COLING 2012

402 papers

Integrating Surface and Abstract Features for Robust Cross-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation

Xiaoqing Li, Kun Wang, Chengqing Zong, Keh-Yih Su

Joint Modeling of Trigger Identification and Event Type Determination in Chinese Event Extraction

Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Hongjun Diao, Guodong Zhou

Employing Morphological Structures and Sememes for Chinese Event Extraction

Peifeng Li, Guodong Zhou

Update Summarization using a Multi-level Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model

Jiwei Li, Sujian Li, Xun Wang, Ye Tian, Baobao Chang

Improving Text Normalization using Character-Blocks Based Models and System Combination

Chen Li, Yang Liu

Approximate Sentence Retrieval for Scalable and Efficient Example-Based Machine Translation

Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Sandipan Dandapat, Gareth Jones

Evaluating Different Methods for Automatically Collecting Large General Corpora for Basque from the Web

Igor Leturia

Learning Compositional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing

Phong Le, Willem Zuidema

On-line Trend Analysis with Topic Models: #twitter Trends Detection Topic Model Online

Jey Han Lau, Nigel Collier, Timothy Baldwin

Unsupervised Japanese-Chinese Opinion Word Translation using Dependency Distance and Feature-Opinion Association Weight

Guo-Hau Lai, Ying-Mei Guo, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

Semantic Processing of Compounds in Indian Languages

Amba Kulkarni, Soma Paul, Malhar Kulkarni, Anil Kumar, Nitesh Surtani

Exploring Local and Global Semantic Information for Event Pronoun Resolution

Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou

Inducing Crosslingual Distributed Representations of Words

Alexandre Klementiev, Ivan Titov, Binod Bhattarai

Improving Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parse Reranking with Dependency Grammar Features

Sunghwan Mac Kim, Dominick Ng, Mark Johnson, James Curran

A Machine Learning Approach for Phenotype Name Recognition

Maryam Khordad, Robert E. Mercer, Peter Rogan

Generating “A for Alpha” When There Are Thousands of Characters

Hiroaki Kawasaki, Ryohei Sasano, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Improving Topic Classification for Highly Inflective Languages

Jurgita Kapociute-Dzikiene, Frederik Vaassen, Walter Daelemans, Algis Krupavičius

Answering Yes/No Questions via Question Inversion

Hiroshi Kanayama, Yusuke Miyao, John Prager

Semantics-Based Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Bevan Jones, Jacob Andreas, Daniel Bauer, Karl Moritz Hermann, Kevin Knight

Towards a Generic and Flexible Citation Classifier Based on a Faceted Classification Scheme

Charles Jochim, Hinrich Schütze

Using Knowledge and Constraints To Find the Best Antecedent

Prateek Jindal, Dan Roth

N-gram Fragment Sequence Based Unsupervised Domain-Specific Document Readability

Shoaib Jameel, Xiaojun Qian, Wai Lam

Coreference Resolution with ILP-based Weighted Abduction

Naoya Inoue, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Kentaro Inui, Jerry Hobbs

Mining Rules for Rewriting States in a Transition-based Dependency Parser for English

Akihiro Inokuchi, Ayumu Yamaoka

Improved Combinatory Categorial Grammar Induction with Boundary Words and Bayesian Inference

Yun Huang, Min Zhang, Chew-Lim Tan

Tweet Ranking Based on Heterogeneous Networks

Hongzhao Huang, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Heng Ji, Hongbo Deng, Dong Wang

Context-Enhanced Personalized Social Summarization

Po Hu, Donghong Ji, Chong Teng, Yujing Guo

Method Mention Extraction from Scientific Research Papers

Hospice Houngbo, Robert E. Mercer

Tailored Feature Extraction for Lexical Disambiguation of English Verbs Based on Corpus Pattern Analysis

Martin Holub, Vincent Kríž, Silvie Cinková, Eckhard Bick

Statistical Method of Building Dialect Language Models for ASR Systems

Naoki Hirayama, Shinsuke Mori, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Creating an Extended Named Entity Dictionary from Wikipedia

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo

A Comparison and Improvement of Online Learning Algorithms for Sequence Labeling

Zhengyan He, Houfeng Wang

Bridging the Gap between Intrinsic and Perceived Relevance in Snippet Generation

Jing He, Pablo Duboue, Jian-Yun Nie

Approximating Theoretical Linguistics Classification in Real Data: the Case of German “nach” Particle Verbs

Boris Haselbach, Kerstin Eckart, Wolfgang Seeker, Kurt Eberle, Ulrich Heid

Flexible Japanese Sentence Compression by Relaxing Unit Constraints

Jun Harashima, Sadao Kurohashi

Walk-based Computation of Contextual Word Similarity

Kazuo Hara, Ikumi Suzuki, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto

Readability Classification for German using Lexical, Syntactic, and Morphological Features

Julia Hancke, Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers

Geolocation Prediction in Social Media Data by Finding Location Indicative Words

Bo Han, Paul Cook, Timothy Baldwin

Understanding the Performance of Statistical MT Systems: A Linear Regression Framework

Francisco Guzmán, Stephan Vogel

A Distributed Platform for Sanskrit Processing

Pawan Goyal, Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni, Peter Scharf, Ralph Bunker

Finding Thoughtful Comments from Social Media

Swapna Gottipati, Jing Jiang

Statistical Mechanical Analysis of Semantic Orientations on Lexical Network

Takuma Goto, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Hiroya Takamura

A Dynamic Oracle for Arc-Eager Dependency Parsing

Yoav Goldberg, Joakim Nivre

Structured Term Recognition in Medical Text

Michael Glass, Alfio Gliozzo

Cross-Lingual Topical Relevance Models

Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth Jones

Extractive Multi-Document Summarization with Integer Linear Programming and Support Vector Regression

Dimitrios Galanis, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ion Androutsopoulos

Modeling the Complexity of Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis

Karën Fort, Adeline Nazarenko, Sophie Rosset

Comparing Taxonomies for Organising Collections of Documents

Samuel Fernando, Mark Hall, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa, Paul Clough

Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-Based SMT

Minwei Feng, Weiwei Sun, Hermann Ney

Stacking of Dependency and Phrase Structure Parsers

Richárd Farkas, Bernd Bohnet

Flexible Structural Analysis of Near-Meet-Semilattices for Typed Unification-Based Grammar Design

Rouzbeh Farahmand, Gerald Penn

Jointly Disambiguating and Clustering Concepts and Entities with Markov Logic

Angela Fahrni, Michael Strube

Mining Words in the Minds of Second Language Learners: Learner-Specific Word Difficulty

Yo Ehara, Issei Sato, Hidekazu Oiwa, Hiroshi Nakagawa

S-Restricted Monotone Alignments: Algorithm, Search Space, and Applications

Steffen Eger

Twitter Topic Summarization by Ranking Tweets using Social Influence and Content Quality

Yajuan Duan, Zhumin Chen, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Heung-yeung Shum

Extraction of Domain-Specific Bilingual Lexicon from Comparable Corpora: Compositional Translation and Ranking

Estelle Delpech, Béatrice Daille, Emmanuel Morin, Claire Lemaire

A Computational Cognitive Model for Semantic Sub-Network Extraction from Natural Language Queries

Suman Deb Roy, Wenjun Zeng

A Corpus-Based Study of Edit Categories in Featured and Non-Featured Wikipedia Articles

Johannes Daxenberger, Iryna Gurevych

Towards Efficient HPSG Generation for German, a Non-Configurational Language

Berthold Crysmann, Woodley Packard

Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System

Bob Coyne, Alex Klapheke, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richard Sproat, Daniel Bauer

Using Argumentative Zones for Extractive Summarization of Scientific Articles

Danish Contractor, Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen

A Hybrid Approach to Finding Phenotype Candidates in Genetic Texts

Nigel Collier, Mai-Vu Tran, Hoang-Quynh Le, Anika Oellrich, Ai Kawazoe

Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Morphological Analysis for Information Retrieval in the Biomedical Domain

Vincent Claveau

Problems in Evaluating Grammatical Error Detection Systems

Martin Chodorow, Markus Dickinson, Ross Israel, Joel Tetreault

Extraction of Russian Sentiment Lexicon for Product Meta-Domain

Ilia Chetviorkin, Natalia Loukachevitch

A System for Multilingual Sentiment Learning On Large Data Sets

Alex Cheng, Oles Zhulyn

A Semi-Supervised Bayesian Network Model for Microblog Topic Classification

Yan Chen, Zhoujun Li, Liqiang Nie, Xia Hu, Xiangyu Wang

A Simplification-Translation-Restoration Framework for Cross-Domain SMT Applications

Han-Bin Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ching-Ting Tan

Joint Modeling for Chinese Event Extraction with Rich Linguistic Features

Chen Chen, Vincent Ng

The Secret’s in the Word Order: Text-to-Text Generation for Linguistic Steganography

Ching-Yun Chang, Stephen Clark

Adjective Deletion for Linguistic Steganography and Secret Sharing

Ching-Yun Chang, Stephen Clark

Towards Automatic Topical Question Generation

Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan

On the Effectiveness of using Sentence Compression Models for Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization

Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan

Analysis and Enhancement of Wikification for Microblogs with Context Expansion

Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Hongzhao Huang

Native Language Identification using Recurring n-grams – Investigating Abstraction and Domain Dependence

Serhiy Bykh, Detmar Meurers

Identifying Urdu Complex Predication via Bigram Extraction

Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel, Annette Hautli, Sebastian Sulger, Tafseer Ahmed

Robust, Lexicalized Native Language Identification

Julian Brooke, Graeme Hirst

Identification of Social Acts in Dialogue

David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson, Hui Wang

Can Spanish Be Simpler? LexSiS: Lexical Simplification for Spanish

Stefan Bott, Luz Rello, Biljana Drndarevic, Horacio Saggion

Bayesian Language Modelling of German Compounds

Jan A. Botha, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom

Studying the Effect of Input Size for Bayesian Word Segmentation on the Providence Corpus

Benjamin Börschinger, Katherine Demuth, Mark Johnson

Natural Language Generation for Nature Conservation: Automating Feedback to Help Volunteers Identify Bumblebee Species

Steven Blake, Advaith Siddharthan, Hien Nguyen, Nirwan Sharma, Anne-Marie Robinson

Thread Specific Features are Helpful for Identifying Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads

Prakhar Biyani, Sumit Bhatia, Cornelia Caragea, Prasenjit Mitra

Improvements to Training an RNN parser

Richard Billingsley, James Curran

Quantifying Semantics using Complex Network Analysis

Chris Biemann, Stefanie Roos, Karsten Weihe

Deriving a Lexicon for a Precision Grammar from Language Documentation Resources: A Case Study of Chintang

Emily M. Bender, Robert Schikowski, Balthasar Bickel

Prague Dependency Treebank 2.5 – a Revisited Version of PDT 2.0

Eduard Bejček, Jarmila Panevová, Jan Popelka, Pavel Straňák, Magda Ševčíková

An Evaluation of Statistical Post-Editing Systems Applied to RBMT and SMT Systems

Hanna Béchara, Raphael Rubino, Yifan He, Yanjun Ma, Josef van Genabith

Harvesting Parallel Text in Multiple Languages with Limited Supervision

Luciano Barbosa, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Srinivas Bangalore

Deriving Paraphrases for Highly Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents

Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz

Text Reuse Detection using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures

Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych

Translation Quality-Based Supplementary Data Selection by Incremental Update of Translation Models

Pratyush Banerjee, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Johann Roturier, Andy Way, Josef van Genabith

Constructing Reference Semantic Predictions from Biomedical Knowledge Sources

Demeke Ayele, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Million Meshesha, Getnet Kassie

Comparative Quality Estimation: Automatic Sentence-Level Ranking of Multiple Machine Translation Outputs

Eleftherios Avramidis

Contribution of Complex Lexical Information to Solve Syntactic Ambiguity in Basque

Aitziber Atutxa, Eneko Agirre, Kepa Sarasola

The Floating Arabic Dictionary: An Automatic Method for Updating a Lexical Database through the Detection and Lemmatization of Unknown Words

Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Khaled Shaalan, Josef van Genabith

Experiments with Term Translation

Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar

SpeedRead: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline

Rami Al-Rfou’, Steven Skiena

Automatic Detection of Point of View Differences in Wikipedia

Khalid Al Khatib, Hinrich Schütze, Cathleen Kantner

Unsupervised Discovery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction Patterns

Alan Akbik, Larysa Visengeriyeva, Priska Herger, Holmer Hemsen, Alexander Löser