ACL 2006

310 papers

An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing

Rens Bod

Event Extraction in a Plot Advice Agent

Harry Halpin, Johanna D. Moore

Discovering Asymmetric Entailment Relations between Verbs Using Selectional Preferences

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti, Maria Teresa Pazienza

Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering

Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy Lin

Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements

Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura

A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features

Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou

Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora

Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth

Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, Alpa Jain

Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence

Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng

Ontologizing Semantic Relations

Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel

You Can’t Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) – A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction

Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn

Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki

Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment

Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu

An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation

Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-côté, Dan Klein, Ben Taskar

Machine Learning of Temporal Relations

Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong Min Lee, James Pustejovsky

Proximity in Context: An Empirically Grounded Computational Model of Proximity for Processing Topological Spatial Expressions

John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Fintan J. Costello

Automatic Generation of Domain Models for Call-Centers from Noisy Transcriptions

Shourya Roy, L Venkata Subramaniam

Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary

Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata

A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT

Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang

A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi

Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information

Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto

Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing

James R. Curran, Stephen Clark, David Vadas

Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew: Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features

Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad

MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects

Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation

Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson

An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation

Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad

Extracting Loanwords from Mongolian Corpora and Producing a Japanese-Mongolian Bilingual Dictionary

Badam-Osor Khaltar, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa

Word Alignment in English-Hindi Parallel Corpus Using Recency-Vector Approach: Some Studies

Niladri Chatterjee, Saumya Agrawal

Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR

Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-Yeong Kang

Self-Organizing n-gram Model for Automatic Word Spacing

Seong-Bae Park, Yoon-Shik Tae, Se-Young Park

Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution

Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

Incorporating Speech Recognition Confidence into Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data

Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki

Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation

Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces

Catherine Blake

The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Jiang Zhu, Haifeng Wang

An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search

Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wan Chen

Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics

Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya

Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction

Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner

A Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm for Ultra Large Feature Spaces

Qi Zhang, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng

Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization

Alfio Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava

A Comparison and Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Words and Character-Bigrams as Features in Chinese Text Categorization

Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang

A Study on Automatically Extracted Keywords in Text Categorization

Anette Hulth, Beáta B. Megyesi

Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni

Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment

Robert C. Moore, Wen-tau Yih, Andreas Bode

Creating a CCGbank and a Wide-Coverage CCG Lexicon for German

Julia Hockenmaier

QuestionBank: Creating a Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions

John Judge, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith

A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web

Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao

Segment-Based Hidden Markov Models for Information Extraction

Zhenmei Gu, Nick Cercone

Factorizing Complex Models: A Case Study in Mention Detection

Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed Zitouni

Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition

Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii

An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation

Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

Direct Word Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution

Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Alfio Gliozzo, Efrat Marmorshtein, Carlo Strapparava

Semi-Supervised Learning of Partial Cognates Using Bilingual Bootstrapping

Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen

Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation

Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, Dan Klein

A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese

Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura

Integrating Syntactic Priming into an Incremental Probabilistic Parser, with an Application to Psycholinguistic Modeling

Amit Dubey, Frank Keller, Patrick Sturt

An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations

Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater

Automatic Learning of Textual Entailments with Cross-Pair Similarities

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti

Learning Event Durations from Event Descriptions

Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar, Jerry R. Hobbs

A Bottom-Up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-Document Summarization

Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures

James Clarke, Mirella Lapata

Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance

Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan

Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora

James Gorman, James R. Curran

Selection of Effective Contextual Information for Automatic Synonym Acquisition

Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama

Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts

Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier

Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation

David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

Error Mining in Parsing Results

Benoît Sagot, Éric de la Clergerie

Hybrid Parsing: Using Probabilistic Models as Predictors for a Symbolic Parser

Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel

Expressing Implicit Semantic Relations without Supervision

Peter D. Turney

Bayesian Query-Focused Summarization

Hal Daume III, Daniel Marcu

Efficient Unsupervised Discovery of Word Categories Using Symmetric Patterns and High Frequency Words

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport

Guiding a Constraint Dependency Parser with Supertags

Kilian A. Foth, Tomas By, Wolfgang Menzel

Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations

Olivier Ferret, Michael Zock

Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison

T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby

Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker

Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing

Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall

Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques

Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon

A Feedback-Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English

Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu

Automated Japanese Essay Scoring System based on Articles Written by Experts

Tsunenori Ishioka, Masayuki Kameda

Approximation Lasso Methods for Language Modeling

Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki, Bin Yu

Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures

Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki

Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling

Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-hoon Lee, Russell Greiner, Dale Schuurmans

Learning the Structure of Task-Driven Human-Human Dialogs

Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda Stent

Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues

Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman

Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features

Matthew Frampton, Oliver Lemon

Trace Prediction and Recovery with Unlexicalized PCFGs and Slash Features

Helmut Schmid

Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries

Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuyoshi Inagaki

PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs

John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dorr, Mary Harper

Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG

Özlem Çetinoğlu, Kemal Oflazer

Partially Specified Signatures: A Vehicle for Grammar Modularity

Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner

Polarized Unification Grammars

Sylvain Kahane

Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-Supervised Learning

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

Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction

Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Min Zhang

Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations

Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti

Meaningful Clustering of Senses Helps Boost Word Sense Disambiguation Performance

Roberto Navigli

Ensemble Methods for Unsupervised WSD

Samuel Brody, Roberto Navigli, Mirella Lapata

Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng

Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora

Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu

Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora

Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai