Program

Friday, May 5, 2023

09:00 - 09:15 Opening Remarks

09:15 - 10:00 Thematic Session 1: Text Generation

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Insights into Abstractive Text Summarization Vivek Srivastava, Savita Bhat and Niranjan Pedanekar
• Encoding Sentence Position in Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation with Concatenation Lorenzo Lupo, Marco Dinarelli and Laurent Besacier
• Exploring the Reasons for Non-generalizability of KBQA systems Sopan Khosla, Ritam Dutt, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar and Rashmi Gangadharaiah

10:00 - 10:45 Invited Talk: Vered Shwartz

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:45 Thematic Session 2: Text Classification & Comprehension

• Can Demographic Factors Improve Text Classification? Revisiting Demographic Adaptation in the Age of Transformers Chia-Chien Hung, Anne Lauscher, Dirk Hovy, Simone Ponzetto and Goran Glavas
• A Data-centric Framework for Improving Domain-specific Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets Iva Bojic, Josef Halim, Verena Suharman, Sreeja Tar, Qi Chwen Ong, Duy Phung, Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty and Josip Car
• An Empirical Study on Active Learning for Multi-label Text Classification Mengqi Wang and Ming Liu

11:45 - 12:15 Thematic Session 3: Representation Learning & Pre-training

• SocBERT: A Pretrained Model for Social Media Text Yuting Guo and Abeed Sarker
• Edit Aware Representation Learning via Levenshtein Prediction Edison Marrese-taylor, Machel Reid and Alfredo Solano
• What changes when you randomly choose BPE merge operations? Not much. Jonne Saleva and Constantine Lignos

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk: Mohit Iyyer

14:30 - 15:00 Thematic Session 4: Robustness & Error Analysis

• Benchmarking Long-tail Generalization with Likelihood Splits Ameya Godbole and Robin Jia
• Transformer-based Models for Long-Form Document Matching - Challenges and Empirical Analysis Akshita Jha, Adithya Samavedhi, Vineeth Rakesh, Jaideep Chandrashekar and Chandan Reddy
• Annotating PubMed Abstracts with MeSH Headings using Graph Neural Network Faizan Mustafa, Rafika Boutalbi and Anastasiia Iurshina

15:00 - 15:30 Invited Talk: Rachel Rudinger

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Invited Talk: Hila Gonen

16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session

18:00 - 18:10 Closing Remarks