NAACL 2013

172 papers

The Life and Death of Discourse Entities: Identifying Singleton Mentions

Marta Recasens, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher Potts

Down-stream effects of tree-to-dependency conversions

Jakob Elming, Anders Johannsen, Sigrid Klerke, Emanuele Lapponi, Héctor Martínez Alonso

Systematic Comparison of Professional and Crowdsourced Reference Translations for Machine Translation

Rabih Zbib, Gretchen Markiewicz, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz, John Makhoul

Estimating effect size across datasets

Anders Søgaard

Purpose and Polarity of Citation: Towards NLP-based Bibliometrics

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Jefferson Ezra, Dragomir Radev

Processing Spontaneous Orthography

Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Nadi Tomeh

Overcoming the Memory Bottleneck in Distributed Training of Latent Variable Models of Text

Yi Yang, Alexander Yates, Doug Downey

On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems – Experts vs. Users

Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker

Compound Embedding Features for Semi-supervised Learning

Mo Yu, Tiejun Zhao, Daxiang Dong, Hao Tian, Dianhai Yu

Embracing Ambiguity: A Comparison of Annotation Methodologies for Crowdsourcing Word Sense Labels

David Jurgens

Using Derivation Trees for Informative Treebank Inter-Annotator Agreement Evaluation

Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott, Mohamed Maamouri, Beatrice Santorini

Modeling Syntactic and Semantic Structures in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation

Junhui Li, Philip Resnik, Hal Daume III

Predicative Adjectives: An Unsupervised Criterion to Extract Subjective Adjectives

Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer, Dietrich Klakow

Identification of Temporal Event Relationships in Biographical Accounts

Lucian Silcox, Emmett Tomai

Creating Reverse Bilingual Dictionaries

Khang Nhut Lam, Jugal Kalita

Supervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Multiple Monolingual Signals

Ann Irvine, Chris Callison-Burch

Robust Systems for Preposition Error Correction Using Wikipedia Revisions

Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault, Diane Napolitano

Improving speech synthesis quality by reducing pitch peaks in the source recordings

Luisina Violante, Pablo Rodríguez Zivic, Agustín Gravano

Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam

Myle Ott, Claire Cardie, Jeffrey T. Hancock

Approximate PCFG Parsing Using Tensor Decomposition

Shay B. Cohen, Giorgio Satta, Michael Collins

Parameter Estimation for LDA-Frames

Jiří Materna

A Beam-Search Decoder for Normalization of Social Media Text with Application to Machine Translation

Pidong Wang, Hwee Tou Ng

Automatic Morphological Enrichment of a Morphologically Underspecified Treebank

Sarah Alkuhlani, Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth

Training MRF-Based Phrase Translation Models using Gradient Ascent

Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He

Better Twitter Summaries?

Joel Judd, Jugal Kalita

Dudley North visits North London: Learning When to Transliterate to Arabic

Mahmoud Azab, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer

Using a Supertagged Dependency Language Model to Select a Good Translation in System Combination

Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown

Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Dialectal Arabic

Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh

Learning to Relate Literal and Sentimental Descriptions of Visual Properties

Mark Yatskar, Svitlana Volkova, Asli Celikyilmaz, Bill Dolan, Luke Zettlemoyer

Focused training sets to reduce noise in NER feature models

Amber McKenzie

Mining User Relations from Online Discussions using Sentiment Analysis and Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Jing Jiang

Parser lexicalisation through self-learning

Marek Rei, Ted Briscoe

Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters

Olutobi Owoputi, Brendan O’Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider

Minibatch and Parallelization for Online Large Margin Structured Learning

KAI ZHAO, Liang Huang

What to do about bad language on the internet

Jacob Eisenstein

Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation: Pivoting through Modern Standard Arabic

Wael Salloum, Nizar Habash

Applying Pairwise Ranked Optimisation to Improve the Interpolation of Translation Models

Barry Haddow

Discriminative Training of 150 Million Translation Parameters and Its Application to Pruning

Hendra Setiawan, Bowen Zhou

Massively Parallel Suffix Array Queries and On-Demand Phrase Extraction for Statistical Machine Translation Using GPUs

Hua He, Jimmy Lin, Adam Lopez

Improving reordering performance using higher order and structural features

Mitesh M. Khapra, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Karthik Visweswariah

Development of a Persian Syntactic Dependency Treebank

Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Manouchehr Kouhestani, Amirsaeid Moloodi

Keyphrase Extraction for N-best Reranking in Multi-Sentence Compression

Florian Boudin, Emmanuel Morin

Improving Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation by Coarsening the Label Set

Greg Hanneman, Alon Lavie

Classification of South African languages using text and acoustic based methods: A case of six selected languages

Peleira Nicholas Zulu

Unsupervised Learning Summarization Templates from Concise Summaries

Horacio Saggion

Measuring Term Informativeness in Context

Zhaohui Wu, C. Lee Giles

Large-Scale Discriminative Training for Statistical Machine Translation Using Held-Out Line Search

Jeffrey Flanigan, Chris Dyer, Jaime Carbonell

Enforcing Subcategorization Constraints in a Parser Using Sub-parses Recombining

Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Alexis Nasr, Benoît Sagot

Segmentation Strategies for Streaming Speech Translation

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Andrej Ljolje, Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan

Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog

Heeyoung Lee, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg

Discriminative Joint Modeling of Lexical Variation and Acoustic Confusion for Automated Narrative Retelling Assessment

Maider Lehr, Izhak Shafran, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Brian Roark

Text Alignment for Real-Time Crowd Captioning

Iftekhar Naim, Daniel Gildea, Walter Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Topic Segmentation with a Structured Topic Model

Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Mark Johnson

Towards Topic Labeling with Phrase Entailment and Aggregation

Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng, Shafiq Joty

Drug Extraction from the Web: Summarizing Drug Experiences with Multi-Dimensional Topic Models

Michael J. Paul, Mark Dredze

Representing Topics Using Images

Nikolaos Aletras, Mark Stevenson

Experiments with Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs

Shay B. Cohen, Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Dean P. Foster, Lyle Ungar

Learning a Part-of-Speech Tagger from Two Hours of Annotation

Dan Garrette, Jason Baldridge

Training Parsers on Incompatible Treebanks

Richard Johansson

Combining multiple information types in Bayesian word segmentation

Gabriel Doyle, Roger Levy

Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity of Words as the Similarity of Their Semantic Word Responses

Ivan Vulić, Marie-Francine Moens

An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs

Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler

Extracting the Native Language Signal for Second Language Acquisition

Ben Swanson, Eugene Charniak

Relation Extraction with Matrix Factorization and Universal Schemas

Sebastian Riedel, Limin Yao, Andrew McCallum, Benjamin M. Marlin

Minimally Supervised Method for Multilingual Paraphrase Extraction from Definition Sentences on the Web

Yulan Yan, Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Takao Kawai, Jun’ichi Kazama

Named Entity Recognition with Bilingual Constraints

Wanxiang Che, Mengqiu Wang, Christopher D. Manning, Ting Liu

Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries

Ruihong Huang, Ellen Riloff

Simultaneous Word-Morpheme Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation

Elif Eyigoz, Daniel Gildea, Kemal Oflazer

Improved Reordering for Phrase-Based Translation using Sparse Features

Colin Cherry

Beyond Left-to-Right: Multiple Decomposition Structures for SMT

Hui Zhang, Kristina Toutanova, Chris Quirk, Jianfeng Gao

Model With Minimal Translation Units, But Decode With Phrases

Nadir Durrani, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Lucy Vanderwende, Hal Daume III, Katrin Kirchhoff