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# EACL 2012 — accepted papers

EACL 2012 is the 2012 edition of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), held in Avignon, France, April 2012 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 106 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**106** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2012/#works) · [**2,368** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2012/#works)**Avignon, France** where it was held**April 2012** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1076/)**Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal et al. · 🏆 ACL 2022 10-Year Test of Time

## All accepted papers (106)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1003/)**Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev
2. **[A Computer Assisted Speech Transcription System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2009/)**Alejandro Revuelta-Martínez, Luis Rodríguez, Ismael García-Varea
3. **[A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwiatkowski-2012-probabilistic-model-syntactic-semantic-acquisition/)**Tom Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Luke Zettlemoyer et al.*our summary*
4. **[A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2010/)**Paul A. Crook, Zhuoran Wang, Xingkun Liu et al.
5. **[A Support Platform for Event Detection using Social Intelligence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2014/)**Timothy Baldwin, Paul Cook, Bo Han et al.
6. **[A platform for collaborative semantic annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2019/)**Valerio Basile, Johan Bos, Kilian Evang et al.
7. **[Active learning for interactive machine translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1025/)**Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Francisco Casacuberta
8. **[Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation Model for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in a Service Context ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1012/)**Vassilina Nikoulina, Bogomil Kovachev, Nikolaos Lagos et al.
9. **[Adapting Translation Models to Translationese Improves SMT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1026/)**Gennadi Lembersky, Noam Ordan, Shuly Wintner
10. **[An Unsupervised Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Measuring Speech Style Accommodation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1080/)**Mahaveer Jain, John McDonough, Gahgene Gweon et al.
11. **[Answer Sentence Retrieval by Matching Dependency Paths acquired from Question/Answer Sentence Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1010/)**Michael Kaisser
12. **[Aspectual Type and Temporal Relation Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1027/)**Francisco Costa, António Branco
13. **[Automatic Analysis of Patient History Episodes in Bulgarian Hospital Discharge Letters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2016/)**Svetla Boytcheva, Galia Angelova, Ivelina Nikolova
14. **[Automatic generation of short informative sentiment summaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1028/)**Andrea Glaser, Hinrich Schütze
15. **[Automatically Generated Customizable Online Dictionaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2011/)**Enikő Héja, Dávid Takács
16. **[Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferschke-2012-behind-article-recognizing-dialog-acts/)**Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, Yevgen Chebotar*our summary*
17. **[Bootstrapped Training of Event Extraction Classifiers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1029/)**Ruihong Huang, Ellen Riloff
18. **[Bootstrapping Events and Relations from Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1030/)**Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski
19. **[CLex: A Lexicon for Exploring Color, Concept and Emotion Associations in Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1031/)**Svitlana Volkova, William B. Dolan, Theresa Wilson
20. **[Can Click Patterns across User's Query Logs Predict Answers to Definition Questions? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1011/)**Alejandro Figueroa
21. **[Character-Based Pivot Translation for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1015/)**Jörg Tiedemann
22. **[Character-based kernels for novelistic plot structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1065/)**Micha Elsner
23. **[Collaborative Machine Translation Service for Scientific texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-2003/)**Patrik Lambert, Jean Senellart, Laurent Romary et al.
24. **[Combining Tree Structures, Flat Features and Patterns for Biomedical Relation Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1043/)**Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alberto Lavelli
25. **[Compensating for Annotation Errors in Training a Relation Extractor ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E12-1020/)**Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman

[See all 106 papers in EACL 2012 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2012/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stenetorp-2012-brat-web-based-tool-nlp/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Pontus Stenetorp, Sampo Pyysalo, Goran Topić, et al.*2012 · 1,368 citations*
2. **[Entailment above the word level in distributional semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baroni-2012-entailment-above-word-level-distributional/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Marco Baroni, Raffaella Bernardi, Ngoc-Quynh Do, et al.*2012 · 319 citations*
3. **[Perplexity Minimization for Translation Model Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sennrich-2012-perplexity-minimization-translation-model-domain/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Rico Sennrich*2012 · 208 citations*
4. **[Word Sense Induction for Novel Sense Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lau-2012-word-sense-induction-novel-sense/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Jey Han Lau, Paul Cook, Diana McCarthy, et al.*2012 · 187 citations*
5. **[A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwiatkowski-2012-probabilistic-model-syntactic-semantic-acquisition/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Tom Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Luke Zettlemoyer, et al.*2012 · 92 citations*
6. **[Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferschke-2012-behind-article-recognizing-dialog-acts/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, Yevgen Chebotar*2012 · 81 citations*
7. **[Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2012-learning-fine-grained-information-status/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng*2012 · 79 citations*
8. [**Identifying Broken Plurals, Irregular Gender, and Rationality in Arabic Text**Sarah Alkuhlani, Nizar Habash*2012 · 16 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alkuhlani-2012-identifying-broken-plurals-irregular-gender/)
9. **[Fluid Construction Grammar: The New Kid on the Block](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trijp-2012-fluid-construction-grammar-new-kid/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Remi van Trijp, Luc Steels, Katrien Beuls, et al.*2012 · 15 citations*
10. **[Not as Awful as it Seems: Explaining German Case through Computational Experiments in Fluid Construction Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trijp-2012-not-as-awful-as-it/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**van Trijp, Remi*2012 · 3 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Jun'ichi Tsujii**1 work here · 1,368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-ichi-tsujii/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pontus Stenetorp**1 work here · 1,368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pontus-stenetorp/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sampo Pyysalo**1 work here · 1,368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sampo-pyysalo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sophia Ananiadou**1 work here · 1,368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sophia-ananiadou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tomoko Ohta**1 work here · 1,368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomoko-ohta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marco Baroni**1 work here · 319 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/) · [🧑‍🔬**Raffaella Bernardi**1 work here · 319 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raffaella-bernardi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rico Sennrich**1 work here · 208 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rico-sennrich/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Newman**1 work here · 187 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-newman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Diana McCarthy**1 work here · 187 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-mccarthy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jey Han Lau**1 work here · 187 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jey-han-lau/) · [🧑‍🔬**Paul Cook**1 work here · 187 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-cook/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🤝**Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats** Barcelona · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/institucio-catalana-de-recerca-i-estudis-avancats/) · [🎓**Vrije Universiteit Brussel** Brussels · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vrije-universiteit-brussel/) · [🎓**University of Tsukuba** Tsukuba · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tsukuba/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) · [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/)

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