ACL 2015

363 papers

Deep Unordered Composition Rivals Syntactic Methods for Text Classification

Mohit Iyyer, Varun Manjunatha, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daume III

Weakly Supervised Role Identification in Teamwork Interactions

Diyi Yang, Miaomiao Wen, Carolyn Rose

Who caught a cold ? - Identifying the subject of a symptom

Shin Kanouchi, Mamoru Komachi, Naoaki Okazaki, Eiji Aramaki, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game

Vlad Niculae, Srijan Kumar, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Why discourse affects speakers’ choice of referring expressions

Naho Orita, Eliana Vornov, Naomi Feldman, Hal Daume III

A Frame of Mind: Using Statistical Models for Detection of Framing and Agenda Setting Campaigns

Oren Tsur, Dan Calacci, David Lazer

Unsupervised Prediction of Acceptability Judgements

Jey Han Lau, Alexander Clark, Shalom Lappin

Predicting Salient Updates for Disaster Summarization

Chris Kedzie, Kathleen McKeown, Fernando Diaz

Joint Graphical Models for Date Selection in Timeline Summarization

Giang Tran, Eelco Herder, Katja Markert

Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging

Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Yi Liao, Wai Lam, Weiwei Guo

Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation

Lifeng Shang, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li

genCNN: A Convolutional Architecture for Word Sequence Prediction

Mingxuan Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu

Improved Semantic Representations From Tree-Structured Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Kai Sheng Tai, Richard Socher, Christopher D. Manning

A Data-Driven, Factorization Parser for CCG Dependency Structures

Yantao Du, Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan

Optimal Shift-Reduce Constituent Parsing with Structured Perceptron

Le Quang Thang, Hiroshi Noji, Yusuke Miyao

Parsing as Reduction

Daniel Fernández-González, André F. T. Martins

Adding Semantics to Data-Driven Paraphrasing

Ellie Pavlick, Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim, Charley Beller, Benjamin Van Durme

Learning Semantic Word Embeddings based on Ordinal Knowledge Constraints

Quan Liu, Hui Jiang, Si Wei, Zhen-Hua Ling, YU HU

Sparse Overcomplete Word Vector Representations

Manaal Faruqui, Yulia Tsvetkov, Dani Yogatama, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith

Graph parsing with s-graph grammars

Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller, Christoph Teichmann

Compositional Semantic Parsing on Semi-Structured Tables

Panupong Pasupat, Percy Liang

A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Learning Topical Collocation Models

Zhendong Zhao, Lan Du, Benjamin Börschinger, John K Pate, Massimiliano Ciaramita

KB-LDA: Jointly Learning a Knowledge Base of Hierarchy, Relations, and Facts

Dana Movshovitz-Attias, William W. Cohen

Tea Party in the House: A Hierarchical Ideal Point Topic Model and Its Application to Republican Legislators in the 112th Congress

Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik, Kristina Miler

Transferring Coreference Resolvers with Posterior Regularization

André F. T. Martins

Learning Anaphoricity and Antecedent Ranking Features for Coreference Resolution

Sam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush, Stuart Shieber, Jason Weston

Entity-Centric Coreference Resolution with Model Stacking

Kevin Clark, Christopher D. Manning

Probing the Linguistic Strengths and Limitations of Unsupervised Grammar Induction

Yonatan Bisk, Julia Hockenmaier

Parse Imputation for Dependency Annotations

Jason Mielens, Liang Sun, Jason Baldridge

A convex and feature-rich discriminative approach to dependency grammar induction

Edouard Grave, Noemie Elhadad

Learning Tag Embeddings and Tag-specific Composition Functions in Recursive Neural Network

Qiao Qian, Bo Tian, Minlie Huang, Yang Liu, Xuan Zhu

Topic Modeling based Sentiment Analysis on Social Media for Stock Market Prediction

Thien Hai Nguyen, Kiyoaki Shirai

Predicting Polarities of Tweets by Composing Word Embeddings with Long Short-Term Memory

Xin Wang, Yuanchao Liu, Chengjie Sun, Baoxun Wang, Xiaolong Wang

Building a Semantic Parser Overnight

Yushi Wang, Jonathan Berant, Percy Liang

Semantic Parsing via Staged Query Graph Generation: Question Answering with Knowledge Base

Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao

Scalable Semantic Parsing with Partial Ontologies

Eunsol Choi, Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer

Orthogonality of Syntax and Semantics within Distributional Spaces

Jeff Mitchell, Mark Steedman

Entity Hierarchy Embedding

Zhiting Hu, Poyao Huang, Yuntian Deng, Yingkai Gao, Eric Xing

Model-based Word Embeddings from Decompositions of Count Matrices

Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Daniel Hsu

Discourse-sensitive Automatic Identification of Generic Expressions

Annemarie Friedrich, Manfred Pinkal

Implicit Role Linking on Chinese Discourse: Exploiting Explicit Roles and Frame-to-Frame Relations

Ru Li, Juan Wu, Zhiqiang Wang, Qinghua Chai

Machine Comprehension with Discourse Relations

Karthik Narasimhan, Regina Barzilay

Can Natural Language Processing Become Natural Language Coaching?

Marti A. Hearst

Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing Based on Distributed Representations

Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, David Yarowsky, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu

Parsing Paraphrases with Joint Inference

Do Kook Choe, David McClosky

A Neural Probabilistic Structured-Prediction Model for Transition-Based Dependency Parsing

Hao Zhou, Yue Zhang, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

Discontinuous Incremental Shift-reduce Parsing

Wolfgang Maier

Semantic Role Labeling Improves Incremental Parsing

Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller

Feature Selection in Kernel Space: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing

Xian Qian, Yang Liu

Transition-based Neural Constituent Parsing

Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita

A Re-ranking Model for Dependency Parser with Recursive Convolutional Neural Network

Chenxi Zhu, Xipeng Qiu, Xinchi Chen, Xuanjing Huang

Identifying Cascading Errors using Constraints in Dependency Parsing

Dominick Ng, James R. Curran

Feature Optimization for Constituent Parsing via Neural Networks

Zhiguo Wang, Haitao Mi, Nianwen Xue

End-to-end learning of semantic role labeling using recurrent neural networks

Jie Zhou, Wei Xu

Joint Dependency Parsing and Multiword Expression Tokenization

Alexis Nasr, Carlos Ramisch, José Deulofeu, André Valli

A Hierarchical Neural Autoencoder for Paragraphs and Documents

Jiwei Li, Thang Luong, Dan Jurafsky

Driving ROVER with Segment-based ASR Quality Estimation

Shahab Jalalvand, Matteo Negri, Daniele Falavigna, Marco Turchi

Automatic Spontaneous Speech Grading: A Novel Feature Derivation Technique using the Crowd

Vinay Shashidhar, Nishant Pandey, Varun Aggarwal

Learning Word Representations from Scarce and Noisy Data with Embedding Subspaces

Ramon F. Astudillo, Silvio Amir, Wang Ling, Mário Silva, Isabel Trancoso

Improving social relationships in face-to-face human-agent interactions: when the agent wants to know user’s likes and dislikes

Caroline Langlet, Chloé Clavel

Co-training for Semi-supervised Sentiment Classification Based on Dual-view Bags-of-words Representation

Rui Xia, Cheng Wang, Xin-yu Dai, Tao Li

Sentence-level Emotion Classification with Label and Context Dependence

Shoushan Li, Lei Huang, Rong Wang, Guodong Zhou

Sparse, Contextually Informed Models for Irony Detection: Exploiting User Communities, Entities and Sentiment

Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Eugene Charniak

Towards Debugging Sentiment Lexicons

Andrew Schneider, Eduard Dragut

Learning Semantic Representations of Users and Products for Document Level Sentiment Classification

Duyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu

Structural Representations for Learning Relations between Pairs of Texts

Simone Filice, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro Moschitti

Environment-Driven Lexicon Induction for High-Level Instructions

Dipendra Kumar Misra, Kejia Tao, Percy Liang, Ashutosh Saxena

Robust Subgraph Generation Improves Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing

Keenon Werling, Gabor Angeli, Christopher D. Manning

Jointly optimizing word representations for lexical and sentential tasks with the C-PHRASE model

Nghia The Pham, Germán Kruszewski, Angeliki Lazaridou, Marco Baroni

Joint Case Argument Identification for Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis

Hiroki Ouchi, Hiroyuki Shindo, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto

Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences

Ekaterina Shutova, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo

A Unified Kernel Approach for Learning Typed Sentence Rewritings

Martin Gleize, Brigitte Grau

Improving Named Entity Recognition in Tweets via Detecting Non-Standard Words

Chen Li, Yang Liu

Tweet Normalization with Syllables

Ke Xu, Yunqing Xia, Chin-Hui Lee

Multiple Many-to-Many Sequence Alignment for Combining String-Valued Variables: A G2P Experiment

Steffen Eger

The NL2KR Platform for building Natural Language Translation Systems

Nguyen Vo, Arindam Mitra, Chitta Baral

Deep Questions without Deep Understanding

Igor Labutov, Sumit Basu, Lucy Vanderwende

Language to Code: Learning Semantic Parsers for If-This-Then-That Recipes

Chris Quirk, Raymond Mooney, Michel Galley

WikiKreator: Improving Wikipedia Stubs Automatically

Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra

Detecting Deceptive Groups Using Conversations and Network Analysis

Dian Yu, Yulia Tyshchuk, Heng Ji, William Wallace

Non-projective Dependency-based Pre-Reordering with Recurrent Neural Network for Machine Translation

Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Giuseppe Attardi

Unifying Bayesian Inference and Vector Space Models for Improved Decipherment

Qing Dou, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight, Chris Dyer

Non-linear Learning for Statistical Machine Translation

Shujian Huang, Huadong Chen, Xin-yu Dai, Jiajun Chen

String-to-Tree Multi Bottom-up Tree Transducers

Nina Seemann, Fabienne Braune, Andreas Maletti

Pairwise Neural Machine Translation Evaluation

Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluis Marquez, Preslav Nakov

Gaussian LDA for Topic Models with Word Embeddings

Rajarshi Das, Manzil Zaheer, Chris Dyer

Trans-dimensional Random Fields for Language Modeling

Bin Wang, Zhijian Ou, Zhiqiang Tan

Efficient Methods for Inferring Large Sparse Topic Hierarchies

Doug Downey, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yi Yang

Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration

Asad Sayeed, Stefan Fischer, Vera Demberg

Demographic Factors Improve Classification Performance

Dirk Hovy

A Unified Multilingual Semantic Representation of Concepts

Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli

Unsupervised Cross-Domain Word Representation Learning

Danushka Bollegala, Takanori Maehara, Ken-Ichi Kawarabayashi

Automatic disambiguation of English puns

Tristan Miller, Iryna Gurevych

Knowledge Portability with Semantic Expansion of Ontology Labels

Mihael Arcan, Marco Turchi, Paul Buitelaar

How Far are We from Fully Automatic High Quality Grammatical Error Correction?

Christopher Bryant, Hwee Tou Ng

Knowledge Graph Embedding via Dynamic Mapping Matrix

Guoliang Ji, Shizhu He, Liheng Xu, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Learning the Semantics of Manipulation Action

Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermuller, Eren Erdal Aksoy

Learning Relational Features with Backward Random Walks

Ni Lao, Einat Minkov, William Cohen

Negation and Speculation Identification in Chinese Language

Bowei Zou, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit: Connecting Past with Present by Finding Corresponding Terms across Time

Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Sourav Bhowmick, Katsumi Tanaka