📰 ACL 2020 — accepted papers

ACL 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Online, July 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 871 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 172 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main778System Demonstrations43Student Research Workshop42Tutorial Abstracts8

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Don't Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and TasksSuchin Gururangan, Ana Marasović, Swabha Swayamdipta et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Overall Paper1,992 citations
2. Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of DataEmily M. Bender, Alexander Koller · 🏆 Best Theme Paper1,032 citations · our summary
3. Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckListMarco Tulio Ribeiro, Tongshuang Wu, Carlos Guestrin et al. · 🏆 Best Overall Paper866 citations
4. Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation MetricsNitika Mathur, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Overall Paper182 citations · our summary
5. How Can We Accelerate Progress Towards Human-like Linguistic Generalization?Tal Linzen · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Theme Paper144 citations · our summary
6. GAIA: A Fine-grained Multimedia Knowledge Extraction SystemManling Li, Alireza Zareian, Ying Lin et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Best Demonstration Paper75 citations
7. Prta: A System to Support the Analysis of Propaganda Techniques in the NewsGiovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Yifan Zhang et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Demonstration Paper58 citations
8. Torch-Struct: Deep Structured Prediction LibraryAlexander Rush · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Demonstration Paper55 citations

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and ComprehensionMike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal et al.8,244 citations · our summary
2. Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at ScaleAlexis Conneau, Kartikay Khandelwal, Naman Goyal et al.5,335 citations
3. Don't Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and TasksSuchin Gururangan, Ana Marasović, Swabha Swayamdipta et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Overall Paper1,992 citations
4. Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human LanguagesPeng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang et al. · System Demonstrations1,431 citations · our summary
5. On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive SummarizationJoshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet et al.1,118 citations
6. DIALOGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response GenerationYizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley et al. · System Demonstrations1,046 citations
7. Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of DataEmily M. Bender, Alexander Koller · 🏆 Best Theme Paper1,032 citations · our summary
8. Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLPSu Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III et al.1,021 citations · our summary
9. BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text GenerationThibault Sellam, Dipanjan Das, Ankur Parikh961 citations
10. Quantifying Attention Flow in TransformersSamira Abnar, Willem Zuidema923 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (871)

The most cited first; 172 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and ComprehensionMike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal et al.8,244 citations · our summary
2. Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at ScaleAlexis Conneau, Kartikay Khandelwal, Naman Goyal et al.5,335 citations
3. Don't Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and TasksSuchin Gururangan, Ana Marasović, Swabha Swayamdipta et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Overall Paper1,992 citations
4. Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human LanguagesPeng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang et al. · System Demonstrations1,431 citations · our summary
5. On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive SummarizationJoshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet et al.1,118 citations
6. DIALOGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response GenerationYizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley et al. · System Demonstrations1,046 citations
7. Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of DataEmily M. Bender, Alexander Koller · 🏆 Best Theme Paper1,032 citations · our summary
8. Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLPSu Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III et al.1,021 citations · our summary
9. BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text GenerationThibault Sellam, Dipanjan Das, Ankur Parikh961 citations
10. Quantifying Attention Flow in TransformersSamira Abnar, Willem Zuidema923 citations · our summary
11. Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckListMarco Tulio Ribeiro, Tongshuang Wu, Carlos Guestrin et al. · 🏆 Best Overall Paper866 citations
12. GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained EmotionsDorottya Demszky, Dana Movshovitz-Attias, Jeongwoo Ko et al.804 citations
13. CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language ModelLouis Martin, Benjamin Muller, Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez et al.754 citations · our summary
14. MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited DevicesZhiqing Sun, Hongkun Yu, Xiaodan Song et al.739 citations · our summary
15. The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP WorldPratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, Amar Budhiraja et al.734 citations · our summary
16. Integrating Multimodal Information in Large Pretrained TransformersWasifur Rahman, Md Kamrul Hasan, Sangwu Lee et al.673 citations · our summary
17. Relational Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisKai Wang, Weizhou Shen, Yunyi Yang et al.665 citations · our summary
18. A Novel Cascade Binary Tagging Framework for Relational Triple ExtractionZhepei Wei, Jianlin Su, Yue Wang et al.649 citations · our summary
19. Dice Loss for Data-imbalanced NLP TasksXiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Yuxian Meng et al.646 citations · our summary
20. A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity RecognitionXiaoya Li, Jingrong Feng, Yuxian Meng et al.644 citations · our summary
21. Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language UnderstandingYixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan et al.637 citations
22. On the Cross-lingual Transferability of Monolingual RepresentationsMikel Artetxe, Sebastian Ruder, Dani Yogatama598 citations · our summary
23. ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP ModelsJay DeYoung, Sarthak Jain, Nazneen Fatema Rajani et al.540 citations · our summary
24. TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-trainingJonathan Herzig, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Thomas Müller et al.535 citations · our summary
25. RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL ParsersBailin Wang, Richard Shin, Xiaodong Liu et al.512 citations · our summary

