Conference program for EMNLP 2011

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

•  9:00—10:20 Opening and Invited Talk
• 10:20—11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00—12:40 Session 1: Plenary session
• 12:40—14:10 Lunch
• 14:10—15:50 Sessions 2A, 2B and 2C
• 15:50—16:20 Coffee break
• 16:20—18:00 Sessions 3A, 3B and 3C

Thursday, July 28, 2011

•  9:05—10:20 Session 4: Plenary session
• 10:20—11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00—12:40 Sessions 5A, 5B and 5C
• 12:40—14:10 Lunch
• 14:10—15:50 Sessions 6A, 6B and 6C
• 15:50—16:20 Coffee break
• 16:20—18:00 Sessions 7A, 7B and 7C
• 18:30—21:30 Poster session and Reception

Friday, July 29, 2011

•  9:05—10:20 Session 8: Plenary session
• 10:20—10:50 Coffee break
• 10:50—12:30 Sessions 9A, 9B and 9C
• 12:30—13:00 SIGDAT Business Meeting
• 13:00—14:10 Lunch
• 14:10—15:50 Sessions 10A, 10B and 10C
• 15:50—16:20 Coffee break
• 16:20—17:10 Best paper award and Closing

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Opening remarks and Invited Talk

Location: Pentland — Chair: Paola Merlo

• 9:00—10:00 Object Detection Grammars David McAllester

Session 1: Plenary session

Location: Pentland — Chair: Jason Eisner

• 11:00—11:25 Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum
• 11:25—11:50 Predicting Thread Discourse Structure over Technical Web Forums Li Wang, Marco Lui, Su Nam Kim, Joakim Nivre and Timothy Baldwin
• 11:50—12:15 Exact Decoding of Phrase-Based Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation Yin-Wen Chang and Michael Collins
• 12:15—12:40 Optimal Search for Minimum Error Rate Training Michel Galley and Chris Quirk

Session 2A: Syntax and Parsing

Location: Pentland East — Chair: Stephen Clark

• 14:10—14:35 Unsupervised Structure Prediction with Non-Parallel Multilingual Guidance Shay B. Cohen, Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith
• 14:35—15:00 Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers Ryan McDonald, Slav Petrov and Keith Hall
• 15:00—15:25 SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Min Zhang, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yujie Zhang, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Haizhou Li
• 15:25—15:50 Accurate Parsing with Compact Tree-Substitution Grammars: Double-DOP Federico Sangati and Willem Zuidema

Session 2B: Semantics

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Mirella Lapata

• 14:10—14:35 A Generate and Rank Approach to Sentence Paraphrasing Prodromos Malakasiotis and Ion Androutsopoulos
• 14:35—15:00 Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng
• 15:00—15:25 Class Label Enhancement via Related Instances Zornitsa Kozareva, Konstantin Voevodski and Shanghua Teng
• 15:25—15:50 A Joint Model for Extended Semantic Role Labeling Vivek Srikumar and Dan Roth

Session 2C: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Location: Pentland West — Chair: Bo Pang

• 14:10—14:35 Domain-Assisted Product Aspect Hierarchy Generation: Towards Hierarchical Organization of Unstructured Consumer Reviews Jianxing Yu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Meng Wang, Kai Wang and Tat-Seng Chua
• 14:35—15:00 Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions Richard Socher, Jeffrey Pennington, Eric H. Huang, Andrew Y. Ng and Christopher D. Manning
• 15:00—15:25 Unsupervised Discovery of Discourse Relations for Eliminating Intra-sentence Polarity Ambiguities Lanjun Zhou, Binyang Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei and Kam-Fai Wong
• 15:25—15:50 Compositional Matrix-Space Models for Sentiment Analysis Ainur Yessenalina and Claire Cardie

Session 3A: Machine Translation

Location: Pentland East — Chair: Phil Blunsom

• 16:20—16:45 Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan McDonald, Franz Och, David Talbot, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Masakazu Seno and Hideto Kazawa
• 16:45—17:10 Inducing Sentence Structure from Parallel Corpora for Reordering John DeNero and Jakob Uszkoreit
• 17:10—17:35 Augmenting String-to-Tree Translation Models with Fuzzy Use of Source-side Syntax Jiajun Zhang, Feifei Zhai and Chengqing Zong
• 17:35—18:00 A novel dependency-to-string model for statistical machine translation Jun Xie, Haitao Mi and Qun Liu

Session 3B: NLP related Machine Learning

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: David Smith

• 16:20—16:45 Bayesian Checking for Topic Models David Mimno and David Blei
• 16:45—17:10 Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components Andre Martins, Noah Smith, Mario Figueiredo and Pedro Aguiar
• 17:10—17:35 Approximate Scalable Bounded Space Sketch for Large Data NLP Amit Goyal and Hal Daume III
• 17:35—18:00 Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models David Mimno, Hanna Wallach, Edmund Talley, Miriam Leenders and Andrew McCallum

