Accepted Papers
Thesis Proposals
Reliable Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers
Gustavo Paetzold
Relation extraction pattern ranking using word similarity
Konstantinos Lambrou-Latreille
Exploring Relational Features and Learning under Distant Supervision for Information Extraction Tasks
Ajay Nagesh
Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference
Lingjia Deng
Learning Kernels for Semantic Clustering: A Deep Approach
Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández
Narrowing the Loop: Integration of Resources and Linguistic Dataset Development with Interactive Machine Learning
Seid Muhie Yimam
Improving the Translation of Discourse Markers for Chinese into English
David Steele
Discourse and Document-level Information for Evaluating Language Output Tasks
Carolina Scarton
Lifelong Machine Learning for Topic Modeling and Beyond
Zhiyuan Chen
Bilingual lexicon extraction for a distant language pair using a small parallel corpus
Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques
Morphological Paradigms: Computational Structure and Unsupervised Learning
Jackson Lee
Graduate Student Research Papers
Cache-Augmented Latent Topic Language Models for Speech Retrieval
Jonathan Wintrode
Initial Steps for Building a Lexicon of Adjectives with Scalemates
Bryan Wilkinson
A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of Syntactic Structure in Semantic Textual Similarity and Semantic Relatedness Tasks
Ngoc Phuoc An Vo and Octavian Popescu
Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets
Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser
Relation Extraction from Community Generated Question-Answer Pairs
Denis Savenkov, Wei-Lwun Lu, Jeff Dalton and Eugene Agichtein
Detecting Translation Direction: A Cross-Domain Study
Sauleh Eetemadi and Kristina Toutanova
Speeding Document Annotation with Topic Models
Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh and Jordan Boyd-Graber
Semantics-based Graph Approach to Complex Question-Answering
Tomasz Jurczyk and Jinho D. Choi
Recognizing Textual Entailment using Dependency Analysis and Machine Learning
Nidhi Sharma, Richa Sharma and Kanad K. Biswas
Undergraduate Student Research Papers
Analyzing Newspaper Crime Reports for Identification of Safe Transit Paths
Vasu Sharma, Rajat Kulshreshtha, Puneet Singh, Nishant Agrawal and Akshay Kumar
Towards a Better Semantic Role Labeling of Complex Predicates
Glorianna Jagfeld and Lonneke van der Plas
Computational Exploration to Linguistic Structures of Future: Classification and Categorization
Aiming Ni, Jinho D. Choi, Jason Shepard and Phillip Wolff