Detailed Program

All papers are online at the ACL Anthology. If you want to find your way, please look at the map of the campus.

  • The workshops and tutorials (26–27 Apr) will be at Hörsalsvägen, item 2 on the campus map.
  • The main conference (28–30 Apr) takes place at Chalmersplatsen, item 1 on the campus map.
  • Some talks at the main conference will be in the Gustaf Dalén lecture hall, item 4 on the campus map.

Instructions for presenters

  • The duration of oral presentations is 20 minutes for long papers and 10 minutes for short papers, plus 5 minutes for questions.
  • Posters should be in portrait (standing) format and have a maximal size of A1: width x height = 59 cm x 84 cm = 23 in x 33 in.
  • The assignment of poster boards is finished for session 1, and session 2

Saturday 26 April: Workshops and Tutorials

09:00-10:30
Session 1
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-12:30
Session 2
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Session 3
15:30-16:00
Coffee
16:00-17:30
Session 4

All-day workshops

HA4
CAtoCL: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Causality in Language
HB1
DM: Dialogue in Motion
HB2
MWE: 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
HB3
LaTeCH: 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
HB4
WaC: 9th Web as Corpus workshop
HC1
HaCaT: Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation
HC4
CogACLL: Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

Afternoon tutorials

HC2
Computational modelling of metaphor
Ekaterina Shutova and Tony Veale
HC3
Natural language processing for social media
Kalina Bontcheva and Leon Derczynski

Sunday 27 April: Workshops and Tutorials

09:00-10:30
Session 1
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-12:30
Session 2
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Session 3
15:30-16:00
Coffee
16:00-17:30
Session 4
19:00-21:00
Welcome Reception

All-day workshops

HB1
HyTra: 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation
HB2
MWE: 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
HB3
CVSC: 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
HB4
Louhi: 5th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
HC1
TTNLS: Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics
HC2
CLFL: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
HC3
LASM: 5th Workshop on Language Analysis for Social Media
HC4
PITR: 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations

Morning tutorials

HA1
Recent advances in dependency parsing
Ryan McDonald and Joakim Nivre
HA4
Describing images in natural language
Julia Hockenmaier

Afternoon tutorials

HA1
Structured sparsity in natural language processing: Models, algorithms and applications
André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Noah A. Smith and Dani Yogatama
HA4
Building models to reveal how natural speech is represented in the brain
Alexander Huth

Monday 28 April: Runan + Scania

Room: Runan

08:30-09:00
Opening Session
09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Dan Roth
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L1A: Machine Translation
Chair: Chris Dyer
104
Improving Word Alignment Using Linguistic Code Switching Data
Fei Huang and Alexander Yates
71
Undirected Machine Translation with Discriminative Reinforcement Learning
Andrea Gesmundo and James Henderson
67
Minimum Translation Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks
Yuening Hu, Michael Auli, Qin Gao and Jianfeng Gao
17
Maximizing Component Quality in Bilingual Word-Aligned Segmentations
Spyros Martzoukos, Christof Monz and Christophe Costa Florencio
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
S1B: Semantics
Chair: Sebastian Pado
10047
Measuring the Similarity between Automatically Generated Topics
Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson
10119
Projecting the Knowledge Graph to Syntactic Parsing
Andrea Gesmundo and Keith Hall
10131
A Vague Sense Classifier for Detecting Vague Definitions in Ontologies
Panos Alexopoulos and John Pavlopoulos
10146
Chasing Hypernyms in Vector Spaces with Entropy
Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Qin Lu and Sabine Schulte im Walde
15:00-15:15
Coffee
15:15-16:45
Poster and demo session 1
16:45-17:00
Mingle food and drinks, change of posters
17:00-18:30
Poster and demo session 2

Room: Scania

08:30-09:00
Opening Session
09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Dan Roth
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L1C: Social Media and Sentiment
Chair: Tim Baldwin
92
Multi-Granular Aspect Aggregation in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
John Pavlopoulos and Ion Androutsopoulos
232
Simple, Robust and (almost) Unsupervised Generation of Polarity Lexicons for Multiple Language
Iñaki San Vicente, Rodrigo Agerri and German Rigau
273
Mapping Dialectal Variation by Querying Social Media
Gabriel Doyle
229
Modeling the Use of Graffiti Style Features to Signal Social Relations within a Multi-Domain Learning Paradigm
Mario Piergallini, A. Seza Doḡruöz, Phani Gadde, David Adamson and Carolyn Rose
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
S1C: Spoken Language Processing and Machine Translation
Chair: Bill Byrne
10039
Tight Integration of Speech Disfluency Removal into SMT
Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel
10179
Non-Monotonic Parsing of Fluent Umm I mean Disfluent Sentences
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel Tetreault
10038
Lightly-Supervised Word Sense Translation Error Detection for an Interactive Conversational Spoken Language Translation System
Dennis Mehay, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Sanjika Hewavitharana
10054
Map Translation Using Geo-tagged Social Media
Sunyou Lee, Taesung Lee and Seung-won Hwang
15:00-15:15
Coffee
15:15-16:45
Poster and demo session 1
16:45-17:00
Mingle food and drinks, change of posters
17:00-18:30
Poster and demo session 2

Monday 28 April: Palmstedt + Gustaf Dalén

Room: Palmstedt

08:30-09:00
Opening Session
09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Dan Roth
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L1B: Semantics and Discourse
Chair: Manaal Faruqui
282
A Joint Model for Quotation Attribution and Coreference Resolution
Mariana S. C. Almeida, Miguel B. Almeida and André F. T. Martins
197
A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Induction of Script Knowledge
Lea Frermann, Ivan Titov and Manfred Pinkal
60
Inducing Example-based Semantic Frames from a Massive Amount of Verb Uses
Daisuke Kawahara, Daniel Peterson, Octavian Popescu and Martha Palmer
157
Automated Verb Sense Labelling Based on Linked Lexical Resources
Kostadin Cholakov, Judith Eckle-Kohler and Iryna Gurevych
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
S1A: Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Chair: Marius Pasca
10055
Easy Web Search Results Clustering: When Baselines Can Reach State-of-the-Art Algorithms
Jose G. Moreno and Gaël Dias
10183
Propagation Strategies for Building Temporal Ontologies
Gaël Dias, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Stéphane Ferrari and Yann Mathet
10094
Chinese Open Relation Extraction for Knowledge Acquisition
Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Lung-Hao Lee, Shu-Yen Lin, Bo-Shun Liao, Mei-Jun Liu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Oren Etzioni and Anthony Fader
10115
Temporal Text Ranking and Automatic Dating of Texts
Vlad Niculae, Marcos Zampieri, Liviu Dinu and Alina Maria Ciobanu
15:00-15:15
Coffee
15:15-16:45
Poster and demo session 1
16:45-17:00
Mingle food and drinks, change of posters
17:00-18:30
Poster and demo session 2

Room: Gustaf Dalén

8:30-9:00
Opening Session
9:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Dan Roth
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L1D: Syntax and Parsing
Chair: Joakim Nivre
108
Modelling the Lexicon in Unsupervised Part of Speech Induction
Gregory Dubbin and Phil Blunsom
276
Generalizing a Strongly Lexicalized Parser using Unlabeled Data
Tejaswini Deoskar, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Alexandra Birch and Mark Steedman
206
Special Techniques for Constituent Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages
Zsolt Szántó and Richárd Farkas
188
Leveraging Verb-Argument Structures to infer Semantic Relations
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
S1D: Machine Learning and Sequence Labeling
Chair: Phil Blunsom
10158
Predicting Romanian Stress Assignment
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Anca Dinu and Liviu Dinu
10037
Passive-Aggressive Sequence Labeling with Discriminative Post-Editing for Recognising Person Entities in Tweets
Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva
10064
Accelerated Estimation of Conditional Random Fields using a Pseudo-Likelihood-inspired Perceptron Variant
Teemu Ruokolainen, Miikka Silfverberg, Mikko Kurimo and Krister Lindén
10167
Deterministic Word Segmentation Using Maximum Matching with Fully Lexicalized Rules
Manabu Sassano
15:00-15:15
Coffee
15:15-16:45
Poster and demo session 1
16:45-17:00
Mingle food and drinks, change of posters
17:00-18:30
Poster and demo session 2

Monday 28 April: Poster/Demo Session 1

Room: Conference hall

15:15-16:45
Poster session 1
111
About Inferences in a Crowdsourced Lexical-Semantic Network
Mathieu Lafourcade, Manel Zarrouk and Alain Joubert
202
Assessing the relative reading level of sentence pairs for text simplification
Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers
10134
Bayesian Word Alignment for Massively Parallel Texts
Robert Östling
10171
Converting Russian Dependency Treebank to Stanford Typed Dependencies Representation
Janna Lipenkova and Milan Souček
254
Correcting Grammatical Verb Errors
Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth and Vivek Srikumar
77
Dependency Tree Abstraction for Long-Distance Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation
Chenchen Ding and Yuki Arase
242
Deterministic parsing using PCFGs
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Martin McCaffery
235
Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Phrase-based MT
Eva Hasler, Phil Blunsom, Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow
26
Fast Statistical Parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars
Krasimir Angelov and Peter Ljunglöf
118
Incremental Query Generation
Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Claire Gardent and Enrico Franconi
10053
Inference of Phrase-Based Translation Models via Minimum Description Length
Jesús González-Rubio and Francisco Casacuberta
10185
Integrating an Unsupervised Transliteration Model into Statistical Machine Translation
Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Hieu Hoang and Philipp Koehn
90
Is Machine Translation Getting Better over Time?
Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel
54
Learning from Post-Editing: Online Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Denkowski, Chris Dyer and Alon Lavie
10004
Painless Semi-Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields
Teemu Ruokolainen, Oskar Kohonen, Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo
129
PARADIGM: Paraphrase Diagnostics through Grammar Matching
Jonathan Weese, Juri Ganitkevitch and Chris Callison-Burch
170
Source-side Preordering for Translation using Logistic Regression and Depth-first Branch-and-Bound Search
Laura Jehl, Adrià de Gispert, Mark Hopkins and Bill Byrne
267
Structured and Unstructured Cache Models for SMT Domain Adaptation
Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber
207
Subcategorisation Acquisition from Raw Text for a Free Word-Order Language
Will Roberts, Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni
136
Translation memory retrieval methods
Michael Bloodgood and Benjamin Strauss
10103
Using a Random Forest Classifier to Compile Bilingual Dictionaries of Technical Terms from Comparable Corpora
Georgios Kontonatsios, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou
SRW
Enhancing Medical Named Entity Recognition with Features Derived from Unsupervised Methods
Maria Skeppstedt
SRW
Expanding the Range of Automatic Emotion Detection in Microblogging Text
Jasy Suet Yan Liew
SRW
Literature-Based Discovery for Oceanographic Climate Science
Elias Aamot
SRW
Now We Stronger than Ever: African-American English Syntax in Twitter
Ian Stewart
SRW
Unsupervised Relation Extraction of In-Domain Data from Focused Crawls
Steffen Remus
15:15-16:45
Demo session 1
A Lightweight Terminology Verification Service for External Machine Translation Engines
Alessio Bosca, Vassilina Nikoulina and Marc Dymetman
CASMACAT: A Computer-assisted Translation Workbench
Vicent Alabau, Christian Buck, Michael Carl, Francisco Casacuberta, Mercedes García-Martínez, Ulrich Germann, Jesús González-Rubio, Robin Hill, Philipp Koehn, Luis Leiva, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Herve Saint-Amand, Germán Sanchis Trilles and Chiara Tsoukala
CHISPA on the GO: A Mobile Chinese-Spanish Translation Service for Travellers in Trouble
Jordi Centelles, Marta R. Costa-jussà and Rafael E. Banchs
ITU Turkish NLP Web Service
Gülşen Eryiğit
Jane: Open Source Machine Translation System Combination
Markus Freitag, Matthias Huck and Hermann Ney
Morfessor 2.0: Toolkit for Statistical Morphological Segmentation
Peter Smit, Sami Virpioja, Stig-Arne Grönroos and Mikko Kurimo
Multilingual, Efficient and Easy NLP Processing with IXA Pipeline
Rodrigo Agerri, Josu Bermudez and German Rigau
RDRPOSTagger: A Ripple Down Rules-based Part-Of-Speech Tagger
Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dang Duc Pham and Son Bao Pham
Safe In-vehicle Dialogue Using Learned Predictions of User Utterances
Staffan Larsson, Fredrik Kronlid and Pontus Wärnestål
Semantic Annotation, Analysis and Comparison: A Multilingual and Cross-lingual Text Analytics Toolkit
Lei Zhang and Achim Rettinger
Speech-Enabled Hybrid Multilingual Translation for Mobile Devices
Krasimir Angelov, Björn Bringert and Aarne Ranta
The New Thot Toolkit for Fully-Automatic and Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
Daniel Ortiz-Martínez and Francisco Casacuberta
XLike Project Language Analysis Services
Xavier Carreras, Lluís Padró, Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger, Zhixing Li, Esteban García-Cuesta, Željko Agić, Bozo Bekavac, Blaz Fortuna and Tadej Štajner

Monday 28 April: Poster/Demo Session 2

Room: Conference hall

17:00-18:30
Poster session 2
59
A Knowledge-based Representation for Cross-Language Document Retrieval and Categorization
Marc Franco-Salvador, Paolo Rosso and Roberto Navigli
10170
A Probabilistic Approach to Persian Ezafe Recognition
Habibollah Asghari, Heshaam Faili and Jalal Maleki
10137
Acquiring a Dictionary of Emotion-Provoking Events
Hoa Trong Vu, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura
47
Acquisition of Noncontiguous Class Attributes from Web Search Queries
Marius Pasca
10099
Automatic Selection of Reference Pages in Wikipedia for Improving Targeted Entities Disambiguation
Takuya Makino
10059
Chinese Native Language Identification
Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras
10058
Chinese Temporal Tagging with HeidelTime
Hui Li, Jannik Strötgen, Julian Zell and Michael Gertz
220
Classifying Temporal Relations with Simple Features
Paramita Mirza and Sara Tonelli
10122
Comparing methods for deriving intensity scores for adjectives
Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand and Jasper Brandes
251
Empirically-motivated Generalizations of CCG Semantic Parsing Learning Algorithms
Jesse Glass and Alexander Yates
138
Frame Semantic Tree Kernels for Social Network Extraction from Text
Apoorv Agarwal, Sriramkumar Balasubramanian, Anup Kotalwar, Jiehan Zheng and Owen Rambow
199
Identifying fake Amazon reviews as learning from crowds
Tommaso Fornaciari and Massimo Poesio
152
Improving Distributional Semantic Vectors through Context Selection and Normalisation
Tamara Polajnar and Stephen Clark
84
Improving the Lexical Function Composition Model with Pathwise Optimized Elastic-Net Regression
Jiming Li, Marco Baroni and Georgiana Dinu
175
Incremental Bayesian Learning of Semantic Categories
Lea Frermann and Mirella Lapata
187
Iterative Constrained Clustering for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea
55
Predicting and characterising user impact on Twitter
Vasileios Lampos, Nikolaos Aletras, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Trevor Cohn
75
Regularized Structured Perceptron: A Case Study on Chinese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging and Parsing
Kaixu Zhang, Jinsong Su and Changle Zhou
303
Sentiment Propagation via Implicature Constraints
Lingjia Deng and Janyce Wiebe
142
Statistical Script Learning with Multi-Argument Events
Karl Pichotta and Raymond Mooney
10071
Unsupervised Parsing for Generating Surface-Based Relation Extraction Patterns
Jens Illig, Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
231
Using idiolects and sociolects to improve word prediction
Wessel Stoop and Antal van den Bosch
186
Word Ordering with Phrase-Based Grammars
Adrià de Gispert, Marcus Tomalin and Bill Byrne
SRW
Enhancing Medical Named Entity Recognition with Features Derived from Unsupervised Methods
Maria Skeppstedt
SRW
Expanding the Range of Automatic Emotion Detection in Microblogging Text
Jasy Suet Yan Liew
SRW
Literature-Based Discovery for Oceanographic Climate Science
Elias Aamot
SRW
Now We Stronger than Ever: African-American English Syntax in Twitter
Ian Stewart
SRW
Unsupervised Relation Extraction of In-Domain Data from Focused Crawls
Steffen Remus
17:00-18:30
Demo session2
A Graphical Interface for Automatic Error Mining in Corpora
Gregor Thiele, Wolfgang Seeker, Markus Gärtner, Anders Björkelund and Jonas Kuhn
A Spinning Wheel for YARN: User Interface for a Crowdsourced Thesaurus
Pavel Braslavski, Dmitry Ustalov and Mikhail Mukhin
Anaphora – Clause Annotation and Alignment Tool.
Borislav Rizov and Rositsa Dekova
Annotating by Proving using SemAnTE
Assaf Toledo, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Sophie Chesney, Robert Grimm, Pepijn Kokke, Benno Kruit, Kyriaki Neophytou, Antony Nguyen and Yoad Winter
Answering List Questions using Web as a Corpus
Patricia Gonçalves and Antonio Branco
Designing Language Technology Applications: A Wizard of Oz Driven Prototyping Framework
Stephan Schlögl, Pierrick Milhorat, Gérard Chollet and Jérôme Boudy
DKIE: Open Source Information Extraction for Danish
Leon Derczynski, Camilla Vilhelmsen Field and Kenneth S. Bøgh
Event Extraction for Balkan Languages
Vanni Zavarella, Dilek Kucuk, Hristo Tanev and Ali Hürriyetoğlu
Finding Terms in Corpora for Many Languages with the Sketch Engine
Miloš Jakubíček, Adam Kilgarriff, Vojtěch Kovář, Pavel Rychlý and Vít Suchomel
MMAX2 for Coreference Annotation
Mateusz Kopeć
RelationFactory: A Fast, Modular and Effective System for Knowledge Base Population
Benjamin Roth, Tassilo Barth, Grzegorz Chrupała, Martin Gropp and Dietrich Klakow
SPARSAR: An Expressive Poetry Reader
Rodolfo Delmonte and Anton Maria Prati
The GATE Crowdsourcing Plugin: Crowdsourcing Annotated Corpora Made Easy
Kalina Bontcheva, Ian Roberts, Leon Derczynski and Dominic Rout

Tuesday 29 April: Runan + Scania

Room: Runan

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Simon King
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L2B: Semantics and Discourse
Chair: Ivan Titov
216
A Latent Variable Model for Discourse-aware Concept and Entity Disambiguation
Angela Fahrni and Michael Strube
31
Topical PageRank: A Model of Scientific Expertise for Bibliographic Search
James Jardine and Simone Teufel
211
Distributional Lexical Entailment by Topic Coherence
Laura Rimell
126
Information Structure Prediction for Visual-world Referring Expressions
Micha Elsner, Hannah Rohde and Alasdair Clarke
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Business Meeting
15:00-16:00
S2B: Machine Translation
Chair: Jan Niehues
10012
Simple and Effective Approach for Consistent Training of Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Models
Stephan Peitz, David Vilar and Hermann Ney
10155
Some Experiments with a Convex IBM Model 2
Andrei Simion, Michael Collins and Cliff Stein
10150
Active Learning for Post-Editing Based Incrementally Retrained MT
Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Josef van Genabith, Qun Liu, John Judge and Antonio Toral
10009
Analysis and Prediction of Unalignable Words in Parallel Text
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh and Yuji Matsumoto
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:10
Student Research Workshop
19:45-23:00
Conference Dinner

Room: Scania

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Simon King
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L2D: Morphology
Chair: Reut Tsarfaty
225
Semi-supervised learning of morphological paradigms and lexicons
Malin Ahlberg, Markus Forsberg and Måns Huldén
97
How to Produce Unseen Teddy Bears: Improved Morphological Processing of Compounds in SMT
Fabienne Cap, Alexander Fraser, Marion Weller and Aoife Cahill
33
Type-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Joint Segmentation and POS-Tagging
Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu
TACL
Joint Morphological and Syntactic Analysis for Richly Inflected Languages
Bernd Bohnet, Joakim Nivre, Igor Boguslavsky, Richárd Farkas, Filip Ginter and Jan Hajič
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Business Meeting
15:00-16:00
S2A: Parsing
Chair: Andre Martins
10084
Improving Dependency Parsers with Supertags
Hiroki Ouchi, Kevin Duh and Yuji Matsumoto
10060
Improving Dependency Parsers using Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Bharat Ram Ambati, Tejaswini Deoskar and Mark Steedman
10102
Fast and Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing via Structural Annotations
Maximilian Schlund, Michael Luttenberger and Javier Esparza
10173
Data Driven Language Transfer Hypotheses
Ben Swanson and Eugene Charniak
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:10
Student Research Workshop, session 1
Resolving Coreferent and Associative Noun Phrases in Scientific Text 
Ina Roesiger and Simone Teufel
Modelling Unexpectedness for Irony Detection in Twitter
Francesco Barbieri and Horacio Saggion
Multi-class Animacy Classification with Semantic Features 
Johannes Bjerva
Using Minimal Recursion Semantics for Entailment Recognition 
Elisabeth Lien
19:45-23:00
Conference Dinner

Tuesday 29 April: Palmstedt + Gustaf Dalén

Room: Palmstedt

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Simon King
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L2C: Language Resources
Chair: Judith Eckle-Kohler
78
Machine Reading Tea Leaves: Automatically Evaluating Topic Coherence and Topic Model Quality
Jey Han Lau, David Newman and Timothy Baldwin
80
What Substitutes Tell Us - Analysis of an All-Words Lexical Substitution Corpus
Gerhard Kremer, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Stefan Thater
130
Weighted Krippendorff's alpha is a more reliable metrics for multi-coders ordinal annotations: experimental studies on emotion, opinion and coreference annotation
Jean-Yves Antoine, Jeanne Villaneau and Anaïs Lefeuvre
23
Discriminating Rhetorical Analogies in Social Media
Christoph Lofi, Christian Nieke and Nigel Collier
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Business Meeting
15:00-16:00
S2C: Sentiment Analysis and Generation
Chair: Carolyn Penstein Rose
10020
Enhancing Authorship Attribution By Utilizing Syntax Tree Profiles
Michael Tschuggnall and Günther Specht
10045
Multi-Domain Sentiment Relevance Classification with Automatic Representation Learning
Christian Scheible and Hinrich Schütze
10211
A New Entity Salience Task with Millions of Training Examples
Jesse Dunietz and Daniel Gillick
10021
Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation from time-series data
Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:10
Student Research Workshop, session 2
A Graph-Based Approach to String Regeneration 
Matic Horvat and William Byrne
Complexity of Word Collocation Networks: A Preliminary Structural Analysis 
Shibamouli Lahiri
Automatic Creation of Arabic Named Entity Annotated Corpus Using Wikipedia
Maha Althobaiti, Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio
Generating Artificial Errors for Grammatical Error Correction 
Mariano Felice and Zheng Yuan
19:45-23:00
Conference Dinner

Room: Gustaf Dalén

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Simon King
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L2A: Lexicon and Lexical Representation
Chair: Dan Roth
221
Learning Dictionaries for Named Entity Recognition using Minimal Supervision
Arvind Neelakantan and Michael Collins
64
Improving Vector Space Word Representations Using Multilingual Correlation
Manaal Faruqui and Chris Dyer
131
Using Distributional Similarity of Multi-way Translations to Predict Multiword Expression Compositionality
Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin
214
Word Embeddings through Hellinger PCA
Rémi Lebret and Ronan Collobert
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Business Meeting
15:00-16:00
S2D: Discourse and Semantics
Chair: Simone Teufel
10090
One Sense per Tweeter ... and Other Lexical Semantic Tales of Twitter
Spandana Gella, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin
10154
Zero subject detection for Polish
Mateusz Kopeć
10032
Crowdsourcing Annotation of Non-Local Semantic Roles
Parvin Sadat Feizabadi and Sebastian Padó
10159
Coreference Resolution Evaluation for Higher Level Applications
Don Tuggener
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:10
Student Research Workshop
19:45-23:00
Conference Dinner

Wednesday 30 April: Runan + Scania

Room: Runan

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Ulrike von Luxburg
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L3A: Machine Translation
Chair: Laura Jehl
218
Applying the semantics of negation to SMT through n-best list re-ranking
Federico Fancellu and Bonnie Webber
338
Bilingual Sentiment Consistency for Statistical Machine Translation
Boxing Chen and Xiaodan Zhu
306
Augmenting Translation Models with Simulated Acoustic Confusions for Improved Spoken Language Translation
Yulia Tsvetkov, Florian Metze and Chris Dyer
TACL
Automatic Detection and Language Identification of Multilingual Document
Marco Lui, Jey Han Lau and Timothy Baldwin
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Best paper awards and closing
212
Learning part-of-speech taggers with inter-annotator agreement loss
Barbara Plank, Dirk Hovy and Anders Søgaard
10075
Efficient Online Summarization of Microblogging Streams
Andrei Olariu
18:15-19:30
Cortège carnival
21:00-03:00
FestU kalas

Room: Scania

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Ulrike von Luxburg
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L3C: Information Extraction and Applications
Chair: Julia Hockenmaier
289
Encoding Semantic Resources in Syntactic Structures for Passage Reranking
Kateryna Tymoshenko, Alessandro Moschitti and Aliaksei Severyn
29
Automatic Food Categorization from Large Unlabeled Corpora and Its Impact on Relation Extraction
Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
42
Redundancy Detection in ESL Writings
Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa
109
Fast Recursive Multi-class Classification of Pairs of Text Entities for Biomedical Event Extraction
Xiao Liu, Antoine Bordes and Yves Grandvalet
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Best paper awards and closing
18:15-19:30
Cortège carnival
21:00-03:00
FestU kalas

Wednesday 30 April: Palmstedt + Gustaf Dalén

Room: Palmstedt

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Ulrike von Luxburg
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L3D: Generation and Summarization
Chair: Claire Gardent
45
Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation
Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon
150
Improving the Estimation of Word Importance for News Multi-Document Summarization
Kai Hong and Ani Nenkova
185
Hybrid text simplification using synchronous dependency grammars with hand-written and automatically harvested rules
Advaith Siddharthan and Angrosh Mandya
315
A Summariser based on Human Memory Limitations and Lexical Competition
Yimai Fang and Simone Teufel
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Best paper awards and closing
18:15-19:30
Cortège carnival
21:00-03:00
FestU kalas

Room: Gustaf Dalén

09:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Ulrike von Luxburg
10:15-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:25
L3B: Pragmatics/Discourse
Chair: Micha Elsner
22
A Generative Model for User Simulation in a Spatial Navigation Domain
Aciel Eshky, Ben Allison, Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Mark Steedman
132
Verbose, Laconic or Just Right: A Simple Computational Model of Content Appropriateness under Length Constraints
Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
256
Discovering Implicit Discourse Relations Through Brown Cluster Pair Representation and Coreference Patterns
Attapol Rutherford and Nianwen Xue
291
“I Object!” Modeling Latent Pragmatic Effects in Courtroom Dialogues
Dan Goldwasser and Hal Daumé III
12:25-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Best paper awards and closing
18:15-19:30
Cortège carnival
21:00-03:00
FestU kalas