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Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (2012)

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*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012) 110 papers

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*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)
Eneko Agirre | Johan Bos | Mona Diab | Suresh Manandhar | Yuval Marton | Deniz Yuret

Casting Implicit Role Linking as an Anaphora Resolution Task
Carina Silberer | Anette Frank

Adaptive Clustering for Coreference Resolution with Deterministic Rules and Web-Based Language Models
Razvan Bunescu

Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Multilingual Representations
Samer Hassan | Carmen Banea | Rada Mihalcea

Towards Building a Multilingual Semantic Network: Identifying Interlingual Links in Wikipedia
Bharath Dandala | Rada Mihalcea | Razvan Bunescu

Sentence Clustering via Projection over Term Clusters
Lili Kotlerman | Ido Dagan | Maya Gorodetsky | Ezra Daya

The Use of Granularity in Rhetorical Relation Prediction
Blake Howald | Martha Abramson

“Could you make me a favour and do coffee, please?”: Implications for Automatic Error Correction in English and Dutch
Sophia Katrenko

Detecting Text Reuse with Modified and Weighted N-grams
Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab | Mark Stevenson | Paul Clough

Statistical Thesaurus Construction for a Morphologically Rich Language
Chaya Liebeskind | Ido Dagan | Jonathan Schler

Sorting out the Most Confusing English Phrasal Verbs
Yuancheng Tu | Dan Roth

Learning Semantics and Selectional Preference of Adjective-Noun Pairs
Karl Moritz Hermann | Chris Dyer | Phil Blunsom | Stephen Pulman

Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces
Alessandro Lenci | Giulia Benotto

Towards a Flexible Semantics: Colour Terms in Collaborative Reference Tasks
Bert Baumgaertner | Raquel Fernández | Matthew Stone

Unsupervised Disambiguation of Image Captions
Wesley May | Sanja Fidler | Afsaneh Fazly | Sven Dickinson | Suzanne Stevenson

Lexical semantic typologies from bilingual corpora — A framework
Steffen Eger

Non-atomic Classification to Improve a Semantic Role Labeler for a Low-resource Language
Richard Johansson

Combining resources for MWE-token classification
Richard Fothergill | Timothy Baldwin

Annotating Preferences in Negotiation Dialogues
Anaïs Cadilhac | Nicholas Asher | Farah Benamara

Selecting Corpus-Semantic Models for Neurolinguistic Decoding
Brian Murphy | Partha Talukdar | Tom Mitchell

Simple and Phrasal Implicatives
Lauri Karttunen

An Unsupervised Ranking Model for Noun-Noun Compositionality
Karl Moritz Hermann | Phil Blunsom | Stephen Pulman

Expanding the Range of Tractable Scope-Underspecified Semantic Representations
Mehdi Manshadi | James Allen

Regular polysemy: A distributional model
Gemma Boleda | Sebastian Padó | Jason Utt

Extracting a Semantic Lexicon of French Adjectives from a Large Lexicographic Dictionary
Selja Seppälä | Lucie Barque | Alexis Nasr

Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Anna Korhonen

Unsupervised Induction of a Syntax-Semantics Lexicon Using Iterative Refinement
Hagen Fürstenau | Owen Rambow

An Evaluation of Graded Sense Disambiguation using Word Sense Induction
David Jurgens

Ensemble-based Semantic Lexicon Induction for Semantic Tagging
Ashequl Qadir | Ellen Riloff

An Exact Dual Decomposition Algorithm for Shallow Semantic Parsing with Constraints
Dipanjan Das | André F. T. Martins | Noah A. Smith

Aligning Predicate Argument Structures in Monolingual Comparable Texts: A New Corpus for a New Task
Michael Roth | Anette Frank

The Effects of Semantic Annotations on Precision Parse Ranking
Andrew MacKinlay | Rebecca Dridan | Diana McCarthy | Timothy Baldwin

A Probabilistic Lexical Model for Ranking Textual Inferences
Eyal Shnarch | Ido Dagan | Jacob Goldberger

#Emotional Tweets
Saif Mohammad

Monolingual Distributional Similarity for Text-to-Text Generation
Juri Ganitkevitch | Benjamin Van Durme | Chris Callison-Burch

*SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation
Roser Morante | Eduardo Blanco

UABCoRAL: A Preliminary study for Resolving the Scope of Negation
Binod Gyawali | Thamar Solorio

UCM-I: A Rule-based Syntactic Approach for Resolving the Scope of Negation
Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz | Laura Plaza | Alberto Díaz | Miguel Ballesteros

UCM-2: a Rule-Based Approach to Infer the Scope of Negation via Dependency Parsing
Miguel Ballesteros | Alberto Díaz | Virginia Francisco | Pablo Gervás | Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz | Laura Plaza

UConcordia: CLaC Negation Focus Detection at *Sem 2012
Sabine Rosenberg | Sabine Bergler

UGroningen: Negation detection with Discourse Representation Structures
Valerio Basile | Johan Bos | Kilian Evang | Noortje Venhuizen

UiO1: Constituent-Based Discriminative Ranking for Negation Resolution
Jonathon Read | Erik Velldal | Lilja Øvrelid | Stephan Oepen

UiO 2: Sequence-labeling Negation Using Dependency Features
Emanuele Lapponi | Erik Velldal | Lilja Øvrelid | Jonathon Read

UMichigan: A Conditional Random Field Model for Resolving the Scope of Negation
Amjad Abu-Jbara | Dragomir Radev

UWashington: Negation Resolution using Machine Learning Methods
James Paul White

FBK: Exploiting Phrasal and Contextual Clues for Negation Scope Detection
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury

SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification
Lucia Specia | Sujay Kumar Jauhar | Rada Mihalcea

SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity
David Jurgens | Saif Mohammad | Peter Turney | Keith Holyoak

SemEval-2012 Task 3: Spatial Role Labeling
Parisa Kordjamshidi | Steven Bethard | Marie-Francine Moens

SemEval-2012 Task 4: Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity
Peng Jin | Yunfang Wu

SemEval-2012 Task 5: Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing
Wanxiang Che | Meishan Zhang | Yanqiu Shao | Ting Liu

SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity
Eneko Agirre | Daniel Cer | Mona Diab | Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre

SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Andrew Gordon | Zornitsa Kozareva | Melissa Roemmele

Semeval-2012 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization
Matteo Negri | Alessandro Marchetti | Yashar Mehdad | Luisa Bentivogli | Danilo Giampiccolo

EMNLP@CPH: Is frequency all there is to simplicity?
Anders Johannsen | Héctor Martínez | Sigrid Klerke | Anders Søgaard

UTD: Determining Relational Similarity Using Lexical Patterns
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu

UTD-SpRL: A Joint Approach to Spatial Role Labeling
Kirk Roberts | Sanda Harabagiu

MIXCD: System Description for Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity at SemEval-2012
Yingjie Zhang | Bin Li | Xinyu Dai | Jiajun Chen

Zhijun Wu: Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing with Third-Order Features
Zhijun Wu | Xuan Wang | Xinxin Li

UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures
Daniel Bär | Chris Biemann | Iryna Gurevych | Torsten Zesch

TakeLab: Systems for Measuring Semantic Text Similarity
Frane Šarić | Goran Glavaš | Vanja Mladen Karan | Jan Šnajder | Bojana Dalbelo Bašić

Soft Cardinality: A Parameterized Similarity Function for Text Comparison
Sergio Jimenez | Claudia Becerra | Alexander Gelbukh

UNED: Improving Text Similarity Measures without Human Assessments
Enrique Amigó | Jesús Giménez | Julio Gonzalo | Felisa Verdejo

UTDHLT: COPACETIC System for Choosing Plausible Alternatives
Travis Goodwin | Bryan Rink | Kirk Roberts | Sanda Harabagiu

HDU: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment with SMT Features
Katharina Wäschle | Sascha Fendrich

UAlacant: Using Online Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
Miquel Esplà-Gomis | Felipe Sánchez-Martínez | Mikel L. Forcada

UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features
Sujay Kumar Jauhar | Lucia Specia

SB: mmSystem - Using Decompositional Semantics for Lexical Simplification
Marilisa Amoia | Massimo Romanelli

ANNLOR: A Naïve Notation-system for Lexical Outputs Ranking
Anne-Laure Ligozat | Cyril Grouin | Anne Garcia-Fernandez | Delphine Bernhard

UNT-SimpRank: Systems for Lexical Simplification Ranking
Ravi Sinha

Duluth : Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity with the Gloss Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness
Ted Pedersen

BUAP: A First Approximation to Relational Similarity Measuring
Mireya Tovar | J. Alejandro Reyes | Azucena Montes | Darnes Vilariño | David Pinto | Saul León

Zhou qiaoli: A divide-and-conquer strategy for semantic dependency parsing
Qiaoli Zhou | Ling Zhang | Fei Liu | Dongfeng Cai | Guiping Zhang

ICT:A System Combination for Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing
Hao Xiong | Qun Liu

NJU-Parser: Achievements on Semantic Dependency Parsing
Guangchao Tang | Bin Li | Shuaishuai Xu | Xinyu Dai | Jiajun Chen

PolyUCOMP: Combining Semantic Vectors with Skip bigrams for Semantic Textual Similarity
Jian Xu | Qin Lu | Zhengzhong Liu

ETS: Discriminative Edit Models for Paraphrase Scoring
Michael Heilman | Nitin Madnani

Sbdlrhmn: A Rule-based Human Interpretation System for Semantic Textual Similarity Task
Samir AbdelRahman | Catherine Blake

LIMSI: Learning Semantic Similarity by Selecting Random Word Subsets
Artem Sokolov

ATA-Sem: Chunk-based Determination of Semantic Text Similarity
Demetrios Glinos

IRIT: Textual Similarity Combining Conceptual Similarity with an N-Gram Comparison Method
Davide Buscaldi | Ronan Tournier | Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles | Josiane Mothe

DSS: Text Similarity Using Lexical Alignments of Form, Distributional Semantics and Grammatical Relations
Diana McCarthy | Spandana Gella | Siva Reddy

DeepPurple: Estimating Sentence Semantic Similarity using N-gram Regression Models and Web Snippets
Nikos Malandrakis | Elias Iosif | Alexandros Potamianos

JU_CSE_NLP: Multi-grade Classification of Semantic Similarity between Text Pairs
Snehasis Neogi | Partha Pakray | Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | Alexander Gelbukh

Tiantianzhu7:System Description of Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) in the SemEval-2012 (Task 6)
Tiantian Zhu | Man Lan

sranjans : Semantic Textual Similarity using Maximal Weighted Bipartite Graph Matching
Sumit Bhagwani | Shrutiranjan Satapathy | Harish Karnick

Weiwei: A Simple Unsupervised Latent Semantics based Approach for Sentence Similarity
Weiwei Guo | Mona Diab

UNIBA: Distributional Semantics for Textual Similarity
Annalina Caputo | Pierpaolo Basile | Giovanni Semeraro

UNITOR: Combining Semantic Text Similarity functions through SV Regression
Danilo Croce | Paolo Annesi | Valerio Storch | Roberto Basili

Saarland: Vector-based models of semantic textual similarity
Georgiana Dinu | Stefan Thater

UMCC_DLSI: Multidimensional Lexical-Semantic Textual Similarity
Antonio Fernández | Yoan Gutiérrez | Héctor Dávila | Alexander Chávez | Andy González | Rainel Estrada | Yenier Castañeda | Sonia Vázquez | Andrés Montoyo | Rafael Muñoz

SRIUBC: Simple Similarity Features for Semantic Textual Similarity
Eric Yeh | Eneko Agirre

FBK: Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Similarity metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity
José Guilherme Camargo de Souza | Matteo Negri | Yashar Mehdad

FCC: Three Approaches for Semantic Textual Similarity
Maya Carrillo | Darnes Vilariño | David Pinto | Mireya Tovar | Saul León | Esteban Castillo

UNT: A Supervised Synergistic Approach to Semantic Text Similarity
Carmen Banea | Samer Hassan | Michael Mohler | Rada Mihalcea

DERI&UPM: Pushing Corpus Based Relatedness to Similarity: Shared Task System Description
Nitish Aggarwal | Kartik Asooja | Paul Buitelaar

Stanford: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for STS
Mengqiu Wang | Daniel Cer

University_Of_Sheffield: Two Approaches to Semantic Text Similarity
Sam Biggins | Shaabi Mohammed | Sam Oakley | Luke Stringer | Mark Stevenson | Judita Preiss

janardhan: Semantic Textual Similarity using Universal Networking Language graph matching
Janardhan Singh | Arindam Bhattacharya | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

SAGAN: An approach to Semantic Textual Similarity based on Textual Entailment
Julio Castillo | Paula Estrella

UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity
Miguel Rios | Wilker Aziz | Lucia Specia

Penn: Using Word Similarities to better Estimate Sentence Similarity
Sneha Jha | Hansen A. Schwartz | Lyle Ungar

Soft Cardinality + ML: Learning Adaptive Similarity Functions for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment
Sergio Jimenez | Claudia Becerra | Alexander Gelbukh

JU_CSE_NLP: Language Independent Cross-lingual Textual Entailment System
Snehasis Neogi | Partha Pakray | Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | Alexander Gelbukh

CELI: An Experiment with Cross Language Textual Entailment
Milen Kouylekov | Luca Dini | Alessio Bosca | Marco Trevisan

FBK: Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Without Translation
Yashar Mehdad | Matteo Negri | José Guilherme C. de Souza

BUAP: Lexical and Semantic Similarity for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment
Darnes Vilariño | David Pinto | Mireya Tovar | Saul León | Esteban Castillo

DirRelCond3: Detecting Textual Entailment Across Languages With Conditions On Directional Text Relatedness Scores
Alpár Perini

ICT: A Translation based Method for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment
Fandong Meng | Hao Xiong | Qun Liu

SAGAN: A Machine Translation Approach for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
Julio Castillo | Marina Cardenas