Conference program for EMNLP 2013
All papers are available in PDF format on the ACL Antology, and can also be downloaded as a zipfile here.
Chair: Stephen Bethard
Chair: Julia Hockenmaier
Chair: Noah Smith
Chair: Hang Li
Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer
Chair: Emily Bender
Chair: Kevin Knight
Chair: Eugene Charniak
Chair: Anders Sogaard
Chair: Chris Dyer
Chair: Lucy Vanderwende
Chair: Soumen Chakrabarti
Chair: Kristina Toutanova
Chair: Dipanjan Das
Chair: Oren Tsur
Chair: Taro Watanabe
Chair: Ellen Riloff
Chair: Min-Yen Kan
Chair: Andreas Vlachos
Chair: Bing Liu
Chair: Chin-Yew Lin
Chair: Keith Hall
Chair: Martha Palmer
Chair: Richart Sproat
Chair: Anna Krohonen
Chair: Tim Baldwin
Program overview
Saturday, Oct 19
7:30–9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:00–9:15
Opening remarks
9:20–10:30
Information Extraction I, Language Acquisition and Processing,
NLP for Social Media I
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:35
NLP Applications I, Semantics I, Language Resources
12:35–2:00
Lunch
2:00–3:15
First invited talk: Andrew Ng
3:15–3:45
Break
3:45–5:50
Machine Translation I, Dialogue and Discourse, Morphology and Phonology
6:00–9:00pm
Reception and Poster sessions (A, B)
Sunday, Oct 20
8:00–9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:15–10:30
Second invited talk: Fernando Pereira
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:35
Machine Learning for NLP, Summarization and Generation,
Information Extraction and Social Media Analysis
12:35–2:00
Lunch
2:00–3:35
Machine Translation II, Semantics II, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis I
3:35–4:05
Break
4:05–5:55
Machine Translation III, Information Extraction II, NLP Applications II
Monday, Oct 21
8:00–9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:00–10:35
Information Extraction III, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis II ,
NLP for Social Media II
10:35–11:00
Break
11:00–11:45
Parsing, Semantics III, NLP Applications III
11:45–12:15
SIGDAT business meeting
12:15–1:45
Lunch
1:45–3:15
Plenary session I
3:15–3:45
Break
3:45–4:45
Plenary session II
4:45–5:15
Closing session
Full conference programme
Saturday, Oct 19
Information Extraction I
9:20–9:45
Event-based Time Label Propagation for Automatic Dating of News Articles
Tao Ge, Baobao Chang, Sujian Li and Zhifang Sui
9:45–10:10
Exploiting Discourse Analysis for Article-Wide Temporal Classification
Jun Ping Ng, Min-Yen Kan, Ziheng Lin, Vanessa Wei Feng, Bin Chen, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan
10:10–10:30
Combining Generative and Discriminative Model Scores for Distant Supervision
Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
Language Acquisition and Processing
9:20–9:45
Exploring the utility of joint morphological and syntactic learning from child-directed speech
Stella Frank, Frank Keller and Sharon Goldwater
9:45–10:10
A Joint Learning Model of Word Segmentation, Lexical Acquisition, and Phonetic Variability
Micha Elsner, Sharon Goldwater, Naomi Feldman and Frank Wood
10:10–10:30
Animacy Detection with Voting Models
( Joshua Moore, Chris Burges, Erin Renshaw and Wen-tau Yih ))
NLP for Social Media I
9:20–9:45
A Log-Linear Model for Unsupervised Text Normalization
Yi Yang and Jacob Eisenstein
9:45–10:10
Paraphrasing 4 Microblog Normalization
Wang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan Black and Isabel Trancoso
10:10–10:30
Question Difficulty Estimation in Community Question Answering Services
Jing Liu, Quan Wang and Chin-Yew Lin
NLP Applications I
11:00–11:25
Measuring Ideological Proportions in Political Speeches
Yanchuan Sim, Brice Acree, Justin H. Gross and Noah A. Smith
11:25–11:50
Learning to Freestyle: Hip Hop Challenge-Response Induction via Transduction Rule Chunking and Segmentation
Dekai Wu, Karteek Addanki and Markus Saers
11:50–12:15
Modeling Scientific Impact with Topical Influence Regression
James Foulds and Padhraic Smyth
12:15–12:35
Joint Parsing and Disfluency Detection in Linear Time
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel Tetreault
Semantics I
11:00–11:25
Modeling and Learning Semantic Co-Compositionality through Prototype Projections and Neural Networks
Masashi Tsubaki, Kevin Duh, Masashi Shimbo and Yuji Matsumoto
11:25–11:50
Studying the recursive behaviour of adjectival modification with compositional distributional semantics
Eva Maria Vecchi, Roberto Zamparelli and Marco Baroni
11:50–12:15
Learning Latent Word Representations for Domain Adaptation using Supervised Word Clustering
Min Xiao, Feipeng Zhao and Yuhong Guo
12:15–12:35
Appropriately Incorporating Statistical Significance in PMI
Om Damani and Shweta Ghonge
Language Resources
11:00–11:25
Growing Multi-Domain Glossaries from a Few Seeds with Probabilistic Topic Models
Stefano Faralli and Roberto Navigli
11:25–11:50
Joint Learning of Phonetic Units and Word Pronunciations for ASR
Chia-ying Lee, Yu Zhang and James Glass
11:50–12:15
MCTest: A Challenge Dataset for the Open-Domain Machine Comprehension of Text
Matthew Richardson, Chris Burges and Erin Renshaw
12:15–12:35
Noise-aware Character Alignment for Bootstrapping Statistical Machine Transliteration from Bilingual Corpora
Katsuhito Sudoh, Shinsuke Mori and Masaaki Nagata
Machine Translation I
3:45–4:10
Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation
Alexander Rush, Yin-Wen Chang and Michael Collins
4:10–4:35
An Efficient Language Model Using Double-Array Structures
Makoto Yasuhara, Toru Tanaka, Jun-ya Norimatsu and Mikio Yamamoto
4:35–5:00
Structured Penalties for Log-Linear Language Models
Anil Nelakanti, Cedric Archambeau, Julien Mairal, Francis Bach and Guillaume Bouchard
5:00–5:25
Interactive Machine Translation using Hierarchical Translation Models
Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortíz-Martinez, José-Miguel Benedí and Francisco Casacuberta
5:25–5:50
Max-Margin Synchronous Grammar Induction for Machine Translation
Xinyan Xiao and Deyi Xiong
Dialogue and Discourse
3:45–4:10
Error-Driven Analysis of Challenges in Coreference Resolution
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld and Dan Klein
4:10–4:35
Exploiting Zero Pronouns to Improve Chinese Coreference Resolution
Fang Kong and Hwee Tou Ng
4:35–5:00
Joint Coreference Resolution and Named-Entity Linking with Multi-pass Sieves
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Leila Zilles, Daniel S. Weld and Luke Zettlemoyer
5:00–5:25
Interpreting Anaphoric Shell Nouns using Antecedents of Cataphoric Shell Nouns as Training Data
Varada Kolhatkar, Heike Zinsmeister and Graeme Hirst
5:25–5:50
Parsing entire discourses as very long strings: Capturing topic continuity in grounded language learning [TACL]
Minh-Thang Luong, Michael C. Frank, Mark Johnson
Morphology and Phonology
3:45–4:10
Exploring Representations from Unlabeled Data with Co-training for Chinese Word Segmentation
Longkai Zhang, Houfeng Wang, Xu Sun and Mairgup Mansur
4:10–4:35
Efficient Higher-Order CRFs for Morphological Tagging
Thomas Mueller, Hinrich Schuetze and Helmut Schmid
4:35–5:00
The Effects of Syntactic Features in Automatic Prediction of Morphology
Wolfgang Seeker and Jonas Kuhn
5:00–5:25
Adaptor Grammars for Learning non-concatenative Morphology
Jan Botha and Phil Blunsom
Reception and Poster sessions
6:30–8:30pm
Dinner
6:00–7:30pm
Poster session A
7:30–9:00pm
Poster session B
Poster session A (6:00–7:30pm)
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Automatic Feature Engineering for Answer Selection and Extraction
Aliaksei Severyn and Alessandro Moschitti
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Joint Learning and Inference for Grammatical Error Correction
Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth
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Grounding Strategic Conversation: Using negotiation dialogues to predict trades in a win-lose game
Anais Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara and Alex Lascarides
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Document Summarization via Guided Sentence Compression
Chen Li, Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng and Yang Liu
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Latent Anaphora Resolution for Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction
Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre
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Using Paraphrases and Lexical Semantics to Improve the Accuracy and the Robustness of Supervised Models in Situated Dialogue Systems
Claire Gardent and Lina Maria Rojas Barahona
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Building Specialized Bilingual Lexicons Using Large Scale Background Knowledge
Dhouha Bouamor, Adrian Popescu, Nasredine Semmar and Pierre Zweigenbaum
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Automatic Domain Partitioning for Multi-Domain Learning
Di Wang, Chenyan Xiong and William Yang Wang
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Exploiting language models for visual recognition
Dieu-Thu Le, Jasper Uijlings and Raffaella Bernardi
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Word Level Language Identification in Online Multilingual Communication
Dong Nguyen and Seza Dogruoz
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Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation
Ellen Riloff, Ashequl Qadir, Prafulla Surve, Lalindra De Silva, Nathan Gilbert and Ruihong Huang
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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Open Relation Extraction
Filipe Mesquita, Jordan Schmidek and Denilson Barbosa
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Unsupervised Spectral Learning of WCFG as Low-rank Matrix Completion
Franco M. Luque, Raphaël Bailly, Xavier Carreras and Ariadna Quattoni
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With blinkers on: A robust model of eye movements across readers
Franz Matthies and Anders Søgaard
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Online Learning for Inexact Hypergraph Search
Hao Zhang, Kai Zhao, Liang Huang and Ryan McDonald
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Anchor Graph: Global Reordering Contexts for Statistical Machine Translation
Hendra Setiawan, Bowen Zhou and Bing Xiang
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Joint Bootstrapping of Corpus Annotations and Entity Types
Hrushikesh Mohapatra, Siddhanth Jain and Soumen Chakrabarti
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Centering Similarity Measures to Reduce Hubs
Ikumi Suzuki, Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Marco Saerens and Kenji Fukumizu
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The Topology of Semantic Knowledge
Jimmy Dubuisson, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Christian Scheible and Hinrich Schütze
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Automatically Classifying Edit Categories in Wikipedia Revisions
Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych
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Two-stage Method for Large-scale Acquisition of Contradiction Pattern Pairs using Entailment
Julien Kloetzer, Stijn De Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa, Chikara Hashimoto, Jong-Hoon Oh, Motoki Sano and Kiyonori Ohtake
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Dynamic Programming for Optimal Best-First Shift-Reduce Parsing
Kai Zhao, James Cross and Liang Huang
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A Constrained Latent Variable Model for Coreference Resolution
Kai-Wei Chang, Rajhans Samdani and Dan Roth
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Identifying Phrasal Verbs Using Many Bilingual Corpora
Karl Pichotta and John DeNero
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Rule-based Information Extraction is Dead! Long Live Rule-based Information Extraction Systems!
Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li and Frederick Reiss
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What is Hidden among Translation Rules
Libin Shen and Bowen Zhou
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Optimized Event Storyline Generation based on Mixture-Event-Aspect Model
Lifu Huang and Lian'en Huang
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A discourse-driven content model for summarising scientific articles evaluated in a complex question answering task
Maria Liakata, Simon Dobnik, Shyamasree Saha, Colin Batchelor and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
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Open-Domain Fine-Grained Class Extraction from Web Search Queries
Marius Pasca
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Flexible and Efficient Hypergraph Interactions for Joint Hierarchical and Forest-to-String Decoding
Martin Cmejrek, Haitao Mi and Bowen Zhou
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Scaling to Large^3 Data: An efficient and effective method to compute Distributional Thesauri
Martin Riedl and Chris Biemann
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Improving Learning and Inference in a Large Knowledge-base using Latent Syntactic Cues
Matt Gardner, Partha Talukdar, Bryan Kisiel and Tom Mitchell
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Unsupervised Induction of Cross-lingual Semantic Relations
Mike Lewis
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A Corpus Level MIRA Tuning Strategy for Machine Translation
Ming Tan, Tian Xia, Shaojun Wang and Bowen Zhou
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Unsupervised Relation Extraction with General Domain Knowledge
Oier Lopez de Lacalle and Mirella Lapata
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Recursive Autoencoders for ITG-based Translation
Peng Li, Yang Liu and Maosong Sun
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Russian Stress Prediction using Maximum Entropy Ranking
Richard Sproat and Keith Hall
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Towards Situated Dialogue: Revisiting Referring Expression Generation
Rui Fang, Changsong Liu, Lanbo She and Joyce Chai
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Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-gram Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Isao Goto, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu
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Is Twitter A Better Corpus for Measuring Sentiment Similarity?
Shi Feng, Le Zhang, Kaisong Song and Daling Wang
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A synchronous context free grammar for time normalization
Steven Bethard
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Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein
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Automatically Determining a Proper Length for Multi-document Summarization: A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach
Tengfei Ma and Hiroshi Nakagawa
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Improving Alignment of System Combination by Using Multi-objective Optimization
Tian Xia, Zongcheng Ji and Yidong Chen
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Source-Side Classifier Preordering for Machine Translation
Uri Lerner and Slav Petrov
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Implicit Feature Detection via a Constrained Topic Model and SVM
Wei Wang, Hua Xu and XIaoqiu Huang
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Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating Structured Annotation of Queries
Xiao Ding, Zhicheng Dou, Bing Qin, Ting Liu and Ji-rong Wen
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Improving Pivot-Based Statistical Machine Translation Using Random Walk
Xiaoning Zhu, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Conghui Zhu and Tiejun Zhao
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Deep Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging
Xiaoqing Zheng, Hanyang Chen and Tianyu Xu
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Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging on Heterogeneous Annotated Corpora with Multiple Task Learning
Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang
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Semi-Markov Phrase-based Monolingual Alignment
Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch and Peter Clark
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Discriminative Improvements to Distributional Sentence Similarity
Yangfeng Ji and Jacob Eisenstein
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Mining Scientific Terms and their Definitions: A Study of the ACL Anthology
Yiping Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Jun-Ping Ng and Xiangnan He
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Cascading Collective Classification for Bridging Anaphora Recognition using a Rich Linguistic Feature Set
Yufang Hou, Katja Markert and Michael Strube
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Microblog Entity Linking by Leveraging Multiple Posts
Yuhang Guo, Bing Qin, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
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Efficient Collective Entity Linking with Stacking
Zhengyan He, Shujie Liu, Yang Song, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Houfeng Wang
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Unsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes
Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Larissa Munishkina, Reid Swanson and Marilyn Walker
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Factored Soft Source Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Machine Translation
Zhongqiang Huang, Jacob Devlin and Rabih Zbib
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Collective Personal Profile Summarization with Social Networks
Zhongqing Wang, Shoushan LI, Fang Kong and Guodong Zhou
Poster session B (7:30–9:00pm)
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Identifying Web Search Query Reformulation using Concept based Matching
Ahmed Hassan
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Leveraging lexical cohesion and disruption for topic segmentation
Anca-Roxana Simon, Guillaume Gravier and Pascale Sébillot
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Monolingual Marginal Matching for Translation Model Adaptation
Ann Irvine, Chris Quirk and Hal Daumé III
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Decoding with Large-Scale Neural Language Models Improves Translation
Ashish Vaswani, yinggong zhao, Victoria Fossum and David Chiang
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Tree Kernel-based Negation and Speculation Scope Detection with Structured Syntactic Parse Features
Bowei Zou, Guodong Zhou and ZHU QIAOMING
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Machine Learning for Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution: Some Recent Advances
Chen Chen and Vincent Ng
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A temporal model of text periodicities using Gaussian Processes
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Trevor Cohn
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Image Description using Visual Dependency Representations
Desmond Elliott and Frank Keller
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Naive Bayes Word Sense Induction
Do Kook Choe and Eugene Charniak
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Detecting Compositionality of Multi-Word Expressions using Nearest Neighbours in Vector Space Models
Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark
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A Semantically Enhanced Approach to Determine Textual Similarity
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan
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An Empirical Study Of Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation Using Co-Training
Fan Yang and Paul Vozila
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Translation with Source Constituency and Dependency Trees
Fandong Meng, Jun Xie, Linfeng Song, Yajuan Lü and Qun Liu
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Predicting the Presence of Discourse Connectives
Gary Patterson and Andrew Kehler
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Automatic Idiom Identification in Wiktionary
Grace Muzny and Luke Zettlemoyer
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A Dataset for Research on Short-Text Conversation
Hao Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li and Enhong Chen
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Violation-Fixing Perceptron and Forced Decoding for Scalable MT Training
heng yu, Liang Huang and Haitao Mi
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Improvements to the Bayesian Topic N-gram Models
Hiroshi Noji, Daichi Mochihashi and Yusuke Miyao
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Connecting Language and Knowledge Bases with Embedding Models for Relation Extraction
Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Oksana Yakhnenko and Nicolas Usunier
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Simulating Early-Termination Search for Verbose Spoken Queries
Jerome White, Douglas Oard, Nitendra Rajput and Marion Zalk
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Mining New Business Opportunities: Identifying Trend related Products by Leveraging Commercial Intents from Microblogs
Jinpeng Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao and Xiaoming Li
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Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Word Class Models
Joern Wuebker, Stephan Peitz, Felix Rietig and Hermann Ney
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Dependency language models for sentence completion
Joseph Gubbins and Andreas Vlachos
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Leveraging Alternative Grammar Extraction Strategies using Lagrangian Relaxation with PCFG-LA Product Model Parsing: A Case Study with Function Labels and Binarization
joseph le roux, Antoine Rozenknop and Jennifer Foster
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The VerbCorner Project: Toward an empirically-based semantic decomposition of verbs
Joshua Hartshorne, Claire Bonial and Martha Palmer
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Where Not to Eat? Predicting Restaurant Inspections from Online Reviews
Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Michael Luca and Yejin Choi
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Shift-Reduce Word Reordering for Machine Translation
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Jun Suzuki and Masaaki NAGATA
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Averaged Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Relation Classification
Kazuma Hashimoto, Makoto Miwa, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Takashi Chikayama
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A Systematic Exploration of Diversity in Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel, Dhruv Batra, Chris Dyer and Gregory Shakhnarovich
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Elephant: Sequence Labeling for Word and Sentence Segmentation
Kilian Evang, Valerio Basile, Grzegorz Chrupała and Johan Bos
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Multi-domain Adaptation for SMT Using Multi-task Learning
Lei Cui, Xilun Chen, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li and Ming Zhou
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Sentiment Analysis: How to Derive Prior Polarities from SentiWordNet
Marco Guerini, Lorenzo Gatti and Marco Turchi
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Efficient Left-to-Right Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation with Improved Reordering
Maryam Siahbani, Baskaran Sankaran and Anoop Sarkar
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Japanese Zero Reference Resolution Considering Exophora and Author/Reader Mentions
Masatsugu Hangyo, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi
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Joint Language and Translation Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks
Michael Auli, Michel Galley, Chris Quirk and Geoffrey Zweig
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The Answer is at your Fingertips: Improving Passage Retrieval for Web Question Answering with Search Behavior Data
Mikhail Ageev, Dmitry Lagun and Eugene Agichtein
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Gender Inference of Twitter Users in Non-English Contexts
Morgane Ciot, Morgan Sonderegger and Derek Ruths
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Automatically Identifying Pseudepigraphic Texts
Moshe Koppel and Shachar Seidman
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Predicting the resolution of referring expressions from user behavior
Nikos Engonopoulos, Martin Villalba, Ivan Titov and Alexander Koller
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Assembling the Kazakh Language Corpus
Olzhas Makhambetov, Aibek Makazhanov, Zhandos Yessenbayev, Bakhyt Matkarimov, Islam Sabyrgaliyev and Anuar Sharafudinov
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Application of Localized Similarity for Web Documents
Peter Reberšek and Mateja Verlic
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Using Topic Modeling to Improve Prediction of Neuroticism and Depression in College Students
Philip Resnik, Anderson Garron and Rebecca Resnik
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Understanding and Quantifying Creativity in Lexical Composition
Polina Kuznetsova, Jianfu Chen and Yejin Choi
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Discourse Level Explanatory Relation Extraction from Product Reviews Using First-order Logic
Qi ZHANG, Jin Qian, Huan Chen, Jihua Kang and Xuanjing Huang
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Automatic Extraction of Morphological Lexicons from Morphologically Annotated Corpora
Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow
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Joint segmentation and supertagging for English
Rebecca Dridan
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Exploiting Multiple Sources for Open-domain Hypernym Discovery
Ruiji Fu, Bing Qin and Ting Liu
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Automatic Knowledge Acquisition for Case Alternation between the Passive and Active Voices in Japanese
Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi and Manabu Okumura
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A Walk-based Semantically Enriched Tree Kernel Over Distributed Word Representations
Shashank Srivastava, Dirk Hovy and Eduard Hovy
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Summarizing Complex Events: a Cross-modal Solution of Storylines Extraction and Reconstruction
Shize Xu and Yan Zhang
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Feature Noising for Log-linear Structured Prediction
Sida Wang, Mengqiu Wang, Chris Manning, Percy Liang and Stefan Wager
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Automatically Detecting and Attributing Indirect Quotations
Silvia Pareti, Tim O'Keefe, Ioannis Konstas, James R. Curran and Irena Koprinska
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A Multimodal LDA Model integrating Textual, Cognitive and Visual Modalities
Stephen Roller and Sabine Schulte im Walde
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Identifying Multiple Userids of the Same Author
Tieyun Qian and Bing Liu
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Semi-supervised Feature Transformation for Dependency Parsing
Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang and Yue Zhang
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Bilingual Word Embeddings for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Will Zou, Richard Socher, Daniel Cer and Christopher Manning
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A Laplacian Structured Sparsity Model for Computational Branding Analytics
William Yang Wang, Eduard Lin and John Kominek
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Building Event Threads out of Multiple News Articles
Xavier Tannier and Véronique Moriceau
Sunday, Oct 20
Machine Learning for NLP
11:00–11:25
Dual Coordinate Descent Algorithms for Efficient Large Margin Structured Prediction [TACL]
Ming-Wei Chang, Wen-tau Yih
11:25–11:50
Dynamic Feature Selection for Dependency Parsing
He He, Hal Daumé III and Jason Eisner
11:50–12:15
Semi-Supervised Representation Learning for Cross-Lingual Text Classification
Min Xiao and Yuhong Guo
12:15–12:35
Using crowdsourcing to get representations based on regular expressions
Anders Søgaard, Hector Martinez, Jakob Elming and Anders Johannsen
Summarization and Generation
11:00–11:25
Overcoming the Lack of Parallel Data in Sentence Compression
Katja Filippova and Yasemin Altun
11:25–11:50
Fast Joint Compression and Summarization via Graph Cuts
Xian Qian and Yang Liu
11:50–12:15
Inducing Document Plans for Concept-to-text Generation
Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata
12:15–12:35
Single-Document Summarization as a Tree Knapsack Problem
Tsutomu Hirao, Yasuhisa Yoshida, Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda and Masaaki Nagata
Information Extraction and Social Media Analysis
11:00–11:25
A Hierarchical Entity-based Approach to Structuralize User Generated Content in Social Media: A Case of Yahoo! Answers
Baichuan Li, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Irwin King and Michael R. Lyu
11:25–11:50
Semantic Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs
Jonathan Berant, Roy Frostig, Andrew Chou and Percy Liang
11:50–12:15
Scaling Semantic Parsers with On-the-fly Ontology Matching
Tom Kwiatkowski, Eunsol Choi, Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer
12:15–12:35
Classifying Message Board Posts with an Extracted Lexicon of Patient Attributes
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff
Machine Translation II
2:00–2:25
Lexical Chain Based Cohesion Models for Document-Level Statistical Machine Translation
Deyi Xiong, Yang Ding, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan
2:25–2:50
Measuring machine translation errors in new domains [TACL]
Ann Irvine, John Morgan, Marine Carpuat, Hal Daumé III, Dragos Munteanu
2:50–3:15
A Convex Alternative to IBM Model 2
Andrei Simion, Michael Collins and Cliff Stein
3:15–3:35
Pair Language Models for Deriving Alternative Pronunciations and Spellings from Pronunciation Dictionaries
Russell Beckley and Brian Roark
Semantics II
2:00–2:25
Prior Disambiguation of Word Tensors for Constructing Sentence Vectors
Dimitri Kartsaklis and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
2:25–2:50
Multi-Relational Latent Semantic Analysis
Kai-Wei Chang, Wen-tau Yih and Christopher Meek
2:50–3:15
A Study on Bootstrapping Bilingual Vector Spaces from Non-Parallel Data (and Nothing Else)
Ivan Vuli and Marie-Francine Moens
3:15–3:35
Deriving adjectival scales from continuous space word representations
Joo-Kyung Kim and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis I
2:00–2:25
Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank
Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Wu, Christopher Manning, Andrew Ng and Jason Chuang
2:25–2:50
Open Domain Targeted Sentiment
Margaret Mitchell, Jacqui Aguilar, Theresa Wilson and Benjamin Van Durme
2:50–3:15
Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Aspect Extraction
Zhiyuan Chen, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Meichun Hsu, Malu Castellanos and Riddhiman Ghosh
Machine Translation III
4:05–4:30
Dependency-Based Decipherment for Resource-Limited Machine Translation
Qing Dou and Kevin Knight
4:30–4:55
Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages with Synthetic Phrases
Victor Chahuneau, Eva Schlinger, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith
4:55–5:20
Boosting Cross-Language Retrieval by Learning Bilingual Phrase Associations from Relevance Rankings
Artem Sokokov, Laura Jehl, Felix Hieber and Stefan Riezler
5:20–5:55
Recurrent Continuous Translation Models
Nal Kalchbrenner and Phil Blunsom
Information Extraction II
4:05–4:30
Learning Biological Processes with Global Constraints
Aju Thalappillil Scaria, Jonathan Berant, Mengqiu Wang, Peter Clark, Justin Lewis, Brittany Harding and Christopher Manning
4:30–4:55
Generating Coherent Event Schemas at Scale
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Stephen Soderland, Mausam and Oren Etzioni
4:55–5:20
Modeling Missing Data in Distant Supervision for Information Extraction [TACL]
Alan Ritter, Luke Zettlemoyer, Mausam and Oren Etzioni
5:20–5:55
Orthonormal explicit topic analysis for cross-lingual document matching
John Philip McCrae, Philipp Cimiano and Roman Klinger
NLP Applications II
4:05–4:30
Automated Essay Scoring by Maximizing Human-machine Agreement
Hongbo Chen and Ben He
4:30–4:55
Powergrading: a Clustering Approach to Amplify Human Effort for Short Answer Grading [TACL]
Sumit Basu, Charles Jacobs and Lucy Vanderwende
4:55–5:20
Success with Style: Using Writing Style to Predict the Success of Novels
Vikas Ashok, Song Feng and Yejin Choi
5:20–5:55
A Generative Joint, Additive, Sequential Model of Topics and Speech Acts in Patient-Doctor Communication
Byron Wallace, Thomas Trikalinos, M Barton Laws, Ira Wilson and Eugene Charniak
Monday, Oct 21
Information Extraction III
9:00–9:25
Harvesting Parallel News Streams to Generate Paraphrases of Event Relations
Congle Zhang and Daniel Weld
9:25–9:50
Relational Inference for Wikification
Xiao Cheng and Dan Roth
9:50–10:15
Event Schema Induction with a Probabilistic Entity-Driven Model
Nate Chambers
10:15–10:35
Using Soft Constraints in Joint Inference for Clinical Concept Recognition
Prateek Jindal and Dan Roth
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis II
9:00–9:25
Exploring Demographic Language Variations to Improve Multilingual Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
Svitlana Volkova, Theresa Wilson and David Yarowsky
9:25–9:50
Opinion Mining in Newspaper Articles by Entropy-based Word Connections
Thomas Scholz and Stefan Conrad
9:50–10:15
Collective Opinion Target Extraction in Chinese Microblogs
Xinjie Zhou, Xiaojun Wan and Jianguo Xiao
10:15–10:35
Detecting Promotional Content in Wikipedia
Shruti Bhosale, Heath Vinicombe and Ray Mooney
NLP for Social Media II
9:00–9:25
Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Yanchuan Sim, Jing Jiang and Noah A. Smith
9:25–9:50
A Unified Model for Topics, Events and Users on Twitter
Qiming Diao and Jing Jiang
9:50–10:15
Authorship Attribution of Micro-Messages
Roy Schwartz, Oren Tsur, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel
10:15–10:35
Detection of Product Comparisons -- How Far Does an Out-of-the-box Semantic Role Labeling System Take You?
Wiltrud Kessler and Jonas Kuhn
Parsing
11:00–11:25
A multi-Teraflop Constituency Parser using GPUs
John Canny, David Hall and Dan Klein
11:25–11:45
Fish transporters and miracle homes: How compositional distributional semantics can help NP parsing
Angeliki Lazaridou, Eva Maria Vecchi and Marco Baroni
Semantics III
11:00–11:25
Learning Distributions over Logical Forms for Referring Expression Generation
Nicholas FitzGerald, Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer
11:25–11:45
Learning to rank lexical substitutions
György Szarvas, Róbert Busa-Fekete and Eyke Hüllermeier
NLP Applications III
11:00–11:25
Identifying Manipulated Offerings on Review Portals
Jiwei Li, Myle Ott and Claire Cardie
11:25–11:45
Well-argued recommendation: adaptive models based on words in recommender systems
Julien Gaillard, Marc El-Beze, Eitan Altman and Emmanuel Ethis
Plenary Session I
1:45–2:15
Regularized Minimum Error Rate Training
Michel Galley, Chris Quirk, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova
2:15–2:45
Of words, eyes and brains: Correlating image-based distributional semantic models with neural representations of concepts
Andrew J. Anderson, Elia Bruni, Ulisse Bordignon, Massimo Poesio and Marco Baroni
2:45–3:15
Easy Victories and Uphill Battles in Coreference Resolution
Greg Durrett and Dan Klein
Plenary Session II
3:45–4:15
Breaking Out of Local Optima with Count Transforms and Model Recombination: A Study in Grammar Induction
Valentin Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi and Daniel Jurafsky
4:15–4:45
Cross-Lingual Discriminative Learning of Sequence Models with Posterior Regularization
Kuzman Ganchev and Dipanjan Das
4:45–5:15
Closing session