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The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesHeld at the Portland
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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