13. EACL 2012: Avignon, France
Walter Daelemans, Mirella Lapata, Lluís Màrquez (Eds.): EACL 2012, 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, April 23-27, 2012. The Association for Computer Linguistics 2012 ISBN 978-1-937284-19-0
Martin Cooke: Speech Communication in the Wild. 1
Spyros Martzoukos, Christof Monz: Power-Law Distributions for Paraphrases Extracted from Bilingual Corpora. 2-11
Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev: A Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction. 12-22
Marco Baroni, Raffaella Bernardi, Ngoc-Quynh Do, Chung-chieh Shan: Entailment above the word level in distributional semantics. 23-32
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn: Evaluating Distributional Models of Semantics for Syntactically Invariant Inference. 33-43
Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, Evelina Andersson: Cross-Framework Evaluation for Statistical Parsing. 44-54
Richárd Farkas, Veronika Vincze, Helmut Schmid: Dependency Parsing of Hungarian: Baseline Results and Challenges. 55-65
Bernd Bohnet, Jonas Kuhn: The Best of BothWorlds - A Graph-based Completion Model for Transition-based Parsers. 77-87
Michael Kaisser: Answer Sentence Retrieval by Matching Dependency Paths acquired from Question/Answer Sentence Pairs. 88-98
Alejandro Figueroa: Can Click Patterns across User's Query Logs Predict Answers to Definition Questions? 99-108
Vassilina Nikoulina, Bogomil Kovachev, Nikolaos Lagos, Christof Monz: Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation Model for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in a Service Context. 109-119
Artem Sokolov, Guillaume Wisniewski, François Yvon: Computing Lattice BLEU Oracle Scores for Machine Translation. 120-129
Jörg Tiedemann: Character-Based Pivot Translation for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains. 141-151
Guillem Gascó, Martha-Alicia Rocha, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Francisco Casacuberta: Does more data always yield better translations? 152-161
Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer, Noah A. Smith: Recall-Oriented Learning of Named Entities in Arabic Wikipedia. 162-173
Marco Dinarelli, Sophie Rosset: Tree Representations in Probabilistic Models for Extended Named Entities Detection. 174-184
Dirk Hovy, James Fan, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Siddharth Patwardhan, Christopher A. Welty: When Did that Happen? - Linking Events and Relations to Timestamps. 185-193
Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman: Compensating for Annotation Errors in Training a Relation Extractor. 194-203
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daumé III, Raghavendra Udupa: Incorporating Lexical Priors into Topic Models. 204-213
Jean-Yves Delort, Enrique Alfonseca: DualSum: a Topic-Model based approach for update summarization. 214-223
Ruben Sipos, Pannaga Shivaswamy, Thorsten Joachims: Large-Margin Learning of Submodular Summarization Models. 224-233
Tom Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Mark Steedman: A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings. 234-244
Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Francisco Casacuberta: Active learning for interactive machine translation. 245-254
Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan, Shuly Wintner: Adapting Translation Models to Translationese Improves SMT. 255-265
Andrea Glaser, Hinrich Schütze: Automatic generation of short informative sentiment summaries. 276-285

Svitlana Volkova, William B. Dolan, Theresa Wilson: CLex: A Lexicon for Exploring Color, Concept and Emotion Associations in Language. 306-314
Vanessa Wei Feng, Graeme Hirst: Extending the Entity-based Coherence Model with Multiple Ranks. 315-324
Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow: Generalization Methods for In-Domain and Cross-Domain Opinion Holder Extraction. 325-335
Bram Jans, Steven Bethard, Ivan Vulic, Marie-Francine Moens: Skip N-grams and Ranking Functions for Predicting Script Events. 336-344
David Martin Ward Powers: The Problem with Kappa. 345-355


Verena Henrich, Erhard W. Hinrichs, Tatiana Vodolazova: WebCAGe - A Web-Harvested Corpus Annotated with GermaNet Senses. 387-396
Regina Barzilay: Learning to Behave by Reading. 397
Irene Fernandez Monsalve, Stefan L. Frank, Gabriella Vigliocco: Lexical surprisal as a general predictor of reading time. 398-408
Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle, Xavier Carreras: Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing. 409-419
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alberto Lavelli: Combining Tree Structures, Flat Features and Patterns for Biomedical Relation Extraction. 420-429
Atsushi Hanamoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Coordination Structure Analysis using Dual Decomposition. 430-438
Arianna Bisazza, Marcello Federico: Cutting the Long Tail: Hybrid Language Models for Translation Style Adaptation. 439-448
Ivan Vulic, Marie-Francine Moens: Detecting Highly Confident Word Translations from Comparable Corpora without Any Prior Knowledge. 449-459
Andreas van Cranenburgh: Efficient parsing with Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems. 460-470
Myroslava Dzikovska, Peter Bell, Amy Isard, Johanna D. Moore: Evaluating language understanding accuracy with respect to objective outcomes in a dialogue system. 471-481
Matthew Purver, Stuart Battersby: Experimenting with Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification. 482-491
Georgi Georgiev, Valentin Zhikov, Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova, Preslav Nakov: Feature-Rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages: Application to Bulgarian. 492-502
Janara Christensen, Marius Pasca: Instance-Driven Attachment of Semantic Annotations over Conceptual Hierarchies. 503-513
Andreas Peldszus, Okko Buß, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen: Joint Satisfaction of Syntactic and Pragmatic Constraints Improves Incremental Spoken Language Understanding. 514-523
Liviu Petrisor Dinu, Vlad Niculae, Octavia-Maria Sulea: Learning How to Conjugate the Romanian Verb. Rules for Regular and Partially Irregular Verbs. 524-528
Torsten Zesch: Measuring Contextual Fitness Using Error Contexts Extracted from the Wikipedia Revision History. 529-538
Rico Sennrich: Perplexity Minimization for Translation Model Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. 539-549
Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych: Subcat-LMF: Fleshing out a standardized format for subcategorization frame interoperability. 550-560
Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Helmer Strik, Lou Boves: The effect of domain and text type on text prediction quality. 561-569
Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer, Christian Wirth: UBY - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF. 580-590
Jey Han Lau, Paul Cook, Diana McCarthy, David Newman, Timothy Baldwin: Word Sense Induction for Novel Sense Detection. 591-601
Raymond J. Mooney: Learning Language from Perceptual Context. 602
Micol Marchetti-Bowick, Nathanael Chambers: Learning for Microblogs with Distant Supervision: Political Forecasting with Twitter. 603-612
Grzegorz Chrupala: Learning from evolving data streams: online triage of bug reports. 613-622
Micha Elsner: Character-based kernels for novelistic plot structure. 634-644
Grégoire Détrez, Aarne Ranta: Smart Paradigms and the Predictability and Complexity of Inflectional Morphology. 645-653
Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar: Probabilistic Hierarchical Clustering of Morphological Paradigms. 654-663
Alexander Fraser, Marion Weller, Aoife Cahill, Fabienne Cap: Modeling Inflection and Word-Formation in SMT. 664-674
Sarah Alkuhlani, Nizar Habash: Identifying Broken Plurals, Irregular Gender, and Rationality in Arabic Text. 675-685
Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Yusuke Miyao, Akiko N. Aizawa: Framework of Semantic Role Assignment based on Extended Lexical Conceptual Structure: Comparison with VerbNet and FrameNet. 686-695
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn: Unsupervised Detection of Downward-Entailing Operators By Maximizing Classification Certainty. 696-705
Luz Rello, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ruslan Mitkov: Elliphant: Improved Automatic Detection of Zero Subjects and Impersonal Constructions in Spanish. 706-715
Houda Bouamor, Aurélien Max, Anne Vilnat: Validation of sub-sentential paraphrases acquired from parallel monolingual corpora. 716-725
Anita Gojun, Alexander Fraser: Determining the placement of German verbs in English-to-German SMT. 726-735
Yue Zhang, Graeme W. Blackwood, Stephen Clark: Syntax-Based Word Ordering Incorporating a Large-Scale Language Model. 736-746
Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Stratos, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg, Hal Daumé III: Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections. 747-756
Markus Dräger, Alexander Koller: Generation of landmark-based navigation instructions from open-source data. 757-766
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn: To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context? A study on word order. 767-776
Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, Yevgen Chebotar: Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages. 777-786
