COLING 2016

411 papers

Word2Vec vs DBnary: Augmenting METEOR using Vector Representations or Lexical Resources?

Christophe Servan, Alexandre Berard, Zied Elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, Laurent Besacier

Building a Monolingual Parallel Corpus for Text Simplification Using Sentence Similarity Based on Alignment between Word Embeddings

Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi

Evaluation Strategies for Computational Construction Grammars

Tânia Marques, Katrien Beuls

Generating Questions and Multiple-Choice Answers using Semantic Analysis of Texts

Jun Araki, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Susan Holm, Yukari Yamakawa

Product Review Summarization by Exploiting Phrase Properties

Naitong Yu, Minlie Huang, Yuanyuan Shi, Xiaoyan Zhu

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

Gerasimos Lampouras, Andreas Vlachos

A Hybrid Approach to Generation of Missing Abstracts in Biomedical Literature

Suchet Chachra, Asma Ben Abacha, Sonya Shooshan, Laritza Rodriguez, Dina Demner-Fushman

Natural Language Generation through Character-based RNNs with Finite-state Prior Knowledge

Raghav Goyal, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier

Sequential Clustering and Contextual Importance Measures for Incremental Update Summarization

Markus Zopf, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Johannes Fürnkranz

Predicting sentential semantic compatibility for aggregation in text-to-text generation

Victor Chenal, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Chinese Poetry Generation with Planning based Neural Network

Zhe Wang, Wei He, Hua Wu, Haiyang Wu, Wei Li

Bridging the gap between extractive and abstractive summaries: Creation and evaluation of coherent extracts from heterogeneous sources

Darina Benikova, Margot Mieskes, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

Exploring Differential Topic Models for Comparative Summarization of Scientific Papers

Lei He, Wei Li, Hai Zhuge

Siamese Convolutional Networks for Cognate Identification

Taraka Rama

Multilingual Supervision of Semantic Annotation

Peter Exner, Marcus Klang, Pierre Nugues

Named Entity Recognition for Linguistic Rapid Response in Low-Resource Languages: Sorani Kurdish and Tajik

Patrick Littell, Kartik Goyal, David R. Mortensen, Alexa Little, Chris Dyer

Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation?

Amalia Todirascu, Thomas François, Delphine Bernhard, Núria Gala, Anne-Laure Ligozat

‘Calling on the classical phone’: a distributional model of adjective-noun errors in learners’ English

Aurélie Herbelot, Ekaterina Kochmar

Memory-Bounded Left-Corner Unsupervised Grammar Induction on Child-Directed Input

Cory Shain, William Bryce, Lifeng Jin, Victoria Krakovna, Finale Doshi-velez

Automatic Labelling of Topics with Neural Embeddings

Shraey Bhatia, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin

Hashtag Recommendation Using End-To-End Memory Networks with Hierarchical Attention

Haoran Huang, Qi Zhang, Yeyun Gong, Xuanjing Huang

Extracting Discriminative Keyphrases with Learned Semantic Hierarchies

Yunli Wang, Yong Jin, Xiaodan Zhu, Cyril Goutte

A Neural Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging in Historical Texts

Christian Hardmeier

CharNER: Character-Level Named Entity Recognition

Onur Kuru, Ozan Arkan Can, Deniz Yuret

Extending the Use of Adaptor Grammars for Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation of Unseen Languages

Ramy Eskander, Owen Rambow, Tianchun Yang

Chinese Preposition Selection for Grammatical Error Diagnosis

Hen-Hsen Huang, Yen-Chi Shao, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Adverse Drug Reaction Classification With Deep Neural Networks

Trung Huynh, Yulan He, Alistair Willis, Stefan Rueger

Analyzing Gender Bias in Student Evaluations

Andamlak Terkik, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Christopher Homan, Scott Franklin

Using Linguistic Data for English and Spanish Verb-Noun Combination Identification

Uxoa Iñurrieta, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Kepa Sarasola, Itziar Aduriz

How Regular is Japanese Loanword Adaptation? A Computational Study

Lingshuang Mao, Mans Hulden

Contrasting Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Typological Features

Kenji Yamauchi, Yugo Murawaki

Automatic Extraction of Learner Errors in ESL Sentences Using Linguistically Enhanced Alignments

Mariano Felice, Christopher Bryant, Ted Briscoe

Retrieving Occurrences of Grammatical Constructions

Anna Ehrlemark, Richard Johansson, Benjamin Lyngfelt

Evaluating anaphora and coreference resolution to improve automatic keyphrase extraction

Marco Basaldella, Giorgia Chiaradia, Carlo Tasso

Learning to Identify Sentence Parallelism in Student Essays

Wei Song, Tong Liu, Ruiji Fu, Lizhen Liu, Hanshi Wang

Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English

Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery

Machine Learning for Metrical Analysis of English Poetry

Manex Agirrezabal, Iñaki Alegria, Mans Hulden

Different Contexts Lead to Different Word Embeddings

Wenpeng Hu, Jiajun Zhang, Nan Zheng

Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific Writing with Information Density

Raphael Rubino, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elke Teich, Josef van Genabith

Advancing Linguistic Features and Insights by Label-informed Feature Grouping: An Exploration in the Context of Native Language Identification

Serhiy Bykh, Detmar Meurers

How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?

Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi

Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non-Native Speakers of English

Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia

Learning grammatical categories using paradigmatic representations: Substitute words for language acquisition

Mehmet Ali Yatbaz, Volkan Cirik, Aylin Küntay, Deniz Yuret

“How Bullying is this Message?”: A Psychometric Thermometer for Bullying

Parma Nand, Rivindu Perera, Abhijeet Kasture

Reading-Time Annotations for “Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese”

Masayuki Asahara, Hajime Ono, Edson T. Miyamoto

Identifying Cross-Cultural Differences in Word Usage

Aparna Garimella, Rada Mihalcea, James Pennebaker

Probabilistic Prototype Model for Serendipitous Property Mining

Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhongyuan Wang

Ranking Responses Oriented to Conversational Relevance in Chat-bots

Bowen Wu, Baoxun Wang, hui xue

GAKE: Graph Aware Knowledge Embedding

Jun Feng, Minlie Huang, Yang Yang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Splitting compounds with ngrams

Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro

A Bayesian model for joint word alignment and part-of-speech transfer

Robert Östling

Keystroke dynamics as signal for shallow syntactic parsing

Barbara Plank

K-SRL: Instance-based Learning for Semantic Role Labeling

Alan Akbik, Yunyao Li

A subtree-based factorization of dependency parsing

Qiuye Zhao, Qun Liu

Cross-lingual Learning of an Open-domain Semantic Parser

Kilian Evang, Johan Bos

A Proposition-Based Abstractive Summariser

Yimai Fang, Haoyue Zhu, Ewa Muszyńska, Alexander Kuhnle, Simone Teufel

Using Relevant Public Posts to Enhance News Article Summarization

Chen Li, zhongyu wei, Yang Liu, Yang Jin, Fei Huang

AttSum: Joint Learning of Focusing and Summarization with Neural Attention

Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei, Yanran Li

Product Classification in E-Commerce using Distributional Semantics

Vivek Gupta, Harish Karnick, Ashendra Bansal, Pradhuman Jhala

Large-scale Multi-class and Hierarchical Product Categorization for an E-commerce Giant

Ali Cevahir, Koji Murakami

Appraising UMLS Coverage for Summarizing Medical Evidence

Elaheh ShafieiBavani, Mohammad Ebrahimi, Raymond Wong, Fang Chen

Mongolian Named Entity Recognition System with Rich Features

Weihua Wang, Feilong Bao, Guanglai Gao

Word Segmentation in Sanskrit Using Path Constrained Random Walks

Amrith Krishna, Bishal Santra, Pavankumar Satuluri, Sasi Prasanth Bandaru, Bhumi Faldu

A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Sentiment Analysis

Md Shad Akhtar, Ayush Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Determining the Multiword Expression Inventory of a Surprise Language

Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook, Timothy Baldwin

Bitext Name Tagging for Cross-lingual Entity Annotation Projection

Dongxu Zhang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Xiaocheng Feng, Heng Ji

Inducing Multilingual Text Analysis Tools Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks

Othman Zennaki, Nasredine Semmar, Laurent Besacier

Incrementally Learning a Dependency Parser to Support Language Documentation in Field Linguistics

Morgan Ulinski, Julia Hirschberg, Owen Rambow

Promoting multiword expressions in A* TAG parsing

Jakub Waszczuk, Agata Savary, Yannick Parmentier

Language Independent Dependency to Constituent Tree Conversion

Young-Suk Lee, Zhiguo Wang

Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing

Olivier Michalon, Corentin Ribeyre, Marie Candito, Alexis Nasr

A House United: Bridging the Script and Lexical Barrier between Hindi and Urdu

Riyaz A. Bhat, Irshad A. Bhat, Naman Jain, Dipti Misra Sharma

Frustratingly Easy Neural Domain Adaptation

Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya

An Automatic Prosody Tagger for Spontaneous Speech

Mónica Domínguez, Mireia Farrús, Leo Wanner

Continuous Expressive Speaking Styles Synthesis based on CVSM and MR-HMM

Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ascension Gallardo-Antolin, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan M. Montero

Learning to Distill: The Essence Vector Modeling Framework

Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang

Automatic Syllabification for Manipuri language

Loitongbam Gyanendro Singh, Lenin Laitonjam, Sanasam Ranbir Singh

Data-Driven Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Morphologically Rich Languages and Universal Dependencies

Amir More, Reut Tsarfaty

Assigning Fine-grained PoS Tags based on High-precision Coarse-grained Tagging

Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch

A Word Labeling Approach to Thai Sentence Boundary Detection and POS Tagging

Nina Zhou, AiTi Aw, Nattadaporn Lertcheva, Xuancong Wang

Attending to Characters in Neural Sequence Labeling Models

Marek Rei, Gamal Crichton, Sampo Pyysalo

Consistent Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Dependency Labelling Annotation for Chinese Language

Mo Shen, Wingmui Li, HyunJeong Choe, Chenhui Chu, Daisuke Kawahara

Detecting Sentence Boundaries in Sanskrit Texts

Oliver Hellwig

A Neural Attention Model for Disfluency Detection

Shaolei Wang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

Predictive Incremental Parsing Helps Language Modeling

Arne Köhn, Timo Baumann

Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding

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

A General Optimization Framework for Multi-Document Summarization Using Genetic Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence

Maxime Peyrard, Judith Eckle-Kohler

Abstractive News Summarization based on Event Semantic Link Network

Wei Li, Lei He, Hai Zhuge

Syntactic realization with data-driven neural tree grammars

Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone

Exploring Text Links for Coherent Multi-Document Summarization

Xun Wang, Masaaki Nishino, Tsutomu Hirao, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaaki Nagata

An Empirical Exploration of Skip Connections for Sequential Tagging

Huijia Wu, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

Asynchronous Parallel Learning for Neural Networks and Structured Models with Dense Features

Xu Sun

The Role of Context in Neural Morphological Disambiguation

Qinlan Shen, Daniel Clothiaux, Emily Tagtow, Patrick Littell, Chris Dyer

Label Embedding for Zero-shot Fine-grained Named Entity Typing

Yukun Ma, Erik Cambria, Sa Gao

Bayesian Language Model based on Mixture of Segmental Contexts for Spontaneous Utterances with Unexpected Words

Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani

Integrating Topic Modeling with Word Embeddings by Mixtures of vMFs

Ximing Li, Jinjin Chi, Changchun Li, Jihong Ouyang, Bo Fu

Deceptive Opinion Spam Detection Using Neural Network

Yafeng Ren, Yue Zhang

Improving historical spelling normalization with bi-directional LSTMs and multi-task learning

Marcel Bollmann, Anders Søgaard

Zero-resource Dependency Parsing: Boosting Delexicalized Cross-lingual Transfer with Linguistic Knowledge

Lauriane Aufrant, Guillaume Wisniewski, François Yvon

A Correlational Encoder Decoder Architecture for Pivot Based Sequence Generation

Amrita Saha, Mitesh M. Khapra, Sarath Chandar, Janarthanan Rajendran, Kyunghyun Cho