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# ALTA 2021 — accepted papers

ALTA 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), held in Online, December 2021 (publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association). The ACL Anthology lists 26 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**26** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2021/#works) · [**2** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2021/#works)**Online** where it was held**December 2021** when

## All accepted papers (26)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[An Approach to the Frugal Use of Human Annotators to Scale up Auto-coding for Text Classification Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.2/)**Li'An Chen, Hanna Suominen
2. **[An Ensemble Model for Automatic Grading of Evidence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.25/)**Yuting Guo, Yao Ge, Ruqi Liao et al.
3. **[Automatic Post-Editing for Vietnamese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.18/)**Thanh Vu, Dai Quoc Nguyen
4. **[BERT's The Word : Sarcasm Target Detection using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parameswaran-2021-bert-s-word-sarcasm-target/)**Pradeesh Parameswaran, Andrew Trotman, Veronica Liesaputra et al.*our summary*
5. **[Combining Shallow and Deep Representations for Text-Pair Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.7/)**Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing
6. **[Cross-Domain Language Modeling: An Empirical Investigation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.22/)**Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Maciej Rybinski et al.
7. **[Curriculum Learning Effectively Improves Low Data VQA ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.3/)**Narjes Askarian, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Ingrid Zukerman et al.
8. **[Document Level Hierarchical Transformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.13/)**Najam Zaidi, Trevor Cohn, Gholamreza Haffari
9. **[Does QA-based intermediate training help fine-tuning language models for text classification? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.16/)**Shiwei Zhang, Xiuzhen Zhang
10. **[Evaluating Hierarchical Document Categorisation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.20/)**Qian Sun, Aili Shen, Hiyori Yoshikawa et al.
11. **[Evaluation of Review Summaries via Question-Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.9/)**Nannan Huang, Xiuzhen Zhang
12. **[Exploring Story Generation with Multi-task Objectives in Variational Autoencoders ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.10/)**Zhuohan Xie, Jey Han Lau, Trevor Cohn
13. **[Exploring the Vulnerability of Natural Language Processing Models via Universal Adversarial Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.14/)**Xinzhe Li, Ming Liu, Xingjun Ma et al.
14. **[Findings on Conversation Disentanglement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.1/)**Rongxin Zhu, Jey Han Lau, Jianzhong Qi
15. **[Generating and Modifying Natural Language Explanations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.15/)**Abdus Salam, Rolf Schwitter, Mehmet Orgun
16. **[Handling Variance of Pretrained Language Models in Grading Evidence in the Medical Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.26/)**Fajri Koto, Biaoyan Fang
17. **[Harnessing Privileged Information for Hyperbole Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.6/)**Rhys Biddle, Maciek Rybinski, Qian Li et al.
18. **[Multi-modal Intent Classification for Assistive Robots with Large-scale Naturalistic Datasets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.5/)**Karun Varghese Mathew, Venkata S Aditya Tarigoppula, Lea Frermann
19. **[Overview of the 2021 ALTA Shared Task: Automatic Grading of Evidence, 10 years later ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.23/)**Diego Mollá
20. **[Phone Based Keyword Spotting for Transcribing Very Low Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.8/)**Eric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier
21. **[Principled Analysis of Energy Discourse across Domains with Thesaurus-based Automatic Topic Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.11/)**Thomas Scelsi, Alfonso Martinez Arranz, Lea Frermann
22. **[Quick, get me a Dr. BERT: Automatic Grading of Evidence using Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.24/)**Pradeesh Parameswaran, Andrew Trotman, Veronica Liesaputra et al.
23. **[Retrodiction as Delayed Recurrence: the Case of Adjectives in Italian and English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.17/)**Raquel G. Alhama, Francesca Zermiani, Atiqah Khaliq
24. **[Robustness Analysis of Grover for Machine-Generated News Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.12/)**Rinaldo Gagiano, Maria Myung-Hee Kim, Xiuzhen Zhang et al.
25. **[Using Discourse Structure to Differentiate Focus Entities from Background Entities in Scientific Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.19/)**Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Ameer Albahem, Karin Verspoor

[See all 26 papers in ALTA 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[BERT's The Word : Sarcasm Target Detection using BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parameswaran-2021-bert-s-word-sarcasm-target/) [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)**Pradeesh Parameswaran, Andrew Trotman, Veronica Liesaputra, et al.*2021 · 2 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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