NAACL 2016

228 papers

Statistical Machine Translation between Related Languages

Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Mitesh M. Khapra, Anoop Kunchukuttan

Scalable Statistical Relational Learning for NLP

William Yang Wang, William Cohen

Recent Progress in Deep Learning for NLP

Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li

Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond

Wen-tau Yih, Hao Ma

Multilingual Multimodal Language Processing Using Neural Networks

Mitesh M Khapra, Sarath Chandar

English Resource Semantics

Dan Flickinger, Emily M. Bender, Woodley Packard

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Mohit Bansal, Alexander M. Rush

“Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier

Marco Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, Carlos Guestrin

Kathaa: A Visual Programming Framework for NLP Applications

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Nehal J Wani, Manish Srivastava, Dipti Misra Sharma

Zara The Supergirl: An Empathetic Personality Recognition System

Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique, Ruixi Lin, Yang Yang

Lecture Translator - Speech translation framework for simultaneous lecture translation

Markus Müller, Thai Son Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Bastian Krüger

SODA:Service Oriented Domain Adaptation Architecture for Microblog Categorization

Himanshu Sharad Bhatt, Sandipan Dandapat, Peddamuthu Balaji, Shourya Roy, Sharmistha Jat

Cross-media Event Extraction and Recommendation

Di Lu, Clare Voss, Fangbo Tao, Xiang Ren, Rachel Guan

A Tag-based English Math Word Problem Solver with Understanding, Reasoning and Explanation

Chao-Chun Liang, Kuang-Yi Hsu, Chien-Tsung Huang, Chung-Min Li, Shen-Yu Miao

Sentential Paraphrasing as Black-Box Machine Translation

Courtney Napoles, Chris Callison-Burch, Matt Post

LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics

Florian Pusse, Asad Sayeed, Vera Demberg

Illinois Math Solver: Math Reasoning on the Web

Subhro Roy, Dan Roth

Task Completion Platform: A self-serve multi-domain goal oriented dialogue platform

Paul Crook, Alex Marin, Vipul Agarwal, Khushboo Aggarwal, Tasos Anastasakos

Scaling Up Word Clustering

Jon Dehdari, Liling Tan, Josef van Genabith

ArgRewrite: A Web-based Revision Assistant for Argumentative Writings

Fan Zhang, Rebecca Hwa, Diane Litman, Homa B. Hashemi

New Dimensions in Testimony Demonstration

Ron Artstein, Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski, Ari Shapiro

TransRead: Designing a Bilingual Reading Experience with Machine Translation Technologies

François Yvon, Yong Xu, Marianna Apidianaki, Clément Pillias, Pierre Cubaud

Linguistica 5: Unsupervised Learning of Linguistic Structure

Jackson L. Lee, John A. Goldsmith

iAppraise: A Manual Machine Translation Evaluation Environment Supporting Eye-tracking

Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Francisco Guzmán

Farasa: A Fast and Furious Segmenter for Arabic

Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Hamdy Mubarak

Instant Feedback for Increasing the Presence of Solutions in Peer Reviews

Huy Nguyen, Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman

rstWeb - A Browser-based Annotation Interface for Rhetorical Structure Theory and Discourse Relations

Amir Zeldes

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

John DeNero, Mark Finlayson, Sravana Reddy

Anna Currey, Alina Karakanta, Jon Dehdari

Question Answering over Knowledge Base using Factual Memory Networks

Sarthak Jain

Phylogenetic simulations over constraint-based grammar formalisms

Andrew Lamont, Jonathan Washington

Non-decreasing Sub-modular Function for Comprehensible Summarization

Litton J Kurisinkel, Pruthwik Mishra, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Vasudeva Varma, Dipti Misra Sharma

Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter

Zeerak Waseem, Dirk Hovy

Extraction of Bilingual Technical Terms for Chinese-Japanese Patent Translation

Wei Yang, Jinghui Yan, Yves Lepage

Exploring Fine-Grained Emotion Detection in Tweets

Jasy Suet Yan Liew, Howard R. Turtle

Explicit Argument Identification for Discourse Parsing In Hindi: A Hybrid Pipeline

Rohit Jain, Dipti Sharma

Effects of Communicative Pressures on Novice L2 Learners’ Use of Optional Formal Devices

Yoav Binoun, Francesca Delogu, Clayton Greenberg, Mindaugas Mozuraitis, Matthew Crocker

Developing language technology tools and resources for a resource-poor language: Sindhi

Raveesh Motlani

Detecting “Smart” Spammers on Social Network: A Topic Model Approach

Linqing Liu, Yao Lu, Ye Luo, Renxian Zhang, Laurent Itti

Data-driven Paraphrasing and Stylistic Harmonization

Gerold Hintz

Combining syntactic patterns and Wikipedia’s hierarchy of hyperlinks to extract meronym relations

Debela Tesfaye Gemechu, Michael Zock, Solomon Teferra

Automatic tagging and retrieval of E-Commerce products based on visual features

Vasu Sharma, Harish Karnick

Argument Identification in Chinese Editorials

Marisa Chow

Analogy-based detection of morphological and semantic relations with word embeddings: what works and what doesn’t.

Anna Gladkova, Aleksandr Drozd, Satoshi Matsuoka

An End-to-end Approach to Learning Semantic Frames with Feedforward Neural Network

Yukun Feng, Yipei Xu, Dong Yu

Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop

Jacob Andreas, Eunsol Choi, Angeliki Lazaridou

Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering

Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, Dan Klein

Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships

Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daume III

Improving sentence compression by learning to predict gaze

Sigrid Klerke, Yoav Goldberg, Anders Søgaard

MGNC-CNN: A Simple Approach to Exploiting Multiple Word Embeddings for Sentence Classification

Ye Zhang, Stephen Roller, Byron C. Wallace

Dependency Sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks for Modeling Sentences and Documents

Rui Zhang, Honglak Lee, Dragomir R. Radev

Deep LSTM based Feature Mapping for Query Classification

Yangyang Shi, Kaisheng Yao, Le Tian, Daxin Jiang

Dependency Based Embeddings for Sentence Classification Tasks

Alexandros Komninos, Suresh Manandhar

Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification

Zichao Yang, Diyi Yang, Chris Dyer, Xiaodong He, Alex Smola

Unsupervised Learning of Prototypical Fillers for Implicit Semantic Role Labeling

Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos

Clustering Paraphrases by Word Sense

Anne Cocos, Chris Callison-Burch

Activity Modeling in Email

Ashequl Qadir, Michael Gamon, Patrick Pantel, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Learning Natural Language Inference with LSTM

Shuohang Wang, Jing Jiang

Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements

Eduardo Blanco, Zahra Sarabi

Using Context to Predict the Purpose of Argumentative Writing Revisions

Fan Zhang, Diane Litman

Lexical Coherence Graph Modeling Using Word Embeddings

Mohsen Mesgar, Michael Strube

A Study of the Impact of Persuasive Argumentation in Political Debates

Amparo Elizabeth Cano-Basave, Yulan He

Cross-Domain Mining of Argumentative Text through Distant Supervision

Khalid Al-Khatib, Henning Wachsmuth, Matthias Hagen, Jonas Köhler, Benno Stein

End-to-End Argumentation Mining in Student Essays

Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng

Retrofitting Sense-Specific Word Vectors Using Parallel Text

Allyson Ettinger, Philip Resnik, Marine Carpuat

Learning Distributed Representations of Sentences from Unlabelled Data

Felix Hill, Kyunghyun Cho, Anna Korhonen

Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning

Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, Guillaume Lample, Patrick Littell

Bilingual Learning of Multi-sense Embeddings with Discrete Autoencoders

Simon Suster, Ivan Titov, Gertjan van Noord

Shallow Parsing Pipeline - Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text

Arnav Sharma, Sakshi Gupta, Raveesh Motlani, Piyush Bansal, Manish Shrivastava

Statistical Modeling of Creole Genesis

Yugo Murawaki

Part-of-Speech Tagging for Historical English

Yi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein

Ten Pairs to Tag – Multilingual POS Tagging via Coarse Mapping between Embeddings

yuan zhang, David Gaddy, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Multilingual Language Processing From Bytes

Dan Gillick, Cliff Brunk, Oriol Vinyals, Amarnag Subramanya

This is how we do it: Answer Reranking for Open-domain How Questions with Paragraph Vectors and Minimal Feature Engineering

Dasha Bogdanova, Jennifer Foster

Semi-supervised Question Retrieval with Gated Convolutions

Tao Lei, Hrishikesh Joshi, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola, Kateryna Tymoshenko

Convolutional Neural Networks vs. Convolution Kernels: Feature Engineering for Answer Sentence Reranking

Kateryna Tymoshenko, Daniele Bonadiman, Alessandro Moschitti

K-Embeddings: Learning Conceptual Embeddings for Words using Context

Thuy Vu, D. Stott Parker

Capturing Semantic Similarity for Entity Linking with Convolutional Neural Networks

Matthew Francis-Landau, Greg Durrett, Dan Klein

Incorporating Side Information into Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Trevor Cohn, Gholamreza Haffari

PRIMT: A Pick-Revise Framework for Interactive Machine Translation

Shanbo Cheng, Shujian Huang, Huadong Chen, Xin-yu Dai, Jiajun Chen

Visual Storytelling

Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Francis Ferraro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Ishan Misra, Aishwarya Agrawal

Automatically Inferring Implicit Properties in Similes

Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker

Simple, Fast Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Large RNN Vocabularies

Barret Zoph, Ashish Vaswani, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight

Consensus Maximization Fusion of Probabilistic Information Extractors

Miguel Rodríguez, Sean Goldberg, Daisy Zhe Wang

Automatic Prediction of Linguistic Decline in Writings of Subjects with Degenerative Dementia

Davy Weissenbacher, Travis A. Johnson, Laura Wojtulewicz, Amylou Dueck, Dona Locke

Sparse Bilingual Word Representations for Cross-lingual Lexical Entailment

Yogarshi Vyas, Marine Carpuat

The Instantiation Discourse Relation: A Corpus Analysis of Its Properties and Improved Detection

Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova

Integrating Morphological Desegmentation into Phrase-based Decoding

Mohammad Salameh, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak

BIRA: Improved Predictive Exchange Word Clustering

Jon Dehdari, Liling Tan, Josef van Genabith

Emergent: a novel data-set for stance classification

William Ferreira, Andreas Vlachos

Cross-genre Event Extraction with Knowledge Enrichment

Hao Li, Heng Ji

MAWPS: A Math Word Problem Repository

Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Subhro Roy, Aida Amini, Nate Kushman, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Right-truncatable Neural Word Embeddings

Jun Suzuki, Masaaki Nagata

Patterns of Wisdom: Discourse-Level Style in Multi-Sentence Quotations

Kyle Booten, Marti A. Hearst

Discriminative Reranking for Grammatical Error Correction with Statistical Machine Translation

Tomoya Mizumoto, Yuji Matsumoto

Bootstrapping Translation Detection and Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Kriste Krstovski, David Smith

PIC a Different Word: A Simple Model for Lexical Substitution in Context

Stephen Roller, Katrin Erk

Learning a POS tagger for AAVE-like language

Anna Jørgensen, Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard

Learning to Recognize Ancillary Information for Automatic Paraphrase Identification

Simone Filice, Alessandro Moschitti

Sentiment Composition of Words with Opposing Polarities

Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif M. Mohammad