Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
N12-1000: Front Matter
N12-1001 [bib]: Byron Wallace
Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest
N12-1002 [bib]: Rivka Levitan; Agustin Gravano; Laura Willson; Stefan Benus; Julia Hirschberg; Ani Nenkova
Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior
N12-1003 [bib]: Nitin Madnani; Michael Heilman; Joel Tetreault; Martin Chodorow
Identifying High-Level Organizational Elements in Argumentative Discourse
N12-1004 [bib]: David Burkett; Dan Klein
Fast Inference in Phrase Extraction Models with Belief Propagation
N12-1005 [bib]: Hai-Son Le; Alexandre Allauzen; François Yvon
Continuous Space Translation Models with Neural Networks
N12-1006 [bib]: Rabih Zbib; Erika Malchiodi; Jacob Devlin; David Stallard; Spyros Matsoukas; Richard Schwartz; John Makhoul; Omar F. Zaidan; Chris Callison-Burch
Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects
N12-1007 [bib]: Spence Green; Nicholas Andrews; Matthew R. Gormley; Mark Dredze; Christopher D. Manning
Entity Clustering Across Languages
N12-1008 [bib]: Roi Reichart; Regina Barzilay
Multi-Event Extraction Guided by Global Constraints
N12-1009 [bib]: Amjad Abu Jbara; Dragomir Radev
Reference Scope Identification in Citing Sentences
N12-1010 [bib]: Kate Forbes-Riley; Diane Litman; Heather Friedberg; Joanna Drummond
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of an Automatic User Disengagement Detector for an Uncertainty-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System
N12-1011 [bib]: Shasha Xie; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner
Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring
N12-1012 [bib]: Anthony Stark; Izhak Shafran; Jeffrey Kaye
Hello, Who is Calling?: Can Words Reveal the Social Nature of Conversations?
N12-1013 [bib]: Veselin Stoyanov; Jason Eisner
Minimum-Risk Training of Approximate CRF-Based NLP Systems
N12-1014 [bib]: Jason Smith; Jason Eisner
Unsupervised Learning on an Approximate Corpus
N12-1015 [bib]: Liang Huang; Suphan Fayong; Yang Guo
Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search
N12-1016 [bib]: Chris Fournier; Diana Inkpen
Segmentation Similarity and Agreement
N12-1017 [bib]: Markus Dreyer; Daniel Marcu
HyTER: Meaning-Equivalent Semantics for Translation Evaluation
N12-1018 [bib]: Rebecca Mason; Eugene Charniak
Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems
N12-1019 [bib]: Nitin Madnani; Joel Tetreault; Martin Chodorow
Re-examining Machine Translation Metrics for Paraphrase Identification
N12-1020 [bib]: John Lee; Yin Hei Kong
A Dependency Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems
N12-1021 [bib]: Myroslava O. Dzikovska; Rodney D. Nielsen; Chris Brew
Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines
N12-1022 [bib]: Anna Kazantseva; Stan Szpakowicz
Topical Segmentation: a Study of Human Performance and a New Measure of Quality.
N12-1023 [bib]: Kevin Gimpel; Noah A. Smith
Structured Ramp Loss Minimization for Machine Translation
N12-1024 [bib]: Michael J. Paul; Jason Eisner
Implicitly Intersecting Weighted Automata using Dual Decomposition
N12-1025 [bib]: Ali El-Kahki; Kareem Darwish; Mohamed Abdul-Wahab; Ahmed Taei
Transliteration Mining Using Large Training and Test Sets
N12-1026 [bib]: Taro Watanabe
Optimized Online Rank Learning for Machine Translation
N12-1027 [bib]: Andreas Maletti
Every sensible extended top-down tree transducer is a multi bottom-up tree transducer
N12-1028 [bib]: Cèdric Lopez; Violaine Prince; Mathieu Roche
NOMIT: Automatic Titling by Nominalizing
N12-1029 [bib]: Ross Israel; Joel Tetreault; Martin Chodorow
Correcting Comma Errors in Learner Essays, and Restoring Commas in Newswire Text
N12-1030 [bib]: Daniel Tse; James R. Curran
The Challenges of Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
N12-1031 [bib]: Seth Kulick; Ann Bies; Justin Mott
Using Supertags and Encoded Annotation Principles for Improved Dependency to Phrase Structure Conversion
N12-1032 [bib]: Matt Hohensee; Emily M. Bender
Getting More from Morphology in Multilingual Dependency Parsing
N12-1033 [bib]: Shane Bergsma; Matt Post; David Yarowsky
Stylometric Analysis of Scientific Articles
N12-1034 [bib]: Sasa Petrovic; Miles Osborne; Victor Lavrenko
Using paraphrases for improving first story detection in news and Twitter
N12-1035 [bib]: Matthias Huck; Hermann Ney
Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation
N12-1036 [bib]: Chung-chi Huang; Ping-che Yang; Keh-jiann Chen; Jason S. Chang
TransAhead: A Computer-Assisted Translation and Writing Tool
N12-1037 [bib]: Ben Swanson; Elif Yamangil
Correction Detection and Error Type Selection as an ESL Educational Aid
N12-1038 [bib]: Martin Scaiano; Diana Inkpen
Getting More from Segmentation Evaluation
N12-1039 [bib]: Sonjia Waxmonsky; Sravana Reddy
G2P Conversion of Proper Names Using Word Origin Information
N12-1040 [bib]: Jeremy Nicholson; Trevor Cohn; Timothy Baldwin
Evaluating a Morphological Analyser of Inuktitut
N12-1041 [bib]: Yun-Nung Chen; Florian Metze
Intra-Speaker Topic Modeling for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization with Integrated Random Walk
N12-1042 [bib]: Yun-Nung Chen; Kai-Min Chang; Jack Mostow
Towards Using EEG to Improve ASR Accuracy
N12-1043 [bib]: Thomas Mueller; Hinrich Schuetze; Helmut Schmid
A Comparative Investigation of Morphological Language Modeling for the Languages of the European Union
N12-1044 [bib]: Aditya Bhargava; Grzegorz Kondrak
Leveraging supplemental representations for sequential transduction
N12-1045 [bib]: Kairit Sirts; Tanel Alumäe
A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model for Joint Part-of-Speech and Morphology Induction
N12-1046 [bib]: Ferhan Ture; Douglas W. Oard; Philip Resnik
Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices
N12-1047 [revisions: v2] [bib]: Colin Cherry; George Foster
Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation
N12-1048 [bib]: Srinivas Bangalore; Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar; Prakash Kolan; Ladan Golipour; Aura Jimenez
Real-time Incremental Speech-to-Speech Translation of Dialogs
N12-1049 [bib]: Gabor Angeli; Christopher Manning; Daniel Jurafsky
Parsing Time: Learning to Interpret Time Expressions
N12-1050 [bib]: Eduardo Blanco; Dan Moldovan
Fine-Grained Focus for Pinpointing Positive Implicit Meaning from Negated Statements
N12-1051 [bib]: Trevor Fountain; Mirella Lapata
Taxonomy Induction Using Hierarchical Random Graphs
N12-1052 [bib]: Oscar Täckström; Ryan McDonald; Jakob Uszkoreit
Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure
N12-1053 [bib]: Avihai Mejer; Koby Crammer
Training Dependency Parser Using Light Feedback
N12-1054 [bib]: Alexander Rush; Slav Petrov
Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing
N12-1055 [bib]: Florian Laws; Florian Heimerl; Hinrich Schütze
Active Learning for Coreference Resolution
N12-1056 [bib]: Brian Kjersten; Benjamin Van Durme
Space Efficiencies in Discourse Modeling via Conditional Random Sampling
N12-1057 [bib]: Vinodkumar Prabhakaran; Owen Rambow; Mona Diab
Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs
N12-1058 [bib]: Lin Chen; Barbara Di Eugenio
Co-reference via Pointing and Haptics in Multi-Modal Dialogues
N12-1059 [bib]: Jacob Devlin; Spyros Matsoukas
Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation
N12-1060 [bib]: Baskaran Sankaran; Anoop Sarkar
Improved Reordering for Shallow-n Grammar based Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
N12-1061 [bib]: Jason Riesa; Daniel Marcu
Automatic Parallel Fragment Extraction from Noisy Data
N12-1062 [bib]: Marzieh Bazrafshan; Tagyoung Chung; Daniel Gildea
Tuning as Linear Regression
N12-1063 [bib]: Yi Ma; Eric Fosler-Lussier; Robert Lofthus
Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children’s literature
N12-1064 [bib]: Martin Riedl; Chris Biemann
How Text Segmentation Algorithms Gain from Topic Models
N12-1065 [bib]: Judita Preiss
Identifying Comparable Corpora Using LDA
N12-1066 [revisions: v2] [bib]: Burr Settles; Xiaojin Zhu
Behavioral Factors in Interactive Training of Text Classifiers
N12-1067 [bib]: Daniel Dahlmeier; Hwee Tou Ng
Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction
N12-1068 [bib]: Avihai Mejer; Koby Crammer
Are You Sure? Confidence in Prediction of Dependency Tree Edges
N12-1069 [bib]: Kevin Gimpel; Noah A. Smith
Concavity and Initialization for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
N12-1070 [bib]: Katya Alahverdzhieva; Dan Flickinger; Alex Lascarides
Multimodal Grammar Implementation
N12-1071 [bib]: Saif Mohammad
Portable Features for Classifying Emotional Text
N12-1072 [bib]: Marilyn Walker; Pranav Anand; Rob Abbott; Ricky Grant
Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion
N12-1073 [bib]: Awais Athar; Simone Teufel
Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection
N12-1074 [revisions: v2] [bib]: Yoav Artzi; Patrick Pantel; Michael Gamon
Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts
N12-1075 [bib]: Vitor Carvalho; Yigit Kiran; Andrew Borthwick
The Intelius Nickname Collection: Quantitative Analyses from Billions of Public Records
N12-1076 [bib]: Georgiana Dinu; Stefan Thater; Soeren Laue
A comparison of models of word meaning in context
N12-1077 [bib]: Wen-tau Yih; Vahed Qazvinian
Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogeneous Vector Space Models
N12-1078 [bib]: Xuchen Yao; Benjamin Van Durme; Chris Callison-Burch
Expectations of Word Sense in Parallel Corpora
N12-1079 [bib]: Ferhan Ture; Jimmy Lin
Why Not Grab a Free Lunch? Mining Large Corpora for Parallel Sentences to Improve Translation Modeling
N12-1080 [bib]: James Gung; Jugal Kalita
Summarization of Historical Articles Using Temporal Event Clustering
N12-1081 [bib]: Nina Dethlefs; Heriberto Cuayahuitl
Comparing HMMs and Bayesian Networks for Surface Realisation
N12-1082 [bib]: Fabián Pacheco; Pablo Duboue; Martìn Domìnguez
On The Feasibility of Open Domain Referring Expression Generation Using Large Scale Folksonomies
N12-1083 [bib]: Donald Metzler; Congxing Cai; Eduard Hovy
Structured Event Retrieval over Microblog Archives
N12-1084 [bib]: Jun-Ming Xu; Kwang-Sung Jun; Xiaojin Zhu; Amy Bellmore
Learning from Bullying Traces in Social Media
N12-1085 [bib]: Asad Sayeed; Jordan Boyd-Graber; Bryan Rusk; Amy Weinberg
Grammatical structures for word-level sentiment detection
N12-1086 [bib]: Dipanjan Das; Noah A. Smith
Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties
N12-1087 [bib]: Rajhans Samdani; Ming-Wei Chang; Dan Roth
Unified Expectation Maximization
N12-1088 [bib]: Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi; Hal Daume III
Low-Dimensional Discriminative Reranking
N12-1089 [bib]: Tyler Baldwin; Joyce Chai
Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues
N12-1090 [bib]: Altaf Rahman; Vincent Ng
Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution
N12-1091 [bib]: Preethi Raghavan; Eric Fosler-Lussier; Albert Lai
Exploring Semi-Supervised Coreference Resolution of Medical Concepts using Semantic and Temporal Features
N12-1092 [bib]: Lee Becker; Sumit Basu; Lucy Vanderwende
Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation
N12-1093 [bib]: Ioannis Konstas; Mirella Lapata
Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs
N12-1094 [bib]: Jesse Dodge; Amit Goyal; Xufeng Han; Alyssa Mensch; Margaret Mitchell; Karl Stratos; Kota Yamaguchi; Yejin Choi; Hal Daume III; Alex Berg; Tamara Berg
Detecting Visual Text
N12-1095 [bib]: Mohit Bansal; John DeNero; Dekang Lin
Unsupervised Translation Sense Clustering
N12-1096 [bib]: Matthew R. Gormley; Mark Dredze; Benjamin Van Durme; Jason Eisner
Shared Components Topic Models
N12-1097 [bib]: Tae Yano; Noah A. Smith; John D. Wilkerson
Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2012 Student Research Workshop
N12-2000: Front Matter
N12-2001 [bib]: Fawaz Alarfaj; Udo Kruschwitz; David Hunter; Chris Fox
Finding the Right Supervisor: Expert-Finding in a University Domain
N12-2002 [bib]: Samuel R. Bowman; Harshit Chopra
Automatic Animacy Classification
N12-2003 [bib]: Felix Hill
Beauty Before Age? Applying Subjectivity to Automatic English Adjective Ordering
N12-2004 [bib]: Steinar Vittersø Kaldager
Indexing Google 1T for low-turnaround wildcarded frequency queries
N12-2005 [bib]: Ivelina Nikolova
Unified Extraction of Health Condition Descriptions
N12-2006 [bib]: Woodley Packard
Choosing an Evaluation Metric for Parser Design
N12-2007 [bib]: Beibei Yang; Jesse M. Heines
Domain-Specific Semantic Relatedness From Wikipedia: Can A Course Be Transferred?
N12-2008 [bib]: Miao Chen
Using Ontology-based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring
N12-2009 [bib]: Stephan Gouws
Deep Unsupervised Feature Learning for Natural Language Processing
N12-2010 [bib]: Annie Louis
Automatic Metrics for Genre-specific Text Quality
N12-2011 [bib]: Yuval Merhav
A Weighting Scheme for Open Information Extraction
N12-2012 [bib]: Yishay Raz
Automatic Humor Classification on Twitter
Proceedings of the Demonstration Session at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
N12-3000: Front Matter
N12-3001 [bib]: Enrique Flores; Alberto Barrón-Cedeño; Paolo Rosso; Lidia Moreno
DeSoCoRe: Detecting Source Code Re-Use across Programming Languages
N12-3002 [bib]: Pedro Paulo Balage Filho; Caroline Brun; Gilbert Rondeau
A Graphical User Interface for Feature-Based Opinion Mining
N12-3003 [bib]: Christine Doran; Guido Zarrella; John C. Henderson
Navigating Large Comment Threads with CoFi
N12-3004 [bib]: Zofia Stankiewicz; Satoshi Sekine
SurfShop: combing a product ontology with topic model results for online window-shopping.
N12-3005 [bib]: Heriberto Cuayáhuitl; Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
An Interactive Humanoid Robot Exhibiting Flexible Sub-Dialogues
N12-3006 [bib]: Chris Quirk; Pallavi Choudhury; Jianfeng Gao; Hisami Suzuki; Kristina Toutanova; Michael Gamon; Wen-tau Yih; Colin Cherry; Lucy Vanderwende
MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit
N12-3007 [bib]: David DeVault; David Traum
Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System
N12-3008 [bib]: Ran Zhao; Quang Do; Dan Roth
A Robust Shallow Temporal Reasoning System
N12-3009 [bib]: Amjad Abu-Jbara; Ahmed Hassan; Dragomir Radev
AttitudeMiner: Mining Attitude from Online Discussions
Tutorial Abstracts at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
N12-4001 [bib]: Emily M. Bender
100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask*
N12-4002 [bib]: Andrè F. T. Martins; Mário A. T. Figueiredo,; Noah A. Smith
Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications
N12-4003 [bib]: Mona Diab; Nizar Habash
Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial
N12-4004 [bib]: Alfio M. Gliozzo; Aditya Kalyanpur; James Fan
Natural Language Processing in Watson
N12-4005 [bib]: David Burkett; Dan Klein
Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models
N12-4006 [bib]: Roser Morante
Processing modality and negation
N12-4007 [bib]: Yuval Marton
On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing
N12-4008 [bib]: Dan Goldwasser; Vivek Srikumar; Dan Roth
Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming in NLP