knowledge Augmented Transformer for Vision-and-Language
  
  Liangke Gui, Borui Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Alex Hauptmann, Yonatan Bisk, Jianfeng Gao
10:45 – 12:15 Poster session

Question Answering

Poster Session 2: July 13
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- ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering
  
  Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
10:45 – 12:15 Poster session

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference
Related Publications
- CoSe-Co: Text Conditioned Generative CommonSense Contextualizer
  
  Rachit Bansal, Milan Aggarwal, Sumit Bhatia, Jivat Neet Kaur, Balaji Krishnamurthy
- Few-Shot Semantic Parsing with Language Models Trained on Code
  
  Richard Shin, Ben Van Durme
10:45 – 12:15 Poster session

Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysi
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- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
14:15 – 15:45 Talk session

Ethics, Bias, Fairness 1
Related Publications
- Deconstructing NLG Evaluation: Evaluation Practices, Assumptions, and Their Implications
  
  Kaitlyn Zhou, Su Lin Blodgett, Adam Trischler, Hal Daumé III, Kaheer Suleman, Alexandra Olteanu
14:15 – 15:45 Talk session

NLP Applications 3
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- LITE: Intent-based Task Representation Learning Using Weak Supervision
  
  Naoki Otani, Michael Gamon, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Mei Yang, Sri Malireddi, Oriana Riva
16:15 – 17:45 Talk session

Multilinguality
Related Publications
- On the Economics of Multilingual Few-shot Learning: Modeling the Cost-Performance Trade-offs of Machine Translated and Manual Data
  
  Kabir Ahuja, Monojit Choudhury, Sandipan Dandapat
- Bridging the Gap between Language Models and Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling
  
  Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou (寿林钧), Ming Gong (YIMING), Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)
16:15 – 17:45 Talk session

Question Answering 1
16:15 – 17:45 Poster session

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Poster session: July 11
Related Publications
- Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with a Unified Knowledge Representation
  
  Yu Li, Baolin Peng, Yelong Shen, Yi Mao, Lars Liden, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
16:15 – 17:45 Poster session

Machine Translation

Poster session 2: July 11
Related Publications
- A Study of Syntactic Multi-Modality in Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation
  
  Kexun Zhang, Rui Wang, Xu Tan, Junliang Guo, Yi Ren, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu
16:15 – 17:45 Poster session

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference
Related Publications
- Does Pre-training Induce Systematic Inference? How Masked Language Models Acquire Commonsense Knowledge
  
  Ian Porada, Alessandro Sordoni, Jackie CK Cheung
- CoSe-Co: Text Conditioned Generative CommonSense Contextualizer
  
  Rachit Bansal, Milan Aggarwal, Sumit Bhatia, Jivat Neet Kaur, Balaji Krishnamurthy
16:15 – 17:45 Poster session

Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis
Related Publications
- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis

08:00 – 09:00 Poster session

Human-Centered NLP

Poster Session 1: July 11
Related Publications
- What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research
  
  Maartje Ter Hoeve, Julia Kiseleva, Maarten de Rijke
08:00 – 09:00 Poster session

NLP Applications
08:00 – 09:00 Poster session

Question Answering
09:15 – 10:15 Poster session

Information Extraction
Related Publications
- ITA: Image-Text Alignments for Multi-Modal Named Entity Recognition
  
  Xinyu Wang, Min Gui, Yong Jiang, Zixia Jia, Nguyen Bach, Tao Wang, Zhongqiang Huang, Kewei Tu
09:15 – 10:15 Poster session

Question Answering

Poster Session 1: July 12
Related Publications
- ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering
  
  Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
09:15 – 10:15 Poster session

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference

Poster Session 1: July 12
Related Publications
- Few-Shot Semantic Parsing with Language Models Trained on Code
  
  Richard Shin, Ben Van Durme
10:45 – 12:15 Talk session

Language Generation
Related Publications
- Fuse It More Deeply! A Variational Transformer with Layer-Wise Latent Variable Inference for Text Generation
  
  Jinyi Hu, Xiaoyuan Yi, Wenhao Li, Maosong Sun, Xing Xie (xingx)
14:15 – 15:45 Talk session

Machine Learning 4
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- MoEBERT: from BERT to Mixture-of-Experts via Importance-Guided Adaptation
  
  Simiao Zuo, Qingru Zhang, Chen Liang, Pengcheng He, Tuo Zhao, Weizhu Chen
14:15 – 15:45 Talk session

Question Answering 2
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- Evidentiality-guided Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
  
  Akari Asai, Matt Gardner, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Microsoft at NAACL 2022

Sunday, July 10, 2022

New Frontiers of Information Extraction

Human-Centered Evaluation of Explanations

Affinity Workshop: Queer in AI

Affinity Workshop: Widening NLP

Affinity Workshop: LatinX in AI

Affinity Workshop: North Africans in NLP

Monday, July 11, 2022

Dialogue

Human-Centered NLP

Machine Translation

Interpretability

Semantics

Language Resources & Evaluation 1

Machine Translation 1

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Language Resources & Evaluation 2

Machine Learning for NLP: Classification and Structured Prediction Models

Language Grounding to Vision 1

Question Answering

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference

Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysi

Ethics, Bias, Fairness 1

NLP Applications 3

Multilinguality

Question Answering 1

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Machine Translation

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference

Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Human-Centered NLP

NLP Applications

Question Answering

Information Extraction

Question Answering

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference

Language Generation

Machine Learning 4

Question Answering 2