Northwest NLP 2012

We had several items at the Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop this year.

Oral presentation:

• Bootstrapping via Graph Propagation. Max Whitney and Anoop Sarkar. To appear at ACL 2012.

Posters:

• Improved Reordering for Shallow-n Grammar based Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation. Baskaran Sankaran and Anoop Sarkar. To appear at NAACL 2012.

• Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation. Majid Razmara, George Foster, Baskaran Sankaran and Anoop Sarkar. To appear at ACL 2012.

• An Ensemble Model that Combines Syntactic and Semantic Clustering for Discriminative Dependency Parsing. Gholamreza Haffari, Marzieh Razavi and Anoop Sarkar. From ACL 2011.

• Making the most of a distributed perceptron for NLP. Max Whitney, Ann Clifton, Anoop Sarkar and Alexandra Fedorova.