Table of contents

Anthology	Volume	Papers
N15-1	Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies	187
N15-2	Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop	24
N15-3	Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations	25
N15-4	Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts	7

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
[N15-1000]: Rada Mihalcea | Joyce Chai | Anoop Sarkar

Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles within a Reconstruction-Error Minimization Framework
[N15-1001]: Ivan Titov | Ehsan Khoddam

Predicate Argument Alignment using a Global Coherence Model
[N15-1002]: Travis Wolfe | Mark Dredze | Benjamin Van Durme

Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering
[N15-1003]: Clayton Greenberg | Asad Sayeed | Vera Demberg

A Compositional and Interpretable Semantic Space
[N15-1004]: Alona Fyshe | Leila Wehbe | Partha P. Talukdar | Brian Murphy | Tom M. Mitchell

Randomized Greedy Inference for Joint Segmentation, POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing
[N15-1005]: Yuan Zhang | Chengtao Li | Regina Barzilay | Kareem Darwish

An Incremental Algorithm for Transition-based CCG Parsing
[N15-1006]: Bharat Ram Ambati | Tejaswini Deoskar | Mark Johnson | Mark Steedman

Because Syntax Does Matter: Improving Predicate-Argument Structures Parsing with Syntactic Features
[N15-1007]: Corentin Ribeyre | Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie | Djamé Seddah

A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach To Citation Prediction
[N15-1008]: Chris Tanner | Eugene Charniak

Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
[N15-1009]: Young-Bum Kim | Minwoo Jeong | Karl Stratos | Ruhi Sarikaya

Not All Character N-grams Are Created Equal: A Study in Authorship Attribution
[N15-1010]: Upendra Sapkota | Steven Bethard | Manuel Montes | Thamar Solorio

Effective Use of Word Order for Text Categorization with Convolutional Neural Networks
[N15-1011]: Rie Johnson | Tong Zhang

Transition-Based Syntactic Linearization
[N15-1012]: Yijia Liu | Yue Zhang | Wanxiang Che | Bing Qin

Extractive Summarisation Based on Keyword Profile and Language Model
[N15-1013]: Han Xu | Eric Martin | Ashesh Mahidadia

HEADS: Headline Generation as Sequence Prediction Using an Abstract Feature-Rich Space
[N15-1014]: Carlos A. Colmenares | Marina Litvak | Amin Mantrach | Fabrizio Silvestri

What’s Cookin’? Interpreting Cooking Videos using Text, Speech and Vision
[N15-1015]: Jonathan Malmaud | Jonathan Huang | Vivek Rathod | Nicholas Johnston | Andrew Rabinovich | Kevin Murphy

Combining Language and Vision with a Multimodal Skip-gram Model
[N15-1016]: Angeliki Lazaridou | Nghia The Pham | Marco Baroni

Discriminative Unsupervised Alignment of Natural Language Instructions with Corresponding Video Segments
[N15-1017]: Iftekhar Naim | Young C. Song | Qiguang Liu | Liang Huang | Henry Kautz | Jiebo Luo | Daniel Gildea

TopicCheck: Interactive Alignment for Assessing Topic Model Stability
[N15-1018]: Jason Chuang | Margaret E. Roberts | Brandon M. Stewart | Rebecca Weiss | Dustin Tingley | Justin Grimmer | Jeffrey Heer

Inferring latent attributes of Twitter users with label regularization
[N15-1019]: Ehsan Mohammady Ardehaly | Aron Culotta

A Neural Network Approach to Context-Sensitive Generation of Conversational Responses
[N15-1020]: Alessandro Sordoni | Michel Galley | Michael Auli | Chris Brockett | Yangfeng Ji | Margaret Mitchell | Jian-Yun Nie | Jianfeng Gao | Bill Dolan

How to Make a Frenemy: Multitape FSTs for Portmanteau Generation
[N15-1021]: Aliya Deri | Kevin Knight

Aligning Sentences from Standard Wikipedia to Simple Wikipedia
[N15-1022]: William Hwang | Hannaneh Hajishirzi | Mari Ostendorf | Wei Wu

Inducing Lexical Style Properties for Paraphrase and Genre Differentiation
[N15-1023]: Ellie Pavlick | Ani Nenkova

Entity Linking for Spoken Language
[N15-1024]: Adrian Benton | Mark Dredze

Spinning Straw into Gold: Using Free Text to Train Monolingual Alignment Models for Non-factoid Question Answering
[N15-1025]: Rebecca Sharp | Peter Jansen | Mihai Surdeanu | Peter Clark

Personalized Page Rank for Named Entity Disambiguation
[N15-1026]: Maria Pershina | Yifan He | Ralph Grishman

When and why are log-linear models self-normalizing?
[N15-1027]: Jacob Andreas | Dan Klein

Deep Multilingual Correlation for Improved Word Embeddings
[N15-1028]: Ang Lu | Weiran Wang | Mohit Bansal | Kevin Gimpel | Karen Livescu

Disfluency Detection with a Semi-Markov Model and Prosodic Features
[N15-1029]: James Ferguson | Greg Durrett | Dan Klein

Empty Category Detection With Joint Context-Label Embeddings
[N15-1030]: Xun Wang | Katsuhito Sudoh | Masaaki Nagata

Incrementally Tracking Reference in Human/Human Dialogue Using Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Information
[N15-1031]: Casey Kennington | Ryu Iida | Takenobu Tokunaga | David Schlangen

Digital Leafleting: Extracting Structured Data from Multimedia Online Flyers
[N15-1032]: Emilia Apostolova | Payam Pourashraf | Jeffrey Sack

Multi-Target Machine Translation with Multi-Synchronous Context-free Grammars
[N15-1033]: Graham Neubig | Philip Arthur | Kevin Duh

Sign constraints on feature weights improve a joint model of word segmentation and phonology
[N15-1034]: Mark Johnson | Joe Pater | Robert Staubs | Emmanuel Dupoux

Semi-Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Word Embeddings in General and Specific Domains
[N15-1035]: Kaveh Taghipour | Hwee Tou Ng

Continuous Space Representations of Linguistic Typology and their Application to Phylogenetic Inference
[N15-1036]: Yugo Murawaki

Interpreting Compound Noun Phrases Using Web Search Queries
[N15-1037]: Marius Pasca

Lexicon-Free Conversational Speech Recognition with Neural Networks
[N15-1038]: Andrew Maas | Ziang Xie | Dan Jurafsky | Andrew Ng

I Can Has Cheezburger? A Nonparanormal Approach to Combining Textual and Visual Information for Predicting and Generating Popular Meme Descriptions
[N15-1039]: William Yang Wang | Miaomiao Wen

A Transition-based Algorithm for AMR Parsing
[N15-1040]: Chuan Wang | Nianwen Xue | Sameer Pradhan

The Geometry of Statistical Machine Translation
[N15-1041]: Aurelien Waite | Bill Byrne

Data-driven sentence generation with non-isomorphic trees
[N15-1042]: Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner

Latent Domain Word Alignment for Heterogeneous Corpora
[N15-1043]: Hoang Cuong | Khalil Sima'an

Extracting Human Temporal Orientation from Facebook Language
[N15-1044]: H. Andrew Schwartz | Gregory Park | Maarten Sap | Evan Weingarten | Johannes Eichstaedt | Margaret Kern | David Stillwell | Michal Kosinski | Jonah Berger | Martin Seligman | Lyle Ungar

An In-depth Analysis of the Effect of Text Normalization in Social Media
[N15-1045]: Tyler Baldwin | Yunyao Li

Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Idealogical Dialog
[N15-1046]: Amita Misra | Pranav Anand | Jean E. Fox Tree | Marilyn Walker

Active Learning with Rationales for Text Classification
[N15-1047]: Manali Sharma | Di Zhuang | Mustafa Bilgic

Inferring Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge from Semantic Roles
[N15-1048]: Eduardo Blanco | Alakananda Vempala

A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Tree Trimming-based Text Summarization
[N15-1049]: Masaaki Nishino | Norihito Yasuda | Tsutomu Hirao | Shin-ichi Minato | Masaaki Nagata

Modeling Word Meaning in Context with Substitute Vectors
[N15-1050]: Oren Melamud | Ido Dagan | Jacob Goldberger

Corpus-based discovery of semantic intensity scales
[N15-1051]: Chaitanya Shivade | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Albert M. Lai

Dialogue focus tracking for zero pronoun resolution
[N15-1052]: Sudha Rao | Allyson Ettinger | Hal Daumé III | Philip Resnik

Déjà Image-Captions: A Corpus of Expressive Descriptions in Repetition
[N15-1053]: Jianfu Chen | Polina Kuznetsova | David Warren | Yejin Choi

Inferring Missing Entity Type Instances for Knowledge Base Completion: New Dataset and Methods
[N15-1054]: Arvind Neelakantan | Ming-Wei Chang

Robust Morphological Tagging with Word Representations
[N15-1055]: Thomas Müller | Hinrich Schuetze

English orthography is not "close to optimal"
[N15-1056]: Garrett Nicolai | Grzegorz Kondrak

LCCT: A Semi-supervised Model for Sentiment Classification
[N15-1057]: Min Yang | Wenting Tu | Ziyu Lu | Wenpeng Yin | Kam-Pui Chow

