📰 CoNLL 2021 — accepted papers

CoNLL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), held in Online, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 52 papers of it; our library holds 8 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Most cited papers

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

1. BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed LanguagePhilip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia et al.70 citations · our summary
2. Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in ColorMostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich et al.62 citations · our summary
3. Counterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction ↗Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen et al.50 citations
4. Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents ↗Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu28 citations
5. Understanding the Extent to which Content Quality Metrics Measure the Information Quality of Summaries ↗Daniel Deutsch, Dan Roth26 citations
6. Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectivesLalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger21 citations · our summary
7. Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation ↗Kevin Stowe, Nils Beck, Iryna Gurevych20 citations
8. The Low-Dimensional Linear Geometry of Contextualized Word Representations ↗Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas19 citations
9. Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the Perspective of a Recurrent Neural Network ↗Verna Dankers, Anna Langedijk, Kate McCurdy et al.18 citations
10. Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions ↗Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak et al.17 citations

All accepted papers (52)

The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed LanguagePhilip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia et al.70 citations · our summary
2. Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in ColorMostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich et al.62 citations · our summary
3. Counterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction ↗Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen et al.50 citations
4. Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents ↗Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu28 citations
5. Understanding the Extent to which Content Quality Metrics Measure the Information Quality of Summaries ↗Daniel Deutsch, Dan Roth26 citations
6. Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectivesLalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger21 citations · our summary
7. Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation ↗Kevin Stowe, Nils Beck, Iryna Gurevych20 citations
8. The Low-Dimensional Linear Geometry of Contextualized Word Representations ↗Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas19 citations
9. Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the Perspective of a Recurrent Neural Network ↗Verna Dankers, Anna Langedijk, Kate McCurdy et al.18 citations
10. Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions ↗Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak et al.17 citations
11. Understanding Guided Image Captioning Performance across Domains ↗Edwin G. Ng, Bo Pang, Piyush Sharma et al.17 citations
12. “It seemed like an annoying woman”: On the Perception and Ethical Considerations of Affective Language in Text-Based Conversational Agents ↗Lindsey Vanderlyn, Gianna Weber, Michael Neumann et al.17 citations
13. VQA-MHUG: A Gaze Dataset to Study Multimodal Neural Attention in Visual Question Answering ↗Ekta Sood, Fabian Kögel, Florian Strohm et al.16 citations
14. Learning Zero-Shot Multifaceted Visually Grounded Word Embeddings via Multi-Task Training ↗Hassan Shahmohammadi, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, R. Harald Baayen15 citations
15. The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency ↗Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky et al.15 citations
16. Automatic Error Type Annotation for ArabicRiadh Belkebir, Nizar Habash14 citations · our summary
17. Grammatical Profiling for Semantic Change Detection ↗Andrey Kutuzov, Lidia Pivovarova, Mario Giulianelli14 citations
18. Modeling the Interaction Between Perception-Based and Production-Based Learning in Children's Early Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge ↗Mitja Nikolaus, Abdellah Fourtassi14 citations
19. On Language Models for Creoles ↗Heather Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Miryam de Lhoneux et al.14 citations
20. Imposing Relation Structure in Language-Model Embeddings Using Contrastive Learning ↗Christos Theodoropoulos, James Henderson, Andrei Catalin Coman et al.13 citations
21. Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline ↗Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru et al.13 citations
22. A Multilingual Benchmark for Probing Negation-Awareness with Minimal Pairs ↗Mareike Hartmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich et al.11 citations
23. NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in EnglishAlicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt et al.11 citations · our summary
24. Does language help generalization in vision models? ↗Benjamin Devillers, Bhavin Choksi, Romain Bielawski et al.10 citations
25. MirrorWiC: On Eliciting Word-in-Context Representations from Pretrained Language Models ↗Qianchu Liu, Fangyu Liu, Nigel Collier et al.10 citations

See all 52 papers in CoNLL 2021 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (8)

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

1. BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed LanguageConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Philip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia, et al.2021 · 161 citations
2. Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in ColorConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich, et al.2021 · 119 citations
3. Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectivesConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Lalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger2021 · 42 citations
4. Automatic Error Type Annotation for ArabicConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Riadh Belkebir, Nizar Habash2021 · 41 citations
5. NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in EnglishAlicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt, et al.2021 · 40 citations
6. Tackling Zero Pronoun Resolution and Non-Zero Coreference Resolution JointlyConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Shisong Chen, Binbin Gu, Jianfeng Qu, et al.2021 · 15 citations
7. Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased ExposureConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Jonathan Dunn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi2021 · 11 citations
8. Controlling Prosody in End-to-End TTS: A Case Study on Contrastive Focus GenerationConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)Siddique Latif, Inyoung Kim, Ioan Calapodescu, et al.2021 · 10 citations

🧭 Top topics

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

🧠Language models & pretraining (2)English (2)🧵Discourse analysis (1)😉Implicature (1)🔗Coreference resolution (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)Semitic languages (1)🧒Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (8)🖥️Computer Science (7)💭Psychology (3)⚛️Physics and Astronomy (1)🤝Social Sciences (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.

🎓New York UniversityNew York · United States2 works here🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🎓Uppsala UniversityUppsala · Sweden1 work here🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark1 work here🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States1 work here🎓University of CanterburyChristchurch · New Zealand1 work here🎓University of Southern QueenslandToowoomba · Australia1 work here🎓University of TrentoTrento · Italy1 work here🎓University of California, IrvineIrvine · United States1 work here🎓Fudan UniversityShanghai · China1 work here🎓Brown UniversityProvidence · United States1 work here🎓Soochow UniversitySuzhou · China1 work 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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