ACL 2016

390 papers

The Enemy in Your Own Camp: How Well Can We Detect Statistically-Generated Fake Reviews – An Adversarial Study

Dirk Hovy

Bootstrapped Text-level Named Entity Recognition for Literature

Julian Brooke, Adam Hammond, Timothy Baldwin

Text Simplification as Tree Labeling

Joachim Bingel, Anders Søgaard

Which Tumblr Post Should I Read Next?

Zornitsa Kozareva, Makoto Yamada

Transductive Adaptation of Black Box Predictions

Stéphane Clinchant, Boris Chidlovskii, Gabriela Csurka

Finding Optimists and Pessimists on Twitter

Xianzhi Ruan, Steven Wilson, Rada Mihalcea

Exploring Stylistic Variation with Age and Income on Twitter

Lucie Flekova, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Lyle Ungar

Very quaffable and great fun: Applying NLP to wine reviews

Iris Hendrickx, Els Lefever, Ilja Croijmans, Asifa Majid, Antal van den Bosch

Syntactically Guided Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, Eva Hasler, Aurelien Waite, Bill Byrne

Exponentially Decaying Bag-of-Words Input Features for Feed-Forward Neural Network in Statistical Machine Translation

Jan-Thorsten Peter, Weiyue Wang, Hermann Ney

An Unsupervised Method for Automatic Translation Memory Cleaning

Masoud Jalili Sabet, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Eduard Barbu

A Neural Network based Approach to Automatic Post-Editing

Santanu Pal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Mihaela Vela, Josef van Genabith

Phrase-Level Combination of SMT and TM Using Constrained Word Lattice

Liangyou Li, Andy Way, Qun Liu

Tweet2Vec: Character-Based Distributed Representations for Social Media

Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhong Zhou, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Michael Muehl, William Cohen

Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information

Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser

Automatic Semantic Classification of German Preposition Types: Comparing Hard and Soft Clustering Approaches across Features

Maximilian Köper, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Annotating Relation Inference in Context via Question Answering

Omer Levy, Ido Dagan

An Entity-Focused Approach to Generating Company Descriptions

Gavin Saldanha, Or Biran, Kathleen McKeown, Alfio Gliozzo

Domain Specific Named Entity Recognition Referring to the Real World by Deep Neural Networks

Suzushi Tomori, Takashi Ninomiya, Shinsuke Mori

Deep multi-task learning with low level tasks supervised at lower layers

Anders Søgaard, Yoav Goldberg

Dimensional Sentiment Analysis Using a Regional CNN-LSTM Model

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

Don’t Count, Predict! An Automatic Approach to Learning Sentiment Lexicons for Short Text

Duy Tin Vo, Yue Zhang

The red one!: On learning to refer to things based on discriminative properties

Angeliki Lazaridou, Nghia The Pham, Marco Baroni

Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation Classification

Peng Zhou, Wei Shi, Jun Tian, Zhenyu Qi, Bingchen Li

The Value of Semantic Parse Labeling for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Wen-tau Yih, Matthew Richardson, Chris Meek, Ming-Wei Chang, Jina Suh

Is This Post Persuasive? Ranking Argumentative Comments in Online Forum

zhongyu wei, Yang Liu, Yi Li

Multi-Modal Representations for Improved Bilingual Lexicon Learning

Ivan Vulić, Douwe Kiela, Stephen Clark, Marie-Francine Moens

Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment by Exploiting Linguistic Information from Transcripts

Veronika Vincze, Gábor Gosztolya, László Tóth, Ildikó Hoffmann, Gréta Szatlóczki

Unsupervised morph segmentation and statistical language models for vocabulary expansion

Matti Varjokallio, Dietrich Klakow

Word Alignment without NULL Words

Philip Schulz, Wilker Aziz, Khalil Sima’an

An Open Web Platform for Rule-Based Speech-to-Sign Translation

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Irene Strasly

How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality

Carlos Ramisch, Silvio Cordeiro, Leonardo Zilio, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio

Improving Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Word Segmentation Representation Learning

Nanyun Peng, Mark Dredze

Simple PPDB: A Paraphrase Database for Simplification

Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch

Improving cross-domain n-gram language modelling with skipgrams

Louis Onrust, Antal van den Bosch, Hugo Van hamme

Natural Language Inference by Tree-Based Convolution and Heuristic Matching

Lili Mou, Rui Men, Ge Li, Yan Xu, Lu Zhang

Vocabulary Manipulation for Neural Machine Translation

Haitao Mi, Zhiguo Wang, Abe Ittycheriah

Multiplicative Representations for Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction

Yi Luan, Yangfeng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Boyang Li

Leveraging Lexical Resources for Learning Entity Embeddings in Multi-Relational Data

Teng Long, Ryan Lowe, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG, Doina Precup

Recognizing Salient Entities in Shopping Queries

Zornitsa Kozareva, Qi Li, Ke Zhai, Weiwei Guo

Semantic classifications for detection of verb metaphors

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Chee Wee Leong, E. Dario Gutiérrez, Ekaterina Shutova, Michael Flor

Empty element recovery by spinal parser operations

Katsuhiko Hayashi, Masaaki Nagata

A Fast Approach for Semantic Similar Short Texts Retrieval

Yanhui Gu, Zhenglu Yang, Junsheng Zhou, Weiguang Qu, Jinmao Wei

Cross-lingual projection for class-based language models

Beat Gfeller, Vlad Schogol, Keith Hall

Reference Bias in Monolingual Machine Translation Evaluation

Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia

Improved Parsing for Argument-Clusters Coordination

Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg

A Language-Independent Neural Network for Event Detection

Xiaocheng Feng, Lifu Huang, Duyu Tang, Heng Ji, Bing Qin

Joint Word Segmentation and Phonetic Category Induction

Micha Elsner, Stephanie Antetomaso, Naomi Feldman

On the Linearity of Semantic Change: Investigating Meaning Variation via Dynamic Graph Models

Steffen Eger, Alexander Mehler

Sequence-to-Sequence Generation for Spoken Dialogue via Deep Syntax Trees and Strings

Ondřej Dušek, Filip Jurčíček

Improving Statistical Machine Translation Performance by Oracle-BLEU Model Re-estimation

Praveen Dakwale, Christof Monz

Incremental Parsing with Minimal Features Using Bi-Directional LSTM

James Cross, Liang Huang

A Domain Adaptation Regularization for Denoising Autoencoders

Stéphane Clinchant, Gabriela Csurka, Boris Chidlovskii

Implicit Polarity and Implicit Aspect Recognition in Opinion Mining

Huan-Yuan Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Learning Multiview Embeddings of Twitter Users

Adrian Benton, Raman Arora, Mark Dredze

Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching

Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya

Transition-based dependency parsing with topological fields

Daniël de Kok, Erhard Hinrichs

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Katrin Erk, Noah A. Smith

Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks

Daniel Andor, Chris Alberti, David Weiss, Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Presta

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Pei-Hao Su, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrkšić, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Stefan Ultes

Case and Cause in Icelandic: Reconstructing Causal Networks of Cascaded Language Changes

Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Christian Brendel

Harnessing Deep Neural Networks with Logic Rules

Zhiting Hu, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, Eduard Hovy, Eric Xing

Multimodal Pivots for Image Caption Translation

Julian Hitschler, Shigehiko Schamoni, Stefan Riezler

Improving Hypernymy Detection with an Integrated Path-based and Distributional Method

Vered Shwartz, Yoav Goldberg, Ido Dagan

Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression

E. Dario Gutiérrez, Roger Levy, Benjamin Bergen

Learning Language Games through Interaction

Sida I. Wang, Percy Liang, Christopher D. Manning

A Thorough Examination of the CNN/Daily Mail Reading Comprehension Task

Danqi Chen, Jason Bolton, Christopher D. Manning

Chinese Couplet Generation with Neural Network Structures

Rui Yan, Cheng-Te Li, Xiaohua Hu, Ming Zhang

Vector-space topic models for detecting Alzheimer’s disease

Maria Yancheva, Frank Rudzicz

Question Answering on Freebase via Relation Extraction and Textual Evidence

Kun Xu, Siva Reddy, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Dongyan Zhao

TransG : A Generative Model for Knowledge Graph Embedding

Han Xiao, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Graph-based Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional LSTM

Wenhui Wang, Baobao Chang

Automatic Labeling of Topic Models Using Text Summaries

Xiaojun Wan, Tianming Wang

The More Antecedents, the Merrier: Resolving Multi-Antecedent Anaphors

Hardik Vala, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths

Composing Distributed Representations of Relational Patterns

Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui

On Approximately Searching for Similar Word Embeddings

Kohei Sugawara, Hayato Kobayashi, Masajiro Iwasaki

One for All: Towards Language Independent Named Entity Linking

Avirup Sil, Radu Florian

Knowledge-Based Semantic Embedding for Machine Translation

Chen Shi, Shujie LIU, Shuo Ren, Shi Feng, Mu Li

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions

Ryohei Sasano, Manabu Okumura

Domain Adaptation for Authorship Attribution: Improved Structural Correspondence Learning

Upendra Sapkota, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes, Steven Bethard

Recurrent neural network models for disease name recognition using domain invariant features

Sunil Sahu, Ashish Anand

Grammatical Error Correction: Machine Translation and Classifiers

Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth

Temporal Anchoring of Events for the TimeBank Corpus

Nils Reimers, Nazanin Dehghani, Iryna Gurevych

A New Psychometric-inspired Evaluation Metric for Chinese Word Segmentation

Peng Qian, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang

Modeling Stance in Student Essays

Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng

Most “babies” are “little” and most “problems” are “huge”: Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns

Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch

Unravelling Names of Fictional Characters

Katerina Papantoniou, Stasinos Konstantopoulos

Learning To Use Formulas To Solve Simple Arithmetic Problems

Arindam Mitra, Chitta Baral

Leveraging FrameNet to Improve Automatic Event Detection

Shulin Liu, Yubo Chen, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Neural Relation Extraction with Selective Attention over Instances

Yankai Lin, Shiqi Shen, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun

Topic Extraction from Microblog Posts Using Conversation Structures

Jing Li, Ming Liao, Wei Gao, Yulan He, Kam-Fai Wong

Edge-Linear First-Order Dependency Parsing with Undirected Minimum Spanning Tree Inference

Effi Levi, Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport

Evaluating Sentiment Analysis in the Context of Securities Trading

Siavash Kazemian, Shunan Zhao, Gerald Penn

Continuous Profile Models in ASL Syntactic Facial Expression Synthesis

Hernisa Kacorri, Matt Huenerfauth

Summarizing Source Code using a Neural Attention Model

Srinivasan Iyer, Ioannis Konstas, Alvin Cheung, Luke Zettlemoyer

Hidden Softmax Sequence Model for Dialogue Structure Analysis

Zhiyang He, Xien Liu, Ping Lv, Ji Wu

A Vector Space for Distributional Semantics for Entailment

James Henderson, Diana Popa

Efficient techniques for parsing with tree automata

Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller, Mark Johnson

Supersense Embeddings: A Unified Model for Supersense Interpretation, Prediction, and Utilization

Lucie Flekova, Iryna Gurevych

Jointly Learning to Embed and Predict with Multiple Languages

Daniel C. Ferreira, André F. T. Martins, Mariana S. C. Almeida