Mahaveer Jain, John W. McDonough, Gahgene Gweon, Bhiksha Raj, Carolyn Penstein Rosé: An Unsupervised Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Measuring Speech Style Accommodation. 787-797
Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng: Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities. 798-807
Aurélie Lagoutte, Fabienne Braune, Daniel Quernheim, Andreas Maletti: Composing extended top-down tree transducers. 808-817
Katharina Wäschle, Stefan Riezler: Structural and Topical Dimensions in Multi-Task Patent Translation. 818-828
Remi van Trijp: Not as Awful as it Seems: Explaining German Case through Computational Experiments in Fluid Construction Grammar. 829-839
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir Boguraev, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Adam Lally: Parallel and Nested Decomposition for Factoid Questions. 851-860
Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Marc Poch, Antonio Toral, Núria Bel: Language Resources Factory: case study on the acquisition of Translation Memories. 1-5
Anelia Belogay, Diman Karagyozov, Svetla Koeva, Cristina Vertan, Adam Przepiórkowski, Dan Cristea, Plovios Raxis: Harnessing NLP Techniques in the Processes of Multilingual Content Management. 6-10
Patrik Lambert, Jean Senellart, Laurent Romary, Holger Schwenk, Florian Zipser, Patrice Lopez, Frédéric Blain: Collaborative Machine Translation Service for Scientific texts. 11-15
Chung-Chi Huang, Ping-Che Yang, Mei-hua Chen, Hung-ting Hsieh, Ting-hui Kao, Jason S. Chang: TransAhead: A Writing Assistant for CAT and CALL. 16-19
Tomi Kinnunen, Henri Leisma, Monika Machunik, Tuomo Kakkonen, Jean-Luc LeBrun: SWAN - Scientific Writing AssistaNt. A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts. 20-24
Marco Turchi, Martin Atkinson, Alastair Wilcox, Brett Crawley, Stefano Bucci, Ralf Steinberger, Erik Van der Goot: ONTS: "Optima" News Translation System. 25-30
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Hernani Pereira Costa, Diana Santos: Folheador: browsing through Portuguese semantic relations. 35-40
Alejandro Revuelta-Martínez, Luis Rodríguez, Ismael García-Varea: A Computer Assisted Speech Transcription System. 41-45
Paul A. Crook, Zhuoran Wang, Xingkun Liu, Oliver Lemon: A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression. 46-50

Remi van Trijp, Luc Steels, Katrien Beuls, Pieter Wellens: Fluid Construction Grammar: The New Kid on the Block. 63-68
Timothy Baldwin, Paul Cook, Bo Han, Aaron Harwood, Shanika Karunasekera, Masud Moshtaghi: A Support Platform for Event Detection using Social Intelligence. 69-72
Giuseppe Rizzo, Raphaël Troncy: NERD: A Framework for Unifying Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Extraction Tools. 73-76
Svetla Boytcheva, Galia Angelova, Ivelina Nikolova: Automatic Analysis of Patient History Episodes in Bulgarian Hospital Discharge Letters. 77-81
Saatviga Sudhahar, Thomas Lansdall-Welfare, Ilias N. Flaounas, Nello Cristianini: ElectionWatch: Detecting Patterns in News Coverage of US Elections. 82-86
Marco Trevisan, Eduard Barbu, Igor Barsanti, Luca Dini, Nikolaos Lagos, Frédérique Segond, Mathieu Rhulmann, Ed Vald: Query log analysis with LangLog. 87-91
Valerio Basile, Johan Bos, Kilian Evang, Noortje Venhuizen: A platform for collaborative semantic annotation. 92-96
Andrea Gesmundo, Nadi Tomeh: HadoopPerceptron: a Toolkit for Distributed Perceptron Training and Prediction with MapReduce. 97-101
Pontus Stenetorp, Sampo Pyysalo, Goran Topic, Tomoko Ohta, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun'ichi Tsujii: brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation. 102-107
Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Liane Guillou: Improving Pronoun Translation for Statistical Machine Translation. 1-10
Philipp Petrenz: Cross-Lingual Genre Classification. 11-21
Alexandros Papangelis: A Comparative Study of Reinforcement Learning Techniques on Dialogue Management. 22-31
Tin Htay Hlaing: Manually constructed context-free grammar for Myanmar syllable structure. 32-37
Claudiu Mihaila, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro: What's in a Name? Entity Type Variation across Two Biomedical Subdomains. 38-45
Martin Majlis: Yet Another Language Identifier. 46-54
Christelle Cocco: Discourse Type Clustering using POS n-gram Profiles and High-Dimensional Embeddings. 55-63
Jan A. Botha: Hierarchical Bayesian Language Modelling for the Linguistically Informed. 64-73
Aleksander Wawer: Mining Co-Occurrence Matrices for SO-PMI Paradigm Word Candidates. 74-80
Lorenza Russo, Sharid Loáiciga, Asheesh Gulati: Improving machine translation of null subjects in Italian and Spanish. 81-89