Session 3C: Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics

Location: Pentland West — Chair: Oliver Lemon

• 16:20—16:45 A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen and Thierry Poibeau
• 16:45—17:10 Linear Text Segmentation Using Affinity Propagation Anna Kazantseva and Stan Szpakowicz
• 17:10—17:35 Minimally Supervised Event Causality Identification Quang Do, Yee Seng Chan and Dan Roth
• 17:35—18:00 A Model of Discourse Predictions in Human Sentence Processing Amit Dubey, Frank Keller and Patrick Sturt

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Session 4: Plenary session

Location: Pentland — Chair: Michael Collins

• 9:05—9:30 Simple Effective Decipherment via Combinatorial Optimization Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein
• 9:30—9:55 Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction Young-Bum Kim, João Graça and Benjamin Snyder
• 9:55—10:20 Training a Log-Linear Parser with Loss Functions via Softmax-Margin Michael Auli and Adam Lopez

Session 5A: Machine Translation

Location: Pentland East — Chair: Philipp Koehn

• 11:00—11:25 Large-Scale Cognate Recovery David Hall and Dan Klein
• 11:25—11:50 Domain Adaptation via Pseudo In-Domain Data Selection amittai axelrod, xiaodong he and jianfeng gao
• 11:50—12:15 Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner
• 12:15—12:40 Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng

Session 5B: Syntax and Parsing

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Ryan McDonald

• 11:00—11:25 Evaluating Dependency Parsing: Robust and Heuristics-Free Cross-Annotation Evaluation Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre and Evelina Andersson
• 11:25—11:50 Parser Evaluation over Local and Non-Local Deep Dependencies in a Large Corpus Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen and Yi Zhang
• 11:50—12:15 Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata
• 12:15—12:40 Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer

Session 5C: Summarization and Generation

Location: Pentland West — Chair: Johanna Moore

• 11:00—11:25 Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization Rui Yan, Liang Kong, Congrui Huang, Xiaojun Wan, Xiaoming Li and Yan Zhang
• 11:25—11:50 Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images Yezhou Yang, Ching Teo, Hal Daume III and Yiannis Aloimonos
• 11:50—12:15 Corroborating Text Evaluation Results with Heterogeneous Measures Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Jesus Gimenez and Felisa Verdejo
• 12:15—12:40 Ranking Human and Machine Summarization Systems Peter Rankel, John Conroy, Eric Slud and Dianne O'Leary

Session 6A: Machine Translation

Location: Pentland East — Chair: Stefan Riezler

• 14:10—14:35 Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith
• 14:35—15:00 A Word Reordering Model for Improved Machine Translation Karthik Visweswariah, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Ankur Gandhe, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan and Jiri Navratil
• 15:00—15:25 Feature-Rich Language-Independent Syntax-Based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation Jason Riesa, Ann Irvine and Daniel Marcu
• 15:25—15:50 Efficient retrieval of tree translation examples for Syntax-Based Machine Translation Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi

Session 6B: Semantics

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Hwee Tou Ng

• 14:10—14:35 A generative model for unsupervised discovery of relations and argument classes from clinical texts Bryan Rink and Sanda Harabagiu
• 14:35—15:00 Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base Ni Lao, Tom Mitchell and William W. Cohen
• 15:00—15:25 Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases Matthias Hartung and Anette Frank
• 15:25—15:50 Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions Weiwei Guo and Mona Diab

Session 6C: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Location: Pentland West — Chair: Benjamin Snyder

• 14:10—14:35 Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs Samuel Brody and Nicholas Diakopoulos
• 14:35—15:00 Personalized Recommendation of User Comments via Factor Models Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen and Bo Pang
• 15:00—15:25 Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and William B. Dolan
• 15:25—15:50 Predicting a Scientific Community’s Response to an Article Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge and Noah A. Smith

Session 7A: Phonology Morphology Tagging Chunking and Segmentation

Location: Pentland East — Chair: Noah Smith

• 16:20—16:45 Non-parametric Bayesian Segmentation of Japanese Noun Phrases Yugo Murawaki and Sadao Kurohashi
• 16:45—17:10 Discovering Morphological Paradigms from Plain Text Using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model Markus Dreyer and Jason Eisner
• 17:10—17:35 Multilayer Sequence Labeling Ai Azuma and Yuji Matsumoto
• 17:35—18:00 A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features Christos Christodoulopoulos, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steedman

Session 7B: Semantics

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Mark Stevenson

• 16:20—16:45 Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus Su Nam Kim and Preslav Nakov
• 16:45—17:10 Linguistic Redundancy in Twitter Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennaccchiotti and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis
• 17:10—17:35 Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, Yashar Mehdad, Danilo Giampiccolo and Alessandro Marchetti
• 17:35—18:00 Literal and Metaphorical Sense Identification through Concrete and Abstract Context Peter Turney, Yair Neuman, Dan Assaf and Yohai Cohen

Session 7C: Spoken Language and IR/QA

Location: Pentland West — Chair: Steve Renals

• 16:20—16:45 Syntactic Decision Tree LMs: Random Selection or Intelligent Design? Denis Filimonov and Mary Harper
• 16:45—17:10 The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources Keith Vertanen and Per Ola Kristensson
• 17:10—17:35 Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy! Alessandro Moschitti, Jennifer Chu-carroll, Siddharth Patwardhan, James Fan and Giuseppe Riccardi
• 17:35—18:00 Multiword Expression Identification with Tree Substitution Grammars: A Parsing tour de force with French Spence Green, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, John Bauer and Christopher D. Manning

Friday, July 29, 2011

Session 8: Plenary session

Location: Pentland — Chair: Shuly Wintner

• 9:05—9:30 Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Graph Partitioning Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata
• 9:30—9:55 Structural Opinion Mining for Graph-based Sentiment Representation Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang and Lide Wu
• 9:55—10:20 Summarize What You Are Interested In: An Optimization Framework for Interactive Personalized Summarization Rui Yan, Jian-Yun Nie and Xiaoming Li

Session 9A: Machine Translation

Location: Pentland — Chair: John DeNero

• 10:50—11:15 Tuning as Ranking Mark Hopkins and Jonathan May
• 11:15—11:40 Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation. Ashish Venugopal, Jakob Uszkoreit, David Talbot, Franz Och and Juri Ganitkevitch
• 11:40—12:05 Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations Gonzalo Iglesias, Cyril Allauzen, William Byrne, Adrià de Gispert and Michael Riley
• 12:05—12:30 Improved Transliteration Mining Using Graph Reinforcement Ali El Kahki, Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Saad El Din, Mohamed Abd El-Wahab, Ahmed Hefny and Waleed Ammar

Session 9B: Semantics

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Peter Turney

• 10:50—11:15 Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning Edward Grefenstette and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
• 11:15—11:40 Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics Joseph Reisinger and Raymond Mooney
• 11:40—12:05 Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference Benjamin Börschinger, Bevan K. Jones and Mark Johnson
• 12:05—12:30 Relation Extraction with Relation Topics Chang Wang, James Fan, Aditya Kalyanpur and David Gondek

Session 9C: Information Extraction

Location: Kirkland — Chair: Alessandro Moschitti

• 10:50—11:15 Extreme Extraction — Machine Reading in a Week Marjorie Freedman, Lance Ramshaw, Elizabeth Boschee, Ryan Gabbard, Gary Kratkiewicz, Nicolas Ward and Ralph Weischedel
• 11:15—11:40 Discovering Relations between Noun Categories Thahir Mohamed, Estevam Hruschka and Tom Mitchell
• 11:40—12:05 Structured Relation Discovery using Generative Models Limin Yao, Aria Haghighi, Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum
• 12:05—12:30 Closing the Loop: Fast, Interactive Semi-Supervised Annotation With Queries on Features and Instances Burr Settles

Session 10A: Syntax and Parsing

Location: Pentland — Chair: Mark Steedman

• 14:10—14:35 Third-order Variational Reranking on Packed-Shared Dependency Forests Katsuhiko Hayashi, Taro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto
• 14:35—15:00 Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives Keith Hall, Ryan McDonald, Jason Katz-Brown and Michael Ringgaard
• 15:00—15:25 Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction Andre Martins, Noah Smith, Mario Figueiredo and Pedro Aguiar
• 15:25—15:50 Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steedman

Session 10B: Information Extraction

Location: Prestonfield — Chair: Sebastian Riedel

• 14:10—14:35 Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam Mausam and Oren Etzioni
• 14:35—15:00 Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland and Oren Etzioni
• 15:00—15:25 Active Learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk Florian Laws, Christian Scheible and Hinrich Schütze
• 15:25—15:50 Bootstrapped Named Entity Recognition for Product Attribute Extraction Duangmanee Putthividhya and Junling Hu

Session 10C: Text Mining and NLP Applications

Location: Kirkland — Chair: Alexandre Klementiev

• 14:10—14:35 Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter Eiji ARAMAKI, Sachiko MASKAWA and Mizuki MORITA
• 14:35—15:00 A Simple Word Trigger Method for Social Tag Suggestion Zhiyuan Liu, Xinxiong Chen and Maosong Sun
• 15:00—15:25 Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs Vahed Qazvinian, Emily Rosengren, Dragomir R. Radev and Qiaozhu Mei
• 15:25—15:50 Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras

Best Paper Award and Closing

Location: Pentland — Chair: Mark Johnson

• 16:20—17:10 A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng