The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in
Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011



See Instructions for Authors for oral and poster presentation instructions.

The deadline for short and long papers has passed, but the original call can be found here: http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml

List of Accepted Papers

Disclaimer: Titles and author lists are taken from the original submissions and may be different in the final program and proceedings.

Long Papers


Exploiting Web-Derived Selectional Preference to Improve Statistical Dependency Parsing
Guangyou Zhou, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu and Li Cai

A Stacked Sub-Word Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Weiwei Sun

A Large Scale Distributed Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Model for Machine Translation
Ming Tan, Wenli Zhou, Lei Zheng and Shaojun Wang

Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components
Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz and Nachum Dershowitz

An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser and Helmut Schmid

Automatically Extracting Polarity-Bearing Topics for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Yulan He, Chenghua Lin and Harith Alani

Creative Language Retrieval: A Robust Hybrid of Information Retrieval and Linguistic Creativity
Tony Veale

Bootstrapping coreference resolution using word associations
Hamidreza Kobdani, Hinrich Schuetze, Michael Schiehlen and Hans Kamp

A Generative Entity-Mention Model for Linking Entities with Knowledge Base
Xianpei Han and Le Sun

Ranking Class Labels Using Query Sessions
Marius Pasca

Jigs and Lures: Associating Web Queries with Structured Entities
Patrick Pantel and Ariel Fuxman

Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges
Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman

Consistent Translation using Discriminative Learning - A Translation Memory-inspired Approach
Yanjun Ma, Yifan He, Andy Way and Josef van Genabith

A Pronoun Anaphora Resolution System based on Factorial Hidden Markov Models
Dingcheng Li, Tim Miller and William Schuler

A Simple Measure to Assess Non-response
Anselmo Peńas and Alvaro Rodrigo

Incremental Syntactic Language Models for Phrase-based Translation
Lane Schwartz, Chris Callison-Burch, William Schuler and Stephen Wu

Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord

Combining Morpheme-based Machine Translation with Post-processing Morpheme Prediction
Ann Clifton and Anoop Sarkar

Fine-Grained Class Label Markup of Search Queries
Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca

Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates
Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky

Adjoining Tree-to-String Translation
Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Yajuan Lü

Semi-Supervised SimHash for Efficient Document Similarity Search
Qixia Jiang and Maosong Sun

Using Multiple Sources to Construct a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Danushka Bollegala, David Weir and John Carroll

Recognizing Named Entities in Tweets
Xiaohua LIU, Shaodian ZHANG, Furu WEI and Ming ZHOU

Integrating history-length interpolation and classes in language modeling
Hinrich Schütze

Creating a manually error-tagged and shallow-parsed learner corpus
Ryo Nagata, Edward Whittaker and Vera Sheinman

Aspect Ranking: Identifying Important Product Aspects from Online Consumer Reviews
Jianxing Yu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Meng Wang and Tat-Seng Chua

Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections
Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov

The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection
Simon Zwarts and Mark Johnson

Large-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical Models
Sameer Singh, Amarnag Subramanya, Fernando Pereira and Andrew McCallum

Learning Sub-Word Units for Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Abhinav Sethy and Ariya Rastrow

Collective Classification of Congressional Floor-Debate Transcripts
Clinton Burfoot, Steven Bird and Timothy Baldwin

Piggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
Stefan Rüd, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jens Müller and Hinrich Schütze

Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering
Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata

Disentangling Chat with Local Coherence Models
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak

Structural Topic Model for Latent Topical Structure Analysis
Hongning Wang, Duo Zhang and ChengXiang Zhai

Neutralizing Linguistically Problematic Annotations in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Evaluation
Roy Schwartz, Omri Abend, Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport

A Cross-Lingual ILP Solution to Zero Anaphora Resolution
Ryu Iida and Massimo Poesio

Beam-Width Prediction for Efficient Context-Free Parsing
Nathan Bodenstab, Aaron Dunlop, Keith Hall and Brian Roark

Language-independent compound splitting with morphological operations
Klaus Macherey, Andrew Dai, David Talbot, Ashok Popat and Franz Och

Semi-Supervised Frame-Semantic Parsing for Unknown Predicates
Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith

Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging
Michael Auli and Adam Lopez

Global Learning of Typed Entailment Rules
Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan and Jacob Goldberger

Classifying arguments by scheme
Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst

Goodness: A Method for Measuring Machine Translation Confidence
Nguyen Bach, Fei Huang and Yaser Al-Onaizan

Translationese and Its Dialects
Moshe Koppel and Noam Ordan

Optimal Head-Driven Parsing Complexity for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Daniel Gildea, Andrea Marino, Gianluca Rossi and Giorgio Satta

Reordering Metrics for MT
Alexandra Birch and Miles Osborne

Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining
Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy

Phrase-Based Translation Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answer Archives
Guangyou Zhou, Li Cai, Jun Zhao and Kang Liu

Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang and Haizhou Li

Jointly Learning to Extract and Compress
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Gillick and Dan Klein

Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features
Yuval Marton, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow

Discovery of Topically Coherent Sentences for Extractive Summarization
Asli Celikyilmaz and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Machine Translation System Combination by Confusion Forest
Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita

An Unsupervised Model for Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction
Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Shinsuke Mori and Tatsuya Kawahara

Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
Marco Kuhlmann, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Giorgio Satta

Reordering with Source Language Collocations
Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Ting Liu and Sheng Li

A Comprehensive Dictionary of Multiword Expressions
Kosho Shudo, Akira Kurahone and Toshifumi Tanabe

Lexical Normalisation of Short Text Messages: Makn Sens a #twitter
Bo Han and Timothy Baldwin

Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations
Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan

Automatic Labelling of Topic Models
Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser, David Newman and Timothy Baldwin

Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis
Andrew L. Maas, Raymond E. Daly, Peter T. Pham, Dan Huang, Andrew Y. Ng and Christopher Potts

Hypothesis Mixture Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Nan Duan, Mu Li and Ming Zhou

Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification
Long Jiang, Mo Yu, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu and Tiejun Zhao

Joint Bilingual Sentiment Classification with Unlabeled Parallel Corpora
Bin Lu, Chenhao Tan, Claire Cardie and Benjamin K. Tsou

Underspecifying and Predicting Voice for Surface Realisation Ranking
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill and Jonas Kuhn

Using Bilingual Information for Cross-Language Document Summarization
Xiaojun Wan

Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Large-scale Word Clustering
Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman and Satoshi Sekine

Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations
Markos Mylonakis and Khalil Sima'an

Improving Question Recommendation by Exploiting Information Need
Shuguang Li and Suresh Manandhar

Minimum Bayes-risk System Combination
Jesús González-Rubio, Alfons Juan and Francisco Casacuberta

Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features
Chris Dyer, Jonathan H. Clark, Alon Lavie and Noah A. Smith

Using Cross-Entity Inference to Improve Event Extraction
Yu Hong, Jianfeng Zhang, Bin Ma, Jianmin Yao, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu

Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark

A Word-Class Approach to Labeling PSCFG Rules for Machine Translation
Andreas Zollmann and Stephan Vogel

How to train your multi bottom-up tree transducer
Andreas Maletti

Nonlinear Evidence Fusion and Propagation for Hyponymy Relation Mining
Fan Zhang, Shuming Shi, Jing Liu, Shuqi Sun and Chin-Yew Lin

Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech
Miao Chen and Klaus Zechner

Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations
Sara Rosenthal and Kathleen McKeown

An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Kristy Boyer, Joseph Grafsgaard, Eun Young Ha, Robert Phillips and James Lester

A Fast and Accurate Method for Approximate String Search
Ziqi Wang, Gu Xu, Hang Li and Ming Zhang

A Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process HMM for Unsupervised Part of Speech Induction
Phil Blunsom and Trevor Cohn

Local Histograms of Character N-grams for Authorship Attribution
Hugo Jair Escalante, Thamar Solorio and Manuel Montes-y-Gomez

Multi-Modal Annotation of Quest Games in Second Life
Sharon Gower Small, Jennifer Strommer-Galley and Tomek Strzalkowski

Lexically-Triggered Hidden Markov Models for Clinical Document Coding
Svetlana Kiritchenko and Colin Cherry

Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach
Preslav Nakov and Hwee Tou Ng

Web-Scale Features for Full-Scale Parsing
Mohit Bansal and Dan Klein

A Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Ivan Titov and Alexandre Klementiev

Domain Adaptation by Constraining Inter-Domain Variability of Latent Feature Representation
Ivan Titov

A Joint Sequence Translation Model with Integrated Reordering
Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid and Alexander Fraser

Word Maturity: Computational Modeling of Word Knowledge
Kirill Kireyev and Thomas K Landauer

Prefix Probability for Probabilistic Synchronous Context-Free Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta

Evaluating the Impact of Coder Errors on Active Learning
Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer

Event Extraction as Dependency Parsing
David McClosky, Mihai Surdeanu and Christopher Manning

Integrating surprisal and uncertain-input models in online sentence comprehension: formal techniques and empirical results
Roger Levy

Binarized Forest to String Translation
Hao Zhang, Licheng Fang, Peng Xu and Xiaoyun Wu

Learning From Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice
Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev

Discovering Sociolinguistic Associations with Structured Sparsity
Jacob Eisenstein, Noah A. Smith and Eric P. Xing

A Graph Approach to Spelling Correction in Domain-Centric Search
Zhuowei Bao, Benny Kimelfeld and Yunyao Li

Deciphering Foreign Language
Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight

Bayesian Inference for Zodiac and Other Homophonic Ciphers
Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight

N-Best Rescoring Based on Pitch-accent Patterns
Je Hun Jeon, Wen Wang and Yang Liu

Model-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual Decomposition
John DeNero and Klaus Macherey

Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Relation Composition
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan

Topical Keyphrase Extraction from Twitter
Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jing He, Yang Song, Palakorn Achanauparp, Ee-Peng Lim and Xiaoming Li

Crowdsourcing Translation: Professional Quality from Non-Professionals
Omar F. Zaidan and Chris Callison-Burch

A Pilot Study of Opinion Summarization in Conversations
Dong Wang and Yang Liu

Joint Annotation of Search Queries
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft and David A. Smith

Unsupervised Discovery of Domain-Specific Knowledge from Text
Dirk Hovy, Chunliang Zhang, Eduard Hovy and Anselmo Peńas

A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts
Helen Yannakoudakis, Ted Briscoe and Ben Medlock

Rare Word Translation Extraction from Aligned Comparable Documents
Emmanuel Prochasson and Pascale Fung

Extracting Paraphrases from Definition Sentences on the Web
Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Jun'ichi Kazama and Sadao Kurohashi

Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts?
Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom Mitchell

Collecting Highly Parallel Data for Paraphrase Evaluation
David Chen and William Dolan

Using Deep Morphology to Improve Automatic Error Detection in Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth

Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia
Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth, Doug Downey and Mike Anderson

Metagrammar engineering: Towards systematic exploration of implemented grammars
Antske Fokkens

Using Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri and Marcello Federico

Grammatical Error Correction with Alternating Structure Optimization
Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng

Learning to Transform and Select Elementary Trees for Improved Syntax-based Machine Translations
Bing Zhao, Young-Suk Lee, Xiaoqiang Luo and Liu Li

Semantic Representation of Negation Using Focus Detection
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan

Latent Semantic Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation
Tim Van de Cruys and Marianna Apidianaki

A Statistical Tree Annotator and Its Applications
Xiaoqiang Luo and Bing Zhao

Partial Parsing from Bitext Projections
Prashanth Mannem and Aswarth Dara

An exponential translation model for target language morphology
Michael Subotin

Recognizing Authority in Dialogue with an Integer Linear Programming Constrained Model
Elijah Mayfield and Carolyn Penstein Rosé

A Comparison of Loopy Belief Propagation and Dual Decomposition for Integrated CCG Supertagging and Parsing
Michael Auli and Adam Lopez

Extracting Social Power Relationships from Natural Language
Philip Bramsen, Martha Escobar-Molano, Ami Patel and Rafael Alonso

Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
Mohit Bansal, Chris Quirk and Robert Moore

Peeling Back the Layers: Detecting Event Role Fillers in Secondary Contexts
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff

In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization
Harr Chen, Edward Benson, Tahira Naseem and Regina Barzilay

Using Large Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora to Improve Coordination Disambiguation
Shane Bergsma, David Yarowsky and Kenneth Church

Together We Can: Bilingual Bootstrapping for WSD
Mitesh M. Khapra, Salil Joshi, Arindam Chatterjee and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments
Michael Mohler, Razvan Bunescu and Rada Mihalcea

A Discriminative Model for Joint Morphological Disambiguation and Dependency Parsing
John Lee, Jason Naradowsky and David A. Smith

