Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Mon, August 5th
Time Hall 3 Hall 6 Hall 7 Hall 8 Hall 10 Other
8:00 - 18:00 Registration Floor 0
9-9:30 Opening session
9:30 Invited Talk 1:
Harald Baayen
10:30 Coffee Break 5th Floor
11:00 Papers LP 1a LP 1b LP 1c LP 1d LP 1e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models I
Statistical and Machine
Learning Methods in NLP I
Semantics I Discourse, Coreference
and Pragmatics I
Syntax and Parsing I
12:15 Lunch Break
Student Lunch
(Continental Plaza)
13:45 Papers LP 2a LP 2b LP 2c LP 2d LP 2e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models II
Statistical and Machine
Learning Methods in NLP II
Semantics II Discourse, Coreference
and Pragmatics II
Syntax and Parsing II
15:00 Papers LP 3a LP 3b LP 3c LP 3d LP 3e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models III
Statistical and Machine
Learning Methods in NLP III
Semantics III Low Resource
Language Processing
NLP Applications
Syntax and Parsing III
16:15 Coffee Break 5th Floor
16:45 Papers SP 4a SP 4b SP 4c SP 4d SP 4e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models
NLP Applications Semantics Discourse, Coreference
and Pragmatics
Syntax and Parsing
18:30 Poster session + System
demonstrations + Buffet
2nd & 3rd Floor
21:00 End
Tue, August 6th
Time Hall 3 Hall 6 Hall 7 Hall 8 Hall 10 Other
8:00 - 18:00 Registration Floor 0
9:00 Industrial Lecture:
Lars Rasmussen
(Facebook)
10:00 Best Paper Award
10:30 Coffee Break 5th Floor
11:00 Papers LP 5a LP 5b LP 5c LP 5d LP 5e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models IV
NLP Applications I Semantics IV Language Resources I Summarization and
Generation I
12:15 Lunch Break
13:45 Papers LP 6a LP 6b LP 6c LP 6d LP 6e
Machine Translation:
Statistical Models V
NLP Applications II Cognitive Modelling
and Psycholinguistics
Lexical Semantics
and Ontologies
Language Resources II
Machine Translation:
Methods
Summarization and
Generation II
15:00 Papers LP 7a LP 7b LP 7c LP 7d LP 7e
Machine Translation:
Methods, Applications
and Evaluations I
NLP Applications III Text Mining and
Information Extraction
Cognitive Modelling and
Psycholinguistics
Phonology and Morphology
Summarization and
Generation III
16:15 Coffee Break 5th Floor
16:45 Papers SP 8a SP 8b SP 8c SP 8d SRW
Machine Translation:
Methods, Applications
and Evaluations
NLP Applications Lexical Semantics
and Ontologies
Evaluation Methods,
Information Retrieval &
Language Resources

18:30 Banquet (The Sheraton, Royal Hall & Sredets Hall)
Wed, August 7th
Time Hall 3 Hall 6 Hall 7 Hall 8 Hall 10 Other
9:30 Invited Talk 3:
Chantel Prat
10:30 Coffee Break 5th Floor
11:00 Papers LP 9a LP 9b LP 9c LP 9d LP 9e
Machine Translation:
Methods, Applications
and Evaluations II
NLP for the Web
and Social Web
Sentiment Analysis,
Opinion Mining and
Text Classification I
Dialogue and Interactive
Systems
TACL I
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 ACL Business Meeting
15:00 Papers LP 10a LP 10b LP 10c SP 10d LP 10e
Evaluation Methods Question Answering Sentiment Analysis,
Opinion Mining and
Text Classification II
Multilinguality +
Multimodal NLP
TACL II
16:15 Coffee Break 5th Floor
16:45 Papers SP 11a SP 11b SP 11c SP 11d LP 11e
Text Mining and
Information Extraction
NLP Applications
NLP for the Web and
Social Media
Sentiment Analysis,
Opinion Mining and
Text Classification SP
Cognitive Modelling and
Psycholinguistics
TACL III
18:30 Lifetime
Achievement
Award Session
19:15 Closing Session
19:30 End
Mon, August 5th
8:00 - 18:00 Registration; Floor 0

9-9:30 Opening session
Hall 3

9:30
Invited lecture: Harald Baayen (Tuebingen/Alberta)
When parsing makes things worse: An eye-tracking study of English compounds
Hall 3

10:30 Coffee Break

Oral Presentations; Halls 3, 6, 7, 8, 10

LP 1aMachine Translation: Statistical Models I
11:00
A Shift-Reduce Parsing Algorithm for Phrase-based String-to-Dependency Translation
Yang Liu
11:25
Integrating Translation Memory into Phrase-Based Machine Translation during Decoding
Kun Wang, Chengqing Zong and Keh-Yih Su
11:50
Training Nondeficient Variants of IBM-3 and IBM-4 for Word Alignment
Thomas Schoenemann

LP 1bStatistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP I
11:00
Modelling Annotator Bias with Multi-task Gaussian Processes: An Application to Machine Translation Quality Estimation
Trevor Cohn and Lucia Specia
11:25
Smoothed marginal distribution constraints for language modeling
Brian Roark, Cyril Allauzen and Michael Riley
11:50
Grounded language learning from videos described with sentences
Haonan Yu and Jeffrey Mark Siskind

LP 1cSemantics I
11:00
Plurality, Negation, and Quantification:Towards Comprehensive Quantifier Scope Disambiguation
Mehdi Manshadi and James Allen
11:25
Joint Event Extraction via Structured Prediction with Global Features
Qi Li, Heng Ji and Liang Huang
11:50
Language-Independent Discriminative Parsing of Temporal Expressions
Gabor Angeli and Jakob Uszkoreit

LP 1dDiscourse, Coreference and Pragmatics I
11:00
Graph-based Local Coherence Modeling
Camille Guinaudeau and Michael Strube
11:25
Recognizing Rare Social Phenomena in Conversation: Empowerment Detection in Support Group Chatrooms
Elijah Mayfield, David Adamson and Carolyn Penstein Rosé
11:50
Decentralized Entity-Level Modeling for Coreference Resolution
Greg Durrett, David Hall and Dan Klein

LP 1eSyntax and Parsing I
11:00
Chinese Parsing Exploiting Characters
Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu
11:25
A Transition-Based Dependency Parser Using a Dynamic Parsing Strategy
Francesco Sartorio, giorgio satta and Joakim Nivre
11:50
General binarization for parsing and translation
Matthias Büchse, Alexander Koller and Heiko Vogler

12:15 Lunch Break
Student Lunch (Continental Plaza)

LP 2aMachine Translation: Statistical Models II
13:45
Distortion Model Considering Rich Context for Statistical Machine Translation
Isao Goto, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Akihiro Tamura and Sadao Kurohashi
14:10
Word Alignment Modeling with Context Dependent Deep Neural Network
Nan Yang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Nenghai Yu
14:35
Microblogs as Parallel Corpora
Wang Ling, Guang Xiang, Chris Dyer, Alan Black and Isabel Trancoso

LP 2bStatistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP II
13:45
Improved Bayesian Logistic Supervised Topic Models with Data Augmentation
Jun Zhu, Xun Zheng and Bo Zhang
14:10
Fast and Robust Compressive Summarization with Dual Decomposition and Multi-Task Learning
Miguel Almeida and Andre Martins
14:35
Unsupervised Transcription of Historical Documents
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Greg Durrett and Dan Klein

LP 2cSemantics II
13:45
Adapting Discriminative Reranking to Grounded Language Learning
Joohyun Kim and Raymond Mooney
14:10
Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA)
Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport
14:35
Linking Tweets to News: A Framework to Enrich Short Text Data in Social Media
Weiwei Guo, Hao Li, Heng Ji and Mona Diab

LP 2dDiscourse, Coreference and Pragmatics II
13:45
A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Moritz Sudhof, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec and Christopher Potts
14:10
Modeling Thesis Clarity in Student Essays
Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng
14:35
Translating Italian connectives into Italian Sign Language
Camillo Lugaresi and Barbara Di Eugenio

LP 2eSyntax and Parsing II
13:45
Stop-probability estimates computed on a large corpus improve Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
David Marecek and Milan Straka
14:10
Transfer Learning for Constituency-Based Grammars
Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay and Amir Globerson
14:35
A Context Free TAG Variant
Ben Swanson, Elif Yamangil, Stuart Shieber and Eugene Charniak

LP 3aMachine Translation: Statistical Models III
15:00
Fast and Adaptive Online Training of Feature-Rich Translation Models
Spence Green, Sida Wang, Daniel Cer and Christopher D. Manning
15:25
Advancements in Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Minwei Feng, Jan-Thorsten Peter and Hermann Ney
15:50
A Markov Model of Machine Translation using Non-parametric Bayesian Inference
Yang Feng and Trevor Cohn

LP 3bStatistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP III
15:00
Scaling Semi-supervised Naive Bayes with Feature Marginals
Michael Lucas and Doug Downey
15:25
Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters
David Bamman, Brendan O'Connor and Noah A. Smith
15:50
Scalable Decipherment for Machine Translation via Hash Sampling
Sujith Ravi

LP 3cSemantics III
15:00
Automatic Interpretation of the English Possessive
Stephen Tratz and Eduard Hovy
15:25
Is a 204 cm Man Tall or Small ? Acquisition of Numerical Common Sense from the Web
Katsuma Narisawa, Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui
15:50
Probabilistic Domain Modelling With Contextualized Distributional Semantic Vectors
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn

LP 3dLow Resource Language Processing NLP Applications
15:00
Extracting bilingual terminologies from comparable corpora
Ahmet Aker, Monica Paramita and Rob Gaizauskas
15:25
The Haves and the Have-Nots: Leveraging Unlabelled Corpora for Sentiment Analysis
Kashyap Popat, Balamurali A.R, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Gholamreza Haffari
15:50
Large-scale Semantic Parsing via Schema Matching and Lexicon Extension
Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates

LP 3eSyntax and Parsing III
15:00
Fast and Accurate Shift-Reduce Constituent Parsing
Muhua Zhu, Yue Zhang, Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang and Jingbo Zhu
15:25
Nonconvex Global Optimization for Latent-Variable Models
Matthew Gormley and Jason Eisner
15:50
Parsing with Compositional Vector Grammars
Richard Socher, John Bauer, Christopher Manning and Andrew Ng

16:15 Coffee Break

SP 4aMachine Translation: Statistical Models
16:45
Translating Dialectal Arabic to English
Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish and Yonatan Belinkov
17:05
Exact Maximum Inference for the Fertility Hidden Markov Model
Chris Quirk
17:25
A Tale about PRO and Monsters
Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzman and Stephan Vogel
17:45
Supervised Model Learning with Feature Grouping based on a Discrete Constraint
Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata

SP 4bNLP Applications
16:45
Exploiting Topic based Twitter Sentiment for Stock Prediction
Jianfeng Si, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Qing Li, Huayi Li and xiaotie Deng
17:05
Learning Entity Representation for Entity Disambiguation
Zhengyan He, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Houfeng Wang and Longkai Zhang
17:25
Natural Language Models for Predicting Programming Comments
Dana Movshovitz-Attias and William Cohen
17:45
Paraphrasing Adaptation for Web Search Ranking
Chenguang Wang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou and Ming Zhang

SP 4cSemantics
16:45
Semantic Parsing as Machine Translation
Jacob Andreas, Andreas Vlachos and Stephen Clark
17:05
A relatedness benchmark to test the role of determiners in compositional distributional semantics
Raffaella Bernardi, Georgiana Dinu, Marco Marelli and Marco Baroni
17:25
An Empirical Study on Uncertainty Identification in Social Media Context
zhongyu wei, Junwen Chen, Wei Gao, Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou and Kam-fai Wong
17:45
PARMA: A Predicate Argument Aligner
Travis Wolfe, Benjamin Van Durme, Mark Dredze, Nicholas Andrews, Charley Beller, Chris Callison-Burch, Jay DeYoung, Justin Snyder, Jonathan Weese, Tan Xu and Xuchen Yao

SP 4dDiscourse, Coreference and Pragmatics
16:45
Aggregated Word Pair Features for Implicit Discourse Relation Disambiguation
Or Biran and Kathleen McKeown
17:05
Implicatures and Nested Beliefs in Approximate Decentralized-POMDPs
Adam Vogel, Christopher Potts and Dan Jurafsky
17:25
Domain-Specific Coreference Resolution with Lexicalized Features
Nathan Gilbert and Ellen Riloff
17:45
Learning to Order Natural Language Texts
Jiwei Tan, Xiaojun Wan and Jianguo Xiao

SP 4eSyntax and Parsing
16:45
Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing
Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, Yoav Goldberg, Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Slav Petrov, Hao Zhang, Oscar Tackstrom, Claudia Bedini, Núria Bertomeu Castelló and Jungmee Lee
17:05
An Empirical Examination of Challenges in Chinese Parsing
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Daniel Tse, James R. Curran and Dan Klein
17:25
Joint Inference for Heterogeneous Dependency Parsing
Guangyou Zhou and Jun Zhao
17:45
Easy-First POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing with Beam Search
Ji Ma, Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao and Nan Yang

Poster Session A: 5 August, 18:30-19:45h, second and third floor

Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics
SP
Arguments and Modifiers from the Learner's Perspective
Leon Bergen, Timothy O'Donnell and Edward Gibson

Dialogue and Interactive Systems
SP
Benefactive/Malefactive Event and Writer Attitude Annotation
Lingjia Deng, Yoonjung Choi and Janyce Wiebe

LP
Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems
Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus and Jason Williams

Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics
SP
GuiTAR-based Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Bengali
Apurbalal Senapati and Utpal Garain

LP
Leveraging Synthetic Discourse Data via Multi-task Learning for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Man Lan, Yu Xu and Zhengyu Niu

Combining Intra- and Multi-sentential Rhetorical Parsing for Document-level Discourse Analysis
Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng and Yashar Mehdad

Improving pairwise coreference models through feature space hierarchy learning
Emmanuel Lassalle and Pascal Denis

Evaluation Methods
SP
A Decade of Automatic Content Evaluation of News Summaries: Reassessing the State of the Art
Peter A. Rankel, John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang and Ani Nenkova

On the Predictability of Human Assessment: when Matrix Completion Meets NLP Evaluation
Guillaume Wisniewski

Automated Pyramid Scoring of Summaries using Distributional Semantics
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Emily Chen, Dolores Perin and Weiwei Guo

Information Retrieval
SP
Are Semantically Coherent Topic Models Useful for Ad Hoc Information Retrieval?
Romain Deveaud, Eric SanJuan and Patrice Bellot

Post-Retrieval Clustering Using Third-Order Similarity Measures
Jose G. Moreno, Gaël Dias and Guillaume Cleuziou

Automatic Coupling of Answer Extraction and Information Retrieval
Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme and Peter Clark

LP
Feature-Based Selection of Dependency Paths in Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
K. Tamsin Maxwell, Jon Oberlander and W. Bruce Croft

Language Resources
SP
IndoNet: A Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Network for Indian Languages
Brijesh Bhatt, Lahari Poddar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Building Japanese Textual Entailment Specialized Data Sets for Inference of Basic Sentence Relations
Kimi Kaneko, Yusuke Miyao and Daisuke Bekki

Building Comparable Corpora based on Bilingual LDA Model
Zede Zhu, Miao Li, Lei Chen and Zhenxin Yang

LP
Coordination Structures in Dependency Treebanks
Zdenek Zabokrtsky, Jan Stepanek, Martin Popel, Daniel Zeman and David Marecek

GlossBoot: Bootstrapping Multilingual Domain Glossaries from the Web
Flavio De Benedictis, Stefano Faralli and Roberto Navigli

Collective Annotation of Linguistic Resources: Basic Principles and a Formal Model
Ulle Endriss and Raquel Fernandez

ParGramBank: The ParGram Parallel Treebank
Sebastian Sulger, Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Paul Meurer, Tibor Laczkó, György Rákosi, Cheikh Bamba Dione, Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad De Smedt, Agnieszka Patejuk, Ozlem Cetinoglu, I Wayan Arka and Meladel Mistica

Lexical Semantics and Ontologies
SP
Using Lexical Expansion to Learn Inference Rules from Sparse Data
Oren Melamud, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger and Idan Szpektor

Mining Equivalent Relations from Linked Data
ziqi zhang, Anna Lisa Gentile, Isabelle Augenstein, Eva Blomqvist and Fabio Ciravegna

LP
Identifying Bad Semantic Neighbors for Improving Distributional Thesauri
Olivier Ferret

Models of Semantic Representation with Visual Attributes
Carina Silberer, Vittorio Ferrari and Mirella Lapata

Low Resource Language Processing
SP
Context-Dependent Multilingual Lexical Lookup for Under-Resourced Languages
Lian Tze Lim, Lay-Ki Soon, Tek Yong Lim, Enya Kong Tang and Bali Ranaivo-Malançon

Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison
Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili and Shahin Salavati

Enhanced and Portable Dependency Projection Algorithms Using Interlinear Glossed Text
Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia and William D. Lewis

Cross-lingual Projections between Languages from different Families
Mo Yu, Tiejun Zhao, Yalong Bai, Hao Tian and Dianhai Yu

Using Context Vectors in Improving a Machine Translation System with Bridge Language
Samira Tofighi Zahabi, Somayeh Bakhshaei and Shahram Khadivi

LP
Real-World Semi-Supervised Learning of POS-Taggers for Low-Resource Languages
Dan Garrette, Jason Mielens and Jason Baldridge

Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations
SP
Task Alternation in Parallel Sentence Retrieval for Twitter Translation
Felix Hieber, Laura Jehl and Stefan Riezler

Sign Language Lexical Recognition With Propositional Dynamic Logic
Arturo Curiel and Christophe Collet

Stacking for Statistical Machine Translation
Majid Razmara and Anoop Sarkar

Bilingual Data Cleaning for SMT using Graph-based Random Walk
Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li and Ming Zhou

Automatically Predicting Sentence Translation Difficulty
Abhijit Mishra and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Learning to Prune: Context-Sensitive Pruning for Syntactic MT
Wenduan Xu, Yue Zhang, Philip Williams and Philipp Koehn

A Novel Graph-based Compact Representation of Word Alignment
Zhaopeng Tu, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin

Stem Translation with Affix-Based Rule Selection for Agglutinative Languages
Zhiyang Wang, Yajuan Lv, Meng Sun and Qun Liu

A Novel Translation Framework Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory
Mei Tu, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong

Improving machine translation by training against an automatic semantic frame based evaluation metric
Chi-kiu LO, Karteek Addanki, Markus Saers and Dekai Wu

LP
Using subcategorization knowledge to improve case prediction for translation to German
Marion Weller, Alexander Fraser and Sabine Schulte im Walde

Name-aware Machine Translation
Haibo Li, Jing Zheng, Heng Ji, Qi Li and Wen Wang

Decipherment Complexity in 1:1 Substitution Ciphers
Malte Nuhn and Hermann Ney

Non-Monotonic Sentence Alignment via Semisupervised Learning
Xiaojun Quan, Chunyu Kit and Yan Song

Multilinguality
SP
Enriching Entity Translation Discovery using Selective Temporality
Gae-won You, Young-rok Cha, Jinhan Kim and Seung-won Hwang

Combination of Recurrent Neural Networks and Factored Language Models for Code-Switching Language Modeling
Heike Adel, Ngoc Thang Vu and Tanja Schultz

Latent Semantic Matching: Application to Cross-language Text Categorization without Alignment Information
Tsutomu Hirao, Tomoharu Iwata and Masaaki Nagata

LP
Bootstrapping Entity Translation on Weakly Comparable Corpora
Taesung Lee and Seung-won Hwang

Bridging Languages through Etymology: The case of cross language text categorization
Vivi Nastase and Carlo Strapparava

Learning Based Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction for Wikipedia
Zhigang Wang, Zhixing Li, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang, Jeff Z. Pan

NLP Applications
SP
TopicSpam: a Topic-Model based approach for spam detection
Jiwei Li and Sujian Li

Identifying Semantic Neighborhoods
Chris Quirk and Pallavi Choudhury

Unsupervised joke generation from big data
Sasa Petrovic and David Matthews

Modeling of term-distance and term-occurrence information for improving n-gram language model performance
Tze Yuang Chong, Rafael E. Banchs, Eng Siong Chng and Haizhou Li

Discriminative Approach to Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz Generation for Language Learners
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Yuki Arase and Mamoru Komachi

LP
Creating Similarity: Lateral Thinking for Vertical Similarity Judgments
Tony Veale and Guofu Li

Discovering User Interactions in Ideological Discussions
Arjun Mukherjee and Bing Liu

NLP and Creativity
SP
"Let Everything Turn Well in Your Wife": Generation of Adult Humor Using Lexical Constraints
Alessandro Valitutti, Hannu Toivonen, Antoine Doucet and Jukka Toivanen

Random Walk Factoid Annotation for Collective Discourse
Ben King, Rahul Jha and Dragomir Radev

LP
Multilingual Affect Polarity and Valence Prediction in Metaphor-Rich Texts
Zornitsa Kozareva

NLP for the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans
SP
Identifying English and Hungarian Light Verb Constructions: A Contrastive Approach
Veronika Vincze, István T. Nagy and Richárd Farkas

English-to-Russian MT evaluation campaign
Pavel Braslavski, Alexander Beloborodov, Maxim Khalilov and Serge Sharoff

LP
Large tagset labeling using Feed Forward Neural Networks. Case study on Romanian Language
Tiberiu Boros, Radu Ion and Dan Tufis

Learning to lemmatise Polish noun phrases
Adam Radziszewski

NLP for the Web and Social Media
LP
Using Conceptual Class Attributes to Characterize Social Media Users
Shane Bergsma and Benjamin Van Durme

The Impact of Topic Bias on Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia
Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych and Marc Rittberger

Mining Informal Language from Chinese Microtext: Joint Word Recognition and Segmentation
Aobo Wang and Min-Yen Kan

Generating Synthetic Comparable Questions for News Articles
Oleg Rokhlenko and Idan Szpektor

Spoken Language Processing
SP
Broadcast News Story Segmentation Using Manifold Learning on Latent Topic Distributions
Xiaoming Lu, Lei Xie, Cheung-Chi Leung, Bin Ma and Haizhou Li

Is word-to-phone mapping better than phone-phone mapping for handling English words?
Naresh Kumar Elluru, Anandaswarup Vadapalli, Raghavendra Elluru and Kishore Prahallad

LP
Punctuation Prediction with Transition-based Parsing
Dongdong Zhang, Shuangzhi Wu, Nan Yang and Mu Li

TACL
LP
Learning to translate with products of novices: Teaching MT with competitive challenge problems
Adam Lopez, Matt Post, Chris Callison-Burch, Jonathan Weese, Juri Ganitkevitch, Narges Ahmidi, Olivia Buzek, Leah Hanson, Beenish Jamil, Matthias Lee, Ya-Ting Lin, Henry Pao, Fatima Rivera, Leili Shahriyari, Debu Sinha, Adam Teichert, Stephen Wampler, Michael Weinberger, Daguang Xu, Lin Yang, Shang Zhao

