Papers of personal interest in ACL 2020

Here is a list of some papers of personal interest in ACL 2020. I will write up some short notes on each of these papers as time goes by.

Paper list

Here is the list of accepted papers.

• BLEURT paper - new automatic metrics for NLG evaluation.
  • google blog here
  • code for the metric here
  • my notes here
• mixture of h-1 heads better than h - transformer architectures.
  • my notes here
• generative model for joint NLU NLG
• hierarchy of RNN architectures
• machine reading comprehension framework for NER - handles flat and nested NER.
  • code here
• BART - denoising seq2seq pretraining
• bridging structural gap between encoding and decoding in Data-to-text generation
• distilling bert knowledge for generation
  • openreview
  • code
• role of attention heads in transformer architectures
• injecting numeracy into language models
  • code

References

• Papers with code for data-to-text generation
• NLP reading list