📰 EACL 2021 — accepted papers

EACL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), held in Online, April 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 396 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 35 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main326System Demonstrations39Student Research Workshop26Tutorial Abstracts5

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Question and Answer Test-Train Overlap in Open-Domain Question Answering DatasetsPatrick Lewis, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel · 🏆 Best Short Paper144 citations
2. Trankit: A Light-Weight Transformer-based Toolkit for Multilingual Natural Language ProcessingMinh Van Nguyen, Viet Dac Lai, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Outstanding Demo Paper107 citations · our summary
3. We Need To Talk About Random SplitsAnders Søgaard, Sebastian Ebert, Jasmijn Bastings et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper75 citations
4. Multilingual LAMA: Investigating Knowledge in Multilingual Pretrained Language ModelsNora Kassner, Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze · 🏆 Best Short Paper74 citations · our summary
5. Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp): A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLPRob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Alan Ramponi et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Outstanding Demo Paper73 citations · our summary
6. Applying the Transformer to Character-level TransductionShijie Wu, Ryan Cotterell, Mans Hulden · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper68 citations
7. Is Supervised Syntactic Parsing Beneficial for Language Understanding Tasks? An Empirical InvestigationGoran Glavaš, Ivan Vulić · 🏆 Best Long Paper52 citations
8. Hidden Biases in Unreliable News Detection DatasetsXiang Zhou, Heba Elfardy, Christos Christodoulopoulos et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Long Paper16 citations
9. MadDog: A Web-based System for Acronym Identification and DisambiguationAmir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Best Demo Paper9 citations
10. SLTEV: Comprehensive Evaluation of Spoken Language TranslationEbrahim Ansari, Ondřej Bojar, Barry Haddow et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Outstanding Demo Paper9 citations
11. Cognition-aware Cognate DetectionDiptesh Kanojia, Prashant Sharma, Sayali Ghodekar et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Long Paper8 citations
12. ProFormer: Towards On-Device LSH Projection Based TransformersChinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper6 citations
13. Error Analysis and the Role of MorphologyMarcel Bollmann, Anders Søgaard · 🏆 Best Long Paper2 citations
14. A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processingYevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Thomas Schatz et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Long Paper1 citation

Most cited papers

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

1. Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language InferenceTimo Schick, Hinrich Schütze1,205 citations · our summary
2. Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question AnsweringGautier Izacard, Edouard Grave1,026 citations · our summary
3. Recipes for Building an Open-Domain ChatbotStephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Naman Goyal et al.752 citations · our summary
4. AdapterFusion: Non-Destructive Task Composition for Transfer LearningJonas Pfeiffer, Aishwarya Kamath, Andreas Rücklé et al.606 citations · our summary
5. WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from WikipediaHolger Schwenk, Vishrav Chaudhary, Shuo Sun et al.241 citations · our summary
6. Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot LearningFederico Bianchi, Silvia Terragni, Dirk Hovy et al.154 citations · our summary
7. Question and Answer Test-Train Overlap in Open-Domain Question Answering DatasetsPatrick Lewis, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel · 🏆 Best Short Paper144 citations
8. Word Alignment by Fine-tuning Embeddings on Parallel CorporaZi-Yi Dou, Graham Neubig121 citations
9. MTOP: A Comprehensive Multilingual Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing BenchmarkHaoran Li, Abhinav Arora, Shuohui Chen et al.115 citations · our summary
10. Entity-level Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text SummarizationFeng Nan, Ramesh Nallapati, Zhiguo Wang et al.114 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (396)