Minimally-Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars
Kairit Sirts, Sharon Goldwater

Unsupervised Tree Induction for Tree-based Translation
Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Word Segmentation
SP
An improved MDL-based compression algorithm for unsupervised word segmentation
Ruey-Cheng Chen

Co-regularizing character-based and word-based models for semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation
Xiaodong Zeng, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao and Isabel Trancoso

Improving Chinese Word Segmentation on Micro-blog Using Rich Punctuations
Longkai Zhang, Li Li, Zhengyan He, Houfeng Wang and Ni Sun

Accurate Word Segmentation using Transliteration and Language Model Projection
Masato Hagiwara, Satoshi Sekine

LP
Discriminative Learning with Natural Annotations: Word Segmentation as a Case Study
Wenbin Jiang, Meng Sun, Yajuan Lv, Yating Yang and Qun Liu

Graph-based Semi-Supervised Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Xiaodong Zeng, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao and Isabel Trancoso

Student Research Workshop, Poster Session A: 5 August, 18:30-19:45h, second and third floor
Simple, readable sub-sentences
Sigrid Klerke and Anders Søgaard

Exploring Word Order Universals: a Probabilistic Graphical Model Approach
Xia Lu

Addressing Ambiguity in Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Induction with Substitute Vectors
Volkan Cirik

A New Syntactic Metric for Evaluation of Machine Translation
Melania Duma, Cristina Vertan and Wolfgang Menzel

High-quality Training Data Selection using Latent Topics for Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning
Akiko Eriguchi and Ichiro Kobayashi

A Comparison of Techniques to Automatically Identify Complex Words.
Matthew Shardlow

Detecting Chronic Critics Based on Sentiment Polarity and User’s Behavior in Social Media
Sho Takase, Akiko Murakami, Miki Enoki, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui

Computational considerations of comparisons and similes
Vlad Niculae and Victoria Yaneva

Psycholinguistically Motivated Computational Models on the Organization and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words
Tirthankar Dasgupta

Multigraph Clustering for Unsupervised Coreference Resolution
Sebastian Martschat

Question Analysis for Polish Question Answering
Piotr Przybyła

System Demonstrations, Session A: 5 August, 18:30-19:45h, second and third floor
WEBANNO: A FLEXIBLE, WEB-BASED AND VISUALLY SUPPORTED SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED ANNOTATIONS
Seid Muhie Yimam, Iryna Gurevych, Richard Eckart de Castilho and Chris Biemann

A STACKING-BASED APPROACH TO TWITTER USER GEOLOCATION PREDICTION
Bo Han, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin

AN OPEN SOURCE TOOLKIT FOR QUANTITATIVE HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Johann-Mattis List and Steven Moran

ANNOMARKET: AN OPEN CLOUD PLATFORM FOR NLP
Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Ian Roberts, Hamish Cunningham and Marin Dimitrov

TRAVATAR: A FOREST-TO-STRING MACHINE TRANSLATION ENGINE BASED ON TREE TRANSDUCERS
Graham Neubig

DETECTING EVENT-RELATED LINKS AND SENTIMENTS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA TEXTS
Alexandra Balahur and Hristo Tanev

SORT: AN INTERACTIVE SOURCE-REWRITING TOOL FOR IMPROVED TRANSLATION
Shachar Mirkin, Sriram Venkatapathy, Marc Dymetman and Ioan Calapodescu

DISSECT - DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS COMPOSITION TOOLKIT
Georgiana Dinu, Nghia The Pham and Marco Baroni

QUEST - A TRANSLATION QUALITY ESTIMATION FRAMEWORK
Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah, Jose Guilherme Camargo de Souza and Trevor Cohn

DKPRO WSD: A GENERALIZED UIMA-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
Tristan Miller, Nicolai Erbs, Hans-Peter Zorn, Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych

PLIS: A PROBABILISTIC LEXICAL INFERENCE SYSTEM
Eyal Shnarch, Erel Segal-haLevi, Jacob Goldberger and Ido Dagan

EXTENDING AN INTEROPERABLE PLATFORM TO FACILITATE THE CREATION OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMODAL NLP APPLICATIONS
Georgios Kontonatsios, Paul Thompson, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Claudiu Mihăilă, Ioannis Korkontzelos and Sophia Ananiadou

PHONMATRIX: VISUALIZING CO-OCCURRENCE CONSTRAINTS OF SOUNDS
Thomas Mayer and Christian Rohrdantz

FUDANNLP: A TOOLKIT FOR CHINESE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Xipeng Qiu, Qi Zhang and Xuanjing Huang

PAL: A CHATTERBOT SYSTEM FOR ANSWERING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
Yuanchao Liu, Ming Liu, Xiaolong Wang and Jingjing Li

ICARUS -- AN EXTENSIBLE GRAPHICAL SEARCH TOOL FOR DEPENDENCY TREEBANKS
Markus Gärtner, Gregor Thiele, Wolfgang Seeker, Anders Björkelund and Jonas Kuhn

MEET EDGAR, A TUTORING AGENT AT MONSERRATE
Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Sérgio Curto, Pedro Cláudio, Ângela Costa, Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo and Isabel Trancoso

Poster Session B: 5 August, 19:45-21:00h, second and third floor

Machine Translation: Statistical Models
SP
Bilingual Lexical Cohesion Trigger Model for Document-Level Machine Translation
Guosheng Ben, Deyi Xiong, Zhiyang Teng, Yajuan Lü and Qun Liu

Generalized Reordering Rules for Improved SMT
Fei Huang and Cezar Pendus

A Tightly-coupled Unsupervised Clustering and Bilingual Alignment Model for Transliteration
Tingting Li, Tiejun Zhao, Andrew Finch and Chunyue Zhang

Can Markov Models Over Minimal Translation Units Help Phrase-Based SMT?
Nadir Durrani, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid, Hieu Hoang and Philipp Koehn

Learning Non-linear Features for Machine Translation Using Gradient Boosting Machines
Kristina Toutanova and Byunggyu Ahn

Language Independent Connectivity Strength Features for Pivot Translation
Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash

Semantic Roles for String to Tree Machine Translation
Marzieh Bazrafshan and Daniel Gildea

LP
An Infinite Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Phrasal Translation
Trevor Cohn and Gholamreza Haffari

Additive Neural Networks for Statistical Machine Translation
lemao liu, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita and Tiejun Zhao

Hierarchical Phrase Table Combination for Machine Translation
Conghui Zhu, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita and Tiejun Zhao

Shallow Local Multi-Bottom-up Tree Transducers in Statistical Machine Translation
Fabienne Braune, Nina Seemann, Daniel Quernheim and Andreas Maletti

Enlisting the Ghost: Modeling Empty Categories for Machine Translation
Bing Xiang, Xiaoqiang Luo and Bowen Zhou

A Multi-Domain Translation Model Framework for Statistical Machine Translation
Rico Sennrich, Holger Schwenk and Walid Aransa

Part-of-Speech Induction in Dependency Trees for Statistical Machine Translation
Akihiro Tamura, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura

Question Answering
SP
Minimum Bayes Risk based Answer Re-ranking for Question Answering
Nan DUAN

Question Classification Transfer
Anne-Laure Ligozat

Latent Semantic Tensor Indexing for Community-based Question Answering
Xipeng Qiu, Le Tian and Xuanjing Huang

LP
Statistical Machine Translation Improves Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering via Matrix Factorization
Guangyou Zhou, Fang Liu, Yang Liu, Shizhu He and Jun Zhao

Semantics
SP
Measuring semantic content in distributional vectors
Aurelie Herbelot and Mohan Ganesalingam

Modeling Human Inference Process for Textual Entailment Recognition
Hen-Hsen Huang, Kai-Chun Chang and Hsin-Hsi Chen

Recognizing Partial Textual Entailment
Omer Levy, Torsten Zesch, Ido Dagan and Iryna Gurevych

Sentence Level Dialect Identification in Arabic
Heba Elfardy and Mona Diab

Leveraging Domain-Independent Information for Semantic Parsing
Dan Goldwasser and Dan Roth

A Structured Distributional Semantic Model for Event Co-reference
KARTIK GOYAL, SUJAY KUMAR JAUHAR, MRINMAYA SACHAN, SHASHANK SRIVASTAVA, HUIYING LI and EDUARD HOVY

LP
Improved Lexical Acquisition through DPP-based Verb Clustering
Roi Reichart and Anna Korhonen

Semantic Frames to Predict Stock Price Movement
Boyi Xie, Rebecca Passonneau, German Creamer and Leon Wu

Density Maximization in Context-Sense Metric Space for All-words WSD
Koichi Tanigaki, Mitsuteru Shiba, Tatsuji Munaka and Yoshinori Sagisaka

The Role of Syntax in Vector Space Models of Compositional Semantics
Karl Moritz Hermann and Phil Blunsom

Margin-based Decomposed Amortized Inference
Gourab Kundu, Vivek Srikumar and Dan Roth

Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging of Conversational Understanding using Markov Topic Regression
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur and Ruhi Sarikaya

Parsing Graphs with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars
David Chiang, Jacob Andreas, Daniel Bauer, Karl Moritz Hermann, Bevan Jones and Kevin Knight

Grounded Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Hoifung Poon

Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification
SP
Text Classification from Positive and Unlabeled Data using Misclassified Data Correction
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki and Suguru Matsuyoshi

Character-to-Character Sentiment Analysis in Shakespeare's Plays
Eric Nalisnick and Henry Baird

A novel text classifier – based on quantum computation
Ding Liu, Xiaofang Yang and Minghu Jiang

Re-embedding words
Igor Labutov and Hod Lipson

LABR: A Large Scale Arabic Book Reviews Dataset
Mohamed Aly and Amir Atiya

Generating Recommendation Dialogs by Extracting Information from User Reviews
Kevin Reschke, Adam Vogel and Dan Jurafsky

Exploring Sentiment in Social Media: Bootstrapping Subjectivity Clues from Multilingual Twitter Streams
Svitlana Volkova, Theresa Wilson and David Yarowsky

Joint Modeling of News Reader’s and Comment Writer’s Emotions
Huanhuan Liu, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou, Chu-ren Huang and Peifeng Li

An annotated corpus of quoted opinions in news articles
Tim O'Keefe, James Curran, Irena Koprinska and Peter Ashwell

Dual Training and Dual Prediction for Polarity Classification
Rui Xia, Tao Wang, Xuelei Hu, Shoushan Li and Chengqing Zong

Co-Regression for Cross-Language Review Rating Prediction
Xiaojun Wan

LP
Automatic detection of deception in child-produced speech using syntactic complexity features
Maria Yancheva and Frank Rudzicz

Sentiment Relevance
Christian Scheible and Hinrich Schütze

Predicting and Eliciting Addressee's Emotion in Online Dialogue
Takayuki Hasegawa, Nobuhiro Kaji, Naoki Yoshinaga and Masashi Toyoda

Utterance-Level Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea and Louis-Philippe Morency

Probabilistic Sense Sentiment Similarity through Hidden Emotions
Mitra Mohtarami, Man Lan and Chew Lim Tan

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP
SP
Extracting Definitions and Hypernym Relations relying on Syntactic Dependencies and Support Vector Machines
Guido Boella and Luigi Di Caro

Neighbors Help: Bilingual Unsupervised WSD Using Context
Sudha Bhingardive, Samiulla Shaikh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Reducing Annotation Effort for Quality Estimation via Active Learning
Daniel Beck, Lucia Specia and Trevor Cohn

Ensemble Reranking with Linguistic and Semantic Features for Arabic Character Recognition
Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth, Noura Farra, Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab

LP
A user-centric model of voting intention from Social Media
Vasileios Lampos, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro and Trevor Cohn

Summarization and Generation
SP
Evolutionary Hierarchical Dirichlet Process for Timeline Summarization
Jiwei Li and Sujian Li

Using Integer Linear Programming in Concept-to-Text Generation to Produce More Compact Texts
Gerasimos Lampouras and Ion Androutsopoulos

Sequential Summarization: A New Application for Timely Updated Twitter Trending Topics
Dehong Gao, Wenjie Li and Renxian Zhang

A System for Summarizing Scientific Topics Starting from Keywords
Rahul Jha, Amjad Abu-Jbara and Dragomir Radev

LP
Using Supervised Bigram-based ILP for Extractive Summarization
Chen Li, Xian Qian and Yang Liu

Summarization Through Submodularity and Dispersion
Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar and Sujith Ravi

Subtree Extractive Summarization via Submodular Maximization
Hajime Morita, Ryohei Sasano, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura

Syntax and Parsing
SP
A Unified Morpho-Syntactic Scheme of Stanford Dependencies
Reut Tsarfaty

Dependency Parser Adaptation with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Target Domain data
Xuezhe Ma and Fei Xia

Iterative Transformation of Annotation Guidelines for Constituency Parsing
Xiang Li, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lv and Qun Liu

Nonparametric Bayesian Inference and Cubic-time Parsing for Tree-adjoining Grammars
Elif Yamangil

Using CCG categories to improve Hindi dependency parsing
Bharat Ram Ambati, Tejaswini Deoskar and Mark Steedman

The Effect of Higher-Order Dependency Features in Discriminative Phrase-Structure Parsing
Greg Coppola and Mark Steedman

Efficient Third-Order Non-Projective Dependency Parsers
Andre Martins, Miguel Almeida and Noah A. Smith

A Lattice-based Framework for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging and Parsing
Zhiguo Wang, Chengqing Zong and Nianwen Xue

Efficient Implementation of Beam-Search Incremental Parsers
Yoav Goldberg, Kai Zhao and Liang Huang

LP
The effect of non-tightness on Bayesian estimation of PCFGs
Shay B. Cohen and Mark Johnson

Integrating Multiple Dependency Corpora for Inducing Wide-coverage Japanese CCG Resources
Sumire Uematsu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Hiroki Hanaoka, Yusuke Miyao and Hideki Mima

Transition-based Dependency Parsing with Selectional Branching
Jinho D. Choi and Andrew McCallum

Bilingually-Guided Monolingual Dependency Grammar Induction
Kai Liu, Yajuan Lv, Wenbin Jiang and Qun Liu

TACL
LP
Incremental Tree Substitution Grammar for Parsing and Word Prediction
Federico Sangati, Frank Keller

A Novel Feature-based Bayesian Model for Query Focused Multi-document Summarization
Jiwei Li, Sujian Li, Claire Cardie

Dijkstra-WSA: A Graph-Based Approach to Word Sense Alignment
Michael Matuschek, Iryna Gurevych

Modeling Child Divergences from Adult Grammar with Automatic Error Correction
Sam Sahakian, Benjamin Snyder

Tagging and Chunking
SP
Part-of-speech tagging with antagonistic adversaries
Anders Søgaard

Simpler unsupervised POS tagging with bilingual projections
Long Thanh Duong, Paul Cook, Steven Bird and Pavel Pecina

LP
Joint Word Alignment and Bilingual Named Entity Recognition Using Dual Decomposition
Mengqiu Wang, Wanxiang Che and Christopher D. Manning

Resolving Entity Morphs in Censored Data
Hongzhao Huang, Zhen Wen, Dian Yu, Heng Ji, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han and He Li

Text Mining and Information Extraction
SP
Temporal Signals Help Label Temporal Relations
Leon Derczynski and Robert Gaizauskas

Diverse Keyword Extraction from Conversations
Maryam Habibi and Andrei Popescu-Belis

Understanding Tables in Context using Standard NLP Toolkits
Vidhya Govindaraju, Ce Zhang and Christopher Ré

Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision from Incomplete Knowledge Bases
Wei Xu, Raphael Hoffmann, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao

Joint Apposition Extraction with Syntactic and Semantic Constraints
Will Radford and James R. Curran

LP
Learning to Extract International Relations from Political Context
Brendan O'Connor, Brandon Stewart and Noah A. Smith

Student Research Workshop, Poster Session B: 5 August, 19:45-21:00h, second and third floor
Categorization of Turkish News Documents with Morphological Analysis
Burak Kerim Akkuş and Ruket Cakici

Crawling microblogging services to gather language-classified URLs. Workflow and case study
Adrien Barbaresi

Patient Experience in Online Support Forums: Modeling Interpersonal Interactions and Medication Use
Annie Chen

Detecting Metaphor by Contextual Analogy
Eirini Florou

Survey on parsing three dependency representations for English
Angelina Ivanova, Stephan Oepen and Lilja Øvrelid

What causes a causal relation? Detecting Causal Triggers in Biomedical Scientific Discourse
Claudiu Mihăilă and Sophia Ananiadou

Text Classification based on the Latent Topics of Important Sentences extracted by the PageRank Algorithm
Yukari Ogura and Ichiro Kobayashi

Automated Collocation Suggestion for Japanese Second Language Learners
Lis Pereira, Erlyn Manguilimotan and Yuji Matsumoto

Understanding Verbs based on Overlapping Verbs Senses
Kavitha Rajan

Topic Modeling Based Classification of Clinical Reports
Efsun Sarioglu, Kabir Yadav and Hyeong-Ah Choi

Annotating named entities in clinical text by combining pre-annotation and active learning
Maria Skeppstedt

System Demonstrations, Session B: 5 August, 19:45-21:00h, second and third floor
LINGGLE: A WEB-SCALE LINGUISTIC SEARCH ENGINE FOR WORDS IN CONTEXT
Joanne Boisson, Ting-Hui Kao, Jian-Cheng Wu, Tzu-Hsi Yen and Jason S. Chang

MR. MIRA: OPEN-SOURCE LARGE-MARGIN STRUCTURED LEARNING ON MAPREDUCE
Vladimir Eidelman, Ke Wu, Ferhan Ture, Philip Resnik and Jimmy Lin

PARAQUERY: MAKING SENSE OF PARAPHRASE COLLECTIONS
Lili Kotlerman, Nitin Madnani and Aoife Cahill

HYENA-LIVE: FINE-GRAINED ONLINE ENTITY TYPE CLASSIFICATION FROM NATURAL-LANGUAGE TEXT
Mohamed Amir Yosef, Sandro Bauer, Johannes Hoffart, Marc Spaniol and Gerhard Weikum

PATHS: A SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
Eneko Agirre, Nikolaos Aletras, Paul Clough, Samuel Fernando, Paula Goodale, Mark Hall, Aitor Soroa and Mark Stevenson

FLUID CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR FOR HISTORICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS
Pieter Wellens, Remi van Trijp, Katrien Beuls and Luc Steels

PROPMINER: A WORKFLOW FOR INTERACTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND EXPLORATION USING DEPENDENCY TREES
Alan Akbik, Oresti Konomi and Michail Melnikov

DOCENT: A DOCUMENT-LEVEL DECODER FOR PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Christian Hardmeier, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre

SEMILAR: THE SEMANTIC SIMILARITY TOOLKIT
Vasile Rus, Nobal Niraula, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu and Mihai Lintean

DKPRO SIMILARITY: AN OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORK FOR TEXT SIMILARITY
Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych

TAG2BLOG: NARRATIVE GENERATION FROM SATELLITE TAG DATA
Kapila Ponnamperuma, Advaith Siddharthan, Cheng Zeng, Chris Mellish and René van der Wal

DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF NLP PIPELINES IN ARGO
Rafal Rak, Andrew Rowley, Jacob Carter and Sophia Ananiadou

TRANSDOOP: A MAP-REDUCE BASED CROWDSOURCED TRANSLATION FOR COMPLEX DOMAIN
Anoop Kunchukuttan, Rajen Chatterjee, Shourya Roy, Abhijit Mishra and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

TSEARCH: FLEXIBLE AND FAST SEARCH OVER AUTOMATIC TRANSLATIONS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY/ERROR ANALYSIS
Meritxell Gonzàlez, Laura Mascarell and Lluís Màrquez

A VISUAL ANALYTICS SYSTEM FOR CLUSTER EXPLORATION
Andreas Lamprecht, Annette Hautli, Christian Rohrdantz and Tina Bögel

VSEM: AN OPEN LIBRARY FOR VISUAL SEMANTICS REPRESENTATION
Elia Bruni, Ulisse Bordignon, Jasper Uijlings, Adam Liska and Irina Sergienya

A JAVA FRAMEWORK FOR MULTILINGUAL DEFINITION AND HYPERNYM EXTRACTION
Stefano Faralli and Roberto Navigli

Tue, August 6th
8:00 - 18:00 Registration; Floor 0

9:00
Industrial lecture: Lars Rasmussen (Facebook)
The Natural Language Interface of Graph Search
Hall 3
10:00
Best Paper Award
Hall 3

10:30 Coffee Break

Oral Presentations; Halls 3, 6, 7, 8, 10

LP 5aMachine Translation: Statistical Models IV
11:00
Graph Propagation for Paraphrasing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Statistical Machine Translation
Majid Razmara, Maryam Siahbani, Reza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar
11:25
Online Relative Margin Maximization for Statistical Machine Translation
Vladimir Eidelman, Yuval Marton and Philip Resnik
11:50
Handling Ambiguities of Bilingual Predicate-Argument Structures for Statistical Machine Translation
Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong

LP 5bNLP Applications I
11:00
Reconstructing an Indo-European Family Tree from Non-native English texts
Ryo NAGATA and Edward Whittaker
11:25
Word Association Profiles and their Use for Automated Scoring of Essays
Beata Beigman Klebanov and Michael Flor
11:50
Adaptive Parser-Centric Text Normalization
Congle Zhang, Tyler Baldwin, Howard Ho, Benny Kimelfeld and Yunyao Li

LP 5cSemantics IV
11:00
A Random Walk Approach to Selectional Preferences Based on Preference Ranking and Propagation
Zhenhua Tian, Hengheng Xiang, Ziqi Liu and Qinghua Zheng
11:25
ImpAr: A Deterministic Algorithm for Implicit Semantic Role Labelling
Egoitz Laparra and German Rigau
11:50
Cross-lingual Transfer of Semantic Role Labeling Models
Mikhail Kozhevnikov and Ivan Titov

LP 5dLanguage Resources I
11:00
DErivBase: Inducing and Evaluating a Derivational Morphology Resource for German
Britta Zeller, Jan Snajder and Sebastian Pado
11:25
Crowdsourcing Interaction Logs to Understand Text Reuse from the Web
Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen, Michael Völske and Benno Stein
11:50
SPred: Large-scale Harvesting of Semantic Predicates
Tiziano Flati and Roberto Navigli

LP 5eSummarization and Generation I
11:00
Towards Robust Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization: A Caseframe Analysis of Centrality and Domain
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn
11:25
HEADY: News headline abstraction through event pattern clustering
Enrique Alfonseca, Daniele Pighin and Guillermo Garrido
11:50
Conditional Random Fields for Responsive Surface Realisation using Global Features
Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Heriberto Cuayahuitl and Oliver Lemon

