ACL 2004

137 papers

Fragments and Text Categorization

Jan Blaták, Eva Mráková, Lubos Popelínsky

MATCHkiosk: A Multimodal Interactive City Guide

Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore

Dyna: A Language for Weighted Dynamic Programming

Jason Eisner, Eric Goldlust, Noah A. Smith

NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit

Steven Bird, Edward Loper

Wysiwym with wider coverage

Richard Power, Roger Evans

Multimodal Database Access on Handheld Devices

Elsa Pecourt, Norbert Reithinger

Co-training for Predicting Emotions with Spoken Dialogue Data

Beatriz Maeireizo, Diane Litman, Rebecca Hwa

Automatic clustering of collocation for detecting practical sense boundary

Saim Shin, Key-Sun Choi

A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Word Sense Induction

Reinhard Rapp

Incorporating topic information into semantic analysis models

Tony Mullen, Nigel Collier

A New Feature Selection Score for Multinomial Naive Bayes Text Classification Based on KL-Divergence

Karl-Michael Schneider

On the Equivalence of Weighted Finite-state Transducers

Julien Quint

Combining Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Features with Maximum Entropy Models for Information Extraction

Nanda Kambhatla

Compiling Boostexter Rules into a Finite-state Transducer

Srinivas Bangalore

Graph-based Ranking Algorithms for Sentence Extraction, Applied to Text Summarization

Rada Mihalcea

TANGO: Bilingual Collocational Concordancer

Jia-Yan Jian, Yu-Chia Chang, Jason S. Chang

Resource Analysis for Question Answering

Lucian Vlad Lita, Warren A. Hunt, Eric Nyberg

Finding Anchor Verbs for Biomedical IE Using Predicate-Argument Structures

Akane Yakushiji, Yuka Tateisi, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Knowledge intensive e-mail summarization in CARPANTA

Laura Alonso, Irene Castellón, Bernardino Casas, Lluís Padró

Hierarchy Extraction based on Inclusion of Appearance

Eiko Yamamoto, Kyoko Kanzaki, Hitoshi Isahara

Improving Bitext Word Alignments via Syntax-based Reordering of English

Elliott Franco Drabek, David Yarowsky

Exploiting Unannotated Corpora for Tagging and Chunking

Rie Kubota Ando

Corpus representativeness for syntactic information acquisition

Núria Bel

Is Conceptual Combination Influenced by Word Order?

Phil Maguire, Arthur Cater

Part-of-Speech Tagging Considering Surface Form for an Agglutinative Language

Do-Gil Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

Wide Coverage Symbolic Surface Realization

Charles Callaway

Interactive grammar development with WCDG

Kilian A. Foth, Michael Daum, Wolfgang Menzel

Exploiting Aggregate Properties of Bilingual Dictionaries For Distinguishing Senses of English Words and Inducing English Sense Clusters

Charles Schafer, David Yarowsky

An Automatic Filter for Non-Parallel Texts

Chris Pike, I. Dan Melamed

Customizing Parallel Corpora at the Document Level

Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang

Subsentential Translation Memory for Computer Assisted Writing and Translation

Jian-Cheng Wu, Thomas C. Chuang, Wen-Chi Shei, Jason S. Chang

Constructing Transliteration Lexicons from Web Corpora

Jin-Shea Kuo, Ying-Kuei Yang

Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment for Computer Assisted Translation

Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

TransType2 - An Innovative Computer-Assisted Translation System

José Esteban, José Lorenzo, Antonio S. Valderrábanos, Guy Lapalme

Proceedings of the ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions

A Framework for Unsupervised Natural Language Morphology Induction

Christian Monson

Beyond N in N-gram Tagging

Robbert Prins

A Machine Learning Approach to German Pronoun Resolution

Beata Kouchnir

Robust VPE Detection using Automatically Parsed Text

Leif Arda Nielsen

Improving the Accuracy of Subcategorizations Acquired from Corpora

Naoki Yoshinaga

Towards a Semantic Classification of Spanish Verbs Based on Subcategorisation Information

