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# *SEM 2023 — accepted papers

*SEM 2023 is the 2023 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in Toronto, Canada, July 2023 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 45 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.

📍 Toronto, [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/) · 🗓 July 2023

[**45** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2023/#works) · [**26** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2023/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Language models are not naysayers: an analysis of language models on negation benchmarks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.10/)**Thinh Hung Truong, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor et al.*32 citations*
2. **[KGLM: Integrating Knowledge Graph Structure in Language Models for Link Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.20/)**Jason Youn, Ilias Tagkopoulos*29 citations*
3. **[Limits for learning with language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.22/)**Nicholas Asher, Swarnadeep Bhar, Akshay Chaturvedi et al.*22 citations*
4. **[Including Facial Expressions in Contextual Embeddings for Sign Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.1/)**Carla Viegas, Mert Inan, Lorna Quandt et al.*16 citations*
5. **[Generative Data Augmentation for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.12/)**An Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Youmi Ma et al.*11 citations*
6. **[Improving Toponym Resolution with Better Candidate Generation, Transformer-based Reranking, and Two-Stage Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.6/)**Zeyu Zhang, Steven Bethard*8 citations*
7. **[When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gubelmann-2023-when-truth-matters-addressing-pragmatic/)**Reto Gubelmann, Aikaterini-lida Kalouli, Christina Niklaus et al.*8 citations · our summary*
8. **[Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.13/)**Yan Cong, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-yin Hsu et al.*7 citations*
9. **[Robust Integration of Contextual Information for Cross-Target Stance Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.43/)**Tilman Beck, Andreas Waldis, Iryna Gurevych*6 citations*
10. **[True Detective: A Deep Abductive Reasoning Benchmark Undoable for GPT-3 and Challenging for GPT-4 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.28/)**Maksym Del, Mark Fishel*5 citations*

## All accepted papers (45)

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

1. **[Language models are not naysayers: an analysis of language models on negation benchmarks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.10/)**Thinh Hung Truong, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor et al.*32 citations*
2. **[KGLM: Integrating Knowledge Graph Structure in Language Models for Link Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.20/)**Jason Youn, Ilias Tagkopoulos*29 citations*
3. **[Limits for learning with language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.22/)**Nicholas Asher, Swarnadeep Bhar, Akshay Chaturvedi et al.*22 citations*
4. **[Including Facial Expressions in Contextual Embeddings for Sign Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.1/)**Carla Viegas, Mert Inan, Lorna Quandt et al.*16 citations*
5. **[Generative Data Augmentation for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.12/)**An Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Youmi Ma et al.*11 citations*
6. **[Improving Toponym Resolution with Better Candidate Generation, Transformer-based Reranking, and Two-Stage Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.6/)**Zeyu Zhang, Steven Bethard*8 citations*
7. **[When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gubelmann-2023-when-truth-matters-addressing-pragmatic/)**Reto Gubelmann, Aikaterini-lida Kalouli, Christina Niklaus et al.*8 citations · our summary*
8. **[Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.13/)**Yan Cong, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-yin Hsu et al.*7 citations*
9. **[Robust Integration of Contextual Information for Cross-Target Stance Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.43/)**Tilman Beck, Andreas Waldis, Iryna Gurevych*6 citations*
10. **[True Detective: A Deep Abductive Reasoning Benchmark Undoable for GPT-3 and Challenging for GPT-4 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.28/)**Maksym Del, Mark Fishel*5 citations*
11. **[Probing neural language models for understanding of words of estimative probability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.41/)**Damien Sileo, Marie-francine Moens*4 citations*
12. **[How Are Idioms Processed Inside Transformer Language Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2023-how-are-idioms-processed-inside/)**Ye Tian, Isobel James, Hye Son*3 citations · our summary*
13. **[Not All Counterhate Tweets Elicit the Same Replies: A Fine-Grained Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.8/)**Abdullah Albanyan, Ahmed Hassan, Eduardo Blanco*3 citations*
14. **[Seeking Clozure: Robust Hypernym extraction from BERT with Anchored Prompts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.18/)**Chunhua Liu, Trevor Cohn, Lea Frermann*3 citations*
15. **[A Tale of Two Laws of Semantic Change: Predicting Synonym Changes with Distributional Semantic Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.30/)**Bastien Lietard, Mikaela Keller, Pascal Denis*2 citations*
16. **[Arithmetic-Based Pretraining Improving Numeracy of Pretrained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.42/)**Dominic Petrak, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Iryna Gurevych*2 citations*
17. **[Can Sequence-to-Sequence Transformers Naturally Understand Sequential Instructions? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.45/)**Xiang Zhou, Aditya Gupta, Shyam Upadhyay et al.*2 citations*
18. **[Evaluating Factual Consistency of Texts with Semantic Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.9/)**Jing Fan, Dennis Aumiller, Michael Gertz*2 citations*
19. **[JSEEGraph: Joint Structured Event Extraction as Graph Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.11/)**Huiling You, Lilja Vrelid, Samia Touileb*2 citations*
20. **[Leverage Points in Modality Shifts: Comparing Language-only and Multimodal Word Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.2/)**Alexey Tikhonov, Lisa Bylinina, Denis Paperno*2 citations*
21. **[PCFG-Based Natural Language Interface Improves Generalization for Controlled Text Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.27/)**Jingyu Zhang, James Glass, Tianxing He*2 citations*
22. **[Query Generation Using GPT-3 for CLIP-Based Word Sense Disambiguation for Image Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.36/)**Xiaomeng Pan, Zhousi Chen, Mamoru Komachi*2 citations*
23. **[Scalable Performance Analysis for Vision-Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.26/)**Santiago Castro, Oana Ignat, Rada Mihalcea*2 citations*
24. **[Syntax and Semantics Meet in the “Middle”: Probing the Syntax-Semantics Interface of LMs Through Agentivity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.14/)**Lindia Tjuatja, Emmy Liu, Lori Levin et al.*2 citations*
25. **[Adverbs, Surprisingly ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.44/)**Dmitry Nikolaev, Collin Baker, Miriam R. L. Petruck et al.*1 citation*

[See all 45 papers in SEM 2023 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2023/papers/)

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

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

1. **[When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gubelmann-2023-when-truth-matters-addressing-pragmatic/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Reto Gubelmann, Aikaterini-lida Kalouli, Christina Niklaus, et al.*2023 · 15 citations*
2. **[How Are Idioms Processed Inside Transformer Language Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2023-how-are-idioms-processed-inside/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Ye Tian, Isobel James, Hye Son*2023 · 11 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/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## 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/) · [Neuroscience (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Aikaterini-lida Kalouli**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aikaterini-lida-kalouli/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christina Niklaus**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christina-niklaus/) · [🧑‍🔬**Reto Gubelmann**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reto-gubelmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Siegfried Handschuh**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siegfried-handschuh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ye Tian**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ye-tian/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of St.Gallen** Saint Gallen · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-st-gallen/) · [🎓**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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