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# *SEM 2020 — accepted papers

*SEM 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 19 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.

[**19** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2020/#works) · [**117** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2020/#works)**Barcelona, Spain (Online)** where it was held**December 2020** when

## All accepted papers (19)

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

1. **[A Visuospatial Dataset for Naturalistic Verb Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.16/)**Dylan Ebert, Ellie Pavlick
2. **[Assessing Polyseme Sense Similarity through Co-predication Acceptability and Contextualised Embedding Distance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.12/)**Janosch Haber, Massimo Poesio
3. **[Automatic Learning of Modality Exclusivity Norms with Crosslingual Word Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.4/)**Emmanuele Chersoni, Rong Xiang, Qin Lu et al.
4. **[Find or Classify? Dual Strategy for Slot-Value Predictions on Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2020-find-or-classify-dual-strategy/)**Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Chien-Sheng Wu et al.*our summary*
5. **[Fine-tuning BERT with Focus Words for Explanation Regeneration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.13/)**Isaiah Onando Mulang', Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer
6. **[Improving Medical NLI Using Context-Aware Domain Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.1/)**Shaika Chowdhury, Philip Yu, Yuan Luo
7. **[Joint Training for Learning Cross-lingual Embeddings with Sub-word Information without Parallel Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.5/)**Ali Hakimi Parizi, Paul Cook
8. **[Knowledge Graphs meet Moral Values ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.8/)**Ioana Hulpuș, Jonathan Kobbe, Heiner Stuckenschmidt et al.
9. **[Large Scale Author Obfuscation Using Siamese Variational Auto-Encoder: The SiamAO System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.19/)**Chakaveh Saedi, Mark Dras
10. **[Learning Negation Scope from Syntactic Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.15/)**Nick McKenna, Mark Steedman
11. **[Learning as Abduction: Trainable Natural Logic Theorem Prover for Natural Language Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.3/)**Lasha Abzianidze
12. **[Natural Language Inference with Mixed Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gantt-2020-natural-language-inference-mixed-effects/)**William Gantt, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Steven White*our summary*
13. **[On the Systematicity of Probing Contextualized Word Representations: The Case of Hypernymy in BERT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.10/)**Abhilasha Ravichander, Eduard Hovy, Kaheer Suleman et al.
14. **[PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.14/)**Giulia Cappelli, Alessandro Lenci
15. **[Reading Comprehension as Natural Language Inference:A Semantic Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.2/)**Anshuman Mishra, Dhruvesh Patel, Aparna Vijayakumar et al.
16. **[Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.6/)**Elior Sulem, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport
17. **[Token Sequence Labeling vs. Clause Classification for English Emotion Stimulus Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oberlander-2020-token-sequence-labeling-vs-clause/)**Laura Ana Maria Oberländer, Roman Klinger*our summary*
18. **[Topology of Word Embeddings: Singularities Reflect Polysemy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.11/)**Alexander Jakubowski, Milica Gašić, Marcus Zibrowius
19. **[“where is this relationship going?”: Understanding Relationship Trajectories in Narrative Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.starsem-1.18/)**Keen You, Dan Goldwasser

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

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

1. **[Find or Classify? Dual Strategy for Slot-Value Predictions on Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2020-find-or-classify-dual-strategy/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Chien-Sheng Wu, et al.*2020 · 79 citations*
2. **[Token Sequence Labeling vs. Clause Classification for English Emotion Stimulus Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oberlander-2020-token-sequence-labeling-vs-clause/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Laura Ana Maria Oberländer, Roman Klinger*2020 · 24 citations*
3. **[Natural Language Inference with Mixed Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gantt-2020-natural-language-inference-mixed-effects/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**William Gantt, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Steven White*2020 · 14 citations*

## Top topics

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

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

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Caiming Xiong**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chien-Sheng Wu**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chien-sheng-wu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jianguo Zhang**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianguo-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kazuma Hashimoto**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kazuma-hashimoto/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philip S. Yu**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-s-yu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Richard Socher**1 work here · 79 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-socher/) · [🧑‍🔬**Roman Klinger**1 work here · 24 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roman-klinger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aaron Steven White**1 work here · 14 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-steven-white/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/) · [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/)

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

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