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Conference PROGRAM
| 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 | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Training Deterministic Parsers with Non-Deterministic Oracles Yoav Goldberg and Joakim Nivre |
| 10:35–11:00 | Joint Incremental Disfluency Detection and Dependency Parsin Matthew Honnibal and Mark Johnson |
| 11:25–11:50 | A Crossing-Sensitive Third-Order Factorization for Dependency Parsing Emily Pitler |
| 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 | |
| 13:20–13:45 | Exploring the Role of Stress in Bayesian Word Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars Benjamin Börschinger and Mark Johnson |
| 14:10–14:35 | FLORS: Fast and Simple Domain Adaptation for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tobias Schnabel and Hinrich Schütze |
| 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 | |
| 15:30–15:55 | A Tabular Method for Dynamic Oracles in Transition-Based Parsing Yoav Goldberg, Francesco Sartorio and Giorgio Satta |
| Session 3E: Language Resources and Evaluation I | |
| 16:20–16:45 | Temporal Annotation in the Clinical Domain William Styler, Steven Bethard, Sean Finan, Martha Palmer, Sameer Pradhan, Piet C de Groen, Brad Erickson, Timothy Miller, Chen Lin, Guergana Savova and James Pustejovsky |
| 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 |
| Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Approach Andrea Moro, Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli | |
| Data-Driven Metaphor Recognition and Explanation Hongsong Li, Kenny Q. Zhu and Haixun Wang | |
| Grounded Compositional Semantics for Finding and Describing Images with Sentences Richard Socher, Andrej Karpathy, Quoc V. Le, Christopher Manning and Andrew Ng | |
| Parallel Algorithms for Unsupervised Tagging Sujith Ravi, Sergei Vassilivitskii and Vibhor Rastogi | |
| Heterogeneous Networks and Their Applications: Scientometrics, Name Disambiguation, and Topic Modeling Ben King, Rahul Jha and Dragomir R. Radev | |
| Discriminative Lexical Semantic Segmentation with Gaps: Running the MWE Gamut Nathan Schneider, Emily Danchik, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith | |
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00–10:00 | Invited talk II: Zoran Popovic |
| 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 | |
| 10:30–10:55 | Segmentation for Efficient Supervised Language Annotation with an Explicit Cost-Utility Tradeoff Matthias Sperber, Mirjam Simantzik, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura and Alex Waibel |
| 11:45–12:10 | The Language Demographics of Amazon Mechanical Turk Ellie Pavlick, Matt Post, Ann Irvine, Dmitry Kachaev and Chris Callison-Burch |
| 12:10–13:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 5A: Question Answering | |
| Session 5B: Information Extraction III | |
| Session 5C: Lexical Sematics and Ontology I | |
| Session 5D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging IV | |
| 14:20–14:45 | Cross-lingual Projected Expectation Regularization for Weakly Supervised Learning Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning |
| Session 5E: Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics | |
| 14:45–15:15 | Coffee break |
| Session 6A: Machine Translation III | |
| Session 6B: Lexical Semantics and Ontology II | |
| Session 6C: Generation/Summarization/Dialogue | |
| Session 6D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology I | |
| Session 6E: Language Resources and Evaluation III | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 10:45–11:10 | Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard and Tamara Sumner |
| 12:00–12:25 | From image descriptions to visual denotations: New similarity metrics for semantic inference over event descriptions Peter Young, Alice Lai, Micah Hodosh and Julia Hockenmaier |
| Session 7B: Semantics III | |
| Session 7C: Machine Translation IV | |
| Session 7D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology II | |
| Session 7E: Sentiment Analysis II | |
| 10:45–11:10 | Senti-LSSVM: Sentiment-Oriented Multi-Relation Extraction with Latent Structural SVM Lizhen Qu, Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, Lili Jiang, Rainer Gemulla and Gerhard Weikum |
| 12:25–13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30–15:00 | ACL Business Meeting |
| Session 8A: NLP for the Web and Social Media II | |
| Session 8B: Semantics/Information Extraction | |
| Session 8C: Machine Translation V | |
| Session 8D: Syntax, Parsing, and Tagging V | |
| Session 8E: Multilinguality and Multimodal NLP | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:30 | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 18:30–19:00 | Closing session |