Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor 2023-12 Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore text conference publication conll-2023-natural https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.0/ Can Language Models Be Tricked by Language Illusions? Easier with Syntax, Harder with Semantics Yuhan Zhang author Edward Gibson author Forrest Davis author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication zhang-etal-2023-language 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.1/ 2023-12 1 14 ToMChallenges: A Principle-Guided Dataset and Diverse Evaluation Tasks for Exploring Theory of Mind Xiaomeng Ma author Lingyu Gao author Qihui Xu author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ma-etal-2023-tomchallenges 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.2/ 2023-12 15 26 The Zipfian Challenge: Learning the statistical fingerprint of natural languages Christian Bentz author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication bentz-2023-zipfian 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.3/ 2023-12 27 37 On the Effects of Structural Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing Xiang Zhang author Shizhu He author Kang Liu author Jun Zhao author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication zhang-etal-2023-effects 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.4/ 2023-12 38 57 Humans and language models diverge when predicting repeating text Aditya Vaidya author Javier Turek author Alexander Huth author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication vaidya-etal-2023-humans 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.5/ 2023-12 58 69 Investigating the Nature of Disagreements on Mid-Scale Ratings: A Case Study on the Abstractness-Concreteness Continuum Urban Knupleš author Diego Frassinelli author Sabine Schulte im Walde author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication knuples-etal-2023-investigating 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.6/ 2023-12 70 86 ArchBERT: Bi-Modal Understanding of Neural Architectures and Natural Languages Mohammad Akbari author Saeed Ranjbar Alvar author Behnam Kamranian author Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi author Yong Zhang author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication akbari-etal-2023-archbert 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.7/ 2023-12 87 107 A Comparative Study on Textual Saliency of Styles from Eye Tracking, Annotations, and Language Models Karin de Langis author Dongyeop Kang author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication de-langis-kang-2023-comparative 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.8/ 2023-12 108 121 PROPRES: Investigating the Projectivity of Presupposition with Various Triggers and Environments Daiki Asami author Saku Sugawara author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication asami-sugawara-2023-propres 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.9/ 2023-12 122 137 A Minimal Approach for Natural Language Action Space in Text-based Games Dongwon Ryu author Meng Fang author Gholamreza Haffari author Shirui Pan author Ehsan Shareghi author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ryu-etal-2023-minimal 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.10/ 2023-12 138 154 Structural Ambiguity and its Disambiguation in Language Model Based Parsers: the Case of Dutch Clause Relativization Gijs Wijnholds author Michael Moortgat author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication wijnholds-moortgat-2023-structural 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.11/ 2023-12 155 164 On the utility of enhancing BERT syntactic bias with Token Reordering Pretraining Yassir El Mesbahi author Atif Mahmud author Abbas Ghaddar author Mehdi Rezagholizadeh author Phillippe Langlais author Prasanna Parthasarathi author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication el-mesbahi-etal-2023-utility 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.12/ 2023-12 165 182 Quirk or Palmer: A Comparative Study of Modal Verb Frameworks with Annotated Datasets Risako Owan author Maria Gini author Dongyeop Kang author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication owan-etal-2023-quirk 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.13/ 2023-12 183 199 Quantifying Information of Tokens for Simple and Flexible Simultaneous Machine Translation DongHyun Lee author Minkyung Park author Byung-Jun Lee author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication lee-etal-2023-quantifying 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.14/ 2023-12 200 210 Enhancing Code-mixed Text Generation Using Synthetic Data Filtering in Neural Machine Translation Dama Sravani author Radhika Mamidi author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication sravani-mamidi-2023-enhancing 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.15/ 2023-12 211 220 Towards Better Evaluation of Instruction-Following: A Case-Study in Summarization Ondrej Skopek author Rahul Aralikatte author Sian Gooding author Victor Carbune author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication skopek-etal-2023-towards 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.16/ 2023-12 221 237 Syntactic Inductive Bias in Transformer Language Models: Especially Helpful for Low-Resource Languages? Luke Gessler author Nathan Schneider author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication gessler-schneider-2023-syntactic 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.17/ 2023-12 238 253 Attribution and Alignment: Effects of Local Context Repetition on Utterance Production and Comprehension in Dialogue Aron Molnar author Jaap Jumelet author Mario Giulianelli author Arabella Sinclair author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication molnar-etal-2023-attribution 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.18/ 2023-12 254 273 The Validity of Evaluation Results: Assessing Concurrence Across Compositionality Benchmarks Kaiser Sun author Adina Williams author Dieuwke Hupkes author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication sun-etal-2023-validity 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.19/ 2023-12 274 293 Mind the instructions: a holistic evaluation of consistency and interactions in prompt-based learning Lucas Weber author Elia Bruni author Dieuwke Hupkes author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication weber-etal-2023-mind 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.20/ 2023-12 294 313 Med-HALT: Medical Domain Hallucination Test for Large Language Models Ankit Pal author Logesh Kumar Umapathi author Malaikannan Sankarasubbu author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication pal-etal-2023-med 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.21/ 2023-12 314 334 Revising with a Backward Glance: Regressions and Skips during Reading as Cognitive Signals for Revision Policies in Incremental Processing Brielen Madureira author Pelin Çelikkol author David Schlangen author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication madureira-etal-2023-revising 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.22/ 2023-12 335 351 ChiSCor: A Corpus of Freely-Told Fantasy Stories by Dutch Children for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science Bram van Dijk author Max van Duijn author Suzan Verberne author Marco Spruit author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication van-dijk-etal-2023-chiscor 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.23 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.23/ 2023-12 352 363 HNC: Leveraging Hard Negative Captions towards Models with Fine-Grained Visual-Linguistic Comprehension Capabilities Esra Dönmez author Pascal Tilli author Hsiu-Yu Yang author Ngoc Thang Vu author Carina Silberer author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication donmez-etal-2023-hnc 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.24 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.24/ 2023-12 364 388 Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: Examining Performance of 11 State-of-the-Art models vs. Children Aged 7-10 on Advanced Tests Max van Duijn author Bram van Dijk author Tom Kouwenhoven author Werner de Valk author Marco Spruit author Peter van der Putten author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication van-duijn-etal-2023-theory 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.25 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.25/ 2023-12 389 402 A Block Metropolis-Hastings Sampler for Controllable Energy-based Text Generation Jarad Forristal author Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah author Greg Durrett author Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication forristal-etal-2023-block 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.26/ 2023-12 403 413 How Fragile is Relation Extraction under Entity Replacements? Yiwei Wang author Bryan Hooi author Fei Wang author Yujun Cai author Yuxuan Liang author Wenxuan Zhou author Jing Tang author Manjuan Duan author Muhao Chen author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication wang-etal-2023-fragile 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.27/ 2023-12 414 423 JaSPICE: Automatic Evaluation Metric Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Image Captioning Models Yuiga Wada author Kanta Kaneda author Komei Sugiura author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication wada-etal-2023-jaspice 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.28 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.28/ 2023-12 424 435 MuLER: Detailed and Scalable Reference-based Evaluation Taelin Karidi author Leshem Choshen author Gal Patel author Omri Abend author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication karidi-etal-2023-muler 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.29 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.29/ 2023-12 436 455 The Impact of Familiarity on Naming Variation: A Study on Object Naming in Mandarin Chinese Yunke He author Xixian Liao author Jialing Liang author Gemma Boleda author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication he-etal-2023-impact 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.30 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.30/ 2023-12 456 475 PSST! Prosodic Speech Segmentation with Transformers Nathan Roll author Calbert Graham author Simon Todd author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication roll-etal-2023-psst 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.31 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.31/ 2023-12 476 487 Alignment via Mutual Information Shinjini Ghosh author Yoon Kim author Ramon Fernandez Astudillo author Tahira Naseem author Jacob Andreas author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ghosh-etal-2023-alignment 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.32 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.32/ 2023-12 488 497 Challenging the “One Single Vector per Token” Assumption Mathieu Dehouck author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication dehouck-2023-challenging 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.33 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.33/ 2023-12 498 507 Strategies to Improve Low-Resource Agglutinative Languages Morphological Inflection Gulinigeer Abudouwaili author Wayit Ablez author Kahaerjiang Abiderexiti author Aishan Wumaier author Nian Yi author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication abudouwaili-etal-2023-strategies 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.34 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.34/ 2023-12 508 520 Exploring Transformers as Compact, Data-efficient Language Models Clayton Fields author Casey Kennington author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication fields-kennington-2023-exploring 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.35 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.35/ 2023-12 521 531 Tree-shape Uncertainty for Analyzing the Inherent Branching Bias of Unsupervised Parsing Models Taiga Ishii author Yusuke Miyao author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ishii-miyao-2023-tree 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.36 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.36/ 2023-12 532 547 Future Lens: Anticipating Subsequent Tokens from a Single Hidden State Koyena Pal author Jiuding Sun author Andrew Yuan author Byron Wallace author David Bau author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication pal-etal-2023-future 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.37 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.37/ 2023-12 548 560 Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution: Instruct Humans or Instruct GPT? Jin Zhao author Nianwen Xue author Bonan Min author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication zhao-etal-2023-cross 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.38 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.38/ 2023-12 561 574 Implications of Annotation Artifacts in Edge Probing Test Datasets Sagnik Ray Choudhury author Jushaan Kalra author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ray-choudhury-kalra-2023-implications 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.39 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.39/ 2023-12 575 586 REFER: An End-to-end Rationale Extraction Framework for Explanation Regularization Mohammad Reza Ghasemi Madani author Pasquale Minervini author 2023-12 text Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Jing Jiang editor David Reitter editor Shumin Deng editor Association for Computational Linguistics Singapore conference publication ghasemi-madani-minervini-2023-refer 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-1.40 https://aclanthology.org/2023.conll-1.40/ 2023-12 587 602