COLING 2004

205 papers

Deep Linguistic Analysis for the Accurate Identification of Predicate-Argument Relations

Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

A Natural Language Processing Infrastructure for Turkish

A. C. Cem Say, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Seniz Demir, Faith Ögun

Using Gene Expression Programming to Construct Sentence Ranking Functions for Text Summarization

Zhuli Xie, Xin Li, Barbara Di Eugenio, Weimin Xiao, Thomas M. Tirpak

A Language Independent Method for Question Classification

Thamar Solorio, Manuel Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Aurelio Lopez-Lopez

Determining the Sentiment of Opinions

Soo-Min Kim, Eduard Hovy

Learning to Identify Single-Snippet Answers to Definition Questions

Spyridoula Miliaraki, Ion Androutsopoulos

Contextual processing of locative prepositional phrases

Nicolas Denand, Monique Rolbert

Semantic Role Labeling Via Integer Linear Programming Inference

Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih, Dav Zimak

Understanding Students’ Explanations in Geometry Tutoring

Octav Popescu, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth Koedinger

Creative Discovery in Lexical Ontologies

Tony Veale, Nuno Seco, Jer Hayes

Discovering word senses from a network of lexical cooccurrences

Olivier Ferret

Acquiring an Ontology for a Fundamental Vocabulary

Francis Bond, Eric Nichols, Sanae Fujita, Takaaki Tanaka

Fine-Grained Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Parallel Corpora, Word Alignment, Word Clustering and Aligned Wordnets

Dan Tufis, Radu Ion, Nancy Ide

Inferring parts of speech for lexical mappings via the Cyc KB

Tom O’Hara, Stefano Bertolo, Michael Witbrock, Bjørn Aldag, Jon Curtis

Semi-supervised training of a Kernel PCA-Based Model for Word Sense Disambiguation

Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu

HITIQA: Towards Analytical Question Answering

Sharon Small, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, Sean Ryan, Robert Salkin

Information Extraction for Question Answering: Improving Recall Through Syntactic Patterns

Valentin Jijkoun, Jori Mur, Maarten de Rijke

Web-based List Question Answering

Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua

Semantic Role Labeling Using Dependency Trees

Kadri Hacioglu

Constraint-based RMRS Construction from Shallow Grammars

Anette Frank

Comparing Semantically Related Sentences: The Case of Paraphrase Versus Subsumption

Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir Radev

Combining clues for lexical level aligning using the Null hypothesis approach

Olivier Kraif, Boxing Chen

Analysis and Detection of Reading Miscues for Interactive Literacy Tutors

Katherine Lee, Andreas Hagen, Nicholas Romanyshyn, Sean Martin, Bryan Pellom

Interpreting Vague Utterances in Context

David DeVault, Matthew Stone

Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser

Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman, James R. Curran, Julia Hockenmaier

FrameNet-based Semantic Parsing using Maximum Entropy Models

Namhee Kwon, Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy

Semiautomatic Extension of CoreNet using a Bootstrapping Mechanism on Corpus-based Co-occurrences

Chris Biemann, Sa-Im Shin, Key-Sun Choi

Automatic Identification of Infrequent Word Senses

Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, John Carroll

Automatic Construction of Japanese KATAKANA Variant List from Large Corpus

Takeshi Masuyama, Satoshi Sekine, Hiroshi Nakagawa

Combining Prediction by Partial Matching and Logistic Regression for Thai Word Segmentation

Ohm Sornil, Paweena Chaiwanarom

Automatic Construction of Nominal Case Frames and its Application to Indirect Anaphora Resolution

Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Word Sense Disambiguation using a dictionary for sense similarity measure

Bruno Gaume, Nabil Hathout, Philippe Muller

Emdros - a text database engine for analyzed or annotated text

Ulrik Petersen

A System for Generating Descriptions of Sets of Objects in a Rich variety

Helmut Horacek

Lexicalisation strategies in cooperative question-answering systems

Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint-Dizier

Predicative NPs and the annotation of reference chains

Kaja Borthen

A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating Features of Speech recognition and Machine Translation

Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Frank Soong, Taro Watanabe

Statistical Language Modeling with Performance Benchmarks using Various Levels of Syntactic-Semantic Information

Dharmendra Kanejiya, Arun Kumar, Surendra Prasad

From Controlled Document Authoring to Interactive Document Normalization

Aurélien Max

Construction of an Objective Hierarchy of Abstract Concepts via Directional Similarity

Kyoko Kanzaki, Eiko Yamamoto, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara

Automated Alignment and Extraction of Bilingual Domain Ontology for Cross-Language Domain-Specific Applications

Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Ming-Jun Chen, Liang-Chih Yu

A Semantic-based Approach to Interoperabiltity of Classification Hierarchies: Evaluation of Linguistic Techniques

Bernardo Magnini, Manuela Speranza, Christian Girardi

PageRank on Semantic Networks, with Application to Word Sense Disambiguation

Rada Mihalcea, Paul Tarau, Elizabeth Figa

Acquisition of Semantic Classes for Adjectives from Distributional Evidence

Gemma Boleda, Toni Badia, Eloi Batlle

Computational Cognitive Linguistics

Jerome Feldman

Dependency Structure Analysis and Sentence Boundary Detection in Spontaneous Japanese

Kazuya Shitaoka, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hitoshi Isahara

Efficient Confirmation Strategy for Large-scale Text Retrieval Systems with Spoken Dialogue Interface

Kazunori Komatani, Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Verb Phrase Ellipsis detection using Automatically Parsed Text

Leif Arda Nielsen

Knowledge Intensive Word Alignment with KNOWA

Emanuele Pianta, Luisa Bentivogli

A Flexible Example Annotation Schema: Translation Corresponding Tree Representation

