Main Conference Program

Sunday, October 26, 2014
08:00–17:00	Registration (Area 3)
08:00–09:00	Refreshments (Area 3-4)
	Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4)
08:40–09:00	Opening Remarks, QNRF Presentation, Conference Logistics, Paper Selection Process and Statistics Alessandro Moschitti, Rekha Pillai , Kareem M. Darwish, and Walter Daelemans
09:00–10:00	Invited Talk: IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance! Salim Roukos
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 1a: Neural Net Mixer I (Al-Areen 1-2)
10:30–10:55	Modeling Interestingness with Deep Neural Networks - Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon, Xiaodong He and Li Deng Presentation
10:55–11:20	Translation Modeling with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks - Martin Sundermeyer, Tamer Alkhouli, Joern Wuebker and Hermann Ney
11:20–11:45	A Neural Network Approach to Selectional Preference Acquisition - Tim Van de Cruys
11:45–12:10	Learning Image Embeddings using Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Multi-Modal Semantics - Douwe Kiela and Léon Bottou
	Session 1b: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics (Al-Areen 3)
10:30–10:55	Identifying Argumentative Discourse Structures in Persuasive Essays - Christian Stab and Iryna Gurevych
10:55–11:20	Policy Learning for Domain Selection in an Extensible Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System - Zhuoran Wang, Hongliang Chen, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang
11:20–11:45	A Constituent-Based Approach to Argument Labeling with Joint Inference in Discourse Parsing - Fang Kong, Hwee Tou Ng and Guodong Zhou
11:45–12:10	Strongly Incremental Repair Detection - Julian Hough and Matthew Purver URL; Presentation
	Session 1c: Segmentation / Spoken Language (Al-Areen 4)
10:30–10:55	Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation Using Partial-Label Learning With Conditional Random Fields - Fan Yang and Paul Vozila
10:55–11:20	Accurate Word Segmentation and POS Tagging for Japanese Microblogs: Corpus Annotation and Joint Modeling with Lexical Normalization - Nobuhiro Kaji and Masaru Kitsuregawa
11:20–11:45	Revisiting Embedding Features for Simple Semi-supervised Learning - Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu
11:45–12:10	Combining Punctuation and Disfluency Prediction: An Empirical Study - Xuancong Wang, Khe Chai Sim and Hwee Tou Ng
	Session 1p: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 5-6)
10:30–12:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Submodularity for Data Selection in Machine Translation Katrin Kirchhoff and Jeff Bilmes
	Improve Statistical Machine Translation with Context-Sensitive Bilingual Semantic Embedding Model Haiyang Wu, Daxiang Dong, Xiaoguang Hu, Dianhai Yu, Wei He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu
	Transformation from Discontinuous to Continuous Word Alignment Improves Translation Quality Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu
	Unsupervised Word Alignment Using Frequency Constraint in Posterior Regularized EM Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
	Asymmetric Features Of Human Generated Translation Sauleh Eetemadi and Kristina Toutanova
	Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation using Syntax-Label Clustering Hideya MINO, Taro WATANABE and Eiichiro SUMITA
	Testing for Significance of Increased Correlation with Human Judgment Yvette Graham and Timothy Baldwin
	Syntactic SMT Using a Discriminative Text Generation Model Yue Zhang, Kai Song, Linfeng Song, Jingbo Zhu and Qun Liu Poster
	Learning Hierarchical Translation Spans jingyi zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Hai Zhao
	Neural Network Based Bilingual Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation Rui Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita Poster
	Better Statistical Machine Translation through Linguistic Treatment of Phrasal Verbs Kostadin Cholakov and Valia Kordoni
	Fitting Sentence Level Translation Evaluation with Many Dense Features Miloš Stanojević and Khalil Sima’an
	A Human Judgement Corpus and a Metric for Arabic MT Evaluation Houda Bouamor, Hanan Alshikhabobakr, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer
	Learning to Differentiate Better from Worse Translations Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov and Massimo Nicosia Poster
	Two Improvements to Left-to-Right Decoding for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation Maryam Siahbani and Anoop Sarkar
	Reordering Model for Forest-to-String Machine Translation Martin Cmejrek
12:10–13:30	Lunch Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 2a: Computational Psycholinguistics (Al-Areen 1-2)
13:30–13:55	Aligning context-based statistical models of language with brain activity during reading - Leila Wehbe, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight and Tom Mitchell
13:55–14:20	A Cognitive Model of Semantic Network Learning - Aida Nematzadeh, Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson URL
14:20–14:45	The Benefits of a Model of Annotation Rebecca J. Passonneau and Bob Carpenter
14:45–15:10	Learning Abstract Concept Embeddings from Multi-Modal Data: Since You Probably Can’t See What I Mean - Felix Hill and Anna Korhonen
	Session 2b: Tagging, Chunking, Parsing and Syntax (Al-Areen 3)
13:30–13:55	Go Climb a Dependency Tree and Correct the Grammatical Errors - Longkai Zhang and Houfeng WANG
13:55–14:20	An Unsupervised Model for Instance Level Subcategorization Acquisition - Simon Baker, Roi Reichart and Anna Korhonen Dataset
14:20–14:45	Parsing low-resource languages using Gibbs sampling for PCFGs with latent annotations - Liang Sun, Jason Mielens and Jason Baldridge
14:45–15:10	Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar - Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller, Vera Demberg and Mirella Lapata Presentation
	Session 2c: NLP for the Web and Social Media (Al-Areen 4)
13:30–13:55	A Graph-based Approach for Contextual Text Normalization - Cagil Sonmez and Arzucan Ozgur URL
13:55–14:20	Entity Linking on Microblogs with Spatial and Temporal Signals Yuan Fang and Ming-Wei Chang
14:20–14:45	ReNoun: Fact Extraction for Nominal Attributes - Mohamed Yahya, Steven Whang, Rahul Gupta and Alon Halevy Presentation;
14:45–15:10	Hierarchical Discriminative Classification for Text-Based Geolocation - Benjamin Wing and Jason Baldridge
	Session 2p: Semantics (Al-Areen 5-6)
13:30–15:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Probabilistic Models of Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity in Context Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts Induced from Comparable Data Ivan Vulić and Marie-Francine Moens
	Multi-Predicate Semantic Role Labeling Haitong Yang and Chengqing Zong
	Werdy: Recognition and Disambiguation of Verbs and Verb Phrases with Syntactic and Semantic Pruning Luciano Del Corro, Rainer Gemulla and Gerhard Weikum
	Multi-Resolution Language Grounding with Weak Supervision R. Koncel-Kedziorski, Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Ali Farhadi
	Incorporating Vector Space Similarity in Random Walk Inference over Knowledge Bases Matt Gardner, Partha Talukdar, Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom Mitchell URL
	Composition of Word Representations Improves Semantic Role Labelling Michael Roth and Kristian Woodsend
	Automatic Domain Assignment for Word Sense Alignment Tommaso Caselli and Carlo Strapparava Poster
	Nothing like Good Old Frequency: Studying Context Filters for Distributional Thesauri Muntsa Padró, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio and Carlos Ramisch
	Aligning English Strings with Abstract Meaning Representation Graphs Nima Pourdamghani, Yang Gao, Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight Poster; URL; Data
	A Shortest-path Method for Arc-factored Semantic Role Labeling Xavier Lluís, Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez Poster
	Semantic Kernels for Semantic Parsing Iman Saleh, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez and Shafiq Joty Poster
	Multi-Modal Models for Concrete and Abstract Concept Meaning Felix Hill, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen
	An I-vector Based Approach to Compact Multi-Granularity Topic Spaces Representation of Textual Documents Mohamed Morchid, Mohamed Bouallegue, Richard Dufour, Georges Linares, Driss Matrouf and Renato de Mori Poster
15:10–15:40	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 3a: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (Al-Areen 1-2)
15:40–16:05	Explaining the Stars: Weighted Multiple-Instance Learning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis
16:05–16:30	Sentiment Analysis on the People’s Daily - Jiwei Li and Eduard Hovy
16:30–16:55	A Joint Segmentation and Classification Framework for Sentiment Analysis - Duyu Tang, Furu Wei, Bing Qin, Li Dong, Ting Liu and Ming Zhou Presentation
16:55–17:20	Positive Unlabeled Learning for Deceptive Reviews Detection - yafeng ren, donghong ji and hongbin zhang
	Session 3b: Semantics (Al-Areen 3)
15:40–16:05	Resolving Shell Nouns - Varada Kolhatkar and Graeme Hirst
16:05–16:30	A Comparison of Selectional Preference Models for Automatic Verb Classification - Will Roberts and Markus Egg Presentation
16:30–16:55	Learning to Solve Arithmetic Word Problems with Verb Categorization - Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Oren Etzioni and Nate Kushman
16:55–17:20	NaturalLI: Natural Logic Inference for Common Sense Reasoning Gabor Angeli and Christopher D. Manning Presentation; Software; Project
	Session 3c: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 4)
15:40–16:05	Modeling Term Translation for Document-informed Machine Translation - Fandong Meng, Deyi Xiong, Wenbin Jiang and Qun Liu
16:05–16:30	Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation - Qing Dou, Ashish Vaswani and Kevin Knight Presentation; Dataset
16:30–16:55	Latent Domain Phrase-based Models for Adaptation - Cuong Hoang and Khalil Sima’an
16:55–17:20	Translation Rules with Right-Hand Side Lattices - Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi
	Session 3p: Information Retrieval, Summarization and Question Answering (Al-Areen 5-6)
15:40–17:20	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Learning to Translate: A Query-Specific Combination Approach for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Ferhan Ture and Elizabeth Boschee
	Semantic-Based Multilingual Document Clustering via Tensor Modeling Salvatore Romeo, Andrea Tagarelli and Dino Ienco Poster; Dataset/Code;
	Lexical Substitution for the Medical Domain Martin Riedl, Michael Glass and Alfio Gliozzo Poster
	Question Answering with Subgraph Embeddings Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra and Jason Weston
	Correcting Keyboard Layout Errors and Homoglyphs in Queries Derek Barnes, Mahesh Joshi and Hassan Sawaf Poster
	Non-linear Mapping for Improved Identification of 1300+ Languages Ralf Brown
	A Neural Network for Factoid Question Answering over Paragraphs Mohit Iyyer, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Leonardo Claudino, Richard Socher and Hal Daumé III Poster; Dataset/Code; URL
	Joint Relational Embeddings for Knowledge-based Question Answering Min-Chul Yang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou and Hae-Chang Rim Poster
	Adding High-Precision Links to Wikipedia Thanapon Noraset, Chandra Bhagavatula and Doug Downey
	Crosslingual and Multilingual Construction of Syntax-Based Vector Space Models Jason Utt and Sebastian Padó
	Finding Good Enough: A Task-Based Evaluation of Query Biased Summarization for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Jennifer Williams, Sharon Tam and Wade Shen
	Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata
	Fear the REAPER: A System for Automatic Multi-Document Summarization with Reinforcement Learning Cody Rioux, Sadid A. Hasan and Yllias Chali
	Improving Multi-documents Summarization by Sentence Compression based on Expanded Constituent Parse Trees Chen Li, Yang Liu, Fei Liu, Lin Zhao and Fuliang Weng
	Analyzing Stemming Approaches for Turkish Multi-Document Summarization Muhammed Yavuz Nuzumlalı and Arzucan Özgür Poster; Dataset/Software
Monday, October 27, 2014
08:00–17:00	Registration (Area 3)
08:00–09:00	Refreshments (Area 3-4)
	Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4)
09:00–10:00	Invited Talk: Learning from Rational Behavior Thorsten Joachims
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 4a: Neural Net Mixer II (Al-Areen 1-2)
10:30–10:55	Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings - Dmitrijs Milajevs, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Matthew Purver Presentation; URL
10:55–11:20	Opinion Mining with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks - Ozan Irsoy and Claire Cardie Presentation; URL
11:20–11:45	The Inside-Outside Recursive Neural Network model for Dependency Parsing - Phong Le and Willem Zuidema
11:45–12:10	A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks - Danqi Chen and Christopher Manning Presentation URL
	Session 4b: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics / Summarization and Generation (Al-Areen 3)
10:30–10:55	Why are You Taking this Stance? Identifying and Classifying Reasons in Ideological Debates - Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng
10:55–11:20	Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution: An Unsupervised Probabilistic Model Rivaling Supervised Resolvers Chen Chen and Vincent Ng
11:20–11:45	Unsupervised Sentence Enhancement for Automatic Summarization - Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn
11:45–12:10	ReferItGame: Referring to Objects in Photographs of Natural Scenes - Sahar Kazemzadeh, Vicente Ordonez, Mark Matten and Tamara Berg
	Session 4c: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 4)
10:30–10:55	Unsupervised Template Mining for Semantic Category Understanding - Lei Shi, Shuming Shi, Chin-Yew Lin, Yi-Dong Shen and Yong Rui
10:55–11:20	Taxonomy Construction Using Syntactic Contextual Evidence - Tuan Luu Anh, Jung-jae Kim and See Kiong Ng Presentation; URL
11:20–11:45	Analysing recall loss in named entity slot filling - Glen Pink, Joel Nothman and James R. Curran
11:45–12:10	Relieving the Computational Bottleneck: Joint Inference for Event Extraction with High-Dimensional Features - Deepak Venugopal, Chen Chen, Vibhav Gogate and Vincent Ng
	Session 4p: Segmentation, Tagging and Parsing (Al-Areen 5-6)
10:30–12:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Syllable weight encodes mostly the same information for English word segmentation as dictionary stress John K Pate and Mark Johnson
	A Joint Model for Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Miaohong Chen, Baobao Chang and Wenzhe Pei
	Domain Adaptation for CRF-based Chinese Word Segmentation using Free Annotations Yijia Liu, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Fan Wu Poster; URL
	Balanced Korean Word Spacing with Structural SVM Changki Lee, Edward Choi and Hyunki Kim
	Morphological Segmentation for Keyword Spotting Karthik Narasimhan, Damianos Karakos, Richard Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis and Regina Barzilay Poster
	What Can We Get From 1000 Tokens? A Case Study of Multilingual POS Tagging For Resource-Poor Languages Long Duong, Trevor Cohn, Karin Verspoor, Steven Bird and Paul Cook
	An Experimental Comparison of Active Learning Strategies for Partially Labeled Sequences Diego Marcheggiani and Thierry Artières Poster
	Language Modeling with Functional Head Constraint for Code Switching Speech Recognition Ying LI and Pascale Fung
	A Polynomial-Time Dynamic Oracle for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Francesco Sartorio and Giorgio Satta
	Ambiguity Resolution for Vt-N Structures in Chinese Yu-Ming Hsieh, Jason S. Chang and Keh-Jiann Chen Poster
	Neural Networks Leverage Corpus-wide Information for Part-of-speech Tagging Yuta Tsuboi Poster
	System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction Raymond Hendy Susanto, Peter Phandi and Hwee Tou Ng
	Dependency parsing with latent refinements of part-of-speech tags Thomas Mueller, Richárd Farkas, Alex Judea, Helmut Schmid and hinrich schuetze
	Importance weighting and unsupervised domain adaptation of POS taggers: a negative result Barbara Plank, Anders Johannsen and Anders Søgaard Poster
	POS Tagging of English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Content Yogarshi Vyas, Spandana Gella, Jatin Sharma, Kalika Bali and Monojit Choudhury
	Data Driven Grammatical Error Detection in Transcripts of Children’s Speech Eric Morley, Anna Eva Hallin and Brian Roark
12:10–13:30	Lunch Break (Area 3-4)
12:50–13:30	SIGDAT Business Meeting -- bring your lunch (Al-Areen 3)
	Session 5a: Tagging, Chunking, Parsing and Syntax (Al-Areen 1-2)
13:30–13:55	Improved CCG Parsing with Semi-supervised Supertagging Mike Lewis and Mark Steedman
13:55–14:20	A* CCG Parsing with a Supertag-factored Model - Mike Lewis and Mark Steedman
14:20–14:45	A Dependency Parser for Tweets - Lingpeng Kong, Nathan Schneider, Swabha Swayamdipta, Archna Bhatia, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith Presentation; Dataset/Sofware
14:45–15:10	Greed is Good if Randomized: New Inference for Dependency Parsing - Yuan Zhang, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola URL; Presentation; Dataset/Sofware
	Session 5b: Semantics (Al-Areen 3)
13:30–13:55	A Unified Model for Word Sense Representation and Disambiguation - Xinxiong Chen, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun
13:55–14:20	Reducing Dimensions of Tensors in Type-Driven Distributional Semantics - Tamara Polajnar, Luana Fagarasan and Stephen Clark
14:20–14:45	An Etymological Approach to Cross-Language Orthographic Similarity. Application on Romanian - Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu Presentation
14:45–15:10	Efficient Non-parametric Estimation of Multiple Embeddings per Word in Vector Space - Arvind Neelakantan, Jeevan Shankar, Alexandre Passos and Andrew McCallum URL
	Session 5c: Information Retrieval and Question Answering (Al-Areen 4)
13:30–13:55	Tailor knowledge graph for query understanding: linking intent topics by propagation - Shi Zhao and Yan Zhang
13:55–14:20	Queries as a Source of Lexicalized Commonsense Knowledge - Marius Pasca
14:20–14:45	Question Answering over Linked Data Using First-order Logic - shizhu he, Kang Liu, Yuanzhe Zhang, Liheng Xu and Jun Zhao
14:45–15:10	Knowledge Graph and Corpus Driven Segmentation and Answer Inference for Telegraphic Entity-seeking Queries - Mandar Joshi, Uma Sawant and Soumen Chakrabarti Presentation; URL; Dataset
	Session 5p: NLP for the Web, Social Media and Sentiment Analysis (Al-Areen 5-6)
13:30–15:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	A Regularized Competition Model for Question Difficulty Estimation in Community Question Answering Services Quan Wang, Jing Liu, Bin Wang and Li Guo Poster
	Vote Prediction on Comments in Social Polls Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng
	Exploiting Social Relations and Sentiment for Stock Prediction Jianfeng Si, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Qing Li and Huayi Li Poster; Dataset
	Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media Maarten Sap, Gregory Park, Johannes Eichstaedt, Margaret Kern, David Stillwell, Michal Kosinski, Lyle Ungar and Hansen Andrew Schwartz Poster; URL; Data
	Dependency Parsing for Weibo: An Efficient Probabilistic Logic Programming Approach William Yang Wang, Lingpeng Kong, Kathryn Mazaitis and William W Cohen Poster; Dataset
	Exploiting Community Emotion for Microblog Event Detection Gaoyan Ou, Wei Chen, Tengjiao Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Binyang LI, Dongqing Yang and Kam-Fai Wong
	Detecting Disagreement in Conversations using Pseudo-Monologic Rhetorical Structure Kelsey Allen, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng
	+/-EffectWordNet: Sense-level Lexicon Acquisition for Opinion Inference Yoonjung Choi and Janyce Wiebe Poster
	A Sentiment-aligned Topic Model for Product Aspect Rating Prediction Hao Wang and Martin Ester
	Learning Emotion Indicators from Tweets: Hashtags, Hashtag Patterns, and Phrases Ashequl Qadir and Ellen Riloff
	Fine-Grained Contextual Predictions for Hard Sentiment Words Sebastian Ebert and Hinrich Schütze URL
	An Iterative Link-based Method for Parallel Web Page Mining Le Liu, Yu Hong, Jun Lu, Jun Lang, Heng Ji and Jianmin Yao Poster
	Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis Robert West, Hristo Paskov, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts
15:10–15:40	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 6a: Machine Translation (Al-Areen 1-2)
15:40–16:05	Human Effort and Machine Learnability in Computer Aided Translation - Spence Green, Sida I. Wang, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Sebastian Schuster and Christopher D. Manning
16:05–16:30	Exact Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation - Wilker Aziz, Marc Dymetman and Lucia Specia
16:30–16:55	Large-scale Expected BLEU Training of Phrase-based Reordering Models - Michael Auli, Michel Galley and Jianfeng Gao
16:55–17:20	Confidence-based Rewriting of Machine Translation Output - Benjamin Marie and Aurélien Max Presentation
	Session 6b: Semantic Parsing (Al-Areen 3)
15:40–16:05	Learning Compact Lexicons for CCG Semantic Parsing - Yoav Artzi, Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov
16:05–16:30	Morpho-syntactic Lexical Generalization for CCG Semantic Parsing - Adrienne Wang, Tom Kwiatkowski and Luke Zettlemoyer
16:30–16:55	Semantic Parsing Using Content and Context: A Case Study from Requirements Elicitation - Reut Tsarfaty, Ilia Pogrebezky, Guy Weiss, Yaarit Natan, Smadar Szekely and David Harel
16:55–17:20	Semantic Parsing with Relaxed Hybrid Trees - Wei Lu
	Session 6c: NLP-Related Machine Learning (Al-Areen 4)
15:40–16:05	Low-dimensional Embeddings for Interpretable Anchor-based Topic Inference - David Mimno and Moontae Lee
16:05–16:30	Weakly-Supervised Learning with Cost-Augmented Contrastive Estimation - Kevin Gimpel and Mohit Bansal
16:30–16:55	Don’t Until the Final Verb Wait: Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation - Alvin Grissom II, He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, John Morgan and Hal Daumé III Presentation
16:55–17:20	PCFG Induction for Unsupervised Parsing and Language Modelling - James Scicluna and Colin de la Higuera
