ACL 2008

219 papers

Finding Contradictions in Text

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Christopher D. Manning

Extraction of Entailed Semantic Relations Through Syntax-Based Comma Resolution

Vivek Srikumar, Roi Reichart, Mark Sammons, Ari Rappoport, Dan Roth

Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model

Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

Generalizing Word Lattice Translation

Christopher Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, Philip Resnik

Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation

Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik

Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment

Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, Marius Pasca

Better Alignments = Better Translations?

Kuzman Ganchev, João V. Graça, Ben Taskar

Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya

Emily M. Bender

A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, John Carroll, David Weir

Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing

Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Manning

Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers

Joakim Nivre, Ryan Mcdonald

Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion

Tamer Elsayed, Douglas W. Oard, Galileo Namata

Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing

Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea

Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval

Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke

A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search

Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Miao Xiong, Yunbo Cao

Joint Processing and Discriminative Training for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion

Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak

A Cascaded Linear Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging

Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu, Yajuan Lü

Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using a Single Perceptron

Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark

Analyzing the Errors of Unsupervised Learning

Percy Liang, Dan Klein

Generalized Expectation Criteria for Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields

Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum

Multi-Task Active Learning for Linguistic Annotations

Roi Reichart, Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn, Ari Rappoport

Gestural Cohesion for Topic Segmentation

Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis

An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming

Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Jun Lang, Chew Lim Tan, Ting Liu

You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement

Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak

Can You Summarize This? Identifying Correlates of Input Difficulty for Multi-Document Summarization

Ani Nenkova, Annie Louis

Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature

Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai

An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production Using Wikipedia

Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Elena Filatova

Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic using Kernel Methods

Mona Diab, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin

Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains

Nathanael Chambers, Dan Jurafsky

Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora

Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora

Aria Haghighi, Percy Liang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein

Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation

Eleftherios Avramidis, Philipp Koehn

Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation

Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants

EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start)

Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad

Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation

Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay

Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morphological Analysis

Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg, David Gabay, Michael Elhadad

Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections

Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zaragoza

Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums

Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu

Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths

Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe

Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships Using Pattern Clusters and its Evaluation by Automatically Generated SAT Analogy Questions

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport

Contextual Preferences

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Jacob Goldberger

Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns

Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran

Semi-Supervised Sequential Labeling and Segmentation Using Giga-Word Scale Unlabeled Data

Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki

Learning Bigrams from Unigrams

Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Michael Rabbat, Robert Nowak

Phrase Chunking Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning

Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Julio C. Duarte

Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation

Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon

Robust Dialog Management with N-Best Hypotheses Using Dialog Examples and Agenda

Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Gary Geunbae Lee

Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges

Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman

Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars

Rebecca Dridan, Valia Kordoni, Jeremy Nicholson

Optimal k-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar

Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber

Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing

Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins

Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features

Liang Huang

A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model

Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph Weischedel

Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion

Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, Colin Cherry

A Tree Sequence Alignment-based Tree-to-Tree Translation Model

Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan

Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets: PropBank vs. VerbNet

Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluis Marquez

Chinese-English Backward Transliteration Assisted with Mining Monolingual Web Pages

Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, Bo Zou, Kang Liu, Feifan Liu

Semi-Supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing

Qin Iris Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Dekang Lin

Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes

Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao, Guofu Li

Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation

Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp

Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions

David Talbot, Thorsten Brants

Combining EM Training and the MDL Principle for an Automatic Verb Classification Incorporating Selectional Preferences

Sabine Schulte im Walde, Christian Hying, Christian Scheible, Helmut Schmid

Word Clustering and Word Selection Based Feature Reduction for MaxEnt Based Hindi NER

Sujan Kumar Saha, Pabitra Mitra, Sudeshna Sarkar

Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation

Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn Walker

A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization

Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu

Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models

J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard

Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus

Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst

Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System

Joanna Mrozinski, Edward Whittaker, Sadaoki Furui

Which Are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification

Jianguo Li, Chris Brew

Unsupervised Translation Induction for Chinese Abbreviations using Monolingual Corpora

Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky

Evaluating Roget‘s Thesauri

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz

Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-Scale Clustering of Dependency Relations

Jun’ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa

Using Adaptor Grammars to Identify Synergies in the Unsupervised Acquisition of Linguistic Structure

Mark Johnson

Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate

Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Hal Daume III

Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates

Sharon Goldwater, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning

A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing

Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty

Ad Hoc Treebank Structures

Markus Dickinson

Summarizing Emails with Conversational Cohesion and Subjectivity

Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng, Xiaodong Zhou

Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling

David Vickrey, Daphne Koller

Parsing Noun Phrase Structure with CCG

David Vadas, James R. Curran

A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG

Frederick Hoyt, Jason Baldridge

Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information

Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez

A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization

Ivan Titov, Ryan Mcdonald

A Generic Sentence Trimmer with CRFs

Tadashi Nomoto

When Specialists and Generalists Work Together: Overcoming Domain Dependence in Sentiment Tagging

Alina Andreevskaia, Sabine Bergler

Hedge Classification in Biomedical Texts with a Weakly Supervised Selection of Keywords

György Szarvas

Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information

Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata

Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations

S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay

Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference

Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman

Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition

Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen

Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition

Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata

Classification of Semantic Relationships between Nominals Using Pattern Clusters

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport

Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification

Alexander Koller, Michaela Regneri, Stefan Thater

Efficient Multi-Pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars

Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea

A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne

Forest-Based Translation

Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu

Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG

Dominic Espinosa, Michael White, Dennis Mehay

Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms

John Lee, Stephanie Seneff

Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation

François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker

Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus

Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu