ACL 2008

219 papers

Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics

Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, Sheelagh Carpendale

Speech Technology: From Research to the Industry of Human-Machine Communication

Roberto Pieraccini

Advanced Online Learning for Natural Language Processing

Koby Crammer

Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing

John Blitzer, Xiaojin Jerry Zhu

Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems

Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W Black, Maxine Eskenazi

Introduction to Computational Advertising

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Bo Pang

Tutorial Abstracts of ACL-08: HLT

Ani Nenkova, Marilyn Walker, Eugene Agichtein

The QuALiM Question Answering Demo: Supplementing Answers with Paragraphs drawn from Wikipedia

Michael Kaisser

ModelTalker Voice Recorder—An Interface System for Recording a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis

Debra Yarrington, John Gray, Chris Pennington, H. Timothy Bunnell, Allegra Cornaglia

SIDE: The Summarization Integrated Development Environment

Moonyoung Kang, Sourish Chaudhuri, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn P. Rosé

Yawat: Yet Another Word Alignment Tool

Ulrich Germann

Interactive ASR Error Correction for Touchscreen Devices

David Huggins-Daines, Alexander I. Rudnicky

Demonstration of the UAM CorpusTool for Text and Image Annotation

Mick O’Donnell

BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution

Yannick Versley, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio, Vladimir Eidelman, Alan Jern

Generating Research Websites Using Summarisation Techniques

Advaith Siddharthan, Ann Copestake

Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer

Jason Williams

Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Demo Session

Jimmy Lin

A Hierarchical Approach to Encoding Medical Concepts for Clinical Notes

Yitao Zhang

Adaptive Language Modeling for Word Prediction

Keith Trnka

A Subcategorization Acquisition System for French Verbs

Cédric Messiant

An Unsupervised Vector Approach to Biomedical Term Disambiguation: Integrating UMLS and Medline

Bridget McInnes

Impact of Initiative on Collaborative Problem Solving

Cynthia Kersey

Arabic Language Modeling with Finite State Transducers

Ilana Heintz

The Role of Positive Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Davide Fossati

A Re-examination on Features in Regression Based Approach to Automatic MT Evaluation

Shuqi Sun, Yin Chen, Jufeng Li

Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output

Shasha Liao

Inferring Activity Time in News through Event Modeling

Vladimir Eidelman

An Integraged Architecture for Generating Parenthetical Constructions

Eva Banik

A Supervised Learning Approach to Automatic Synonym Identification Based on Distributional Features

Masato Hagiwara

Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Student Research Workshop

Ebru Arisoy, Keisuke Inoue, Wolfgang Maier

Text Segmentation with LDA-Based Fisher Kernel

Qi Sun, Runxin Li, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong Wu

Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce

Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy Lin, Douglas Oard

Evaluating Word Prediction: Framing Keystroke Savings

Keith Trnka, Kathleen McCoy

Multi-domain Sentiment Classification

Shoushan Li, Chengqing Zong

Decompounding query keywords from compounding languages

Enrique Alfonseca, Slaven Bilac, Stefan Pharies

Choosing Sense Distinctions for WSD: Psycholinguistic Evidence

Susan Windisch Brown

Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations

Michaela Regneri, Markus Egg, Alexander Koller

Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis

Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer

splitSVM: Fast, Space-Efficient, non-Heuristic, Polynomial Kernel Computation for NLP Applications

Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad

Active Learning with Confidence

Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer

Speakers’ Intention Prediction Using Statistics of Multi-level Features in a Schedule Management Domain

Donghyun Kim, Hyunjung Lee, Choong-Nyoung Seon, Harksoo Kim, Jungyun Seo

Enriching Spoken Language Translation with Dialog Acts

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan

Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text

Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabith

Computing Confidence Scores for All Sub Parse Trees

Feng Lin, Fuliang Weng

Unlexicalised Hidden Variable Models of Split Dependency Grammars

Gabriele Antonio Musillo, Paola Merlo

Construct State Modification in the Arabic Treebank

Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick

FastSum: Fast and Accurate Query-based Multi-document Summarization

Frank Schilder, Ravikumar Kondadadi

Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation of Extractive Meeting Summaries

Feifan Liu, Yang Liu

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Referring Expression Generation

Anja Belz, Albert Gatt

Query-based Sentence Fusion is Better Defined and Leads to More Preferred Results than Generic Sentence Fusion

Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi, Paul van Pelt

Mapping between Compositional Semantic Representations and Lexical Semantic Resources: Towards Accurate Deep Semantic Parsing

Sergio Roa, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang

Semantic Types of Some Generic Relation Arguments: Detection and Evaluation

Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans

Evolving New Lexical Association Measures Using Genetic Programming

Jan Šnajder, Bojana Dalbelo Bašić, Saša Petrović, Ivan Sikirić

Learning Semantic Links from a Corpus of Parallel Temporal and Causal Relations

Steven Bethard, James H. Martin

Distributed Listening: A Parallel Processing Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition

Yolanda McMillian, Juan Gilbert

High Frequency Word Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue

Ani Nenkova, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg

Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Sub-word Units

Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Emmanuel Dupoux

Partial Matching Strategy for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Zhongjun He, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Exploiting N-best Hypotheses for SMT Self-Enhancement

Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li

Segmentation for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation

Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib, James Glass

A Linguistically Annotated Reordering Model for BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li

Event Matching Using the Transitive Closure of Dependency Relations

Daniel M. Bikel, Vittorio Castelli

Smoothing a Tera-word Language Model

Deniz Yuret

Mining Wikipedia Revision Histories for Improving Sentence Compression

Elif Yamangil, Rani Nelken

Lyric-based Song Sentiment Classification with Sentiment Vector Space Model

Yunqing Xia, Linlin Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, Mingxing Xu

In-Browser Summarisation: Generating Elaborative Summaries Biased Towards the Reading Context

Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris

Robust Extraction of Named Entity Including Unfamiliar Word

Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Shinya Hida, Seiichi Nakagawa

Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System

Umar Syed, Jason Williams

Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking

Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab, Cynthia Rudin

Kernels on Linguistic Structures for Answer Extraction

Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni

The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown: Morphosyllabic Sentiment Tagging of Unseen Words

Karo Moilanen, Stephen Pulman

A Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech

Tim Miller, William Schuler

Self-Training for Biomedical Parsing

David McClosky, Eugene Charniak

You’ve Got Answers: Towards Personalized Models for Predicting Success in Community Question Answering

Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein

Using Structural Information for Identifying Similar Chinese Characters

Chao-Lin Liu, Jen-Hsiang Lin

A Novel Feature-based Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction

Wenjie Li, Peng Zhang, Furu Wei, Yuexian Hou, Qin Lu

Dictionary Definitions based Homograph Identification using a Generative Hierarchical Model

Anagha Kulkarni, Jamie Callan

Machine Translation System Combination using ITG-based Alignments

Damianos Karakos, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Markus Dreyer

Recent Improvements in the CMU Large Scale Chinese-English SMT System

Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noamany, Quin Gao, Sanjika Hewavitharana

Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management

James Henderson, Oliver Lemon

Blog Categorization Exploiting Domain Dictionary and Dynamically Estimated Domains of Unknown Words

Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi

Assessing the Costs of Sampling Methods in Active Learning for Annotation

Robbie Haertel, Eric Ringger, Kevin Seppi, James Carroll, Peter McClanahan

Combined One Sense Disambiguation of Abbreviations

Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz

Four Techniques for Online Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation

Nizar Habash

Active Sample Selection for Named Entity Transliteration

Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth

Simulating the Behaviour of Older versus Younger Users when Interacting with Spoken Dialogue Systems

Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna Moore

Enforcing Transitivity in Coreference Resolution

Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning

Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling

Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak

Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking

Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff

Icelandic Data Driven Part of Speech Tagging

Mark Dredze, Joel Wallenberg

Novel Semantic Features for Verb Sense Disambiguation

Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer

The Complexity of Phrase Alignment Problems

John DeNero, Dan Klein

Dialect Classification for Online Podcasts Fusing Acoustic and Language Based Structural and Semantic Information

Rahul Chitturi, John Hansen

Extractive Summaries for Educational Science Content

Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Martin, Tamara Sumner

Dimensions of Subjectivity in Natural Language

Wei Chen

Improving the Performance of the Random Walk Model for Answering Complex Questions

Yllias Chali, Shafiq Joty

Surprising Parser Actions and Reading Difficulty

Marisa Ferrara Boston, John T. Hale, Reinhold Kliegl, Shravan Vasishth

Language Dynamics and Capitalization using Maximum Entropy

Fernando Batista, Nuno Mamede, Isabel Trancoso

Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers

Johanna D. Moore, Simone Teufel, James Allan, Sadaoki Furui

Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs

Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard Hovy