Confidence Driven Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Dan Goldwasser, Roi Reichart, James Clarke and Dan Roth

Interactive Topic Modeling
Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Brianna Satinoff

Coherent Citation-Based Summarization of Scientific Papers
Amjad Abu-Jbara and Dragomir Radev

Algorithm Selection and Model Adaptation for ESL Correction Tasks
Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth

Simple Unsupervised Grammar Induction from Raw Text with Cascaded Finite State Models
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk

Query Weighting for Ranking Model Adaptation
Peng Cai, Wei Gao, Aoying Zhou and Kam-Fai Wong

Exact Decoding of Syntactic Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation
Alexander M. Rush and Michael Collins

Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie and Jeffrey T. Hancock

Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke Zettlemoyer and Daniel S. Weld

Automated Whole Sentence Grammar Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model
Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy

Faster and Smaller N-Gram Language Models
Adam Pauls and Dan Klein

Exploiting Syntactico-Semantic Structures for Relation Extraction
Yee Seng Chan and Dan Roth

Extracting Comparative Entities and Predicates from Texts Using Comparative Type Classification
Seon Yang and Youngjoong Ko

Effective Use of Function Words for Rule Generalization in Forest-Based Translation
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii

Rule Markov Models for Fast Tree-to-String Translation
Ashish Vaswani, Haitao Mi, Liang Huang and David Chiang

Coreference Resolution with World Knowledge
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng

Simple supervised document geolocation with geodesic grids
Benjamin Wing and Jason Baldridge

Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework
S.R.K Branavan, David Silver and Regina Barzilay

Ordering Prenominal Modifiers with a Reranking Approach
Jenny Liu and Aria Haghighi

Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Percy Liang, Michael Jordan and Dan Klein

A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization
Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes

Contrasting Opposing Views of News Articles on Contentious Issues
Souneil Park, Kyung Soon Lee and Junehwa Song

Content Models with Attitude
Christina Sauper, Aria Haghighi and Regina Barzilay

Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi and Regina Barzilay

How do you pronounce your name? Improving G2P with transliterations
Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak

Parsing the Internal Structure of Words: A New Paradigm for Chinese Word Segmentation
Zhongguo Li

Unsupervised Bilingual Morpheme Segmentation and Alignment with Context-rich Hidden Semi-Markov Models
Jason Naradowsky and Kristina Toutanova

MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility based on semantic roles
Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu

Short Papers

A CLUSTERING APPROACH TO ENHANCE COMPARABLE CORPORA FOR BILINGUAL
LEXICON EXTRACTION
Bo Li, Eric Gaussier and Akiko Aizawa

A HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF WEB SUMMARIES
Yves Petinot, Kathleen McKeown and Kapil Thadani

A PROBABILISTIC MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR LEXICAL ENTAILMENT
Eyal Shnarch, Jacob Goldberger and Ido Dagan

A SCALABLE PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFIER FOR LANGUAGE MODELING
Joel Lang

A SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li

AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF DATA-DRIVEN PARAPHRASE GENERATION TECHNIQUES
Donald Metzler, Eduard Hovy and Chunliang Zheng

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF DISCOUNTING IN CROSS-DOMAIN LANGUAGE
MODELS
Greg Durrett and Dan Klein

AN ENSEMBLE MODEL THAT COMBINES SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC CLUSTERING FOR
DISCRIMINATIVE DEPENDENCY PARSING
Gholamreza Haffari, Marzieh Razavi and Anoop Sarkar

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF COVERAGE QUALITY IN INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
Samuel Brody and Paul Kantor

AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN DEPENDENCY TREEBANKS
Alexander Volokh and Gnter Neumann

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF CHINESE TRANSLATION OUTPUT: WORD-LEVEL OR
CHARACTER-LEVEL?
Maoxi Li, Chengqing Zong and Hwee Tou Ng

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF LEXICO-SYNTACTIC PATTERNS FOR DETECTION OF
NEGATION AND SPECULATION SCOPES
Emilia Apostolova, Noriko Tomuro and Dina Demner-Fushman

AUTOMATICALLY PREDICTING PEER-REVIEW HELPFULNESS
Wenting Xiong and Diane J. Litman

BAYESIAN WORD ALIGNMENT FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Coskun Mermer and Murat Saraclar

BETTER AUTOMATIC TREEBANK CONVERSION USING A FEATURE-BASED APPROACH
Muhua Zhu and Jingbo Zhu

BETTER HYPOTHESIS TESTING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION:
CONTROLLING FOR OPTIMIZER INSTABILITY
Jonathan Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie and Noah Smith

BUILDING A CORPUS OF SCOPE-DISAMBIGUATED ENGLISH TEXT
Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary Swift

CAN DOCUMENT SELECTION HELP SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING? A CASE STUDY ON
EVENT EXTRACTION
Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman

CHINESE SENTENCE SEGMENTATION AS COMMA CLASSIFICATION
Nianwen Xue and Yaqin Yang

CLAUSE RESTRUCTURING FOR SMT NOT ABSOLUTELY HELPFUL
Susan Howlett and Mark Dras

COMPARATIVE NEWS SUMMARIZATION USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING
Xiaojiang Huang and Xiaojun Wan

CONFIDENCE-WEIGHTED LEARNING OF FACTORED DISCRIMINATIVE LANGUAGE MODELS
Viet Ha Thuc and Nicola Cancedda

CONTRASTING MULTI-LINGUAL PROSODIC CUES TO PREDICT VERBAL FEEDBACK FOR
RAPPORT
Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow

COREFERENCE FOR LEARNING TO EXTRACT RELATIONS: YES VIRGINIA,
COREFERENCE MATTERS
Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman and Ralph Weischedel

CORPUS EXPANSION FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION WITH SEMANTICAL
ROLE LABEL SUBSTITUTION RULES
Qin Gao and Stephan Vogel

DATA POINT SELECTION FOR CROSS-LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF DEPENDENCY
PARSERS
Anders Sgaard

DATA-ORIENTED MONOLOGUE-TO-DIALOGUE GENERATION
Paul Piwek and Svetlana Stoyanchev

DEALING WITH SPURIOUS AMBIGUITY IN LEARNING ITG-BASED WORD ALIGNMENT
Shujian Huang, Stephan Vogel and Jiajun Chen

DETECTION OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT IN BROADCAST CONVERSATIONS
Wen Wang, Sibel Yaman, Kristin Precoda, Colleen Richey and Geoffrey
Raymond

DISCRETE VS. CONTINUOUS RATING SCALES FOR LANGUAGE EVALUATION IN NLP
Anja Belz and Eric Kow

DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURE-TIED MIXTURE MODELING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE
TRANSLATION
Bing Xiang and Abraham Ittycheriah

DOES SIZE MATTER  HOW MUCH DATA IS REQUIRED TO TRAIN A REG
ALGORITHM?
Marit Theune, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer and Sander Wubben

DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION BY MINING UNSEEN WORDS
Hal Daume III and Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi

EFFICIENT ONLINE LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASHING VIA RESERVOIR COUNTING
Benjamin Van Durme and Ashwin Lall

END-TO-END RELATION EXTRACTION USING DISTANT SUPERVISION FROM EXTERNAL
SEMANTIC REPOSITORIES
Truc Vien T. Nguyen and Alessandro Moschitti

ENTITY SET EXPANSION USING TOPIC INFORMATION
Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Kenji Imamura and Genichiro Kikui

ENTRAINMENT IN SPEECH PRECEDING BACKCHANNELS.
Rivka Levitan, Agustin Gravano and Julia Hirschberg

EVEN THE ABSTRACT HAVE COLOR: DETERMINING CONCEPT--COLOR ASSOCIATIONS
Saif Mohammad

EXTENDING THE ENTITY GRID WITH ENTITY-SPECIFIC FEATURES
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak

EXTRACTING OPINION EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR POLARITIES  EXPLORATION OF
PIPELINES AND JOINT MODELS
Richard Johansson and Alessandro Moschitti

FRENCH TIMEBANK: AN ISO-TIMEML ANNOTATED REFERENCE CORPUS
Andr Bittar, Pascal Amsili, Pascal Denis and Laurence Danlos

FROM BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES TO INTERLINGUAL DOCUMENT REPRESENTATIONS
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume III and Raghavendra Udupa

FULLY UNSUPERVISED WORD SEGMENTATION WITH BVE AND MDL
Daniel Hewlett and Paul Cohen

GENERALIZED INTERPOLATION IN DECISION TREE LM
Denis Filimonov and Mary Harper

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF TRANSITION-BASED DEPENDENCY PARSING
Jinho Choi and Martha Palmer

GOOD SEED MAKES A GOOD CROP: ACCELERATING ACTIVE LEARNING USING
LANGUAGE MODELING
Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer

HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS FOR
TASK-ORIENTED NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
Nina Dethlefs and Heriberto Cuayahuitl

HIERARCHICAL TEXT CLASSIFICATION WITH LATENT CONCEPTS
Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang

HOW MUCH CAN WE GAIN FROM SUPERVISED WORD ALIGNMENT?
Jinxi Xu and Jinying Chen

IDENTIFICATION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SENSES IN A MACHINE-READABLE
DICTIONARY
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

IDENTIFYING NOUN PRODUCT FEATURES THAT IMPLY OPINIONS
Lei Zhang and Bing Liu

IDENTIFYING THE SEMANTIC ORIENTATION OF FOREIGN WORDS
Ahmed Hassan, Amjad AbuJbara, Rahul Jha and Dragomir Radev

IDENTIFYING WORD TRANSLATIONS FROM COMPARABLE CORPORA USING LATENT
TOPIC MODELS
Ivan Vulic', Wim De Smet and Marie-Francine Moens

IMPROVED MODELING OF OUT-OF-VOCABULARY WORDS USING MORPHOLOGICAL
CLASSES
Thomas Mller and Hinrich Schtze

IMPROVING CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICAL ASSERTIONS IN CLINICAL NOTES
Youngjun Kim, Ellen Riloff and Stphane Meystre

IMPROVING DECODING GENERALIZATION FOR TREE-TO-STRING TRANSLATION
Jingbo Zhu and Tong Xiao

IMPROVING DEPENDENCY PARSING WITH SEMANTIC CLASSES
Eneko Agirre, Kepa Bengoetxea, Koldo Gojenola and Joakim Nivre

IMPROVING ON-LINE HANDWRITTEN RECOGNITION USING TRANSLATION MODELS IN
MULTIMODAL INTERACTIVE MACHINE TRANSLATION
Vicent Alabau, Alberto Sanchis and Francisco Casacuberta

IDENTIFYING SARCASM IN TWITTER: A CLOSER LOOK
Roberto González-Ibáńez, Smaranda Muresan and Nina Wacholder

INSERTION OPERATOR FOR BAYESIAN TREE SUBSTITUTION GRAMMARS
Hiroyuki Shindo, Akinori Fujino and Masaaki Nagata

INSERTION, DELETION, OR SUBSTITUTION? NORMALIZING TEXT MESSAGES WITHOUT
PRE-CATEGORIZATION NOR SUPERVISION
Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng and Yang Liu

INTERACTIVE GROUP SUGGESTING FOR TWITTER
Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu

IS MACHINE TRANSLATION RIPE FOR CROSS-LINGUAL SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION?
Kevin Duh and Akinori Fujino

ISSUES CONCERNING DECODING WITH SYNCHRONOUS CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMAR
Tagyoung Chung, Licheng Fang and Daniel Gildea

JOINT HEBREW SEGMENTATION AND PARSING USING A PCFGLA LATTICE PARSER
Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad

JOINT IDENTIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DIALOGUE ACTS
FOR CONVERSATIONAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
Fabrizio Morbini and Kenji Sagae

JOINT TRAINING OF DEPENDENCY PARSING FILTERS THROUGH LATENT SUPPORT
VECTOR MACHINES
Colin Cherry and Shane Bergsma

JUDGING GRAMMATICALITY WITH FEATURES FROM TREE SUBSTITUTION GRAMMAR
DERIVATIONS
Matt Post

LANGUAGE OF VANDALISM: IMPROVING WIKIPEDIA VANDALISM DETECTION VIA
STYLOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Manoj Harpalani, Sandesh Singh, Michael Hart, Rob Johnson and Yejin
Choi

LANGUAGE USE: WHAT CAN IT TELL US?
Marjorie Freedman, Alex Baron, Vasin Punyakanok and Ralph Weischedel

LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT PARSING WITH EMPTY ELEMENTS
Shu Cai, David Chiang and Yoav Goldberg

LATENT CLASS TRANSLITERATION BASED ON SOURCE LANGUAGE ORIGIN
Masato Hagiwara and Satoshi Sekine

LEARNING CONDENSED FEATURE REPRESENTATIONS FROM LARGE UNSUPERVISED DATA
SETS FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki and Masaaki Nagata

LEXICOGRAPHIC SEMIRINGS FOR EXACT AUTOMATA ENCODING OF SEQUENCE MODELS
Brian Roark, Richard Sproat and Izhak Shafran

LIARS AND SAVIORS IN A SENTIMENT ANNOTATED CORPUS OF COMMENTS TO
POLITICAL DEBATES
Paula Carvalho, Lus Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira and Mrio J. Silva

LOST IN TRANSLATION: AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION USING FRAME SEMANTICS
Steffen Hedegaard and Jakob Grue Simonsen

MODEL-PORTABILITY EXPERIMENTS FOR TEXTUAL TEMPORAL ANALYSIS
Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Steven Bethard and Marie-Francine Moens

MODELING MORPHO-SYNTACTIC AGREEMENT IN ARABIC: GENDER, NUMBER AND
RATIONALITY
Sarah Alkuhlani and Nizar Habash

MODELING WISDOM OF CROWDS USING LATENT MIXTURE OF DISCRIMINATIVE
EXPERTS
Derya Ozkan

MODELS AND TRAINING FOR UNSUPERVISED PREPOSITION SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
Dirk Hovy, Ashish Vaswani, Stephen Tratz, David Chiang and Eduard Hovy

MONOLINGUAL ALIGNMENT BY EDIT RATE COMPUTATION ON SENTENTIAL PARAPHRASE
PAIRS
Houda Bouamor, Aurlien Max and Anne Vilnat

NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN MACHINE TRANSLITERATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS ADAPTOR
GRAMMARS
Yun Huang, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan

NULEX: AN OPEN-LICENSE BROAD COVERAGE LEXICON
Clifton McFate and Kenneth Forbus

ON-LINE LANGUAGE MODEL BIASING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan

OPTIMAL AND SYNTACTICALLY-INFORMED DECODING FOR MONOLINGUAL
PHRASE-BASED ALIGNMENT
Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown

PARASENSE OR HOW TO USE PARALLEL CORPORA FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste and Martine De Cock

PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR TWITTER: ANNOTATION, FEATURES, AND
EXPERIMENTS
Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Dipanjan Das, Daniel
Mills, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Heilman, Dani Yogatama, Jeffrey
Flanigan and Noah A. Smith

POINTWISE PREDICTION FOR ROBUST, ADAPTABLE JAPANESE MORPHOLOGICAL
ANALYSIS
Graham Neubig, Yosuke Nakata and Shinsuke Mori

PREDICTING RELATIVE PROMINENCE IN NOUN-NOUN COMPOUNDS
Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore

PROBABILISTIC DOCUMENT MODELING FOR SYNTAX REMOVAL IN TEXT
SUMMARIZATION
William M. Darling and Fei Song

PUTTING IT SIMPLY: A CONTEXT-AWARE APPROACH TO LEXICAL SIMPLIFICATION
Or Biran, Samuel Brody and Noemie Elhadad

QUERY SNOWBALL: A CO-OCCURRENCE-BASED APPROACH TO MULTI-DOCUMENT
SUMMARIZATION FOR QUESTION ANSWERING
Hajime Morita, Tetsuya Sakai and Manabu Okumura

QUESTION DETECTION IN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS USING TEXTUAL CONVERSATIONS
Anna Margolis and Mari Ostendorf

QUESTION FORMULATION IN WEB SEARCH QUERIES AND ITS TEMPORAL CHANGES
Bo Pang and Ravi Kumar

RELATION GUIDED BOOTSTRAPPING OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS
Tara McIntosh, Lars Yencken, Timothy Baldwin and James R. Curran

REORDERING CONSTRAINT BASED ON DOCUMENT LEVEL CONTEXT
Takashi Onishi, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita

REORDERING MODELING USING WEIGHTED ALIGNMENT MATRICES
Wang Ling, Tiago Lus, Joo Graa, Isabel Trancoso and Lusa Coheur

REVERSIBLE STOCHASTIC ATTRIBUTE-VALUE GRAMMARS
Danil de Kok, Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord

SCALING UP CROSS-LINGUAL SEMANTIC ANNOTATION TRANSFER
Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson and Paola Merlo

SEMANTIC INFORMATION AND DERIVATION RULES FOR ROBUST DIALOGUE ACT
DETECTION IN A SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM
Wei-Bin Liang, Chung-Hsien Wu and Chia-Ping Chen

SEMI-SUPERVISED CONDENSED NEAREST NEIGHBOR FOR PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING
Anders Sgaard

SEMI-SUPERVISED FINE-GRAINED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS WITH LATENT VARIABLE
STRUCTURED CONDITIONAL MODELS
Oscar Tckstrm and Ryan McDonald

SEMI-SUPERVISED MODELING FOR PRENOMINAL MODIFIER ORDERING
Margaret Mitchell, Aaron Dunlop and Brian Roark

SUBJECTIVE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROBLEMS: MOTIVATIONS, APPLICATIONS, CHARACTERIZATIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

SUBJECTIVITY AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mona Diab and Mohammed Korayem

TEMPORAL EVALUATION
Naushad UzZaman and James Allen

TEMPORAL RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES FOR DEPENDENCY PARSING
Nikhil Garg and James Henderson

TERMINAL-AWARE SYNCHRONOUS BINARIZATION
Licheng Fang, Tagyoung Chung and Daniel Gildea

TEXT SIMPLIFICATION USING SIMPLE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA
William Coster and David Kauchak

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID: DOUBLE ENTENDRE IDENTIFICATION
Chloe Kiddon and Yuriy Brun

THE ARABIC ONLINE COMMENTARY DATASET: AN ANNOTATED DATASET OF INFORMAL
ARABIC WITH HIGH DIALECTAL CONTENT
Omar Zaidan and Chris Callison-Burch

THE SURPRISING VARIANCE IN SHORTEST-DERIVATION PARSING
Mohit Bansal and Dan Klein

THEY CAN HELP: USING CROWDSOURCING TO IMPROVE THE EVALUATION OF
GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION SYSTEMS
Nitin Madnani, Martin Chodorow, Joel Tetreault and Alla Rozovskaya

TIER-BASED STRICTLY LOCAL CONSTRAINTS FOR PHONOLOGY
Jeffrey Heinz, Chetan Rawal and Herbert Tanner

TOWARDS TRACKING SEMANTIC CHANGE BY VISUAL ANALYTICS
Christian Rohrdantz, Annette Hautli, Thomas Mayer, Miriam Butt, Daniel
A. Keim and Frans Plank

TOWARDS WRITING STYLE TRANSFORMATION FROM TEXT-STYLE TO AUDIO-STYLE
Amjad Abu-Jbara, Barbara Rosario and Kent Lyons

TRANSITION-BASED DEPENDENCY PARSING WITH RICH NON-LOCAL FEATURES
Yue Zhang and Joakim Nivre

TWO EASY IMPROVEMENTS TO LEXICAL WEIGHTING
David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe and Michael Pust

TYPED GRAPH MODELS FOR LEARNING LATENT ATTRIBUTES FROM NAMES
Delip Rao and David Yarowsky

TYPES OF COMMON-SENSE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL
ENTAILMENT
Peter LoBue and Alexander Yates

UNARY CONSTRAINTS FOR CONTEXT-FREE PARSING
Nathan Bodenstab, Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark

UNSUPERVISED DISCOVERY OF RHYME SCHEMES
Sravana Reddy and Kevin Knight

HITS-BASED SEED SELECTION AND STOP LIST CONSTRUCTION FOR BOOTSTRAPPING
Tetsuo Kiso, Masashi Shimbo, Mamoru Komachi and Yuji Matsumoto

USING DERIVATION TREES FOR TREEBANK ERROR DETECTION
Seth Kulick, Ann Bies and Justin Mott

WHY INITIALIZATION MATTERS FOR IBM MODEL 1: MULTIPLE OPTIMA AND
NON-STRICT CONVEXITY
Kristina Toutanova and Michel Galley

WHY PRESS BACKSPACE? UNDERSTANDING USER INPUT BEHAVIORS IN CHINESE
PINYIN INPUT METHOD
Yabin Zheng

WORD ALIGNMENT VIA SUBMODULAR MAXIMIZATION OVER MATROIDS
Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes

I THOU THEE, THOU TRAITOR: PREDICTING FORMAL VS. INFORMAL ADDRESS
IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Manaal Faruqui and Sebastian Pado




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