ACL 2016

390 papers

Siamese CBOW: Optimizing Word Embeddings for Sentence Representations

Tom Kenter, Alexey Borisov, Maarten de Rijke

Transition-Based Left-Corner Parsing for Identifying PTB-Style Nonlocal Dependencies

Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara

Investigating LSTMs for Joint Extraction of Opinion Entities and Relations

Arzoo Katiyar, Claire Cardie

Text Understanding with the Attention Sum Reader Network

Rudolf Kadlec, Martin Schmid, Ondrej Bajgar, Jan Kleindienst

Embeddings for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Evaluation Study

Ignacio Iacobacci, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli

How well do Computers Solve Math Word Problems? Large-Scale Dataset Construction and Evaluation

Danqing Huang, Shuming Shi, Chin-Yew Lin, Jian Yin, Wei-Ying Ma

Normalized Log-Linear Interpolation of Backoff Language Models is Efficient

Kenneth Heafield, Chase Geigle, Sean Massung, Lane Schwartz

Modeling Concept Dependencies in a Scientific Corpus

Jonathan Gordon, Linhong Zhu, Aram Galstyan, Prem Natarajan, Gully Burns

Modeling Social Norms Evolution for Personalized Sentiment Classification

Lin Gong, Mohammad Al Boni, Hongning Wang

Analyzing Biases in Human Perception of User Age and Gender from Text

Lucie Flekova, Jordan Carpenter, Salvatore Giorgi, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro

Coordination Annotation Extension in the Penn Tree Bank

Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg

Tree-to-Sequence Attentional Neural Machine Translation

Akiko Eriguchi, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Verbs Taking Clausal and Non-Finite Arguments as Signals of Modality – Revisiting the Issue of Meaning Grounded in Syntax

Judith Eckle-Kohler

CFO: Conditional Focused Neural Question Answering with Large-scale Knowledge Bases

Zihang Dai, Lei Li, Wei Xu

Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring

Ronan Cummins, Meng Zhang, Ted Briscoe

Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution with Deep Neural Networks

Chen Chen, Vincent Ng

Sentence Rewriting for Semantic Parsing

Bo Chen, Le Sun, Xianpei Han, Bo An

Bidirectional Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Relation Classification

Rui Cai, Xiaodong Zhang, Houfeng Wang

Extracting token-level signals of syntactic processing from fMRI - with an application to PoS induction

Joachim Bingel, Maria Barrett, Anders Søgaard

Universal Dependencies for Learner English

Yevgeni Berzak, Jessica Kenney, Carolyn Spadine, Jing Xian Wang, Lucia Lam

Improved Semantic Parsers For If-Then Statements

I. Beltagy, Chris Quirk

Automatic Text Scoring Using Neural Networks

Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei

Unsupervised Multi-Author Document Decomposition Based on Hidden Markov Model

Khaled Aldebei, Xiangjian He, Wenjing Jia, jie Yang

AraSenTi: Large-Scale Twitter-Specific Arabic Sentiment Lexicons

Nora Al-Twairesh, Hend Al-Khalifa, Abdulmalik Al-Salman

A Discriminative Topic Model using Document Network Structure

Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik

Detecting Common Discussion Topics Across Culture From News Reader Comments

Bei Shi, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing, Yinqing Xu

Generative Topic Embedding: a Continuous Representation of Documents

Shaohua Li, Tat-Seng Chua, Jun Zhu, Chunyan Miao

Effects of Creativity and Cluster Tightness on Short Text Clustering Performance

Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Reed Coke, Rui Zhang, Xiangyi Ye, Dragomir Radev

Improving Coreference Resolution by Learning Entity-Level Distributed Representations

Kevin Clark, Christopher D. Manning

Which Coreference Evaluation Metric Do You Trust? A Proposal for a Link-based Entity Aware Metric

Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Michael Strube

Collective Entity Resolution with Multi-Focal Attention

Amir Globerson, Nevena Lazic, Soumen Chakrabarti, Amarnag Subramanya, Michael Ringgaard

Easy Things First: Installments Improve Referring Expression Generation for Objects in Photographs

Sina Zarrieß, David Schlangen

Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation

Wang Ling, Phil Blunsom, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Tomas Kocisky

Generating Factoid Questions With Recurrent Neural Networks: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Caglar Gulcehre, Sungjin Ahn, Sarath Chandar

How Much is 131 Million Dollars? Putting Numbers in Perspective with Compositional Descriptions

Arun Chaganty, Percy Liang

Towards more variation in text generation: Developing and evaluating variation models for choice of referential form

Thiago Castro Ferreira, Emiel Krahmer, Sander Wubben

A Sentence Interaction Network for Modeling Dependence between Sentences

Biao Liu, Minlie Huang

Finding the Middle Ground - A Model for Planning Satisficing Answers

Sabine Janzen, Wolfgang Maaß, Tobias Kowatsch

Entropy Converges Between Dialogue Participants: Explanations from an Information-Theoretic Perspective

Yang Xu, David Reitter

Investigating the Sources of Linguistic Alignment in Conversation

Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank

DocChat: An Information Retrieval Approach for Chatbot Engines Using Unstructured Documents

Zhao Yan, Nan Duan, Junwei Bao, Peng Chen, Ming Zhou

CSE: Conceptual Sentence Embeddings based on Attention Model

Yashen Wang, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Qiang Zhou, Jiahui Gu

Neural Networks For Negation Scope Detection

Federico Fancellu, Adam Lopez, Bonnie Webber

Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and Words

Jianpeng Cheng, Mirella Lapata

Tables as Semi-structured Knowledge for Question Answering

Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Peter Turney, Eduard Hovy

Improved Representation Learning for Question Answer Matching

Ming Tan, Cícero dos Santos, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

Easy Questions First? A Case Study on Curriculum Learning for Question Answering

Mrinmaya Sachan, Eric Xing

Combining Natural Logic and Shallow Reasoning for Question Answering

Gabor Angeli, Neha Nayak Kennard, Christopher D. Manning

A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension on Sparse Data

Adam Trischler, Zheng Ye, Xingdi Yuan, Jing He, Philip Bachman

Transition-Based Neural Word Segmentation

Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Guohong Fu

Neural Word Segmentation Learning for Chinese

Deng Cai, Hai Zhao

Grapheme-to-Phoneme Models for (Almost) Any Language

Aliya Deri, Kevin Knight

News Citation Recommendation with Implicit and Explicit Semantics

Hao Peng, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin

Together we stand: Siamese Networks for Similar Question Retrieval

Arpita Das, Harish Yenala, Manoj Chinnakotla, Manish Shrivastava

Query Expansion with Locally-Trained Word Embeddings

Fernando Diaz, Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell

Dependency Parsing with Bounded Block Degree and Well-nestedness via Lagrangian Relaxation and Branch-and-Bound

Caio Corro, Joseph Le Roux, Mathieu Lacroix, Antoine Rozenknop, Roberto Wolfler Calvo

Active Learning for Dependency Parsing with Partial Annotation

Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang, Zhanyi Liu, Wenliang Chen

Document-level Sentiment Inference with Social, Faction, and Discourse Context

Eunsol Choi, Hannah Rashkin, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi

Bi-Transferring Deep Neural Networks for Domain Adaptation

Guangyou Zhou, Zhiwen Xie, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Tingting He

Connotation Frames: A Data-Driven Investigation

Hannah Rashkin, Sameer Singh, Yejin Choi

Sentiment Domain Adaptation with Multiple Sources

Fangzhao Wu, Yongfeng Huang

Two Discourse Driven Language Models for Semantics

Haoruo Peng, Dan Roth

Using Sentence-Level LSTM Language Models for Script Inference

Karl Pichotta, Raymond J. Mooney

Jointly Event Extraction and Visualization on Twitter via Probabilistic Modelling

Deyu Zhou, Tianmeng Gao, Yulan He

Liberal Event Extraction and Event Schema Induction

Lifu Huang, Taylor Cassidy, Xiaocheng Feng, Heng Ji, Clare R. Voss

On the Role of Seed Lexicons in Learning Bilingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

Intrinsic Subspace Evaluation of Word Embedding Representations

Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Hinrich Schütze

Compressing Neural Language Models by Sparse Word Representations

Yunchuan Chen, Lili Mou, Yan Xu, Ge Li, Zhi Jin

Metaphor Detection with Topic Transition, Emotion and Cognition in Context

Hyeju Jang, Yohan Jo, Qinlan Shen, Michael Miller, Seungwhan Moon

Adaptive Joint Learning of Compositional and Non-Compositional Phrase Embeddings

Kazuma Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Idiom Token Classification using Sentential Distributed Semantics

Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross, John Kelleher

Literal and Metaphorical Senses in Compositional Distributional Semantic Models

E. Dario Gutiérrez, Ekaterina Shutova, Tyler Marghetis, Benjamin Bergen

Neural Greedy Constituent Parsing with Dynamic Oracles

Maximin Coavoux, Benoit Crabbé

A Transition-Based System for Joint Lexical and Syntactic Analysis

Matthieu Constant, Joakim Nivre

Generalized Transition-based Dependency Parsing via Control Parameters

Bernd Bohnet, Ryan Mcdonald, Emily Pitler, Ji Ma

Pointing the Unknown Words

Caglar Gulcehre, Sungjin Ahn, Ramesh Nallapati, Bowen Zhou, Yoshua Bengio

Learning the Curriculum with Bayesian Optimization for Task-Specific Word Representation Learning

Yulia Tsvetkov, Manaal Faruqui, Wang Ling, Brian MacWhinney, Chris Dyer

Language Transfer Learning for Supervised Lexical Substitution

Gerold Hintz, Chris Biemann

Incremental Acquisition of Verb Hypothesis Space towards Physical World Interaction

Lanbo She, Joyce Chai

Graph-Based Translation Via Graph Segmentation

Liangyou Li, Andy Way, Qun Liu

Improving Neural Machine Translation Models with Monolingual Data

Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine Translation

Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li

Models and Inference for Prefix-Constrained Machine Translation

Joern Wuebker, Spence Green, John DeNero, Saša Hasan, Minh-Thang Luong

A Multi-media Approach to Cross-lingual Entity Knowledge Transfer

Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Nima Pourdamghani, Shih-fu Chang, Heng Ji

Unsupervised Person Slot Filling based on Graph Mining

Dian Yu, Heng Ji

Language to Logical Form with Neural Attention

Li Dong, Mirella Lapata

Inferring Logical Forms From Denotations

Panupong Pasupat, Percy Liang

Data Recombination for Neural Semantic Parsing

Robin Jia, Percy Liang

Noise reduction and targeted exploration in imitation learning for Abstract Meaning Representation parsing

James Goodman, Andreas Vlachos, Jason Naradowsky

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Katrin Erk, Noah A. Smith