The original Twitter thread here 4.
The selecting criterion here is being interesting. Not an exhaustive list.
Let Me Choose: From Verbal Context to Font Selection

  
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Bridging text with its font! Very interesting application paper from Adobe. They even have emojis play a role in it! Even fonts have their semantics and sentiments.
Contextualized Weak Supervision for Text Classification

  
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This paper cleverly introduces word disambiguation into weakly supervised text classification and the method for data augmentation is also great!
Human Attention Maps for Text Classification: Do Humans and Neural Networks Focus on the Same Words?

  
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This paper answered the interesting question that if machines read text just like us humans? Though the conclusion may not be surprising, it opens a new path to understand attention.
Pre-train and Plug-in: Flexible Conditional Text Generation with Variational Auto-Encoders

  
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Sorry for self-promoting but this paper is actually very interesting. The flexible framework can be extended to many more fields including text style transfer, image generation, voice conversion, etc.