Announcement
CLSP papers at ACL 2016

August 3, 2016

The students and faculty of CLSP have 8 papers at ACL 2016 in Berlin, and 8 papers at co-located events.

Main conference
Learning Multiview Embeddings of Twitter Users
Adrian Benton, Raman Arora, and Mark Dredze

Morphological smoothing and extrapolation of word embeddings.
Ryan Cotterell, Hinrich Schütze, and Jason Eisner

Phrase Structure Annotation and Parsing for Learner English
Ryo Nagata and Keisuke Sakaguchi

Improving Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Word Segmentation Representation Learning
Nanyun Peng and Mark Dredze

User modeling in language learning with macaronic texts.
Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn, and Jason Eisner

Creating interactive macaronic interfaces for language learning.
Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn, and Jason Eisner
(Demo paper)

Reassessing the Goals of Grammatical Error Correction: Fluency Instead of Grammaticality
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Courtney Napoles, Matt Post and Joel Tetreault
(TACL paper)

Modeling the Interpretation of Discourse Connectives by Bayesian Pragmatics
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, and Yuji Matsumoto

CoNLL
Analyzing Learner Understanding of Novel L2 Vocabulary
Rebecca Knowles, Adithya Renduchintala, Philipp Koehn and Jason Eisner

Modeling the Usage of Discourse Connectives as Rational Speech Acts
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, and Yuji Matsumoto

Workshops
Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor and Marcos Zampieri
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Quick and Reliable Document Alignment via TF/IDF-weighted Cosine Distance
Christian Buck and Philipp Koehn
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Findings of the WMT 2016 Bilingual Document Alignment Shared Task
Christian Buck and Philipp Koehn
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

The SIGMORPHON 2016 Shared Task—Morphological Reinflection
Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, John Sylak-Glassman, David Yarowsky, Jason Eisner, and Mans Hulden
SIGMORPHON

The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2016
Shuoyang Ding, Kevin Duh, Huda Khayrallah, Philipp Koehn, and Matt Post
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Modeling Selectional Preferences of Verbs and Nouns in String-to-Tree Machine Translation
Maria Nadejde, Alexandra Birch and Philipp Koehn
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Center for Language and Speech Processing