ACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2023

Archival

ChatGPT vs Human-authored Text: Insights into Controllable Text Summarization and Sentence Style Transfer
Dongqi Pu, Vera Demberg

Multi-Dialectal Representation Learning of Sinitic Phonology
Zhibai Jia

Prompt-based Zero-shot Text Classification with Conceptual Knowledge
Yuqi Wang, Wei Wang, Qi Chen, Kaizhu Huang, Anh Nguyen, Suparna De

How do different tokenizers perform on downstream tasks in scriptio continua languages?: A case study in Japanese
Takuro Fujii, Koki Shibata, Atsuki Yamaguchi, Terufumi Morishita, Yasuhiro Sogawa

Semantic-Aware Dynamic Retrospective-Prospective Reasoning for Event-Level Video Question Answering
Chenyang Lyu, Tianbo Ji, Yvette Graham, Jennifer Foster

Jamp: Controlled Japanese Temporal Inference Dataset for Evaluating Generalization Capacity of Language Models
Tomoki Sugimoto, Yasumasa Onoe, Hitomi Yanaka

Constructing Multilingual Code Search Dataset Using Neural Machine Translation
Ryo Sekizawa, Nan Duan, Shuai Lu, Hitomi Yanaka

Multimodal Neural Machine Translation Using Synthetic Images Transformed by Latent Diffusion Model
Ryoya Yuasa, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Tsuneo Kato

Enhancing Ancient Chinese Understanding with Derived Noisy Syntax Trees
Ping Wang, Shitou Zhang, Zuchao Li, Jingrui Hou

The Turing Quest: Can Transformers Make Good NPCs?
Qi Chen Gao, Ali Emami

Making the Most Out of the Limited Context Length: Predictive Power Varies with Clinical Note Type and Note Section
Hongyi Zheng, Yixin Zhu, Lavender Jiang, Kyunghyun Cho, Eric Oermann

Intriguing Effect of the Correlation Prior on ICD-9 Code Assignment
Zihao Yang, Chenkang Zhang, Muru Wu, Xujin Liu, Lavender Jiang, Kyunghyun Cho, Eric Oermann

Classical Out-of-Distribution Detection Methods Benchmark in Text Classification Tasks
Mateusz Baran, Joanna Baran, Mateusz Wójcik, Maciej Zięba, Adam Gonczarek

Can LMs Store and Retrieve 1-to-N Relational Knowledge?
Haruki Nagasawa, Benjamin Heinzerling, Kazuma Kokuta, Kentaro Inui

Theoretical Linguistics Rivals Embeddings in Language Clustering for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Sakura Imai, Daisuke Kawahara, Naho Orita, Hiromune Oda

Native Language Prediction from Gaze: a Reproducibility Study
Lina Skerath, Paulina Toborek, Anita Zielińska, Maria Barrett, Rob Van Der Goot

MedTem2.0: Prompt-based Temporal Classification of Treatment Events from Discharge Summaries
Yang Cui, Lifeng Han, Goran Nenadic

Sudden Semantic Shifts in Swedish NATO discourse
Brian Bonafilia, Bastiaan Bruinsma, Denitsa Saynova, Moa Johansson

Building a Buzzer-quiz Answering System
Naoya Sugiura, Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda, Katsuhiko Toyama

Probing for Hyperbole in Pre-Trained Language Models
Nina Schneidermann, Daniel Hershcovich, Bolette Pedersen

Towards Efficient Dialogue Processing in the Emergency Response Domain
Tatiana Anikina

I already said that! Degenerating redundant questions in open-domain dialogue systems.
Long Mai, Julie Carson-berndsen

Is a Knowledge-based Response Engaging?: An Analysis on Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Information Source Annotation
Takashi Kodama, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yin Jou Huang, Taro Okahisa, Sadao Kurohashi

Choosing What to Mask: More Informed Masking for Multimodal Machine Translation
Julia Sato, Helena Caseli, Lucia Specia

Combining Tradition with Modernness: Exploring Event Representations in Vision-and-Language Models for Visual Goal-Step Inference
Chong Shen, Carina Silberer

Data Selection for Fine-tuning Large Language Models Using Transferred Shapley Values
Stephanie Schoch, Ritwick Mishra, Yangfeng Ji

Distractor Generation for Fill-in-the-Blank Exercises by Question Type
Nana Yoshimi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Satoru Uchida, Yuki Arase, Takashi Ninomiya

Moral Mimicry: Large Language Models Produce Moral Rationalizations Tailored to Political Identity
Gabriel Simmons

LECO: Improving Early Exiting via Learned Exits and Comparison-based Exiting Mechanism
Jingfan Zhang, Ming Tan, Pengyu Dai, Wei Zhu

Authorship Attribution of Late 19th Century Novels using GAN-BERT
Kanishka Silva, Burcu Can, Frédéric Blain, Raheem Sarwar, Laura Ugolini, Ruslan Mitkov

How-to Guides for Specific Audiences: A Corpus and Initial Findings
Nicola Fanton, Agnieszka Falenska, Michael Roth

“When Words Fail, Emojis Prevail”: Generating Sarcastic Utterances with Emoji Using Valence Reversal and Semantic Incongruity
Faria Binte Kader, Nafisa Hossain Nujat, Tasmia Binte Sogir, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan

Semantic Accuracy in Natural Language Generation: A Thesis Proposal
Patricia Schmidtova

Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements
Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Nafis Faiyaz, Shah Md. Jawad Kabir, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan

Non-Archival

Detection and Comparison of Abusive and Hate Speech in English and Hinglish with Emojis Using Deep Learning and Non-Deep Learning Techniques
Sneha P, Sneha Bhaskara, Srishti Seth, Stuti Mohanty, Preet Kanwal

Improving Portfolio Management with Signals from Financial News
Zhilu Zhang

Aligning Code-Switching Metrics with Bilingual Behavior
Rebecca Pattichis, Sonya Trawick, Dora LaCasse, Rena Torres Cacoullos

Gender Stereotyping in Popular Children’s Videos
Tiasa Singha Roy, Mallikarjuna Tupakula, Sumeet Kumar, Ashiqur Khudabukhsh

Is Anisotropy Inherent to Transformers?
Nathan Godey, Éric De La Clergerie, Benoît Sagot

A State-Vector Framework For Dataset Effects
Esmat Sahak, Zining Zhu, Frank Rudzicz

Geometric Locality of Entity Embeddings in Masked Language Models
Masaki Sakata, Sho Yokoi, Benjamin Heinzerling, Kentaro Inui

Assessing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning against Lexical Negation: A Case Study on Syllogism
Mengyu Ye, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Jun Suzuki, Hiroaki Funayama, Goro Kobayashi

EvoGrad: An Online Platform for an Evolving Winograd Schema Challenge using Adversarial Human Perturbations
Jing Han Sun, Ali Emami

SWEET: Weakly Supervised Person Name Extraction for Fighting Human Trafficking
Javin Liu, Peter Yu, Vidya Sujaya, Pratheeksha Nair, Kellin Pelrine, Reihaneh Rabbany

Towards Reliable Misinformation Mitigation: Generalization, Uncertainty, and GPT-4
Kellin Pelrine, Meilina Reksoprodjo, Caleb Gupta, Joel Christoph, Reihaneh Rabbany

Finding Papers

Kanbun-LM: Reading and Translating Classical Chinese in Japanese Methods by Language Models
Hao Wang, Hirofumi Shimizu, Daisuke Kawahara

Predicting Human Translation Difficulty Using Automatic Word Alignment
Zheng Wei Lim, Trevor Cohn, Charles Kemp, Ekaterina Vylomova

Acquiring Frame Element Knowledge with Deep Metric Learning for Semantic Frame Induction
Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

Transformer Language Models Handle Word Frequency in Prediction Head
Goro Kobayashi, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Sho Yokoi, Kentaro Inui

Second Language Acquisition of Neural Language Models
Miyu Oba, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Hiroki Ouchi, Taro Watanabe