The most cited first; 35 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language InferenceTimo Schick, Hinrich Schütze1,205 citations · our summary
2. Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question AnsweringGautier Izacard, Edouard Grave1,026 citations · our summary
3. Recipes for Building an Open-Domain ChatbotStephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Naman Goyal et al.752 citations · our summary
4. AdapterFusion: Non-Destructive Task Composition for Transfer LearningJonas Pfeiffer, Aishwarya Kamath, Andreas Rücklé et al.606 citations · our summary
5. WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from WikipediaHolger Schwenk, Vishrav Chaudhary, Shuo Sun et al.241 citations · our summary
6. Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot LearningFederico Bianchi, Silvia Terragni, Dirk Hovy et al.154 citations · our summary
7. Question and Answer Test-Train Overlap in Open-Domain Question Answering DatasetsPatrick Lewis, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel · 🏆 Best Short Paper144 citations
8. Word Alignment by Fine-tuning Embeddings on Parallel CorporaZi-Yi Dou, Graham Neubig121 citations
9. MTOP: A Comprehensive Multilingual Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing BenchmarkHaoran Li, Abhinav Arora, Shuohui Chen et al.115 citations · our summary
10. Entity-level Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text SummarizationFeng Nan, Ramesh Nallapati, Zhiguo Wang et al.114 citations · our summary
11. Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language DetectionXuhui Zhou, Maarten Sap, Swabha Swayamdipta et al.113 citations · our summary
12. Trankit: A Light-Weight Transformer-based Toolkit for Multilingual Natural Language ProcessingMinh Van Nguyen, Viet Dac Lai, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Outstanding Demo Paper107 citations · our summary
13. OCTIS: Comparing and Optimizing Topic models is Simple!Silvia Terragni, Elisabetta Fersini, Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi et al. · System Demonstrations97 citations
14. BERxiT: Early Exiting for BERT with Better Fine-Tuning and Extension to RegressionJi Xin, Raphael Tang, Yaoliang Yu et al.93 citations
15. Machine Translationese: Effects of Algorithmic Bias on Linguistic Complexity in Machine TranslationEva Vanmassenhove, Dimitar Shterionov, Matthew Gwilliam90 citations · our summary
16. Debiasing Pre-trained Contextualised EmbeddingsMasahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala87 citations · our summary
17. An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online MisogynyElla Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos et al.86 citations
18. Frequency-Guided Word Substitutions for Detecting Textual Adversarial ExamplesMaximilian Mozes, Pontus Stenetorp, Bennett Kleinberg et al.84 citations
19. Zero-shot Neural Passage Retrieval via Domain-targeted Synthetic Question GenerationJi Ma, Ivan Korotkov, Yinfei Yang et al.80 citations · our summary
20. SpanEmo: Casting Multi-label Emotion Classification as Span-predictionHassan Alhuzali, Sophia Ananiadou78 citations
21. BERTese: Learning to Speak to BERTAdi Haviv, Jonathan Berant, Amir Globerson77 citations
22. Language Models as Knowledge Bases: On Entity Representations, Storage Capacity, and Paraphrased QueriesBenjamin Heinzerling, Kentaro Inui77 citations
23. We Need To Talk About Random SplitsAnders Søgaard, Sebastian Ebert, Jasmijn Bastings et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper75 citations
24. Multilingual LAMA: Investigating Knowledge in Multilingual Pretrained Language ModelsNora Kassner, Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze · 🏆 Best Short Paper74 citations · our summary
25. On Hallucination and Predictive Uncertainty in Conditional Language GenerationYijun Xiao, William Yang Wang74 citations · our summary

See all 396 papers in EACL 2021 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (35)

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

1. Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language InferenceTimo Schick, Hinrich Schütze2021 · 1,803 citations
2. Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question AnsweringGautier Izacard, Edouard Grave2021 · 1,675 citations
3. Recipes for Building an Open-Domain ChatbotStephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Naman Goyal, et al.2021 · 1,208 citations
4. MTOP: A Comprehensive Multilingual Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing BenchmarkHaoran Li, Abhinav Arora, Shuohui Chen, et al.2021 · 239 citations
5. Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot LearningFederico Bianchi, Silvia Terragni, Dirk Hovy, et al.2021 · 215 citations
6. Entity-level Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text SummarizationFeng Nan, Ramesh Nallapati, Zhiguo Wang, et al.2021 · 205 citations
7. Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language DetectionXuhui Zhou, Maarten Sap, Swabha Swayamdipta, et al.2021 · 190 citations
8. Multilingual LAMA: Investigating Knowledge in Multilingual Pretrained Language ModelsNora Kassner, Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze2021 · 178 citations
9. Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp): A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLPRob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Alan Ramponi, et al.2021 · 177 citations
10. Debiasing Pre-trained Contextualised EmbeddingsMasahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala2021 · 174 citations
11. Trankit: A Light-Weight Transformer-based Toolkit for Multilingual Natural Language ProcessingMinh Van Nguyen, Viet Dac Lai, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, et al.2021 · 169 citations
12. Machine Translationese: Effects of Algorithmic Bias on Linguistic Complexity in Machine TranslationEva Vanmassenhove, Dimitar Shterionov, Matthew Gwilliam2021 · 161 citations
13. On Hallucination and Predictive Uncertainty in Conditional Language GenerationYijun Xiao, William Yang Wang2021 · 155 citations
14. Zero-shot Neural Passage Retrieval via Domain-targeted Synthetic Question GenerationJi Ma, Ivan Korotkov, Yinfei Yang, et al.2021 · 144 citations
15. Probing the Probing Paradigm: Does Probing Accuracy Entail Task Relevance?Abhilasha Ravichander, Yonatan Belinkov, Eduard Hovy2021 · 141 citations
16. Evaluating the Evaluation of Diversity in Natural Language GenerationGuy Tevet, Jonathan Berant2021 · 103 citations
17. Probing for idiomaticity in vector space modelsMarcos Garcia, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Carolina Scarton, et al.2021 · 89 citations
18. First Align, then Predict: Understanding the Cross-Lingual Ability of Multilingual BERTBenjamin Muller, Yanai Elazar, Benoît Sagot, et al.2021 · 87 citations
19. CLiMP: A Benchmark for Chinese Language Model EvaluationBeilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Yu Li, et al.2021 · 73 citations
20. Towards a Decomposable Metric for Explainable Evaluation of Text Generation from AMRJuri Opitz, Anette Frank2021 · 51 citations
21. MIDAS: A Dialog Act Annotation Scheme for Open Domain Human-Machine Spoken ConversationsDian Yu, Zhou Yu2021 · 47 citations
22. Extractive Summarization Considering Discourse and Coreference Relations based on Heterogeneous GraphYin Jou Huang, Sadao Kurohashi2021 · 41 citations
23. A Few Topical Tweets are Enough for Effective User Stance DetectionYounes Samih, Kareem Darwish2021 · 40 citations
24. Top-down Discourse Parsing via Sequence LabellingFajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin2021 · 37 citations
25. Cross-Cultural Similarity Features for Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning of Pragmatically Motivated TasksJimin Sun, Hwijeen Ahn, Chan Young Park, et al.2021 · 28 citations

See all 35 works in EACL 2021 — accepted papers →

🧭 Top topics

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

🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (6)🗨️Dialogue systems (4)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (4)English (4)🧵Discourse analysis (3)🔁Machine translation (3)❓Question answering (3)😊Sentiment & emotion (3)✍️Text generation (3)🧮Reasoning (3)💬Speech act theory (2)🔗Coreference resolution (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (2)📝Summarization (2)🔍Information retrieval & search (2)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (35)🎭Arts and Humanities (33)🤝Social Sciences (5)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)💭Psychology (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.

🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States4 works here🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States3 works here🎓The University of MelbourneMelbourne · Australia2 works here🏢MetaMenlo Park · United States2 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2 works here🎓Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMunich · Germany2 works here🎓University of SheffieldSheffield · United Kingdom2 works here🎓Brigham Young UniversityProvo · United States1 work here🎓University of StuttgartStuttgart · Germany1 work here🎓The Graduate Center, CUNYNew York · United States1 work here🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark1 work here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States1 work here

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