Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Jan Hajič, Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark, Joakim Nivre (Editors)



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Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Jan Hajič | Sandra Carberry | Stephen Clark | Joakim Nivre

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Efficient Third-Order Dependency Parsers
Terry Koo | Michael Collins

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Dependency Parsing and Projection Based on Word-Pair Classification
Wenbin Jiang | Qun Liu

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Bitext Dependency Parsing with Bilingual Subtree Constraints
Wenliang Chen | Jun’ichi Kazama | Kentaro Torisawa

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Computing Weakest Readings
Alexander Koller | Stefan Thater

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Identifying Generic Noun Phrases
Nils Reiter | Anette Frank

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Structural Semantic Relatedness: A Knowledge-Based Method to Named Entity Disambiguation
Xianpei Han | Jun Zhao

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Correcting Errors in Speech Recognition with Articulatory Dynamics
Frank Rudzicz

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Learning to Adapt to Unknown Users: Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Srinivasan Janarthanam | Oliver Lemon

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A Risk Minimization Framework for Extractive Speech Summarization
Shih-Hsiang Lin | Berlin Chen

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The Human Language Project: Building a Universal Corpus of the World’s Languages
Steven Abney | Steven Bird

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Bilingual Lexicon Generation Using Non-Aligned Signatures
Daphna Shezaf | Ari Rappoport

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Automatic Evaluation Method for Machine Translation Using Noun-Phrase Chunking
Hiroshi Echizen-ya | Kenji Araki

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Open Information Extraction Using Wikipedia
Fei Wu | Daniel S. Weld

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SystemT: An Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction
Laura Chiticariu | Rajasekar Krishnamurthy | Yunyao Li | Sriram Raghavan | Frederick Reiss | Shivakumar Vaithyanathan

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Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
David Elson | Nicholas Dames | Kathleen McKeown

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Pseudo-Word for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Xiangyu Duan | Min Zhang | Haizhou Li

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Hierarchical Search for Word Alignment
Jason Riesa | Daniel Marcu

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“Was It Good? It Was Provocative.” Learning the Meaning of Scalar Adjectives
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Christopher D. Manning | Christopher Potts

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Importance-Driven Turn-Bidding for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ethan Selfridge | Peter Heeman

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Entity-Based Local Coherence Modelling Using Topological Fields
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung | Gerald Penn

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Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure
Jeff Mitchell | Mirella Lapata | Vera Demberg | Frank Keller

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Rebanking CCGbank for Improved NP Interpretation
Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran | Johan Bos

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BabelNet: Building a Very Large Multilingual Semantic Network
Roberto Navigli | Simone Paolo Ponzetto

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Fully Unsupervised Core-Adjunct Argument Classification
Omri Abend | Ari Rappoport

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Towards Open-Domain Semantic Role Labeling
Danilo Croce | Cristina Giannone | Paolo Annesi | Roberto Basili

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A Bayesian Method for Robust Estimation of Distributional Similarities
Jun’ichi Kazama | Stijn De Saeger | Kow Kuroda | Masaki Murata | Kentaro Torisawa

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Recommendation in Internet Forums and Blogs
Jia Wang | Qing Li | Yuanzhu Peter Chen | Zhangxi Lin

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Learning Phrase-Based Spelling Error Models from Clickthrough Data
Xu Sun | Jianfeng Gao | Daniel Micol | Chris Quirk

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Inducing Domain-Specific Semantic Class Taggers from (Almost) Nothing
Ruihong Huang | Ellen Riloff

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Learning 5000 Relational Extractors
Raphael Hoffmann | Congle Zhang | Daniel S. Weld

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Unsupervised Ontology Induction from Text
Hoifung Poon | Pedro Domingos

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Exploring Syntactic Structural Features for Sub-Tree Alignment Using Bilingual Tree Kernels
Jun Sun | Min Zhang | Chew Lim Tan

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Discriminative Pruning for Discriminative ITG Alignment
Shujie Liu | Chi-Ho Li | Ming Zhou

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Fine-Grained Tree-to-String Translation Rule Extraction
Xianchao Wu | Takuya Matsuzaki | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Accurate Context-Free Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Timothy A. D. Fowler | Gerald Penn

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Faster Parsing by Supertagger Adaptation
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | Jessika Roesner | Tim Dawborn | James Haggerty | James R. Curran | Stephen Clark

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Using Smaller Constituents Rather Than Sentences in Active Learning for Japanese Dependency Parsing
Manabu Sassano | Sadao Kurohashi

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Conditional Random Fields for Word Hyphenation
Nikolaos Trogkanis | Charles Elkan

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Enhanced Word Decomposition by Calibrating the Decision Threshold of Probabilistic Models and Using a Model Ensemble
Sebastian Spiegler | Peter A. Flach

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Word Representations: A Simple and General Method for Semi-Supervised Learning
Joseph Turian | Lev-Arie Ratinov | Yoshua Bengio

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Identifying Text Polarity Using Random Walks
Ahmed Hassan | Dragomir R. Radev

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Sentiment Learning on Product Reviews via Sentiment Ontology Tree
Wei Wei | Jon Atle Gulla

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Employing Personal/Impersonal Views in Supervised and Semi-Supervised Sentiment Classification
Shoushan Li | Chu-Ren Huang | Guodong Zhou | Sophia Yat Mei Lee

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A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Method for Selectional Preferences
Alan Ritter | Mausam | Oren Etzioni

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Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

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Improving the Use of Pseudo-Words for Evaluating Selectional Preferences
Nathanael Chambers | Daniel Jurafsky

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Syntax-to-Morphology Mapping in Factored Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation from English to Turkish
Reyyan Yeniterzi | Kemal Oflazer

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Hindi-to-Urdu Machine Translation through Transliteration
Nadir Durrani | Hassan Sajjad | Alexander Fraser | Helmut Schmid

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Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out
Joern Wuebker | Arne Mauser | Hermann Ney

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Efficient Staggered Decoding for Sequence Labeling
Nobuhiro Kaji | Yasuhiro Fujiwara | Naoki Yoshinaga | Masaru Kitsuregawa

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Minimized Models and Grammar-Informed Initialization for Supertagging with Highly Ambiguous Lexicons
Sujith Ravi | Jason Baldridge | Kevin Knight

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Practical Very Large Scale CRFs
Thomas Lavergne | Olivier Cappé | François Yvon

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On the Computational Complexity of Dominance Links in Grammatical Formalisms
Sylvain Schmitz

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Optimal Rank Reduction for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two
Benoît Sagot | Giorgio Satta

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The Importance of Rule Restrictions in CCG
Marco Kuhlmann | Alexander Koller | Giorgio Satta

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Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization
Emily Pitler | Annie Louis | Ani Nenkova

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Identifying Non-Explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-Based Summarization.
Vahed Qazvinian | Dragomir R. Radev

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Automatic Generation of Story Highlights
Kristian Woodsend | Mirella Lapata

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Sentence and Expression Level Annotation of Opinions in User-Generated Discourse
Cigdem Toprak | Niklas Jakob | Iryna Gurevych

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Generating Focused Topic-Specific Sentiment Lexicons
Valentin Jijkoun | Maarten de Rijke | Wouter Weerkamp

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Evaluating Multilanguage-Comparability of Subjectivity Analysis Systems
Jungi Kim | Jin-Ji Li | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Error Detection for Statistical Machine Translation Using Linguistic Features
Deyi Xiong | Min Zhang | Haizhou Li

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TrustRank: Inducing Trust in Automatic Translations via Ranking
Radu Soricut | Abdessamad Echihabi

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Bridging SMT and TM with Translation Recommendation
Yifan He | Yanjun Ma | Josef van Genabith | Andy Way

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On Jointly Recognizing and Aligning Bilingual Named Entities
Yufeng Chen | Chengqing Zong | Keh-Yih Su

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Generating Templates of Entity Summaries with an Entity-Aspect Model and Pattern Mining
Peng Li | Jing Jiang | Yinglin Wang

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Comparable Entity Mining from Comparative Questions
Shasha Li | Chin-Yew Lin | Young-In Song | Zhoujun Li

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Towards Robust Multi-Tool Tagging. An OWL/DL-Based Approach
Christian Chiarcos

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Temporal Information Processing of a New Language: Fast Porting with Minimal Resources
Francisco Costa | António Branco

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A Taxonomy, Dataset, and Classifier for Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation
Stephen Tratz | Eduard Hovy

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Models of Metaphor in NLP
Ekaterina Shutova

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A Game-Theoretic Model of Metaphorical Bargaining
Beata Beigman Klebanov | Eyal Beigman

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Kernel Based Discourse Relation Recognition with Temporal Ordering Information
WenTing Wang | Jian Su | Chew Lim Tan

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Hierarchical Joint Learning: Improving Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition with Non-Jointly Labeled Data
Jenny Rose Finkel | Christopher D. Manning

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Detecting Errors in Automatically-Parsed Dependency Relations
Markus Dickinson

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Boosting-Based System Combination for Machine Translation
Tong Xiao | Jingbo Zhu | Muhua Zhu | Huizhen Wang

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Fine-Grained Genre Classification Using Structural Learning Algorithms
Zhili Wu | Katja Markert | Serge Sharoff

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Metadata-Aware Measures for Answer Summarization in Community Question Answering
Mattia Tomasoni | Minlie Huang

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A Hybrid Rule/Model-Based Finite-State Framework for Normalizing SMS Messages
Richard Beaufort | Sophie Roekhaut | Louise-Amélie Cougnon | Cédrick Fairon

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Letter-Phoneme Alignment: An Exploration
Sittichai Jiampojamarn | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Using Document Level Cross-Event Inference to Improve Event Extraction
Shasha Liao | Ralph Grishman

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Now, Where Was I? Resumption Strategies for an In-Vehicle Dialogue System
Jessica Villing

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Learning to Follow Navigational Directions
Adam Vogel | Daniel Jurafsky

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A Hybrid Hierarchical Model for Multi-Document Summarization
Asli Celikyilmaz | Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Collocation
Zhanyi Liu | Haifeng Wang | Hua Wu | Sheng Li

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Bilingual Sense Similarity for Statistical Machine Translation
Boxing Chen | George Foster | Roland Kuhn

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Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia
Gerard de Melo | Gerhard Weikum

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Bucking the Trend: Large-Scale Cost-Focused Active Learning for Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Bloodgood | Chris Callison-Burch

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Creating Robust Supervised Classifiers via Web-Scale N-Gram Data
Shane Bergsma | Emily Pitler | Dekang Lin

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Convolution Kernel over Packed Parse Forest
Min Zhang | Hui Zhang | Haizhou Li

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Estimating Strictly Piecewise Distributions
Jeffrey Heinz | James Rogers

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String Extension Learning
Jeffrey Heinz

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Compositional Matrix-Space Models of Language
Sebastian Rudolph | Eugenie Giesbrecht

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Cross-Language Document Summarization Based on Machine Translation Quality Prediction
Xiaojun Wan | Huiying Li | Jianguo Xiao

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A New Approach to Improving Multilingual Summarization Using a Genetic Algorithm
Marina Litvak | Mark Last | Menahem Friedman

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Bayesian Synchronous Tree-Substitution Grammar Induction and Its Application to Sentence Compression
Elif Yamangil | Stuart M. Shieber

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Contextualizing Semantic Representations Using Syntactically Enriched Vector Models
Stefan Thater | Hagen Fürstenau | Manfred Pinkal

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Bootstrapping Semantic Analyzers from Non-Contradictory Texts
Ivan Titov | Mikhail Kozhevnikov

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Open-Domain Semantic Role Labeling by Modeling Word Spans
Fei Huang | Alexander Yates

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Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments
Michaela Regneri | Alexander Koller | Manfred Pinkal

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Starting from Scratch in Semantic Role Labeling
Michael Connor | Yael Gertner | Cynthia Fisher | Dan Roth

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Modeling Norms of Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversation
Kornel Laskowski

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Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Verena Rieser | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu

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Combining Data and Mathematical Models of Language Change
Morgan Sonderegger | Partha Niyogi

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Finding Cognate Groups Using Phylogenies
David Hall | Dan Klein

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An Exact A* Method for Deciphering Letter-Substitution Ciphers
Eric Corlett | Gerald Penn

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A Statistical Model for Lost Language Decipherment
Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay | Kevin Knight

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Efficient Inference through Cascades of Weighted Tree Transducers
Jonathan May | Kevin Knight | Heiko Vogler

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A Tree Transducer Model for Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Andreas Maletti

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Dynamic Programming for Linear-Time Incremental Parsing
Liang Huang | Kenji Sagae

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Hard Constraints for Grammatical Function Labelling
Wolfgang Seeker | Ines Rehbein | Jonas Kuhn | Josef van Genabith

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Simple, Accurate Parsing with an All-Fragments Grammar
Mohit Bansal | Dan Klein

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Joint Syntactic and Semantic Parsing of Chinese
Junhui Li | Guodong Zhou | Hwee Tou Ng

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Cross-Language Text Classification Using Structural Correspondence Learning
Peter Prettenhofer | Benno Stein

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Cross-Lingual Latent Topic Extraction
Duo Zhang | Qiaozhu Mei | ChengXiang Zhai

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Topic Models for Word Sense Disambiguation and Token-Based Idiom Detection
Linlin Li | Benjamin Roth | Caroline Sporleder

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PCFGs, Topic Models, Adaptor Grammars and Learning Topical Collocations and the Structure of Proper Names
Mark Johnson

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A Cognitive Cost Model of Annotations Based on Eye-Tracking Data
Katrin Tomanek | Udo Hahn | Steffen Lohmann | Jürgen Ziegler

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A Rational Model of Eye Movement Control in Reading
Klinton Bicknell | Roger Levy

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The Influence of Discourse on Syntax: A Psycholinguistic Model of Sentence Processing
Amit Dubey

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Complexity Metrics in an Incremental Right-Corner Parser
Stephen Wu | Asaf Bachrach | Carlos Cardenas | William Schuler

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“Ask Not What Textual Entailment Can Do for You...”
Mark Sammons | V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran | Dan Roth

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Assessing the Role of Discourse References in Entailment Inference
Shachar Mirkin | Ido Dagan | Sebastian Padó

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Global Learning of Focused Entailment Graphs
Jonathan Berant | Ido Dagan | Jacob Goldberger

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Modeling Semantic Relevance for Question-Answer Pairs in Web Social Communities
Baoxun Wang | Xiaolong Wang | Chengjie Sun | Bingquan Liu | Lin Sun

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How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? Automatic Caption Generation for News Images
Yansong Feng | Mirella Lapata

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Generating Image Descriptions Using Dependency Relational Patterns
Ahmet Aker | Robert Gaizauskas

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Incorporating Extra-Linguistic Information into Reference Resolution in Collaborative Task Dialogue
Ryu Iida | Syumpei Kobayashi | Takenobu Tokunaga

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Reading between the Lines: Learning to Map High-Level Instructions to Commands
S.R.K. Branavan | Luke Zettlemoyer | Regina Barzilay

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Profiting from Mark-Up: Hyper-Text Annotations for Guided Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Daniel Jurafsky | Hiyan Alshawi

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Phylogenetic Grammar Induction
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Klein

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Improved Unsupervised POS Induction through Prototype Discovery
Omri Abend | Roi Reichart | Ari Rappoport

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Extraction and Approximation of Numerical Attributes from the Web
Dmitry Davidov | Ari Rappoport

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Learning Word-Class Lattices for Definition and Hypernym Extraction
Roberto Navigli | Paola Velardi

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On Learning Subtypes of the Part-Whole Relation: Do Not Mix Your Seeds
Ashwin Ittoo | Gosse Bouma

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Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries
Xiao Li

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Multilingual Pseudo-Relevance Feedback: Performance Study of Assisting Languages
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla | Karthik Raman | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Wikipedia as Sense Inventory to Improve Diversity in Web Search Results
Celina Santamaría | Julio Gonzalo | Javier Artiles

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A Unified Graph Model for Sentence-Based Opinion Retrieval
Binyang Li | Lanjun Zhou | Shi Feng | Kam-Fai Wong

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Generating Fine-Grained Reviews of Songs from Album Reviews
Swati Tata | Barbara Di Eugenio

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A Study of Information Retrieval Weighting Schemes for Sentiment Analysis
Georgios Paltoglou | Mike Thelwall

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Supervised Noun Phrase Coreference Research: The First Fifteen Years
Vincent Ng

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Unsupervised Event Coreference Resolution with Rich Linguistic Features
Cosmin Bejan | Sanda Harabagiu

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Coreference Resolution across Corpora: Languages, Coding Schemes, and Preprocessing Information
Marta Recasens | Eduard Hovy

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Constituency to Dependency Translation with Forests
Haitao Mi | Qun Liu

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Learning to Translate with Source and Target Syntax
David Chiang

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Discriminative Modeling of Extraction Sets for Machine Translation
John DeNero | Dan Klein

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Detecting Experiences from Weblogs
Keun Chan Park | Yoonjae Jeong | Sung Hyon Myaeng

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Experiments in Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning Methods for Class-Instance Acquisition
Partha Pratim Talukdar | Fernando Pereira

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Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations Using Recursive Patterns
Zornitsa Kozareva | Eduard Hovy

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A Transition-Based Parser for 2-Planar Dependency Structures
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Joakim Nivre

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Viterbi Training for PCFGs: Hardness Results and Competitiveness of Uniform Initialization
Shay Cohen | Noah A. Smith

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A Generalized-Zero-Preserving Method for Compact Encoding of Concept Lattices
Matthew Skala | Victoria Krakovna | János Kramár | Gerald Penn

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Knowledge-Rich Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Systems
Simone Paolo Ponzetto | Roberto Navigli

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All Words Domain Adapted WSD: Finding a Middle Ground between Supervision and Unsupervision
Mitesh Khapra | Anup Kulkarni | Saurabh Sohoney | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Combining Orthogonal Monolingual and Multilingual Sources of Evidence for All Words WSD
Weiwei Guo | Mona Diab

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Phrase-Based Statistical Language Generation Using Graphical Models and Active Learning
François Mairesse | Milica Gašić | Filip Jurčíček | Simon Keizer | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young

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Plot Induction and Evolutionary Search for Story Generation
Neil McIntyre | Mirella Lapata

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Automated Planning for Situated Natural Language Generation
Konstantina Garoufi | Alexander Koller

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Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates
Matthew Gerber | Joyce Chai