EMNLP 2011: Edinburgh, UK
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011, 27-31 July 2011, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL. ACL 2011 ISBN 978-1-937284-11-4
Front Matter.
Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum: Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction. 1-12
Li Wang, Marco Lui, Su Nam Kim, Joakim Nivre, Timothy Baldwin: Predicting Thread Discourse Structure over Technical Web Forums. 13-25
Yin-Wen Chang, Michael Collins: Exact Decoding of Phrase-Based Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation. 26-37
Shay B. Cohen, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith: Unsupervised Structure Prediction with Non-Parallel Multilingual Guidance. 50-61
Ryan T. McDonald, Slav Petrov, Keith Hall: Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers. 62-72
Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Min Zhang, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yujie Zhang, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa, Haizhou Li: SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing. 73-83
Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema: Accurate Parsing with Compact Tree-Substitution Grammars: Double-DOP. 84-95
Prodromos Malakasiotis, Ion Androutsopoulos: A Generate and Rank Approach to Sentence Paraphrasing. 96-106
Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng: Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases. 107-117
Zornitsa Kozareva, Konstantin Voevodski, Shang-Hua Teng: Class Label Enhancement via Related Instances. 118-128
Jianxing Yu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Meng Wang, Kai Wang, Tat-Seng Chua: Domain-Assisted Product Aspect Hierarchy Generation: Towards Hierarchical Organization of Unstructured Consumer Reviews. 140-150
Richard Socher, Jeffrey Pennington, Eric H. Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, Christopher D. Manning: Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions. 151-161
Lanjun Zhou, Binyang Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, Kam-Fai Wong: Unsupervised Discovery of Discourse Relations for Eliminating Intra-sentence Polarity Ambiguities. 162-171
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, Franz Josef Och, David Talbot, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Masakazu Seno, Hideto Kazawa: Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering. 183-192
John DeNero, Jakob Uszkoreit: Inducing Sentence Structure from Parallel Corpora for Reordering. 193-203
Jiajun Zhang, Feifei Zhai, Chengqing Zong: Augmenting String-to-Tree Translation Models with Fuzzy Use of Source-side Syntax. 204-215

André L. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar: Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components. 238-249
David M. Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Edmund M. Talley, Miriam Leenders, Andrew McCallum: Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models. 262-272
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Thierry Poibeau: A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents. 273-283

Amit Dubey, Frank Keller, Patrick Sturt: A Model of Discourse Predictions in Human Sentence Processing. 304-312
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein: Simple Effective Decipherment via Combinatorial Optimization. 313-321
Young-Bum Kim, João Graça, Benjamin Snyder: Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction. 322-332
Michael Auli, Adam Lopez: Training a Log-Linear Parser with Loss Functions via Softmax-Margin. 333-343
Amittai Axelrod, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao: Domain Adaptation via Pseudo In-Domain Data Selection. 355-362
Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan, Shuly Wintner: Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts. 363-374
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng: Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation. 375-384
Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, Evelina Andersson: Evaluating Dependency Parsing: Robust and Heuristics-Free Cross-Annotation Evaluation. 385-396
Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen, Yi Zhang: Parser Evaluation over Local and Non-Local Deep Dependencies in a Large Corpus. 397-408
Kristian Woodsend, Mirella Lapata: Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming. 409-420
Rui Yan, Liang Kong, Congrui Huang, Xiaojun Wan, Xiaoming Li, Yan Zhang: Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization. 433-443
Yezhou Yang, Ching Lik Teo, Hal Daumé III, Yiannis Aloimonos: Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images. 444-454
Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Jesús Giménez, Felisa Verdejo: Corroborating Text Evaluation Results with Heterogeneous Measures. 455-466
Peter A. Rankel, John M. Conroy, Eric Slud, Dianne P. O'Leary: Ranking Human and Machine Summarization Systems. 467-473
Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith: Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation. 474-485
Karthik Visweswariah, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Ankur Gandhe, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Jiri Navratil: A Word Reordering Model for Improved Machine Translation. 486-496
Jason Riesa, Ann Irvine, Daniel Marcu: Feature-Rich Language-Independent Syntax-Based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation. 497-507
Fabien Cromierès, Sadao Kurohashi: Efficient retrieval of tree translation examples for Syntax-Based Machine Translation. 508-518
Bryan Rink, Sanda M. Harabagiu: A generative model for unsupervised discovery of relations and argument classes from clinical texts. 519-528
Ni Lao, Tom M. Mitchell, William W. Cohen: Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base. 529-539
Matthias Hartung, Anette Frank: Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases. 540-551
Weiwei Guo, Mona T. Diab: Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions. 552-561
Samuel Brody, Nicholas Diakopoulos: Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs. 562-570
Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen, Bo Pang: Personalized Recommendation of User Comments via Factor Models. 571-582
Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry, William B. Dolan: Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media. 583-593
Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith: Predicting a Scientific Community's Response to an Article. 594-604
Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi: Non-parametric Bayesian Segmentation of Japanese Noun Phrases. 605-615
Markus Dreyer, Jason Eisner: Discovering Morphological Paradigms from Plain Text Using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model. 616-627
Christos Christodoulopoulos, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman: A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features. 638-647
Su Nam Kim, Preslav Nakov: Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus. 648-658
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis: Linguistic Redundancy in Twitter. 659-669
Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, Yashar Mehdad, Danilo Giampiccolo, Alessandro Marchetti: Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora. 670-679
Peter D. Turney, Yair Neuman, Dan Assaf, Yohai Cohen: Literal and Metaphorical Sense Identification through Concrete and Abstract Context. 680-690
Denis Filimonov, Mary P. Harper: Syntactic Decision Tree LMs: Random Selection or Intelligent Design? 691-699
Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson: The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources. 700-711
Alessandro Moschitti, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Siddharth Patwardhan, James Fan, Giuseppe Riccardi: Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy! 712-724
Spence Green, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, John Bauer, Christopher D. Manning: Multiword Expression Identification with Tree Substitution Grammars: A Parsing tour de force with French. 725-735

Richárd Farkas: Learning Local Content Shift Detectors from Document-level Information. 759-770
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordino, Hagen Fürstenau, Manfred Pinkal, Marc Spaniol, Bilyana Taneva, Stefan Thater, Gerhard Weikum: Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text. 782-792
Lukas Michelbacher, Alok Kothari, Martin Forst, Christina Lioma, Hinrich Schütze: A Cascaded Classification Approach to Semantic Head Recognition. 793-803
Cane Wing-ki Leung, Jing Jiang, Kian Ming Adam Chai, Hai Leong Chieu, Loo-Nin Teow: Unsupervised Information Extraction with Distributional Prior Knowledge. 814-824
Stijn De Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa, Masaaki Tsuchida, Jun'ichi Kazama, Chikara Hashimoto, Ichiro Yamada, Jong-Hoon Oh, István Varga, Yulan Yan: Relation Acquisition using Word Classes and Partial Patterns. 825-835
Yulia Tsvetkov, Shuly Wintner: Identification of Multi-word Expressions by Combining Multiple Linguistic Information Sources. 836-845
Xabier Saralegi, Iker Manterola, Iñaki San Vicente: Analyzing Methods for Improving Precision of Pivot Based Bilingual Dictionaries. 846-856
Yang Gao, Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch: Soft Dependency Constraints for Reordering in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation. 857-868
Christof Monz: Statistical Machine Translation with Local Language Models. 869-879
Xinyan Xiao, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin: Fast Generation of Translation Forest for Large-Scale SMT Discriminative Training. 880-888
J. Scott McCarley, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos, Bing Xiang, Jian-Ming Xu: A Correction Model for Word Alignments. 889-898
Andrea Gesmundo, James Henderson: Heuristic Search for Non-Bottom-Up Tree Structure Prediction. 899-908
Zhengxian Gong, Min Zhang, Guodong Zhou: Cache-based Document-level Statistical Machine Translation. 909-919
Zhifei Li, Ziyuan Wang, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Brian Roark: Minimum Imputed-Risk: Unsupervised Discriminative Training for Machine Translation. 920-929
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa, Hal Daumé III, Abhijit Bhole: Improving Bilingual Projections via Sparse Covariance Matrices. 930-940

Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa: Splitting Noun Compounds via Monolingual and Bilingual Paraphrasing: A Study on Japanese Katakana Words. 959-969
Kirk Roberts, Sanda M. Harabagiu: Unsupervised Learning of Selectional Restrictions and Detection of Argument Coercions. 980-990
Ziqi Zhang, Anna Lisa Gentile, Fabio Ciravegna: Harnessing different knowledge sources to measure semantic relatedness under a uniform model. 991-1002
Tong Wang, Graeme Hirst: Refining the Notions of Depth and Density in WordNet-based Semantic Similarity Measures. 1003-1011
Tim Van de Cruys, Thierry Poibeau, Anna Korhonen: Latent Vector Weighting for Word Meaning in Context. 1012-1022
Danilo Croce, Alessandro Moschitti, Roberto Basili: Structured Lexical Similarity via Convolution Kernels on Dependency Trees. 1034-1046
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anna Korhonen: Probabilistic models of similarity in syntactic context. 1047-1057
Dipak Chaudhari, Om P. Damani, Srivatsan Laxman: Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association. 1058-1068
Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng: Learning the Information Status of Noun Phrases in Spoken Dialogues. 1069-1080
Balamurali A. R., Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Harnessing WordNet Senses for Supervised Sentiment Classification. 1081-1091
Song Feng, Ritwik Bose, Yejin Choi: Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms. 1092-1103
Marco Dinarelli, Sophie Rosset: Hypotheses Selection Criteria in a Reranking Framework for Spoken Language Understanding. 1104-1115
Anoop Deoras, Tomas Mikolov, Kenneth Church: A Fast Re-scoring Strategy to Capture Long-Distance Dependencies. 1116-1127
Puyang Xu, Asela Gunawardana, Sanjeev Khudanpur: Efficient Subsampling for Training Complex Language Models. 1128-1136
Peng Li, Yinglin Wang, Wei Gao, Jing Jiang: Generating Aspect-oriented Multi-Document Summarization with Event-aspect model. 1137-1146
Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark: Syntax-Based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search. 1147-1157
Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Markus Guhe: Generating Subsequent Reference in Shared Visual Scenes: Computation vs Re-Use. 1158-1167
Juri Ganitkevitch, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney Napoles, Benjamin Van Durme: Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation. 1168-1179
Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Wenliang Chen, Haizhou Li: Joint Models for Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing. 1180-1191

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta: Computation of Infix Probabilities for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars. 1213-1221
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, Marie Candito: Parse Correction with Specialized Models for Difficult Attachment Types. 1222-1233
Shay B. Cohen, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Giorgio Satta: Exact Inference for Generative Probabilistic Non-Projective Dependency Parsing. 1234-1245
Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy: A Fast, Accurate, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser. 1257-1268
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky: Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction. 1269-1280
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Angel X. Chang, Daniel Jurafsky: Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags. 1281-1290
Wei Xu, Joel R. Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman, Le Zhao: Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models. 1291-1300
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson, George Kim, Guido Zarrella: Discriminating Gender on Twitter. 1301-1309
Roy Bar-Haim, Elad Dinur, Ronen Feldman, Moshe Fresko, Guy Goldstein: Identifying and Following Expert Investors in Stock Microblogs. 1310-1319
Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu: Structural Opinion Mining for Graph-based Sentiment Representation. 1332-1341
Rui Yan, Jian-Yun Nie, Xiaoming Li: Summarize What You Are Interested In: An Optimization Framework for Interactive Personalized Summarization. 1342-1351
Ashish Venugopal, Jakob Uszkoreit, David Talbot, Franz Josef Och, Juri Ganitkevitch: Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation. 1363-1372
Gonzalo Iglesias, Cyril Allauzen, William Byrne, Adrià de Gispert, Michael Riley: Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations. 1373-1383
Ali El Kahki, Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Saad El Din, Mohamed Abd El-Wahab, Ahmed Hefny, Waleed Ammar: Improved Transliteration Mining Using Graph Reinforcement. 1384-1393
Edward Grefenstette, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh: Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning. 1394-1404
Benjamin Börschinger, Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson: Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference. 1416-1425
Chang Wang, James Fan, Aditya Kalyanpur, David Gondek: Relation Extraction with Relation Topics. 1426-1436
Marjorie Freedman, Lance A. Ramshaw, Elizabeth Boschee, Ryan Gabbard, Gary Kratkiewicz, Nicolas Ward, Ralph M. Weischedel: Extreme Extraction - Machine Reading in a Week. 1437-1446
Thahir Mohamed, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr., Tom M. Mitchell: Discovering Relations between Noun Categories. 1447-1455
Limin Yao, Aria Haghighi, Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum: Structured Relation Discovery using Generative Models. 1456-1466
Burr Settles: Closing the Loop: Fast, Interactive Semi-Supervised Annotation With Queries on Features and Instances. 1467-1478
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Taro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto: Third-order Variational Reranking on Packed-Shared Dependency Forests. 1479-1488
Keith Hall, Ryan T. McDonald, Jason Katz-Brown, Michael Ringgaard: Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives. 1489-1499
André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar: Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction. 1500-1511
Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman: Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing. 1512-1523
Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam, Oren Etzioni: Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study. 1524-1534
Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni: Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction. 1535-1545
Florian Laws, Christian Scheible, Hinrich Schütze: Active Learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk. 1546-1556
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Junling Hu: Bootstrapped Named Entity Recognition for Product Attribute Extraction. 1557-1567
Eiji Aramaki, Sachiko Maskawa, Mizuki Morita: Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter. 1568-1576
Zhiyuan Liu, Xinxiong Chen, Maosong Sun: A Simple Word Trigger Method for Social Tag Suggestion. 1577-1588
Vahed Qazvinian, Emily Rosengren, Dragomir R. Radev, Qiaozhu Mei: Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs. 1589-1599
Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras: Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification. 1600-1610
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng: A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions. 1611-1622



