ACL 2012

253 papers

Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning Algorithms for NLP

Amar Subramanya, Partha Pratim Talukdar

Richard Socher, Yoshua Bengio, Christopher D. Manning

Multilingual Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis

Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea, Janyce Wiebe

Topic Models, Latent Space Models, Sparse Coding, and All That: A Systematic Understanding of Probabilistic Semantic Extraction in Large Corpus

Eric Xing

State-of-the-Art Kernels for Natural Language Processing

Alessandro Moschitti

Qualitative Modeling of Spatial Prepositions and Motion Expressions

Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Michael Strube

Syntactic Annotations for the Google Books NGram Corpus

Yuri Lin, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Jon Orwant, Will Brockman

Social Event Radar: A Bilingual Context Mining and Sentiment Analysis Summarization System

Wen-Tai Hsieh, Chen-Ming Wu, Tsun Ku, Seng-cho T. Chou

FLOW: A First-Language-Oriented Writing Assistant System

Mei-Hua Chen, Shih-Ting Huang, Hung-Ting Hsieh, Ting-Hui Kao, Jason S. Chang

UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base

Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum

Online Plagiarized Detection Through Exploiting Lexical, Syntax, and Semantic Information

Wan-Yu Lin, Nanyun Peng, Chun-Chao Yen, Shou-De Lin

A Graphical Interface for MT Evaluation and Error Analysis

Meritxell Gonzàlez, Jesús Giménez, Lluis Marquez

Subgroup Detector: A System for Detecting Subgroups in Online Discussions

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir Radev

Akamon: An Open Source Toolkit for Tree/Forest-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Building Trainable Taggers in a Web-based, UIMA-Supported NLP Workbench

Rafal Rak, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Sophia Ananiadou

A System for Real-time Twitter Sentiment Analysis of 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Cycle

Hao Wang, Dogan Can, Abe Kazemzadeh, François Bar, Shrikanth Narayanan

WizIE: A Best Practices Guided Development Environment for Information Extraction

Yunyao Li, Laura Chiticariu, Huahai Yang, Frederick Reiss, Arnaldo Carreno-fuentes

INPRO_iSS: A Component for Just-In-Time Incremental Speech Synthesis

Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Demonstration of IlluMe: Creating Ambient According to Instant Message Logs

Lun-Wei Ku, Cheng-Wei Sun, Ya-Hsin Hsueh

ACCURAT Toolkit for Multi-Level Alignment and Information Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Mārcis Pinnis, Radu Ion, Dan Ştefănescu, Fangzhong Su, Inguna Skadiņa

CSNIPER - Annotation-by-query for Non-canonical Constructions in Large Corpora

Richard Eckart de Castilho, Sabine Bartsch, Iryna Gurevych

Entailment-based Text Exploration with Application to the Health-care Domain

Meni Adler, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan

BIUTEE: A Modular Open-Source System for Recognizing Textual Entailment

Asher Stern, Ido Dagan

Multilingual WSD with Just a Few Lines of Code: the BabelNet API

Roberto Navigli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

The OpenGrm open-source finite-state grammar software libraries

Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley, Jeffrey Sorensen

DOMCAT: A Bilingual Concordancer for Domain-Specific Computer Assisted Translation

Ming-Hong Bai, Yu-Ming Hsieh, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jason S. Chang

A Web-based Evaluation Framework for Spatial Instruction-Giving Systems

Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu

LetsMT!: Cloud-Based Platform for Do-It-Yourself Machine Translation

Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Raivis Skadiņš, Jörg Tiedemann

IRIS: a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model

Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li

Personalized Normalization for a Multilingual Chat System

Ai Ti Aw, Lian Hau Lee

langid.py: An Off-the-shelf Language Identification Tool

Marco Lui, Timothy Baldwin

NiuTrans: An Open Source Toolkit for Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation

Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Hao Zhang, Qiang Li

QuickView: NLP-based Tweet Search

Xiaohua Liu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, QuickView Team Microsoft

Specifying Viewpoint and Information Need with Affective Metaphors: A System Demonstration of the Metaphor-Magnet Web App/Service

Tony Veale, Guofu Li

Applications of GPC Rules and Character Structures in Games for Learning Chinese Characters

Wei-Jie Huang, Chia-Ru Chou, Yu-Lin Tzeng, Chia-ying Lee, Chao-Lin Liu

Proceedings of the ACL 2012 System Demonstrations

Min Zhang

Grammar Error Correction Using Pseudo-Error Sentences and Domain Adaptation

Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Hitoshi Nishikawa

Unsupervized Word Segmentation: the Case for Mandarin Chinese

Pierre Magistry, Benoît Sagot

Tokenization: Returning to a Long Solved Problem — A Survey, Contrastive Experiment, Recommendations, and Toolkit —

Rebecca Dridan, Stephan Oepen

How Are Spelling Errors Generated and Corrected? A Study of Corrected and Uncorrected Spelling Errors Using Keystroke Logs

Yukino Baba, Hisami Suzuki

Lemmatisation as a Tagging Task

Andrea Gesmundo, Tanja Samardžić

Fast and Robust Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Dynamic Model Selection

Jinho D. Choi, Martha Palmer

Assessing the Effect of Inconsistent Assessors on Summarization Evaluation

Karolina Owczarzak, Peter A. Rankel, Hoa Trang Dang, John M. Conroy

Fully Abstractive Approach to Guided Summarization

Pierre-Etienne Genest, Guy Lapalme

Sentence Compression with Semantic Role Constraints

Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Ryu Iida, Tsutomu Hirao, Manabu Okumura

Exploiting Latent Information to Predict Diffusions of Novel Topics on Social Networks

Tsung-Ting Kuo, San-Chuan Hung, Wei-Shih Lin, Nanyun Peng, Shou-De Lin

Identifying High-Impact Sub-Structures for Convolution Kernels in Document-level Sentiment Classification

Zhaopeng Tu, Yifan He, Jennifer Foster, Josef van Genabith, Qun Liu

Fine Granular Aspect Analysis using Latent Structural Models

Lei Fang, Minlie Huang

A Meta Learning Approach to Grammatical Error Correction

Hongsuck Seo, Jonghoon Lee, Seokhwan Kim, Kyusong Lee, Sechun Kang

Unsupervised Morphology Rivals Supervised Morphology for Arabic MT

David Stallard, Jacob Devlin, Michael Kayser, Yoong Keok Lee, Regina Barzilay

An Exploration of Forest-to-String Translation: Does Translation Help or Hurt Parsing?

Hui Zhang, David Chiang

Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation

Isao Goto, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes

Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea

Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages

Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann

Heuristic Cube Pruning in Linear Time

Andrea Gesmundo, Giorgio Satta, James Henderson

Translation Model Size Reduction for Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Seung-Wook Lee, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Hae-Chang Rim

Enhancing Statistical Machine Translation with Character Alignment

Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

Learning Better Rule Extraction with Translation Span Alignment

Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao, Chunliang Zhang

Efficient Tree-Based Topic Modeling

Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Information-theoretic Multi-view Domain Adaptation

Pei Yang, Wei Gao, Qi Tan, Kam-Fai Wong

Authorship Attribution with Author-aware Topic Models

Yanir Seroussi, Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman

Word Epoch Disambiguation: Finding How Words Change Over Time

Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase

Coarse Lexical Semantic Annotation with Supersenses: An Arabic Case Study

Nathan Schneider, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer, Noah A. Smith

A Corpus of Textual Revisions in Second Language Writing

John Lee, Jonathan Webster

Toward Automatically Assembling Hittite-Language Cuneiform Tablet Fragments into Larger Texts

Stephen Tyndall

Using Search-Logs to Improve Query Tagging

Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Ryan Mcdonald, Slav Petrov

Coupling Label Propagation and Constraints for Temporal Fact Extraction

Yafang Wang, Maximilian Dylla, Marc Spaniol, Gerhard Weikum

Event Linking: Grounding Event Reference in a News Archive

Joel Nothman, Matthew Honnibal, Ben Hachey, James R. Curran

Extracting and modeling durations for habits and events from Twitter

Jennifer Williams, Graham Katz

Arabic Retrieval Revisited: Morphological Hole Filling

Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali

Towards the Unsupervised Acquisition of Discourse Relations

Christian Chiarcos

Combining Textual Entailment and Argumentation Theory for Supporting Online Debates Interactions

Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

Movie-DiC: a Movie Dialogue Corpus for Research and Development

Rafael E. Banchs

Tense and Aspect Error Correction for ESL Learners Using Global Context

Toshikazu Tajiri, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto

Native Language Detection with Tree Substitution Grammars

Benjamin Swanson, Eugene Charniak

Automatically Mining Question Reformulation Patterns from Search Log Data

Xiaobing Xue, Yu Tao, Daxin Jiang, Hang Li

Corpus-based Interpretation of Instructions in Virtual Environments

Luciana Benotti, Martín Villalba, Tessa Lau, Julián Cerruti

Transforming Standard Arabic to Colloquial Arabic

Emad Mohamed, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer

Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection

Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee, Yejin Choi

A Two-step Approach to Sentence Compression of Spoken Utterances

Dong Wang, Xian Qian, Yang Liu

A Comprehensive Gold Standard for the Enron Organizational Hierarchy

Apoorv Agarwal, Adinoyi Omuya, Aaron Harnly, Owen Rambow

Crowdsourcing Inference-Rule Evaluation

Naomi Zeichner, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan

Humor as Circuits in Semantic Networks

Igor Labutov, Hod Lipson

Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Global Role Ordering

Nikhil Garg, James Henderson

Learning the Latent Semantics of a Concept from its Definition

Weiwei Guo, Mona Diab

Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, and Dynamics of English Borrowings in a German Hip Hop Forum

Matt Garley, Julia Hockenmaier

Learning to Find Translations and Transliterations on the Web

Joseph Z. Chang, Jason S. Chang, Roger Jyh-Shing Jang

Cross-lingual Parse Disambiguation based on Semantic Correspondence

Lea Frermann, Francis Bond

Detecting Semantic Equivalence and Information Disparity in Cross-lingual Documents

Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico

Topic Models for Dynamic Translation Model Adaptation

Vladimir Eidelman, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik

Estimating Compact Yet Rich Tree Insertion Grammars

Elif Yamangil, Stuart Shieber

Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Dan Klein, James R. Curran

A Comparative Study of Target Dependency Structures for Statistical Machine Translation

Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Masaaki Nagata

Automatically Learning Measures of Child Language Development

Sam Sahakian, Benjamin Snyder

Baselines and Bigrams: Simple, Good Sentiment and Topic Classification

Sida Wang, Christopher Manning

Using Rejuvenation to Improve Particle Filtering for Bayesian Word Segmentation

Benjamin Börschinger, Mark Johnson

Decoding Running Key Ciphers

Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight

A Context-sensitive, Multi-faceted Model of Lexico-Conceptual Affect

Tony Veale

Learning to Temporally Order Medical Events in Clinical Text

Preethi Raghavan, Albert Lai, Eric Fosler-Lussier