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COLING 2018

559 papers

Can spontaneous spoken language disfluencies help describe syntactic dependencies? An empirical study

M. Zakaria Kurdi

Language-Based Automatic Assessment of Cognitive and Communicative Functions Related to Parkinson’s Disease

Lesley Jessiman, Gabriel Murray, McKenzie Braley

Finite State Reasoning for Presupposition Satisfaction

Jacob Collard

Addressing the Winograd Schema Challenge as a Sequence Ranking Task

Juri Opitz, Anette Frank

Enhancing Cohesion and Coherence of Fake Text to Improve Believability for Deceiving Cyber Attackers

Prakruthi Karuna, Hemant Purohit, Ozlem Uzuner, Sushil Jajodia, Rajesh Ganesan

An OpenNMT Model to Arabic Broken Plurals

Elsayed Issa

Detecting Linguistic Traces of Depression in Topic-Restricted Text: Attending to Self-Stigmatized Depression with NLP

JT Wolohan, Misato Hiraga, Atreyee Mukherjee, Zeeshan Ali Sayyed, Matthew Millard

A Compositional Bayesian Semantics for Natural Language

Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models

Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta

Veyn at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Recurrent Neural Networks for VMWE Identification

Nicolas Zampieri, Manon Scholivet, Carlos Ramisch, Benoit Favre

VarIDE at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Are Variants Really as Alike as Two Peas in a Pod?

Caroline Pasquer, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Jean-Yves Antoine

TRAVERSAL at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions Using a Discriminative Tree-Structured Model

Jakub Waszczuk

TRAPACC and TRAPACCS at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Neural Transition Tagging of Verbal Multiword Expressions

Regina Stodden, Behrang QasemiZadeh, Laura Kallmeyer

Mumpitz at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: A Bidirectional LSTM for the Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions

Rafael Ehren, Timm Lichte, Younes Samih

GBD-NER at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Multi-Word Expression Detection Using Bidirectional Long-Short-Term Memory Networks and Graph-Based Decoding

Tiberiu Boros, Ruxandra Burtica

Deep-BGT at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Bidirectional LSTM-CRF Model for Verbal Multiword Expression Identification

Gözde Berk, Berna Erden, Tunga Güngör

CRF-Seq and CRF-DepTree at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Detecting Verbal MWEs using Sequential and Dependency-Based Approaches

Erwan Moreau, Ashjan Alsulaimani, Alfredo Maldonado, Carl Vogel

Edition 1.1 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions

Carlos Ramisch, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze, Verginica Barbu Mititelu

Improving Domain Independent Question Parsing with Synthetic Treebanks

Halim-Antoine Boukaram, Nizar Habash, Micheline Ziadee, Majd Sakr

“Fingers in the Nose”: Evaluating Speakers’ Identification of Multi-Word Expressions Using a Slightly Gamified Crowdsourcing Platform

Karën Fort, Bruno Guillaume, Matthieu Constant, Nicolas Lefebvre, Yann-Alan Pilatte

Cooperating Tools for MWE Lexicon Management and Corpus Annotation

Yuji Matsumoto, Akihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Toshio Morita

Constructing an Annotated Corpus of Verbal MWEs for English

Abigail Walsh, Claire Bonial, Kristina Geeraert, John P. McCrae, Nathan Schneider

Do Character-Level Neural Network Language Models Capture Knowledge of Multiword Expression Compositionality?

Ali Hakimi Parizi, Paul Cook

The Other Side of the Coin: Unsupervised Disambiguation of Potentially Idiomatic Expressions by Contrasting Senses

Hessel Haagsma, Malvina Nissim, Johan Bos

All Roads Lead to UD: Converting Stanford and Penn Parses to English Universal Dependencies with Multilayer Annotations

Siyao Peng, Amir Zeldes

The RST Spanish-Chinese Treebank

Shuyuan Cao, Iria da Cunha, Mikel Iruskieta

A Treebank for the Healthcare Domain

Nganthoibi Oinam, Diwakar Mishra, Pinal Patel, Narayan Choudhary, Hitesh Desai

Developing and Evaluating Annotation Procedures for Twitter Data during Hazard Events

Kevin Stowe, Martha Palmer, Jennings Anderson, Marina Kogan, Leysia Palen

An Annotated Corpus of Picture Stories Retold by Language Learners

Christine Köhn, Arne Köhn

A Syntax-Based Scheme for the Annotation and Segmentation of German Spoken Language Interactions

Swantje Westpfahl, Jan Gorisch

Annotation of Tense and Aspect Semantics for Sentential AMR

Lucia Donatelli, Michael Regan, William Croft, Nathan Schneider

Verbal Multiword Expressions in Basque Corpora

Uxoa Iñurrieta, Itziar Aduriz, Ainara Estarrona, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Antton Gurrutxaga

Towards a Computational Lexicon for Moroccan Darija: Words, Idioms, and Constructions

Jamal Laoudi, Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Stephen Tratz, Clare Voss

Fine-Grained Termhood Prediction for German Compound Terms Using Neural Networks

Anna Hätty, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Fixed Similes: Measuring aspects of the relation between MWE idiomatic semantics and syntactic flexibility

Stella Markantonatou, Panagiotis Kouris, Yanis Maistros

From Chinese Word Segmentation to Extraction of Constructions: Two Sides of the Same Algorithmic Coin

Jean-Pierre Colson

Discourse and Lexicons: Lexemes, MWEs, Grammatical Constructions and Compositional Word Combinations to Signal Discourse Relations

Laurence Danlos

The Interplay of Form and Meaning in Complex Medical Terms: Evidence from a Clinical Corpus

Leonie Grön, Ann Bertels, Kris Heylen

Processing MWEs: Neurocognitive Bases of Verbal MWEs and Lexical Cohesiveness within MWEs

Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Fabre, John Hale

Leaving no token behind: comprehensive (and delicious) annotation of MWEs and supersenses

Nathan Schneider

From Lexical Functional Grammar to Enhanced Universal Dependencies

Adam Przepiórkowski, Agnieszka Patejuk

Annotation Schemes for Surface Construction Labeling

Lori Levin

Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018)

Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Jena D. Hwang, Nathan Schneider, Melanie Andresen

Induction of a Large-Scale Knowledge Graph from the Regesta Imperii

Juri Opitz, Leo Born, Vivi Nastase

Automatic identification of unknown names with specific roles

Samia Touileb, Truls Pedersen, Helle Sjøvaag

An Evaluation of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis Techniques for the Plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Thomas Schmidt, Manuel Burghardt

Towards Coreference for Literary Text: Analyzing Domain-Specific Phenomena

Ina Roesiger, Sarah Schulz, Nils Reiter

Exploring word embeddings and phonological similarity for the unsupervised correction of language learner errors

Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina

A Method for Human-Interpretable Paraphrasticality Prediction

Maria Moritz, Johannes Hellrich, Sven Büchel

Automated Acquisition of Patterns for Coding Political Event Data: Two Case Studies

Peter Makarov

Power Networks: A Novel Neural Architecture to Predict Power Relations

Michelle Lam, Catherina Xu, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

Normalizing Early English Letters to Present-day English Spelling

Mika Hämäläinen, Tanja Säily, Jack Rueter, Jörg Tiedemann, Eetu Mäkelä

Supervised Rhyme Detection with Siamese Recurrent Networks

Thomas Haider, Jonas Kuhn

One Size Fits All? A simple LSTM for non-literal token and construction-level classification

Erik-Lân Do Dinh, Steffen Eger, Iryna Gurevych

The Historical Significance of Textual Distances

Ted Underwood

Cross-Discourse and Multilingual Exploration of Textual Corpora with the DualNeighbors Algorithm

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Analysis of Rhythmic Phrasing: Feature Engineering vs. Representation Learning for Classifying Readout Poetry

Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels

Andreas van Cranenburgh

Using relative entropy for detection and analysis of periods of diachronic linguistic change

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elke Teich

A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online

Frank Feder, Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

Learning Diachronic Analogies to Analyze Concept Change

Matthias Orlikowski, Matthias Hartung, Philipp Cimiano

Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter

Towards Understanding End-of-trip Instructions in a Taxi Ride Scenario

Deepthi Karkada, Ramesh Manuvirakurike, Kallirroi Georgila

Discourse Annotation in the PDTB: The Next Generation

Rashmi Prasad, Bonnie Webber, Alan Lee

Improving String Processing for Temporal Relations

David Woods, Tim Fernando

Annotating Measurable Quantitative Informationin Language: for an ISO Standard

Tianyong Hao, Haotai Wang, Xinyu Cao, Kiyong Lee

A Dialogue Annotation Scheme for Weight Management Chat using the Trans-Theoretical Model of Health Behavior Change

Ramesh Manuvirakurike, Sumanth Bharawadj, Kallirroi Georgila

Annotation of the Syntax/Semantics interface as a Bridge between Deep Linguistic Parsing and TimeML

Mark-Matthias Zymla

Chat,Chunk and Topic in Casual Conversation

Emer Gilmartin, Carl Vogel

The Revision of ISO-Space,Focused on the Movement Link

Kiyong Lee, James Pustejovsky, Harry Bunt

Downward Compatible Revision of Dialogue Annotation

Harry Bunt, Emer Gilmartin, Simon Keizer, Catherine Pelachaud, Volha Petukhova

Interoperable Annotation of Events and Event Relations across Domains

Jun Araki, Lamana Mulaffer, Arun Pandian, Yukari Yamakawa, Kemal Oflazer

DialEdit: Annotations for Spoken Conversational Image Editing

Ramesh Manuvirakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ron Artstein

Proceedings of the 14th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

Harry Bunt

HEI: Hunter Events Interface A platform based on services for the detection and reasoning about events

Antonio Sorgente, Antonio Calabrese, Gianluca Coda, Paolo Vanacore, Francesco Mele

On Training Classifiers for Linking Event Templates

Jakub Piskorski, Fredi Šarić, Vanni Zavarella, Martin Atkinson

Fine-grained Structure-based News Genre Categorization

Zeyu Dai, Himanshu Taneja, Ruihong Huang

Can You Spot the Semantic Predicate in this Video?

Christopher Reale, Claire Bonial, Heesung Kwon, Clare Voss

Crowdsourcing StoryLines: Harnessing the Crowd for Causal Relation Annotation

Tommaso Caselli, Oana Inel

An Evaluation of Information Extraction Tools for Identifying Health Claims in News Headlines

Shi Yuan, Bei Yu

Identifying the Discourse Function of News Article Paragraphs

W. Victor Yarlott, Cristina Cornelio, Tian Gao, Mark Finlayson

Cross-Document Narrative Alignment of Environmental News: A Position Paper on the Challenge of Using Event Chains to Proxy Narrative Features

Ben Miller

A Rich Annotation Scheme for Mental Events

William Croft, Pavlína Pešková, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee

Every Object Tells a Story

James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy

Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018

Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer

Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems

Yun-Nung Chen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Data-Driven Text Simplification

Sanja Štajner, Horacio Saggion

Deep Bayesian Learning and Understanding

Jen-Tzung Chien

Frame Semantics across Languages: Towards a Multilingual FrameNet

Collin F. Baker, Michael Ellsworth, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Swabha Swayamdipta

Practical Parsing for Downstream Applications

Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler

NLP for Conversations: Sentiment, Summarization, and Group Dynamics

Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Shafiq Joty

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Donia Scott, Marilyn Walker, Pascale Fung

A Flexible and Easy-to-use Semantic Role Labeling Framework for Different Languages

Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Artuur Leeuwenberg, Geert Heyman, Marie-Francine Moens

Towards Automated Extraction of Business Constraints from Unstructured Regulatory Text

Rahul Nair, Killian Levacher, Martin Stephenson

A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain

Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, Nizar Habash

Interpretable Rationale Augmented Charge Prediction System

Xin Jiang, Hai Ye, Zhunchen Luo, Wenhan Chao, Wenjia Ma

LTV: Labeled Topic Vector

Daniel Baumartz, Tolga Uslu, Alexander Mehler

A Chinese Writing Correction System for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language

Yow-Ting Shiue, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

WARP-Text: a Web-Based Tool for Annotating Relationships between Pairs of Texts

Venelin Kovatchev, M. Antònia Martí, Maria Salamó

On-Device Neural Language Model Based Word Prediction

Seunghak Yu, Nilesh Kulkarni, Haejun Lee, Jihie Kim