Fai Wong, Dong Cheng Hu, Yu Hang Mao, Ming Chui Dong

Robust Sub-Sentential Alignment of Phrase-Structure Trees

Declan Groves, Mary Hearne, Andy Way

Learning Greek Verb Complements: Addressing the Class Imbalance

Katia Kermanidis, Manolis Maragoudakis, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis

Efficient Unsupervised Recursive Word Segmentation Using Minimum Description Length

Shlomo Argamon, Navot Akiva, Amihood Amir, Oren Kapah

Multi-level Bootstrapping For Extracting Parallel Sentences From a Quasi-Comparable Corpus

Pascale Fung, Percy Cheung

Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the OntoLearn Ontology Learning System

Roberto Navigli, Paola Velardi, Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Francesca Neri

Integrating Cross-Lingually Relevant News Articles and Monolingual Web Documents in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition

Takehito Utsuro, Kohei Hino, Mitsuhiro Kida, Seiichi Nakagawa, Satoshi Sato

Online Generic Editing of Heterogeneous Dictionary Entries in Papillon Project

Mathieu Mangeot, David Thevenin

Fast Computation of Lexical Affinity Models

Egidio Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke

Characterising Measures of Lexical Distributional Similarity

Julie Weeds, David Weir, Diana McCarthy

Morpheme-based Derivation of Bipolar Semantic Orientation of Chinese Words

Raymond W.M. Yuen, Terence Y.W. Chan, Tom B.Y. Lai, O.Y. Kwong, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou

A Multiple-Document Summarization System with User Interaction

Hiroyuki Sakai, Shigeru Masuyama

FASIL Email Summarisation System

Angelo Dalli, Yunqing Xia, Yorick Wilks

Learning Table Extraction from Examples

Ashwin Tengli, Yiming Yang, Nian Li Ma

Collocation Extraction Based on Modifiability Statistics

Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn

High-Performance Tagging on Medical Texts

Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter

Linguistic profiling of texts for the purpose of language verification

Hans van Halteren, Nelleke Oostdijk

Multilingual and cross-lingual news topic tracking

Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, Camelia Ignat, Emilia Käsper, Irina Temnikova

Identification of Confusable Drug Names: A New Approach and Evaluation Methodology

Grzegorz Kondrak, Bonnie Dorr

Significance tests for the evaluation of ranking methods

Stefan Evert

Extracting Hyponyms of Prespecified Hypernyms from Itemizations and Headings in Web Documents

Keiji Shinzato, Kentaro Torisawa

BiFrameNet: Bilingual Frame Semantics Resource Construction by Cross-lingual Induction

Pascale Fung, Benfeng Chen

Automated Induction of Sense in Context

James Pustejovsky, Patrick Hanks, Anna Rumshisky

Learning a Robust Word Sense Disambiguation Model using Hypernyms in Definition Sentences

Kiyoaki Shirai, Tsunekazu Yagi

Word sense disambiguation criteria: a systematic study

Laurent Audibert

Trajectory Based Word Sense Disambiguation

Xiaojie Wang, Yuji Matsumoto

Syntactic Simplification for Improving Content Selection in Multi-Document Summarization

Advaith Siddharthan, Ani Nenkova, Kathleen McKeown

Detection of Question-Answer Pairs in Email Conversations

Lokesh Shrestha, Kathleen McKeown

Cross-lingual Information Extraction System Evaluation

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman

Information Extraction from Single and Multiple Sentences

Mark Stevenson

Correcting Category Errors in Text Classification

Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki

Detecting Multiword Verbs in the English Sublanguage of MEDLINE Abstracts

Chun Xiao, Dietmar Rösner

Text Analysis Meets Computational Lexicography

Hannah Kermes

Named Entity Discovery Using Comparable News Articles

Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine

Sentiment classification on customer feedback data: noisy data, large feature vectors, and the role of linguistic analysis

Michael Gamon

Text Induced Spelling Correction

Martin Reynaert

Back Transliteration from Japanese to English using Target English Context

Isao Goto, Naoto Kato, Terumasa Ehara, Hideki Tanaka

Controlling Gender Equality with Shallow NLP Techniques

Michael Carl, Sandrine Garnier, Johann Haller, Anne Altmayer, Bärbel Miemietz

Cognate Mapping - A Heuristic Strategy for the Semi-Supervised Acquisition of a Spanish Lexicon from a Portuguese Seed Lexicon

Stefan Schulz, Kornel Markó, Eduardo Sbrissia, Percy Nohama, Udo Hahn

Term Aggregation: Mining Synonymous Expressions using Personal Stylistic Variations

Akiko Murakami, Tetsuya Nasukawa

Feature Weighting for Co-occurrence-based Classification of Words

Viktor Pekar, Michael Krkoska, Steffen Staab

Improving Statistical Machine Translation in the Medical Domain using the Unified Medical Language system

Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

Representing Verbal Semantics with Diagrams - An Adaptation of the UML for Lexical Semantics

Andrea C. Schalley

A Lemma-Based Approach to a Maximum Entropy Word Sense Disambiguation System for Dutch

Tanja Gaustad

Towards Terascale Semantic Acquisition

Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy

Iryna Gurevych, Michael Strube

Discriminative Slot Detection Using Kernel Methods

Shubin Zhao, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman

Improving Chronological Sentence Ordering by Precedence Relation

Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Probabilistic Sentence Reduction Using Support Vector Machines

Minh Le Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Susumu Horiguchi, Bao Tu Ho, Masuru Fukushi

Lower and higher estimates of the number of “true analogies” between sentences contained in a large multilingual corpus

Yves Lepage

Bilingual-Dictionary Adaptation to Domains

Hiroyuki Kaji