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# *SEM 2012: all accepted papers

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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
26. **[Extracting a Semantic Lexicon of French Adjectives from a Large Lexicographic Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1024/)**Selja Seppälä, Lucie Barque, Alexis Nasr
27. **[FBK: Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Without Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1105/)**Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, José Guilherme C. de Souza
28. **[FBK: Exploiting Phrasal and Contextual Clues for Negation Scope Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1045/)**Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury
29. **[FBK: Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Similarity metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1092/)**José Guilherme Camargo de Souza, Matteo Negri, Yashar Mehdad
30. **[FCC: Three Approaches for Semantic Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1093/)**Maya Carrillo, Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto et al.
31. **[HDU: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment with SMT Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1064/)**Katharina Wäschle, Sascha Fendrich
32. **[ICT: A Translation based Method for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1108/)**Fandong Meng, Hao Xiong, Qun Liu
33. **[ICT:A System Combination for Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1073/)**Hao Xiong, Qun Liu
34. **[IRIT: Textual Similarity Combining Conceptual Similarity with an N-Gram Comparison Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1080/)**Davide Buscaldi, Ronan Tournier, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles et al.
35. **[Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lenci-2012-identifying-hypernyms-distributional-semantic-spaces/)**Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto*our summary*
36. **[JU_CSE_NLP: Language Independent Cross-lingual Textual Entailment System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1103/)**Snehasis Neogi, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay et al.
37. **[JU_CSE_NLP: Multi-grade Classification of Semantic Similarity between Text Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1083/)**Snehasis Neogi, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay et al.
38. **[LIMSI: Learning Semantic Similarity by Selecting Random Word Subsets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1078/)**Artem Sokolov
39. **[Learning Semantics and Selectional Preference of Adjective-Noun Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1011/)**Karl Moritz Hermann, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom et al.
40. **[Lexical semantic typologies from bilingual corpora –- A framework ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1015/)**Steffen Eger
41. **[MIXCD: System Description for Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity at SemEval-2012 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1057/)**Yingjie Zhang, Bin Li, Xinyu Dai et al.
42. **[Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Multilingual Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1003/)**Samer Hassan, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea
43. **[Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1025/)**Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anna Korhonen
44. **[Monolingual Distributional Similarity for Text-to-Text Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1034/)**Juri Ganitkevitch, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch
45. **[NJU-Parser: Achievements on Semantic Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1074/)**Guangchao Tang, Bin Li, Shuaishuai Xu et al.
46. **[Non-atomic Classification to Improve a Semantic Role Labeler for a Low-resource Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1016/)**Richard Johansson
47. **[Penn: Using Word Similarities to better Estimate Sentence Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1101/)**Sneha Jha, Hansen A. Schwartz, Lyle Ungar
48. **[PolyUCOMP: Combining Semantic Vectors with Skip bigrams for Semantic Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1075/)**Jian Xu, Qin Lu, Zhengzhong Liu
49. **[Regular polysemy: A distributional model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1023/)**Gemma Boleda, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt
50. **[SAGAN: A Machine Translation Approach for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1109/)**Julio Castillo, Marina Cardenas
51. **[SAGAN: An approach to Semantic Textual Similarity based on Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1099/)**Julio Castillo, Paula Estrella
52. **[SB: mmSystem - Using Decompositional Semantics for Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1067/)**Marilisa Amoia, Massimo Romanelli
53. **[SRIUBC: Simple Similarity Features for Semantic Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1091/)**Eric Yeh, Eneko Agirre
54. **[Saarland: Vector-based models of semantic textual similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1089/)**Georgiana Dinu, Stefan Thater
55. **[Sbdlrhmn: A Rule-based Human Interpretation System for Semantic Textual Similarity Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1077/)**Samir AbdelRahman, Catherine Blake
56. **[Selecting Corpus-Semantic Models for Neurolinguistic Decoding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1019/)**Brian Murphy, Partha Talukdar, Tom Mitchell
57. **[SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2012-semeval-2012-task-1-english/)**Lucia Specia, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Rada Mihalcea*our summary*
58. **[SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jurgens-2012-semeval-2012-task-2-measuring/)**David Jurgens, Saif Mohammad, Peter Turney et al.*our summary*
59. **[SemEval-2012 Task 3: Spatial Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1048/)**Parisa Kordjamshidi, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens
60. **[SemEval-2012 Task 4: Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1049/)**Peng Jin, Yunfang Wu
61. **[SemEval-2012 Task 5: Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1050/)**Wanxiang Che, Meishan Zhang, Yanqiu Shao et al.
62. **[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/)**Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab et al.*our summary*
63. **[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/)**Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva, Melissa Roemmele*our summary*
64. **[Semeval-2012 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1053/)**Matteo Negri, Alessandro Marchetti, Yashar Mehdad et al.
65. **[Sentence Clustering via Projection over Term Clusters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1005/)**Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Maya Gorodetsky et al.
66. **[Simple and Phrasal Implicatives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1020/)**Lauri Karttunen
67. **[Soft Cardinality + ML: Learning Adaptive Similarity Functions for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1102/)**Sergio Jimenez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander Gelbukh
68. **[Soft Cardinality: A Parameterized Similarity Function for Text Comparison ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1061/)**Sergio Jimenez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander Gelbukh
69. **[Sorting out the Most Confusing English Phrasal Verbs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1010/)**Yuancheng Tu, Dan Roth
70. **[Stanford: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for STS ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1096/)**Mengqiu Wang, Daniel Cer
71. **[Statistical Thesaurus Construction for a Morphologically Rich Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1009/)**Chaya Liebeskind, Ido Dagan, Jonathan Schler
72. **[TakeLab: Systems for Measuring Semantic Text Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saric-2012-takelab-systems-measuring-semantic-text/)**Frane Šarić, Goran Glavaš, Vanja Mladen Karan et al.*our summary*
73. **[The Effects of Semantic Annotations on Precision Parse Ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1031/)**Andrew MacKinlay, Rebecca Dridan, Diana McCarthy et al.
74. **[The Use of Granularity in Rhetorical Relation Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1006/)**Blake Howald, Martha Abramson
75. **[Tiantianzhu7:System Description of Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) in the SemEval-2012 (Task 6) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1084/)**Tiantian Zhu, Man Lan
76. **[Towards Building a Multilingual Semantic Network: Identifying Interlingual Links in Wikipedia ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1004/)**Bharath Dandala, Rada Mihalcea, Razvan Bunescu
77. **[Towards a Flexible Semantics: Colour Terms in Collaborative Reference Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1013/)**Bert Baumgaertner, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Stone
78. **[UABCoRAL: A Preliminary study for Resolving the Scope of Negation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1036/)**Binod Gyawali, Thamar Solorio
79. **[UAlacant: Using Online Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1065/)**Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada
80. **[UCM-2: a Rule-Based Approach to Infer the Scope of Negation via Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1038/)**Miguel Ballesteros, Alberto Díaz, Virginia Francisco et al.
81. **[UCM-I: A Rule-based Syntactic Approach for Resolving the Scope of Negation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1037/)**Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Laura Plaza, Alberto Díaz et al.
82. **[UConcordia: CLaC Negation Focus Detection at *Sem 2012 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1039/)**Sabine Rosenberg, Sabine Bergler
83. **[UGroningen: Negation detection with Discourse Representation Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1040/)**Valerio Basile, Johan Bos, Kilian Evang et al.
84. **[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/)**Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych et al.*our summary*
85. **[UMCC_DLSI: Multidimensional Lexical-Semantic Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1090/)**Antonio Fernández, Yoan Gutiérrez, Héctor Dávila et al.
86. **[UMichigan: A Conditional Random Field Model for Resolving the Scope of Negation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1043/)**Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir Radev
87. **[UNED: Improving Text Similarity Measures without Human Assessments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1062/)**Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo et al.
88. **[UNIBA: Distributional Semantics for Textual Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1087/)**Annalina Caputo, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
89. **[UNITOR: Combining Semantic Text Similarity functions through SV Regression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1088/)**Danilo Croce, Paolo Annesi, Valerio Storch et al.
90. **[UNT-SimpRank: Systems for Lexical Simplification Ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1069/)**Ravi Sinha
91. **[UNT: A Supervised Synergistic Approach to Semantic Text Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1094/)**Carmen Banea, Samer Hassan, Michael Mohler et al.
92. **[UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1066/)**Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Lucia Specia
93. **[UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1100/)**Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia
94. **[UTD-SpRL: A Joint Approach to Spatial Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1056/)**Kirk Roberts, Sanda Harabagiu
95. **[UTD: Determining Relational Similarity Using Lexical Patterns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1055/)**Bryan Rink, Sanda Harabagiu
96. **[UTDHLT: COPACETIC System for Choosing Plausible Alternatives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1063/)**Travis Goodwin, Bryan Rink, Kirk Roberts et al.
97. **[UWashington: Negation Resolution using Machine Learning Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1044/)**James Paul White
98. **[UiO 2: Sequence-labeling Negation Using Dependency Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1042/)**Emanuele Lapponi, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid et al.
99. **[UiO1: Constituent-Based Discriminative Ranking for Negation Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1041/)**Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid et al.
100. **[University_Of_Sheffield: Two Approaches to Semantic Text Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1097/)**Sam Biggins, Shaabi Mohammed, Sam Oakley et al.

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