Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

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Proceedings of the Joint Conference
of
the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL
and
the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

Chairs
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corp., Taiwan), General Conference Chair
Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Program Co-Chair
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Program Co-Chair
Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Local Organizing Chair

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pdf	bib	Front matter Cover (Volume 1) Cover (Volume 2) Cover (Companion Volume)
pdf	bib	Heterogeneous Transfer Learning for Image Clustering via the SocialWeb Qiang Yang, Yuqiang Chen, Gui-Rong Xue, Wenyuan Dai and Yong Yu	pp. 1–9
pdf	bib	Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nicholas Gaylord	pp. 10–18
pdf	bib	A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 19–27
pdf	bib	Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling Omri Abend, Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport	pp. 28–36
pdf	bib	Brutus: A Semantic Role Labeling System Incorporating CCG, CFG, and Dependency Features Stephen Boxwell, Dennis Mehay and Chris Brew	pp. 37–45
pdf	bib	Exploiting Heterogeneous Treebanks for Parsing Zheng-Yu Niu, Haifeng Wang and Hua Wu	pp. 46–54
pdf	bib	Cross Language Dependency Parsing using a Bilingual Lexicon Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit and Guodong Zhou	pp. 55–63
pdf	bib	Topological Field Parsing of German Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn	pp. 64–72
pdf	bib	Unsupervised Multilingual Grammar Induction Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem and Regina Barzilay	pp. 73–81
pdf	bib	Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay	pp. 82–90
pdf	bib	Learning Semantic Correspondences with Less Supervision Percy Liang, Michael Jordan and Dan Klein	pp. 91–99
pdf	bib	Bayesian Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Nested Pitman-Yor Language Modeling Daichi Mochihashi, Takeshi Yamada and Naonori Ueda	pp. 100–108
pdf	bib	Knowing the Unseen: Estimating Vocabulary Size over Unseen Samples Suma Bhat and Richard Sproat	pp. 109–117
pdf	bib	A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Qing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn and Grzegorz Kondrak	pp. 118–126
pdf	bib	Reducing the Annotation Effort for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Kenneth Dwyer and Grzegorz Kondrak	pp. 127–135
pdf	bib	Transliteration Alignment Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li and Bo Lin	pp. 136–144
pdf	bib	Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike Bart Jongejan and Hercules Dalianis	pp. 145–153
pdf	bib	Revisiting Pivot Language Approach for Machine Translation Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang	pp. 154–162
pdf	bib	Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer and Franz Och	pp. 163–171
pdf	bib	Forest-based Tree Sequence to String Translation Model Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Aiti Aw and Chew Lim Tan	pp. 172–180
pdf	bib	Active Learning for Multilingual Statistical Machine Translation Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar	pp. 181–189
pdf	bib	DEPEVAL(summ): Dependency-based Evaluation for Automatic Summaries Karolina Owczarzak	pp. 190–198
pdf	bib	Summarizing Definition from Wikipedia Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua and Jie LU	pp. 199–207
pdf	bib	Automatically Generating Wikipedia Articles: A Structure-Aware Approach Christina Sauper and Regina Barzilay	pp. 208–216
pdf	bib	Learning to Tell Tales: A Data-driven Approach to Story Generation Neil McIntyre and Mirella Lapata	pp. 217–225
pdf	bib	Recognizing Stances in Online Debates Swapna Somasundaran and Janyce Wiebe	pp. 226–234
pdf	bib	Co-Training for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification Xiaojun Wan	pp. 235–243
pdf	bib	A Non-negative Matrix Tri-factorization Approach to Sentiment Classification with Lexical Prior Knowledge Tao Li, Yi Zhang and Vikas Sindhwani	pp. 244–252
pdf	bib	Discovering the Discriminative Views: Measuring Term Weights for Sentiment Analysis Jungi Kim, Jin-Ji Li and Jong-Hyeok Lee	pp. 253–261
pdf	bib	Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel Weld, Michael Skinner and Jeff Bilmes	pp. 262–270
pdf	bib	A Metric-based Framework for Automatic Taxonomy Induction Hui Yang and Jamie Callan	pp. 271–279
pdf	bib	Learning with Annotation Noise Eyal Beigman and Beata Beigman Klebanov	pp. 280–287
pdf	bib	Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both? Paola Merlo and Lonneke van der Plas	pp. 288–296
pdf	bib	Robust Machine Translation Evaluation with Entailment Features Sebastian Pado, Michel Galley, Dan Jurafsky and Christopher D. Manning	pp. 297–305
pdf	bib	The Contribution of Linguistic Features to Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo	pp. 306–314
pdf	bib	A Syntax-Driven Bracketing Model for Phrase-Based Translation Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw and Haizhou Li	pp. 315–323
pdf	bib	Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Hendra Setiawan, Min Yen Kan, Haizhou Li and Philip Resnik	pp. 324–332
pdf	bib	Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation as a Traveling Salesman Problem Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Marc Dymetman and Nicola Cancedda	pp. 333–341
pdf	bib	Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing Andre Martins, Noah Smith and Eric Xing	pp. 342–350
pdf	bib	Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time Joakim Nivre	pp. 351–359
pdf	bib	Semi-supervised Learning of Dependency Parsers using Generalized Expectation Criteria Gregory Druck, Gideon Mann and Andrew McCallum	pp. 360–368
pdf	bib	Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar	pp. 369–377
pdf	bib	Cross-Domain Dependency Parsing Using a Deep Linguistic Grammar Yi Zhang and Rui Wang	pp. 378–386
pdf	bib	A Chinese-English Organization Name Translation System Using Heuristic Web Mining and Asymmetric Alignment Fan Yang, Jun Zhao and Kang Liu	pp. 387–395
pdf	bib	Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran	pp. 396–404
pdf	bib	Jointly Identifying Temporal Relations with Markov Logic Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Sebastian Riedel, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto	pp. 405–413
pdf	bib	Profile Based Cross-Document Coreference Using Kernelized Fuzzy Relational Clustering Jian Huang, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smith, Konstantinos A. Fotiadis and C. Lee Giles	pp. 414–422
pdf	bib	Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel Yaman	pp. 423–431
pdf	bib	Bilingual Co-Training for Monolingual Hyponymy-Relation Acquisition Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto and Kentaro Torisawa	pp. 432–440
pdf	bib	Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web Richard C. Wang and William W. Cohen	pp. 441–449
pdf	bib	Extracting Lexical Reference Rules from Wikipedia Eyal Shnarch, Libby Barak and Ido Dagan	pp. 450–458
pdf	bib	Employing Topic Models for Pattern-based Semantic Class Discovery Huibin Zhang, Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi and Ji-Rong Wen	pp. 459–467
pdf	bib	Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith	pp. 468–476
pdf	bib	Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for L1-regularized Log-linear Models with Cumulative Penalty Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou	pp. 477–485
pdf	bib	A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction Kristina Toutanova and Colin Cherry	pp. 486–494
pdf	bib	Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence-Labeling Fei Huang and Alexander Yates	pp. 495–503
pdf	bib	Minimized Models for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight	pp. 504–512
pdf	bib	An Error-Driven Word-Character Hybrid Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Canasai Kruengkrai, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Hitoshi Isahara	pp. 513–521
pdf	bib	Automatic Adaptation of Annotation Standards: Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging – A Case Study Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang and Qun Liu	pp. 522–530
pdf	bib	Linefeed Insertion into Japanese Spoken Monologue for Captioning Tomohiro Ohno, Masaki Murata and Shigeki Matsubara	pp. 531–539
pdf	bib	Semi-supervised Learning for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Co-training Algorithm Je Hun Jeon and Yang Liu	pp. 540–548
pdf	bib	Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn and Frank Rudzicz	pp. 549–557
pdf	bib	Improving Tree-to-Tree Translation with Packed Forests Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü and Qun Liu	pp. 558–566
pdf	bib	Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests John DeNero, David Chiang and Kevin Knight	pp. 567–575
pdf	bib	Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng and Qun Liu	pp. 576–584
pdf	bib	Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li and Ming Zhou	pp. 585–592
pdf	bib	Variational Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner and Sanjeev Khudanpur	pp. 593–601
pdf	bib	Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky	pp. 602–610
pdf	bib	Learning a Compositional Semantic Parser using an Existing Syntactic Parser Ruifang Ge and Raymond Mooney	pp. 611–619
pdf	bib	Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca	pp. 620–628
pdf	bib	The Chinese Aspect Generation Based on Aspect Selection Functions Guowen Yang and John Bateman	pp. 629–637
pdf	bib	Quantitative modeling of the neural representation of adjective-noun phrases to account for fMRI activation Kai-min K. Chang, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Tom M. Mitchell and Marcel Adam Just	pp. 638–646
pdf	bib	Capturing Salience with a Trainable Cache Model for Zero-anaphora Resolution Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto	pp. 647–655
pdf	bib	Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff	pp. 656–664
pdf	bib	A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification David duVerle and Helmut Prendinger	pp. 665–673
pdf	bib	Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank Bonnie Webber	pp. 674–682
pdf	bib	Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova	pp. 683–691
pdf	bib	A Framework of Feature Selection Methods for Text Categorization Shoushan Li, Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong and Chu-Ren Huang	pp. 692–700
pdf	bib	Mine the Easy, Classify the Hard: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Automatic Sentiment Classification Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng	pp. 701–709
pdf	bib	Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky	pp. 710–718
pdf	bib	A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering Asli Celikyilmaz, Marcus Thint and Zhiheng Huang	pp. 719–727
pdf	bib	Combining Lexical Semantic Resources with Question & Answer Archives for Translation-Based Answer Finding Delphine Bernhard and Iryna Gurevych	pp. 728–736
pdf	bib	Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu	pp. 737–745
pdf	bib	What lies beneath: Semantic and syntactic analysis of manually reconstructed spontaneous speech Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek and Robert Frank	pp. 746–754
pdf	bib	Discriminative Lexicon Adaptation for Improved Character Accuracy - A New Direction in Chinese Language Modeling Yi-cheng Pan, Lin-shan Lee and Sadaoki Furui	pp. 755–763
pdf	bib	Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Lectures through Transformation-based Rules Learned from Minimal Data Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn and Xiaodan Zhu	pp. 764–772
pdf	bib	Quadratic-Time Dependency Parsing for Machine Translation Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning	pp. 773–781
pdf	bib	A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer and Miles Osborne	pp. 782–790
pdf	bib	Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman and Idan Szpektor	pp. 791–799
pdf	bib	Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Hansraj Choudhary, Avishek Ghosh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya	pp. 800–808
pdf	bib	Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization Wei He, Haifeng Wang, Yuqing Guo and Ting Liu	pp. 809–816
pdf	bib	Incorporating Information Status into Generation Ranking Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester	pp. 817–825
pdf	bib	A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence Compression Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki and Hideki Isozaki	pp. 826–833
pdf	bib	Application-driven Statistical Paraphrase Generation Shiqi Zhao, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu and Sheng Li	pp. 834–842
pdf	bib	Semi-Supervised Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Reports Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng	pp. 843–851
pdf	bib	SMS based Interface for FAQ Retrieval Govind Kothari, Sumit Negi, Tanveer A. Faruquie, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy and L. Venkata Subramaniam	pp. 852–860
pdf	bib	Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries Mehdi Manshadi and Xiao Li	pp. 861–869
pdf	bib	Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu and Qingsheng Zhu	pp. 870–878
pdf	bib	Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani and Alois Knoll	pp. 879–887
pdf	bib	Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development Hua Ai and Diane Litman	pp. 888–896
pdf	bib	Dialogue Segmentation with Large Numbers of Volunteer Internet Annotators T. Daniel Midgley	pp. 897–904
pdf	bib	Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 905–913
pdf	bib	A non-contiguous Tree Sequence Alignment-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation Jun Sun, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan	pp. 914–922
pdf	bib	Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero and Dan Klein	pp. 923–931
pdf	bib	Confidence Measure for Word Alignment Fei Huang	pp. 932–940
pdf	bib	A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li and Aiti Aw	pp. 941–948
pdf	bib	Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu and Ning Xi	pp. 949–957
pdf	bib	K-Best A Parsing* Adam Pauls and Dan Klein	pp. 958–966
pdf	bib	Coordinate Structure Analysis with Global Structural Constraints and Alignment-Based Local Features Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Hideharu Okuma and Yuji Matsumoto	pp. 967–975
pdf	bib	Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins	pp. 976–984
pdf	bib	An Optimal-Time Binarization Algorithm for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Giorgio Satta	pp. 985–993
pdf	bib	A Polynomial-Time Parsing Algorithm for TT-MCTAG Laura Kallmeyer and Giorgio Satta	pp. 994–1002
pdf	bib	Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data Mike Mintz, Steven Bills, Rion Snow and Daniel Jurafsky	pp. 1003–1011
pdf	bib	Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Weakly-Supervised Relation Extraction Jing Jiang	pp. 1012–1020
pdf	bib	Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Mining Wikipedia Texts Using Information from the Web Yulan Yan, Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Zhenglu Yang and Mitsuru Ishizuka	pp. 1021–1029
pdf	bib	Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning Dekang Lin and Xiaoyun Wu	pp. 1030–1038
pdf	bib	Semi-Supervised Active Learning for Sequence Labeling Katrin Tomanek and Udo Hahn	pp. 1039–1047
pdf	bib	Word or Phrase? Learning Which Unit to Stress for Information Retrieval Young-In Song, Jung-Tae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim	pp. 1048–1056
pdf	bib	A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke	pp. 1057–1065
pdf	bib	Language Identification of Search Engine Queries Hakan Ceylan and Yookyung Kim	pp. 1066–1074
pdf	bib	Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou and Kam-Fai Wong	pp. 1075–1083

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