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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2011)

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Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Regina Barzilay | Mark Johnson

Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction
Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

Predicting Thread Discourse Structure over Technical Web Forums
Li Wang | Marco Lui | Su Nam Kim | Joakim Nivre | Timothy Baldwin

Exact Decoding of Phrase-Based Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation
Yin-Wen Chang | Michael Collins

Optimal Search for Minimum Error Rate Training
Michel Galley | Chris Quirk

Unsupervised Structure Prediction with Non-Parallel Multilingual Guidance
Shay B. Cohen | Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith

Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers
Ryan McDonald | Slav Petrov | Keith Hall

SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing
Wenliang Chen | Jun’ichi Kazama | Min Zhang | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Yujie Zhang | Yiou Wang | Kentaro Torisawa | Haizhou Li

Accurate Parsing with Compact Tree-Substitution Grammars: Double-DOP
Federico Sangati | Willem Zuidema

A Generate and Rank Approach to Sentence Paraphrasing
Prodromos Malakasiotis | Ion Androutsopoulos

Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng

Class Label Enhancement via Related Instances
Zornitsa Kozareva | Konstantin Voevodski | Shanghua Teng

A Joint Model for Extended Semantic Role Labeling
Vivek Srikumar | Dan Roth

Domain-Assisted Product Aspect Hierarchy Generation: Towards Hierarchical Organization of Unstructured Consumer Reviews
Jianxing Yu | Zheng-Jun Zha | Meng Wang | Kai Wang | Tat-Seng Chua

Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions
Richard Socher | Jeffrey Pennington | Eric H. Huang | Andrew Y. Ng | Christopher D. Manning

Unsupervised Discovery of Discourse Relations for Eliminating Intra-sentence Polarity Ambiguities
Lanjun Zhou | Binyang Li | Wei Gao | Zhongyu Wei | Kam-Fai Wong

Compositional Matrix-Space Models for Sentiment Analysis
Ainur Yessenalina | Claire Cardie

Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
Jason Katz-Brown | Slav Petrov | Ryan McDonald | Franz Och | David Talbot | Hiroshi Ichikawa | Masakazu Seno | Hideto Kazawa

Inducing Sentence Structure from Parallel Corpora for Reordering
John DeNero | Jakob Uszkoreit

Augmenting String-to-Tree Translation Models with Fuzzy Use of Source-side Syntax
Jiajun Zhang | Feifei Zhai | Chengqing Zong

A novel dependency-to-string model for statistical machine translation
Jun Xie | Haitao Mi | Qun Liu

Bayesian Checking for Topic Models
David Mimno | David Blei

Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components
André Martins | Noah Smith | Mário Figueiredo | Pedro Aguiar

Approximate Scalable Bounded Space Sketch for Large Data NLP
Amit Goyal | Hal Daumé III

Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models
David Mimno | Hanna Wallach | Edmund Talley | Miriam Leenders | Andrew McCallum

A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents
Yufan Guo | Anna Korhonen | Thierry Poibeau

Linear Text Segmentation Using Affinity Propagation
Anna Kazantseva | Stan Szpakowicz

Minimally Supervised Event Causality Identification
Quang Do | Yee Seng Chan | Dan Roth

A Model of Discourse Predictions in Human Sentence Processing
Amit Dubey | Frank Keller | Patrick Sturt

Simple Effective Decipherment via Combinatorial Optimization
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Klein

Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
Young-Bum Kim | João Graça | Benjamin Snyder

Training a Log-Linear Parser with Loss Functions via Softmax-Margin
Michael Auli | Adam Lopez

Large-Scale Cognate Recovery
David Hall | Dan Klein

Domain Adaptation via Pseudo In-Domain Data Selection
Amittai Axelrod | Xiaodong He | Jianfeng Gao

Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts
Gennadi Lembersky | Noam Ordan | Shuly Wintner

Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation
Chang Liu | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng

Evaluating Dependency Parsing: Robust and Heuristics-Free Cross-Annotation Evaluation
Reut Tsarfaty | Joakim Nivre | Evelina Andersson

Parser Evaluation over Local and Non-Local Deep Dependencies in a Large Corpus
Emily M. Bender | Dan Flickinger | Stephan Oepen | Yi Zhang

Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming
Kristian Woodsend | Mirella Lapata

Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations
Yoav Artzi | Luke Zettlemoyer

Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization
Rui Yan | Liang Kong | Congrui Huang | Xiaojun Wan | Xiaoming Li | Yan Zhang

Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images
Yezhou Yang | Ching Teo | Hal Daumé III | Yiannis Aloimonos

Corroborating Text Evaluation Results with Heterogeneous Measures
Enrique Amigó | Julio Gonzalo | Jesús Giménez | Felisa Verdejo

Ranking Human and Machine Summarization Systems
Peter Rankel | John Conroy | Eric Slud | Dianne O’Leary

Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel | Noah A. Smith

A Word Reordering Model for Improved Machine Translation
Karthik Visweswariah | Rajakrishnan Rajkumar | Ankur Gandhe | Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan | Jiri Navratil

Feature-Rich Language-Independent Syntax-Based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
Jason Riesa | Ann Irvine | Daniel Marcu

Efficient retrieval of tree translation examples for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Fabien Cromieres | Sadao Kurohashi

A generative model for unsupervised discovery of relations and argument classes from clinical texts
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu

Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base
Ni Lao | Tom Mitchell | William W. Cohen

Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases
Matthias Hartung | Anette Frank

Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions
Weiwei Guo | Mona Diab

Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs
Samuel Brody | Nicholas Diakopoulos

Personalized Recommendation of User Comments via Factor Models
Deepak Agarwal | Bee-Chung Chen | Bo Pang

Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media
Alan Ritter | Colin Cherry | William B. Dolan

Predicting a Scientific Community’s Response to an Article
Dani Yogatama | Michael Heilman | Brendan O’Connor | Chris Dyer | Bryan R. Routledge | Noah A. Smith

Non-parametric Bayesian Segmentation of Japanese Noun Phrases
Yugo Murawaki | Sadao Kurohashi

Discovering Morphological Paradigms from Plain Text Using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
Markus Dreyer | Jason Eisner

Multilayer Sequence Labeling
Ai Azuma | Yuji Matsumoto

A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features
Christos Christodoulopoulos | Sharon Goldwater | Mark Steedman

Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus
Su Nam Kim | Preslav Nakov

Linguistic Redundancy in Twitter
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto | Marco Pennacchiotti | Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis

Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora
Matteo Negri | Luisa Bentivogli | Yashar Mehdad | Danilo Giampiccolo | Alessandro Marchetti

Literal and Metaphorical Sense Identification through Concrete and Abstract Context
Peter Turney | Yair Neuman | Dan Assaf | Yohai Cohen

Syntactic Decision Tree LMs: Random Selection or Intelligent Design?
Denis Filimonov | Mary Harper

The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources
Keith Vertanen | Per Ola Kristensson

Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy!
Alessandro Moschitti | Jennifer Chu-Carroll | Siddharth Patwardhan | James Fan | Giuseppe Riccardi

Multiword Expression Identification with Tree Substitution Grammars: A Parsing tour de force with French
Spence Green | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | John Bauer | Christopher D. Manning

Modelling Discourse Relations for Arabic
Amal Al-Saif | Katja Markert

Classifying Sentences as Speech Acts in Message Board Posts
Ashequl Qadir | Ellen Riloff

Learning Local Content Shift Detectors from Document-level Information
Richárd Farkas

Collaborative Ranking: A Case Study on Entity Linking
Zheng Chen | Heng Ji

Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
Johannes Hoffart | Mohamed Amir Yosef | Ilaria Bordino | Hagen Fürstenau | Manfred Pinkal | Marc Spaniol | Bilyana Taneva | Stefan Thater | Gerhard Weikum

A Cascaded Classification Approach to Semantic Head Recognition
Lukas Michelbacher | Alok Kothari | Martin Forst | Christina Lioma | Hinrich Schütze

Linking Entities to a Knowledge Base with Query Expansion
Swapna Gottipati | Jing Jiang

Unsupervised Information Extraction with Distributional Prior Knowledge
Cane Wing-ki Leung | Jing Jiang | Kian Ming A. Chai | Hai Leong Chieu | Loo-Nin Teow

Relation Acquisition using Word Classes and Partial Patterns
Stijn De Saeger | Kentaro Torisawa | Masaaki Tsuchida | Jun’ichi Kazama | Chikara Hashimoto | Ichiro Yamada | Jong Hoon Oh | Istvan Varga | Yulan Yan

Identification of Multi-word Expressions by Combining Multiple Linguistic Information Sources
Yulia Tsvetkov | Shuly Wintner

Analyzing Methods for Improving Precision of Pivot Based Bilingual Dictionaries
Xabier Saralegi | Iker Manterola | Iñaki San Vicente

Soft Dependency Constraints for Reordering in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
Yang Gao | Philipp Koehn | Alexandra Birch

Statistical Machine Translation with Local Language Models
Christof Monz

Fast Generation of Translation Forest for Large-Scale SMT Discriminative Training
Xinyan Xiao | Yang Liu | Qun Liu | Shouxun Lin

A Correction Model for Word Alignments
J. Scott McCarley | Abraham Ittycheriah | Salim Roukos | Bing Xiang | Jian-ming Xu

Heuristic Search for Non-Bottom-Up Tree Structure Prediction
Andrea Gesmundo | James Henderson

Cache-based Document-level Statistical Machine Translation
Zhengxian Gong | Min Zhang | Guodong Zhou

Minimum Imputed-Risk: Unsupervised Discriminative Training for Machine Translation
Zhifei Li | Ziyuan Wang | Jason Eisner | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Brian Roark

Improving Bilingual Projections via Sparse Covariance Matrices
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi | Raghavendra Udupa | Hal Daumé III | Abhijit Bhole

Entire Relaxation Path for Maximum Entropy Problems
Moshe Dubiner | Yoram Singer

A Non-negative Matrix Factorization Based Approach for Active Dual Supervision from Document and Word Labels
Chao Shen | Tao Li

Splitting Noun Compounds via Monolingual and Bilingual Paraphrasing: A Study on Japanese Katakana Words
Nobuhiro Kaji | Masaru Kitsuregawa

Enhancing Chinese Word Segmentation Using Unlabeled Data
Weiwei Sun | Jia Xu

Unsupervised Learning of Selectional Restrictions and Detection of Argument Coercions
Kirk Roberts | Sanda Harabagiu

Harnessing different knowledge sources to measure semantic relatedness under a uniform model
Ziqi Zhang | Anna Lisa Gentile | Fabio Ciravegna

Refining the Notions of Depth and Density in WordNet-based Semantic Similarity Measures
Tong Wang | Graeme Hirst

Latent Vector Weighting for Word Meaning in Context
Tim Van de Cruys | Thierry Poibeau | Anna Korhonen

Hierarchical Verb Clustering Using Graph Factorization
Lin Sun | Anna Korhonen

Structured Lexical Similarity via Convolution Kernels on Dependency Trees
Danilo Croce | Alessandro Moschitti | Roberto Basili

Probabilistic models of similarity in syntactic context
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Anna Korhonen

Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association
Dipak L. Chaudhari | Om P. Damani | Srivatsan Laxman

Learning the Information Status of Noun Phrases in Spoken Dialogues
Altaf Rahman | Vincent Ng

Harnessing WordNet Senses for Supervised Sentiment Classification
Balamurali AR | Aditya Joshi | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms
Song Feng | Ritwik Bose | Yejin Choi

Hypotheses Selection Criteria in a Reranking Framework for Spoken Language Understanding
Marco Dinarelli | Sophie Rosset

A Fast Re-scoring Strategy to Capture Long-Distance Dependencies
Anoop Deoras | Tomáš Mikolov | Kenneth Church

Efficient Subsampling for Training Complex Language Models
Puyang Xu | Asela Gunawardana | Sanjeev Khudanpur

Generating Aspect-oriented Multi-Document Summarization with Event-aspect model
Peng Li | Yinglin Wang | Wei Gao | Jing Jiang

Syntax-Based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark

Generating Subsequent Reference in Shared Visual Scenes: Computation vs Re-Use
Jette Viethen | Robert Dale | Markus Guhe

Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation
Juri Ganitkevitch | Chris Callison-Burch | Courtney Napoles | Benjamin Van Durme

Joint Models for Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing
Zhenghua Li | Min Zhang | Wanxiang Che | Ting Liu | Wenliang Chen | Haizhou Li

Relaxed Cross-lingual Projection of Constituent Syntax
Wenbin Jiang | Qun Liu | Yajuan Lv

Computing Logical Form on Regulatory Texts
Nikhil Dinesh | Aravind Joshi | Insup Lee

Computation of Infix Probabilities for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

Parse Correction with Specialized Models for Difficult Attachment Types
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano | Marie Candito

Exact Inference for Generative Probabilistic Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
Shay B. Cohen | Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Giorgio Satta

Semi-supervised CCG Lexicon Extension
Emily Thomforde | Mark Steedman

A Fast, Accurate, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser
Stephen Tratz | Eduard Hovy

Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky

Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Angel X. Chang | Daniel Jurafsky

Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models
Wei Xu | Joel Tetreault | Martin Chodorow | Ralph Grishman | Le Zhao

Discriminating Gender on Twitter
John D. Burger | John Henderson | George Kim | Guido Zarrella

Identifying and Following Expert Investors in Stock Microblogs
Roy Bar-Haim | Elad Dinur | Ronen Feldman | Moshe Fresko | Guy Goldstein

Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Graph Partitioning
Joel Lang | Mirella Lapata

Structural Opinion Mining for Graph-based Sentiment Representation
Yuanbin Wu | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang | Lide Wu

Summarize What You Are Interested In: An Optimization Framework for Interactive Personalized Summarization
Rui Yan | Jian-Yun Nie | Xiaoming Li

Tuning as Ranking
Mark Hopkins | Jonathan May

Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation.
Ashish Venugopal | Jakob Uszkoreit | David Talbot | Franz Och | Juri Ganitkevitch

Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations
Gonzalo Iglesias | Cyril Allauzen | William Byrne | Adrià de Gispert | Michael Riley

Improved Transliteration Mining Using Graph Reinforcement
Ali El Kahki | Kareem Darwish | Ahmed Saad El Din | Mohamed Abd El-Wahab | Ahmed Hefny | Waleed Ammar

Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
Edward Grefenstette | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics
Joseph Reisinger | Raymond Mooney

Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference
Benjamin Börschinger | Bevan K. Jones | Mark Johnson

Relation Extraction with Relation Topics
Chang Wang | James Fan | Aditya Kalyanpur | David Gondek

Extreme Extraction – Machine Reading in a Week
Marjorie Freedman | Lance Ramshaw | Elizabeth Boschee | Ryan Gabbard | Gary Kratkiewicz | Nicolas Ward | Ralph Weischedel

Discovering Relations between Noun Categories
Thahir Mohamed | Estevam Hruschka | Tom Mitchell

Structured Relation Discovery using Generative Models
Limin Yao | Aria Haghighi | Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

Closing the Loop: Fast, Interactive Semi-Supervised Annotation With Queries on Features and Instances
Burr Settles

Third-order Variational Reranking on Packed-Shared Dependency Forests
Katsuhiko Hayashi | Taro Watanabe | Masayuki Asahara | Yuji Matsumoto

Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives
Keith Hall | Ryan McDonald | Jason Katz-Brown | Michael Ringgaard

Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction
André Martins | Noah Smith | Mário Figueiredo | Pedro Aguiar

Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing
Tom Kwiatkowski | Luke Zettlemoyer | Sharon Goldwater | Mark Steedman

Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study
Alan Ritter | Sam Clark | Mausam | Oren Etzioni

Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
Anthony Fader | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni

Active Learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Florian Laws | Christian Scheible | Hinrich Schütze

Bootstrapped Named Entity Recognition for Product Attribute Extraction
Duangmanee Putthividhya | Junling Hu

Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter
Eiji Aramaki | Sachiko Maskawa | Mizuki Morita

A Simple Word Trigger Method for Social Tag Suggestion
Zhiyuan Liu | Xinxiong Chen | Maosong Sun

Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs
Vahed Qazvinian | Emily Rosengren | Dragomir R. Radev | Qiaozhu Mei

Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification
Sze-Meng Jojo Wong | Mark Dras

A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions
Wei Lu | Hwee Tou Ng