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ACL 2014 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop June 22-27, 2014 Baltimore, Maryland, USA (cid:13)c 2014TheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics OrdercopiesofthisandotherACLproceedingsfrom: AssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL) 209N.EighthStreet Stroudsburg,PA18360 USA Tel: +1-570-476-8006 Fax: +1-570-476-0860 [email protected] ISBN978-1-937284-79-4 ii Introduction WelcometotheACL2014StudentResearchWorkshop. Followingthepreviousyears’ACLStudentResearchWorkshops,thisyearwehavetwodifferentkinds of papers: research papers and thesis proposals. Thesis proposals are intended for advanced students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work, while research papers can describe completed work or work in progress with preliminaryresults. We received 7 thesis proposals and 19 research papers this year. Out of these, we accepted 5 thesis proposals and 8 research papers leading to an acceptance rate of 71% for thesis proposals and 42% for research papers. This year’s workshop also offered pre-submission mentoring for student authors wishing to improve the presentation of their papers prior to submission of the paper for the reviewing process. 6studentsparticipatedinthispre-submissionmentoringprogramthisyear. TheSRWoffersmultipleavenuesforthestudentauthorstoreceivefeedbackattheconference. This year’s workshop features three sessions of student paper presentations. All the papers will be presented at the main conference poster session, giving the opportunity for students to interact and present their work to a large and diverse audience. We also have a separate oral presentation session for thesis proposal papers on the first day of the main conference. The third session is another oral presentationvenuewherestudentauthorsoftheresearchpapersbrieflyadvertisetheirposters. Thisyear, 15 students whose papers were accepted to the ACL main conference were chosen to also present their work at and be partially funded by SRW. These students’ posters are also advertised during the poster highlightsession. Inadditiontooralpresentationandpostersessions,eachSRWpaperandthe15paperssponsoredbythe SRWisassignedadedicatedmentor. Thementorisanexperiencedresearcherfromacademiaorindustry whowillpreparein-depthcommentsandquestionsinadvanceforthepresentationorpostersessionand willprovidefeedbacktothestudentauthor. Thanks to our funding sources, this year’s SRW covers registration expenses and provides travel and lodging support to all student authors of the SRW papers. We gratefully acknowledge the support from the NSF, Google, Yahoo! and Baidu. In addition to the SRW papers, the NSF supports travel and registrationforanother15studentauthorsofACLmainconferencepapers. Weareverygratefultoourprogramcommitteememberswhogaveconstructiveanddetailedreviewsfor eachofthestudentpapers. SomeofourPCmembersalsoparticipatedinthepre-submissionmentoring program and immensely helped student authors with writing and presentation of their papers. We also thank researchers who agreed to mentor and provide expert feedback on the student papers. We thank ourfacultyadvisersBillByrneandJordanBoyd-Graberfortheirguidance. WealsothanktheACL2014 organizing committee – Daniel Marcu, Kristina Toutanova, Hua Wu, Alexander Koller, Miyao Yusuke, DavidYarowskyandPriscillaRassmussenfortheirconstantsupportandsuggestions. Finally,wethank allstudentsfortheirsubmissionsandparticipationintheSRW. iii Organizers: EkaterinaKochmar,UniversityofCambridge(UK) AnnieLouis,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK) SvitlanaVolkova,JohnsHopkinsUniversity(USA) FacultyAdvisors: JordanBoyd-Graber,UniversityofMaryland(USA) BillByrne,UniversityofCambridge(UK) ProgramCommittee: GaborAngeli,StanfordUniversity(USA) YoavArtzi,UniversityofWashington(USA) ChrisBiemann,TUDarmstadt(Germany) AriannaBisazza,UniversityofTrento(Italy) TedBriscoe,UniversityofCambridge(UK) ShuCai,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia(USA) AsliCeyilkamaz,MicrosoftResearch(USA) IliaChetviorkin,LomonosovMoscowStateUniversity(Russia) MonojitChoudhury,MicrosoftResearch(India) TrevorCohn,UniversityofSheffield(UK) HalDauméIII,UniversityofMaryland(USA) LeonDerczynski,UniversityofSheffield(UK) AcielEshky,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK) KilianEvang,UniversityofGroningen(Netherlands) AnnemarieFriedrich,SaarlandUniversity(Germany) ThomasFrançois,UniversitécatholiquedeLouvain(Belgium) MichaelGamon,MicrosoftResearch(USA) JuriGanitkevitch,JohnsHopkinsUniversity(USA) QinGao,MicrosoftResearch(USA) LianeGuillou,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK) EvaHasler,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK) JohnHenderson,TheMITRECorporation(USA) RuihongHuang,UniversityofUtah(USA) AmjadAbuJbara,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor(USA) BeataKlebanov-Biegman,EducationalTestingService(USA) VaradaKolhatkar,UniversityofToronto(Canada) JonathanKummerfeld,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley(USA) AngelikiLazaridou,UniversityofTrento(Italy) AngelikiMetallinou,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia(USA) MitchMarcus,UniversityofPennsylvania(USA) ThomasMeyer,Google(Switzerland) MegMitchell,MicrosoftResearch(USA) AlessandroMoschitti,UniversityofTrento(Italy) v CourtneyNapoles,JohnsHopkinsUniversity(USA) PatrickPantel,MicrosoftResearch(USA) RashmiPrasad,UniversityofWisconsin,Milwaukee(USA) OwenRambow,UniversityofColumbia(USA) RoiReichart,Technion-IsraelInstituteofTechnology(Israel) PhilipResnik,UniversityofMaryland(USA) KairitSirts,TallinnUniversityofTechnology(Estonia) JoelTetreault,Yahoo! Labs(USA) IvanTitov,UniversityofAmsterdam(Netherlands) EvaMariaVecchi,UniversityofCambridge(UK) StephanVogel,CarnegieMellonUniversity(USA) JasonWilliams,MicrosoftResearch(USA) TravisWolfe,JohnsHopkinsUniversity(USA) BishanYang,CornellUniversity(USA) XuchenYao,JohnsHopkinsUniversity(USA) TorstenZesch,UniversityofDuisburg,Essen(Germany) vi Table of Contents BayesianKernelMethodsforNaturalLanguageProcessing DanielBeck.............................................................................1 ExtractingTemporalandCausalRelationsbetweenEvents ParamitaMirza.........................................................................10 Towardsadiscourserelation-awareapproachforChinese-Englishmachinetranslation FrancesYung...........................................................................18 AnalyzingPositionsandTopicsinPoliticalDiscussionsoftheGermanBundestag CäciliaZirn............................................................................26 AMapping-BasedApproachforGeneralFormalHumanComputerInteractionUsingNaturalLanguage VincentLetard,SophieRossetandGabrielIllouz..........................................34 AnExplorationofEmbeddingsforGeneralizedPhrases WenpengYinandHinrichSchütze........................................................41 LearningGrammarwithExplicitAnnotationsforSubordinatingConjunctions DongchenLi,XiantaoZhangandXihongWu ............................................. 48 Goingbeyondsentenceswhenapplyingtreekernels DmitryIlvovsky........................................................................56 Multi-documentsummarizationusingdistortion-rateratio UlukbekAttokurovandUlugBayazit.....................................................64 Disambiguatingprepositionalphraseattachmentsiteswithsenseinformationcapturedincontextualized distributionaldata ClaytonGreenberg......................................................................71 OpenInformationExtractionforSpanishLanguagebasedonSyntacticConstraints AlisaZhilaandAlexanderGelbukh.......................................................78 ImprovingTextNormalizationviaUnsupervisedModelandDiscriminativeReranking ChenLiandYangLiu...................................................................86 Semi-AutomaticDevelopmentofKurdNet,TheKurdishWordNet PuryaAliabadi.........................................................................94 vii Conference Program Monday,June23,2014 SRWThesisProposalPresentations 13:20–13:45 BayesianKernelMethodsforNaturalLanguageProcessing DanielBeck 13:45–14:10 ExtractingTemporalandCausalRelationsbetweenEvents ParamitaMirza 14:10–14:35 Towards a discourse relation-aware approach for Chinese-English machine trans- lation FrancesYung 14:35–15:00 AnalyzingPositionsandTopicsinPoliticalDiscussionsoftheGermanBundestag CäciliaZirn PosterHighlights 18:05–18:50 SRWResearchPapers AMapping-BasedApproachforGeneralFormalHumanComputerInteractionUs- ingNaturalLanguage VincentLetard,SophieRossetandGabrielIllouz AnExplorationofEmbeddingsforGeneralizedPhrases WenpengYinandHinrichSchütze LearningGrammarwithExplicitAnnotationsforSubordinatingConjunctions DongchenLi,XiantaoZhangandXihongWu Goingbeyondsentenceswhenapplyingtreekernels DmitryIlvovsky Multi-documentsummarizationusingdistortion-rateratio UlukbekAttokurovandUlugBayazit Disambiguating prepositional phrase attachment sites with sense information cap- turedincontextualizeddistributionaldata ClaytonGreenberg ix Monday,June23,2014(continued) OpenInformationExtractionforSpanishLanguagebasedonSyntacticConstraints AlisaZhilaandAlexanderGelbukh ImprovingTextNormalizationviaUnsupervisedModelandDiscriminativeReranking ChenLiandYangLiu PosterHighlights 18:05–18:50 MainConferencePapersSponsoredbySRW PosterSession 18:50–21:30 SRWThesisProposalandResearchPapers PosterSession 18:50–21:30 MainConferencePapersSponsoredbySRW x

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Jun 23, 2014 Following the previous years' ACL Student Research Workshops, this year we have two different kinds of papers: Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania ( USA) Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, John Shawe-Taylor,.
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