Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023

Apple sponsored the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which took place in person from July 9 to 14 in Toronto, Canada. ACL is a conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. Below was the schedule of Apple- sponsored workshops and events at ACL 2023.

Accepted Papers

Application-Agnostic Language Modeling for On-Device ASR

Markus Nussbaum-Thom, Lyan Verwimp and Youssef Oualil

Joint Speech Transcription and Translation: Pseudo-Labeling with Out-of-Distribution Data

Mozhdeh Gheini, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Matthias Sperber and Hendra Setiawan

Learning Language-Specific Layers for Multilingual Machine Translation

Telmo Pires, Robin M. Schmidt, Yi-Hsiu Liao and Stephan Peitz

Referring to Screen Texts with Voice Assistants

Shruti Bhargava, Anand Dhoot, Ing-Marie Jonsson, Hoang Long Nguyen, Alkesh Patel, Hong Yu and Vincent Renkens

Demo

Linked Callouts in Siri

Siri today provides fast, direct, and trustworthy answers to open domain questions. The answers are in the form of a passage, and a short span that directly answers the question is highlighted. We have now added Linked Callout on top of the passage. If the highlighted text contains a named entity, it is chosen to be shown on top of the passage as Linked Callout. The named-entity is linked to a knowledge graph (KG), and users can explore more information about that entity by tapping onto the KG card. The goal of linked callout feature is to combine structured knowledge and unstructured information retrieval techniques. The linked callout provides direct, clear, and complete answers to user queries, and significantly enriches the web answer user experience.

All ACL attendees were invited to stop by the Apple booth to experience this demo in person.

Acknowledgements

Jason Williams is an Industry Track chair for ACL 2023.

Stephan Peitz is an Area chair for ACL 2023.

Mozhdeh Gheini, Robin Schmidt, Shruti Bhargava, and Tatiana Likhomanenko are reviewers for ACL 2023.