Eva Esteve Ferrer

iSTART: Paraphrase Recognition

Chutima Boonthum

Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language

Xinglong Wang

Temporal Context: Applications and Implications for Computational Linguistics

Robert Leibscher

Searching for Topics in a Large Collection of Texts

Martin Holub, Jiří Semecký, Jiří Diviš

Minimizing the Length of Non-Mixed Initiative Dialogs

R. Bryce Inouye

Determining the Specificity of Terms using Compositional and Contextual Information

Pum-Mo Ryu

Proceedings of the ACL Student Research Workshop

FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification

Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio

Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers

Ben Hutchinson

Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech

Michelle Gregory, Yasemin Altun

Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies

Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg

Generalized Multitext Grammars

I. Dan Melamed, Giorgio Satta, Benjamin Wellington

Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing

I. Dan Melamed

Using Linguistic Principles to Recover Empty Categories

Richard Campbell

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation

Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat

Learning Word Sense With Feature Selection and Order Identification Capabilities

Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew-Lim Tan

Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings

Bogdan Babych, Tony Hartley

A Unified Framework For Automatic Evaluation Using 4-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics

Radu Soricut, Eric Brill

Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics

Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och

Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction

Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Rohini K. Srihari

Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew-Lim Tan

Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution

Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Guihong Cao, Chunfa Yuan

Question Answering Using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-By-Dossier-With-Contraints

John Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba

Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems

E. Saquete, P. Martínez-Barco, R. Muñoz, J.L. Vicedo

Wrapping of Trees

James Rogers

An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

Probabilistic Parsing Strategies

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

Creating Multilingual Translation Lexicons with Regional Variations Using Web Corpora

Pu-Jen Cheng, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jei-Wen Teng, Lee-Feng Chien

A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Eric Gaussier, J.M. Renders, I. Matveeva, C. Goutte, H. Dejean

Improving IBM Word Alignment Model 1

Robert C. Moore

FSA: An Efficient and Flexible C++ Toolkit for Finite State Automata Using On-Demand Computation

Stephan Kanthak, Hermann Ney

Aligning words using matrix factorisation

Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier

Multi-Engine Machine Translation with Voted Language Model

Tadashi Nomoto

Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning

Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner

Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency

Dan Klein, Christopher Manning

Experiments in parallel-text based grammar induction

Jonas Kuhn

Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation

Jianfeng Gao, Andi Wu, Mu Li, Chang-Ning Huang, Hongqiao Li

Alternative approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules

Gabriel Infante-Lopez, Maarten de Rijke

Error Mining for Wide-Coverage Grammar Engineering

Gertjan van Noord

Collective Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks

Răzvan Bunescu, Raymond Mooney

Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Texts

Barbara Rosario, Marti Hearst

Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction

Aron Culotta, Jeffrey Sorensen

Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora

Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman

Generating Referring Expressions in Open Domains

Advaith Siddharthan, Ann Copestake

Computing Locally Coherent Discourses

Ernst Althaus, Nikiforos Karamanis, Alexander Koller

Evaluating Centering-Based Metrics of Coherence

Nikiforos Karamanis, Massimo Poesio, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander

Paragraph-, Word-, and Coherence-based Approaches to Sentence Ranking: A Comparison of Algorithm and Human Performance

Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson

Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE

Rebecca Green, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip Resnik

Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II Treebank

Ruth O’Donovan, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way

Building Verb Predicates: A Computational View

Fernando Gomez

Predicting Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues

Diane J. Litman, Kate Forbes-Riley

Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Malte Gabsdil, Oliver Lemon

A Study on Convolution Kernels for Shallow Statistic Parsing

Alessandro Moschitti

Deep Dependencies from Context-Free Statistical Parsers: Correcting the Surface Dependency Approximation

Roger Levy, Christopher Manning

Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations

Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O’Donovan, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way

Enriching the Output of a Parser Using Memory-based Learning

Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke

Relieving the data Acquisition Bottleneck in Word Sense Disambiguation

Mona Diab

Chinese Verb Sense Discrimination Using an EM Clustering Model with Rich Linguistic Features

Jinying Chen, Martha Palmer

Unsupervised Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Probabilistic Models

Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor, Yoshua Bengio