ACL 2014

333 papers

Syntactic Processing Using Global Discriminative Learning and Beam-Search Decoding

Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang, Ting Liu

Semantics, Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang

Structured Belief Propagation for NLP

Matthew Gormley, Jason Eisner

New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning

Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Georgiana Dinu, Phil Blunsom

Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding

Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Ming-Wei Chang, Taylor Cassidy

Semantics for Large-Scale Multimedia: New Challenges for NLP

Florian Metze, Koichi Shinoda

Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms

Liang Huang, KAI ZHAO, Lemao Liu

Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing

Trevor Cohn, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Neil Lawrence

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorials

Alex Fraser, Yang Liu

Simplified Dependency Annotations with GFL-Web

Michael T. Mordowanec, Nathan Schneider, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith

Enhanced Search with Wildcards and Morphological Inflections in the Google Books Ngram Viewer

Jason Mann, David Zhang, Lu Yang, Dipanjan Das, Slav Petrov

lex4all: A language-independent tool for building and evaluating pronunciation lexicons for small-vocabulary speech recognition

Anjana Vakil, Max Paulus, Alexis Palmer, Michaela Regneri

FAdR: A System for Recognizing False Online Advertisements

Yi-jie Tang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Web Information Mining and Decision Support Platform for the Modern Service Industry

Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou, zhongyu wei, Kam-Fai Wong, Ruifeng Xu

Automatic Annotation Suggestions and Custom Annotation Layers in WebAnno

Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Richard Eckart de Castilho, Iryna Gurevych

kLogNLP: Graph Kernel–based Relational Learning of Natural Language

Mathias Verbeke, Paolo Frasconi, Kurt De Grave, Fabrizio Costa, Luc De Raedt

KyotoEBMT: An Example-Based Dependency-to-Dependency Translation Framework

John Richardson, Fabien Cromieres, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Sadao Kurohashi

A Rule-Augmented Statistical Phrase-based Translation System

Cong Duy Vu Hoang, AiTi Aw, Nhung T. H. Nguyen

WoSIT: A Word Sense Induction Toolkit for Search Result Clustering and Diversification

Daniele Vannella, Tiziano Flati, Roberto Navigli

DKPro TC: A Java-based Framework for Supervised Learning Experiments on Textual Data

Johannes Daxenberger, Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, Torsten Zesch

The Stanford CoreNLP Natural Language Processing Toolkit

Christopher Manning, Mihai Surdeanu, John Bauer, Jenny Finkel, Steven Bethard

WELT: Using Graphics Generation in Linguistic Fieldwork

Morgan Ulinski, Anusha Balakrishnan, Bob Coyne, Julia Hirschberg, Owen Rambow

The Excitement Open Platform for Textual Inferences

Bernardo Magnini, Roberto Zanoli, Ido Dagan, Kathrin Eichler, Guenter Neumann

Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media

Miles Osborne, Sean Moran, Richard McCreadie, Alexander Von Lunen, Martin Sykora

DKPro Keyphrases: Flexible and Reusable Keyphrase Extraction Experiments

Nicolai Erbs, Pedro Bispo Santos, Iryna Gurevych, Torsten Zesch

WINGS:Writing with Intelligent Guidance and Suggestions

Xianjun Dai, Yuanchao Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Bingquan Liu

Community Evaluation and Exchange of Word Vectors at wordvectors.org

Manaal Faruqui, Chris Dyer

Open-Source Tools for Morphology, Lemmatization, POS Tagging and Named Entity Recognition

Jana Straková, Milan Straka, Jan Hajic

Visualization, Search, and Error Analysis for Coreference Annotations

Markus Gärtner, Anders Björkelund, Gregor Thiele, Wolfgang Seeker, Jonas Kuhn

Cross-Lingual Information to the Rescue in Keyword Extraction

Chung-Chi Huang, Maxine Eskenazi, Jaime Carbonell, Lun-Wei Ku, Ping-Che Yang

Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

Kalina Bontcheva, Jingbo Zhu

Semi-Automatic Development of KurdNet, The Kurdish WordNet

Purya Aliabadi

Improving Text Normalization via Unsupervised Model and Discriminative Reranking

Chen Li, Yang Liu

Open Information Extraction for Spanish Language based on Syntactic Constraints

Alisa Zhila, Alexander Gelbukh

Disambiguating prepositional phrase attachment sites with sense information captured in contextualized distributional data

Clayton Greenberg

Multi-document summarization using distortion-rate ratio

Ulukbek Attokurov, Ulug Bayazit

Going beyond sentences when applying tree kernels

Dmitry Ilvovsky

Learning Grammar with Explicit Annotations for Subordinating Conjunctions

Dongchen Li, Xiantao Zhang, Xihong Wu

An Exploration of Embeddings for Generalized Phrases

Wenpeng Yin, Hinrich Schütze

A Mapping-Based Approach for General Formal Human Computer Interaction Using Natural Language

Vincent Letard, Sophie Rosset, Gabriel Illouz

Analyzing Positions and Topics in Political Discussions of the German Bundestag

Cäcilia Zirn

Towards a discourse relation-aware approach for Chinese-English machine translation

Frances Yung

Extracting Temporal and Causal Relations between Events

Paramita Mirza

Bayesian Kernel Methods for Natural Language Processing

Daniel Beck

Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Student Research Workshop

Ekaterina Kochmar, Annie Louis, Svitlana Volkova, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Bill Byrne

Cross-lingual Opinion Analysis via Negative Transfer Detection

Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Jun Xu, Jian Xu

Does the Phonology of L1 Show Up in L2 Texts?

Garrett Nicolai, Grzegorz Kondrak

Understanding Relation Temporality of Entities

Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang

Bilingual Event Extraction: a Case Study on Trigger Type Determination

Zhu Zhu, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou, Rui Xia

Improving Multi-Modal Representations Using Image Dispersion: Why Less is Sometimes More

Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Anna Korhonen, Stephen Clark

Distributed Representations of Geographically Situated Language

David Bamman, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith

How much do word embeddings encode about syntax?

Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein

Observational Initialization of Type-Supervised Taggers

Hui Zhang, John DeNero

Tailoring Continuous Word Representations for Dependency Parsing

Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu

Incremental Predictive Parsing with TurboParser

Arne Köhn, Wolfgang Menzel

Transforming trees into hedges and parsing with “hedgebank” grammars

Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Aaron Dunlop, Brian Roark

Punctuation Processing for Projective Dependency Parsing

Ji Ma, Yue Zhang, Jingbo Zhu

Hierarchical MT Training using Max-Violation Perceptron

KAI ZHAO, Liang Huang, Haitao Mi, Abe Ittycheriah

RNN-based Derivation Structure Prediction for SMT

Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection

Wael Salloum, Heba Elfardy, Linda Alamir-Salloum, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab

XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations

Chi-kiu Lo, Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu

EM Decipherment for Large Vocabularies

Malte Nuhn, Hermann Ney

Empirical Study of Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Methods for SMT on Large-scale Corpora

Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita

Measuring metaphoricity

Jonathan Dunn

Recognizing Implied Predicate-Argument Relationships in Textual Inference

Asher Stern, Ido Dagan

Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction

Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman

Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning

Felix Hill, Anna Korhonen

Semantic Consistency: A Local Subspace Based Method for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction

Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Applying Grammar Induction to Text Mining

Andrew Salway, Samia Touileb

Be Appropriate and Funny: Automatic Entity Morph Encoding

Boliang Zhang, Hongzhao Huang, Xiaoman Pan, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight

A Simple Bayesian Modelling Approach to Event Extraction from Twitter

Deyu Zhou, Liangyu Chen, Yulan He

A Piece of My Mind: A Sentiment Analysis Approach for Online Dispute Detection

Lu Wang, Claire Cardie

Exponential Reservoir Sampling for Streaming Language Models

Miles Osborne, Ashwin Lall, Benjamin Van Durme

Normalizing tweets with edit scripts and recurrent neural embeddings

Grzegorz Chrupała

Learning Polylingual Topic Models from Code-Switched Social Media Documents

Nanyun Peng, Yiming Wang, Mark Dredze

Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb

Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini

The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English: First Parsing Results and Analysis

Seth Kulick, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini

Enforcing Structural Diversity in Cube-pruned Dependency Parsing

Hao Zhang, Ryan Mcdonald

On WordNet Semantic Classes and Dependency Parsing

Kepa Bengoetxea, Eneko Agirre, Joakim Nivre, Yue Zhang, Koldo Gojenola

Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering

Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He, Christopher Meek

Training a Korean SRL System with Rich Morphological Features

Young-Bum Kim, Heemoon Chae, Benjamin Snyder, Yu-Seop Kim

Labelling Topics using Unsupervised Graph-based Methods

Nikolaos Aletras, Mark Stevenson

Stochastic Contextual Edit Distance and Probabilistic FSTs

Ryan Cotterell, Nanyun Peng, Jason Eisner

Automatic Labelling of Topic Models Learned from Twitter by Summarisation

Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu

Enriching Cold Start Personalized Language Model Using Social Network Information

Yu-Yang Huang, Rui Yan, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Shou-De Lin

Unsupervised Alignment of Privacy Policies using Hidden Markov Models

Rohan Ramanath, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh, Noah A. Smith

Improved Correction Detection in Revised ESL Sentences

Huichao Xue, Rebecca Hwa

Nonparametric Method for Data-driven Image Captioning

Rebecca Mason, Eugene Charniak

Cross-language and Cross-encyclopedia Article Linking Using Mixed-language Topic Model and Hypernym Translation

Yu-Chun Wang, Chun-Kai Wu, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

Cross-lingual Model Transfer Using Feature Representation Projection

Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Ivan Titov

Refinements to Interactive Translation Prediction Based on Search Graphs

Philipp Koehn, Chara Tsoukala, Herve Saint-Amand

Effective Selection of Translation Model Training Data

Le Liu, Yu Hong, Hao Liu, Xing Wang, Jianmin Yao

A Hybrid Approach to Skeleton-based Translation

Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Chunliang Zhang

A joint inference of deep case analysis and zero subject generation for Japanese-to-English statistical machine translation

Taku Kudo, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Hideto Kazawa

Optimizing Segmentation Strategies for Simultaneous Speech Translation

Yusuke Oda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Improving Lexical Embeddings with Semantic Knowledge

Mo Yu, Mark Dredze

Fast Easy Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Marginalized Structured Dropout

Yi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein

Applying a Naive Bayes Similarity Measure to Word Sense Disambiguation

Tong Wang, Graeme Hirst

Combining Word Patterns and Discourse Markers for Paradigmatic Relation Classification

Michael Roth, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in context

Annemarie Friedrich, Alexis Palmer