Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2001) - ACL Anthology

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2001)

Volumes

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 71 papers
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) CoNLL 27 papers

bib (full) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Invited Talk: Interpreting the Human Genome Sequence, Using Stochastic Grammars
Richard Durbin

Invited Talk: Processing Broadcast Audio for Information Access
Jean-Luc Gauvain | Lori Lamel | Gilles Adda | Martine Adda-Decker | Claude Barras | Langzhou Chen | Yannick de Kercadio

Improvement of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model Using Grammatical Features
Fredy A. Amaya | José Miguel Benedí

Low-cost, High-performance Translation Retrieval: Dumber is Better
Timothy Baldwin

Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
Michele Banko | Eric Brill

Evaluation Tool for Rule-based Anaphora Resolution Methods
Catalina Barbu | Ruslan Mitkov

Guided Parsing of Range Concatenation Languages
François Barthélemy | Pierre Boullier | Philippe Deschamp | Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie

Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus
Regina Barzilay | Kathleen R. McKeown

Alternative Phrases and Natural Language Information Retrieval
Gann Bierner

What is the Minimal Set of Fragments that Achieves Maximal Parse Accuracy?
Rens Bod

Underspecified Beta Reduction
Manuel Bodirsky | Katrin Erk | Alexander Koller | Joachim Niehren

Detecting Problematic Turns in Human-Machine Interactions: Rule-induction Versus Memory-based Learning Approaches
Antal van den Bosch | Emiel Krahmer | Marc Swerts

Chinese Text Segmentation With MBDP-1: Making the Most of Training Corpora
Michael R. Brent | Xiaopeng Tao

Towards Automatic Classification of Discourse Elements in Essays
Jill Burstein | Daniel Marcu | Slava Andreyev | Martin Chodorow

From RAGS to RICHES: Exploiting the Potential of a Flexible Generation Architecture
Lynne Cahill | John Carroll | Roger Evans | Daniel Paiva | Richard Power | Donia Scott | Kees van Deemter

Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure
Justine Cassell | Yukiko Nakano | Timothy W. Bickmore | Candace L. Sidner | Charles Rich

Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models
Eugene Charniak

Constraints on Strong Generative Power
David Chiang

An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars
Ann Copestake | Alex Lascarides | Dan Flickinger

A Machine Learning Approach to the Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
Simon Corston-Oliver | Michael Gamon | Chris Brockett

Grammars for Local and Long Dependencies
Alexander Dikovsky

Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition
John Dowding | Beth Ann Hockey | Jean Mark Gawron | Christopher Culy

Empirically Estimating Order Constraints for Content Planning in Generation
Pablo A. Duboue | Kathleen R. McKeown

Topological Dependency Trees: A Constraint-Based Account of Linear Precedence
Denys Duchier | Ralph Debusmann

Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures
Stefan Evert | Brigitte Krenn

Organizing Encyclopedic Knowledge based on the Web and its Application to Question Answering
Atsushi Fujii | Tetsuya Ishikawa

Refined Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation using a Maximum Entropy Approach
Ismael García-Varea | Franz J. Och | Hermann Ney | Francisco Casacuberta

Generating with a Grammar Based on Tree Descriptions: a Constraint-Based Approach
Claire Gardent | Stefan Thater

Word Order in German: A Formal Dependency Grammar Using a Topological Hierarchy
Kim Gerdes | Sylvain Kahane

Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation
Ulrich Germann | Michael Jahr | Kevin Knight | Daniel Marcu | Kenji Yamada

Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification
Jonathan Ginzburg | Robin Cooper

Mapping Lexical Entries in a Verbs Database to WordNet Senses
Rebecca Green | Lisa Pearl | Bonnie J. Dorr | Philip Resnik

Towards Abstract Categorial Grammars
Philippe de Groote

XML-Based Data Preparation for Robust Deep Parsing
Claire Grover | Alex Lascarides

Serial Combination of Rules and Statistics: A Case Study in Czech Tagging
Jan Hajic | Pavel Krbec | Pavel Kveton | Karel Oliva | Vladimir Petkevic

Topic-focus and Salience
Eva Hajičová | Petr Sgall

The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering
Sanda Harabagiu | Dan Moldovan | Marius Paşca | Rada Mihalcea | Mihai Surdeanu | Răzvan Bunescu | Roxana Gîrju | Vasile Rus | Paul Morărescu

Generation of VP Ellipsis: A Corpus-Based Approach
Daniel Hardt | Owen Rambow

Information Extraction from Voicemail
Jing Huang | Geoffrey Zweig | Mukund Padmanabhan

A Common Framework for Syntactic Annotation
Nancy Ide | Laurent Romary

Japanese Named Entity Recognition based on a Simple Rule Generator and Decision Tree Learning
Hideki Isozaki

Joint and Conditional Estimation of Tagging and Parsing Models
Mark Johnson

A Language Independent Shallow-Parser Compiler
Alexandra Kinyon

Parsing with Treebank Grammars: Empirical Bounds, Theoretical Models, and the Structure of the Penn Treebank
Dan Klein | Christopher D. Manning

From Chunks to Function-Argument Structure: A Similarity-Based Approach
Sandra Kübler | Erhard W. Hinrichs

Evaluating Smoothing Algorithms against Plausibility Judgements
Maria Lapata | Frank Keller | Scott McDonald

Extending Lambek Grammars: a Logical Account of Minimalist Grammars
Alain Lecomte | Christian Retoré

Predicting User Reactions to System Error
Diane Litman | Julia Hirschberg | Marc Swerts

Building Semantic Perceptron Net for Topic Spotting
Jimin Liu | Tat-Seng Chua

Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation
Daniel Marcu

Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners
Lisa N. Michaud | Kathleen F. McCoy

Logic Form Transformation of WordNet and its Applicability to Question Answering
Dan Moldovan | Vasile Rus

Automatic Detection of Syllable Boundaries Combining the Advantages of Treebank and Bracketed Corpora Training
Karin Müller

Tractability and Structural Closures in Attribute Logic Type Signatures
Gerald Penn

Using Machine Learning to Maintain Rule-based Named-Entity Recognition and Classification Systems
Georgios Petasis | Frantz Vichot | Francis Wolinski | Georgios Paliouras | Vangelis Karkaletsis | Constantine D. Spyropoulos

Evaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue System
Owen Rambow | Monica Rogati | Marilyn A. Walker

Using a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate an NLG System
Ehud Reiter | Roma Robertson | A. Scott Lennox | Liesl Osman

Evaluating CETEMPúblico, a Free Resource for Portuguese
Diana Santos | Paulo Rocha

Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics
Barry Schiffman | Inderjeet Mani | Kristian Concepcion

Parse Forest Computation of Expected Governors
Helmut Schmid | Mats Rooth

Computational Properties of Environment-based Disambiguation
William Schuler

Incremental Construction of Compact Acyclic NFAs
Kyriakos N. Sgarbas | Nikos D. Fakotakis | George K. Kokkinakis

A Bayesian Model For Morpheme and Paradigm Identification
Matthew G. Snover | Michael R. Brent

A Statistical Model for Domain-Independent Text Segmentation
Masao Utiyama | Hitoshi Isahara

A Generic Approach to Parallel Chart Parsing with an Application to LinGO
Marcel P. Van Lohuizen

Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems
Marilyn A. Walker | Rebecca Passonneau | Julie E. Boland

A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model
Kenji Yamada | Kevin Knight

Multi-Class Composite N-gram Language Model for Spoken Language Processing Using Multiple Word Clusters
Hirofumi Yamamoto | Shuntaro Isogai | Yoshinori Sagisaka

Text Chunking using Regularized Winnow
Tong Zhang | Fred Damerau | David Johnson

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Interpret WH-questions
Ingrid Zukerman | Eric Horvitz

bib (full) Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Multidimensional transformation-based learning
Radu Florian | Grace Ngai

Combining a self-organising map with memory-based learning
James Hammerton | Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

Learning class-to-class selectional preferences
Eneko Agirre | David Martinez

Semantic pattern learning through maximum entropy-based WSD technique
Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda | Armando Suárez | Manuel Palomar

Automatic verb classification using multilingual resources
Vivian Tsang | Suzanne Stevenson

Exploring evidence for shallow parsing
Xin Li | Dan Roth

Probabilistic models for PP-attachment resolution and NP analysis
Eric Gaussier | Nicola Cancedda

Introduction to the CoNLL-2001 shared task: clause identification
Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang | Hervé Déjean

A mixture-of-experts framework for text classification
Andrew Estabrooks | Nathalie Japkowicz

On minimizing training corpus for parser acquisition
Rebecca Hwa

Morpholog: Constrained and Supervised Learning of Morphology
Rémi Zajac

Learning Computational Grammars
John Nerbonne | Anja Belz | Nicola Cancedda | Hervé Déjean | James Hammerton | Rob Koeling | Stasinos Konstantopoulos | Miles Osborne | Franck Thollard | Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

Unsupervised induction of stochastic context-free grammars using distributional clustering
Alexander Clark

Distributional phrase structure induction
Dan Klein | Christopher D. Manning

Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the case of prepositional phrases
Paola Merlo | Matthias Leybold

Learning to identify animate references
Constantin Orasan | Richard Evans

Coreference resolution with syntactico-semantic rules and corpus statistics
Sven Hartrumpf

Inducing probabilistic invertible translation grammars from aligned texts
Michael Carl

Combining linguistic and machine learning techniques for email summarization
Smaranda Muresan | Evelyne Tzoukermann | Judith L. Klavans

A psychologically plausible and computationally effective approach to learning syntax
Stephen Watkinson | Suresh Manandhar

Boosted decision graphs for NLP learning tasks
Jon D. Patrick | Ishaan Goyal

Clause identification with long short-term memory
James Hammerton

Using ALLiS for clausing
Hervé Déjean

Memory-based clause identification
Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

Clause detection using HMM
Antonio Molina | Ferran Pla

Boosting trees for clause splitting
Xavier Carreras | Lluís Màrquez