Poster Session Venue

Poster Session Venue: 12F Foyer
1. Please check your poster space number in the program.
2. Please put up your poster in the allocated space (numbered in the chart below)
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3. Please take down your poster as soon as your presentation is finished,
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Poster Session 1

Dec. 13 14:00-16:00• Morphology, Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking
1. Detecting Sentence Boundaries in Sanskrit Texts
Oliver Hellwig
2. Consistent Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Dependency Labelling Annotation for
Chinese Language
Mo Shen, Wingmui Li, HyunJeong Choe, Chenhui Chu, Daisuke Kawahara, and Sadao Kurohashi
3. Attending to Characters in Neural Sequence Labeling Models
Marek Rei, Gamal Crichton, and Sampo Pyysalo
4. A Word Labeling Approach to Thai Sentence Boundary Detection and POS Tagging
Nina Zhou, AiTi Aw, Nattadaporn Lertcheva, and Xuancong Wang
5. Assigning Fine-grained PoS Tags based on High-precision Coarse-grained Tagging
Tobias Horsmann and Torsten Zesch
6. Data-Driven Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Morphologically Rich Languages andUniversal Dependencies
Amir More and Reut Tsarfaty
7. Automatic Syllabification for Manipuri language
Loitongbam Gyanendro Singh, Lenin Laitonjam, and Sanasam Ranbir Singh• Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding
8. Learning to Distill: The Essence Vector Modeling Framework
Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang
9. Continuous Expressive Speaking Styles Synthesis based on CVSM and MR-HMM
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ascension Gallardo-Antolin, Junichi Yamagishi, andJuan M Montero
10. An Automatic Prosody Tagger for Spontaneous Speech
Monica Dominguez, Mireia Farrús, and Leo Wanner
11. Frustratingly Easy Neural Domain Adaptation
Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, and Ruhi Sarikaya

Poster Session Venue• Syntactic and Semantic Parsing, Grammar Induction
12. A House United: Bridging the Script and Lexical Barrier between Hindi and Urdu
Riyaz A. Bhat, Irshad A. Bhat, Naman Jain, and Dipti Misra Sharma
13. Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing
Olivier Michalon, Corentin Ribeyre, Marie Candito, and Alexis Nasr
14. Language Independent Dependency to Constituent Tree Conversion
Young-Suk Lee and Zhiguo Wang
15. Promoting multiword expressions in A* TAG parsing
Jakub Waszczuk, Agata Savary, and Yannick Parmentier• Under-resourced Languages
16. Incrementally Learning a Dependency Parser to Support Language Documentation in Field Linguistics
Morgan Ulinski, Julia Hirschberg, and Owen Rambow
17. Inducing Multilingual Text Analysis Tools Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks
Othman ZENNAKI, Nasredine Semmar, and Laurent Besacier
18. Bitext Name Tagging for Cross-lingual Entity Annotation Projection
Dongxu Zhang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Xiaocheng Feng, Heng Ji, and Weiran XU
19. Determining the Multiword Expression Inventory of a Surprise Language
Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook, and Timothy Baldwin
20. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Sentiment Analysis
Md Shad Akhtar, Ayush Kumar, Asif Ekbal, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
21. Word Segmentation in Sanskrit Using Path Constrained Random Walks
Amrith Krishna, Bishal Santra, Pavankumar Satuluri, Sasi Prasanth Bandaru, Bhumi Faldu,
Yajuvendra Singh, and Pawan Goyal
22. Mongolian Named Entity Recognition System with Rich Features
Weihua Wang, Feilong Bao, and Guanglai Gao• Applications
23. Appraising UMLS Coverage for Summarizing Medical Evidence
Elaheh ShafieiBavani, Mohammad Ebrahimi, Raymond Wong, and Fang Chen
24. Large-scale Multi-class and Hierarchical Product Categorization for an E-commerce Giant
Ali Cevahir and Koji Murakami
25. Product Classification in E-Commerce using Distributional Semantics
Vivek Gupta, Harish Karnick, Ashendra Bansal, and Pradhuman Jhala
26. Representation and Learning of Temporal Relations
Leon Derczynski

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Poster Session 2

Dec. 13 16:30-18:00• Computational Psycholinguistics
1. Identifying Cross-Cultural Differences in Word Usage
Aparna Garimella, Rada Mihalcea, and James Pennebaker
2. Reading-Time Annotations for "Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese"
Masayuki Asahara, Hajime Ono, and Edson T. Miyamoto
3. "How Bullying is this Message?": A Psychometric Thermometer for Bullying
Parma Nand, Rivindu Perera, and Abhijeet Kasture
4. Learning grammatical categories using paradigmatic representations: Substitute words for language
acquisition
Mehmet Ali Yatbaz, Volkan Cirik, Aylin Küntay, and Deniz Yuret
5. Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non-Native Speakers of English
Gustavo Paetzold and Lucia Specia
6. How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi• Linguistic Issues in NLP
7. Advancing Linguistic Features and Insights by Label-informed Feature Grouping: An Exploration in theContext of Native Language Identification
Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers
8. Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific Writing with Information Density
Raphael Rubino, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elke Teich, and Josef van Genabith
9. Different Contexts Lead to Different Word Embeddings
Wenpeng Hu, Jiajun Zhang, and Nan Zheng
10. Machine Learning for Metrical Analysis of English Poetry
Manex Agirrezabal, Iñaki Alegria, and Mans Hulden
11. Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Calbert Graham, and Paula Buttery
12. Learning to Identify Sentence Parallelism in Student Essays
Wei Song, Tong Liu, Ruiji Fu, Lizhen Liu, Hanshi Wang, and Ting Liu

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13. Evaluating anaphora and coreference resolution to improve automatic keyphrase extraction
Marco Basaldella, Giorgia Chiaradia, and Carlo Tasso
14. Retrieving Occurrences of Grammatical Constructions
Anna Ehrlemark, Richard Johansson, and Benjamin Lyngfelt
15. Automatic Extraction of Learner Errors in ESL Sentences Using Linguistically Enhanced Alignments
Mariano Felice, Christopher Bryant, and Ted Briscoe
16. Contrasting Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Typological Features
Kenji Yamauchi and Yugo Murawaki
17. How Regular is Japanese Loanword Adaptation? A Computational Study
Lingshuang Mao and Mans Hulden
18. Using Linguistic Data for English and Spanish Verb-Noun Combination Identification
Uxoa Iñurrieta, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Kepa Sarasola, Itziar Aduriz, and John Carroll• Applications
19. Analyzing Gender Bias in Student Evaluations
Andamlak Terkik, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Christopher Homan, and Scott Franklin
20. Adverse Drug Reaction Classification With Deep Neural Networks
Trung Huynh, Yulan He, Alistair Willis, and Stefan Rueger
21. Chinese Preposition Selection for Grammatical Error Diagnosis
Hen-Hsen Huang, Yen-Chi Shao, and Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Poster Session 3

Dec. 14 10:30-12:00• Natural Language Generation, Summarization
1. Exploring Differential Topic Models for Comparative Summarization of Scientific Papers
Lei He, Wei Li, and Hai Zhuge
2. Bridging the gap between extractive and abstractive summaries: Creation and evaluation of coherent extracts
from heterogeneous sources
Darina Benikova, Margot Mieskes, Christian M. Meyer, and Iryna Gurevych
3. Chinese Poetry Generation with Planning based Neural Network
Zhe Wang, Wei He, Hua Wu, Haiyang Wu, Wei Li, Haifeng Wang, and Enhong Chen
4. Predicting sentential semantic compatibility for aggregation in text-to-text generation
Victor Chenal and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
5. Sequential Clustering and Contextual Importance Measures for Incremental Update Summarization
Markus Zopf, Eneldo Loza Mencía, and Johannes Fürnkranz
6. Natural Language Generation through Character-based RNNs with Finite-state Prior Knowledge
Raghav Goyal, Marc Dymetman, and Eric Gaussier
7. A Hybrid Approach to Generation of Missing Abstracts in Biomedical Literature
Suchet Chachra, Asma Ben Abacha, Sonya Shooshan, Laritza Rodriguez, and Dina Demner-Fushman
8. Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data
Gerasimos Lampouras and Andreas Vlachos
9. Product Review Summarization by Exploiting Phrase Properties
Naitong Yu, Minlie Huang, Yuanyuan Shi, and xiaoyan zhu
10. Generating Questions and Multiple-Choice Answers using Semantic Analysis of Texts
Jun Araki, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Susan Holm, Yukari Yamakawa,and Teruko Mitamura

Poster Session Venue• Resources, Software and Tools
11. Evaluation Strategies for Computational Construction Grammars
Tania Marques and Katrien Beuls
12. Building a Monolingual Parallel Corpus for Text Simplification Using Sentence Similarity Based on
Alignment between Word Embeddings
Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Mamoru Komachi
13. Word2Vec vs DBnary: Augmenting METEOR using Vector Representations or Lexical Resources?
Christophe Servan, Alexandre Berard, zied elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, and Laurent Besacier
14. Broad Twitter Corpus: A Diverse Named Entity Recognition Resource
Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva, and Ian Roberts
15. Semantic overfitting: what ’world’ do we consider when evaluating disambiguation of text?
Filip Ilievski, Marten Postma, and Piek Vossen• Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering
16. Extraction of Keywords of Novelties From Patent Claims
Shoko Suzuki and Hiromichi Takatsuka
17. Leveraging Multilingual Training for Limited Resource Event Extraction
Andrew Hsi, Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, and Ruochen Xu
18. LILI: A Simple Language Independent Approach for Language Identification
Mohamed Al-Badrashiny and Mona Diab
19. High Accuracy Rule-based Question Classification using Question Syntax and Semantics
Harish Tayyar Madabushi and Mark Lee
20. Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via
CNN-LSTM-CRF
Yang Xiang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Zhihui Zheng, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, and Yang Qin
21. Semantically Motivated Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions Identification
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Poster Session 4

Dec. 15 10:30-12:30• Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering
1. Hand in Glove: Deep Feature Fusion Network Architectures for Answer Quality Prediction in Community
Question Answering
Sai Praneeth Suggu, Kushwanth Naga Goutham, Manoj K. Chinnakotla, and Manish Shrivastava
2. Learning Event Expressions via Bilingual Structure Projection
Fangyuan Li, Ruihong Huang, Deyi Xiong, and Min Zhang
3. Global Inference to Chinese Temporal Relation Extraction
Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou, and Hongling Wang
4. Improved relation classification by deep recurrent neural networks with data augmentation
Yan Xu, Ran Jia, Lili Mou, Ge Li, Yunchuan Chen, Yangyang Lu, and Zhi Jin
5. Relation Extraction with Multi-instance Multi-label Convolutional Neural Networks
Xiaotian Jiang, Quan Wang, Peng Li, and Bin Wang
6. Named Entity Disambiguation for little known referents: a topic-based approach
Andrea Glaser and Jonas Kuhn
• Natural Language Generation, Summarization
7. Building RDF Content for Data-to-Text Generation
Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Rania SAYED, and Claire Gardent
8. Parallel Sentence Compression
Julia Ive and François Yvon
9. An Unsupervised Multi-Document Summarization Framework Based on Neural Document Model
Shulei Ma, Zhi-Hong Deng, and Yunlun Yang
10. From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation
Maximilian Schwenger, Alvaro Torralba, Joerg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, and Vera Demberg
11. The Next Step for Multi-Document Summarization: A Heterogeneous Multi-Genre Corpus Built with a Novel
Construction Approach
Markus Zopf, Maxime Peyrard, and Judith Eckle-Kohler• Sentiment Analysis and Computational Argumentation
12. SentiHood: Targeted Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Urban Neighbourhoods
Marzieh Saeidi, Guillaume Bouchard, Maria Liakata, and Sebastian Riedel

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13. On the Impact of Seed Words on Sentiment Polarity Lexicon Induction
Dame Jovanoski, Veno Pachovski, and Preslav Nakov
14. Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs
Swapna Somasundaran, Brian Riordan, Binod Gyawali, and Su-Youn Yoon
15. Selective Co-occurrences for Word-Emotion Association
Ameeta Agrawal and Aijun An
16. Weighted Neural Bag-of-n-grams Model: New Baselines for Text Classification
Bofang Li, Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Puwei Wang, and Xiaoyong Du
17. A Deeper Look into Sarcastic Tweets Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Devamanyu Hazarika, and Prateek Vij
18. Exploring Distributional Representations and Machine Translation for Aspect-based Cross-lingual SentimentClassification.
Jeremy Barnes, Patrik Lambert, and Toni Badia
19. A Bilingual Attention Network for Code-switched Emotion Prediction
Zhongqing Wang, Yue Zhang, Sophia Lee, Shoushan Li, and Guodong Zhou
20. UTCNN: a Deep Learning Model of Stance Classification on Social Media Text
Wei-Fan Chen and Lun-Wei Ku• Computational Psycholinguistics
21. The Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Artificial Language Emergence: a Case Study on Colour
Miquel Cornudella, Thierry Poibeau, and Remi van Trijp
22. Predicting the Evocation Relation between Lexicalized Concepts
Yoshihiko Hayashi
23. Collecting and Exploring Everyday Language for Predicting Psycholinguistic Properties of Words
Gustavo Paetzold and Lucia Specia• Applications
24. Using Argument Mining to Assess the Argumentation Quality of Essays
Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib, and Benno Stein
25. Grammatical Templates: Improving Text Difficulty Evaluation for Language Learners
Shuhan Wang and Erik Andersen
26. Still not there? Comparing Traditional Sequence-to-Sequence Models to Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks
on Monotone String Translation Tasks
Carsten Schnober, Steffen Eger, Erik-Lân Do Dinh, and Iryna Gurevych

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Poster Session 5

Dec. 15 14:00-16:00• Discourse Relations, Coreference, Pragmatics
1. Incremental Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using Attention-based LSTMs
Yufang Hou
2. Detection, Disambiguation and Argument Identification of Discourse Connectives in Chinese Discourse Parsing
Yong-Siang Shih and Hsin-Hsi Chen
3. Multi-view and multi-task training of RST discourse parsers
Chloé Braud, Barbara Plank, and Anders Søgaard
4. Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Context-aware Character-enhanced Embeddings
Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, and Hai Zhao
5. Measuring Non-cooperation in Dialogue
Brian Plüss and Paul Piwek
6. Revisiting the Evaluation for Cross Document Event Coreference
Shyam Upadhyay, Nitish Gupta, Christos Christodoulopoulos, and Dan Roth
7. Modeling Discourse Segments in Lyrics Using Repeated Patterns
Kento Watanabe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naho Orita, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, Satoru Fukayama,
Tomoyasu Nakano, Jordan Smith, and Masataka Goto
• Dialog Processing and Dialog Systems, Multimodal Interfaces
8. Multi-level Gated Recurrent Neural Network for dialog act classification
Wei Li and Yunfang Wu
9. Multimodal Mood Classification - A Case Study of Differences in Hindi and Western Songs
Braja Gopal Patra, Dipankar Das, and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
10. Detecting Context Dependent Messages in a Conversational Environment
Chaozhuo Li, Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Zhoujun Li, and Ming Zhou
11. Joint Inference for Mode Identification in Tutorial Dialogues
Deepak Venugopal and Vasile Rus

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12. Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network
Hamed Khanpour, Nishitha Guntakandla, and Rodney Nielsen
13. Non-sentential Question Resolution using Sequence to Sequence Learning
Vineet Kumar and Sachindra Joshi
14. Context-aware Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Hao Zhou, Minlie Huang, and xiaoyan zhu• Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding
15. Weakly-supervised text-to-speech alignment confidence measure
Guillaume Serrière, Christophe Cerisara, Dominique Fohr, and Odile Mella
16. Domainless Adaptation by Constrained Decoding on a Schema Lattice
Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, and Ruhi Sarikaya
17. Sub-Word Similarity based Search for Embeddings: Inducing Rare-Word Embeddings for Word Similarity
Tasks and Language Modelling
Mittul Singh, Clayton Greenberg, Youssef Oualil, and Dietrich Klakow• Applications
18. Semi-automatic Detection of Cross-lingual Marketing Blunders based on Pragmatic Label Propagation in
Wiktionary
Christian M. Meyer, Judith Eckle-Kohler, and Iryna Gurevych
19. Ambient Search: A Document Retrieval System for Speech Streams
Benjamin Milde, Jonas Wacker, Stefan Radomski, Max Mühlhäuser, and Chris Biemann
20. Semi-supervised Gender Classification with Joint Textual and Social Modeling
Shoushan Li, Bin Dai, Zhengxian Gong, and Guodong Zhou
21. Predicting proficiency levels in learner writings by transferring a linguistic complexity model fromexpert-written coursebooks
Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina, and Torsten Zesch
22. User Classification with Multiple Textual Perspectives
Dong Zhang, Shoushan Li, Hongling Wang, and Guodong Zhou
23. Says Who...? Identification of Expert versus Layman Critics’ Reviews of Documentary Films
Ming Jiang and Jana Diesner
24. Knowledge-Driven Event Embedding for Stock Prediction
Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu, and Junwen Duan
25. Distributed Representations for Building Profiles of Users and Items from Text Reviews
Wenliang Chen, Zhenjie Zhang, Zhenghua Li, and Min Zhang

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Poster Session 6

Dec. 15 16:30-18:00• Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering
1. Incremental Global Event Extraction
Alex Judea and Michael Strube
2. Hierarchical Memory Networks for Answer Selection on Unknown Words
jiaming xu, Jing Shi, Yiqun Yao, Suncong Zheng, Bo Xu, and Bo Xu
3. Revisiting Taxonomy Induction over Wikipedia
Amit Gupta, Francesco Piccinno, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Marius Pasca, and Daniele Pighin
4. Joint Learning of Local and Global Features for Entity Linking via Neural Networks
Thien Huu Nguyen, Nicolas Fauceglia, Mariano Rodriguez Muro, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Alfio Massimiliano
Gliozzo, and Mohammad Sadoghi
5. Structured Aspect Extraction
Omer Gunes, Tim Furche, and Giorgio Orsi
6. Robust Text Classification for Sparsely Labelled Data Using Multi-level Embeddings
Simon Baker, Douwe Kiela, and Anna Korhonen
7. Mathematical Information Retrieval based on Type Embeddings and Query Expansion
Yiannos Stathopoulos and Simone Teufel
8. Text Retrieval by Term Co-occurrences in a Query-based Vector Space
Eriks Sneiders
9. Pairwise Relation Classification with Mirror Instances and a Combined Convolutional Neural Network
Jianfei Yu and Jing Jiang
10. FastHybrid: A Hybrid Model for Efficient Answer Selection
Lidan Wang, Ming Tan, and Jiawei Han
11. Extracting Spatial Entities and Relations in Korean Text
Bogyum Kim and Jae Sung Lee
12. Hybrid Question Answering over Knowledge Base and Free Text
kun xu, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, and Dongyan Zhao
13. Improved Word Embeddings with Implicit Structure Information
Jie Shen and Cong Liu

Poster Session Venue• Sentiment Analysis, Computational Argumentation
14. Word Embeddings and Convolutional Neural Network for Arabic Sentiment Classification
Abdelghani Dahou, Shengwu Xiong, Junwei Zhou, Mohamed Houcine Haddoud, and Pengfei Duan
15. Combination of Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network for Sentiment Analysis of Short Texts
Xingyou Wang, Weijie Jiang, and Zhiyong Luo
16. Stance Classification in Rumours as a Sequential Task Exploiting the Tree Structure of Social Media
Conversations
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter, and Michal Lukasik
17. Tweet Sarcasm Detection Using Deep Neural Network
Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Guohong Fu
18. Agreement and Disagreement: Comparison of Points of View in the Political Domain
Stefano Menini and Sara Tonelli
19. Targeted Sentiment to Understand Student Comments
Charles Welch and Rada Mihalcea
20. Towards Sub-Word Level Compositions for Sentiment Analysis of Hindi-English Code Mixed Text
Aditya Joshi, Ameya Prabhu, Manish Shrivastava, and Vasudeva Varma
21. Distance Metric Learning for Aspect Phrase Grouping
Shufeng Xiong, Yue Zhang, Donghong JI, and Yinxia Lou

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Poster Session 7

Dec. 16 10:30-12:30• Machine Learning for NLP
1. Joint Embedding of Hierarchical Categories and Entities for Concept Categorization and Dataless Classification
Yuezhang(Music) Li, Ronghuo Zheng, Tian Tian, Zhiting Hu, Rahul Iyer, and Katia Sycara
2. Latent Topic Embedding
Di Jiang, Lei Shi, Rongzhong Lian, and Hua Wu
3. Neural-based Noise Filtering from Word Embeddings
Kim Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde, and Ngoc Thang Vu
4. Integrating Distributional and Lexical Information for Semantic Classification of Words using MRMF
Rosa Tsegaye Aga, Lucas Drumond, Christian Wartena, and Lars Schmidt-Thieme
5. Semi Supervised Preposition-Sense Disambiguation using Multilingual Data
Hila Gonen and Yoav Goldberg
6. Monday mornings are my fave :) #not Exploring the Automatic Recognition of Irony in English tweets
Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, and Veronique Hoste
7. CNN- and LSTM-based Claim Classification in Online User Comments
Chinnappa Guggilla, Tristan Miller, and Iryna Gurevych
8. Experiments in Idiom Recognition
JIng Peng and Anna Feldman
9. An Empirical Evaluation of various Deep Learning Architectures for Bi-Sequence Classification Tasks
Anirban Laha and Vikas Raykar
10. Learning Succinct Models: Pipelined Compression with L1-Regularization, Hashing, Elias-Fano Indices, andQuantization
Hajime Senuma and Akiko Aizawa• Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics, Compositionality
11. Bad Company–Neighborhoods in Neural Embedding Spaces Considered Harmful
Johannes Hellrich and Udo Hahn
12. Implementing a Reverse Dictionary, based on word definitions, using a Node-Graph Architecture
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13. Is an Image Worth More than a Thousand Words? On the Fine-Grain Semantic Differences between Visual
and Linguistic Representations
Guillem Collell and Marie-Francine Moens
14. On the contribution of word embeddings to temporal relation classification
Paramita Mirza and Sara Tonelli
15. Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations
Naoya Inoue, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Masayuki Ono, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui
16. Exploring the value space of attributes: Unsupervised bidirectional clustering of adjectives in German
Wiebke Petersen and Oliver Hellwig
17. Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis for Tensor-based Composition
Dimitri Kartsaklis and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
18. Parameter estimation of Japanese predicate argument structure analysis model using eye gaze information
Ryosuke Maki, Hitoshi Nishikawa, and Takenobu Tokunaga• Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment
19. Reading and Thinking: Re-read LSTM Unit for Textual Entailment Recognition
Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, and Sujian Li
20. A Paraphrase and Semantic Similarity Detection System for User Generated Short-Text Content on Microblogs
Kuntal Dey, Ritvik Shrivastava, and Saroj Kaushik
21. Modeling Extractive Sentence Intersection via Subtree Entailment
Omer Levy, Ido Dagan, Gabriel Stanovsky, Judith Eckle-Kohler, and Iryna Gurevych
22. Context-Sensitive Inference Rule Discovery: A Graph-Based Method
Xianpei Han and Le Sun
23. Modelling Sentence Pairs with Tree-structured Attentive Encoder
Yao Zhou, Cong Liu, and Yan Pan
24. Neural Paraphrase Generation with Stacked Residual LSTM Networks
aaditya prakash, Sadid A. Hasan, Kathy Lee, Vivek Datla, Ashequl Qadir, Joey Liu, and Oladimeji Farri

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Poster Session 8

Dec. 16 14:00-15:30• Machine Translation
1. A Character-Aware Encoder for Neural Machine Translation
Zhen Yang, Wei Chen, Feng Wang, and Bo Xu
2. Convolution-Enhanced Bilingual Recursive Neural Network for Bilingual Semantic Modelingjinsong su, Biao Zhang, Deyi Xiong, Ruochen Li, and Jianmin Yin
3. Improving Attention Modeling with Implicit Distortion and Fertility for Machine Translation
Shi Feng, Shujie Liu, Nan Yang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, and Kenny Q. Zhu
4. Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention
Lemao Liu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, and Eiichiro Sumita
5. Lightly Supervised Quality Estimation
Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, and Alex Waibel
6. Improving Translation Selection with Supersenses
Haiqing Tang, Deyi Xiong, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, and Eneko Agirre
7. Is all that Glitters in Machine Translation Quality Estimation really Gold?
Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Meghan Dowling, Maria Eskevich, Teresa Lynn, and Lamia Tounsi
8. Connecting Phrase based Statistical Machine Translation Adaptation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
9. Fast Collocation-Based Bayesian HMM Word Alignment
Philip Schulz and Wilker Aziz
10. Learning to translate from graded and negative relevance information
Laura Jehl and Stefan Riezler
11. Universal Reordering via Linguistic Typology
Joachim Daiber, Miloš Stanojevi´c, and Khalil Sima’an
12. A Deep Fusion Model for Domain Adaptation in Phrase-based MT
Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, and Ahmed AbdelaliPoster Session Venue

13. Inducing Bilingual Lexica From Non-Parallel Data With Earth Mover’s Distance Regularization
Meng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Yiqun Liu, and Maosong Sun
14. What Makes Word-level Neural Machine Translation Hard: A Case Study on English-German Translation
Fabian Hirschmann, Jinseok Nam, and Johannes Fürnkranz
15. Improving Word Alignment of Rare Words with Word Embeddings
Masoud Jalili Sabet, Heshaam Faili, and Gholamreza Haffari• Applications
16. Measuring the Information Content of Financial News
Ching-Yun Chang, Yue Zhang, Zhiyang Teng, Zahn Bozanic, and Bin Ke
17. Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems
Andreea Godea, Florin Bulgarov, and Rodney Nielsen
18. First Story Detection using Entities and Relations
Nikolaos Panagiotou, Cem Akkaya, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Vana Kalogeraki, and Dimitrios Gunopulos
19. Textual complexity as a predictor of difficulty of listening items in language proficiency tests
Anastassia Loukina, Su-Youn Yoon, Jennifer Sakano, Youhua Wei, and Kathy Sheehan
20. The Construction of a Chinese Collocational Knowledge Resource and Its Application for Second Language
Acquisition
Renfen HU, Jiayong Chen, and Kuang-hua Chen

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Poster Session 9

Dec. 16 16:00-17:30• Resources, Software and Tools
1. PersoNER: Persian Named-Entity Recognition
Hanieh Poostchi, Ehsan Zare Borzeshi, Mohammad Abdous, and Massimo Piccardi
2. OCR++: A Robust Framework For Information Extraction from Scholarly Articles
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15. Semantic Tagging with Deep Residual Networks
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17. Reddit Temporal N-gram Corpus and its Applications on Paraphrase and Semantic Similarity in Social Media
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