ACL 2015

363 papers

What You Need to Know about Chinese for Chinese Language Processing

Chu-Ren Huang

Detecting Deceptive Opinion Spam using Linguistics, Behavioral and Statistical Modeling

Arjun Mukherjee

Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms

Liang Huang, KAI ZHAO

Matrix and Tensor Factorization Methods for Natural Language Processing

Guillaume Bouchard, Jason Naradowsky, Sebastian Riedel, Tim Rocktäschel, Andreas Vlachos

Corpus Patterns for Semantic Processing

Octavian Popescu, Patrick Hanks, Elisabetta Jezek, Daisuke Kawahara

Sentiment and Belief: How to Think about, Represent, and Annotate Private States

Owen Rambow, Janyce Wiebe

Structured Belief Propagation for NLP

Matthew R. Gormley, Jason Eisner

Successful Data Mining Methods for NLP

Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, Yizhou Sun

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts

Eneko Agirre, Kevin Duh

NiuParser: A Chinese Syntactic and Semantic Parsing Toolkit

Jingbo Zhu, Muhua Zhu, Qiang Wang, Tong Xiao

WriteAhead: Mining Grammar Patterns in Corpora for Assisted Writing

Tzu-Hsi Yen, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jim Chang, Joanne Boisson, Jason Chang

Storybase: Towards Building a Knowledge Base for News Events

Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang, C. Lee Giles

A Domain-independent Rule-based Framework for Event Extraction

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Gus Hahn-Powell, Mihai Surdeanu, Thomas Hicks

WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously

David Steele, Lucia Specia

Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++

Lucia Specia, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton

End-to-end Argument Generation System in Debating

Misa Sato, Kohsuke Yanai, Toshinori Miyoshi, Toshihiko Yanase, Makoto Iwayama

JoBimViz: A Web-based Visualization for Graph-based Distributional Semantic Models

Eugen Ruppert, Manuel Kaufmann, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann

A Data Sharing and Annotation Service Infrastructure

Stelios Piperidis, Dimitrios Galanis, Juli Bakagianni, Sokratis Sofianopoulos

Sharing annotations better: RESTful Open Annotation

Sampo Pyysalo, Jorge Campos, Juan Miguel Cejuela, Filip Ginter, Kai Hakala

LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification

Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia

SACRY: Syntax-based Automatic Crossword puzzle Resolution sYstem

Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Nicosia, Gianni Barlacchi

OMWEdit - The Integrated Open Multilingual Wordnet Editing System

Luís Morgado da Costa, Francis Bond

SCHNÄPPER: A Web Toolkit for Exploratory Relation Extraction

Thilo Michael, Alan Akbik

Plug Latent Structures and Play Coreference Resolution

Sebastian Martschat, Patrick Claus, Michael Strube

A system for fine-grained aspect-based sentiment analysis of Chinese

Janna Lipenkova

A Dual-Layer Semantic Role Labeling System

Lun-Wei Ku, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Yann-Huei Lee

A Web-based Collaborative Evaluation Tool for Automatically Learned Relation Extraction Patterns

Leonhard Hennig, Hong Li, Sebastian Krause, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit

Visual Error Analysis for Entity Linking

Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube

NEED4Tweet: A Twitterbot for Tweets Named Entity Extraction and Disambiguation

Mena Habib, Maurice van Keulen

Multi-modal Visualization and Search for Text and Prosody Annotations

Markus Gärtner, Katrin Schweitzer, Kerstin Eckart, Jonas Kuhn

KeLP: a Kernel-based Learning Platform for Natural Language Processing

Simone Filice, Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

In-tool Learning for Selective Manual Annotation in Large Corpora

Erik-Lân Do Dinh, Richard Eckart de Castilho, Iryna Gurevych

IMI — A Multilingual Semantic Annotation Environment

Francis Bond, Luís Morgado da Costa, Tuan Anh Le

A System Demonstration of a Framework for Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training