12:15 Lunch Break

LP 6aMachine Translation: Statistical Models V
13:45
Two-Neighbor Orientation Model with Cross-Boundary Global Contexts
Hendra Setiawan, Bowen Zhou, Bing Xiang and Libin Shen
14:10
Cut the noise: Mutually reinforcing reordering and alignments for improved machine translation
Karthik Visweswariah, Mitesh M. Khapra and Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan
14:35
Vector Space Model for Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn and George Foster

LP 6bNLP Applications II
13:45
From Natural Language Specifications to Program Input Parsers
Tao Lei, Fan Long, Regina Barzilay and Martin Rinard
14:10
Entity Linking for Tweets
xiaohua liu, yitong li, haocheng wu, ming zhou, furu wei and yi lu
14:35
Identification of Speakers in Novels
Hua He, Denilson Barbosa and Grzegorz Kondrak

LP 6cCognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics / Lexical Semantics and Ontologies
13:45
Language Acquisition and Probabilistic Models: keeping it simple
Aline Villavicencio, Marco Idiart, Robert Berwick and Igor Malioutov
14:10
A Two Level Model for Context Sensitive Inference Rules
Oren Melamud, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger and Idan Szpektor
14:35
Align, Disambiguate and Walk: A Unified Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, David Jurgens and Roberto Navigli

LP 6dLanguage Resources II / Machine Translation: Methods
13:45
Linking and Extending an Open Multilingual Wordnet
Francis Bond and Ryan Foster
14:10
FrameNet on the Way to Babel: Creating a Bilingual FrameNet Using Wiktionary as Interlingual Connection
Silvana Hartmann and Iryna Gurevych
14:35
Dirt Cheap Web-Scale Parallel Text from the Common Crawl
Jason Smith, Herve Saint-Amand, Magdalena Plamada, Philipp Koehn, Chris Callison-Burch and Adam Lopez

LP 6eSummarization and Generation II
13:45
A Sentence Compression Based Framework to Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization
Lu Wang, Hema Raghavan, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian and Claire Cardie
14:10
Domain-Independent Abstract Generation for Focused Meeting Summarization
Lu Wang and Claire Cardie
14:35
A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization
Ravi Kondadadi, Blake Howald and Frank Schilder

LP 7aMachine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations I
15:00
Models of Translation Competitions
Mark Hopkins and Jon May
15:25
Learning a Phrase-based Translation Model from Monolingual Data with Application to Domain Adaptation
Jiajun Zhang and Chengqing Zong
15:50
SenseSpotting: Never let your parallel data tie you to an old domain
Marine Carpuat, Hal Daume III, Katie Henry, Ann Irvine, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi and Rachel Rudinger

LP 7bNLP Applications III
15:00
BRAINSUP: Brainstorming Support for Creative Sentence Generation
Gozde Ozbal, Daniele Pighin and Carlo Strapparava
15:25
Grammatical Error Correction Using Integer Linear Programming
Yuanbin Wu and Hwee Tou Ng
15:50
Text-Driven Toponym Resolution using Indirect Supervision
Michael Speriosu and Jason Baldridge

LP 7cText Mining and Information Extraction
15:00
Argument Inference from Relevant Event Mentions in Chinese Argument Extraction
Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu and Guodong Zhou
15:25
Fine-grained Semantic Typing of Emerging Entities
Ndapandula Nakashole, Tomasz Tylenda and Gerhard Weikum
15:50
Embedding Semantic Similarity in Tree Kernels for Domain Adaptation of Relation Extraction
Barbara Plank and Alessandro Moschitti

LP 7dCognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics / Phonology and Morphology
15:00
A joint model of word segmentation and phonological variation for English word-final /t/-deletion
Benjamin Börschinger, Mark Johnson and Katherine Demuth
15:25
Compositional-ly Derived Representations of Morphologically Complex Words in Distributional Semantics
Angeliki Lazaridou, Marco Marelli, Roberto Zamparelli and Marco Baroni
15:50
Unsupervised Consonant-Vowel Prediction over Hundreds of Languages
Young-Bum Kim and Benjamin Snyder

LP 7eSummarization and Generation III
15:00
Improving Text Simplification Language Modeling Using Unsimplified Text Data
David Kauchak
15:25
Combining Referring Expression Generation and Surface Realization: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Architectures
Sina Zarrieß and Jonas Kuhn
15:50
Named Entity Recognition using Cross-lingual Resources: Arabic as an Example
Kareem Darwish

16:15 Coffee Break

SP 8aMachine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations
16:45
Adaptation Data Selection using Neural Language Models: Experiments in Machine Translation
Kevin Duh, Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh and Hajime Tsukada
17:05
Mapping Source to Target Strings without Alignment by Analogical Learning: A Case Study with Transliteration
Phillippe Langlais
17:25
Scalable Modified Kneser-Ney Language Model Estimation
Kenneth Heafield, Ivan Pouzyrevsky, Jonathan Clark, Mohammed Mediani and Philipp Koehn
17:45
Incremental Topic-Based Translation Model Adaptation for Conversational Spoken Language Translation
Sanjika Hewavitharana, Dennis Mehay, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Prem Natarajan

SP 8bNLP Applications
16:45
A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner
Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch and Peter Clark
17:05
A Learner Corpus-based Approach to Verb Suggestion for ESL
Yu Sawai, Mamoru Komachi and Yuji Matsumoto
17:25
Learning Semantic Textual Similarity with Structural Representations
Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Moschitti and Massimo Nicosia
17:45
Typesetting for Improved Readability using Lexical and Syntactic Information
Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer and Susan Hagan

SP 8cLexical Semantics and Ontologies
16:45
Annotation of regular polysemy and underspecification
Héctor Martínez Alonso, Bolette Sandford Pedersen and Núria Bel
17:05
Derivational Smoothing for Syntactic Distributional Semantics
Sebastian Pado, Jan Snajder and Britta Zeller
17:25
Diathesis alternation approximation for verb clustering
Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen and Diana McCarthy
17:45
Outsourcing FrameNet to the Crowd
Marco Fossati, Claudio Giuliano and Sara Tonelli

SP 8dEvaluation Methods, Information Retrieval & Language Resources
16:45
Smatch: an Evaluation Metric for Semantic Feature Structures
Shu Cai and Kevin Knight
17:05
Variable Bit Quantisation for LSH
Sean Moran, Victor Lavrenko and Miles Osborne
17:25
Context Vector Disambiguation for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Dhouha Bouamor, Nasredine Semmar and Pierre Zweigenbaum
17:45
The Effects of Lexical Resource Quality on Preference Violation Detection
Jesse Dunietz, Lori Levin and Jaime Carbonell

SRW 8eStudent Research Workshop
16:45
Robust multilingual statistical morphological generation models
Ondřej Dušek and Filip Jurčíček
17:05
A corpus-based evaluation method for Distributional Semantic Models
Abdellah Fourtassi and Emmanuel Dupoux
17:25
Deepfix: Statistical Post-editing of Statistical Machine Translation Using Deep Syntactic Analysis
Rudolf Rosa, David Mareček and Aleš Tamchyna

18:30 Banquet (The Sheraton, Royal Hall & Sredets Hall)

Wed, August 7th
9:30
Invited lecture: Chantel Prat (Wisconsin)
Individual Differences in Language and Executive Processes: How the Brain Keeps Track of Variables
Hall 3

10:30 Coffee Break

Oral Presentations; Halls 3, 6, 7, 8, 10

LP 9aMachine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations II
11:00
Beam Search for Solving Substitution Ciphers
Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper and Hermann Ney
11:25
Social Text Normalization using Contextual Graph Random Walks
Hany Hassan and Arul Menezes
11:50
Integrating Phrase-based Reordering Features into Chart-based Decoder for Machine Translation
thuylinh nguyen and Stephan Vogel

LP 9bNLP for the Web and Social Web
11:00
Machine Translation Detection from Monolingual Web-Text
Yuki Arase and Ming Zhou
11:25
Paraphrase-Driven Learning for Open Question Answering
Anthony Fader, Luke Zettlemoyer and Oren Etzioni
11:50
Aid is Out There: Looking for Help from Tweets during a Large Scale Disaster
Istvan Varga, Motoki Sano, Kentaro Torisawa, Chikara Hashimoto, Kiyonori Ohtake, Takao Kawai, Jong-Hoon Oh and Stijn De Saeger

LP 9cSentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification I
11:00
A Bayesian Model for Joint Unsupervised Induction of Sentiment, Aspect and Discourse Representations
Angeliki Lazaridou, Ivan Titov and Caroline Sporleder
11:25
Joint Inference for Fine-grained Opinion Extraction
Bishan Yang and Claire Cardie
11:50
Linguistic Models for Analyzing and Detecting Biased Language
Marta Recasens, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Dan Jurafsky

LP 9dDialogue and Interactive Systems
11:00
Evaluating a City Exploration Dialogue System with Integrated Question-Answering and Pedestrian Navigation
Srinivasan Janarthanam, Tiphaine Dalmas, Phil Bartie, Xingkun Liu, Oliver Lemon, Bonnie Webber and William Mackaness
11:25
Lightly Supervised Learning of Procedural Dialog Systems
Svitlana Volkova, Pallavi Choudhury, Chris Quirk, Bill Dolan and Luke Zettlemoyer
11:50
Public Dialogue: Analysis of Tolerance in Online Discussions
Arjun Mukherjee, Vivek Venkataraman, Bing Liu and Sharon Meraz

LP TACL I 9e
11:00
Weakly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Coupled Token and Type Constraints
Oscar Täckström, Dipanjan Das, Slav Petrov, Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre
11:25
What Makes Writing Great? First Experiments on Article Quality Prediction in the Science Journalism Domain
Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
11:50
Data-driven, PCFG-based and Pseudo-PCFG-based Models for Chinese Dependency Parsing
Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan

12:15 Lunch Break

13:30 ACL Business Meeting

LP 10aEvaluation Methods
15:00
Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us
Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp, Marten Postma, Ted Pedersen, Piek Vossen and Nuno Freire
15:25
Evaluating Text Segmentation using Boundary Edit Distance
Chris Fournier
15:50
Crowd Prefers the Middle Path: A New IAA Metric for Crowdsourcing Reveals Turker Biases in Query Segmentation
Rohan Ramanath, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali and Rishiraj Saha Roy

LP 10bQuestion Answering
15:00
Deceptive Answer Prediction with User Preference Graph
Fangtao Li, Yang Gao, George Zhou, Xiance Si and Decheng Dai
15:25
Why-Question Answering using Intra- and Inter-Sentential Causal Relations
Jong-Hoon Oh, Kentaro Torisawa, Chikara Hashimoto, Motoki Sano, Stijn De Saeger and Kiyonori Ohtake
15:50
Question Answering Using Enhanced Lexical Semantic Models
Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang, Christopher Meek and Andrzej Pastusiak

LP 10cSentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification II
15:00
Syntactic Patterns versus Word Alignment: Extracting Opinion Targets from Online Reviews
Kang Liu, Liheng Xu and Jun Zhao
15:25
Mining Opinion Words and Opinion Targets in a Two-Stage Framework
Liheng Xu, Kang Liu, Siwei Lai, Yubo Chen and Jun Zhao
15:50
Connotation Lexicon: A Dash of Sentiment Beneath the Surface Meaning
Song Feng, Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova and Yejin Choi

SP 10dMultilinguality + Multimodal NLP
15:00
Exploiting Qualitative Information from Automatic Word Alignment for Cross-lingual NLP Tasks
Jose ́ Guilherme Camargo de Souza, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Marco Turchi and Matteo Negri
15:35
An Information Theoretic Approach to Bilingual Word Clustering
Manaal Faruqui and Chris Dyer
15:55
Building and Evaluating a Distributional Memory for Croatian
Jan Snajder, Sebastian Pado and Zeljko Agic
16:15
Generalizing Image Captions for Image-Text Parallel Corpus
Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Alexander Berg, Tamara Berg and Yejin Choi

LP TACL II 10e
15:00
Grounding Action Descriptions in Videos
Michaela Regneri, Marcus Rohrbach, Stefan Thater, Dominikus Wetzel, Bernt Schiele, Manfred Pinkal
15:25
Weakly-Supervised Max-Margin Grounded Language Acquisition
Jayant Krishnamurthy, Thomas Kollar
15:50
Combining Distributional and Logical Semantics
Mike Lewis, Mark Steedman

16:15 Coffee Break

SP 11aText Mining and Information Extraction
16:45
Recognizing Identical Events with Graph Kernels
Goran Glavaš and Jan Snajder
17:05
Automatic Term Ambiguity Detection
Tyler Baldwin, Yunyao Li and Bogdan Alexe
17:25
Towards Accurate Distant Supervision for Relational Facts Extraction
Xingxing Zhang, Jianwen Zhang, Junyu Zeng, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen and Zhifang Sui
17:45
Sequence Labeling for Determining Opinions in Online Forums
Kazi Hasan and Vincent Ng

SP 11bNLP Applications / NLP for the Web and Social Media
16:45
Are School-of-thought Words Characterizable?
Xiaorui Jiang, Xiaoping Sun, Hai Zhuge and Jianmin Yao
17:05
Identifying Opinion Subgroups in Arabic Online Discussions
Amjad Abu-Jbara, Ben King, Mona Diab and Dragomir Radev
17:25
Extracting Events with Informal Temporal References in Personal Histories in Online Communities
Miaomiao Wen, Zeyu Zheng, Hyeju Jang, Guang Xiang and Carolyn Rose
17:45
Multimodal DBN for Predicting High-Quality Answers in cQA portals
Haifeng Hu, Bingquan Liu, Baoxun Wang, Ming Liu and Xiaolong Wang

SP 11cSentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification SP
16:45
Bi-directional Inter-dependencies of Subjective Expressions and Targets and their Value for a Joint Model
Roman Klinger and Philipp Cimiano
17:05
Identifying Sentiment Words Using an Optimization-based Model without Seed Words
Hongliang Yu, Zhi-Hong Deng and Shiyingxue Li
17:25
Detecting Turnarounds in Sentiment Analysis: Thwarting
Ankit Ramteke, Akshat Malu, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Saketha Nath
17:45
Explicit and Implicit Syntactic Features for Text Classification
Matt Post and Shane Bergsma

SP 11dCognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics
16:45
Does Korean defeat phonotactic word segmentation?
Robert Daland and Kie Zuraw
17:05
Word surprisal predicts N400 amplitude during reading
Stefan Frank, Leun Otten, Giulia Galli and Gabriella Vigliocco
17:25
Computerized Analysis of a Verbal Fluency Test
James Ryan, Serguei Pakhomov, Susan Marino, Charles Bernick and Sarah Banks
17:45
A New Set of Norms for Semantic Relatedness Measures
Sean Szumlanski, Fernando Gomez and Valerie Sims

LP TACL III 11e
16:45
Good, Great, Excellent: Global Ranking of Lexical Intensities with Web Semantics
Gerard de Melo, Mohit Bansal
17:15
Using pivot-based paraphrasing and intensity enrichment to improve a subjectivity lexicon for essay data
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jill Burstein, Nitin Madnani
17:35
Efficient Arc-factored Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
Xavier Lluís, Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez

18:30 Lifetime Achievement Award Session

19:15 Closing Session

19:30 End