NAACL 2015

243 papers

Getting the Roles Right: Using FrameNet in NLP

Collin F. Baker, Nathan Schneider, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Michael Ellsworth

Social Media Predictive Analytics

Svitlana Volkova, Benjamin Van Durme, David Yarowsky, Yoram Bachrach

Deep Learning and Continuous Representations for Natural Language Processing

Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao

The Logic of AMR: Practical, Unified, Graph-Based Sentence Semantics for NLP

Nathan Schneider, Jeffrey Flanigan, Tim O’Gorman

Crowdsourcing for NLP

Chris Callison-Burch, Lyle Ungar, Ellie Pavlick

Hands-on Learning to Search for Structured Prediction

Hal Daume III, John Langford, Kai-Wei Chang, He He, Sudha Rao

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Yang Liu, Thamar Solorio

Using Word Semantics To Assist English as a Second Language Learners

Mahmoud Azab, Chris Hokamp, Rada Mihalcea

Question Answering System using Multiple Information Source and Open Type Answer Merge

Seonyeong Park, Soonchoul Kwon, Byungsoo Kim, Sangdo Han, Hyosup Shim

WriteAhead2: Mining Lexical Grammar Patterns for Assisted Writing

Jim Chang, Jason Chang

Natural Language Question Answering and Analytics for Diverse and Interlinked Datasets

Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew

Online Readability and Text Complexity Analysis with TextEvaluator

Diane Napolitano, Kathleen Sheehan, Robert Mundkowsky

CroVeWA: Crosslingual Vector-Based Writing Assistance

Hubert Soyer, Goran Topić, Pontus Stenetorp, Akiko Aizawa

A Concrete Chinese NLP Pipeline

Nanyun Peng, Francis Ferraro, Mo Yu, Nicholas Andrews, Jay DeYoung

Brahmi-Net: A transliteration and script conversion system for languages of the Indian subcontinent

Anoop Kunchukuttan, Ratish Puduppully, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

An Open-source Framework for Multi-level Semantic Similarity Measurement

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli

A Web Application for Automated Dialect Analysis

Sravana Reddy, James Stanford

Lean Question Answering over Freebase from Scratch

Xuchen Yao

WOLFE: An NLP-friendly Declarative Machine Learning Stack

Sameer Singh, Tim Rocktäschel, Luke Hewitt, Jason Naradowsky, Sebastian Riedel

Visualizing Deep-Syntactic Parser Output

Juan Soler-Company, Miguel Ballesteros, Bernd Bohnet, Simon Mille, Leo Wanner

SETS: Scalable and Efficient Tree Search in Dependency Graphs

Juhani Luotolahti, Jenna Kanerva, Sampo Pyysalo, Filip Ginter

ELCO3: Entity Linking with Corpus Coherence Combining Open Source Annotators

Pablo Ruiz, Thierry Poibeau, Frédérique Mélanie

Ckylark: A More Robust PCFG-LA Parser

Yusuke Oda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

AMRICA: an AMR Inspector for Cross-language Alignments

Naomi Saphra, Adam Lopez

ICE: Rapid Information Extraction Customization for NLP Novices

Yifan He, Ralph Grishman

An AMR parser for English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and a new AMR-annotated corpus

Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk

RExtractor: a Robust Information Extractor

Vincent Kríž, Barbora Hladká

Enhancing Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions with Mobile Interfaces and Summarization

Wencan Luo, Xiangmin Fan, Muhsin Menekse, Jingtao Wang, Diane Litman

hyp: A Toolkit for Representing, Manipulating, and Optimizing Hypergraphs

Markus Dreyer, Jonathan Graehl

Analyzing and Visualizing Coreference Resolution Errors

Sebastian Martschat, Thierry Göckel, Michael Strube

Two Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsers

Mihai Surdeanu, Tom Hicks, Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escárcega

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

Matt Gerber, Catherine Havasi, Finley Lacatusu

Computational Exploration to Linguistic Structures of Future: Classification and Categorization

Aiming Ni, Jinho D. Choi, Jason Shepard, Phillip Wolff

Morphological Paradigms: Computational Structure and Unsupervised Learning

Jackson L. Lee

Bilingual lexicon extraction for a distant language pair using a small parallel corpus

Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques

Recognizing Textual Entailment using Dependency Analysis and Machine Learning

Nidhi Sharma, Richa Sharma, Kanad K. Biswas

Semantics-based Graph Approach to Complex Question-Answering

Tomasz Jurczyk, Jinho D. Choi

Lifelong Machine Learning for Topic Modeling and Beyond

Zhiyuan Chen

Speeding Document Annotation with Topic Models

Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Discourse and Document-level Information for Evaluating Language Output Tasks

Carolina Scarton

Improving the Translation of Discourse Markers for Chinese into English

David Steele

Detecting Translation Direction: A Cross-Domain Study

Sauleh Eetemadi, Kristina Toutanova

Relation Extraction from Community Generated Question-Answer Pairs

Denis Savenkov, Wei-Lwun Lu, Jeff Dalton, Eugene Agichtein

Narrowing the Loop: Integration of Resources and Linguistic Dataset Development with Interactive Machine Learning

Seid Muhie Yimam

Learning Kernels for Semantic Clustering: A Deep Approach

Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández

Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets

Eshrag Refaee, Verena Rieser

A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of Syntactic Structure in Semantic Textual Similarity and Semantic Relatedness Tasks

Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Octavian Popescu

Initial Steps for Building a Lexicon of Adjectives with Scalemates

Bryan Wilkinson

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

Lingjia Deng

Exploring Relational Features and Learning under Distant Supervision for Information Extraction Tasks

Ajay Nagesh

Towards a Better Semantic Role Labeling of Complex Predicates

Glorianna Jagfeld, Lonneke van der Plas

Relation extraction pattern ranking using word similarity

Konstantinos Lambrou-Latreille

Analyzing Newspaper Crime Reports for Identification of Safe Transit Paths

Vasu Sharma, Rajat Kulshreshtha, Puneet Singh, Nishant Agrawal, Akshay Kumar

Reliable Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers

Gustavo Paetzold

Cache-Augmented Latent Topic Language Models for Speech Retrieval

Jonathan Wintrode

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Diana Inkpen, Smaranda Muresan, Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen Mazidi, Alisa Zhila

Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Word Embeddings

Radu Soricut, Franz Och

“You’re Mr. Lebowski, I’m the Dude”: Inducing Address Term Formality in Signed Social Networks

Vinodh Krishnan, Jacob Eisenstein

Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons

Manaal Faruqui, Jesse Dodge, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Chris Dyer, Eduard Hovy

Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction

Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler

Shared common ground influences information density in microblog texts

Gabriel Doyle, Michael Frank

A Bayesian Model for Joint Learning of Categories and their Features

Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata

How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String

Marjan Ghazvininejad, Kevin Knight

Do We Really Need Lexical Information? Towards a Top-down Approach to Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews

Yulia Otmakhova, Hyopil Shin

Good News or Bad News: Using Affect Control Theory to Analyze Readers’ Reaction Towards News Articles

Areej Alhothali, Jesse Hoey

A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and Supersenses

Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith

Learning Translation Models from Monolingual Continuous Representations

KAI ZHAO, Hany Hassan, Michael Auli

A Comparison of Update Strategies for Large-Scale Maximum Expected BLEU Training

Joern Wuebker, Sebastian Muehr, Patrick Lehnen, Stephan Peitz, Hermann Ney

Learning to Interpret and Describe Abstract Scenes

Luis Gilberto Mateos Ortiz, Clemens Wolff, Mirella Lapata

Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks

Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney

Echoes of Persuasion: The Effect of Euphony in Persuasive Communication

Marco Guerini, Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava

Testing and Comparing Computational Approaches for Identifying the Language of Framing in Political News

Eric Baumer, Elisha Elovic, Ying Qin, Francesca Polletta, Geri Gay

Cross-lingual Text Classification Using Topic-Dependent Word Probabilities

Daniel Andrade, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Akihiro Tamura, Masaaki Tsuchida

Reserating the awesometastic: An automatic extension of the WordNet taxonomy for novel terms

David Jurgens, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Extracting Information about Medication Use from Veterinary Discussions

Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff

Enhancing Sumerian Lemmatization by Unsupervised Named-Entity Recognition

Yudong Liu, Clinton Burkhart, James Hearne, Liang Luo

Identification and Characterization of Newsworthy Verbs in World News

Benjamin Nye, Ani Nenkova

Random Walks and Neural Network Language Models on Knowledge Bases

Josu Goikoetxea, Aitor Soroa, Eneko Agirre

Embedding a Semantic Network in a Word Space

Richard Johansson, Luis Nieto Piña

Template Kernels for Dependency Parsing

Hillel Taub-Tabib, Yoav Goldberg, Amir Globerson

Type-Driven Incremental Semantic Parsing with Polymorphism

KAI ZHAO, Liang Huang

Unediting: Detecting Disfluencies Without Careful Transcripts

Victoria Zayats, Mari Ostendorf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Large-Scale Native Language Identification with Cross-Corpus Evaluation

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras

On the Automatic Learning of Sentiment Lexicons

Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Moschitti

Sampling Techniques for Streaming Cross Document Coreference Resolution

Luke Shrimpton, Victor Lavrenko, Miles Osborne

Simple task-specific bilingual word embeddings

Stephan Gouws, Anders Søgaard

CASSA: A Context-Aware Synonym Simplification Algorithm

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Luz Rello, Julia Dembowski

Combining Word Embeddings and Feature Embeddings for Fine-grained Relation Extraction

Mo Yu, Matthew R. Gormley, Mark Dredze

Discriminative Phrase Embedding for Paraphrase Identification

Wenpeng Yin, Hinrich Schütze

Exploiting Text and Network Context for Geolocation of Social Media Users

Afshin Rahimi, Duy Vu, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Learning to parse with IAA-weighted loss

Héctor Martínez Alonso, Barbara Plank, Arne Skjærholt, Anders Søgaard

Multilingual Open Relation Extraction Using Cross-lingual Projection

Manaal Faruqui, Shankar Kumar

Context-Dependent Automatic Response Generation Using Statistical Machine Translation Techniques

Andrew Shin, Ryohei Sasano, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Response-based Learning for Machine Translation of Open-domain Database Queries

Carolin Haas, Stefan Riezler

GPU-Friendly Local Regression for Voice Conversion

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein

Everyone Likes Shopping! Multi-class Product Categorization for e-Commerce

Zornitsa Kozareva

MPQA 3.0: An Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Corpus

Lingjia Deng, Janyce Wiebe

Improving Update Summarization via Supervised ILP and Sentence Reranking

Chen Li, Yang Liu, Lin Zhao

Unsupervised POS Induction with Word Embeddings

Chu-Cheng Lin, Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer, Lori Levin

Estimating Numerical Attributes by Bringing Together Fragmentary Clues

Hiroya Takamura, Jun’ichi Tsujii