NAACL 2012

189 papers

Leveraging supplemental representations for sequential transduction

Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak

A Comparative Investigation of Morphological Language Modeling for the Languages of the European Union

Thomas Mueller, Hinrich Schuetze, Helmut Schmid

Towards Using EEG to Improve ASR Accuracy

Yun-Nung Chen, Kai-min Chang, Jack Mostow

Intra-Speaker Topic Modeling for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization with Integrated Random Walk

Yun-Nung Chen, Florian Metze

Evaluating a Morphological Analyser of Inuktitut

Jeremy Nicholson, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

G2P Conversion of Proper Names Using Word Origin Information

Sonjia Waxmonsky, Sravana Reddy

Getting More from Segmentation Evaluation

Martin Scaiano, Diana Inkpen

Correction Detection and Error Type Selection as an ESL Educational Aid

Ben Swanson, Elif Yamangil

TransAhead: A Computer-Assisted Translation and Writing Tool

Chung-Chi Huang, Ping-Che Yang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jason S. Chang

Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney

Using paraphrases for improving first story detection in news and Twitter

Saša Petrović, Miles Osborne, Victor Lavrenko

Stylometric Analysis of Scientific Articles

Shane Bergsma, Matt Post, David Yarowsky

Matt Hohensee, Emily M. Bender

Using Supertags and Encoded Annotation Principles for Improved Dependency to Phrase Structure Conversion

Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott

The Challenges of Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Daniel Tse, James R. Curran

Correcting Comma Errors in Learner Essays, and Restoring Commas in Newswire Text

Ross Israel, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow

NOMIT: Automatic Titling by Nominalizing

Cédric Lopez, Violaine Prince, Mathieu Roche

Every sensible extended top-down tree transducer is a multi bottom-up tree transducer

Andreas Maletti

Optimized Online Rank Learning for Machine Translation

Taro Watanabe

Transliteration Mining Using Large Training and Test Sets

Ali El Kahki, Kareem Darwish, Mohamed Abdul-Wahab, Ahmed Taei

Implicitly Intersecting Weighted Automata using Dual Decomposition

Michael J. Paul, Jason Eisner

Structured Ramp Loss Minimization for Machine Translation

Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith

Topical Segmentation: a Study of Human Performance and a New Measure of Quality.

Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines

Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Rodney D. Nielsen, Chris Brew

A Dependency Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems

John Lee, Yin Hei Kong

Re-examining Machine Translation Metrics for Paraphrase Identification

Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow

Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems

Rebecca Mason, Eugene Charniak

HyTER: Meaning-Equivalent Semantics for Translation Evaluation

Markus Dreyer, Daniel Marcu

Segmentation Similarity and Agreement

Chris Fournier, Diana Inkpen

Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search

Liang Huang, Suphan Fayong, Yang Guo

Unsupervised Learning on an Approximate Corpus

Jason Smith, Jason Eisner

Minimum-Risk Training of Approximate CRF-Based NLP Systems

Veselin Stoyanov, Jason Eisner

Hello, Who is Calling?: Can Words Reveal the Social Nature of Conversations?

Anthony Stark, Izhak Shafran, Jeffrey Kaye

Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring

Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of an Automatic User Disengagement Detector for an Uncertainty-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System

Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Heather Friedberg, Joanna Drummond

Reference Scope Identification in Citing Sentences

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir Radev

Multi-Event Extraction Guided by Global Constraints

Roi Reichart, Regina Barzilay

Entity Clustering Across Languages

Spence Green, Nicholas Andrews, Matthew R. Gormley, Mark Dredze, Christopher D. Manning

Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects

Rabih Zbib, Erika Malchiodi, Jacob Devlin, David Stallard, Spyros Matsoukas

Continuous Space Translation Models with Neural Networks

Hai Son Le, Alexandre Allauzen, François Yvon

Fast Inference in Phrase Extraction Models with Belief Propagation

David Burkett, Dan Klein

Identifying High-Level Organizational Elements in Argumentative Discourse

Nitin Madnani, Michael Heilman, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow

Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior

Rivka Levitan, Agustín Gravano, Laura Willson, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg

Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest

Byron Wallace

Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ellen Riloff, Srinivas Bangalore

Revisiting the Case for Explicit Syntactic Information in Language Models

Ariya Rastrow, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Mark Dredze

Large-scale discriminative language model reranking for voice-search

Preethi Jyothi, Leif Johnson, Ciprian Chelba, Brian Strope

Unsupervised Vocabulary Adaptation for Morph-based Language Models

André Mansikkaniemi, Mikko Kurimo

A Challenge Set for Advancing Language Modeling

Geoffrey Zweig, Chris J.C. Burges

Deep Neural Network Language Models

Ebru Arisoy, Tara N. Sainath, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Large, Pruned or Continuous Space Language Models on a GPU for Statistical Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk, Anthony Rousseau, Mohammed Attik

Measuring the Influence of Long Range Dependencies with Neural Network Language Models

Hai Son Le, Alexandre Allauzen, François Yvon

Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop: Will We Ever Really Replace the N-gram Model? On the Future of Language Modeling for HLT

Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Ebru Arisoy

Combining the Sparsity and Unambiguity Biases for Grammar Induction

Kewei Tu

Hierarchical clustering of word class distributions

Grzegorz Chrupała

Turning the pipeline into a loop: Iterated unsupervised dependency parsing and PoS induction

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman

Induction of Linguistic Structure with Combinatory Categorial Grammars

Yonatan Bisk, Julia Hockenmaier

Unsupervised Dependency Parsing using Reducibility and Fertility features

David Mareček, Zdeněk Žabokrtský

Two baselines for unsupervised dependency parsing

Anders Søgaard

The PASCAL Challenge on Grammar Induction

Douwe Gelling, Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom, João Graça

Nudging the Envelope of Direct Transfer Methods for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition

Oscar Täckström

Unsupervised Part of Speech Inference with Particle Filters

Gregory Dubbin, Phil Blunsom

Using Senses in HMM Word Alignment

Douwe Gelling, Trevor Cohn

Exploiting Partial Annotations with EM Training

Dirk Hovy, Eduard Hovy

Toward Tree Substitution Grammars with Latent Annotations

Francis Ferraro, Benjamin Van Durme, Matt Post

Capitalization Cues Improve Dependency Grammar Induction

Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky

Transferring Frames: Utilization of Linked Lexical Resources

Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Richard Johansson, Kristiina Muhonen, Tanja Purtonen

Unsupervised Induction of Frame-Semantic Representations

Ashutosh Modi, Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev

Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on the Induction of Linguistic Structure

Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom, João Graça

Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management

Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker

One Year of Contender: What Have We Learned about Assessing and Tuning Industrial Spoken Dialog Systems?

David Suendermann, Roberto Pieraccini

HRItk: The Human-Robot Interaction ToolKit Rapid Development of Speech-Centric Interactive Systems in ROS

Ian Lane, Vinay Prasad, Gaurav Sinha, Arlette Umuhoza, Shangyu Luo

Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz

A Simulation-based Framework for Spoken Language Understanding and Action Selection in Situated Interaction

David Cohen, Ian Lane

The InproTK 2012 release

Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Framework for the Development of Spoken Dialogue System based on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources

Masahiro Araki, Daisuke Takegoshi

A belief tracking challenge task for spoken dialog systems

Jason Williams

Bridging Gaps for Spoken Dialog System Frameworks in Instructional Settings

Gina-Anne Levow

Future Directions in Spoken Dialog Systems: A Community of Possibilities

Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi

After Dialog Went Pervasive: Separating Dialog Behavior Modeling and Task Modeling

Amanda Stent

Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems: Tools and Data

Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon, Nina Dethlefs

Towards Situated Collaboration

Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz

The Future of Spoken Dialogue Systems is in their Past: Long-Term Adaptive, Conversational Assistants

David Schlangen

Statistical User Simulation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: What for, Which Data, Which Future?

Olivier Pietquin

Dialogue Systems Using Online Learning: Beyond Empirical Methods

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs

Position Paper: Towards Standardized Metrics and Tools for Spoken and Multimodal Dialog System Evaluation

Sebastian Möller, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Florian Kretzschmar, Stefan Schmidt, Benjamin Weiss

Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined

Nigel G. Ward

Up from Limited Dialog Systems!

Giuseppe Riccardi, Philipp Cimiano, Alexandros Potamianos, Christina Unger

NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012)

Maxine Eskenazi, Alan Black, David Traum