ACL 2009

248 papers

Correlating Human and Automatic Evaluation of a German Surface Realiser

Aoife Cahill

Automatic Generation of Information-seeking Questions Using Concept Clusters

Shuguang Li, Suresh Manandhar

Predicting Barge-in Utterance Errors by using Implicitly-Supervised ASR Accuracy and Barge-in Rate per User

Kazunori Komatani, Alexander I. Rudnicky

Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution

Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Tomoko Izumi

Realistic Grammar Error Simulation using Markov Logic

Sungjin Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee

A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter

Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke, Maite Taboada

Generalizing over Lexical Features: Selectional Preferences for Semantic Role Classification

Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluis Marquez

Directional Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion

Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet

Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions.

Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar

A Combination of Active Learning and Semi-supervised Learning Starting with Positive and Unlabeled Examples for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study on Japanese Web Search Query

Makoto Imamura, Yasuhiro Takayama, Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa

A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition

Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran

Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers

Stephen Clark, James R. Curran

A Unified Single Scan Algorithm for Japanese Base Phrase Chunking and Dependency Parsing

Manabu Sassano, Sadao Kurohashi

Bayesian Learning of a Tree Substitution Grammar

Matt Post, Daniel Gildea

Incremental Parsing with Monotonic Adjoining Operation

Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara

Improving data-driven dependency parsing using large-scale LFG grammars

Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn, Kathrin Spreyer

Part of Speech Tagger for Assamese Text

Navanath Saharia, Dhrubajyoti Das, Utpal Sharma, Jugal Kalita

A Novel Word Segmentation Approach for Written Languages with Word Boundary Markers

Han-Cheol Cho, Do-Gil Lee, Jung-Tae Lee, Pontus Stenetorp, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words

Chao-Lin Liu, Kan-Wen Tien, Min-Hua Lai, Yi-Hsuan Chuang, Shih-Hung Wu

Homophones and Tonal Patterns in English-Chinese Transliteration

Oi Yee Kwong

Hybrid Approach to User Intention Modeling for Dialog Simulation

Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text

Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova

An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars

Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier

Bypassed alignment graph for learning coordination in Japanese sentences

Hideharu Okuma, Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto

Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge

Shay Cohen, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers

Keh-Yih Su, Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe, Haizhou Li

Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search

Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong

Language Identification of Search Engine Queries

Hakan Ceylan, Yookyung Kim

A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections

Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke

Word or Phrase? Learning Which Unit to Stress for Information Retrieval

Young-In Song, Jung-Tae Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

Semi-Supervised Active Learning for Sequence Labeling

Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn

Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning

Dekang Lin, Xiaoyun Wu

Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Mining Wikipedia Texts Using Information from the Web

Yulan Yan, Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Zhenglu Yang, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Weakly-Supervised Relation Extraction

Jing Jiang

Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data

Mike Mintz, Steven Bills, Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky

A Polynomial-Time Parsing Algorithm for TT-MCTAG

Laura Kallmeyer, Giorgio Satta

An Optimal-Time Binarization Algorithm for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Giorgio Satta

Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form

Luke Zettlemoyer, Michael Collins

Coordinate Structure Analysis with Global Structural Constraints and Alignment-Based Local Features

Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Hideharu Okuma, Yuji Matsumoto

K-Best A* Parsing

Adam Pauls, Dan Klein

Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination

Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu, Ning Xi

A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination

Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw

Confidence Measure for Word Alignment

Fei Huang

Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models

Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero, Dan Klein

A non-contiguous Tree Sequence Alignment-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Jun Sun, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan

Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information

Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Dialogue Segmentation with Large Numbers of Volunteer Internet Annotators

T. Daniel Midgley

Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development

Hua Ai, Diane Litman

Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois Knoll

Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns

Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, Qingsheng Zhu

Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries

Mehdi Manshadi, Xiao Li

SMS based Interface for FAQ Retrieval

Govind Kothari, Sumit Negi, Tanveer A. Faruquie, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, L. Venkata Subramaniam

Semi-Supervised Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Reports

Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng

Application-driven Statistical Paraphrase Generation

Shiqi Zhao, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence Compression

Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki

Incorporating Information Status into Generation Ranking

Aoife Cahill, Arndt Riester

Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization

Wei He, Haifeng Wang, Yuqing Guo, Ting Liu

Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Hansraj Choudhary, Avishek Ghosh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms

Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman

A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer, Miles Osborne

Quadratic-Time Dependency Parsing for Machine Translation

Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Lectures through Transformation-based Rules Learned from Minimal Data

Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu

Discriminative Lexicon Adaptation for Improved Character Accuracy - A New Direction in Chinese Language Modeling

Yi-cheng Pan, Lin-shan Lee, Sadaoki Furui

What lies beneath: Semantic and syntactic analysis of manually reconstructed spontaneous speech

Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Robert Frank

Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs

Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Combining Lexical Semantic Resources with Question & Answer Archives for Translation-Based Answer Finding

Delphine Bernhard, Iryna Gurevych

A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering

Asli Celikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Huang

Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres

Nikesh Garera, David Yarowsky

Mine the Easy, Classify the Hard: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Automatic Sentiment Classification

Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng

A Framework of Feature Selection Methods for Text Categorization

Shoushan Li, Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong, Chu-Ren Huang

Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text

Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova

Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank

Bonnie Webber

A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification

David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger

Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art

Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff

Capturing Salience with a Trainable Cache Model for Zero-anaphora Resolution

Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

Quantitative modeling of the neural representation of adjective-noun phrases to account for fMRI activation

Kai-min K. Chang, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Tom M. Mitchell, Marcel Adam Just

The Chinese Aspect Generation Based on Aspect Selection Functions

Guowen Yang, John Bateman

Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment

Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca

Learning a Compositional Semantic Parser using an Existing Syntactic Parser

Ruifang Ge, Raymond Mooney

Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants

Nathanael Chambers, Dan Jurafsky

Variational Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation

Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders

Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou

Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models

Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, Qun Liu

Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests

John DeNero, David Chiang, Kevin Knight

Improving Tree-to-Tree Translation with Packed Forests

Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü, Qun Liu

Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio

Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn, Frank Rudzicz

Semi-supervised Learning for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Co-training Algorithm

Je Hun Jeon, Yang Liu

Linefeed Insertion into Japanese Spoken Monologue for Captioning

Tomohiro Ohno, Masaki Murata, Shigeki Matsubara

Automatic Adaptation of Annotation Standards: Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging – A Case Study

Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu

An Error-Driven Word-Character Hybrid Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging

Canasai Kruengkrai, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa

Minimized Models for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging

Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight

Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence-Labeling

Fei Huang, Alexander Yates

A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction

Kristina Toutanova, Colin Cherry

Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for L1-regularized Log-linear Models with Cumulative Penalty

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou

Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition

Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith

Employing Topic Models for Pattern-based Semantic Class Discovery

Huibin Zhang, Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen

Extracting Lexical Reference Rules from Wikipedia

Eyal Shnarch, Libby Barak, Ido Dagan

Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web

Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen

Bilingual Co-Training for Monolingual Hyponymy-Relation Acquisition

Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Kentaro Torisawa

Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task

Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman