EACL 2009

131 papers

Extraction of Definitions Using Grammar-Enhanced Machine Learning

Eline Westerhout

Aligning Medical Domain Ontologies for Clinical Query Extraction

Pinar Wennerberg

A Generalized Vector Space Model for Text Retrieval Based on Semantic Relatedness

George Tsatsaronis, Vicky Panagiotopoulou

A Comparison of Merging Strategies for Translation of German Compounds

Sara Stymne

Speech Emotion Recognition With TGI+.2 Classifier

Julia Sidorova

A Chain-starting Classifier of Definite NPs in Spanish

Marta Recasens

Structural Correspondence Learning for Parse Disambiguation

Barbara Plank

Finding Word Substitutions Using a Distributional Similarity Baseline and Immediate Context Overlap

Aurélie Herbelot

Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL

Thomas François

A Memory-Based Approach to the Treatment of Serial Verb Construction in Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Prachya Boonkwan

Modelling Early Language Acquisition Skills: Towards a General Statistical Learning Mechanism

Guillaume Aimetti

Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009

Vera Demberg, Yanjun Ma, Nils Reiter

A Mobile Health and Fitness Companion Demonstrator

Olov Ståhl, Björn Gambäck, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen

Three BioNLP Tools Powered by a Biological Lexicon

Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou

Grammar Development in GF

Aarne Ranta, Krasimir Angelov, Björn Bringert

A Text-Based Search Interface for Multimedia Dialectics

Katerina Pastra, Eirini Balta

Matching Readers’ Preferences and Reading Skills with Appropriate Web Texts

Eleni Miltsakaki

A Tool for Multi-Word Expression Extraction in Modern Greek Using Syntactic Parsing

Athina Michou, Violeta Seretan

Parsing, Projecting & Prototypes: Repurposing Linguistic Data on the Web

William Lewis, Fei Xia

Adaptive Natural Language Interaction

Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Athanasios Tegos, Dimitrios Bilidas, Ion Androutsopoulos, Gerasimos Lampouras

The Software Architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments

Alexander Koller, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore

Foma: a Finite-State Compiler and Library

Mans Hulden

A Comparison of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis in Estonian and German: Remarkably Similar Elision Rules Allow a Language-Independent Ellipsis-Generation Module

Karin Harbusch, Mare Koit, Haldur Õim

eHumanities Desktop - An Online System for Corpus Management and Analysis in Support of Computing in the Humanities

Rüdiger Gleim, Ulli Waltinger, Alexandra Ernst, Alexander Mehler, Tobias Feith

An Open-Source Natural Language Generator for OWL Ontologies and its Use in Protege and Second Life

Dimitrios Galanis, George Karakatsiotis, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ion Androutsopoulos

Gossip Galore – A Self-Learning Agent for Exchanging Pop Trivia

Xiwen Cheng, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Hong Li

Grammatical Framework Web Service

Björn Bringert, Krasimir Angelov, Aarne Ranta

CBSEAS, a Summarization System – Integration of Opinion Mining Techniques to Summarize Blogs

Aurélien Bossard, Michel Généreux, Thierry Poibeau

Frolog: an Accommodating Text-Adventure Game

Luciana Benotti

Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009

Jörn Kreutel

Character-Level Dependencies in Chinese: Usefulness and Learning

Hai Zhao

Language ID in the Context of Harvesting Language Data off the Web

Fei Xia, William Lewis, Hoifung Poon

Co-Dispersion: A Windowless Approach to Lexical Association

Justin Washtell

Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale, Cecile Paris

Feature-Based Method for Document Alignment in Comparable News Corpora

Thuy Vu, Ai Ti Aw, Min Zhang

Growing Finely-Discriminating Taxonomies from Seeds of Varying Quality and Size

Tony Veale, Guofu Li, Yanfen Hao

A Robust and Extensible Exemplar-Based Model of Thematic Fit

Bram Vandekerckhove, Dominiek Sandra, Walter Daelemans

Learning Efficient Parsing

Gertjan van Noord

Deriving Generalized Knowledge from Corpora Using WordNet Abstraction

Benjamin Van Durme, Phillip Michalak, Lenhart Schubert

MINT: A Method for Effective and Scalable Mining of Named Entity Transliterations from Large Comparable Corpora

Raghavendra Udupa, K Saravanan, A Kumaran, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi

Fast Full Parsing by Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou

Text Summarization Model Based on Maximum Coverage Problem and its Variant

Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Sequential Labeling with Latent Variables: An Exact Inference Algorithm and its Efficient Approximation

Xu Sun, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Semi-Supervised Training for the Averaged Perceptron POS Tagger

Drahomíra “johanka” Spoustová, Jan Hajic, Jan Raab, Miroslav Spousta

Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions

Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li

Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain

Gabriel Skantze, David Schlangen

Using Non-Lexical Features to Identify Effective Indexing Terms for Biomedical Illustrations

Matthew Simpson, Dina Demner-Fushman, Charles Sneiderman, Sameer K. Antani, George R. Thoma

Frequency Matters: Pitch Accents and Information Status

Katrin Schweitzer, Michael Walsh, Bernd Möbius, Arndt Riester, Antje Schweitzer

Word Lattices for Multi-Source Translation

Josh Schroeder, Trevor Cohn, Philipp Koehn

A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing

David Schlangen, Gabriel Skantze

Unsupervised Methods for Head Assignments

Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema

Tagging Urdu Text with Parts of Speech: A Tagger Comparison

Hassan Sajjad, Helmut Schmid

Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon

Semi-Supervised Polarity Lexicon Induction

Delip Rao, Deepak Ravichandran

Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking

Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin, Davood Rafiei

Measuring Frame Relatedness

Marco Pennacchiotti, Michael Wirth

Predicting Strong Associations on the Basis of Corpus Data

Yves Peirsman, Dirk Geeraerts

Outclassing Wikipedia in Open-Domain Information Extraction: Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Attributes over Conceptual Hierarchies

Marius Pasca

Empirical Evaluations of Animacy Annotation

Lilja Øvrelid

Using Lexical and Relational Similarity to Classify Semantic Relations

Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Ann Copestake

Analysing Wikipedia and Gold-Standard Corpora for NER Training

Joel Nothman, Tara Murphy, James R. Curran

Deterministic Shift-Reduce Parsing for Unification-Based Grammars by Using Default Unification

Takashi Ninomiya, Takuya Matsuzaki, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Nakagawa

Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses

Roberto Navigli

Discovering Global Patterns in Linguistic Networks through Spectral Analysis: A Case Study of the Consonant Inventories

Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Ravi Kannan

Syntactic and Semantic Kernels for Short Text Pair Categorization

Alessandro Moschitti

Text-to-Text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading

Michael Mohler, Rada Mihalcea

Evaluating the Inferential Utility of Lexical-Semantic Resources

Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Eyal Shnarch

Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation

Yanjun Ma, Andy Way

Performance Confidence Estimation for Automatic Summarization

Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova

Translation as Weighted Deduction

Adam Lopez

Correcting a POS-Tagged Corpus Using Three Complementary Methods

Hrafn Loftsson

Sentiment Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences

Kevin Lerman, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Ryan Mcdonald

User Simulations for Context-Sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Oliver Lemon, Ioannis Konstas

Language-Independent Bilingual Terminology Extraction from a Multilingual Parallel Corpus

Els Lefever, Lieve Macken, Véronique Hoste

Improvements in Analogical Learning: Application to Translating Multi-Terms of the Medical Domain

Philippe Langlais, François Yvon, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Treebank Grammar Techniques for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing

Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta

Lattice Parsing to Integrate Speech Recognition and Rule-Based Machine Translation

Selcuk Kopru, Adnan Yazıcı

Dependency Trees and the Strong Generative Capacity of CCG

Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann

A Logic of Semantic Representations for Shallow Parsing

Alexander Koller, Alex Lascarides

Optimization in Coreference Resolution is not Needed: A Nearly-Optimal Algorithm with Intensional Constraints

Manfred Klenner, Étienne Ailloud

Lightly Supervised Transliteration for Machine Translation

Amit Kirschenbaum, Shuly Wintner

N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation versus Syntax Augmented Machine Translation: Comparison and System Combination

Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa

Automatic Single-Document Key Fact Extraction from Newswire Articles

Itamar Kastner, Christof Monz

Parsing Coordinations

Sandra Kübler, Erhard Hinrichs, Wolfgang Maier, Eva Klett

Generating a Non-English Subjectivity Lexicon: Relations That Matter

Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann

An Empirical Study on Class-Based Word Sense Disambiguation

Rubén Izquierdo, Armando Suárez, German Rigau

Rule Filtering by Pattern for Efficient Hierarchical Translation

Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo R. Banga, William Byrne

Improving Mid-Range Re-Ordering Using Templates of Factors

Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn

Weakly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages

Kazi Saidul Hasan, Vincent Ng

Learning-Based Named Entity Recognition for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages

Kazi Saidul Hasan, Md. Altaf ur Rahman, Vincent Ng

End-to-End Evaluation in Simultaneous Translation

Olivier Hamon, Christian Fügen, Djamel Mostefa, Victoria Arranz, Muntsin Kolss

Person Identification from Text and Speech Genre Samples

Jade Goldstein-Stewart, Ransom Winder, Roberta Sabin

Enhancing Unlexicalized Parsing Performance Using a Wide Coverage Lexicon, Fuzzy Tag-Set Mapping, and EM-HMM-Based Lexical Probabilities

Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad

Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings

Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith

Semitic Morphological Analysis and Generation Using Finite State Transducers with Feature Structures

Michael Gasser

Structural, Transitive and Latent Models for Biographic Fact Extraction

Nikesh Garera, David Yarowsky

Parsing Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Weir, John Carroll

Rich Bitext Projection Features for Parse Reranking

Alexander Fraser, Renjing Wang, Hinrich Schütze

Who is “You”? Combining Linguistic and Gaze Features to Resolve Second-Person References in Dialogue

Matthew Frampton, Raquel Fernández, Patrick Ehlen, Mario Christoudias, Trevor Darrell

TBL-Improved Non-Deterministic Segmentation and POS Tagging for a Chinese Parser

Martin Forst, Ji Fang