ACL 2014

333 papers

Is this a wampimuk? Cross-modal mapping between distributional semantics and the visual world

Angeliki Lazaridou, Elia Bruni, Marco Baroni

CoSimRank: A Flexible & Efficient Graph-Theoretic Similarity Measure

Sascha Rothe, Hinrich Schütze

Low-Rank Tensors for Scoring Dependency Structures

Tao Lei, Yu Xin, yuan zhang, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Jacob Devlin, Rabih Zbib, Zhongqiang Huang, Thomas Lamar, Richard Schwartz

Toward Better Chinese Word Segmentation for SMT via Bilingual Constraints

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

Unsupervised Morphology-Based Vocabulary Expansion

Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Thomas Lippincott, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Transferring Distribution via Parallel Guidance and Entropy Regularization

Xuezhe Ma, Fei Xia

Character-Level Chinese Dependency Parsing

Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

Can You Repeat That? Using Word Repetition to Improve Spoken Term Detection

Jonathan Wintrode, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Shallow Analysis Based Assessment of Syntactic Complexity for Automated Speech Scoring

Suma Bhat, Huichao Xue, Su-Youn Yoon

Validating and Extending Semantic Knowledge Bases using Video Games with a Purpose

Daniele Vannella, David Jurgens, Daniele Scarfini, Domenico Toscani, Roberto Navigli

Looking at Unbalanced Specialized Comparable Corpora for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Emmanuel Morin, Amir Hazem

Pattern Dictionary of English Prepositions

Ken Litkowski

Automatic Keyphrase Extraction: A Survey of the State of the Art

Kazi Saidul Hasan, Vincent Ng

Opinion Mining on YouTube

Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Moschitti, Olga Uryupina, Barbara Plank, Katja Filippova

Approximation Strategies for Multi-Structure Sentence Compression

Kapil Thadani

Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data

Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon

Abstractive Summarization of Spoken and Written Conversations Based on Phrasal Queries

Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng

Probabilistic Soft Logic for Semantic Textual Similarity

Islam Beltagy, Katrin Erk, Raymond Mooney

Learning Semantic Hierarchies via Word Embeddings

Ruiji Fu, Jiang Guo, Bing Qin, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang

Joint Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Jayant Krishnamurthy, Tom M. Mitchell

Low-Resource Semantic Role Labeling

Matthew R. Gormley, Margaret Mitchell, Benjamin Van Durme, Mark Dredze

Polylingual Tree-Based Topic Models for Translation Domain Adaptation

Yuening Hu, Ke Zhai, Vladimir Eidelman, Jordan Boyd-Graber

A Semiparametric Gaussian Copula Regression Model for Predicting Financial Risks from Earnings Calls

William Yang Wang, Zhenhao Hua

A Generalized Language Model as the Combination of Skipped n-grams and Modified Kneser Ney Smoothing

Rene Pickhardt, Thomas Gottron, Martin Körner, Paul Georg Wagner, Till Speicher

Are Two Heads Better than One? Crowdsourced Translation via a Two-Step Collaboration of Non-Professional Translators and Editors

Rui Yan, Mingkun Gao, Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch

A Unified Model for Soft Linguistic Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation

Junhui Li, Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik, Hal Daume III

Political Ideology Detection Using Recursive Neural Networks

Mohit Iyyer, Peter Enns, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik

Active Learning with Efficient Feature Weighting Methods for Improving Data Quality and Classification Accuracy

Justin Martineau, Lu Chen, Doreen Cheng, Amit Sheth

Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory

Gabriel Doyle, Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy

Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story

Marten van Schijndel, Micha Elsner

Weak semantic context helps phonetic learning in a model of infant language acquisition

Stella Frank, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater

Spectral Unsupervised Parsing with Additive Tree Metrics

Ankur P. Parikh, Shay B. Cohen, Eric P. Xing

A Provably Correct Learning Algorithm for Latent-Variable PCFGs

Shay B. Cohen, Michael Collins

Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation

Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Gerard de Melo, Dan Klein

A Step-wise Usage-based Method for Inducing Polysemy-aware Verb Classes

Daisuke Kawahara, Daniel W. Peterson, Martha Palmer

That’s sick dude!: Automatic identification of word sense change across different timescales

Sunny Mitra, Ritwik Mitra, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann, Animesh Mukherjee

Language-Aware Truth Assessment of Fact Candidates

Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell

Cross-narrative Temporal Ordering of Medical Events

Preethi Raghavan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Noemie Elhadad, Albert M. Lai

Toward Future Scenario Generation: Extracting Event Causality Exploiting Semantic Relation, Context, and Association Features

Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Julien Kloetzer, Motoki Sano, István Varga

Discourse Complements Lexical Semantics for Non-factoid Answer Reranking

Peter Jansen, Mihai Surdeanu, Peter Clark

Knowledge-Based Question Answering as Machine Translation

Junwei Bao, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao

Information Extraction over Structured Data: Question Answering with Freebase

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme

Two Is Bigger (and Better) Than One: the Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project

Tiziano Flati, Daniele Vannella, Tommaso Pasini, Roberto Navigli

A chance-corrected measure of inter-annotator agreement for syntax

Arne Skjærholt

Exploiting Timelines to Enhance Multi-document Summarization

Jun-Ping Ng, Yan Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Zhoujun Li

Query-Chain Focused Summarization

Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad

Hierarchical Summarization: Scaling Up Multi-Document Summarization

Janara Christensen, Stephen Soderland, Gagan Bansal, Mausam

Modelling Events through Memory-based, Open-IE Patterns for Abstractive Summarization

Daniele Pighin, Marco Cornolti, Enrique Alfonseca, Katja Filippova

Response-based Learning for Grounded Machine Translation

Stefan Riezler, Patrick Simianer, Carolin Haas

Translation Assistance by Translation of L1 Fragments in an L2 Context

Maarten van Gompel, Antal van den Bosch

Adaptive HTER Estimation for Document-Specific MT Post-Editing

Fei Huang, Jian-Ming Xu, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos

Enhancing Grammatical Cohesion: Generating Transitional Expressions for SMT

Mei Tu, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with Matrix Completion

Miao Fan, Deli Zhao, Qiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng

Medical Relation Extraction with Manifold Models

Chang Wang, James Fan

Encoding Relation Requirements for Relation Extraction via Joint Inference

Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Yong Qin, Dongyan Zhao

Robust Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction via Clustering Consistency

Minh Luan Nguyen, Ivor W. Tsang, Kian Ming A. Chai, Hai Leong Chieu

Perplexity on Reduced Corpora

Hayato Kobayashi

Linguistic Structured Sparsity in Text Categorization

Dani Yogatama, Noah A. Smith

Robust Entity Clustering via Phylogenetic Inference

Nicholas Andrews, Jason Eisner, Mark Dredze

Kneser-Ney Smoothing on Expected Counts

Hui Zhang, David Chiang

Correcting Preposition Errors in Learner English Using Error Case Frames and Feedback Messages

Ryo Nagata, Mikko Vilenius, Edward Whittaker

Strategies for Contiguous Multiword Expression Analysis and Dependency Parsing

Marie Candito, Matthieu Constant

Joint POS Tagging and Transition-based Constituent Parsing in Chinese with Non-local Features

Zhiguo Wang, Nianwen Xue

Learning Grounded Meaning Representations with Autoencoders

Carina Silberer, Mirella Lapata

Adaptive Quality Estimation for Machine Translation

Marco Turchi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, José G. C. de Souza, Matteo Negri

Learning Continuous Phrase Representations for Translation Modeling

Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Wen-tau Yih, Li Deng

Using Discourse Structure Improves Machine Translation Evaluation

Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluis Marquez, Preslav Nakov

Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Translation Models from Monolingual Data

Avneesh Saluja, Hany Hassan, Kristina Toutanova, Chris Quirk

Online Learning in Tensor Space

Yuan Cao, Sanjeev Khudanpur

A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences

Nal Kalchbrenner, Edward Grefenstette, Phil Blunsom

Lexical Inference over Multi-Word Predicates: A Distributional Approach

Omri Abend, Shay B. Cohen, Mark Steedman

Vector space semantics with frequency-driven motifs

Shashank Srivastava, Eduard Hovy

How to make words with vectors: Phrase generation in distributional semantics

Georgiana Dinu, Marco Baroni

Learning to Predict Distributions of Words Across Domains

Danushka Bollegala, David Weir, John Carroll

A Study of Concept-based Weighting Regularization for Medical Records Search

Yue Wang, Xitong Liu, Hui Fang

Learning Soft Linear Constraints with Application to Citation Field Extraction

Sam Anzaroot, Alexandre Passos, David Belanger, Andrew McCallum

Bilingual Active Learning for Relation Classification via Pseudo Parallel Corpora

Longhua Qian, Haotian Hui, Ya’nan Hu, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu

Omni-word Feature and Soft Constraint for Chinese Relation Extraction

Yanping Chen, Qinghua Zheng, Wei Zhang

Generating Code-switched Text for Lexical Learning

Igor Labutov, Hod Lipson

A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Natural Language Generation

Nathan McKinley, Soumya Ray

ReNew: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Generating Domain-Specific Lexicons and Sentiment Analysis

Zhe Zhang, Munindar P. Singh

New Word Detection for Sentiment Analysis

Minlie Huang, Borui Ye, Yichen Wang, Haiqiang Chen, Junjun Cheng

Negation Focus Identification with Contextual Discourse Information

Bowei Zou, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu

A Linear-Time Bottom-Up Discourse Parser with Constraints and Post-Editing

Vanessa Wei Feng, Graeme Hirst

Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent Techniques for Concurrent Reinforcement Learning of Negotiation Dialogue Policies

Kallirroi Georgila, Claire Nelson, David Traum

Interpretable Semantic Vectors from a Joint Model of Brain- and Text- Based Meaning

Alona Fyshe, Partha P. Talukdar, Brian Murphy, Tom M. Mitchell

Predicting the relevance of distributional semantic similarity with contextual information

Philippe Muller, Cécile Fabre, Clémentine Adam

A Robust Approach to Aligning Heterogeneous Lexical Resources

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli

Ambiguity-aware Ensemble Training for Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing

Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen

Grammatical Relations in Chinese: GB-Ground Extraction and Data-Driven Parsing

Weiwei Sun, Yantao Du, Xin Kou, Shuoyang Ding, Xiaojun Wan

Hybrid Simplification using Deep Semantics and Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent

Surface Realisation from Knowledge-Bases

Bikash Gyawali, Claire Gardent

That’s Not What I Meant! Using Parsers to Avoid Structural Ambiguities in Generated Text

Manjuan Duan, Michael White

Incremental Joint Extraction of Entity Mentions and Relations

Qi Li, Heng Ji

Zero-shot Entity Extraction from Web Pages

Panupong Pasupat, Percy Liang

Collective Tweet Wikification based on Semi-supervised Graph Regularization

Hongzhao Huang, Yunbo Cao, Xiaojiang Huang, Heng Ji, Chin-Yew Lin

A Bayesian Mixed Effects Model of Literary Character

David Bamman, Ted Underwood, Noah A. Smith

Anchors Regularized: Adding Robustness and Extensibility to Scalable Topic-Modeling Algorithms

Thang Nguyen, Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Aspect Extraction with Automated Prior Knowledge Learning

Zhiyuan Chen, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu