Sunday, October 26, 2014 |
08:00–17:00 | Registration (Area 3) |
08:00–09:00 | Refreshments (Area 3-4) |
| Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4) |
08:40–09:00 | Opening Remarks, QNRF Presentation, Conference Logistics, Paper Selection Process and Statistics Alessandro Moschitti, Rekha Pillai , Kareem M. Darwish, and Walter Daelemans
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09:00–10:00 | Invited Talk: IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!
Salim Roukos
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10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 1a: Neural Net Mixer I (Al-Areen 1-2) |
10:30–10:55 | Modeling Interestingness with Deep Neural Networks -
Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon, Xiaodong He and Li Deng
Presentation
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10:55–11:20 | Translation Modeling with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks -
Martin Sundermeyer, Tamer Alkhouli, Joern Wuebker and Hermann Ney |
11:20–11:45 | A Neural Network Approach to Selectional Preference Acquisition -
Tim Van de Cruys |
11:45–12:10 | Learning Image Embeddings using Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Multi-Modal Semantics -
Douwe Kiela and Léon Bottou |
| Session 1b: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics (Al-Areen 3) |
10:30–10:55 | Identifying Argumentative Discourse Structures in Persuasive Essays -
Christian Stab and Iryna Gurevych |
10:55–11:20 | Policy Learning for Domain Selection in an Extensible Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System -
Zhuoran Wang, Hongliang Chen, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang |
11:20–11:45 | A Constituent-Based Approach to Argument Labeling with Joint Inference in Discourse Parsing -
Fang Kong, Hwee Tou Ng and Guodong Zhou |
11:45–12:10 | Strongly Incremental Repair Detection -
Julian Hough and Matthew Purver
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| Session 1c: Segmentation / Spoken Language (Al-Areen 4) |
10:30–10:55 | Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation Using Partial-Label Learning With Conditional Random Fields -
Fan Yang and Paul Vozila |
10:55–11:20 | Accurate Word Segmentation and POS Tagging for Japanese Microblogs: Corpus Annotation and Joint Modeling with Lexical Normalization -
Nobuhiro Kaji and Masaru Kitsuregawa |
11:20–11:45 | Revisiting Embedding Features for Simple Semi-supervised Learning -
Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu |
11:45–12:10 | Combining Punctuation and Disfluency Prediction: An Empirical Study -
Xuancong Wang, Khe Chai Sim and Hwee Tou Ng |
| Session 1p: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 5-6) |
10:30–12:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Submodularity for Data Selection in Machine Translation
Katrin Kirchhoff and Jeff Bilmes |
| Improve Statistical Machine Translation with Context-Sensitive Bilingual Semantic Embedding Model
Haiyang Wu, Daxiang Dong, Xiaoguang Hu, Dianhai Yu, Wei He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu |
| Transformation from Discontinuous to Continuous Word Alignment Improves Translation Quality
Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu |
| Unsupervised Word Alignment Using Frequency Constraint in Posterior Regularized EM
Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura |
| Asymmetric Features Of Human Generated Translation
Sauleh Eetemadi and Kristina Toutanova |
| Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation using Syntax-Label Clustering
Hideya MINO, Taro WATANABE and Eiichiro SUMITA |
| Testing for Significance of Increased Correlation with Human Judgment
Yvette Graham and Timothy Baldwin |
| Syntactic SMT Using a Discriminative Text Generation Model
Yue Zhang, Kai Song, Linfeng Song, Jingbo Zhu and Qun Liu
Poster
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| Learning Hierarchical Translation Spans
jingyi zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Hai Zhao |
| Neural Network Based Bilingual Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
Poster |
| Better Statistical Machine Translation through Linguistic Treatment of Phrasal Verbs
Kostadin Cholakov and Valia Kordoni |
| Fitting Sentence Level Translation Evaluation with Many Dense Features
Miloš Stanojević and Khalil Sima’an |
| A Human Judgement Corpus and a Metric for Arabic MT Evaluation
Houda Bouamor, Hanan Alshikhabobakr, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer |
| Learning to Differentiate Better from Worse Translations
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov and Massimo Nicosia
Poster
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| Two Improvements to Left-to-Right Decoding for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation
Maryam Siahbani and Anoop Sarkar |
| Reordering Model for Forest-to-String Machine Translation
Martin Cmejrek |
12:10–13:30 | Lunch Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 2a: Computational Psycholinguistics (Al-Areen 1-2) |
13:30–13:55 | Aligning context-based statistical models of language with brain activity during reading -
Leila Wehbe, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight and Tom Mitchell |
13:55–14:20 | A Cognitive Model of Semantic Network Learning -
Aida Nematzadeh, Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson
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14:20–14:45 | The Benefits of a Model of Annotation
Rebecca J. Passonneau and Bob Carpenter |
14:45–15:10 | Learning Abstract Concept Embeddings from Multi-Modal Data: Since You Probably Can’t See What I Mean -
Felix Hill and Anna Korhonen |
| Session 2b: Tagging, Chunking, Parsing and Syntax (Al-Areen 3) |
13:30–13:55 | Go Climb a Dependency Tree and Correct the Grammatical Errors -
Longkai Zhang and Houfeng WANG |
13:55–14:20 | An Unsupervised Model for Instance Level Subcategorization Acquisition -
Simon Baker, Roi Reichart and Anna Korhonen
Dataset |
14:20–14:45 | Parsing low-resource languages using Gibbs sampling for PCFGs with latent annotations -
Liang Sun, Jason Mielens and Jason Baldridge |
14:45–15:10 | Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar -
Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller, Vera Demberg and Mirella Lapata
Presentation
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| Session 2c: NLP for the Web and Social Media (Al-Areen 4) |
13:30–13:55 | A Graph-based Approach for Contextual Text Normalization -
Cagil Sonmez and Arzucan Ozgur
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13:55–14:20 | Entity Linking on Microblogs with Spatial and Temporal Signals
Yuan Fang and Ming-Wei Chang |
14:20–14:45 | ReNoun: Fact Extraction for Nominal Attributes -
Mohamed Yahya, Steven Whang, Rahul Gupta and Alon Halevy
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14:45–15:10 | Hierarchical Discriminative Classification for Text-Based Geolocation -
Benjamin Wing and Jason Baldridge |
| Session 2p: Semantics (Al-Areen 5-6) |
13:30–15:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Probabilistic Models of Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity in Context Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts Induced from Comparable Data
Ivan Vulić and Marie-Francine Moens |
| Multi-Predicate Semantic Role Labeling
Haitong Yang and Chengqing Zong |
| Werdy: Recognition and Disambiguation of Verbs and Verb Phrases with Syntactic and Semantic Pruning
Luciano Del Corro, Rainer Gemulla and Gerhard Weikum |
| Multi-Resolution Language Grounding with Weak Supervision
R. Koncel-Kedziorski, Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Ali Farhadi |
| Incorporating Vector Space Similarity in Random Walk Inference over Knowledge Bases
Matt Gardner, Partha Talukdar, Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom Mitchell
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| Composition of Word Representations Improves Semantic Role Labelling
Michael Roth and Kristian Woodsend |
| Automatic Domain Assignment for Word Sense Alignment
Tommaso Caselli and Carlo Strapparava
Poster
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| Nothing like Good Old Frequency: Studying Context Filters for Distributional Thesauri
Muntsa Padró, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio and Carlos Ramisch |
| Aligning English Strings with Abstract Meaning Representation Graphs
Nima Pourdamghani, Yang Gao, Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight
Poster;
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| A Shortest-path Method for Arc-factored Semantic Role Labeling
Xavier Lluís, Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez
Poster
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| Semantic Kernels for Semantic Parsing
Iman Saleh, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez and Shafiq Joty
Poster
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| Multi-Modal Models for Concrete and Abstract Concept Meaning Felix Hill, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen |
| An I-vector Based Approach to Compact Multi-Granularity Topic Spaces Representation of Textual Documents
Mohamed Morchid, Mohamed Bouallegue, Richard Dufour, Georges Linares, Driss Matrouf and Renato de Mori
Poster
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15:10–15:40 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 3a: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (Al-Areen 1-2) |
15:40–16:05 | Explaining the Stars: Weighted Multiple-Instance Learning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis |
16:05–16:30 | Sentiment Analysis on the People’s Daily -
Jiwei Li and Eduard Hovy |
16:30–16:55 | A Joint Segmentation and Classification Framework for Sentiment Analysis -
Duyu Tang, Furu Wei, Bing Qin, Li Dong, Ting Liu and Ming Zhou
Presentation
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16:55–17:20 | Positive Unlabeled Learning for Deceptive Reviews Detection -
yafeng ren, donghong ji and hongbin zhang |
| Session 3b: Semantics (Al-Areen 3) |
15:40–16:05 | Resolving Shell Nouns -
Varada Kolhatkar and Graeme Hirst |
16:05–16:30 | A Comparison of Selectional Preference Models for Automatic Verb Classification -
Will Roberts and Markus Egg
Presentation
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16:30–16:55 | Learning to Solve Arithmetic Word Problems with Verb Categorization -
Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Oren Etzioni and Nate Kushman |
16:55–17:20 | NaturalLI: Natural Logic Inference for Common Sense Reasoning
Gabor Angeli and Christopher D. Manning
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| Session 3c: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 4) |
15:40–16:05 | Modeling Term Translation for Document-informed Machine Translation -
Fandong Meng, Deyi Xiong, Wenbin Jiang and Qun Liu |
16:05–16:30 | Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation -
Qing Dou, Ashish Vaswani and Kevin Knight
Presentation;
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16:30–16:55 | Latent Domain Phrase-based Models for Adaptation -
Cuong Hoang and Khalil Sima’an |
16:55–17:20 | Translation Rules with Right-Hand Side Lattices -
Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi |
| Session 3p: Information Retrieval, Summarization and Question Answering (Al-Areen 5-6) |
15:40–17:20 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Learning to Translate: A Query-Specific Combination Approach for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Ferhan Ture and Elizabeth Boschee
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| Semantic-Based Multilingual Document Clustering via Tensor Modeling
Salvatore Romeo, Andrea Tagarelli and Dino Ienco
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| Lexical Substitution for the Medical Domain
Martin Riedl, Michael Glass and Alfio Gliozzo
Poster
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| Question Answering with Subgraph Embeddings
Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra and Jason Weston |
| Correcting Keyboard Layout Errors and Homoglyphs in Queries
Derek Barnes, Mahesh Joshi and Hassan Sawaf
Poster
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| Non-linear Mapping for Improved Identification of 1300+ Languages
Ralf Brown |
| A Neural Network for Factoid Question Answering over Paragraphs
Mohit Iyyer, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Leonardo Claudino, Richard Socher and Hal Daumé III
Poster;
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| Joint Relational Embeddings for Knowledge-based Question Answering
Min-Chul Yang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou and Hae-Chang Rim
Poster
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| Adding High-Precision Links to Wikipedia
Thanapon Noraset, Chandra Bhagavatula and Doug Downey |
| Crosslingual and Multilingual Construction of Syntax-Based Vector Space Models Jason Utt and Sebastian Padó |
| Finding Good Enough: A Task-Based Evaluation of Query Biased Summarization for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Jennifer Williams, Sharon Tam and Wade Shen |
| Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks
Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata |
| Fear the REAPER: A System for Automatic Multi-Document Summarization with Reinforcement Learning
Cody Rioux, Sadid A. Hasan and Yllias Chali |
| Improving Multi-documents Summarization by Sentence Compression based on Expanded Constituent Parse Trees
Chen Li, Yang Liu, Fei Liu, Lin Zhao and Fuliang Weng |
| Analyzing Stemming Approaches for Turkish Multi-Document Summarization
Muhammed Yavuz Nuzumlalı and Arzucan Özgür
Poster;
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Monday, October 27, 2014 |
08:00–17:00 | Registration (Area 3) |
08:00–09:00 | Refreshments (Area 3-4) |
| Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4) |
09:00–10:00 | Invited Talk: Learning from Rational Behavior
Thorsten Joachims
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10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 4a: Neural Net Mixer II (Al-Areen 1-2) |
10:30–10:55 | Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings -
Dmitrijs Milajevs, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Matthew Purver
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10:55–11:20 | Opinion Mining with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks -
Ozan Irsoy and Claire Cardie
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11:20–11:45 | The Inside-Outside Recursive Neural Network model for Dependency Parsing -
Phong Le and Willem Zuidema |
11:45–12:10 | A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks -
Danqi Chen and Christopher Manning
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| Session 4b: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics / Summarization and Generation (Al-Areen 3) |
10:30–10:55 | Why are You Taking this Stance? Identifying and Classifying Reasons in Ideological Debates -
Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng |
10:55–11:20 | Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution: An Unsupervised Probabilistic Model Rivaling Supervised Resolvers
Chen Chen and Vincent Ng |
11:20–11:45 | Unsupervised Sentence Enhancement for Automatic Summarization -
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn |
11:45–12:10 | ReferItGame: Referring to Objects in Photographs of Natural Scenes -
Sahar Kazemzadeh, Vicente Ordonez, Mark Matten and Tamara Berg |
| Session 4c: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 4) |
10:30–10:55 | Unsupervised Template Mining for Semantic Category Understanding -
Lei Shi, Shuming Shi, Chin-Yew Lin, Yi-Dong Shen and Yong Rui |
10:55–11:20 | Taxonomy Construction Using Syntactic Contextual Evidence -
Tuan Luu Anh, Jung-jae Kim and See Kiong Ng
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11:20–11:45 | Analysing recall loss in named entity slot filling -
Glen Pink, Joel Nothman and James R. Curran |
11:45–12:10 | Relieving the Computational Bottleneck: Joint Inference for Event Extraction with High-Dimensional Features -
Deepak Venugopal, Chen Chen, Vibhav Gogate and Vincent Ng |
| Session 4p: Segmentation, Tagging and Parsing (Al-Areen 5-6) |
10:30–12:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Syllable weight encodes mostly the same information for English word segmentation as dictionary stress
John K Pate and Mark Johnson |
| A Joint Model for Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation
Miaohong Chen, Baobao Chang and Wenzhe Pei |
| Domain Adaptation for CRF-based Chinese Word Segmentation using Free Annotations
Yijia Liu, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Fan Wu
Poster;
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| Balanced Korean Word Spacing with Structural SVM
Changki Lee, Edward Choi and Hyunki Kim |
| Morphological Segmentation for Keyword Spotting
Karthik Narasimhan, Damianos Karakos, Richard Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis and Regina Barzilay
Poster
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| What Can We Get From 1000 Tokens? A Case Study of Multilingual POS Tagging For Resource-Poor Languages
Long Duong, Trevor Cohn, Karin Verspoor, Steven Bird and Paul Cook |
| An Experimental Comparison of Active Learning Strategies for Partially Labeled Sequences
Diego Marcheggiani and Thierry Artières
Poster
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| Language Modeling with Functional Head Constraint for Code Switching Speech Recognition
Ying LI and Pascale Fung |
| A Polynomial-Time Dynamic Oracle for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Francesco Sartorio and Giorgio Satta |
| Ambiguity Resolution for Vt-N Structures in Chinese
Yu-Ming Hsieh, Jason S. Chang and Keh-Jiann Chen
Poster
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| Neural Networks Leverage Corpus-wide Information for Part-of-speech Tagging
Yuta Tsuboi
Poster
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| System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction
Raymond Hendy Susanto, Peter Phandi and Hwee Tou Ng |
| Dependency parsing with latent refinements of part-of-speech tags
Thomas Mueller, Richárd Farkas, Alex Judea, Helmut Schmid and hinrich schuetze |
| Importance weighting and unsupervised domain adaptation of POS taggers: a negative result
Barbara Plank, Anders Johannsen and Anders Søgaard
Poster
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| POS Tagging of English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Content
Yogarshi Vyas, Spandana Gella, Jatin Sharma, Kalika Bali and Monojit Choudhury |
| Data Driven Grammatical Error Detection in Transcripts of Children’s Speech
Eric Morley, Anna Eva Hallin and Brian Roark |
12:10–13:30 | Lunch Break (Area 3-4) |
12:50–13:30 | SIGDAT Business Meeting -- bring your lunch (Al-Areen 3) |
| Session 5a: Tagging, Chunking, Parsing and Syntax (Al-Areen 1-2) |
13:30–13:55 | Improved CCG Parsing with Semi-supervised Supertagging
Mike Lewis and Mark Steedman |
13:55–14:20 | A* CCG Parsing with a Supertag-factored Model -
Mike Lewis and Mark Steedman |
14:20–14:45 | A Dependency Parser for Tweets -
Lingpeng Kong, Nathan Schneider, Swabha Swayamdipta, Archna Bhatia, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith
Presentation;
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14:45–15:10 | Greed is Good if Randomized: New Inference for Dependency Parsing -
Yuan Zhang, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola
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| Session 5b: Semantics (Al-Areen 3) |
13:30–13:55 | A Unified Model for Word Sense Representation and Disambiguation -
Xinxiong Chen, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun |
13:55–14:20 | Reducing Dimensions of Tensors in Type-Driven Distributional Semantics -
Tamara Polajnar, Luana Fagarasan and Stephen Clark |
14:20–14:45 | An Etymological Approach to Cross-Language Orthographic Similarity. Application on Romanian -
Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu
Presentation
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14:45–15:10 | Efficient Non-parametric Estimation of Multiple Embeddings per Word in Vector Space -
Arvind Neelakantan, Jeevan Shankar, Alexandre Passos and Andrew McCallum
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| Session 5c: Information Retrieval and Question Answering (Al-Areen 4) |
13:30–13:55 | Tailor knowledge graph for query understanding: linking intent topics by propagation -
Shi Zhao and Yan Zhang |
13:55–14:20 | Queries as a Source of Lexicalized Commonsense Knowledge -
Marius Pasca |
14:20–14:45 | Question Answering over Linked Data Using First-order Logic -
shizhu he, Kang Liu, Yuanzhe Zhang, Liheng Xu and Jun Zhao |
14:45–15:10 | Knowledge Graph and Corpus Driven Segmentation and Answer Inference for Telegraphic Entity-seeking Queries -
Mandar Joshi, Uma Sawant and Soumen Chakrabarti
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| Session 5p: NLP for the Web, Social Media and Sentiment Analysis (Al-Areen 5-6) |
13:30–15:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| A Regularized Competition Model for Question Difficulty Estimation in Community Question Answering Services
Quan Wang, Jing Liu, Bin Wang and Li Guo
Poster
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| Vote Prediction on Comments in Social Polls
Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng |
| Exploiting Social Relations and Sentiment for Stock Prediction
Jianfeng Si, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Qing Li and Huayi Li
Poster;
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| Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media
Maarten Sap, Gregory Park, Johannes Eichstaedt, Margaret Kern, David Stillwell, Michal Kosinski, Lyle Ungar and Hansen Andrew Schwartz
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| Dependency Parsing for Weibo: An Efficient Probabilistic Logic Programming Approach
William Yang Wang, Lingpeng Kong, Kathryn Mazaitis and William W Cohen
Poster;
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| Exploiting Community Emotion for Microblog Event Detection
Gaoyan Ou, Wei Chen, Tengjiao Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Binyang LI, Dongqing Yang and Kam-Fai Wong |
| Detecting Disagreement in Conversations using Pseudo-Monologic Rhetorical Structure
Kelsey Allen, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng |
| +/-EffectWordNet: Sense-level Lexicon Acquisition for Opinion Inference
Yoonjung Choi and Janyce Wiebe
Poster
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| A Sentiment-aligned Topic Model for Product Aspect Rating Prediction
Hao Wang and Martin Ester |
| Learning Emotion Indicators from Tweets: Hashtags, Hashtag Patterns, and Phrases
Ashequl Qadir and Ellen Riloff |
| Fine-Grained Contextual Predictions for Hard Sentiment Words
Sebastian Ebert and Hinrich Schütze
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| An Iterative Link-based Method for Parallel Web Page Mining
Le Liu, Yu Hong, Jun Lu, Jun Lang, Heng Ji and Jianmin Yao
Poster
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| Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis Robert West, Hristo Paskov, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts |
15:10–15:40 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 6a: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 1-2) |
15:40–16:05 | Human Effort and Machine Learnability in Computer Aided Translation -
Spence Green, Sida I. Wang, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Sebastian Schuster and Christopher D. Manning |
16:05–16:30 | Exact Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation -
Wilker Aziz, Marc Dymetman and Lucia Specia |
16:30–16:55 | Large-scale Expected BLEU Training of Phrase-based Reordering Models -
Michael Auli, Michel Galley and Jianfeng Gao |
16:55–17:20 | Confidence-based Rewriting of Machine Translation Output -
Benjamin Marie and Aurélien Max
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| Session 6b: Semantic Parsing (Al-Areen 3) |
15:40–16:05 | Learning Compact Lexicons for CCG Semantic Parsing -
Yoav Artzi, Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov |
16:05–16:30 | Morpho-syntactic Lexical Generalization for CCG Semantic Parsing -
Adrienne Wang, Tom Kwiatkowski and Luke Zettlemoyer |
16:30–16:55 | Semantic Parsing Using Content and Context: A Case Study from Requirements Elicitation -
Reut Tsarfaty, Ilia Pogrebezky, Guy Weiss, Yaarit Natan, Smadar Szekely and David Harel |
16:55–17:20 | Semantic Parsing with Relaxed Hybrid Trees -
Wei Lu |
| Session 6c: NLP-Related Machine Learning (Al-Areen 4) |
15:40–16:05 | Low-dimensional Embeddings for Interpretable Anchor-based Topic Inference -
David Mimno and Moontae Lee |
16:05–16:30 | Weakly-Supervised Learning with Cost-Augmented Contrastive Estimation -
Kevin Gimpel and Mohit Bansal |
16:30–16:55 | Don’t Until the Final Verb Wait: Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation -
Alvin Grissom II, He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, John Morgan and Hal Daumé III
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16:55–17:20 | PCFG Induction for Unsupervised Parsing and Language Modelling -
James Scicluna and Colin de la Higuera |
| Session 6p: Computational Psycholinguistics, Text Mining and NLP Applications (Al-Areen 5-6) |
15:40–17:20 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification
Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu and Aoife Cahill |
| Formalizing Word Sampling for Vocabulary Prediction as Graph-based Active Learning
Yo Ehara, Yusuke Miyao, Hidekazu Oiwa, Issei Sato and Hiroshi Nakagawa
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| Language Transfer Hypotheses with Linear SVM Weights
Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras |
| Predicting Dialect Variation in Immigrant Contexts Using Light Verb Constructions
A. Seza Dogruoz and Preslav Nakov
Poster
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| Device-Dependent Readability for Improved Text Understanding
A-Yeong Kim, Hyun-Je Song, Seong-Bae Park and Sang-Jo Lee |
| Predicting Chinese Abbreviations with Minimum Semantic Unit and Global Constraints
Longkai Zhang, li li, Houfeng WANG and Xu Sun |
| Using Structured Events to Predict Stock Price Movement: An Empirical Investigation
Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu and Junwen Duan |
| Extracting Clusters of Specialist Terms from Unstructured Text
Aaron Gerow
Poster;
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| Citation-Enhanced Keyphrase Extraction from Research Papers: A Supervised Approach
Cornelia Caragea, Florin Adrian Bulgarov, Andreea Godea and Sujatha Das Gollapalli |
| Using Mined Coreference Chains as a Resource for a Semantic Task
Heike Adel and Hinrich Schütze
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| Financial Keyword Expansion via Continuous Word Vector Representations
Ming-Feng Tsai and Chuan-Ju Wang |
| Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection using N-gram Classes
Imene Bensalem, Paolo Rosso and Salim Chikhi
Poster;
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| Verifiably Effective Arabic Dialect Identification
Kareem Darwish, Hassan Sajjad and Hamdy Mubarak
Poster
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| Keystroke Patterns as Prosody in Digital Writings: A Case Study with Deceptive Reviews and Essays
Ritwik Banerjee, Song Feng, Jun Seok Kang and Yejin Choi |
| Leveraging Effective Query Modeling Techniques for Speech Recognition and Summarization
Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu and Hsin-Hsi Chen
Poster
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| Staying on Topic: An Indicator of Power in Political Debates
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Ashima Arora and Owen Rambow |
19:00–21:30 | Social Dinner (Pool side - 7th floor) |
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
08:00–17:00 | Registration (Area 3) |
08:00–09:00 | Refreshments (Area 3-4) |
| Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4) |
09:00–09:05 | Best Paper Award Bo Pang and Walter Daelemans |
09:05–09:30 | Language Modeling with Power Low Rank Ensembles -
Ankur P. Parikh, Avneesh Saluja, Chris Dyer and Eric Xing
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09:30–09:55 | Modeling Biological Processes for Reading Comprehension -
Jonathan Berant, Vivek Srikumar, Pei-Chun Chen, Abby Vander Linden, Brittany Harding, Brad Huang and Christopher D. Manning
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10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 7a: Semantics (Al-Areen 1-2) |
10:30–10:55 | Sensicon: An Automatically Constructed Sensorial Lexicon -
Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava |
10:55–11:20 | Word Semantic Representations using Bayesian Probabilistic Tensor Factorization -
Jingwei Zhang, Jeremy Salwen, Michael Glass and Alfio Gliozzo
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11:20–11:45 | Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation -
Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher and Christopher Manning |
11:45–12:10 | Jointly Learning Word Representations and Composition Functions Using Predicate-Argument Structures -
Kazuma Hashimoto, Pontus Stenetorp, Makoto Miwa and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
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| Session 7b: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 3) |
10:30–10:55 | Combining Distant and Partial Supervision for Relation Extraction -
Gabor Angeli, Julie Tibshirani, Jean Wu and Christopher D. Manning
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10:55–11:20 | Typed Tensor Decomposition of Knowledge Bases for Relation Extraction -
Kai-Wei Chang, Wen-tau Yih, Bishan Yang and Christopher Meek |
11:20–11:45 | A convex relaxation for weakly supervised relation extraction -
Edouard Grave |
11:45–12:10 | Knowledge Graph and Text Jointly Embedding -
Zhen Wang, Jianwen Zhang, Jianlin Feng and Zheng Chen |
| Session 7c: Sentiment Analysis and NLP Applications (Al-Areen 4) |
10:30–10:55 | Abstractive Summarization of Product Reviews Using Discourse Structure -
Shima Gerani, Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng and Bita Nejat |
10:55–11:20 | Clustering Aspect-related Phrases by Leveraging Sentiment Distribution Consistency -
Li Zhao, Minlie Huang, Haiqiang Chen, Junjun Cheng and Xiaoyan Zhu |
11:20–11:45 | Automatic Generation of Related Work Sections in Scientific Papers: An Optimization Approach -
Yue Hu and Xiaojun Wan |
11:45–12:10 | Fast and Accurate Misspelling Correction in Large Corpora
Octavian Popescu and Ngoc Phuoc An Vo |
| Session 7p: Machine Translation and Machine Learning (Al-Areen 5-6) |
10:30–12:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Assessing the Impact of Translation Errors on Machine Translation Quality with Mixed-effects Models
Marcello Federico, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli and Marco Turchi
Poster
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| Refining Word Segmentation Using a Manually Aligned Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation
Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita |
| Improving Pivot-Based Statistical Machine Translation by Pivoting the Co-occurrence Count of Phrase Pairs
Xiaoning Zhu, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Conghui Zhu, Haifeng Wang and Tiejun Zhao |
| Word Translation Prediction for Morphologically Rich Languages with Bilingual Neural Networks
Ke M. Tran, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz
Poster
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| Dependency-Based Bilingual Language Models for Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation
Ekaterina Garmash and Christof Monz
Poster
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| Combining String and Context Similarity for Bilingual Term Alignment from Comparable Corpora
Georgios Kontonatsios, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou |
| Random Manhattan Integer Indexing: Incremental L1 Normed Vector Space Construction
Behrang Q. Zadeh and Siegfried Handschuh |
| Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk and Yoshua Bengio |
| Type-based MCMC for Sampling Tree Fragments from Forests
Xiaochang Peng and Daniel Gildea
Poster
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| Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification
Yoon Kim
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| Sometimes Average is Best: The Importance of Averaging for Prediction using MCMC Inference in Topic Modeling
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik |
| Large-scale Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation using Dual Multinomial Logistic Regression
Abdullah Alrajeh and Mahesan Niranjan |
| Dynamic Language Models for Streaming Text Dani Yogatama, Chong Wang, Bryan Routledge, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing |
| Improved Decipherment of Homophonic Ciphers
Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper and Hermann Ney |
| Cipher Type Detection
Malte Nuhn and Kevin Knight |
12:10–13:30 | Lunch Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 8sa: Segmentation and Tagging / Spoken Language / Semantics (Al-Areen 1-2) |
13:30–13:50 | Joint Learning of Chinese Words, Terms and Keywords -
Ziqiang Cao, Sujian Li and Heng Ji |
13:50–14:10 | Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging through Ambiguous Learning -
Guillaume Wisniewski, Nicolas Pécheux, Souhir Gahbiche-Braham and François Yvon
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14:10–14:30 | Comparing Representations of Semantic Roles for String-To-Tree Decoding -
Marzieh Bazrafshan and Daniel Gildea |
14:30–14:50 | Detecting Non-compositional MWE Components using Wiktionary -
Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin |
14:50–15:10 | (Empty slot) (No presentation) |
| Session 8sb: Sentiment Analysis / Social / Computational Psycholinguistics / Text Classification (Al-Areen 3) |
13:30–13:50 | Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes -
Daniel Beck, Trevor Cohn and Lucia Specia
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13:50–14:10 | Detecting Latent Ideology in Expert Text: Evidence From Academic Papers in Economics -
Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut and Suresh Naidu |
14:10–14:30 | A Model of Individual Differences in Gaze Control During Reading -
Niels Landwehr, Sebastian Arzt, Tobias Scheffer and Reinhold Kliegl |
14:30–14:50 | Muli-label Text Categorization with Hidden Components -
li li, Longkai Zhang and Houfeng WANG |
14:50–15:10 | #TagSpace: Semantic Embeddings from Hashtags -
Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra and Keith Adams |
| Session 8sc: Summarization / Machine Translation / Information Extraction (Al-Areen 4) |
13:30–13:50 | Joint Decoding of Tree Transduction Models for Sentence Compression -
Jin-ge Yao, Xiaojun Wan and Jianguo Xiao |
13:50–14:10 | Dependency-based Discourse Parser for Single-Document Summarization -
Yasuhisa Yoshida, Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata |
14:10–14:30 | Improving Word Alignment using Word Similarity -
Theerawat Songyot and David Chiang |
14:30–14:50 | Constructing Information Networks Using One Single Model -
Qi Li, Heng Ji, Yu HONG and Sujian Li |
14:50–15:10 | Event Role Extraction using Domain-Relevant Word Representations -
Emanuela Boros, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau |
| Session 8p: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 5-6) |
13:30–15:10 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| Modeling Joint Entity and Relation Extraction with Table Representation
Makoto Miwa and Yutaka Sasaki |
| ZORE: A Syntax-based System for Chinese Open Relation Extraction
Likun Qiu and Yue Zhang
Poster
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| Coarse-grained Candidate Generation and Fine-grained Re-ranking for Chinese Abbreviation Prediction
Longkai Zhang, Houfeng WANG and Xu Sun |
| Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments
Mitchell Koch, John Gilmer, Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld |
| Automatic Inference of the Tense of Chinese Events Using Implicit Linguistic Information
Yuchen Zhang and Nianwen Xue |
| Joint Inference for Knowledge Base Population
Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Jinghui Mo, Songfang Huang and Dongyan Zhao |
| Combining Visual and Textual Features for Information Extraction from Online Flyers
Emilia Apostolova and Noriko Tomuro |
| CTPs: Contextual Temporal Profiles for Time Scoping Facts using State Change Detection
Derry Tanti Wijaya, Ndapandula Nakashole and Tom M. Mitchell |
| Noisy Or-based model for Relation Extraction using Distant Supervision
Ajay Nagesh, Gholamreza Haffari and Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Poster
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15:10–15:40 | Coffee Break (Area 3-4) |
| Session 9a: Machine Learning and Machine Translation (Al-Areen 1-2) |
15:40–16:05 | Search-Aware Tuning for Machine Translation -
Lemao Liu and Liang Huang |
16:05–16:30 | Latent-Variable Synchronous CFGs for Hierarchical Translation -
Avneesh Saluja, Chris Dyer and Shay B. Cohen |
16:30–16:55 | Dynamically Shaping the Reordering Search Space of Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Arianna Bisazza and Marcello Federico |
16:55–17:20 | (Empty slot) (No presentation) |
| Session 9b: NLP for the Web and Social Media (Al-Areen 3) |
15:40–16:05 | Gender and Power: How Gender and Gender Environment Affect Manifestations of Power -
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily E. Reid and Owen Rambow |
16:05–16:30 | Online topic model for Twitter considering dynamics of user interests and topic trends -
Kentaro Sasaki, Tomohiro Yoshikawa and Takeshi Furuhashi |
16:30–16:55 | Self-disclosure topic model for classifying and analyzing Twitter conversations -
JinYeong Bak, Chin-Yew Lin and Alice Oh
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16:55–17:20 | Major Life Event Extraction from Twitter based on Congratulations/Condolences Speech Acts -
Jiwei Li, Alan Ritter, Claire Cardie and Eduard Hovy |
| Session 9c: Semantics (Al-Areen 4) |
15:40–16:05 | Brighter than Gold: Figurative Language in User Generated Comparisons -
Vlad Niculae and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
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16:05–16:30 | Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions -
Jing Peng, Anna Feldman and Ekaterina Vylomova |
16:30–16:55 | TREETALK: Composition and Compression of Trees for Image Descriptions
Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Tamara Berg, Yejin Choi |
16:55–17:20 | Learning Spatial Knowledge for Text to 3D Scene Generation -
Angel Chang, Manolis Savva and Christopher D. Manning |
| Session 9p: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics (Al-Areen 5-6) |
15:40–17:20 | Poster Session Multiple presenters |
| A Model of Coherence Based on Distributed Sentence Representation
Jiwei Li and Eduard Hovy |
| Discriminative Reranking of Discourse Parses Using Tree Kernels
Shafiq Joty and Alessandro Moschitti |
| Recursive Deep Models for Discourse Parsing
Jiwei Li, Rumeng Li and Eduard Hovy |
| Recall Error Analysis for Coreference Resolution
Sebastian Martschat and Michael Strube
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| A Rule-Based System for Unrestricted Bridging Resolution: Recognizing Bridging Anaphora and Finding Links to Antecedents
Yufang Hou, Katja Markert and Michael Strube |
| Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces
Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Ruhi Sarikaya |
| Building Chinese Discourse Corpus with Connective-driven Dependency Tree Structure
Yancui Li, wenhe feng, jing sun, Fang Kong and Guodong Zhou
Poster
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| Prune-and-Score: Learning for Greedy Coreference Resolution
Chao Ma, Janardhan Rao Doppa, J. Walker Orr, Prashanth Mannem, Xiaoli Fern, Tom Dietterich and Prasad Tadepalli |
| Summarizing Online Forum Discussions – Can Dialog Acts of Individual Messages Help?
Sumit Bhatia, Prakhar Biyani and Prasenjit Mitra |
| Closing Session (Al-Areen 3) |
17:20–17:40 | Final Thanks and EMNLP 2015 Preview Alessandro Moschitti |