EMNLP Papers 2021

Two papers by Han He and Liyan Xu are accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2021 (EMNLP):

• The Stem Cell Hypothesis: Truth behind Multi-Task Learning with Transformer Encoders. Han He and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.
• Boosting Cross-Lingual Transfer via Self-Learning with Uncertainty Estimation. Liyan Xu, Xuchao Zhang, Xujiang Zhao, Haifeng Chen, Feng Chen, and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.

Xu et al., 2021 is written in collaboration with researchers at NEC Laboratories America and the University of Texas at Dallas.

In addition, a system demonstration paper by Dr. Jinho Choi is accepted, in collaboration with researchers at Brandeis University and the University of Mexico:

• UMR-Writer: A Web Application for Annotating Uniform Meaning Representations. Zhao, J.; Xue, N.; Gysel, J. V.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): System Demonstrations, 2021.