COLING 2002

200 papers

Chinese Syntactic Parsing Based on Extended GLR Parsing Algorithm with PCFG*

Yan Zhang, Bo Xu, Chengqing Zong

Polibox: Generating Descriptions, Comparisons, and Recommendations from a Database

Manfred Stede

Creating a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics

Owen Rambow, Srinivas Bangalore, Tahir Butt, Alexis Nasr, Richard Sproat

The LinGO Redwoods Treebank: Motivation and Preliminary Applications

Stephan Oepen, Kristina Toutanova, Stuart Shieber, Christopher Manning, Dan Flickinger

An Indexing Scheme for Typed Feature Structures

Takashi Ninomiya, Takaki Makino, Jun-ichi Tsujii

A Reliable Approach to Automatic Assessment of Short Answer Free Responses

Lyle F. Bachman, Nathan Carr, Greg Kamei, Mikyung Kim, Michael J. Pan

Cross Linguistic Phoneme Correspondences

Lynne Cahill, Carole Tiberius

Reasoning in Metaphor Understanding: The ATT-Meta Approach and System

John Barnden, Sheila Glasbey, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington

Looking for Candidate Translational Equivalents in Specialized, Comparable Corpora

Yun-Chuang Chiao, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Morphological Analysis of the Spontaneous Speech Corpus

Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara

An XML-based Document Suite

Dietmar Rösner, Manuela Kunze

Robust Interpretation of User Requests for Text Retrieval in a Multimodal Environment

Alexandra Klein, Estela Puig-Waldmüller, Harald Trost

Several Directions for Minority Languages Computerization

Vincent Berment

Context-Sensitive Electronic Dictionaries

Gábor Prószéky, Balázs Kis

Recognition Assistance - Treating Errors in Texts Acquired from Various Recognition Processes

Gábor Prószéky, Mátyás Naszódi, Balázs Kis

SOAT: A Semi-Automatic Domain Ontology Acquisition Tool from Chinese Corpus

Shih-Hung Wu, Wen-Lian Hsu

Topic Tracking using Subject Templates and Clustering Positive Training Instances

Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi

Semantic Case Role Detection for Information Extraction

Rik De Busser, Roxana Angheluta, Marie-Francine Moens

The Performance of a Grammar Checker with Deviant Language Input

Janne Bondi Johannessen, Kristin Hagen, Pia Lane

Machine Translation Based on NLG from XML-DB

Yohei Seki, Ken’ichi Harada

Interactive Paraphrasing Based on Linguistic Annotation

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katashi Nagao

Building a Bilingual WordNet-Like Lexicon: The New Approach and Algorithms

Yang Liu, Shiwen Yu, Jiangsheng Yu

An Annotation System for Enhancing Quality of Natural Language Processing

Hideo Watanabe, Katashi Nagao, Michael C. McCord, Arendse Bernth

Scaled Log Likelihood Ratios for the Detection of Abbreviations in Text Corpora

Tibor Kiss, Jan Strunk

A Linguistic Discovery Program that Verbalizes its Discoveries

Vladimir Pericliev

Searching the Web by Voice

Alexander Franz, Brian Milch

Dynamic Lexical Acquisition in Chinese Sentence Analysis

Andi Wu, Joseph Pentheroudakis, Zixin Jiang

A DAML+OIL-Compliant Chinese Lexical Ontology

Yu-Sheng Lai, Ren-Jr Wang, Wei-Tek Hsu

COLING 2002: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Project Notes

A Pattern-based Analyzer for French in the Context of Spoken Language Translation: First Prototype and Evaluation

Hervé Blanchon

Open-Domain Voice-Activated Question Answering

Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Joe Picone

Maximum Entropy Models for Word Sense Disambiguation

Gerald Chao, Michael G. Dyer

Lexical Chains for Question Answering

Dan Moldovan, Adrian Novischi

An Approach Based on Multilingual Thesauri and Model Combination for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Hervé Déjean, Eric Gaussier, Fatiha Sadat

Complexity of Event Structure in IE Scenarios

Silja Huttunen, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman

Language Model Adaptation with Additional Text Generated by Machine Translation

Hideharu Nakajima, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Taro Watanabe

Machine Translation by Interaction between Paraphraser and Transfer

Kazuhide Yamamoto

Identifying Concepts Across Languages: A First Step towards a Corpus-based Approach to Automatic Ontology Alignment

Grace Ngai, Marine Carpuat, Pascale Fung

Lexical Query Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval

Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti

Modular MT with a Learned Bilingual Dictionary: Rapid Deployment of a New Language Pair

Jessie Pinkham, Martine Smets

Extending a Broad-Coverage Parser for a General NLP Toolkit

Hassan Alam, Hua Cheng, Rachmat Hartono, Aman Kumar, Paul Llido

Study of Practical Effectiveness for Machine Translation Using Recursive Chain-link-type Learning

Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, Koji Tochinai

A Stochastic Parser Based on an SLM with Arboreal Context Trees

Shinsuke Mori

Putting Frames in Perspective

Nancy Chang, Srini Narayanan, Miriam R.L. Petruck

Multi-Dimensional Text Classification

Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Verayuth Lertnattee

Unsupervised Learning of Generalized Names

Roman Yangarber, Winston Lin, Ralph Grishman

Generating the XTAG English Grammar Using Metarules

Carlos A. Prolo

Efficient Dialogue Strategy to Find Users’ Intended Items from Information Query Results

Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Ryosuke Ito, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Probabilistic Reasoning for Entity & Relation Recognition

Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih

Learning Question Classifiers

Xin Li, Dan Roth

Entering Text with a Four-Button Device

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Yusuke Inutsuka, Masato Takeichi

Investigating the Relationship between Word Segmentation Performance and Retrieval Performance in Chinese IR

Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone

Rapid Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Matthias Denecke

Crosslinguistic Transfer in Automatic Verb Classification

Vivian Tsang, Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo

Building a Large-Scale Annotated Chinese Corpus

Nianwen Xue, Fu-Dong Chiou, Martha Palmer

Concept Discovery from Text

Dekang Lin, Patrick Pantel

Simple Features for Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation

Hoa Trang Dang, Ching-yi Chia, Martha Palmer, Fu-Dong Chiou

Automatic Glossary Extraction: Beyond Terminology Identification

Youngja Park, Roy J. Byrd, Branimir K. Boguraev

A Complete Integrated NLG System Using AI and NLU Tools

Laurence Danlos, Adil El Ghali

Bringing the Dictionary to the User: The FOKS System

Slaven Bilac, Timothy Baldwin, Hozumi Tanaka

Identifying Anaphoric and Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases to Improve Coreference Resolution

Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie

Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems

John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow, Marilyn A. Walker

A New Probabilistic Model for Title Generation

Rong Jin, Alexander G. Hauptmann

Stochastic Dependency Parsing of Spontaneous Japanese Spoken Language

Shigeki Matsubara, Takahisa Murase, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Yasuyoshi Inagaki

Non-Sentential Utterances: Grammar and Dialogue Dynamics in Corpus Annotation

Raquel Fernández, Jonathan Ginzburg

Bootstrapping Bilingual Data using Consensus Translation for a Multilingual Instant Messaging System

Srinivas Bangalore, Vanessa Murdock, Giuseppe Riccardi

Analysis of Titles and Readers for Title Generation Centered on the Readers

Yasuko Senda, Yaushi Shinohara

Probabilistic Models of Verb-Argument Structure

Daniel Gildea

Annotating Topological Fields and Chunks - and Revising POS Tags at the Same Time

Frank Henrik Müller, Tylman Ule

Fine Grained Classification of Named Entities

Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy

Decision Trees as Explicit Domain Term Definitions

Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Text Authoring, Knowledge Acquisition and Description Logics

Marc Dymetman

Location Normalization for Information Extraction

Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li

Recovering Latent Information in Treebanks

David Chiang, Daniel M. Bikel

A Measure of Term Representativeness Based on the Number of Co-occurring Salient Words

Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa

Contextual Natural Language Processing and DAML for Understanding Software Requirements Specifications

Beum-Seuk Lee, Barrett R. Bryant

Natural Language Interpretations for Heterogeneous Database Access

Hodong Lee, Jong C. Park

Fertilization of Case Frame Dictionary for Robust Japanese Case Analysis

Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Experiments in German Noun Chunking

Michael Schiehlen

An Unsupervised Learning Method for Associative Relationships between Verb Phrases

Kentaro Torisawa

SVM Answer Selection for Open-Domain Question Answering

Jun Suzuki, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku Maeda

Can Subcategorization Help a Statistical Dependency Parser?

Daniel Zeman

Extension of Zipf’s Law to Words and Phrases

Le Quan Ha, E. I. Sicilia-Garcia, Ji Ming, F. J. Smith

Linking Syntactic and Semantic Arguments in a Dependency-based Formalism

Christian Korthals, Ralph Debusmann

A Maximum Entropy-based Word Sense Disambiguation System

Armando Suárez, Manuel Palomar

A Graph Model for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition

Dominic Widdows, Beate Dorow

Natural Language and Inference in a Computer Game

Malte Gabsdil, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz

Syntactic Features for High Precision Word Sense Disambiguation

David Martinez, Eneko Agirre, Lluis Marquez

Rigid Lambek Grammars Are Not Learnable from Strings

Annie Foret, Yannick Le Nir

Notions of Correctness when Evaluating Protein Name Taggers

Fredrik Olsson, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Lars Asker, Per Lidén

Using Contextual Spelling Correction to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness in Degraded Text Collections

Patrick Ruch

Lexicalization of Probabilistic Grammars

Helmut Schmid

Example-based Speech Intention Understanding and Its Application to In-Car Spoken Dialogue System

Shigeki Matsubara, Shinichi Kimura, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Yukiko Yamaguchi, Yasuyoshi Inagaki

Parsing Dependency Grammar using ALE

Piet Mertens

From Trees to Predicate-argument Structures

Maria Liakata, Stephen Pulman

From Shallow to Deep Parsing Using Constraint Satisfaction

Jean-Marie Balfourier, Philippe Blache, Tristan van Rullen

Automatic Text Categorization using the Importance of Sentences

Youngjoong Ko, Jinwoo Park, Jungyun Seo

Learning How to Answer Questions Using Trivia Games

Gideon S. Mann

Detecting Errors in Corpora Using Support Vector Machines

Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto

Lenient Default Unification for Robust Processing within Unification Based Grammar Formalisms

Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii