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title: "*SEM 2012 — accepted papers — Elamur Research"
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# *SEM 2012 — accepted papers

*SEM 2012 is the 2012 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in Montréal, Canada (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 109 papers of it; our library holds 9 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**109** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**9** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2012/#works) · [**2,714** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2012/#works)**Montréal, Canada** where it was held

## All accepted papers (109)

The most cited first; 9 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[*SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morante-2012-sem-2012-shared-task-resolving/)**Roser Morante, Eduardo Blanco*our summary*
2. **[A Probabilistic Lexical Model for Ranking Textual Inferences](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1032/)**Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger
3. **[ANNLOR: A Naïve Notation-system for Lexical Outputs Ranking](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1068/)**Anne-Laure Ligozat, Cyril Grouin, Anne Garcia-Fernandez et al.
4. **[ATA-Sem: Chunk-based Determination of Semantic Text Similarity](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1079/)**Demetrios Glinos
5. **[Adaptive Clustering for Coreference Resolution with Deterministic Rules and Web-Based Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1002/)**Razvan Bunescu
6. **[Aligning Predicate Argument Structures in Monolingual Comparable Texts: A New Corpus for a New Task](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1030/)**Michael Roth, Anette Frank
7. **[An Evaluation of Graded Sense Disambiguation using Word Sense Induction](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1027/)**David Jurgens
8. **[An Exact Dual Decomposition Algorithm for Shallow Semantic Parsing with Constraints](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1029/)**Dipanjan Das, André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith
9. **[An Unsupervised Ranking Model for Noun-Noun Compositionality](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1021/)**Karl Moritz Hermann, Phil Blunsom, Stephen Pulman
10. **[Annotating Preferences in Negotiation Dialogues](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1018/)**Anaïs Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara
11. **[BUAP: A First Approximation to Relational Similarity Measuring](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1071/)**Mireya Tovar, J. Alejandro Reyes, Azucena Montes et al.
12. **[BUAP: Lexical and Semantic Similarity for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1106/)**Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto, Mireya Tovar et al.
13. **[CELI: An Experiment with Cross Language Textual Entailment](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1104/)**Milen Kouylekov, Luca Dini, Alessio Bosca et al.
14. **[Casting Implicit Role Linking as an Anaphora Resolution Task](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1001/)**Carina Silberer, Anette Frank
15. **[Combining resources for MWE-token classification](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1017/)**Richard Fothergill, Timothy Baldwin
16. **[DERI&UPM: Pushing Corpus Based Relatedness to Similarity: Shared Task System Description](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1095/)**Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja, Paul Buitelaar
17. **[DSS: Text Similarity Using Lexical Alignments of Form, Distributional Semantics and Grammatical Relations](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1081/)**Diana McCarthy, Spandana Gella, Siva Reddy
18. **[DeepPurple: Estimating Sentence Semantic Similarity using N-gram Regression Models and Web Snippets](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1082/)**Nikos Malandrakis, Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos
19. **[Detecting Text Reuse with Modified and Weighted N-grams](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1008/)**Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough
20. **[DirRelCond3: Detecting Textual Entailment Across Languages With Conditions On Directional Text Relatedness Scores](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1107/)**Alpár Perini
21. **[Duluth : Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity with the Gloss Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1070/)**Ted Pedersen
22. **[EMNLP@CPH: Is frequency all there is to simplicity?](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1054/)**Anders Johannsen, Héctor Martínez, Sigrid Klerke et al.
23. **[ETS: Discriminative Edit Models for Paraphrase Scoring](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1076/)**Michael Heilman, Nitin Madnani
24. **[Ensemble-based Semantic Lexicon Induction for Semantic Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1028/)**Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff
25. **[Expanding the Range of Tractable Scope-Underspecified Semantic Representations](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1022/)**Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen

[See all 109 papers in SEM 2012 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2012/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (9)

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

1. **[SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2012-semeval-2012-task-6-pilot/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, et al.*2012 · 1,113 citations*
2. **[UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bar-2012-ukp-computing-semantic-textual-similarity/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, et al.*2012 · 277 citations*
3. **[TakeLab: Systems for Measuring Semantic Text Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saric-2012-takelab-systems-measuring-semantic-text/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Frane Šarić, Goran Glavaš, Vanja Mladen Karan, et al.*2012 · 264 citations*
4. **[SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jurgens-2012-semeval-2012-task-2-measuring/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**David Jurgens, Saif Mohammad, Peter Turney, et al.*2012 · 259 citations*
5. **[SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gordon-2012-semeval-2012-task-7-choice/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva, Melissa Roemmele*2012 · 212 citations*
6. **[SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2012-semeval-2012-task-1-english/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Lucia Specia, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Rada Mihalcea*2012 · 210 citations*
7. **[*SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morante-2012-sem-2012-shared-task-resolving/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Roser Morante, Eduardo Blanco*2012 · 198 citations*
8. **[#Emotional Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2012-emotional-tweets/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Saif Mohammad*2012 · 116 citations*
9. **[Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lenci-2012-identifying-hypernyms-distributional-semantic-spaces/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto*2012 · 65 citations*

## 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/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Psychology (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Saif Mohammad**2 works here · 375 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saif-mohammad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre**1 work here · 1,113 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-gonzalez-agirre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Cer**1 work here · 1,113 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-cer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eneko Agirre**1 work here · 1,113 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mona Diab**1 work here · 1,113 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chris Biemann**1 work here · 277 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Iryna Gurevych**1 work here · 277 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/) · [🧑‍🔬**Goran Glavaš**1 work here · 264 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Jurgens**1 work here · 259 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-jurgens/) · [🧑‍🔬**Peter Turney**1 work here · 259 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-turney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andrew Gordon**1 work here · 212 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-gordon/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zornitsa Kozareva**1 work here · 212 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zornitsa-kozareva/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**University of North Texas** Denton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-texas/) · [🎓**University of Antwerp** Antwerp · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-antwerp/) · [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**University of Zagreb** Zagreb · Croatia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zagreb/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · [🏢**Lymba** Richardson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/lymba/) · [🎓**Indiana University Bloomington** Bloomington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university-bloomington/) · [🔬**DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education** Frankfurt am Main · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/dipf-leibniz-institute-for-research-and-information-in-education/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/)

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

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