Google at ACL 2023

This week, the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a premier conference covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language, is taking place online.

As a leader in natural language processing and understanding, and a Diamond Level sponsor of ACL 2023, Google will showcase the latest research in the field with over 50 publications, and active involvement in a variety of workshops and tutorials.

If you’re registered for ACL 2023, we hope that you’ll visit the Google booth to learn more about the projects at Google that go into solving interesting problems for billions of people. You can also learn more about Google’s participation below (Google affiliations in bold).

Board and Organizing Committee

Area chairs include: Dan Garrette

Workshop chairs include: Annie Louis

Publication chairs include: Lei Shu

Program Committee includes: Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Najoung Kim, Markus Freitag

Spotlight papers

NusaCrowd: Open Source Initiative for Indonesian NLP Resources

Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Winata, Bryan Wilie, Fajri Koto, Rahmad Mahendra, Christian Wibisono, Ade Romadhony, Karissa Vincentio, Jennifer Santoso, David Moeljadi, Cahya Wirawan, Frederikus Hudi, Muhammad Satrio Wicaksono, Ivan Parmonangan, Ika Alfina, Ilham Firdausi Putra, Samsul Rahmadani, Yulianti Oenang, Ali Septiandri, James Jaya, Kaustubh Dhole, Arie Suryani, Rifki Afina Putri, Dan Su, Keith Stevens, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Muhammad Adilazuarda, Ryan Hadiwijaya, Ryandito Diandaru, Tiezheng Yu, Vito Ghifari, Wenliang Dai, Yan Xu, Dyah Damapuspita, Haryo Wibowo, Cuk Tho, Ichwanul Karo Karo, Tirana Fatyanosa, Ziwei Ji, Graham Neubig, Timothy Baldwin, Sebastian Ruder, Pascale Fung, Herry Sujaini, Sakriani Sakti, Ayu Purwarianti

Optimizing Test-Time Query Representations for Dense Retrieval

Mujeen Sung, Jungsoo Park, Jaewoo Kang, Danqi Chen, Jinhyuk Lee

PropSegmEnt: A Large-Scale Corpus for Proposition-Level Segmentation and Entailment Recognition

Sihao Chen*, Senaka Buthpitiya, Alex Fabrikant, Dan Roth, Tal Schuster

Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

Cheng-Yu Hsieh*, Chun-Liang Li, Chih-Kuan Yeh, Hootan Nakhost, Yasuhisa Fujii, Alex Ratner, Ranjay Krishna, Chen-Yu Lee, Tomas Pfister

Large Language Models with Controllable Working Memory

Daliang Li, Ankit Singh Rawat, Manzil Zaheer, Xin Wang, Michal Lukasik, Andreas Veit, Felix Yu, Sanjiv Kumar

OpineSum: Entailment-Based Self-Training for Abstractive Opinion Summarization

Annie Louis, Joshua Maynez

RISE: Leveraging Retrieval Techniques for Summarization Evaluation

David Uthus, Jianmo Ni

Follow the Leader(board) with Confidence: Estimating p-Values from a Single Test Set with Item and Response Variance


Shira Wein*, Christopher Homan, Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty

SamToNe: Improving Contrastive Loss for Dual Encoder Retrieval Models with Same Tower Negatives

Fedor Moiseev, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Peter Dornbach, Imed Zitouni, Enrique Alfonseca, Zhe Dong

Papers

Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM’s Translation Capability

Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry, George Foster

Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance

David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, George Foster

Query Refinement Prompts for Closed-Book Long-Form QA

Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kellie Webster, Michael Collins, Dipanjan Das, Shashi Narayan

To Adapt or to Annotate: Challenges and Interventions for Domain Adaptation in Open-Domain Question Answering

Dheeru Dua*, Emma Strubell, Sameer Singh, Pat Verga

FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation (see blog post)

Parker Riley, Timothy Dozat, Jan A. Botha, Xavier Garcia, Dan Garrette, Jason Riesa, Orhan Firat, Noah Constant

Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint

Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kuzman Ganchev, Annie Louis, Fantine Huot, Anders Sandholm, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata

Coreference Resolution Through a Seq2Seq Transition-Based System

Bernd Bohnet, Chris Alberti, Michael Collins

Cross-Lingual Transfer with Language-Specific Subnetworks for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing

Rochelle Choenni, Dan Garrette, Ekaterina Shutova

DAMP: Doubly Aligned Multilingual Parser for Task-Oriented Dialogue

William Held*, Christopher Hidey, Fei Liu, Eric Zhu, Rahul Goel, Diyi Yang, Rushin Shah

RARR: Researching and Revising What Language Models Say, Using Language Models

Luyu Gao*, Zhuyun Dai, Panupong Pasupat, Anthony Chen*, Arun Tejasvi Chaganty, Yicheng Fan, Vincent Y. Zhao, Ni Lao, Hongrae Lee, Da-Cheng Juan, Kelvin Guu

Benchmarking Large Language Model Capabilities for Conditional Generation

Joshua Maynez, Priyanka Agrawal, Sebastian Gehrmann

Crosslingual Generalization Through Multitask Fine-Tuning

Niklas Muennighoff, Thomas Wang, Lintang Sutawika, Adam Roberts, Stella Biderman, Teven Le Scao, M. Saiful Bari, Sheng Shen, Zheng Xin Yong, Hailey Schoelkopf, Xiangru Tang, Dragomir Radev, Alham Fikri Aji, Khalid Almubarak, Samuel Albanie, Zaid Alyafeai, Albert Webson, Edward Raff, Colin Raffel

DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering

Ella Neeman, Roee Aharoni, Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Idan Szpektor, Omri Abend

Resolving Indirect Referring Expressions for Entity Selection

Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Filip Radlinski, Silvia Pareti, Annie Louis

SeeGULL: A Stereotype Benchmark with Broad Geo-Cultural Coverage Leveraging Generative Models

Akshita Jha*, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Chandan K Reddy, Shachi Dave, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Sunipa Dev

The Tail Wagging the Dog: Dataset Construction Biases of Social Bias Benchmarks

Nikil Selvam, Sunipa Dev, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Kai-Wei Chang

Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering

Rosanne Liu, Dan Garrette, Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Adam Roberts, Sharan Narang, Irina Blok, RJ Mical, Mohammad Norouzi, Noah Constant

Cold-Start Data Selection for Better Few-Shot Language Model Fine-Tuning: A Prompt-Based Uncertainty Propagation Approach

Yue Yu, Rongzhi Zhang, Ran Xu, Jieyu Zhang, Jiaming Shen, Chao Zhang

Covering Uncommon Ground: Gap-Focused Question Generation for Answer Assessment

Roni Rabin, Alexandre Djerbetian, Roee Engelberg, Lidan Hackmon, Gal Elidan, Reut Tsarfaty, Amir Globerson

FormNetV2: Multimodal Graph Contrastive Learning for Form Document Information Extraction

Chen-Yu Lee, Chun-Liang Li, Hao Zhang, Timothy Dozat, Vincent Perot, Guolong Su, Xiang Zhang, Kihyuk Sohn, Nikolay Glushinev, Renshen Wang, Joshua Ainslie, Shangbang Long, Siyang Qin, Yasuhisa Fujii, Nan Hua, Tomas Pfister

Dialect-Robust Evaluation of Generated Text

Jiao Sun*, Thibault Sellam, Elizabeth Clark, Tu Vu*, Timothy Dozat, Dan Garrette, Aditya Siddhant, Jacob Eisenstein, Sebastian Gehrmann

MISGENDERED: Limits of Large Language Models in Understanding Pronouns

Tamanna Hossain, Sunipa Dev, Sameer Singh

LAMBADA: Backward Chaining for Automated Reasoning in Natural Language

Mehran Kazemi, Najoung Kim, Deepti Bhatia, Xin Xu, Deepak Ramachandran

LAIT: Efficient Multi-Segment Encoding in Transformers with Layer-Adjustable Interaction

Jeremiah Milbauer*, Annie Louis, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Alex Fabrikant, Donald Metzler, Tal Schuster

Modular Visual Question Answering via Code Generation (see blog post)

Sanjay Subramanian, Medhini Narasimhan, Kushal Khangaonkar, Kevin Yang, Arsha Nagrani, Cordelia Schmid, Andy Zeng, Trevor Darrell, Dan Klein

Towards Understanding Chain-of-Thought Prompting: An Empirical Study of What Matters

Boshi Wang, Sewon Min, Xiang Deng, Jiaming Shen, You Wu, Luke Zettlemoyer and Huan Sun

Better Zero-Shot Reasoning with Self-Adaptive Prompting

Xingchen Wan*, Ruoxi Sun, Hanjun Dai, Sercan Ö. Arik, Tomas Pfister

Factually Consistent Summarization via Reinforcement Learning with Textual Entailment Feedback

Paul Roit, Johan Ferret, Lior Shani, Roee Aharoni, Geoffrey Cideron, Robert Dadashi, Matthieu Geist, Sertan Girgin, Léonard Hussenot, Orgad Keller, Nikola Momchev, Sabela Ramos, Piotr Stanczyk, Nino Vieillard, Olivier Bachem, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Olivier Pietquin, Idan Szpektor

Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks

Pengcheng Yin, Wen-Ding Li, Kefan Xiao, Abhishek Rao, Yeming Wen, Kensen Shi, Joshua Howland, Paige Bailey, Michele Catasta, Henryk Michalewski, Oleksandr Polozov, Charles Sutton

Teaching Small Language Models to Reason

Lucie Charlotte Magister*, Jonathan Mallinson, Jakub Adamek, Eric Malmi, Aliaksei Severyn

Using Domain Knowledge to Guide Dialog Structure Induction via Neural Probabilistic Soft Logic

Connor Pryor*, Quan Yuan, Jeremiah Liu, Mehran Kazemi, Deepak Ramachandran, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Lise Getoor

A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization

Lining Zhang, Simon Mille, Yufang Hou, Daniel Deutsch, Elizabeth Clark, Yixin Liu, Saad Mahamood, Sebastian Gehrmann, Miruna Clinciu, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu and João Sedoc

Industry Track papers

Federated Learning of Gboard Language Models with Differential Privacy

Zheng Xu, Yanxiang Zhang, Galen Andrew, Christopher Choquette, Peter Kairouz, Brendan McMahan, Jesse Rosenstock, Yuanbo Zhang

KAFA: Rethinking Image Ad Understanding with Knowledge-Augmented Feature Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

Zhiwei Jia*, Pradyumna Narayana, Arjun Akula, Garima Pruthi, Hao Su, Sugato Basu, Varun Jampani

ACL Findings papers

Multilingual Summarization with Factual Consistency Evaluation

Roee Aharoni, Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Jonathan Herzig, Elizabeth Clark, Mirella Lapata

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Robust Continual Multilingual Learning

Kartikeya Badola, Shachi Dave, Partha Talukdar

FiDO: Fusion-in-Decoder Optimized for Stronger Performance and Faster Inference

Michiel de Jong*, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Joshua Ainslie, Nicholas FitzGerald, Sumit Sanghai, Fei Sha, William Cohen

A Simple, Yet Effective Approach to Finding Biases in Code Generation

Spyridon Mouselinos, Mateusz Malinowski, Henryk Michalewski

Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

Mirac Suzgun, Nathan Scales, Nathanael Scharli, Sebastian Gehrmann, Yi Tay, Hyung Won Chung, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Quoc Le, Ed Chi, Denny Zhou, Jason Wei

QueryForm: A Simple Zero-Shot Form Entity Query Framework

Zifeng Wang*, Zizhao Zhang, Jacob Devlin, Chen-Yu Lee, Guolong Su, Hao Zhang, Jennifer Dy, Vincent Perot, Tomas Pfister

ReGen: Zero-Shot Text Classification via Training Data Generation with Progressive Dense Retrieval

Yue Yu, Yuchen Zhuang, Rongzhi Zhang, Yu Meng, Jiaming Shen, Chao Zhang

Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Hebrew NLP

Matan Eyal, Hila Noga, Roee Aharoni, Idan Szpektor, Reut Tsarfaty

Triggering Multi-Hop Reasoning for Question Answering in Language Models Using Soft Prompts and Random Walks

Kanishka Misra*, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Siamak Shakeri

Tutorials

Complex Reasoning in Natural Language
Wenting Zhao, Mor Geva, Bill Yuchen Lin, Michihiro Yasunaga, Aman Madaan, Tao Yu

Generating Text from Language Models
Afra Amini, Ryan Cotterell, John Hewitt, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel

Workshops

Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP)

Organizers include: Tal Schuster

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)

Organizers include: Aida Mostafazadeh Davani

Document-Grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering (DialDoc)

Organizers include: Roee Aharoni

NLP for Conversational AI

Organizers include: Abhinav Rastogi

Computation and Written Language (CAWL)

Organizers include: Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat

Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIGMORPHON)

Speakers include: Kyle Gorman

Workshop on Narrative Understanding (WNU)

Organizers include: Elizabeth Clark


* Work done while at Google