ACL 2013

399 papers

A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark

Incremental Topic-Based Translation Model Adaptation for Conversational Spoken Language Translation

Sanjika Hewavitharana, Dennis Mehay, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Prem Natarajan

Scalable Modified Kneser-Ney Language Model Estimation

Kenneth Heafield, Ivan Pouzyrevsky, Jonathan H. Clark, Philipp Koehn

Mapping Source to Target Strings without Alignment by Analogical Learning: A Case Study with Transliteration

Phillippe Langlais

Adaptation Data Selection using Neural Language Models: Experiments in Machine Translation

Kevin Duh, Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada

Joint Apposition Extraction with Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

Will Radford, James R. Curran

Filling Knowledge Base Gaps for Distant Supervision of Relation Extraction

Wei Xu, Raphael Hoffmann, Le Zhao, Ralph Grishman

Understanding Tables in Context Using Standard NLP Toolkits

Vidhya Govindaraju, Ce Zhang, Christopher Re

Diverse Keyword Extraction from Conversations

Maryam Habibi, Andrei Popescu-Belis

Temporal Signals Help Label Temporal Relations

Leon Derczynski, Robert Gaizauskas

Part-of-speech tagging with antagonistic adversaries

Anders Søgaard

Simpler unsupervised POS tagging with bilingual projections

Long Duong, Paul Cook, Steven Bird, Pavel Pecina

Efficient Implementation of Beam-Search Incremental Parsers

Yoav Goldberg, KAI ZHAO, Liang Huang

A Lattice-based Framework for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging and Parsing

Zhiguo Wang, Chengqing Zong, Nianwen Xue

Turning on the Turbo: Fast Third-Order Non-Projective Turbo Parsers

Andre Martins, Miguel Almeida, Noah A. Smith

The Effect of Higher-Order Dependency Features in Discriminative Phrase-Structure Parsing

Greg Coppola, Mark Steedman

Using CCG categories to improve Hindi dependency parsing

Bharat Ram Ambati, Tejaswini Deoskar, Mark Steedman

Nonparametric Bayesian Inference and Efficient Parsing for Tree-adjoining Grammars

Elif Yamangil, Stuart M. Shieber

Iterative Transformation of Annotation Guidelines for Constituency Parsing

Xiang Li, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lü, Qun Liu

Dependency Parser Adaptation with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Target Domain Data

Xuezhe Ma, Fei Xia

A Unified Morpho-Syntactic Scheme of Stanford Dependencies

Reut Tsarfaty

A System for Summarizing Scientific Topics Starting from Keywords

Rahul Jha, Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir Radev

Sequential Summarization: A New Application for Timely Updated Twitter Trending Topics

Dehong Gao, Wenjie Li, Renxian Zhang

Using Integer Linear Programming in Concept-to-Text Generation to Produce More Compact Texts

Gerasimos Lampouras, Ion Androutsopoulos

Evolutionary Hierarchical Dirichlet Process for Timeline Summarization

Jiwei Li, Sujian Li

Reranking with Linguistic and Semantic Features for Arabic Optical Character Recognition

Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth, Noura Farra, Pradeep Dasigi

Reducing Annotation Effort for Quality Estimation via Active Learning

Daniel Beck, Lucia Specia, Trevor Cohn

Neighbors Help: Bilingual Unsupervised WSD Using Context

Sudha Bhingardive, Samiulla Shaikh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Extracting Definitions and Hypernym Relations relying on Syntactic Dependencies and Support Vector Machines

Guido Boella, Luigi Di Caro

Co-Regression for Cross-Language Review Rating Prediction

Xiaojun Wan

Dual Training and Dual Prediction for Polarity Classification

Rui Xia, Tao Wang, Xuelei Hu, Shoushan Li, Chengqing Zong

An annotated corpus of quoted opinions in news articles

Tim O’Keefe, James R. Curran, Peter Ashwell, Irena Koprinska

Joint Modeling of News Reader’s and Comment Writer’s Emotions

Huanhuan Liu, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou, Chu-Ren Huang, Peifeng Li

Exploring Sentiment in Social Media: Bootstrapping Subjectivity Clues from Multilingual Twitter Streams

Svitlana Volkova, Theresa Wilson, David Yarowsky

Generating Recommendation Dialogs by Extracting Information from User Reviews

Kevin Reschke, Adam Vogel, Dan Jurafsky

LABR: A Large Scale Arabic Book Reviews Dataset

Mohamed Aly, Amir Atiya

Re-embedding words

Igor Labutov, Hod Lipson

A Novel Classifier Based on Quantum Computation

Ding Liu, Xiaofang Yang, Minghu Jiang

Character-to-Character Sentiment Analysis in Shakespeare’s Plays

Eric T. Nalisnick, Henry S. Baird

Text Classification from Positive and Unlabeled Data using Misclassified Data Correction

Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Suguru Matsuyoshi

A Structured Distributional Semantic Model for Event Co-reference

Kartik Goyal, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Huiying Li, Mrinmaya Sachan, Shashank Srivastava

Leveraging Domain-Independent Information in Semantic Parsing

Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth

Sentence Level Dialect Identification in Arabic

Heba Elfardy, Mona Diab

Recognizing Partial Textual Entailment

Omer Levy, Torsten Zesch, Ido Dagan, Iryna Gurevych

Modeling Human Inference Process for Textual Entailment Recognition

Hen-Hsen Huang, Kai-Chun Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Measuring semantic content in distributional vectors

Aurélie Herbelot, Mohan Ganesalingam

Latent Semantic Tensor Indexing for Community-based Question Answering

Xipeng Qiu, Le Tian, Xuanjing Huang

Question Classification Transfer

Anne-Laure Ligozat

Minimum Bayes Risk based Answer Re-ranking for Question Answering

Nan Duan

Semantic Roles for String to Tree Machine Translation

Marzieh Bazrafshan, Daniel Gildea

Language Independent Connectivity Strength Features for Phrase Pivot Statistical Machine Translation

Ahmed El Kholy, Nizar Habash, Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hassan Sawaf

Learning Non-linear Features for Machine Translation Using Gradient Boosting Machines

Kristina Toutanova, Byung-Gyu Ahn

Can Markov Models Over Minimal Translation Units Help Phrase-Based SMT?

Nadir Durrani, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid, Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn

A Tightly-coupled Unsupervised Clustering and Bilingual Alignment Model for Transliteration

Tingting Li, Tiejun Zhao, Andrew Finch, Chunyue Zhang

Generalized Reordering Rules for Improved SMT

Fei Huang, Cezar Pendus

Bilingual Lexical Cohesion Trigger Model for Document-Level Machine Translation

Guosheng Ben, Deyi Xiong, Zhiyang Teng, Yajuan Lü, Qun Liu

Improving machine translation by training against an automatic semantic frame based evaluation metric

Chi-kiu Lo, Karteek Addanki, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu

A Novel Translation Framework Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory

Mei Tu, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Stem Translation with Affix-Based Rule Selection for Agglutinative Languages

Zhiyang Wang, Yajuan Lü, Meng Sun, Qun Liu

A Novel Graph-based Compact Representation of Word Alignment

Qun Liu, Zhaopeng Tu, Shouxun Lin

Learning to Prune: Context-Sensitive Pruning for Syntactic MT

Wenduan Xu, Yue Zhang, Philip Williams, Philipp Koehn

Automatically Predicting Sentence Translation Difficulty

Abhijit Mishra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Michael Carl

Bilingual Data Cleaning for SMT using Graph-based Random Walk

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie LIU, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

Stacking for Statistical Machine Translation

Majid Razmara, Anoop Sarkar

Sign Language Lexical Recognition With Propositional Dynamic Logic

Arturo Curiel, Christophe Collet

Task Alternation in Parallel Sentence Retrieval for Twitter Translation

Felix Hieber, Laura Jehl, Stefan Riezler

Using Context Vectors in Improving a Machine Translation System with Bridge Language

Samira Tofighi Zahabi, Somayeh Bakhshaei, Shahram Khadivi

Cross-lingual Projections between Languages from Different Families

Mo Yu, Tiejun Zhao, Yalong Bai, Hao Tian, Dianhai Yu

Enhanced and Portable Dependency Projection Algorithms Using Interlinear Glossed Text

Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia, William D. Lewis

Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison

Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Shahin Salavati

Context-Dependent Multilingual Lexical Lookup for Under-Resourced Languages

Lian Tze Lim, Lay-Ki Soon, Tek Yong Lim, Enya Kong Tang, Bali Ranaivo-Malançon

Mining Equivalent Relations from Linked Data

Ziqi Zhang, Anna Lisa Gentile, Isabelle Augenstein, Eva Blomqvist, Fabio Ciravegna

Using Lexical Expansion to Learn Inference Rules from Sparse Data

Oren Melamud, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger, Idan Szpektor

Building Comparable Corpora Based on Bilingual LDA Model

Zede Zhu, Miao Li, Lei Chen, Zhenxin Yang

Building Japanese Textual Entailment Specialized Data Sets for Inference of Basic Sentence Relations

Kimi Kaneko, Yusuke Miyao, Daisuke Bekki

IndoNet: A Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Network for Indian Languages

Brijesh Bhatt, Lahari Poddar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

English-to-Russian MT evaluation campaign

Pavel Braslavski, Alexander Beloborodov, Maxim Khalilov, Serge Sharoff

Identifying English and Hungarian Light Verb Constructions: A Contrastive Approach

Veronika Vincze, István Nagy T., Richárd Farkas

Random Walk Factoid Annotation for Collective Discourse

Ben King, Rahul Jha, Dragomir Radev, Robert Mankoff

“Let Everything Turn Well in Your Wife”: Generation of Adult Humor Using Lexical Constraints

Alessandro Valitutti, Hannu Toivonen, Antoine Doucet, Jukka M. Toivanen

Discriminative Approach to Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz Generation for Language Learners

Keisuke Sakaguchi, Yuki Arase, Mamoru Komachi

Modeling of term-distance and term-occurrence information for improving n-gram language model performance

Tze Yuang Chong, Rafael E. Banchs, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Unsupervised joke generation from big data

Saša Petrović, David Matthews

Semantic Neighborhoods as Hypergraphs

Chris Quirk, Pallavi Choudhury

TopicSpam: a Topic-Model based approach for spam detection

Jiwei Li, Claire Cardie, Sujian Li

Latent Semantic Matching: Application to Cross-language Text Categorization without Alignment Information

Tsutomu Hirao, Tomoharu Iwata, Masaaki Nagata

Combination of Recurrent Neural Networks and Factored Language Models for Code-Switching Language Modeling

Heike Adel, Ngoc Thang Vu, Tanja Schultz

Enriching Entity Translation Discovery using Selective Temporality

Gae-won You, Young-rok Cha, Jinhan Kim, Seung-won Hwang

Is word-to-phone mapping better than phone-phone mapping for handling English words?

Naresh Kumar Elluru, Anandaswarup Vadapalli, Raghavendra Elluru, Hema Murthy, Kishore Prahallad

Broadcast News Story Segmentation Using Manifold Learning on Latent Topic Distributions

Xiaoming Lu, Lei Xie, Cheung-Chi Leung, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Accurate Word Segmentation using Transliteration and Language Model Projection

Masato Hagiwara, Satoshi Sekine

Improving Chinese Word Segmentation on Micro-blog Using Rich Punctuations

Longkai Zhang, Li Li, Zhengyan He, Houfeng Wang, Ni Sun

Co-regularizing character-based and word-based models for semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation

Xiaodong Zeng, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao, Isabel Trancoso

An improved MDL-based compression algorithm for unsupervised word segmentation

Ruey-Cheng Chen

Automatic Coupling of Answer Extraction and Information Retrieval

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Peter Clark

Post-Retrieval Clustering Using Third-Order Similarity Measures

José G. Moreno, Gaël Dias, Guillaume Cleuziou

Are Semantically Coherent Topic Models Useful for Ad Hoc Information Retrieval?

Romain Deveaud, Eric SanJuan, Patrice Bellot

Automated Pyramid Scoring of Summaries using Distributional Semantics

Rebecca J. Passonneau, Emily Chen, Weiwei Guo, Dolores Perin

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

Guillaume Wisniewski

A Decade of Automatic Content Evaluation of News Summaries: Reassessing the State of the Art

Peter A. Rankel, John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang, Ani Nenkova