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