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title: "*SEM 2023 — all accepted papers with summaries and citations"
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# *SEM 2023: all accepted papers

45 papers · the most cited first · [← *SEM 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2023/)

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*
26. **[Analyzing Syntactic Generalization Capacity of Pre-trained Language Models on Japanese Honorific Conversion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.5/)**Ryo Sekizawa, Hitomi Yanaka*1 citation*
27. **[Can Pretrained Language Models Derive Correct Semantics from Corrupt Subwords under Noise? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.15/)**Xinzhe Li, Ming Liu, Shang Gao*1 citation*
28. **[Does Character-level Information Always Improve DRS-based Semantic Parsing? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.23/)**Tomoya Kurosawa, Hitomi Yanaka*1 citation*
29. **[Estimating Semantic Similarity between In-Domain and Out-of-Domain Samples ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.35/)**Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal*1 citation*
30. **[Event Semantic Knowledge in Procedural Text Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.33/)**Ghazaleh Kazeminejad, Martha Palmer*1 citation*
31. **[Functional Distributional Semantics at Scale ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.37/)**Chun Hei Lo, Hong Cheng, Wai Lam et al.*1 citation*
32. **[Guiding Zero-Shot Paraphrase Generation with Fine-Grained Control Tokens ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.29/)**Teemu Vahtola, Mathias Creutz, Jrg Tiedemann*1 citation*
33. **[Is Shortest Always Best? The Role of Brevity in Logic-to-Text Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.17/)**Eduardo Calò, Jordi Levy, Albert Gatt et al.*1 citation*
34. **[Representation of Lexical Stylistic Features in Language Models' Embedding Space ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.32/)**Qing Lyu, Marianna Apidianaki, Chris Callison-burch*1 citation*
35. **[Revisiting Syntax-Based Approach in Negation Scope Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.3/)**Asahi Yoshida, Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara*1 citation*
36. **[Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.31/)**Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Mehdi Rezaee, Francis Ferraro*1 citation*
37. **[Testing Paraphrase Models on Recognising Sentence Pairs at Different Degrees of Semantic Overlap ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.24/)**Qiwei Peng, David Weir, Julie Weeds*1 citation*
38. **[\quotedblbaseMann“ is to “Donna” as「国王」is to \guillemotleft Reine \guillemotright Adapting the Analogy Task for Multilingual and Contextual Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.25/)**Timothee Mickus, Eduardo Calò, Léo Jacqmin et al.*1 citation*
39. **[CRAPES:Cross-modal Annotation Projection for Visual Semantic Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.7/)**Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Martha Palmer, Christoffer Heckman
40. **[Empirical Sufficiency Lower Bounds for Language Modeling with Locally-Bootstrapped Semantic Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.40/)**Jakob Prange, Emmanuele Chersoni
41. **[FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.38/)**Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Trujillo et al.
42. **[LEXPLAIN: Improving Model Explanations via Lexicon Supervision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.19/)**Orevaoghene Ahia, Hila Gonen, Vidhisha Balachandran et al.
43. **[Leveraging Active Learning to Minimise SRL Annotation Across Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.34/)**Skatje Myers, Martha Palmer
44. **[Monolingual Phrase Alignment as Parse Forest Mapping ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.39/)**Sora Kadotani, Yuki Arase
45. **[Probing Out-of-Distribution Robustness of Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.21/)**Hyunsoo Cho, Choonghyun Park, Junyeob Kim et al.
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