ACL 2001

71 papers

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Interpret WH-questions

Ingrid Zukerman, Eric Horvitz

Text Chunking using Regularized Winnow

Tong Zhang, Fred Damerau, David Johnson

Multi-Class Composite N-gram Language Model for Spoken Language Processing Using Multiple Word Clusters

Hirofumi Yamamoto, Shuntaro Isogai, Yoshinori Sagisaka

A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model

Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight

Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems

Marilyn A. Walker, Rebecca Passonneau, Julie E. Boland

A Generic Approach to Parallel Chart Parsing with an Application to LinGO

Marcel P. van Lohuizen

A Statistical Model for Domain-Independent Text Segmentation

Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara

A Bayesian Model For Morpheme and Paradigm Identification

Matthew G. Snover, Michael R. Brent

Incremental Construction of Compact Acyclic NFAs

Kyriakos N. Sgarbas, Nikos D. Fakotakis, George K. Kokkinakis

Computational Properties of Environment-based Disambiguation

William Schuler

Parse Forest Computation of Expected Governors

Helmut Schmid, Mats Rooth

Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics

Barry Schiffman, Inderjeet Mani, Kristian Concepcion

Evaluating CETEMPúblico, a Free Resource for Portuguese

Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha

Using a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate an NLG System

Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, A. Scott Lennox, Liesl Osman

Evaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue System

Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker

Using Machine Learning to Maintain Rule-based Named-Entity Recognition and Classification Systems

Georgios Petasis, Frantz Vichot, Francis Wolinski, Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis Karkaletsis

Tractability and Structural Closures in Attribute Logic Type Signatures

Gerald Penn

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

Karin Müller

Logic Form Transformation of WordNet and its Applicability to Question Answering

Dan Moldovan, Vasile Rus

Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners

Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy

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

Daniel Marcu

Building Semantic Perceptron Net for Topic Spotting

Jimin Liu, Tat-Seng Chua

Predicting User Reactions to System Error

Diane Litman, Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts

Extending Lambek Grammars: a Logical Account of Minimalist Grammars

Alain Lecomte, Christian Retoré

Evaluating Smoothing Algorithms against Plausibility Judgements

Maria Lapata, Frank Keller, Scott McDonald

From Chunks to Function-Argument Structure: A Similarity-Based Approach

Sandra Kübler, Erhard W. Hinrichs

Parsing with Treebank Grammars: Empirical Bounds, Theoretical Models, and the Structure of the Penn Treebank

Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning

A Language Independent Shallow-Parser Compiler

Alexandra Kinyon

Joint and Conditional Estimation of Tagging and Parsing Models

Mark Johnson

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

Hideki Isozaki

A Common Framework for Syntactic Annotation

Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary

Information Extraction from Voicemail

Jing Huang, Geoffrey Zweig, Mukund Padmanabhan

Generation of VP Ellipsis: A Corpus-Based Approach

Daniel Hardt, Owen Rambow

The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering

Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu

Topic-focus and Salience

Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall

Serial Combination of Rules and Statistics: A Case Study in Czech Tagging

Jan Hajic, Pavel Krbec, Pavel Kveton, Karel Oliva, Vladimir Petkevic

XML-Based Data Preparation for Robust Deep Parsing

Claire Grover, Alex Lascarides

Towards Abstract Categorial Grammars

Philippe de Groote

Mapping Lexical Entries in a Verbs Database to WordNet Senses

Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip Resnik

Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification

Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper

Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation

Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

Word Order in German: A Formal Dependency Grammar Using a Topological Hierarchy

Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane

Generating with a Grammar Based on Tree Descriptions: a Constraint-Based Approach

Claire Gardent, Stefan Thater

Refined Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation using a Maximum Entropy Approach

Ismael García-Varea, Franz J. Och, Hermann Ney, Francisco Casacuberta

Organizing Encyclopedic Knowledge based on the Web and its Application to Question Answering

Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa

Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures

Stefan Evert, Brigitte Krenn

Topological Dependency Trees: A Constraint-Based Account of Linear Precedence

Denys Duchier, Ralph Debusmann

Empirically Estimating Order Constraints for Content Planning in Generation

Pablo A. Duboue, Kathleen R. McKeown

Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition

John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Jean Mark Gawron, Christopher Culy

Grammars for Local and Long Dependencies

Alexander Dikovsky

A Machine Learning Approach to the Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation

Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, Chris Brockett

An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars

Ann Copestake, Alex Lascarides, Dan Flickinger

Constraints on Strong Generative Power

David Chiang

Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models

Eugene Charniak

Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure

Justine Cassell, Yukiko Nakano, Timothy W. Bickmore, Candace L. Sidner, Charles Rich

From RAGS to RICHES: Exploiting the Potential of a Flexible Generation Architecture

Lynne Cahill, John Carroll, Roger Evans, Daniel Paiva, Richard Power

Towards Automatic Classification of Discourse Elements in Essays

Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Slava Andreyev, Martin Chodorow

Chinese Text Segmentation With MBDP-1: Making the Most of Training Corpora

Michael R. Brent, Xiaopeng Tao

Detecting Problematic Turns in Human-Machine Interactions: Rule-induction Versus Memory-based Learning Approaches

Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts

Underspecified Beta Reduction

Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren

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

Rens Bod

Alternative Phrases and Natural Language Information Retrieval

Gann Bierner

Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus

Regina Barzilay, Kathleen R. McKeown

Guided Parsing of Range Concatenation Languages

François Barthélemy, Pierre Boullier, Philippe Deschamp, Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie

Evaluation Tool for Rule-based Anaphora Resolution Methods

Catalina Barbu, Ruslan Mitkov

Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation

Michele Banko, Eric Brill

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

Timothy Baldwin

Improvement of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model Using Grammatical Features

Fredy A. Amaya, José Miguel Benedí

Invited Talk: Processing Broadcast Audio for Information Access

Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker, Claude Barras

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

Richard Durbin

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