Accepted Papers

Research Paper Track

• Geographical Distance Is The New Hyperparameter: A Case Study Of Finding The Optimal Pre-trained Language For English-isiZulu Machine Translation
  Muhammad Umair Nasir and Innocent Amos Mchechesi
• An Annotated Dataset and Automatic Approaches for Discourse Mode Identification in Low-resource Bengali Language
  Salim Sazzed
• Pivot Through English: Reliably Answering Multilingual Questions without Document Retrieval
  Ivan Montero, Shayne Longpre, Ni Lao, Andrew Frank, and Christopher DuBois
• Cross-Lingual QA as a Stepping Stone for Monolingual Open QA in Icelandic
  Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson and Hafsteinn Einarsson
• Multilingual Event Linking to Wikidata
  Adithya Pratapa, Rishubh Gupta, and Teruko Mitamura
• Complex Word Identification in Vietnamese: Towards Vietnamese Text Simplification
  Phuong Nguyen and David Kauchak
• Benchmarking Language-agnostic Intent Classification for Virtual Assistant Platforms
  Gengyu Wang, Cheng Qian, Lin Pan, Haode Qi, Ladislav Kunc, and Saloni Potdar

Shared Task Track

• ZusammenQA: Data Augmentation with Specialized Models for Cross-lingual Open-retrieval Question Answering System
  Chia-Chien Hung, Tommaso Green, Robert Litschko, Tornike Tsereteli, Sotaro Takeshita, Marco Bombieri, Goran Glavaš, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto
• Zero-shot Cross-lingual Open Domain Question Answering
  Sumit Agarwal, Suraj Tripathi, Teruko Mitamura, and Carolyn Penstein Rose
• MIA 2022 Shared Task Submission: Leveraging Entity Representations, Dense-Sparse Hybrids, and Fusion-in-Decoder for Cross-Lingual Question Answering
  Zhucheng Tu and Sarguna Janani Padmanabhan

Non archival papers

• Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing
  Tom Sherborne, Mirella Lapata
• One Question Answering Model for Many Languages with Cross-lingual Dense Passage Retrieval
  Akari Asai, Xinyan Yu, Jungo Kasai, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
• Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever
  Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil
• mLUKE: The Power of Entity Representations in Multilingual Pretrained Language Models
  Ryokan Ri, Ikuya Yamada, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
• Multilingual language model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages
  Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi , David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
• EASE: Entity-Aware Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embedding
  Sosuke Nishikawa, Ryokan Ri, Ikuya Yamada, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Isao Echizen
• Generalized Quantifiers as a Source of Error in Multilingual NLU Benchmarks
  Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard
• CL-ReLKT: Cross-lingual Language Knowledge Transfer for Multilingual Retrieval Question Answering
  Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Sarana Nutanong
• IndicXNLI: Evaluating Multilingual Inference for Indian Languages
  Divyanshu Aggarwal, Vivek Gupta and Anoop Kunchukuttan