BERT-related Papers

This is a list of BERT-related papers. Any feedback is welcome.

Table of Contents

• Survey paper
• Downstream task
• Generation
• Quality evaluator
• Modification (multi-task, masking strategy, etc.)
• Transformer variants
• Probe
• Inside BERT
• Multi-lingual
• Other than English models
• Domain specific
• Multi-modal
• Model compression
• Misc.

Survey paper

• Evolution of transfer learning in natural language processing
• Pre-trained Models for Natural Language Processing: A Survey
• A Survey on Contextual Embeddings
• A Survey on Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing
• Which *BERT? A Survey Organizing Contextualized Encoders (EMNLP2020)

Downstream task

QA, MC, Dialogue

• Machine Reading Comprehension: The Role of Contextualized Language Models and Beyond
• A Survey on Machine Reading Comprehension: Tasks, Evaluation Metrics, and Benchmark Datasets
• A BERT Baseline for the Natural Questions
• MultiQA: An Empirical Investigation of Generalization and Transfer in Reading Comprehension (ACL2019)
• BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions (NAACL2019) [github]
• Natural Perturbation for Robust Question Answering
• Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on Reading Comprehension
• BERTQA -- Attention on Steroids
• Exploring BERT Parameter Efficiency on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset v2.0
• Adversarial Augmentation Policy Search for Domain and Cross-Lingual Generalization in Reading Comprehension
• Logic-Guided Data Augmentation and Regularization for Consistent Question Answering (ACL2020)
• UnifiedQA: Crossing Format Boundaries With a Single QA System
• A Multi-Type Multi-Span Network for Reading Comprehension that Requires Discrete Reasoning (EMNLP2019)
• A Simple and Effective Model for Answering Multi-span Questions [github]
• Injecting Numerical Reasoning Skills into Language Models (ACL2020)
• Towards Question Format Independent Numerical Reasoning: A Set of Prerequisite Tasks
• SDNet: Contextualized Attention-based Deep Network for Conversational Question Answering
• Multi-hop Question Answering via Reasoning Chains
• Select, Answer and Explain: Interpretable Multi-hop Reading Comprehension over Multiple Documents
• Multi-step Entity-centric Information Retrieval for Multi-Hop Question Answering (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Fine-tuning Multi-hop Question Answering with Hierarchical Graph Network
• Unsupervised Alignment-based Iterative Evidence Retrieval for Multi-hop Question Answering (ACL2020)
• HybridQA: A Dataset of Multi-Hop Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data
• Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation
• End-to-End Open-Domain Question Answering with BERTserini (NAALC2019)
• Latent Retrieval for Weakly Supervised Open Domain Question Answering (ACL2019)
• Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering (EMNLP2020)
• Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval
• RocketQA: An Optimized Training Approach to Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering
• Pre-training Tasks for Embedding-based Large-scale Retrieval (ICLR2020)
• Multi-passage BERT: A Globally Normalized BERT Model for Open-domain Question Answering (EMNLP2019)
• QED: A Framework and Dataset for Explanations in Question Answering [github]
• Learning to Retrieve Reasoning Paths over Wikipedia Graph for Question Answering (ICLR2020)
• Relevance-guided Supervision for OpenQA with ColBERT
• RECONSIDER: Re-Ranking using Span-Focused Cross-Attention for Open Domain Question Answering
• SPARTA: Efficient Open-Domain Question Answering via Sparse Transformer Matching Retrieval
• Don't Read Too Much into It: Adaptive Computation for Open-Domain Question Answering (EMNLP2020 WS)
• Is Retriever Merely an Approximator of Reader?
• Neural Retrieval for Question Answering with Cross-Attention Supervised Data Augmentation
• RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering (ACL2020)
• BERT-kNN: Adding a kNN Search Component to Pretrained Language Models for Better QA
• DC-BERT: Decoupling Question and Document for Efficient Contextual Encoding (SIGIR2020)
• Learning to Ask Unanswerable Questions for Machine Reading Comprehension (ACL2019)
• Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation (ACL2019)
• Reinforcement Learning Based Graph-to-Sequence Model for Natural Question Generation (ICLR2020)
• A Recurrent BERT-based Model for Question Generation (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Unsupervised Question Decomposition for Question Answering [github]
• Conversational Question Reformulation via Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures and Pretrained Language Models
• Template-Based Question Generation from Retrieved Sentences for Improved Unsupervised Question Answering (ACL2020)
• What Are People Asking About COVID-19? A Question Classification Dataset
• Learning to Answer by Learning to Ask: Getting the Best of GPT-2 and BERT Worlds
• Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Representations with Rich Knowledge for Machine Reading Comprehension (ACL2019)
• Incorporating Relation Knowledge into Commonsense Reading Comprehension with Multi-task Learning (CIKM2019)
• SG-Net: Syntax-Guided Machine Reading Comprehension
• MMM: Multi-stage Multi-task Learning for Multi-choice Reading Comprehension
• Cosmos QA: Machine Reading Comprehension with Contextual Commonsense Reasoning (EMNLP2019)
• ReClor: A Reading Comprehension Dataset Requiring Logical Reasoning (ICLR2020)
• Robust Reading Comprehension with Linguistic Constraints via Posterior Regularization
• BAS: An Answer Selection Method Using BERT Language Model
• TANDA: Transfer and Adapt Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Answer Sentence Selection (AAAI2020)
• The Cascade Transformer: an Application for Efficient Answer Sentence Selection (ACL2020)
• Support-BERT: Predicting Quality of Question-Answer Pairs in MSDN using Deep Bidirectional Transformer
• Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension
• Benchmarking Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models
• Evaluating NLP Models via Contrast Sets
• Undersensitivity in Neural Reading Comprehension
• Developing a How-to Tip Machine Comprehension Dataset and its Evaluation in Machine Comprehension by BERT (ACL2020 WS)
• A Simple but Effective Method to Incorporate Multi-turn Context with BERT for Conversational Machine Comprehension (ACL2019 WS)
• FlowDelta: Modeling Flow Information Gain in Reasoning for Conversational Machine Comprehension (ACL2019 WS)
• BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering (SIGIR2019)
• GraphFlow: Exploiting Conversation Flow with Graph Neural Networks for Conversational Machine Comprehension (ICML2019 WS)
• TAPAS: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training (ACL2020)
• TaBERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular Data (ACL2020)
• Understanding tables with intermediate pre-training (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• GraPPa: Grammar-Augmented Pre-Training for Table Semantic Parsing
• Table Search Using a Deep Contextualized Language Model (SIGIR2020)
• TORQUE: A Reading Comprehension Dataset of Temporal Ordering Questions (EMNLP2020)
• Beyond English-only Reading Comprehension: Experiments in Zero-Shot Multilingual Transfer for Bulgarian (RANLP2019)
• XQA: A Cross-lingual Open-domain Question Answering Dataset (ACL2019)
• XOR QA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering [website]
• Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension (EMNLP2019)
• Zero-shot Reading Comprehension by Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Multi-lingual Language Representation Model
• Multilingual Question Answering from Formatted Text applied to Conversational Agents
• BiPaR: A Bilingual Parallel Dataset for Multilingual and Cross-lingual Reading Comprehension on Novels (EMNLP2019)
• MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering
• Multilingual Synthetic Question and Answer Generation for Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension
• Synthetic Data Augmentation for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Question Answering
• Cross-lingual Machine Reading Comprehension with Language Branch Knowledge Distillation (COLING2020)
• MKQA: A Linguistically Diverse Benchmark for Multilingual Open Domain Question Answering [github]
• Investigating Prior Knowledge for Challenging Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (TACL)
• SberQuAD - Russian Reading Comprehension Dataset: Description and Analysis
• DuReaderrobust: A Chinese Dataset Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models
• Giving BERT a Calculator: Finding Operations and Arguments with Reading Comprehension (EMNLP2019)
• DialoGLUE: A Natural Language Understanding Benchmark for Task-Oriented Dialogue [website]
• BERT-DST: Scalable End-to-End Dialogue State Tracking with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (Interspeech2019)
• Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach
• A Simple but Effective BERT Model for Dialog State Tracking on Resource-Limited Systems (ICASSP2020)
• Fine-Tuning BERT for Schema-Guided Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking
• Goal-Oriented Multi-Task BERT-Based Dialogue State Tracker
• Dialogue State Tracking with Pretrained Encoder for Multi-domain Trask-oriented Dialogue Systems
• Zero-Shot Transfer Learning with Synthesized Data for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking (ACL2020)
• A Fast and Robust BERT-based Dialogue State Tracker for Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset (KDD2020 WS)
• ToD-BERT: Pre-trained Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Dialogues (EMNLP2020)
• Domain Adaptive Training BERT for Response Selection
• Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots
• Curriculum Learning Strategies for IR: An Empirical Study on Conversation Response Ranking (ECIR2020)
• MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning (ACL2020)
• DialBERT: A Hierarchical Pre-Trained Model for Conversation Disentanglement
• Generalized Conditioned Dialogue Generation Based on Pre-trained Language Model
• BERT Goes to Law School: Quantifying the Competitive Advantage of Access to Large Legal Corpora in Contract Understanding

Slot filling

• BERT for Joint Intent Classification and Slot Filling
• A Co-Interactive Transformer for Joint Slot Filling and Intent Detection
• Multi-lingual Intent Detection and Slot Filling in a Joint BERT-based Model
• A Comparison of Deep Learning Methods for Language Understanding (Interspeech2019)
• Data Augmentation for Spoken Language Understanding via Pretrained Models

Analysis

• Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using Discourse Context-Aware Self-Attention
• Neural Aspect and Opinion Term Extraction with Mined Rules as Weak Supervision (ACL2019)
• BERT-based Lexical Substitution (ACL2019)
• Assessing BERT’s Syntactic Abilities
• Investigating Novel Verb Learning in BERT: Selectional Preference Classes and Alternation-Based Syntactic Generalization (EMNLP2020 WS)
• Does BERT agree? Evaluating knowledge of structure dependence through agreement relations
• Simple BERT Models for Relation Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling
• LIMIT-BERT : Linguistic Informed Multi-Task BERT (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Joint Semantic Analysis with Document-Level Cross-Task Coherence Rewards
• A Simple BERT-Based Approach for Lexical Simplification
• BERT-Based Arabic Social Media Author Profiling
• Sentence-Level BERT and Multi-Task Learning of Age and Gender in Social Media
• Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text Summarization
• Generating Fact Checking Explanations (ACL2020)
• NegBERT: A Transfer Learning Approach for Negation Detection and Scope Resolution
• xSLUE: A Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Cross-Style Language Understanding and Evaluation
• TabFact: A Large-scale Dataset for Table-based Fact Verification (ICLR2020)
• Rapid Adaptation of BERT for Information Extraction on Domain-Specific Business Documents
• A Focused Study to Compare Arabic Pre-training Models on Newswire IE Tasks
• LAMBERT: Layout-Aware language Modeling using BERT for information extraction
• Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Articles as Sequence Labeling using Contextualized Embeddings (ECIR2020) [github]
• Keyphrase Extraction with Span-based Feature Representations
• Keyphrase Prediction With Pre-trained Language Model
• Joint Keyphrase Chunking and Salience Ranking with BERT
• Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations (ACL2020) [github]
• What do you mean, BERT? Assessing BERT as a Distributional Semantics Model
• tBERT: Topic Models and BERT Joining Forces for Semantic Similarity Detection (ACL2020)
• Domain Adaptation with BERT-based Domain Classification and Data Selection (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Knowledge Distillation for BERT Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
• Sensitive Data Detection and Classification in Spanish Clinical Text: Experiments with BERT (LREC2020)
• On the Importance of Word and Sentence Representation Learning in Implicit Discourse Relation Classification (IJCAI2020)
• Adapting BERT to Implicit Discourse Relation Classification with a Focus on Discourse Connectives (LREC2020)
• Labeling Explicit Discourse Relations using Pre-trained Language Models (TSD2020)
• Cross-lingual Zero- and Few-shot Hate Speech Detection Utilising Frozen Transformer Language Models and AXEL
• Same Side Stance Classification Task: Facilitating Argument Stance Classification by Fine-tuning a BERT Model
• Kungfupanda at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-Based Multi-Task Learning for Offensive Language Detection
• KEIS@JUST at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Identifying Multilingual Offensive Tweets Using Weighted Ensemble and Fine-Tuned BERT
• ALBERT-BiLSTM for Sequential Metaphor Detection (ACL2020 WS)
• A BERT-based Dual Embedding Model for Chinese Idiom Prediction (COLING2020)
• Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring? (ACL2020 WS)
• KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks [github]
• IndoNLU: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating Indonesian Natural Language Understanding (AACL-IJCNLP2020)
• MedFilter: Improving Extraction of Task-relevant Utterances through Integration of Discourse Structure and Ontological Knowledge (EMNLP2020)

Word segmentation, parsing, NER

• BERT Meets Chinese Word Segmentation
• Unified Multi-Criteria Chinese Word Segmentation with BERT
• RethinkCWS: Is Chinese Word Segmentation a Solved Task? (EMNLP2020) [github]
• Joint Persian Word Segmentation Correction and Zero-Width Non-Joiner Recognition Using BERT
• Toward Fast and Accurate Neural Chinese Word Segmentation with Multi-Criteria Learning
• Establishing Strong Baselines for the New Decade: Sequence Tagging, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with BERT (FLAIRS-33)
• Evaluating Contextualized Embeddings on 54 Languages in POS Tagging, Lemmatization and Dependency Parsing
• fastHan: A BERT-based Joint Many-Task Toolkit for Chinese NLP
• Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings in Transition-Based and Graph-Based Dependency Parsing -- A Tale of Two Parsers Revisited (EMNLP2019)
• Is POS Tagging Necessary or Even Helpful for Neural Dependency Parsing?
• Parsing as Pretraining (AAAI2020)
• Cross-Lingual BERT Transformation for Zero-Shot Dependency Parsing
• Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement
• pyBART: Evidence-based Syntactic Transformations for IE [github]
• Named Entity Recognition -- Is there a glass ceiling? (CoNLL2019)
• A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity Recognition
• Biomedical named entity recognition using BERT in the machine reading comprehension framework
• Training Compact Models for Low Resource Entity Tagging using Pre-trained Language Models
• Robust Named Entity Recognition with Truecasing Pretraining (AAAI2020)
• LTP: A New Active Learning Strategy for Bert-CRF Based Named Entity Recognition
• Named Entity Recognition as Dependency Parsing (ACL2020)
• Exploring Cross-sentence Contexts for Named Entity Recognition with BERT
• Embeddings of Label Components for Sequence Labeling: A Case Study of Fine-grained Named Entity Recognition (ACL2020 SRW)
• BOND: BERT-Assisted Open-Domain Named Entity Recognition with Distant Supervision (KDD2020) [github]
• Interpretability Analysis for Named Entity Recognition to Understand System Predictions and How They Can Improve
• Single-/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language (ACL2020)
• To BERT or Not to BERT: Comparing Task-specific and Task-agnostic Semi-Supervised Approaches for Sequence Tagging (EMNLP2020)
• Example-Based Named Entity Recognition
• FLERT: Document-Level Features for Named Entity Recognition
• What's in a Name? Are BERT Named Entity Representations just as Good for any other Name? (ACL2020 WS)
• Interpretable Multi-dataset Evaluation for Named Entity Recognition (EMNLP2020) [github]
• BioALBERT: A Simple and Effective Pre-trained Language Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition
• MT-BioNER: Multi-task Learning for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition using Deep Bidirectional Transformers
• Knowledge Guided Named Entity Recognition for BioMedical Text
• Portuguese Named Entity Recognition using BERT-CRF
• Towards Lingua Franca Named Entity Recognition with BERT

Pronoun/coreference resolution

• A Brief Survey and Comparative Study of Recent Development of Pronoun Coreference Resolution
• Resolving Gendered Ambiguous Pronouns with BERT (ACL2019 WS)
• Anonymized BERT: An Augmentation Approach to the Gendered Pronoun Resolution Challenge (ACL2019 WS)
• Gendered Pronoun Resolution using BERT and an extractive question answering formulation (ACL2019 WS)
• MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution (ACL2019 WS)
• Scalable Cross Lingual Pivots to Model Pronoun Gender for Translation
• Fill the GAP: Exploiting BERT for Pronoun Resolution (ACL2019 WS)
• On GAP Coreference Resolution Shared Task: Insights from the 3rd Place Solution (ACL2019 WS)
• Look Again at the Syntax: Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Gendered Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution (ACL2019 WS)
• BERT Masked Language Modeling for Co-reference Resolution (ACL2019 WS)
• Coreference Resolution with Entity Equalization (ACL2019)
• BERT for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis (EMNLP2019) [github]
• WikiCREM: A Large Unsupervised Corpus for Coreference Resolution (EMNLP2019)
• Ellipsis and Coreference Resolution as Question Answering
• Coreference Resolution as Query-based Span Prediction
• Coreferential Reasoning Learning for Language Representation (EMNLP2020)
• Revisiting Memory-Efficient Incremental Coreference Resolution
• Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution (EMNLP2020)
• Neural Mention Detection (LREC2020)
• ZPR2: Joint Zero Pronoun Recovery and Resolution using Multi-Task Learning and BERT (ACL2020)
• Multi-task Learning Based Neural Bridging Reference Resolution
• Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering (ACL2020)
• Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using Discourse Context-Aware BERT (COLING2020)

Word sense disambiguation

• Language Models and Word Sense Disambiguation: An Overview and Analysis
• GlossBERT: BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Knowledge (EMNLP2019)
• Adapting BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Selection Objective and Example Sentences (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Improved Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pre-Trained Contextualized Word Representations (EMNLP2019)
• Using BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation
• Language Modelling Makes Sense: Propagating Representations through WordNet for Full-Coverage Word Sense Disambiguation (ACL2019)
• Does BERT Make Any Sense? Interpretable Word Sense Disambiguation with Contextualized Embeddings (KONVENS2019)
• An Accurate Model for Predicting the (Graded) Effect of Context in Word Similarity Based on Bert
• CluBERT: A Cluster-Based Approach for Learning Sense Distributions in Multiple Languages (ACL2020)
• VCDM: Leveraging Variational Bi-encoding and Deep Contextualized Word Representations for Improved Definition Modeling (EMNLP2020)

Sentiment analysis

• Utilizing BERT for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Constructing Auxiliary Sentence (NAACL2019)
• BERT Post-Training for Review Reading Comprehension and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (NAACL2019)
• Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Improving BERT Performance for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
• Context-Guided BERT for Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
• Understanding Pre-trained BERT for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (COLING2020)
• Adapt or Get Left Behind: Domain Adaptation through BERT Language Model Finetuning for Aspect-Target Sentiment Classification (LREC2020)
• An Investigation of Transfer Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis in Japanese (ACL2019)
• "Mask and Infill" : Applying Masked Language Model to Sentiment Transfer
• Adversarial Training for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with BERT
• Adversarial and Domain-Aware BERT for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis (ACL2020)
• Utilizing BERT Intermediate Layers for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis and Natural Language Inference
• DomBERT: Domain-oriented Language Model for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
• SentiBERT: A Transferable Transformer-Based Architecture for Compositional Sentiment Semantics (ACL2020)

Relation extraction

• Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarity for Relation Learning (ACL2019)
• BERT-Based Multi-Head Selection for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction (NLPCC2019)
• Enriching Pre-trained Language Model with Entity Information for Relation Classification
• Span-based Joint Entity and Relation Extraction with Transformer Pre-training
• Fine-tune Bert for DocRED with Two-step Process
• Relation Extraction as Two-way Span-Prediction
• Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span Representations (EMNLP2019)
• Fine-tuning BERT for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction in Chinese Medical Text
• Downstream Model Design of Pre-trained Language Model for Relation Extraction Task
• Efficient long-distance relation extraction with DG-SpanBERT
• Global-to-Local Neural Networks for Document-Level Relation Extraction (EMNLP2020)
• DARE: Data Augmented Relation Extraction with GPT-2
• Distantly-Supervised Neural Relation Extraction with Side Information using BERT (IJCNN2020)
• Dialogue-Based Relation Extraction (ACL2020)
• A Novel Cascade Binary Tagging Framework for Relational Triple Extraction (ACL2020) [github]
• ExpBERT: Representation Engineering with Natural Language Explanations (ACL2020) [github]
• AutoRC: Improving BERT Based Relation Classification Models via Architecture Search
• Investigation of BERT Model on Biomedical Relation Extraction Based on Revised Fine-tuning Mechanism
• Experiments on transfer learning architectures for biomedical relation extraction
• Cross-Lingual Relation Extraction with Transformers
• Improving Scholarly Knowledge Representation: Evaluating BERT-based Models for Scientific Relation Classification
• Robustly Pre-trained Neural Model for Direct Temporal Relation Extraction
• A BERT-based One-Pass Multi-Task Model for Clinical Temporal Relation Extraction (ACL2020 WS)
• Exploring Contextualized Neural Language Models for Temporal Dependency Parsing
• Temporal Reasoning on Implicit Events from Distant Supervision
• IMoJIE: Iterative Memory-Based Joint Open Information Extraction (ACL2020)
• OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction (EMNLP2020) [github]

Knowledge base

• KG-BERT: BERT for Knowledge Graph Completion
• How Context Affects Language Models' Factual Predictions (AKBC2020)
• Inducing Relational Knowledge from BERT (AAAI2020)
• Latent Relation Language Models (AAAI2020)
• Pretrained Encyclopedia: Weakly Supervised Knowledge-Pretrained Language Model (ICLR2020)
• Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity Retrieval (EMNLP2020) [github]
• Zero-shot Entity Linking with Efficient Long Range Sequence Modeling (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Investigating Entity Knowledge in BERT with Simple Neural End-To-End Entity Linking (CoNLL2019)
• Improving Entity Linking by Modeling Latent Entity Type Information (AAAI2020)
• Global Entity Disambiguation with Pretrained Contextualized Embeddings of Words and Entities
• YELM: End-to-End Contextualized Entity Linking
• Empirical Evaluation of Pretraining Strategies for Supervised Entity Linking (AKBC2020)
• LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attention (EMNLP2020) [github]
• PEL-BERT: A Joint Model for Protocol Entity Linking
• Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions (EMNLP2020) [github]
• Cross-Lingual Transfer in Zero-Shot Cross-Language Entity Linking
• Entity Linking in 100 Languages (EMNLP2020) [github]
• COMETA: A Corpus for Medical Entity Linking in the Social Media (EMNLP2020) [github]
• How Can We Know What Language Models Know?
• Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models
• Inducing Taxonomic Knowledge from Pretrained Transformers
• Language Models are Open Knowledge Graphs
• DualTKB: A Dual Learning Bridge between Text and Knowledge Base (EMNLP2020) [github]
• How to Avoid Being Eaten by a Grue: Structured Exploration Strategies for Textual Worlds [github]

Text classification

• Deep Learning Based Text Classification: A Comprehensive Review
• A Text Classification Survey: From Shallow to Deep Learning
• How to Fine-Tune BERT for Text Classification?
• X-BERT: eXtreme Multi-label Text Classification with BERT
• DocBERT: BERT for Document Classification
• Enriching BERT with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Document Classification
• Classification and Clustering of Arguments with Contextualized Word Embeddings (ACL2019)
• BERT for Evidence Retrieval and Claim Verification
• Stacked DeBERT: All Attention in Incomplete Data for Text Classification
• Cost-Sensitive BERT for Generalisable Sentence Classification with Imbalanced Data
• BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification (EMNLP2020)
• FireBERT: Hardening BERT-based classifiers against adversarial attack [github]
• GAN-BERT: Generative Adversarial Learning for Robust Text Classification with a Bunch of Labeled Examples (ACL2020)
• Description Based Text Classification with Reinforcement Learning
• VGCN-BERT: Augmenting BERT with Graph Embedding for Text Classification
• Zero-shot Text Classification via Reinforced Self-training (ACL2020)
• On Data Augmentation for Extreme Multi-label Classification
• Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Chinese BERT Classifiers
• COVID-Twitter-BERT: A Natural Language Processing Model to Analyse COVID-19 Content on Twitter [github]
• Large Scale Legal Text Classification Using Transformer Models
• A Comparison of LSTM and BERT for Small Corpus

WSC, WNLI, NLI

• Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining and Sentence Structure Modelling for Winograd Schema Challenge
• A Surprisingly Robust Trick for the Winograd Schema Challenge
• WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale (AAAI2020)
• TTTTTackling WinoGrande Schemas
• WinoWhy: A Deep Diagnosis of Essential Commonsense Knowledge for Answering Winograd Schema Challenge (ACL2020)
• The Sensitivity of Language Models and Humans to Winograd Schema Perturbations (ACL2020)
• Precise Task Formalization Matters in Winograd Schema Evaluations (EMNLP2020)
• Tackling Domain-Specific Winograd Schemas with Knowledge-Based Reasoning and Machine Learning
• A Review of Winograd Schema Challenge Datasets and Approaches
• Improving Natural Language Inference with a Pretrained Parser
• Are Natural Language Inference Models IMPPRESsive? Learning IMPlicature and PRESupposition
• Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding
• Adversarial Analysis of Natural Language Inference Systems (ICSC2020)
• ANLIzing the Adversarial Natural Language Inference Dataset
• Syntactic Data Augmentation Increases Robustness to Inference Heuristics (ACL2020)
• HypoNLI: Exploring the Artificial Patterns of Hypothesis-only Bias in Natural Language Inference (LREC2020)
• Use of Machine Translation to Obtain Labeled Datasets for Resource-Constrained Languages (EMNLP2020) [github]
• FarsTail: A Persian Natural Language Inference Dataset
• Evaluating BERT for natural language inference: A case study on the CommitmentBank (EMNLP2019)
• Do Neural Models Learn Systematicity of Monotonicity Inference in Natural Language? (ACL2020)
• Abductive Commonsense Reasoning (ICLR2020)
• Collecting Entailment Data for Pretraining: New Protocols and Negative Results
• Mining Knowledge for Natural Language Inference from Wikipedia Categories (EMNLP2020 Findings)

Commonsense

• CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge (NAACL2019)
• HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence? (ACL2019) [website]
• A Method for Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset Based on Basic Events (EMNLP2020) [website]
• Story Ending Prediction by Transferable BERT (IJCAI2019)
• Explain Yourself! Leveraging Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning (ACL2019)
• Pre-training Is (Almost) All You Need: An Application to Commonsense Reasoning (ACL2020)
• Align, Mask and Select: A Simple Method for Incorporating Commonsense Knowledge into Language Representation Models
• Informing Unsupervised Pretraining with External Linguistic Knowledge
• Commonsense Knowledge + BERT for Level 2 Reading Comprehension Ability Test
• BIG MOOD: Relating Transformers to Explicit Commonsense Knowledge
• Commonsense Knowledge Mining from Pretrained Models (EMNLP2019)
• KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense Reasoning (EMNLP2019)
• Cracking the Contextual Commonsense Code: Understanding Commonsense Reasoning Aptitude of Deep Contextual Representations (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Do Massively Pretrained Language Models Make Better Storytellers? (CoNLL2019)
• PIQA: Reasoning about Physical Commonsense in Natural Language (AAAI2020)
• Evaluating Commonsense in Pre-trained Language Models (AAAI2020)
• Why Do Masked Neural Language Models Still Need Common Sense Knowledge?
• Does BERT Solve Commonsense Task via Commonsense Knowledge?
• Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk (EMNLP2020)
• G-DAUG: Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning
• Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Commonsense Reasoning (ACL2020)
• Adversarial Training for Commonsense Inference (ACL2020 WS)
• Do Fine-tuned Commonsense Language Models Really Generalize?
• XCOPA: A Multilingual Dataset for Causal Commonsense Reasoning [github]
• Do Neural Language Representations Learn Physical Commonsense? (CogSci2019)

Extractive summarization

• HIBERT: Document Level Pre-training of Hierarchical Bidirectional Transformers for Document Summarization (ACL2019)
• Deleter: Leveraging BERT to Perform Unsupervised Successive Text Compression
• Discourse-Aware Neural Extractive Model for Text Summarization
• AREDSUM: Adaptive Redundancy-Aware Iterative Sentence Ranking for Extractive Document Summarization
• Fact-level Extractive Summarization with Hierarchical Graph Mask on BERT (COLING2020)
• Multi-Document Summarization with Determinantal Point Processes and Contextualized Representations (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Continual BERT: Continual Learning for Adaptive Extractive Summarization of COVID-19 Literature

Grammatical error correction

• Multi-headed Architecture Based on BERT for Grammatical Errors Correction (ACL2019 WS)
• Towards Minimal Supervision BERT-based Grammar Error Correction
• Learning to combine Grammatical Error Corrections (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Encoder-Decoder Models Can Benefit from Pre-trained Masked Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction (ACL2020)
• Chinese Grammatical Correction Using BERT-based Pre-trained Model (AACL-IJCNLP2020)
• Spelling Error Correction with Soft-Masked BERT (ACL2020)

IR

• Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond
• Passage Re-ranking with BERT
• Investigating the Successes and Failures of BERT for Passage Re-Ranking
• Understanding the Behaviors of BERT in Ranking
• Document Expansion by Query Prediction
• CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking (SIGIR2019)
• Deeper Text Understanding for IR with Contextual Neural Language Modeling (SIGIR2019)
• FAQ Retrieval using Query-Question Similarity and BERT-Based Query-Answer Relevance (SIGIR2019)
• An Analysis of BERT FAQ Retrieval Models for COVID-19 Infobot
• COUGH: A Challenge Dataset and Models for COVID-19 FAQ Retrieval
• Unsupervised FAQ Retrieval with Question Generation and BERT (ACL2020)
• Multi-Stage Document Ranking with BERT
• Learning-to-Rank with BERT in TF-Ranking
• Transformer-Based Language Models for Similar Text Retrieval and Ranking
• DeText: A Deep Text Ranking Framework with BERT
• ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT (SIGIR2020)
• RepBERT: Contextualized Text Embeddings for First-Stage Retrieval [github]
• Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval
• Multi-Perspective Semantic Information Retrieval
• Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization (SIGIR2020)
• BERT-QE: Contextualized Query Expansion for Document Re-ranking (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Beyond [CLS] through Ranking by Generation (EMNLP2020)
• Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations (SIGIR2020)
• Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking (SIGIR2020)
• Guided Transformer: Leveraging Multiple External Sources for Representation Learning in Conversational Search (SIGIR2020)
• Fine-tune BERT for E-commerce Non-Default Search Ranking
• IR-BERT: Leveraging BERT for Semantic Search in Background Linking for News Articles
• ProphetNet-Ads: A Looking Ahead Strategy for Generative Retrieval Models in Sponsored Search Engine (NLPCC2020)
• Rapidly Deploying a Neural Search Engine for the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset: Preliminary Thoughts and Lessons Learned (ACL2020 WS)
• SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search (EMNLP2020)
• Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQs
• Cross-lingual Information Retrieval with BERT
• Cross-lingual Retrieval for Iterative Self-Supervised Training (NeurIPS2020)
• Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning (ECIR2020)

Generation

• BERT has a Mouth, and It Must Speak: BERT as a Markov Random Field Language Model (NAACL2019 WS)
• Pretraining-Based Natural Language Generation for Text Summarization
• Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders (EMNLP2019) [github (original)] [github (huggingface)]
• Multi-stage Pretraining for Abstractive Summarization
• PEGASUS: Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization
• Abstractive Summarization with Combination of Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence and Saliency Models
• GSum: A General Framework for Guided Neural Abstractive Summarization [github]
• STEP: Sequence-to-Sequence Transformer Pre-training for Document Summarization
• TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents [github]
• Product Title Generation for Conversational Systems using BERT
• WSL-DS: Weakly Supervised Learning with Distant Supervision for Query Focused Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization (COLING2020)
• Constrained Abstractive Summarization: Preserving Factual Consistency with Constrained Generation
• Abstractive Summarization of Spoken and Written Instructions with BERT
• BERT Fine-tuning For Arabic Text Summarization (ICLR2020 WS)
• Automatic Text Summarization of COVID-19 Medical Research Articles using BERT and GPT-2
• Mixed-Lingual Pre-training for Cross-lingual Summarization (AACL-IJCNLP2020)
• PoinT-5: Pointer Network and T-5 based Financial NarrativeSummarisation (COLING2020 WS)
• MASS: Masked Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Language Generation (ICML2019) [github], [github]
• JASS: Japanese-specific Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation (LREC2020)
• Unified Language Model Pre-training for Natural Language Understanding and Generation [github] (NeurIPS2019)
• UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training [github]
• Dual Inference for Improving Language Understanding and Generation (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• ProphetNet: Predicting Future N-gram for Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training (EMNLP2020 Findings) [github]
• Towards Making the Most of BERT in Neural Machine Translation
• Improving Neural Machine Translation with Pre-trained Representation
• On the use of BERT for Neural Machine Translation (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Incorporating BERT into Neural Machine Translation (ICLR2020)
• Recycling a Pre-trained BERT Encoder for Neural Machine Translation
• Reusing a Pretrained Language Model on Languages with Limited Corpora for Unsupervised NMT (EMNLP2020)
• Leveraging Pre-trained Checkpoints for Sequence Generation Tasks
• Mask-Predict: Parallel Decoding of Conditional Masked Language Models (EMNLP2019)
• PALM: Pre-training an Autoencoding&Autoregressive Language Model for Context-conditioned Generation (EMNLP2020)
• ERNIE-GEN: An Enhanced Multi-Flow Pre-training and Fine-tuning Framework for Natural Language Generation
• Cross-Lingual Natural Language Generation via Pre-Training (AAAI2020) [github]
• PLATO: Pre-trained Dialogue Generation Model with Discrete Latent Variable (ACL2020)
• A Tailored Pre-Training Model for Task-Oriented Dialog Generation
• Pretrained Language Models for Dialogue Generation with Multiple Input Sources (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• Are Pre-trained Language Models Knowledgeable to Ground Open Domain Dialogues?
• Open-Domain Dialogue Generation Based on Pre-trained Language Models
• CG-BERT: Conditional Text Generation with BERT for Generalized Few-shot Intent Detection
• QURIOUS: Question Generation Pretraining for Text Generation
• Few-Shot NLG with Pre-Trained Language Model (ACL2020)
• Text-to-Text Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Tasks
• KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Generation (EMNLP2020)
• Evaluating Semantic Accuracy of Data-to-Text Generation with Natural Language Inference (INLG2020)
• Large Scale Knowledge Graph Based Synthetic Corpus Generation for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Model Pre-training
• Structure-Grounded Pretraining for Text-to-SQL
• Data Agnostic RoBERTa-based Natural Language to SQL Query Generation
• ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset (EMNLP2020) [github]
• A Knowledge-Enhanced Pretraining Model for Commonsense Story Generation (TACL2020) [github]
• MEGATRON-CNTRL: Controllable Story Generation with External Knowledge Using Large-Scale Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• CommonGen: A Constrained Text Generation Challenge for Generative Commonsense Reasoning [github] [website] (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Pre-training Text-to-Text Transformers for Concept-centric Common Sense
• Language Generation with Multi-Hop Reasoning on Commonsense Knowledge Graph (EMNLP2020)
• KG-BART: Knowledge Graph-Augmented BART for Generative Commonsense Reasoning
• EIGEN: Event Influence GENeration using Pre-trained Language Models
• GeDi: Generative Discriminator Guided Sequence Generation
• Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: A Style Transfer Approach for Simile Generation (EMNLP2020)
• Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer (JMLR2020) [github]
• mT5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer [github]
• WT5?! Training Text-to-Text Models to Explain their Predictions
• BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension (ACL2020)
• Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
• Best Practices for Data-Efficient Modeling in NLG:How to Train Production-Ready Neural Models with Less Data (COLING2020)
• Unsupervised Pre-training for Natural Language Generation: A Literature Review

Quality evaluator

• BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT (ICLR2020)
• Machine Translation Evaluation with BERT Regressor
• TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers (COLING2020)
• SumQE: a BERT-based Summary Quality Estimation Model (EMNLP2019)
• MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover Distance (EMNLP2019) [github]
• BERT as a Teacher: Contextual Embeddings for Sequence-Level Reward
• BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text Generation (ACL2020)
• Masked Language Model Scoring (ACL2020)

Modification (multi-task, masking strategy, etc.)

• Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding (ACL2019)
• The Microsoft Toolkit of Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
• BERT and PALs: Projected Attention Layers for Efficient Adaptation in Multi-Task Learning (ICML2019)
• Pre-training Text Representations as Meta Learning
• Unifying Question Answering and Text Classification via Span Extraction
• MATINF: A Jointly Labeled Large-Scale Dataset for Classification, Question Answering and Summarization (ACL2020)
• ERNIE: Enhanced Language Representation with Informative Entities (ACL2019)
• ERNIE: Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration
• ERNIE 2.0: A Continual Pre-training Framework for Language Understanding (AAAI2020)
• ERNIE-Gram: Pre-Training with Explicitly N-Gram Masked Language Modeling for Natural Language Understanding
• XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding (NeurIPS2019) [github]
• MPNet: Masked and Permuted Pre-training for Language Understanding
• Pre-Training with Whole Word Masking for Chinese BERT
• SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans (TACL2020) [github]
• ConvBERT: Improving BERT with Span-based Dynamic Convolution
• AMBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model with Multi-Grained Tokenization
• CharBERT: Character-aware Pre-trained Language Model (COLING2020) [github]
• MVP-BERT: Redesigning Vocabularies for Chinese BERT and Multi-Vocab Pretraining
• Adversarial Training for Large Neural Language Models
• Train No Evil: Selective Masking for Task-guided Pre-training
• Position Masking for Language Models
• Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• Variance-reduced Language Pretraining via a Mask Proposal Network
• Neural Mask Generator: Learning to Generate Adaptive Word Maskings for Language Model Adaptation (EMNLP2020)
• Improving Self-supervised Pre-training via a Fully-Explored Masked Language Model
• It's Not Just Size That Matters: Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
• Don't Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and Tasks (ACL2020)
• An Empirical Investigation Towards Efficient Multi-Domain Language Model Pre-training [github]
• To Pretrain or Not to Pretrain: Examining the Benefits of Pretraining on Resource Rich Tasks (ACL2020)
• Revisiting Few-sample BERT Fine-tuning
• Blank Language Models
• Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks (ACL2020)
• Efficient Training of BERT by Progressively Stacking (ICML2019) [github]
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach [github]
• On Losses for Modern Language Models (EMNLP2020) [github]
• ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations (ICLR2020)
• ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (ICLR2020) [github] [blog]
• Pre-Training Transformers as Energy-Based Cloze Models (EMNLP2020) [github]
• FreeLB: Enhanced Adversarial Training for Language Understanding (ICLR2020)
• KERMIT: Generative Insertion-Based Modeling for Sequences
• CALM: Continuous Adaptive Learning for Language Modeling
• SegaBERT: Pre-training of Segment-aware BERT for Language Understanding
• DisSent: Sentence Representation Learning from Explicit Discourse Relations (ACL2019)
• Pretraining with Contrastive Sentence Objectives Improves Discourse Performance of Language Models (ACL2020)
• SLM: Learning a Discourse Language Representation with Sentence Unshuffling (EMNLP2020)
• StructBERT: Incorporating Language Structures into Pre-training for Deep Language Understanding (ICLR2020)
• Retrofitting Structure-aware Transformer Language Model for End Tasks (EMNLP2020)
• Syntax-Infused Transformer and BERT models for Machine Translation and Natural Language Understanding
• Do Syntax Trees Help Pre-trained Transformers Extract Information?
• SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT
• Semantics-aware BERT for Language Understanding (AAAI2020)
• GiBERT: Introducing Linguistic Knowledge into BERT through a Lightweight Gated Injection Method
• K-BERT: Enabling Language Representation with Knowledge Graph
• Knowledge Enhanced Contextual Word Representations (EMNLP2019)
• Knowledge-Aware Language Model Pretraining
• JAKET: Joint Pre-training of Knowledge Graph and Language Understanding
• E-BERT: Efficient-Yet-Effective Entity Embeddings for BERT (EMNLP2020)
• KEPLER: A Unified Model for Knowledge Embedding and Pre-trained Language Representation
• Entities as Experts: Sparse Memory Access with Entity Supervision (EMNLP2020)
• Exploiting Structured Knowledge in Text via Graph-Guided Representation Learning (EMNLP2020)
• Contextualized Representations Using Textual Encyclopedic Knowledge
• CoLAKE: Contextualized Language and Knowledge Embedding (COLING2020)
• Coarse-to-Fine Pre-training for Named Entity Recognition (EMNLP2020)
• E.T.: Entity-Transformers. Coreference augmented Neural Language Model for richer mention representations via Entity-Transformer blocks (COLING2020 WS)
• REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training (ICML2020) [github]
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (NeurIPS2020)
• On-The-Fly Information Retrieval Augmentation for Language Models
• Current Limitations of Language Models: What You Need is Retrieval
• Taking Notes on the Fly Helps BERT Pre-training
• Pre-training via Paraphrasing
• SKEP: Sentiment Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis (ACL2020)
• Improving Event Duration Prediction via Time-aware Pre-training (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Knowledge-Aware Procedural Text Understanding with Multi-Stage Training
• Poly-encoders: Transformer Architectures and Pre-training Strategies for Fast and Accurate Multi-sentence Scoring (ICLR2020)
• Rethinking Positional Encoding in Language Pre-training
• Improve Transformer Models with Better Relative Position Embeddings (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• BoostingBERT:Integrating Multi-Class Boosting into BERT for NLP Tasks
• Sentence Encoders on STILTs: Supplementary Training on Intermediate Labeled-data Tasks
• Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks (EMNLP2019)
• Parameter-free Sentence Embedding via Orthogonal Basis (EMNLP2019)
• SBERT-WK: A Sentence Embedding Method By Dissecting BERT-based Word Models
• On the Sentence Embeddings from Pre-trained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• Augmented SBERT: Data Augmentation Method for Improving Bi-Encoders for Pairwise Sentence Scoring Tasks
• BURT: BERT-inspired Universal Representation from Twin Structure
• Universal Text Representation from BERT: An Empirical Study
• Symmetric Regularization based BERT for Pair-wise Semantic Reasoning (SIGIR2020)
• Beyond 512 Tokens: Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical Encoder for Document Matching
• Transfer Fine-Tuning: A BERT Case Study (EMNLP2019)
• Improving Pre-Trained Multilingual Models with Vocabulary Expansion (CoNLL2019)
• Byte Pair Encoding is Suboptimal for Language Model Pretraining (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• An Empirical Study of Tokenization Strategies for Various Korean NLP Tasks (AACL2020)
• BERTRAM: Improved Word Embeddings Have Big Impact on Contextualized Model Performance (ACL2020)
• A Mixture of h−1 Heads is Better than h Heads (ACL2020)
• SesameBERT: Attention for Anywhere
• Multi-Head Attention: Collaborate Instead of Concatenate
• Deepening Hidden Representations from Pre-trained Language Models
• On the Transformer Growth for Progressive BERT Training
• Improving BERT with Self-Supervised Attention
• Guiding Attention for Self-Supervised Learning with Transformers (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Improving Disfluency Detection by Self-Training a Self-Attentive Model
• Self-training Improves Pre-training for Natural Language Understanding [github]
• CERT: Contrastive Self-supervised Learning for Language Understanding
• Large Product Key Memory for Pretrained Language Models (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Contextual BERT: Conditioning the Language Model Using a Global State (COLING2020 WS)
• SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization (ACL2020)

Transformer variants

• Efficient Transformers: A Survey
• Adaptive Attention Span in Transformers (ACL2019)
• Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context (ACL2019) [github]
• Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers
• Adaptively Sparse Transformers (EMNLP2019)
• Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling
• The Evolved Transformer (ICML2019)
• Reformer: The Efficient Transformer (ICLR2020) [github]
• GRET: Global Representation Enhanced Transformer (AAAI2020)
• GMAT: Global Memory Augmentation for Transformers
• Memory Transformer
• Transformer on a Diet [github]
• A Tensorized Transformer for Language Modeling (NeurIPS2019)
• DeFINE: DEep Factorized INput Token Embeddings for Neural Sequence Modeling (ICLR2020) [github]
• DeLighT: Very Deep and Light-weight Transformer [github]
• Lite Transformer with Long-Short Range Attention [github] (ICLR2020)
• Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers
• BP-Transformer: Modelling Long-Range Context via Binary Partitioning
• Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer [github]
• Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences
• Improving Transformer Models by Reordering their Sublayers (ACL2020)
• Highway Transformer: Self-Gating Enhanced Self-Attentive Networks
• Synthesizer: Rethinking Self-Attention in Transformer Models
• Query-Key Normalization for Transformers (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Rethinking Attention with Performers
• Dynamically Adjusting Transformer Batch Size by Monitoring Gradient Direction Change
• HAT: Hardware-Aware Transformers for Efficient Natural Language Processing (ACL2020) [github]
• Linformer: Self-Attention with Linear Complexity
• Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
• Understanding the Difficulty of Training Transformers (EMNLP2020)
• Towards Fully 8-bit Integer Inference for the Transformer Model (IJCAI2020)
• Extremely Low Bit Transformer Quantization for On-Device Neural Machine Translation

Probe

• A Structural Probe for Finding Syntax in Word Representations (NAACL2019)
• When Bert Forgets How To POS: Amnesic Probing of Linguistic Properties and MLM Predictions
• Finding Universal Grammatical Relations in Multilingual BERT (ACL2020)
• Probing Multilingual BERT for Genetic and Typological Signals (COLING2020)
• Linguistic Knowledge and Transferability of Contextual Representations (NAACL2019) [github]
• Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension (*SEM2019)
• BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline (ACL2019)
• Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments (ACL2019)
• Cracking the Contextual Commonsense Code: Understanding Commonsense Reasoning Aptitude of Deep Contextual Representations (EMNLP2019 WS)
• What do you mean, BERT? Assessing BERT as a Distributional Semantics Model
• Quantity doesn't buy quality syntax with neural language models (EMNLP2019)
• Are Pre-trained Language Models Aware of Phrases? Simple but Strong Baselines for Grammar Induction (ICLR2020)
• oLMpics -- On what Language Model Pre-training Captures
• Do Neural Language Models Show Preferences for Syntactic Formalisms? (ACL2020)
• Perturbed Masking: Parameter-free Probing for Analyzing and Interpreting BERT (ACL2020)
• Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Models for Natural Language Understanding: When and Why Does It Work? (ACL2020)
• Probing Linguistic Systematicity (ACL2020)
• A Matter of Framing: The Impact of Linguistic Formalism on Probing Results
• A Cross-Task Analysis of Text Span Representations (ACL2020 WS)
• When Do You Need Billions of Words of Pretraining Data? [github]
• Language Models as Knowledge Bases? (EMNLP2019) [github]
• BERT is Not a Knowledge Base (Yet): Factual Knowledge vs. Name-Based Reasoning in Unsupervised QA
• How Much Knowledge Can You Pack Into the Parameters of a Language Model? (EMNLP2020)
• Language Models as Knowledge Bases: On Entity Representations, Storage Capacity, and Paraphrased Queries
• X-FACTR: Multilingual Factual Knowledge Retrieval from Pretrained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• Do NLP Models Know Numbers? Probing Numeracy in Embeddings (EMNLP2019)
• Birds have four legs?! NumerSense: Probing Numerical Commonsense Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models [github] [website]
• Negated and Misprimed Probes for Pretrained Language Models: Birds Can Talk, But Cannot Fly (ACL2020)
• What Does My QA Model Know? Devising Controlled Probes using Expert Knowledge
• A Pairwise Probe for Understanding BERT Fine-Tuning on Machine Reading Comprehension
• Can BERT Reason? Logically Equivalent Probes for Evaluating the Inference Capabilities of Language Models
• Probing Task-Oriented Dialogue Representation from Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• BERTering RAMS: What and How Much does BERT Already Know About Event Arguments? -- A Study on the RAMS Dataset (EMNLP2020 WS)

Inside BERT

• What does BERT learn about the structure of language? (ACL2019)
• Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned (ACL2019) [github]
• Open Sesame: Getting Inside BERT's Linguistic Knowledge (ACL2019 WS)
• Analyzing the Structure of Attention in a Transformer Language Model (ACL2019 WS)
• What Does BERT Look At? An Analysis of BERT's Attention (ACL2019 WS)
• Do Attention Heads in BERT Track Syntactic Dependencies?
• Blackbox meets blackbox: Representational Similarity and Stability Analysis of Neural Language Models and Brains (ACL2019 WS)
• Inducing Syntactic Trees from BERT Representations (ACL2019 WS)
• A Multiscale Visualization of Attention in the Transformer Model (ACL2019 Demo)
• Visualizing and Measuring the Geometry of BERT
• How Contextual are Contextualized Word Representations? Comparing the Geometry of BERT, ELMo, and GPT-2 Embeddings (EMNLP2019)
• Are Sixteen Heads Really Better than One? (NeurIPS2019)
• On the Validity of Self-Attention as Explanation in Transformer Models
• Visualizing and Understanding the Effectiveness of BERT (EMNLP2019)
• Attention Interpretability Across NLP Tasks
• Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT (EMNLP2019)
• Analyzing Redundancy in Pretrained Transformer Models (EMNLP2020)
• What's so special about BERT's layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models
• Attention Module is Not Only a Weight: Analyzing Transformers with Vector Norms (ACL2020 SRW)
• Quantifying Attention Flow in Transformers
• Telling BERT's full story: from Local Attention to Global Aggregation
• How Far Does BERT Look At:Distance-based Clustering and Analysis of BERT′s Attention
• What Do Position Embeddings Learn? An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Language Model Positional Encoding (EMNLP2020)
• Investigating BERT's Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs (EMNLP2019)
• Rethinking the Value of Transformer Components (COLING2020)
• Investigating Transferability in Pretrained Language Models
• What Happens To BERT Embeddings During Fine-tuning?
• Analyzing Individual Neurons in Pre-trained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• How fine can fine-tuning be? Learning efficient language models (AISTATS2020)
• The Bottom-up Evolution of Representations in the Transformer: A Study with Machine Translation and Language Modeling Objectives (EMNLP2019)
• A Primer in BERTology: What we know about how BERT works (TACL2020)
• Pretrained Language Model Embryology: The Birth of ALBERT (EMNLP2020) [github]
• Investigating Gender Bias in BERT
• Measuring and Reducing Gendered Correlations in Pre-trained Models [website]
• Unmasking Contextual Stereotypes: Measuring and Mitigating BERT's Gender Bias (COLING2020 WS)
• CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• BERT Knows Punta Cana is not just beautiful, it's gorgeous: Ranking Scalar Adjectives with Contextualised Representations (EMNLP2020)
• Does Chinese BERT Encode Word Structure? (COLING2020) [github]
• How Does BERT Answer Questions? A Layer-Wise Analysis of Transformer Representations (CIKM2019)
• Whatcha lookin' at? DeepLIFTing BERT's Attention in Question Answering
• What does BERT Learn from Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Datasets?
• What do Models Learn from Question Answering Datasets?
• Towards Interpreting BERT for Reading Comprehension Based QA (EMNLP2020)
• Compositional and Lexical Semantics in RoBERTa, BERT and DistilBERT: A Case Study on CoQA (EMNLP2020)
• How does BERT’s attention change when you fine-tune? An analysis methodology and a case study in negation scope (ACL2020)
• Calibration of Pre-trained Transformers
• When BERT Plays the Lottery, All Tickets Are Winning (EMNLP2020)
• The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Pre-trained BERT Networks
• exBERT: A Visual Analysis Tool to Explore Learned Representations in Transformers Models [github]
• The Language Interpretability Tool: Extensible, Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for NLP Models [github]
• What Does BERT with Vision Look At? (ACL2020)

Multi-lingual

• Multilingual Constituency Parsing with Self-Attention and Pre-Training (ACL2019)
• Language Model Pretraining (NeurIPS2019) [github]
• 75 Languages, 1 Model: Parsing Universal Dependencies Universally (EMNLP2019) [github]
• Zero-shot Dependency Parsing with Pre-trained Multilingual Sentence Representations (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Parsing with Multilingual BERT, a Small Corpus, and a Small Treebank (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Beto, Bentz, Becas: The Surprising Cross-Lingual Effectiveness of BERT (EMNLP2019)
• How multilingual is Multilingual BERT? (ACL2019)
• How Language-Neutral is Multilingual BERT?
• Load What You Need: Smaller Versions of Multilingual BERT (EMNLP2020) [github]
• Is Multilingual BERT Fluent in Language Generation?
• Unicoder: A Universal Language Encoder by Pre-training with Multiple Cross-lingual Tasks (EMNLP2019)
• BERT is Not an Interlingua and the Bias of Tokenization (EMNLP2019 WS)
• Cross-Lingual Ability of Multilingual BERT: An Empirical Study (ICLR2020)
• Multilingual Alignment of Contextual Word Representations (ICLR2020)
• Emerging Cross-lingual Structure in Pretrained Language Models (ACL2020)
• On the Cross-lingual Transferability of Monolingual Representations
• Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale (ACL2020)
• FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding
• Cross-lingual Alignment Methods for Multilingual BERT: A Comparative Study (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Emerging Cross-lingual Structure in Pretrained Language Models
• Can Monolingual Pretrained Models Help Cross-Lingual Classification?
• A Study of Cross-Lingual Ability and Language-specific Information in Multilingual BERT
• Fully Unsupervised Crosslingual Semantic Textual Similarity Metric Based on BERT for Identifying Parallel Data (CoNLL2019)
• What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models
• XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization (ICML2020)
• XGLUE: A New Benchmark Dataset for Cross-lingual Pre-training, Understanding and Generation
• A Systematic Analysis of Morphological Content in BERT Models for Multiple Languages
• Extending Multilingual BERT to Low-Resource Languages
• Learning Better Universal Representations from Pre-trained Contextualized Language Models
• Universal Dependencies according to BERT: both more specific and more general
• A Call for More Rigor in Unsupervised Cross-lingual Learning (ACL2020)
• Identifying Necessary Elements for BERT's Multilinguality (EMNLP2020)
• MAD-X: An Adapter-based Framework for Multi-task Cross-lingual Transfer
• From Zero to Hero: On the Limitations of Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Multilingual Transformers
• Language Representation in Multilingual BERT and its applications to improve Cross-lingual Generalization
• VECO: Variable Encoder-decoder Pre-training for Cross-lingual Understanding and Generation
• On the Language Neutrality of Pre-trained Multilingual Representations
• Are All Languages Created Equal in Multilingual BERT? (ACL2020 WS)
• When Being Unseen from mBERT is just the Beginning: Handling New Languages With Multilingual Language Models
• Language-agnostic BERT Sentence Embedding
• WikiBERT models: deep transfer learning for many languages
• Inducing Language-Agnostic Multilingual Representations
• To What Degree Can Language Borders Be Blurred In BERT-based Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding? (COLING2020)
• It's not Greek to mBERT: Inducing Word-Level Translations from Multilingual BERT (EMNLP2020 WS)
• A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios
• Translation Artifacts in Cross-lingual Transfer Learning (EMNLP2020)
• Identifying Cultural Differences through Multi-Lingual Wikipedia
• A Supervised Word Alignment Method based on Cross-Language Span Prediction using Multilingual BERT (EMNLP2020)
• BERT for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Reverse Dictionary (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Bilingual Text Extraction as Reading Comprehension
• Evaluating Multilingual BERT for Estonian

Other than English models

• CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model (ACL2020)
• On the importance of pre-training data volume for compact language models (EMNLP2020)
• FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French
• Multilingual is not enough: BERT for Finnish
• BERTje: A Dutch BERT Model
• RobBERT: a Dutch RoBERTa-based Language Model
• Adaptation of Deep Bidirectional Multilingual Transformers for Russian Language
• AraBERT: Transformer-based Model for Arabic Language Understanding
• PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese
• Give your Text Representation Models some Love: the Case for Basque (LREC2020)
• ParsBERT: Transformer-based Model for Persian Language Understanding
• Pre-training Polish Transformer-based Language Models at Scale
• Playing with Words at the National Library of Sweden -- Making a Swedish BERT
• KR-BERT: A Small-Scale Korean-Specific Language Model
• FinEst BERT and CroSloEngual BERT: less is more in multilingual models (TSD2020)
• GREEK-BERT: The Greeks visiting Sesame Street (SETN2020)
• The birth of Romanian BERT (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• German's Next Language Model (COLING2020 Industry Truck)
• EstBERT: A Pretrained Language-Specific BERT for Estonian
• Pretraining and Fine-Tuning Strategies for Sentiment Analysis of Latvian Tweets
• PTT5: Pretraining and validating the T5 model on Brazilian Portuguese data
• Indic-Transformers: An Analysis of Transformer Language Models for Indian Languages (NeurIPS2020 WS)
• BARThez: a Skilled Pretrained French Sequence-to-Sequence Model
• NEZHA: Neural Contextualized Representation for Chinese Language Understanding
• Revisiting Pre-Trained Models for Chinese Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Intrinsic Knowledge Evaluation on Chinese Language Models
• CLUECorpus2020: A Large-scale Chinese Corpus for Pre-training Language Model
• CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark
• AnchiBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Ancient ChineseLanguage Understanding and Generation
• UER: An Open-Source Toolkit for Pre-training Models (EMNLP2019 Demo) [github]

Domain specific

• BioBERT: a pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining
• Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets (ACL2019 WS)
• BERT-based Ranking for Biomedical Entity Normalization
• PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question Answering (EMNLP2019)
• Pre-trained Language Model for Biomedical Question Answering
• How to Pre-Train Your Model? Comparison of Different Pre-Training Models for Biomedical Question Answering
• On Adversarial Examples for Biomedical NLP Tasks
• An Empirical Study of Multi-Task Learning on BERT for Biomedical Text Mining (ACL2020 WS)
• Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing [github]
• BioMegatron: Larger Biomedical Domain Language Model (EMNLP2020) [website]
• Pretrained Language Models for Biomedical and Clinical Tasks: Understanding and Extending the State-of-the-Art (EMNLP2020 WS)
• A pre-training technique to localize medical BERT and enhance BioBERT [github]
• BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models
• ClinicalBERT: Modeling Clinical Notes and Predicting Hospital Readmission
• Predicting Clinical Diagnosis from Patients Electronic Health Records Using BERT-based Neural Networks (AIME2020)
• Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings (NAACL2019 WS)
• UmlsBERT: Clinical Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Embeddings Using the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
• MT-Clinical BERT: Scaling Clinical Information Extraction with Multitask Learning
• A clinical specific BERT developed with huge size of Japanese clinical narrative
• Clinical Reading Comprehension: A Thorough Analysis of the emrQA Dataset (ACL2020) [github]
• Knowledge-Empowered Representation Learning for Chinese Medical Reading Comprehension: Task, Model and Resources
• Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions from Twitter through Domain-Specific Preprocessing and BERT Ensembling
• Progress Notes Classification and Keyword Extraction using Attention-based Deep Learning Models with BERT
• BERT-XML: Large Scale Automated ICD Coding Using BERT Pretraining
• Prediction of ICD Codes with Clinical BERT Embeddings and Text Augmentation with Label Balancing using MIMIC-III
• Infusing Disease Knowledge into BERT for Health Question Answering, Medical Inference and Disease Name Recognition (EMNLP2020)
• CheXbert: Combining Automatic Labelers and Expert Annotations for Accurate Radiology Report Labeling Using BERT (EMNLP2020)
• Students Need More Attention: BERT-based Attention Model for Small Data with Application to Automatic Patient Message Triage (MLHC2020)
• SciBERT: Pretrained Contextualized Embeddings for Scientific Text [github]
• PatentBERT: Patent Classification with Fine-Tuning a pre-trained BERT Model
• FinBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Financial Communications
• LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• E-BERT: A Phrase and Product Knowledge Enhanced Language Model for E-commerce
• Code and Named Entity Recognition in StackOverflow (ACL2020) [github]
• BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets (EMNLP2020 Demo)
• TweetBERT: A Pretrained Language Representation Model for Twitter Text Analysis
• Cost-effective Selection of Pretraining Data: A Case Study of Pretraining BERT on Social Media (EMNLP2020 Findings)

Multi-modal

• VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning (ICCV2019)
• ViLBERT: Pretraining Task-Agnostic Visiolinguistic Representations for Vision-and-Language Tasks (NeurIPS2019)
• VisualBERT: A Simple and Performant Baseline for Vision and Language
• Selfie: Self-supervised Pretraining for Image Embedding
• ImageBERT: Cross-modal Pre-training with Large-scale Weak-supervised Image-Text Data
• Contrastive Bidirectional Transformer for Temporal Representation Learning
• M-BERT: Injecting Multimodal Information in the BERT Structure
• LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers (EMNLP2019)
• Weakly-supervised VisualBERT: Pre-training without Parallel Images and Captions
• X-LXMERT: Paint, Caption and Answer Questions with Multi-Modal Transformers (EMNLP2020)
• Adaptive Transformers for Learning Multimodal Representations (ACL2020SRW) [github]
• Fusion of Detected Objects in Text for Visual Question Answering (EMNLP2019)
• LambdaNetworks: Modeling long-range Interactions without Attention [github]
• BERT representations for Video Question Answering (WACV2020)
• What is More Likely to Happen Next? Video-and-Language Future Event Prediction (EMNLP2020)
• Unified Vision-Language Pre-Training for Image Captioning and VQA (AAAI2020) [github]
• VisualCOMET: Reasoning about the Dynamic Context of a Still Image (ECCV2020) [website]
• Large-scale Pretraining for Visual Dialog: A Simple State-of-the-Art Baseline
• VD-BERT: A Unified Vision and Dialog Transformer with BERT (EMNLP2020)
• VL-BERT: Pre-training of Generic Visual-Linguistic Representations (ICLR2020)
• Unicoder-VL: A Universal Encoder for Vision and Language by Cross-modal Pre-training
• UNITER: Learning UNiversal Image-TExt Representations
• Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text
• InterBERT: Vision-and-Language Interaction for Multi-modal Pretraining
• Multimodal Pretraining Unmasked: Unifying the Vision and Language BERTs
• ERNIE-ViL: Knowledge Enhanced Vision-Language Representations Through Scene Graph
• Vokenization: Improving Language Understanding with Contextualized, Visual-Grounded Supervision (EMNLP2020)
• Cycle Text-To-Image GAN with BERT
• Weak Supervision helps Emergence of Word-Object Alignment and improves Vision-Language Tasks
• Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks
• DeVLBert: Learning Deconfounded Visio-Linguistic Representations (ACMMM2020)
• A Recurrent Vision-and-Language BERT for Navigation
• BERT Can See Out of the Box: On the Cross-modal Transferability of Text Representations
• Pixel-BERT: Aligning Image Pixels with Text by Deep Multi-Modal Transformers
• Understanding Advertisements with BERT (ACL2020)
• BERTERS: Multimodal Representation Learning for Expert Recommendation System with Transformer
• FashionBERT: Text and Image Matching with Adaptive Loss for Cross-modal Retrieval (SIGIR2020)
• LayoutLM: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Document Image Understanding (KDD2020) [github]
• BERT for Large-scale Video Segment Classification with Test-time Augmentation (ICCV2019WS)
• lamBERT: Language and Action Learning Using Multimodal BERT
• Generative Pretraining from Pixels [github] [website]
• An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
• A Better Use of Audio-Visual Cues: Dense Video Captioning with Bi-modal Transformer [website]
• Multimodal Pretraining for Dense Video Captioning (AACL-IJCNLP2020)
• SpeechBERT: Cross-Modal Pre-trained Language Model for End-to-end Spoken Question Answering
• An Audio-enriched BERT-based Framework for Spoken Multiple-choice Question Answering
• vq-wav2vec: Self-Supervised Learning of Discrete Speech Representations
• Effectiveness of self-supervised pre-training for speech recognition
• wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations
• Pushing the Limits of Semi-Supervised Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition
• Understanding Semantics from Speech Through Pre-training
• Speech-XLNet: Unsupervised Acoustic Model Pretraining For Self-Attention Networks
• Learning Speech Representations from Raw Audio by Joint Audiovisual Self-Supervision (ICML2020 WS)
• Semi-Supervised Spoken Language Understanding via Self-Supervised Speech and Language Model Pretraining
• ST-BERT: Cross-modal Language Model Pre-training For End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding
• End-to-end spoken language understanding using transformer networks and self-supervised pre-trained features
• Jointly Encoding Word Confusion Network and Dialogue Context with BERT for Spoken Language Understanding (Interspeech2020)
• Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning for Speech Recognition
• Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation (ACL2020)
• MAM: Masked Acoustic Modeling for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
• Towards Transfer Learning for End-to-End Speech Synthesis from Deep Pre-Trained Language Models
• To BERT or Not To BERT: Comparing Speech and Language-based Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease Detection (Interspeech2020)
• BERT for Joint Multichannel Speech Dereverberation with Spatial-aware Tasks

Model compression

• Distilling Task-Specific Knowledge from BERT into Simple Neural Networks
• Patient Knowledge Distillation for BERT Model Compression (EMNLP2019)
• Small and Practical BERT Models for Sequence Labeling (EMNLP2019)
• TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding [github]
• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter (NeurIPS2019 WS) [github]
• Knowledge Distillation from Internal Representations (AAAI2020)
• PoWER-BERT: Accelerating BERT inference for Classification Tasks
• WaLDORf: Wasteless Language-model Distillation On Reading-comprehension
• Extreme Language Model Compression with Optimal Subwords and Shared Projections
• BERT-of-Theseus: Compressing BERT by Progressive Module Replacing (EMNLP2020)
• Compressing BERT: Studying the Effects of Weight Pruning on Transfer Learning (ACL2020 SRW)
• MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers
• Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT
• Train Large, Then Compress: Rethinking Model Size for Efficient Training and Inference of Transformers
• Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models
• MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices (ACL2020)
• Distilling Knowledge from Pre-trained Language Models via Text Smoothing
• DynaBERT: Dynamic BERT with Adaptive Width and Depth
• Reducing Transformer Depth on Demand with Structured Dropout
• DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference (ACL2020)
• BERT Loses Patience: Fast and Robust Inference with Early Exit [github] [github]
• FastBERT: a Self-distilling BERT with Adaptive Inference Time (ACL2020)
• Towards Non-task-specific Distillation of BERT via Sentence Representation Approximation
• LadaBERT: Lightweight Adaptation of BERT through Hybrid Model Compression (COLING2020)
• Poor Man's BERT: Smaller and Faster Transformer Models
• schuBERT: Optimizing Elements of BERT (ACL2020)
• BERT-EMD: Many-to-Many Layer Mapping for BERT Compression with Earth Mover's Distance (EMNLP2020) [github]
• TinyMBERT: Multi-Stage Distillation Framework for Massive Multi-lingual NER (ACL2020)
• XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models (ACL2020)
• Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
• Movement Pruning: Adaptive Sparsity by Fine-Tuning [github]
• Efficient Transformer-based Large Scale Language Representations using Hardware-friendly Block Structured Pruning (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• FastFormers: Highly Efficient Transformer Models for Natural Language Understanding (EMNLP2020 WS)
• Distilling BERT into Simple Neural Networks with Unlabeled Transfer Data
• AdaBERT: Task-Adaptive BERT Compression with Differentiable Neural Architecture Search
• SqueezeBERT: What can computer vision teach NLP about efficient neural networks?
• Optimizing Transformers with Approximate Computing for Faster, Smaller and more Accurate NLP Models
• An Approximation Algorithm for Optimal Subarchitecture Extraction [github]
• Structured Pruning of a BERT-based Question Answering Model
• DeFormer: Decomposing Pre-trained Transformers for Faster Question Answering (ACL2020)
• Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for Text Generation (ACL2020)
• Distilling the Knowledge of BERT for Sequence-to-Sequence ASR (Interspeech2020)
• Pre-trained Summarization Distillation
• Understanding BERT Rankers Under Distillation (ICTIR2020)
• Simplified TinyBERT: Knowledge Distillation for Document Retrieval
• Exploring the Limits of Simple Learners in Knowledge Distillation for Document Classification with DocBERT (ACL2020 WS)
• TextBrewer: An Open-Source Knowledge Distillation Toolkit for Natural Language Processing (ACL2020 Demo)
• TopicBERT for Energy Efficient Document Classification (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Q-BERT: Hessian Based Ultra Low Precision Quantization of BERT
• Q8BERT: Quantized 8Bit BERT (NeurIPS2019 WS)
• Training with Quantization Noise for Extreme Model Compression
• TernaryBERT: Distillation-aware Ultra-low Bit BERT (EMNLP2020)

Misc.

• Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners [github]
• Language Models are Few-Shot Learners [github]
• Language Models as Few-Shot Learner for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
• Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
• Do you have the right scissors? Tailoring Pre-trained Language Models via Monte-Carlo Methods (ACL2020)
• jiant: A Software Toolkit for Research on General-Purpose Text Understanding Models [github]
• Cloze-driven Pretraining of Self-attention Networks
• Learning and Evaluating General Linguistic Intelligence
• To Tune or Not to Tune? Adapting Pretrained Representations to Diverse Tasks (ACL2019 WS)
• Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game (EMNLP2019)
• A Two-Stage Masked LM Method for Term Set Expansion (ACL2020)
• Cold-start Active Learning through Self-supervised Language Modeling (EMNLP2020)
• Conditional BERT Contextual Augmentation
• Data Augmentation using Pre-trained Transformer Models
• Mixup-Transfomer: Dynamic Data Augmentation for NLP Tasks (COLING2020)
• Unsupervised Text Style Transfer with Padded Masked Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• Assessing Discourse Relations in Language Generation from Pre-trained Language Models
• CxGBERT: BERT meets Construction Grammar (COLING2020)
• Large Batch Optimization for Deep Learning: Training BERT in 76 minutes (ICLR2020)
• Accelerated Large Batch Optimization of BERT Pretraining in 54 minutes
• IsoBN: Fine-Tuning BERT with Isotropic Batch Normalization
• Multi-node Bert-pretraining: Cost-efficient Approach
• Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism
• ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models
• Mixout: Effective Regularization to Finetune Large-scale Pretrained Language Models (ICLR2020)
• A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning (ICLR2020)
• Is BERT Really Robust? Natural Language Attack on Text Classification and Entailment (AAAI2020)
• Weight Poisoning Attacks on Pre-trained Models (ACL2020)
• BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERT (EMNLP2020)
• Adv-BERT: BERT is not robust on misspellings! Generating nature adversarial samples on BERT
• Robust Encodings: A Framework for Combating Adversarial Typos (ACL2020)
• On the Robustness of Language Encoders against Grammatical Errors (ACL2020)
• Pretrained Transformers Improve Out-of-Distribution Robustness (ACL2020) [github]
• "You are grounded!": Latent Name Artifacts in Pre-trained Language Models (EMNLP2020)
• The Right Tool for the Job: Matching Model and Instance Complexities (ACL2020) [github]
• Unsupervised Domain Clusters in Pretrained Language Models (ACL2020)
• Thieves on Sesame Street! Model Extraction of BERT-based APIs (ICLR2020)
• Graph-Bert: Only Attention is Needed for Learning Graph Representations
• Graph-Aware Transformer: Is Attention All Graphs Need?
• CodeBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages (EMNLP2020 Findings)
• Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages
• Item-based Collaborative Filtering with BERT (ACL2020 WS)
• RecoBERT: A Catalog Language Model for Text-Based Recommendations
• Fine-Tuning Pretrained Language Models: Weight Initializations, Data Orders, and Early Stopping
• Extending Machine Language Models toward Human-Level Language Understanding
• Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (ACL2020)
• Glyce: Glyph-vectors for Chinese Character Representations
• Back to the Future -- Sequential Alignment of Text Representations
• Improving Cuneiform Language Identification with BERT (NAACL2019 WS)
• Generating Derivational Morphology with BERT
• BERT has a Moral Compass: Improvements of ethical and moral values of machines
• SMILES-BERT: Large Scale Unsupervised Pre-Training for Molecular Property Prediction (ACM-BCB2019)
• BERT Learns (and Teaches) Chemistry
• ChemBERTa: Large-Scale Self-Supervised Pretraining for Molecular Property Prediction
• Sketch-BERT: Learning Sketch Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers by Self-supervised Learning of Sketch Gestalt (CVPR2020)
• The Chess Transformer: Mastering Play using Generative Language Models
• The Go Transformer: Natural Language Modeling for Game Play
• On the comparability of Pre-trained Language Models
• Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing
• The Cost of Training NLP Models: A Concise Overview