COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Grammar Modularity and its Impact on Grammar Documentation StefanieDipper Linear-Time Dependency Analysis for Japanese ManabuSassano Incremental Construction of Minimal Acyclic Sequential Transducers from Unsorted Data WojciechSkut Discriminative Hidden Markov Modeling with Long State Dependence using a kNN Ensemble GuoDongZhou Improving Statistical Word Alignment with a Rule-Based Machine Translation System HuaWu HaifengWang Improved Word Alignment Using a Symmetric Lexicon Model RichardZens EvgenyMatusov HermannNey Combining Hierarchical Clustering and Machine Learning to Predict High-Level Discourse Structure CarolineSporleder AlexLascarides Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts PhilippeMuller XavierTannier Type-inheritance Combinatory Categorial Grammar JohnBeavers Deterministic Dependency Parsing of English Text JoakimNivre MarioScholz Kullback-Leibler Distance between Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars and Probabilistic Finite Automata Mark-JanNederhof GiorgioSatta Restrictions on Monadic Context-Free Tree Grammars AkioFujiyoshi Partially Distribution-Free Learning of Regular Languages from Positive Samples AlexanderClark FranckThollard Modeling of Long Distance Context Dependency GuoDongZhou Example-based Machine Translation Based on Syntactic Transfer with Statistical Models KenjiImamura HideoOkuma TaroWatanabe EiichiroSumita Extending MT evaluation tools with translation complexity metrics BogdanBabych DebbieElliott AnthonyHartley Splitting Input Sentence for Machine Translation Using Language Model with Sentence Similarity TakaoDoi EiichiroSumita Playing the Telephone Game: Determining the Hierarchical Structure of Perspective and Speech Expressions EricBreck ClaireCardie The Queen's Agents: Using Collaborating Object-Based Dialogue Agents in the Queen's Communicator IanO'Neill PhilipHanna XingkunLiu MichaelMcTear Representing discourse coherence: A corpus-based analysis FlorianWolf EdwardGibson Modern Natural Language Interfaces to Databases: Composing Statistical Parsing with Semantic Tractability Ana-MariaPopescu AlexArmanasu OrenEtzioni DavidKo AlexanderYates Automatic Learning of Language Model Structure KevinDuh KatrinKirchhoff A Support System for Revising Titles to Stimulate the Lay Reader's Interest in Technical Achievements YasukoSenda YasusiSinohara ManabuOkumura Efficient Parsing of Highly Ambiguous Context-Free Grammars with Bit Vectors HelmutSchmid A Grammar Formalism and Parser for Linearization-based HPSG MichaelW. Daniels W.Detmar Meurers A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar RalphDebusmann DenysDuchier AlexanderKoller MarcoKuhlmann GertSmolka StefanThater Learning theories from text MariaLiakata StephenPulman Generalizing Dimensionality in Combinatory Categorial Grammar Geert-JanKruijff JasonBaldridge A Bimachine Compiler for Ranked Tagging Rules WojciechSkut StefanUlrich KathrineHammervold Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation RichardZens HermannNey TaroWatanabe EiichiroSumita Word to word alignment strategies JörgTiedemann Symmetric Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation EvgenyMatusov RichardZens HermannNey An NP-Cluster Based Approach to Coreference Resolution XiaofengYang JianSu GuoDongZhou Chew LimTan Resolving Individual and Abstract Anaphora in Texts and Dialogues CostanzaNavarretta Classifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach RaquelFernández JonathanGinzburg ShalomLappin Feature Vector Quality and Distributional Similarity MaayanGeffet IdoDagan Optimizing disambiguation in Swahili ArviHurskainen From efficiency to portability: acquisition of semantic relations by semi-supervised machine learning VincentClaveau PascaleSébillot Annotating Grammatical Functions for German Using Finite-State Cascades Frank HenrikMüller A Deterministic Word Dependency Analyzer Enhanced With Preference Learning HidekiIsozaki HidetoKazawa TsutomuHirao The Importance of Supertagging for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing StephenClark James R.Curran Condition of Projectivity in the Underlying Dependency Structures KaterinaVeselá HavelkaJiri EvaHajicová 8 Unificational Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Combining Information Structure and Discourse Representations MaarikaTraat JohanBos Polarization and abstraction of grammatical formalisms as methods for lexical disambiguation GuillaumeBonfante BrunoGuillaume GuyPerrier Improving Word Alignment Quality using Morpho-syntactic Information HermannNey MajaPopovic Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation JohnBlatz ErinFitzgerald GeorgeFoster SimonaGandrabur CyrilGoutte AlexKulesza AlbertoSanchis NicolaUeffing Using a Mixture of N-Best Lists from Multiple MT Systems in Rank-Sum-Based Confidence Measure for MT Outputs YasuhiroAkiba EiichiroSumita HiromiNakaiwa SeiichiYamamoto Hiroshi G.Okuno Generating Discourse Structures for Written Text Huong LeThanh GeethaAbeysinghe ChristianHuyck Talking robots with Lego MindStorms AlexanderKoller Geert-JanKruijff Improving Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution by Global Word Sense Disambiguation DaisukeKawahara SadaoKurohashi Unsupervised Construction of Large Paraphrase Corpora: Exploiting Massively Parallel News Sources BillDolan ChrisQuirk ChrisBrockett Toward Unsupervised Whole-Corpus Tagging DayneFreitag Evaluating Cross-Language Annotation Transfer in the MultiSemCor Corpus LuisaBentivogli PamelaForner EmanuelePianta Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health BarrySmith ChristianeFellbaum Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing MarySwift JamesAllen DanielGildea Annotation Strategies for Probabilistic Parsing in German MichaelSchiehlen A Formal Model for Information Selection in Multi-Sentence Text Extraction ElenaFilatova VasileiosHatzivassiloglou Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors DekaiWu GraceNgai MarineCarpuat Language Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation via Structured Query Models BingZhao MatthiasEck StephanVogel Syntax-Based Alignment: Supervised or Unsupervised? HaoZhang DanielGildea Machine-Assisted Rhetorical Structure Annotation ManfredStede SilvanHeintze Multi-Human Dialogue Understanding for Assisting Artifact-Producing Meetings JohnNiekrasz AlexanderGruenstein LawrenceCavedon Multi-Answer-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using a Question-Answering Engine TatsunoriMori MasanoriNozawa YoshiakiAsada Dependency-based Sentence Alignment for Multiple Document Summarization TsutomuHirao JunSuzuki HidekiIsozaki EisakuMaeda Efficient Finite State Unification Morphology Jan W.Amtrup Japanese Unknown Word Identification by Character-based Chunking MasayukiAsahara YujiMatsumoto Chinese and Japanese Word Segmentation Using Word-Level and Character-Level Information TetsujiNakagawa Filtering Speaker-Specific Words from Electronic Discussions IngridZukerman YuvalMarom Document Re-ranking Based on Automatically Acquired Key Terms in Chinese Information Retrieval LingpengYang DonghongJi LiTang Using Bag-of-Concepts to Improve the Performance of Support Vector Machines in Text Categorization MagnusSahlgren RickardCöster Deeper Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Translation Technology HiroshiKanayama TetsuyaNasukawa HideoWatanabe ORANGE: a Method for Evaluating Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation Chin-YewLin Franz JosefOch Improving a Statistical MT System with Automatically Learned Rewrite Patterns FeiXia MichaelMcCord Optimizing Algorithms for Pronoun Resolution MichaelSchiehlen A High-Performance Coreference Resolution System using a Constraint-based Multi-Agent Strategy GuoDongZhou JianSu Thai Spelling Recognition Using a Continuous Speech Corpus ChutimaPisarn ThanarukTheeramunkong Corpus and Evaluation Measures for Multiple Document Summarization with Multiple Sources TsutomuHirao TakahiroFukusima ManabuOkumura ChikashiNobata HidetsuguNanba Cascading Use of Soft and Hard Matching Pattern Rules for Weakly Supervised Information Extraction JingXiao Tat-SengChua HangCui Generating Overview Summaries of Ongoing 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