Sunday, June 22, 2014 |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00–12:30 | Morning Tutorial |
| | Session T1: Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing |
| | Session T2: Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms |
| | Session T3: Semantics for Large-Scale Multimedia: New Challenges for NLP |
| | Session T4: Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–17:30 | Afternoon Tutorial |
| | Session T5: New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning |
| | Session T6: Structured Belief Propagation for NLP |
| | Session T7: Semantics, Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation |
| | Session T8: Syntactic Processing Using Global Discriminative Learning and Beam-Search Decoding |
| 18:00–21:00 | Welcome Reception |
Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:55–9:00 | Opening session |
| 9:00–9:40 | President talk |
| 9:40–10:10 | Coffee break |
| | Session 1A: Discourse, Dialogue, Coreference and Pragmatics |
| 10:10–10:35 | Representation Learning for Text-level Discourse Parsing
Yangfeng Ji and Jacob Eisenstein |
| 10:35–11:00 | Text-level Discourse Dependency Parsing
Sujian Li, Liang Wang, Ziqiang Cao and Wenjie Li |
| 11:00–11:25 | Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues
Ke Zhai and Jason D Williams |
| 11:25–11:50 | Learning Structured Perceptrons for Coreference Resolution with Latent Antecedents and Non-local Features
Anders Björkelund and Jonas Kuhn |
| | Session 1B: Semantics I |
| 10:10–10:35 | Multilingual Models for Compositional Distributed Semantics
Karl Moritz Hermann and Phil Blunsom |
| 10:35–11:00 | Simple Negation Scope Resolution through Deep Parsing: A Semantic Solution to a Semantic Problem
Woodley Packard, Emily M. Bender, Jonathon Read, Stephan Oepen and Rebecca Dridan |
| 11:00–11:25 | Logical Inference on Dependency-based Compositional Semantics
Ran Tian, Yusuke Miyao and Takuya Matsuzaki |
| 11:25–11:50 | A practical and linguistically-motivated approach to compositional distributional semantics
Denis Paperno, Nghia The Pham and Marco Baroni |
| | Session 1C: Machine Translation I |
| 10:10–10:35 | Lattice Desegmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
Mohammad Salameh, Colin Cherry and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 10:35–11:00 | Bilingually-constrained Phrase Embeddings for Machine Translation
Jiajun Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Chengqing Zong |
| 11:00–11:25 | Learning New Semi-Supervised Deep Auto-encoder Features for Statistical Machine Translation
Shixiang Lu, Zhenbiao Chen and Bo Xu |
| 11:25–11:50 | Learning Topic Representation for SMT with Neural Networks
Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Qiming Chen, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Muyun Yang |
| | Session 1D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging I |
| 10:10–10:35 | Training Deterministic Parsers with Non-Deterministic Oracles
Yoav Goldberg and Joakim Nivre |
| 10:35–11:00 | Joint Incremental Disfluency Detection and Dependency Parsin
Matthew Honnibal and Mark Johnson |
| 11:00–11:25 | Tagging The Web: Building A Robust Web Tagger with Neural Network
Ji Ma, Yue Zhang and Jingbo Zhu |
| 11:25–11:50 | A Crossing-Sensitive Third-Order Factorization for Dependency Parsing
Emily Pitler |
| | Session 1E: NLP for the Web and Social Media I |
| 10:10–10:35 | Unsupervised Solution Post Identification from Discussion Forums
Deepak P and Karthik Visweswariah |
| 10:35–11:00 | Weakly Supervised User Profile Extraction from Twitter
Jiwei Li, Alan Ritter and Eduard Hovy |
| 11:00–11:25 | The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter
Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee and Bo Pang |
| 11:25–11:50 | Inferring User Political Preferences from Streaming Communications
Svitlana Volkova, Glen Coppersmith and Benjamin Van Durme |
| 11:50–13:20 | Lunch break; Student Lunch |
| | Session 2A: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging II |
| 13:20–13:45 | Steps to Excellence: Simple Inference with Refined Scoring of Dependency Trees
Yuan Zhang, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola and Amir Globerson |
| 13:45–14:10 | Sparser, Better, Faster GPU Parsing
David Hall, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein |
| 14:10–14:35 | Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model
Wenduan Xu, Stephen Clark and Yue Zhang |
| 14:35–15:00 | Less Grammar, More Features
David Hall, Greg Durrett and Dan Klein |
| | Session 2B: Semantics II |
| 13:20–13:45 | Don’t count, predict! A systematic comparison of context-counting vs. context-predicting semantic vectors
Marco Baroni, Georgiana Dinu and Germán Kruszewski |
| 13:45–14:10 | Metaphor Detection with Cross-Lingual Model Transfer
Yulia Tsvetkov, Leonid Boytsov, Anatole Gershman, Eric Nyberg and Chris Dyer |
| 14:10–14:35 | Learning Word Sense Distributions, Detecting Unattested Senses and Identifying Novel Senses Using Topic Models
Jey Han Lau, Paul Cook, Diana McCarthy, Spandana Gella and Timothy Baldwin |
| 14:35–15:00 | Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems
Nate Kushman, Luke Zettlemoyer, Regina Barzilay and Yoav Artzi |
| | Session 2C: Word Segmentation and POS Tagging |
| 13:20–13:45 | Exploring the Role of Stress in Bayesian Word Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars
Benjamin Börschinger and Mark Johnson |
| 13:45–14:10 | Modelling function words improves unsupervised word segmentation
Mark Johnson, Anne Christophe, Emmanuel Dupoux and Katherine Demuth |
| 14:10–14:35 | FLORS: Fast and Simple Domain Adaptation for Part-of-Speech Tagging
Tobias Schnabel and Hinrich Schütze |
| 14:35–15:00 | Max-Margin Tensor Neural Network for Chinese Word Segmentation
Wenzhe Pei, Tao Ge and Baobao Chang |
| | Session 2D: SRW |
| | Session 2E: Sentiment Analysis I |
| 13:20–13:45 | An Empirical Study on the Effect of Negation Words on Sentiment
Xiaodan Zhu, Hongyu Guo, Saif Mohammad and Svetlana Kiritchenko |
| 13:45–14:10 | Extracting Opinion Targets and Opinion Words from Online Reviews with Graph Co-ranking
Kang Liu, Liheng Xu and Jun Zhao |
| 14:10–14:35 | Context-aware Learning for Sentence-level Sentiment Analysis with Posterior Regularization
Bishan Yang and Claire Cardie |
| 14:35–15:00 | Product Feature Mining: Semantic Clues versus Syntactic Constituents
Liheng Xu, Kang Liu, Siwei Lai and Jun Zhao |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| | Session 3A: Topic Modeling |
| 15:30–15:55 | Aspect Extraction with Automated Prior Knowledge Learning
Zhiyuan Chen, Arjun Mukherjee and Bing Liu |
| 15:55–16:20 | Anchors Regularized: Adding Robustness and Extensibility to Scalable Topic-Modeling Algorithms
Thang Nguyen, Yuening Hu and Jordan Boyd-Graber |
| 16:20–16:45 | A Bayesian Mixed Effects Model of Literary Character
David Bamman, Ted Underwood and Noah A. Smith |
| | Session 3B: Information Extraction I |
| 15:30–15:55 | Collective Tweet Wikification based on Semi-supervised Graph Regularization
Hongzhao Huang, Yunbo Cao, Xiaojiang Huang, Heng Ji and Chin-Yew Lin |
| 15:55–16:20 | Zero-shot Entity Extraction from Web Pages
Panupong Pasupat and Percy Liang |
| 16:20–16:45 | Incremental Joint Extraction of Entity Mentions and Relations
Qi Li and Heng Ji |
| | Session 3C: Generation |
| 15:30–15:55 | That’s Not What I Meant! Using Parsers to Avoid Structural Ambiguities in Generated Text
Manjuan Duan and Michael White |
| 15:55–16:20 | Surface Realisation from Knowledge-Bases
Bikash Gyawali and Claire Gardent |
| 16:20–16:45 | Hybrid Simplification using Deep Semantics and Machine Translation
Shashi Narayan and Claire Gardent |
| | Session 3D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging III |
| 15:30–15:55 | A Tabular Method for Dynamic Oracles in Transition-Based Parsing
Yoav Goldberg, Francesco Sartorio and Giorgio Satta |
| 15:55–16:20 | Grammatical Relations in Chinese: GB-Ground Extraction and Data-Driven Parsing
Weiwei Sun, Yantao Du, Xin Kou, Shuoyang Ding and Xiaojun Wan |
| 16:20–16:45 | Ambiguity-aware Ensemble Training for Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing
Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang and Wenliang Chen |
| | Session 3E: Language Resources and Evaluation I |
| 15:30–15:55 | A Robust Approach to Aligning Heterogeneous Lexical Resources
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and Roberto Navigli |
| 15:55–16:20 | Predicting the relevance of distributional semantic similarity with contextual information
Philippe Muller, Cécile Fabre and Clémentine Adam |
| 16:20–16:45 | Temporal Annotation in the Clinical Domain
William Styler, Steven Bethard, Sean Finan, Martha Palmer, Sameer Pradhan, Piet C de Groen, Brad Erickson, Timothy Miller, Chen Lin, Guergana Savova and James Pustejovsky |
| 16:45–17:00 | Break |
| 17:00–18:00 | Invited talk I: Corinna Cortes
Learning Ensembles of Structured Prediction Rules
Corinna Cortes, Vitaly Kuznetsov and Mehryar Mohri |
| | Oral Sessions for Student Research Workshop Posters |
| 18:50–21:30 | Poster and Dinner Session I: TACL Papers, Long Papers, Short Papers, Student Research Workshop; Demonstrations |
| | TACL Papers |
| | Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Approach
Andrea Moro, Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli |
| | Data-Driven Metaphor Recognition and Explanation
Hongsong Li, Kenny Q. Zhu and Haixun Wang |
| | Grounded Compositional Semantics for Finding and Describing Images with Sentences
Richard Socher, Andrej Karpathy, Quoc V. Le, Christopher Manning and Andrew Ng |
| | Parallel Algorithms for Unsupervised Tagging
Sujith Ravi, Sergei Vassilivitskii and Vibhor Rastogi |
| | Heterogeneous Networks and Their Applications: Scientometrics, Name Disambiguation, and Topic Modeling
Ben King, Rahul Jha and Dragomir R. Radev |
| | Discriminative Lexical Semantic Segmentation with Gaps: Running the MWE Gamut
Nathan Schneider, Emily Danchik, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith |
| | Long Papers |
| | Interpretable Semantic Vectors from a Joint Model of Brain- and Text- Based Meaning
Alona Fyshe, Partha P. Talukdar, Brian Murphy and Tom M. Mitchell |
| | Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent Techniques for Concurrent Reinforcement Learning of Negotiation Dialogue Policies
Kallirroi Georgila, Claire Nelson and David Traum |
| | A Linear-Time Bottom-Up Discourse Parser with Constraints and Post-Editing
Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst |
| | Negation Focus Identification with Contextual Discourse Information
Bowei Zou, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu |
| | New Word Detection for Sentiment Analysis
Minlie Huang, Borui Ye, Yichen Wang, Haiqiang Chen, Junjun Cheng and Xiaoyan Zhu |
| | ReNew: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Generating Domain-Specific Lexicons and Sentiment Analysis
Zhe Zhang and Munindar P. Singh |
| | A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Natural Language Generation
Nathan McKinley and Soumya Ray |
| | Generating Code-switched Text for Lexical Learning
Igor Labutov and Hod Lipson |
| | Omni-word Feature and Soft Constraint for Chinese Relation Extraction
Yanping Chen, Qinghua Zheng and Wei Zhang |
| | Bilingual Active Learning for Relation Classification via Pseudo Parallel Corpora
Longhua Qian, Haotian Hui, Ya’nan Hu, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu |
| | Learning Soft Linear Constraints with Application to Citation Field Extraction
Sam Anzaroot, Alexandre Passos, David Belanger and Andrew McCallum |
| | A Study of Concept-based Weighting Regularization for Medical Records Search
Yue Wang, Xitong Liu and Hui Fang |
| | Learning to Predict Distributions of Words Across Domains
Danushka Bollegala, David Weir and John Carroll |
| | How to make words with vectors: Phrase generation in distributional semantics
Georgiana Dinu and Marco Baroni |
| | Vector space semantics with frequency-driven motifs
Shashank Srivastava and Eduard Hovy |
| | Lexical Inference over Multi-Word Predicates: A Distributional Approach
Omri Abend, Shay B. Cohen and Mark Steedman |
| | A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences
Nal Kalchbrenner, Edward Grefenstette and Phil Blunsom |
| | Online Learning in Tensor Space
Yuan Cao and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
| | Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Translation Models from Monolingual Data
Avneesh Saluja, Hany Hassan, Kristina Toutanova and Chris Quirk |
| | Using Discourse Structure Improves Machine Translation Evaluation
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez and Preslav Nakov |
| | Learning Continuous Phrase Representations for Translation Modeling
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Wen-tau Yih and Li Deng |
| | Adaptive Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
Marco Turchi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, José G. C. de Souza and Matteo Negri |
| | Learning Grounded Meaning Representations with Autoencoders
Carina Silberer and Mirella Lapata |
| | Joint POS Tagging and Transition-based Constituent Parsing in Chinese with Non-local Features
Zhiguo Wang and Nianwen Xue |
| | Strategies for Contiguous Multiword Expression Analysis and Dependency Parsing
Marie Candito and Matthieu Constant |
| | Correcting Preposition Errors in Learner English Using Error Case Frames and Feedback Messages
Ryo Nagata, Mikko Vilenius and Edward Whittaker |
| | Short Papers |
| | Exploring the Relative Role of Bottom-up and Top-down Information in Phoneme Learning
Abdellah Fourtassi, Thomas Schatz, Balakrishnan Varadarajan and Emmanuel Dupoux |
| | Biases in Predicting the Human Language Model
Alex B. Fine, Austin F. Frank, T. Florian Jaeger and Benjamin Van Durme |
| | Probabilistic Labeling for Efficient Referential Grounding based on Collaborative Discourse
Changsong Liu, Lanbo She, Rui Fang and Joyce Y. Chai |
| | A Composite Kernel Approach for Dialog Topic Tracking with Structured Domain Knowledge from Wikipedia
Seokhwan Kim, Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li |
| | An Extension of BLANC to System Mentions
Xiaoqiang Luo, Sameer Pradhan, Marta Recasens and Eduard Hovy |
| | Scoring Coreference Partitions of Predicted Mentions: A Reference Implementation
Sameer Pradhan, Xiaoqiang Luo, Marta Recasens, Eduard Hovy, Vincent Ng and Michael Strube |
| | Measuring Sentiment Annotation Complexity of Text
Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mishra, Nivvedan Senthamilselvan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | Improving Citation Polarity Classification with Product Reviews
Charles Jochim and Hinrich Schütze |
| | Adaptive Recursive Neural Network for Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification
Li Dong, Furu Wei, Chuanqi Tan, Duyu Tang, Ming Zhou and Ke Xu |
| | Sprinkling Topics for Weakly Supervised Text Classification
Swapnil Hingmire and Sutanu Chakraborti |
| | A Feature-Enriched Tree Kernel for Relation Extraction
Le Sun and Xianpei Han |
| | Employing Word Representations and Regularization for Domain Adaptation of Relation Extraction
Thien Huu Nguyen and Ralph Grishman |
| | Graph Ranking for Collective Named Entity Disambiguation
Ayman Alhelbawy and Robert Gaizauskas |
| | Descending-Path Convolution Kernel for Syntactic Structures
Chen Lin, Timothy Miller, Alvin Kho, Steven Bethard, Dmitriy Dligach, Sameer Pradhan and Guergana Savova |
| | Entities’ Sentiment Relevance
Zvi Ben-Ami, Ronen Feldman and Binyamin Rosenfeld |
| | Automatic Detection of Multilingual Dictionaries on the Web
Gintare Grigonyte and Timothy Baldwin |
| | Automatic Detection of Cognates Using Orthographic Alignment
Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu |
| | Automatically constructing Wordnet Synsets
Khang Nhut Lam, Feras Al Tarouti and Jugal Kalita |
| | Constructing a Turkish-English Parallel TreeBank
Olcay Taner Yıldız, Ercan Solak, Onur Görgün and Razieh Ehsani |
| | Improved Typesetting Models for Historical OCR
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein |
| | Robust Logistic Regression using Shift Parameters
Julie Tibshirani and Christopher D. Manning |
| | Faster Phrase-Based Decoding by Refining Feature State
Kenneth Heafield, Michael Kayser and Christopher D. Manning |
| | Decoder Integration and Expected BLEU Training for Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
Michael Auli and Jianfeng Gao |
| | On the Elements of an Accurate Tree-to-String Machine Translation System
Graham Neubig and Kevin Duh |
| | Simple extensions and POS Tags for a reparameterised IBM Model 2
Douwe Gelling and Trevor Cohn |
| | Dependency-based Pre-ordering for Chinese-English Machine Translation
Jingsheng Cai, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Yujie Zhang |
| | Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction
Noura Farra, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya and Nizar Habash |
| | Improved Iterative Correction for Distant Spelling Errors
Sergey Gubanov, Irina Galinskaya and Alexey Baytin |
| | Predicting Grammaticality on an Ordinal Scale
Michael Heilman, Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani, Melissa Lopez, Matthew Mulholland and Joel Tetreault |
| | I’m a Belieber: Social Roles via Self-identification and Conceptual Attributes
Charley Beller, Rebecca Knowles, Craig Harman, Shane Bergsma, Margaret Mitchell and Benjamin Van Durme |
| | Automatically Detecting Corresponding Edit-Turn-Pairs in Wikipedia
Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych |
| | Two Knives Cut Better Than One: Chinese Word Segmentation with Dual Decomposition
Mengqiu Wang, Rob Voigt and Christopher D. Manning |
| | Effective Document-Level Features for Chinese Patent Word Segmentation
Si Li and Nianwen Xue |
| | Word Segmentation of Informal Arabic with Domain Adaptation
Will Monroe, Spence Green and Christopher D. Manning |
| | Resolving Lexical Ambiguity in Tensor Regression Models of Meaning
Dimitri Kartsaklis, Nal Kalchbrenner and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh |
| | A Novel Content Enriching Model for Microblog Using News Corpus
Yunlun Yang, Zhihong Deng and Hongliang Yu |
| | Learning Bilingual Word Representations by Marginalizing Alignments
Tomáš Kočiský, Karl Moritz Hermann and Phil Blunsom |
| | Detecting Retries of Voice Search Queries
Rivka Levitan and David Elson |
| | Sliding Alignment Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
Mohammad Kazemi, Rahman Lavaee, Iftekhar Naim and Daniel Gildea |
| | Detection of Topic and its Extrinsic Evaluation Through Multi-Document Summarization
Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto |
| | Content Importance Models for Scoring Writing From Sources
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein and Swapna Somasundaran |
| | Chinese Morphological Analysis with Character-level POS Tagging
Mo Shen, Hongxiao Liu, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi |
| | Part-of-Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Fields: Exploiting Sub-Label Dependencies for Improved Accuracy
Miikka Silfverberg, Teemu Ruokolainen, Krister Lindén and Mikko Kurimo |
| | POS induction with distributional and morphological information using a distance-dependent Chinese restaurant process
Kairit Sirts, Jacob Eisenstein, Micha Elsner and Sharon Goldwater |
| | Improving the Recognizability of Syntactic Relations Using Contextualized Examples
Aditi Muralidharan and Marti A. Hearst |
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00–10:00 | Invited talk II: Zoran Popović
Text Generation for Infinitely Adaptable Curricula
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| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break |
| | Session 4A: Machine Learning for NLP |
| 10:30–10:55 | Kneser-Ney Smoothing on Expected Counts
Hui Zhang and David Chiang |
| 10:55–11:20 | Robust Entity Clustering via Phylogenetic Inference
Nicholas Andrews, Jason Eisner and Mark Dredze |
| 11:20–11:45 | Linguistic Structured Sparsity in Text Categorization
Dani Yogatama and Noah A. Smith |
| 11:45–12:10 | Perplexity on Reduced Corpora
Hayato Kobayashi |
| | Session 4B: Information Extraction II |
| 10:30–10:55 | Robust Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction via Clustering Consistency
Minh Luan Nguyen, Ivor W. Tsang, Kian Ming A. Chai and Hai Leong Chieu |
| 10:55–11:20 | Encoding Relation Requirements for Relation Extraction via Joint Inference
Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Yong Qin and Dongyan Zhao |
| 11:20–11:45 | Medical Relation Extraction with Manifold Models
Chang Wang and James Fan |
| 11:45–12:10 | Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with Matrix Completion
Miao Fan, Deli Zhao, Qiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng and Edward Y. Chang |
| | Session 4C: Machine Translation II |
| 10:30–10:55 | Enhancing Grammatical Cohesion: Generating Transitional Expressions for SMT
Mei Tu, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong |
| 10:55–11:20 | Adaptive HTER Estimation for Document-Specific MT Post-Editing
Fei Huang, Jian-Ming Xu, Abraham Ittycheriah and Salim Roukos |
| 11:20–11:45 | Translation Assistance by Translation of L1 Fragments in an L2 Context
Maarten van Gompel and Antal van den Bosch |
| 11:45–12:10 | Response-based Learning for Grounded Machine Translation
Stefan Riezler, Patrick Simianer and Carolin Haas |
| | Session 4D: Summarization |
| 10:30–10:55 | Modelling Events through Memory-based, Open-IE Patterns for Abstractive Summarization
Daniele Pighin, Marco Cornolti, Enrique Alfonseca and Katja Filippova |
| 10:55–11:20 | Hierarchical Summarization: Scaling Up Multi-Document Summarization
Janara Christensen, Stephen Soderland, Gagan Bansal and Mausam |
| 11:20–11:45 | Query-Chain Focused Summarization
Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen and Michael Elhadad |
| 11:45–12:10 | Exploiting Timelines to Enhance Multi-document Summarization
Jun-Ping Ng, Yan Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Zhoujun Li |
| | Session 4E: Language Resources and Evaluation II |
| 10:30–10:55 | Segmentation for Efficient Supervised Language Annotation with an Explicit Cost-Utility Tradeoff
Matthias Sperber, Mirjam Simantzik, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura and Alex Waibel |
| 10:55–11:20 | A chance-corrected measure of inter-annotator agreement for syntax
