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# CoNLL 2020 — accepted papers

CoNLL 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), held in Online, November 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 61 papers of it; our library holds 8 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**61** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2020/#works) · [**303** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2020/#works)**Online** where it was held**November 2020** when

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Interpreting Attention Models with Human Visual Attention in Machine Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.2/)**Ekta Sood, Simon Tannert, Diego Frassinelli et al.*59 citations*
2. **[MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oepen-2020-mrp-2020-second-shared-task/)**Stephan Oepen, Omri Abend, Lasha Abzianidze et al.*48 citations · our summary*
3. **[Alleviating Digitization Errors in Named Entity Recognition for Historical Documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.35/)**Emanuela Boros, Ahmed Hamdi, Elvys Linhares Pontes et al.*42 citations*
4. **[How well does surprisal explain N400 amplitude under different experimental conditions? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.53/)**James A. Michaelov, Benjamin K. Bergen*41 citations*
5. **[When is a bishop not like a rook? When it's like a rabbi! Multi-prototype BERT embeddings for estimating semantic relationships ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.17/)**Gabriella Chronis, Katrin Erk*39 citations*
6. **[Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kassner-2020-are-pretrained-language-models-symbolic/)**Nora Kassner, Benno Krojer, Hinrich Schütze*35 citations · our summary*
7. **[On the Computational Power of Transformers and Its Implications in Sequence Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.37/)**Satwik Bhattamishra, Arkil Patel, Navin Goyal*32 citations*
8. **[Bridging Information-Seeking Human Gaze and Machine Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.11/)**Jonathan Malmaud, Roger Levy, Yevgeni Berzak*30 citations*
9. **[What Are You Trying to Do? Semantic Typing of Event Processes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.43/)**Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Haoyu Wang et al.*28 citations*
10. **[Identifying Incorrect Labels in the CoNLL-2003 Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.16/)**Frederick Reiss, Hong Xu, Bryan Cutler et al.*27 citations*

## All accepted papers (61)

The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Interpreting Attention Models with Human Visual Attention in Machine Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.2/)**Ekta Sood, Simon Tannert, Diego Frassinelli et al.*59 citations*
2. **[MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oepen-2020-mrp-2020-second-shared-task/)**Stephan Oepen, Omri Abend, Lasha Abzianidze et al.*48 citations · our summary*
3. **[Alleviating Digitization Errors in Named Entity Recognition for Historical Documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.35/)**Emanuela Boros, Ahmed Hamdi, Elvys Linhares Pontes et al.*42 citations*
4. **[How well does surprisal explain N400 amplitude under different experimental conditions? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.53/)**James A. Michaelov, Benjamin K. Bergen*41 citations*
5. **[When is a bishop not like a rook? When it's like a rabbi! Multi-prototype BERT embeddings for estimating semantic relationships ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.17/)**Gabriella Chronis, Katrin Erk*39 citations*
6. **[Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kassner-2020-are-pretrained-language-models-symbolic/)**Nora Kassner, Benno Krojer, Hinrich Schütze*35 citations · our summary*
7. **[On the Computational Power of Transformers and Its Implications in Sequence Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.37/)**Satwik Bhattamishra, Arkil Patel, Navin Goyal*32 citations*
8. **[Bridging Information-Seeking Human Gaze and Machine Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.11/)**Jonathan Malmaud, Roger Levy, Yevgeni Berzak*30 citations*
9. **[What Are You Trying to Do? Semantic Typing of Event Processes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.43/)**Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Haoyu Wang et al.*28 citations*
10. **[Identifying Incorrect Labels in the CoNLL-2003 Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.16/)**Frederick Reiss, Hong Xu, Bryan Cutler et al.*27 citations*
11. **[Don't Parse, Insert: Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Insertion Based Decoding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.40/)**Qile Zhu, Haidar Khan, Saleh Soltan et al.*26 citations*
12. **[TaxiNLI: Taking a Ride up the NLU Hill ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.4/)**Pratik Joshi, Somak Aditya, Aalok Sathe et al.*22 citations*
13. **[Cloze Distillation: Improving Neural Language Models with Human Next-Word Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.49/)**Tiwalayo Eisape, Noga Zaslavsky, Roger Levy*21 citations*
14. **[Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.33/)**Robert Hawkins, Minae Kwon, Dorsa Sadigh et al.*21 citations*
15. **[A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic reasoning: simulations and complexity analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arkel-2020-simple-repair-mechanism-can-alleviate/)**Jacqueline van Arkel, Marieke Woensdregt, Mark Dingemanse et al.*20 citations · our summary*
16. **[An Empirical Study on Model-agnostic Debiasing Strategies for Robust Natural Language Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2020-empirical-study-model-agnostic-debiasing/)**Tianyu Liu, Xin Zheng, Xiaoan Ding et al.*20 citations · our summary*
17. **[A Dataset for Linguistic Understanding, Visual Evaluation, and Recognition of Sign Languages: The K-RSL ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.51/)**Alfarabi Imashev, Medet Mukushev, Vadim Kimmelman et al.*18 citations*
18. **[Modelling Lexical Ambiguity with Density Matrices ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.21/)**Francois Meyer, Martha Lewis*18 citations*
19. **[ÚFAL at MRP 2020: Permutation-invariant Semantic Parsing in PERIN ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-shared.5/)**David Samuel, Milan Straka*18 citations*
20. **[Analogies minus analogy test: measuring regularities in word embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.29/)**Louis Fournier, Emmanuel Dupoux, Ewan Dunbar*17 citations*
21. **[Discourse structure interacts with reference but not syntax in neural language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.32/)**Forrest Davis, Marten van Schijndel*17 citations*
22. **[“LazImpa”: Lazy and Impatient neural agents learn to communicate efficiently ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.26/)**Mathieu Rita, Rahma Chaabouni, Emmanuel Dupoux*17 citations*
23. **[Representation Learning for Type-Driven Composition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.24/)**Gijs Wijnholds, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark*15 citations*
24. **[Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choshen-2020-classifying-syntactic-errors-learner-language/)**Leshem Choshen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Yevgeni Berzak et al.*14 citations · our summary*
25. **[Relations between comprehensibility and adequacy errors in machine translation output ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.19/)**Maja Popović*14 citations*

[See all 61 papers in CoNLL 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2020/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (8)

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

1. **[MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oepen-2020-mrp-2020-second-shared-task/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Stephan Oepen, Omri Abend, Lasha Abzianidze, et al.*2020 · 101 citations*
2. **[Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kassner-2020-are-pretrained-language-models-symbolic/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Nora Kassner, Benno Krojer, Hinrich Schütze*2020 · 79 citations*
3. **[An Empirical Study on Model-agnostic Debiasing Strategies for Robust Natural Language Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2020-empirical-study-model-agnostic-debiasing/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Tianyu Liu, Xin Zheng, Xiaoan Ding, et al.*2020 · 36 citations*
4. [**Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language**Leshem Choshen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Yevgeni Berzak, et al.*2020 · 30 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choshen-2020-classifying-syntactic-errors-learner-language/)
5. **[A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic reasoning: simulations and complexity analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arkel-2020-simple-repair-mechanism-can-alleviate/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Jacqueline van Arkel, Marieke Woensdregt, Mark Dingemanse, et al.*2020 · 24 citations*
6. **[On the Frailty of Universal POS Tags for Neural UD Parsers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anderson-2020-frailty-universal-pos-tags-neural/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Mark Anderson, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez*2020 · 20 citations*
7. [**DRS at MRP 2020: Dressing up Discourse Representation Structures as Graphs**Lasha Abzianidze, Johan Bos, Stephan Oepen*2020 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abzianidze-2020-drs-mrp-2020-dressing-up/)
8. [**Finding The Right One and Resolving it**Payal Khullar, Arghya Bhattacharya, Manish Shrivastava*2020 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khullar-2020-finding-right-one-resolving-it/)

## Top topics

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

[Universal Dependencies (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Omri Abend**2 works here · 131 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omri-abend/) · [🧑‍🔬**Johan Bos**2 works here · 112 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-bos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lasha Abzianidze**2 works here · 112 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lasha-abzianidze/) · [🧑‍🔬**Stephan Oepen**2 works here · 112 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-oepen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bin Li**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Hershcovich**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-hershcovich/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Zeman**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-zeman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jan Hajič**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-hajic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nianwen Xue**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nianwen-xue/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tim O'Gorman**1 work here · 101 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-o-gorman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hinrich Schütze**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nora Kassner**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nora-kassner/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · [🎓**University of Oslo** Oslo · Norway 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oslo/) · [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · [🎓**Universidade da Coruña** A Coruña · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-da-coruna/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) · [🎓**Radboud University Nijmegen** Nijmegen · Netherlands 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/radboud-university-nijmegen/) · [🎓**Nanjing Normal University** Nanjing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-normal-university/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/)

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

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