	Session 6p: Computational Psycholinguistics, Text Mining and NLP Applications (Al-Areen 5-6)
15:40–17:20	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu and Aoife Cahill
	Formalizing Word Sampling for Vocabulary Prediction as Graph-based Active Learning Yo Ehara, Yusuke Miyao, Hidekazu Oiwa, Issei Sato and Hiroshi Nakagawa Poster; URL
	Language Transfer Hypotheses with Linear SVM Weights Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras
	Predicting Dialect Variation in Immigrant Contexts Using Light Verb Constructions A. Seza Dogruoz and Preslav Nakov Poster
	Device-Dependent Readability for Improved Text Understanding A-Yeong Kim, Hyun-Je Song, Seong-Bae Park and Sang-Jo Lee
	Predicting Chinese Abbreviations with Minimum Semantic Unit and Global Constraints Longkai Zhang, li li, Houfeng WANG and Xu Sun
	Using Structured Events to Predict Stock Price Movement: An Empirical Investigation Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu and Junwen Duan
	Extracting Clusters of Specialist Terms from Unstructured Text Aaron Gerow Poster; Software
	Citation-Enhanced Keyphrase Extraction from Research Papers: A Supervised Approach Cornelia Caragea, Florin Adrian Bulgarov, Andreea Godea and Sujatha Das Gollapalli
	Using Mined Coreference Chains as a Resource for a Semantic Task Heike Adel and Hinrich Schütze Poster; Dataset
	Financial Keyword Expansion via Continuous Word Vector Representations Ming-Feng Tsai and Chuan-Ju Wang
	Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection using N-gram Classes Imene Bensalem, Paolo Rosso and Salim Chikhi Poster; Dataset
	Verifiably Effective Arabic Dialect Identification Kareem Darwish, Hassan Sajjad and Hamdy Mubarak Poster
	Keystroke Patterns as Prosody in Digital Writings: A Case Study with Deceptive Reviews and Essays Ritwik Banerjee, Song Feng, Jun Seok Kang and Yejin Choi
	Leveraging Effective Query Modeling Techniques for Speech Recognition and Summarization Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu and Hsin-Hsi Chen Poster
	Staying on Topic: An Indicator of Power in Political Debates Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Ashima Arora and Owen Rambow
19:00–21:30	Social Dinner (Pool side - 7th floor)
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
08:00–17:00	Registration (Area 3)
08:00–09:00	Refreshments (Area 3-4)
	Plenary Session (Al-Areen 1-4)
09:00–09:05	Best Paper Award Bo Pang and Walter Daelemans
09:05–09:30	Language Modeling with Power Low Rank Ensembles - Ankur P. Parikh, Avneesh Saluja, Chris Dyer and Eric Xing Presentation; URL
09:30–09:55	Modeling Biological Processes for Reading Comprehension - Jonathan Berant, Vivek Srikumar, Pei-Chun Chen, Abby Vander Linden, Brittany Harding, Brad Huang and Christopher D. Manning Code/Data
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 7a: Semantics (Al-Areen 1-2)
10:30–10:55	Sensicon: An Automatically Constructed Sensorial Lexicon - Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava
10:55–11:20	Word Semantic Representations using Bayesian Probabilistic Tensor Factorization - Jingwei Zhang, Jeremy Salwen, Michael Glass and Alfio Gliozzo Presentation
11:20–11:45	Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation - Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher and Christopher Manning
11:45–12:10	Jointly Learning Word Representations and Composition Functions Using Predicate-Argument Structures - Kazuma Hashimoto, Pontus Stenetorp, Makoto Miwa and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka URL; Presentation
	Session 7b: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 3)
10:30–10:55	Combining Distant and Partial Supervision for Relation Extraction - Gabor Angeli, Julie Tibshirani, Jean Wu and Christopher D. Manning Presentation; Dataset; Project
10:55–11:20	Typed Tensor Decomposition of Knowledge Bases for Relation Extraction - Kai-Wei Chang, Wen-tau Yih, Bishan Yang and Christopher Meek
11:20–11:45	A convex relaxation for weakly supervised relation extraction - Edouard Grave
11:45–12:10	Knowledge Graph and Text Jointly Embedding - Zhen Wang, Jianwen Zhang, Jianlin Feng and Zheng Chen
	Session 7c: Sentiment Analysis and NLP Applications (Al-Areen 4)
10:30–10:55	Abstractive Summarization of Product Reviews Using Discourse Structure - Shima Gerani, Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng and Bita Nejat
10:55–11:20	Clustering Aspect-related Phrases by Leveraging Sentiment Distribution Consistency - Li Zhao, Minlie Huang, Haiqiang Chen, Junjun Cheng and Xiaoyan Zhu
11:20–11:45	Automatic Generation of Related Work Sections in Scientific Papers: An Optimization Approach - Yue Hu and Xiaojun Wan
11:45–12:10	Fast and Accurate Misspelling Correction in Large Corpora Octavian Popescu and Ngoc Phuoc An Vo
	Session 7p: Machine Translation and Machine Learning (Al-Areen 5-6)
10:30–12:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Assessing the Impact of Translation Errors on Machine Translation Quality with Mixed-effects Models Marcello Federico, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli and Marco Turchi Poster
	Refining Word Segmentation Using a Manually Aligned Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita
	Improving Pivot-Based Statistical Machine Translation by Pivoting the Co-occurrence Count of Phrase Pairs Xiaoning Zhu, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Conghui Zhu, Haifeng Wang and Tiejun Zhao
	Word Translation Prediction for Morphologically Rich Languages with Bilingual Neural Networks Ke M. Tran, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz Poster
	Dependency-Based Bilingual Language Models for Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation Ekaterina Garmash and Christof Monz Poster
	Combining String and Context Similarity for Bilingual Term Alignment from Comparable Corpora Georgios Kontonatsios, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou
	Random Manhattan Integer Indexing: Incremental L1 Normed Vector Space Construction Behrang Q. Zadeh and Siegfried Handschuh
	Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk and Yoshua Bengio
	Type-based MCMC for Sampling Tree Fragments from Forests Xiaochang Peng and Daniel Gildea Poster
	Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification Yoon Kim Code/Dataset; URL
	Sometimes Average is Best: The Importance of Averaging for Prediction using MCMC Inference in Topic Modeling Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik
	Large-scale Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation using Dual Multinomial Logistic Regression Abdullah Alrajeh and Mahesan Niranjan
	Dynamic Language Models for Streaming Text Dani Yogatama, Chong Wang, Bryan Routledge, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
	Improved Decipherment of Homophonic Ciphers Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper and Hermann Ney
	Cipher Type Detection Malte Nuhn and Kevin Knight
12:10–13:30	Lunch Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 8sa: Segmentation and Tagging / Spoken Language / Semantics (Al-Areen 1-2)
13:30–13:50	Joint Learning of Chinese Words, Terms and Keywords - Ziqiang Cao, Sujian Li and Heng Ji
13:50–14:10	Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging through Ambiguous Learning - Guillaume Wisniewski, Nicolas Pécheux, Souhir Gahbiche-Braham and François Yvon Presentation; Data/Code; URL
14:10–14:30	Comparing Representations of Semantic Roles for String-To-Tree Decoding - Marzieh Bazrafshan and Daniel Gildea
14:30–14:50	Detecting Non-compositional MWE Components using Wiktionary - Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin
14:50–15:10	(Empty slot) (No presentation)
	Session 8sb: Sentiment Analysis / Social / Computational Psycholinguistics / Text Classification (Al-Areen 3)
13:30–13:50	Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes - Daniel Beck, Trevor Cohn and Lucia Specia Presentation
13:50–14:10	Detecting Latent Ideology in Expert Text: Evidence From Academic Papers in Economics - Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut and Suresh Naidu
14:10–14:30	A Model of Individual Differences in Gaze Control During Reading - Niels Landwehr, Sebastian Arzt, Tobias Scheffer and Reinhold Kliegl
14:30–14:50	Muli-label Text Categorization with Hidden Components - li li, Longkai Zhang and Houfeng WANG
14:50–15:10	#TagSpace: Semantic Embeddings from Hashtags - Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra and Keith Adams
	Session 8sc: Summarization / Machine Translation / Information Extraction (Al-Areen 4)
13:30–13:50	Joint Decoding of Tree Transduction Models for Sentence Compression - Jin-ge Yao, Xiaojun Wan and Jianguo Xiao
13:50–14:10	Dependency-based Discourse Parser for Single-Document Summarization - Yasuhisa Yoshida, Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata
14:10–14:30	Improving Word Alignment using Word Similarity - Theerawat Songyot and David Chiang
14:30–14:50	Constructing Information Networks Using One Single Model - Qi Li, Heng Ji, Yu HONG and Sujian Li
14:50–15:10	Event Role Extraction using Domain-Relevant Word Representations - Emanuela Boros, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau
	Session 8p: Information Extraction (Al-Areen 5-6)
13:30–15:10	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	Modeling Joint Entity and Relation Extraction with Table Representation Makoto Miwa and Yutaka Sasaki
	ZORE: A Syntax-based System for Chinese Open Relation Extraction Likun Qiu and Yue Zhang Poster
	Coarse-grained Candidate Generation and Fine-grained Re-ranking for Chinese Abbreviation Prediction Longkai Zhang, Houfeng WANG and Xu Sun
	Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments Mitchell Koch, John Gilmer, Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld
	Automatic Inference of the Tense of Chinese Events Using Implicit Linguistic Information Yuchen Zhang and Nianwen Xue
	Joint Inference for Knowledge Base Population Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Jinghui Mo, Songfang Huang and Dongyan Zhao
	Combining Visual and Textual Features for Information Extraction from Online Flyers Emilia Apostolova and Noriko Tomuro
	CTPs: Contextual Temporal Profiles for Time Scoping Facts using State Change Detection Derry Tanti Wijaya, Ndapandula Nakashole and Tom M. Mitchell
	Noisy Or-based model for Relation Extraction using Distant Supervision Ajay Nagesh, Gholamreza Haffari and Ganesh Ramakrishnan Poster
15:10–15:40	Coffee Break (Area 3-4)
	Session 9a: Machine Learning and Machine Translation (Al-Areen 1-2)
15:40–16:05	Search-Aware Tuning for Machine Translation - Lemao Liu and Liang Huang
16:05–16:30	Latent-Variable Synchronous CFGs for Hierarchical Translation - Avneesh Saluja, Chris Dyer and Shay B. Cohen
16:30–16:55	Dynamically Shaping the Reordering Search Space of Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Arianna Bisazza and Marcello Federico
16:55–17:20	(Empty slot) (No presentation)
	Session 9b: NLP for the Web and Social Media (Al-Areen 3)
15:40–16:05	Gender and Power: How Gender and Gender Environment Affect Manifestations of Power - Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily E. Reid and Owen Rambow
16:05–16:30	Online topic model for Twitter considering dynamics of user interests and topic trends - Kentaro Sasaki, Tomohiro Yoshikawa and Takeshi Furuhashi
16:30–16:55	Self-disclosure topic model for classifying and analyzing Twitter conversations - JinYeong Bak, Chin-Yew Lin and Alice Oh URL
16:55–17:20	Major Life Event Extraction from Twitter based on Congratulations/Condolences Speech Acts - Jiwei Li, Alan Ritter, Claire Cardie and Eduard Hovy
	Session 9c: Semantics (Al-Areen 4)
15:40–16:05	Brighter than Gold: Figurative Language in User Generated Comparisons - Vlad Niculae and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Presentation; Dataset; URL
16:05–16:30	Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions - Jing Peng, Anna Feldman and Ekaterina Vylomova
16:30–16:55	TREETALK: Composition and Compression of Trees for Image Descriptions Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Tamara Berg, Yejin Choi
16:55–17:20	Learning Spatial Knowledge for Text to 3D Scene Generation - Angel Chang, Manolis Savva and Christopher D. Manning
	Session 9p: Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics (Al-Areen 5-6)
15:40–17:20	Poster Session Multiple presenters
	A Model of Coherence Based on Distributed Sentence Representation Jiwei Li and Eduard Hovy
	Discriminative Reranking of Discourse Parses Using Tree Kernels Shafiq Joty and Alessandro Moschitti
	Recursive Deep Models for Discourse Parsing Jiwei Li, Rumeng Li and Eduard Hovy
	Recall Error Analysis for Coreference Resolution Sebastian Martschat and Michael Strube Poster; Dataset/Sofware; URL
	A Rule-Based System for Unrestricted Bridging Resolution: Recognizing Bridging Anaphora and Finding Links to Antecedents Yufang Hou, Katja Markert and Michael Strube
	Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Ruhi Sarikaya
	Building Chinese Discourse Corpus with Connective-driven Dependency Tree Structure Yancui Li, wenhe feng, jing sun, Fang Kong and Guodong Zhou Poster
	Prune-and-Score: Learning for Greedy Coreference Resolution Chao Ma, Janardhan Rao Doppa, J. Walker Orr, Prashanth Mannem, Xiaoli Fern, Tom Dietterich and Prasad Tadepalli
	Summarizing Online Forum Discussions – Can Dialog Acts of Individual Messages Help? Sumit Bhatia, Prakhar Biyani and Prasenjit Mitra
	Closing Session (Al-Areen 3)
17:20–17:40	Final Thanks and EMNLP 2015 Preview Alessandro Moschitti