Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2008)
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mirella Lapata
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Hwee Tou Ng
Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields
Jeremy Jancsary
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Johannes Matiasek
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Harald Trost
It’s a Contradiction – no, it’s not: A Case Study using Functional Relations
Alan Ritter
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Stephen Soderland
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Doug Downey
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Oren Etzioni
Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction
Yunyao Li
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Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
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Sriram Raghavan
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Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
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H. V. Jagadish
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
Omar Zaidan
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Jason Eisner
One-Class Clustering in the Text Domain
Ron Bekkerman
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Koby Crammer
Refining Generative Language Models using Discriminative Learning
Ben Sandbank
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text
Shane Bergsma
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Dekang Lin
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Randy Goebel
Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank
Richard Johansson
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Pierre Nugues
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Stefan Schoenmackers
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Oren Etzioni
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Daniel Weld
Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
Qun Liu
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Zhongjun He
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Yang Liu
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Shouxun Lin
Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems
Xiaodong He
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Mei Yang
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Jianfeng Gao
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Patrick Nguyen
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Robert Moore
Coarse-to-Fine Syntactic Machine Translation using Language Projections
Slav Petrov
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Aria Haghighi
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Dan Klein
Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification
Jun Zhao
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Kang Liu
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Gen Wang
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
Carmen Banea
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Rada Mihalcea
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Janyce Wiebe
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Samer Hassan
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation
David Smith
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Jason Eisner
Stacking Dependency Parsers
André Filipe Torres Martins
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Dipanjan Das
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Noah A. Smith
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Eric P. Xing
Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing
Xinying Song
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Shilin Ding
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Chin-Yew Lin
Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression
Katja Filippova
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Michael Strube
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
Emily Pitler
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Ani Nenkova
Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora
Chris Callison-Burch
Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction
Haitao Mi
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Liang Huang
Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation
Phil Blunsom
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Miles Osborne
Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features
David Chiang
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Yuval Marton
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Philip Resnik
A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input
Roger Levy
Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems
Shaolin Qu
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Joyce Chai
Cheap and Fast – But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks
Rion Snow
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Brendan O’Connor
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Daniel Jurafsky
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Andrew Ng
HotSpots: Visualizing Edits to a Text
Srinivas Bangalore
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David Smith
Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference
Alex Baron
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Marjorie Freedman
Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
Yassine Benajiba
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Mona Diab
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Paolo Rosso
Understanding the Value of Features for Coreference Resolution
Eric Bengtson
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Dan Roth
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Yllias Chali
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Shafiq Joty
Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model
John DeNero
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Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
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Dan Klein
Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy
Weiwei Ding
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Baobao Chang
Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation
Jacob Eisenstein
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Regina Barzilay
A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers
Jianfeng Gao
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Mark Johnson
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
Dan Goldwasser
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Dan Roth
Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models
David Hall
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Daniel Jurafsky
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Christopher D. Manning
Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Saša Hasan
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Juri Ganitkevitch
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Hermann Ney
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Jesús Andrés-Ferrer
A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web
Shinsuke Higuchi
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Rafal Rzepka
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Kenji Araki
When Harry Met Harri: Cross-lingual Name Spelling Normalization
Fei Huang
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Ahmad Emami
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Imed Zitouni
A Dependency-based Word Subsequence Kernel
Rohit Kate
Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models
Jung-Tae Lee
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Sang-Bum Kim
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Young-In Song
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Hae-Chang Rim
Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce
Jimmy Lin
Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints
Yugo Murawaki
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Sadao Kurohashi
Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles
Ramesh Nallapati
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Christopher D. Manning
A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations
Naoaki Okazaki
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Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
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Sophia Ananiadou
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Jun’ichi Tsujii
Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units
Marco Pennacchiotti
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Diego De Cao
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Roberto Basili
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Danilo Croce
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Michael Roth
Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation
Stephan Raaijmakers
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Khiet Truong
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Theresa Wilson
Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains
Laura Rimell
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Stephen Clark
Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions
Germán Sanchis-Trilles
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Daniel Ortiz-Martínez
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Jorge Civera
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Francisco Casacuberta
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Enrique Vidal
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Hieu Hoang
LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction
Libin Shen
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Aravind Joshi
Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model
Lei Shi
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Ming Zhou
HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts
Congkai Sun
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Bin Gao
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Zhenfu Cao
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Hang Li
A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists
Hirotoshi Taira
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Sanae Fujita
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Masaaki Nagata
Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection
David Vickrey
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Aaron Bronzan
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William Choi
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Aman Kumar
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Jason Turner-Maier
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Arthur Wang
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Daphne Koller
Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns
Stephen Wan
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Robert Dale
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Mark Dras
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Cécile Paris
Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis
Xiaojun Wan
A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Yue Zhang
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Stephen Clark
Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Bing Zhao
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Yaser Al-onaizan
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks
Partha Pratim Talukdar
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Joseph Reisinger
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Marius Paşca
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Deepak Ravichandran
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Rahul Bhagat
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Fernando Pereira
Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora
Nicholas Andrews
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Naren Ramakrishnan
Mention Detection Crossing the Language Barrier
Imed Zitouni
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Radu Florian
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms
David Chiang
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Steve DeNeefe
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Yee Seng Chan
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Hwee Tou Ng
Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Roy Tromble
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Shankar Kumar
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Franz Och
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Wolfgang Macherey
Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective
Markos Mylonakis
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Khalil Sima’an
Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng
Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic
Hoifung Poon
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Pedro Domingos
Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution
Pascal Denis
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Jason Baldridge
Learning with Probabilistic Features for Improved Pipeline Models
Razvan Bunescu
Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training
Hal Daumé III
Online Methods for Multi-Domain Learning and Adaptation
Mark Dredze
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Koby Crammer
Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering
Nathanael Chambers
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Daniel Jurafsky
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Nianwen Xue
Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts
Roser Morante
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Anthony Liekens
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Walter Daelemans
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Wolfgang Macherey
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Franz Och
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Ignacio Thayer
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Jakob Uszkoreit
Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation
Arul Menezes
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Chris Quirk
Predicting Success in Machine Translation
Alexandra Birch
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Miles Osborne
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Philipp Koehn
An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization
Xiaojun Wan
Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization with Encyclopedic Knowledge and Spreading Activation
Vivi Nastase
Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations
Gabriel Murray
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Giuseppe Carenini
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
Wei Lu
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Hwee Tou Ng
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Wee Sun Lee
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Luke S. Zettlemoyer
Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis
Yejin Choi
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Claire Cardie
A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference
Bill MacCartney
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Michel Galley
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Christopher D. Manning
Attacking Decipherment Problems Optimally with Low-Order N-gram Models
Sujith Ravi
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Kevin Knight
Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition
Xinhao Wang
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Jiazhong Nie
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Dingsheng Luo
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Xihong Wu
N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation
Bo-June Paul Hsu
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James Glass
Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network
Gregor Leusch
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Evgeny Matusov
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Hermann Ney
A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model
Michel Galley
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Christopher D. Manning
Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora
Matthew Snover
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Bonnie Dorr
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Richard Schwartz
Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing
Slav Petrov
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Dan Klein
Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing)
David Burkett
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Dan Klein
Automatic Prediction of Parser Accuracy
Sujith Ravi
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Kevin Knight
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Radu Soricut
A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context
Katrin Erk
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Sebastian Padó
Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text
Einat Minkov
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William W. Cohen
A Graph-theoretic Model of Lexical Syntactic Acquisition
Hinrich Schütze
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Michael Walsh
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Zhiheng Huang
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Marcus Thint
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Zengchang Qin
CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation
Baoli Li
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Yandong Liu
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Eugene Agichtein
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
Richard C. Wang
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Nico Schlaefer
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William W. Cohen
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Eric Nyberg
Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning
Ananlada Chotimongkol
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Alexander Rudnicky
Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis
Juan Huerta
Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points
Thamar Solorio
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Yang Liu
Computing Word-Pair Antonymy
Saif Mohammad
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Bonnie Dorr
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Graeme Hirst
Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features
Chikara Hashimoto
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Daisuke Kawahara
Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study
Zhi Zhong
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Hwee Tou Ng
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Yee Seng Chan
Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms
Mamoru Komachi
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Taku Kudo
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Masashi Shimbo
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Yuji Matsumoto
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Cory Barr
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Rosie Jones
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Moira Regelson
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
Zhifei Li
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David Yarowsky
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
Benjamin Snyder
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Tahira Naseem
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Jacob Eisenstein
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Regina Barzilay
Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text
Thamar Solorio
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Yang Liu
Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking
Yixuan Liu
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Bin Wang
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Fan Ding
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Sheng Xu
An Analysis of Active Learning Strategies for Sequence Labeling Tasks
Burr Settles
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Mark Craven
Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods
Markus Dreyer
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Jason Smith
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Jason Eisner
Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification
Amarnag Subramanya
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Jeff Bilmes