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cs.washington.eduAreas of interest: Natural language processing
Open Extraction of Fine-Grained Political Opinion
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015.
Improved Transition-based Parsing by Modeling Characters instead of Words with LSTMs
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015.
A Utility Model of Authors in the Scientific Community
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015.
Extractive Summarization by Maximizing Semantic Volume
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015.
Bayesian Optimization of Text Representations
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015.
Learning Word Representations with Hierarchical Sparse Coding
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2015.
Sparse Binary Word Vector Representations
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
Transition-Based Dependency Parsing with Stack Long Short-Term Memory
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
Frame-Semantic Role Labeling with Heterogeneous Annotations
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
The Media Frames Corpus: Annotations of Frames Across Issues
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
A Supertag-Context Model for Weakly-Supervised CCG Parser Learning
, Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2015.
Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
\ \textbf{Best student paper award.}
A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and Supersenses
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
Toward Abstractive Summarization Using Semantic Representations
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
Transforming Dependencies into Phrase Structures
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.
Contextualized Sarcasm Detection on Twitter
, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2015.
Modeling User Arguments, Interactions, and Attributes for Stance Prediction in Online Debate Forums
, Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2015.
AD$^3$: Alternating Directions Dual Decomposition for MAP Inference in Graphical Models
, Journal of Machine Learning Research 16, 2015.
Weakly-Supervised Grammar-Informed Bayesian CCG Parser Learning
, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.
The Utility of Text: The Case of Amicus Briefs and the Supreme Court
, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.
Conditional Random Field Autoencoders for Unsupervised Structured Prediction
, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, 2014.
\ \textbf{Selected for oral presentation (top 5% of accepted papers).}
Unsupervised Discovery of Biographical Structure from Text
, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2:2014, 2014.
A Dependency Parser for Tweets
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2014.
A Step Towards Usable Privacy Policy: Automatic Alignment of Privacy Statements
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2014.
CMU: Arc-Factored, Discriminative Semantic Dependency Parsing
, Proceedings of the International (COLING) Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, 2014.
Weakly-Supervised Bayesian Learning of a CCG Supertagger
, Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2014.
Unsupervised Alignment of Privacy Policies using Hidden Markov Models
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
Overview of the 2014 NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics
, Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science, 2014.
A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
\ \textbf{Nominated for best paper award.}
Distributed Representations of Geographically Situated Language
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
A Bayesian Mixed Effects Model of Literary Character
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
Simplified Dependency Annotations with GFL-Web
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume, 2014.
Linguistic Structured Sparsity in Text Categorization
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
Making the Most of Bag of Words: Sentence Regularization with Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2014.
Phrase Dependency Machine Translation with Quasi-Synchronous Tree-to-Tree Features
, Computational Linguistics 40:2, 2014.
Comprehensive Annotation of Multiword Expressions in a Social Web Corpus
, Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2014.
Dynamic Models of Streaming Text
, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2, 2014.
Discriminative Lexical Semantic Segmentation with Gaps: Running the MWE Gamut
, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2, 2014.
Frame-Semantic Parsing
, Computational Linguistics 40:1, 2014.
Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages with Synthetic Phrases
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2013.
Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2013.
Measuring Ideological Proportions in Political Speeches
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2013.
Predicting the NFL Using Twitter
, Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD Workshop on (Machine Learning and Data Mining for) Sports Analytics, 2013.
Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Learning to Extract International Relations from Political Context
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Testing the Etch-a-Sketch Hypothesis: A Computational Analysis of Mitt Romney's Ideological Makeover During the 2012 Primary vs. General Elections
, 2013.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators
, Proceedings of the ACL Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2013.
Turning on the Turbo: Fast Third-Order Non-Projective Turbo Parsers
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
A Penny for your Tweets: Campaign Contributions and Capitol Hill Microblogs
, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2013.
Knowledge-Rich Morphological Priors for Bayesian Language Models
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
\ \textbf{Nominated for best paper award.}
A Simple, Fast, and Effective Reparameterization of IBM Model 2
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Supersense Tagging for Arabic: the MT-in-the-Middle Attack
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Linguistic Structure Prediction with the Sparseptron
, ACM Crossroads 19:3, 2013.
Mapping the Geographical Diffusion of New Words
, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Social Network and Social Media Analysis: Methods, Models and Applications, 2012.
Automatic Categorization of Privacy Policies: A Pilot Study
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-LTI-12-019, 2012.
pycdec: A Python Interface to cdec
, Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 98, 2012.
Empirical Risk Minimization for Probabilistic Grammars: Sample Complexity and Hardness of Learning
, Computational Linguistics 38:3, 2012.
Transliteration by Sequence Labeling with Lattice Encodings and Reranking
, Proceedings of the ACL Named Entities Workshop, 2012.
Word Salad: Relating Food Prices and Descriptions
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning, 2012.
Discovering Factions in the Computational Linguistics Community
, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Rediscovering Fifty Years of Discoveries, 2012.
Coarse Lexical Semantic Annotation with Supersenses: An Arabic Case Study
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
A Probabilistic Model for Canonicalizing Named Entity Mentions
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Concavity and Initialization for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Structured Ramp Loss Minimization for Machine Translation
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
An Exact Dual Decomposition Algorithm for Shallow Semantic Parsing with Constraints
, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2012.
Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties
, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Recall-Oriented Learning of Named Entities in Arabic Wikipedia
, Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Censorship and Content Deletion in Chinese Social Media
, First Monday 17:3, 2012.
Computational Text Analysis for Social Science: Model Complexity and Assumptions
, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, 2011.
Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
Structured Databases of Named Entities from Bayesian Nonparametrics
, Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP, 2011.
Predicting a Scientific Community's Response to an Article
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
Unsupervised Bilingual POS Tagging with Markov Random Fields
, Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP, 2011.
Unsupervised Structure Prediction with Non-Parallel Multilingual Guidance
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
The CMU-ARK German-English Translation System
, Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2011.
Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
Generative Models of Monolingual and Bilingual Gappy Patterns
, Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2011.
Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
Author Age Prediction from Text using Linear Regression
, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 2011.
An Augmented Lagrangian Approach to Constrained MAP Inference
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2011.
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume, 2011.
Discovering Sociolinguistic Associations with Structured Sparsity
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Semi-Supervised Frame-Semantic Parsing for Unknown Predicates
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume, 2011.
Linguistic Structure Prediction
, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan and Claypool, 2011.
Online Learning of Structured Predictors with Multiple Kernels
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2011.
Favor Short Dependencies: Parsing with Soft and Hard Constraints on Dependency Length
, Trends in Parsing Technology: Dependency Parsing, Domain Adaptation, and Deep Parsing, Springer 43, 2011.
Products of Weighted Logic Programs
, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 11:2–3, 2011.
Empirical Risk Minimization with Approximations of Probabilistic Grammars
, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23, 2010.
Online Multiple Kernel Learning for Structured Prediction
, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on New Directions in Multiple Kernel Learning, 2010.
Discovering Demographic Language Variation
, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Social Computing, 2010.
Augmenting Dual Decomposition for MAP Inference
, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, 2010.
Covariance in Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Grammars
, Journal of Machine Learning Research 11, 2010.
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010.
Turbo Parsers: Dependency Parsing by Approximate Variational Inference
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010.
Nonparametric Word Segmentation for Machine Translation
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2010.
\ \textbf{Best paper finalist.}
SEMAFOR: Frame Argument Resolution with Log-Linear Models
, Proceedings of the International (ACL) Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, 2010.
Visualizing Topical Quotations Over Time to Understand News Discourse
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-LTI-10-013, 2010.
Viterbi Training for PCFGs: Hardness Results and Competitiveness of Uniform Initialization
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Variational Inference for Adaptor Grammars
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Softmax-Margin Training for Structured Log-Linear Models
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-LTI-10-008, 2010.
Movie Reviews and Revenues: An Experiment in Text Regression
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Extracting Simplified Statements for Factual Question Generation
, Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Question Generation, 2010.
Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing
, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2010.
Shedding (a Thousand Points of) Light on Biased Language
, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data With Mechanical Turk, 2010.
Rating Computer-Generated Questions with Mechanical Turk
, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data With Mechanical Turk, 2010.
Aggressive Online Learning of Structured Classifiers
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-ML-10-109, 2010.
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series
, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010.
What's Worthy of Comment? Content and Comment Volume in Political Blogs
, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010.
Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing
, Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2009.
\ \textbf{Best paper award.}
Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge
, Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, companion volume, 2009.
Feature-Rich Translation by Quasi-Synchronous Lattice Parsing
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2009.
Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates
, Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, companion volume, 2009.
Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition
, Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2009.
Ranking Automatically Generated Questions as a Shared Task
, Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Question Generation, 2009.
Summarization with a Joint Model for Sentence Extraction and Compression
, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing, 2009.
Polyhedral Outer Approximations with Application to Natural Language Parsing
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2009.
Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-LTI-09-013, 2009.
Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models
, Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2009.
Preference Grammars: Softening Syntactic Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
, Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2009.
Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression
, Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2009.
Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction
, Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, 2009.
From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences
, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2009.
Nonextensive Information Theoretic Kernels on Measures
, Journal of Machine Learning Research 10, 2009.
Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings
, Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009.
Logistic Normal Priors for Unsupervised Probabilistic Grammar Induction
, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, 2008.
The Shared Logistic Normal Distribution for Grammar Induction
, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Speech and Language: Unsupervised Latent-Variable Models, 2008.
Dynamic Programming Algorithms as Products of Weighted Logic Programs
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming, 2008.
\ \textbf{Best student paper award.}
Stacking Dependency Parsers
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008.
Wider Pipelines: $N$-Best Alignments and Parses in MT Training
, Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2008.
Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project
, Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, 2008.
Review of ooktitlestyleComputational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark and Richard Sproat
, Computational Linguistics 34:3, 2008.
Nonextensive Entropic Kernels
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2008.
Competitive Grammar Writing
, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, 2008.
Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation
, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2008.
\ \textbf{Five-year retrospective best paper award.}
SOUR CREAM: Toward Semantic Processing of Recipes
, Carnegie Mellon University:CMU-LTI-08-005, 2008.
Relative Keyboard Input System
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008.
Weighted and Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars Are Equally Expressive
, Computational Linguistics 33:4, 2007.
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2007.
\ \textbf{Nominated for best paper award.}
Joint Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2007.
Probabilistic Models of Nonprojective Dependency Trees
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2007.
Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007.
Novel Estimation Methods for Unsupervised Discovery of Latent Structure in Natural Language Text
, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2006.
Supervised by Jason Eisner
Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction
, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006.
Vine Parsing and Minimum Risk Reranking for Speed and Precision
, Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2006.
Parsing with Soft and Hard Constraints on Dependency Length
, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, 2005.
Context-Based Morphological Disambiguation with Random Fields
, Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2005.
Compiling Comp Ling: Practical Weighted Dynamic Programming and the Dyna Language
, Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2005.
Guiding Unsupervised Grammar Induction Using Contrastive Estimation
, Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Grammatical Inference Applications, 2005.
Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005.
\ \textbf{Nominated for best paper award.}
Dyna: A Declarative Language for Implementing Dynamic Programs
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume, 2004.
Bilingual Parsing with Factored Estimation: Using English to Parse Korean
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2004.
Annealing Techniques for Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning
, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004.
From Words to Corpora: Recognizing Translation
, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2002.
Ellipsis Happens, and Deletion is How
, University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland 11, 2001.
Undergraduate honors thesis, supervised by Norbert Hornstein
Detection of Translational Equivalence
, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park:4253, 2001.
Undergraduate honors thesis, supervised by Philip Resnik
Cairo: An Alignment Visualization Tool
, Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2000.
Statistical Machine Translation
, Johns Hopkins University:42, 1999.