Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004 A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking R Florian H Hassan A Ittycheriah H Jing N Kambhatla X Luo N Nicolov S Roukos Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus Chung Heong Gooi James Allan Robust Reading: Identification and Tracing of Ambiguous Names Xin Li Paul Morie Dan Roth A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment Jacob Eisenstein C. Mario Christoudias Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System Srinivas Bangalore Michael Johnston Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models Tim Paek Eric Horvitz Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources Wesley Hildebrandt Boris Katz Jimmy Lin Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid Radu Soricut Eric Brill A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations Rense Lange Juan Moran Warren R Greiff Lisa Ferro Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents Keiji Shinzato Kentaro Torisawa Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does Michelle Gregory Mark Johnson Eugene Charniak Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection Miles Osborne Jason Baldridge Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing Ron Kaplan Stefan Riezler Tracy H King John T Maxwell III Alex Vasserman Richard Crouch Training Tree Transducers Jonathan Graehl Kevin Knight Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization Regina Barzilay Lillian Lee The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks Mirella Lapata Frank Keller Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval Murat Saraclar Richard Sproat Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning Joungbum Kim Sarah E Schwarm Mari Ostendorf Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method Ani Nenkova Rebecca Passonneau Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations Mirella Lapata Alex Lascarides A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation Franz Josef Och Daniel Gildea Sanjeev Khudanpur Anoop Sarkar Kenji Yamada Alex Fraser Shankar Kumar Libin Shen David Smith Katherine Eng Viren Jain Zhen Jin Dragomir Radev Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation Shankar Kumar William Byrne Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation Libin Shen Anoop Sarkar Franz Josef Och Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays Derrick Higgins Jill Burstein Daniel Marcu Claudia Gentile A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty Kevyn Collins-Thompson James P Callan Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources Kate Forbes-Riley Diane Litman The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction Robert Porzel Manja Baudis Non-Native Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch Antoine Raux Maxine Eskenazi Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques Olga Vechtomova Murat Karamuftuoglu Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines Sameer S Pradhan Wayne H Ward Kadri Hacioglu James H Martin Dan Jurafsky Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web Nobuhiro Kaji Masashi Okamoto Sadao Kurohashi Shallow Semantc Parsing of Chinese Honglin Sun Daniel Jurafsky Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens Hermann Ney Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora Dragos Stefan Munteanu Alexander Fraser Daniel Marcu What's in a translation rule? Michel Galley Mark Hopkins Kevin Knight Daniel Marcu Improving Named Entity Translation Combining Phonetic and Semantic Similarities Fei Huang Stephan Vogel Alex Waibel The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation Andrew Kehler Douglas Appelt Lara Taylor Aleksandr Simma Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution David Bean Ellen Riloff Exponential Priors for Maximum Entropy Models Joshua Goodman Multiple Similarity Measures and Source-Pair Information in Story Link Detection Francine Chen Ayman Farahat Thorsten Brants Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes Patrick Pantel Deepak Ravichandran Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields Fuchun Peng Andrew McCallum Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training Scott Miller Jethran Guinness Alex Zamanian Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2004 Multilingual Speech Recognition for Information Retrieval in Indian Context N. Udhaykumar S.K. Ramakrishnan R. Swaminathan Identifying Chemical Names in Biomedical Text: an Investigation of Substring Co-occurrence Based Approaches Alexander Vasserman Maximum Entropy Modeling in Sparse Semantic Tagging Jia Cui David Guthrie A Computational Framework for Non-Lexicalist Semantics Jimmy Lin A Multi-Path Architecture for Machine Translation of English Text into American Sign Language Animation Matt Huenerfauth Automatic Article Restoration John Lee A Preliminary Look into the Use of Named Entity Information for Bioscience Text Tokenization Robert Arens Greek Word Segmentation Using Minimal Information C. Anton Rytting Construction of Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts Svetlana Hensman Speaker Recognition with Mixtures of Gaussians with Sparse Regression Matrices Constantinos Boulis Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004 Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web David Kirk Evans Judith L. Klavans Kathleen R. McKeown ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System Diane J. Litman Scott Silliman Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto Kristin Precoda Horacio Franco Ascander Dost Michael Frandsen John Fry Andreas Kathol Colleen Richey Susanne Riehemann Dimitra Vergyri Jing Zheng Christopher Culy MiTAP for SARS Detection Laurie E. Damianos Samuel Bayer Michael A. Chisholm John Henderson Lynette Hirschman William Morgan Marc Ubaldino Guido Zarrella James M. Wilson V Marat G. Polyak Multilingual Video and Audio News Alerting David D. Palmer Patrick Bray Marc Reichman Katherine Rhodes Noah White Andrew Merlino Francis Kubala Open Text Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet Lei Shi Rada Mihalcea A Scaleable Multi-document Centroid-based Summarizer Dragomir Radev Timothy Allison Matthew Craig Stanko Dimitrov Kareem Omer Michael Topper Adam Winkel Jin Yi SenseClusters - Finding Clusters that Represent Word Senses Amruta Purandare Ted Pedersen Spoken Dialogue for Simulation Control and Conversational Tutoring Elizabeth Owen Bratt Karl Schultz Brady Clark A Thai Speech Translation System for Medical Dialogs Tanja Schultz Dorcas Alexander Alan W. Black Kay Peterson Sinaporn Suebvisai Alex Waibel Use and Acquisition of Semantic Language Model Kuansan Wang Ye-Yi Wang Alex Acero WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts Ted Pedersen Siddharth Patwardhan Jason Michelizzi Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers Using N-Grams To Understand the Nature of Summaries Michele Banko Lucy Vanderwende MMR-based Feature Selection for Text Categorization Changki Lee Gary Geunbae Lee Example-based Rescoring of Statistical Machine Translation Output Michael Pau Eiichiro Sumita Seiichi Yamamoto An Empirical Study on Multiple LVCSR Model Combination by Machine Learning Takehito Utsuro Yasuhiro Kodama Tomohiro Watanabe Hiromitsu Nishizaki Seiichi Nakagawa Enhancing Linguistically Oriented Automatic Keyword Extraction Anette Hulth Language Model Adaptation with MAP Estimation and the Perceptron Algorithm Michiel Bacchiani Brian Roark Murat Saraclar Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor Andreas Hagen Bryan Pellom Sarel van Vuuren Ronald Cole Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet Benfeng Chen Pascale Fung Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation Andrew Kehler Douglas Appelt Lara Taylor Aleksandr Simma Using N-best lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech Lufeng Zhai Pascale Fung Richard Schwartz Marine Carpuat Dekai Wu Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis for Multimodal Reference Resolution in a Conversation System Joyce Y. Chai Zahar Prasov Pengyu Hong UI on the Fly: Generating a Multimodal User Interface David Reitter Erin Panttaja Fred Cummins Web Search Intent Induction via Automatic Query Reformulation Hal Daume III Eric Brill HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Analytical Question Answering Sharon Small Tomek Strzalkowski Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation Young-Suk Lee Correction Grammars for Error Handling in a Speech Dialog System Hirohiko Sagawa Teruko Mitamura Eric Nyberg A Comparison of Rule--Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement Ruhi Srikaya Yuqing Gao Michael Picheny Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks D. Hillard M. Ostendorf A. Stolcke Y. Liu E. Shriberg Speech Graffiti vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience Stefanie Tomko Roni Rosenfeld Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points Andrew Rosenberg Ed Binkowski Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition Karen Livescu James Glass Context-based Speech Recognition Error Detection and Correction Arup Sarma David D. Palmer Feature Selection for Trainable Multilingual Broadcast News Segmentation David D. Palmer Marc Reichman Elyes Yaich Direct Maximization of Average Precision by Hill-Climbing, with a Comparison to a Maximum Entropy Approach William Morgan Warren Greiff John Henderson Automated Team Discourse Annotation and Performance Prediction Using LSA Melanie J. Martin Peter W. Foltz A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation Christoph Tillman Summarizing Email Threads Owen Rambow Lokesh Shrestha John Chen Christy Laurdisen Confidence Estimation for Information Extraction Aron Culotta Andrew McCallum A Speech-in List-out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces Vijay Divi C. Forlines Jan Van Gemert Bhiksha Raj B. Schmidt-Nielsen Kent Wittenburg Joseph Woelfel Fang-Fang Zhang Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation Emilia Soica Marti A. Hearst Computational Linkuistics: Word Triggers across Hyperlinks Dragomir Radev Hong Qi Adam Winkel Daniel Tam Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation Jeremy G. Kahn Mari Ostendorf Ciprian Chelba Polarity Sensitivity and Evaluation Order in Type-Logical Grammar Chung-chieh Shan Multi-Speaker Language Modeling Gang Ji Jeffrey Bilmes Prosody-based Topic Segmentation for Mandarin Broadcast News Gina-Anne Levow Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese Sameer Pradhan Honglin Sun Wayne Ward James H. Martin Daniel Jurafsky A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging Kadri Hacioglu Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks Mona Diab Kadri Hacioglu Daniel Jurafsky Converting Text into Agent Animations: Assigning Gestures to Text Yukiko I. Nakano Masashi Okamoto Daisuke Kawahara Qing Li Toyoaki Nishida A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection Matthew Snover Bonnie Dorr Richard Schwartz