ACL 2009

248 papers

State-of-the-art NLP Approaches to Coreference Resolution: Theory and Practical Recipes

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio

Learning to Rank

Hang Li

Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition

Afra Alishahi

Semantic Role Labeling: Past, Present and Future

Lluis Marquez

Topics in Statistical Machine Translation

Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn

Fundamentals of Chinese Language Processing

Chu-Ren Huang, Qin Lu

Tutorial Abstracts of ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Diana McCarthy, Chengqing Zong

Combining POMDPs trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System

Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Riccardi, Alexei V. Ivanov, Pierluigi Roberti

A NLG-based Application for Walking Directions

Michael Roth, Anette Frank

System for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora

Petr Pajas, Jan Štěpánek

WikiBABEL: A Wiki-style Platform for Creation of Parallel Data

A Kumaran, K Saravanan, Naren Datha, B Ashok, Vikram Dendi

Demonstration of Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-based Machine Translation

Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Sanjeev Khudanpur

MARS: Multilingual Access and Retrieval System with Enhanced Query Translation and Document Retrieval

Lianhau Lee, AiTi Aw, Thuy Vu, Sharifah Aljunied Mahani, Min Zhang

A Web-Based Interactive Computer Aided Translation Tool

Philipp Koehn

ProLiV - a Tool for Teaching by Viewing Computational Linguistics

Monica Gavrila, Cristina Vertan

A Tool for Deep Semantic Encoding of Narrative Texts

David K. Elson, Kathleen R. McKeown

LX-Center: a center of online linguistic services

António Branco, Francisco Costa, Eduardo Ferreira, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes

WISDOM: A Web Information Credibility Analysis Systematic

Susumu Akamine, Daisuke Kawahara, Yoshikiyo Kato, Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui

Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Software Demonstrations

Gary Geunbae Lee, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Creating a Gold Standard for Sentence Clustering in Multi-Document Summarization

Johanna Geiss

Clustering Technique in Multi-Document Personal Name Disambiguation

Chen Chen, Junfeng Hu, Houfeng Wang

The Modulation of Cooperation and Emotion in Dialogue: The REC Corpus

Federica Cavicchio

Data Cleaning for Word Alignment

Tsuyoshi Okita

Optimizing Language Model Information Retrieval System with Expectation Maximization Algorithm

Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Jyun-Wei Huang

Accurate Learning for Chinese Function Tags from Minimal Features

Caixia Yuan, Fuji Ren, Xiaojie Wang

Sentence diagram generation using dependency parsing

Elijah Mayfield

A System for Semantic Analysis of Chemical Compound Names

Henriette Engelken

Paraphrase Recognition Using Machine Learning to Combine Similarity Measures

Prodromos Malakasiotis

Annotating and Recognising Named Entities in Clinical Notes

Yefeng Wang

Insights into Non-projectivity in Hindi

Prashanth Mannem, Himani Chaudhry, Akshar Bharati

Sense-based Interpretation of Logical Metonymy Using a Statistical Method

Ekaterina Shutova

Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop

Brian Roark, Grace Ngai, Davis Muhajereen D. Dimalen, Jenny Rose Finkel, Blaise Thomson

Predicting Unknown Time Arguments based on Cross-Event Propagation

Prashant Gupta, Heng Ji

Composite Kernels For Relation Extraction

Frank Reichartz, Hannes Korte, Gerhard Paass

The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task

Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigo

Arabic Cross-Document Coreference Resolution

Asad Sayeed, Tamer Elsayed, Nikesh Garera, David Alexander, Tan Xu

Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data

Cristina Mota, Ralph Grishman

Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts

Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk

Modeling Morphologically Rich Languages Using Split Words and Unstructured Dependencies

Deniz Yuret, Ergun Biçici

A Succinct N-gram Language Model

Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki

A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Johnson

Where’s the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering

Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown

Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan, Shafiq Joty

Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps

Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchuk

The Contribution of Stylistic Information to Content-based Mobile Spam Filtering

Dae-Neung Sohn, Jung-Tae Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

Graph Ranking for Sentiment Transfer

Qiong Wu, Songbo Tan, Xueqi Cheng

Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining

Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Penstein-Rosé

The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language

Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava

Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse

Eva Banik

Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems

Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale

Multi-Document Summarization using Sentence-based Topic Models

Dingding Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li, Yihong Gong

Markov Random Topic Fields

Hal Daume III

Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Yashar Mehdad

Iterative Scaling and Coordinate Descent Methods for Maximum Entropy

Fang-Lan Huang, Cho-jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang, Chih-Jen Lin

Efficient Inference of CRFs for Large-Scale Natural Language Data

Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin, Gary Geunbae Lee

Parsing Speech Repair without Specialized Grammar Symbols

Tim Miller, Luan Nguyen, William Schuler

A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish

Haşim Sak, Tunga Güngör, Murat Saraclar

Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-native Speech

Gina-Anne Levow

Automatic Story Segmentation using a Bayesian Decision Framework for Statistical Models of Lexical Chain Features

Wai-Kit Lo, Wenying Xiong, Helen Meng

From Extractive to Abstractive Meeting Summaries: Can It Be Done by Sentence Compression?

Fei Liu, Yang Liu

Transfer Learning, Feature Selection and Word Sense Disambiguation

Paramveer S. Dhillon, Lyle H. Ungar

Prediction of Thematic Rank for Structured Semantic Role Labeling

Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui, Meng Wang

Introduction of a new paraphrase generation tool based on Monte-Carlo sampling

Jonathan Chevelu, Thomas Lavergne, Yves Lepage, Thierry Moudenc

Syntax is from Mars while Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks

Chris Biemann, Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee

Handling phrase reorderings for machine translation

Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sandor Szedmak, Mahesan Niranjan

Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT

Mei Yang, Jing Zheng

Bridging Morpho-Syntactic Gap between Source and Target Sentences for English-Korean Statistical Machine Translation

Gumwon Hong, Seung-Wook Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

Optimizing Word Alignment Combination For Phrase Table Training

Yonggang Deng, Bowen Zhou

A Beam-Search Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data

Christoph Tillmann

CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank

Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth

iChi: a bilingual dictionary generating tool

István Varga, Shoichi Yokoyama

Chinese Term Extraction Using Different Types of Relevance

Yuhang Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Qin Lu, Dequan Zheng, Hao Yu

Play the Language: Play Coreference

Barbora Hladká, Jiří Mírovský, Pavel Schlesinger

Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs

Hidetsugu Nanba, Haruka Taguma, Takahiro Ozaki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Aya Ishino

Mining Association Language Patterns for Negative Life Event Classification

Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chao-Cheng Lin

Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora

Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang, Hong Mei

A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search

Janara Christensen, Mausam, Oren Etzioni

Learning Semantic Categories from Clickthrough Logs

Mamoru Komachi, Shimpei Makimoto, Kei Uchiumi, Manabu Sassano

Query Segmentation Based on Eigenspace Similarity

Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Seng Chua

An Ontology-Based Approach for Key Phrase Extraction

Chau Q. Nguyen, Tuoi T. Phan

Mining User Reviews: from Specification to Summarization

Xinfan Meng, Houfeng Wang

Finding Hedges by Chasing Weasels: Hedge Detection Using Wikipedia Tags and Shallow Linguistic Features

Viola Ganter, Michael Strube

Toward finer-grained sentiment identification in product reviews through linguistic and ontological analyses

Hye-Jin Min, Jong C. Park

Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Categorization with Global Margin Maximization

Xipeng Qiu, Wenjun Gao, Xuanjing Huang

Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?

Clint Burfoot, Timothy Baldwin

Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis

Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés Montoyo, Patricio Martínez-Barco

Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Using Comparative Lexical Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques

Seon Yang, Youngjoong Ko

Word to Sentence Level Emotion Tagging for Bengali Blogs

Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation

Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Martin Popel

Asynchronous Binarization for Synchronous Grammars

John DeNero, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein

Sub-Sentence Division for Tree-Based Machine Translation

Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, Qun Liu

The Backtranslation Score: Automatic MT Evalution at the Sentence Level without Reference Translations

Reinhard Rapp

English-Chinese Bi-Directional OOV Translation based on Web Mining and Supervised Learning

Yuejie Zhang, Yang Wang, Xiangyang Xue

A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on a Synthetic Synchronous Grammar

Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li, Bo Wang

Reducing SMT Rule Table with Monolingual Key Phrase

Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu, Qun Liu

Co-Feedback Ranking for Query-Focused Summarization

Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Yanxiang He

An Integrated Multi-document Summarization Approach based on Word Hierarchical Representation

You Ouyang, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu

Using Generation for Grammar Analysis and Error Detection

Michael Goodman, Francis Bond

Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?

Rahul Katragadda, Vasudeva Varma

Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates

Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith, Carolyn P. Rosé