📰 EMNLP 2021: all papers in our library

70 works · the most cited first · ← EMNLP 2021

1. SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence EmbeddingsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Tianyu Gao, Xingcheng Yao, Danqi Chen2021 · 3,922 citations
2. CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image CaptioningConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jack Hessel, Ari Holtzman, Maxwell Forbes, et al.2021 · 1,499 citations
3. Improving Multimodal Fusion with Hierarchical Mutual Information Maximization for Multimodal Sentiment AnalysisConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria2021 · 564 citations
4. FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial DataConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Zhiyu Chen, Wenhu Chen, Charese Smiley, et al.2021 · 511 citations
5. Latent Hatred: A Benchmark for Understanding Implicit Hate SpeechConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Mai ElSherief, Caleb Ziems, David Muchlinski, et al.2021 · 365 citations
6. QuestEval: Summarization Asks for Fact-based EvaluationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, et al.2021 · 354 citations
7. Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, et al.2021 · 325 citations
8. Muppet: Massive Multi-task Representations with Pre-FinetuningConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Armen Aghajanyan, Anchit Gupta, Akshat Shrivastava, et al.2021 · 299 citations
9. Entity-Based Knowledge Conflicts in Question AnsweringConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Shayne Longpre, Kartik Perisetla, Anthony Chen, et al.2021 · 295 citations
10. AdapterDrop: On the Efficiency of Adapters in TransformersConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Andreas Rücklé, Gregor Geigle, Max Glockner, et al.2021 · 295 citations
11. Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for LittleConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Koustuv Sinha, Robin Jia, Dieuwke Hupkes, et al.2021 · 292 citations
12. ONION: A Simple and Effective Defense Against Textual Backdoor AttacksConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Fanchao Qi, Yangyi Chen, Mukai Li, et al.2021 · 279 citations
13. XTREME-R: Towards More Challenging and Nuanced Multilingual EvaluationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Sebastian Ruder, Noah Constant, Jan Botha, et al.2021 · 277 citations
14. Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn't Always RightConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Vered Shwartz, et al.2021 · 271 citations
15. Condenser: a Pre-training Architecture for Dense RetrievalConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Luyu Gao, Jamie Callan2021 · 261 citations
16. CLIFF: Contrastive Learning for Improving Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive SummarizationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Shuyang Cao, Lu Wang2021 · 258 citations
17. RocketQAv2: A Joint Training Method for Dense Passage Retrieval and Passage Re-rankingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ruiyang Ren, Yingqi Qu, Jing Liu, et al.2021 · 256 citations
18. Generating Datasets with Pretrained Language ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Timo Schick, Hinrich Schutze2021 · 250 citations
19. Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Challenges in Non-Binary Representation in Language TechnologiesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Sunipa Dev, Masoud Monajatipoor, Anaelia Ovalle, et al.2021 · 228 citations
20. Measuring Association Between Labels and Free-Text RationalesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Sarah Wiegreffe, Ana Marasović, Noah A. Smith2021 · 215 citations
21. Explaining Answers with Entailment TreesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Bhavana Dalvi, Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, et al.2021 · 207 citations
22. Raise a Child in Large Language Model: Towards Effective and Generalizable Fine-tuningConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Runxin Xu, Fuli Luo, Zhiyuan Zhang, et al.2021 · 200 citations
23. Block Pruning For Faster TransformersConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)François Lagunas, Ella Charlaix, Victor Sanh, et al.2021 · 197 citations
24. Q²: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question AnsweringConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Roee Aharoni, et al.2021 · 195 citations
25. Mind the Style of Text! Adversarial and Backdoor Attacks Based on Text Style TransferConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Fanchao Qi, Yangyi Chen, Xurui Zhang, et al.2021 · 188 citations
26. Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks against Text TransformersConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Chuan Guo, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Hervé Jégou, et al.2021 · 187 citations
27. Improving and Simplifying Pattern Exploiting TrainingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Derek Tam, Rakesh R. Menon, Mohit Bansal, et al.2021 · 184 citations
28. UNKs Everywhere: Adapting Multilingual Language Models to New ScriptsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić, Iryna Gurevych, et al.2021 · 175 citations
29. Simple Entity-Centric Questions Challenge Dense RetrieversConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Christopher Sciavolino, Zexuan Zhong, Jinhyuk Lee, et al.2021 · 168 citations
30. Label Verbalization and Entailment for Effective Zero and Few-Shot Relation ExtractionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Oscar Sainz, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Gorka Labaka, et al.2021 · 167 citations
31. Few-Shot Text Generation with Natural Language InstructionsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze2021 · 166 citations
32. MultiEURLEX - A multi-lingual and multi-label legal document classification dataset for zero-shot cross-lingual transferConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Ion Androutsopoulos2021 · 160 citations
33. Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path GroundingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaïane, et al.2021 · 149 citations
34. Fast, Effective, and Self-Supervised: Transforming Masked Language Models into Universal Lexical and Sentence EncodersConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Fangyu Liu, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen, et al.2021 · 147 citations
35. Word-Level Coreference ResolutionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Vladimir Dobrovolskii2021 · 146 citations
36. All Bark and No Bite: Rogue Dimensions in Transformer Language Models Obscure Representational QualityConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)William Timkey, Marten van Schijndel2021 · 139 citations
37. Text2Mol: Cross-Modal Molecule Retrieval with Natural Language QueriesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Carl Edwards, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji2021 · 132 citations
38. Agreeing to Disagree: Annotating Offensive Language Datasets with Annotators' DisagreementConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Elisa Leonardelli, Stefano Menini, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, et al.2021 · 132 citations
39. What to Pre-Train on? Efficient Intermediate Task SelectionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Clifton Poth, Jonas Pfeiffer, Andreas Rücklé, et al.2021 · 132 citations
40. Learning Compact Metrics for MTConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Amy Pu, Hyung Won Chung, Ankur Parikh, et al.2021 · 130 citations
41. Efficient Nearest Neighbor Language ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Junxian He, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick2021 · 127 citations
42. Can Language Models be Biomedical Knowledge Bases?Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Mujeen Sung, Jinhyuk Lee, Sean Yi, et al.2021 · 127 citations
43. Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL GeneralizationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Matthew Purver2021 · 123 citations
44. Revisiting the Uniform Information Density HypothesisConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Patrick Haller, et al.2021 · 123 citations
45. Pushing on Text Readability Assessment: A Transformer Meets Handcrafted Linguistic FeaturesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Bruce W. Lee, Yoo Sung Jang, Jason Lee2021 · 115 citations
46. Aspect-Controllable Opinion SummarizationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Reinald Kim Amplayo, Stefanos Angelidis, Mirella Lapata2021 · 114 citations
47. SIMMC 2.0: A Task-oriented Dialog Dataset for Immersive Multimodal ConversationsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Alborz Geramifard, et al.2021 · 114 citations
48. RAP: Robustness-Aware Perturbations for Defending against Backdoor Attacks on NLP ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, et al.2021 · 112 citations
49. Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Mingkai Deng, Bowen Tan, Zhengzhong Liu, et al.2021 · 101 citations
50. Do Long-Range Language Models Actually Use Long-Range Context?Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Simeng Sun, Kalpesh Krishna, Andrew Mattarella-Micke, et al.2021 · 100 citations
51. Cross-Domain Label-Adaptive Stance DetectionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Momchil Hardalov, Arnav Arora, Preslav Nakov, et al.2021 · 96 citations
52. Frequency Effects on Syntactic Rule Learning in TransformersConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jason Wei, Dan Garrette, Tal Linzen, et al.2021 · 91 citations
53. Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion CausesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Hyunwoo Kim, Byeongchang Kim, Gunhee Kim2021 · 90 citations
54. Diagnosing the First-Order Logical Reasoning Ability Through LogicNLIConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jidong Tian, Yitian Li, Wenqing Chen, et al.2021 · 86 citations
55. English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A SurveyDaria Dzendzik, Jennifer Foster, Carl Vogel2021 · 54 citations
56. Evaluating the Evaluation Metrics for Style Transfer: A Case Study in Multilingual Formality TransferEleftheria Briakou, Sweta Agrawal, Joel Tetreault, et al.2021 · 49 citations
57. Improving Stance Detection with Multi-Dataset Learning and Knowledge DistillationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Yingjie Li, Chenye Zhao, Cornelia Caragea2021 · 39 citations
58. Integrating Deep Event-Level and Script-Level Information for Script Event PredictionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Long Bai, Saiping Guan, Jiafeng Guo, et al.2021 · 36 citations
59. Wino-X: Multilingual Winograd Schemas for Commonsense Reasoning and Coreference ResolutionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Denis Emelin, Rico Sennrich2021 · 34 citations
60. Focus on what matters: Applying Discourse Coherence Theory to Cross Document CoreferenceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)William Held, Dan Iter, Dan Jurafsky2021 · 34 citations
61. Filling the Gaps in Ancient Akkadian Texts: A Masked Language Modelling ApproachKoren Lazar, Benny Saret, Asaf Yehudai, et al.2021 · 30 citations
62. Human Rationales as Attribution Priors for Explainable Stance DetectionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Sahil Jayaram, Emily Allaway2021 · 30 citations
63. Not Just Classification: Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relation on Joint Modeling of Classification and GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Feng Jiang, Yaxin Fan, Xiaomin Chu, et al.2021 · 30 citations
64. Frame Semantic-Enhanced Sentence Modeling for Sentence-level Extractive Text SummarizationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Yong Guan, Shaoru Guo, Ru Li, et al.2021 · 23 citations
65. Conundrums in Event Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State of the ArtConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jing Lu, Vincent Ng2021 · 23 citations
66. Sequential Cross-Document Coreference ResolutionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Emily Allaway, Shuai Wang, Miguel Ballesteros2021 · 22 citations
67. Pseudo Zero Pronoun Resolution Improves Zero Anaphora ResolutionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ryuto Konno, Shun Kiyono, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, et al.2021 · 14 citations
68. Event Coreference Data (Almost) for Free: Mining Hyperlinks from Online NewsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Michael Bugert, Iryna Gurevych2021 · 11 citations
69. Chandler: An Explainable Sarcastic Response GeneratorConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Silviu Oprea, Steven Wilson, Walid Magdy2021 · 8 citations
70. On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot PerformanceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ofir Arviv, Dmitry Nikolaev, Taelin Karidi, et al.2021 · 6 citations

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