Microsoft at EMNLP 2021

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12:00 – 13:30 Talk session 2B: Generation 1

Injecting Entity Types into Entity-Guided Text Generation
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- Injecting Entity Types into Entity-Guided Text Generation
  
  Xiangyu Dong, Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Meng Jiang
13:45 – 15:15 Talk session 3B: Dialogue and Interactive Systems 1

Detecting Speaker Personas from Conversational Texts
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- Detecting Speaker Personas from Conversational Texts
  
  Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu Wu, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu
15:45 – 17:15 Talk session 4F: Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding 1

Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue
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- Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue
  
  Daniel Fried, Justin Chiu, Dan Klein
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session

Information Retrieval and Text Mining
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- Less is More: Pre-train a Strong Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval Using a Weak Decoder
  
  Shuqi Lu, Di He, Chenyan Xiong, Guolin Ke, Waleed Malik, Zhicheng Dou, Paul Bennett, Tieyan Liu, Arnold Overwijk
- Efficient-FedRec: Efficient Federated Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving News Recommendation
  
  Jingwei Yi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Ruixuan Liu, Guangzhong Sun, Xing Xie
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session Summarization

CAST: Enhancing Code Summarization with Hierarchical Splitting and Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees
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- CAST: Enhancing Code Summarization with Hierarchical Splitting and Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees
  
  Ensheng Shi, Yanlin Wang, Lun Du, Hongyu Zhang, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang, Hongbin Sun
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding
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- Interactive Machine Comprehension with Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
  
  Xingdi Yuan
- Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue
  
  Daniel Fried, Justin Chiu, Dan Klein
- LayoutReader: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Reading Order Detection
  
  Zilong Wang, Yiheng Xu, Lei Cui, Jingbo Shang, Furu Wei
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session

Machine Translation and Multilinguality
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- Allocating Large Vocabulary Capacity for Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training
  
  Bo Zheng, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Saksham Singhal, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Xia Song, Furu Wei
- Learning from Multiple Noisy Augmented Data Sets for Better Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yingmei Guo, Linjun Shou (寿林钧), Jian Pei, Ming Gong (YIMING), Mingxing Xu, Zhiyong Wu, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)
- MT6: Multilingual Pretrained Text-to-Text Transformer with Translation Pairs
  
  Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Shuming Ma, Shaohan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao, Heyan Huang, Furu Wei
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation
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- Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation
  
  Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session Generation

Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training via Sequence Span Rewriting
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- Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training via Sequence Span Rewriting
  
  Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Furu Wei
18:00 – 20:00 Talk session NLP Applications

Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message
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- Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message
  
  Jiaqi Bai, Long Zhou, Ambrosio Blanco, Shujie Liu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
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- Linguistic dependencies and statistical dependence
  
  Jacob Louis Hoover, Alessandro Sordoni, Wenyu Du, Timothy J. O'Donnell
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding
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- LayoutReader: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Reading Order Detection
  
  Zilong Wang, Yiheng Xu, Lei Cui, Jingbo Shang, Furu Wei

08:00 – 09:30 Talk session 5E: Resources and Evaluation 2

Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions
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- Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions
  
  Mohammad Aliannejadi, Julia Kiseleva, Aleksandr Chuklin, Jeffrey Dalton, Mikhail Burtsev
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session

Generation
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- Sentence-Permuted Paragraph Generation
  
  Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Tong Zhao, Zhichun Guo, Meng Jiang
- Injecting Entity Types into Entity-Guided Text Generation
  
  Xiangyu Dong, Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Meng Jiang
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas

Universal Sentence Representations Learning with Conditional Masked Language Model
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- Universal Sentence Representations Learning with Conditional Masked Language Model
  
  Ziyi Yang, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Jax Law, Eric Darve
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Question Answering

Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation
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- Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation
  
  Chen Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Information Extraction

Modular Self-Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction
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- Modular Self-Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction
  
  Sheng Zhang, Cliff Wong, Naoto Usuyama, Sarthak Jain, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Machine Learning for NLP

Self-training with Few-shot Rationalization: Teacher Explanations Aid Student in Few-shot NLU
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- Self-training with Few-shot Rationalization: Teacher Explanations Aid Student in Few-shot NLU
  
  Meghana Moorthy Bhat, Alessandro Sordoni, Subhabrata (Subho) Mukherjee
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Machine Learning for NLP

Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach
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- Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach
  
  Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Efficient Methods for NLP

Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression
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- Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression
  
  Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, Furu Wei
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers
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- Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers
  
  Richard Shin, Christopher H. Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Jason Eisner, Ben Van Durme
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Studying word order through iterative shuffling
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- Studying word order through iterative shuffling
  
  Nikolay Malkin, Sameera Lanka, Pranav Goel, Nebojsa Jojic
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Information Extraction

HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
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- HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  
  Sanxing Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Jian Jiao, Ruofei Zhang, Yangfeng Ji
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session

Machine Translation and Multilinguality
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- Levenshtein Training for Word-level Quality Estimation
  
  Shuoyang Ding, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Matt Post, Philipp Koehn
- Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization
  
  Yilin Yang, Akiko Eriguchi, Alexandre Muzio, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee, Hany Hassan Awadalla
- A Simple and Effective Method To Eliminate the Self Language Bias in Multilingual Representations
  
  Ziyi Yang, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Eric Darve
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Dialogue State Tracking with a Language Model using Schema-Driven Prompting
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- Dialogue State Tracking with a Language Model using Schema-Driven Prompting
  
  Chia-Hsuan Lee, Hao Cheng, Mari Ostendorf
11:30 – 13:30 Poster session NLP Applications

Long-Range Modeling of Source Code Files with eWASH: Extended Window Access by Syntax Hierarchy
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- Long-Range Modeling of Source Code Files with eWASH: Extended Window Access by Syntax Hierarchy
  
  Colin Clement, Shuai Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Michele Tufano, Dawn Drain, Nan Duan, Neel Sundaresan, Alexey Svyatkovskiy
13:45 – 15:15 Talk session 6D: Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding 2

Interactive Machine Comprehension with Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
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- Interactive Machine Comprehension with Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
  
  Xingdi Yuan
13:45 – 15:15 Talk session 6A: Machine Learning for NLP 4

Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach
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- Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach
  
  Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
13:45 – 15:15 Talk session 6C: Machine Translation and Multilinguality 2

Levenshtein Training for Word-level Quality Estimation
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- Levenshtein Training for Word-level Quality Estimation
  
  Shuoyang Ding, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Matt Post, Philipp Koehn
15:45 – 17:15 Talk session 7F: Semantics 3

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers
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- Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers
  
  Richard Shin, Christopher H. Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Jason Eisner, Ben Van Durme
15:45 – 17:15 Talk session 7A: Machine Translation and Multilinguality 3

Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization
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- Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization
  
  Yilin Yang, Akiko Eriguchi, Alexandre Muzio, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee, Hany Hassan Awadalla

07:30 – 09:30 Poster session Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Matching-oriented Embedding Quantization For Ad-hoc Retrieval
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- Matching-oriented Embedding Quantization For Ad-hoc Retrieval
  
  Shitao Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yingxia Shao, Defu Lian, Xing Xie
07:30 – 09:30 Poster session Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System
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- Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System
  
  Zujie Liang, Huang Hu, Can Xu, Jian Miao, Yingying He, Yining Chen, Xiubo Geng, Fan Liang, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)
07:30 – 09:30 Poster session Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation with Multilingual Pretrained Encoders
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- Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation with Multilingual Pretrained Encoders
  
  Guanhua Chen, Shuming Ma, Yun Chen, Li Dong, Dongdong Zhang, Jia Pan, Wenping Wang, Furu Wei
07:30 – 09:30 Poster session Resources and Evaluation

Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions
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- Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions
  
  Mohammad Aliannejadi, Julia Kiseleva, Aleksandr Chuklin, Jeffrey Dalton, Mikhail Burtsev
10:00 – 11:30 Talk session 8B: Question Answering 3

Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation
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- Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation
  
  Chen Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III
10:00 – 11:30 Talk session 8D: NLP Applications 2

Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message
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- Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message
  
  Jiaqi Bai, Long Zhou, Ambrosio Blanco, Shujie Liu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li
13:30 – 15:00 Talk session

9F: Efficient Methods for NLP 3
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- Finetuning Pretrained Transformers into RNNs
  
  Jungo Kasai, Hao Peng, Yizhe Zhang, Dani Yogatama, Gabriel Ilharco, Nikolaos Pappas, Yi Mao, Weizhu Chen, Noah A. Smith
- Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression
  
  Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, Furu Wei
13:30 – 15:00 Talk session 9B: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP 3

Studying word order through iterative shuffling
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- Studying word order through iterative shuffling
  
  Nikolay Malkin, Sameera Lanka, Pranav Goel, Nebojsa Jojic
13:30 – 15:00 Talk session 9C: Information Extraction 5

HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
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- HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  
  Sanxing Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Jian Jiao, Ruofei Zhang, Yangfeng Ji

Microsoft at EMNLP 2021

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Injecting Entity Types into Entity-Guided Text Generation

Detecting Speaker Personas from Conversational Texts

Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

CAST: Enhancing Code Summarization with Hierarchical Splitting and Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation

Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training via Sequence Span Rewriting

Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding

Monday, November 8, 2021

Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions

Generation

Universal Sentence Representations Learning with Conditional Masked Language Model

Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation

Modular Self-Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction

Self-training with Few-shot Rationalization: Teacher Explanations Aid Student in Few-shot NLU

Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach

Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers

Studying word order through iterative shuffling

HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Dialogue State Tracking with a Language Model using Schema-Driven Prompting

Long-Range Modeling of Source Code Files with eWASH: Extended Window Access by Syntax Hierarchy

Interactive Machine Comprehension with Dynamic Knowledge Graphs

Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach

Levenshtein Training for Word-level Quality Estimation

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers

Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Matching-oriented Embedding Quantization For Ad-hoc Retrieval

Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation with Multilingual Pretrained Encoders

Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions

Distantly-Supervised Evidence Retrieval Enables Question Answering without Evidence Annotation

Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message

9F: Efficient Methods for NLP 3

Studying word order through iterative shuffling

HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings