13th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for computational Linguistics

13th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for computational Linguistics


Avignon France April 23 - 27 2012



Accepted Papers

Oral presentations:

  • A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO UNSUPERVISED SEMANTIC ROLE INDUCTION
    Ivan Titov and Alexandre Klementiev
  • SPECTRAL LEARNING IN NON-DETERMINISTIC DEPENDENCY PARSING
    Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle and Xavier Carreras
  • ADAPTATION OF STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION MODEL FOR CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN A SERVICE CONTEXT
    Vassilina Nikoulina, Bogomil Kovachev, Nikolaos Lagos and Christof Monz
  • AN UNSUPERVISED DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK APPROACH TO MEASURING SPEECH STYLE ACCOMMODATION
    Mahaveer Jain, John McDonough, Gahgene Gweon, Bhiksha Raj and Carolyn Rosé
  • ANSWER SENTENCE RETRIEVAL BY MATCHING DEPENDENCY PATHS ACQUIRED FROM QUESTION/ANSWER SENTENCE PAIRS
    Michael Kaisser
  • AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SUBJECT ELLIPSIS IN SPANISH
    Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Ruslan Mitkov
  • BEHIND THE ARTICLE: RECOGNIZING DIALOG ACTS IN WIKIPEDIA TALK PAGES
    Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych and Yevgen Chebotar
  • CAN CLICK PATTERNS ACROSS USER'S QUERY LOGS PREDICT ANSWERS TO DEFINITION QUESTIONS?
    Alejandro Figueroa
  • CHARACTER-BASED KERNELS FOR NOVELISTIC PLOT STRUCTURE
    Micha Elsner
  • CHARACTER-BASED PIVOT TRANSLATION FOR UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES AND DOMAINS
    Jörg Tiedemann
  • COMPENSATING FOR ANNOTATION ERRORS IN TRAINING A RELATION EXTRACTOR
    Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman
  • COMPOSING EXTENDED TOP-DOWN TREE TRANSDUCERS
    Aurelie Lagoutte, Fabienne Braune, Andreas Maletti and Daniel Quernheim
  • COMPUTING LATTICE BLEU ORACLE SCORES FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
    Artem Sokolov, Guillaume Wisniewski, Francois Yvon
  • CROSS-FRAMEWORK EVALUATION FOR STATISTICAL PARSING
    Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre and Evelina Andersson
  • DEPENDENCY PARSING OF HUNGARIAN: BASELINE RESULTS AND CHALLENGES
    Richárd Farkas and Veronika Vincze
  • DEPENDENCY PARSING WITH UNDIRECTED GRAPHS
    Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Daniel Fernández-González
  • DETERMINING FINE-GRAINED INFORMATION STATUS OF NOUN PHRASES
    Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng
  • DETERMINING THE PLACEMENT OF GERMAN VERBS IN ENGLISH–TO–GERMAN SMT
    Anita Gojun and Alexander Fraser
  • DOES MORE DATA ALWAYS YIELD BETTER TRANSLATIONS?
    Guillem Gascó, Martha-Alicia Rocha, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer and Francisco Casacuberta
  • DUALSUM: A TOPIC-MODEL BASED APPROACH FOR UPDATE SUMMARIZATION
    Jean-Yves Delort and Enrique Alfonseca
  • ENTAILMENT ABOVE THE WORD LEVEL IN DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS
    Marco Baroni, Raffaella Bernardi, Ngoc-Quynh Do and Chung-Chieh Shan
  • EVALUATING DISTRIBUTIONAL MODELS OF SEMANTICS FOR SYNTACTICALLY INVARIANT INFERENCE
    Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn
  • FRAMEWORK OF SEMANTIC ROLE ASSIGNMENT BASED ON EXTENDED LEXICAL CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE: COMPARISON WITH VERBNET AND FRAMENET
    Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Yusuke Miyao and Akiko Aizawa
  • GENERATION OF LANDMARK-BASED NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS FROM OPEN-SOURCE DATA
    Markus Dräger and Alexander Koller
  • IDENTIFYING BROKEN PLURALS, IRREGULAR GENDER, AND RATIONALITY IN ARABIC TEXT
    Sarah Alkuhlani and Nizar Habash
  • INCORPORATING LEXICAL PRIORS INTO TOPIC MODELS
    Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume III and Raghavendra Udupa
  • LARGE-MARGIN LEARNING OF SUBMODULAR SUMMARIZATION MODELS
    Ruben Sipos, Pannaga Shivaswamy and Thorsten Joachims
  • LEARNING FOR MICROBLOGS WITH DISTANT SUPERVISION: POLITICAL FORECASTING WITH TWITTER
    Micol Marchetti-Bowick and Nathanael Chambers
  • LEARNING FROM EVOLVING DATA STREAMS: ONLINE TRIAGE OF BUG REPORTS
    Grzegorz Chrupala
  • LEXICAL SURPRISAL AS A GENERAL PREDICTOR OF READING TIME
    Irene Fernandez Monsalve, Stefan Frank and Gabriella Vigliocco
  • MANAGING UNCERTAINTY IN SEMANTIC TAGGING
    Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub and Vincent Kríž
  • MODELING INFLECTION AND WORD-FORMATION IN SMT
    Alexander Fraser, Marion Weller, Aoife Cahill and Fabienne Cap
  • NOT AS AWFUL AS IT SEEMS: EXPLAINING GERMAN CASE THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN FLUID CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR
    Remi van Trijp
  • POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS FOR PARAPHRASES EXTRACTED FROM BILINGUAL CORPORA
    Spyros Martzoukos and Christof Monz
  • PROBABILISTIC HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING OF MORPHOLOGICAL PARADIGMS
    Burcu Can and Suresh Manandhar
  • RECALL-ORIENTED LEARNING OF NAMED ENTITIES IN ARABIC WIKIPEDIA
    Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer and Noah A. Smith
  • SMART PARADIGMS AND THE PREDICTABILITY AND COMPLEXITY OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY
    Grégoire Détrez and Aarne Ranta
  • SOFIE: GENERATING IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS FROM COMPUTER VISION DETECTIONS
    Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Karl Stratos, Kota Yamaguchi, Xufeng Han, Hal Daume III, Alex Berg, Tamara Berg and Alyssa Mensch
  • STRUCTURAL AND TOPICAL DIMENSIONS IN MULTI-TASK PATENT TRANSLATION
    Katharina Waeschle and Stefan Riezler
  • SYNTAX-BASED WORD ORDERING INCORPORATING A LARGE-SCALE LANGUAGE MODEL
    Yue Zhang, Graeme Blackwood and Stephen Clark
  • THE BEST OF BOTHWORLDS – A GRAPH-BASED COMPLETION MODEL FOR TRANSITION-BASED PARSERS
    Bernd Bohnet and Jonas Kuhn
  • TO WHAT EXTENT DOES SENTENCE-INTERNAL REALISATION REFLECT DISCOURSE CONTEXT? A STUDY ON WORD ORDER
    Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill and Jonas Kuhn
  • TOWARD STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION WITHOUT PARALLEL CORPORA
    Alexandre Klementiev, Ann Irvine, Chris Callison-Burch and David Yarowsky
  • TOWARDS A MODEL OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL ADDRESS IN ENGLISH
    Manaal Faruqui and Sebastian Pado
  • TREE REPRESENTATIONS IN PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR EXTENDED NAMED ENTITIES DETECTION
    Marco Dinarelli and Sophie Rosset
  • UNSUPERVISED DETECTION OF DOWNWARD-ENTAILING OPERATORS BY MAXIMIZING CLASSIFICATION CERTAINTY
    Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn
  • VALIDATION OF SUB-SENTENTIAL PARAPHRASES ACQUIRED FROM PARALLEL MONOLINGUAL CORPORA
    Houda Bouamor, Aurélien Max and Anne Vilnat
  • WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? — LINKING EVENTS AND RELATIONS TO TIMESTAMPS
    Dirk Hovy, James Fan, Alfio Gliozzo, Siddharth Patwardhan and Christopher Welty

Poster Presentations

  • A PROBABILISTIC MODEL OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FROM UTTERANCES AND MEANINGS
    Tom Kwiatkowski, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater and Luke Zettlemoyer
  • ACTIVE LEARNING FOR INTERACTIVE MACHINE TRANSLATION
    Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez and Francisco Casacuberta
  • ADAPTATION OF TRANSLATION MODELS TO TRANSLATIONESE
    Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner
  • UBY - A LARGE-SCALE UNIFIED LEXICAL-SEMANTIC RESOURCE BASED ON LMF
    Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer and Christian Wirth
  • ASPECTUAL TYPE AND TEMPORAL RELATION CLASSIFICATION
    Francisco Costa and António Branco
  • AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SHORT INFORMATIVE SENTIMENT SUMMARIES
    Andrea Glaser and Hinrich Schuetze
  • BOOTSTRAPPED TRAINING OF EVENT EXTRACTION CLASSIFIERS
    Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff
  • BOOTSTRAPPING EVENTS AND RELATIONS FROM TEXT
    Ting Liu and Tomek Strzalkowski
  • CLEX: A LEXICON FOR EXPLORING COLOR, CONCEPT AND EMOTION ASSOCIATIONS IN LANGUAGE
    Svitlana Volkova, Bill Dolan and Theresa Wilson
  • COMBINING TREE STRUCTURES, FLAT FEATURES AND PATTERNS FOR BIOMEDICAL RELATION EXTRACTION
    Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury and Alberto Lavelli
  • COORDINATION STRUCTURE ANALYSIS USING DUAL DECOMPOSITION
    Atsushi Hanamoto, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii
  • CUTTING THE LONG TAIL: HYBRID LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TRANSLATION STYLE ADAPTATION
    Arianna Bisazza and Marcello Federico
  • DETECTING HIGHLY CONFIDENT WORD TRANSLATIONS FROM COMPARABLE CORPORA WITHOUT ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
    Ivan Vulić and Marie-Francine Moens
  • EFFICIENT PARSING WITH LINEAR CONTEXT-FREE REWRITING SYSTEMS
    Andreas van Cranenburgh
  • EVALUATING LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING ACCURACY WITH RESPECT TO OBJECTIVE OUTCOMES IN A DIALOGUE SYSTEM
    Myroslava Dzikovska, Peter Bell, Amy Isard and Johanna Moore
  • EVALUATING MEASURES OF CONTEXTUAL FITNESS USING ERROR CONTEXTS EXTRACTED FROM THE WIKIPEDIA REVISION HISTORY
    Torsten Zesch
  • EXPERIMENTING WITH DISTANT SUPERVISION FOR EMOTION CLASSIFICATION
    Matthew Purver and Stuart Battersby
  • EXTENDING THE ENTITY-BASED COHERENCE MODEL WITH MULTIPLE RANKS
    Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst
  • FEATURE-RICH PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MORPHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX LANGUAGES
    Georgi Georgiev, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova and Preslav Nakov
  • GENERALIZATION METHODS FOR IN-DOMAIN AND CROSS-DOMAIN OPINION HOLDER EXTRACTION
    Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
  • INSTANCE-DRIVEN ATTACHMENT OF SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS OVER CONCEPTUAL HIERARCHIES
    Janara Christensen and Marius Pasca
  • JOINT SATISFACTION OF SYNTACTIC AND PRAGMATIC CONSTRAINTS IMPROVES INCREMENTAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
    Andreas Peldszus, Okko Buß, Timo Baumann and David Schlangen
  • LEARNING HOW TO CONJUGATE THE ROMANIAN VERB. RULES FOR REGULAR AND PARTIALLY IRREGULAR VERBS
    Liviu P. Dinu, Vlad Niculae and Octavia-Maria Șulea
  • PERPLEXITY MINIMIZATION FOR TRANSLATION MODEL DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
    Rico Sennrich
  • SKIP N-GRAMS AND RANKING FUNCTIONS FOR PREDICTING SCRIPT EVENTS
    Bram Jans, Steven Bethard, Ivan Vulić and Marie-Francine Moens
  • SUBCAT-LMF: FLESHING OUT A STANDARDIZED FORMAT FOR SUBCATEGORIZATION FRAME INTEROPERABILITY ACROSS LANGUAGES
    Judith Eckle-Kohler and Iryna Gurevych
  • THE EFFECT OF DOMAIN AND TEXT TYPE ON TEXT PREDICTION QUALITY
    Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Helmer Strik and Lou Boves
  • THE IMPACT OF SPELLING ERRORS ON PATENT SEARCH
    Dennis Hoppe, Benno Stein and Tim Gollub
  • THE PROBLEM WITH KAPPA
    David Martin Ward Powers
  • USER EDITS CLASSIFICATION USING DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORIES
    Amit Bronner and Christof Monz
  • USER PARTICIPATION PREDICTION IN ONLINE FORUMS
    Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu
  • WEB-BASED SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES INTERRING RELATIONS FROM PART-OF-SPEECH N-GRAM DATA
    Hyeju Jang and Jack Mostow
  • WEBCAGE -- A WEB-HARVESTED CORPUS ANNOTATED WITH GERMANET SENSES
    Verena Henrich, Erhard Hinrichs and Tatiana Vodolazova
  • WORD SENSE INDUCTION FOR NOVEL SENSE DETECTION
    Jey Han Lau, Paul Cook, Diana McCarthy, David Newman and Timothy Baldwin