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# NAACL 2015 — accepted papers

NAACL 2015 is the 2015 edition of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), held in Denver, Colorado, May 2015 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 216 papers of it in 3 tracks; our library holds 19 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**216** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**19** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2015/#works) · [**4,670** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2015/#works)**Denver, Colorado** where it was held**May 2015** when

## Tracks

Main 186Demonstrations 24Tutorial Abstracts 6

## All accepted papers (216)

The most cited first; 19 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bayesian Model for Joint Learning of Categories and their Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1181/)**Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata
2. **[A Comparison of Update Strategies for Large-Scale Maximum Expected BLEU Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1175/)**Joern Wuebker, Sebastian Muehr, Patrick Lehnen et al.
3. **[A Comparison of Word Similarity Performance Using Explanatory and Non-explanatory Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1101/)**Lifeng Jin, William Schuler
4. **[A Compositional and Interpretable Semantic Space ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1004/)**Alona Fyshe, Leila Wehbe, Partha P. Talukdar et al.
5. **[A Concrete Chinese NLP Pipeline ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-3018/)**Nanyun Peng, Francis Ferraro, Mo Yu et al. · Demonstrations
6. **[A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and Supersenses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schneider-2015-corpus-model-integrating-multiword-expressions/)**Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith*our summary*
7. **[A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Tree Trimming-based Text Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1049/)**Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Tsutomu Hirao et al.
8. **[A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach To Citation Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1008/)**Chris Tanner, Eugene Charniak
9. **[A Linear-Time Transition System for Crossing Interval Trees ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1068/)**Emily Pitler, Ryan McDonald
10. **[A Neural Network Approach to Context-Sensitive Generation of Conversational Responses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1020/)**Alessandro Sordoni, Michel Galley, Michael Auli et al.
11. **[A Transition-based Algorithm for AMR Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2015-transition-based-algorithm-amr-parsing/)**Chuan Wang, Nianwen Xue, Sameer Pradhan*our summary*
12. **[A Web Application for Automated Dialect Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-3015/)**Sravana Reddy, James Stanford · Demonstrations
13. **[A Word Embedding Approach to Predicting the Compositionality of Multiword Expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1099/)**Bahar Salehi, Paul Cook, Timothy Baldwin
14. **[AMRICA: an AMR Inspector for Cross-language Alignments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-3008/)**Naomi Saphra, Adam Lopez · Demonstrations
15. **[APRO: All-Pairs Ranking Optimization for MT Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1106/)**Markus Dreyer, Yuanzhe Dong
16. **[Accurate Evaluation of Segment-level Machine Translation Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/graham-2015-accurate-evaluation-segment-level-machine/)**Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Nitika Mathur*our summary*
17. **[Active Learning with Rationales for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1047/)**Manali Sharma, Di Zhuang, Mustafa Bilgic
18. **[Aligning Sentences from Standard Wikipedia to Simple Wikipedia ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1022/)**William Hwang, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf et al.
19. **[An AMR parser for English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and a new AMR-annotated corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-3006/)**Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk · Demonstrations
20. **[An In-depth Analysis of the Effect of Text Normalization in Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1045/)**Tyler Baldwin, Yunyao Li
21. **[An Incremental Algorithm for Transition-based CCG Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1006/)**Bharat Ram Ambati, Tejaswini Deoskar, Mark Johnson et al.
22. **[An Open-source Framework for Multi-level Semantic Similarity Measurement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-3016/)**Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli · Demonstrations
23. **[Analyzing and Visualizing Coreference Resolution Errors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martschat-2015-analyzing-visualizing-coreference-resolution-errors/)**Sebastian Martschat, Thierry Göckel, Michael Strube · Demonstrations*our summary*
24. **[Automatic cognate identification with gap-weighted string subsequences. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1130/)**Taraka Rama
25. **[Bag-of-Words Forced Decoding for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1123/)**Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler

[See all 216 papers in NAACL 2015 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2015/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (19)

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

1. **[Effective Use of Word Order for Text Categorization with Convolutional Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2015-effective-use-word-order-text/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Rie Johnson, Tong Zhang*2015 · 970 citations*
2. **[Normalized Word Embedding and Orthogonal Transform for Bilingual Word Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xing-2015-normalized-word-embedding-orthogonal-transform/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Chao Xing, Dong Wang, Chao Liu, et al.*2015 · 528 citations*
3. **[Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ling-2015-two-too-simple-adaptations-word2vec/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Wang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black, et al.*2015 · 504 citations*
4. **[Representation Learning Using Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Classification and Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2015-representation-learning-multi-task-deep/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, et al.*2015 · 466 citations*
5. **[Combining Language and Vision with a Multimodal Skip-gram Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lazaridou-2015-combining-language-vision-multimodal-skip/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Angeliki Lazaridou, Nghia The Pham, Marco Baroni*2015 · 364 citations*
6. **[Toward Abstractive Summarization Using Semantic Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2015-abstractive-summarization-semantic-representations/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Fei Liu, Jeffrey Flanigan, Sam Thomson, et al.*2015 · 337 citations*
7. **[Do Supervised Distributional Methods Really Learn Lexical Inference Relations?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levy-2015-do-supervised-distributional-methods-really/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Omer Levy, Steffen Remus, Chris Biemann, et al.*2015 · 325 citations*
8. **[A Transition-based Algorithm for AMR Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2015-transition-based-algorithm-amr-parsing/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Chuan Wang, Nianwen Xue, Sameer Pradhan*2015 · 268 citations*
9. **[Accurate Evaluation of Segment-level Machine Translation Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/graham-2015-accurate-evaluation-segment-level-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Nitika Mathur*2015 · 156 citations*
10. **[Improving the Inference of Implicit Discourse Relations via Classifying Explicit Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rutherford-2015-improving-inference-implicit-discourse-relations/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Attapol Rutherford, Nianwen Xue*2015 · 142 citations*
11. **[Movie Script Summarization as Graph-based Scene Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gorinski-2015-movie-script-summarization-as-graph/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Philip John Gorinski, Mirella Lapata*2015 · 122 citations*
12. **[Solving Hard Coreference Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2015-solving-hard-coreference-problems/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Haoruo Peng, Daniel Khashabi, Dan Roth*2015 · 118 citations*
13. **[Two Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/surdeanu-2015-two-practical-rhetorical-structure-theory/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Mihai Surdeanu, Tom Hicks, Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escárcega*2015 · 113 citations*
14. [**A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and Supersenses**Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith*2015 · 111 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schneider-2015-corpus-model-integrating-multiword-expressions/)
15. [**Transition-Based Syntactic Linearization**Yijia Liu, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, et al.*2015 · 52 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2015-transition-based-syntactic-linearization/)
16. **[Removing the Training Wheels: A Coreference Dataset that Entertains Humans and Challenges Computers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guha-2015-removing-training-wheels-coreference-dataset/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Anupam Guha, Mohit Iyyer, Danny Bouman, et al.*2015 · 39 citations*
17. **[Using Word Semantics To Assist English as a Second Language Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azab-2015-word-semantics-assist-english-as/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Mahmoud Azab, Chris Hokamp, Rada Mihalcea*2015 · 22 citations*
18. **[Chinese Event Coreference Resolution: An Unsupervised Probabilistic Model Rivaling Supervised Resolvers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2015-chinese-event-coreference-resolution-unsupervised/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Chen Chen, Vincent Ng*2015 · 20 citations*
19. **[Analyzing and Visualizing Coreference Resolution Errors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martschat-2015-analyzing-visualizing-coreference-resolution-errors/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Sebastian Martschat, Thierry Göckel, Michael Strube*2015 · 13 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Coreference resolution (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Summarization (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (19)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Noah A. Smith**2 works here · 448 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nianwen Xue**2 works here · 410 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nianwen-xue/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tong Zhang**1 work here · 970 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chao Xing**1 work here · 528 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-xing/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dong Wang**1 work here · 528 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-wang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alan W Black**1 work here · 504 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chris Dyer**1 work here · 504 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Isabel Trancoso**1 work here · 504 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabel-trancoso/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wang Ling**1 work here · 504 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wang-ling/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jianfeng Gao**1 work here · 466 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Duh**1 work here · 466 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Li Deng**1 work here · 466 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-deng/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🔬**Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento** Lisbon · Portugal 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-engenharia-de-sistemas-e-computadores-investigacao-e/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Arizona** Tucson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-arizona/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**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 Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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