9:00 – 12:30	Morning Tutorials
	Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing Heinsbergen	Markov Logic in NLP Gold	Distributional Semantic Models Crystal	Textual Entailment Emerald
2:00 – 5:30	Afternoon Tutorials
	Noisy Text Analytics Heinsbergen	Computational Psycholinguistics Gold	Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce Crystal	Integer Linear Programming in NLP Emerald
6:30 – 9:00	Welcome Reception Crystal Ballroom

8:45 – 10:10	Plenary Session I Session Chair: Mary Harper Biltmore Bowl 8:45 – 9:00 Opening Ceremonies 9:00 – 10:10 Invited Talk Recognition and Understanding of Meetings Steve Renals
10:40 – 12:20	Long Paper Sessions – Morning
	Parsing I Session Chair: Noah Smith Biltmore Bowl 10:40 – 11:05 Chart Mining-based Lexical Acquisition with Precision Grammars Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin, Valia Kordoni, David Martinez and Jeremy Nicholson 11:05 – 11:30 Products of Random Latent Variable Grammars Slav Petrov 11:30 – 11:55 Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing David McClosky, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson 11:55 – 12:20 Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
	Semantics I Session Chair: Eduard Hovy Gold Room 10:40 – 11:05 Taxonomy Learning Using Word Sense Induction Ioannis P. Klapaftis and Suresh Manandhar 11:05 – 11:30 Visual Information in Semantic Representation Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata 11:30 – 11:55 Automatic Evaluation of Topic Coherence David Newman, Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser and Timothy Baldwin 11:55 – 12:20 Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning Joseph Reisinger and Raymond J. Mooney
	Noisy Genre I Session Chair: Jonathan May Crystal Room 10:40 – 11:05 Using Confusion Networks for Speech Summarization Shasha Xie and Yang Liu 11:05 – 11:30 Qme! : A Speech-based Question-Answering system on Mobile Devices Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore 11:30 – 11:55 Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff and Victor Zue 11:55 – 12:20 Minimally-Supervised Extraction of Entities from Text Advertisements Sameer Singh, Dustin Hillard and Chris Leggetter
	Student Research Workshop I Emerald Room 10:40 – 11:10 Improving Syntactic Coordination Resolution using Language Modeling Philip Ogren 11:10 – 11:40 On Automated Evaluation of Readability of Summaries: Capturing Grammaticality, Focus, Structure and Coherence Ravikiran Vadlapudi and Rahul Katragadda 11:40 – 12:10 Detecting Novelty in the Context of Progressive Summarization Praveen Bysani
12:20 – 2:00	IBM Student Luncheon Bernard's
2:00 – 3:40	Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon
	Machine Translation I Session Chair: Philipp Koehn Biltmore Bowl 2:00 – 2:25 Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, David Chiang and Kevin Knight 2:25 – 2:50 Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars David Burkett, John Blitzer and Dan Klein 2:50 – 3:15 Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang and Haizhou Li 3:15 – 3:40 Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time Stanley Kok and Chris Brockett
	Speech Processing Session Chair: Eric Fosler-Lussier Gold Room 2:00 – 2:25 Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy and Bhuvana Ramabhadran 2:25 – 2:50 Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability Maria Shugrina 2:50 – 3:15 Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription Scott Novotney and Chris Callison-Burch 3:15 – 3:40 Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Denis Filimonov and Frederick Jelinek
	Noisy Genre II Session Chair: Jennifer Foster Crystal Room 2:00 – 2:25 Training Paradigms for Correcting Errors in Grammar and Usage Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth 2:25 – 2:50 Using Mostly Native Data to Correct Errors in Learners' Writing Michael Gamon 2:50 – 3:15 Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and Bill Dolan 3:15 – 3:40 Streaming First Story Detection with application to Twitter Saša Petrović, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko
	Student Research Workshop II Emerald Room 2:00 – 2:30 Extrinsic Parse Selection David Goss-Grubbs 2:30 – 3:00 Towards a Matrix-based Distributional Model of Meaning Eugenie Giesbrecht 3:00 – 3:30 Distinguishing Use and Mention in Natural Languag Shomir Wilson
4:10 – 5:30	Plenary Session II – Posters and Demos: One Minute Madness Session Chair: Carolyn P. Rosé Crystal Room
6:30 – 8:30	Posters and Demos Session Biltmore Bowl See list of Main Conference Poster Presentations See list of Student Research Workshop Poster Presentations See list of Demonstrations

9:00 – 10:15	Plenary Session III: Best Paper Awards Session Chair: Aravind Joshi Biltmore Bowl 9:10 – 9:40 Best Short Paper “cba to check the spelling”: Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts Jennifer Foster 9:40 – 10:15 Best Long Paper Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein
10:45 – 12:25	Long Paper Sessions – Morning
	Machine Translation II Session Chair: Chris Dyer Biltmore Bowl 10:45 – 11:10 Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation Abby Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne 11:10 – 11:35 Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment Jason R. Smith, Chris Quirk and Kristina Toutanova 11:35 – 12:00 Statistical Machine Translation of Texts with Misspelled Words Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo and Marcello Federico 12:00 – 12:25 Everybody loves a rich cousin: An empirical study of transliteration through bridge languages Mitesh M. Khapra, A Kumaran and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
	IR and Extraction I Session Chair: Donald Metzler Gold Room 10:45 – 11:10 Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Andrew T. Wilson and Peter A. Chew 11:10 – 11:35 Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs Fabio De Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Amaç Herdağdelen and Maria Holmqvist 11:35 – 12:00 Learning to Link Entities with Knowledge Base Zhicheng Zheng, Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu 12:00 – 12:25 Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search Raghavendra Udupa and Mitesh Khapra
	Machine Learning I Session Chair: Damianos Karakos Crystal Room 10:45 – 11:10 Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron Ryan McDonald, Keith Hall and Gideon Mann 11:10 – 11:35 Discriminative Learning over Constrained Latent Representations Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth and Vivek Srikumar 11:35 – 12:00 Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam Pauls and Sujith Ravi 12:00 – 12:25 Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset Beata Beigman Klebanov and Eyal Beigman
	Morphology/Phonology Session Chair: Greg Kondrak Emerald Room 10:45 – 11:10 Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson and Michael C. Frank 11:10 – 11:35 Subword Variation in Text Message Classification Robert Munro and Christopher D. Manning 11:35 – 12:00 Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan and Eric K. Ringger 12:00 – 12:25 Urdu Word Segmentation Nadir Durrani and Sarmad Hussain
12:40 – 2:00	Bag Lunch Panel: Recent and Future HLT Challenges in Industry Session Chair: Kristina Toutanova Biltmore Bowl Dekang Lin Google Research Arul Menezes Microsoft Research Bo Pang Yahoo! Research Rion Snow Twitter Bowen Zhou IBM Research
2:15 – 3:30	Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon
	Machine Translation III Session Chair: Kevin Knight Biltmore Bowl 2:15 – 2:40 Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options Philipp Koehn 2:40 – 3:05 Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea and Francisco Casacuberta 3:05 – 3:30 The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning and Daniel Jurafsky
	Generation Session Chair: Kathy McKeown Gold Room 2:15 – 2:40 Linguistic Steganography Using Automatically Generated Paraphrases Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark 2:40 – 3:05 Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment Aaron Dunlop, Margaret Mitchell and Brian Roark 3:05 – 3:30 Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith
	Machine Learning II Session Chair: Jenny Rose Finkel Crystal Room 2:15 – 2:40 Variational Inference for Adaptor Grammars Shay B. Cohen, David M. Blei and Noah A. Smith 2:40 – 3:05 Type-Based MCMC Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan and Dan Klein 3:05 – 3:30 Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, John DeNero and Dan Klein
	Lexical Semantics Session Chair: Ted Pedersen Emerald Room 2:15 – 2:40 Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy 2:40 – 3:05 Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses Weisi Duan and Alexander Yates 3:05 – 3:30 Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing? Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar
4:00 – 5:30	Short Paper Sessions
	Parsing Session Chair: Jason Eisner Biltmore Bowl 4:00 – 4:15 A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii 4:15 – 4:30 Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good? Mihai Surdeanu and Christopher D. Manning 4:30 – 4:45 Enlarged Search Space for SITG Parsing Guillem Gascó, Joan-Andreu Sánchez and José-Miguel Benedí 4:45 – 5:00 Improving Data Driven Dependency Parsing using Clausal Information Phani Gadde, Karan Jindal, Samar Husain, Dipti Misra Sharma and Rajeev Sangal 5:00 – 5:15 A Treebank Query System Based on an Extracted Tree Grammar Seth Kulick and Ann Bies 5:15 – 5:30 Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers Mark Johnson and Ahmet Engin Ural
	Morphology/Phonology Session Chair: Kemal Oflazer Gold Room 4:00 – 4:15 Language identification of names with SVMs Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak 4:15 – 4:30 Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry and Grzegorz Kondrak 4:30 – 4:45 A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR Amr El-Desoky Mousa, Ralf Schlüter and Hermann Ney 4:45 – 5:00 Is Arabic Part of Speech Tagging Feasible Without Word Segmentation? Emad Mohamed and Sandra Kübler 5:00 – 5:15 Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis Yassine Benajiba and Imed Zitouni 5:15 – 5:30 An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion Sravana Reddy and John Goldsmith
	Noisy Genre Session Chair: Adam Kilgarriff Crystal Room 4:00 – 4:15 An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation Whitney L. Cade, Blair A. Lehman and Andrew Olney 4:15 – 4:30 Making Conversational Structure Explicit: Identification of Initiation-response Pairs within Online Discussions Yi-Chia Wang and Carolyn P. Rosé 4:30 – 4:45 Engaging learning groups using Social Interaction Strategies Rohit Kumar and Carolyn P. Rosé 4:45 – 5:00 Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault and Slava Andreyev 5:00 – 5:15 Summarizing Microblogs Automatically Beaux Sharifi, Mark-Anthony Hutton and Jugal Kalita 5:15 – 5:30 Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users Wei Wu, Bin Zhang and Mari Ostendorf
	Machine Learning Session Chair: Bowen Zhou Emerald Room 4:00 – 4:15 Extracting Phrase Patterns with Minimum Redundancy for Unsupervised Speaker Role Classification Bin Zhang, Brian Hutchinson, Wei Wu and Mari Ostendorf 4:15 – 4:30 Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling Andrew Rosenberg 4:30 – 4:45 Investigations into the Crandem Approach to Word Recognition Rohit Prabhavalkar, Preethi Jyothi, William Hartmann, Jeremy Morris and Eric Fosler-Lussier 4:45 – 5:00 Constraint-Driven Rank-Based Learning for Information Extraction Sameer Singh, Limin Yao, Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum 5:00 – 5:15 Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith 5:15 – 5:30 Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities Florian Schwarck, Alexander Fraser and Hinrich Schütze
7:00 – 9:30	Banquet, Maguire Gardens

9:00 – 10:10	Plenary Session IV Session Chair: Jill Burstein Biltmore Bowl 9:00 – 10:10 Invited Talk Music, Language, and Computational Modeling: Lessons from the Key-Finding Problem David Temperley
10:40 – 12:20	Long Paper Sessions – Morning
	Parsing II Session Chair: Slav Petrov Biltmore Bowl 10:40 – 11:05 An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad 11:05 – 11:30 From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi and Daniel Jurafsky 11:30 – 11:55 Relaxed Marginal Inference and its Application to Dependency Parsing Sebastian Riedel and David A. Smith 11:55 – 12:20 Optimal Parsing Strategies for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems Dan Gildea
	Information Retrieval and Extraction II Session Chair: Burr Settles Gold Room 10:40 – 11:05 Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende 11:05 – 11:30 Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie and Martin Dawes 11:30 – 11:55 Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata 11:55 – 12:20 Learning about Voice Search for Spoken Dialogue Systems Rebecca Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein, Tiziana Ligorio, Joshua B. Gordon and Pravin Bhutada
	Sentiment Analysis Session Chair: Philip Resnik Crystal Room 10:40 – 11:05 The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons Leonid Velikovich, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kerry Hannan and Ryan McDonald 11:05 – 11:30 Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui and Sadao Kurohashi 11:30 – 11:55 Convolution Kernels for Opinion Holder Extraction Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow 11:55 – 12:20 An Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews Samuel Brody and Noemie Elhadad
1:00 – 2:00	Business Meeting Biltmore Bowl
2:00 – 3:40	Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon I
	Machine Translation IV Session Chair: Radu Soricut Biltmore Bowl 2:00 – 2:25 A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation Niyu Ge 2:25 – 2:50 Context-free reordering, finite-state translation Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik 2:50 – 3:15 Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation Spence Green, Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning 3:15 – 3:40 Why Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars? Andreas Maletti
	Semantics II Session Chair: Benjamin Van Durme Gold Room 2:00 – 2:25 Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces Yves Peirsman and Sebastian Padó 2:25 – 2:50 Paper Withdrawn 2:50 – 3:15 Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata 3:15 – 3:40 Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing Dipanjan Das, Nathan Schneider, Desai Chen and Noah A. Smith
	Summarization Session Chair: Ani Nenkova Crystal Room 2:00 – 2:25 An extractive supervised two-stage method for sentence compression Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos 2:25 – 2:50 Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng 2:50 – 3:15 Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains Hakan Ceylan, Rada Mihalcea, Umut Özertem, Elena Lloret and Manuel Palomar 3:15 – 3:40 Multi-document Summarization via Budgeted Maximization of Submodular Functions Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes
4:00 – 5:15	Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon II
	Machine Translation V Session Chair: Yaser Al-Onaizan Biltmore Bowl 4:00 – 4:25 Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization Cyril Allauzen, Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Mehryar Mohri and Michael Riley 4:25 – 4:50 Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning 4:50 – 5:15 Model Combination for Machine Translation John DeNero, Shankar Kumar, Ciprian Chelba and Franz Och
	Semantics III Session Chair: Dan Roth Gold Room 4:00 – 4:25 Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith 4:25 – 4:50 Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition Yashar Mehdad, Alessandro Moschitti and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto 4:50 – 5:15 Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task Ekaterina Shutova
	Discourse Session Chair: Joel Tetreault Crystal Room 4:00 – 4:25 Detecting Emails Containing Requests for Action Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris 4:25 – 4:50 Evaluating Hierarchical Discourse Segmentation Lucien Carroll 4:50 – 5:15 Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers Advaith Siddharthan and Napoleon Katsos

9:00–5:00	WS2: Analysis and Generation of Emotion	WS10: Educational Applications	WS11: Louhi '10	WS12: SemanticSearch	WS13: Assistive Technologies	WS14: SPMRL	WS3: CALC-10
							WS15: WAC-6

9:00–5:00	WS4: CL&W	WS5: #SocialMedia	WS6: Computational Neurolinguistics	WS7: Mechanical Turk	WS9: FAM-LbR	WS16: Young Investigators in the Americas	WS1: ALNLP
							WS8: Extracting and Using Constructions