EMNLP 2012

140 papers

Characterizing Stylistic Elements in Syntactic Structure

Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee, Yejin Choi

A Discriminative Model for Query Spelling Correction with Latent Structural SVM

Huizhong Duan, Yanen Li, ChengXiang Zhai, Dan Roth

Supervised Text-based Geolocation Using Language Models on an Adaptive Grid

Stephen Roller, Michael Speriosu, Sarat Rallapalli, Benjamin Wing, Jason Baldridge

Revisiting the Predictability of Language: Response Completion in Social Media

Bo Pang, Sujith Ravi

User Demographics and Language in an Implicit Social Network

Katja Filippova

Identifying Event-related Bursts via Social Media Activities

Xin Zhao, Baihan Shu, Jing Jiang, Yang Song, Hongfei Yan

A Transition-Based System for Joint Part-of-Speech Tagging and Labeled Non-Projective Dependency Parsing

Bernd Bohnet, Joakim Nivre

Unified Dependency Parsing of Chinese Morphological and Syntactic Structures

Zhongguo Li, Guodong Zhou

Improved Parsing and POS Tagging Using Inter-Sentence Consistency Constraints

Alexander Rush, Roi Reichart, Michael Collins, Amir Globerson

Grounded Models of Semantic Representation

Carina Silberer, Mirella Lapata

A New Minimally-Supervised Framework for Domain Word Sense Disambiguation

Stefano Faralli, Roberto Navigli

Joining Forces Pays Off: Multilingual Joint Word Sense Disambiguation

Roberto Navigli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Wiki-ly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging

Shen Li, João Graça, Ben Taskar

Part-of-Speech Tagging for Chinese-English Mixed Texts with Dynamic Features

Jiayi Zhao, Xipeng Qiu, Shu Zhang, Feng Ji, Xuanjing Huang

Learning to Map into a Universal POS Tagset

yuan zhang, Roi Reichart, Regina Barzilay, Amir Globerson

Word Salad: Relating Food Prices and Descriptions

Victor Chahuneau, Kevin Gimpel, Bryan R. Routledge, Lily Scherlis, Noah A. Smith

Opinion Target Extraction Using Word-Based Translation Model

Kang Liu, Liheng Xu, Jun Zhao

Extracting Opinion Expressions with semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields

Bishan Yang, Claire Cardie

Unambiguity Regularization for Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Grammars

Kewei Tu, Vasant Honavar

Biased Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation

Fei Huang, Alexander Yates

Multi-Domain Learning: When Do Domains Matter?

Mahesh Joshi, Mark Dredze, William W. Cohen, Carolyn Rose

Besting the Quiz Master: Crowdsourcing Incremental Classification Games

Jordan Boyd-Graber, Brianna Satinoff, He He, Hal Daume III

Constructing Task-Specific Taxonomies for Document Collection Browsing

Hui Yang

Entity based Q&A Retrieval

Amit Singh

Resolving “This-issue” Anaphora

Varada Kolhatkar, Graeme Hirst

Joint Learning for Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic

Yang Song, Jing Jiang, Wayne Xin Zhao, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang

Learning-based Multi-Sieve Co-reference Resolution with Knowledge

Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth

First Order vs. Higher Order Modification in Distributional Semantics

Gemma Boleda, Eva Maria Vecchi, Miquel Cornudella, Louise McNally

Polarity Inducing Latent Semantic Analysis

Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig, John Platt

Semantic Compositionality through Recursive Matrix-Vector Spaces

Richard Socher, Brody Huval, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Y. Ng

Left-to-Right Tree-to-String Decoding with Prediction

Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Trevor Cohn

Document-Wide Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Christian Hardmeier, Joakim Nivre, Jörg Tiedemann

Language Model Rest Costs and Space-Efficient Storage

Kenneth Heafield, Philipp Koehn, Alon Lavie

A Coherence Model Based on Syntactic Patterns

Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova

Training Factored PCFGs with Expectation Propagation

David Hall, Dan Klein

PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types

Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian Suchanek

Exact Sampling and Decoding in High-Order Hidden Markov Models

Simon Carter, Marc Dymetman, Guillaume Bouchard

On Amortizing Inference Cost for Structured Prediction

Vivek Srikumar, Gourab Kundu, Dan Roth

Monte Carlo MCMC: Efficient Inference by Approximate Sampling

Sameer Singh, Michael Wick, Andrew McCallum

Sketch Algorithms for Estimating Point Queries in NLP

Amit Goyal, Hal Daume III, Graham Cormode

Building a Lightweight Semantic Model for Unsupervised Information Extraction on Short Listings

Doo Soon Kim, Kunal Verma, Peter Yeh

Fast Large-Scale Approximate Graph Construction for NLP

Amit Goyal, Hal Daume III, Raul Guerra

Extending Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics with Lexical Cohesion to Document Level

Billy T. M. Wong, Chunyu Kit

Parser Showdown at the Wall Street Corral: An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Parser Output

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, David Hall, James R. Curran, Dan Klein

Forest Reranking through Subtree Ranking

Richárd Farkas, Helmut Schmid

Ensemble Semantics for Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction

Bonan Min, Shuming Shi, Ralph Grishman, Chin-Yew Lin

Reading The Web with Learned Syntactic-Semantic Inference Rules

Ni Lao, Amarnag Subramanya, Fernando Pereira, William W. Cohen

Employing Compositional Semantics and Discourse Consistency in Chinese Event Extraction

Peifeng Li, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu, Libin Hou

An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, David Burkett, Dan Klein

Probabilistic Finite State Machines for Regression-based MT Evaluation

Mengqiu Wang, Christopher D. Manning

A Systematic Comparison of Phrase Table Pruning Techniques

Richard Zens, Daisy Stanton, Peng Xu

Entropy-based Pruning for Phrase-based Machine Translation

Wang Ling, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, Alan Black

Exploring Topic Coherence over Many Models and Many Topics

Keith Stevens, Philip Kegelmeyer, David Andrzejewski, David Buttler

Learning Syntactic Categories Using Paradigmatic Representations of Word Context

Mehmet Ali Yatbaz, Enis Sert, Deniz Yuret

Generating Non-Projective Word Order in Statistical Linearization

Bernd Bohnet, Anders Björkelund, Jonas Kuhn, Wolfgang Seeker, Sina Zarriess

Using Discourse Information for Paraphrase Extraction

Michaela Regneri, Rui Wang

A Novel Discriminative Framework for Sentence-Level Discourse Analysis

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng

No Noun Phrase Left Behind: Detecting and Typing Unlinkable Entities

Thomas Lin, Mausam, Oren Etzioni

Identifying Constant and Unique Relations by using Time-Series Text

Yohei Takaku, Nobuhiro Kaji, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda

Learning Constraints for Consistent Timeline Extraction

David McClosky, Christopher D. Manning

Transforming Trees to Improve Syntactic Convergence

David Burkett, Dan Klein

Re-training Monolingual Parser Bilingually for Syntactic SMT

Shujie LIU, Chi-Ho Li, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

Inducing a Discriminative Parser to Optimize Machine Translation Reordering

Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Shinsuke Mori

Explore Person Specific Evidence in Web Person Name Disambiguation

Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Lei Zou, Dongyan Zhao

Type-Supervised Hidden Markov Models for Part-of-Speech Tagging with Incomplete Tag Dictionaries

Dan Garrette, Jason Baldridge

Improving NLP through Marginalization of Hidden Syntactic Structure

Jason Naradowsky, Sebastian Riedel, David Smith

SSHLDA: A Semi-Supervised Hierarchical Topic Model

Xian-Ling Mao, Zhao-Yan Ming, Tat-Seng Chua, Si Li, Hongfei Yan

A Sequence Labelling Approach to Quote Attribution

Timothy O’Keefe, Silvia Pareti, James R. Curran, Irena Koprinska, Matthew Honnibal

Resolving Complex Cases of Definite Pronouns: The Winograd Schema Challenge

Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng

Cross-Lingual Language Modeling with Syntactic Reordering for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Ping Xu, Pascale Fung

Weakly Supervised Training of Semantic Parsers

Jayant Krishnamurthy, Tom Mitchell

Domain Adaptation for Coreference Resolution: An Adaptive Ensemble Approach

Jian Bo Yang, Qi Mao, Qiao Liang Xiang, Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang, Kian Ming Adam Chai

Parse, Price and Cut—Delayed Column and Row Generation for Graph Based Parsers

Sebastian Riedel, David Smith, Andrew McCallum

Generalizing Sub-sentential Paraphrase Acquisition across Original Signal Type of Text Pairs

Aurélien Max, Houda Bouamor, Anne Vilnat

Discovering Diverse and Salient Threads in Document Collections

Jennifer Gillenwater, Alex Kulesza, Ben Taskar

Exploring Adaptor Grammars for Native Language Identification

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras, Mark Johnson

Three Dependency-and-Boundary Models for Grammar Induction

Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky

Joint Inference for Event Timeline Construction

Quang Do, Wei Lu, Dan Roth

Learning Lexicon Models from Search Logs for Query Expansion

Jianfeng Gao, Shasha Xie, Xiaodong He, Alnur Ali

Do Neighbours Help? An Exploration of Graph-based Algorithms for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification

Natalia Ponomareva, Mike Thelwall

Concurrent Acquisition of Word Meaning and Lexical Categories

Afra Alishahi, Grzegorz Chrupala

Enlarging Paraphrase Collections through Generalization and Instantiation

Atsushi Fujita, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn

Excitatory or Inhibitory: A New Semantic Orientation Extracts Contradiction and Causality from the Web

Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Jong-Hoon Oh, Jun’ichi Kazama

A Unified Approach to Transliteration-based Text Input with Online Spelling Correction

Hisami Suzuki, Jianfeng Gao

Assessment of ESL Learners’ Syntactic Competence Based on Similarity Measures

Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat

Lyrics, Music, and Emotions

Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava

A Statistical Relational Learning Approach to Identifying Evidence Based Medicine Categories

Mathias Verbeke, Vincent Van Asch, Roser Morante, Paolo Frasconi, Walter Daelemans

A Beam-Search Decoder for Grammatical Error Correction

Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng

Exploiting Chunk-level Features to Improve Phrase Chunking

Junsheng Zhou, Weiguang Qu, Fen Zhang

A Comparison of Vector-based Representations for Semantic Composition

William Blacoe, Mirella Lapata

Modelling Sequential Text with an Adaptive Topic Model

Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Huidong Jin

Open Language Learning for Information Extraction

Mausam, Michael Schmitz, Stephen Soderland, Robert Bart, Oren Etzioni

Translation Model Based Cross-Lingual Language Model Adaptation: from Word Models to Phrase Models

Shixiang Lu, Wei Wei, Xiaoyin Fu, Bo Xu

Joint Chinese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging and Parsing

Xian Qian, Yang Liu

Joint Entity and Event Coreference Resolution across Documents

Heeyoung Lee, Marta Recasens, Angel Chang, Mihai Surdeanu, Dan Jurafsky

Dynamic Programming for Higher Order Parsing of Gap-Minding Trees

Emily Pitler, Sampath Kannan, Mitchell Marcus

An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign Language

Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon

Multi-instance Multi-label Learning for Relation Extraction

Mihai Surdeanu, Julie Tibshirani, Ramesh Nallapati, Christopher D. Manning

Forced Derivation Tree based Model Training to Statistical Machine Translation

Nan Duan, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

Unsupervised PCFG Induction for Grounded Language Learning with Highly Ambiguous Supervision

Joohyun Kim, Raymond Mooney