ACL 2006

310 papers

Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata

Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney

Minority Vote: At-Least-N Voting Improves Recall for Extracting Relations

Nanda Kambhatla

Automatic Construction of Polarity-Tagged Corpus from HTML Documents

Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Obfuscating Document Stylometry to Preserve Author Anonymity

Gary Kacmarcik, Michael Gamon

A FrameNet-Based Semantic Role Labeler for Swedish

Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues

Unsupervised Segmentation of Chinese Text by Use of Branching Entropy

Zhihui Jin, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Analysis and Repair of Name Tagger Errors

Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman

Exploiting Non-Local Features for Spoken Language Understanding

Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee

Towards the Orwellian Nightmare: Separation of Business and Personal Emails

Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie

Efficient Sentence Retrieval Based on Syntactic Structure

Hiroshi Ichikawa, Keita Hakoda, Taiichi Hashimoto, Takenobu Tokunaga

Spontaneous Speech Understanding for Robust Multi-Modal Human-Robot Communication

Sonja Hüwel, Britta Wrede

When Conset Meets Synset: A Preliminary Survey of an Ontological Lexical Resource Based on Chinese Characters

Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang

Transformation-Based Interpretation of Implicit Parallel Structures: Reconstructing the Meaning of “vice versa” and Similar Linguistic Operators

Helmut Horacek, Magdalena Wolska

Exploring the Potential of Intractable Parsers

Mark Hopkins, Jonas Kuhn

Graph Branch Algorithm: An Optimum Tree Search Method for Scored Dependency Graph with Arc Co-Occurrence Constraints

Hideki Hirakawa

Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings

Chikara Hashimoto, Satoshi Sato, Takehito Utsuro

A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web

Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Pornpimon Palingoon, Sarawoot Kongyoung, Chaianun Damrongrat

Local Constraints on Sentence Markers and Focus in Somali

Katherine Hargreaves, Allan Ramsay

Improving English Subcategorization Acquisition with Diathesis Alternations as Heuristic Information

Xiwu Han, Tiejun Zhao, Xingshang Fu

Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese

Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hitoshi Isahara

Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing

Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre, Jens Nilsson

Reduced n-gram Models for English and Chinese Corpora

Le Q Ha, P Hanna, D W Stewart, F J Smith

Parsing Aligned Parallel Corpus by Projecting Syntactic Relations from Annotated Source Corpus

Shailly Goyal, Niladri Chatterjee

Speeding Up Full Syntactic Parsing by Leveraging Partial Parsing Decisions

Elliot Glaysher, Dan Moldovan

Low-Cost Enrichment of Spanish WordNet with Automatically Translated Glosses: Combining General and Specialized Models

Jesús Giménez, Lluis Marquez

Factoring Synchronous Grammars by Sorting

Daniel Gildea, Giorgio Satta, Hao Zhang

Multilingual Lexical Database Generation from Parallel Texts in 20 European Languages with Endogenous Resources

Emmanuel Giguet, Pierre-Sylvain Luquet

Discriminative Reranking for Semantic Parsing

Ruifang Ge, Raymond J. Mooney

Conceptual Coherence in the Generation of Referring Expressions

Albert Gatt, Kees van Deemter

Coreference Handling in XMG

Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier

Robust Word Sense Translation by EM Learning of Frame Semantics

Pascale Fung, Benfeng Chen

Using Bilingual Comparable Corpora and Semi-supervised Clustering for Topic Tracking

Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki

The Benefit of Stochastic PP Attachment to a Rule-Based Parser

Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel

Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English

Andrew Finch, Ezra Black, Young-Sook Hwang, Eiichiro Sumita

Automatic Creation of Domain Templates

Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown

Chinese-English Term Translation Mining Based on Semantic Prediction

Gaolin Fang, Hao Yu, Fumihito Nishino

A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration

Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Towards A Modular Data Model For Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora

Richard Eckart

A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Word Expression Extraction

Jianyong Duan, Ruzhan Lu, Weilin Wu, Yi Hu, Yan Tian

Automatically Extracting Nominal Mentions of Events with a Bootstrapped Probabilistic Classifier

Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Thomas L. Cornell, Lars Nilsson

Using WordNet to Automatically Deduce Relations between Words in Noun-Noun Compounds

Fintan J. Costello, Tony Veale, Simon Dunne

Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score

John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O’Leary

Constraint-Based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach

James Clarke, Mirella Lapata

Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish

Grzegorz Chrupała, Josef van Genabith

Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach

Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly

Techniques to Incorporate the Benefits of a Hierarchy in a Modified Hidden Markov Model

Lin-Yi Chou

An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi

Zahra Abolhassani Chime

Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training

Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin

An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking

Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara

Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering

Jinxiu Chen, Donghong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zhengyu Niu

A High-Accurate Chinese-English NE Backward Translation System Combining Both Lexical Information and Web Statistics

Conrad Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling

Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing

Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth

Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent

Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang, Tyler Baldwin

N Semantic Classes are Harder than Two

Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Wiley Greiner, Cory Barr

Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank

Ted Briscoe, John Carroll

A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization

AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao, Jian Su

The Effect of Corpus Size in Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Training for Disambiguation

Michaela Atterer, Hinrich Schütze

MT Evaluation: Human-Like vs. Human Acceptable

Enrique Amigo, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo, Lluis Marquez

A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation

Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura, Maria Ruiz-Casado

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque

Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Eli Izagirre, Montse Maritxalar

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions

Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering

Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski

Optimal Constituent Alignment with Edge Covers for Semantic Projection

Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata

Time Period Identification of Events in Text

Taichi Noro, Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Multilingual Document Clustering: An Heuristic Approach Based on Cognate Named Entities

Soto Montalvo, Raquel Martínez, Arantza Casillas, Víctor Fresno

Punjabi Machine Transliteration

M.G. Abbas Malik

Learning Transliteration Lexicons from the Web

Jin-Shea Kuo, Haizhou Li, Ying-Kuei Yang

An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition

Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning

Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality

Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White

Stochastic Language Generation Using WIDL-Expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization

Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu

A Polynomial Parsing Algorithm for the Topological Model: Synchronizing Constituent and Dependency Grammars, Illustrated by German Word Order Phenomena

Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane

Highly Constrained Unification Grammars

Daniel Feinstein, Shuly Wintner

Reranking Answers for Definitional QA Using Language Modeling

Yi Chen, Ming Zhou, Shilong Wang

Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion

John Prager, Pablo Duboue, Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Word Sense and Subjectivity

Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea

Are These Documents Written from Different Perspectives? A Test of Different Perspectives Based on Statistical Distribution Divergence

Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander Hauptmann

Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese

Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova

Incremental Generation of Spatial Referring Expressions in Situated Dialog

John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff

Robust PCFG-Based Generation Using Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations

Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith

Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction

Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou

Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases

Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida

Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking

Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei

Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation

Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li

A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization

Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li

A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes

Yee Whye Teh

Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence

Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Melamed

Modelling Lexical Redundancy for Machine Translation

David Talbot, Miles Osborne

Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models

Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe

Accurate Collocation Extraction Using a Multilingual Parser

Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli

Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-Scale Ontology Translation

G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Jan Hajic, Pavel Pecina

Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project

Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, Elena Chiocchetti

Semantic Role Labeling via FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank

Ana-Maria Giuglea, Alessandro Moschitti

A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants

Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel

Using String-Kernels for Learning Semantic Parsers

Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney

Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering

Sanda Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl

Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments

Adrian Novischi, Dan Moldovan

Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction

Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow

Prototype-Driven Grammar Induction

Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein

Advances in Discriminative Parsing

Joseph Turian, I. Dan Melamed