Microsoft at ACL 2023

Bhasa-Abhijnaanam: Native-script and romanized Language Identification for 22 Indic languages

Yash Madhani, Mitesh M. Khapra, Anoop Kunchukuttan

Multimodal Persona Based Generation of Comic Dialogs

Harsh Agrawal, Aditya Mishra, Manish Gupta, Mausam

MEMEX: Detecting Explanatory Evidence for Memes via Knowledge-Enriched Contextualization

Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Udit Arora, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty

DIONYSUS: A Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization

Yu Li, Baolin Peng, Pengcheng He, Michel Galley, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao

Improving the Robustness of Summarization Systems with Dual Augmentation

Xiuying Chen, Guodong Long, Chongyang Tao, Mingzhe Li, Xin Gao, Chengqi Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang

DiffusionNER: Boundary Diffusion for Named Entity Recognition

Yongliang Shen, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Dongsheng Li, Weiming Lu, Yueting Zhuang

Efficient Semiring-Weighted Earley Parsing

Andreas Opedal, Ran Zmigrod, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell, Jason Eisner

APOLLO: A Simple Approach for Adaptive Pretraining of Language Models for Logical Reasoning

Soumya Sanyal, Yichong Xu, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Reid Pryzant, Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Xiang Ren

Evaluating Paraphrastic Robustness in Textual Entailment Models

Dhruv Verma, Yash Kumar Lal, Shreyashee Sinha, Ben Van Durme, Adam Poliak

Dual-Alignment Pre-training for Cross-lingual Sentence Embedding

Ziheng Li, Shaohan Huang, Zihan Zhang, Zhi-Hong Deng, Qiang Lou, Haizhen Huang, Jian Jiao, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang

FairPrism: Evaluating Fairness-Related Harms in Text Generation

Eve Fleisig, Aubrie Amstutz, Chad Atalla, Su Lin Blodgett, Hal Daumé III, Alexandra Olteanu, Emily Sheng, Dan Vann, Hanna Wallach

MASSIVE: A 1M-Example Multilingual Natural Language Understanding Dataset with 51 Typologically-Diverse Languages

Jack FitzGerald, Christopher Hench, Charith Peris, Scott Mackie, Kay Rottmann, Ana Sanchez, Aaron Nash, Liam Urbach, Vishesh Kakarala, Richa Singh, Swetha Ranganath, Laurie Crist, Misha Britan, Wouter Leeuwis, Gokhan Tur, Prem Natarajan

Structure-Aware Language Model Pretraining Improves Dense Retrieval on Structured Data

Xinze Li, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Shi Yu, Yu Gu, Zhiyuan Liu, Ge Yu

CORE: Cooperative Training of Retriever-Reranker for Effective Dialogue Response Selection

Chongyang Tao, Jiazhan Feng, Tao Shen, Chang Liu, Juntao Li, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)

Chain-of-Skills: A Configurable Model for Open-domain Question Answering

Kaixin Ma, Hao Cheng, Yu Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Eric Nyberg, Jianfeng Gao

Interactive Concept Learning for Uncovering Latent Themes in Large Text Collections

Maria Leonor Pacheco, Tunazzina Islam, Lyle Ungar, Ming Yin, Dan Goldwasser

DSEE: Dually Sparsity-embedded Efficient Tuning of Pre-trained Language Models

Xuxi Chen, Tianlong Chen, Yu Cheng, Wei Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Ahmed Awadallah

TART: Improved Few-shot Text Classification Using Task-Adaptive Reference Transformation

Shuo Lei, Xuchao Zhang, Jianfeng He, Fanglan Chen, Chang-Tien Lu

Code Execution with Pre-trained Language Models

Chenxiao Liu, Shuai Lu, Weizhu Chen, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Shengyu Fu, Neel Sundaresan, Nan Duan

ThinkSum: Probabilistic reasoning over sets using large language models

Batu Ozturkler, Nikolay Malkin, Zhen Wang, Nebojsa Jojic

Model-Generated Pretraining Signals Improves Zero-Shot Generalization of Text-to-Text Transformers

Linyuan Gong, Chenyan Xiong, Xiaodong Liu, Payal Bajaj, Yiqing Xie, Alvin Cheung, Jianfeng Gao, Xia Song

Making Language Models Better Reasoners with Step-Aware Verifier

Yifei Li, Zeqi Lin, Shizhuo Zhang, Qiang Fu, Bei Chen, Jian-Guang Lou, Weizhu Chen

Local Byte Fusion for Neural Machine Translation

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Xiangpeng Wan, Yu Cheng, Junjie Hu

Do GPTs Produce Less Literal Translations?

Vikas Raunak, Arul Menezes, Matt Post, Hany Hassan Awadalla

Continual Contrastive Finetuning Improves Low-Resource Relation Extraction

Wenxuan Zhou, Sheng Zhang, Tristan Naumann, Muhao Chen, Hoifung Poon

Towards Better Entity Linking with Multi-View Enhanced Distillation

Yi Liu, Yuan Tian, Jianxun Lian, Xinlong Wang, Yanan Cao, Fang Fang, Wen Zhang, Haizhen Huang, Denvy Deng, Qi Zhang

CONE: An Efficient COarse-to-fiNE Alignment Framework for Long Video Temporal Grounding

Zhijian Hou, Wanjun Zhong, Lei Ji, Difei Gao, Kun Yan, Wing-Kwong Chan, Chong-Wah Ngo, Zheng Shou, Nan Duan

Multi-Level Knowledge Distillation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Text

Qianhui Wu, Huiqiang Jiang, Haonan Yin, Börje F. Karlsson, Chin-Yew Lin

Limitations of Language Models in Arithmetic and Symbolic Induction

Jing Qian, Hong Wang, Zekun Li, Shiyang Li, Xifeng Yan

Large Language Models Meet NL2Code: A Survey

Bei Chen, Daoguang Zan, Fengji Zhang, Dianjie Lu, Bingchao Wu, Bei Guan, Yongji Wang, Jian-Guang Lou

Discourse Centric Evaluation of Machine Translation with a Densely Annotated Parallel Corpus

Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Mrinmaya Sachan, Ryan Cotterell

The Kitmus Test: Evaluating Knowledge Integration From Multiple Sources In Natural Language Understanding Systems

Akshatha Arodi, Martin Pömsl, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler, Alexandra Olteanu, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Naamapadam: A Large-Scale Named Entity Annotated Data for Indic Languages

Arnav Mhaske, Harshit Kedia, Sumanth Doddapaneni, Mitesh M. Khapra, Pratyush Kumar, Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan

UniEvent: Unified Generative Model with Multi-Dimensional Prefix for Zero-Shot Event-Relational Reasoning

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Haiyan Zhao, Chengfeng Dou, Yongqiang Zhao, Tao Shen, Chongyang Tao

Task-Aware Specialization for Efficient and Robust Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

Hao Cheng, Hao Fang, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao

Targeted Data Generation: Finding and Fixing Model Weaknesses

Zexue He, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Fereshte Khani

On Improving Summarization Factual Consistency from Natural Language Feedback

Yixin Liu, Budhaditya Deb, Milagro Teruel, Aaron L Halfaker, Dragomir Radev, Ahmed Awadallah

Towards Understanding Omission in Dialogue Summarization

Yicheng Zou, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Zhongkai Fu, Qi Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Tao Gui

Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation

Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou (寿林钧), Ming Gong (YIMING), Jian Pei, Bowen Cao, Jianhui Chang, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Jia Li

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Rephrasing and Analyzing Ambiguous Questions in VQA

Elias Stengel-Eskin, Jimena Guallar-Blasco, Yi Zhou, Benjamin Van Durme

An Investigation of Evaluation Methods in Automatic Medical Note Generation

Asma Ben Abacha, Wen-wai Yim, George Michalopoulos, Thomas Lin

X-RiSAWOZ: High-Quality End-to-End Multilingual Dialogue Datasets and Few-shot Agents

Mehrad Moradshahi, Tianhao Shen, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Gael de Chalendar, Anmol Goel, Sungkyun Kim, Prashant Kodali, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Nasredine Semmar, Sina Semnani, Jiwon Seo, Vivek Seshadri, Manish Shrivastava, Michael Sun, Aditya Yadavalli, Chaobin You, Deyi Xiong, Monica Lam

Adversarial Robustness of Prompt-based Few-Shot Learning for Natural Language Understanding

Venkata Prabhakara Sarath Nookala, Gaurav Verma, Subhabrata (Subho) Mukherjee, Srijan Kumar

It Takes Two to Tango: Navigating Conceptualizations of NLP Tasks and Measurements of Performance

Arjun Subramonian, Xingdi Yuan, Hal Daumé III, Su Lin Blodgett

This Prompt is Measuring : Evaluating Bias Evaluation in Language Models

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Eddie Ungless, Esma Balkir, Su Lin Blodgett

Pre-Training to Learn in Context

Yuxian Gu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Minlie Huang

Towards Leaving No Indic Language Behind: Building Monolingual Corpora, Benchmark and Models for Indic Languages

Sumanth Doddapaneni, Rahul Aralikatte, Gowtham Ramesh, Shreya Goyal, Mitesh M. Khapra, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pratyush Kumar

DuNST: Dual Noisy Self Training for Semi-Supervised Controllable Text Generation

Yuxi Feng, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xiting Wang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Xing Xie

Analyzing and Reducing the Performance Gap in Cross-Lingual Transfer with Fine-tuning Slow and Fast

Yiduo Guo, Yaobo Liang, Dongyan Zhao, Bing Liu, Nan Duan

Augmentation-Adapted Retriever Improves Generalization of Language Models as Generic Plug-In

Zichun Yu, Chenyan Xiong, Shi Yuan, Zhiyuan Liu

Pre-trained Language Models Can be Fully Zero-Shot Learners

Xuandong Zhao, Siqi Ouyang, Zhiguo Yu, Ming Wu, Lei Li

What are the Desired Characteristics of Calibration Sets? Identifying Correlates on Long Form Scientific Summarization

Griffin Adams, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith, Yingce Xia, Shufang Xie, Anna Ostropolets, Budhaditya Deb, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Tristan Naumann, Noémie Elhadad

Rule By Example: Harnessing Logical Rules for Explainable Hate Speech Detection

Christopher Clarke, Matthew Hall, Gaurav Mittal, Ye Yu, Sandra Sajeev, Jason Mars, Mei Chen

MMDialog: A Large-scale Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset Towards Multi-modal Open-domain Conversation

Jiazhan Feng, Qingfeng Sun, Can Xu, Pu Zhao, Yaming Yang, Chongyang Tao, Dongyan Zhao, Qingwei Lin 林庆维

Privacy-Preserving Domain Adaptation of Semantic Parsers

Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Yu Su, Richard Shin, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Jason Eisner

A Measure-Theoretic Characterization of Tight Language Models

Li Du, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Jason Eisner, Ryan Cotterell

A Systematic Study of Knowledge Distillation for Natural Language Generation with Pseudo-Target Training

Nitay Calderon, Subhabrata (Subho) Mukherjee, Roi Reichart, Amir Kantor

UniSumm and SummZoo: Unified Model and Diverse Benchmark for Few-Shot Summarization

Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Ruochen Xu, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Yue Zhang

NUWA-XL: Diffusion over Diffusion for eXtremely Long Video Generation

Shengming Yin, Chenfei Wu, Huan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Minheng Ni, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Shuguang Liu, Fan Yang, Jianlong Fu, Ming Gong (YIMING), Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu, Houqiang Li, Nan Duan

Selecting Better Samples from Pre-trained LLMs: A Case Study on Question Generation

Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, Yen-Hsiang Wang, Emery Fine, Rania Abdelghani, Hélène Sauzéon, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion

Rui Li, Chaozhuo Li, Yanming Shen, Xu Chen, Jianan Zhao, Yujing Wang, Weihao Han, Hao Sun, weiwei deng, Qi Zhang, Xing Xie

A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer

Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Barun Patra, Shuming Ma, Shaohan Huang, Alon Benhaim, Vishrav Chaudhary, Xia Song, Furu Wei

Pre-training Language Model as a Multi-perspective Course Learner

Beiduo Chen, Shaohan Huang, Zihan Zhang, Wu Guo, Zhenhua Ling, Haizhen Huang, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang

Beyond English-Centric Bitexts for Better Multilingual Language Representation Learning

Barun Patra, Saksham Singhal, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Vishrav Chaudhary, Xia Song

GLUE-X: Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Models from an Out-of-Distribution Generalization Perspective

Linyi Yang, Shuibai Zhang, Libo Qin, Yafu Li, Yidong Wang, Hanmeng Liu, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang

Increasing Diversity While Maintaining Accuracy: Text Data Generation with Large Language Models and Human Interventions

John Chung, Ece Kamar, Saleema Amershi

Toward Interactive Dictation

Belinda Z. Li, Jason Eisner, Adam Pauls, Sam Thomson

CoLaDa: A Collaborative Label Denoising Framework for Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition

Tingting Ma, Qianhui Wu, Huiqiang Jiang, Börje F. Karlsson, Tiejun Zhao, Chin-Yew Lin

LIDA: Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models

Victor Dibia

FAA: Fine-grained Attention Alignment for Cascade Document Ranking

Zhen Li, Chongyang Tao, Jiazhan Feng, Tao Shen, Dongyan Zhao, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)

Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval

Yongqi Li, Nan Yang, Liang Wang, Furu Wei, Wenjie Li

Efficient Diagnosis Assignment Using Unstructured Clinical Notes

Louis Blankemeier, Jason Fries, Robert Tinn, Joseph Preston, Nigam Shah, Akshay Chaudhari

Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe

Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Huan Sun, David Levitan, Robert Sim

GanLM: Encoder-Decoder Pre-training with an Auxiliary Discriminator

Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Haoyang Huang, Yuwei Yin, Dongdong Zhang, Liqun Yang, Furu Wei, Zhoujun Li

ManagerTower: Aggregating the Insights of Uni-Modal Experts for Vision-Language Representation Learning

Xiao Xu, Bei Li, Chenfei Wu, Shao-Yen Tseng, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Shachar Rosenman, Vasudev Lal, Wanxiang Che, Nan Duan

IndicMT Eval: A Dataset to Meta-Evaluate Machine Translation Metrics for Indian Languages

Ananya Sai B, Tanay Dixit, Vignesh Nagarajan, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pratyush Kumar, Mitesh M. Khapra, Raj Dabre

SimLM: Pre-training with Representation Bottleneck for Dense Passage Retrieval

Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Binxing Jiao, Linjun Yang, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Rangan Majumder, Furu Wei

Are You Copying My Model? Protecting the Copyright of Large Language Models for EaaS via Backdoor Watermark

Wenjun Peng, Jingwei Yi, Fangzhao Wu, Shangxi Wu, Bin Benjamin Zhu, Lingjuan Lyu, Binxing Jiao, Tong Xu, Guangzhong Sun, Xing Xie

MolXPT: Wrapping Molecules with Text for Generative Pre-training

Zequn Liu, Wei Zhang, Yingce Xia, Lijun Wu, Shufang Xie, Tao Qin, Ming Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu

HermEs: Interactive Spreadsheet Formula Prediction via Hierarchical Formulet Expansion

Wanrong He, Haoyu Dong, Yihuai Gao, Zhichao Fan, Xingzhuo Guo, Zhitao Hou, Xiao Lv, Ran Jia, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang

The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth: Faithful and Controllable Dialogue Response Generation with Dataflow Transduction and Constrained Decoding

Hao Fang, Anusha Balakrishnan, Harsh Jhamtani, John Bufe, Jean Crawford, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Adam Pauls, Jason Eisner, Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein

USSA: A Unified Table Filling Scheme for Structured Sentiment Analysis

Zepeng Zhai, Hao Chen, Ruifan Li, Xiaojie Wang

From Characters to Words: Hierarchical Pre-trained Language Model for Open-vocabulary Language Understanding

Li Sun, Florian Luisier, Kayhan Batmanghelich, Dinei Florencio, Cha Zhang

How Do In-Context Examples Affect Compositional Generalization?

Shengnan An, Zeqi Lin, Qiang Fu, Bei Chen, Nanning Zheng, Jian-Guang Lou, Dongmei Zhang

Z-Code++: A Pre-trained Language Model Optimized for Abstractive Summarization

Pengcheng He, Baolin Peng, Song Wang, Yang Liu, Ruochen Xu, Hany Hassan, Yu Shi, Chenguang Zhu, Wayne Xiong, Michael Zeng, Jianfeng Gao, Xuedong Huang

Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization

Xiang Lisa Li, Ari Holtzman, Daniel Fried, Percy Liang, Jason Eisner, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Luke Zettlemoyer, Mike Lewis

Dynamic and Efficient Inference for Text Generation via BERT Family

Xiaobo Liang, Juntao Li, Lijun Wu, Ziqiang Cao, Min Zhang

An Investigation of Evaluation Methods in Automatic Medical Note Generation

Asma Ben Abacha, Wen-wai Yim, George Michalopoulos, Thomas Lin

UniFine: A Unified and Fine-grained Approach for Zero-shot Vision-Language Understanding

Rui Sun, Zhecan Wang, Haoxuan You, Noel Codella, Kai-Wei Chang, Shih-Fu Chang

Adversarial Robustness of Prompt-based Few-Shot Learning for Natural Language Understanding

Venkata Prabhakara Sarath Nookala, Gaurav Verma, Subhabrata (Subho) Mukherjee, Srijan Kumar

Gender-tuning: Empowering Fine-tuning for Debiasing Pre-trained Language Models

Somayeh Ghanbarzadeh, Yan Huang, Hamid Palangi, Radames Cruz Moreno, Hamed Khanpour

A Comparative Study on the Impact of Model Compression Techniques on Fairness in Language Models

Krithika Ramesh, Arnav Chavan, Shrey Pandit, Sunayana Sitaram

Controlling Learned Effects to Reduce Spurious Correlations in Text Classifiers

Parikshit Bansal, Amit Sharma