Arne Skjærholt |
| 11:20–11:45 | Two Is Bigger (and Better) Than One: the Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project
Tiziano Flati, Daniele Vannella, Tommaso Pasini and Roberto Navigli |
| 11:45–12:10 | The Language Demographics of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Ellie Pavlick, Matt Post, Ann Irvine, Dmitry Kachaev and Chris Callison-Burch |
| 12:10–13:30 | Lunch break |
| | Session 5A: Question Answering |
| 13:30–13:55 | Information Extraction over Structured Data: Question Answering with Freebase
Xuchen Yao and Benjamin Van Durme |
| 13:55–14:20 | Knowledge-Based Question Answering as Machine Translation
Junwei Bao, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou and Tiejun Zhao |
| 14:20–14:45 | Discourse Complements Lexical Semantics for Non-factoid Answer Reranking
Peter Jansen, Mihai Surdeanu and Peter Clark |
| | Session 5B: Information Extraction III |
| 13:30–13:55 | Toward Future Scenario Generation: Extracting Event Causality Exploiting Semantic Relation, Context, and Association Features
Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Julien Kloetzer, Motoki Sano, István Varga, Jong-Hoon Oh and Yutaka Kidawara |
| 13:55–14:20 | Cross-narrative Temporal Ordering of Medical Events
Preethi Raghavan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Noémie Elhadad and Albert M. Lai |
| 14:20–14:45 | Language-Aware Truth Assessment of Fact Candidates
Ndapandula Nakashole and Tom M. Mitchell |
| | Session 5C: Lexical Semantics and Ontology I |
| 13:30–13:55 | That’s sick dude!: Automatic identification of word sense change across different timescales
Sunny Mitra, Ritwik Mitra, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal |
| 13:55–14:20 | A Step-wise Usage-based Method for Inducing Polysemy-aware Verb Classes
Daisuke Kawahara, Daniel W. Peterson and Martha Palmer |
| 14:20–14:45 | Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation
Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Gerard de Melo and Dan Klein |
| | Session 5D: Syntax, Parsing and Tagging IV |
| 13:30–13:55 | A Provably Correct Learning Algorithm for Latent-Variable PCFGs
Shay B. Cohen and Michael Collins |
| 13:55–14:20 | Spectral Unsupervised Parsing with Additive Tree Metrics
Ankur P. Parikh, Shay B. Cohen and Eric P. Xing |
| 14:20–14:45 | Cross-lingual Projected Expectation Regularization for Weakly Supervised Learning
Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning |
| | Session 5E: Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics |
| 13:30–13:55 | Weak semantic context helps phonetic learning in a model of infant language acquisition
Stella Frank, Naomi H. Feldman and Sharon Goldwater |
| 13:55–14:20 | Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story
Marten van Schijndel and Micha Elsner |
| 14:20–14:45 | Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory
Gabriel Doyle, Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy |
| 14:45–15:15 | Coffee break |
| | Session 6A: Machine Translation III |
| 15:15–15:30 | How to Speak a Language without Knowing It
Xing Shi, Kevin Knight and Heng Ji |
| 15:30–15:45 | Assessing the Discourse Factors that Influence the Quality of Machine Translation
Junyi Jessy Li, Marine Carpuat and Ani Nenkova |
| 15:45–16:00 | Automatic Detection of Machine Translated Text and Translation Quality Estimation
Roee Aharoni, Moshe Koppel and Yoav Goldberg |
| | Session 6B: Lexical Semantics and Ontology II |
| 15:15–15:30 | Improving sparse word similarity models with asymmetric measures
Jean Mark Gawron |
| 15:30–15:45 | Dependency-Based Word Embeddings
Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg |
| 15:45–16:00 | Vector spaces for historical linguistics: Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony
Florent Perek |
| | Session 6C: Generation/Summarization/Dialogue |
| 15:15–15:30 | Single Document Summarization based on Nested Tree Structure
Yuta Kikuchi, Tsutomu Hirao, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura and Masaaki Nagata |
| 15:30–15:45 | Linguistic Considerations in Automatic Question Generation
Karen Mazidi and Rodney D. Nielsen |
| 15:45–16:00 | Polynomial Time Joint Structural Inference for Sentence Compression
Xian Qian and Yang Liu |
| 16:00–16:15 | A Bayesian Method to Incorporate Background Knowledge during Automatic Text Summarization
Annie Louis |
| 16:15–16:30 | Predicting Power Relations between Participants in Written Dialog from a Single Thread
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Owen Rambow |
| | Session 6D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology I |
| 15:15–15:30 | Tri-Training for Authorship Attribution with Limited Training Data
Tieyun Qian, Bing Liu, Li Chen and Zhiyong Peng |
| 15:30–15:45 | Automation and Evaluation of the Keyword Method for Second Language Learning
Gözde Özbal, Daniele Pighin and Carlo Strapparava |
| 15:45–16:00 | Citation Resolution: A method for evaluating context-based citation recommendation systems
Daniel Duma and Ewan Klein |
| 16:00–16:15 | Hippocratic Abbreviation Expansion
Brian Roark and Richard Sproat |
| 16:15–16:30 | Unsupervised Feature Learning for Visual Sign Language Identification
Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Onno Crasborn, Peter Wittenburg, Sebastian Drude and Tom Heskes |
| | Session 6E: Language Resources and Evaluation III |
| 15:15–15:30 | Experiments with crowdsourced re-annotation of a POS tagging data set
Dirk Hovy, Barbara Plank and Anders Søgaard |
| 15:30–15:45 | Building Sentiment Lexicons for All Major Languages
Yanqing Chen and Steven Skiena |
| 15:45–16:00 | Difficult Cases: From Data to Learning, and Back
Beata Beigman Klebanov and Eyal Beigman |
| 16:00–16:15 | The VerbCorner Project: Findings from Phase 1 of crowd-sourcing a semantic decomposition of verbs
Joshua K. Hartshorne, Claire Bonial and Martha Palmer |
| 16:15–16:30 | A Corpus of Sentence-level Revisions in Academic Writing: A Step towards Understanding Statement Strength in Communication
Chenhao Tan and Lillian Lee |
| 16:50–19:20 | Poster and Dinner Session II: Long Papers, Short Papers and Demonstrations |
| | Long Papers |
| | Active Learning with Efficient Feature Weighting Methods for Improving Data Quality and Classification Accuracy
Justin Martineau, Lu Chen, Doreen Cheng and Amit Sheth |
| | Political Ideology Detection Using Recursive Neural Networks
Mohit Iyyer, Peter Enns, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik |
| | A Unified Model for Soft Linguistic Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation
Junhui Li, Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik and Hal Daumé III |
| | Are Two Heads Better than One? Crowdsourced Translation via a Two-Step Collaboration of Non-Professional Translators and Editors
Rui Yan, Mingkun Gao, Ellie Pavlick and Chris Callison-Burch |
| | A Generalized Language Model as the Combination of Skipped n-grams and Modified Kneser Ney Smoothing
Rene Pickhardt, Thomas Gottron, Martin Körner, Paul Georg Wagner, Till Speicher and Steffen Staab |
| | A Semiparametric Gaussian Copula Regression Model for Predicting Financial Risks from Earnings Calls
William Yang Wang and Zhenhao Hua |
| | Polylingual Tree-Based Topic Models for Translation Domain Adaptation
Yuening Hu, Ke Zhai, Vladimir Eidelman and Jordan Boyd-Graber |
| | Low-Resource Semantic Role Labeling
Matthew R. Gormley, Margaret Mitchell, Benjamin Van Durme and Mark Dredze |
| | Joint Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom M. Mitchell |
| | Learning Semantic Hierarchies via Word Embeddings
Ruiji Fu, Jiang Guo, Bing Qin, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu |
| | Probabilistic Soft Logic for Semantic Textual Similarity
Islam Beltagy, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney |
| | Abstractive Summarization of Spoken and Written Conversations Based on Phrasal Queries
Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond T. Ng |
| | Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data
Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon |
| | Approximation Strategies for Multi-Structure Sentence Compression
Kapil Thadani |
| | Opinion Mining on YouTube
Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Moschitti, Olga Uryupina, Barbara Plank and Katja Filippova |
| | Automatic Keyphrase Extraction: A Survey of the State of the Art
Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng |
| | Pattern Dictionary of English Prepositions
Ken Litkowski |
| | Looking at Unbalanced Specialized Comparable Corpora for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction
Emmanuel Morin and Amir Hazem |
| | Validating and Extending Semantic Knowledge Bases using Video Games with a Purpose
Daniele Vannella, David Jurgens, Daniele Scarfini, Domenico Toscani and Roberto Navigli |
| | Shallow Analysis Based Assessment of Syntactic Complexity for Automated Speech Scoring
Suma Bhat, Huichao Xue and Su-Youn Yoon |
| | Can You Repeat That? Using Word Repetition to Improve Spoken Term Detection
Jonathan Wintrode and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
| | Character-Level Chinese Dependency Parsing
Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu |
| | Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Transferring Distribution via Parallel Guidance and Entropy Regularization
Xuezhe Ma and Fei Xia |
| | Unsupervised Morphology-Based Vocabulary Expansion
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Thomas Lippincott, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow |
| | Toward Better Chinese Word Segmentation for SMT via Bilingual Constraints
Xiaodong Zeng, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong, Isabel Trancoso and Liang Tian |
| | Short Papers |
| | Determiner-Established Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Pedagogical Text
Shomir Wilson and Jon Oberlander |
| | Modeling Factuality Judgments in Social Media Text
Sandeep Soni, Tanushree Mitra, Eric Gilbert and Jacob Eisenstein |
| | A Topic Model for Building Fine-grained Domain-specific Emotion Lexicon
Min Yang, Dingju Zhu and Kam-Pui Chow |
| | Depeche Mood: a Lexicon for Emotion Analysis from Crowd Annotated News
Jacopo Staiano and Marco Guerini |
| | Improving Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Topic-Based Mixture Modeling and Semi-Supervised Training
Bing Xiang and Liang Zhou |
| | Cross-cultural Deception Detection
Verónica Pérez-Rosas and Rada Mihalcea |
| | Particle Filter Rejuvenation and Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Chandler May, Alex Clemmer and Benjamin Van Durme |
| | Comparing Automatic Evaluation Measures for Image Description
Desmond Elliott and Frank Keller |
| | Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia
Colby Horn, Cathryn Manduca and David Kauchak |
| | Cheap and easy entity evaluation
Ben Hachey, Joel Nothman and Will Radford |
| | Identifying Real-Life Complex Task Names with Task-Intrinsic Entities from Microblogs
Ting-Xuan Wang, Kun-Yu Tsai and Wen-Hsiang Lu |
| | Mutual Disambiguation for Entity Linking
Eric Charton, Marie-Jean Meurs, Ludovic Jean-Louis and Michel Gagnon |
| | How Well can We Learn Interpretable Entity Types from Text?
Dirk Hovy |
| | Learning Translational and Knowledge-based Similarities from Relevance Rankings for Cross-Language Retrieval
Shigehiko Schamoni, Felix Hieber, Artem Sokolov and Stefan Riezler |
| | Two-Stage Hashing for Fast Document Retrieval
Hao Li, Wei Liu and Heng Ji |
| | An Annotation Framework for Dense Event Ordering
Taylor Cassidy, Bill McDowell, Nathanael Chambers and Steven Bethard |
| | Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong?
Barbara Plank, Dirk Hovy and Anders Søgaard |
| | Humans Require Context to Infer Ironic Intent (so Computers Probably do, too)
Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Laura Kertz and Eugene Charniak |
| | Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in context
Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer |
| | Combining Word Patterns and Discourse Markers for Paradigmatic Relation Classification
Michael Roth and Sabine Schulte im Walde |
| | Applying a Naive Bayes Similarity Measure to Word Sense Disambiguation
Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst |
| | Fast Easy Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Marginalized Structured Dropout
Yi Yang and Jacob Eisenstein |
| | Improving Lexical Embeddings with Semantic Knowledge
Mo Yu and Mark Dredze |
| | Optimizing Segmentation Strategies for Simultaneous Speech Translation
Yusuke Oda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura |
| | A joint inference of deep case analysis and zero subject generation for Japanese-to-English statistical machine translation
Taku Kudo, Hiroshi Ichikawa and Hideto Kazawa |
| | A Hybrid Approach to Skeleton-based Translation
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu and Chunliang Zhang |
| | Effective Selection of Translation Model Training Data
Le Liu, Yu Hong, Hao Liu, Xing Wang and Jianmin Yao |
| | Refinements to Interactive Translation Prediction Based on Search Graphs
Philipp Koehn, Chara Tsoukala and Herve Saint-Amand |
| | Cross-lingual Model Transfer Using Feature Representation Projection
Mikhail Kozhevnikov and Ivan Titov |
| | Cross-language and Cross-encyclopedia Article Linking Using Mixed-language Topic Model and Hypernym Translation
Yu-Chun Wang, Chun-Kai Wu and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai |
| | Nonparametric Method for Data-driven Image Captioning
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak |
| | Improved Correction Detection in Revised ESL Sentences
Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa |
| | Unsupervised Alignment of Privacy Policies using Hidden Markov Models
Rohan Ramanath, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh and Noah A. Smith |
| | Enriching Cold Start Personalized Language Model Using Social Network Information
Yu-Yang Huang, Rui Yan, Tsung-Ting Kuo and Shou-De Lin |
| | Automatic Labelling of Topic Models Learned from Twitter by Summarisation
Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave, Yulan He and Ruifeng Xu |
| | Stochastic Contextual Edit Distance and Probabilistic FSTs
Ryan Cotterell, Nanyun Peng and Jason Eisner |
| | Labelling Topics using Unsupervised Graph-based Methods
Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson |
| | Training a Korean SRL System with Rich Morphological Features
Young-Bum Kim, Heemoon Chae, Benjamin Snyder and Yu-Seop Kim |
| | Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering
Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He and Christopher Meek |
| | On WordNet Semantic Classes and Dependency Parsing
Kepa Bengoetxea, Eneko Agirre, Joakim Nivre, Yue Zhang and Koldo Gojenola |
| | Enforcing Structural Diversity in Cube-pruned Dependency Parsing
Hao Zhang and Ryan McDonald |
| | The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English: First Parsing Results and Analysis
Seth Kulick, Anthony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini |
| | Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb
Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini and Mark Liberman |
| 19:30–22:00 | Social at the National Aquarium in Baltimore |
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| 7:30–18:00 | Registration |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast |
| | Best paper session |
| 9:00–9:30 | Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Jacob Devlin, Rabih Zbib, Zhongqiang Huang, Thomas Lamar, Richard Schwartz and John Makhoul |
| 9:30–10:00 | Low-Rank Tensors for Scoring Dependency Structures
Tao Lei, Yu Xin, Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola |
| 10:15–10:45 | Coffee break |
| | Session 7A: Multimodal NLP/ Lexical Semantics |
| 10:45–11:10 | Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence
Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard and Tamara Sumner |
| 11:10–11:35 | CoSimRank: A Flexible & Efficient Graph-Theoretic Similarity Measure
Sascha Rothe and Hinrich Schütze |
| 11:35–12:00 | Is this a wampimuk? Cross-modal mapping between distributional semantics and the visual world
Angeliki Lazaridou, Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni |
| 12:00–12:25 | From image descriptions to visual denotations: New similarity metrics for semantic inference over event descriptions
Peter Young, Alice Lai, Micah Hodosh and Julia Hockenmaier |
| | Session 7B: Semantics III |
| 10:45–11:10 | Semantic Parsing via Paraphrasing
Jonathan Berant and Percy Liang |
| 11:10–11:35 | A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation
Jeffrey Flanigan, Sam Thomson, Jaime Carbonell, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith |
| 11:35–12:00 | Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions
Kenton Lee, Yoav Artzi, Jesse Dodge and Luke Zettlemoyer |
| 12:00–12:25 | Semantic Frame Identification with Distributed Word Representations
Karl Moritz Hermann, Dipanjan Das, Jason Weston and Kuzman Ganchev |
| | Session 7C: Machine Translation IV |
| 10:45–11:10 | A Sense-Based Translation Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Deyi Xiong and Min Zhang |
| 11:10–11:35 | Recurrent Neural Networks for Word Alignment Model
Akihiro Tamura, Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 11:35–12:00 | A Constrained Viterbi Relaxation for Bidirectional Word Alignment
Yin-Wen Chang, Alexander M. Rush, John DeNero and Michael Collins |
| 12:00–12:25 | A Recursive Recurrent Neural Network for Statistical Machine Translation
Shujie Liu, Nan Yang, Mu Li and Ming Zhou |
| | Session 7D: NLP Applications and NLP Enabled Technology II |
| 10:45–11:10 | Predicting Instructor’s Intervention in MOOC forums
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Dan Goldwasser and Hal Daumé III |
| 11:10–11:35 | A Joint Graph Model for Pinyin-to-Chinese Conversion with Typo Correction
Zhongye Jia and Hai Zhao |
| 11:35–12:00 | Smart Selection
Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon and Ariel Fuxman |
| 12:00–12:25 | Modeling Prompt Adherence in Student Essays
Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng |
| | Session 7E: Sentiment Analysis II |
| 10:45–11:10 | Senti-LSSVM: Sentiment-Oriented Multi-Relation Extraction with Latent Structural SVM
Lizhen Qu, Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, Lili Jiang, Rainer Gemulla and Gerhard Weikum |
| 11:10–11:35 | ConnotationWordNet: Learning Connotation over the Word+Sense Network
Jun Seok Kang, Song Feng, Leman Akoglu and Yejin Choi |
| 11:35–12:00 | Learning Sentiment-Specific Word Embedding for Twitter Sentiment Classification
Duyu Tang, Furu Wei, Nan Yang, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu and Bing Qin |
| 12:00–12:25 | Towards a General Rule for Identifying Deceptive Opinion Spam
Jiwei Li, Myle Ott, Claire Cardie and Eduard Hovy |
| 12:25–13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30–15:00 | ACL Business Meeting |
| | Session 8A: NLP for the Web and Social Media II |
| 15:00–15:15 | Learning Polylingual Topic Models from Code-Switched Social Media Documents
Nanyun Peng, Yiming Wang and Mark Dredze |
| 15:15–15:30 | Normalizing tweets with edit scripts and recurrent neural embeddings
Grzegorz Chrupała |
| 15:30–15:45 | Exponential Reservoir Sampling for Streaming Language Models
Miles Osborne, Ashwin Lall and Benjamin Van Durme |
| 15:45–16:00 | A Piece of My Mind: A Sentiment Analysis Approach for Online Dispute Detection
Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 16:00–16:15 | A Simple Bayesian Modelling Approach to Event Extraction from Twitter
Deyu Zhou, Liangyu Chen and Yulan He |
| 16:15–16:30 | Be Appropriate and Funny: Automatic Entity Morph Encoding
Boliang Zhang, Hongzhao Huang, Xiaoman Pan, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight, Zhen Wen, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han and Bulent Yener |
| | Session 8B: Semantics/Information Extraction |
| 15:00–15:15 | Applying Grammar Induction to Text Mining
Andrew Salway and Samia Touileb |
| 15:15–15:30 | Semantic Consistency: A Local Subspace Based Method for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction
Xianpei Han and Le Sun |
| 15:30–15:45 | Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning
Felix Hill and Anna Korhonen |
| 15:45–16:00 | Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction
Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman |
| 16:00–16:15 | Recognizing Implied Predicate-Argument Relationships in Textual Inference
Asher Stern and Ido Dagan |
| 16:15–16:30 | Measuring metaphoricity
Jonathan Dunn |
| | Session 8C: Machine Translation V |
| 15:00–15:15 | Empirical Study of Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Methods for SMT on Large-scale Corpora
Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 15:15–15:30 | EM Decipherment for Large Vocabularies
Malte Nuhn and Hermann Ney |
| 15:30–15:45 | XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations
Chi-kiu Lo, Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers and Dekai Wu |
| 15:45–16:00 | Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection
Wael Salloum, Heba Elfardy, Linda Alamir-Salloum, Nizar Habash and Mona Diab |
| 16:00–16:15 | RNN-based Derivation Structure Prediction for SMT
Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong |
| 16:15–16:30 | Hierarchical MT Training using Max-Violation Perceptron
Kai Zhao, Liang Huang, Haitao Mi and Abe Ittycheriah |
| | Session 8D: Syntax, Parsing, and Tagging V |
| 15:00–15:15 | Punctuation Processing for Projective Dependency Parsing
Ji Ma, Yue Zhang and Jingbo Zhu |
| 15:15–15:30 | Transforming trees into hedges and parsing with "hedgebank" grammars
Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Aaron Dunlop and Brian Roark |
| 15:30–15:45 | Incremental Predictive Parsing with TurboParser
Arne Köhn and Wolfgang Menzel |
| 15:45–16:00 | Tailoring Continuous Word Representations for Dependency Parsing
Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel and Karen Livescu |
| 16:00–16:15 | Observational Initialization of Type-Supervised Taggers
Hui Zhang and John DeNero |
| 16:15–16:30 | How much do word embeddings encode about syntax?
Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein |
| | Session 8E: Multilinguality and Multimodal NLP |
| 15:00–15:15 | Distributed Representations of Geographically Situated Language
David Bamman, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith |
| 15:15–15:30 | Improving Multi-Modal Representations Using Image Dispersion: Why Less is Sometimes More
Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Anna Korhonen and Stephen Clark |
| 15:30–15:45 | Bilingual Event Extraction: a Case Study on Trigger Type Determination
Zhu Zhu, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou and Rui Xia |
| 15:45–16:00 | Understanding Relation Temporality of Entities
Taesung Lee and Seung-won Hwang |
| 16:00–16:15 | Does the Phonology of L1 Show Up in L2 Texts?
Garrett Nicolai and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 16:15–16:30 | Cross-lingual Opinion Analysis via Negative Transfer Detection
Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Jun Xu, Jian Xu, Bin Liu and Xiaolong Wang |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:30 | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 18:30–19:00 | Closing Session |