NAACL 2012

189 papers

Towards a computational approach to literary text analysis

Antonio Roque

Social Network Analysis of Alice in Wonderland

Apoorv Agarwal, Augusto Corvalan, Jacob Jensen, Owen Rambow

Trend Analysis in Harper’s Bazaar

Sophie Kushkuley

A Pilot PropBank Annotation for Quranic Arabic

Wajdi Zaghouani, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab

A Dictionary of Wisdom and Wit: Learning to Extract Quotable Phrases

Michael Bendersky, David Smith

Digitizing 18th-Century French Literature: Comparing transcription methods for a critical edition text

Ann Irvine, Laure Marcellesi, Afra Zomorodian

Literary authorship attribution with phrase-structure fragments

Andreas van Cranenburgh

Mining wisdom

Anders Søgaard

Function Words for Chinese Authorship Attribution

Bei Yu

Aligning Bilingual Literary Works: a Pilot Study

Qian Yu, Aurélien Max, François Yvon

Unsupervised Stylistic Segmentation of Poetry with Change Curves and Extrinsic Features

Julian Brooke, Adam Hammond, Graeme Hirst

Towards a Literary Machine Translation: The Role of Referential Cohesion

Rob Voigt, Dan Jurafsky

A Computational Analysis of Style, Affect, and Imagery in Contemporary Poetry

Justine Kao, Dan Jurafsky

Computational Analysis of Referring Expressions in Narratives of Picture Books

Choonkyu Lee, Smaranda Muresan, Karin Stromswold

Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature

David Elson, Anna Kazantseva, Rada Mihalcea, Stan Szpakowicz

Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming in NLP

Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Dan Roth

On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing

Yuval Marton

Processing modality and negation

Roser Morante

Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models

David Burkett, Dan Klein

Natural Language Processing in Watson

Alfio M. Gliozzo, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan

Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial

Mona Diab, Nizar Habash

Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications

André F. T. Martins, Mario A. T. Figueiredo, Noah A. Smith

100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask*

Emily M. Bender

Tutorial Abstracts at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Radu Florian, Jacob Eisenstein

AttitudeMiner: Mining Attitude from Online Discussions

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir Radev

A Robust Shallow Temporal Reasoning System

Ran Zhao, Quang Do, Dan Roth

Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System

David DeVault, David Traum

MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit

Chris Quirk, Pallavi Choudhury, Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova

An Interactive Humanoid Robot Exhibiting Flexible Sub-Dialogues

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

SurfShop: combing a product ontology with topic model results for online window-shopping.

Zofia Stankiewicz, Satoshi Sekine

Navigating Large Comment Threads with CoFi

Christine Doran, Guido Zarrella, John C. Henderson

A Graphical User Interface for Feature-Based Opinion Mining

Pedro Paulo Balage Filho, Caroline Brun, Gilbert Rondeau

DeSoCoRe: Detecting Source Code Re-Use across Programming Languages

Enrique Flores, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, Lidia Moreno

Proceedings of the Demonstration Session at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Aria Haghighi, Yaser Al-Onaizan

Automatic Humor Classification on Twitter

Yishay Raz

A Weighting Scheme for Open Information Extraction

Yuval Merhav

Automatic Metrics for Genre-specific Text Quality

Annie Louis

Deep Unsupervised Feature Learning for Natural Language Processing

Stephan Gouws

Using Ontology-based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring

Miao Chen

Domain-Specific Semantic Relatedness From Wikipedia: Can A Course Be Transferred?

Beibei Yang, Jesse M. Heines

Choosing an Evaluation Metric for Parser Design

Woodley Packard

Unified Extraction of Health Condition Descriptions

Ivelina Nikolova

Indexing Google 1T for low-turnaround wildcarded frequency queries

Steinar Vittersø Kaldager

Beauty Before Age? Applying Subjectivity to Automatic English Adjective Ordering

Felix Hill

Automatic Animacy Classification

Samuel R. Bowman, Harshit Chopra

Finding the Right Supervisor: Expert-Finding in a University Domain

Fawaz Alarfaj, Udo Kruschwitz, David Hunter, Chris Fox

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2012 Student Research Workshop

Rivka Levitan, Myle Ott, Roger Levy, Ani Nenkova

Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees

Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith, John D. Wilkerson

Shared Components Topic Models

Matthew R. Gormley, Mark Dredze, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner

Unsupervised Translation Sense Clustering

Mohit Bansal, John DeNero, Dekang Lin

Detecting Visual Text

Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Margaret Mitchell

Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs

Ioannis Konstas, Mirella Lapata

Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation

Lee Becker, Sumit Basu, Lucy Vanderwende

Exploring Semi-Supervised Coreference Resolution of Medical Concepts using Semantic and Temporal Features

Preethi Raghavan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Albert Lai

Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution

Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng

Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues

Tyler Baldwin, Joyce Chai

Low-Dimensional Discriminative Reranking

Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume III

Unified Expectation Maximization

Rajhans Samdani, Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Roth

Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties

Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith

Grammatical structures for word-level sentiment detection

Asad Sayeed, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Bryan Rusk, Amy Weinberg

Learning from Bullying Traces in Social Media

Jun-Ming Xu, Kwang-Sung Jun, Xiaojin Zhu, Amy Bellmore

Structured Event Retrieval over Microblog Archives

Donald Metzler, Congxing Cai, Eduard Hovy

On The Feasibility of Open Domain Referring Expression Generation Using Large Scale Folksonomies

Fabián Pacheco, Pablo Duboue, Martín Domínguez

Comparing HMMs and Bayesian Networks for Surface Realisation

Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl

Summarization of Historical Articles Using Temporal Event Clustering

James Gung, Jugal Kalita

Why Not Grab a Free Lunch? Mining Large Corpora for Parallel Sentences to Improve Translation Modeling

Ferhan Ture, Jimmy Lin

Expectations of Word Sense in Parallel Corpora

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch

Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogeneous Vector Space Models

Wen-tau Yih, Vahed Qazvinian

A comparison of models of word meaning in context

Georgiana Dinu, Stefan Thater, Soeren Laue

The Intelius Nickname Collection: Quantitative Analyses from Billions of Public Records

Vitor Carvalho, Yigit Kiran, Andrew Borthwick

Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts

Yoav Artzi, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon

Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection

Awais Athar, Simone Teufel

Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion

Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Ricky Grant

Portable Features for Classifying Emotional Text

Saif Mohammad

Multimodal Grammar Implementation

Katya Alahverdzhieva, Dan Flickinger, Alex Lascarides

Concavity and Initialization for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing

Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith

Are You Sure? Confidence in Prediction of Dependency Tree Edges

Avihai Mejer, Koby Crammer

Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction

Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng

Behavioral Factors in Interactive Training of Text Classifiers

Burr Settles, Xiaojin Zhu

Identifying Comparable Corpora Using LDA

Judita Preiss

How Text Segmentation Algorithms Gain from Topic Models

Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann

Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children’s literature

Yi Ma, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Robert Lofthus

Tuning as Linear Regression

Marzieh Bazrafshan, Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea

Automatic Parallel Fragment Extraction from Noisy Data

Jason Riesa, Daniel Marcu

Improved Reordering for Shallow-n Grammar based Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation

Baskaran Sankaran, Anoop Sarkar

Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation

Jacob Devlin, Spyros Matsoukas

Co-reference via Pointing and Haptics in Multi-Modal Dialogues

Lin Chen, Barbara Di Eugenio

Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab

Space Efficiencies in Discourse Modeling via Conditional Random Sampling

Brian Kjersten, Benjamin Van Durme

Active Learning for Coreference Resolution

Florian Laws, Florian Heimerl, Hinrich Schütze

Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing

Alexander Rush, Slav Petrov

Training Dependency Parser Using Light Feedback

Avihai Mejer, Koby Crammer

Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure

Oscar Täckström, Ryan Mcdonald, Jakob Uszkoreit

Taxonomy Induction Using Hierarchical Random Graphs

Trevor Fountain, Mirella Lapata

Fine-Grained Focus for Pinpointing Positive Implicit Meaning from Negated Statements

Eduardo Blanco, Dan Moldovan

Parsing Time: Learning to Interpret Time Expressions

Gabor Angeli, Christopher Manning, Daniel Jurafsky

Real-time Incremental Speech-to-Speech Translation of Dialogs

Srinivas Bangalore, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Prakash Kolan, Ladan Golipour, Aura Jimenez

Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation

Colin Cherry, George Foster

Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices

Ferhan Ture, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Resnik

A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model for Joint Part-of-Speech and Morphology Induction

Kairit Sirts, Tanel Alumäe