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Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters
Martin Kay | Christian Boitet

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K-Best Spanning Tree Dependency Parsing With Verb Valency Lexicon Reranking
Zeljko Agic

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A Best-First Anagram Hashing Filter for Approximate String Matching with Generalized Edit Distance
Malin Ahlberg | Gerlof Bouma

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Automatic Bilingual Phrase Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Ahmet Aker | Yang Feng | Robert Gaizauskas

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A Formalized Reference Grammar for UNL-Based Machine Translation between English and Arabic
Sameh Alansary

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Mapping Arabic Wikipedia into the Named Entities Taxonomy
Fahd Alotaibi | Mark Lee

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Probabilistic Refinement Algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions
Romina Altamirano | Carlos Areces | Luciana Benotti

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Measuring the Adequacy of Cross-Lingual Paraphrases in a Machine Translation Setting
Marianna Apidianaki

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Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis for Indian Languages using Linked WordNets
Balamurali A.R. | Aditya Joshi | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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The Creation of Large-Scale Annotated Corpora of Minority Languages using UniParser and the EANC platform
Timofey Arkhangelskiy | Oleg Belyaev | Arseniy Vydrin

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Collocation Extraction using Parallel Corpus
Kavosh Asadi Atui | Heshaam Faili | Kaveh Assadi Atuie

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Improved Spelling Error Detection and Correction for Arabic
Mohammed Attia | Pavel Pecina | Younes Samih | Khaled Shaalan | Josef van Genabith

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Heloise — A Reengineering of Ariane-G5 SLLPs for Application to π-languages
Vincent Berment | Christian Boitet

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Machine Translation for Language Preservation
Steven Bird | David Chiang

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Comparing Non-projective Strategies for Labeled Graph-Based Dependency Parsing
Anders Björkelund | Jonas Kuhn

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Phrase Structures and Dependencies for End-to-End Coreference Resolution
Anders Björkelund | Jonas Kuhn

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The Language of Power and its Cultural Influence
David Bracewell | Marc Tomlinson

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Learning Opinionated Patterns for Contextual Opinion Detection
Caroline Brun

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Does Similarity Matter? The Case of Answer Extraction from Technical Discussion Forums
Rose Catherine | Amit Singh | Rashmi Gangadharaiah | Dinesh Raghu | Karthik Visweswariah

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Chinese Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Insights into the State of the Art
Chen Chen | Vincent Ng

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Linguistic and Statistical Traits Characterising Plagiarism
Miranda Chong | Lucia Specia

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Impact of Less Skewed Distributions on Efficiency and Effectiveness of Biomedical Relation Extraction
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury | Alberto Lavelli

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Lattice Rescoring for Speech Recognition using Large Scale Distributed Language Models
Euisok Chung | Hyung-Bae Jeon | Jeon-Gue Park | Yun-Keun Lee

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Morphological Analyzer for Affix Stacking Languages: A Case Study of Marathi
Raj Dabre | Archana Amberkar | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Modelling the Organization and Processing of Bangla Polymorphemic Words in the Mental Lexicon: A Computational Approach
Tirthankar Dasgupta | Manjira Sinha | Anupam Basu

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Coreference Clustering using Column Generation
Jan De Belder | Marie-Francine Moens

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Metric Learning for Graph-Based Domain Adaptation
Paramveer Dhillon | Partha Talukdar | Koby Crammer

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Automatic Hashtag Recommendation for Microblogs using Topic-Specific Translation Model
Zhuoye Ding | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang

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Unsupervised Feature-Rich Clustering
Vladimir Eidelman

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Token Level Identification of Linguistic Code Switching
Heba Elfardy | Mona Diab

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Parenthetical Classification for Information Extraction
Ismail El Maarouf | Jeanne Villaneau

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A Dictionary-Based Approach to Identifying Aspects Implied by Adjectives for Opinion Mining
Geli Fei | Bing Liu | Meichun Hsu | Malu Castellanos | Riddhiman Ghosh

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Dealing with Input Noise in Statistical Machine Translation
Lluis Formiga | Jose A. R. Fonollosa

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A Comparison of Knowledge-based Algorithms for Graded Word Sense Assignment
Annemarie Friedrich | Nikos Engonopoulos | Stefan Thater | Manfred Pinkal

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Leveraging Statistical Transliteration for Dictionary-Based English-Bengali CLIR of OCR‘d Text
Utpal Garain | Arjun Das | David Doermann | Douglas Oard

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RU-EVAL-2012: Evaluating Dependency Parsers for Russian
Anastasia Gareyshina | Maxim Ionov | Olga Lyashevskaya | Dmitry Privoznov | Elena Sokolova | Svetlana Toldova

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Assessing Sentiment Strength in Words Prior Polarities
Lorenzo Gatti | Marco Guerini

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Improving Dependency Parsing with Interlinear Glossed Text and Syntactic Projection
Ryan Georgi | Fei Xia | William Lewis

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Diachronic Variation in Grammatical Relations
Aaron Gerow | Khurshid Ahmad

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Relation Classification using Entity Sequence Kernels
Debanjan Ghosh | Smaranda Muresan

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Translating Questions to SQL Queries with Generative Parsers Discriminatively Reranked
Alessandra Giordani | Alessandro Moschitti

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Classifier-Based Tense Model for SMT
ZhengXian Gong | Min Zhang | ChewLim Tan | GuoDong Zhou

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Extracting and Normalizing Entity-Actions from Users’ Comments
Swapna Gottipati | Jing Jiang

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Expected Divergence Based Feature Selection for Learning to Rank
Parth Gupta | Paolo Rosso

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LEPOR: A Robust Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation with Augmented Factors
Aaron L. F. Han | Derek F. Wong | Lidia S. Chao

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Predicting Stance in Ideological Debate with Rich Linguistic Knowledge
Kazi Saidul Hasan | Vincent Ng

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FeatureForge: A Novel Tool for Visually Supported Feature Engineering and Corpus Revision
Florian Heimerl | Charles Jochim | Steffen Koch | Thomas Ertl

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Verb Temporality Analysis using Reichenbach’s Tense System
André Horie | Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii | Mitsuru Ishizuka

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A Metric for Evaluating Discourse Coherence based on Coreference Resolution
Ryu Iida | Takenobu Tokunaga

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Comparing Word Relatedness Measures Based on Google n-grams
Aminul Islam | Evangelos Milios | Vlado Keselj

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Two-Stage Bootstrapping for Anaphora Resolution
Balaji Jagan | T V Geetha | Ranjani Parthasarathi

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Explorations in the Speakers’ Interaction Experience and Self-Assessments
Kristiina Jokinen

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Multimodal Signals and Holistic Interaction Structuring
Kristiina Jokinen | Graham Wilcock

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New Insights from Coarse Word Sense Disambiguation in the Crowd
Adam Kapelner | Krishna Kaliannan | H. Andrew Schwartz | Lyle Ungar | Dean Foster

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A Unified Sentence Space for Categorical Distributional-Compositional Semantics: Theory and Experiments
Dimitri Kartsaklis | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh | Stephen Pulman

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A Knowledge-Based Approach to Syntactic Disambiguation of Biomedical Noun Compounds
Ramakanth Kavuluru | Daniel Harris

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Classification of Inconsistent Sentiment Words using Syntactic Constructions
Wiltrud Kessler | Hinrich Schütze

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Learning Semantics with Deep Belief Network for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Jungi Kim | Jinseok Nam | Iryna Gurevych

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Detection of Acoustic-Phonetic Landmarks in Mismatched Conditions using a Biomimetic Model of Human Auditory Processing
Sarah King | Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

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Learning Verbs on the Fly
Zornitsa Kozareva

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Decoder-based Discriminative Training of Phrase Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
Hyoung-Gyu Lee | Hae-Chang Rim

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Glimpses of Ancient China from Classical Chinese Poems
John Lee | Tak-sum Wong

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Conversion between Scripts of Punjabi: Beyond Simple Transliteration
Gurpreet Singh Lehal | Tejinder Singh Saini

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Development of a Complete Urdu-Hindi Transliteration System
Gurpreet Singh Lehal | Tejinder Singh Saini

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Random Walks on Context-Aware Relation Graphs for Ranking Social Tags
Han Li | Zhiyuan Liu | Maosong Sun

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Phrase-Based Evaluation for Machine Translation
Liangyou Li | Zhengxian Gong | Guodong Zhou

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A Beam Search Algorithm for ITG Word Alignment
Peng Li | Yang Liu | Maosong Sun

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Active Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation
Shoushan Li | Guodong Zhou | Chu-Ren Huang

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Fine-Grained Classification of Named Entities by Fusing Multi-Features
Wenjie Li | Jiwei Li | Ye Tian | Zhifang Sui

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Expert Finding for Microblog Misinformation Identification
Chen Liang | Zhiyuan Liu | Maosong Sun

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Improving Relative-Entropy Pruning using Statistical Significance
Wang Ling | Nadi Tomeh | Guang Xiang | Isabel Trancoso | Alan Black

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Expected Error Minimization with Ultraconservative Update for SMT
Lemao Liu | Tiejun Zhao | Taro Watanabe | Hailong Cao | Conghui Zhu

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Generalized Sentiment-Bearing Expression Features for Sentiment Analysis
Shizhu Liu | Gady Agam | David Grossman

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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Joint Segmentation and POS-Tagging
Yang Liu | Yue Zhang

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Tag Dispatch Model with Social Network Regularization for Microblog User Tag Suggestion
Zhiyuan Liu | Cunchao Tu | Maosong Sun

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Summarization of Business-Related Tweets: A Concept-Based Approach
Annie Louis | Todd Newman

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Towards the Automatic Detection of the Source Language of a Literary Translation.
Gerard Lynch | Carl Vogel

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Fourth-Order Dependency Parsing
Xuezhe Ma | Hai Zhao

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A Subjective Logic Framework for Multi-Document Summarization
Sukanya Manna | Byron J. Gao | Reed Coke

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Manual Corpus Annotation: Giving Meaning to the Evaluation Metrics
Yann Mathet | Antoine Widlöcher | Karën Fort | Claire François | Olivier Galibert | Cyril Grouin | Juliette Kahn | Sophie Rosset | Pierre Zweigenbaum

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Discriminative Boosting from Dictionary and Raw Text – A Novel Approach to Build A Chinese Word Segmenter
Fandong Meng | Wenbin Jiang | Hao Xiong | Qun Liu

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Lost in Translations? Building Sentiment Lexicons using Context Based Machine Translation
Xinfan Meng | Furu Wei | Ge Xu | Longkai Zhang | Xiaohua Liu | Ming Zhou | Houfeng Wang

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How Does the Granularity of an Annotation Scheme Influence Dependency Parsing Performance?
Simon Mille | Alicia Burga | Gabriela Ferraro | Leo Wanner

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Does Tectogrammatics Help the Annotation of Discourse?
Jiří Mírovský | Pavlína Jínová | Lucie Poláková

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The Effect of Learner Corpus Size in Grammatical Error Correction of ESL Writings
Tomoya Mizumoto | Yuta Hayashibe | Mamoru Komachi | Masaaki Nagata | Yuji Matsumoto

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GRAFIX: Automated Rule-Based Post Editing System to Improve English-Persian SMT Output
Mahsa Mohaghegh | Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh | Mehdi Mohammadi

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Relational Structures and Models for Coreference Resolution
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen | Massimo Poesio

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Text Summarization Model based on Redundancy-Constrained Knapsack Problem
Hitoshi Nishikawa | Tsutomu Hirao | Toshiro Makino | Yoshihiro Matsuo

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Lexical Categories for Improved Parsing of Web Data
Lilja Øvrelid | Arne Skjærholt

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Text-To-Speech for Languages without an Orthography
Sukhada Palkar | Alan Black | Alok Parlikar

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Part of Speech (POS) Tagger for Kokborok
Braja Gopal Patra | Khumbar Debbarma | Dipankar Das | Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

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Forced Derivations for Hierarchical Machine Translation
Stephan Peitz | Arne Mauser | Joern Wuebker | Hermann Ney

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On Panini and the Generative Capacity of Contextualized Replacement Systems
Gerald Penn | Paul Kiparsky

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Joint Segmentation and Tagging with Coupled Sequences Labeling
Xipeng Qiu | Feng Ji | Jiayi Zhao | Xuanjing Huang

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Defining Syntax for Learner Language Annotation
Marwa Ragheb | Markus Dickinson

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How Good are Typological Distances for Determining Genealogical Relationships among Languages?
Taraka Rama | Prasanth Kolachina

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Sentence Boundary Detection: A Long Solved Problem?
Jonathon Read | Rebecca Dridan | Stephan Oepen | Lars Jørgen Solberg

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Document and Corpus Level Inference For Unsupervised and Transductive Learning of Information Structure of Scientific Documents
Roi Reichart | Anna Korhonen

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Light Textual Inference for Semantic Parsing
Kyle Richardson | Jonas Kuhn

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Korektor – A System for Contextual Spell-Checking and Diacritics Completion
Michal Richter | Pavel Straňák | Alexandr Rosen

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Using Qualia Information to Identify Lexical Semantic Classes in an Unsupervised Clustering Task
Lauren Romeo | Sara Mendes | Núria Bel

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A Strategy of Mapping Polish WordNet onto Princeton WordNet
Ewa Rudnicka | Marek Maziarz | Maciej Piasecki | Stan Szpakowicz

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A Hierarchical Domain Model-Based Multi-Domain Selection Framework for Multi-Domain Dialog Systems
Seonghan Ryu | Donghyeon Lee | Injae Lee | Sangdo Han | Gary Geunbae Lee | Myungjae Kim | Kyungduk Kim

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A Fully Coreference-annotated Corpus of Scholarly Papers from the ACL Anthology
Ulrich Schäfer | Christian Spurk | Jörg Steffen

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Continuous Space Translation Models for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Holger Schwenk

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Data-driven Dependency Parsing With Empty Heads
Wolfgang Seeker | Richárd Farkas | Bernd Bohnet | Helmut Schmid | Jonas Kuhn

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Extension of TSVM to Multi-Class and Hierarchical Text Classification Problems With General Losses
Sathiya Keerthi Selvaraj | Sundararajan Sellamanickam | Shirish Shevade

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Calculation of Phrase Probabilities for Statistical Machine Translation by using Belief Functions
Christophe Servan | Simon Petitrenaud

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Sense and Reference Disambiguation in Wikipedia
Hui Shen | Razvan Bunescu | Rada Mihalcea

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Unsupervised Metaphor Paraphrasing using a Vector Space Model
Ekaterina Shutova | Tim Van de Cruys | Anna Korhonen

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Memory-Efficient Katakana Compound Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields
Krauchanka Siarhei | Artsimenya Artsiom

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New Readability Measures for Bangla and Hindi Texts
Manjira Sinha | Sakshi Sharma | Tirthankar Dasgupta | Anupam Basu

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Automatic Question Generation in Multimedia-Based Learning
Yvonne Skalban | Le An Ha | Lucia Specia | Ruslan Mitkov

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A More Cohesive Summarizer
Christian Smith | Henrik Danielsson | Arne Jönsson

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Robust Learning in Random Subspaces: Equipping NLP for OOV Effects
Anders Søgaard | Anders Johannsen

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An Empirical Etudy of Non-Lexical Extensions to Delexicalized Transfer
Anders Søgaard | Julie Wulff

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Entropy-based Training Data Selection for Domain Adaptation
Yan Song | Prescott Klassen | Fei Xia | Chunyu Kit

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Corpus-based Explorations of Affective Load Differences in Arabic-Hebrew-English
Carlo Strapparava | Oliviero Stock | Ilai Alon

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Acquiring and Generalizing Causal Inference Rules from Deverbal Noun Constructions
Shohei Tanaka | Naoaki Okazaki | Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Advertising Legality Recognition
Yi-jie Tang | Cong-kai Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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A Joint Phrasal and Dependency Model for Paraphrase Alignment
Kapil Thadani | Scott Martin | Michael White

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Sourcing the Crowd for a Few Good Ones: Event Type Detection
Tommaso Caselli | Chu-Ren Huang

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Combining Multiple Alignments to Improve Machine Translation
Zhaopeng Tu | Yang Liu | Yifan He | Josef van Genabith | Qun Liu | Shouxun Lin

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A New Search Approach for Interactive-Predictive Computer-Assisted Translation
Zeinab Vakil | Shahram Khadivi

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Automatic Extraction of Polar Adjectives for the Creation of Polarity Lexicons
Silvia Vázquez | Muntsa Padró | Núria Bel | Julio Gonzalo

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Optimal Scheduling of Information Extraction Algorithms
Henning Wachsmuth | Benno Stein

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Update Summarization Based on Co-Ranking with Constraints
Xiaojun Wan

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Sentence Realization with Unlexicalized Tree Linearization Grammars
Rui Wang | Yi Zhang

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Exploiting Discourse Relations for Sentiment Analysis
Fei Wang | Yunfang Wu | Likun Qiu

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Expansion Methods for Job-Candidate Matching Amidst Unreliable and Sparse Data
Jerome White | Krishna Kummamuru | Nitendra Rajput

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A Unified Framework for Discourse Argument Identification via Shallow Semantic Parsing
Fan Xu | Qiaoming Zhu | Guodong Zhou

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Using Deep Linguistic Features for Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam
Qiongkai Xu | Hai Zhao

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Latent Community Discovery with Network Regularization for Core Actors Clustering
Guangxu Xun | Yujiu Yang | Liangwei Wang | Wenhuang Liu

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HYENA: Hierarchical Type Classification for Entity Names
Mohamed Amir Yosef | Sandro Bauer | Johannes Hoffart | Marc Spaniol | Gerhard Weikum

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Identifying Temporal Relations by Sentence and Document Optimizations
Katsumasa Yoshikawa | Masayuki Asahara | Ryu Iida

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Affect Detection from Semantic Interpretation of Drama Improvisation
Li Zhang | Ming Jiang

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Analyzing the Effect of Global Learning and Beam-Search on Transition-Based Dependency Parsing
Yue Zhang | Joakim Nivre

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Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation based on Context Expansion
Zhizhuo Yang | Heyan Huang

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Cross-Lingual Identification of Ambiguous Discourse Connectives for Resource-Poor Language
Lanjun Zhou | Wei Gao | Binyang Li | Zhongyu Wei | Kam-Fai Wong