EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — September 17–21, 2015 — Lisbon, Portugal.

emnlp2015

Program for September 17-18, 2015

WMT — Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Thursday, September 17, 2015
09:00 - 09:05    Opening Remarks
09:05 - 09:50    Session 1 - Shared Tasks - Main Auditorium
   Findings of the 2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Chris Hokamp, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi
09:50 - 10:30    Session 2 - Data Selection - Main Auditorium
09:50 - 10:10    Statistical Machine Translation with Automatic Identification of Translationese
Naama Twitto, Noam Ordan, Shuly Wintner
10:10 - 10:30    Data Selection With Fewer Words
amittai axelrod, Philip Resnik, Xiaodong He, Mari Ostendorf
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30    Session 3 - Poster Session - Shared Task: Translation
   DFKI's experimental hybrid MT system for WMT 2015
Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popović, Aljoscha Burchardt
   ParFDA for Fast Deployment of Accurate Statistical Machine Translation Systems, Benchmarks, and Statistics
Ergun Bicici, Qun Liu, Andy Way
   CUNI in WMT15: Chimera Strikes Again
Ondrej Bojar and Aleš Tamchyna
   CimS - The CIS and IMS Joint Submission to WMT 2015 addressing morphological and syntactic differences in English to German SMT
Fabienne Cap, Marion Weller, Anita Ramm, Alexander Fraser
   The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Translation Systems for the WMT 2015
Eunah Cho, Thanh-Le Ha, Jan Niehues, Teresa Herrmann, Mohammed Mediani, Yuqi Zhang, Alex Waibel
   New Language Pairs in TectoMT
Ondřej Dušek, Luís Gomes, Michal Novák, Martin Popel, Rudolf Rosa
   Tuning Phrase-Based Segmented Translation for a Morphologically Complex Target Language
Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo
   The AFRL-MITLL WMT15 System: There’s More than One Way to Decode It!
Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann, Katherine Young, Christina May, Michaeel Kazi, Elizabeth Salesky, Brian Thompson
   The KIT-LIMSI Translation System for WMT 2015
Thanh-Le Ha, Quoc-Khanh DO, Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues, Alexandre Allauzen, François Yvon, Alex Waibel
   The Edinburgh/JHU Phrase-based Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2015
Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Alexandra Birch, Nikolay Bogoychev, Philipp Koehn
   Montreal Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT’15
Sébastien Jean, Orhan Firat, Kyunghyun Cho, Roland Memisevic, Yoshua Bengio
   GF Wide-coverage English-Finnish MT system for WMT 2015
Prasanth Kolachina and Aarne Ranta
   LIMSI@WMT'15 : Translation Task
Benjamin Marie, Alexandre Allauzen, Franck Burlot, Quoc-Khanh Do, Julia Ive, elena knyazeva, Matthieu Labeau, Thomas Lavergne, Kevin Löser, Nicolas Pécheux, François Yvon
   UdS-Sant: English–German Hybrid Machine Translation System
Santanu Pal, Sudip Naskar, Josef van Genabith
   The RWTH Aachen German-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2015
Jan-Thorsten Peter, Farzad Toutounchi, Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney
   Exact Decoding with Multi Bottom-Up Tree Transducers
Daniel Quernheim
   Sheffield Systems for the Finnish-English WMT Translation Task
David Steele, Karin Sim Smith, Lucia Specia
   Morphological Segmentation and OPUS for Finnish-English Machine Translation
Jörg Tiedemann, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva
   Abu-MaTran at WMT 2015 Translation Task: Morphological Segmentation and Web Crawling
Raphael Rubino, Tommi Pirinen, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Nikola Ljubešić, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Antonio Toral
   The University of Illinois submission to the WMT 2015 Shared Translation Task
Lane Schwartz, Bill Bryce, Chase Geigle, Sean Massung, Yisi Liu, Haoruo Peng, Vignesh Raja, Subhro Roy, Shyam Upadhyay
   Edinburgh's Syntax-Based Systems at WMT 2015
Philip Williams, Rico Sennrich, Maria Nadejde, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn
11:00 - 12:30    Session 3 - Poster Session - Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
   The FBK Participation in the WMT15 Automatic Post-editing Shared Task
Rajen Chatterjee, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri
   USAAR-SAPE: An English--Spanish Statistical Automatic Post-Editing System
Santanu Pal, Mihaela Vela, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Josef van Genabith
   Why Predicting Post-Edition is so Hard? Failure Analysis of LIMSI Submission to the APE Shared Task
Guillaume Wisniewski, Nicolas Pécheux, François Yvon
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch
14:00 - 15:30    Session 4 - Invited Talk - Main Auditorium
14:00 - 15:30    A Practical Guide to Real-Time Neural Translation
Jacob Devlin
Microsoft Research
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00    Session 5 - Syntax-Based Translation and Rescoring - Main Auditorium
16:00 - 16:20    Hierarchical Machine Translation With Discontinuous Phrases
Miriam Kaeshammer
16:20 - 16:40    Discontinuous Statistical Machine Translation with Target-Side Dependency Syntax
Nina Seemann and Andreas Maletti
16:40 - 17:00    ListNet-based MT Rescoring
Jan Niehues, Quoc-Khanh DO, Alexandre Allauzen, Alex Waibel
Friday, September 18, 2015
09:00 - 09:50    Session 6 - Shared Tasks - Main Auditorium
09:00 - 09:20    Overview of the Quality Estimation Task
Multiple Speakers
   Results of the WMT15 Metrics Shared Task
Miloš Stanojević, Amir Kamran, Philipp Koehn, Ondřej Bojar
   Results of the WMT15 Tuning Shared Task
Miloš Stanojević, Amir Kamran, Ondřej Bojar
09:50 - 10:30    Session 7 - Translation Modeling - Main Auditorium
09:50 - 10:10    Extended Translation Models in Phrase-based Decoding
Andreas Guta, Joern Wuebker, Miguel Graca, Yunsu Kim, Hermann Ney
10:10 - 10:30    Investigations on Phrase-based Decoding with Recurrent Neural Network Language and Translation Models
Tamer Alkhouli, Felix Rietig, Hermann Ney
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30    Session 8 - Poster Session - Shared Task: Quality Estimation
   Referential Translation Machines for Predicting Translation Quality and Related Statistics
Ergun Bicici, Qun Liu, Andy Way
   UAlacant word-level machine translation quality estimation system at WMT 2015
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel Forcada
   QUality Estimation from ScraTCH (QUETCH): Deep Learning for Word-level Translation Quality Estimation
Julia Kreutzer, Shigehiko Schamoni, Stefan Riezler
   LORIA System for the WMT15 Quality Estimation Shared Task
David Langlois
   Data enhancement and selection strategies for the word-level Quality Estimation
Varvara Logacheva, Chris Hokamp, Lucia Specia
   USHEF and USAAR-USHEF participation in the WMT15 QE shared task
Carolina Scarton, Liling Tan, Lucia Specia
   SHEF-NN: Translation Quality Estimation with Neural Networks
Kashif Shah, Varvara Logacheva, Gustavo Paetzold, Frédéric Blain, Daniel Beck, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia
   Strategy-Based Technology for Estimating MT Quality
Liugang Shang, Dongfeng Cai, Duo Ji
   UGENT-LT3 SCATE System for Machine Translation Quality Estimation
Arda Tezcan, Veronique Hoste, Bart Desmet, Lieve Macken
11:00 - 12:30    Session 8 - Poster Session - Shared Task: Metrics
   Multi-level Evaluation for Machine Translation
Boxing Chen, Hongyu Guo, Roland Kuhn
   VERTa: a Linguistically-motivated Metric at the WMT15 Metrics Task
Elisabet Comelles and Jordi Atserias
   UPF-Cobalt Submission to WMT15 Metrics Task
Marina Fomicheva, Núria Bel, Iria da Cunha, Anton Malinovskiy
   Machine Translation Evaluation using Recurrent Neural Networks
Rohit Gupta, Constantin Orasan, Josef van Genabith
   Alignment-based sense selection in METEOR and the RATATOUILLE recipe
Benjamin Marie and Marianna Apidianaki
   chrF: character n-gram F-score for automatic MT evaluation
Maja Popović
   BEER 1.1: ILLC UvA submission to metrics and tuning task
Miloš Stanojević and Khalil Sima'an
   Predicting Machine Translation Adequacy with Document Embeddings
Mihaela Vela and Liling Tan
   LeBLEU: N-gram-based Translation Evaluation Score for Morphologically Complex Languages
Sami Virpioja and Stig-Arne Grönroos
   CASICT-DCU Participation in WMT2015 Metrics Task
Hui Yu, Qingsong Ma, Xiaofeng Wu, Qun Liu
11:00 - 12:30    Session 8 - Poster Session - Shared Task: Tuning
   Drem: The AFRL Submission to the WMT15 Tuning Task
Grant Erdmann and Jeremy Gwinnup
   MT Tuning on RED: A Dependency-Based Evaluation Metric
Liangyou Li, Hui Yu, Qun Liu
   Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT
Chi-kiu Lo, Philipp Dowling, Dekai Wu
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch
14:00 - 15:20    Session 9 - Evaluation and System Combination - Main Auditorium
   An Investigation of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics in Cross-lingual Question Answering
Kyoshiro Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura
   Dependency Analysis of Scrambled References for Better Evaluation of Japanese Translation
Hideki Isozaki and Natsume Kouchi
   How do Humans Evaluate Machine Translation
Francisco Guzmán, Ahmed Abdelali, Irina Temnikova, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel
   Local System Voting Feature for Machine Translation System Combination
Markus Freitag, Jan-Thorsten Peter, Stephan Peitz, Minwei Feng, Hermann Ney
15:20 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00    Session 10 - Closing Session and Open Discussion - Main Auditorium


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WASSA — Sixth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
Thursday, September 17, 2015
09:00 - 09:05    Opening Remarks - Room 1
09:05 - 09:40    Invited talk - Room 1
   Multilingual Affect Polarity and Valence Prediction in Metaphors
Zornitsa Kozareva
09:40 - 10:30    Session 1: Multilingual Sentiment Analysis in Social Media - Room 1
Chair: Alexandra Balahur
09:40 - 10:10    Sentiment Analysis on Monolingual, Multilingual and Code-Switching Twitter Corpora
David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
10:10 - 10:30    Connotation in Translation
Marine Carpuat
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30    Session 2: The Influence of Context for Sentiment Analysis in Social Media - Room 1
Chair: Josef Ruppenhofer
11:00 - 11:30    Enhanced Twitter Sentiment Classification Using Contextual Information
Soroush Vosoughi, Helen Zhou, deb roy
11:30 - 12:00    Your Sentiment Precedes You: Using an author’s historical tweets to predict sarcasm
Anupam Khattri, Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Mark Carman
12:00 - 12:30    Optimising Agile Social Media Analysis
Thomas Kober and David Weir
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30    Session 3: Beyond Review Mining - Room 1
Chair: Saif Mohammad
14:00 - 14:30    Utilizing review analysis to suggest product advertisement improvements
Takaaki Tsunoda, Takashi Inui, Satoshi Sekine
14:30 - 15:00    Towards Opinion Mining from Reviews for the Prediction of Product Rankings
Wiltrud Kessler, Roman Klinger, Jonas Kuhn
15:00 - 15:30    Classification of deceptive opinions using a low dimensionality representation
Leticia Cagnina and Paolo Rosso
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:20    Session 4: Lexicon Generation and Visualisation for Sentiment Analysis - Room 1
Chair: Dirk Hovy
16:00 - 16:30    Extending effect annotation with lexical decomposition
Josef Ruppenhofer and Jasper Brandes
16:30 - 17:00    Analysing domain suitability of a sentiment lexicon by identifying distributionally bipolar words
Lucie Flekova, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Eugen Ruppert
17:00 - 17:20    Imagisaurus: An Interactive Visualizer of Valence and Emotion in the Roget's Thesaurus
Saif Mohammad
17:20 - 17:30    Break
17:30 - 19:20    Session 5: Posters
   Personality Traits on Twitter—or—How to Get 1,500 Personality Tests in a Week
Barbara Plank and Dirk Hovy
   Negation Scope Detection for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Johan Reitan, Jørgen Faret, Björn Gambäck, Lars Bungum
   A Linguistically Informed Convolutional Neural Network
Sebastian Ebert, Ngoc Thang Vu, Hinrich Schütze
   How much does word sense disambiguation help in sentiment analysis of micropost data?
Chiraag Sumanth and Diana Inkpen
   Predicting Ratings for New Movie Releases from Twitter Content
Wernard Schmit and Sander Wubben
   Beyond Sentiment: Social Psychological Analysis of Political Facebook Comments in Hungary
Márton Miháltz, Tamás Váradi, István Csertő, Éva Fülöp, Tibor Pólya, Pál Kővágó
   Verb-centered Sentiment Inference with Description Logics
Manfred Klenner
   Mining HEXACO personality traits from Enterprise Social Media
Priyanka Sinha, Lipika Dey, Pabitra Mitra, Anupam Basu
   Opinion Holder and Target Extraction for Verb-based Opinion Predicates -- The Problem is Not Solved
Michael Wiegand, Marc Schulder, Josef Ruppenhofer
   Synthetic Text Generation for Sentiment Analysis
Umar Maqsud
   Detecting speculations, contrasts and conditionals in consumer reviews
Maria Skeppstedt, Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Magnus Sahlgren, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren
   Using Combined Lexical Resources to Identify Hashtag Types
Credell Simeon and Robert Hilderman
   Sentiment Classification via a Response Recalibration Framework
Phillip Smith and Mark Lee
19:20 - 19:30    Closing discussion - "Where do we go from here?" - Room 1


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DiscoMT — Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation
Thursday, September 17, 2015
09:00 - 10:30    Session 1 - Room 6
Chair: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
09:00 - 09:05    Introduction
Bonnie Webber
09:05 - 09:35    Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation
Christian Hardmeier, Preslav Nakov, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Yannick Versley, Mauro Cettolo
09:35 - 09:50    Comparison of Coreference Resolvers for Deep Syntax Translation
Michal Novák, Dieke Oele, Gertjan van Noord
09:50 - 10:15    Analysing ParCor and its Translations by State-of-the-art SMT Systems
Liane Guillou and Bonnie Webber
10:15 - 10:30    Poster Boaster - Room 6
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30    Session 2a: Regular Track Posters
   Document-Level Machine Translation Evaluation with Gist Consistency and Text Cohesion
Zhengxian Gong, Min Zhang, Guodong Zhou
   The Role of Expectedness in the Implicitation and Explicitation of Discourse Relations
Jet Hoek, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Ted J.M. Sanders
   Detecting Document-level Context Triggers to Resolve Translation Ambiguity
Laura Mascarell, Mark Fishel, Martin Volk
   A Proposal for a Coherence Corpus in Machine Translation
Karin Sim Smith, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia
11:00 - 12:30    Session 2b: Posters Related to Oral Presentations
   On Statistical Machine Translation and Translation Theory
Christian Hardmeier
   Exploration of Inter- and Intralingual Variation of Discourse Phenomena
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
   Measuring ’Registerness’ in Human and Machine Translation: A Text Classification Approach
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Mihaela Vela
   Translation Model Adaptation Using Genre-Revealing Text Features
Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
   Crosslingual Annotation and Analysis of Implicit Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
11:00 - 12:30    Session 2c: Shared Task Posters
   Part-of-Speech Driven Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction with Feed-Forward Neural Networks
Jimmy Callin, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann
   Automatic Post-Editing for the DiscoMT Pronoun Translation Task
Liane Guillou
   A Document-Level SMT System with Integrated Pronoun Prediction
Christian Hardmeier
   Predicting Pronoun Translation Using Syntactic, Morphological and Contextual Features from Parallel Data
Sharid Loáiciga
   Rule-Based Pronominal Anaphora Treatment for Machine Translation
Sharid Loáiciga and Eric Wehrli
   Pronoun Translation and Prediction with or without Coreference Links
Ngoc Quang Luong, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Andrei Popescu-Belis
   Predicting Pronouns across Languages with Continuous Word Spaces
Ngoc-Quan Pham and Lonneke van der Plas
   Baseline Models for Pronoun Prediction and Pronoun-Aware Translation
Jörg Tiedemann
   A Maximum Entropy Classifier for Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction
Dominikus Wetzel, Adam Lopez, Bonnie Webber
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30    Session 3 - Room 6
Chair: Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland
14:00 - 14:25    Measuring ’Registerness’ in Human and Machine Translation: A Text Classification Approach
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Mihaela Vela
14:25 - 14:50    Translation Model Adaptation Using Genre-Revealing Text Features
Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
14:50 - 15:15    Crosslingual Annotation and Analysis of Implicit Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
15:15 - 15:30    Novel Document Level Features for Statistical Machine Translation
Rong Zhang and Abraham Ittycheriah
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30    Session 4 - Room 6
Chair: Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute
16:00 - 16:25    Exploration of Inter- and Intralingual Variation of Discourse Phenomena
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
16:25 - 16:40    On Statistical Machine Translation and Translation Theory
Christian Hardmeier
16:40 - 17:30    Final Discussions and Conclusions
Workshop Organizers and Audience


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LOUHI — Sixth Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
Thursday, September 17, 2015
09:00 - 10:30    Session I - Corpus creation - Room 3
Chair: Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS
   In-depth annotation for patient level liver cancer staging
Wen-wai Yim, Sharon Kwan, Meliha Yetisgen
   Predicting Continued Participation in Online Health Forums
Farig Sadeque, Thamar Solorio, Ted Pedersen, Prasha Shrestha, Steven Bethard
   Redundancy in French Electronic Health Records: A preliminary study
Eva D'hondt, Xavier Tannier, Aurélie Névéol
   Is it possible to recover personal health information from an automatically de-identified corpus of French EHRs?
Cyril Grouin, Nicolas Griffon, Aurélie Névéol
11:00 - 12:30    Session II - Poster
Chair: Cyril Grouin, LIMSI-CNRS
Co-Chair: Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS
   An Analysis of Biomedical Tokenization: Problems and Strategies
Noa P. Cruz Diaz and Manuel Maña López
   Annotation of Clinically Important Follow-up Recommendations in Radiology Reports
Meliha Yetisgen, Prescott Klassen, Lucas McCarthy, Elena Pellicer, Tom Payne, Martin Gunn
   On the Impact of Twitter-based Health Campaigns: A Cross-Country Analysis of Movember
Nugroho Dwi Prasetyo, Claudia Hauff, Dong Nguyen, Tijs van den Broek, Djoerd Hiemstra
   Exploring Word Embedding for Drug Name Recognition
Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Paloma Martínez
   Creating a rule based system for text mining of Norwegian breast cancer pathology reports
Rebecka Weegar and Hercules Dalianis
   Parser Adaptation to the Biomedical Domain without Re-Training
Jeff Mitchell and Mark Steedman
   Expanding a dictionary of marker words for uncertainty and negation using distributional semantics
Alyaa Alfalahi, Maria Skeppstedt, Rickard Ahlbom, Roza Baskalayci, Aron Henriksson, Lars Asker, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren
   Held-out versus Gold Standard: Comparison of Evaluation Strategies for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from Medline abstracts
Roland Roller and Mark Stevenson
   Checking a structured pathology report for completeness of content using terminological knowledge
Sebastian Busse
   Effectively Crowdsourcing Radiology Report Annotations
Anne Cocos, Aaron Masino, Ting Qian, Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch
   Identifying Key Concepts from EHR Notes Using Domain Adaptation
Jiaping Zheng and Hong Yu
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30    Session III - Invited talk - Room 3
Chair: Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS
   Invited talk    Information Extraction from Biomedical Texts: Learning Models with Limited Supervision
Marie-Francine Moens
16:00 - 17:30    Session IV - Corpus processing - Room 3
Chair: Cyril Grouin, LIMSI-CNRS
   Adverse Drug Event classification of health records using dictionary based pre-processing and machine learning
Stefanie Friedrich and Hercules Dalianis
   NLP–Based Readability Assessment of Health–Related Texts: a Case Study on Italian Informed Consent Forms
Giulia Venturi, Tommaso Bellandi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni
   Mining and Ranking Biomedical Synonym Candidates from Wikipedia
Abhyuday Jagannatha, Jinying Chen, Hong Yu
   Representing Clinical Notes for Adverse Drug Event Detection
Aron Henriksson


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LSDSem — First Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics
Friday, September 18, 2015
09:00 - 10:30    Morning Session - Room 1
Chair: Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh
09:00 - 09:05    Introduction
Michael Roth
09:05 - 09:50    Invited Talk: From Distributed Semantics to Discourse, and Back
Jacob Eisenstein
09:50 - 10:05    An Exploration of Discourse-Based Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Semantics
Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark
10:05 - 10:20    Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross-linguistic corpus study
Kleio-Isidora Mavridou, Annemarie Friedrich, Melissa Peate Sørensen, Alexis Palmer, Manfred Pinkal
10:20 - 10:30    Recovering discourse relations: Varying influence of discourse adverbials
Hannah Rohde, Anna Dickinson, Chris Clark, Annie Louis, Bonnie Webber
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30    Pre-Lunch Session - Room 1
Chair: Michael Roth, University of Edinburgh
11:00 - 11:15    Semantics and Discourse Processing for Expressive TTS
Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi
11:15 - 11:30    Semantically Enriched Models for Modal Sense Classification
Mengfei Zhou, Anette Frank, Annemarie Friedrich, Alexis Palmer
11:30 - 11:45    Identification and Disambiguation of Lexical Cues of Rhetorical Relations across Different Text Genres
Taraneh Khazaei, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer
11:45 - 11:55    Bridging Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics through Clausal Adjuncts
Rashmi Prasad, Bonnie Webber, Alan Lee, Sameer Pradhan, Aravind Joshi
11:55 - 12:05    Lexical Level Distribution of Metadiscourse in Spoken Language
Rui Correia, Maxine Eskenazi, Nuno Mamede
12:05 - 12:15    Idiom Paraphrases: Seventh Heaven vs Cloud Nine
Maria Pershina, Yifan He, Ralph Grishman
12:15 - 12:25    Where Was Alexander the Great in 325 BC? Toward Understanding History Text with a World Model
Yuki Murakami and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30    Post-Lunch Session - Room 1
Chair: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
14:00 - 14:05    TextLink: EU COST action on Structuring Discourse in a Multi-Lingual Europe
Bonnie Webber
14:05 - 14:50    Invited Talk: What Men Say, What Women Hear: Using Semantics To Make Better Sense of Gender Differences in Social Media
Rada Mihalcea
14:50 - 15:00    Predicting word sense annotation agreement
Héctor Martínez Alonso, Anders Johannsen, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Eneko Agirre
15:00 - 15:10    Distributional Semantics in Use
Raffaella Bernardi, Gemma Boleda, Raquel Fernandez, Denis Paperno
15:10 - 16:00    Poster Session (Including Coffee Break)
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30    Afternoon Session - Room 1
Chair: Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
16:00 - 16:45    Invited Talk: The (Non)Utility of Semantics for Coreference Resolution
Michael Strube
16:45 - 17:30    Panel Discussion
Various speakers


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CogACLL — Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
Friday, September 18, 2015
09:00 - 09:10    Opening and Introduction - Room 3
Chair: Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire LATTICE-CNRS, France
09:10 - 10:30    Session 1 - Language Processing - Room 3
Chair: Barend Beekhuizen, Leiden University, Netherlands
09:10 - 09:30    Using reading behavior to predict grammatical functions
Maria Barrett and Anders Søgaard
09:30 - 10:00    Reading metrics for estimating task efficiency with MT output
Sigrid Klerke, Sheila Castilho, Maria Barrett, Anders Søgaard
10:00 - 10:30    Evaluating Models of Computation and Storage in Human Sentence Processing
Thang Luong, Timothy O'Donnell, Noah Goodman
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50    Invited Talk by Afra Alishahi
Chair: Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire LATTICE-CNRS, France
11:50 - 12:10    Session 2 - Language Change - Room 3
Chair: Bogdan Ludusan, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, France
11:50 - 12:10    An agent-based model of a historical word order change
Jelke Bloem, Arjen Versloot, Fred Weerman
12:10 - 13:00    Session 3 - Poster Session
Chair: Bogdan Ludusan, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, France
12:10 - 13:00    Towards a Model of Prediction-based Syntactic Category Acquisition: First Steps with Word Embeddings
Robert Grimm, Giovanni Cassani, Walter Daelemans, Steven Gillis
12:10 - 12:30    Which distributional cues help the most? Unsupervised contexts selection for lexical category acquisition
Giovanni Cassani, Robert Grimm, Walter Daelemans, Steven Gillis
12:10 - 13:00    Language Emergence in a Population of Artificial Agents Equipped with the Autotelic Principle
Miquel Cornudella and Thierry Poibeau
12:10 - 13:00    A Computational Study of Cross-situational Lexical Learning of Brazilian Portuguese
Pablo Faria
12:10 - 13:00    Units in segmentation: a computational investigation
Çağrı Çöltekin
12:10 - 13:00    Estimating Grammeme Redundancy by Measuring Their Importance for Syntactic Parser Performance
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
13:00 - 14:10    Lunch
14:10 - 15:00    Invited Talk by Antal van den Bosch - Room 3
Chair: Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire LATTICE-CNRS, France
15:00 - 15:30    Session 4 - Language Processing II - Room 3
Chair: Pablo Faria, University of Campinas, Brazil
15:00 - 15:30    Improving Coordination on Novel Meaning through Context and Semantic Structure
Thomas Brochhagen
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30    Session 5 - Language Acquisition - Room 3
Chair: Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
16:00 - 16:30    Perceptual, conceptual, and frequency effects on error patterns in English color term acquisition
Barend Beekhuizen and Suzanne Stevenson
16:30 - 17:00    Motif discovery in infant- and adult-directed speech
Bogdan Ludusan, Amanda Seidl, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alex Cristia
17:00 - 17:30    Modeling dative alternations of individual children
Antal van den Bosch and Joan Bresnan
17:30 - 17:35    Closing Session - Room 3


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VL — Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language: Vision and Language Meets Cognitive Systems
Friday, September 18, 2015
08:45-10:30    Session 1 - Room 6
Chair: Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
08:45-09:00    Opening Remarks
Marie-Francine Moens
09:00-10:00    Invited Talk 1: Grounding Distributional Semantics in the Visual World
Marco Baroni
10:00 - 10:30    Poster Spotlights 1 - Room 6
10:00-10:05    Visually-Verifiable Textual Entailment: A Challenge Task for Combining Language and Vision
Jayant Krishnamurthy
10:05-10:10    Computational Integration of Human Vision and Natural Language through Bitext Alignment
Preethi Vaidyanathan, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Cecilia O. Alm, Jeff B. Pelz, Anne R. Haake
10:10-10:15    Towards Reliable Automatic Multimodal Content Analysis
Olli Philippe Lautenbacher, Liisa Tiittula, Maija Hirvonen, Jorma Laaksonen, Mikko Kurimo
10:15-10:20    Lingusitic Analysis of Multi-Modal Recurrent Neural Networks
Ákos Kádár, Grzegorz Chrupała, Afra Alishahi
10:20-10:25    Defining Visually Descriptive Language
Robert Gaizauskas, Josiah Wang, Arnau Ramisa
10:25-10:30    Semantic Tuples for Evaluation of Image to Sentence Generation
Lily D. Ellebracht, Arnau Ramisa, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Jose Cordero-Rama, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Ariadna Quattoni
10:30-11:00    Coffee Break
11:00-12:15    Session 2 - Room 6
Chair: Desmond Elliott, CWI Amsterdam
11:00-11:25    Image Representations and New Domains in Neural Image Captioning
Jack Hessel, Nicolas Savva, Michael Wilber
11:25-11:50    Image with a Message: Towards Detecting Non-Literal Image Usages by Visual Linking
Lydia Weiland, Laura Dietz, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
11:50 - 12:15    Poster Spotlights 2 - Room 6
11:50-11:55    Visual Classifier Prediction by Distributional Semantic Embedding of Text Descriptions
Mohamed Elhoseiny and Ahmed Elgammal
11:55-12:00    Understanding Urban Land Use through the Visualization of Points of Interest
Evgheni Polisciuc, Ana Alves, Penousal Machado
12:00-12:05    Comparing Attribute Classifiers for Interactive Language Grounding
Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon
12:05-12:10    Combining Geometric, Textual and Visual Features for Generating Prepositions in Image Descriptions (to appear in EMNLP 2015)
Arnau Ramisa, Josiah Wang, Ying Lu, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Francesc Moreno-Noguer and Robert Gaizauskas
12:10-12:15    From the Virtual to the Real World: Referring to Visible Objects Under Uncertainty in Real-World Spatial Scenes (to appear in EMNLP 2015)
Dimitra Gkatzia and Verena Rieser
12:15-14:00    Poster Session and Lunch
14:00-15:30    Session 3 - Room 6
Chair: Ivan Vulić, KU Leuven
14:00-15:00    Invited Talk 2: The ImageCLEF 2015 Task on Scalable Image Annotation, Localization and Sentence Generation
Krystian Mikolajczyk
15:00-15:30    Generating Semantically Precise Scene Graphs from Textual Descriptions for Improved Image Retrieval
Sebastian Schuster, Ranjay Krishna, Angel Chang, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning
15:30-16:00    Coffee Break
16:00-18:00    Session 4 - Room 6
Chair: Luisa Coheur, INESC-ID
16:00-16:25    Do Distributed Semantic Models Dream of Electric Sheep? Visualizing Word Representations through Image Synthesis
Angeliki Lazaridou, Dat Tien Nguyen, Marco Baroni
16:25-16:50    A Weighted Combination of Text and Image Classifiers for User Gender Inference
Tomoki Taniguchi, Shigeyuki Sakaki, Ryosuke Shigenaka, Yukihiro Tsuboshita, Tomoko Ohkuma
16:50-17:15    Coupling Natural Language Processing and Animation Synthesis in Portuguese Sign Language Translation
Inês Almeida, Luísa Coheur, Sara Candeias
17:15-17:40    Describing Spatial Relationships between Objects in Images in English and French
Anja Belz, Adrian Muscat, Maxime Aberton, Sami Benjelloun
17:40 - 18:00    Closing Remarks and Discussion


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