COLING 2008

200 papers

Advanced Dynamic Programming in Semiring and Hypergraph Frameworks

Liang Huang

Coling 2008: Advanced Dynamic Programming in Computational Linguistics: Theory, Algorithms and Applications - Tutorial notes

Liang Huang

ENLP Tutorial Notes – References

Iryna Gurevych, Delphine Bernhard

ENLP Tutorial Notes – Slides

Iryna Gurevych, Delphine Bernhard

Coling 2008: Educational Natural Language Processing - Tutorial notes

Iryna Gurevych, Delphine Bernhard

Temporal Processing with the TARSQI Toolkit

Marc Verhagen, James Pustejovsky

Semantic Visualization and Meaning Computation

Fabienne Venant

A Linguistic Knowledge Discovery Tool: Very Large Ngram Database Search with Arbitrary Wildcards

Satoshi Sekine

Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration System

Tejinder Singh Saini, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Virinder S Kalra

Entailment-based Question Answering for Structured Data

Bogdan Sacaleanu, Constantin Orasan, Christian Spurk, Shiyan Ou, Oscar Ferrandez

Multilingual Assistant for Medical Diagnosing and Drug Prescription Based on Category Ranking

Fernando Ruiz-Rico, Jose-Luis Vicedo, María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez

Multilingual Mobile-Phone Translation Services for World Travelers

Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, Shigeki Matsuda

“Build Your Own” Spoken Dialogue Systems: Automatically Generating ISU Dialogue Systems from Business User Resources

Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Helen Hastie

A Punjabi To Hindi Machine Translation System

Gurpreet Singh Josan, Gurpreet Singh Lehal

A Toolchain for Grammarians

Bruno Guillaume, Joseph Le Roux, Jonathan Marchand, Guy Perrier, Karën Fort

A Grammar Checking System for Punjabi

Mandeep Singh Gill, Gurpreet Singh Lehal

Online-Monitoring of Security-Related Events

Martin Atkinson, Jakub Piskorski, Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, Hristo Tanev

Coling 2008: Companion volume: Demonstrations

Allan Ramsay, Kalina Bontcheva

Sentence Compression as a Step in Summarization or an Alternative Path in Text Shortening

Mehdi Yousfi-Monod, Violaine Prince

Robust and Efficient Chinese Word Dependency Analysis with Linear Kernel Support Vector Machines

Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee

Explaining Similarity of Terms

Vishnu Vyas, Patrick Pantel

Building a Bilingual Lexicon Using Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation via a Pivot Language

Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Experiments in Base-NP Chunking and Its Role in Dependency Parsing for Thai

Shisanu Tongchim, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara

Construction of an Infrastructure for Providing Users with Suitable Language Resources

Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Shigeki Matsubara, Hitoshi Isahara

On “Redundancy” in Selecting Attributes for Generating Referring Expressions

Philipp Spanger, Takehiro Kurosawa, Takenobu Tokunaga

A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy

Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki

Comparative Evaluation of Arabic Language Morphological Analysers and Stemmers

Majdi Sawalha, Eric Atwell

Range Concatenation Grammars for Translation

Anders Søgaard

On the Weak Generative Capacity of Weighted Context-free Grammars

Anders Søgaard

Integrating Motion Predicate Classes with Spatial and Temporal Annotations

James Pustejovsky, Jessica L. Moszkowicz

Rank Distance as a Stylistic Similarity

Marius Popescu, Liviu P. Dinu

Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations

Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani Nenkova, Alan Lee

A Language-Independent Approach to Keyphrase Extraction and Evaluation

Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Ilari T. Nieminen, Matti Pöllä, Timo Honkela

Generation under Space Constraints

Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lampert, Joan Giralt Duran

Using Very Simple Statistics for Review Search: An Exploration

Bo Pang, Lillian Lee

Quantification and Implication in Semantic Calendar Expressions Represented with Finite-State Transducers

Jyrki Niemi, Kimmo Koskenniemi

Modelling Multilinguality in Ontologies

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Wim Peters

Exact Inference for Multi-label Classification using Sparse Graphical Models

Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Bayes Risk-based Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval System with Speech Interface

Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara

Multilingual Alignments by Monolingual String Differences

Adrien Lardilleux, Yves Lepage

Scaling up Analogical Learning

Philippe Langlais, François Yvon

ILP-based Conceptual Analysis for Chinese NPs

Paul D. Ji, Stephen G. Pulman

Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words using Tree-Structured Conditional Random Fields

Jun Hatori, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

The Impact of Reference Quality on Automatic MT Evaluation

Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa

Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints

Markus Egg, Michaela Regneri

Detecting Erroneous Uses of Complex Postpositions in an Agglutinative Language

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz

Hindi Compound Verbs and their Automatic Extraction

Debasri Chakrabarti, Hemang Mandalia, Ritwik Priya, Vaijayanthi Sarma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

A Scalable MMR Approach to Sentence Scoring for Multi-Document Update Summarization

Florian Boudin, Marc El-Bèze, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

Phrasal Segmentation Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, William Byrne

The Power of Negative Thinking: Exploiting Label Disagreement in the Min-cut Classification Framework

Mohit Bansal, Claire Cardie, Lillian Lee

Towards Incremental End-of-Utterance Detection in Dialogue Systems

Michaela Atterer, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Distilling Opinion in Discourse: A Preliminary Study

Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Yvette Yannick Mathieu

Metaphor in Textual Entailment

Rodrigo Agerri

Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters

Donia Scott, Hans Uszkoreit

Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach

Simon Zwarts, Mark Dras

A Systematic Comparison of Phrase-Based, Hierarchical and Syntax-Augmented Statistical MT

Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Franz Och, Jay Ponte

Active Learning with Sampling by Uncertainty and Density for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification

Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang, Tianshun Yao, Benjamin K Tsou

Multi-Criteria-Based Strategy to Stop Active Learning for Data Annotation

Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang, Eduard Hovy

Diagnostic Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Using Automatically Constructed Linguistic Check-Points

Ming Zhou, Bo Wang, Shujie LIU, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang

A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Framework to Train a Semantic Parser from an Un-annotated Corpus

Deyu Zhou, Yulan He

Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks

Ventsislav Zhechev, Andy Way

Grammar Comparison Study for Translational Equivalence Modeling and Statistical Machine Translation

Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw, Sheng Li

Sentence Type Based Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, Shoushan Li

Extracting Synchronous Grammar Rules From Word-Level Alignments in Linear Time

Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea, David Chiang

Automatic Seed Word Selection for Unsupervised Sentiment Classification of Chinese Text

Taras Zagibalov, John Carroll

An Integrated Probabilistic and Logic Approach to Encyclopedia Relation Extraction with Multiple Features

Xiaofeng Yu, Wai Lam

OntoNotes: Corpus Cleanup of Mistaken Agreement Using Word Sense Disambiguation

Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Eduard Hovy

Chinese Dependency Parsing with Large Scale Automatically Constructed Case Structures

Kun Yu, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Measuring and Predicting Orthographic Associations: Modelling the Similarity of Japanese Kanji

Lars Yencken, Timothy Baldwin

Chinese Term Extraction Using Minimal Resources

Yuhang Yang, Qin Lu, Tiejun Zhao

Switching to Real-Time Tasks in Multi-Tasking Dialogue

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Andrew Kun

Bayesian Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation

Jia Xu, Jianfeng Gao, Kristina Toutanova, Hermann Ney

Linguistically Annotated BTG for Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li

Exploiting Graph Structure for Accelerating the Calculation of Shortest Paths in Wordnets

Holger Wunsch

Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Domain Dictionary and Monolingual Corpora

Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Chengqing Zong

Extractive Summarization Using Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning

Kam-Fai Wong, Mingli Wu, Wenjie Li

Investigating the Portability of Corpus-Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification

Nick Webb, Ting Liu

CollabRank: Towards a Collaborative Approach to Single-Document Keyphrase Extraction

Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao

Coreference Systems Based on Kernels Methods

Yannick Versley, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Poesio, Xiaofeng Yang

Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering

Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen

A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors

Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao

Source Language Markers in EUROPARL Translations

Hans van Halteren

Using Three Way Data for Word Sense Discrimination

Tim Van de Cruys

Class-Driven Attribute Extraction

Benjamin Van Durme, Ting Qian, Lenhart Schubert

Tighter Integration of Rule-Based and Statistical MT in Serial System Combination

Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loïc Dugast, George Foster

A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations

Peter Turney

Training Conditional Random Fields Using Incomplete Annotations

Yuta Tsuboi, Hisashi Kashima, Shinsuke Mori, Hiroki Oda, Yuji Matsumoto

Relational-Realizational Parsing

Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima’an

Emotion Classification Using Massive Examples Extracted from the Web

Ryoko Tokuhisa, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

A Framework for Identifying Textual Redundancy

Kapil Thadani, Kathleen McKeown

The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection in ESL Writing

Joel R. Tetreault, Martin Chodorow

Experiments with Reasoning for Temporal Relations between Events

Marta Tatu, Munirathnam Srikanth

Learning Entailment Rules for Unary Templates

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

Modeling Latent-Dynamic in Shallow Parsing: A Latent Conditional Model with Improved Inference

Xu Sun, Louis-Philippe Morency, Daisuke Okanohara, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Prediction of Maximal Projection for Semantic Role Labeling

Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui, Haifeng Wang

From Words to Senses: A Case Study of Subjectivity Recognition

Fangzhong Su, Katja Markert

Topic Identification for Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis

Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie

Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback

Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Robert Gaizauskas

Discourse Level Opinion Interpretation

Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Josef Ruppenhofer

Metric Learning for Synonym Acquisition

Nobuyuki Shimizu, Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama, Hiroshi Nakagawa