Read the paper on the folowing link: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.173/ Abstract: The current COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the creation of many corpora that facilitate NLP research and downstream applications to help fight the pandemic. However, most...

The identification of child predators in chat rooms has been a concerning issue for a long time. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an increase in internet usage and thus, an increase in the incidents of child exploitation. Hence, there is an urgent requirement to develop...

Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.268/ Abstract: This paper considers the unsupervised domain adaptation problem for neural machine translation (NMT), where we assume the access to only monolingual text in either the source or target languag...

Language domains that require very careful use of terminology are abundant and reflect a significant part of the translation industry. In this work we introduce a benchmark for evaluating the quality and consistency of terminology translation, focusing on the medical (a...

Queer in AI���s demographic survey reveals that most queer scientists in our community do not feel completely welcome in conferences and their work environments, with the main reasons being a lack of queer community and role models. Over the past years, Queer in AI has ...

Since late 2019, COVID-19 has quickly emerged as the newest biomedical domain, resulting in a surge of new information. As with other emergent domains, the discussion surrounding the topic has been rapidly changing, leading to the spread of misinformation. This has crea...

Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.485/ Abstract: Irrespective of the success of the deep learning- based mixed-domain transfer learning approach for solving various Natural Language Processing tasks, it does not lend a generalizable solution...

Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.364/ Abstract: Humor detection has gained attention in recent years due to the desire to understand user-generated content with figurative language. However, substantial individual and cultural differences i...

Internet memes have become powerful means to transmit political, psychological, and socio-cultural ideas. Although memes are typically humorous, recent days have witnessed an escalation of harmful memes used for trolling, cyberbullying, and abuse. Detecting such memes i...

Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.305/ Abstract: We present a large, challenging dataset, COUGH, for COVID-19 FAQ retrieval. Similar to a standard FAQ dataset, COUGH consists of three parts: FAQ Bank, Query Bank and Relevance Set. The FAQ Ba...