Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Erhard Hinrichs Dan Roth Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked Michael Fleischman Eduard Hovy Abdessamad Echihabi 1-7 Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction Mihai Surdeanu Sanda Harabagiu John Williams Paul Aarseth 8-15 A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering Abdessamad Echihabi Daniel Marcu 16-23 Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis Taku Kudo Yuji Matsumoto 24-31 Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data Jun Suzuki Tsutomu Hirao Yutaka Sasaki Eisaku Maeda 32-39 Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models Cyril Allauzen Mehryar Mohri Brian Roark 40-47 Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation Anna Korhonen Judita Preiss 48-55 Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution Malvina Nissim Katja Markert 56-63 Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically Anna Korhonen Yuval Krymolowski Zvika Marx 64-71 Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences Masao Utiyama Hitoshi Isahara 72-79 Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation Daniel Gildea 80-87 A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment Colin Cherry Dekang Lin 88-95 Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies Amit Dubey Frank Keller 96-103 Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG Anette Frank Markus Becker Berthold Crysmann Bernd Kiefer Ulrich Schäfer 104-111 Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German Michael Schiehlen 112-119 Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information Hua Wu Ming Zhou 120-127 Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora Sebastian Padó Mirella Lapata 128-135 Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval Dominic Widdows 136-143 A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens Hermann Ney 144-151 tRuEcasIng Lucian Vlad Lita Abe Ittycheriah Salim Roukos Nanda Kambhatla 152-159 Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation Franz Josef Och 160-167 A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue Michael Strube Christoph Müller 168-175 Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach Xiaofeng Yang Guodong Zhou Jian Su Chew Lim Tan 176-183 Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar Lionel Clément Alexandra Kinyon 184-191 Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting Jonas Kuhn 192-199 A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying Gerald Penn Cosmin Munteanu 200-207 Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text Andrew Gordon Abe Kazemzadeh Anish Nair Milena Petrova 208-215 Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods Hai Leong Chieu Hwee Tou Ng Yoong Keok Lee 216-223 An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition Kiyoshi Sudo Satoshi Sekine Ralph Grishman 224-231 Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection Ayman Farahat Francine Chen Thorsten Brants 232-239 Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems Ryuichiro Higashinaka Mikio Nakano Kiyoaki Aikawa 240-247 Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches Gang Wang Tat-Seng Chua Yong-Cheng Wang 248-255 Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems Kazunori Komatani Shinichi Ueno Tatsuya Kawahara Hiroshi G. Okuno 256-263 Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture Charles B. Callaway 264-271 Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation Jianfeng Gao Mu Li Chang-Ning Huang 272-279 Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency Mathias Creutz 280-287 Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data Martin Jansche 288-295 Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging Jin-Dong Kim Hae-Chang Rim Jun'ichi Tsujii 296-302 Chunk-Based Statistical Translation Taro Watanabe Eiichiro Sumita Hiroshi G. Okuno 303-310 Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases Philipp Koehn Kevin Knight 311-318 Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models Ashish Venugopal Stephan Vogel Alex Waibel 319-326 Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm Yunbo Cao Hang Li Li Lian 327-334 A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners Cheng Niu Wei Li Jihong Ding Rohini Srihari 335-342 Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns Roman Yangarber 343-350 k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings Denis Béchet Annie Foret 351-358 Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure Julia Hockenmaier 359-366 Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints Joachim Niehren Stefan Thater 367-374 Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization Dragomir R. Radev Simone Teufel Horacio Saggion Wai Lam John Blitzer Hong Qi Arda Çelebi Danyu Liu Elliott Drabek 375-382 Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship Akiko Aizawa 383-390 Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus Monica Rogati Scott McCarley Yiming Yang 391-398 Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation Young-Suk Lee Kishore Papineni Salim Roukos Ossama Emam Hany Hassan 399-406 Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Daichi Hayakawa Masato Takeichi 407-414 A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition William Gregory Sakas 415-422 Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing Dan Klein Christopher D. Manning 423-430 Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods Péter Dienes Amit Dubey 431-438 Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? Roger Levy Christopher D. Manning 439-446 Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation Kenji Imamura Eiichiro Sumita Yuji Matsumoto 447-454 Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study Hwee Tou Ng Bin Wang Yee Seng Chan 455-462 Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data Timothy Baldwin Francis Bond 463-470 A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction Do-Gil Lee Hae-Chang Rim Heui-Seok Lim 471-478 Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese Kiyotaka Uchimoto Chikashi Nobata Atsushi Yamada Satoshi Sekine Hitoshi Isahara 479-488 Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch Erwin Marsi Martin Reynaert Antal van den Bosch Walter Daelemans Véronique Hoste 489-496 Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning Seong-Bae Park Byoung-Tak Zhang 497-504 A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking Libin Shen Aravind K. Joshi 505-512 An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs Wei Li Xiuhong Zhang Cheng Niu Yuankai Jiang Rohini K. Srihari 513-520 Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling Jianfeng Gao Hisami Suzuki 521-528 Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface William Schuler 529-536 Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation Katrin Erk Andrea Kowalski Sebastian Padó Manfred Pinkal 537-544 Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering Mirella Lapata 545-552 Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding Yukiko Nakano Gabe Reinstein Tom Stocky Justine Cassell 553-561 Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation Michel Galley Kathleen R. McKeown Eric Fosler-Lussier Hongyan Jing 562-569 The Companion Volume to the Proceedings of 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Lingui stics Proceedings of the ACL-2003 Student Research Workshop Kotaro Funakoshi Sandra Kübler Jahna Otterbacher An Ontology-based Semantic Tagger for IE system Narjès Boufaden 7-14 On the Applicability of Global Index Grammars José M. Castaño 15-22 Classifying Recognition Results for Spoken Dialog Systems Malte Gabsdil 23-30 An Adaptive Approach to Collecting Multimodal Input Anurag Gupta 31-36 Finding Non-local Dependencies: Beyond Pattern Matching Valentin Jijkoun 37-43 A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing Based on Concept Bo-Yeong Kang 44-49 A Ranking Model of Proximal and Structural Text Retrieval Based on Region Algebra Katsuya Masuda 50-57 Discourse Chunking: A Tool in Dialogue Act Tagging T. Daniel Midgley 58-63 A Computational Treatment of Korean Temporal Markers, OE and DONGAN Hyunjung Son 64-71 Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words Huihsin Tseng 72-79 High-precision Identification of Discourse New and Unique Noun Phrases Olga Uryupina 80-86 Approaches to Zero Adnominal Recognition Mitsuko Yamura-Takei 87-94 ACL-03 Interactive Posters and Demonstrations Yuji Matsumoto A Spoken Dialogue Interface for TV Operations based on Data Collected by using WOZ Method Jun Goto Yeun-Bae Kim Masaru Miyazaki Kazuteru Komine Noriyoshi Uratani 101-104 Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Masato Yamamoto Hiroshi Nakagawa 105-108 Towards Interactive Text Understanding Marc Dymetman Aurélien Max Kenji Yamada 109-112 A Prototype Text to British Sign Language (BSL) Translation System Ian Marshall Éva Sáfár 113-116 Integrating Information Extraction and Automatic Hyperlinking Stephan Busemann Witold Drozdzynski Hans-Ulrich Krieger Jakub Piskorski Ulrich Schaefer Hans Uszkoreit Feiyu Xu 117-120 Automatic Collection of Related Terms from the Web Satoshi Sato Yasuhiro Sasaki 121-124 iNeATS: Interactive Multi-Document Summarization Anton Leuski Chin-Yew Lin Eduard Hovy 125-128 An Evaluation Method of Words Tendency using Decision Tree El-Sayed Atlam Masaki Oono Jun-ichi Aoe 129-132 A Speech Translation System with Mobile Wireless Clients Kiyoshi Yamabana Ken Hanazawa Ryosuke Isotani Seiya Osada Akitoshi Okumura Takao Watanabe 133-136 A Limited-Domain English to Japanese Medical Speech Translator Built Using REGULUS 2 Manny Rayner Pierrette Bouillon Vol Van Dalsem III Hitoshi Isahara Kyoko Kanzaki Beth Ann Hockey 137-140 Bilingual Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora and Phrasal Translation to Cross-Language Information Retrieval Fatiha Sadat Masatoshi Yoshikawa Shunsuke Uemura 141-144 Automatic Error Detection in the Japanese Learners' English Spoken Data Emi Izumi Kiyotaka Uchimoto Toyomi Saiga Thepchai Supnithi Hitoshi Isahara 145-148 Dialog Navigator : A Spoken Dialog Q-A System based on Large Text Knowledge Base Yoji Kiyota Sadao Kurohashi Teruhisa Misu Kazunori Komatani Tatsuya Kawahara Fuyuko Kido 149-152 Spoken Interactive ODQA System: SPIQA Chiori Hori Takaaki Hori Hajime Tsukada Hideki Isozaki Yutaka Sasaki Eisaku Maeda 153-156 Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pairwise Alignment Koichi Yamashita Keiichi Yoshida Yukihiro Itoh 157-160 The FrameNet Data and Software Collin F. Baker Hiroaki Sato 161-164 Automatic Acquisition of Named Entity Tagged Corpus from World Wide Web Joohui An Seungwoo Lee Gary Geunbae Lee 165-168 Extraction and Verification of KO-OU Expressions from Large Corpora Atsuko Kida Eiko Yamamoto Kyoko Kanzaki Hitoshi Isahara 169-172 A Debug Tool for Practical Grammar Development Akane Yakushiji Yuka Tateisi Yusuke Miyao Naoki Yoshinaga Jun'ichi Tsujii 173-176 A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering Edward Schofield Zhiping Zheng 177-180 Deverbal Compound Noun Analysis Based on Lexical Conceptual Structure Koichi Takeuchi Kyo Kageura Teruo Koyama 181-184 Comparison between CFG Filtering Techniques for LTAG and HPSG Naoki Yoshinaga Kentaro Torisawa Jun'ichi Tsujii 185-188 Automatic Detection of Grammar Elements that Decrease Readability Masatoshi Tsuchiya Satoshi Sato 189-192 An Intelligent Procedure Assistant Built Using REGULUS 2 and ALTERF Manny Rayner Beth Ann Hockey Jim Hieronymus John Dowding Greg Aist Susana Early 193-196 Chinese Unknown Word Identification Using Character-based Tagging and Chunking Chooi Ling Goh Masayuki Asahara Yuji Matsumoto 197-200 TotalRecall: A Bilingual Concordance for Computer Assisted Translation and Language Learning Jian-Cheng Wu Kevin C. Yeh Thomas C. Chuang Wen-Chi Shei Jason S. Chang 201-204 Learning Non-Isomorphic Tree Mappings for Machine Translation Jason Eisner 205-208