bib (full) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Pierre Isabelle | Eugene Charniak | Dekang Lin

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Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Finite-State Transducers
Jason Eisner

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Sequential Conditional Generalized Iterative Scaling
Joshua Goodman

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Generation as Dependency Parsing
Alexander Koller | Kristina Striegnitz

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Machine-learned contexts for linguistic operations in German sentence realization
Michael Gamon | Eric Ringger | Simon Corston-Oliver | Robert Moore

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Performance Issues and Error Analysis in an Open-Domain Question Answering System
Dan Moldovan | Marius Pasca | Sanda Harabagiu | Mihai Surdeanu

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Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering System
Deepak Ravichandran | Eduard Hovy

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OT Syntax – Decidability of Generation-based Optimization
Jonas Kuhn

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Phonological Comprehension and the Compilation of Optimality Theory
Jason Eisner

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Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures
Gerald Penn

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Ellipsis Resolution with Underspecified Scope
Michael Schiehlen

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Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities
Donna K. Byron

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Pronominalization in Generated Discourse and Dialogue
Charles B. Callaway | James C. Lester

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Generating Minimal Definite Descriptions
Claire Gardent

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Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng | Claire Cardie

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Parsing non-recursive CFGs
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

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Active Learning for Statistical Natural Language Parsing
Min Tang | Xiaoqiang Luo | Salim Roukos

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A Generative Constituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction
Dan Klein | Christopher D. Manning

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A Simple Pattern-matching Algorithm for Recovering Empty Nodes and their Antecedents
Mark Johnson

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Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction
Kristina Toutanova | Robert Moore

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Measuring Text Reuse
Paul Clough | Robert Gaizauskas | Scott S.L. Piao | Yorick Wilks

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Semi-Supervised Maximum Entropy Based Approach to Acronym and Abbreviation Normalization in Medical Texts
Serguei Pakhomov

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GATE: an Architecture for Development of Robust HLT applications
Hamish Cunningham | Diana Maynard | Kalina Bontcheva | Valentin Tablan

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Improving Language Model Size Reduction using Better Pruning Criteria
Jianfeng Gao | Min Zhang

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Exploring Asymmetric Clustering for Statistical Language Modeling
Jianfeng Gao | Joshua Goodman | Guihong Cao | Hang Li

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A Study on Richer Syntactic Dependencies for Structured Language Modeling
Peng Xu | Ciprian Chelba | Frederick Jelinek

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Entropy Rate Constancy in Text
Dmitriy Genzel | Eugene Charniak

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A Multilingual Paradigm for Automatic Verb Classification
Paola Merlo | Suzanne Stevenson | Vivian Tsang | Gianluca Allaria

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Verb Paraphrase based on Case Frame Alignment
Nobuhiro Kaji | Daisuke Kawahara | Sadao Kurohashi | Satoshi Sato

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Inducing German Semantic Verb Classes from Purely Syntactic Subcategorisation Information
Sabine Schulte im Walde | Chris Brew

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Scaling Context Space
James Curran | Marc Moens

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The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate Argument Recognition
Daniel Gildea | Martha Palmer

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The Descent of Hierarchy, and Selection in Relational Semantics
Barbara Rosario | Marti Hearst | Charles Fillmore

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An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora
Mona Diab | Philip Resnik

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New Ranking Algorithms for Parsing and Tagging: Kernels over Discrete Structures, and the Voted Perceptron
Michael Collins | Nigel Duffy

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Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques
Stefan Riezler | Tracy H. King | Ronald M. Kaplan | Richard Crouch | John T. Maxwell III | Mark Johnson

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Dynamic programming for parsing and estimation of stochastic unification-based grammars
Stuart Geman | Mark Johnson

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Markov Parsing: Lattice Rescoring with a Statistical Parser
Brian Roark

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Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Franz Josef Och | Hermann Ney

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A Decoder for Syntax-based Statistical MT
Kenji Yamada | Kevin Knight

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Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
Kishore Papineni | Salim Roukos | Todd Ward | Wei-Jing Zhu

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Coupling CCG and Hybrid Logic Dependency Semantics
Jason Baldridge | Geert-Jan Kruijff

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Building Deep Dependency Structures using a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser
Stephen Clark | Julia Hockenmaier | Mark Steedman

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Generative Models for Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Julia Hockenmaier | Mark Steedman

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Word Translation Disambiguation Using Bilingual Bootstrapping
Cong Li | Hang Li

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Applying Co-Training to Reference Resolution
Christoph Mueller | Stefan Rapp | Michael Strube

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Bootstrapping
Steven Abney

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An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations
Daniel Marcu | Abdessamad Echihabi

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MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Michael Johnston | Srinivas Bangalore | Gunaranjan Vasireddy | Amanda Stent | Patrick Ehlen | Marilyn Walker | Steve Whittaker | Preetam Maloor

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What’s the Trouble: Automatically Identifying Problematic Dialogues in DARPA Communicator Dialogue Systems
Helen Wright Hastie | Rashmi Prasad | Marilyn Walker

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Evaluating Translational Correspondence using Annotation Projection
Rebecca Hwa | Philip Resnik | Amy Weinberg | Okan Kolak

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Translating Named Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
Yaser Al-Onaizan | Kevin Knight

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Using Similarity Scoring to Improve the Bilingual Dictionary for Sub-sentential Alignment
Katharina Probst | Ralf Brown

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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews
Peter Turney

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Is It the Right Answer? Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation
Bernardo Magnini | Matteo Negri | Roberto Prevete | Hristo Tanev

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Shallow Parsing on the Basis of Words Only: A Case Study
Antal van den Bosch | Sabine Buchholz

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An Integrated Archictecture for Shallow and Deep Processing
Berthold Crysmann | Anette Frank | Bernd Kiefer | Stefan Mueller | Guenter Neumann | Jakub Piskorski | Ulrich Schaefer | Melanie Siegel | Hans Uszkoreit | Feiyu Xu | Markus Becker | Hans-Ulrich Krieger

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A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression
Hal Daume III | Daniel Marcu

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From Single to Multi-document Summarization
Chin-Yew Lin | Eduard Hovy

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Supervised Ranking in Open-Domain Text Summarization
Tadashi Nomoto | Yuji Matsumoto

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Named Entity Recognition using an HMM-based Chunk Tagger
GuoDong Zhou | Jian Su

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Teaching a Weaker Classifier: Named Entity Recognition on Upper Case Text
Hai Leong Chieu | Hwee Tou Ng

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Ranking Algorithms for Named Entity Extraction: Boosting and the VotedPerceptron
Michael Collins

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Revision Learning and its Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging
Tetsuji Nakagawa | Taku Kudo | Yuji Matsumoto

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An Empirical Study of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines forJapanese Word Segmentation
Manabu Sassano

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Memory-Based Learning of Morphology with Stochastic Transducers
Alexander Clark