The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2022 is taking place May 22nd – May 27th. 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 Papers
LinkBERT: Pretraining Language Models with Document Links
Authors: Michihiro Yasunaga, Jure Leskovec*, Percy Liang*
Contact: myasu@cs.stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: language model, pretraining, knowledge, hyperlink, bionlp
When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn’t care about word order… except when it matters
Authors: Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald
Contact: isabelvp@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: large language models, analysis, word order, order invariance, grammatical role, syntax, semantics
Problems with Cosine as a Measure of Embedding Similarity for High Frequency Words
Authors: Kaitlyn Zhou, Kawin Ethayarajh, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: katezhou@stanford.edu
Keywords: cosine similarity, training data frequency, model analysis
Faithful or Extractive? On Mitigating the Faithfulness-Abstractiveness Trade-off in Abstractive Summarization
Authors: Faisal Ladhak, Esin Durmus, He He, Claire Cardie, Kathleen McKeown
Contact: esdurmus@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: text summarization, text generation, evaluation, faithfulness
Spurious Correlations in Reference-Free Evaluation of Text Generation
Authors: Esin Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Tatsunori Hashimoto
Contact: esdurmus@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: text summarization, text generation, dialogue generation, evaluation, metrics,
TABi: Type-Aware Bi-Encoders for Open-Domain Entity Retrieval
Authors: Megan Leszczynski, Daniel Y. Fu, Mayee F. Chen, Christopher Ré
Contact: mleszczy@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Website
Keywords: entity retrieval, contrastive learning, bi-encoders
A Few-Shot Semantic Parser for Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues with the Precise ThingTalk Representation
Authors: Giovanni Campagna, Sina J. Semnani, Ryan Kearns, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, Silei Xu, Monica S. Lam
Contact: gcampagn@cs.stanford.edu
Venue: Findings of ACL
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: dialogue agents, task-oriented dialogues, data synthesis
Richer Countries and Richer Representations
Authors: Kaitlyn Zhou, Kawin Ethayarajh, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: katezhou@stanford.edu
Venue: Findings of ACL
Keywords: representational harms, model analysis, geographic entities
Modular Domain Adaptation
Authors: Junshen K. Chen, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: dalc@umich.edu
Venue: Findings of ACL
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Website
Keywords: domain adaptation, computational social science, text classification, lexicons, sentiment
Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation with Language Corrections
Authors: Siddharth Karamcheti*, Raj Palleti*, Yuchen Cui, Percy Liang, Dorsa Sadigh
Contact: skaramcheti@cs.stanford.edu
Venue: ACL LNLS workshop
Links: Paper
Keywords: human-robot interaction, online language corrections, language supervision