EMNLP 2008

115 papers

Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification

Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes

Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods

Markus Dreyer, Jason Smith, Jason Eisner

An Analysis of Active Learning Strategies for Sequence Labeling Tasks

Burr Settles, Mark Craven

Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking

Yixuan Liu, Bin Wang, Fan Ding, Sheng Xu

Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text

Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu

Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging

Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay

Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora

Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky

The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries

Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson

Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms

Mamoru Komachi, Taku Kudo, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto

Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study

Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng, Yee Seng Chan

Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features

Chikara Hashimoto, Daisuke Kawahara

Computing Word-Pair Antonymy

Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Graeme Hirst

Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points

Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu

Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis

Juan Huerta

Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning

Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alexander Rudnicky

Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering

Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen, Eric Nyberg

CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation

Baoli Li, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein

Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms

Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin

A Graph-theoretic Model of Lexical Syntactic Acquisition

Hinrich Schütze, Michael Walsh

Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text

Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen

A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context

Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó

Automatic Prediction of Parser Accuracy

Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight, Radu Soricut

Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing)

David Burkett, Dan Klein

Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing

Slav Petrov, Dan Klein

Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora

Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz

A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model

Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network

Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney

N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation

Bo-June Paul Hsu, James Glass

Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition

Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong Wu

Attacking Decipherment Problems Optimally with Low-Order N-gram Models

Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight

A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference

Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis

Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie

A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations

Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemoyer

Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations

Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini

Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization with Encyclopedic Knowledge and Spreading Activation

Vivi Nastase

An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization

Xiaojun Wan

Predicting Success in Machine Translation

Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn

Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation

Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk

Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation

Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Och, Ignacio Thayer, Jakob Uszkoreit

Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts

Roser Morante, Anthony Liekens, Walter Daelemans

Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text

Nianwen Xue

Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering

Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky

Online Methods for Multi-Domain Learning and Adaptation

Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer

Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training

Hal Daume III

Learning with Probabilistic Features for Improved Pipeline Models

Răzvan Bunescu

Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution

Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge

Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic

Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos

Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution

Vincent Ng

Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective

Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima’an

Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation

Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Och, Wolfgang Macherey

Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms

David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng

Mention Detection Crossing the Language Barrier

Imed Zitouni, Radu Florian

Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora

Nicholas Andrews, Naren Ramakrishnan

Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat

Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation

Bing Zhao, Yaser Al-Onaizan

A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing

Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark

Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis

Xiaojun Wan

Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns

Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, Cecile Paris

Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection

David Vickrey, Aaron Bronzan, William Choi, Aman Kumar, Jason Turner-Maier

A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists

Hirotoshi Taira, Sanae Fujita, Masaaki Nagata

HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts

Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li

Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model

Lei Shi, Ming Zhou

LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction

Libin Shen, Aravind Joshi

Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions

Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Jorge Civera, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal

Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains

Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark

Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation

Stephan Raaijmakers, Khiet Truong, Theresa Wilson

Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units

Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce, Michael Roth

A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations

Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles

Ramesh Nallapati, Christopher D. Manning

Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints

Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi

Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce

Jimmy Lin

Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models

Jung-Tae Lee, Sang-Bum Kim, Young-In Song, Hae-Chang Rim

A Dependency-based Word Subsequence Kernel

Rohit Kate

When Harry Met Harri: Cross-lingual Name Spelling Normalization

Fei Huang, Ahmad Emami, Imed Zitouni

A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web

Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki

Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Saša Hasan, Juri Ganitkevitch, Hermann Ney, Jesus Andres-Ferrer

Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models

David Hall, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning

Transliteration as Constrained Optimization

Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth

A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers

Jianfeng Gao, Mark Johnson

Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation

Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay

Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy

Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang

Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model

John DeNero, Alexandre Bouchard-côté, Dan Klein

Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions

Yllias Chali, Shafiq Joty

Understanding the Value of Features for Coreference Resolution

Eric Bengtson, Dan Roth

Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets

Yassine Benajiba, Mona Diab, Paolo Rosso

Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference

Alex Baron, Marjorie Freedman

HotSpots: Visualizing Edits to a Text

Srinivas Bangalore, David Smith

Cheap and Fast – But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks

Rion Snow, Brendan O’Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Ng

Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems

Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai

A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input

Roger Levy

Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features

David Chiang, Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik

Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation

Phil Blunsom, Miles Osborne

Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction

Haitao Mi, Liang Huang

Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora

Chris Callison-Burch

Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality

Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova

Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression

Katja Filippova, Michael Strube

Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing

Xinying Song, Shilin Ding, Chin-Yew Lin

Stacking Dependency Parsers

André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing

Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation

David Smith, Jason Eisner

Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression

Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen