Publications 2021

Journal Papers

  • Kenichi Iwatsuki, Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa: “Extraction and evaluation of formulaic expressions used in scholarly papers.” Expert Systems with Applications. link
  • Takuma Udagawa and Akiko Aizawa: “Maintaining Common Ground in Dynamic Environments.” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 9, pp.995–1011. September 8, 2021.link

Conference/Workshop Papers

  • Kazutoshi Shinoda, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa: “Can Question Generation Debias Question Answering Models? A Case Study on Question-Context Lexical Overlap.” The 3rd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA), at the 2021 conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 63-72. Nov 10, 2021. link
  • Taichi Iki and Akiko Aizawa: “Effect of Visual Extensions on Natural Language Understanding in Vision-and-Language Models.” The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), pp. 2189–2196. Online and in the Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021. (Short paper) link
  • Timo Spinde, Manuel Plank, Jan-David Krieger, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp, and Akiko Aizawa: “Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE – Bias Annotations By Experts.” The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), pp.1166–1177. Online and in the Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021. (Findings paper) link
  • Masaya Ohagi and Akiko Aizawa: “Citation Context-Aware Citation Network Embeddings Based on Pre-trained Transformer” SciNLP 2021: the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Scientific Text, hosted at the 3rd Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2021). Online, October 8, 2021.link
  • Kaito Sugimoto and Akiko Aizawa: “Context-aware Citation Recommendation Based on BERT-based Bi-Ranker.” SciNLP 2021: the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Scientific Text, hosted at the 3rd Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2021). Online, October 8, 2021.link
  • Kazutoshi Shinoda, Saku Sugawara, and Akiko Aizawa: “Improving the Robustness of QA Models to Challenge Sets with Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation.” The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop (ACL-IJCNLP 2021 SRW), pp.197-214. Online, August 1-6, 2021. link
  • Takato Yamazaki and Akiko Aizawa: “Phrase-Level Action Reinforcement Learning for Neural Dialog Response Generation.” The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), pp.5028–5038. Online, August 1-6, 2021. [findings] link
  • Johannes Mario Meissner, Napat Thumwanit, Saku Sugawara, and Akiko Aizawa: “Embracing Ambiguity: Shifting the Training Target of NLI Models.” The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), pp. 862–869. Online, August 1-6, 2021. [short] link
  • Takuto Asakura, Yusuke Miyao, Akiko Aizawa and Michael Kohlhase: “MioGatto: A Math Identifier-oriented Grounding Annotation Tool.” 13th Mathematical User Interaction (MathUI) Workshop, at the 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021). Online, July 26-31, 2021. link
  • Kensho Tsurusaki and Akiko Aizawa: “Assimilating the structure of formal and informal proof.” Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (NatFoM 2021), at the 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021). Online, July 26-31, 2021. link
  • Thanakrit Julavanich and Akiko Aizawa: “NumER: A Fine-grained Numeral Entity Recognition Dataset.” The 26th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2021). Online, June 23-25, 2021. link
  • Taku Sakamoto and Akiko Aizawa: “Predicting Numerals in Natural Language Text Using a Language Model Considering the Quantitative Aspects of Numerals.” The Second Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architectures (DeeLIO), collocated with NAACL 2021, pp.140-150. Online, June 10, 2021. link
  • Kenichi Iwatsuki and Akiko Aizawa: “Communicative-Function-Based Sentence Classification for Construction of an Academic Formulaic Expression Database.” The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), pp.3476–3497. Online, April 19–23, 2021.link
  • Junfeng Jiang, An Wang, and Akiko Aizawa: “Attention-based Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Target-Oriented Opinion Words Extraction.” The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), pp.1986–1997. Online, April 19–23, 2021.link
  • Saku Sugawara, Pontus Stenetorp, and Akiko Aizawa: “Benchmarking Machine Reading Comprehension: A Psychological Perspective.” The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), pp.1592–1612. Online, April 19–23, 2021.link
  • Kenichi Iwatsuki and Akiko Aizawa: “Extraction of Formulaic Expressions from Scientific Papers.” The AAAI-21 Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding. Online, February 9, 2021. [link]

Others

  • An Dao and Akiko Aizawa: “ Domain Adaptation for Named Entity Recognition: An Analysis on Letter-case.” Fifth International Workshop on SCIentific DOCument Analysis (SCIDOCA2021) associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2021 (IsAI-2021). November, 2021.