COLING 2004

205 papers

Subcategorization Acquisition and Evaluation for Chinese Verbs

Xiwu Han, Tiejun Zhao, Haoliang Qi, Hao Yu

Direct Orthographical Mapping for Machine Transliteration

Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Jian Su

Detecting Transliterated Orthographic Variants via Two Similarity Metrics

Kiyonori Ohtake, Youichi Sekiguchi, Kazuhide Yamamoto

Combining Linguistic Features with Weighted Bayesian Classifier for Temporal Reference Processing

Guihong Cao, Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Chunfa Yuan

Question Answering Based on Semantic Structures

Srini Narayanan, Sanda Harabagiu

Query Translation by Text Categorization

Patrick Ruch

A Trigger Language Model-based IR System

Jun-lin Zhang, Le Sun, Wei-min Qu, Yu-fang Sun

Linguistically Informed Statistical Models of Constituent Structure for Ordering in Sentence Realization

Eric Ringger, Michael Gamon, Robert C. Moore, David Rojas, Martine Smets

Generation of Relative Referring Expressions based on Perceptual Grouping

Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama, Takenobu Tokunaga

New Statistical Methods for Phrase Break Prediction

Helmut Schmid, Michaela Atterer

Using syntactic information to extract relevant terms for multi-document summarization

Enrique Amigo, Julio Gonzalo, Victor Peinado, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo

Summarizing Encyclopedic Term Descriptions on the Web

Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa

Automatic extraction of paraphrastic phrases from medium-size corpora

Thierry Poibeau

An Algorithmic Framework for Solving the Decoding Problem in Statistical Machine Translation

Raghavendra Udupa, Tanveer A. Faruquie, Hemanta K. Maji

A Path-based Transfer Model for Machine Translation

Dekang Lin

Mining New Word Translations from Comparable Corpora

Li Shao, Hwee Tou Ng

Linguistic correlates of style: authorship classification with deep linguistic analysis features

Michael Gamon

Enhancing automatic term recognition through recognition of variation

Goran Nenadic, Sophia Ananiadou, John McNaught

A hybrid back-transliteration system for Japanese

Slaven Bilac, Hozumi Tanaka

Constraining the Use of General Lexical Resources for Automatic Hyperlink Generation

Farid Cerbah

Incremental Topic Representations

Sanda Harabagiu

Browsing Help for a Faster Retrieval

Eric Crestan, Claude de Loupy

Tagging with Hidden Markov Models Using Ambiguous Tags

Alexis Nasr, Frédéric Béchet, Alexandra Volanschi

Chinese Segmentation and New Word Detection using Conditional Random Fields

Fuchun Peng, Fangfang Feng, Andrew McCallum

Part-of-Speech Tagging in Context

Michele Banko, Robert C. Moore

Generating Overview Summaries of Ongoing Email Thread Discussions

Stephen Wan, Kathy McKeown

Cascading Use of Soft and Hard Matching Pattern Rules for Weakly Supervised Information Extraction

Jing Xiao, Tat-Seng Chua, Hang Cui

Corpus and Evaluation Measures for Multiple Document Summarization with Multiple Sources

Tsutomu Hirao, Takahiro Fukusima, Manabu Okumura, Chikashi Nobata, Hidetsugu Nanba

Thai Spelling Recognition Using a Continuous Speech Corpus

Chutima Pisarn, Thanaruk Theeramunkong

A High-Performance Coreference Resolution System using a Constraint-based Multi-Agent Strategy

Guodong Zhou, Jian Su

Optimizing Algorithms for Pronoun Resolution

Michael Schiehlen

Improving a Statistical MT System with Automatically Learned Rewrite Patterns

Fei Xia, Michael McCord

ORANGE: a Method for Evaluating Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation

Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och

Deeper Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Translation Technology

Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Hideo Watanabe

Using Bag-of-Concepts to Improve the Performance of Support Vector Machines in Text Categorization

Magnus Sahlgren, Rickard Cöster

Document Re-ranking Based on Automatically Acquired Key Terms in Chinese Information Retrieval

Lingpeng Yang, Donghong Ji, Li Tang

Filtering Speaker-Specific Words from Electronic Discussions

Ingrid Zukerman, Yuval Marom

Chinese and Japanese Word Segmentation Using Word-Level and Character-Level Information

Tetsuji Nakagawa

Japanese Unknown Word Identification by Character-based Chunking

Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto

Efficient Finite State Unification Morphology

Jan W. Amtrup

Dependency-based Sentence Alignment for Multiple Document Summarization

Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Eisaku Maeda

Multi-Answer-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using a Question-Answering Engine

Tatsunori Mori, Masanori Nozawa, Yoshiaki Asada

Multi-Human Dialogue Understanding for Assisting Artifact-Producing Meetings

John Niekrasz, Alexander Gruenstein, Lawrence Cavedon

Machine-Assisted Rhetorical Structure Annotation

Manfred Stede, Silvan Heintze

Syntax-Based Alignment: Supervised or Unsupervised?

Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea

Language Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation via Structured Query Models

Bing Zhao, Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel

Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam’s Razor in Error Correctors

Dekai Wu, Grace Ngai, Marine Carpuat

A Formal Model for Information Selection in Multi-Sentence Text Extraction

Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

Annotation Strategies for Probabilistic Parsing in German

Michael Schiehlen

Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing

Mary Swift, James Allen, Daniel Gildea

Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health

Barry Smith, Christiane Fellbaum

Evaluating Cross-Language Annotation Transfer in the MultiSemCor Corpus

Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, Emanuele Pianta

Toward Unsupervised Whole-Corpus Tagging

Dayne Freitag

Unsupervised Construction of Large Paraphrase Corpora: Exploiting Massively Parallel News Sources

Bill Dolan, Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett

Improving Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution by Global Word Sense Disambiguation

Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Talking robots with Lego MindStorms

Alexander Koller, Geert-Jan Kruijff

Generating Discourse Structures for Written Text

Huong Le Thanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, Christian Huyck

Using a Mixture of N-Best Lists from Multiple MT Systems in Rank-Sum-Based Confidence Measure for MT Outputs

Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation

John Blatz, Erin Fitzgerald, George Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Cyril Goutte

Improving Word Alignment Quality using Morpho-syntactic Information

Hermann Ney, Maja Popović

Polarization and abstraction of grammatical formalisms as methods for lexical disambiguation

Guillaume Bonfante, Bruno Guillaume, Guy Perrier

Unificational Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Combining Information Structure and Discourse Representations

Maarika Traat, Johan Bos

Condition of Projectivity in the Underlying Dependency Structures

Kateřina Veselá, Jiří Havelka, Eva Hajičová

The Importance of Supertagging for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing

Stephen Clark, James R. Curran

A Deterministic Word Dependency Analyzer Enhanced With Preference Learning

Hideki Isozaki, Hideto Kazawa, Tsutomu Hirao

Annotating Grammatical Functions for German Using Finite-State Cascades

Frank Henrik Müller

From efficiency to portability: acquisition of semantic relations by semi-supervised machine learning

Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot

Optimizing disambiguation in Swahili

Arvi Hurskainen

Feature Vector Quality and Distributional Similarity

Maayan Geffet, Ido Dagan

Classifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach

Raquel Fernández, Jonathan Ginzburg, Shalom Lappin

Resolving Individual and Abstract Anaphora in Texts and Dialogues

Costanza Navarretta

An NP-Cluster Based Approach to Coreference Resolution

Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew Lim Tan

Symmetric Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation

Evgeny Matusov, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney

Word to word alignment strategies

Jörg Tiedemann

Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Richard Zens, Hermann Ney, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita

A Bimachine Compiler for Ranked Tagging Rules

Wojciech Skut, Stefan Ulrich, Kathrine Hammervold

Generalizing Dimensionality in Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Jason Baldridge

Learning theories from text

Maria Liakata, Stephen Pulman

A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka

A Grammar Formalism and Parser for Linearization-based HPSG

Michael W. Daniels, W. Detmar Meurers

Efficient Parsing of Highly Ambiguous Context-Free Grammars with Bit Vectors

Helmut Schmid

A Support System for Revising Titles to Stimulate the Lay Reader’s Interest in Technical Achievements

Yasuko Senda, Yasusi Sinohara, Manabu Okumura

Automatic Learning of Language Model Structure

Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff

Modern Natural Language Interfaces to Databases: Composing Statistical Parsing with Semantic Tractability

Ana-Maria Popescu, Alex Armanasu, Oren Etzioni, David Ko, Alexander Yates

Representing discourse coherence: A corpus-based analysis

Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson

The Queen’s Agents: Using Collaborating Object-Based Dialogue Agents in the Queen’s Communicator

Ian O’Neill, Philip Hanna, Xingkun Liu, Michael McTear

Playing the Telephone Game: Determining the Hierarchical Structure of Perspective and Speech Expressions

Eric Breck, Claire Cardie

Splitting Input Sentence for Machine Translation Using Language Model with Sentence Similarity

Takao Doi, Eiichiro Sumita

Extending MT evaluation tools with translation complexity metrics

Bogdan Babych, Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley

Example-based Machine Translation Based on Syntactic Transfer with Statistical Models

Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita

Modeling of Long Distance Context Dependency

Guodong Zhou

Partially Distribution-Free Learning of Regular Languages from Positive Samples

Alexander Clark, Franck Thollard

Restrictions on Monadic Context-Free Tree Grammars

Akio Fujiyoshi

Kullback-Leibler Distance between Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars and Probabilistic Finite Automata

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

Deterministic Dependency Parsing of English Text

Joakim Nivre, Mario Scholz

Type-inheritance Combinatory Categorial Grammar

John Beavers

Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts

Philippe Muller, Xavier Tannier

Combining Hierarchical Clustering and Machine Learning to Predict High-Level Discourse Structure

Caroline Sporleder, Alex Lascarides

Improved Word Alignment Using a Symmetric Lexicon Model

Richard Zens, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney

Improving Statistical Word Alignment with a Rule-Based Machine Translation System

Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang