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]: Ruihong Huang | Ignacio Cases | Dan Jurafsky | Cleo Condoravdi | Ellen Riloff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creating Causal Embeddings for Question Answering with Minimal Supervision
[D16-1014]: Rebecca Sharp | Mihai Surdeanu | Peter Jansen | Peter Clark | 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]: Ottokar Tilk | Vera Demberg | Asad Sayeed | Dietrich Klakow | Stefan Thater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Dataset and Evaluation Metrics for Abstractive Compression of Sentences and Short Paragraphs
[D16-1033]: Kristina Toutanova | Chris Brockett | 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]: Qi Li | Tianshi Li | Baobao Chang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Ilan Tchernowitz | Liron Yedidsion | Roi Reichart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Peng Qian | Xipeng Qiu | Xuanjing Huang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Arijit Ray | Gordon Christie | Mohit Bansal | Dhruv Batra | Devi Parikh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Rongchao Yin | Quan Wang | Peng Li | Rui Li | Bin Wang

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

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

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]: Aditya Joshi | Vaibhav Tripathi | Kevin Patel | Pushpak Bhattacharyya | 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]: Ellie Pavlick | Heng Ji | Xiaoman Pan | Chris Callison-Burch

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Fei Dong | Yue Zhang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Pranav Anand | Daniel Hardt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Yuan Wang | Yang Xiao | Chao Ma | Zhen Xiao

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

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

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

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]: Tao Ding | Shimei Pan

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

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

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

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

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]: Xing Shi | Inkit Padhi | Kevin Knight

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

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

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

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

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]: Preslav Nakov | Lluís Màrquez | Francisco Guzmán

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Konstantinos Skianis | Francois Rousseau | Michalis Vazirgiannis

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]: Antoine Tixier | Fragkiskos Malliaros | Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Youyang Gu | Tao Lei | Regina Barzilay | Tommi Jaakkola

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

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

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

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

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]: Daniela Gerz | Ivan Vulić | Felix Hill | Roi Reichart | Anna Korhonen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Mikel Artetxe | Gorka Labaka | Eneko Agirre

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]: Gabriel Stanovsky | Ido Dagan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]: Karthik Narasimhan | Adam Yala | Regina Barzilay

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

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

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