Wednesday, December 7, 2022
09:00 - 09:10: Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:30: Keynote Talk: Noah Goodman
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30: Oral Session 1: Machine Learning for NLP, Model Interpretation
Continual Learning for Natural Language Generations with Transformer Calibration
Pang Yang, Dingcheng Li and Ping Li
Towards More Natural Artificial Languages
Mark Hopkins
Enhancing the Transformer Decoder with Transition-based Syntax
Leshem Choshen and Omri Abend
Causal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Neurons in Multilingual Language Models
Aaron Mueller, Yu Xia and Tal Linzen
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30: Oral Session 2: Multilingual Work and Translation
A Multilingual Bag-of-Entities Model for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Text Classification
Sosuke Nishikawa, Ikuya Yamada, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Isao Echizen
Combining Noisy Semantic Signals with Orthographic Cues: Cognate Induction
for the Indic Dialect Continuum
Niyati Bafna, Josef van Genabith, Cristina España-Bonet and Zdenekˇ Žabokrtský
On Neurons Invariant to Sentence Structural Changes in Neural Machine Translation
Gal Patel, Leshem Choshen and Omri Abend
On Language Spaces, Scales and Cross-Lingual Transfer of UD Parsers
Tanja Samardzic, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Rob van der Goot, Max MüllerEberstein, Olga Pelloni and Barbara Plank
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30: Poster Session 1 (virtual)
How Hate Speech Varies by Target Identity: A Computational Analysis
Michael Miller Yoder, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, David West Brown and Kathleen M. Carley
OpenStance: Real-world Zero-shot Stance Detection
Hanzi Xu, Slobodan Vucetic and Wenpeng Yin
Characterizing Verbatim Short-Term Memory in Neural Language Models
Kristijan Armeni, Christopher Honey and Tal Linzen
Parsing as Deduction Revisited: Using an Automatic Theorem Prover to Solve
an SMT Model of a Minimalist Parser
Sagar Indurkhya
An Alignment-based Approach to Text Segmentation Similarity Scoring
Gerardo Ocampo Diaz and Jessica Ouyang
Thursday, December 8, 2022
09:10 - 10:30: Keynote Talk: Allyson Ettinger
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30: Poster session 2 (in-person)
That’s so cute!": The CARE Dataset for Affective Response Detection
Jane Dwivedi-Yu and Alon Y. Halevy
A Fine-grained Interpretability Evaluation Benchmark for Neural NLP
Lijie Wang, Yaozong Shen, Shuyuan Peng, Shuai Zhang, Xinyan Xiao, Hao Liu, Hongxuan Tang, Ying Chen, Hua Wu and
Haifeng Wang
Detecting Unintended Social Bias in Toxic Language Datasets
Nihar Sahoo, Himanshu Gupta and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Leveraging a New Spanish Corpus for Multilingual and Cross-lingual Metaphor
Detection
Elisa Sanchez-Bayona and Rodrigo Agerri
Cognitive Simplification Operations Improve Text Simplification
Eytan Chamovitz and Omri Abend
Optimizing Text Representations to Capture (Dis)similarity Between Political Parties
Tanise Ceron, Nico Blokker and Sebastian Padó
PIE-QG: Paraphrased Information Extraction for Unsupervised Question Generation from Small Corpora
Dinesh Nagumothu, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Guangyan Huang and Peter W. Eklund
Probing for Targeted Syntactic Knowledge Through Grammatical Error Detection
Christopher Davis, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines, Marek Rei and Paula
Buttery
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30: Oral Session 3: Psycholinguistics and Language Models
Collateral Facilitation in Humans and Language Models
James Michaelov and Benjamin Bergen
Incremental Processing of Principle B: Mismatches Between Neural Models and
Humans
Forrest Davis
Syntactic Surprisal From Neural Models Predicts, But Underestimates, Human
Processing Difficulty From Syntactic Ambiguities
Suhas Arehalli, Brian Dillon and Tal Linzen
Computational Cognitive Modeling of Predictive Sentence Processing in a Second
Language
Umesh Patil and Sol Lago
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00: Oral Session 4: Semantics and Grounding
Entailment Semantics Can Be Extracted from an Ideal Language Model
William Merrill, Alex Warstadt and Tal Linzen
Shared Knowledge in Natural Conversations: Can Entropy Metrics Shed Light on
Information Transfers?
Eliot Maës, Philippe Blache and Leonor Becerra-Bonache
Visual Semantic Parsing: From Images to Abstract Meaning Representation
Mohamed Abdelsalam, Zhan Shi, Federico Fancellu, Kalliopi Basioti, Dhaivat
Bhatt, Vladimir Pavlovic and Afsaneh Fazly
17:00 - 17:15: Best Paper Awards and Closing