📰 EMNLP 2020 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Online, November 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 787 papers of it in 3 tracks; our library holds 133 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main751System Demonstrations29Tutorial Abstracts7

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language ProcessingThomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Honorable Demonstration Paper8,292 citations · our summary
2. If beam search is the answer, what was the question?Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell, Tim Vieira · 🏆 Honorable Mention Paper90 citations · our summary
3. GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story ExplanationsNasrin Mostafazadeh, Aditya Kalyanpur, Lori Moon et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention Paper77 citations · our summary
4. Digital Voicing of Silent SpeechDavid Gaddy, Dan Klein · 🏆 Best Paper57 citations
5. Visually Grounded Compound PCFGsYanpeng Zhao, Ivan Titov · 🏆 Honorable Mention Paper34 citations
6. Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue SystemsJan Deriu, Don Tuggener, Pius von Däniken et al. · 🏆 Honorable Mention Paper30 citations

Most cited papers

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

1. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language ProcessingThomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Honorable Demonstration Paper8,292 citations · our summary
2. Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question AnsweringVladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Sewon Min et al.3,387 citations · our summary
3. AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated PromptsTaylor Shin, Yasaman Razeghi, Robert L. Logan IV et al.1,234 citations · our summary
4. BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English TweetsDat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Anh Tuan Nguyen · System Demonstrations843 citations · our summary
5. Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge DistillationNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych816 citations · our summary
6. Generating Radiology Reports via Memory-driven TransformerZhihong Chen, Yan Song, Tsung-Hui Chang et al.648 citations · our summary
7. Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text SummarizationWojciech Kryscinski, Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong et al.646 citations
8. How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model?Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer623 citations
9. COMET: A Neural Framework for MT EvaluationRicardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha et al.617 citations · our summary
10. LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attentionIkuya Yamada, Akari Asai, Hiroyuki Shindo et al.590 citations

All accepted papers (787)

The most cited first; 133 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language ProcessingThomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh et al. · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Honorable Demonstration Paper8,292 citations · our summary
2. Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question AnsweringVladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Sewon Min et al.3,387 citations · our summary
3. AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated PromptsTaylor Shin, Yasaman Razeghi, Robert L. Logan IV et al.1,234 citations · our summary
4. BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English TweetsDat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Anh Tuan Nguyen · System Demonstrations843 citations · our summary
5. Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge DistillationNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych816 citations · our summary
6. Generating Radiology Reports via Memory-driven TransformerZhihong Chen, Yan Song, Tsung-Hui Chang et al.648 citations · our summary
7. Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text SummarizationWojciech Kryscinski, Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong et al.646 citations
8. How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model?Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer623 citations
9. COMET: A Neural Framework for MT EvaluationRicardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha et al.617 citations · our summary
10. LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attentionIkuya Yamada, Akari Asai, Hiroyuki Shindo et al.590 citations
11. BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERTLinyang Li, Ruotian Ma, Qipeng Guo et al.574 citations · our summary
12. On the Sentence Embeddings from Pre-trained Language ModelsBohan Li, Hao Zhou, Junxian He et al.572 citations · our summary
13. TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks, Data Augmentation, and Adversarial Training in NLPJohn Morris, Eli Lifland, Jin Yong Yoo et al. · System Demonstrations556 citations · our summary
14. BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text ClassificationSiddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan478 citations · our summary
15. AdapterHub: A Framework for Adapting TransformersJonas Pfeiffer, Andreas Rücklé, Clifton Poth et al. · System Demonstrations461 citations · our summary
16. MAD-X: An Adapter-Based Framework for Multi-Task Cross-Lingual TransferJonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić, Iryna Gurevych et al.437 citations · our summary
17. CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language ModelsNikita Nangia, Clara Vania, Rasika Bhalerao et al.418 citations · our summary
18. Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inferenceover Temporal Knowledge GraphsWoojeong Jin, Meng Qu, Xisen Jin et al.409 citations
19. Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural QuestionsXinya Du, Claire Cardie406 citations · our summary
20. HERO: Hierarchical Encoder for Video+Language Omni-representation Pre-trainingLinjie Li, Yen-Chun Chen, Yu Cheng et al.403 citations · our summary
21. Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity RetrievalLedell Wu, Fabio Petroni, Martin Josifoski et al.376 citations · our summary
22. Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific ClaimsDavid Wadden, Shanchuan Lin, Kyle Lo et al.372 citations · our summary
23. Event Extraction as Machine Reading ComprehensionJian Liu, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu et al.303 citations · our summary
24. Dataset Cartography: Mapping and Diagnosing Datasets with Training DynamicsSwabha Swayamdipta, Roy Schwartz, Nicholas Lourie et al.283 citations
25. Experience Grounds LanguageYonatan Bisk, Ari Holtzman, Jesse Thomason et al.274 citations · our summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (133)

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

1. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language ProcessingThomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, et al.2020 · 15,606 citations
2. Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question AnsweringVladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Sewon Min, et al.2020 · 5,375 citations
3. AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated PromptsTaylor Shin, Yasaman Razeghi, Robert L. Logan IV, et al.2020 · 1,886 citations
4. COMET: A Neural Framework for MT EvaluationRicardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha, et al.2020 · 1,784 citations
5. Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge DistillationNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych2020 · 1,320 citations
6. BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English TweetsDat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Anh Tuan Nguyen2020 · 1,142 citations
7. CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language ModelsNikita Nangia, Clara Vania, Rasika Bhalerao, et al.2020 · 887 citations
8. TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks, Data Augmentation, and Adversarial Training in NLPJohn X. Morris, Eli Lifland, Jin Yong Yoo, et al.2020 · 858 citations
9. BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERTLinyang Li, Ruotian Ma, Qipeng Guo, et al.2020 · 841 citations
10. MAD-X: An Adapter-Based Framework for Multi-Task Cross-Lingual TransferJonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić, Iryna Gurevych, et al.2020 · 833 citations
11. On the Sentence Embeddings from Pre-trained Language ModelsBohan Li, Hao Zhou, Junxian He, et al.2020 · 831 citations
12. AdapterHub: A Framework for Adapting TransformersJonas Pfeiffer, Andreas Rücklé, Clifton Poth, et al.2020 · 748 citations
13. Generating Radiology Reports via Memory-driven TransformerZhihong Chen, Yan Song, Tsung-Hui Chang, et al.2020 · 710 citations
14. Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific ClaimsDavid Wadden, Shanchuan Lin, Kyle Lo, et al.2020 · 706 citations
15. BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text ClassificationSiddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan2020 · 665 citations
16. Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity RetrievalLedell Wu, Fabio Petroni, Martin Josifoski, et al.2020 · 618 citations
17. Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural QuestionsXinya Du, Claire Cardie2020 · 602 citations
18. ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation DatasetAnkur Parikh, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann, et al.2020 · 479 citations
19. HERO: Hierarchical Encoder for Video+Language Omni-representation Pre-trainingLinjie Li, Yen-Chun Chen, Yu Cheng, et al.2020 · 468 citations
20. XCOPA: A Multilingual Dataset for Causal Commonsense ReasoningEdoardo Maria Ponti, Goran Glavaš, Olga Majewska, et al.2020 · 465 citations
21. From Zero to Hero: On the Limitations of Zero-Shot Language Transfer with Multilingual TransformersAnne Lauscher, Vinit Ravishankar, Ivan Vulić, et al.2020 · 461 citations
22. Experience Grounds LanguageYonatan Bisk, Ari Holtzman, Jesse Thomason, et al.2020 · 430 citations
23. Event Extraction as Machine Reading ComprehensionJian Liu, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, et al.2020 · 420 citations
24. A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health SupportAshish Sharma, Adam Miner, David Atkins, et al.2020 · 408 citations
25. ETC: Encoding Long and Structured Inputs in TransformersJoshua Ainslie, Santiago Ontañón, Chris Alberti, et al.2020 · 380 citations

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🧭 Top topics

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

🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (19)🧠Language models & pretraining (16)🗨️Dialogue systems (12)🧮Reasoning (12)English (12)🔁Machine translation (10)❓Question answering (10)📝Summarization (8)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (8)😊Sentiment & emotion (7)🔎Information extraction (6)✍️Text generation (6)🔗Coreference resolution (5)🔬Interpretability (4)🏷️Named entity recognition (3)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (133)🎭Arts and Humanities (127)🤝Social Sciences (5)🩺Medicine (3)💭Psychology (3)

🧑‍🔬 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.

🏢GoogleMountain View · United States11 works here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States8 works here🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States7 works here🎓New York UniversityNew York · United States7 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States7 works here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States6 works here🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom6 works here🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States6 works here🏢TencentShenzhen · China5 works here🏢IBMArmonk · United States4 works here🎓Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore · Singapore4 works here🎓University of MannheimMannheim · Germany4 works here

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