See all 871 papers in ACL 2020 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (172)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and ComprehensionMike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, et al.2020 · 12,784 citations
2. Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human LanguagesPeng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, et al.2020 · 2,350 citations
3. Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLPSu Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III, et al.2020 · 1,703 citations
4. The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP WorldPratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, Amar Budhiraja, et al.2020 · 1,494 citations
5. Language-agnostic BERT Sentence EmbeddingFangxiaoyu Feng, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, et al.2020 · 1,413 citations
6. Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of DataEmily M. Bender, Alexander Koller2020 · 1,375 citations
7. On the Cross-lingual Transferability of Monolingual RepresentationsMikel Artetxe, Sebastian Ruder, Dani Yogatama2020 · 1,172 citations
8. Quantifying Attention Flow in TransformersSamira Abnar, Willem Zuidema2020 · 1,051 citations
9. MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited DevicesZhiqing Sun, Hongkun Yu, Xiaodan Song, et al.2020 · 1,007 citations
10. TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-trainingJonathan Herzig, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Thomas Müller, et al.2020 · 845 citations
11. A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity RecognitionXiaoya Li, Jingrong Feng, Yuxian Meng, et al.2020 · 834 citations
12. ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP ModelsJay DeYoung, Sarthak Jain, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, et al.2020 · 821 citations
13. Relational Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisKai Wang, Weizhou Shen, Yunyi Yang, et al.2020 · 776 citations
14. RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL ParsersBailin Wang, Richard Shin, Xiaodong Liu, et al.2020 · 752 citations
15. Towards Faithfully Interpretable NLP Systems: How Should We Define and Evaluate Faithfulness?Alon Jacovi, Yoav Goldberg2020 · 748 citations
16. Integrating Multimodal Information in Large Pretrained TransformersWasifur Rahman, Md Kamrul Hasan, Sangwu Lee, et al.2020 · 743 citations
17. A Novel Cascade Binary Tagging Framework for Relational Triple ExtractionZhepei Wei, Jianlin Su, Yue Wang, et al.2020 · 735 citations
18. Dice Loss for Data-imbalanced NLP TasksXiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Yuxian Meng, et al.2020 · 734 citations
19. SPECTER: Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed TransformersArman Cohan, Sergey Feldman, Iz Beltagy, et al.2020 · 692 citations
20. TaBERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular DataPengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig, Wen-tau Yih, et al.2020 · 690 citations
21. Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of LanguageMaarten Sap, Saadia Gabriel, Lianhui Qin, et al.2020 · 681 citations
22. Improving Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs using Knowledge Base EmbeddingsApoorv Saxena, Aditay Tripathi, Partha Talukdar2020 · 671 citations
23. A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global FeaturesYing Lin, Heng Ji, Fei Huang, et al.2020 · 600 citations
24. Named Entity Recognition as Dependency ParsingJuntao Yu, Bernd Bohnet, Massimo Poesio2020 · 594 citations
25. Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic RetrievalYinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad, et al.2020 · 570 citations

See all 172 works in ACL 2020 — accepted papers →

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

English (16)😊Sentiment & emotion (15)🧠Language models & pretraining (14)🔁Machine translation (13)🗨️Dialogue systems (12)🧮Reasoning (12)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (10)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (10)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (8)❓Question answering (7)🖼️Vision & language (7)📝Summarization (6)🌳Dependency parsing (5)🔎Information extraction (5)✍️Text generation (5)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (171)🎭Arts and Humanities (158)🤝Social Sciences (22)💭Psychology (6)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)🧠Neuroscience (1)⚛️Physics and Astronomy (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States13 works here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States12 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States12 works here🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States11 works here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States10 works here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States8 works here🏢MetaMenlo Park · United States8 works here🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States8 works here🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom7 works here🎓Tsinghua UniversityBeijing · China7 works here🎓Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat Gan · Israel6 works here🎓Fudan UniversityShanghai · China6 works here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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