Program Schedule

Monday, June 10, 2013
8:45	Welcome to NAACL 2013!
9:00	Invited talk by Gina Kuperberg Predicting Meaning: What the Brain tells us about the Architecture of Language Comprehension
10:10	Break
	M1a: Machine Translation	M1b: Information Extraction	M1c: Cognitive and Psycholinguistics
10:40	Model With Minimal Translation Units, But Decode With Phrases Durrani, Fraser, Schmid	Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries Huang, Riloff	Extracting the Native Language Signal for Second Language Acquisition Swanson, Charniak
11:05	Beyond Left-to-Right: Multiple Decomposition Structures for SMT Zhang, Toutanova, Quirk, Gao	Named Entity Recognition with Bilingual Constraints Che, Wang, Manning, Liu	An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs van Schijndel, Schuler
11:30	Improved Reordering for PBSMT using Sparse Features Cherry	Minimally Supervised Method for Multilingual Paraphrase Extraction Yan, Hashimoto, Torisawa, Kawai, Kazama, Saeger	Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity of Words as the Similarity of Their Semantic Word Responses Vulić, Moens
11:55	Simultaneous Word-Morpheme Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation Eyigoz, Gildea	Relation Extraction with Matrix Factorization and Universal Schemas Riedel, Yao, McCallum	Combining multiple information types in Bayesian word segmentation Doyle, Levy
12:20	Lunch
	M2a: Parsing and Syntax	M2b: Topic Modeling and Text Mining	M2c: Spoken Language Processing
2:00	Training Parsers on Incompatible Treebanks Johansson	Representing Topics Using Images Aletras, Stevenson	Text Alignment for Real-Time Crowd Captioning Naim, Gildea, Lasecki, Bigham
2:25	Learning a Part-of-Speech Tagger from Two Hours of Annotation Garrette, Baldridge	Summarizing Drug Experiences with Multi-Dimensional Topic Models Paul, Dredze	Discriminative Joint Modeling of Lexical Variation and Acoustic Confusion for Automated Narrative Retelling Assessment Lehr, Shafran, Prudhommeaux, Roark
2:50	Experiments with Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs Cohen, Stratos, Collins, Foster, Ungar	Towards Topic Labeling with Phrase Entailment and Aggregation Mehdad, Carenini, T. NG, Rayhan Joty	Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog Lee, Stolcke, Shriberg
3:15	[TACL] Finding Optimal 1-Endpoint-Crossing Trees Pitler, Kannan, Marcus	Topic Segmentation with a Structured Topic Model Du, Buntine, Johnson	Segmentation Strategies for Streaming Speech Translation Rangarajan Sridhar, Chen, Bangalore, Ljolje, Chengalvarayan
3:40	Break
4:10	Poster madness! Enforcing Subcategorization Constraints in a Parser Using Sub-parses Recombining (Mirroshandel, Nasr, Sagot) Large-Scale Discriminative Training for SMT (Flanigan, Dyer, Carbonell) Measuring Term Informativeness in Context (wu, Giles) Unsupervised Learning Summarization Templates (Saggion) Classification of South African languages using text and acoustic based methods: A case of six selected languages (Zulu) Improving Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation by Coarsening the Label Set (Hanneman, Lavie) Keyphrase Extraction for N-best Reranking in Multi-Sentence Compression (Boudin, Morin) Development of a Persian Syntactic Dependency Treebank (Rasooli, Kouhestani, Moloodi) Improving reordering performance using higher order and structural features (Khapra, Ramanathan, Visweswariah) Massively Parallel Suffix Array Queries and On-Demand Phrase Extraction for Statistical Machine Translation Using GPUs (He, Lin, Lopez) [TACL] Branch and Bound Algorithm for Dependency Parsing with Non-local Features (Qian, Liu) Discriminative Training of 150 Million Translation Parameters and Its Application to Pruning (Setiawan, Zhou) Applying Pairwise Ranked Optimisation to Improve the Interpolation of Translation Models (Haddow) Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation: Pivoting through Modern Standard Arabic (Salloum, Habash) What to do about bad language on the internet (Eisenstein) Minibatch and Parallelization for Online Large-Margin Structured Learning (Zhao, Huang) Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters (Owoputi, O'Connor, Dyer, Gimpel, Schneider, Smith) Parser lexicalisation through self-learning (Rei, Briscoe) Mining User Relations from Online Discussions (Qiu, Yang, Jiang) Focused training sets to reduce noise in NER feature models (McKenzie) Learning to Relate Literal and Sentimental Descriptions of Visual Properties (Yatskar, Volkova, Celikyilmaz, Dolan, Zettlemoyer) Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Dialectal Arabic (Habash, Roth, Rambow, Eskander, Tomeh) Using a Supertagged Dependency Language Model to Select a Good Translation in System Combination (Ma, McKeown) Dudley North visits North London: Learning When to Transliterate to Arabic (Azab, Bouamor, Mohit, Oflazer) Better Twitter Summaries? (Judd, Kalita) Training MRF-Based Phrase Translation Models using Gradient Ascent (Gao, He) Automatic Morphological Enrichment of a Morphologically Underspecified Treebank (Alkuhlani, Habash, Roth) A Beam-Search Decoder for Normalization of Social Media Text with Application to Machine Translation (Wang, Ng) Parameter Estimation for LDA-Frames (Materna) Approximate PCFG Parsing Using Tensor Decomposition (Cohen, Satta, Collins) Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam (Ott, Cardie, Hancock) Improving speech synthesis quality by reducing pitch peaks in the source recordings (Violante, Rodriguez Zivic, Gravano) Robust Systems for Preposition Error Correction Using Wikipedia Revisions (Cahill, Madnani, Tetreault, Napolitano) Supervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Multiple Monolingual Signals (Irvine, Callison-Burch) Creating Reverse Bilingual Dictionaries (Lam, Kalita) Identification of Temporal Event Relationships in Biographical Accounts (Silcox, Tomai) Predicative Adjectives: An Unsupervised Criterion to Extract Subjective Adjectives (Wiegand, Ruppenhofer, Klakow) Modeling Syntactic and Semantic Structures in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation (Li, Resnik, Daume III) Using Derivation Trees for Informative Treebank Inter-Annotator Agreement Evaluation (Kulick, Bies, Mott, Maamouri, Santorini, Kroch) A Comparison of Annotation Methodologies for Crowdsourcing Word Sense Labels (Jurgens) Compound Embedding Features for Semi-supervised Learning (Yu, Zhao, Dong, Tian, Yu) On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Experts vs. Users (Ultes, Schmitt, Minker) Overcoming the Memory Bottleneck in Distributed Training of Latent Variable Models of Text (Yang, Yates, Downey) Processing Spontaneous Orthography (Eskander, Habash, Rambow, Tomeh) Purpose and Polarity of Citation: Towards NLP-based Bibliometrics (Abu-Jbara, Ezra, Radev) Estimating effect size across datasets (Søgaard) Systematic Comparison of Professional and Crowdsourced Reference Translations for Machine Translation (Zbib, Markiewicz, Matsoukas, Schwartz, Makhoul) Down-stream effects of tree-to-dependency conversions (Elming, Johannsen, Klerke, Lapponi, Martinez Alonso, Søgaard) From Language to Family and Back: Native Language and Language Family Identification from English Text (Stolerman, Caliskan, Greenstadt) Critical Reflections on Evaluation Practices in Coreference Resolution (Holen) A Rule-based Approach for Karmina Generation (Franky) A Machine Learning Approach to Automatic Term Extraction using a Rich Feature Set (Conrado, Pardo, Rezende) Ontology Label Translation (Arcan, Buitelaar) Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Adopting, Predicting and Influencing User Behavior (Levitan) Helpfulness-Guided Review Summarization (Xiong) Statistical Machine Translation in Low Resource Settings (Irvine) Domain-Independent Captioning of Domain-Specific Images (Mason) Reversing Morphological Tokenization in English-to-Arabic SMT (Salameh, Cherry, Kondrak) Reducing Annotation Effort on Unbalanced Corpus based on Cost Matrix (Luo, Litman, Chan) User Goal Change Model for Spoken Dialog State Tracking (Ma) Large-Scale Paraphrasing for Natural Language Understanding (Ganitkevitch)
6:00	Break
6:30	Poster session & demonstrations DALE: A Word Sense Disambiguation System for Biomedical Documents Trained using Automatically Labeled Examples(Judita Preiss and Mark Stevenson) Topic Models and Metadata for Visualizing Text Corpora (Justin Snyder, Rebecca Knowles, Mark Dredze, Matthew Gormley and Travis Wolfe) TMTprime: A Recommender System for MT and TM Integration (Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Sandipan Dandapat, Declan Groves and Josef van Genabith) Anafora: A Web-based General Purpose Annotation Tool (Wei-Te Chen and William Styler) A Web Application for the Diagnostic Evaluation of Machine Translation over Specific Linguistic Phenomena(Antonio Toral, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Federico Gaspari and Declan Groves) KooSHO: Japanese Text Input Environment based on Aerial Hand Writing (Masato Hagiwara and Soh Masuko) UMLS::Similarity: Measuring the Relatedness and Similarity of Biomedical Concepts(Bridget McInnes, Ted Pedersen, Serguei Pakhomov, Ying Liu and Genevieve Melton-Meaux) KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction (Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, Dawn Lawrie, Tan Xu and Douglas Oard) Argviz: Interactive Visualization of Topic Dynamics in Multi-party Conversations (Viet An Nguyen, Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik)
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
9:15	Best paper awards
9:25	Best Short Paper The Life and Death of Discourse Entities: Identifying Singleton Mentions Recasens, de Marneffe, Potts
9:45	Best Student Paper Automatic Generation of English Respellings Hauer, Kondrak
10:15	Break
	T1a: Machine Translation and Multilinguality	T1b: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling	T1c: Spoken Language Processing
10:45	A Simple, Fast, and Effective Reparameterization of IBM Model 2 Dyer, Chahuneau, Smith	A Multi-Dimensional Bayesian Approach to Lexical Style Brooke, Hirst	A Cross-language Study on Automatic Speech Disfluency Detection Wang, Stolcke, Yuan, Liberman
11:00	Phrase Training Based Adaptation for SMT Mansour, Ney	Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation Preiss, Stevenson	Distributional semantic models for the evaluation of disordered language Rouhizadeh, Prud'hommeaux, Roark, van Santen
11:15	Translation Acquisition Using Synonym Sets Andrade, Tsuchida, Onishi, Ishikawa	Multi-Domain Learning for Multi-Attribute Data Joshi, Dredze, Cohen, Rose	Atypical Prosodic Structure as an Indicator of Reading Level and Text Difficulty Medero, Ostendorf
11:30	Supersense Tagging for Arabic: the MT-in-the-Middle Attack Schneider, Mohit, Dyer, Oflazer, Smith	An opinion about opinions about opinions: subjectivity and the aggregate reader Sayeed	Using Document Summarization Techniques for Speech Data Subset Selection Wei, Liu, Kirchhoff, Bilmes
11:45	Zipfian corruptions for robust POS tagging Søgaard	An Examination of Regret in Bullying Tweets Xu, Burchfiel, Zhu, Bellmore	Semi-Supervised Discriminative Language Modeling with Out-of-Domain Text Data Celebi, Saraclar
12:00	Lunch and Business Meeting (1:00-2:00)
	T2a: Semantics	T2b: Information Extraction	T2c: Discourse and Dialog
2:00	Study of Human Cognition in Sense Annotation Joshi, Kanojia, Bhattacharyya	Exploiting the Scope of Negations and Heterogeneous Features for Relation Extraction: A Case Study for Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction Chowdhury, Lavelli	Differences in User Responses to a Wizard-of-Oz versus Automated System Thomason, Litman
2:15	Improving Lexical Semantics for Sentential Semantics Guo, Diab	Graph-Based Seed Set Expansion for Relation Extraction Using Random Walk Hitting Times Lang, Henderson	Improving the Quality of Minority Class Identification in Dialog Act Tagging Omuya, Prabhakaran, Rambow
2:30	Linguistic Regularities in Continuous Space Word Representations Mikolov, Yih, Zweig	Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with an Incomplete Knowledge Base Min, Grishman, Wan, Wang, Gondek	Discourse Connectors for Latent Subjectivity in Sentiment Analysis Trivedi, Eisenstein
2:45	TruthTeller: Annotating Predicate Truth Lotan, Stern, Dagan	Measuring the Structural Importance through Rhetorical Structure Index Kokhlikyan, Zhang, Waibel, Zhang	Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses Wang, Evanini, Zechner
3:00	PPDB: The Paraphrase Database Ganitkevitch, Van Durme, Callison-Burch	Separating Fact from Fear: Tracking Flu Infections on Twitter Lamb, Paul, Dredze	Disfluency Detection Using Multi-step Stacked Learning Qian, Liu
3:15	Break
	T3a: Semantics	T3b: Information Extraction	T3c: Discourse
3:45	[TACL] Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions Artzi, Zettlemoyer	Answer Extraction as Sequence Tagging with Tree Edit Distance Yao, Van Durme, Callison-Burch, Clark	Same Referent, Different Words: Unsupervised Mining of Opaque Coreferent Mentions Recasens, Can, Jurafsky
4:10	Using Semantic Unification to Generate Regular Expressions from Natural Language Kushman, Barzilay	Open Information Extraction with Tree Kernels Xu, Kim, Quinn, Goebel, Barbosa	Global Inference for Bridging Anaphora Resolution Hou, Markert, Strube
4:35	Probabilistic Frame Induction Cheung, Poon, Vanderwende	Finding What Matters in Questions Luo, Raghavan, Castelli, Maskey, Florian	Classifying Temporal Relations with Rich Linguistic Knowledge DSouza, Ng
5:00	A Quantum-Theoretic Approach to Distributional Semantics Blacoe, Kashefi, Lapata	A Just-In-Time Keyword Extraction from Meeting Transcripts Song, Go, Park, Park	Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical Constraints Guo, Reichart, Korhonen
7:00	Banquet
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
9:00	Invited talk by Kathleen McKeown Natural Language Applications from Fact to Fiction
10:10	Break
	W1a: Machine Translation	W1b: Semantics	W1c: Social Media Processing
10:40	Adaptation of Reordering Models for SMT Chen, Foster, Kuhn	Unsupervised Metaphor Identification Using Hierarchical Graph Factorization Clustering Shutova, Sun	Broadly Improving User Classification via Clustering on Twitter Bergsma, Dredze, Van Durme, Wilson, Yarowsky
11:05	Multi-Metric Optimization Using Ensemble Tuning Sankaran, Sarkar, Duh	Three Knowledge-Free Methods for Automatic Lexical Chain Extraction Remus, Biemann	To Link or Not to Link? A Study on End-to-End Tweet Entity Linking Guo, Chang, Kiciman
11:30	Grouping Language Model Boundary Words to Speed K–Best Extraction from Hypergraphs Heafield, Koehn, Lavie	Combining Heterogeneous Models for Measuring Relational Similarity Zhila, Yih, Meek, Zweig, Mikolov	A Viewpoint Discovery Model Qiu, Jiang
11:55	A Systematic Bayesian Treatment of the IBM Alignment Models Gal, Blunsom	[TACL] Modeling Semantic Relations Expressed by Prepositions Srikumar, Roth	Identifying Intention Posts in Discussion Forums Chen, Liu, Hsu, Castellanos, Ghosh
12:20	Lunch
	W2a: Parsing and Syntax	W2b: Dialog	W2c: Annotation and Language Resources
2:00	[TACL] Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Acoustic Cues Pate, Goldwater	Emergence of Gricean Maxims from Multi-Agent Decision Theory Vogel, Bodoia, Potts, Jurafsky	Paving the Way to a Large-scale Pseudosense-annotated Dataset Pilehvar, Navigli
2:25	Dependency-based empty category detection via phrase structure trees Xue, Yang	Open Dialogue Management for Relational Databases Hixon, Passonneau	Labeling the Languages of Words in Mixed-Language Documents using Weakly Supervised Methods King, Abney
2:50	Target Language Adaptation of Discriminative Transfer Parsers Täckström, McDonald, Nivre	A method for the approximation of incremental understanding of explicit utterance meaning using predictive models in finite domains DeVault, Traum	Learning Whom to Trust with MACE Hovy, Berg-Kirkpatrick, Vaswani, Hovy
3:15	Break
	W3a: Semantics and Syntax	W3b: Summarization and Generation	W3c: Morphology and Phonology
3:45	Supervised All-Words Lexical Substitution using Delexicalized Features Szarvas, Biemann, Gurevych	A Participant-based Approach for Event Summarization Using Twitter Streams Shen, Liu, Weng, Li	Supervised Learning of Complete Morphological Paradigms Durrett, DeNero
4:10	A Tensor-based Factorization Model of Semantic Compositionality Van de Cruys, Poibeau, Korhonen	Towards Coherent Multi-Document Summarization Christensen, Mausam, Soderland, Etzioni	Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Kim, Snyder
4:35	[TACL] An HDP Model for Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars Bisk, Hockenmaier	Generating Expressions that Refer to Visible Objects Mitchell, van Deemter, Reiter	Knowledge-Rich Morphological Priors for Bayesian Language Models Chahuneau, Smith, Dyer
5:00	Conference adjourns!