COLING 2012

402 papers

Probabilistic Refinement Algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions

Romina Altamirano, Carlos Areces, Luciana Benotti

Mapping Arabic Wikipedia into the Named Entities Taxonomy

Fahd Alotaibi, Mark Lee

A Formalized Reference Grammar for UNL-Based Machine Translation between English and Arabic

Sameh Alansary

Automatic Bilingual Phrase Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Ahmet Aker, Yang Feng, Robert Gaizauskas

A Best-First Anagram Hashing Filter for Approximate String Matching with Generalized Edit Distance

Malin Ahlberg, Gerlof Bouma

K-Best Spanning Tree Dependency Parsing With Verb Valency Lexicon Reranking

Željko Agić

Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters

Martin Kay, Christian Boitet

Exploiting Lexical Dependencies from Large-Scale Data for Better Shift-Reduce Constituency Parsing

Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang

Exploiting Bilingual Translation for Question Retrieval in Community-Based Question Answering

Guangyou Zhou, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

User Behaviors Lend a Helping Hand: Learning Paraphrase Query Patterns from Search Log Sessions

Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu

Long-Tail Distributions and Unsupervised Learning of Morphology

Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus

The Use of Dependency Relation Graph to Enhance the Term Weighting in Question Retrieval

Weinan Zhang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yu Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Ting Liu

A Lazy Learning Model for Entity Linking using Query-Specific Information

Wei Zhang, Jian Su, Chew-Lim Tan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin

Stacking Heterogeneous Joint Models of Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing

Meishan Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Zhenghua Li

Constructing Chinese Abbreviation Dictionary: A Stacked Approach

Longkai Zhang, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang, Ni Sun, Xinfan Meng

Tree-based Translation without using Parse Trees

Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Machine Translation by Modeling Predicate-Argument Structure Transformation

Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

Detecting Word Ordering Errors in Chinese Sentences for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language

Chi-Hsin Yu, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures

Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara

SentTopic-MultiRank: a Novel Ranking Model for Multi-Document Summarization

Wenpeng Yin, Yulong Pei, Fan Zhang, Lian’en Huang

RelationListwise for Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization

Wenpeng Yin, Lifu Huang, Yulong Pei, Lian’en Huang

Measuring the Similarity between TV Programs using Semantic Relations

Ichiro Yamada, Masaru Miyazaki, Hideki Sumiyoshi, Atsushi Matsui, Hironori Furumiya

ISO-TimeML Event Extraction in Persian Text

Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Gholamreza Ghassem-sani, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh

Modeling ESL Word Choice Similarities By Representing Word Intensions and Extensions

Huichao Xue, Rebecca Hwa

Paraphrasing for Style

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman, Colin Cherry

Unsupervised Discriminative Induction of Synchronous Grammar for Machine Translation

Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Semi-supervised Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation using Dynamic Dependency Networks

Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo, Alexander Yates

Multi-View AdaBoost for Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis

Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo

Factored Language Model based on Recurrent Neural Network

Youzheng Wu, Xugang Lu, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori

Strategies for Mixed-Initiative Conversation Management using Question-Answer Pairs

Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham

A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition using Natural Logic

Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui

Harnessing the CRF Complexity with Domain-Specific Constraints. The Case of Morphosyntactic Tagging of a Highly Inflected Language

Jakub Waszczuk

Chinese Evaluative Information Analysis

Yiou Wang, Jun’ichi Kazama, Takuya Kawada, Kentaro Torisawa

Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Selecting Typical Training Examples

Xun Wang, Sujian Li, Jiwei Li, Wenjie Li

The Utility of Discourse Structure in Identifying Resolved Threads in Technical User Forums

Li Wang, Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin

Sub-corpora Sampling with an Application to Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Ivan Vulić, Marie-Francine Moens

Multi-way Tensor Factorization for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition

Tim Van de Cruys, Laura Rimell, Thierry Poibeau, Anna Korhonen

Combining Statistical Translation Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Ferhan Ture, Jimmy Lin, Douglas Oard

Implicitness of Discourse Relations

Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Vera Demberg

Hunting for Entailing Pairs in the Penn Discourse Treebank

Sara Tonelli, Elena Cabrio

Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling: Approaching from an Unsupervised Perspective

Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev

Efficient Discrimination Between Closely Related Languages

Jörg Tiedemann, Nikola Ljubešić

Inverse Document Density: A Smooth Measure for Location-Dependent Term Irregularities

Dennis Thom, Harald Bosch, Thomas Ertl

Native Tongues, Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification

Joel Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard, Aoife Cahill, Martin Chodorow

Evaluating the Translation Accuracy of a Novel Language-Independent MT Methodology

George Tambouratzis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou

NEER: An Unsupervised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition

Nina Tahmasebi, Gerhard Gossen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Helge Holzmann, Thomas Risse

Modeling Leadership and Influence in Multi-party Online Discourse

Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Jenny Stromer-Galley

Easy-first Coreference Resolution

Veselin Stoyanov, Jason Eisner

Named Entity Recognition System for Urdu

UmrinderPal Singh, Vishal Goyal, Gurpreet Singh Lehal

Noun Group and Verb Group Identification for Hindi

Smriti Singh, Om P. Damani, Vaijayanthi M. Sarma

Differential Evolution Based Feature Selection and Classifier Ensemble for Named Entity Recognition

Utpal Kumar Sikdar, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha

Initial Explorations on using CRFs for Turkish Named Entity Recognition

Gökhan Akın Şeker, Gülşen Eryiǧit

The French Social Media Bank: a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content

Djamé Seddah, Benoît Sagot, Marie Candito, Virginie Mouilleron, Vanessa Combet

Improving Supervised Sense Disambiguation with Web-Scale Selectors

H. Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez, Lyle Ungar

Learnability-Based Syntactic Annotation Design

Roy Schwartz, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport

Ant Colony Algorithm for the Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation of Texts: Comparison and Evaluation

Didier Schwab, Jérôme Goulian, Andon Tchechmedjiev, Hervé Blanchon

Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity Assessment from Online Forum Posts

Shirin Saleem, Rohit Prasad, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Maciej Pacula, Michael Crystal

Joint English Spelling Error Correction and POS Tagging for Language Learners Writing

Keisuke Sakaguchi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto

Underspecified Query Refinement via Natural Language Question Generation

Hassan Sajjad, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon

From Finite-State to Inversion Transductions: Toward Unsupervised Bilingual Grammar Induction

Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki, Dekai Wu

A Diverse Dirichlet Process Ensemble for Unsupervised Induction of Syntactic Categories

Roi Reichart, Gal Elidan, Ari Rappoport

A MWE Acquisition and Lexicon Builder Web Service

Valeria Quochi, Francesca Frontini, Francesco Rubino

Bilingual Lexicon Construction from Comparable Corpora via Dependency Mapping

Longhua Qian, Hongling Wang, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu

Who’s (Really) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab

Collective Search for Concept Disambiguation

Anja Pilz, Gerhard Paaß

A Supervised Aggregation Framework for Multi-Document Summarization

Yulong Pei, Wenpeng Yin, Qifeng Fan, Lian’en Huang

Simple and Effective Parameter Tuning for Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation

Pavel Pecina, Antonio Toral, Josef van Genabith

A Comprehensive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering

Agnieszka Patejuk, Adam Przepiórkowski

Attribute Extraction from Conjectural Queries

Marius Pasca

A Pipeline Arabic Named Entity Recognition using a Hybrid Approach

Mai Oudah, Khaled Shaalan

Tibetan Base Noun Phrase Identification Framework Based on Chinese-Tibetan Sentence Aligned Corpus

Ming Hua Nuo, Hui Dan Liu, Wei Na Zhao, Long Long Ma, Jian Wu

Accurate Unbounded Dependency Recovery using Generalized Categorial Grammars

Luan Nguyen, Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler

Improved Temporal Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and Selective Crowdsourced Annotations

Jun-Ping Ng, Min-Yen Kan

Exploiting Category-Specific Information for Multi-Document Summarization

Jun-Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan, Chew-Lim Tan

Bayesian Text Segmentation for Index Term Identification and Keyphrase Extraction

David Newman, Nagendra Koilada, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin

Grounded Language Acquisition: A Minimal Commitment Approach

Sushobhan Nayak, Amitabha Mukerjee

A Comparison of Syntactic Reordering Methods for English-German Machine Translation

Jiri Navratil, Karthik Visweswariah, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan

Structure-Driven Lexicalist Generation

Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent

Error Mining with Suspicion Trees: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent

Grammarless Parsing for Joint Inference

Jason Naradowsky, Tim Vieira, David Smith

Optimizing for Sentence-Level BLEU+1 Yields Short Translations

Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzmán, Stephan Vogel

Alignment by Bilingual Generation and Monolingual Derivation

Toshiaki Nakazawa, Sadao Kurohashi

Combining Wordnet and Morphosyntactic Information in Terminology Clustering

Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Malgorzata Marciniak

Learning Effective and Interpretable Semantic Models using Non-Negative Sparse Embedding

Brian Murphy, Partha Talukdar, Tom Mitchell

Semi-Supervised Noun Compound Analysis with Edge and Span Features

Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi

Incremental Learning of Affix Segmentation

Wondwossen Mulugeta, Michael Gasser, Baye Yimam

Constrained Decoding for Text-Level Discourse Parsing

Philippe Muller, Stergos Afantenos, Pascal Denis, Nicholas Asher

YouCat: Weakly Supervised Youtube Video Categorization System from Meta Data & User Comments using WordNet & Wikipedia

Subhabrata Mukherjee, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Sentiment Analysis in Twitter with Lightweight Discourse Analysis

Subhabrata Mukherjee, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Analysis of Linguistic Style Accommodation in Online Debates

Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu

Is Bad Structure Better Than No Structure?: Unsupervised Parsing for Realisation Ranking

Yasaman Motazedi, Mark Dras, François Lareau

Revising the Compositional Method for Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora

Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille

Using Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion in Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation

Tristan Miller, Chris Biemann, Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych

To Exhibit is not to Loiter: A Multilingual, Sense-Disambiguated Wiktionary for Measuring Verb Similarity

Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

Recognizing Personal Characteristics of Readers using Eye-Movements and Text Features

Pascual Martínez-Gómez, Tadayoshi Hara, Akiko Aizawa

Easy-First Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing

Ji Ma, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Feiliang Ren

Topical Word Trigger Model for Keyphrase Extraction

Zhiyuan Liu, Chen Liang, Maosong Sun

Graph-Based Multi-Tweet Summarization using Social Signals

Xiaohua Liu, Yitong Li, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

A Separately Passive-Aggressive Training Algorithm for Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing

Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

Code-Switch Language Model with Inversion Constraints for Mixed Language Speech Recognition

Ying Li, Pascale Fung