EMNLP (2016) - ACL Anthology

Anthology	Volume	Papers
D16-1	Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing	265

Distinguishing Past, On-going, and Future Events: The EventStatus Corpus
[D16-1005]: Ellen Riloff | Dan Jurafsky | Ruihong Huang | Ignacio Cases | Cleo Condoravdi

Nested Propositions in Open Information Extraction
[D16-1006]: Dragomir Radev | Nikita Bhutani | H V Jagadish

A Position Encoding Convolutional Neural Network Based on Dependency Tree for Relation Classification
[D16-1007]: Shulei Ma | Zhi-Hong Deng | Yunlun Yang | Yunhai Tong

Learning to Recognize Discontiguous Entities
[D16-1008]: Wei Lu | Aldrian Obaja Muis

Modeling Human Reading with Neural Attention
[D16-1009]: Frank Keller | Michael Hahn

Comparing Computational Cognitive Models of Generalization in a Language Acquisition Task
[D16-1010]: Suzanne Stevenson | Libby Barak | Adele E. Goldberg

Rationalizing Neural Predictions
[D16-1011]: Regina Barzilay | Tommi Jaakkola | Tao Lei

Deep Multi-Task Learning with Shared Memory for Text Classification
[D16-1012]: Xuanjing Huang | Xipeng Qiu | Pengfei Liu

Creating Causal Embeddings for Question Answering with Minimal Supervision
[D16-1014]: Peter Clark | Peter Jansen | Mihai Surdeanu | Rebecca Sharp | Michael Hammond

Improving Semantic Parsing via Answer Type Inference
[D16-1015]: Semih Yavuz | Izzeddin Gur | Yu Su | Mudhakar Srivatsa | Xifeng Yan

Semantic Parsing to Probabilistic Programs for Situated Question Answering
[D16-1016]: Jayant Krishnamurthy | Oyvind Tafjord | Aniruddha Kembhavi

Event participant modelling with neural networks
[D16-1017]: Stefan Thater | Vera Demberg | Dietrich Klakow | Asad Sayeed | Ottokar Tilk

Context-Dependent Sense Embedding
[D16-1018]: Yong Yu | Kewei Tu | Lin Qiu

Jointly Embedding Knowledge Graphs and Logical Rules
[D16-1019]: Bin Wang | Quan Wang | Li Guo | Shu Guo | Lihong Wang

Learning Connective-based Word Representations for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification
[D16-1020]: Pascal Denis | Chloé Braud

Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory Network
[D16-1021]: Ting Liu | Duyu Tang | Bing Qin

Lifelong-RL: Lifelong Relaxation Labeling for Separating Entities and Aspects in Opinion Targets
[D16-1022]: Bing Liu | Lei Shu | Hu Xu | Annice Kim

Learning Sentence Embeddings with Auxiliary Tasks for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
[D16-1023]: Jing Jiang | Jianfei Yu

Attention-based LSTM Network for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification
[D16-1024]: Xiaojun Wan | Jianguo Xiao | Xinjie Zhou

Neural versus Phrase-Based Machine Translation Quality: a Case Study
[D16-1025]: Luisa Bentivogli | Arianna Bisazza | Marcello Federico | Mauro Cettolo

Zero-Resource Translation with Multi-Lingual Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1026]: Kyunghyun Cho | Yaser Al-Onaizan | Baskaran Sankaran | Orhan Firat | Fatos T. Yarman Vural

Memory-enhanced Decoder for Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1027]: Hang Li | Qun Liu | Zhengdong Lu | Mingxuan Wang

Semi-Supervised Learning of Sequence Models with Method of Moments
[D16-1028]: Noah A. Smith | Shay B. Cohen | Zita Marinho | André F. T. Martins

Learning from Explicit and Implicit Supervision Jointly For Algebra Word Problems
[D16-1029]: Wen-tau Yih | Shyam Upadhyay | Ming-Wei Chang | Kai-Wei Chang

TweeTime : A Minimally Supervised Method for Recognizing and Normalizing Time Expressions in Twitter
[D16-1030]: Wei Xu | Alan Ritter | Jeniya Tabassum

Language as a Latent Variable: Discrete Generative Models for Sentence Compression
[D16-1031]: Phil Blunsom | Yishu Miao

Globally Coherent Text Generation with Neural Checklist Models
[D16-1032]: Luke Zettlemoyer | Yejin Choi | Chloé Kiddon

A Dataset and Evaluation Metrics for Abstractive Compression of Sentences and Short Paragraphs
[D16-1033]: Chris Brockett | Kristina Toutanova | Ke M. Tran | Saleema Amershi

PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text Simplification
[D16-1034]: Dominique Brunato | Andrea Cimino | Felice Dell'Orletta | Giulia Venturi

Discourse Parsing with Attention-based Hierarchical Neural Networks
[D16-1035]: Baobao Chang | Qi Li | Tianshi Li

Event Detection and Co-reference with Minimal Supervision
[D16-1038]: Dan Roth | Haoruo Peng | Yangqiu Song

Learning Term Embeddings for Taxonomic Relation Identification Using Dynamic Weighting Neural Network
[D16-1039]: Tuan Luu Anh | See Kiong Ng | Yi Tay | Siu Cheung Hui

Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Side Information
[D16-1040]: Partha Talukdar | Madhav Nimishakavi | Uday Singh Saini

Supervised Distributional Hypernym Discovery via Domain Adaptation
[D16-1041]: Horacio Saggion | Luis Espinosa Anke | Jose Camacho-Collados | Claudio Delli Bovi

Latent Tree Language Model
[D16-1042]: Tomáš Brychcín

Comparing Data Sources and Architectures for Deep Visual Representation Learning in Semantics
[D16-1043]: Stephen Clark | Douwe Kiela | Anita Lilla Verő

The Structured Weighted Violations Perceptron Algorithm
[D16-1045]: Roi Reichart | Rotem Dror

Morphological Priors for Probabilistic Neural Word Embeddings
[D16-1047]: Jacob Eisenstein | Parminder Bhatia | Robert Guthrie

Automatic Cross-Lingual Similarization of Dependency Grammars for Tree-based Machine Translation
[D16-1048]: Wenbin Jiang | Jinan Xu | Wen Zhang | Rangjia Cai

IRT-based Aggregation Model of Crowdsourced Pairwise Comparison for Evaluating Machine Translations
[D16-1049]: Sadao Kurohashi | Daisuke Kawahara | Toshiaki Nakazawa | Naoki Otani

Variational Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1050]: Min Zhang | Deyi Xiong | Biao Zhang | jinsong su | Hong Duan

Towards a Convex HMM Surrogate for Word Alignment
[D16-1051]: Michael Collins | Andrei Simion | Cliff Stein

Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading
[D16-1053]: Mirella Lapata | Li Dong | Jianpeng Cheng

Learning to Translate for Multilingual Question Answering
[D16-1055]: Ferhan Ture | Elizabeth Boschee

A Semiparametric Model for Bayesian Reader Identification
[D16-1056]: Niels Landwehr | Reinhold Kliegl | Ahmed Abdelwahab

Inducing Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons from Unlabeled Corpora
[D16-1057]: Dan Jurafsky | William L. Hamilton | Kevin Clark | Jure Leskovec

Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification
[D16-1058]: Minlie Huang | xiaoyan zhu | Li Zhao | Yequan Wang

Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
[D16-1059]: Daniel Dahlmeier | Sinno Jialin Pan | Wenya Wang | Xiaokui Xiao

Extracting Aspect Specific Opinion Expressions
[D16-1060]: Arjun Mukherjee | Abhishek Laddha

Emotion Distribution Learning from Texts
[D16-1061]: Deyu ZHOU | Xuan Zhang | Yin Zhou | Quan Zhao | Xin Geng

Building an Evaluation Scale using Item Response Theory
[D16-1062]: John Lalor | Hao Wu | hong yu

WordRank: Learning Word Embeddings via Robust Ranking
[D16-1063]: Shihao Ji | Hyokun Yun | Pinar Yanardag | Shin Matsushima | S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Exploring Semantic Representation in Brain Activity Using Word Embeddings
[D16-1064]: Yu-Ping Ruan | Zhen-Hua Ling | Yu Hu

Identifying Dogmatism in Social Media: Signals and Models
[D16-1066]: Ethan Fast | Eric Horvitz

Enhanced Personalized Search using Social Data
[D16-1067]: Dong Zhou | Séamus Lawless | Xuan Wu | Wenyu Zhao | Jianxun Liu

Effective Greedy Inference for Graph-based Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
[D16-1068]: Roi Reichart | Ilan Tchernowitz | Liron Yedidsion

Generating Abbreviations for Chinese Named Entities Using Recurrent Neural Network with Dynamic Dictionary
[D16-1069]: Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang | Yaqian Zhou | Ya Guo | Jin Qian

Neural Network for Heterogeneous Annotations
[D16-1070]: Qun Liu | Yue Zhang | Hongshen Chen

LAMB: A Good Shepherd of Morphologically Rich Languages
[D16-1071]: Hinrich Schütze | Sebastian Ebert | Thomas Müller

Fast Coupled Sequence Labeling on Heterogeneous Annotations via Context-aware Pruning
[D16-1072]: Min Zhang | Zhenghua Li | Jiayuan Chao | Jiwen Yang

Unsupervised Neural Dependency Parsing
[D16-1073]: Kewei Tu | Yong Jiang | Wenjuan Han

Generating Coherent Summaries of Scientific Articles Using Coherence Patterns
[D16-1074]: Michael Strube | Daraksha Parveen | Mohsen Mesgar

Rationale-Augmented Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification
[D16-1076]: Byron C. Wallace | Ye Zhang | Iain Marshall

Transferring User Interests Across Websites with Unstructured Text for Cold-Start Recommendation
[D16-1077]: Yu-Yang Huang | Shou-De Lin

Analyzing Linguistic Knowledge in Sequential Model of Sentence
[D16-1079]: Xuanjing Huang | Xipeng Qiu | Peng Qian

Keyphrase Extraction Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks on Twitter
[D16-1080]: Qi Zhang | Yang Wang | Xuanjing Huang | Yeyun Gong

Solving and Generating Chinese Character Riddles
[D16-1081]: Ming Zhou | Furu Wei | Li Dong | Chuanqi Tan | Weifeng Lv

Structured prediction models for RNN based sequence labeling in clinical text
[D16-1082]: hong yu | Abhyuday Jagannatha

Learning to Represent Review with Tensor Decomposition for Spam Detection
[D16-1083]: Kang Liu | Jun Zhao | Shizhu He | Xuepeng Wang

Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional Encoding
[D16-1084]: Kalina Bontcheva | Andreas Vlachos | Isabelle Augenstein | Tim Rocktäschel

Modeling Skip-Grams for Event Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks
[D16-1085]: Ralph Grishman | Thien Huu Nguyen

Porting an Open Information Extraction System from English to German
[D16-1086]: Ido Dagan | Iryna Gurevych | Gabriel Stanovsky | Tobias Falke

Named Entity Recognition for Novel Types by Transfer Learning
[D16-1087]: Timothy Baldwin | Lizhen Qu | Gabriela Ferraro | Liyuan Zhou | Weiwei Hou

Extracting Subevents via an Effective Two-phase Approach
[D16-1088]: Ruihong Huang | Allison Badgett

Gaussian Visual-Linguistic Embedding for Zero-Shot Recognition
[D16-1089]: Tanmoy Mukherjee | Timothy Hospedales

Question Relevance in VQA: Identifying Non-Visual And False-Premise Questions
[D16-1090]: Mohit Bansal | Dhruv Batra | Arijit Ray | Gordon Christie | Devi Parikh

Sort Story: Sorting Jumbled Images and Captions into Stories
[D16-1091]: Mohit Bansal | Dhruv Batra | Devi Parikh | Harsh Agrawal | Arjun Chandrasekaran

Human Attention in Visual Question Answering: Do Humans and Deep Networks look at the same regions?
[D16-1092]: Dhruv Batra | Devi Parikh | Harsh Agrawal | Abhishek Das | Larry Zitnick

Recurrent Residual Learning for Sequence Classification
[D16-1093]: Fei Tian | Yiren Wang

Richer Interpolative Smoothing Based on Modified Kneser-Ney Language Modeling
[D16-1094]: Trevor Cohn | Gholamreza Haffari | Ehsan Shareghi

A General Regularization Framework for Domain Adaptation
[D16-1095]: Hai Leong Chieu | Wei Lu | Jonathan Löfgren

Coverage Embedding Models for Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1096]: Haitao Mi | Zhiguo Wang | Baskaran Sankaran | Abe Ittycheriah

Neural Morphological Analysis: Encoding-Decoding Canonical Segments
[D16-1097]: Hinrich Schütze | Ryan Cotterell | Katharina Kann

Exploiting Mutual Benefits between Syntax and Semantic Roles using Neural Network
[D16-1098]: Yue Zhang | Zhiyang Teng | Peng Shi

The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models
[D16-1099]: Magnus Sahlgren | Alessandro Lenci

Multi-Granularity Chinese Word Embedding
[D16-1100]: Peng Li | Bin Wang | Quan Wang | Rongchao Yin | Rui Li

Numerically Grounded Language Models for Semantic Error Correction
[D16-1101]: Sebastian Riedel | Isabelle Augenstein | Georgios Spithourakis

Towards Semi-Automatic Generation of Proposition Banks for Low-Resource Languages
[D16-1102]: Alan Akbik | Yunyao Li | vishwajeet kumar

A Hierarchical Model of Reviews for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
[D16-1103]: Sebastian Ruder | Parsa Ghaffari | John G. Breslin

Are Word Embedding-based Features Useful for Sarcasm Detection?
[D16-1104]: Pushpak Bhattacharyya | Aditya Joshi | Vaibhav Tripathi | Kevin Patel | Mark Carman

Weakly Supervised Tweet Stance Classification by Relational Bootstrapping
[D16-1105]: Javid Ebrahimi | Dejing Dou | Daniel Lowd

The Gun Violence Database: A new task and data set for NLP
[D16-1106]: Chris Callison-Burch | Heng Ji | Xiaoman Pan | Ellie Pavlick

Fluency detection on communication networks
[D16-1107]: Benjamin Van Durme | Tom Lippincott

Characterizing the Language of Online Communities and its Relation to Community Reception
[D16-1108]: Mari Ostendorf | Trang Tran

Joint Transition-based Dependency Parsing and Disfluency Detection for Automatic Speech Recognition Texts
[D16-1109]: Yuji Matsumoto | Masashi Yoshikawa | Hiroyuki Shindo

A Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Punctuation Generation
[D16-1111]: Leo Wanner | Miguel Ballesteros

Neural Headline Generation on Abstract Meaning Representation
[D16-1112]: Tsutomu Hirao | Jun Suzuki | Naoaki Okazaki | Masaaki Nagata | Sho Takase

Robust Gram Embeddings
[D16-1113]: Taygun Kekec | David M. J. Tax

SimpleScience: Lexical Simplification of Scientific Terminology
[D16-1114]: Yea Seul Kim | Jessica Hullman | Matthew Burgess | Eytan Adar

Automatic Features for Essay Scoring – An Empirical Study
[D16-1115]: Yue Zhang | Fei Dong

Equation Parsing : Mapping Sentences to Grounded Equations
[D16-1117]: Dan Roth | Shyam Upadhyay | Subhro Roy

Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions
[D16-1118]: Eduardo Blanco | Jordan Sanders

Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies
[D16-1119]: Eduardo Blanco | Zahra Sarabi

Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English
[D16-1120]: Brendan O'Connor | Su Lin Blodgett | Lisa Green

Detecting and Characterizing Events
[D16-1122]: David Blei | Hanna Wallach | Allison Chaney | Matthew Connelly

Convolutional Neural Network Language Models
[D16-1123]: Gemma Boleda | Ngoc-Quan Pham | Germán Kruszewski

Generalizing and Hybridizing Count-based and Neural Language Models
[D16-1124]: Chris Dyer | Graham Neubig

Reasoning about Pragmatics with Neural Listeners and Speakers
[D16-1125]: Jacob Andreas | Dan Klein

Generating Topical Poetry
[D16-1126]: Kevin Knight | Yejin Choi | Marjan Ghazvininejad | Xing Shi

Neural Text Generation from Structured Data with Application to the Biography Domain
[D16-1128]: Michael Auli | Rémi Lebret | David Grangier

What makes a convincing argument? Empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in Web argumentation
[D16-1129]: Iryna Gurevych | Ivan Habernal

Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations via Repeated Reading: Neural Networks with Multi-Level Attention
[D16-1130]: Yang Liu | Sujian Li

Antecedent Selection for Sluicing: Structure and Content
[D16-1131]: Daniel Hardt | Pranav Anand

Intra-Sentential Subject Zero Anaphora Resolution using Multi-Column Convolutional Neural Network
[D16-1132]: Kentaro Torisawa | Jong-Hoon Oh | Ryu Iida | Julien Kloetzer | Canasai Kruengkrai

An Unsupervised Probability Model for Speech-to-Translation Alignment of Low-Resource Languages
[D16-1133]: David Chiang | Long Duong | Antonios Anastasopoulos

HUME: Human UCCA-Based Evaluation of Machine Translation
[D16-1134]: Omri Abend | Alexandra Birch | Barry Haddow | Ondřej Bojar

Improving Multilingual Named Entity Recognition with Wikipedia Entity Type Mapping
[D16-1135]: Radu Florian | Jian Ni

Learning Crosslingual Word Embeddings without Bilingual Corpora
[D16-1136]: Hiroshi Kanayama | Trevor Cohn | Tengfei Ma | Steven Bird | Long Duong

Sequence-to-Sequence Learning as Beam-Search Optimization
[D16-1137]: Alexander M. Rush | Sam Wiseman

Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction
[D16-1138]: Phil Blunsom | Lei Yu | Jan Buys

Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation
[D16-1139]: Alexander M. Rush | Yoon Kim

Controlling Output Length in Neural Encoder-Decoders
[D16-1140]: Manabu Okumura | Ryohei Sasano | Hiroya Takamura | Graham Neubig | Yuta Kikuchi

Poet Admits // Mute Cypher: Beam Search to find Mutually Enciphering Poetic Texts
[D16-1141]: Cole Peterson | Alona Fyshe

All Fingers are not Equal: Intensity of References in Scientific Articles
[D16-1142]: Tanmoy Chakraborty | Ramasuri Narayanam

Improving Users' Demographic Prediction via the Videos They Talk about
[D16-1143]: Yang Xiao | Zhen Xiao | Yuan Wang | Chao Ma

Mining Inference Formulas by Goal-Directed Random Walks
[D16-1145]: Kang Liu | Jun Zhao | Zhuoyu Wei

Lifted Rule Injection for Relation Embeddings
[D16-1146]: Sebastian Riedel | Tim Rocktäschel | Thomas Demeester

Analyzing Framing through the Casts of Characters in the News
[D16-1148]: Noah A. Smith | Dallas Card | Justin Gross | Amber Boydstun

The Teams Corpus and Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues
[D16-1149]: Diane Litman | Susannah Paletz | Zahra Rahimi | Stefani Allegretti | Caitlin Rice

Personalized Emphasis Framing for Persuasive Message Generation
[D16-1150]: Shimei Pan | Tao Ding

Toward Socially-Infused Information Extraction: Embedding Authors, Mentions, and Entities
[D16-1152]: Jacob Eisenstein | Ming-Wei Chang | Yi Yang

Phonologically Aware Neural Model for Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Transfer Settings
[D16-1153]: Jaime Carbonell | Chris Dyer | Akash Bharadwaj | David Mortensen

Long-Short Range Context Neural Networks for Language Modeling
[D16-1154]: Dietrich Klakow | Mittul Singh | Clayton Greenberg | Youssef Oualil

Charagram: Embedding Words and Sentences via Character n-grams
[D16-1157]: Mohit Bansal | Kevin Gimpel | Karen Livescu | John Wieting

Length bias in Encoder Decoder Models and a Case for Global Conditioning
[D16-1158]: Pavel Sountsov | Sunita Sarawagi

Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?
[D16-1159]: Kevin Knight | Xing Shi | Inkit Padhi

Exploiting Source-side Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1160]: Chengqing Zong | Jiajun Zhang

Phrase-based Machine Translation is State-of-the-Art for Automatic Grammatical Error Correction
[D16-1161]: Roman Grundkiewicz | Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

Incorporating Discrete Translation Lexicons into Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1162]: Satoshi Nakamura | Graham Neubig | Philip Arthur

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1163]: Kevin Knight | Deniz Yuret | Jonathan May | Barret Zoph

MixKMeans: Clustering Question-Answer Archives
[D16-1164]: Deepak P

It Takes Three to Tango: Triangulation Approach to Answer Ranking in Community Question Answering
[D16-1165]: Lluís Màrquez | Preslav Nakov | Francisco Guzmán

Character-Level Question Answering with Attention
[D16-1166]: Xiaodong He | David Golub

Learning to Generate Textual Data
[D16-1167]: Guillaume Bouchard | Sebastian Riedel | Pontus Stenetorp

A Theme-Rewriting Approach for Generating Algebra Word Problems
[D16-1168]: Luke Zettlemoyer | Hannaneh Hajishirzi | Ioannis Konstas | Rik Koncel-Kedziorski

Context-Sensitive Lexicon Features for Neural Sentiment Analysis
[D16-1169]: Yue Zhang | Zhiyang Teng | Duy Tin Vo

Event-Driven Emotion Cause Extraction with Corpus Construction
[D16-1170]: Qin Lu | Yu Zhou | Lin Gui | Dongyin Wu | Ruifeng Xu

Neural Sentiment Classification with User and Product Attention
[D16-1171]: Maosong Sun | Zhiyuan Liu | Cunchao Tu | Yankai Lin | Huimin Chen

Cached Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks for Document-Level Sentiment Classification
[D16-1172]: Xuanjing Huang | Xipeng Qiu | Jiacheng Xu | Danlu Chen

Deep Neural Networks with Massive Learned Knowledge
[D16-1173]: Zhiting Hu | Eric Xing | Zichao Yang | Ruslan Salakhutdinov

De-Conflated Semantic Representations
[D16-1174]: Nigel Collier | Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Improving Sparse Word Representations with Distributional Inference for Semantic Composition
[D16-1175]: David Weir | Julie Weeds | Jeremy Reffin | Thomas Kober

Modelling Interaction of Sentence Pair with Coupled-LSTMs
[D16-1176]: Xuanjing Huang | Xipeng Qiu | Yaqian Zhou | Pengfei Liu | Jifan Chen

Friends with Motives: Using Text to Infer Influence on SCOTUS
[D16-1178]: Noah A. Smith | Yanchuan Sim | Bryan Routledge

Verb Phrase Ellipsis Resolution Using Discriminative and Margin-Infused Algorithms
[D16-1179]: Jackie Chi Kit Cheung | Kian Kenyon-Dean | Doina Precup

Distilling an Ensemble of Greedy Dependency Parsers into One MST Parser
[D16-1180]: Noah A. Smith | Chris Dyer | Miguel Ballesteros | Lingpeng Kong | Adhiguna Kuncoro

LSTM Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
[D16-1181]: Wenduan Xu

An Evaluation of Parser Robustness for Ungrammatical Sentences
[D16-1182]: Rebecca Hwa | Homa B. Hashemi

Neural Shift-Reduce CCG Semantic Parsing
[D16-1183]: Yoav Artzi | Dipendra Kumar Misra

Syntactic Parsing of Web Queries
[D16-1184]: Zhongyuan Wang | Xiangyan Sun | Haixun Wang | Yanghua Xiao

Unsupervised Text Recap Extraction for TV Series
[D16-1185]: Louis-Philippe Morency | Hongliang Yu | Shikun Zhang

On- and Off-Topic Classification and Semantic Annotation of User-Generated Software Requirements
[D16-1186]: Markus Dollmann | Michaela Geierhos

Regularizing Text Categorization with Clusters of Words
[D16-1188]: Francois Rousseau | Michalis Vazirgiannis | Konstantinos Skianis

Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations and its Application to Bible Reuse
[D16-1190]: Maria Moritz | Andreas Wiederhold | Barbara Pavlek | Yuri Bizzoni | Marco Büchler

A Graph Degeneracy-based Approach to Keyword Extraction
[D16-1191]: Michalis Vazirgiannis | Antoine Tixier | Fragkiskos Malliaros

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context
[D16-1192]: Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Elliot Schumacher | Maxine Eskenazi | Gwen Frishkoff

A Neural Approach to Automated Essay Scoring
[D16-1193]: Hwee Tou Ng | Kaveh Taghipour

Non-uniform Language Detection in Technical Writing
[D16-1194]: Aminul Islam | Evangelos Milios | Abidalrahman Moh'd | Weibo Wang | Axel Soto

Adapting Grammatical Error Correction Based on the Native Language of Writers with Neural Network Joint Models
[D16-1195]: Hwee Tou Ng | Shamil Chollampatt | Duc Tam Hoang

Orthographic Syllable as basic unit for SMT between Related Languages
[D16-1196]: Pushpak Bhattacharyya | Anoop Kunchukuttan

Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge
[D16-1197]: Regina Barzilay | Nate Kushman | Karthik Narasimhan | Nicholas Locascio | Eduardo De Leon

Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning
[D16-1198]: Cornelia Caragea | Thomas Demeester | Lucas Sterckx | Chris Develder

Learning to Answer Questions from Wikipedia Infoboxes
[D16-1199]: Boris Katz | Alvaro Morales | Varot Premtoon | Cordelia Avery | Sue Felshin

Timeline extraction using distant supervision and joint inference
[D16-1200]: Andreas Vlachos | Savelie Cornegruta

Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Enembles for Knowledge Base Population
[D16-1201]: Raymond Mooney | Nazneen Fatema Rajani

Character Sequence Models for Colorful Words
[D16-1202]: Noah A. Smith | Chris Dyer | Bryan Routledge | Kazuya Kawakami

Analyzing the Behavior of Visual Question Answering Models
[D16-1203]: Dhruv Batra | Devi Parikh | Aishwarya Agrawal

Improving LSTM-based Video Description with Linguistic Knowledge Mined from Text
[D16-1204]: Raymond Mooney | Subhashini Venugopalan | Kate Saenko | Lisa Anne Hendricks

Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity
[D16-1205]: Philippe Blache | Chu-Ren Huang | Alessandro Lenci | Emmanuele Chersoni | Enrico Santus

Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Tagging with Variable-Order CRFs and Structured Sparsity
[D16-1206]: Jason Eisner | Tim Vieira | Ryan Cotterell

Learning Robust Representations of Text
[D16-1207]: Timothy Baldwin | Trevor Cohn | Yitong Li

Modified Dirichlet Distribution: Allowing Negative Parameters to Induce Stronger Sparsity
[D16-1208]: Kewei Tu

Gated Word-Character Recurrent Language Model
[D16-1209]: Kyunghyun Cho | Yasumasa Miyamoto

Unsupervised Word Alignment by Agreement Under ITG Constraint
[D16-1210]: Eiichiro Sumita | Manabu Okumura | Hiroya Takamura | Akihiro Tamura | Hidetaka Kamigaito

Training with Exploration Improves a Greedy Stack LSTM Parser
[D16-1211]: Noah A. Smith | Chris Dyer | Yoav Goldberg | Miguel Ballesteros

Capturing Argument Relationship for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
[D16-1212]: Zhifang Sui | Sujian Li | Baobao Chang | Tingsong Jiang | Lei Sha

BrainBench: A Brain-Image Test Suite for Distributional Semantic Models
[D16-1213]: Brian Murphy | Alona Fyshe | Haoyan Xu

Evaluating Induced CCG Parsers on Grounded Semantic Parsing
[D16-1214]: Mark Steedman | Julia Hockenmaier | Yonatan Bisk | John Blitzer | Siva Reddy

Vector-space models for PPDB paraphrase ranking in context
[D16-1215]: Marianna Apidianaki

Interpreting Neural Networks to Improve Politeness Comprehension
[D16-1216]: Mohit Bansal | Malika Aubakirova

Beyond Canonical Texts: A Computational Analysis of Fanfiction
[D16-1218]: David Bamman | Smitha Milli

Using Syntactic and Semantic Context to Explore Psychodemographic Differences in Self-reference
[D16-1219]: Masoud Rouhizadeh | H. Andrew Schwartz | Lyle Ungar | Anneke Buffone

Learning to Identify Metaphors from a Corpus of Proverbs
[D16-1220]: Carlo Strapparava | Daniele Pighin | Serra Sinem Tekiroglu | Gözde Özbal

An Embedding Model for Predicting Roll-Call Votes
[D16-1221]: Alexander M. Rush | Peter Kraft | Hirsh Jain

Natural Language Model Re-usability for Scaling to Different Domains
[D16-1222]: Young-Bum Kim | Ruhi Sarikaya | Alexandre Rochette

Leveraging Sentence-level Information with Encoder LSTM for Semantic Slot Filling
[D16-1223]: Bing Xiang | Bowen Zhou | Mo Yu | Gakuto Kurata

AMR-to-text generation as a Traveling Salesman Problem
[D16-1224]: Daniel Gildea | Zhiguo Wang | Yue Zhang | Linfeng Song | Xiaochang Peng

Learning to Capitalize with Character-Level Recurrent Neural Networks: An Empirical Study
[D16-1225]: Hai Leong Chieu | Wei Lu | Raymond Hendy Susanto

The Effects of the Content of FOMC Communications on US Treasury Rates
[D16-1226]: Christopher Rohlfs | Sunandan Chakraborty | Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Learning to refine text based recommendations
[D16-1227]: Regina Barzilay | Tommi Jaakkola | Tao Lei | Youyang Gu

There's No Comparison: Reference-less Evaluation Metrics in Grammatical Error Correction
[D16-1228]: Joel Tetreault | Keisuke Sakaguchi | Courtney Napoles

Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change
[D16-1229]: Dan Jurafsky | William L. Hamilton | Jure Leskovec

Addressee and Response Selection for Multi-Party Conversation
[D16-1231]: Yuta Tsuboi | Hiroki Ouchi

Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Spoken Language Understanding
[D16-1232]: Kotaro Funakoshi | Mikio Nakano | Kei Wakabayashi | Johane Takeuchi

Relations such as Hypernymy: Identifying and Exploiting Hearst Patterns in Distributional Vectors for Lexical Entailment
[D16-1234]: Stephen Roller | Katrin Erk

SimVerb-3500: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set of Verb Similarity
[D16-1235]: Roi Reichart | Anna Korhonen | Ivan Vulić | Felix Hill | Daniela Gerz

POLY: Mining Relational Paraphrases from Multilingual Sentences
[D16-1236]: Gerhard Weikum | Adam Grycner

Exploiting Sentence Similarities for Better Alignments
[D16-1237]: Tao Li | Vivek Srikumar

Bi-directional Attention with Agreement for Dependency Parsing
[D16-1238]: Jianfeng Gao | Xiaodong He | Li Deng | Hao Cheng | Hao Fang

Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations
[D16-1239]: Anna Korhonen | Yevgeni Berzak | Boris Katz | Andrei Barbu | Yan Huang

Tense Manages to Predict Implicative Behavior in Verbs
[D16-1240]: Chris Callison-Burch | Ellie Pavlick

Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
[D16-1241]: Mohit Bansal | Kevin Gimpel | Takeshi Onishi | Hai Wang | David McAllester

Building compositional semantics and higher-order inference system for a wide-coverage Japanese CCG parser
[D16-1242]: Yusuke Miyao | Pascual Martínez-Gómez | Koji Mineshima | Daisuke Bekki | Ribeka Tanaka

Learning to Generate Compositional Color Descriptions
[D16-1243]: Christopher Potts | Will Monroe | Noah D. Goodman

A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language Inference
[D16-1244]: Jakob Uszkoreit | Dipanjan Das | Oscar Täckström | Ankur Parikh

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mention-Ranking Coreference Models
[D16-1245]: Christopher D. Manning | Kevin Clark

A Stacking Gated Neural Architecture for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
[D16-1246]: Hai Zhao | Lianhui Qin | Zhisong Zhang

Insertion Position Selection Model for Flexible Non-Terminals in Dependency Tree-to-Tree Machine Translation
[D16-1247]: Sadao Kurohashi | Toshiaki Nakazawa | John Richardson

Why Neural Translations are the Right Length
[D16-1248]: Kevin Knight | Deniz Yuret | Xing Shi

Supervised Attentions for Neural Machine Translation
[D16-1249]: Haitao Mi | Zhiguo Wang | Abe Ittycheriah

Learning principled bilingual mappings of word embeddings while preserving monolingual invariance
[D16-1250]: Eneko Agirre | Gorka Labaka | Mikel Artetxe

Measuring the behavioral impact of machine translation quality improvements with A/B testing
[D16-1251]: Ben Russell | Duncan Gillespie

Creating a Large Benchmark for Open Information Extraction
[D16-1252]: Ido Dagan | Gabriel Stanovsky

Bilingually-constrained Synthetic Data for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
[D16-1253]: jinsong su | Yidong Chen | Changxing Wu | xiaodong shi | Yanzhou Huang

Transition-Based Dependency Parsing with Heuristic Backtracking
[D16-1254]: Chris Dyer | Miguel Ballesteros | Jacob Buckman

Word Ordering Without Syntax
[D16-1255]: Stuart Shieber | Alexander M. Rush | Allen Schmaltz

Morphological Segmentation Inside-Out
[D16-1256]: Arun Kumar | Hinrich Schütze | Ryan Cotterell

Parsing as Language Modeling
[D16-1257]: Eugene Charniak | Do Kook Choe

Human-in-the-Loop Parsing
[D16-1258]: Luke Zettlemoyer | Mike Lewis | Luheng He | Julian Michael

Unsupervised Timeline Generation for Wikipedia History Articles
[D16-1259]: Sandro Bauer | Simone Teufel

Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning
[D16-1261]: Regina Barzilay | Karthik Narasimhan | Adam Yala

Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees
[D16-1262]: Luke Zettlemoyer | Mike Lewis | Kenton Lee

SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
[D16-1264]: Jian Zhang | Percy Liang | Pranav Rajpurkar | Konstantin Lopyrev

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (and forerunners) (2016)

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Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing