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bib (full) Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing

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Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing
K. Bretonnel Cohen | Bob Carpenter

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Increasing Maintainability of NLP Evaluation Modules Through Declarative Implementations
Terry Heinze | Marc Light

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Type-checking in Formally Non-typed Systems
Dick Crouch | Tracy Holloway King

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zymake: A Computational Workflow System for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Eric Breck

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Evaluating the Effects of Treebank Size in a Practical Application for Parsing
Kenji Sagae | Yusuke Miyao | Rune Saetre | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Adapting Naturally Occurring Test Suites for Evaluation of Clinical Question Answering
Dina Demner-Fushman

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Software Testing and the Naturally Occurring Data Assumption in Natural Language Processing
K. Bretonnel Cohen | William A. Baumgartner Jr. | Lawrence Hunter

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Building a BioWordNet Using WordNet Data Structures and WordNet’s Software Infrastructure–A Failure Story
Michael Poprat | Elena Beisswanger | Udo Hahn

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Fast, Scalable and Reliable Generation of Controlled Natural Language
David Hardcastle | Richard Power

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Parallel Implementations of Word Alignment Tool
Qin Gao | Stephan Vogel

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Design of the Moses Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
Hieu Hoang | Philipp Koehn

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Buckwalter-based Lookup Tool as Language Resource for Arabic Language Learners
Jeffrey Micher | Clare Voss

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Reengineering a Domain-Independent Framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Filipe M. Martins | Ana Mendes | Mácio Freitas Viveiros | Joana Paulo Pardal | Pedro Arez | Nuno J. Mamede | João Paulo Neto

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bib (full) Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications

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Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications
Pierrette Bouillon | Farzad Ehsani | Robert Frederking | Michael McTear | Manny Rayner

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Mitigation of Data Sparsity in Classifier-Based Translation
Emil Ettelaie | Panayiotis G. Georgiou | Shrikanth S. Narayanan

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Speech Translation with Grammatical Framework
Björn Bringert

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An Integrated Dialog Simulation Technique for Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems
Sangkeun Jung | Cheongjae Lee | Kyungduk Kim | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Economical Global Access to a VoiceXML Gateway Using Open Source Technologies
Kulwinder Singh | Dong-Won Park

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Interoperability and Knowledge Representation in Distributed Health and Fitness Companion Dialogue System
Jaakko Hakulinen | Markku Turunen

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The 2008 MedSLT System
Manny Rayner | Pierrette Bouillon | Jane Brotanek | Glenn Flores | Sonia Halimi | Beth Ann Hockey | Hitoshi Isahara | Kyoko Kanzaki | Elisabeth Kron | Yukie Nakao | Marianne Santaholma | Marianne Starlander | Nikos Tsourakis

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Language Understanding in Maryland Virtual Patient
Sergei Nirenburg | Stephen Beale | Marjorie McShane | Bruce Jarrell | George Fantry

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Rapid Portability among Domains in an Interactive Spoken Language Translation System
Mark Seligman | Mike Dillinger

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Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phonecalls in Minority Languages
Udhyakumar Nallasamy | Alan Black | Tanja Schultz | Robert Frederking | Jerry Weltman

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Speech to Speech Translation for Nurse Patient Interaction
Farzad Ehsani | Jim Kimzey | Elaine Zuber | Demitrios Master | Karen Sudre

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A Small-Vocabulary Shared Task for Medical Speech Translation
Manny Rayner | Pierrette Bouillon | Glenn Flores | Farzad Ehsani | Marianne Starlander | Beth Ann Hockey | Jane Brotanek | Lukas Biewald

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bib (full) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Joel Tetreault | Jill Burstein | Rachele De Felice

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Developing Online ICALL Resources for Russian
Markus Dickinson | Joshua Herring

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Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System
Rodney D. Nielsen | Wayne Ward | James H. Martin

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King Alfred: A Translation Environment for Learners of Anglo-Saxon English
Lisa N. Michaud

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Recognizing Noisy Romanized Japanese Words in Learner English
Ryo Nagata | Jun-ichi Kakegawa | Hiromi Sugimoto | Yukiko Yabuta

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An Annotated Corpus Outside Its Original Context: A Corpus-Based Exercise Book
Barbora Hladká | Ondřej Kučera

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Answering Learners’ Questions by Retrieving Question Paraphrases from Social Q&A Sites
Delphine Bernhard | Iryna Gurevych

