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# International Conference on Computational Semantics 2021 — accepted papers

International Conference on Computational Semantics 2021 is the 2021 edition of the International Conference on Computational Semantics, held in Groningen, The Netherlands (online), June 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 23 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**23** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwcs/2021/#works) · [**32** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwcs/2021/#works)**Groningen, The Netherlands (online)** where it was held**June 2021** when

## All accepted papers (23)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Transition-based Parser for Unscoped Episodic Logical Forms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.18/)**Gene Kim, Viet Duong, Xin Lu et al.
2. **[Applied Temporal Analysis: A Complete Run of the FraCaS Test Suite ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.2/)**Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
3. **[Automatic Assignment of Semantic Frames in Disaster Response Team Communication Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.10/)**Natalia Skachkova, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
4. **[Automatic Classification of Attributes in German Adjective-Noun Phrases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.23/)**Neele Falk, Yana Strakatova, Eva Huber et al.
5. **[Breeding Fillmore's Chickens and Hatching the Eggs: Recombining Frames and Roles in Frame-Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.15/)**Gosse Minnema, Malvina Nissim
6. **[Builder, we have done it: Evaluating & Extending Dialogue-AMR NLU Pipeline for Two Collaborative Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.17/)**Claire Bonial, Mitchell Abrams, David Traum et al.
7. **[CO-NNECT: A Framework for Revealing Commonsense Knowledge Paths as Explicitations of Implicit Knowledge in Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.3/)**Maria Becker, Katharina Korfhage, Debjit Paul et al.
8. **[Computing All Quantifier Scopes with CCG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.4/)**Miloš Stanojević, Mark Steedman
9. **[Critical Thinking for Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.7/)**Gregor Betz, Christian Voigt, Kyle Richardson
10. **[Do Natural Language Explanations Represent Valid Logical Arguments? Verifying Entailment in Explainable NLI Gold Standards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/valentino-2021-do-natural-language-explanations-represent/)**Marco Valentino, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, André Freitas*our summary*
11. **[Encoding Explanatory Knowledge for Zero-shot Science Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.5/)**Zili Zhou, Marco Valentino, Donal Landers et al.
12. **[Implicit representations of event properties within contextual language models: Searching for “causativity neurons” ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.11/)**Esther Seyffarth, Younes Samih, Laura Kallmeyer et al.
13. **[Is that really a question? Going beyond factoid questions in NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.13/)**Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Rita Sevastjanova et al.
14. **[Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/noble-2021-large-scale-text-pre-training/)**Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev*our summary*
15. **[Looking for a Role for Word Embeddings in Eye-Tracking Features Prediction: Does Semantic Similarity Help? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.9/)**Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci, Emmanuele Chersoni
16. **[Monotonicity Marking from Universal Dependency Trees ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.12/)**Zeming Chen, Qiyue Gao
17. **[New Domain, Major Effort? How Much Data is Necessary to Adapt a Temporal Tagger to the Voice Assistant Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.14/)**Touhidul Alam, Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó
18. **[Predicate Representations and Polysemy in VerbNet Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.6/)**James Gung, Martha Palmer
19. **[SemLink 2.0: Chasing Lexical Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stowe-2021-semlink-2-0-chasing-lexical/)**Kevin Stowe, Jenette Preciado, Kathryn Conger et al.*our summary*
20. **[Switching Contexts: Transportability Measures for NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.1/)**Guy Marshall, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Philip Osborne et al.
21. **[Tuning Deep Active Learning for Semantic Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.20/)**Skatje Myers, Martha Palmer
22. **[Variation in framing as a function of temporal reporting distance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.22/)**Levi Remijnse, Marten Postma, Piek Vossen
23. **[“Politeness, you simpleton!” retorted MASK: Masked prediction of literary characters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.19/)**Eric Holgate, Katrin Erk

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

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

1. [**SemLink 2.0: Chasing Lexical Resources**Kevin Stowe, Jenette Preciado, Kathryn Conger, et al.*2021 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stowe-2021-semlink-2-0-chasing-lexical/)
2. **[Do Natural Language Explanations Represent Valid Logical Arguments? Verifying Entailment in Explainable NLI Gold Standards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/valentino-2021-do-natural-language-explanations-represent/) [International Conference on Computational Semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwcs/)**Marco Valentino, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, André Freitas*2021 · 10 citations*
3. [**Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning**Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev*2021 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/noble-2021-large-scale-text-pre-training/)

## Top topics

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

[English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**James Gung**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-gung/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathryn Conger**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathryn-conger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Stowe**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-stowe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Martha Palmer**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Susan Windisch Brown**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-windisch-brown/) · [🧑‍🔬**André Freitas**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-freitas/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marco Valentino**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-valentino/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/)

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

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