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Conference PROGRAM
Sunday, June 22, 2014 | |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00–12:30 | Morning Tutorial |
| Session T1: Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing | |
| Session T2: Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms | |
| Session T3: Semantics for Large-Scale Multimedia: New Challenges for NLP | |
| Session T4: Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–17:30 | Afternoon Tutorial |
| Session T5: New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning | |
| Session T6: Structured Belief Propagation for NLP | |
| Session T7: Semantics, Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation | |
| Session T8: Syntactic Processing Using Global Discriminative Learning and Beam-Search Decoding | |
| 18:00–21:00 | Welcome Reception |
Monday, June 23, 2014 | |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:55–9:00 | Opening session |
| 9:00–9:40 | President talk |
| 9:40–10:10 | Coffee break |
| Session 1A: Discourse, Dialogue, Coreference and Pragmatics | |
| Session 1B: Semantics I | |
| Session 1C: Machine Translation I | |
| Session 1D: Syntax, Parsing, and Tagging I | |
| Session 1E: NLP for the Web and Social Media I | |
| 11:50–13:20 | Lunch break; Student Lunch |
| Session 2A: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging II | |
| Session 2B: Semantics II | |
| Session 2C: Word Segmentation and POS Tagging | |
| Session 2D: SRW | |
| Session 2E: Sentiment Analysis I | |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 3A: Topic Modeling | |
| Session 3B: Information Extraction I | |
| Session 3C: Generation | |
| Session 3D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging III | |
| Session 3E: Language Resources and Evaluation I | |
| 16:45–17:00 | Break |
| 17:00–18:00 | Invited talk I: Corinna Cortes |
| Oral Sessions for Student Research Workshop Posters | |
| 18:50–21:30 | Poster and Dinner Session I: TACL Papers, Long Papers, Short Papers, Student Research Workshop; Demonstrations |
| Exploring the Relative Role of Bottom-up and Top-down Information in Phoneme Learning Abdellah Fourtassi, Thomas Schatz, Balakrishnan Varadarajan and Emmanuel Dupoux | |
| Biases in Predicting the Human Language Model Alex B. Fine, Austin F. Frank, T. Florian Jaeger and Benjamin Van Durme | |
| Probabilistic Labeling for Efficient Referential Grounding based on Collaborative Discourse Changsong Liu, Lanbo She, Rui Fang and Joyce Y. Chai | |
| A Composite Kernel Approach for Dialog Topic Tracking with Structured Domain Knowledge from Wikipedia Seokhwan Kim, Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li | |
| An Extension of BLANC to System Mentions Xiaoqiang Luo, Sameer Pradhan, Marta Recasens and Eduard Hovy | |
| Scoring Coreference Partitions of Predicted Mentions: A Reference Implementation Sameer Pradhan, Xiaoqiang Luo, Marta Recasens, Eduard Hovy, Vincent Ng and Michael Strube | |
| Measuring Sentiment Annotation Complexity of Text Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mishra, Nivvedan Senthamilselvan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya | |
| Improving Citation Polarity Classification with Product Reviews Charles Jochim and Hinrich Schütze | |
| Adaptive Recursive Neural Network for Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification Li Dong, Furu Wei, Chuanqi Tan, Duyu Tang, Ming Zhou and Ke Xu | |
| Sprinkling Topics for Weakly Supervised Text Classification Swapnil Hingmire and Sutanu Chakraborti | |
| A Feature-Enriched Tree Kernel for Relation Extraction Le Sun and Xianpei Han | |
| Employing Word Representations and Regularization for Domain Adaptation of Relation Extraction Thien Huu Nguyen and Ralph Grishman | |
| Graph Ranking for Collective Named Entity Disambiguation Ayman Alhelbawy and Robert Gaizauskas | |
| Descending-Path Convolution Kernel for Syntactic Structures Chen Lin, Timothy Miller, Alvin Kho, Steven Bethard, Dmitriy Dligach, Sameer Pradhan and Guergana Savova | |
| Entities’ Sentiment Relevance Zvi Ben-Ami, Ronen Feldman and Binyamin Rosenfeld | |
| Automatic Detection of Multilingual Dictionaries on the Web Gintare Grigonyte and Timothy Baldwin | |
| Automatic Detection of Cognates Using Orthographic Alignment Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu | |
| Automatically constructing Wordnet Synsets Khang Nhut Lam, Feras Al Tarouti and Jugal Kalita | |
| Constructing a Turkish-English Parallel TreeBank Olcay Taner Yıldız, Ercan Solak, Onur Görgün and Razieh Ehsani | |
| Improved Typesetting Models for Historical OCR Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein | |
| Robust Logistic Regression using Shift Parameters Julie Tibshirani and Christopher D. Manning | |
| Faster Phrase-Based Decoding by Refining Feature State Kenneth Heafield, Michael Kayser and Christopher D. Manning | |
| Decoder Integration and Expected BLEU Training for Recurrent Neural Network Language Models Michael Auli and Jianfeng Gao | |
| On the Elements of an Accurate Tree-to-String Machine Translation System Graham Neubig and Kevin Duh | |
| Simple extensions and POS Tags for a reparameterised IBM Model 2 Douwe Gelling and Trevor Cohn | |
| Dependency-based Pre-ordering for Chinese-English Machine Translation Jingsheng Cai, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Yujie Zhang | |
| Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction Noura Farra, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya and Nizar Habash | |
| Improved Iterative Correction for Distant Spelling Errors Sergey Gubanov, Irina Galinskaya and Alexey Baytin | |
| Predicting Grammaticality on an Ordinal Scale Michael Heilman, Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani, Melissa Lopez, Matthew Mulholland and Joel Tetreault | |
| I’m a Belieber: Social Roles via Self-identification and Conceptual Attributes Charley Beller, Rebecca Knowles, Craig Harman, Shane Bergsma, Margaret Mitchell and Benjamin Van Durme | |
| Automatically Detecting Corresponding Edit-Turn-Pairs in Wikipedia Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych | |
| Two Knives Cut Better Than One: Chinese Word Segmentation with Dual Decomposition Mengqiu Wang, Rob Voigt and Christopher D. Manning | |
| Effective Document-Level Features for Chinese Patent Word Segmentation Si Li and Nianwen Xue | |
| Word Segmentation of Informal Arabic with Domain Adaptation Will Monroe, Spence Green and Christopher D. Manning | |
| Resolving Lexical Ambiguity in Tensor Regression Models of Meaning Dimitri Kartsaklis, Nal Kalchbrenner and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh | |
| A Novel Content Enriching Model for Microblog Using News Corpus Yunlun Yang, Zhihong Deng and Hongliang Yu | |
| Learning Bilingual Word Representations by Marginalizing Alignments Tomáš Kočiský, Karl Moritz Hermann and Phil Blunsom | |
| Detecting Retries of Voice Search Queries Rivka Levitan and David Elson | |
| Sliding Alignment Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning Mohammad Kazemi, Rahman Lavaee, Iftekhar Naim and Daniel Gildea | |
| Detection of Topic and its Extrinsic Evaluation Through Multi-Document Summarization Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto | |
| Content Importance Models for Scoring Writing From Sources Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein and Swapna Somasundaran | |
| Chinese Morphological Analysis with Character-level POS Tagging Mo Shen, Hongxiao Liu, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi | |
| Part-of-Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Fields: Exploiting Sub-Label Dependencies for Improved Accuracy Miikka Silfverberg, Teemu Ruokolainen, Krister Lindén and Mikko Kurimo | |
| POS induction with distributional and morphological information using a distance-dependent Chinese restaurant process Kairit Sirts, Jacob Eisenstein, Micha Elsner and Sharon Goldwater | |
| Improving the Recognizability of Syntactic Relations Using Contextualized Examples Aditi Muralidharan and Marti A. Hearst | |
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00–10:00 | Invited talk II: Zoran Popović |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 4A: Machine Learning for NLP | |
| Session 4B: Information Extraction II | |
| Session 4C: Machine Translation II | |
| Session 4D: Summarization | |
| Session 4E: Language Resources and Evaluation II | |
| 12:10–13:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 5A: Question Answering | |
| Session 5B: Information Extraction III | |
| Session 5C: Lexical Semantics and Ontology I | |
| Session 5D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging IV | |
| Session 5E: Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics | |
| 14:45–15:15 | Coffee break |
| Session 6A: Machine Translation III | |
| 15:15–15:30 | How to Speak a Language without Knowing It Xing Shi, Kevin Knight and Heng Ji |
| 15:30–15:45 | Assessing the Discourse Factors that Influence the Quality of Machine Translation Junyi Jessy Li, Marine Carpuat and Ani Nenkova |
| 15:45–16:00 | Automatic Detection of Machine Translated Text and Translation Quality Estimation Roee Aharoni, Moshe Koppel and Yoav Goldberg |
| Session 6B: Lexical Semantics and Ontology II | |
| 15:15–15:30 | Improving sparse word similarity models with asymmetric measures Jean Mark Gawron |
| 15:30–15:45 | Dependency-Based Word Embeddings Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg |
| 15:45–16:00 | Vector spaces for historical linguistics: Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony Florent Perek |
| Session 6C: Generation/Summarization/Dialogue | |
| 15:15–15:30 | Single Document Summarization based on Nested Tree Structure Yuta Kikuchi, Tsutomu Hirao, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura and Masaaki Nagata |
| 15:30–15:45 | Linguistic Considerations in Automatic Question Generation Karen Mazidi and Rodney D. Nielsen |
| 15:45–16:00 | Polynomial Time Joint Structural Inference for Sentence Compression Xian Qian and Yang Liu |
| 16:00–16:15 | A Bayesian Method to Incorporate Background Knowledge during Automatic Text Summarization Annie Louis |
| 16:15–16:30 | Predicting Power Relations between Participants in Written Dialog from a Single Thread Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Owen Rambow |
| Session 6D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology I | |
| 15:15–15:30 | Tri-Training for Authorship Attribution with Limited Training Data Tieyun Qian, Bing Liu, Li Chen and Zhiyong Peng |
| 15:30–15:45 | Automation and Evaluation of the Keyword Method for Second Language Learning Gözde Özbal, Daniele Pighin and Carlo Strapparava |
| 15:45–16:00 | Citation Resolution: A method for evaluating context-based citation recommendation systems Daniel Duma and Ewan Klein |
| 16:00–16:15 | Hippocratic Abbreviation Expansion Brian Roark and Richard Sproat |
| 16:15–16:30 | Unsupervised Feature Learning for Visual Sign Language Identification Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Onno Crasborn, Peter Wittenburg, Sebastian Drude and Tom Heskes |
| Session 6E: Language Resources and Evaluation III | |
| 15:15–15:30 | Experiments with crowdsourced re-annotation of a POS tagging data set Dirk Hovy, Barbara Plank and Anders Søgaard |
| 15:30–15:45 | Building Sentiment Lexicons for All Major Languages Yanqing Chen and Steven Skiena |
| 15:45–16:00 | Difficult Cases: From Data to Learning, and Back Beata Beigman Klebanov and Eyal Beigman |
| 16:00–16:15 | The VerbCorner Project: Findings from Phase 1 of crowd-sourcing a semantic decomposition of verbs Joshua K. Hartshorne, Claire Bonial and Martha Palmer |
| 16:15–16:30 | A Corpus of Sentence-level Revisions in Academic Writing: A Step towards Understanding Statement Strength in Communication Chenhao Tan and Lillian Lee |
| 16:50–19:20 | Poster and Dinner Session II: Long Papers, Short Papers and Demonstrations in Grand BallroomI/II/III/IV/V/VI/VII/VIII |
| Determiner-Established Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Pedagogical Text Shomir Wilson and Jon Oberlander | |
| Modeling Factuality Judgments in Social Media Text Sandeep Soni, Tanushree Mitra, Eric Gilbert and Jacob Eisenstein | |
| A Topic Model for Building Fine-grained Domain-specific Emotion Lexicon Min Yang, Dingju Zhu and Kam-Pui Chow | |
| Depeche Mood: a Lexicon for Emotion Analysis from Crowd Annotated News Jacopo Staiano and Marco Guerini | |
| Improving Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Topic-Based Mixture Modeling and Semi-Supervised Training Bing Xiang and Liang Zhou | |
| Cross-cultural Deception Detection Verónica Pérez-Rosas and Rada Mihalcea | |
| Particle Filter Rejuvenation and Latent Dirichlet Allocation Chandler May, Alex Clemmer and Benjamin Van Durme | |
| Comparing Automatic Evaluation Measures for Image Description Desmond Elliott and Frank Keller | |
| Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia Colby Horn, Cathryn Manduca and David Kauchak | |
| Cheap and easy entity evaluation Ben Hachey, Joel Nothman and Will Radford | |
| Identifying Real-Life Complex Task Names with Task-Intrinsic Entities from Microblogs Ting-Xuan Wang, Kun-Yu Tsai and Wen-Hsiang Lu | |
| Mutual Disambiguation for Entity Linking Eric Charton, Marie-Jean Meurs, Ludovic Jean-Louis and Michel Gagnon | |
| How Well can We Learn Interpretable Entity Types from Text? Dirk Hovy | |
| Learning Translational and Knowledge-based Similarities from Relevance Rankings for Cross-Language Retrieval Shigehiko Schamoni, Felix Hieber, Artem Sokolov and Stefan Riezler | |
| Two-Stage Hashing for Fast Document Retrieval Hao Li, Wei Liu and Heng Ji | |
| An Annotation Framework for Dense Event Ordering Taylor Cassidy, Bill McDowell, Nathanael Chambers and Steven Bethard | |
| Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong? Barbara Plank, Dirk Hovy and Anders Søgaard | |
| Humans Require Context to Infer Ironic Intent (so Computers Probably do, too) Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Laura Kertz and Eugene Charniak | |
| Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in context Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer | |
| Combining Word Patterns and Discourse Markers for Paradigmatic Relation Classification Michael Roth and Sabine Schulte im Walde | |
| Applying a Naive Bayes Similarity Measure to Word Sense Disambiguation Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst | |
| Fast Easy Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Marginalized Structured Dropout Yi Yang and Jacob Eisenstein | |
| Improving Lexical Embeddings with Semantic Knowledge Mo Yu and Mark Dredze | |
| Optimizing Segmentation Strategies for Simultaneous Speech Translation Yusuke Oda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| A joint inference of deep case analysis and zero subject generation for Japanese-to-English statistical machine translation Taku Kudo, Hiroshi Ichikawa and Hideto Kazawa | |
| A Hybrid Approach to Skeleton-based Translation Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu and Chunliang Zhang | |
| Effective Selection of Translation Model Training Data Le Liu, Yu Hong, Hao Liu, Xing Wang and Jianmin Yao | |
| Refinements to Interactive Translation Prediction Based on Search Graphs Philipp Koehn, Chara Tsoukala and Herve Saint-Amand | |
| Cross-lingual Model Transfer Using Feature Representation Projection Mikhail Kozhevnikov and Ivan Titov | |
| Cross-language and Cross-encyclopedia Article Linking Using Mixed-language Topic Model and Hypernym Translation Yu-Chun Wang, Chun-Kai Wu and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai | |
| Nonparametric Method for Data-driven Image Captioning Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak | |
| Improved Correction Detection in Revised ESL Sentences Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa | |
| Unsupervised Alignment of Privacy Policies using Hidden Markov Models Rohan Ramanath, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh and Noah A. Smith | |
| Enriching Cold Start Personalized Language Model Using Social Network Information Yu-Yang Huang, Rui Yan, Tsung-Ting Kuo and Shou-De Lin | |
| Automatic Labelling of Topic Models Learned from Twitter by Summarisation Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave, Yulan He and Ruifeng Xu | |
| Stochastic Contextual Edit Distance and Probabilistic FSTs Ryan Cotterell, Nanyun Peng and Jason Eisner | |
| Labelling Topics using Unsupervised Graph-based Methods Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson | |
| Training a Korean SRL System with Rich Morphological Features Young-Bum Kim, Heemoon Chae, Benjamin Snyder and Yu-Seop Kim | |
| Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He and Christopher Meek | |
| On WordNet Semantic Classes and Dependency Parsing Kepa Bengoetxea, Eneko Agirre, Joakim Nivre, Yue Zhang and Koldo Gojenola | |
| Enforcing Structural Diversity in Cube-pruned Dependency Parsing Hao Zhang and Ryan McDonald | |
| The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English: First Parsing Results and Analysis Seth Kulick, Anthony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini | |
| Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini and Mark Liberman | |
| 19:30–22:00 | Social at the National Aquarium in Baltimore |
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| Best paper session | |
| 10:15–10:45 | Coffee break |
| Session 7A: Multimodal NLP/ Lexical Semantics | |
| Session 7B: Semantics III | |
| Session 7C: Machine Translation IV | |
| Session 7D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology II | |
| Session 7E: Sentiment Analysis II | |
| 12:25–13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30–15:00 | ACL Business Meeting |
| Session 8A: NLP for the Web and Social Media II | |
| 15:00–15:15 | Learning Polylingual Topic Models from Code-Switched Social Media Documents Nanyun Peng, Yiming Wang and Mark Dredze |
| 15:15–15:30 | Normalizing tweets with edit scripts and recurrent neural embeddings Grzegorz Chrupała |
| 15:30–15:45 | Exponential Reservoir Sampling for Streaming Language Models Miles Osborne, Ashwin Lall and Benjamin Van Durme |
| 15:45–16:00 | A Piece of My Mind: A Sentiment Analysis Approach for Online Dispute Detection Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 16:00–16:15 | A Simple Bayesian Modelling Approach to Event Extraction from Twitter Deyu Zhou, Liangyu Chen and Yulan He |
| 16:15–16:30 | Be Appropriate and Funny: Automatic Entity Morph Encoding Boliang Zhang, Hongzhao Huang, Xiaoman Pan, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight, Zhen Wen, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han and Bulent Yener |
| Session 8B: Semantics/Information Extraction | |
| 15:00–15:15 | Applying Grammar Induction to Text Mining Andrew Salway and Samia Touileb |
| 15:15–15:30 | Semantic Consistency: A Local Subspace Based Method for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction Xianpei Han and Le Sun |
| 15:30–15:45 | Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning Felix Hill and Anna Korhonen |
| 15:45–16:00 | Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman |
| 16:00–16:15 | Recognizing Implied Predicate-Argument Relationships in Textual Inference Asher Stern and Ido Dagan |
| 16:15–16:30 | Measuring metaphoricity Jonathan Dunn |
| Session 8C: Machine Translation V | |
| 15:00–15:15 | Empirical Study of Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Methods for SMT on Large-scale Corpora Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 15:15–15:30 | EM Decipherment for Large Vocabularies Malte Nuhn and Hermann Ney |
| 15:30–15:45 | XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations Chi-kiu Lo, Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers and Dekai Wu |
| 15:45–16:00 | Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection Wael Salloum, Heba Elfardy, Linda Alamir-Salloum, Nizar Habash and Mona Diab |
| 16:00–16:15 | RNN-based Derivation Structure Prediction for SMT Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong |
| 16:15–16:30 | Hierarchical MT Training using Max-Violation Perceptron Kai Zhao, Liang Huang, Haitao Mi and Abe Ittycheriah |
| Session 8D: Syntax, Parsing, and Tagging V | |
| 15:00–15:15 | Punctuation Processing for Projective Dependency Parsing Ji Ma, Yue Zhang and Jingbo Zhu |
| 15:15–15:30 | Transforming trees into hedges and parsing with "hedgebank" grammars Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Aaron Dunlop and Brian Roark |
| 15:30–15:45 | Incremental Predictive Parsing with TurboParser Arne Köhn and Wolfgang Menzel |
| 15:45–16:00 | Tailoring Continuous Word Representations for Dependency Parsing Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel and Karen Livescu |
| 16:00–16:15 | Observational Initialization of Type-Supervised Taggers Hui Zhang and John DeNero |
| 16:15–16:30 | How much do word embeddings encode about syntax? Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein |
| Session 8E: Multilinguality and Multimodal NLP | |
| 15:00–15:15 | Distributed Representations of Geographically Situated Language David Bamman, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith |
| 15:15–15:30 | Improving Multi-Modal Representations Using Image Dispersion: Why Less is Sometimes More Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Anna Korhonen and Stephen Clark |
| 15:30–15:45 | Bilingual Event Extraction: a Case Study on Trigger Type Determination Zhu Zhu, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou and Rui Xia |
| 15:45–16:00 | Understanding Relation Temporality of Entities Taesung Lee and Seung-won Hwang |
| 16:00–16:15 | Does the Phonology of L1 Show Up in L2 Texts? Garrett Nicolai and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 16:15–16:30 | Cross-lingual Opinion Analysis via Negative Transfer Detection Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Jun Xu, Jian Xu, Bin Liu and Xiaolong Wang |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:30 | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 18:30–19:00 | Closing session |