Renlong Ai, Feiyu Xu

Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2015 System Demonstrations

Hsin-Hsi Chen, Katja Markert

Learning to Map Dependency Parses to Abstract Meaning Representations

Wei-Te Chen

Evaluation Dataset and System for Japanese Lexical Simplification

Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Kazuhide Yamamoto

Disease Event Detection based on Deep Modality Analysis

Yoshiaki Kitagawa, Mamoru Komachi, Eiji Aramaki, Naoaki Okazaki, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Transition-based Dependency DAG Parsing Using Dynamic Oracles

Alper Tokgöz, Gülşen Eryiǧit

Learning Representations for Text-level Discourse Parsing

Gregor Weiss

Leveraging Compounds to Improve Noun Phrase Translation from Chinese and German

Xiao Pu, Laura Mascarell, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Mark Fishel, Ngoc-Quang Luong

Unsupervised Learning and Modeling of Knowledge and Intent for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Yun-Nung Chen

Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2015 Student Research Workshop

Kuan-Yu Chen, Angelina Ivanova, Ellie Pavlick, Emily Bender, Chin-Yew Lin

On the Importance of Ezafe Construction in Persian Parsing

Alireza Nourian, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Mohsen Imany, Heshaam Faili

Labeled Grammar Induction with Minimal Supervision

Yonatan Bisk, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Julia Hockenmaier

Generative Incremental Dependency Parsing with Neural Networks

Jan Buys, Phil Blunsom

Boosting Transition-based AMR Parsing with Refined Actions and Auxiliary Analyzers

Chuan Wang, Nianwen Xue, Sameer Pradhan

Semantic Structure Analysis of Noun Phrases using Abstract Meaning Representation

Yuichiro Sawai, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto

Low Resource Dependency Parsing: Cross-lingual Parameter Sharing in a Neural Network Parser

Long Duong, Trevor Cohn, Steven Bird, Paul Cook

Unsupervised extractive summarization via coverage maximization with syntactic and semantic concepts

Natalie Schluter, Anders Søgaard

A Methodology for Evaluating Timeline Generation Algorithms based on Deep Semantic Units

Sandro Bauer, Simone Teufel

Learning Summary Prior Representation for Extractive Summarization

Ziqiang Cao, Furu Wei, Sujian Li, Wenjie Li, Ming Zhou

A Deeper Exploration of the Standard PB-SMT Approach to Text Simplification and its Evaluation

Sanja Štajner, Hannah Béchara, Horacio Saggion

A Simultaneous Recognition Framework for the Spoken Language Understanding Module of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software on Smart Phones

Changsu Lee, Youngjoong Ko, Jungyun Seo

The Impact of Listener Gaze on Predicting Reference Resolution

Nikolina Koleva, Martín Villalba, Maria Staudte, Alexander Koller

Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods

Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya

Dialogue Management based on Sentence Clustering

Wendong Ge, Bo Xu

Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks

Nikola Mrkšić, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Pei-Hao Su

Predicting Valence-Arousal Ratings of Words Using a Weighted Graph Method

Liang-Chih Yu, Jin Wang, K. Robert Lai, Xue-jie Zhang

Aspect-Level Cross-lingual Sentiment Classification with Constrained SMT

Patrik Lambert

Linguistic Template Extraction for Recognizing Reader-Emotion and Emotional Resonance Writing Assistance

Yung-Chun Chang, Cen-Chieh Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Chien Chin Chen, Wen-Lian Hsu

Model Adaptation for Personalized Opinion Analysis

Mohammad Al Boni, Keira Zhou, Hongning Wang, Matthew S. Gerber

Emotion Detection in Code-switching Texts via Bilingual and Sentimental Information

Zhongqing Wang, Sophia Lee, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou

Harnessing Context Incongruity for Sarcasm Detection

Aditya Joshi, Vinita Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Lifelong Learning for Sentiment Classification

Zhiyuan Chen, Nianzu Ma, Bing Liu

Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Questions

Shohini Bhattasali, Jeremy Cytryn, Elana Feldman, Joonsuk Park

Constrained Semantic Forests for Improved Discriminative Semantic Parsing

Wei Lu

Low-Rank Tensors for Verbs in Compositional Distributional Semantics

Daniel Fried, Tamara Polajnar, Stephen Clark

How Well Do Distributional Models Capture Different Types of Semantic Knowledge?

Dana Rubinstein, Effi Levi, Roy Schwartz, Ari Rappoport

Bilingual Word Embeddings from Non-Parallel Document-Aligned Data Applied to Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Ivan Vulić, Marie-Francine Moens

Answer Sequence Learning with Neural Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

Xiaoqiang Zhou, Baotian Hu, Qingcai Chen, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang

A Long Short-Term Memory Model for Answer Sentence Selection in Question Answering

Di Wang, Eric Nyberg

Machine Comprehension with Syntax, Frames, and Semantics

Hai Wang, Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel, David Mcallester

Learning Hybrid Representations to Retrieve Semantically Equivalent Questions

Cícero dos Santos, Luciano Barbosa, Dasha Bogdanova, Bianca Zadrozny

Thread-Level Information for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Simone Filice, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shafiq Joty, Lluis Marquez

Rhetoric Map of an Answer to Compound Queries

Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Sergey O. Kuznetsov

A Language-Independent Feature Schema for Inflectional Morphology

John Sylak-Glassman, Christo Kirov, David Yarowsky, Roger Que

One Tense per Scene: Predicting Tense in Chinese Conversations

Tao Ge, Heng Ji, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui

The Discovery of Natural Typing Annotations: User-produced Potential Chinese Word Delimiters

Dakui Zhang, Yu Mao, Yang Liu, Hanshi Wang, Chuyuan Wei

Lexical Comparison Between Wikipedia and Twitter Corpora by Using Word Embeddings

Luchen Tan, Haotian Zhang, Charles Clarke, Mark Smucker

Annotation and Classification of an Email Importance Corpus

Fan Zhang, Kui Xu

Towards a Contextual Pragmatic Model to Detect Irony in Tweets

Jihen Karoui, Farah Benamara Zitoune, Véronique Moriceau, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Lamia Hadrich Belguith

Automatic Keyword Extraction on Twitter

Luís Marujo, Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black

Twitter User Geolocation Using a Unified Text and Network Prediction Model

Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Tackling Sparsity, the Achilles Heel of Social Networks: Language Model Smoothing via Social Regularization

Rui Yan, Xiang Li, Mengwen Liu, Xiaohua Hu

A Hierarchical Knowledge Representation for Expert Finding on Social Media

Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li

Reducing infrequent-token perplexity via variational corpora

Yusheng Xie, Pranjal Daga, Yu Cheng, Kunpeng Zhang, Ankit Agrawal

A Computational Approach to Automatic Prediction of Drunk-Texting

Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mishra, Balamurali AR, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Mark J. Carman

Automatic Detection of Sentence Fragments

Chak Yan Yeung, John Lee

Radical Embedding: Delving Deeper to Chinese Radicals

Xinlei Shi, Junjie Zhai, Xudong Yang, Zehua Xie, Chao Liu

Ground Truth for Grammatical Error Correction Metrics

Courtney Napoles, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post, Joel Tetreault

Automatic Identification of Age-Appropriate Ratings of Song Lyrics

Anggi Maulidyani, Ruli Manurung

BrailleSUM: A News Summarization System for the Blind and Visually Impaired People

Xiaojun Wan, Yue Hu

Improving Pivot Translation by Remembering the Pivot

Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Learning Cross-lingual Word Embeddings via Matrix Co-factorization

Tianze Shi, Zhiyuan Liu, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun

What’s in a Domain? Analyzing Genre and Topic Differences in Statistical Machine Translation

Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Wouter Weerkamp, Christof Monz

Multi-Pass Decoding With Complex Feature Guidance for Statistical Machine Translation

Benjamin Marie, Aurélien Max

UNRAVEL—A Decipherment Toolkit

Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper, Hermann Ney

Learning Word Reorderings for Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao

Context-Dependent Translation Selection Using Convolutional Neural Network

Baotian Hu, Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, Qingcai Chen