NLP-ParadigmShiftingPapers

Reading List of Paradigm Shifting related papers in NLP

Table of Contents

• QA-Paradigm
• Generation-Paradigm
• Span-Based-Paradigm
• Dependency Parsing-Paradigm
• Semantic Segmentation-Paradigm
• Text Matching-Paradigm

1. QA-Paradigm

• The Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering. 2018 By Salesforce [arxiv] [code]​

Sentiment Analysis

• Sentiment classification towards question-answering with hierarchical matching network. EMNLP 2018. [paper] [code] Chenlin Shen, Changlong Sun, Jingjing Wang, Yangyang Kang, Shoushan Li, Xiaozhong Liu, Luo Si, Min Zhang, and Guodong Zhou.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

• Question-Driven Span Labeling Model for Aspect–Opinion Pair Extraction. AAAI 2021 [paper] Lei Gao, Yulong Wang, Tongcun Liu, Jingyu Wang, Lei Zhang, Jianxin Liao

• A Joint Training Dual-MRC Framework for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis AAAI 2021 [paper] Yue Mao, Yi Shen, Chao Yu, LongJun Cai

• Bidirectional Machine Reading Comprehension for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction [paper] [arxiv] [code] AAAI 2021 Shaowei Chen, Yu Wang, Jie Liu, Yuelin Wang

• Utilizing BERT for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Constructing Auxiliary Sentence. NAACL 2019. [paper] [code] Chi Sun, Luyao Huang, Xipeng Qiu.

• BERT Post-Training for Review Reading Comprehension and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. NAACL 2019. [paper] [code] [dataset]
  Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Lei Shu and Philip S. Yu.

• Aspect Sentiment Classification Towards Question-Answering with Reinforced Bidirectional Attention Network. ACL 2019. [paper] Jingjing Wang, Changlong Sun, Shoushan Li, Xiaozhong Liu, Min Zhang, Luo Si and Guodong Zhou.

• Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification as Machine Comprehension. EMNLP 2017 [paper] [code] Yichun Yin, Yangqiu Song, Ming Zhang

Entity-Relation Extraction

• Consistent Inference for Dialogue Relation Extraction. IJCAI 2021

• Asking Effective and Diverse Questions: A Machine Reading Comprehension based Framework for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction. 2020 IJCAI [paper] [code] Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li

• Entity-Relation Extraction as Multi-Turn Question Answering. ACL 2019 By Jiwei Li [paper] [code] Xiaoya Li, Fan Yin, Zijun Sun, Xiayu Li, Arianna Yuan, Duo Chai, Mingxin Zhou, Jiwei Li

• Zero-Shot Relation Extraction via Reading Comprehension. CoNLL 2017 [paper] [code&data] Omer Levy, Minjoon Seo, Eunsol Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Event Extraction

• What the Role Is vs. What Plays the Role: Semi-Supervised Event Argument Extraction via Dual Question Answering. AAAI 2021 [paper] Yang Zhou, Yubo Chen, Jun Zhao, Yin Wu, Jiexin Xu, Jinlong Li.

• Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions. EMNLP 2020. [paper] [code] Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

• Event Extraction as Multi-turn Question Answering. EMNLP Findings 2020. [paper]
  Fayuan Li, Weihua Peng, Yuguang Chen, Quan Wang, Lu Pan, Yajuan Lyu, Yong Zhu

• Event Extraction as Machine Reading Comprehension. EMNLP 2020. [paper] [code] Jian Liu ,Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu

NER

• A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity Recognition. 2020 ACL. [paper] [code] [new code] Xiaoya Li, Jingrong Feng, Yuxian Meng, Qinghong Han, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li

Summarization

• Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization via Question Answering. ACL 2021 [paper] Feng Nan, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Kathleen McKeown, Ramesh Nallapati, Dejiao Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Andrew O. Arnold, Bing Xiang
• QMSum: A New Benchmark for Query-based Multi-domain Meeting Summarization. NAACL 2021 [paper] [code] Ming Zhong, Da Yin, Tao Yu, Ahmad Zaidi, Mutethia Mutuma, Rahul Jha, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yang Liu, Xipeng Qiu, Dragomir Radev

Coreference Resolution

• Coreference Reasoning in Machine Reading Comprehension ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Mingzhu Wu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Dan Roth, Iryna Gurevych

• Ellipsis Resolution as Question Answering: An Evaluation. EACL 2021. [paper] [code] Rahul Aralikatte, Matthew Lamm, Daniel Hardt, Anders Søgaard

• CorefQA: Coreference Resolution as Query-based Span Prediction. ACL 2020 [paper] [code] Wei Wu, Fei Wang, Arianna Yuan, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li

• Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering. ACL 2020 [paper] [code] Yufang Hou

SQL Generation

• SQL Generation via Machine Reading Comprehension. COLING 2020. [paper][code] Zeyu Yan, Jianqiang Ma, Yang Zhang, Jianping Shen

Entity Linking

• Read, Retrospect, Select: An MRC Framework to Short Text Entity Linking [paper] 2021 AAAI Yingjie Gu, Xiaoye Qu, Zhefeng Wang, Baoxing Huai, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xiaolin Gui

Slot Filling

• Cross-Domain Slot Filling as Machine Reading Comprehension. IJCAI 2021

Semantic Role Labeling

• Crowdsourcing Question-Answer Meaning Representations. NAACL 2018 [paper] [code] Julian Michael, Gabriel Stanovsky, Luheng He, Ido Dagan, Luke Zettlemoyer

• Question-Answer Driven Semantic Role Labeling: Using Natural Language to Annotate Natural Language. EMNLP 2015 [paper] Luheng He, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer

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2. Generation-Paradigm

NER

• A Unified Generative Framework for Various NER Subtasks. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Hang Yan, Tao Gui, Junqi Dai, Qipeng Guo, Zheng Zhang, Xipeng Qiu

• Neural Architectures for Nested NER through Linearization ACL 2019 [paper] [code] Jana Strakov´a, Milan Straka, and Jan Hajic.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

• Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

• A Unified Generative Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Hang Yan, Junqi Dai, Tuo Ji, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang

Event Extraction

• Text2Event: Controllable Sequence-to-Structure Generation for End-to-end Event Extraction. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Yaojie Lu Hongyu Lin Jin Xu Xianpei Han Jialong Tang Annan Li Le Sun Meng Liao Shaoyi Chen

Entity-Relation Extraction

• Template Filling with Generative Transformers. 2021 NAACL [paper] [code] Xinya Du, Alexander Rush, Claire Cardie

• Contrastive Triple Extraction with Generative Transformer. 2021 AAAI [paper] [blog] ZJUKG Hongbin Ye, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Mosha Chen, Chuanqi Tan, Fei Huang, Huajun Chen

• A Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework for Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations. AAAI 2021 [paper] BUAA Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li

• Extracting Relational Facts by an End-to-End Neural Model with Copy Mechanism. ACL 2018 [paper] Xiangrong Zeng, Daojian Zeng, Shizhu He, Kang Liu,and Jun Zhao.

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3. Span-Based-Paradigm

• Span-based Semantic Parsing for Compositional Generalization. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Jonathan Herzig，Jonathan Berant

• A Span-Based Model for Joint Overlapped and Discontinuous Named Entity Recognition. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Fei Li, ZhiChao Lin, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji

• SpanNER: Named EntityRe-/Recognition as Span Prediction. 2021 ACL [arxiv] [code] [demo] CMU Jinlan Fu, Xuanjing Huang, Pengfei Liu

• Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations. ACL 2020 [paper] [code] CMU Zhengbao Jiang, Wei Xu, Jun Araki, Graham Neubig

• Open-domain targeted sentiment analysis via span-based extraction and classification. ACL 2019 [paper] [code] Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li, Yiwei Lv

• ​A Span-based Joint Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment ACL 2019 [paper] Yan Zhou, Longtao Huang, Tao Guo, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu

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4. Dependency Parsing-Paradigm

• Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing. ACL 2021 [paper] [code] Jeremy Barnes, Robin Kurtz, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal

• Named Entity Recognition as Dependency Parsing. ACL 2020 [paper] Juntao Yu, Bernd Bohnet, Massimo Poesio

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5. Semantic Segmentation-Paradigm

• Document-level Relation Extraction as Semantic Segmentation. IJCAI 2021 [arxiv] [code] [blog] Ningyu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Xin Xie, Shumin Deng, Chuanqi Tan, Mosha Chen, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Huajun Chen

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6. Text Matching-Paradigm

• Extractive Summarization as Text Matching. ACL 2020 [paper] [code] Ming Zhong, Pengfei Liu, Yiran Chen, Danqing Wang, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang