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MCML at ACL 2023

13 Accepted Papers (5 Main, and 8 Findings)

61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 13 papers to ACL 2023: 5 Main, and 8 Finding papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (5 papers)

A. ImaniP. LinA. H. Kargaran • S. Severini • M. J. Sabet • N. KassnerC. Ma • H. Schmid • A. Martins • F. Yvon • H. Schütze
Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages.
ACL 2023 - 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI GitHub

Y. Liu • S. Feng • D. Wang • Y. Zhang • H. Schütze
PVGRU: Generating Diverse and Relevant Dialogue Responses via Pseudo-Variational Mechanism.
ACL 2023 - 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

Y. LiuH. YeL. WeissweilerP. Wicke • R. Pei • R. Zangenfeind • H. Schütze
A Crosslingual Investigation of Conceptualization in 1335 Languages.
ACL 2023 - 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

A. Modarressi • M. Fayyaz • E. Aghazadeh • Y. Yaghoobzadeh • M. T. Pilehvar
DecompX: Explaining Transformers Decisions by Propagating Token Decomposition.
ACL 2023 - 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI GitHub

X. WangL. WeissweilerH. SchützeB. Plank
How to Distill your BERT: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Weight Initialisation and Distillation Objectives.
ACL 2023 - 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

Findings Track (8 papers)

M. Fromm • M. BerrendorfE. FaermanT. Seidl
Cross-Domain Argument Quality Estimation.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

K. Hämmerl • B. Deiseroth • P. Schramowski • J. Libovický • C. Rothkopf • A. Fraser • K. Kersting
Speaking Multiple Languages Affects the Moral Bias of Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

K. Hämmerl • A. Fastowski • J. Libovický • A. Fraser
Exploring Anisotropy and Outliers in Multilingual Language Models for Cross-Lingual Semantic Sentence Similarity.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

Z. Han • R. Liao • J. Gu • Y. ZhangZ. Ding • Y. Gu • H. Köppl • H. SchützeV. Tresp
ECOLA: Enhancing Temporal Knowledge Embeddings with Contextualized Language Representations.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

E. NieS. Liang • H. Schmid • H. Schütze
Cross-Lingual Retrieval Augmented Prompt for Low-Resource Languages.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

D. Saggau • M. RezaeiB. Bischl • I. Chalkidis
Efficient Document Embeddings via Self-Contrastive Bregman Divergence Learning.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

P. Wicke
LMs stand their Ground: Investigating the Effect of Embodiment in Figurative Language Interpretation by Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

L. Weber • B. Plank
ActiveAED: A Human in the Loop Improves Annotation Error Detection.
Findings @ACL 2023 - Findings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada, Jul 09-14, 2023. DOI

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