📰 EMNLP 2019 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2019 is the 2019 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Hong Kong, China, November 2019 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 741 papers of it in 3 tracks; our library holds 102 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main690System Demonstrations44Tutorial Abstracts7

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control TasksJohn Hewitt, Percy Liang · 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up387 citations
2. The FLORES Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali–English and Sinhala–EnglishFrancisco Guzmán, Peng-Jen Chen, Myle Ott et al. · 🏆 Best Resource Paper203 citations · our summary
3. AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP ModelsEric Wallace, Jens Tuyls, Junlin Wang et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Best Demo paper115 citations · our summary
4. Specializing Word Embeddings (for Parsing) by Information BottleneckXiang Lisa Li, Jason Eisner · 🏆 Best Paper61 citations

Most cited papers

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

1. Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-NetworksNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych12,168 citations · our summary
2. SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific TextIz Beltagy, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan3,040 citations · our summary
3. LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from TransformersHao Tan, Mohit Bansal2,248 citations · our summary
4. EDA: Easy Data Augmentation Techniques for Boosting Performance on Text Classification TasksJason Wei, Kai Zou1,911 citations
5. Language Models as Knowledge Bases?Fabio Petroni, Tim Rocktäschel, Sebastian Riedel et al.1,766 citations · our summary
6. Text Summarization with Pretrained EncodersYang Liu, Mirella Lapata1,553 citations
7. Justifying Recommendations using Distantly-Labeled Reviews and Fine-Grained AspectsJianmo Ni, Jiacheng Li, Julian McAuley1,200 citations · our summary
8. Attention is not not ExplanationSarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter907 citations · our summary
9. How Contextual are Contextualized Word Representations? Comparing the Geometry of BERT, ELMo, and GPT-2 EmbeddingsKawin Ethayarajh819 citations
10. DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in ConversationDeepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria et al.717 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (741)

The most cited first; 102 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-NetworksNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych12,168 citations · our summary
2. SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific TextIz Beltagy, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan3,040 citations · our summary
3. LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from TransformersHao Tan, Mohit Bansal2,248 citations · our summary
4. EDA: Easy Data Augmentation Techniques for Boosting Performance on Text Classification TasksJason Wei, Kai Zou1,911 citations
5. Language Models as Knowledge Bases?Fabio Petroni, Tim Rocktäschel, Sebastian Riedel et al.1,766 citations · our summary
6. Text Summarization with Pretrained EncodersYang Liu, Mirella Lapata1,553 citations
7. Justifying Recommendations using Distantly-Labeled Reviews and Fine-Grained AspectsJianmo Ni, Jiacheng Li, Julian McAuley1,200 citations · our summary
8. Attention is not not ExplanationSarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter907 citations · our summary
9. How Contextual are Contextualized Word Representations? Comparing the Geometry of BERT, ELMo, and GPT-2 EmbeddingsKawin Ethayarajh819 citations
10. DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in ConversationDeepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria et al.717 citations · our summary
11. Aspect-based Sentiment Classification with Aspect-specific Graph Convolutional NetworksChen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song712 citations · our summary
12. PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question AnsweringQiao Jin, Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhengping Liu et al.657 citations · our summary
13. TuckER: Tensor Factorization for Knowledge Graph CompletionIvana Balazevic, Carl Allen, Timothy Hospedales649 citations · our summary
14. Knowledge Enhanced Contextual Word RepresentationsMatthew E. Peters, Mark Neumann, Robert Logan et al.643 citations
15. Patient Knowledge Distillation for BERT Model CompressionSiqi Sun, Yu Cheng, Zhe Gan et al.631 citations · our summary
16. Universal Adversarial Triggers for Attacking and Analyzing NLPEric Wallace, Shi Feng, Nikhil Kandpal et al.611 citations
17. Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span RepresentationsDavid Wadden, Ulme Wennberg, Yi Luan et al.564 citations · our summary
18. Beto, Bentz, Becas: The Surprising Cross-Lingual Effectiveness of BERTShijie Wu, Mark Dredze558 citations
19. Benchmarking Zero-shot Text Classification: Datasets, Evaluation and Entailment ApproachWenpeng Yin, Jamaal Hay, Dan Roth517 citations · our summary
20. Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERTOlga Kovaleva, Alexey Romanov, Anna Rogers et al.495 citations · our summary
21. MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover DistanceWei Zhao, Maxime Peyrard, Fei Liu et al.477 citations · our summary
22. Social IQa: Commonsense Reasoning about Social InteractionsMaarten Sap, Hannah Rashkin, Derek Chen et al.473 citations
23. Mask-Predict: Parallel Decoding of Conditional Masked Language ModelsMarjan Ghazvininejad, Omer Levy, Yinhan Liu et al.454 citations · our summary
24. KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense ReasoningBill Yuchen Lin, Xinyue Chen, Jamin Chen et al.452 citations
25. Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Via Convolution over Dependency TreeKai Sun, Richong Zhang, Samuel Mensah et al.430 citations · our summary

See all 741 papers in EMNLP 2019 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (102)

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

1. Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-NetworksNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych2019 · 17,026 citations
2. SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific TextIz Beltagy, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan2019 · 3,567 citations
3. Language Models as Knowledge Bases?Fabio Petroni, Tim Rocktäschel, Sebastian Riedel, et al.2019 · 2,992 citations
4. LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from TransformersHao Tan, Mohit Bansal2019 · 2,730 citations
5. Justifying Recommendations using Distantly-Labeled Reviews and Fine-Grained AspectsJianmo Ni, Jiacheng Li, Julian McAuley2019 · 1,424 citations
6. Attention is not not ExplanationSarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter2019 · 1,196 citations
7. PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question AnsweringQiao Jin, Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhengping Liu, et al.2019 · 1,160 citations
8. DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in ConversationDeepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, et al.2019 · 852 citations
9. MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover DistanceWei Zhao, Maxime Peyrard, Fei Liu, et al.2019 · 829 citations
10. Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span RepresentationsDavid Wadden, Ulme Wennberg, Yi Luan, et al.2019 · 821 citations
11. Aspect-based Sentiment Classification with Aspect-specific Graph Convolutional NetworksChen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song2019 · 808 citations
12. The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language GenerationEmily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan, et al.2019 · 753 citations
13. Benchmarking Zero-shot Text Classification: Datasets, Evaluation and Entailment ApproachWenpeng Yin, Jamaal Hay, Dan Roth2019 · 731 citations
14. Mask-Predict: Parallel Decoding of Conditional Masked Language ModelsMarjan Ghazvininejad, Omer Levy, Yinhan Liu, et al.2019 · 671 citations
15. Neural Text Summarization: A Critical EvaluationWojciech Kryscinski, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann, et al.2019 · 558 citations
16. Cosmos QA: Machine Reading Comprehension with Contextual Commonsense ReasoningLifu Huang, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, et al.2019 · 539 citations
17. Simple, Scalable Adaptation for Neural Machine TranslationAnkur Bapna, Orhan Firat2019 · 526 citations
18. Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Via Convolution over Dependency TreeKai Sun, Richong Zhang, Samuel Mensah, et al.2019 · 498 citations
19. BERT for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and AnalysisMandar Joshi, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer, et al.2019 · 490 citations
20. 75 Languages, 1 Model: Parsing Universal Dependencies UniversallyDan Kondratyuk, Milan Straka2019 · 414 citations
21. Commonsense Knowledge Mining from Pretrained ModelsJoe Davison, Joshua Feldman, Alexander Rush2019 · 413 citations
22. Multilingual and Multi-Aspect Hate Speech AnalysisNedjma Ousidhoum, Zizheng Lin, Hongming Zhang, et al.2019 · 410 citations
23. A Challenge Dataset and Effective Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisQingnan Jiang, Lei Chen, Ruifeng Xu, et al.2019 · 395 citations
24. A Stack-Propagation Framework with Token-Level Intent Detection for Spoken Language UnderstandingLibo Qin, Wanxiang Che, Yangming Li, et al.2019 · 385 citations
25. Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News ArticlesGiovanni Da San Martino, Seunghak Yu, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, et al.2019 · 379 citations

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🧭 Top topics

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

😊Sentiment & emotion (14)🔁Machine translation (11)🔗Coreference resolution (7)❓Question answering (7)🧠Language models & pretraining (6)🗨️Dialogue systems (6)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (6)English (6)🧮Reasoning (5)🧵Discourse analysis (4)🔎Information extraction (4)🌱Low-resource languages (4)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (4)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (4)📝Summarization (3)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (102)🎭Arts and Humanities (97)🤝Social Sciences (8)💭Psychology (4)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (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.

🏢MetaMenlo Park · United States9 works here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States8 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States8 works here🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States7 works here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States5 works here🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States4 works here🎓University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill · United States3 works here🏢IBMArmonk · United States3 works here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States3 works here🎓Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong · China3 works here🎓Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin · China3 works here🎓Cornell UniversityIthaca · United States3 works here

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