EMNLP 2009

164 papers

Latent Document Re-Ranking

Dong Zhou, Vincent Wade

Chinese Novelty Mining

Yi Zhang, Flora S. Tsai

K-Best Combination of Syntactic Parsers

Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan, Haizhou Li

Polynomial to Linear: Efficient Classification with Conjunctive Features

Naoki Yoshinaga, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Phrase Dependency Parsing for Opinion Mining

Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu

Domain adaptive bootstrapping for named entity recognition

Dan Wu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Ye, Hai Leong Chieu

Classifying Relations for Biomedical Named Entity Disambiguation

Xinglong Wang, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou

Character-level Analysis of Semi-Structured Documents for Set Expansion

Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen

Towards Domain-Independent Argumentative Zoning: Evidence from Chemistry and Computational Linguistics

Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Colin Batchelor

Discovery of Term Variation in Japanese Web Search Queries

Hisami Suzuki, Xiao Li, Jianfeng Gao

Chinese Semantic Role Labeling with Shallow Parsing

Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui, Meng Wang, Xin Wang

Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results

Prakash Srinivasan, Alexander Yates

A Probabilistic Model for Associative Anaphora Resolution

Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi

Construction of a Blog Emotion Corpus for Chinese Emotional Expression Analysis

Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren

Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Relation Classification using Stratified Sampling Strategy

Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zhu

Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent

Emily Pitler, Ken Church

Consensus Training for Consensus Decoding in Machine Translation

Adam Pauls, John DeNero, Dan Klein

Cross-Cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-Collection Topic Models

Michael Paul, Roxana Girju

Detecting Speculations and their Scopes in Scientific Text

Arzucan Özgür, Dragomir R. Radev

Automatic Acquisition of the Argument-Predicate Relations from a Frame-Annotated Corpus

Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov, Tonio Wandmacher

Convolution Kernels on Constituent, Dependency and Sequential Structures for Relation Extraction

Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi

What’s in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender

Vivi Nastase, Marius Popescu

Improved Statistical Machine Translation for Resource-Poor Languages Using Related Resource-Rich Languages

Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng

Predicting Subjectivity in Multimodal Conversations

Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini

A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval

Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych

Supervised Learning of a Probabilistic Lexicon of Verb Semantic Classes

Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Human-competitive tagging using automatic keyphrase extraction

Olena Medelyan, Eibe Frank, Ian H. Witten

Bayesian Learning of Phrasal Tree-to-String Templates

Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea

Refining Grammars for Parsing with Hierarchical Semantic Knowledge

Xiaojun Lin, Yang Fan, Meng Zhang, Xihong Wu, Huisheng Chi

On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields

Xiao Li

Improving Nominal SRL in Chinese Language with Verbal SRL Information and Automatic Predicate Recognition

Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hai Zhao, Qiaoming Zhu, Peide Qian

Finding Short Definitions of Terms on Web Pages

Gerasimos Lampouras, Ion Androutsopoulos

Using Morphological and Syntactic Structures for Chinese Opinion Analysis

Lun-Wei Ku, Ting-Hao Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Semi-supervised Speech Act Recognition in Emails and Forums

Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin, Gary Geunbae Lee

Real-Word Spelling Correction using Google Web 1T 3-grams

Aminul Islam, Diana Inkpen

Accurate Semantic Class Classifier for Coreference Resolution

Zhiheng Huang, Guangping Zeng, Weiqun Xu, Asli Celikyilmaz

Bilingually-Constrained (Monolingual) Shift-Reduce Parsing

Liang Huang, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu

Fully Lexicalising CCGbank with Hat Categories

Matthew Honnibal, James R. Curran

Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination

Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova

Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge

Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea

A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding

Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an, Andy Way

Large-Scale Verb Entailment Acquisition from the Web

Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Kow Kuroda, Stijn De Saeger, Masaki Murata

Descriptive and Empirical Approaches to Capturing Underlying Dependencies among Parsing Errors

Tadayoshi Hara, Yusuke Miyao, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features

Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein

On the Role of Lexical Features in Sequence Labeling

Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad

Real-time decision detection in multi-party dialogue

Matthew Frampton, Jia Huang, Trung Bui, Stanley Peters

Bidirectional Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita

A Joint Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags

Denis Filimonov, Mary Harper

Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation

Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, Yajuan Lü

The Feature Subspace Method for SMT System Combination

Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, Ming Zhou

Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking

Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li

Re-Ranking Models Based-on Small Training Data for Spoken Language Understanding

Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi

Discriminative Substring Decoding for Transliteration

Colin Cherry, Hisami Suzuki

A Compact Forest for Scalable Inference over Entailment and Paraphrase Rules

Roy Bar-Haim, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan

Gazpacho and summer rash: lexical relationships from temporal patterns of web search queries

Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith Hall

Fast Translation Rule Matching for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation

Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan

Sinuhe – Statistical Machine Translation using a Globally Trained Conditional Exponential Family Translation Model

Matti Kääriäinen

Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation

Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, Qun Liu

Learning Linear Ordering Problems for Better Translation

Roy Tromble, Jason Eisner

Person Cross Document Coreference with Name Perplexity Estimates

Octavian Popescu

Employing the Centering Theory in Pronoun Resolution from the Semantic Perspective

Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu

Global Learning of Noun Phrase Anaphoricity in Coreference Resolution via Label Propagation

Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong

Supervised Models for Coreference Resolution

Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng

Reading to Learn: Constructing Features from Semantic Abstracts

Jacob Eisenstein, James Clarke, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth

Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification

Eduard Hovy, Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff

Web-Scale Distributional Similarity and Entity Set Expansion

Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, Ana-Maria Popescu, Vishnu Vyas

Hypernym Discovery Based on Distributional Similarity and Hierarchical Structures

Ichiro Yamada, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun’ichi Kazama, Kow Kuroda, Masaki Murata

Segmenting Email Message Text into Zones

Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cecile Paris

Combining Collocations, Lexical and Encyclopedic Knowledge for Metonymy Resolution

Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube

Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction

Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-thompson

Using the Web for Language Independent Spellchecking and Autocorrection

Casey Whitelaw, Ben Hutchinson, Grace Y Chung, Ged Ellis

Polylingual Topic Models

David Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, David A. Smith, Andrew McCallum

Multilingual Spectral Clustering Using Document Similarity Propagation

Dani Yogatama, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Bilingual dictionary generation for low-resourced language pairs

István Varga, Shoichi Yokoyama

Enhancement of Lexical Concepts Using Cross-lingual Web Mining

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport

An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language

Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima’an, Remko Scha

Self-Training PCFG Grammars with Latent Annotations Across Languages

Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper

Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar Features

David A. Smith, Jason Eisner

Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation

Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman

A Relational Model of Semantic Similarity between Words using Automatically Extracted Lexical Pattern Clusters from the Web

Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Learning Term-weighting Functions for Similarity Measures

Wen-tau Yih

Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures

Rui Wang, Yi Zhang

Estimating Semantic Distance Using Soft Semantic Constraints in Knowledge-Source – Corpus Hybrid Models

Yuval Marton, Saif Mohammad, Philip Resnik

Integrating sentence- and word-level error identification for disfluency correction

Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Keith Hall

Stream-based Randomised Language Models for SMT

Abby Levenberg, Miles Osborne

Less is More: Significance-Based N-gram Selection for Smaller, Better Language Models

Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk

Word Buffering Models for Improved Speech Repair Parsing

Tim Miller

Synchronous Tree Adjoining Machine Translation

Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight

Unsupervised Tokenization for Machine Translation

Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea

Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation

Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhang

Tree Kernel-based SVM with Structured Syntactic Knowledge for BTG-based Phrase Reordering

Min Zhang, Haizhou Li

A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon

Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus

The infinite HMM for unsupervised PoS tagging

Jurgen Van Gael, Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani

Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries

Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge

Can Chinese Phonemes Improve Machine Transliteration?: A Comparative Study of English-to-Chinese Transliteration Models

Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Kentaro Torisawa

Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features

Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Benoit Dumoulin

Improving Verb Clustering with Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences

Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen

A Comparison of Windowless and Window-Based Computational Association Measures as Predictors of Syntagmatic Human Associations

Justin Washtell, Katja Markert

EEG responds to conceptual stimuli and corpus semantics

Brian Murphy, Marco Baroni, Massimo Poesio

Matching Reviews to Objects using a Language Model

Nilesh Dalvi, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins