ACL 2007

207 papers

A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity

Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Hong Li

Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision

Răzvan Bunescu, Raymond Mooney

Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information

Roxana Girju

Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture

Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston

Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction

Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang, Jianguo Xiao

Generating a Table-of-Contents

S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay

Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution

Vincent Ng

Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns

Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su

Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation

Yik-cheung Tam, Ian Lane, Tanja Schultz

Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation

David Talbot, Miles Osborne

Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input

Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay, James Glass

PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue

François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker

The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation

Seeger Fisher, Brian Roark

Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation

Olivier Ferret

A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts

John Lee

Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval

Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal, Yi Liu

Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition

Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan

Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach

Samuel Brody

Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification

John Blitzer, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pereira

Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis

Ryan Mcdonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike Wells, Jeff Reynar

PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining

Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani

Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems

Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Arun Sundararajan

An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses

Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport

Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight?

Rens Bod

K-best Spanning Tree Parsing

Keith Hall

Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing

Yoav Seginer

A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home

Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Michelle Levine, Bernard Renger

Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems

Yi Liu, Joyce Chai, Rong Jin

The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Mihai Rotaru, Diane Litman

Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution

Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis

GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency

Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan, Robert Dale

Sentence generation as a planning problem

Alexander Koller, Matthew Stone

A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar

Claire Gardent, Eric Kow

Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses

Katja Filippova, Michael Strube

Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation

Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz

Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing

Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way

Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References

Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa

Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an, Andy Way

Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning

Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth

The Infinite Tree

Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager, Christopher D. Manning

Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP

Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai

Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation

Hal Daume III

Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank

Stephen Clark, James Curran

Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank

David Vadas, James Curran

Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport, Moshe Koppel

SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking

Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad

Katrin Erk

Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank

Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng

A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification

Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, AiTi Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Guodong Zhou

Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs

Andrew Gordon, Reid Swanson

Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length

Daniel Gildea, David Temperley

Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries

Makoto Kanazawa

Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into efficiently-parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold

Mark Johnson

Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages

Marco Kuhlmann, Mathias Möhl

Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction

Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner, Stephan Kanthak

Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models

Liang Huang, David Chiang

Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer

Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff, Olga Mudraya

Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation

Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki

Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names

Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo, Minghui Dong

Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method

Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim, Richard Sproat

Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World’s Languages

Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly

Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts

Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Salim Roukos

What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness

Iryna Gurevych, Christof Müller, Torsten Zesch

Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid, Gregor Möhler

Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval

Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy, Chia-Ling Lin

Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives

Pei-Yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore

User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation

Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan, Marita Ailomaa

Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation

Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens

Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature

Ben Medlock, Ted Briscoe

Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach

Ann Devitt, Khurshid Ahmad

Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections

Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea, Janyce Wiebe

Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing

Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall

Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus

Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond Mooney

Pipeline Iteration

Kristy Hollingshead, Brian Roark

Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Antti Puurula, Mikko Kurimo

Substring-Based Transliteration

Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak

Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps

Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims, Janet Pierrehumbert

Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology

François Barthélemy

A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation

Vera Demberg

A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora

Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe, Anna Korhonen

Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling

Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert

A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification

Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge, Carlota Smith

Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web

Philipp Cimiano, Johanna Wenderoth

A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation

Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa

Benefits of the ‘Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone’: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages

Peter Chew, Ahmed Abdelali

Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns

Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong

Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction

Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak

Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model

Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein

Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm

Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark

Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning

Smaranda Muresan, Owen Rambow

A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing

Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina Toutanova

Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog

Christoph Müller

Predicting Success in Dialogue

David Reitter, Johanna D. Moore

On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of ‘okay’

Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Héctor Chávez, Julia Hirschberg, Lauren Wilcox

Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components

Martijn Spitters, Marco De Boni, Jakub Zavrel, Remko Bonnema

A discriminative language model with pseudo-negative samples

Daisuke Okanohara, Jun’ichi Tsujii

A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications

Hal Daume III, Lyle Campbell

Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive

Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao

Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng