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# Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI 2021 — accepted papers

Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI, held in Online, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 27 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.

[**27** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4convai/2021/#works) · [**150** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4convai/2021/#works)**Online** 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. **[Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2021-investigating-pretrained-language-models-graph/)**Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze et al.*133 citations · our summary*
2. **[XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.10/)**Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata et al.*52 citations*
3. **[AuGPT: Auxiliary Tasks and Data Augmentation for End-To-End Dialogue with Pre-Trained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.19/)**Jonáš Kulhánek, Vojtěch Hudeček, Tomáš Nekvinda et al.*29 citations*
4. **[Amendable Generation for Dialogue State Tracking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.8/)**Xin Tian, Liankai Huang, Yingzhan Lin et al.*26 citations*
5. **[Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.17/)**Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao et al.*16 citations*
6. **[Semi-supervised Intent Discovery with Contrastive Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.12/)**Xiang Shen, Yinge Sun, Yao Zhang et al.*14 citations*
7. **[CS-BERT: a pretrained model for customer service dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.13/)**Peiyao Wang, Joyce Fang, Julia Reinspach*8 citations*
8. **[Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.25/)**Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai et al.*8 citations*
9. **[PLATO-KAG: Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation via Joint Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.14/)**Xinxian Huang, Huang He, Siqi Bao et al.*8 citations*
10. **[Think Before You Speak: Learning to Generate Implicit Knowledge for Response Generation by Self-Talk ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.23/)**Pei Zhou, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan et al.*8 citations*

## All accepted papers (27)

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

1. **[Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2021-investigating-pretrained-language-models-graph/)**Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze et al.*133 citations · our summary*
2. **[XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.10/)**Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata et al.*52 citations*
3. **[AuGPT: Auxiliary Tasks and Data Augmentation for End-To-End Dialogue with Pre-Trained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.19/)**Jonáš Kulhánek, Vojtěch Hudeček, Tomáš Nekvinda et al.*29 citations*
4. **[Amendable Generation for Dialogue State Tracking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.8/)**Xin Tian, Liankai Huang, Yingzhan Lin et al.*26 citations*
5. **[Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.17/)**Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao et al.*16 citations*
6. **[Semi-supervised Intent Discovery with Contrastive Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.12/)**Xiang Shen, Yinge Sun, Yao Zhang et al.*14 citations*
7. **[CS-BERT: a pretrained model for customer service dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.13/)**Peiyao Wang, Joyce Fang, Julia Reinspach*8 citations*
8. **[Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.25/)**Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai et al.*8 citations*
9. **[PLATO-KAG: Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation via Joint Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.14/)**Xinxian Huang, Huang He, Siqi Bao et al.*8 citations*
10. **[Think Before You Speak: Learning to Generate Implicit Knowledge for Response Generation by Self-Talk ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.23/)**Pei Zhou, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan et al.*8 citations*
11. **[On the Robustness of Intent Classification and Slot Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialog Systems to Real-world Noise ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.7/)**Sailik Sengupta, Jason Krone, Saab Mansour*7 citations*
12. **[Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.21/)**Alicia Tsai, Shereen Oraby, Vittorio Perera et al.*5 citations*
13. **[Few-Shot Intent Classification by Gauging Entailment Relationship Between Utterance and Semantic Label ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.2/)**Jin Qu, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu et al.*4 citations*
14. **[Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.27/)**Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim et al.*3 citations*
15. **[Using Pause Information for More Accurate Entity Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.22/)**Sahas Dendukuri, Pooja Chitkara, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz et al.*3 citations*
16. **[Collaborative Data Relabeling for Robust and Diverse Voice Apps Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.11/)**Qian Hu, Thahir Mohamed, Wei Xiao et al.*2 citations*
17. **[Dialogue Response Generation via Contrastive Latent Representation Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.18/)**Shuyang Dai, Guoyin Wang, Sunghyun Park et al.*2 citations*
18. **[Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Joint Slot Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.15/)**Ting-Rui Chiang, Yi-Ting Yeh*2 citations*
19. **[Multilingual Paraphrase Generation For Bootstrapping New Features in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.4/)**Subhadarshi Panda, Caglar Tirkaz, Tobias Falke et al.*2 citations*
20. **[Not So Fast, Classifier – Accuracy and Entropy Reduction in Incremental Intent Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.6/)**Lianna Hrycyk, Alessandra Zarcone, Luzian Hahn*2 citations*
21. **[Taking Things Personally: Third Person to First Person Rephrasing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.1/)**Marcel Granero Moya, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras*2 citations*
22. **[Towards Code-Mixed Hinglish Dialogue Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.26/)**Vibhav Agarwal, Pooja Rao, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi*2 citations*
23. **[Learning to Learn End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog From Related Dialog Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.16/)**Janarthanan Rajendran, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Satinder Baveja*1 citation*
24. **[Overcoming Conflicting Data when Updating a Neural Semantic Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.5/)**David Gaddy, Alex Kouzemtchenko, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy et al.*1 citation*
25. **[What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.9/)**James D. Finch, Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi*1 citation*

[See all 27 papers in Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4convai/2021/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2021-investigating-pretrained-language-models-graph/) [Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4convai/)**Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze, et al.*2021 · 150 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Fields

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

[🧑‍🔬**Hinrich Schütze**1 work here · 150 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) · [🧑‍🔬**Iryna Gurevych**1 work here · 150 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/) · [🧑‍🔬**Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro**1 work here · 150 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-f-r-ribeiro/) · [🧑‍🔬**Martin Schmitt**1 work here · 150 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-schmitt/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/)

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

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