EACL 2012

119 papers

Improving machine translation of null subjects in Italian and Spanish

Lorenza Russo, Sharid Loáiciga, Asheesh Gulati

Mining Co-Occurrence Matrices for SO-PMI Paradigm Word Candidates

Aleksander Wawer

Hierarchical Bayesian Language Modelling for the Linguistically Informed

Jan A. Botha

Discourse Type Clustering using POS n-gram Profiles and High-Dimensional Embeddings

Christelle Cocco

Yet Another Language Identifier

Martin Majliš

What’s in a Name? Entity Type Variation across Two Biomedical Subdomains

Claudiu Mihăilă, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro

Manually constructed context-free grammar for Myanmar syllable structure

Tin Htay Hlaing

A Comparative Study of Reinforcement Learning Techniques on Dialogue Management

Alexandros Papangelis

Cross-Lingual Genre Classification

Philipp Petrenz

Improving Pronoun Translation for Statistical Machine Translation

Liane Guillou

Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Pierre Lison, Mattias Nilsson, Marta Recasens

brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation

Pontus Stenetorp, Sampo Pyysalo, Goran Topić, Tomoko Ohta, Sophia Ananiadou

HadoopPerceptron: a Toolkit for Distributed Perceptron Training and Prediction with MapReduce

Andrea Gesmundo, Nadi Tomeh

A platform for collaborative semantic annotation

Valerio Basile, Johan Bos, Kilian Evang, Noortje Venhuizen

Query log analysis with LangLog

Marco Trevisan, Eduard Barbu, Igor Barsanti, Luca Dini, Nikolaos Lagos

ElectionWatch: Detecting Patterns in News Coverage of US Elections

Saatviga Sudhahar, Thomas Lansdall-Welfare, Ilias Flaounas, Nello Cristianini

Automatic Analysis of Patient History Episodes in Bulgarian Hospital Discharge Letters

Svetla Boytcheva, Galia Angelova, Ivelina Nikolova

NERD: A Framework for Unifying Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Extraction Tools

Giuseppe Rizzo, Raphael Troncy

A Support Platform for Event Detection using Social Intelligence

Timothy Baldwin, Paul Cook, Bo Han, Aaron Harwood, Shanika Karunasekera

Fluid Construction Grammar: The New Kid on the Block

Remi van Trijp, Luc Steels, Katrien Beuls, Pieter Wellens

MaltOptimizer: An Optimization Tool for MaltParser

Miguel Ballesteros, Joakim Nivre

Automatically Generated Customizable Online Dictionaries

Enikő Héja, Dávid Takács

A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression

Paul A. Crook, Zhuoran Wang, Xingkun Liu, Oliver Lemon

A Computer Assisted Speech Transcription System

Alejandro Revuelta-Martínez, Luis Rodríguez, Ismael García-Varea

Folheador: browsing through Portuguese semantic relations

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Hernani Costa, Diana Santos

Just Title It! (by an Online Application)

Cédric Lopez, Violaine Prince, Mathieu Roche

ONTS: “Optima” News Translation System

Marco Turchi, Martin Atkinson, Alastair Wilcox, Brett Crawley, Stefano Bucci

SWAN - Scientific Writing AssistaNt. A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts

Tomi Kinnunen, Henri Leisma, Monika Machunik, Tuomo Kakkonen, Jean-Luc LeBrun

TransAhead: A Writing Assistant for CAT and CALL

Chung-Chi Huang, Ping-Che Yang, Mei-Hua Chen, Hung-Ting Hsieh, Ting-Hui Kao

Collaborative Machine Translation Service for Scientific texts

Patrik Lambert, Jean Senellart, Laurent Romary, Holger Schwenk, Florian Zipser

Harnessing NLP Techniques in the Processes of Multilingual Content Management

Anelia Belogay, Diman Karagyozov, Svetla Koeva, Cristina Vertan, Adam Przepiórkowski

Language Resources Factory: case study on the acquisition of Translation Memories

Marc Poch, Antonio Toral, Núria Bel

Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Frédérique Segond

Managing Uncertainty in Semantic Tagging

Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub, Vincent Kríž

Not as Awful as it Seems: Explaining German Case through Computational Experiments in Fluid Construction Grammar

Remi van Trijp

Structural and Topical Dimensions in Multi-Task Patent Translation

Katharina Waeschle, Stefan Riezler

Composing extended top-down tree transducers

Aurélie Lagoutte, Fabienne Braune, Daniel Quernheim, Andreas Maletti

Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities

Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng

An Unsupervised Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Measuring Speech Style Accommodation

Mahaveer Jain, John McDonough, Gahgene Gweon, Bhiksha Raj, Carolyn Penstein Rosé

Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages

Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, Yevgen Chebotar

To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context? A study on word order

Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn

Generation of landmark-based navigation instructions from open-source data

Markus Dräger, Alexander Koller

Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections

Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Stratos

Syntax-Based Word Ordering Incorporating a Large-Scale Language Model

Yue Zhang, Graeme Blackwood, Stephen Clark

Determining the placement of German verbs in English–to–German SMT

Anita Gojun, Alexander Fraser

Validation of sub-sentential paraphrases acquired from parallel monolingual corpora

Houda Bouamor, Aurélien Max, Anne Vilnat

Elliphant: Improved Automatic Detection of Zero Subjects and Impersonal Constructions in Spanish

Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ruslan Mitkov

Unsupervised Detection of Downward-Entailing Operators By Maximizing Classification Certainty

Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG, Gerald Penn

Framework of Semantic Role Assignment based on Extended Lexical Conceptual Structure: Comparison with VerbNet and FrameNet

Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Yusuke Miyao, Akiko Aizawa

Identifying Broken Plurals, Irregular Gender, and Rationality in Arabic Text

Sarah Alkuhlani, Nizar Habash

Modeling Inflection and Word-Formation in SMT

Alexander Fraser, Marion Weller, Aoife Cahill, Fabienne Cap

Probabilistic Hierarchical Clustering of Morphological Paradigms

Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar

Smart Paradigms and the Predictability and Complexity of Inflectional Morphology

Grégoire Détrez, Aarne Ranta

Character-based kernels for novelistic plot structure

Micha Elsner

Towards a model of formal and informal address in English

Manaal Faruqui, Sebastian Padó

Learning from evolving data streams: online triage of bug reports

Grzegorz Chrupala

Learning for Microblogs with Distant Supervision: Political Forecasting with Twitter

Micol Marchetti-Bowick, Nathanael Chambers

Learning Language from Perceptual Context

Raymond Mooney

Word Sense Induction for Novel Sense Detection

Jey Han Lau, Paul Cook, Diana McCarthy, David Newman, Timothy Baldwin

UBY - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF

Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer

The Impact of Spelling Errors on Patent Search

Benno Stein, Dennis Hoppe, Tim Gollub

The effect of domain and text type on text prediction quality

Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Helmer Strik, Lou Boves

Subcat-LMF: Fleshing out a standardized format for subcategorization frame interoperability

Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych

Perplexity Minimization for Translation Model Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation

Rico Sennrich

Measuring Contextual Fitness Using Error Contexts Extracted from the Wikipedia Revision History

Torsten Zesch

Learning How to Conjugate the Romanian Verb. Rules for Regular and Partially Irregular Verbs

Liviu P. Dinu, Vlad Niculae, Octavia-Maria Sulea

Joint Satisfaction of Syntactic and Pragmatic Constraints Improves Incremental Spoken Language Understanding

Andreas Peldszus, Okko Buß, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Instance-Driven Attachment of Semantic Annotations over Conceptual Hierarchies

Janara Christensen, Marius Pasca

Feature-Rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages: Application to Bulgarian

Georgi Georgiev, Valentin Zhikov, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Preslav Nakov

Experimenting with Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification

Matthew Purver, Stuart Battersby

Evaluating language understanding accuracy with respect to objective outcomes in a dialogue system

Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Peter Bell, Amy Isard, Johanna D. Moore

Efficient parsing with Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems

Andreas van Cranenburgh

Detecting Highly Confident Word Translations from Comparable Corpora without Any Prior Knowledge

Ivan Vulić, Marie-Francine Moens

Cutting the Long Tail: Hybrid Language Models for Translation Style Adaptation

Arianna Bisazza, Marcello Federico

Coordination Structure Analysis using Dual Decomposition

Atsushi Hanamoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Combining Tree Structures, Flat Features and Patterns for Biomedical Relation Extraction

Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alberto Lavelli

Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing

Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle, Xavier Carreras

Lexical surprisal as a general predictor of reading time

Irene Fernandez Monsalve, Stefan L. Frank, Gabriella Vigliocco

Learning to Behave by Reading

Regina Barzilay

WebCAGe – A Web-Harvested Corpus Annotated with GermaNet Senses

Verena Henrich, Erhard Hinrichs, Tatiana Vodolazova

Inferring Selectional Preferences from Part-Of-Speech N-grams

Hyeju Jang, Jack Mostow

User Participation Prediction in Online Forums

Zhonghua Qu, Yang Liu

User Edits Classification Using Document Revision Histories

Amit Bronner, Christof Monz

The Problem with Kappa

David Martin Ward Powers

Skip N-grams and Ranking Functions for Predicting Script Events

Bram Jans, Steven Bethard, Ivan Vulić, Marie Francine Moens

Generalization Methods for In-Domain and Cross-Domain Opinion Holder Extraction

Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow

Extending the Entity-based Coherence Model with Multiple Ranks

Vanessa Wei Feng, Graeme Hirst

CLex: A Lexicon for Exploring Color, Concept and Emotion Associations in Language

Svitlana Volkova, William B. Dolan, Theresa Wilson

Bootstrapping Events and Relations from Text

Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski

Bootstrapped Training of Event Extraction Classifiers

Ruihong Huang, Ellen Riloff

Automatic generation of short informative sentiment summaries

Andrea Glaser, Hinrich Schütze

Aspectual Type and Temporal Relation Classification

Francisco Costa, António Branco

Adapting Translation Models to Translationese Improves SMT

Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan, Shuly Wintner

Active learning for interactive machine translation

Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Francisco Casacuberta

A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings

Tom Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Luke Zettlemoyer, Mark Steedman

Large-Margin Learning of Submodular Summarization Models

Ruben Sipos, Pannaga Shivaswamy, Thorsten Joachims

DualSum: a Topic-Model based approach for update summarization

Jean-Yves Delort, Enrique Alfonseca

Incorporating Lexical Priors into Topic Models

Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume III, Raghavendra Udupa

Compensating for Annotation Errors in Training a Relation Extractor

Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman

When Did that Happen? — Linking Events and Relations to Timestamps

Dirk Hovy, James Fan, Alfio Gliozzo, Siddharth Patwardhan, Christopher Welty