Multiview LSA: Representation Learning via Generalized CCA
[N15-1058]: Pushpendre Rastogi | Benjamin Van Durme | Raman Arora

NASARI: a Novel Approach to a Semantically-Aware Representation of Items
[N15-1059]: José Camacho-Collados | Mohammad Taher Pilehvar | Roberto Navigli

Towards a standard evaluation method for grammatical error detection and correction
[N15-1060]: Mariano Felice | Ted Briscoe

Using Zero-Resource Spoken Term Discovery for Ranked Retrieval
[N15-1061]: Jerome White | Douglas Oard | Aren Jansen | Jiaul Paik | Rashmi Sankepally

Constraint-Based Models of Lexical Borrowing
[N15-1062]: Yulia Tsvetkov | Waleed Ammar | Chris Dyer

Model Invertibility Regularization: Sequence Alignment With or Without Parallel Data
[N15-1063]: Tomer Levinboim | Ashish Vaswani | David Chiang

Jointly Modeling Inter-Slot Relations by Random Walk on Knowledge Graphs for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
[N15-1064]: Yun-Nung Chen | William Yang Wang | Alexander Rudnicky

Expanding Paraphrase Lexicons by Exploiting Lexical Variants
[N15-1065]: Atsushi Fujita | Pierre Isabelle

Diamonds in the Rough: Event Extraction from Imperfect Microblog Data
[N15-1066]: Ander Intxaurrondo | Eneko Agirre | Oier Lopez de Lacalle | Mihai Surdeanu

Unsupervised Dependency Parsing: Let's Use Supervised Parsers
[N15-1067]: Phong Le | Willem Zuidema

A Linear-Time Transition System for Crossing Interval Trees
[N15-1068]: Emily Pitler | Ryan McDonald

Unsupervised Multi-Domain Adaptation with Feature Embeddings
[N15-1069]: Yi Yang | Jacob Eisenstein

Ontologically Grounded Multi-sense Representation Learning for Semantic Vector Space Models
[N15-1070]: Sujay Kumar Jauhar | Chris Dyer | Eduard Hovy

Subsentential Sentiment on a Shoestring: A Crosslingual Analysis of Compositional Classification
[N15-1071]: Michael Haas | Yannick Versley

Cost Optimization in Crowdsourcing Translation: Low cost translations made even cheaper
[N15-1072]: Mingkun Gao | Wei Xu | Chris Callison-Burch

Multitask Learning for Adaptive Quality Estimation of Automatically Transcribed Utterances
[N15-1073]: José G. C. de Souza | Hamed Zamani | Matteo Negri | Marco Turchi | Falavigna Daniele

Incorporating Word Correlation Knowledge into Topic Modeling
[N15-1074]: Pengtao Xie | Diyi Yang | Eric Xing

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Word Representations for Twitter Named Entity Recognition
[N15-1075]: Colin Cherry | Hongyu Guo

Is Your Anchor Going Up or Down? Fast and Accurate Supervised Topic Models
[N15-1076]: Thang Nguyen | Jordan Boyd-Graber | Jeffrey Lund | Kevin Seppi | Eric Ringger

Grounded Semantic Parsing for Complex Knowledge Extraction
[N15-1077]: Ankur P. Parikh | Hoifung Poon | Kristina Toutanova

Sentiment after Translation: A Case-Study on Arabic Social Media Posts
[N15-1078]: Mohammad Salameh | Saif Mohammad | Svetlana Kiritchenko

Using External Resources and Joint Learning for Bigram Weighting in ILP-Based Multi-Document Summarization
[N15-1079]: Chen Li | Yang Liu | Lin Zhao

Transforming Dependencies into Phrase Structures
[N15-1080]: Lingpeng Kong | Alexander M. Rush | Noah A. Smith

Improving the Inference of Implicit Discourse Relations via Classifying Explicit Discourse Connectives
[N15-1081]: Attapol Rutherford | Nianwen Xue

Solving Hard Coreference Problems
[N15-1082]: Haoruo Peng | Daniel Khashabi | Dan Roth

Pragmatic Neural Language Modelling in Machine Translation
[N15-1083]: Paul Baltescu | Phil Blunsom

Key Female Characters in Film Have More to Talk About Besides Men: Automating the Bechdel Test
[N15-1084]: Apoorv Agarwal | Jiehan Zheng | Shruti Kamath | Sriramkumar Balasubramanian | Shirin Ann Dey

Semantic Grounding in Dialogue for Complex Problem Solving
[N15-1085]: Xiaolong Li | Kristy Boyer

Learning Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering through Conversational Dialog
[N15-1086]: Ben Hixon | Peter Clark | Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Sentence segmentation of aphasic speech
[N15-1087]: Kathleen C. Fraser | Naama Ben-David | Graeme Hirst | Naida Graham | Elizabeth Rochon

Semantic parsing of speech using grammars learned with weak supervision
[N15-1088]: Judith Gaspers | Philipp Cimiano | Britta Wrede

Early Gains Matter: A Case for Preferring Generative over Discriminative Crowdsourcing Models
[N15-1089]: Paul Felt | Kevin Black | Eric Ringger | Kevin Seppi | Robbie Haertel

Optimizing Multivariate Performance Measures for Learning Relation Extraction Models
[N15-1090]: Gholamreza Haffari | Ajay Nagesh | Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Convolutional Neural Network for Paraphrase Identification
[N15-1091]: Wenpeng Yin | Hinrich Schütze

Representation Learning Using Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Classification and Information Retrieval
[N15-1092]: Xiaodong Liu | Jianfeng Gao | Xiaodong He | Li Deng | Kevin Duh | Ye-Yi Wang

Inflection Generation as Discriminative String Transduction
[N15-1093]: Garrett Nicolai | Colin Cherry | Grzegorz Kondrak

Penalized Expectation Propagation for Graphical Models over Strings
[N15-1094]: Ryan Cotterell | Jason Eisner

Joint Generation of Transliterations from Multiple Representations
[N15-1095]: Lei Yao | Grzegorz Kondrak

Prosodic boundary information helps unsupervised word segmentation
[N15-1096]: Bogdan Ludusan | Gabriel Synnaeve | Emmanuel Dupoux

So similar and yet incompatible: Toward the automated identification of semantically compatible words
[N15-1097]: Germán Kruszewski | Marco Baroni

Do Supervised Distributional Methods Really Learn Lexical Inference Relations?
[N15-1098]: Omer Levy | Steffen Remus | Chris Biemann | Ido Dagan

A Word Embedding Approach to Predicting the Compositionality of Multiword Expressions
[N15-1099]: Bahar Salehi | Paul Cook | Timothy Baldwin

Word Embedding-based Antonym Detection using Thesauri and Distributional Information
[N15-1100]: Masataka Ono | Makoto Miwa | Yutaka Sasaki

A Comparison of Word Similarity Performance Using Explanatory and Non-explanatory Texts
[N15-1101]: Lifeng Jin | William Schuler

Morphological Modeling for Machine Translation of English-Iraqi Arabic Spoken Dialogs
[N15-1102]: Katrin Kirchhoff | Yik-Cheung Tam | Colleen Richey | Wen Wang

Continuous Adaptation to User Feedback for Statistical Machine Translation
[N15-1103]: Frédéric Blain | Fethi Bougares | Amir Hazem | Loïc Barrault | Holger Schwenk

Normalized Word Embedding and Orthogonal Transform for Bilingual Word Translation
[N15-1104]: Chao Xing | Dong Wang | Chao Liu | Yiye Lin

Fast and Accurate Preordering for SMT using Neural Networks
[N15-1105]: Adrià de Gispert | Gonzalo Iglesias | Bill Byrne

APRO: All-Pairs Ranking Optimization for MT Tuning
[N15-1106]: Markus Dreyer | Yuanzhe Dong

Paradigm classification in supervised learning of morphology
[N15-1107]: Malin Ahlberg | Markus Forsberg | Mans Hulden

Shift-Reduce Constituency Parsing with Dynamic Programming and POS Tag Lattice
[N15-1108]: Haitao Mi | Liang Huang

Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription
[N15-1109]: Dan Garrette | Hannah Alpert-Abrams | Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Klein

Matching Citation Text and Cited Spans in Biomedical Literature: a Search-Oriented Approach
[N15-1110]: Arman Cohan | Luca Soldaini | Nazli Goharian

Effective Feature Integration for Automated Short Answer Scoring
[N15-1111]: Keisuke Sakaguchi | Michael Heilman | Nitin Madnani

Socially-Informed Timeline Generation for Complex Events
[N15-1112]: Lu Wang | Claire Cardie | Galen Marchetti

Movie Script Summarization as Graph-based Scene Extraction
[N15-1113]: Philip John Gorinski | Mirella Lapata

Toward Abstractive Summarization Using Semantic Representations
[N15-1114]: Fei Liu | Jeffrey Flanigan | Sam Thomson | Norman Sadeh | Noah A. Smith

Encoding World Knowledge in the Evaluation of Local Coherence
[N15-1115]: Muyu Zhang | Vanessa Wei Feng | Bing Qin | Graeme Hirst | Ting Liu | Jingwen Huang

Chinese Event Coreference Resolution: An Unsupervised Probabilistic Model Rivaling Supervised Resolvers
[N15-1116]: Chen Chen | Vincent Ng

Removing the Training Wheels: A Coreference Dataset that Entertains Humans and Challenges Computers
[N15-1117]: Anupam Guha | Mohit Iyyer | Danny Bouman | Jordan Boyd-Graber

Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction
[N15-1118]: Tim Rocktäschel | Sameer Singh | Sebastian Riedel

Unsupervised Entity Linking with Abstract Meaning Representation
[N15-1119]: Xiaoman Pan | Taylor Cassidy | Ulf Hermjakob | Heng Ji | Kevin Knight

Idest: Learning a Distributed Representation for Event Patterns
[N15-1120]: Sebastian Krause | Enrique Alfonseca | Katja Filippova | Daniele Pighin

High-Order Low-Rank Tensors for Semantic Role Labeling
[N15-1121]: Tao Lei | Yuan Zhang | Lluís Màrquez | Alessandro Moschitti | Regina Barzilay

Lexical Event Ordering with an Edge-Factored Model
[N15-1122]: Omri Abend | Shay B. Cohen | Mark Steedman

Bag-of-Words Forced Decoding for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
[N15-1123]: Felix Hieber | Stefan Riezler

Accurate Evaluation of Segment-level Machine Translation Metrics
[N15-1124]: Yvette Graham | Timothy Baldwin | Nitika Mathur

Leveraging Small Multilingual Corpora for SMT Using Many Pivot Languages
[N15-1125]: Raj Dabre | Fabien Cromieres | Sadao Kurohashi | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Why Read if You Can Scan? Trigger Scoping Strategy for Biographical Fact Extraction
[N15-1126]: Dian Yu | Heng Ji | Sujian Li | Chin-Yew Lin

Lachmannian Archetype Reconstruction for Ancient Manuscript Corpora
[N15-1127]: Armin Hoenen

Distributed Representations of Words to Guide Bootstrapped Entity Classifiers
[N15-1128]: Sonal Gupta | Christopher D. Manning

Multi-Task Word Alignment Triangulation for Low-Resource Languages
[N15-1129]: Tomer Levinboim | David Chiang

Automatic cognate identification with gap-weighted string subsequences.
[N15-1130]: Taraka Rama

Short Text Understanding by Leveraging Knowledge into Topic Model
[N15-1131]: Shansong Yang | Weiming Lu | Dezhi Yang | Liang Yao | Baogang Wei

Unsupervised Most Frequent Sense Detection using Word Embeddings
[N15-1132]: Sudha Bhingardive | Dhirendra Singh | Rudramurthy V | Hanumant Redkar | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Chain Based RNN for Relation Classification
[N15-1133]: Javid Ebrahimi | Dejing Dou

LR Parsing for LCFRS
[N15-1134]: Laura Kallmeyer | Wolfgang Maier

Mining for unambiguous instances to adapt part-of-speech taggers to new domains
[N15-1135]: Dirk Hovy | Barbara Plank | Héctor Martínez Alonso | Anders Søgaard

Clustering Sentences with Density Peaks for Multi-document Summarization
[N15-1136]: Yang Zhang | Yunqing Xia | Yi Liu | Wenmin Wang

Development of the Multilingual Semantic Annotation System
[N15-1137]: Scott Piao | Francesca Bianchi | Carmen Dayrell | Angela D'Egidio | Paul Rayson

Unsupervised Sparse Vector Densification for Short Text Similarity
[N15-1138]: Yangqiu Song | Dan Roth

#WhyIStayed, #WhyILeft: Microblogging to Make Sense of Domestic Abuse
[N15-1139]: Nicolas Schrading | Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm | Raymond Ptucha | Christopher Homan

Morphological Word-Embeddings
[N15-1140]: Ryan Cotterell | Hinrich Schütze

Recognizing Social Constructs from Textual Conversation
[N15-1141]: Somak Aditya | Chitta Baral | Nguyen Ha Vo | Joohyung Lee | Jieping Ye | Zaw Naung | Barry Lumpkin | Jenny Hastings | Richard Scherl | Dawn M. Sweet | Daniela Inclezan

Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems
[N15-1142]: Wang Ling | Chris Dyer | Alan W Black | Isabel Trancoso

Estimating Numerical Attributes by Bringing Together Fragmentary Clues
[N15-1143]: Hiroya Takamura | Jun'ichi Tsujii

Unsupervised POS Induction with Word Embeddings
[N15-1144]: Chu-Cheng Lin | Waleed Ammar | Chris Dyer | Lori Levin

Improving Update Summarization via Supervised ILP and Sentence Reranking
[N15-1145]: Chen Li | Yang Liu | Lin Zhao

MPQA 3.0: An Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Corpus
[N15-1146]: Lingjia Deng | Janyce Wiebe

Everyone Likes Shopping! Multi-class Product Categorization for e-Commerce
[N15-1147]: Zornitsa Kozareva

GPU-Friendly Local Regression for Voice Conversion
[N15-1148]: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Klein

Response-based Learning for Machine Translation of Open-domain Database Queries
[N15-1149]: Carolin Haas | Stefan Riezler

Context-Dependent Automatic Response Generation Using Statistical Machine Translation Techniques
[N15-1150]: Andrew Shin | Ryohei Sasano | Hiroya Takamura | Manabu Okumura

Multilingual Open Relation Extraction Using Cross-lingual Projection
[N15-1151]: Manaal Faruqui | Shankar Kumar

Learning to parse with IAA-weighted loss
[N15-1152]: Héctor Martínez Alonso | Barbara Plank | Arne Skjærholt | Anders Søgaard

Exploiting Text and Network Context for Geolocation of Social Media Users
[N15-1153]: Afshin Rahimi | Duy Vu | Trevor Cohn | Timothy Baldwin

Discriminative Phrase Embedding for Paraphrase Identification
[N15-1154]: Wenpeng Yin | Hinrich Schütze

Combining Word Embeddings and Feature Embeddings for Fine-grained Relation Extraction
[N15-1155]: Mo Yu | Matthew R. Gormley | Mark Dredze

CASSA: A Context-Aware Synonym Simplification Algorithm
[N15-1156]: Ricardo Baeza-Yates | Luz Rello | Julia Dembowski

Simple task-specific bilingual word embeddings
[N15-1157]: Stephan Gouws | Anders Søgaard

Sampling Techniques for Streaming Cross Document Coreference Resolution
[N15-1158]: Luke Shrimpton | Victor Lavrenko | Miles Osborne

On the Automatic Learning of Sentiment Lexicons
[N15-1159]: Aliaksei Severyn | Alessandro Moschitti

Large-Scale Native Language Identification with Cross-Corpus Evaluation
[N15-1160]: Shervin Malmasi | Mark Dras

Unediting: Detecting Disfluencies Without Careful Transcripts
[N15-1161]: Victoria Zayats | Mari Ostendorf | Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Type-Driven Incremental Semantic Parsing with Polymorphism
[N15-1162]: Kai Zhao | Liang Huang

Template Kernels for Dependency Parsing
[N15-1163]: Hillel Taub-Tabib | Yoav Goldberg | Amir Globerson

Embedding a Semantic Network in a Word Space
[N15-1164]: Richard Johansson | Luis Nieto Piña

Random Walks and Neural Network Language Models on Knowledge Bases
[N15-1165]: Josu Goikoetxea | Aitor Soroa | Eneko Agirre

Identification and Characterization of Newsworthy Verbs in World News
[N15-1166]: Benjamin Nye | Ani Nenkova

Enhancing Sumerian Lemmatization by Unsupervised Named-Entity Recognition
[N15-1167]: Yudong Liu | Clinton Burkhart | James Hearne | Liang Luo

Extracting Information about Medication Use from Veterinary Discussions
[N15-1168]: Haibo Ding | Ellen Riloff

Reserating the awesometastic: An automatic extension of the WordNet taxonomy for novel terms
[N15-1169]: David Jurgens | Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Cross-lingual Text Classification Using Topic-Dependent Word Probabilities
[N15-1170]: Daniel Andrade | Kunihiko Sadamasa | Akihiro Tamura | Masaaki Tsuchida

Testing and Comparing Computational Approaches for Identifying the Language of Framing in Political News
[N15-1171]: Eric Baumer | Elisha Elovic | Ying Qin | Francesca Polletta | Geri Gay

Echoes of Persuasion: The Effect of Euphony in Persuasive Communication
[N15-1172]: Marco Guerini | Gözde Özbal | Carlo Strapparava

Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
[N15-1173]: Subhashini Venugopalan | Huijuan Xu | Jeff Donahue | Marcus Rohrbach | Raymond Mooney | Kate Saenko

Learning to Interpret and Describe Abstract Scenes
[N15-1174]: Luis Gilberto Mateos Ortiz | Clemens Wolff | Mirella Lapata

A Comparison of Update Strategies for Large-Scale Maximum Expected BLEU Training
[N15-1175]: Joern Wuebker | Sebastian Muehr | Patrick Lehnen | Stephan Peitz | Hermann Ney

Learning Translation Models from Monolingual Continuous Representations
[N15-1176]: Kai Zhao | Hany Hassan | Michael Auli

A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and Supersenses
[N15-1177]: Nathan Schneider | Noah A. Smith

Good News or Bad News: Using Affect Control Theory to Analyze Readers' Reaction Towards News Articles
[N15-1178]: Areej Alhothali | Jesse Hoey

Do We Really Need Lexical Information? Towards a Top-down Approach to Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews
[N15-1179]: Yulia Otmakhova | Hyopil Shin

How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String
[N15-1180]: Marjan Ghazvininejad | Kevin Knight

A Bayesian Model for Joint Learning of Categories and their Features
[N15-1181]: Lea Frermann | Mirella Lapata

Shared common ground influences information density in microblog texts
[N15-1182]: Gabriel Doyle | Michael Frank

Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction
[N15-1183]: Marten van Schijndel | William Schuler

Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons
[N15-1184]: Manaal Faruqui | Jesse Dodge | Sujay Kumar Jauhar | Chris Dyer | Eduard Hovy | Noah A. Smith

"You’re Mr. Lebowski, I’m the Dude": Inducing Address Term Formality in Signed Social Networks
[N15-1185]: Vinodh Krishnan | Jacob Eisenstein

Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Word Embeddings
[N15-1186]: Radu Soricut | Franz Och

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
[N15-2000]: University of Ottawa Diana Inkpen | Columbia University Smaranda Muresan | University of Michigan Shibamouli Lahiri | University of North Texas Karen Mazidi | Instituto Politecnico Nacional Alisa Zhila

Cache-Augmented Latent Topic Language Models for Speech Retrieval
[N15-2001]: Jonathan Wintrode

Reliable Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers
[N15-2002]: Gustavo Paetzold

Analyzing Newspaper Crime Reports for Identification of Safe Transit Paths
[N15-2003]: Vasu Sharma | Rajat Kulshreshtha | Puneet Singh | Nishant Agrawal | Akshay Kumar

Relation extraction pattern ranking using word similarity
[N15-2004]: Konstantinos Lambrou-Latreille

Towards a Better Semantic Role Labeling of Complex Predicates
[N15-2005]: Glorianna Jagfeld | Lonneke van der Plas

Exploring Relational Features and Learning under Distant Supervision for Information Extraction Tasks
[N15-2006]: Ajay Nagesh

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference
[N15-2007]: Lingjia Deng

Initial Steps for Building a Lexicon of Adjectives with Scalemates
[N15-2008]: Bryan Wilkinson

A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of Syntactic Structure in Semantic Textual Similarity and Semantic Relatedness Tasks
[N15-2009]: Ngoc Phuoc An Vo | Octavian Popescu

Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets
[N15-2010]: Eshrag Refaee | Verena Rieser

Learning Kernels for Semantic Clustering: A Deep Approach
[N15-2011]: Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández

Narrowing the Loop: Integration of Resources and Linguistic Dataset Development with Interactive Machine Learning
[N15-2012]: Seid Muhie Yimam

Relation Extraction from Community Generated Question-Answer Pairs
[N15-2013]: Denis Savenkov | Wei-Lwun Lu | Jeff Dalton | Eugene Agichtein

Detecting Translation Direction: A Cross-Domain Study
[N15-2014]: Sauleh Eetemadi | Kristina Toutanova

Improving the Translation of Discourse Markers for Chinese into English
[N15-2015]: David Steele

Discourse and Document-level Information for Evaluating Language Output Tasks
[N15-2016]: Carolina Scarton

Speeding Document Annotation with Topic Models
[N15-2017]: Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh | Jordan Boyd-Graber

Lifelong Machine Learning for Topic Modeling and Beyond
[N15-2018]: Zhiyuan Chen

Semantics-based Graph Approach to Complex Question-Answering
[N15-2019]: Tomasz Jurczyk | Jinho D. Choi

Recognizing Textual Entailment using Dependency Analysis and Machine Learning
[N15-2020]: Nidhi Sharma | Richa Sharma | Kanad K. Biswas

Bilingual lexicon extraction for a distant language pair using a small parallel corpus
[N15-2021]: Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques

Morphological Paradigms: Computational Structure and Unsupervised Learning
[N15-2022]: Jackson Lee

Computational Exploration to Linguistic Structures of Future: Classification and Categorization
[N15-2023]: Aiming Ni | Jinho D. Choi | Jason Shepard | Phillip Wolff

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
[N15-3000]: Matt Gerber | Catherine Havasi | Finley Lacatusu

Two Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsers
[N15-3001]: Mihai Surdeanu | Tom Hicks | Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escarcega

Analyzing and Visualizing Coreference Resolution Errors
[N15-3002]: Sebastian Martschat | Thierry Göckel | Michael Strube

hyp: A Toolkit for Representing, Manipulating, and Optimizing Hypergraphs
[N15-3003]: Markus Dreyer | Jonathan Graehl

Enhancing Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions with Mobile Interfaces and Summarization
[N15-3004]: Wencan Luo | Xiangmin Fan | Muhsin Menekse | Jingtao Wang | Diane Litman

RExtractor: a Robust Information Extractor
[N15-3005]: Vincent Kríž | Barbora Hladka

An AMR parser for English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and a new AMR-annotated corpus
[N15-3006]: Lucy Vanderwende | Arul Menezes | Chris Quirk

ICE: Rapid Information Extraction Customization for NLP Novices
[N15-3007]: Yifan He | Ralph Grishman

AMRICA: an AMR Inspector for Cross-language Alignments
[N15-3008]: Naomi Saphra | Adam Lopez

Ckylark: A More Robust PCFG-LA Parser
[N15-3009]: Yusuke Oda | Graham Neubig | Sakriani Sakti | Tomoki Toda | Satoshi Nakamura

ELCO3: Entity Linking with Corpus Coherence Combining Open Source Annotators
[N15-3010]: Pablo Ruiz | Thierry Poibeau | Fréderique Mélanie

SETS: Scalable and Efficient Tree Search in Dependency Graphs
[N15-3011]: Juhani Luotolahti | Jenna Kanerva | Sampo Pyysalo | Filip Ginter

Visualizing Deep-Syntactic Parser Output
[N15-3012]: Juan Soler-Company | Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner

WOLFE: An NLP-friendly Declarative Machine Learning Stack
[N15-3013]: Sameer Singh | Tim Rocktäschel | Luke Hewitt | Jason Naradowsky | Sebastian Riedel

Lean Question Answering over Freebase from Scratch
[N15-3014]: Xuchen Yao

A Web Application for Automated Dialect Analysis
[N15-3015]: Sravana Reddy | James Stanford

An Open-source Framework for Multi-level Semantic Similarity Measurement
[N15-3016]: Mohammad Taher Pilehvar | Roberto Navigli

Brahmi-Net: A transliteration and script conversion system for languages of the Indian subcontinent
[N15-3017]: Anoop Kunchukuttan | Ratish Puduppully | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

A Concrete Chinese NLP Pipeline
[N15-3018]: Nanyun Peng | Francis Ferraro | Mo Yu | Nicholas Andrews | Jay DeYoung | Max Thomas | Matthew R. Gormley | Travis Wolfe | Craig Harman | Benjamin Van Durme | Mark Dredze

CroVeWA: Crosslingual Vector-Based Writing Assistance
[N15-3019]: Hubert Soyer | Goran Topić | Pontus Stenetorp | Akiko Aizawa

Online Readability and Text Complexity Analysis with TextEvaluator
[N15-3020]: Diane Napolitano | Kathleen Sheehan | Robert Mundkowsky

Natural Language Question Answering and Analytics for Diverse and Interlinked Datasets
[N15-3021]: Dezhao Song | Frank Schilder | Charese Smiley | Chris Brew

WriteAhead2: Mining Lexical Grammar Patterns for Assisted Writing
[N15-3022]: Jim Chang | Jason Chang

Question Answering System using Multiple Information Source and Open Type Answer Merge
[N15-3023]: Seonyeong Park | Soonchoul Kwon | Byungsoo Kim | Sangdo Han | Hyosup Shim | Gary Geunbae Lee

Using Word Semantics To Assist English as a Second Language Learners
[N15-3024]: Mahmoud Azab | Chris Hokamp | Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts
[N15-4000]: Yang Liu | Thamar Solorio

Hands-on Learning to Search for Structured Prediction
[N15-4001]: Hal Daumé III | John Langford | Kai-Wei Chang | He He | Sudha Rao

Crowdsourcing for NLP
[N15-4002]: Chris Callison-Burch | Lyle Ungar | Ellie Pavlick

The Logic of AMR: Practical, Unified, Graph-Based Sentence Semantics for NLP
[N15-4003]: Nathan Schneider | Jeffrey Flanigan | Tim O'Gorman

Deep Learning and Continuous Representations for Natural Language Processing
[N15-4004]: Wen-tau Yih | Xiaodong He | Jianfeng Gao

Social Media Predictive Analytics
[N15-4005]: Svitlana Volkova | Benjamin Van Durme | David Yarowsky | Yoram Bachrach

Getting the Roles Right: Using FrameNet in NLP
[N15-4006]: Collin Baker | Nathan Schneider | Miriam R L Petruck | Michael Ellsworth