ACL 2011

348 papers

Clustering Comparable Corpora For Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Bo Li, Eric Gaussier, Akiko Aizawa

“I Thou Thee, Thou Traitor”: Predicting Formal vs. Informal Address in English Literature

Manaal Faruqui, Sebastian Padó

Why Initialization Matters for IBM Model 1: Multiple Optima and Non-Strict Convexity

Kristina Toutanova, Michel Galley

Two Easy Improvements to Lexical Weighting

David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Michael Pust

Reordering Modeling using Weighted Alignment Matrices

Wang Ling, Tiago Luís, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, Luísa Coheur

On-line Language Model Biasing for Statistical Machine Translation

Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan

Confidence-Weighted Learning of Factored Discriminative Language Models

Viet Ha-Thuc, Nicola Cancedda

Reordering Constraint Based on Document-Level Context

Takashi Onishi, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Is Machine Translation Ripe for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification?

Kevin Duh, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata

Discriminative Feature-Tied Mixture Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation

Bing Xiang, Abraham Ittycheriah

Improving Decoding Generalization for Tree-to-String Translation

Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao

Issues Concerning Decoding with Synchronous Context-free Grammar

Tagyoung Chung, Licheng Fang, Daniel Gildea

Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation by Mining Unseen Words

Hal Daume III, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi

Terminal-Aware Synchronous Binarization

Licheng Fang, Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea

Monolingual Alignment by Edit Rate Computation on Sentential Paraphrase Pairs

Houda Bouamor, Aurélien Max, Anne Vilnat

Improving On-line Handwritten Recognition using Translation Models in Multimodal Interactive Machine Translation

Vicent Alabau, Alberto Sanchis, Francisco Casacuberta

Clause Restructuring For SMT Not Absolutely Helpful

Susan Howlett, Mark Dras

Dealing with Spurious Ambiguity in Learning ITG-based Word Alignment

Shujian Huang, Stephan Vogel, Jiajun Chen

Detection of Agreement and Disagreement in Broadcast Conversations

Wen Wang, Sibel Yaman, Kristin Precoda, Colleen Richey, Geoffrey Raymond

Even the Abstract have Color: Consensus in Word-Colour Associations

Saif Mohammad

NULEX: An Open-License Broad Coverage Lexicon

Clifton McFate, Kenneth Forbus

A Corpus for Modeling Morpho-Syntactic Agreement in Arabic: Gender, Number and Rationality

Sarah Alkuhlani, Nizar Habash

Temporal Evaluation

Naushad UzZaman, James Allen

Automatic Detection and Correction of Errors in Dependency Treebanks

Alexander Volokh, Günter Neumann

Language Use: What can it tell us?

Marjorie Freedman, Alex Baron, Vasin Punyakanok, Ralph Weischedel

Modeling Wisdom of Crowds Using Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts

Derya Ozkan, Louis-Philippe Morency

Types of Common-Sense Knowledge Needed for Recognizing Textual Entailment

Peter LoBue, Alexander Yates

Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation

Dirk Hovy, Ashish Vaswani, Stephen Tratz, David Chiang, Eduard Hovy

ParaSense or How to Use Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation

Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste, Martine De Cock

Improving Classification of Medical Assertions in Clinical Notes

Youngjun Kim, Ellen Riloff, Stéphane Meystre

Towards Tracking Semantic Change by Visual Analytics

Christian Rohrdantz, Annette Hautli, Thomas Mayer, Miriam Butt, Daniel A. Keim

Scaling up Automatic Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Annotation

Lonneke van der Plas, Paola Merlo, James Henderson

Corpus Expansion for Statistical Machine Translation with Semantic Role Label Substitution Rules

Qin Gao, Stephan Vogel

Coreference for Learning to Extract Relations: Yes Virginia, Coreference Matters

Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman, Ralph Weischedel

Automatic Extraction of Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Detection of Negation and Speculation Scopes

Emilia Apostolova, Noriko Tomuro, Dina Demner-Fushman

End-to-End Relation Extraction Using Distant Supervision from External Semantic Repositories

Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti

Model-Portability Experiments for Textual Temporal Analysis

Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens

Relation Guided Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons

Tara McIntosh, Lars Yencken, James R. Curran, Timothy Baldwin

Can Document Selection Help Semi-supervised Learning? A Case Study On Event Extraction

Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman

Optimal and Syntactically-Informed Decoding for Monolingual Phrase-Based Alignment

Kapil Thadani, Kathleen McKeown

Towards Style Transformation from Written-Style to Audio-Style

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Barbara Rosario, Kent Lyons

Data-oriented Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation

Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev

Semi-Supervised Modeling for Prenominal Modifier Ordering

Margaret Mitchell, Aaron Dunlop, Brian Roark

Discrete vs. Continuous Rating Scales for Language Evaluation in NLP

Anja Belz, Eric Kow

Query Snowball: A Co-occurrence-based Approach to Multi-document Summarization for Question Answering

Hajime Morita, Tetsuya Sakai, Manabu Okumura

Judging Grammaticality with Tree Substitution Grammar Derivations

Matt Post

Language-Independent Parsing with Empty Elements

Shu Cai, David Chiang, Yoav Goldberg

Insertion Operator for Bayesian Tree Substitution Grammars

Hiroyuki Shindo, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata

Joint Training of Dependency Parsing Filters through Latent Support Vector Machines

Colin Cherry, Shane Bergsma

Reversible Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars

Daniël de Kok, Barbara Plank, Gertjan van Noord

Transition-based Dependency Parsing with Rich Non-local Features

Yue Zhang, Joakim Nivre

Bayesian Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation

Coşkun Mermer, Murat Saraclar

Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability

Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A. Smith

Word Alignment via Submodular Maximization over Matroids

Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes

How Much Can We Gain from Supervised Word Alignment?

Jinxi Xu, Jinying Chen

Automatic Evaluation of Chinese Translation Output: Word-Level or Character-Level?

Maoxi Li, Chengqing Zong, Hwee Tou Ng

AM-FM: A Semantic Framework for Translation Quality Assessment

Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li

From Bilingual Dictionaries to Interlingual Document Representations

Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume III, Raghavendra Udupa

A Corpus of Scope-disambiguated English Text

Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen, Mary Swift

Search in the Lost Sense of “Query”: Question Formulation in Web Search Queries and its Temporal Changes

Bo Pang, Ravi Kumar

French TimeBank: An ISO-TimeML Annotated Reference Corpus

André Bittar, Pascal Amsili, Pascal Denis, Laurence Danlos

Extending the Entity Grid with Entity-Specific Features

Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak

Question Detection in Spoken Conversations Using Textual Conversations

Anna Margolis, Mari Ostendorf

Entrainment in Speech Preceding Backchannels.

Rivka Levitan, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg

Subjective Natural Language Problems: Motivations, Applications, Characterizations, and Implications

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

Extracting Opinion Expressions and Their Polarities – Exploration of Pipelines and Joint Models

Richard Johansson, Alessandro Moschitti

Joint Identification and Segmentation of Domain-Specific Dialogue Acts for Conversational Dialogue Systems

Fabrizio Morbini, Kenji Sagae

That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification

Chloé Kiddon, Yuriy Brun

Language of Vandalism: Improving Wikipedia Vandalism Detection via Stylometric Analysis

Manoj Harpalani, Michael Hart, Sandesh Singh, Rob Johnson, Yejin Choi

Unsupervised Discovery of Rhyme Schemes

Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight

Insertion, Deletion, or Substitution? Normalizing Text Messages without Pre-categorization nor Supervision

Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng, Bingqing Wang, Yang Liu

Lost in Translation: Authorship Attribution using Frame Semantics

Steffen Hedegaard, Jakob Grue Simonsen

Tier-based Strictly Local Constraints for Phonology

Jeffrey Heinz, Chetan Rawal, Herbert G. Tanner

Latent Class Transliteration based on Source Language Origin

Masato Hagiwara, Satoshi Sekine

Semi-supervised condensed nearest neighbor for part-of-speech tagging

Anders Søgaard

Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments

Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O’Connor, Dipanjan Das, Daniel Mills

The Arabic Online Commentary Dataset: an Annotated Dataset of Informal Arabic with High Dialectal Content

Omar F. Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch

HITS-based Seed Selection and Stop List Construction for Bootstrapping

Tetsuo Kiso, Masashi Shimbo, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto

An Empirical Investigation of Discounting in Cross-Domain Language Models

Greg Durrett, Dan Klein

Efficient Online Locality Sensitive Hashing via Reservoir Counting

Benjamin Van Durme, Ashwin Lall

Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Dependency Parsing

Nikhil Garg, James Henderson

Good Seed Makes a Good Crop: Accelerating Active Learning Using Language Modeling

Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer

Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models

Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Izhak Shafran

Extracting Comparative Entities and Predicates from Texts Using Comparative Type Classification

Seon Yang, Youngjoong Ko

Event Extraction as Dependency Parsing

David McClosky, Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher Manning

Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining

Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard Hovy

Ranking Class Labels Using Query Sessions

Marius Pasca

Partial Parsing from Bitext Projections

Prashanth Mannem, Aswarth Dara

Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features

Yuval Marton, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging

Michael Auli, Adam Lopez

Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing

Barbara Plank, Gertjan van Noord

Exploiting Web-Derived Selectional Preference to Improve Statistical Dependency Parsing

Guangyou Zhou, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Li Cai

Using Bilingual Information for Cross-Language Document Summarization

Xiaojun Wan

Automatic Labelling of Topic Models

Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser, David Newman, Timothy Baldwin

Structural Topic Model for Latent Topical Structure Analysis

Hongning Wang, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai

Integrating history-length interpolation and classes in language modeling

Hinrich Schütze

Collective Classification of Congressional Floor-Debate Transcripts

Clinton Burfoot, Steven Bird, Timothy Baldwin

Aspect Ranking: Identifying Important Product Aspects from Online Consumer Reviews

Jianxing Yu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Confidence Driven Unsupervised Semantic Parsing

Dan Goldwasser, Roi Reichart, James Clarke, Dan Roth

Latent Semantic Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation

Tim Van de Cruys, Marianna Apidianaki