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# Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP 2021 — accepted papers

Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, held in Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 20 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**20** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/insights/2021/#works) · [**144** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/insights/2021/#works)**Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic** where it was held**November 2021** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Generalization in NLI: Ways (Not) To Go Beyond Simple Heuristics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bhargava-2021-generalization-nli-ways-not-go/)**Prajjwal Bhargava, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rogers*87 citations · our summary*
2. **[When does Further Pre-training MLM Help? An Empirical Study on Task-Oriented Dialog Pre-training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.9/)**Qi Zhu, Yuxian Gu, Lingxiao Luo et al.*15 citations*
3. **[Does Commonsense help in detecting Sarcasm?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chowdhury-2021-does-commonsense-help-detecting-sarcasm/)**Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Snigdha Chaturvedi*14 citations · our summary*
4. **[Corrected CBOW Performs as well as Skip-gram ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.1/)**Ozan İrsoy, Adrian Benton, Karl Stratos*13 citations*
5. **[Finetuning Pretrained Transformers into Variational Autoencoders ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.5/)**Seongmin Park, Jihwa Lee*13 citations*
6. **[Backtranslation in Neural Morphological Inflection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.13/)**Ling Liu, Mans Hulden*11 citations*
7. **[Investigating the Effect of Natural Language Explanations on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Few-shot NLI ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.17/)**Yangqiaoyu Zhou, Chenhao Tan*6 citations*
8. **[An Investigation into the Contribution of Locally Aggregated Descriptors to Figurative Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.15/)**Sina Mahdipour Saravani, Ritwik Banerjee, Indrakshi Ray*5 citations*
9. **[Recurrent Attention for the Transformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.10/)**Jan Rosendahl, Christian Herold, Frithjof Petrick et al.*4 citations*
10. **[Active Learning for Argument Strength Estimation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.20/)**Nataliia Kees, Michael Fromm, Evgeniy Faerman et al.*3 citations*

## All accepted papers (20)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Generalization in NLI: Ways (Not) To Go Beyond Simple Heuristics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bhargava-2021-generalization-nli-ways-not-go/)**Prajjwal Bhargava, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rogers*87 citations · our summary*
2. **[When does Further Pre-training MLM Help? An Empirical Study on Task-Oriented Dialog Pre-training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.9/)**Qi Zhu, Yuxian Gu, Lingxiao Luo et al.*15 citations*
3. **[Does Commonsense help in detecting Sarcasm?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chowdhury-2021-does-commonsense-help-detecting-sarcasm/)**Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Snigdha Chaturvedi*14 citations · our summary*
4. **[Corrected CBOW Performs as well as Skip-gram ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.1/)**Ozan İrsoy, Adrian Benton, Karl Stratos*13 citations*
5. **[Finetuning Pretrained Transformers into Variational Autoencoders ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.5/)**Seongmin Park, Jihwa Lee*13 citations*
6. **[Backtranslation in Neural Morphological Inflection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.13/)**Ling Liu, Mans Hulden*11 citations*
7. **[Investigating the Effect of Natural Language Explanations on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Few-shot NLI ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.17/)**Yangqiaoyu Zhou, Chenhao Tan*6 citations*
8. **[An Investigation into the Contribution of Locally Aggregated Descriptors to Figurative Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.15/)**Sina Mahdipour Saravani, Ritwik Banerjee, Indrakshi Ray*5 citations*
9. **[Recurrent Attention for the Transformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.10/)**Jan Rosendahl, Christian Herold, Frithjof Petrick et al.*4 citations*
10. **[Active Learning for Argument Strength Estimation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.20/)**Nataliia Kees, Michael Fromm, Evgeniy Faerman et al.*3 citations*
11. **[Are BERTs Sensitive to Native Interference in L2 Production? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.6/)**Zixin Tang, Prasenjit Mitra, David Reitter*3 citations*
12. **[Challenging the Semi-Supervised VAE Framework for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.19/)**Ghazi Felhi, Joseph Le Roux, Djamé Seddah*3 citations*
13. **[Learning Data Augmentation Schedules for Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.14/)**Daphné Chopard, Matthias S. Treder, Irena Spasić*3 citations*
14. **[BERT Cannot Align Characters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.3/)**Antonis Maronikolakis, Philipp Dufter, Hinrich Schütze*1 citation*
15. **[Blindness to Modality Helps Entailment Graph Mining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.16/)**Liane Guillou, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mark Johnson et al.*1 citation*
16. **[Comparing Euclidean and Hyperbolic Embeddings on the WordNet Nouns Hypernymy Graph ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.8/)**Sameer Bansal, Adrian Benton*1 citation*
17. **[The Highs and Lows of Simple Lexical Domain Adaptation Approaches for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.12/)**Nikolay Bogoychev, Pinzhen Chen*1 citation*
18. **[On the Difficulty of Segmenting Words with Attention ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.11/)**Ramon Sanabria, Hao Tang, Sharon Goldwater
19. **[Two Heads are Better than One? Verification of Ensemble Effect in Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.4/)**Chanjun Park, Sungjin Park, Seolhwa Lee et al.
20. **[Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer is a Hard Baseline to Beat in German Fine-Grained Entity Typing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.insights-1.7/)**Sabine Weber, Mark Steedman

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. **[Generalization in NLI: Ways (Not) To Go Beyond Simple Heuristics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bhargava-2021-generalization-nli-ways-not-go/) [Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/insights/)**Prajjwal Bhargava, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rogers*2021 · 127 citations*
2. **[Does Commonsense help in detecting Sarcasm?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chowdhury-2021-does-commonsense-help-detecting-sarcasm/) [Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/insights/)**Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Snigdha Chaturvedi*2021 · 17 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Aleksandr Drozd**1 work here · 127 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksandr-drozd/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anna Rogers**1 work here · 127 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-rogers/) · [🧑‍🔬**Prajjwal Bhargava**1 work here · 127 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prajjwal-bhargava/) · [🧑‍🔬**Snigdha Chaturvedi**1 work here · 17 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/snigdha-chaturvedi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🎓**Tokyo Institute of Technology** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tokyo-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/)

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

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