COLING 2008

200 papers

Toward a Psycholinguistically-Motivated Model of Language Processing

William Schuler, Samir AbdelRahman, Tim Miller, Lane Schwartz

Estimation of Conditional Probabilities With Decision Trees and an Application to Fine-Grained POS Tagging

Helmut Schmid, Florian Laws

A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution

Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Event Frame Extraction Based on a Gene Regulation Corpus

Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, Philip Cotter, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou

Shift-Reduce Dependency DAG Parsing

Kenji Sagae, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Classifying Chart Cells for Quadratic Complexity Context-Free Inference

Brian Roark, Kristy Hollingshead

Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion

Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman

Anomalies in the WordNet Verb Hierarchy

Tom Richens

Unsupervised Induction of Labeled Parse Trees by Clustering with Syntactic Features

Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport

Almost Flat Functional Semantics for Speech Translation

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey, Yukie Nakao

A Method for Automatic POS Guessing of Chinese Unknown Words

Likun Qiu, Changjian Hu, KAI ZHAO

Exploiting Constituent Dependencies for Tree Kernel-Based Semantic Relation Extraction

Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zhu, Peide Qian

Scientific Paper Summarization Using Citation Summary Networks

Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev

A Joint Information Model for N-Best Ranking

Patrick Pantel, Vishnu Vyas

Recent Advances in a Feature-Rich Framework for Treebank Annotation

Petr Pajas, Jan Štěpánek

Semantic Role Assignment for Event Nominalisations by Leveraging Verbal Data

Sebastian Padó, Marco Pennacchiotti, Caroline Sporleder

A Discriminative Alignment Model for Abbreviation Recognition

Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Semantic Classification with Distributional Kernels

Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Ann Copestake

Parsing the SynTagRus Treebank of Russian

Joakim Nivre, Igor M. Boguslavsky, Leonid L. Iomdin

Computer Aided Correction and Extension of a Syntactic Wide-Coverage Lexicon

Lionel Nicolas, Benoît Sagot, Miguel A. Molinero, Jacques Farré, Éric de la Clergerie

Exploring Domain Differences for the Design of a Pronoun Resolution System for Biomedical Text

Ngan L.T. Nguyen, Jin-Dong Kim

Investigating Statistical Techniques for Sentence-Level Event Classification

Martina Naughton, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy

Detecting Multiple Facets of an Event using Graph-Based Unsupervised Methods

Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Joshua Gerrish, Dragomir R. Radev

Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of the Consonant Inventories: A Complex Network Approach

Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly

Erwan Moreau, François Yvon, Olivier Cappe

Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation

Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk

Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments

Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella, Simon Musgrave

A Syntactic Time-Series Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech

Tim Miller, William Schuler

When is Self-Training Effective for Parsing?

David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

What’s the Date? High Accuracy Interpretation of Weekday Names

Pawel Mazur, Robert Dale

Comparative Parser Performance Analysis across Grammar Frameworks through Automatic Tree Conversion using Synchronous Grammars

Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Hindi Urdu Machine Transliteration using Finite-State Transducers

M G Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Linguistically-Based Sub-Sentential Alignment for Terminology Extraction from a Bilingual Automotive Corpus

Lieve Macken, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste

Modeling Semantic Containment and Exclusion in Natural Language Inference

Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning

Authorship Attribution and Verification with Many Authors and Limited Data

Kim Luyckx, Walter Daelemans

Tera-Scale Translation Models via Pattern Matching

Adam Lopez

Understanding and Summarizing Answers in Community-Based Question Answering Services

Yuanjie Liu, Shasha Li, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Dingyi Han

PNR2: Ranking Sentences with Positive and Negative Reinforcement for Query-Oriented Update Summarization

Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He

Classifying What-Type Questions by Head Noun Tagging

Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan, Xiaoyan Zhu

Reading the Markets: Forecasting Public Opinion of Political Candidates by News Analysis

Kevin Lerman, Ari Gilder, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pereira

Stopping Criteria for Active Learning of Named Entity Recognition

Florian Laws, Hinrich Schütze

Extending a Thesaurus with Words from Pan-Chinese Sources

Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K. Tsou

The Choice of Features for Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts

Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier

Normalizing SMS: are Two Metaphors Better than One ?

Catherine Kobus, François Yvon, Geraldine Damnati

Generation of Referring Expressions: Managing Structural Ambiguities

Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Kees van Deemter, Graeme Ritchie

Coordination Disambiguation without Any Similarities

Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

A Local Alignment Kernel in the Context of NLP

Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans

Textual Demand Analysis: Detection of Users’ Wants and Needs from Opinions

Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa

Using Hidden Markov Random Fields to Combine Distributional and Pattern-Based Word Clustering

Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa

The Effect of Syntactic Representation on Semantic Role Labeling

Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues

Word Lattice Reranking for Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging

Wenbin Jiang, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu

Generating Chinese Couplets using a Statistical MT Approach

Long Jiang, Ming Zhou

Contents Modelling of Neo-Sumerian Ur III Economic Text Corpus

Wojciech Jaworski

Japanese Dependency Parsing Using a Tournament Model

Masakazu Iwatate, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto

Non-Compositional Language Model and Pattern Dictionary Development for Japanese Compound and Complex Sentences

Satoru Ikehara, Masato Tokuhisa, Jin’ichi Murakami

Modeling Chinese Documents with Topical Word-Character Models

Wei Hu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Huanye Sheng

Using Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment

Andrew Hickl

Evaluating Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Grammar Induction

William P. Headden III, David McClosky, Eugene Charniak

Improving Statistical Machine Translation using Lexicalized Rule Selection

Zhongjun He, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discussion

Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Michael H. Crespin, Kevin M. Quinn, Burt L. Monroe

Homotopy-Based Semi-Supervised Hidden Markov Models for Sequence Labeling

Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar

Dependency-Based N-Gram Models for General Purpose Sentence Realisation

Yuqing Guo, Josef van Genabith, Haifeng Wang

An Algorithm for Adverbial Aspect Shift

Sabine Gründer

Using Web-Search Results to Measure Word-Group Similarity

Ann Gledson, John Keane

Measuring Topic Homogeneity and its Application to Dictionary-Based Word Sense Disambiguation

Ann Gledson, John Keane

Instance-Based Ontology Population Exploiting Named-Entity Substitution

Claudio Giuliano, Alfio Gliozzo

Statistical Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts

Caroline Gasperin, Ted Briscoe

Integrating a Unification-Based Semantics in a Large Scale Lexicalised Tree Adjoining Grammar for French

Claire Gardent

Mining Opinions in Comparative Sentences

Murthy Ganapathibhotla, Bing Liu

Retrieving Bilingual Verb-Noun Collocations by Integrating Cross-Language Category Hierarchies

Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamashita

A Probabilistic Model for Measuring Grammaticality and Similarity of Automatically Generated Paraphrases of Predicate Phrases

Atsushi Fujita, Satoshi Sato

Efficiently Parsing with the Product-Free Lambek Calculus

Timothy A. D. Fowler

Syntactic Reordering Integrated with Phrase-Based SMT

Jakob Elming

Representations for category disambiguation

Markus Dickinson

Re-estimation of Lexical Parameters for Treebank PCFGs

Tejaswini Deoskar

Looking for Trouble

Stijn De Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun’ichi Kazama

Pedagogically Useful Extractive Summaries for Science Education

Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Martin, Tamara Sumner

A Classifier-Based Approach to Preposition and Determiner Error Correction in L2 English

Rachele De Felice, Stephen G. Pulman

KnowNet: Building a Large Net of Knowledge from the Web

Montse Cuadros, German Rigau

Hybrid Processing for Grammar and Style Checking

Berthold Crysmann, Nuria Bertomeu, Peter Adolphs, Daniel Flickinger, Tina Klüwer

Mind the Gap: Dangers of Divorcing Evaluations of Summary Content from Linguistic Quality

John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang

Sentence Compression Beyond Word Deletion

Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata

Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis: Multilingual Information Retrieval with Character N-Grams and Mutual Information

Peter A. Chew, Brett W. Bader, Ahmed Abdelali

Other-Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts with Automatically Mined Patterns

Bin Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan

Learning Reliable Information for Dependency Parsing Adaptation

Wenliang Chen, Youzheng Wu, Hitoshi Isahara

Regenerating Hypotheses for Statistical Machine Translation

Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li

ParaMetric: An Automatic Evaluation Metric for Paraphrasing

Chris Callison-Burch, Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata

Are Morpho-Syntactic Features More Predictive for the Resolution of Noun Phrase Coordination Ambiguity than Lexico-Semantic Similarity Scores?

Ekaterina Buyko, Udo Hahn

A Concept-Centered Approach to Noun-Compound Interpretation

Cristina Butnariu, Tony Veale

A Classification of Dialogue Actions in Tutorial Dialogue

Mark Buckley, Magdalena Wolska

Good Neighbors Make Good Senses: Exploiting Distributional Similarity for Unsupervised WSD

Samuel Brody, Mirella Lapata

Weakly Supervised Supertagging with Grammar-Informed Initialization

Jason Baldridge

Enhancing Multilingual Latent Semantic Analysis with Term Alignment Information

Brett W. Bader, Peter A. Chew

Verification and Implementation of Language-Based Deception Indicators in Civil and Criminal Narratives

Joan Bachenko, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Michael Schonwetter

Improving Alignments for Better Confusion Networks for Combining Machine Translation Systems

Necip Fazil Ayan, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang

An Improved Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Language for Document Classification

Ben Allison

On Robustness and Domain Adaptation using SVD for Word Sense Disambiguation

Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle

A Supervised Algorithm for Verb Disambiguation into VerbNet Classes

Omri Abend, Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport

Two-Phased Event Relation Acquisition: Coupling the Relation-Oriented and Argument-Oriented Approaches

Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)

Donia Scott, Hans Uszkoreit