The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing is being hosted virtually this week. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!

List of Accepted Long Papers

Neural Event Semantics for Grounded Language Understanding

Authors: Shyamal Buch, Li Fei-Fei, Noah D. Goodman
Contact: shyamal@cs.stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Project Webpage
Keywords: grounded language, compositionality, modular networks, event semantics
Notes: Accepted as a paper to TACL 2021, presented at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!



Measuring Conversational Update: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions

Authors: Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Zid Mancenido, Julie Cohen, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto
Contact: ddemszky@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code & Data
Keywords: conversational uptake, education



Mind Your Outliers! Investigating the Negative Impact of Outliers on Active Learning for Visual Question Answering

Authors: Siddharth Karamcheti, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning
Contact: skaramcheti@cs.stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: active learning, visual question answering, interpretability
Notes: Outstanding Paper Award



Relevance-guided Supervision for OpenQA with ColBERT

Authors: Omar Khattab, Christopher Potts, Matei Zaharia
Contact: okhattab@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: open-domain question answering, neural retrieval, weak supervision
Notes: Accepted as a paper to TACL 2021, presented at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!



Prefix Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation

Authors: Xiang Lisa Li, Percy Liang
Contact: xlisali@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code
Keywords: prefix-tuning, fine-tuning for generation, large-scale fine-tuning



DynaSent: A Dynamic Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis

Authors: Christopher Potts*, Zhengxuan Wu*, Atticus Geiger, Douwe Kiela
Contact: cgpotts@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Code | Video
Keywords: sentiment analysis, crowdsourcing, adversarial datasets



List of Accepted Short Papers

Attention Flows are Shapley Values

Authors: Kawin Ethyarajh, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: kawin@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: explainability; interpretability



Question Generation for Adaptive Education

Authors: Megha Srivastava, Noah D. Goodman
Contact: meghas@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: education, nlp, language generation


We look forward to seeing you at ACL-IJCNLP 2021!