NAACL HLT 2012 Full Program (Main Conference)

Location Key

Level A	Salon Kafka/Lamartine	Salon Hemon	Salon Musset	Salon Jarry/Joyce
Level B	Salons A, B, C
Other
Level 2	Salons 1, 2, 3		Salons 4, 5
Level 3	Drummond Ballroom		Salons 6, 7
Level 4	Foyer	East Ballroom	Center Ballroom	West Ballroom

Please see Venue for a map of the locations.

Monday, June 4, 2012

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcoming remarks - West and Center Ballrooms
9:15-10:30	Keynote: Eduard Hovy -- "A New Semantics: Merging Propositional and Distributional Information" - West and Center Ballrooms
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session Mon-1E - Discourse, Dialog, and Pragmatics I - East Ballroom Session Chair: David Traum
11:00-11:30	Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest Byron Wallace Tufts Abstract
11:30-12:00	Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior Rivka Levitan¹, Agustin Gravano², Laura Willson¹, Stefan Benus³, Julia Hirschberg¹, Ani Nenkova⁴ ¹Columbia University, ²University of Buenos Aires, ³Constantine the Philosopher University, ⁴University of Pennsylvania Abstract
12:00-12:30	Identifying High-Level Organizational Elements in Argumentative Discourse Nitin Madnani¹, Michael Heilman¹, Joel Tetreault¹, Martin Chodorow² ¹Educational Testing Service, ²Hunter College, CUNY Abstract
11:00-12:30	Session Mon-1W - Machine Translation I - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Daniel Marcu
11:00-11:30	Fast Inference in Phrase Extraction Models with Belief Propagation David Burkett and Dan Klein UC Berkeley Abstract
11:30-12:00	Continuous Space Translation Models with Neural Networks Hai-Son Le, Alexandre Allauzen, François Yvon Univ Paris Sud, LIMSI-CNRS Abstract
12:00-12:30	Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects Rabih Zbib¹, Erika Malchiodi¹, Jacob Devlin¹, David Stallard¹, Spyros Matsoukas¹, Richard Schwartz¹, John Makhoul¹, Omar F. Zaidan², Chris Callison-Burch² ¹Raytheon BBN Technologies, ²Johns Hopkins University Abstract
11:00-12:30	Session Mon-1D - Information Extraction - Drummond Session Chair: Radu Florian
11:00-11:30	Entity Clustering Across Languages Spence Green¹, Nicholas Andrews², Matthew R. Gormley², Mark Dredze², Christopher D. Manning¹ ¹Stanford University, ²Johns Hopkins University Abstract
11:30-12:00	Multi-Event Extraction Guided by Global Constraints Roi Reichart and Regina Barzilay MIT Abstract
12:00-12:30	Reference Scope Identification in Citing Sentences Amjad Abu Jbara and Dragomir Radev University of Michigan Abstract
12:30-1:15	Student lunch sponsored by IBM and the Student Research Workshop (students only)
1:15-2:15	SRW Panel: Reviewing Practices (open to all). Panelists: Robert Dale, Hal Daumé III, Eric Fosler-Lussier and Kathleen McKeown
2:30-4:00	Session Mon-2E - Spoken Language Processing - East Ballroom Session Chair: Giuseppe Riccardi
2:30-3:00	Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of an Automatic User Disengagement Detector for an Uncertainty-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System Kate Forbes-Riley¹, Diane Litman¹, Heather Friedberg¹, Joanna Drummond² ¹U. Pittsburgh, ²U. Toronto Abstract
3:00-3:30	Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner Educational Testing Service Abstract
3:30-4:00	Hello, Who is Calling?: Can Words Reveal the Social Nature of Conversations? Anthony Stark, Izhak Shafran, Jeffrey Kaye Oregon health and science university Abstract
2:30-4:00	Session Mon-2W - Machine Learning I - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Hal Daumé
2:30-3:00	Minimum-Risk Training of Approximate CRF-Based NLP Systems Veselin Stoyanov and Jason Eisner Johns Hopkins University Abstract
3:00-3:30	Unsupervised Learning on an Approximate Corpus Jason Smith and Jason Eisner Johns Hopkins University Abstract
3:30-4:00	Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search Liang Huang¹, Suphan Fayong², Yang Guo³ ¹USC/ISI, ²USC, ³Bloomberg Abstract
2:30-4:00	Session Mon-2D - Language Resources and Evaluations - Drummond Session Chair: Jill Burstein
2:30-3:00	Segmentation Similarity and Agreement Chris Fournier and Diana Inkpen University of Ottawa Abstract
3:00-3:30	HyTER: Meaning-Equivalent Semantics for Translation Evaluation Markus Dreyer and Daniel Marcu SDL Language Weaver Abstract
3:30-4:00	Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak Brown University Abstract
4:00-4:30	Coffee Break
4:30-5:30	Posters and Demos: One-Minute Madness - Center Ballroom
6:00-9:00	Poster and Demo Session (with Buffet Dinner) - West Ballroom
	Session Mon-P - Posters: Full Papers
	Re-examining Machine Translation Metrics for Paraphrase Identification Nitin Madnani¹, Joel Tetreault¹, Martin Chodorow² ¹Educational Testing Service, ²Hunter College, CUNY Abstract
	A Dependency Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems John Lee and Yin Hei Kong City University of Hong Kong Abstract
	Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines Myroslava O. Dzikovska¹, Rodney D. Nielsen², Chris Brew³ ¹University of Edinburgh, ²University of Colorado / Boulder Language Technologies, ³Educational Testing Service Abstract
	Topical Segmentation: a Study of Human Performance and a New Measure of Quality. Anna Kazantseva¹ and Stan Szpakowicz² ¹University of Ottawa, ²University of Ottawa, Polish Academy of Sciences Abstract
	Structured Ramp Loss Minimization for Machine Translation Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith Carnegie Mellon University Abstract
	Implicitly Intersecting Weighted Automata using Dual Decomposition Michael J. Paul and Jason Eisner Johns Hopkins University Abstract
	Transliteration Mining Using Large Training and Test Sets Ali El-Kahki¹, Kareem Darwish¹, Mohamed Abdul-Wahab², Ahmed Taei¹ ¹QCRI, Qatar Foundation, ²Cairo University Abstract
	Optimized Online Rank Learning for Machine Translation Taro Watanabe National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Abstract
	Every sensible extended top-down tree transducer is a multi bottom-up tree transducer Andreas Maletti University of Stuttgart Abstract
	NOMIT: Automatic Titling by Nominalizing Cédric Lopez, Violaine Prince, Mathieu Roche LIRMM Abstract
	Correcting Comma Errors in Learner Essays, and Restoring Commas in Newswire Text Ross Israel¹, Joel Tetreault², Martin Chodorow³ ¹Indiana University, ²Educational Testing Service, ³Hunter College of City University of New York Abstract
	Using Supertags and Encoded Annotation Principles for Improved Dependency to Phrase Structure Conversion Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania Abstract
	Stylometric Analysis of Scientific Articles Shane Bergsma, Matt Post, David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University Abstract
	Using paraphrases for improving first story detection in news and Twitter Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne, Victor Lavrenko University of Edinburgh Abstract
	Session Mon-PS - Posters: Short Papers
	TransAhead: A Computer-Assisted Translation and Writing Tool Chung-chi Huang¹, Ping-che Yang², Keh-jiann Chen², Jason S. Chang² ¹ISA, NTHU, HsinChu, Taiwan, ² Abstract
	Correction Detection and Error Type Selection as an ESL Educational Aid Ben Swanson¹ and Elif Yamangil² ¹Brown University, ²Harvard University Abstract
	Getting More from Segmentation Evaluation Martin Scaiano and Diana Inkpen University of Ottawa Abstract
	G2P Conversion of Proper Names Using Word Origin Information Sonjia Waxmonsky and Sravana Reddy University of Chicago Abstract
	Evaluating a Morphological Analyser of Inuktitut Jeremy Nicholson¹, Trevor Cohn², Timothy Baldwin¹ ¹The University of Melbourne, ²The University of Sheffield Abstract
	Intra-Speaker Topic Modeling for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization with Integrated Random Walk Yun-Nung Chen and Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University Abstract
	Towards Using EEG to Improve ASR Accuracy Yun-Nung Chen, Kai-Min Chang, Jack Mostow Carnegie Mellon University Abstract
	Session Mon-SRW - Posters: Student Research Workshop Posters
	Domain-Specific Semantic Relatedness From Wikipedia: Can A Course Be Transferred? Beibei Yang and Jesse M. Heines University of Massachusetts Lowell
	Automatic Animacy Classification Samuel Bowman and Harshit Chopra Stanford University
	Finding the Right Supervisor: Expert-Finding in a University Domain Fawaz Alarfaj, Udo Kruschwitz, David Hunter, Chris Fox University of Essex
	Indexing Google 1T for low-turnaround wildcarded frequency queries Steinar Kaldager University of Oslo, Department of Informatics
	Automatic Humor Classification on Twitter Yishay Raz Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
	Beauty Before Age? Applying Subjectivity to Automatic English Adjective Ordering Felix Hill Cambridge University
	Automatic Metrics for Genre-specific Text Quality Annie Louis University of Pennsylvania
	A Weighting Scheme for Open Information Extraction Yuval Merhav Illinois Institute of Technology
	Choosing an Evaluation Metric for Parser Design Woodley Packard none
	Using Ontology-based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring Miao Chen Syracuse University
	Deep Unsupervised Feature Learning for Natural Language Processing Stephan Gouws Stellenbosch University
	Unified Extraction of Health Condition Descriptions Ivelina Nikolova Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
	Session Mon-Demo - Demos
	QuickView: NLP-based Tweet Search Xiaohua Liu¹, Ming Zhou², Furu Wei² ¹HIT;MSRA, ²MSRA
	DeSoCoRe: Detecting Source Code Re-Use across Programming Languages Enrique Flores, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, Lidia Moreno Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
	A Graphical User Interface for Feature-Based Opinion Mining Pedro Paulo Balage Filho¹, Caroline Brun², Gilbert Rondeau² ¹University of Wolverhampton, ²Xerox Research Centre Europe
	The Bilingual Concordancer TransSearch Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, Fabrizio Gotti RALI-Université de Montréal
	Navigating Large Comment Threads with CoFi Christine Doran, Guido Zarrella, John C. Henderson The MITRE Corporation
	SurfShop: combing a product ontology with topic model results for online window-shopping. Zofia Stankiewicz and Satoshi Sekine Rakuten Institute of Technology, New York
	An Interactive Humanoid Robot Exhibiting Flexible Sub-Dialogues Heriberto Cuayáhuitl and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová DFKI GmbH
	MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit Chris Quirk¹, Pallavi Choudhury¹, Jianfeng Gao¹, Hisami Suzuki¹, Kristina Toutanova¹, Michael Gamon¹, Wen-tau Yih¹, Colin Cherry², Lucy Vanderwende¹ ¹Microsoft Research, ²National Research Council Canada
	Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System David DeVault and David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies
	A Robust Shallow Temporal Reasoning System Ran Zhao, Quang Do, Dan Roth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	AttitudeMiner: Mining Attitude from Online Discussions Amjad Abu-Jbara¹, Ahmed Hassan², Dragomir Radev¹ ¹University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, ²Microsoft Research

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:30	Session Tue-3 - Best Paper Awards Session - West and Center Ballrooms Session Chair: PC Chairs
9:10-9:30	Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation Jacob Devlin and Spyros Matsoukas Raytheon BBN Technologies Abstract
9:30-10:00	Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure Oscar Täckström¹, Ryan McDonald², Jakob Uszkoreit² ¹SICS / Uppsala University, ²Google Abstract
10:00-10:30	Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing Alexander Rush¹ and Slav Petrov² ¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ²Google Research Abstract
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session Tue-4E - Phonology and Morphology - East Ballroom Session Chair: Rich Wicentowski
11:00-11:30	A Comparative Investigation of Morphological Language Modeling for the Languages of the European Union Thomas Mueller, Hinrich Schuetze, Helmut Schmid IMS Abstract
11:30-12:00	Leveraging supplemental representations for sequential transduction Aditya Bhargava¹ and Grzegorz Kondrak² ¹University of Toronto, ²University of Alberta Abstract
12:00-12:30	A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model for Joint Part-of-Speech and Morphology Induction Kairit Sirts and Tanel Alumäe Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology Abstract
11:00-12:30	Session Tue-4C - Machine Translation II - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Chris Callison-Burch
11:00-11:30	Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices Ferhan Ture¹, Douglas W. Oard², Philip Resnik³ ¹Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, ²College of Information Studies and UMIACS, University of Maryland, ³Department of Linguistics and UMIACS, University of Maryland Abstract
11:30-12:00	Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation Colin Cherry and George Foster National Research Council Canada Abstract
12:00-12:30	Real-time Incremental Speech-to-Speech Translation of Dialogs Srinivas Bangalore, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Prakash Kolan, Ladan Golipour, Aura Jimenez AT&T Labs - Research Abstract
11:00-12:30	Session Tue-4W - Semantics I - West Ballroom Session Chair: Chris Brew
11:00-11:30	Parsing Time: Learning to Interpret Time Expressions Gabor Angeli, Christopher Manning, Daniel Jurafsky Stanford Abstract
11:30-12:00	Fine-Grained Focus for Pinpointing Positive Implicit Meaning from Negated Statements Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan Lymba Corporation Abstract
12:00-12:30	Taxonomy Induction Using Hierarchical Random Graphs Trevor Fountain and Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh Abstract
11:00-12:30	Session Tue-4D - Syntax and Parsing - Drummond Session Chair: Noah Smith
11:00-11:30	Getting More from Morphology in Multilingual Dependency Parsing Matt Hohensee and Emily M. Bender University of Washington Abstract
11:30-12:00	Training Dependency Parser Using Light Feedback Avihai Mejer¹ and Koby Crammer² ¹Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Department of Computer Science., ²Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering. Abstract
12:00-12:30	The Challenges of Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar Daniel Tse and James R. Curran University of Sydney Abstract
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	NLP Idol: Plucked from Obscurity - Center Ballroom Emcee: Brian Roark Presenters: Eugene Charniak: Kenneth Church, Empirical estimates of adaptation: the chance of two Noriegas is closer to p/2 than p² Graeme Hirst: Varol Akman, Rethinking context as a social construct Ray Mooney: Robert Wilenksy, PAM. In: Inside Computer Understanding Mari Ostendorf: Srinivas Bangalore and Aravind K. Joshi, Supertagging: An Approach to Almost Parsing Judges: Jason Eisner, Philip Resnik, and Lucy Vanderwende Session Chair: PC Chairs Idol Winner (judges and audience vote): Ray Mooney: Robert Wilenksy, PAM. In: Inside Computer Understanding.
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:20	Session Tue-5E - Short papers: Discourse - East Ballroom Session Chair: Vincent Ng
4:00-4:20	Active Learning for Coreference Resolution Florian Laws, Florian Heimerl, Hinrich Schütze Universität Stuttgart Abstract
4:20-4:40	Space Efficiencies in Discourse Modeling via Conditional Random Sampling Brian Kjersten¹ and Benjamin Van Durme² ¹Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing, ²Johns Hopkins University, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Abstract
4:40-5:00	Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs Vinodkumar Prabhakaran¹, Owen Rambow², Mona Diab² ¹Computer Science Department, Columbia University, ²Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University Abstract
5:00-5:20	Co-reference via Pointing and Haptics in Multi-Modal Dialogues Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio University of Illinois at Chicago Abstract
4:00-5:20	Session Tue-5C - Short papers: MT - Center Ballroom Session Chair: George Foster
4:00-4:20	Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation Matthias Huck and Hermann Ney RWTH Aachen University Abstract
4:20-4:40	Improved Reordering for Shallow-n Grammar based Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Baskaran Sankaran and Anoop Sarkar Simon Fraser University Abstract
4:40-5:00	Automatic Parallel Fragment Extraction from Noisy Data Jason Riesa and Daniel Marcu USC/ISI Abstract
5:00-5:20	Tuning as Linear Regression Marzieh Bazrafshan, Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea University of Rochester Abstract
4:00-5:20	Session Tue-5W - Short papers: Document Categorization and Topic Modeling - West Ballroom Session Chair: Diana Inkpen
4:00-4:20	Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children's literature Yi Ma¹, Eric Fosler-Lussier¹, Robert Lofthus² ¹The Ohio State University, ²Xerox Corporation Abstract
4:20-4:40	How Text Segmentation Algorithms Gain from Topic Models Martin Riedl and Chris Biemann UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt Abstract
4:40-5:00	Identifying Comparable Corpora Using LDA Judita Preiss University of Sheffield Abstract
5:00-5:20	Behavioral Factors in Interactive Training of Text Classifiers Burr Settles¹ and Xiaojin Zhu² ¹Carnegie Mellon University, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract
4:00-5:20	Session Tue-5D - Short papers: Syntax - Drummond Session Chair: Chris Manning
4:00-4:20	Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore Abstract
4:20-4:40	Are You Sure? Confidence in Prediction of Dependency Tree Edges Avihai Mejer and Koby Crammer Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Abstract
4:40-5:00	Concavity and Initialization for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith Carnegie Mellon University Abstract
5:00-5:20	Multimodal Grammar Implementation Katya Alahverdzhieva¹, Dan Flickinger², Alex Lascarides¹ ¹Edinburgh University, ²Stanford University Abstract
7:00	Banquet at Le Windsor Ballroom

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:15	Keynote: James W. Pennebaker -- "A, is, I, and, the: How our smallest words reveal the most about who we Are" - West and Center Ballrooms
10:15-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-12:00	Session Wed-6E - Short papers: Sentiment and Social Media - East Ballroom Session Chair: Theresa Wilson
10:40-11:00	Portable Features for Classifying Emotional Text Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada Abstract
11:00-11:20	Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Ricky Grant UCSC Abstract
11:20-11:40	Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection Awais Athar and Simone Teufel University of Cambridge, Computer Lab Abstract
11:40-12:00	Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts Yoav Artzi¹, Patrick Pantel², Michael Gamon² ¹University of Washington, ²Microsoft Research Abstract
10:40-12:00	Session Wed-6C - Short papers: Semantics - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Phil Resnik
10:40-11:00	The Intelius Nickname Collection: Quantitative Analyses from Billions of Public Records Vitor Carvalho, Yigit Kiran, Andrew Borthwick Intelius Abstract
11:00-11:20	A comparison of models of word meaning in context Georgiana Dinu¹, Stefan Thater¹, Soeren Laue² ¹Saarland University, ²Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Abstract
11:20-11:40	Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogeneous Vector Space Models Wen-tau Yih¹ and Vahed Qazvinian² ¹Microsoft Research, ²University of Michigan Abstract
11:40-12:00	Expectations of Word Sense in Parallel Corpora Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch Johns Hopkins University Abstract
10:40-12:00	Session Wed-6W - Short papers: Summarization - West Ballroom Session Chair: Ani Nenkova
10:40-11:00	Why Not Grab a Free Lunch? Mining Large Corpora for Parallel Sentences to Improve Translation Modeling Ferhan Ture¹ and Jimmy Lin² ¹Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, ²The iSchool, University of Maryland Abstract
11:00-11:20	Summarization of Historical Articles Using Temporal Event Clustering James Gung¹ and Jugal Kalita² ¹Miami University, ²University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Abstract
11:20-11:40	Comparing HMMs and Bayesian Networks for Surface Realisation Nina Dethlefs¹ and Heriberto Cuayahuitl² ¹Heriot-Watt University, ²DFKI Saarbruecken Abstract
11:40-12:00	On The Feasibility of Open Domain Referring Expression Generation Using Large Scale Folksonomies Fabián Pacheco, Pablo Duboue, Martín Domínguez FaMAF, UNC, Argentina Abstract
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	NAACL Business Meeting (open to all) - Center Ballroom
2:10-3:40	Session Wed-7E - Sentiment and Social Media - East Ballroom Session Chair: Saif Mohammed
2:10-2:40	Structured Event Retrieval over Microblog Archives Donald Metzler, Congxing Cai, Eduard Hovy University of Southern California Abstract
2:40-3:10	Learning from Bullying Traces in Social Media Jun-Ming Xu, Kwang-Sung Jun, Xiaojin Zhu, Amy Bellmore University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract
3:10-3:40	Grammatical structures for word-level sentiment detection Asad Sayeed¹, Jordan Boyd-Graber², Bryan Rusk², Amy Weinberg² ¹Saarland University, ²University of Maryland, College Park Abstract
2:10-3:40	Session Wed-7C - Machine Learning II - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Scott Yih
2:10-2:40	Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith Carnegie Mellon University Abstract
2:40-3:10	Unified Expectation Maximization Rajhans Samdani¹, Ming-Wei Chang², Dan Roth¹ ¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ²Microsoft Research Abstract
3:10-3:40	Low-Dimensional Discriminative Reranking Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi and Hal Daume III University of Maryland Abstract
2:10-3:40	Session Wed-7W - Discourse, Dialog, and Pragmatics II - West Ballroom Session Chair: Diane Litman
2:10-2:40	Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues Tyler Baldwin and Joyce Chai Michigan State University Abstract
2:40-3:10	Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng University of Texas at Dallas Abstract
3:10-3:40	Exploring Semi-Supervised Coreference Resolution of Medical Concepts using Semantic and Temporal Features Preethi Raghavan¹, Eric Fosler-Lussier¹, Albert Lai² ¹Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, ²Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University Abstract
3:40-4:10	Coffee Break
4:10-5:10	Session Wed-8E - Summarization - East Ballroom Session Chair: Advaith Siddharthan
4:10-4:40	Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation Lee Becker¹, Sumit Basu², Lucy Vanderwende² ¹University of Colorado Boulder, ²Microsoft Research Abstract
4:40-5:10	Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh Abstract
4:10-5:10	Session Wed-8C - Semantics II - Center Ballroom Session Chair: Mona Diab
4:10-4:40	Detecting Visual Text Jesse Dodge¹, Amit Goyal², Xufeng Han³, Alyssa Mensch⁴, Margaret Mitchell⁵, Karl Stratos⁶, Kota Yamaguchi³, Yejin Choi³, Hal Daume III², Alex Berg³, Tamara Berg³ ¹UW, ²UMD, ³SBU, ⁴MIT, ⁵Aberdeen, ⁶Columbia Abstract
4:40-5:10	Unsupervised Translation Sense Clustering Mohit Bansal¹, John DeNero², Dekang Lin² ¹UC Berkeley, ²Google Abstract
4:10-5:10	Session Wed-8W - Document Categorization and Topic Modeling - West Ballroom Session Chair: Ryan McDonald
4:10-4:40	Shared Components Topic Models Matthew R. Gormley, Mark Dredze, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner Johns Hopkins University Abstract
4:40-5:10	Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees Tae Yano¹, Noah A. Smith¹, John D. Wilkerson² ¹Carnegie Mellon University, ²University of Washington Abstract

Location Key

Level A	Salon Kafka/Lamartine	Salon Hemon	Salon Musset	Salon Jarry/Joyce
Level B	Salons A, B, C
Other
Level 2	Salons 1, 2, 3		Salons 4, 5
Level 3	Drummond Ballroom		Salons 6, 7
Level 4	Foyer	East Ballroom	Center Ballroom	West Ballroom

Please see Venue for a map of the locations.

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Program Co-Chairs

Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T
Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah