ACL HLT 2011

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in
Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011

Conference Schedule Daily Overview

[Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday/Friday] [Full Program] [Student Session]

Sunday, June 18
Time	Event	Location
9:00-12:30	Beyond Structured Prediction: Inverse Reinforcement Learning Hal Daume III	Marriott Mt. Hood
9:00-12:30	Formal and Empirical Grammatical Inference Jeffrey Heinz, Colin de la Higuera and Menno van Zaanen	Marriot Ballroom Salons AB
9:00-12:30	Web Search Queries as a Corpus Marius Pasca	Marriott Ballroom Salons HI
2:00-5:30	Summarizing Text and Speech: Algorithms, Approaches and Issues Ani Nenkova, Sameer Maskey, Yang Liu	Marriott Ballroom Salons AB
2:00-5:30	Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Natural Language Processing Gregory Druck, Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca	Marriott Mt. Hood
2:00-5:30	Dual Decomposition for Natural Language Processing Michael Collins and Alexander M Rush	Marriott Ballroom Salons HI
6:00-9:00	Opening reception	Marriott Ballroom Level

Monday, June 20
Session Time	Marriott Salon E	Marriott Salons GHI	RiverPlace Ballroom (Across St.)	Marriott Salon F	Marriott Mt. Hood
8:45-9:00 9:00-10:00	Plenary session in Marriott Ballroom Salons EF Welcome, Opening Session Invited Talk, David Ferrucci: "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project"
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:10	1-A MT: Methods	1-B Machine Learning Methods 1	1-C Information Retrieval	1-D Sentiment Analysis /Opinion Mining 1	1-E Language Resource
12:10-2:00	Student lunch at Allie's American Grille, Marriott restaurant level All others on their own for lunch
2:00-3:40	2-A MT: Models and Evaluation	2-B Machine Learning Methods 2	2-C Linguistic Creativity	2-D Sentiment Analysis /Opinion Mining 2	2-E NLP for Web 2.0
3:40-4:10	Coffee break
4:10-5:50	3-A Transliteration /Alignment	3-B Parsing 1	3-C Summarization	3-D Relation Extraction	3-E Semantics
6:00-8:30	Poster Session and Student Session With buffet dinner at Portland World Trade Center

Tuesday, June 21
Session Time	Marriott Salon E	Marriott Salons GHI	RiverPlace Ballroom (Across St.)	Marriott Salon F	Marriott Mt. Hood
9:00-10:30	Plenary session in Marriott Ballroom Salons EF Best Paper awards and talks
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
10:30-1:00	Demo session A, Located in Columbia/Willamette rooms, Marriott lobby level
Short paper sessions
11:00-12:15	5-A Machine Learning Methods	5-B Phonology Morphology and POS-Tagging 1	5-C Linguistic Creativity	5-D Opinion Analysis and Textual / Spoken Conversations	5-E Corpus / Document Analysis
12:15-2:00	Lunch
1:30-4:00	Demo session B, Located in Columbia/Willamette rooms, Marriott lobby level
Short paper sessions
2:00-3:30	6-A Machine Translation	6-B Syntax / Parsing	6-C Summarization and Generation	6-D Information Extraction	6-E Semantics
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:40	7-A SMT: Phrase-based Models	7-B Parsing 2	7-C Spoken Language Processing	7-D Natural Language Processing Applications	7-E Coreference Resolution
7:00-11:00	Banquet at the Mark Building of the Portland Art Museum

Wednesday, June 22
Session Time	Marriott Salon E	Marriott Salons GHI	RiverPlace Ballroom (Across St.)	Marriott Salon F	Marriott Mt. Hood
9:00-10:00	Plenary session in Marriott Ballroom Salons EF Invited Talk, Lera Boroditsky: "How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think?"
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:10	8-A SMT: Tree-based Models	8-B Morphology/ POS Induction	8-C Error Correction	8-D Information Extraction	8-E Discourse
12:10-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	ACL Business Meeting
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:45	9-A MT: Reordering Models	9-B Grammar	9-C Generation/ Paraphrasing	9-D Event-Role Extraction	9-E Knowledge Base Extension
5:00-6:10	Plenary session in Marriott Ballroom Salons EF Lifetime Achievement Award and Closing

Thursday, June 23
Event	Name	Location
CoNLL:	Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2011)	Salon F
WS1:	BioNLP 2011	Salon E
WS2:	5th Linguistics Annotation Workshop (LAW V)	Salon D
WS3:	Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages	Columbia Room
WS4:	2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)	Salon A
WS5:	Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM)	Salons BC
WS6:	Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE)	Salons GH
WS7:	Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS)	Eugene Room
WS8:	Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5)	Mt. Hood Room
WS9:	TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing	Salon I

Friday, June 24
Event	Name	Location
CoNLL:	Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2011)	Salon F
WS1:	BioNLP 2011	Salon E
WS2:	5th Linguistics Annotation Workshop (LAW V)	Salon D
WS10:	4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora	Salon I
WS11:	DiSCo -- Distributional Semantics and Compositionality	Salons BC
WS12:	6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications	Salons GH
WS13:	Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH)	Eugene Room
WS14:	Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation (Text-To-Text-2011)	Mt. Hood Room
WS15:	2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA)	Salon A

ACL-HLT 2011: Program

Monday, June 20, 2011

Opening Session

Invited Talk 1

Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
David Ferrucci

Coffee Break

Session 1-A - MT: Methods
Chair: Dekai Wu

Session 1-A - A Word-Class Approach to Labeling PSCFG Rules for Machine Translation
Andreas Zollmann and Stephan Vogel
CMU

Session 1-A - Deciphering Foreign Language
Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight
USC Information Sciences Institute

Session 1-A - Effective Use of Function Words for Rule Generalization in Forest-Based Translation
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun'ichi Tsujii
Computer Science, The University of Tokyo

Session 1-A - Combining Morpheme-based Machine Translation with Post-processing Morpheme Prediction
Ann Clifton and Anoop Sarkar
Simon Fraser University

Session 1-B - Machine Learning Methods 1
Chair: Alessandro Moschitti

Session 1-B - Evaluating the Impact of Coder Errors on Active Learning
Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer
Saarland University

Session 1-B - A Fast and Accurate Method for Approximate String Search
Ziqi Wang¹, Gu Xu², Hang Li², Ming Zhang¹
¹Peking University, ²Microsoft Research Asia

Session 1-B - Domain Adaptation by Constraining Inter-Domain Variability of Latent Feature Representation
Ivan Titov
Saarland University

Session 1-B - Exact Decoding of Syntactic Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation
Alexander M. Rush¹ and Michael Collins²
¹MIT CSAIL, ²Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Session 1-C - Information Retrieval
Chair: Silviu Cucerzan

Session 1-C - Jigs and Lures: Associating Web Queries with Structured Entities
Patrick Pantel and Ariel Fuxman
Microsoft Research

Session 1-C - Semi-Supervised SimHash for Efficient Document Similarity Search
Qixia Jiang and Maosong Sun
Tsinghua University

Session 1-C - Joint Annotation of Search Queries
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Session 1-C - Query Weighting for Ranking Model Adaptation
Peng Cai¹, Wei Gao², Aoying Zhou¹, Kam-Fai Wong³
¹East China Normal University, ²The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ³The Chinese University of Hong Kong, MoE Key Laboratory on High Reliability Software Technology (CUHK Sub-Lab)

Session 1-D - Sentiment Analysis/Opinion Mining 1
Chair: Claire Cardie

Session 1-D - Automatically Extracting Polarity-Bearing Topics for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Yulan He¹, Chenghua Lin², Harith Alani¹
¹The Open University, ²Exeter University

Session 1-D - Using Multiple Sources to Construct a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Danushka Bollegala¹, David Weir², John Carroll²
¹The University of Tokyo, ²University of Sussex

Session 1-D - Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis
Andrew L. Maas, Raymond E. Daly, Peter T. Pham, Dan Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, Christopher Potts
Stanford University

Session 1-D - Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification
Long Jiang¹, Mo Yu², Ming Zhou¹, Xiaohua Liu¹, Tiejun Zhao²
¹Microsoft Research Asia, ²Harbin Institute of Technology

Session 1-E - Language Resource
Chair: Ed Hovy

Session 1-E - A Comprehensive Dictionary of Multiword Expressions
Kosho Shudo¹, Akira Kurahone², Toshifumi Tanabe¹
¹Fukuoka University, ²TechTran Ltd.

Session 1-E - Multi-Modal Annotation of Quest Games in Second Life
Sharon Gower Small, Jennifer Strommer-Galley, Tomek Strzalkowski
ILS Institute, SUNY Albany

Session 1-E - A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts
Helen Yannakoudakis¹, Ted Briscoe¹, Ben Medlock²
¹University of Cambridge, ²iLexIR Ltd

Session 1-E - Collecting Highly Parallel Data for Paraphrase Evaluation
David Chen¹ and William Dolan²
¹The University of Texas at Austin, ²Microsoft Research

Session 2-A - MT: Models & Evaluation
Chair: Michel Simard

Session 2-A - A Large Scale Distributed Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Model for Machine Translation
Ming Tan, Wenli Zhou, Lei Zheng, Shaojun Wang
Wright State University

Session 2-A - Goodness: A Method for Measuring Machine Translation Confidence
Nguyen Bach¹, Fei Huang², Yaser Al-Onaizan²
¹CMU, ²IBM

Session 2-A - MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility based on semantic roles
Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu
HKUST

Session 2-A - An exponential translation model for target language morphology
Michael Subotin
Paxfire, Inc.

Session 2-B - Machine Learning Methods 2
Chair: Noah Smith

Session 2-B - Bayesian Inference for Zodiac and Other Homophonic Ciphers
Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight
USC Information Sciences Institute

Session 2-B - Interactive Topic Modeling
Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Brianna Satinoff
University of Maryland

Session 2-B - Faster and Smaller N-Gram Language Models
Adam Pauls and Dan Klein
UC Berkeley

Session 2-B - Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework
S.R.K Branavan¹, David Silver², Regina Barzilay¹
¹MIT, ²University College London

Session 2-C - Linguistic Creativity
Chair: Saif Mohamma

Session 2-C - Creative Language Retrieval: A Robust Hybrid of Information Retrieval and Linguistic Creativity
Tony Veale
University College Dublin

Session 2-C - Local Histograms of Character N-grams for Authorship Attribution
Hugo Jair Escalante¹, Thamar Solorio², Manuel Montes-y-Gomez³
¹Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo leon, ²The University of Alabama at Birmingham, ³The University of Alabama at Birmingham and INAOE

Session 2-C - Word Maturity: Computational Modeling of Word Knowledge
Kirill Kireyev and Thomas K Landauer
Pearson Education Knowledge Technologies

Session 2-C - Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Jeffrey T. Hancock
Cornell University

Session 2-D - Sentiment Analysis/Opinion Mining 2
Chair: Janyce Wiebe

Session 2-D - Joint Bilingual Sentiment Classification with Unlabeled Parallel Corpora
Bin Lu¹, Chenhao Tan², Claire Cardie², Benjamin K. Tsou³
¹City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, ²Cornell University, ³Hong Kong Institute of Education, City University of Hong Kong

Session 2-D - Content Models with Attitude
Christina Sauper, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay
MIT

Session 2-D - A Pilot Study of Opinion Summarization in Conversations
Dong Wang and Yang Liu
The University of Texas at Dallas

Session 2-D - Contrasting Opposing Views of News Articles on Contentious Issues
Souneil Park¹, Kyung Soon Lee², Junehwa Song¹
¹KAIST, ²Chonbuk National Univ.

Session 2-E - NLP for Web 2.0
Chair: Smaranda Muresan

Session 2-E - Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay
MIT CSAIL

Session 2-E - Recognizing Named Entities in Tweets
Xiaohua LIU¹, Shaodian ZHANG², Furu WEI³, Ming ZHOU³
¹HIT;MSRA, ²Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ³MSRA

Session 2-E - Lexical Normalisation of Short Text Messages: Makn Sens a \#twitter
Bo Han and Timothy Baldwin
The University of Melbourne

Session 2-E - Topical Keyphrase Extraction from Twitter
Xin Zhao¹, Jing Jiang², Jing He¹, Yang Song¹, Palakorn Achanauparp², Ee-Peng Lim², Xiaoming Li¹
¹Peking University, ²Singapore Management University

Coffee Break

Session 3-A - Transliteration/Alignment
Chair: Ming Zhou

Session 3-A - How do you pronounce your name? Improving G2P with transliterations
Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak
University of Alberta

Session 3-A - Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features
Chris Dyer, Jonathan H. Clark, Alon Lavie, Noah A. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University

Session 3-A - Model-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual Decomposition
John DeNero and Klaus Macherey
Google

Session 3-A - An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
Universitaet Stuttgart

Session 3-B - Parsing 1
Chair: Colin Cherry

Session 3-B - Beam-Width Prediction for Efficient Context-Free Parsing
Nathan Bodenstab¹, Aaron Dunlop¹, Keith Hall², Brian Roark¹
¹CSLU/OHSU, ²Google

Session 3-B - Optimal Head-Driven Parsing Complexity for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Pierluigi Crescenzi¹, Daniel Gildea², Andrea Marino¹, Gianluca Rossi³, Giorgio Satta⁴
¹U of Florence, ²U of Rochester, ³U Roma 2, ⁴U of Padua

Session 3-B - Prefix Probability for Probabilistic Synchronous Context-Free Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof¹ and Giorgio Satta²
¹University of St Andrews, UK, ²University of Padua, Italy

Session 3-B - A Comparison of Loopy Belief Propagation and Dual Decomposition for Integrated CCG Supertagging and Parsing
Michael Auli¹ and Adam Lopez²
¹University of Edinburgh, ²Johns Hopkins University

Session 3-C - Summarization
Chair: Ani Nenkova

Session 3-C - Jointly Learning to Extract and Compress
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Gillick, Dan Klein
UC Berkeley

Session 3-C - Discovery of Topically Coherent Sentences for Extractive Summarization
Asli Celikyilmaz¹ and Dilek Hakkani-Tur²
¹Microsoft Speech Labs, ²Microsoft Speech Labs | Microsoft Research

Session 3-C - Coherent Citation-Based Summarization of Scientific Papers
Amjad Abu-Jbara and Dragomir Radev
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Session 3-C - A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization
Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes
University of Washington

Session 3-D - Relation Extraction
Chair: Alexander Yates

Session 3-D - Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Large-scale Word Clustering
Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, Satoshi Sekine
New York University

Session 3-D - In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization
Harr Chen, Edward Benson, Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay
MIT CSAIL

Session 3-D - Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke Zettlemoyer, Daniel S. Weld
University of Washington

Session 3-D - Exploiting Syntactico-Semantic Structures for Relation Extraction
Yee Seng Chan and Dan Roth
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Session 3-E - Semantics
Chair: Hwee Tou Ng

Session 3-E - Together We Can: Bilingual Bootstrapping for WSD
Mitesh M. Khapra, Salil Joshi, Arindam Chatterjee, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Session 3-E - Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts?
Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University

Session 3-E - Semantic Representation of Negation Using Focus Detection
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan
The University of Texas at Dallas

Session 3-E - Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Percy Liang, Michael Jordan, Dan Klein
UC Berkeley

Poster Session (Long papers)

Poster Session (Short papers)

Poster Session (Student Session)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Session 4-A - Best Paper Session

Session 4-A - Best Long Paper Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections
Dipanjan Das¹ and Slav Petrov²
¹Carnegie Mellon University, ²Google Research

Session 4-A - Best Student Long Paper Global Learning of Typed Entailment Rules
Jonathan Berant¹, Ido Dagan², Jacob Goldberger²
¹Tel-Aviv University, ²Bar-Ilan University

Session 4-A - Best Short Paper Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models
Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Izhak Shafran
Center for Spoken Language Understanding

Coffee Break

Session 5-A - Machine Learning Methods (short papers)
Chair: Michael Collins

Session 5-A - Good Seed Makes a Good Crop: Accelerating Active Learning Using Language Modeling
Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer
University of Colorado at Boulder

Session 5-A - Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Dependency Parsing
Nikhil Garg and James Henderson
University of Geneva

Session 5-A - Efficient Online Locality Sensitive Hashing via Reservoir Counting
Benjamin Van Durme¹ and Ashwin Lall²
¹HLTCOE Johns Hopkins University, ²Denison

Session 5-A - An Empirical Investigation of Discounting in Cross-Domain Language Models
Greg Durrett and Dan Klein
UC Berkeley

Session 5-A - HITS-based Seed Selection and Stop List Construction for Bootstrapping
Tetsuo Kiso, Masashi Shimbo, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto
NAIST

Session 5-B - Phonology/Morphology & POSTagging (short papers)
Chair: Greg Kondrak

Session 5-B - The Arabic Online Commentary Dataset: an Annotated Dataset of Informal Arabic with High Dialectal Content
Omar F. Zaidan and Chris Callison-Burch
Johns Hopkins University

Session 5-B - Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments
Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Dipanjan Das, Daniel Mills, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Heilman, Dani Yogatama, Jeffrey Flanigan, Noah A. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University

Session 5-B - Semi-supervised condensed nearest neighbor for part-of-speech tagging
Anders Søgaard
University of Copenhagen

Session 5-B - Latent Class Transliteration based on Source Language Origin
Masato Hagiwara and Satoshi Sekine
Rakuten Institute of Technology, New York

Session 5-B - Tier-based Strictly Local Constraints for Phonology
Jeffrey Heinz, Chetan Rawal, Herbert G. Tanner
University of Delaware

Session 5-C - Linguistic Creativity (short papers)
Chair: Thamar Solorio

Session 5-C - Lost in Translation: Authorship Attribution using Frame Semantics
Steffen Hedegaard and Jakob Grue Simonsen
University of Copenhagen

Session 5-C - Insertion, Deletion, or Substitution? Normalizing Text Messages without Pre-categorization nor Supervision
Fei Liu¹, Fuliang Weng², Bingqing Wang³, Yang Liu¹
¹The University of Texas at Dallas, ²Research & Technology Center, Robert Bosch LLC, ³Fudan University

Session 5-C - Unsupervised Discovery of Rhyme Schemes
Sravana Reddy¹ and Kevin Knight²
¹The University of Chicago, ²University of Southern California

Session 5-C - Language of Vandalism: Improving Wikipedia Vandalism Detection via Stylometric Analysis
Manoj Harpalani, Michael Hart, Sandesh Singh, Rob Johnson, Yejin Choi
Stony Brook University

Session 5-C - That's What She Said: Double Entendre Identification
Chloe Kiddon and Yuriy Brun
University of Washington

Session 5-D - Opinion Analysis and Textual and Spoken Conversations (short papers)
Chair: Louis-Philippe Morency

Session 5-D - Joint Identification and Segmentation of Domain-Specific Dialogue Acts for Conversational Dialogue Systems
Fabrizio Morbini and Kenji Sagae
University of Southern California

Session 5-D - Extracting Opinion Expressions and Their Polarities – Exploration of Pipelines and Joint Models
Richard Johansson and Alessandro Moschitti
University of Trento

Session 5-D - Subjective Natural Language Problems: Motivations, Applications, Characterizations, and Implications
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
Rochester Institute of Technology

Session 5-D - Entrainment in Speech Preceding Backchannels.
Rivka Levitan¹, Agustin Gravano², Julia Hirschberg¹
¹Columbia University, ²Universidad de Buenos Aires

Session 5-D - Question Detection in Spoken Conversations Using Textual Conversations
Anna Margolis and Mari Ostendorf
University of Washington

Session 5-E - Corpus & Document Analysis (short papers)
Chair: Bernardo Magnini

Session 5-E - Extending the Entity Grid with Entity-Specific Features
Micha Elsner¹ and Eugene Charniak²
¹University of Edinburgh, ²Brown University

Session 5-E - French TimeBank: An ISO-TimeML Annotated Reference Corpus
André Bittar¹, Pascal Amsili², Pascal Denis³, Laurence Danlos¹
¹Alpage, Université Paris Diderot, ²LLF, Université Paris Diderot, ³Alpage, INRIA

Session 5-E - Search in the Lost Sense of "Query": Question Formulation in Web Search Queries and its Temporal Changes
Bo Pang and Ravi Kumar
Yahoo! Research

Session 5-E - A Corpus of Scope-disambiguated English Text
Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen, Mary Swift
University of Rochester

Session 5-E - From Bilingual Dictionaries to Interlingual Document Representations
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi¹, Hal Daume III¹, Raghavendra Udupa²
¹University of Maryland, ²Microsoft Research

Session 6-A - Machine Translation (short papers)
Chair: Taro Watanabe

Session 6-A - AM-FM: A Semantic Framework for Translation Quality Assessment
Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li
Institute for Infocomm Research

Session 6-A - Automatic Evaluation of Chinese Translation Output: Word-Level or Character-Level?
Maoxi Li¹, Chengqing Zong¹, Hwee Tou Ng²
¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, ²National University of Singapore

Session 6-A - How Much Can We Gain from Supervised Word Alignment?
Jinxi Xu and Jinying Chen
BBN Technologies

Session 6-A - Word Alignment via Submodular Maximization over Matroids
Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes
University of Washington

Session 6-A - Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University

Session 6-A - Bayesian Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
Coskun Mermer¹ and Murat Saraclar²
¹TUBITAK-BILGEM, ²Bogazici University

Session 6-B - Syntax & Parsing (short papers)
Chair: Dan Klein

Session 6-B - Transition-based Dependency Parsing with Rich Non-local Features
Yue Zhang¹ and Joakim Nivre²
¹Cambridge University, ²Uppsala University

Session 6-B - Reversible Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars
Daniël de Kok, Barbara Plank, Gertjan van Noord
University of Groningen

Session 6-B - Joint Training of Dependency Parsing Filters through Latent Support Vector Machines
Colin Cherry¹ and Shane Bergsma²
¹National Research Council Canada, ²Johns Hopkins University

Session 6-B - Insertion Operator for Bayesian Tree Substitution Grammars
Hiroyuki Shindo, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corp.

Session 6-B - Language-Independent Parsing with Empty Elements
Shu Cai¹, David Chiang¹, Yoav Goldberg²
¹USC Information Sciences Institute, ²Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Session 6-B - Judging Grammaticality with Tree Substitution Grammar Derivations
Matt Post
Johns Hopkins University

Session 6-C - Summarization & Generation (short papers)
Chair: Dragomir Radev

Session 6-C - Query Snowball: A Co-occurrence-based Approach to Multi-document Summarization for Question Answering
Hajime Morita¹, Tetsuya Sakai², Manabu Okumura³
¹Tokyo Institute of Technology, ²Microsoft Research Asia, ³Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Session 6-C - Discrete vs. Continuous Rating Scales for Language Evaluation in NLP
Anja Belz and Eric Kow
University of Brighton

Session 6-C - Semi-Supervised Modeling for Prenominal Modifier Ordering
Margaret Mitchell¹, Aaron Dunlop², Brian Roark²
¹University of Aberdeen, ²Oregon Health and Science University

Session 6-C - Data-oriented Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation
Paul Piwek and Svetlana Stoyanchev
The Open University

Session 6-C - Towards Style Transformation from Written-Style to Audio-Style
Amjad Abu-Jbara¹, Barbara Rosario², Kent Lyons²
¹University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, ²Intel Labs

Session 6-C - Optimal and Syntactically-Informed Decoding for Monolingual Phrase-Based Alignment
Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown
Columbia University

Session 6-D - Information Extraction (short papers)
Chair: Mihai Surdeanu

Session 6-D - Can Document Selection Help Semi-supervised Learning? A Case Study On Event Extraction
Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman
New York University

Session 6-D - Relation Guided Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons
Tara McIntosh¹, Lars Yencken¹, James R. Curran², Timothy Baldwin³
¹NICTA, ²University of Sydney, ³University of Melbourne

Session 6-D - Model-Portability Experiments for Textual Temporal Analysis
Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens
K.U.Leuven

Session 6-D - End-to-End Relation Extraction Using Distant Supervision from External Semantic Repositories
Truc Vien T. Nguyen and Alessandro Moschitti
University of Trento

Session 6-D - Automatic Extraction of Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Detection of Negation and Speculation Scopes
Emilia Apostolova¹, Noriko Tomuro¹, Dina Demner-Fushman²
¹DePaul University, ²National Library of Medicine

Session 6-D - Coreference for Learning to Extract Relations: Yes Virginia, Coreference Matters
Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman, Ralph Weischedel
Raytheon BBN Technologies

Session 6-E - Semantics (short papers)
Chair: Deniz Yuret

Session 6-E - Corpus Expansion for Statistical Machine Translation with Semantic Role Label Substitution Rules
Qin Gao and Stephan Vogel
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Session 6-E - Scaling up Automatic Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Annotation
Lonneke van der Plas, Paola Merlo, James Henderson
University of Geneva

Session 6-E - Towards Tracking Semantic Change by Visual Analytics
Christian Rohrdantz, Annette Hautli, Thomas Mayer, Miriam Butt, Daniel A. Keim, Frans Plank
Universität Konstanz

Session 6-E - Improving Classification of Medical Assertions in Clinical Notes
Youngjun Kim¹, Ellen Riloff¹, Stéphane Meystre²
¹School of Computing, University of Utah, ²Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah

Session 6-E - ParaSense or How to Use Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation
Els Lefever¹, Véronique Hoste¹, Martine De Cock²
¹LT3, University College Ghent, Belgium, ²Ghent University, Belgium

Session 6-E - Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation
Dirk Hovy, Ashish Vaswani, Stephen Tratz, David Chiang, Eduard Hovy
USC's Information Sciences Institute

Coffee Break

Session 7-A - SMT: Phrase-based Models
Chair: Shankar Kumar

Session 7-A - Incremental Syntactic Language Models for Phrase-based Translation
Lane Schwartz¹, Chris Callison-Burch², William Schuler³, Stephen Wu⁴
¹Air Force Research Lab, ²Johns Hopkins University, ³Ohio State University, ⁴Mayo Clinic

Session 7-A - An Unsupervised Model for Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction
Graham Neubig¹, Taro Watanabe², Eiichiro Sumita², Shinsuke Mori³, Tatsuya Kawahara³
¹Kyoto University/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, ²National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, ³Kyoto University

Session 7-A - Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations
Markos Mylonakis and Khalil Sima'an
University of Amsterdam

Session 7-A - Phrase-Based Translation Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answer Archives
Guangyou Zhou, Li Cai, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Session 7-B - Parsing 2
Chair: Joakim Nivre

Session 7-B - Neutralizing Linguistically Problematic Annotations in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Evaluation
Roy Schwartz¹, Omri Abend¹, Roi Reichart², Ari Rappoport¹
¹The Hebrew University, ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 7-B - Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
Marco Kuhlmann¹, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez², Giorgio Satta³
¹Uppsala University, Sweden, ²Universidade da Coruña, Spain, ³University of Padua, Italy

Session 7-B - Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
University of Cambridge

Session 7-B - Web-Scale Features for Full-Scale Parsing
Mohit Bansal and Dan Klein
EECS, UC Berkeley

Session 7-C - Spoken Language Processing
Chair: Julia Hirschberg

Session 7-C - The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection
Simon Zwarts and Mark Johnson
Macquarie University

Session 7-C - Learning Sub-Word Units for Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Carolina Parada¹, Mark Dredze², Abhinav Sethy³, Ariya Rastrow¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, ²HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University, ³IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Session 7-C - Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech
Miao Chen¹ and Klaus Zechner²
¹Syracuse University, ²Educational Testing Service

Session 7-C - N-Best Rescoring Based on Pitch-accent Patterns
Je Hun Jeon¹, Wen Wang², Yang Liu¹
¹The University of Texas at Dallas, ²SRI International

Session 7-D - Natural Language Processing Applications
Chair: Tim Baldwin

Session 7-D - Lexically-Triggered Hidden Markov Models for Clinical Document Coding
Svetlana Kiritchenko¹ and Colin Cherry²
¹National Research Council Canada, ²National Research Council

Session 7-D - Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments
Michael Mohler¹, Razvan Bunescu², Rada Mihalcea¹
¹University of North Texas, ²Ohio University

Session 7-D - Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations
Sara Rosenthal and Kathleen McKeown
Columbia University

Session 7-D - Extracting Social Power Relationships from Natural Language
Philip Bramsen¹, Martha Escobar-Molano², Ami Patel³, Rafael Alonso⁴
¹SBTS, ², ³MIT, ⁴SET Corporation

Session 7-E - Coreference Resolution
Chair: Michael Strube

Session 7-E - Bootstrapping coreference resolution using word associations
Hamidreza Kobdani, Hinrich Schuetze, Michael Schiehlen, Hans Kamp
Stuttgart University

Session 7-E - Large-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical Models
Sameer Singh¹, Amarnag Subramanya², Fernando Pereira², Andrew McCallum¹
¹University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ²Google Inc.

Session 7-E - A Cross-Lingual ILP Solution to Zero Anaphora Resolution
Ryu Iida¹ and Massimo Poesio²
¹Tokyo Institute of Technology, ²Universita' di Trento

Session 7-E - Coreference Resolution with World Knowledge
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng
University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Invited Talk 2

How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think?
Lera Boroditsky

Coffee Break

Session 8-A - SMT: Tree-based Models
Chair: Daniel Marcu

Session 8-A - How to train your multi bottom-up tree transducer
Andreas Maletti
Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Session 8-A - Binarized Forest to String Translation
Hao Zhang¹, Licheng Fang², Peng Xu¹, Xiaoyun Wu¹
¹Google, ²University of Rochester

Session 8-A - Learning to Transform and Select Elementary Trees for Improved Syntax-based Machine Translations
Bing Zhao¹, Young-Suk Lee¹, Xiaoqiang Luo¹, Liu Li²
¹IBM, ²CMU

Session 8-A - Rule Markov Models for Fast Tree-to-String Translation
Ashish Vaswani¹, Haitao Mi², Liang Huang¹, David Chiang¹
¹USC/ISI, ²CAS/ICT and USC/ISI

Session 8-B - Morphology/POS Induction
Chair: Jirka Hana

Session 8-B - A Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process HMM for Unsupervised Part of Speech Induction
Phil Blunsom¹ and Trevor Cohn²
¹University of Oxford, ²University of Sheffield

Session 8-B - Using Deep Morphology to Improve Automatic Error Detection in Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth
Columbia University

Session 8-B - A Discriminative Model for Joint Morphological Disambiguation and Dependency Parsing
John Lee¹, Jason Naradowsky², David A. Smith²
¹City University of Hong Kong, ²University of Massachusetts Amherst

Session 8-B - Unsupervised Bilingual Morpheme Segmentation and Alignment with Context-rich Hidden Semi-Markov Models
Jason Naradowsky¹ and Kristina Toutanova²
¹University of Massachusetts, ²Microsoft

Session 8-C - Error Correction
Chair: Joel Tetreault

Session 8-C - Grammatical Error Correction with Alternating Structure Optimization
Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng
National University of Singapore

Session 8-C - A Graph Approach to Spelling Correction in Domain-Centric Search
Zhuowei Bao¹, Benny Kimelfeld², Yunyao Li²
¹University of Pennsylvania, ²IBM Research - Almaden

Session 8-C - Algorithm Selection and Model Adaptation for ESL Correction Tasks
Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth
UIUC

Session 8-C - Automated Whole Sentence Grammar Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model
Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy
University of California, San Diego

Session 8-D - Information Extraction
Chair: Razvan Bunescu

Session 8-D - A Generative Entity-Mention Model for Linking Entities with Knowledge Base
Xianpei Han and Le Sun
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Session 8-D - Simple supervised document geolocation with geodesic grids
Benjamin Wing and Jason Baldridge
The University of Texas at Austin

Session 8-D - Piggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
Stefan Rüd¹, Massimiliano Ciaramita², Jens Müller¹, Hinrich Schütze¹
¹IfNLP, ²Google

Session 8-D - Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates
Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky
Stanford University

Session 8-E - Discourse
Chair: Svetlana Stoyanchev

Session 8-E - Classifying arguments by scheme
Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Session 8-E - Underspecifying and Predicting Voice for Surface Realisation Ranking
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn
University of Stuttgart

Session 8-E - Recognizing Authority in Dialogue with an Integer Linear Programming Constrained Model
Elijah Mayfield and Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Carnegie Mellon University

Session 8-E - Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations
Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng, Min-Yen Kan
National University of Singapore

ACL Business Meeting

Coffee Break

Session 9-A - MT: Reordering Models
Chair: David Chiang

Session 9-A - Reordering Metrics for MT
Alexandra Birch and Miles Osborne
University of Edinburgh

Session 9-A - Reordering with Source Language Collocations
Zhanyi Liu¹, Haifeng Wang², Hua Wu², Ting Liu¹, Sheng Li¹
¹Harbin Institute of Technology, ²Baidu Inc.

Session 9-A - A Joint Sequence Translation Model with Integrated Reordering
Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser
University of Stuttgart

Session 9-B - Grammar
Chair: Lluis Marquez

Session 9-B - Integrating surprisal and uncertain-input models in online sentence comprehension: formal techniques and empirical results
Roger Levy
University of California at San Diego

Session 9-B - Metagrammar engineering: Towards systematic exploration of implemented grammars
Antske Fokkens
Saarland University

Session 9-B - Simple Unsupervised Grammar Induction from Raw Text with Cascaded Finite State Models
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge, Katrin Erk
The University of Texas at Austin

Session 9-C - Generation/Paraphrasing
Chair: Bill Dolan

Session 9-C - Extracting Paraphrases from Definition Sentences on the Web
Chikara Hashimoto¹, Kentaro Torisawa¹, Stijn De Saeger¹, Jun'ichi Kazama¹, Sadao Kurohashi²
¹National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, ²Kyoto University

Session 9-C - Learning From Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice
Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev
University of Michigan

Session 9-C - Ordering Prenominal Modifiers with a Reranking Approach
Jenny Liu and Aria Haghighi
MIT

Session 9-D - Event-Role Extraction
Chair: Dan Roth

Session 9-D - Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering
Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata
University of Edinburgh

Session 9-D - Using Cross-Entity Inference to Improve Event Extraction
Yu Hong, Jianfeng Zhang, Bin Ma, Jianmin Yao, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu
Soochow University

Session 9-D - Peeling Back the Layers: Detecting Event Role Fillers in Secondary Contexts
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff
University of Utah

Session 9-E - Knowledge Base Extension
Chair: Doug Downey

Session 9-E - Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges
Heng Ji¹ and Ralph Grishman²
¹City University of New York, ²New York University

Session 9-E - Nonlinear Evidence Fusion and Propagation for Hyponymy Relation Mining
Fan Zhang¹, Shuming Shi², Jing Liu¹, Shuqi Sun³, Chin-Yew Lin²
¹Nankai University, ²Microsoft Research Asia, ³

Life Time Achievement Award

Closing Session

Monday, June 20, 2011

Poster Session (Long and short papers)

L-1 A Pronoun Anaphora Resolution System based on Factorial Hidden Markov Models
Dingcheng Li¹, Tim Miller², William Schuler³
¹Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, ²Department of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, ³Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

L-2 Disentangling Chat with Local Coherence Models
Micha Elsner¹ and Eugene Charniak²
¹University of Edinburgh, ²Brown University

L-3 An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Kristy Boyer, Joseph Grafsgaard, Eun Young Ha, Robert Phillips, James Lester
North Carolina State University

L-4 Fine-Grained Class Label Markup of Search Queries
Joseph Reisinger¹ and Marius Pasca²
¹The University of Texas at Austin, ²Google

L-5 Creating a manually error-tagged and shallow-parsed learner corpus
Ryo Nagata¹, Edward Whittaker², Vera Sheinman²
¹Konan University, ²JIEM

L-6 Crowdsourcing Translation: Professional Quality from Non-Professionals
Omar F. Zaidan and Chris Callison-Burch
Johns Hopkins University

L-7 A Statistical Tree Annotator and Its Applications
Xiaoqiang Luo and Bing Zhao
IBM Research

L-8 Consistent Translation using Discriminative Learning - A Translation Memory-inspired Approach
Yanjun Ma¹, Yifan He², Andy Way², Josef van Genabith²
¹Baidu Inc., ²CNGL, School of Computing, Dublin City University

L-9 Machine Translation System Combination by Confusion Forest
Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

L-10 Hypothesis Mixture Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Nan Duan¹, Mu Li², Ming Zhou²
¹Tianjin University, ²Microsoft Research Asia

L-11 Minimum Bayes-risk System Combination
Jesús González-Rubio¹, Alfons Juan², Francisco Casacuberta²
¹Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, ²Universitat Politècnica de València

L-12 Adjoining Tree-to-String Translation
Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Yajuan Lü
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

L-13 Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
Institute for Infocomm Research

L-14 Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach
Preslav Nakov and Hwee Tou Ng
National University of Singapore

L-15 Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
Mohit Bansal¹, Chris Quirk², Robert Moore³
¹UC Berkeley, ²Microsoft Research, ³Google Research

L-16 Translationese and Its Dialects
Moshe Koppel¹ and Noam Ordan²
¹Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel, ²Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel

L-17 Rare Word Translation Extraction from Aligned Comparable Documents
Emmanuel Prochasson and Pascale Fung
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

L-18 Using Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico
FBK-IRST

L-19 Using Large Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora to Improve Coordination Disambiguation
Shane Bergsma, David Yarowsky, Kenneth Church
Johns Hopkins University

L-20 Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components
Moshe Koppel¹, Navot Akiva¹, Idan Dershowitz², Nachum Dershowitz³
¹Bar-Ilan University, ²Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ³Tel-Aviv University

L-21 Discovering Sociolinguistic Associations with Structured Sparsity
Jacob Eisenstein, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
CMU

L-22 Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia
Lev Ratinov¹, Dan Roth¹, Doug Downey², Mike Anderson³
¹University of Illinois, ²Northwestern University, ³Rexonomy

L-23 A Stacked Sub-Word Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Weiwei Sun
Saarland University

L-24 Language-independent compound splitting with morphological operations
Klaus Macherey¹, Andrew Dai², David Talbot¹, Ashok Popat¹, Franz Och¹
¹Google Inc., ²University of Edinburgh

L-25 Parsing the Internal Structure of Words: A New Paradigm for Chinese Word Segmentation
Zhongguo Li
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

L-26 A Simple Measure to Assess Non-response
Anselmo Peñas and Alvaro Rodrigo
UNED NLP & IR Group

L-27 Improving Question Recommendation by Exploiting Information Need
Shuguang Li and Suresh Manandhar
Computer Science Department, University of York

L-28 Semi-Supervised Frame-Semantic Parsing for Unknown Predicates
Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University

L-29 A Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Ivan Titov¹ and Alexandre Klementiev²
¹Saarland University, ²Johns Hopkins University

L-30 Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Relation Composition
Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan
The University of Texas at Dallas

L-31 Unsupervised Discovery of Domain-Specific Knowledge from Text
Dirk Hovy¹, Chunliang Zhang¹, Eduard Hovy¹, Anselmo Peñas²
¹Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, ²UNED NLP and IR Group, Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain

L-32 Latent Semantic Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation
Tim Van de Cruys¹ and Marianna Apidianaki²
¹RCEAL, University of Cambridge, ²Alpage, INRIA and University Paris 7

L-33 Confidence Driven Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Dan Goldwasser¹, Roi Reichart², James Clarke¹, Dan Roth¹
¹University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L-34 Aspect Ranking: Identifying Important Product Aspects from Online Consumer Reviews
Jianxing Yu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore

L-35 Collective Classification of Congressional Floor-Debate Transcripts
Clinton Burfoot, Steven Bird, Timothy Baldwin
University of Melbourne

L-36 Integrating history-length interpolation and classes in language modeling
Hinrich Schütze
IfNLP

L-37 Structural Topic Model for Latent Topical Structure Analysis
Hongning Wang, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

L-38 Automatic Labelling of Topic Models
Jey Han Lau¹, Karl Grieser², David Newman³, Timothy Baldwin¹
¹University of Melbourne/NICTA, ²University of Melbourne, ³UCI/NICTA

L-39 Using Bilingual Information for Cross-Language Document Summarization
Xiaojun Wan
Peking University

L-40 Exploiting Web-Derived Selectional Preference to Improve Statistical Dependency Parsing
Guangyou Zhou, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Li Cai
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Acedemy of Sciences

L-41 Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord
University of Groningen

L-42 Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging
Michael Auli¹ and Adam Lopez²
¹University of Edinburgh, ²Johns Hopkins University

L-43 Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features
Yuval Marton¹, Nizar Habash², Owen Rambow²
¹IBM, ²Columbia University

L-44 Partial Parsing from Bitext Projections
Prashanth Mannem and Aswarth Dara
IIIT-Hyderabad

L-45 Ranking Class Labels Using Query Sessions
Marius Pasca
Google Inc.

L-46 Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining
Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy
ISI/USC

L-47 Event Extraction as Dependency Parsing
David McClosky, Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher Manning
Stanford University

L-48 Extracting Comparative Entities and Predicates from Texts Using Comparative Type Classification
Seon Yang and Youngjoong Ko
Dong-A University

S-1 Types of Common-Sense Knowledge Needed for Recognizing Textual Entailment
Peter LoBue and Alexander Yates
Temple University

S-2 Modeling Wisdom of Crowds Using Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts
Derya Ozkan and Louis-Philippe Morency
USC

S-3 Language Use: What can it tell us?
Marjorie Freedman, Alex Baron, Vasin Punyakanok, Ralph Weischedel
Raytheon BBN Technologies

S-4 Automatic Detection and Correction of Errors in Dependency Treebanks
Alexander Volokh and Günter Neumann
DFKI

S-5 Temporal Evaluation
Naushad UzZaman and James Allen
University of Rochester

S-6 A Corpus for Modeling Morpho-Syntactic Agreement in Arabic: Gender, Number and Rationality
Sarah Alkuhlani and Nizar Habash
Columbia University

S-7 NULEX: An Open-License Broad Coverage Lexicon
Clifton McFate and Kenneth Forbus
Northwestern University

S-8 Even the Abstract have Color: Consensus in Word-Colour Associations
Saif Mohammad
National Research Council Canada

S-9 Detection of Agreement and Disagreement in Broadcast Conversations
Wen Wang¹, Sibel Yaman², Kristin Precoda¹, Colleen Richey¹, Geoffrey Raymond³
¹SRI International, ²IBM, ³UCSB

S-10 Dealing with Spurious Ambiguity in Learning ITG-based Word Alignment
Shujian Huang¹, Stephan Vogel², Jiajun Chen¹
¹State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, ²Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy

S-11 Clause Restructuring For SMT Not Absolutely Helpful
Susan Howlett and Mark Dras
Macquarie University

S-12 Improving On-line Handwritten Recognition using Translation Models in Multimodal Interactive Machine Translation
Vicent Alabau¹, Alberto Sanchis², Francisco Casacuberta²
¹Institut Tecnològic d’Informàtica Universitat Politècnica de València, ²Universitat Politècnica de València

S-13 Monolingual Alignment by Edit Rate Computation on Sentential Paraphrase Pairs
Houda Bouamor, Aurélien Max, Anne Vilnat
LIMSI & Univ. Paris-Sud

S-14 Terminal-Aware Synchronous Binarization
Licheng Fang, Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea
University of Rochester

S-15 Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation by Mining Unseen Words
Hal Daume III¹ and Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi²
¹Univeristy of Maryland, ²University of Maryland

S-16 Issues Concerning Decoding with Synchronous Context-free Grammar
Tagyoung Chung, Licheng Fang, Daniel Gildea
University of Rochester

S-17 Improving Decoding Generalization for Tree-to-String Translation
Jingbo Zhu and Tong Xiao
Northeastern University, China

S-18 Discriminative Feature-Tied Mixture Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation
Bing Xiang and Abraham Ittycheriah
IBM

S-19 Is Machine Translation Ripe for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification?
Kevin Duh, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata
NTT

S-20 Reordering Constraint Based on Document-Level Context
Takashi Onishi, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

S-21 Confidence-Weighted Learning of Factored Discriminative Language Models
Viet Ha Thuc¹ and Nicola Cancedda²
¹Computer Science Department, University of Iowa, ²Xerox Research Centre Europe

S-22 On-line Language Model Biasing for Statistical Machine Translation
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan
Raytheon BBN Technologies

S-23 Reordering Modeling using Weighted Alignment Matrices
Wang Ling¹, Tiago Luís², João Graça³, Isabel Trancoso², Luísa Coheur²
¹LTI,CMU/INESC-ID/IST, ²INESC-ID/IST, ³INESC-ID

S-24 Two Easy Improvements to Lexical Weighting
David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Michael Pust
USC Information Sciences Institute

S-25 Why Initialization Matters for IBM Model 1: Multiple Optima and Non-Strict Convexity
Kristina Toutanova and Michel Galley
Microsoft Research

S-26 "I Thou Thee, Thou Traitor": Predicting Formal vs. Informal Address in English Literature
Manaal Faruqui¹ and Sebastian Padó²
¹Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, ²Heidelberg University

S-27 Clustering Comparable Corpora For Bilingual Lexicon Extraction
Bo Li¹, Eric Gaussier¹, Akiko Aizawa²
¹UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS, France, ²National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

S-28 Identifying Word Translations from Comparable Corpora Using Latent Topic Models
Ivan Vulić, Wim De Smet, Marie-Francine Moens
K.U. Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Leuven, Belgium

S-29 Why Press Backspace? Understanding User Input Behaviors in Chinese Pinyin Input Method
Yabin Zheng¹, Lixing Xie¹, Zhiyuan Liu¹, Maosong Sun¹, Yang Zhang², Liyun Ru²
¹Tsinghua University, ²Sogou Inc.

S-30 Automatic Assessment of Coverage Quality in Intelligence Reports
Samuel Brody and Paul Kantor
Rutgers University

S-31 Putting it Simply: a Context-Aware Approach to Lexical Simplification
Or Biran¹, Samuel Brody², Noemie Elhadad¹
¹Columbia University, ²Rutgers University

S-32 Automatically Predicting Peer-Review Helpfulness
Wenting Xiong¹ and Diane Litman²
¹University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computer Science, ²University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computer Science & Learning Research and Development Center

S-33 They Can Help: Using Crowdsourcing to Improve the Evaluation of Grammatical Error Detection Systems
Nitin Madnani¹, Martin Chodorow², Joel Tetreault¹, Alla Rozovskaya³
¹Educational Testing Service, ²CUNY Hunter College, ³University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

S-34 Typed Graph Models for Learning Latent Attributes from Names
Delip Rao and David Yarowsky
JHU

S-35 Interactive Group Suggesting for Twitter
Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu
University of Texas at Dallas

S-36 Improved Modeling of Out-Of-Vocabulary Words Using Morphological Classes
Thomas Mueller and Hinrich Schuetze
IMS Universität Stuttgart

S-37 Pointwise Prediction for Robust, Adaptable Japanese Morphological Analysis
Graham Neubig, Yosuke Nakata, Shinsuke Mori
Kyoto University

S-38 Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Transliteration with Synchronous Adaptor Grammars
Yun Huang¹, Min Zhang², Chew Lim Tan¹
¹Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, ²Human Language Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR

S-39 Fully Unsupervised Word Segmentation with BVE and MDL
Daniel Hewlett and Paul Cohen
University of Arizona

S-40 An Empirical Evaluation of Data-Driven Paraphrase Generation Techniques
Donald Metzler, Eduard Hovy, Chunliang Zhang
University of Southern California

S-41 Identification of Domain-Specific Senses in a Machine-Readable Dictionary
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
Univ. of Yamanashi

S-42 A Probabilistic Modeling Framework for Lexical Entailment
Eyal Shnarch, Jacob Goldberger, Ido Dagan
Bar Ilan University

S-43 Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political Debates
Paula Carvalho¹, Luís Sarmento², Jorge Teixeira², Mário J. Silva¹
¹Lasige, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, ²Labs Sapo UP & University of Porto

S-44 Semi-supervised latent variable models for sentence-level sentiment analysis
Oscar Täckström¹ and Ryan McDonald²
¹SICS / Uppsala University, ²Google, Inc.

S-45 Identifying Noun Product Features that Imply Opinions
Lei Zhang and Bing Liu
University of Illinois at Chicago

S-46 Identifying Sarcasm in Twitter: A Closer Look
Roberto González-Ibáñez, Smaranda Muresan, Nina Wacholder
Rutgers University

S-47 Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Modern Standard Arabic
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed¹, Mona Diab², Mohammed Korayem³
¹Department of Linguistics and School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, ²Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, NYC, USA, ³School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

S-48 Identifying the Semantic Orientation of Foreign Words
Ahmed Hassan, Amjad AbuJbara, Rahul Jha, Dragomir Radev
University of Michigan Ann Arbor

S-49 Hierarchical Text Classification with Latent Concepts
Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang, Zhao Liu, Jinlong Zhou
Fudan University

S-50 Semantic Information and Derivation Rules for Robust Dialogue Act Detection in a Spoken Dialogue System
Wei-Bin Liang¹, Chung-Hsien Wu¹, Chia-Ping Chen²
¹Dept. of CSIE, National Cheng Kung University, ²Dept. of CSE, National Sun Yat-sen University

S-51 Predicting Relative Prominence in Noun-Noun Compounds
Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore
AT&T Research

S-52 Contrasting Multi-Lingual Prosodic Cues to Predict Verbal Feedback for Rapport
Siwei Wang¹ and Gina-Anne Levow²
¹University of Chicago, ²University of Washington

S-53 Generalized Interpolation in Decision Tree LM
Denis Filimonov¹ and Mary Harper²
¹University of Maryland, HLTCOE Johns Hopkins University, ²University of Maryland

S-54 A Scalable Probabilistic Classifier for Language Modeling
Joel Lang
University of Edinburgh

S-55 Chinese sentence segmentation as comma classification
Nianwen Xue and Yaqin Yang
Brandeis University

S-56 Learning Condensed Feature Representations from Large Unsupervised Data Sets for Supervised Learning
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Masaaki Nagata
NTT CS Lab.

S-57 Probabilistic Document Modeling for Syntax Removal in Text Summarization
William M. Darling and Fei Song
School of Computer Science, University of Guelph

S-58 Comparative News Summarization Using Linear Programming
Xiaojiang Huang, Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao
Peking University

S-59 Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Hidden Markov Models for Task-Oriented Natural Language Generation
Nina Dethlefs¹ and Heriberto Cuayahuitl²
¹University of Bremen, ²German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

S-60 Does Size Matter – How Much Data is Required to Train a REG Algorithm?
Mariët Theune¹, Ruud Koolen², Emiel Krahmer², Sander Wubben²
¹University of Twente, ²Tilburg University

S-61 Simple English Wikipedia: A New Text Simplification Task
William Coster and David Kauchak
Pomona College

S-62 A Hierarchical Model of Web Summaries
Yves Petinot, Kathleen McKeown, Kapil Thadani
Columbia University

S-63 Unary Constraints for Efficient Context-Free Parsing
Nathan Bodenstab¹, Kristy Hollingshead², Brian Roark¹
¹CSLU/OHSU, ²University of Maryland

S-64 Data point selection for cross-language adaptation of dependency parsers
Anders Søgaard
University of Copenhagen

S-65 Getting the Most out of Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Jinho D. Choi¹ and Martha Palmer²
¹University of Colorado at Boulder, ²Getting the Most out of Transition-based Dependency Parsing

S-66 Using Derivation Trees for Treebank Error Detection
Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania

S-67 Improving Dependency Parsing with Semantic Classes
Eneko Agirre¹, Kepa Bengoetxea¹, Koldo Gojenola¹, Joakim Nivre²
¹University of the Basque Country, ²University of Uppsala

S-68 Joint Hebrew Segmentation and Parsing using a PCFGLA Lattice Parser
Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad
Ben Gurion University

S-69 An Ensemble Model that Combines Syntactic and Semantic Clustering for Discriminative Dependency Parsing
Gholamreza Haffari¹, Marzieh Razavi², Anoop Sarkar²
¹Monash University, ²Simon Fraser University

S-70 Better Automatic Treebank Conversion Using A Feature-Based Approach
Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu, Minghan Hu
Northeastern University

S-71 The Surprising Variance in Shortest-Derivation Parsing
Mohit Bansal and Dan Klein
EECS, UC Berkeley

S-72 Entity Set Expansion using Topic information
Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Kenji Imamura, Genichiro Kikui
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, NTT Corporation

ACL-HLT Student Session 2011: Program

ST-1 Word Alignment Combination over Multiple Word Segmentation
Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Boyuan Li, Yinggong Zhao
State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology of Nanjing University

ST-2 Sentence Ordering Driven by Local and Global Coherence for Summary Generation
Renxian Zhang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

ST-3 Pre- and Postprocessing for Statistical Machine Translation into Germanic Languages
Sara Stymne
Linköping University

ST-4 Exploring Entity Relations for Named Entity Disambiguation
Danuta Ploch
DAI-Lab, TU Berlin

ST-5 Extracting and Classifying Urdu Multiword Expressions
Annette Hautli and Sebastian Sulger
University of Konstanz

ST-6 A Latent Topic Extracting Method based on Events in a Document and its Application
Risa Kitajima and Ichiro Kobayashi
Ochanomizu University

ST-7 Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation using Tree Automata and Tree Transducers
Daniel Emilio Beck
Federal University of São Carlos

ST-8 ConsentCanvas: Automatic Texturing for Improved Readability in End-User License Agreements
Oliver Schneider and Alex Garnett
University of British Columbia

ST-9 Disambiguating temporal-contrastive connectives for machine translation
Thomas Meyer
Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

ST-10 PsychoSentiWordNet
Amitava Das
Jadavpur University

ST-11 Optimistic Backtracking - A Backtracking Overlay for Deterministic Incremental Parsing
Gisle Ytrestøl
Department of Informatics / University of Oslo

ST-12 An Error Analysis of Relation Extraction in Social Media Documents
Gregory Brown
University of Colorado at Boulder

ST-13 Effects of Noun Phrase Bracketing in Dependency Parsing and Machine Translation
Nathan Green
Charles University

ST-14 Towards a Framework for Abstractive Summarization of Multimodal Documents
Charles Greenbacker
University of Delaware

ST-15 Sentiment Analysis of Citations using Sentence Structure-Based Features
Awais Athar
University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory

ST-16 Combining Indicators of Allophony
Luc Boruta
Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ALPAGE, UMR-I 001 INRIA, F-75205, Paris, France & LSCP, Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, F-75005, Paris, France

ST-17 Turn-Taking Cues in a Human Tutoring Corpus
Heather Friedberg
University of Pittsburgh

ST-18 Predicting Clicks in a Vocabulary Learning System
Aaron Michelony
UC Santa Cruz

ST-19 Exploiting Morphology in Turkish Named Entity Recognition System
Reyyan Yeniterzi
Carnegie Mellon University

ST-20 Social Network Extraction from Texts: A Thesis Proposal
Apoorv Agarwal
Columbia University

ST-21 Automatic Headline Generation using Character Cross-Correlation
Fahad Alotaiby
King Saud University

ST-22 K-means Clustering with Feature Hashing
Hajime Senuma
University of Tokyo

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