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# CoNLL 2021 — accepted papers

CoNLL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), held in Online, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 52 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.

📍 Online · 🗓 November 2021

[**52** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2021/#works) · [**439** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2021/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huebner-2021-babyberta-learning-more-grammar-small/)**Philip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia et al.*70 citations · our summary*
2. **[Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdou-2021-can-language-models-encode-perceptual/)**Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich et al.*62 citations · our summary*
3. **[Counterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.15/)**Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen et al.*50 citations*
4. **[Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.10/)**Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu*28 citations*
5. **[Understanding the Extent to which Content Quality Metrics Measure the Information Quality of Summaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.24/)**Daniel Deutsch, Dan Roth*26 citations*
6. **[Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandia-2021-pragmatic-competence-pre-trained-language/)**Lalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger*21 citations · our summary*
7. **[Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.26/)**Kevin Stowe, Nils Beck, Iryna Gurevych*20 citations*
8. **[The Low-Dimensional Linear Geometry of Contextualized Word Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.7/)**Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas*19 citations*
9. **[Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the Perspective of a Recurrent Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.8/)**Verna Dankers, Anna Langedijk, Kate McCurdy et al.*18 citations*
10. **[Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.30/)**Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak et al.*17 citations*

## All accepted papers (52)

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

1. **[BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huebner-2021-babyberta-learning-more-grammar-small/)**Philip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia et al.*70 citations · our summary*
2. **[Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdou-2021-can-language-models-encode-perceptual/)**Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich et al.*62 citations · our summary*
3. **[Counterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.15/)**Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen et al.*50 citations*
4. **[Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.10/)**Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu*28 citations*
5. **[Understanding the Extent to which Content Quality Metrics Measure the Information Quality of Summaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.24/)**Daniel Deutsch, Dan Roth*26 citations*
6. **[Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandia-2021-pragmatic-competence-pre-trained-language/)**Lalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger*21 citations · our summary*
7. **[Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.26/)**Kevin Stowe, Nils Beck, Iryna Gurevych*20 citations*
8. **[The Low-Dimensional Linear Geometry of Contextualized Word Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.7/)**Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas*19 citations*
9. **[Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the Perspective of a Recurrent Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.8/)**Verna Dankers, Anna Langedijk, Kate McCurdy et al.*18 citations*
10. **[Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.30/)**Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak et al.*17 citations*
11. **[Understanding Guided Image Captioning Performance across Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.14/)**Edwin G. Ng, Bo Pang, Piyush Sharma et al.*17 citations*
12. **[“It seemed like an annoying woman”: On the Perception and Ethical Considerations of Affective Language in Text-Based Conversational Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.4/)**Lindsey Vanderlyn, Gianna Weber, Michael Neumann et al.*17 citations*
13. **[VQA-MHUG: A Gaze Dataset to Study Multimodal Neural Attention in Visual Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.3/)**Ekta Sood, Fabian Kögel, Florian Strohm et al.*16 citations*
14. **[Learning Zero-Shot Multifaceted Visually Grounded Word Embeddings via Multi-Task Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.12/)**Hassan Shahmohammadi, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, R. Harald Baayen*15 citations*
15. **[The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.48/)**Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky et al.*15 citations*
16. **[Automatic Error Type Annotation for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/belkebir-2021-automatic-error-type-annotation-arabic/)**Riadh Belkebir, Nizar Habash*14 citations · our summary*
17. **[Grammatical Profiling for Semantic Change Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.33/)**Andrey Kutuzov, Lidia Pivovarova, Mario Giulianelli*14 citations*
18. **[Modeling the Interaction Between Perception-Based and Production-Based Learning in Children's Early Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.31/)**Mitja Nikolaus, Abdellah Fourtassi*14 citations*
19. **[On Language Models for Creoles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.5/)**Heather Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Miryam de Lhoneux et al.*14 citations*
20. **[Imposing Relation Structure in Language-Model Embeddings Using Contrastive Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.27/)**Christos Theodoropoulos, James Henderson, Andrei Catalin Coman et al.*13 citations*
21. **[Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.25/)**Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru et al.*13 citations*
22. **[A Multilingual Benchmark for Probing Negation-Awareness with Minimal Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.19/)**Mareike Hartmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich et al.*11 citations*
23. **[NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parrish-2021-nope-corpus-naturally-occurring-presuppositions/)**Alicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt et al.*11 citations · our summary*
24. **[Does language help generalization in vision models? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.13/)**Benjamin Devillers, Bhavin Choksi, Romain Bielawski et al.*10 citations*
25. **[MirrorWiC: On Eliciting Word-in-Context Representations from Pretrained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.44/)**Qianchu Liu, Fangyu Liu, Nigel Collier et al.*10 citations*

[See all 52 papers in CoNLL 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2021/papers/)

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

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

1. **[BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huebner-2021-babyberta-learning-more-grammar-small/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Philip A. Huebner, Elior Sulem, Fisher Cynthia, et al.*2021 · 161 citations*
2. **[Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdou-2021-can-language-models-encode-perceptual/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich, et al.*2021 · 119 citations*
3. **[Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandia-2021-pragmatic-competence-pre-trained-language/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Lalchand Pandia, Yan Cong, Allyson Ettinger*2021 · 42 citations*
4. **[Automatic Error Type Annotation for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/belkebir-2021-automatic-error-type-annotation-arabic/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Riadh Belkebir, Nizar Habash*2021 · 41 citations*
5. [**NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English**Alicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt, et al.*2021 · 40 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parrish-2021-nope-corpus-naturally-occurring-presuppositions/)
6. **[Tackling Zero Pronoun Resolution and Non-Zero Coreference Resolution Jointly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-tackling-zero-pronoun-resolution-non/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Shisong Chen, Binbin Gu, Jianfeng Qu, et al.*2021 · 15 citations*
7. **[Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased Exposure](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dunn-2021-learned-construction-grammars-converge-across/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Jonathan Dunn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi*2021 · 11 citations*
8. **[Controlling Prosody in End-to-End TTS: A Case Study on Contrastive Focus Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/latif-2021-controlling-prosody-end-end-tts/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Siddique Latif, Inyoung Kim, Ioan Calapodescu, et al.*2021 · 10 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Physics and Astronomy (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Dan Roth**1 work here · 161 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) · [🧑‍🔬**Elior Sulem**1 work here · 161 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elior-sulem/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anders Søgaard**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anders-sogaard/) · [🧑‍🔬**Artur Kulmizev**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/artur-kulmizev/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Hershcovich**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-hershcovich/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ellie Pavlick**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellie-pavlick/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mostafa Abdou**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mostafa-abdou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Stella Frank**1 work here · 119 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stella-frank/) · [🧑‍🔬**Allyson Ettinger**1 work here · 42 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allyson-ettinger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nizar Habash**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alex Warstadt**1 work here · 40 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alicia Parrish**1 work here · 40 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alicia-parrish/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Canterbury** Christchurch · New Zealand 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-canterbury/) · [🎓**University of Southern Queensland** Toowoomba · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-queensland/) · [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**Soochow University** Suzhou · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/soochow-university/)

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