--- title: "ALTA 2016 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "ALTA 2016 — accepted papers: 1 paper in the Elamur Research library (Melbourne, Australia), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2016/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2016/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [ALTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/) / 2016 # ALTA 2016 — accepted papers ALTA 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), held in Melbourne, Australia, December 2016 (publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association). The ACL Anthology lists 23 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Melbourne, [Australia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/australia/) · 🗓 December 2016 [**23** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2016/#works) · [**10** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2016/#works) ## All accepted papers (23) The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[:telephone::person::sailboat::whale::okhand: ; or “Call me Ishmael” – How do you translate emoji? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1018/)**Will Radford, Ben Hachey, Bo Han et al. 2. **[ASM Kernel: Graph Kernel using Approximate Subgraph Matching for Relation Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1007/)**Nagesh C. Panyam, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn et al. 3. **[An Effect of Background Population Sample Size on the Performance of a Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Text Comparison System: A Monte Carlo Simulation with Gaussian Mixture Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1012/)**Shunichi Ishihara 4. **[An empirical study for Vietnamese dependency parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1017/)**Dat Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras, Mark Johnson 5. **[Disambiguating Entities Referred by Web Endpoints using Tree Ensembles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1021/)**Gitansh Khirbat, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang 6. **[Evaluation of Medical Concept Annotation Systems on Clinical Records ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1002/)**Hamed Hassanzadeh, Anthony Nguyen, Bevan Koopman 7. **[Featureless Domain-Specific Term Extraction with Minimal Labelled Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1011/)**Rui Wang, Wei Liu, Chris McDonald 8. **[Filter and Match Approach to Pair-wise Web URI Linking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1022/)**S. Shivashankar, Yitong Li, Afshin Rahimi 9. **[How Challenging is Sarcasm versus Irony Classification?: A Study With a Dataset from English Literature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2016-how-challenging-is-sarcasm-versus/)**Aditya Joshi, Vaibhav Tripathi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya et al.*our summary* 10. **[Improving Neural Translation Models with Linguistic Factors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1001/)**Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Gholamreza Haffari, Trevor Cohn 11. **[Learning cascaded latent variable models for biomedical text classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1014/)**Ming Liu, Gholamreza Haffari, Wray Buntine 12. **[N-ary Biographical Relation Extraction using Shortest Path Dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1008/)**Gitansh Khirbat, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang 13. **[NER for Medical Entities in Twitter using Sequence to Sequence Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1016/)**Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Andrew MacKinlay 14. **[Overview of the 2016 ALTA Shared Task: Cross-KB Coreference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1020/)**Andrew Chisholm, Ben Hachey, Diego Mollá 15. **[Pairwise FastText Classifier for Entity Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1023/)**Cheng Yu, Bing Chu, Rohit Ram et al. 16. **[Phonotactic Modeling of Extremely Low Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1009/)**Andrei Shcherbakov, Ekaterina Vylomova, Nick Thieberger 17. **[Presenting a New Dataset for the Timeline Generation Problem ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1019/)**Xavier Holt, Will Radford, Ben Hachey 18. **[Syndromic Surveillance through Measuring Lexical Shift in Emergency Department Chief Complaint Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1005/)**Hafsah Aamer, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Karin Verspoor 19. **[Syndromic Surveillance using Generic Medical Entities on Twitter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1004/)**Pin Huang, Andrew MacKinlay, Antonio Jimeno Yepes 20. **[Temporal Modelling of Geospatial Words in Twitter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1015/)**Bo Han, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Andrew MacKinlay et al. 21. **[The Benefits of Word Embeddings Features for Active Learning in Clinical Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1003/)**Mahnoosh Kholghi, Lance De Vine, Laurianne Sitbon et al. 22. **[The Role of Features and Context on Suicide Ideation Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1010/)**Yufei Wang, Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris 23. **[Unsupervised Pre-training With Seq2Seq Reconstruction Loss for Deep Relation Extraction Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U16-1006/)**Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Qiongkai Xu et al. ## Papers with our summary in our library (1) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. [**How Challenging is Sarcasm versus Irony Classification?: A Study With a Dataset from English Literature**Aditya Joshi, Vaibhav Tripathi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, et al.*2016 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2016-how-challenging-is-sarcasm-versus/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Aditya Joshi**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jaya Saraswati**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaya-saraswati/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Carman**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-carman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pushpak Bhattacharyya**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushpak-bhattacharyya/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rajita Shukla**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rajita-shukla/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vaibhav Tripathi**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vaibhav-tripathi/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous ALTA 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2008/) - [next → ALTA 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2017/) - [↑ back to ALTA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)