ACL 2006

310 papers

The Second Release of the RASP System

Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Rebecca Watson

Outilex, a Linguistic Platform for Text Processing

Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant

NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit

Steven Bird

An Implemented Description of Japanese: The Lexeed Dictionary and the Hinoki Treebank

Sanae Fujita, Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Hiromi Nakaiwa

TwicPen: Hand-held Scanner and Translation Software for non-Native Readers

Eric Wehrli

The SAMMIE System: Multimodal In-Car Dialogue

Tilman Becker, Peter Poller, Jan Schehl, Nate Blaylock, Ciprian Gerstenberger

Re-Usable Tools for Precision Machine Translation

Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen

Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval

Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska, Martin Rajman, Susan Armstrong

LexNet: A Graphical Environment for Graph-Based NLP

Dragomir R. Radev, Güneş Erkan, Anthony Fader, Patrick Jordan, Siwei Shen

Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts

Jien-Chen Wu, Yu-Chia Chang, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang

Chinese Named Entity and Relation Identification System

Tianfang Yao, Hans Uszkoreit

An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions

Paweł Mazur, Robert Dale

K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain

Young-In Song, HooJung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, Jooyoung Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

FERRET: Interactive Question-Answering for Real-World Environments

Andrew Hickl, Patrick Wang, John Lehmann, Sanda Harabagiu

MIMA Search: A Structuring Knowledge System towards Innovation for Engineering Education

Hideki Mima

An Intelligent Search Engine and GUI-based Efficient MEDLINE Search Tool Based on Deep Syntactic Parsing

Tomoko Ohta, Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Akane Yakushiji

Valido: A Visual Tool for Validating Sense Annotations

Roberto Navigli

LeXFlow: A System for Cross-Fertilization of Computational Lexicons

Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Marchetti, Francesca Bertagna, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria

Is It Correct? – Towards Web-Based Evaluation of Automatic Natural Language Phrase Generation

Calkin S. Montero, Kenji Araki

FAST – An Automatic Generation System for Grammar Tests

Chia-Yin Chen, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions

James Curran

Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction

Frank Rudzicz

Extraction of Tree Adjoining Grammars from a Treebank for Korean

Jungyeul Park

Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation

Lalita Narupiyakul

On2L – A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems

Berenike Loos

A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD – First Results

Lucia Specia

Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew

Reut Tsarfaty

Discursive Usage of Six Chinese Punctuation Marks

Ming Yue

Investigations on Event-Based Summarization

Mingli Wu

Semantic Discourse Segmentation and Labeling for Route Instructions

Nobuyuki Shimizu

Modeling Human Sentence Processing Data with a Statistical Parts-of-Speech Tagger

Jihyun Park

Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results

Wolfgang Maier

Sub-Sentential Alignment Using Substring Co-Occurrence Counts

Fabien Cromieres

Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering

Chris Biemann

A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children

Pradipta Biswas

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop

Marine Carpuat, Kevin Duh, Rebecca Hwa

An HMM-Based Approach to Automatic Phrasing for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Jing Zhu, Jian-Hua Li

BiTAM: Bilingual Topic AdMixture Models for Word Alignment

Bing Zhao, Eric P. Xing

Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation

Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita

Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees

Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea

HAL-Based Cascaded Model for Variable-Length Semantic Pattern Induction from Psychiatry Web Resources

Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Fong-Lin Jang

Stochastic Discourse Modeling in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Semantic Dependency Graphs

Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Mao-Zhu Yang

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context

Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers

Aligning Features with Sense Distinction Dimensions

Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen, Martha Palmer

Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data

Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhanyi Liu

A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs

Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee

From Prosodic Trees to Syntactic Trees

Andi Wu, Kirk Lowery

Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis

Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Kumudu Gamage

Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models

Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee

Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs

Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Zhanyi Liu

Finding Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional Similarity

Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann

Word Vectors and Two Kinds of Similarity

Akira Utsumi, Daisuke Suzuki

Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches

Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System

Jia-Lin Tsai

Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation

Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta

Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources

Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini

A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment

Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan

A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles

Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon

Discourse Generation Using Utility-Trained Coherence Models

Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu

Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA

Neal Snider, Mona Diab

Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models

David A. Smith, Jason Eisner

Morphological Richness Offsets Resource Demand – Experiences in Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi

Smriti Singh, Kuhoo Gupta, Manish Shrivastava, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Compiling a Lexicon of Cooking Actions for Animation Generation

Kiyoaki Shirai, Hiroshi Ookawa

Exact Decoding for Jointly Labeling and Chunking Sequences

Nobuyuki Shimizu, Andrew Haas

Unsupervised Topic Identification by Integrating Linguistic and Visual Information Based on Hidden Markov Models

Tomohide Shibata, Sadao Kurohashi

Adding Syntax to Dynamic Programming for Aligning Comparable Texts for the Generation of Paraphrases

Siwei Shen, Dragomir R. Radev, Agam Patel, Güneş Erkan

Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators

Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley

On-Demand Information Extraction

Satoshi Sekine

Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk, Daniel Dechelotte, Jean-Luc Gauvain

ATLAS – A New Text Alignment Architecture

Bettina Schrader

Translating HPSG-Style Outputs of a Robust Parser into Typed Dynamic Logic

Manabu Sato, Daisuke Bekki, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages

Marina Santini, Richard Power, Roger Evans

A Best-First Probabilistic Shift-Reduce Parser

Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie

Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer

Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki

Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval

Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan R. Aronson

URES : an Unsupervised Web Relation Extraction System

Benjamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman

Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies

Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon

Combining Association Measures for Collocation Extraction

Pavel Pecina, Pavel Schlesinger

A Term Recognition Approach to Acronym Recognition

Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou

Analysis of Selective Strategies to Build a Dependency-Analyzed Corpus

Kiyonori Ohtake

Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text

Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson

Semantic Parsing with Structured SVM Ensemble Classification Models

Le-Minh Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Xuan-Hieu Phan

Examining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Identification and Classification of Reviews

Vincent Ng, Sajib Dasgupta, S. M. Niaz Arifin

An Automatic Method for Summary Evaluation Using Multiple Evaluation Results by a Manual Method

Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura

Reinforcing English Countability Prediction with One Countability per Discourse Property

Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu

Machine-Learning-Based Transformation of Passive Japanese Sentences into Active by Separating Training Data into Each Input Particle

Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado, Hitoshi Isahara

Integrating Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity Methods for Lexical Entailment Acquisition

Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Maayan Geffet

ARE: Instance Splitting Strategies for Dependency Relation-Based Information Extraction

Mstislav Maslennikov, Hai-Kiat Goh, Tat-Seng Chua

Segmented and Unsegmented Dialogue-Act Annotation with Statistical Dialogue Models

Carlos D. Martínez Hinarejos, Ramón Granell, José Miguel Benedí

Modeling Adjectives in Computational Relational Lexica

Palmira Marrafa, Sara Mendes

Discriminating Image Senses by Clustering with Multimodal Features

Nicolas Loeff, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, David A. Forsyth

Stochastic Iterative Alignment for Machine Translation Evaluation

Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea

Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval

Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis

The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions

Jimmy Lin

Parsing and Subcategorization Data

Jianguo Li, Chris Brew

Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures

Marco Kuhlmann, Joakim Nivre

Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems

Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, Kenji Yamada

Interpreting Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via Verb Semantics

Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin

Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews

Soo-Min Kim, Eduard Hovy

GF Parallel Resource Grammars and Russian

Janna Khegai