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Learner Characteristics and Feedback in Tutorial Dialogue
Kristy Boyer | Robert Phillips | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester

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Automatic Identification of Discourse Moves in Scientific Article Introductions
Nick Pendar | Elena Cotos

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An Analysis of Statistical Models and Features for Reading Difficulty Prediction
Michael Heilman | Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Maxine Eskenazi

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Retrieval of Reading Materials for Vocabulary and Reading Practice
Michael Heilman | Le Zhao | Juan Pino | Maxine Eskenazi

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Real Time Web Text Classification and Analysis of Reading Difficulty
Eleni Miltsakaki | Audrey Troutt

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Towards Automatic Scoring of a Test of Spoken Language with Heterogeneous Task Types
Klaus Zechner | Xiaoming Xi

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Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions
Stacey Bailey | Detmar Meurers

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bib (full) Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Dina Demner-Fushman | Sophia Ananiadou | Kevin Bretonnel Cohen | John Pestian | Jun’ichi Tsujii | Bonnie Webber

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A Graph Kernel for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction
Antti Airola | Sampo Pyysalo | Jari Björne | Tapio Pahikkala | Filip Ginter | Tapio Salakoski

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Extracting Clinical Relationships from Patient Narratives
Angus Roberts | Robert Gaizauskas | Mark Hepple

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Using Automated Feature Optimisation to Create an Adaptable Relation Extraction System
Barry Haddow

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Mining the Biomedical Literature for Genic Information
Catalina O. Tudor | K. Vijay-Shanker | Carl J. Schmidt

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Accelerating the Annotation of Sparse Named Entities by Dynamic Sentence Selection
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Jun’ichi Tsujii | Sophia Ananiadou

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The BioScope corpus: annotation for negation, uncertainty and their scope in biomedical texts
György Szarvas | Veronika Vincze | Richárd Farkas | János Csirik

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Recognizing Speculative Language in Biomedical Research Articles: A Linguistically Motivated Perspective
Halil Kilicoglu | Sabine Bergler

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Cascaded Classifiers for Confidence-Based Chemical Named Entity Recognition
Peter Corbett | Ann Copestake

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How to Make the Most of NE Dictionaries in Statistical NER
Yutaka Sasaki | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | John McNaught | Sophia Ananiadou

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Species Disambiguation for Biomedical Term Identification
Xinglong Wang | Michael Matthews

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Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation of Biomedical Text
Mark Stevenson | Yinkun Guo | Robert Gaizauskas | David Martinez

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Automatic inference of indexing rules for MEDLINE
Aurélie Névéol | Sonya Shooshan | Vincent Claveau

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Prediction of Protein Sub-cellular Localization using Information from Texts and Sequences.
Hong-Woo Chun | Chisato Yamasaki | Naomi Saichi | Masayuki Tanaka | Teruyoshi Hishiki | Tadashi Imanishi | Takashi Gojobori | Jin-Dong Kim | Jun’ichi Tsujii | Toshihisa Takagi

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A Pilot Annotation to Investigate Discourse Connectivity in Biomedical Text
Hong Yu | Nadya Frid | Susan McRoy | Rashmi Prasad | Alan Lee | Aravind Joshi

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Conditional Random Fields and Support Vector Machines for Disorder Named Entity Recognition in Clinical Texts
Dingcheng Li | Guergana Savova | Karin Kipper-Schuler

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Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Suicide Notes
John Pestian | Pawel Matykiewicz | Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan | Sarah Arszman Lavanier | Jennifer Combs | Robert Kowatch

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Extracting Protein-Protein Interaction based on Discriminative Training of the Hidden Vector State Model
Deyu Zhou | Yulan He

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A preliminary approach to extract drugs by combining UMLS resources and USAN naming conventions
Isabel Segura-Bedmar | Paloma Martínez | Doaa Samy

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Mapping Clinical Notes to Medical Terminologies at Point of Care
Yefeng Wang | Jon Patrick

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An Approach to Reducing Annotation Costs for BioNLP
Michael Bloodgood | K. Vijay-Shanker

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Temporal Annotation of Clinical Text
Danielle Mowery | Henk Harkema | Wendy Chapman

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CBR-Tagger: a case-based reasoning approach to the gene/protein mention problem
Mariana Neves | Monica Chagoyen | José María Carazo | Alberto Pascual-Montano

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Textual Information for Predicting Functional Properties of the Genes
Oana Frunza | Diana Inkpen

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Determining causal and non-causal relationships in biomedical text by classifying verbs using a Naive Bayesian Classifier
Pieter van der Horn | Bart Bakker | Gijs Geleijnse | Jan Korst | Sergei Kurkin

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Statistical Term Profiling for Query Pattern Mining
Paul Buitelaar | Pinar Oezden Wennerberg | Sonja Zillner

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Using Language Models to Identify Language Impairment in Spanish-English Bilingual Children
Thamar Solorio | Yang Liu

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Raising the Compatibility of Heterogeneous Annotations: A Case Study on
Yue Wang | Kazuhiro Yoshida | Jin-Dong Kim | Rune Saetre | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Adaptive Information Extraction for Complex Biomedical Tasks
Donghui Feng | Gully Burns | Eduard Hovy

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bib (full) Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (COGALEX 2008)

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Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (COGALEX 2008)
Michael Zock | Chu-Ren Huang

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Comparing Lexical Relationships Observed within Japanese Collocation Data and Japanese Word Association Norms
Terry Joyce | Irena Srdanović

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Lexical access based on underspecified input
Michael Zock | Didier Schwab

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Accessing the ANW Dictionary
Fons Moerdijk | Carole Tiberius | Jan Niestadt

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ProPOSEL: a human-oriented prosody and PoS English lexicon for machine-learning and NLP
Claire Brierley | Eric Atwell

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Natural Language Searching in Onomasiological Dictionaries
Gerardo Sierra

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First ideas of user-adapted views of lexicographic data exemplified on OWID and elexiko
Carolin Möller-Spitzer | Christine Möhrs

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Multilingual Conceptual Access to Lexicon based on Shared Orthography: An ontology-driven study of Chinese and Japanese
Chu-Ren Huang | Ya-Min Chou | Chiyo Hotani | Sheng-Yi Chen | Wan-Ying Lin

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Extracting Sense Trees from the Romanian Thesaurus by Sense Segmentation & Dependency Parsing
Neculai Curteanu | Alex Moruz | Diana Trandabăţ

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Lexical-Functional Correspondences and Their Use in the System of Machine Translation ETAP-3
Andreyeva Sasha

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The “Close-Distant” Relation of Adjectival Concepts Based on Self-Organizing Map
Kyoko Kanzaki | Noriko Tomuro | Hitoshi Isahara

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Looking up phrase rephrasings via a pivot language
Aurélien Max | Michael Zock

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Toward a cognitive organization for electronic dictionaries, the case for semantic proxemy
Bruno Gaume | Karine Duvignau | Laurent Prévot | Yann Desalle

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Cognitively Salient Relations for Multilingual Lexicography
Gerhard Kremer | Andrea Abel | Marco Baroni

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The Computation of Associative Responses to Multiword Stimuli
Reinhard Rapp

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bib (full) CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

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CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Alexander Clark | Kristina Toutanova

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Semantic Parsing for High-Precision Semantic Role Labelling
Paola Merlo | Gabriele Musillo

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TAG, Dynamic Programming, and the Perceptron for Efficient, Feature-Rich Parsing
Xavier Carreras | Michael Collins | Terry Koo

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A Fast Boosting-based Learner for Feature-Rich Tagging and Chunking
Tomoya Iwakura | Seishi Okamoto

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Linguistic features in data-driven dependency parsing
Lilja Ovrelid

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Transforming Meaning Representation Grammars to Improve Semantic Parsing
Rohit Kate

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Using LDA to detect semantically incoherent documents
Hemant Misra | Olivier Cappé | François Yvon

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Picking them up and Figuring them out: Verb-Particle Constructions, Noise and Idiomaticity
Carlos Ramisch | Aline Villavicencio | Leonardo Moura | Marco Idiart

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Fast Mapping in Word Learning: What Probabilities Tell Us
Afra Alishahi | Afsaneh Fazly | Suzanne Stevenson

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Improving Word Segmentation by Simultaneously Learning Phonotactics
Daniel Blanchard | Jeffrey Heinz

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A MDL-based Model of Gender Knowledge Acquisition
Harmony Marchal | Benoît Lemaire | Maryse Bianco | Philippe Dessus

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Baby SRL: Modeling Early Language Acquisition.
Michael Connor | Yael Gertner | Cynthia Fisher | Dan Roth

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An Incremental Bayesian Model for Learning Syntactic Categories
Christopher Parisien | Afsaneh Fazly | Suzanne Stevenson

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Fully Unsupervised Graph-Based Discovery of General-Specific Noun Relationships from Web Corpora Frequency Counts
Gaël Dias | Raycho Mukelov | Guillaume Cleuziou

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Acquiring Knowledge from the Web to be used as Selectors for Noun Sense Disambiguation
Hansen A. Schwartz | Fernando Gomez

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Automatic Chinese Catchword Extraction Based on Time Series Analysis
Han Ren | Donghong Ji | Jing Wan | Lei Han

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Easy as ABC? Facilitating Pictorial Communication via Semantically Enhanced Layout
Andrew B. Goldberg | Xiaojin Zhu | Charles R. Dyer | Mohamed Eldawy | Lijie Heng

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A Nearest-Neighbor Approach to the Automatic Analysis of Ancient Greek Morphology
John Lee

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Context-based Arabic Morphological Analysis for Machine Translation
ThuyLinh Nguyen | Stephan Vogel

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A Tree-to-String Phrase-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Thai Phuong Nguyen | Akira Shimazu | Tu-Bao Ho | Minh Le Nguyen | Vinh Van Nguyen

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Trainable Speaker-Based Referring Expression Generation
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio | Amanda Stent | Srinivas Bangalore

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The CoNLL 2008 Shared Task on Joint Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
Mihai Surdeanu | Richard Johansson | Adam Meyers | Lluís Màrquez | Joakim Nivre

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A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Parsing for Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
James Henderson | Paola Merlo | Gabriele Musillo | Ivan Titov

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Dependency-based Syntactic–Semantic Analysis with PropBank and NomBank
Richard Johansson | Pierre Nugues

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A Joint Model for Parsing Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
Xavier Lluís | Lluís Màrquez

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Collective Semantic Role Labelling with Markov Logic
Sebastian Riedel | Ivan Meza-Ruiz

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Hybrid Learning of Dependency Structures from Heterogeneous Linguistic Resources
Yi Zhang | Rui Wang | Hans Uszkoreit

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Parsing Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies with Two Single-Stage Maximum Entropy Models
Hai Zhao | Chunyu Kit

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A Combined Memory-Based Semantic Role Labeler of English
Roser Morante | Walter Daelemans | Vincent Van Asch

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A Puristic Approach for Joint Dependency Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling
Alexander Volokh | Günter Neumann

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Discriminative Learning of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
Lu Li | Shixi Fan | Xuan Wang | Xiaolong Wang

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Discriminative vs. Generative Approaches in Semantic Role Labeling
Deniz Yuret | Mehmet Ali Yatbaz | Ahmet Engin Ural

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A Pipeline Approach for Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing
Yotaro Watanabe | Masakazu Iwatate | Masayuki Asahara | Yuji Matsumoto

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Semantic Dependency Parsing using N-best Semantic Role Sequences and Roleset Information
Joo-Young Lee | Han-Cheol Cho | Hae-Chang Rim

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A Cascaded Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing System
Wanxiang Che | Zhenghua Li | Yuxuan Hu | Yongqiang Li | Bing Qin | Ting Liu | Sheng Li

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The Integration of Dependency Relation Classification and Semantic Role Labeling Using Bilayer Maximum Entropy Markov Models
Weiwei Sun | Hongzhan Li | Zhifang Sui

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Mixing and Blending Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
Yvonne Samuelsson | Oscar Täckström | Sumithra Velupillai | Johan Eklund | Mark Fishel | Markus Saers

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Dependency Tree-based SRL with Proper Pruning and Extensive Feature Engineering
Hongling Wang | Honglin Wang | Guodong Zhou | Qiaoming Zhu

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DeSRL: A Linear-Time Semantic Role Labeling System
Massimiliano Ciaramita | Giuseppe Attardi | Felice Dell’Orletta | Mihai Surdeanu

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Probabilistic Model for Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing
Enhong Chen | Liu Shi | Dawei Hu

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Applying Sentence Simplification to the CoNLL-2008 Shared Task
David Vickrey | Daphne Koller

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Michael White | Crystal Nakatsu | David McDonald

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Prominence and Phrasing in Spoken Discourse Processing
Shari R. Speer | Kiwako Ito

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Language, Embodiment and Social Intelligence
Matthew Stone

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Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts
Seniz Demir | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen McCoy

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Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data
Ross Turner | Somayajulu Sripada | Ehud Reiter | Ian Davy

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Dependency Tree Based Sentence Compression
Katja Filippova | Michael Strube

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Extractive vs. NLG-based Abstractive Summarization of Evaluative Text: The Effect of Corpus Controversiality
Giuseppe Carenini | Jackie C. K. Cheung

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Referring Expressions as Formulas of Description Logic
Carlos Areces | Alexander Koller | Kristina Striegnitz

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Attribute Selection for Referring Expression Generation: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods
Albert Gatt | Anja Belz

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The Use of Spatial Relations in Referring Expression Generation
Jette Viethen | Robert Dale

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Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations
Ielka van der Sluis | Chris Mellish

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Practical Grammar-Based NLG from Examples
David DeVault | David Traum | Ron Artstein

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Accurate and Robust LFG-Based Generation for Chinese
Yuqing Guo | Haifeng Wang | Josef van Genabith

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Automated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent
Mary Ellen Foster

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Simple but effective feedback generation to tutor abstract problem solving
Xin Lu | Barbara Di Eugenio | Stellan Ohlsson | Davide Fossati

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What’s In a Message? Interpreting Geo-referenced Data for the Visually-impaired
Kavita Thomas | Yaji Sripada

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Evolving Questions in Text Planning
Mick O’Donnell

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The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users’ Evaluation Judgments and Input Style
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová | Ciprian Gerstenberger | Olga Kukina | Jan Schehl

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Evaluating an Ontology-Driven WYSIWYM Interface
Feikje Hielkema | Chris Mellish | Peter Edwards

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The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data
Ehud Reiter | Albert Gatt | François Portet | Marian van der Meulen

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Building a Large-scale Commercial NLG System for an EMR
Mary Dee Harris

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Degree of Abstraction in Referring Expression Generation and its Relation with the Construction of the Contrast Set
Raquel Hervás | Pablo Gervás

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Parser-Based Retraining for Domain Adaptation of Probabilistic Generators
Deirdre Hogan | Jennifer Foster | Joachim Wagner | Josef van Genabith

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Creation of a New Domain and Evaluation of Comparison Generation in a Natural Language Generation System
Matthew Marge | Amy Isard | Johanna Moore

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Generating Baseball Summaries from Multiple Perspectives by Reordering Content
Alice Oh | Howard Shrobe

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A Dynamic Programming Approach to Document Length Constraints
Keith Vander Linden

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REG Challenge Preface
Anja Belz | Albert Gatt

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The GREC Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
Anja Belz | Eric Kow | Jette Viethen | Albert Gatt

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IS-G: The Comparison of Different Learning Techniques for the Selection of the Main Subject References
Bernd Bohnet

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CNTS: Memory-Based Learning of Generating Repeated References
Iris Hendrickx | Walter Daelemans | Kim Luyckx | Roser Morante | Vincent Van Asch

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OSU-2: Generating Referring Expressions with a Maximum Entropy Classifier
Emily Jamison | Dennis Mehay

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The TUNA Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
Albert Gatt | Anja Belz | Eric Kow

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The Fingerprint of Human Referring Expressions and their Surface Realization with Graph Transducers
Bernd Bohnet

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Referring Expression Generation Using Speaker-based Attribute Selection and Trainable Realization (ATTR)
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio | Amanda J. Stent | Srinivas Bangalore

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NIL-UCM: Most-Frequent-Value-First Attribute Selection and Best-Scoring-Choice Realization
Pablo Gervás | Raquel Hervás | Carlos León

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USP-EACH Frequency-based Greedy Attribute Selection for Referring Expressions Generation
Diego Jesus de Lucena | Ivandré Paraboni

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Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008 DIT System Descriptions (DIT-FBI, DIT-TVAS, DIT-CBSR, DIT-RBR, DIT-FBI-CBSR, DIT-TVAS-RBR)
John D. Kelleher | Brian Mac Namee

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OSU-GP: Attribute Selection Using Genetic Programming
Josh King

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GRAPH: The Costs of Redundancy in Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer | Mariët Theune | Jette Viethen | Iris Hendrickx

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JU-PTBSGRE: GRE Using Prefix Tree Based Structure
Sibabrata Paladhi | Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

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From TUNA Attribute Sets to Portuguese Text: a First Report
Daniel Bastos Pereira | Ivandré Paraboni

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bib (full) Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
David Schlangen | Beth Ann Hockey

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Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System
Antoine Raux | Maxine Eskenazi

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Response-Based Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Alexander Gruenstein

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Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
Dan Bohus | Xiao Li | Patrick Nguyen | Geoffrey Zweig

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Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue
Alex Lascarides | Nicholas Asher

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Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving
Rachel Baker | Alastair Gill | Justine Cassell

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Semantic negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of alignment
Gregory Mills | Pat Healey

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Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding
Antonio Roque | David Traum

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Rapidly Deploying Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and Back-off Grammars
Tim Paek | Sudeep Gandhe | Max Chickering

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Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture
Sebastian Varges | Giuseppe Riccardi | Silvia Quarteroni

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Speaking without knowing what to say... or when to end
Anna Hjalmarsson

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Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence Realization Ranking
Crystal Nakatsu

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What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus
Fei Liu | Yang Liu

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A Simple Method for Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context
Alexander Siebert | David Schlangen

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A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model
Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Yuji Hasegawa | Hiroshi Tsujino

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From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems
Stefan Hamerich

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Quantifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding
Marcus Colman | Arash Eshghi | Pat Healey

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Implicit Proposal Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations
Yasuhiro Katagiri | Yosuke Matsusaka | Yasuharu Den | Mika Enomoto | Masato Ishizaki | Katsuya Takanashi

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Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating Systems using POMDP Framework
Zhifei Li | Patrick Nguyen | Geoffrey Zweig

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Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise
Milica Gašić | Simon Keizer | Francois Mairesse | Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young

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A Frame-Based Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog Management Using Dialog Examples
Kyungduk Kim | Cheongjae Lee | Sangkeun Jung | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Speaking More Like You: Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Julia Hirschberg

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Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study
Swapna Somasundaran | Josef Ruppenhofer | Janyce Wiebe

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Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue for Automated Persuasion
Pierre Andrews | Suresh Manandhar | Marco De Boni

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Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Participant Characterization in Multi-Party Conversation
Kornel Laskowski | Mari Ostendorf | Tanja Schultz

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Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-party Dialogue
Raquel Fernández | Matthew Frampton | Patrick Ehlen | Matthew Purver | Stanley Peters

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User Simulation as Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems
Hua Ai | Fuliang Weng

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Evaluation Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models
Sudeep Gandhe | David Traum

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A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems
Sebastian Möller | Nigel Ward

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The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users’ Evaluation Judgments and Input Style
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová | Olga Kukina

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Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems
David DeVault | David Traum | Ron Artstein

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Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2)
David Chiang | Dekai Wu

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Imposing Constraints from the Source Tree on ITG Constraints for SMT
Hirofumi Yamamoto | Hideo Okuma | Eiichiro Sumita

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A Scalable Decoder for Parsing-Based Machine Translation with Equivalent Language Model State Maintenance
Zhifei Li | Sanjeev Khudanpur

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Prior Derivation Models For Formally Syntax-Based Translation Using Linguistically Syntactic Parsing and Tree Kernels
Bowen Zhou | Bing Xiang | Xiaodan Zhu | Yuqing Gao

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Generalizing Local Translation Models
Michael Subotin

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A Rule-Driven Dynamic Programming Decoder for Statistical MT
Christoph Tillmann

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Syntactic Reordering Integrated with Phrase-Based SMT
Jakob Elming

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Experiments in Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations on the Basis of Syntactic Coupling Features
Vassilina Nikoulina | Marc Dymetman

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Multiple Reorderings in Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Niyu Ge | Abe Ittycheriah | Kishore Papineni

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Improving Word Alignment Using Syntactic Dependencies
Yanjun Ma | Sylwia Ozdowska | Yanli Sun | Andy Way

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Further Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
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Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English
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Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task
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Using Syntactic Coupling Features for Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations (WMT-08 Shared Translation Task)
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TectoMT: Highly Modular MT System with Tectogrammatics Used as Transfer Layer
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Incremental Hypothesis Alignment for Building Confusion Networks with Application to Machine Translation System Combination
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Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation
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A Smorgasbord of Features for Automatic MT Evaluation
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Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation
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Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance
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