Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012)

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bib (full) NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012)

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NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012)
Maxine Eskenazi | Alan Black | David Traum
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Up from Limited Dialog Systems!
Giuseppe Riccardi | Philipp Cimiano | Alexandros Potamianos | Christina Unger
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Directions for Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, Broadly Defined
Nigel G. Ward
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Position Paper: Towards Standardized Metrics and Tools for Spoken and Multimodal Dialog System Evaluation
Sebastian Möller | Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht | Florian Kretzschmar | Stefan Schmidt | Benjamin Weiss
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Dialogue Systems Using Online Learning: Beyond Empirical Methods
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs
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Statistical User Simulation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: What for, Which Data, Which Future?
Olivier Pietquin
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The Future of Spoken Dialogue Systems is in their Past: Long-Term Adaptive, Conversational Assistants
David Schlangen
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Towards Situated Collaboration
Dan Bohus | Ece Kamar | Eric Horvitz
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Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems: Tools and Data
Helen Hastie | Oliver Lemon | Nina Dethlefs
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After Dialog Went Pervasive: Separating Dialog Behavior Modeling and Task Modeling
Amanda Stent
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Future Directions in Spoken Dialog Systems: A Community of Possibilities
Alan W. Black | Maxine Eskenazi
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Bridging Gaps for Spoken Dialog System Frameworks in Instructional Settings
Gina-Anne Levow
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A belief tracking challenge task for spoken dialog systems
Jason Williams
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Framework for the Development of Spoken Dialogue System based on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
Masahiro Araki | Daisuke Takegoshi
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The InproTK 2012 release
Timo Baumann | David Schlangen
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A Simulation-based Framework for Spoken Language Understanding and Action Selection in Situated Interaction
David Cohen | Ian Lane
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Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Gokhan Tür | Asli Celikyilmaz
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HRItk: The Human-Robot Interaction ToolKit Rapid Development of Speech-Centric Interactive Systems in ROS
Ian Lane | Vinay Prasad | Gaurav Sinha | Arlette Umuhoza | Shangyu Luo | Akshay Chandrashekaran | Antoine Raux
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One Year of Contender: What Have We Learned about Assessing and Tuning Industrial Spoken Dialog Systems?
David Suendermann | Roberto Pieraccini
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Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management
Stefan Ultes | Alexander Schmitt | Wolfgang Minker
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Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on the Induction of Linguistic Structure
Trevor Cohn | Phil Blunsom | Joao Graca
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Unsupervised Induction of Frame-Semantic Representations
Ashutosh Modi | Ivan Titov | Alexandre Klementiev
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Transferring Frames: Utilization of Linked Lexical Resources
Lars Borin | Markus Forsberg | Richard Johansson | Kristiina Muhonen | Tanja Purtonen | Kaarlo Voionmaa
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Capitalization Cues Improve Dependency Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
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Toward Tree Substitution Grammars with Latent Annotations
Francis Ferraro | Benjamin Van Durme | Matt Post
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Exploiting Partial Annotations with EM Training
Dirk Hovy | Eduard Hovy
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Using Senses in HMM Word Alignment
Douwe Gelling | Trevor Cohn
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Unsupervised Part of Speech Inference with Particle Filters
Gregory Dubbin | Phil Blunsom
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Nudging the Envelope of Direct Transfer Methods for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Oscar Täckström
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The PASCAL Challenge on Grammar Induction
Douwe Gelling | Trevor Cohn | Phil Blunsom | João Graça
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Two baselines for unsupervised dependency parsing
Anders Søgaard
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Unsupervised Dependency Parsing using Reducibility and Fertility features
David Mareček | Zdeněk Žabokrtský
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Induction of Linguistic Structure with Combinatory Categorial Grammars
Yonatan Bisk | Julia Hockenmaier
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Turning the pipeline into a loop: Iterated unsupervised dependency parsing and PoS induction
Christos Christodoulopoulos | Sharon Goldwater | Mark Steedman
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Hierarchical clustering of word class distributions
Grzegorz Chrupała
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Combining the Sparsity and Unambiguity Biases for Grammar Induction
Kewei Tu
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Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Eric Fosler-Lussier | Ellen Riloff | Srinivas Bangalore
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Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest
Byron Wallace
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Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior
Rivka Levitan | Agustín Gravano | Laura Willson | S̆tefan Ben̆us̆ | Julia Hirschberg | Ani Nenkova
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Identifying High-Level Organizational Elements in Argumentative Discourse
Nitin Madnani | Michael Heilman | Joel Tetreault | Martin Chodorow
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Fast Inference in Phrase Extraction Models with Belief Propagation
David Burkett | Dan Klein
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Continuous Space Translation Models with Neural Networks
Hai Son Le | Alexandre Allauzen | François Yvon
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Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects
Rabih Zbib | Erika Malchiodi | Jacob Devlin | David Stallard | Spyros Matsoukas | Richard Schwartz | John Makhoul | Omar F. Zaidan | Chris Callison-Burch
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Entity Clustering Across Languages
Spence Green | Nicholas Andrews | Matthew R. Gormley | Mark Dredze | Christopher D. Manning
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Multi-Event Extraction Guided by Global Constraints
Roi Reichart | Regina Barzilay
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Reference Scope Identification in Citing Sentences
Amjad Abu-Jbara | Dragomir Radev
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of an Automatic User Disengagement Detector for an Uncertainty-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System
Kate Forbes-Riley | Diane Litman | Heather Friedberg | Joanna Drummond
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Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring
Shasha Xie | Keelan Evanini | Klaus Zechner
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Hello, Who is Calling?: Can Words Reveal the Social Nature of Conversations?
Anthony Stark | Izhak Shafran | Jeffrey Kaye
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Minimum-Risk Training of Approximate CRF-Based NLP Systems
Veselin Stoyanov | Jason Eisner
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Unsupervised Learning on an Approximate Corpus
Jason Smith | Jason Eisner
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Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search
Liang Huang | Suphan Fayong | Yang Guo
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Segmentation Similarity and Agreement
Chris Fournier | Diana Inkpen
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HyTER: Meaning-Equivalent Semantics for Translation Evaluation
Markus Dreyer | Daniel Marcu
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Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems
Rebecca Mason | Eugene Charniak
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Re-examining Machine Translation Metrics for Paraphrase Identification
Nitin Madnani | Joel Tetreault | Martin Chodorow
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A Dependency Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems
John Lee | Yin Hei Kong
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Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines
Myroslava O. Dzikovska | Rodney D. Nielsen | Chris Brew
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Topical Segmentation: a Study of Human Performance and a New Measure of Quality.
Anna Kazantseva | Stan Szpakowicz
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Structured Ramp Loss Minimization for Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel | Noah A. Smith
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Implicitly Intersecting Weighted Automata using Dual Decomposition
Michael J. Paul | Jason Eisner
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Transliteration Mining Using Large Training and Test Sets
Ali El Kahki | Kareem Darwish | Mohamed Abdul-Wahab | Ahmed Taei
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Optimized Online Rank Learning for Machine Translation
Taro Watanabe
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Every sensible extended top-down tree transducer is a multi bottom-up tree transducer
Andreas Maletti
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NOMIT: Automatic Titling by Nominalizing
Cédric Lopez | Violaine Prince | Mathieu Roche
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Correcting Comma Errors in Learner Essays, and Restoring Commas in Newswire Text
Ross Israel | Joel Tetreault | Martin Chodorow
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The Challenges of Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Daniel Tse | James R. Curran
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Using Supertags and Encoded Annotation Principles for Improved Dependency to Phrase Structure Conversion
Seth Kulick | Ann Bies | Justin Mott
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Getting More from Morphology in Multilingual Dependency Parsing
Matt Hohensee | Emily M. Bender
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Stylometric Analysis of Scientific Articles
Shane Bergsma | Matt Post | David Yarowsky
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Using paraphrases for improving first story detection in news and Twitter
Saša Petrović | Miles Osborne | Victor Lavrenko
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Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Matthias Huck | Hermann Ney
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TransAhead: A Computer-Assisted Translation and Writing Tool
Chung-chi Huang | Ping-che Yang | Keh-jiann Chen | Jason S. Chang
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Correction Detection and Error Type Selection as an ESL Educational Aid
Ben Swanson | Elif Yamangil
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Getting More from Segmentation Evaluation
Martin Scaiano | Diana Inkpen
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G2P Conversion of Proper Names Using Word Origin Information
Sonjia Waxmonsky | Sravana Reddy
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Evaluating a Morphological Analyser of Inuktitut
Jeremy Nicholson | Trevor Cohn | Timothy Baldwin
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Intra-Speaker Topic Modeling for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization with Integrated Random Walk
Yun-Nung Chen | Florian Metze
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Towards Using EEG to Improve ASR Accuracy
Yun-Nung Chen | Kai-Min Chang | Jack Mostow
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A Comparative Investigation of Morphological Language Modeling for the Languages of the European Union
Thomas Mueller | Hinrich Schuetze | Helmut Schmid
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Leveraging supplemental representations for sequential transduction
Aditya Bhargava | Grzegorz Kondrak
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A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model for Joint Part-of-Speech and Morphology Induction
Kairit Sirts | Tanel Alumäe
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Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices
Ferhan Ture | Douglas W. Oard | Philip Resnik
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Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation
Colin Cherry | George Foster
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Real-time Incremental Speech-to-Speech Translation of Dialogs
Srinivas Bangalore | Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar | Prakash Kolan | Ladan Golipour | Aura Jimenez
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Parsing Time: Learning to Interpret Time Expressions
Gabor Angeli | Christopher Manning | Daniel Jurafsky
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Fine-Grained Focus for Pinpointing Positive Implicit Meaning from Negated Statements
Eduardo Blanco | Dan Moldovan
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Taxonomy Induction Using Hierarchical Random Graphs
Trevor Fountain | Mirella Lapata
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Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure
Oscar Täckström | Ryan McDonald | Jakob Uszkoreit
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Training Dependency Parser Using Light Feedback
Avihai Mejer | Koby Crammer
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Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing
Alexander Rush | Slav Petrov
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Active Learning for Coreference Resolution
Florian Laws | Florian Heimerl | Hinrich Schütze
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Space Efficiencies in Discourse Modeling via Conditional Random Sampling
Brian Kjersten | Benjamin Van Durme
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Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran | Owen Rambow | Mona Diab
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Co-reference via Pointing and Haptics in Multi-Modal Dialogues
Lin Chen | Barbara Di Eugenio
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Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation
Jacob Devlin | Spyros Matsoukas
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Improved Reordering for Shallow-n Grammar based Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Baskaran Sankaran | Anoop Sarkar
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Automatic Parallel Fragment Extraction from Noisy Data
Jason Riesa | Daniel Marcu
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Tuning as Linear Regression
Marzieh Bazrafshan | Tagyoung Chung | Daniel Gildea
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Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children’s literature
Yi Ma | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Robert Lofthus
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How Text Segmentation Algorithms Gain from Topic Models
Martin Riedl | Chris Biemann
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Identifying Comparable Corpora Using LDA
Judita Preiss
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Behavioral Factors in Interactive Training of Text Classifiers
Burr Settles | Xiaojin Zhu
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Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
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Are You Sure? Confidence in Prediction of Dependency Tree Edges
Avihai Mejer | Koby Crammer
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Concavity and Initialization for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Kevin Gimpel | Noah A. Smith
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Multimodal Grammar Implementation
Katya Alahverdzhieva | Dan Flickinger | Alex Lascarides
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Portable Features for Classifying Emotional Text
Saif Mohammad
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Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion
Marilyn Walker | Pranav Anand | Rob Abbott | Ricky Grant
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Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection
Awais Athar | Simone Teufel
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Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts
Yoav Artzi | Patrick Pantel | Michael Gamon
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The Intelius Nickname Collection: Quantitative Analyses from Billions of Public Records
Vitor Carvalho | Yigit Kiran | Andrew Borthwick
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A comparison of models of word meaning in context
Georgiana Dinu | Stefan Thater | Soeren Laue
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Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogeneous Vector Space Models
Wen-tau Yih | Vahed Qazvinian
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Expectations of Word Sense in Parallel Corpora
Xuchen Yao | Benjamin Van Durme | Chris Callison-Burch
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Why Not Grab a Free Lunch? Mining Large Corpora for Parallel Sentences to Improve Translation Modeling
Ferhan Ture | Jimmy Lin
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Summarization of Historical Articles Using Temporal Event Clustering
James Gung | Jugal Kalita
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Comparing HMMs and Bayesian Networks for Surface Realisation
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
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On The Feasibility of Open Domain Referring Expression Generation Using Large Scale Folksonomies
Fabián Pacheco | Pablo Duboue | Martín Domínguez
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Structured Event Retrieval over Microblog Archives
Donald Metzler | Congxing Cai | Eduard Hovy
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Learning from Bullying Traces in Social Media
Jun-Ming Xu | Kwang-Sung Jun | Xiaojin Zhu | Amy Bellmore
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Grammatical structures for word-level sentiment detection
Asad Sayeed | Jordan Boyd-Graber | Bryan Rusk | Amy Weinberg
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Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties
Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith
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Unified Expectation Maximization
Rajhans Samdani | Ming-Wei Chang | Dan Roth
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Low-Dimensional Discriminative Reranking
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi | Hal Daumé III
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Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues
Tyler Baldwin | Joyce Chai
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Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Altaf Rahman | Vincent Ng
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Exploring Semi-Supervised Coreference Resolution of Medical Concepts using Semantic and Temporal Features
Preethi Raghavan | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Albert Lai
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Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation
Lee Becker | Sumit Basu | Lucy Vanderwende
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Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs
Ioannis Konstas | Mirella Lapata
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Detecting Visual Text
Jesse Dodge | Amit Goyal | Xufeng Han | Alyssa Mensch | Margaret Mitchell | Karl Stratos | Kota Yamaguchi | Yejin Choi | Hal Daumé III | Alex Berg | Tamara Berg
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Unsupervised Translation Sense Clustering
Mohit Bansal | John DeNero | Dekang Lin
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Shared Components Topic Models
Matthew R. Gormley | Mark Dredze | Benjamin Van Durme | Jason Eisner
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Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees
Tae Yano | Noah A. Smith | John D. Wilkerson
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Proceedings of the Demonstration Session at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Aria Haghighi | Yaser Al-Onaizan
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DeSoCoRe: Detecting Source Code Re-Use across Programming Languages
Enrique Flores | Alberto Barrón-Cedeño | Paolo Rosso | Lidia Moreno
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A Graphical User Interface for Feature-Based Opinion Mining
Pedro Paulo Balage Filho | Caroline Brun | Gilbert Rondeau
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Navigating Large Comment Threads with CoFi
Christine Doran | Guido Zarrella | John C. Henderson
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SurfShop: combing a product ontology with topic model results for online window-shopping.
Zofia Stankiewicz | Satoshi Sekine
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An Interactive Humanoid Robot Exhibiting Flexible Sub-Dialogues
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
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MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit
Chris Quirk | Pallavi Choudhury | Jianfeng Gao | Hisami Suzuki | Kristina Toutanova | Michael Gamon | Wen-tau Yih | Colin Cherry | Lucy Vanderwende
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Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System
David DeVault | David Traum
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A Robust Shallow Temporal Reasoning System
Ran Zhao | Quang Do | Dan Roth
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AttitudeMiner: Mining Attitude from Online Discussions
Amjad Abu-Jbara | Ahmed Hassan | Dragomir Radev
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Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
David Elson | Anna Kazantseva | Rada Mihalcea | Stan Szpakowicz
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Computational Analysis of Referring Expressions in Narratives of Picture Books
Choonkyu Lee | Smaranda Muresan | Karin Stromswold
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A Computational Analysis of Style, Affect, and Imagery in Contemporary Poetry
Justine Kao | Dan Jurafsky
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Towards a Literary Machine Translation: The Role of Referential Cohesion
Rob Voigt | Dan Jurafsky
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Unsupervised Stylistic Segmentation of Poetry with Change Curves and Extrinsic Features
Julian Brooke | Adam Hammond | Graeme Hirst
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Aligning Bilingual Literary Works: a Pilot Study
Qian Yu | Aurélien Max | François Yvon
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Function Words for Chinese Authorship Attribution
Bei Yu
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Mining wisdom
Anders Søgaard
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Literary authorship attribution with phrase-structure fragments
Andreas van Cranenburgh
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Digitizing 18th-Century French Literature: Comparing transcription methods for a critical edition text
Ann Irvine | Laure Marcellesi | Afra Zomorodian
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A Dictionary of Wisdom and Wit: Learning to Extract Quotable Phrases
Michael Bendersky | David Smith
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A Pilot PropBank Annotation for Quranic Arabic
Wajdi Zaghouani | Abdelati Hawwari | Mona Diab
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Trend Analysis in Harper’s Bazaar
Sophie Kushkuley
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Social Network Analysis of Alice in Wonderland
Apoorv Agarwal | Augusto Corvalan | Jacob Jensen | Owen Rambow
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Towards a computational approach to literary text analysis
Antonio Roque