The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
is being hosted virtually this week. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!
List of Accepted Long Papers
Neural Event Semantics for Grounded Language Understanding
Authors: Shyamal Buch, Li Fei-Fei, Noah D. Goodman
Contact: shyamal@cs.stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Project Webpage
Keywords: grounded language, compositionality, modular networks, event semantics
Notes: Accepted as a paper to TACL 2021, presented at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!
Measuring Conversational Update: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions
Authors: Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Zid Mancenido, Julie Cohen, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto
Contact: ddemszky@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code & Data
Keywords: conversational uptake, education
Mind Your Outliers! Investigating the Negative Impact of Outliers on Active Learning for Visual Question Answering
Authors: Siddharth Karamcheti, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning
Contact: skaramcheti@cs.stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: active learning, visual question answering, interpretability
Notes: Outstanding Paper Award
Relevance-guided Supervision for OpenQA with ColBERT
Authors: Omar Khattab, Christopher Potts, Matei Zaharia
Contact: okhattab@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: open-domain question answering, neural retrieval, weak supervision
Notes: Accepted as a paper to TACL 2021, presented at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!
Prefix Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation
Authors: Xiang Lisa Li, Percy Liang
Contact: xlisali@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: prefix-tuning, fine-tuning for generation, large-scale fine-tuning
DynaSent: A Dynamic Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Christopher Potts*, Zhengxuan Wu*, Atticus Geiger, Douwe Kiela
Contact: cgpotts@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code | Video
Keywords: sentiment analysis, crowdsourcing, adversarial datasets
List of Accepted Short Papers
Attention Flows are Shapley Values
Authors: Kawin Ethyarajh, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: kawin@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: explainability; interpretability
Question Generation for Adaptive Education
Authors: Megha Srivastava, Noah D. Goodman
Contact: meghas@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: education, nlp, language generation
We look forward to seeing you at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!