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Mostafa Abdou

4 accepted papers

2022

Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP

ACL 2022long

Various efforts in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community have been made to accommodate linguistic diversity and serve speakers of many different languages. However, it is important to acknowledge that speakers and the content they produce and require, vary not just by language, but also by…

Cited by 58SourcePDFScholar
2022

Word Order Does Matter and Shuffled Language Models Know It

ACL 2022long

Recent studies have shown that language models pretrained and/or fine-tuned on randomly permuted sentences exhibit competitive performance on GLUE, putting into question the importance of word order information. Somewhat counter-intuitively, some of these studies also report that position embeddings…

Cited by 49SourcePDFScholar
2021

Joint Semantic Analysis with Document-Level Cross-Task Coherence Rewards

AAAI 2021technical

Coreference resolution and semantic role labeling are NLP tasks that capture different aspects of semantics, indicating respectively, which expressions refer to the same entity, and what semantic roles expressions serve in the sentence. However, they are often closely interdependent, and both genera…