07/01/2020

Nine papers accepted for ACL 2020

Alexander Koller will present at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) with co-author Emily Bender. The paper, "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data," features a savvy octopus and is also available in audio form.
A total of 9 papers from DFKI and UdS with Tianjin University and University of Washington were accepted for ACL2020:

  • Christoph Alt, Aleksandra Gabryszak and Leonhard Hennig. "Probing Linguistic Features of Sentence-Level Representations in Relation Extraction", long paper
  • Christoph Alt, Aleksandra Gabryszak and Leonhard Hennig. "TACRED Revisited: A Thorough Evaluation of the TACRED Relation Extraction Task", long paper
  • Emily M. Bender and Alexander Koller, "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data", long paper
  • David Harbecke and Christoph Alt. "Considering Likelihood in NLP Classification Explanations with Occlusion and Language Modeling", student paper
  • Nico Herbig, Tim Düwel, Santanu Pal, Kalliopi Maria Meladaki, Mahsa Monshizadeh, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith. "MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface for Post-Editing Machine Translation", long paper
  • Nico Herbig, Santanu Pal, Tim Düwel, Kalliopi Maria Meladaki, Mahsa Monshizadeh, Vladislav Hnatovskiy, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith. "MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface using Handwriting, Touch Reordering, and Speech Commands for Post-Editing Machine Translation", demo paper
  • Hongfei Xu, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong, Qiuhui Liu and Jingyi Zhang. "Learning Source Phrase Representations for Neural Machine Translation", long paper
  • Hongfei Xu, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong and Qiuhui Liu. "Dynamically Adjusting Transformer Batch Size by Monitoring Gradient Direction Change", short paper
  • Hongfei Xu, Qiuhui Liu, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong and Jingyi Zhang. "Lipschitz Constrained Parameter Initialization for Deep Transformers", short paper