ACL 2007

207 papers

Clustering Hungarian Verbs on the Basis of Complementation Patterns

Kata Gábor, Enikő Héja

Computing Lexical Chains with Graph Clustering

Olena Medelyan

Semantic Classification of Noun Phrases Using Web Counts and Learning Algorithms

Paul Nulty

Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics

Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

Towards a Computational Treatment of Superlatives

Silke Scheible

Identifying Linguistic Structure in a Quantitative Analysis of Dialect Pronunciation

Jelena Prokić

Adaptive String Distance Measures for Bilingual Dialect Lexicon Induction

Yves Scherrer

Logistic Online Learning Methods and Their Application to Incremental Dependency Parsing

Richard Johansson

Limitations of Current Grammar Induction Algorithms

Bart Cramer

Kinds of Features for Chinese Opinionated Information Retrieval

Taras Zagibalov

Exploiting Structure for Event Discovery Using the MDI Algorithm

Martina Naughton

Automatic Prediction of Cognate Orthography Using Support Vector Machines

Andrea Mulloni

A Practical Classification of Multiword Expressions

Radosław Moszczyński

An Implementation of Combined Partial Parser and Morphosyntactic Disambiguator

Aleksander Buczyński

Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars with Genetic Algorithms

Elias Ponvert

Measuring Syntactic Difference in British English

Nathan C. Sanders

Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop

Chris Biemann, Violeta Seretan, Ellen Riloff

Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Sequential Labeling for Semi-spoken Language

Kenji Imamura, Genichiro Kikui, Norihito Yasuda

Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali: An Approach for Morphologically Rich Languages in a Poor Resource Scenario

Sandipan Dandapat, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu

A Hybrid Approach to Word Segmentation and POS Tagging

Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto

Extending MARIE: an N-gram-based SMT decoder

Josep M. Crego, José B. Mariño

Poster paper: HunPos – an open source trigram tagger

Péter Halácsy, András Kornai, Csaba Oravecz

Minimally Lexicalized Dependency Parsing

Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto

Shallow Dependency Labeling

Manfred Klenner

Expanding Indonesian-Japanese Small Translation Dictionary Using a Pivot Language

Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Ayu Purwarianti, Toshiyuki Wakita, Seiichi Nakagawa

Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization

Surabhi Gupta, Ani Nenkova, Dan Jurafsky

Machine Translation between Turkic Languages

Ahmet Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adali, Kemal Oflazer

Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Clustering

Maofu Liu, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu

Boosting Statistical Machine Translation by Lemmatization and Linear Interpolation

Ruiqiang Zhang, Eiichiro Sumita

Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation

Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico

Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events

Nathanael Chambers, Shan Wang, Dan Jurafsky

An OWL Ontology for HPSG

Graham Wilcock

Extracting Hypernym Pairs from the Web

Erik Tjong Kim Sang

Mapping Concrete Entities from PAROLE-SIMPLE-CLIPS to ItalWordNet: Methodology and Results

Adriana Roventini, Nilda Ruimy, Rita Marinelli, Marisa Ulivieri, Michele Mammini

Detecting Semantic Relations between Named Entities in Text Using Contextual Features

Toru Hirano, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Genichiro Kikui

Automatic Discovery of Named Entity Variants: Grammar-driven Approaches to Non-Alphabetical Transliterations

Chu-Ren Huang, Petr Šimon, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Empirical Measurements of Lexical Similarity in Noun Phrase Conjuncts

Deirdre Hogan

A Linguistic Service Ontology for Language Infrastructures

Yoshihiko Hayashi

Extracting Word Sets with Non-Taxonomical Relation

Eiko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Isahara

Construction of Domain Dictionary for Fundamental Vocabulary

Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi

Building Emotion Lexicon from Weblog Corpora

Changhua Yang, Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen

WordNet-based Semantic Relatedness Measures in Automatic Speech Recognition for Meetings

Michael Pucher

Automatically Assessing the Post Quality in Online Discussions on Software

Markus Weimer, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser

Predicting Evidence of Understanding by Monitoring User’s Task Manipulation in Multimodal Conversations

Yukiko Nakano, Kazuyoshi Murata, Mika Enomoto, Yoshiko Arimoto, Yasuhiro Asa

Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Hideki Isozaki

Real-Time Correction of Closed-Captions

Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne, Michel Comeau, Maryse Boisvert

On the formalization of Invariant Mappings for Metaphor Interpretation

Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington

Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential “You” in Dialog

Surabhi Gupta, Matthew Purver, Dan Jurafsky

Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for BLEU

Nicola Ehling, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney

Exploration of Term Dependence in Sentence Retrieval

Keke Cai, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Kangmiao Liu

Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Paula Estrella

Test Collection Selection and Gold Standard Generation for a Multiply-Annotated Opinion Corpus

Lun-Wei Ku, Yong-Sheng Lo, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Poliqarp: An open source corpus indexer and search engine with syntactic extensions

Daniel Janus, Adam Przepiórkowski

Using Error-Correcting Output Codes with Model-Refinement to Boost Centroid Text Classifier

Songbo Tan

Ensemble document clustering using weighted hypergraph generated by NMF

Hiroyuki Shinnou, Minoru Sasaki

A Feature Based Approach to Leveraging Context for Classifying Newsgroup Style Discussion Segments

Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Rose

Rethinking Chinese Word Segmentation: Tokenization, Character Classification, or Wordbreak Identification

Chu-Ren Huang, Petr Šimon, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Laurent Prevot

An Approximate Approach for Training Polynomial Kernel SVMs in Linear Time

Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee

A Joint Statistical Model for Simultaneous Word Spacing and Spelling Error Correction for Korean

Hyungjong Noh, Jeong-Won Cha, Gary Geunbae Lee

Support Vector Machines for Query-focused Summarization trained and evaluated on Pyramid data

Maria Fuentes, Enrique Alfonseca, Horacio Rodríguez

Deriving an Ambiguous Word’s Part-of-Speech Distribution from Unannotated Text

Reinhard Rapp

An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube

Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition

Colin R. Batchelor, Peter T. Corbett

An efficient algorithm for building a distributional thesaurus (and other Sketch Engine developments)

Pavel Rychlý, Adam Kilgarriff

Don’t worry about metaphor: affect detection for conversational agents

Catherine Smith, Timothy Rumbell, John Barnden, Robert Hendley, Mark Lee

Linguistically Motivated Large-Scale NLP with C&C and Boxer

James Curran, Stephen Clark, Johan Bos

zipfR: Word Frequency Modeling in R

Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni

NICT-ATR Speech-to-Speech Translation System

Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Multilingual Ontological Analysis of European Directives

Gianmaria Ajani, Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Alessandro Mazzei, Piercarlo Rossi

System Demonstration of On-Demand Information Extraction

Satoshi Sekine, Akira Oda

SemTAG: a platform for specifying Tree Adjoining Grammars and performing TAG-based Semantic Construction

Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier

Multimedia Blog Creation System using Dialogue with Intelligent Robot

Akitoshi Okumura, Takahiro Ikeda, Toshihiro Nishizawa, Shin-ichi Ando, Fumihiro Adachi

A Translation Aid System with a Stratified Lookup Interface

Takeshi Abekawa, Kyo Kageura

MIMUS: A Multimodal and Multilingual Dialogue System for the Home Domain

J. Gabriel Amores, Guillermo Pérez, Pilar Manchón

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Companion Volume Proceedings of the Demo and Poster Sessions

Sophia Ananiadou

Language-independent Probabilistic Answer Ranking for Question Answering

Jeongwoo Ko, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg

Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question Answer Classification

Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni, Roberto Basili, Suresh Manandhar

Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won’t Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors

Hoa Trang Dang, Jimmy Lin

Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification

Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta, Aravind Joshi

Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models

Noah A. Smith, Douglas L. Vail, John D. Lafferty

A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging

Sharon Goldwater, Tom Griffiths

A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling

Martin Jansche

Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora

Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata

A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

Chi-Ho Li, Minghui Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

Ordering Phrases with Function Words

Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li

Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules

Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue

Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni

A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization

Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng, Tiejun Zhao

Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model

Deirdre Hogan

Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information

Feifan Liu, Yang Liu

Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora

Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille, Koichi Takeuchi, Kyo Kageura

Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity

Shane Bergsma, Grzegorz Kondrak

Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration

Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin

Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems

Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer

Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks

Ivan Titov, James Henderson

HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints

Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets

Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport

Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures

Jiří Havelka

Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web

Benjamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman

A Multi-resolution Framework for Information Extraction from Free Text

Mstislav Maslennikov, Tat-Seng Chua