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Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Dekang Lin | Yuji Matsumoto | Rada Mihalcea

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A Word-Class Approach to Labeling PSCFG Rules for Machine Translation
Andreas Zollmann | Stephan Vogel

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Deciphering Foreign Language
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Effective Use of Function Words for Rule Generalization in Forest-Based Translation
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Combining Morpheme-based Machine Translation with Post-processing Morpheme Prediction
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Evaluating the Impact of Coder Errors on Active Learning
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A Fast and Accurate Method for Approximate String Search
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Domain Adaptation by Constraining Inter-Domain Variability of Latent Feature Representation
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Exact Decoding of Syntactic Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation
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Jigs and Lures: Associating Web Queries with Structured Entities
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Semi-Supervised SimHash for Efficient Document Similarity Search
Qixia Jiang | Maosong Sun

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Joint Annotation of Search Queries
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Query Weighting for Ranking Model Adaptation
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Automatically Extracting Polarity-Bearing Topics for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
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Using Multiple Sources to Construct a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Danushka Bollegala | David Weir | John Carroll

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Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis
Andrew L. Maas | Raymond E. Daly | Peter T. Pham | Dan Huang | Andrew Y. Ng | Christopher Potts

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Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification
Long Jiang | Mo Yu | Ming Zhou | Xiaohua Liu | Tiejun Zhao

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A Comprehensive Dictionary of Multiword Expressions
Kosho Shudo | Akira Kurahone | Toshifumi Tanabe

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Multi-Modal Annotation of Quest Games in Second Life
Sharon Gower Small | Jennifer Strommer-Galley | Tomek Strzalkowski

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A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts
Helen Yannakoudakis | Ted Briscoe | Ben Medlock

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Collecting Highly Parallel Data for Paraphrase Evaluation
David Chen | William Dolan

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A Large Scale Distributed Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Model for Machine Translation
Ming Tan | Wenli Zhou | Lei Zheng | Shaojun Wang

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Goodness: A Method for Measuring Machine Translation Confidence
Nguyen Bach | Fei Huang | Yaser Al-Onaizan

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

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An exponential translation model for target language morphology
Michael Subotin

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Bayesian Inference for Zodiac and Other Homophonic Ciphers
Sujith Ravi | Kevin Knight

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Interactive Topic Modeling
Yuening Hu | Jordan Boyd-Graber | Brianna Satinoff

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Faster and Smaller N-Gram Language Models
Adam Pauls | Dan Klein

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Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework
S.R.K. Branavan | David Silver | Regina Barzilay

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Creative Language Retrieval: A Robust Hybrid of Information Retrieval and Linguistic Creativity
Tony Veale

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Local Histograms of Character N-grams for Authorship Attribution
Hugo Jair Escalante | Thamar Solorio | Manuel Montes-y-Gómez

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Word Maturity: Computational Modeling of Word Knowledge
Kirill Kireyev | Thomas K Landauer

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Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
Myle Ott | Yejin Choi | Claire Cardie | Jeffrey T. Hancock

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Joint Bilingual Sentiment Classification with Unlabeled Parallel Corpora
Bin Lu | Chenhao Tan | Claire Cardie | Benjamin K. Tsou

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A Pilot Study of Opinion Summarization in Conversations
Dong Wang | Yang Liu

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Contrasting Opposing Views of News Articles on Contentious Issues
Souneil Park | KyungSoon Lee | Junehwa Song

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Content Models with Attitude
Christina Sauper | Aria Haghighi | Regina Barzilay

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Recognizing Named Entities in Tweets
Xiaohua Liu | Shaodian Zhang | Furu Wei | Ming Zhou

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Lexical Normalisation of Short Text Messages: Makn Sens a #twitter
Bo Han | Timothy Baldwin

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Topical Keyphrase Extraction from Twitter
Xin Zhao | Jing Jiang | Jing He | Yang Song | Palakorn Achanauparp | Ee-Peng Lim | Xiaoming Li

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Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
Edward Benson | Aria Haghighi | Regina Barzilay

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How do you pronounce your name? Improving G2P with transliterations
Aditya Bhargava | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features
Chris Dyer | Jonathan H. Clark | Alon Lavie | Noah A. Smith

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Model-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual Decomposition
John DeNero | Klaus Macherey

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An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
Hassan Sajjad | Alexander Fraser | Helmut Schmid

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Beam-Width Prediction for Efficient Context-Free Parsing
Nathan Bodenstab | Aaron Dunlop | Keith Hall | Brian Roark

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Optimal Head-Driven Parsing Complexity for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Pierluigi Crescenzi | Daniel Gildea | Andrea Marino | Gianluca Rossi | Giorgio Satta

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Prefix Probability for Probabilistic Synchronous Context-Free Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

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A Comparison of Loopy Belief Propagation and Dual Decomposition for Integrated CCG Supertagging and Parsing
Michael Auli | Adam Lopez

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Jointly Learning to Extract and Compress
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Gillick | Dan Klein

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Discovery of Topically Coherent Sentences for Extractive Summarization
Asli Celikyilmaz | Dilek Hakkani-Tür

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Coherent Citation-Based Summarization of Scientific Papers
Amjad Abu-Jbara | Dragomir Radev

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A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization
Hui Lin | Jeff Bilmes

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Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Large-scale Word Clustering
Ang Sun | Ralph Grishman | Satoshi Sekine

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In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization
Harr Chen | Edward Benson | Tahira Naseem | Regina Barzilay

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Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
Raphael Hoffmann | Congle Zhang | Xiao Ling | Luke Zettlemoyer | Daniel S. Weld

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Exploiting Syntactico-Semantic Structures for Relation Extraction
Yee Seng Chan | Dan Roth

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Together We Can: Bilingual Bootstrapping for WSD
Mitesh M. Khapra | Salil Joshi | Arindam Chatterjee | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts?
Jayant Krishnamurthy | Tom Mitchell

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Semantic Representation of Negation Using Focus Detection
Eduardo Blanco | Dan Moldovan

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Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Percy Liang | Michael Jordan | Dan Klein

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Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections
Dipanjan Das | Slav Petrov

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Global Learning of Typed Entailment Rules
Jonathan Berant | Ido Dagan | Jacob Goldberger

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Incremental Syntactic Language Models for Phrase-based Translation
Lane Schwartz | Chris Callison-Burch | William Schuler | Stephen Wu

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An Unsupervised Model for Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction
Graham Neubig | Taro Watanabe | Eiichiro Sumita | Shinsuke Mori | Tatsuya Kawahara

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Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations
Markos Mylonakis | Khalil Sima’an

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Phrase-Based Translation Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answer Archives
Guangyou Zhou | Li Cai | Jun Zhao | Kang Liu

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Neutralizing Linguistically Problematic Annotations in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Evaluation
Roy Schwartz | Omri Abend | Roi Reichart | Ari Rappoport

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Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
Marco Kuhlmann | Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Giorgio Satta

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Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark

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Web-Scale Features for Full-Scale Parsing
Mohit Bansal | Dan Klein

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The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection
Simon Zwarts | Mark Johnson

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Learning Sub-Word Units for Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Carolina Parada | Mark Dredze | Abhinav Sethy | Ariya Rastrow

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Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech
Miao Chen | Klaus Zechner

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N-Best Rescoring Based on Pitch-accent Patterns
Je Hun Jeon | Wen Wang | Yang Liu

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Lexically-Triggered Hidden Markov Models for Clinical Document Coding
Svetlana Kiritchenko | Colin Cherry

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Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments
Michael Mohler | Razvan Bunescu | Rada Mihalcea

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

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Extracting Social Power Relationships from Natural Language
Philip Bramsen | Martha Escobar-Molano | Ami Patel | Rafael Alonso

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Bootstrapping coreference resolution using word associations
Hamidreza Kobdani | Hinrich Schuetze | Michael Schiehlen | Hans Kamp

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Large-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical Models
Sameer Singh | Amarnag Subramanya | Fernando Pereira | Andrew McCallum

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A Cross-Lingual ILP Solution to Zero Anaphora Resolution
Ryu Iida | Massimo Poesio

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Coreference Resolution with World Knowledge
Altaf Rahman | Vincent Ng

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How to train your multi bottom-up tree transducer
Andreas Maletti

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Binarized Forest to String Translation
Hao Zhang | Licheng Fang | Peng Xu | Xiaoyun Wu

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Learning to Transform and Select Elementary Trees for Improved Syntax-based Machine Translations
Bing Zhao | Young-Suk Lee | Xiaoqiang Luo | Liu Li

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Rule Markov Models for Fast Tree-to-String Translation
Ashish Vaswani | Haitao Mi | Liang Huang | David Chiang

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A Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process HMM for Unsupervised Part of Speech Induction
Phil Blunsom | Trevor Cohn

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Using Deep Morphology to Improve Automatic Error Detection in Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Nizar Habash | Ryan Roth

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A Discriminative Model for Joint Morphological Disambiguation and Dependency Parsing
John Lee | Jason Naradowsky | David A. Smith

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Unsupervised Bilingual Morpheme Segmentation and Alignment with Context-rich Hidden Semi-Markov Models
Jason Naradowsky | Kristina Toutanova

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A Graph Approach to Spelling Correction in Domain-Centric Search
Zhuowei Bao | Benny Kimelfeld | Yunyao Li

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Grammatical Error Correction with Alternating Structure Optimization
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng

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Algorithm Selection and Model Adaptation for ESL Correction Tasks
Alla Rozovskaya | Dan Roth

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Automated Whole Sentence Grammar Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model
Y. Albert Park | Roger Levy

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A Generative Entity-Mention Model for Linking Entities with Knowledge Base
Xianpei Han | Le Sun

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Simple supervised document geolocation with geodesic grids
Benjamin Wing | Jason Baldridge

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Piggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
Stefan Rüd | Massimiliano Ciaramita | Jens Müller | Hinrich Schütze

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Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates
Nathanael Chambers | Dan Jurafsky

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Classifying arguments by scheme
Vanessa Wei Feng | Graeme Hirst

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Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations
Ziheng Lin | Hwee Tou Ng | Min-Yen Kan

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Underspecifying and Predicting Voice for Surface Realisation Ranking
Sina Zarrieß | Aoife Cahill | Jonas Kuhn

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Recognizing Authority in Dialogue with an Integer Linear Programming Constrained Model
Elijah Mayfield | Carolyn Penstein Rosé

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Reordering Metrics for MT
Alexandra Birch | Miles Osborne

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Reordering with Source Language Collocations
Zhanyi Liu | Haifeng Wang | Hua Wu | Ting Liu | Sheng Li

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A Joint Sequence Translation Model with Integrated Reordering
Nadir Durrani | Helmut Schmid | Alexander Fraser

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Integrating surprisal and uncertain-input models in online sentence comprehension: formal techniques and empirical results
Roger Levy

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Metagrammar engineering: Towards systematic exploration of implemented grammars
Antske Fokkens

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Simple Unsupervised Grammar Induction from Raw Text with Cascaded Finite State Models
Elias Ponvert | Jason Baldridge | Katrin Erk

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Extracting Paraphrases from Definition Sentences on the Web
Chikara Hashimoto | Kentaro Torisawa | Stijn De Saeger | Jun’ichi Kazama | Sadao Kurohashi

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Learning From Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice
Vahed Qazvinian | Dragomir R. Radev

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Ordering Prenominal Modifiers with a Reranking Approach
Jenny Liu | Aria Haghighi

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Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering
Joel Lang | Mirella Lapata

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Using Cross-Entity Inference to Improve Event Extraction
Yu Hong | Jianfeng Zhang | Bin Ma | Jianmin Yao | Guodong Zhou | Qiaoming Zhu

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Peeling Back the Layers: Detecting Event Role Fillers in Secondary Contexts
Ruihong Huang | Ellen Riloff

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Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges
Heng Ji | Ralph Grishman

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Nonlinear Evidence Fusion and Propagation for Hyponymy Relation Mining
Fan Zhang | Shuming Shi | Jing Liu | Shuqi Sun | Chin-Yew Lin

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A Pronoun Anaphora Resolution System based on Factorial Hidden Markov Models
Dingcheng Li | Tim Miller | William Schuler

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Disentangling Chat with Local Coherence Models
Micha Elsner | Eugene Charniak

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An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Kristy Boyer | Joseph Grafsgaard | Eun Young Ha | Robert Phillips | James Lester

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Fine-Grained Class Label Markup of Search Queries
Joseph Reisinger | Marius Paşca

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Creating a manually error-tagged and shallow-parsed learner corpus
Ryo Nagata | Edward Whittaker | Vera Sheinman

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Crowdsourcing Translation: Professional Quality from Non-Professionals
Omar F. Zaidan | Chris Callison-Burch

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A Statistical Tree Annotator and Its Applications
Xiaoqiang Luo | Bing Zhao

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Consistent Translation using Discriminative Learning - A Translation Memory-inspired Approach
Yanjun Ma | Yifan He | Andy Way | Josef van Genabith

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Machine Translation System Combination by Confusion Forest
Taro Watanabe | Eiichiro Sumita

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Hypothesis Mixture Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Nan Duan | Mu Li | Ming Zhou

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Minimum Bayes-risk System Combination
Jesús González-Rubio | Alfons Juan | Francisco Casacuberta

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Adjoining Tree-to-String Translation
Yang Liu | Qun Liu | Yajuan Lü

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Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers
Deyi Xiong | Min Zhang | Haizhou Li

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Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach
Preslav Nakov | Hwee Tou Ng

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Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
Mohit Bansal | Chris Quirk | Robert Moore

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Translationese and Its Dialects
Moshe Koppel | Noam Ordan

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Rare Word Translation Extraction from Aligned Comparable Documents
Emmanuel Prochasson | Pascale Fung

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Using Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
Yashar Mehdad | Matteo Negri | Marcello Federico

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Using Large Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora to Improve Coordination Disambiguation
Shane Bergsma | David Yarowsky | Kenneth Church

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Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components
Moshe Koppel | Navot Akiva | Idan Dershowitz | Nachum Dershowitz

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Discovering Sociolinguistic Associations with Structured Sparsity
Jacob Eisenstein | Noah A. Smith | Eric P. Xing

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Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia
Lev Ratinov | Dan Roth | Doug Downey | Mike Anderson

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

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Language-independent compound splitting with morphological operations
Klaus Macherey | Andrew Dai | David Talbot | Ashok Popat | Franz Och

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Parsing the Internal Structure of Words: A New Paradigm for Chinese Word Segmentation
Zhongguo Li

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A Simple Measure to Assess Non-response
Anselmo Peñas | Alvaro Rodrigo

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Improving Question Recommendation by Exploiting Information Need
Shuguang Li | Suresh Manandhar

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Semi-Supervised Frame-Semantic Parsing for Unknown Predicates
Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith

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A Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Ivan Titov | Alexandre Klementiev

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Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Relation Composition
Eduardo Blanco | Dan Moldovan

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Unsupervised Discovery of Domain-Specific Knowledge from Text
Dirk Hovy | Chunliang Zhang | Eduard Hovy | Anselmo Peñas

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Latent Semantic Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation
Tim Van de Cruys | Marianna Apidianaki

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Confidence Driven Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Dan Goldwasser | Roi Reichart | James Clarke | Dan Roth

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Aspect Ranking: Identifying Important Product Aspects from Online Consumer Reviews
Jianxing Yu | Zheng-Jun Zha | Meng Wang | Tat-Seng Chua

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Collective Classification of Congressional Floor-Debate Transcripts
Clinton Burfoot | Steven Bird | Timothy Baldwin

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

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Structural Topic Model for Latent Topical Structure Analysis
Hongning Wang | Duo Zhang | ChengXiang Zhai

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Automatic Labelling of Topic Models
Jey Han Lau | Karl Grieser | David Newman | Timothy Baldwin

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Using Bilingual Information for Cross-Language Document Summarization
Xiaojun Wan

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Exploiting Web-Derived Selectional Preference to Improve Statistical Dependency Parsing
Guangyou Zhou | Jun Zhao | Kang Liu | Li Cai

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Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing
Barbara Plank | Gertjan van Noord

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Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging
Michael Auli | Adam Lopez

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Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features
Yuval Marton | Nizar Habash | Owen Rambow

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Partial Parsing from Bitext Projections
Prashanth Mannem | Aswarth Dara

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Ranking Class Labels Using Query Sessions
Marius Paşca

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Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining
Zornitsa Kozareva | Eduard Hovy

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Event Extraction as Dependency Parsing
David McClosky | Mihai Surdeanu | Christopher Manning

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Extracting Comparative Entities and Predicates from Texts Using Comparative Type Classification
Seon Yang | Youngjoong Ko