ACL 2012

253 papers

Genre Independent Subgroup Detection in Online Discussion Threads: A Study of Implicit Attitude using Textual Latent Semantics

Pradeep Dasigi, Weiwei Guo, Mona Diab

Self-Disclosure and Relationship Strength in Twitter Conversations

JinYeong Bak, Suin Kim, Alice Oh

Pattern Learning for Relation Extraction with a Hierarchical Topic Model

Enrique Alfonseca, Katja Filippova, Jean-Yves Delort, Guillermo Garrido

A Graph-based Cross-lingual Projection Approach for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction

Seokhwan Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

A Novel Burst-based Text Representation Model for Scalable Event Detection

Xin Zhao, Rishan Chen, Kai Fan, Hongfei Yan, Xiaoming Li

Joint Learning of a Dual SMT System for Paraphrase Generation

Hong Sun, Ming Zhou

Head-Driven Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation

Junhui Li, Zhaopeng Tu, Guodong Zhou, Josef van Genabith

Fast and Scalable Decoding with Language Model Look-Ahead for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney, Richard Zens

Private Access to Phrase Tables for Statistical Machine Translation

Nicola Cancedda

A Feature-Rich Constituent Context Model for Grammar Induction

Dave Golland, John DeNero, Jakob Uszkoreit

A Comparison of Chinese Parsers for Stanford Dependencies

Wanxiang Che, Valentin Spitkovsky, Ting Liu

Joint Evaluation of Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing

Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, Evelina Andersson

Higher-order Constituent Parsing and Parser Combination

Xiao Chen, Chunyu Kit

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Haizhou Li, Chin-Yew Lin, Miles Osborne, Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park

Exploring Deterministic Constraints: from a Constrained English POS Tagger to an Efficient ILP Solution to Chinese Word Segmentation

Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus

Incremental Joint Approach to Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Dependency Parsing in Chinese

Jun Hatori, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

A Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media Language

Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng, Xiao Jiang

A Cost Sensitive Part-of-Speech Tagging: Differentiating Serious Errors from Minor Errors

Hyun-Je Song, Jeong-Woo Son, Tae-Gil Noh, Seong-Bae Park, Sang-Jo Lee

Sentence Simplification by Monolingual Machine Translation

Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer

Combining Coherence Models and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Summarization Evaluation

Ziheng Lin, Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng, Min-Yen Kan

Polarity Consistency Checking for Sentiment Dictionaries

Eduard Dragut, Hong Wang, Clement Yu, Prasad Sistla, Weiyi Meng

Ecological Evaluation of Persuasive Messages Using Google AdWords

Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock

Improve SMT Quality with Automatically Extracted Paraphrase Rules

Wei He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu

Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length

Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Large-Scale Syntactic Language Modeling with Treelets

Adam Pauls, Dan Klein

Hierarchical Chunk-to-String Translation

Yang Feng, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Qun Liu

Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation

Majid Razmara, George Foster, Baskaran Sankaran, Anoop Sarkar

PORT: a Precision-Order-Recall MT Evaluation Metric for Tuning

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin

Character-Level Machine Translation Evaluation for Languages with Ambiguous Word Boundaries

Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng

A Ranking-based Approach to Word Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

Nan Yang, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang, Nenghai Yu

Modeling the Translation of Predicate-Argument Structure for SMT

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li

You Had Me at Hello: How Phrasing Affects Memorability

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee

Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction

Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael Frank

Improving Word Representations via Global Context and Multiple Word Prototypes

Eric Huang, Richard Socher, Christopher Manning, Andrew Ng

Modeling Sentences in the Latent Space

Weiwei Guo, Mona Diab

Classifying French Verbs Using French and English Lexical Resources

Ingrid Falk, Claire Gardent, Jean-Charles Lamirel

Discriminative Learning for Joint Template Filling

Einat Minkov, Luke Zettlemoyer

Automatic Event Extraction with Structured Preference Modeling

Wei Lu, Dan Roth

Big Data versus the Crowd: Looking for Relationships in All the Right Places

Ce Zhang, Feng Niu, Christopher Re, Jude Shavlik

Named Entity Disambiguation in Streaming Data

Alexandre Davis, Adriano Veloso, Altigran Soares, Alberto Laender, Wagner Meira Jr.

Structuring E-Commerce Inventory

Karin Mauge, Khash Rohanimanesh, Jean-David Ruvini

Collective Classification for Fine-grained Information Status

Katja Markert, Yufang Hou, Michael Strube

Chinese Comma Disambiguation for Discourse Analysis

Yaqin Yang, Nianwen Xue

Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing using Lexical Affinities

Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Alexis Nasr, Joseph Le Roux

Attacking Parsing Bottlenecks with Unlabeled Data and Relevant Factorizations

Emily Pitler

Modeling Topic Dependencies in Hierarchical Text Categorization

Alessandro Moschitti, Qi Ju, Richard Johansson

Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Historical Analysis of Legal Opinions with a Sparse Mixed-Effects Latent Variable Model

William Yang Wang, Elijah Mayfield, Suresh Naidu, Jeremiah Dittmar

Finding Salient Dates for Building Thematic Timelines

Rémy Kessler, Xavier Tannier, Caroline Hagège, Véronique Moriceau, André Bittar

Reducing Wrong Labels in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction

Shingo Takamatsu, Issei Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa

Unsupervised Relation Discovery with Sense Disambiguation

Limin Yao, Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum

A Computational Approach to the Automation of Creative Naming

Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava

Multilingual Named Entity Recognition using Parallel Data and Metadata from Wikipedia

Sungchul Kim, Kristina Toutanova, Hwanjo Yu

A Probabilistic Model for Canonicalizing Named Entity Mentions

Dani Yogatama, Yanchuan Sim, Noah A. Smith

Exploiting Multiple Treebanks for Parsing with Quasi-synchronous Grammars

Zhenghua Li, Ting Liu, Wanxiang Che

MIX Is Not a Tree-Adjoining Language

Makoto Kanazawa, Sylvain Salvati

Head-driven Transition-based Parsing with Top-down Prediction

Katsuhiko Hayashi, Taro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto

Crosslingual Induction of Semantic Roles

Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev

The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage

Shomir Wilson

Selective Sharing for Multilingual Dependency Parsing

Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay, Amir Globerson

Bootstrapping via Graph Propagation

Max Whitney, Anoop Sarkar

Iterative Viterbi A* Algorithm for K-Best Sequential Decoding

Zhiheng Huang, Yi Chang, Bo Long, Jean-François Crespo, Anlei Dong

Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion

Geoffrey Zweig, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, Christopher J.C. Burges, Ainur Yessenalina

Error Mining on Dependency Trees

Claire Gardent, Shashi Narayan

Community Answer Summarization for Multi-Sentence Question with Group L1 Regularization

Wen Chan, Xiangdong Zhou, Wei Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Cross-Lingual Mixture Model for Sentiment Classification

Xinfan Meng, Furu Wei, Xiaohua Liu, Ming Zhou, Ge Xu

Mining Entity Types from Query Logs via User Intent Modeling

Patrick Pantel, Thomas Lin, Michael Gamon

Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums

Zhonghua Qu, Yang Liu

Spice it up? Mining Refinements to Online Instructions from User Generated Content

Gregory Druck, Bo Pang

Finding Bursty Topics from Microblogs

Qiming Diao, Jing Jiang, Feida Zhu, Ee-Peng Lim

Joint Inference of Named Entity Recognition and Normalization for Tweets

Xiaohua Liu, Ming Zhou, Xiangyang Zhou, Zhongyang Fu, Furu Wei

Tweet Recommendation with Graph Co-Ranking

Rui Yan, Mirella Lapata, Xiaoming Li

Strong Lexicalization of Tree Adjoining Grammars

Andreas Maletti, Joost Engelfriet

Dependency Hashing for n-best CCG Parsing

Dominick Ng, James R. Curran

Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers

Bevan Jones, Mark Johnson, Sharon Goldwater

Modified Distortion Matrices for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Arianna Bisazza, Marcello Federico

A Statistical Model for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining

Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid

Translation Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Topic Information

Jinsong Su, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi

String Re-writing Kernel

Fan Bu, Hang Li, Xiaoyan Zhu

Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic Parsing

Hiroyuki Shindo, Yusuke Miyao, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata

Fast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition

David Chen

Learning Syntactic Verb Frames using Graphical Models

Thomas Lippincott, Anna Korhonen, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

Cross-Domain Co-Extraction of Sentiment and Topic Lexicons

Fangtao Li, Sinno Jialin Pan, Ou Jin, Qiang Yang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Subgroup Detection in Ideological Discussions

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Pradeep Dasigi, Mona Diab, Dragomir Radev

Coreference Semantics from Web Features

Mohit Bansal, Dan Klein

A Discriminative Hierarchical Model for Fast Coreference at Large Scale

Michael Wick, Sameer Singh, Andrew McCallum

Concept-to-text Generation via Discriminative Reranking

Ioannis Konstas, Mirella Lapata

Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions

Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Alexander Berg, Tamara Berg, Yejin Choi

Learning to “Read Between the Lines” using Bayesian Logic Programs

Sindhu Raghavan, Raymond Mooney, Hyeonseo Ku

Aspect Extraction through Semi-Supervised Modeling

Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu

A Joint Model for Discovery of Aspects in Utterances

Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Modeling Review Comments

Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu

Smaller Alignment Models for Better Translations: Unsupervised Word Alignment with the l0-norm

Ashish Vaswani, Liang Huang, David Chiang

Learning Translation Consensus with Structured Label Propagation

Shujie LIU, Chi-Ho Li, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

Maximum Expected BLEU Training of Phrase and Lexicon Translation Models

Xiaodong He, Li Deng

Efficient Search for Transformation-based Inference

Asher Stern, Roni Stern, Ido Dagan, Ariel Felner

Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Information Retrieval

Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng

Verb Classification using Distributional Similarity in Syntactic and Semantic Structures

Danilo Croce, Alessandro Moschitti, Roberto Basili, Martha Palmer

Fast Online Training with Frequency-Adaptive Learning Rates for Chinese Word Segmentation and New Word Detection

Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Wenjie Li

Capturing Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Lexical Relations: Towards Accurate Chinese Part-of-Speech Tagging

Weiwei Sun, Hans Uszkoreit