IJCNLP 2008

261 papers

An Optimal Order of Factors for the Computational Treatment of Personal Anaphoric Devices in Urdu Discourse

Mohammad Naveed Ali, M. A. Khan, Muhammad Aamir Khan

Finite State Solutions For Reduplication In Kinyarwanda Language

Jackson Muhirwe, Trond Trosterud

Design of a Rule-based Stemmer for Natural Language Text in Bengali

Sandipan Sarkar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Strategies for sustainable MT for Basque: incremental design, reusability, standardization and open-source

I. Alegria, X. Arregi, X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, G. Labaka

A Rule-based Syllable Segmentation of Myanmar Text

Zin Maung Maung, Yoshiki Mikami

SriShell Primo: A Predictive Sinhala Text Input System

Sandeva Goonetilleke, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Yuichi Itoh, Fumio Kishino

Cross-Language Parser Adaptation between Related Languages

Daniel Zeman, Philip Resnik

Joint Grammar Development by Linguists and Computer Scientists

Michael Maxwell, Anne David

Prototype Machine Translation System From Text-To-Indian Sign Language

Tirthankar Dasgupta, Sandipan Dandpat, Anupam Basu

KUI: an ubiquitous tool for collective intelligence development

Thatsanee Charoenporn, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara, Kergrit Robkop

Natural Language Processing for Less Privileged Languages: Where do we come from? Where are we going?

Anil Kumar Singh

Invited Talk: Breaking the Zipfian Barrier of NLP

Monojit Choudhury

Invited Talk: Cross Language Resource Sharing

Virach Sornlertlamvanich

Invited Talk: Building Language Resources: Ways to move forward

Anne David, Micheal Maxwell

Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages

Cross Lingual Information Access System for Indian Languages

CLIA Consortium

POLLy: A Conversational System that uses a Shared Representation to Generate Action and Social Language

Swati Gupta, Marilyn A. Walker, Daniela M. Romano

NLP Applications of Sinhala: TTS & OCR

Ruvan Weerasinghe, Asanka Wasala, Dulip Herath, Viraj Welgama

A Mechanism to Provide Language-Encoding Support and an NLP Friendly Editor

Anil Kumar Singh

Global Health Monitor - A Web-based System for Detecting and Mapping Infectious Diseases

Son Doan, Quoc Hung Ngo, Ai Kawazoe, Nigel Collier

Netgraph – Making Searching in Treebanks Easy

Jiří Mírovský

A Punjabi Grammar Checker

Mandeep Singh Gill, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Shiv Sharma Joshi

Introduction to Text Summarization and Other Information Access Technologies

Horacio Saggion

How to Add a New Language on the NLP Map: Building Resources and Tools for Languages with Scarce Resources

Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase

Social Network Inspired Models of NLP and Language Evolution

Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly

Exploiting Unlabeled Text to Extract New Words of Different Semantic Transparency for Chinese Word Segmentation

Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hsi-Chuan Hung

A Comparative Study of Mixture Models for Automatic Topic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogues

Maria Georgescul, Alexander Clark, Susan Armstrong

Semantic Role Labeling of Chinese Using Transductive SVM and Semantic Heuristics

Yaodong Chen, Ting Wang, Huowang Chen, Xishan Xu

Language Independent Text Correction using Finite State Automata

Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman, Hany Hassan

Combining Context Features by Canonical Belief Network for Chinese Part-Of-Speech Tagging

Hongzhi Xu, Chunping Li

How to Take Advantage of the Limitations with Markov Clustering?–The Foundations of Branching Markov Clustering (BMCL)

Hiroyuki Akama, Maki Miyake, Jaeyoung Jung

Linguistic Interpretation of Emotions for Affect Sensing from Text

Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction

Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Hacking Wikipedia for Hyponymy Relation Acquisition

Asuka Sumida, Kentaro Torisawa

Large Scale Diagnostic Code Classification for Medical Patient Records

Lucian Vlad Lita, Shipeng Yu, Stefan Niculescu, Jinbo Bi

Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Biomedical Research Articles

Donghui Feng, Gully Burns, Jingbo Zhu, Eduard Hovy

A Co-occurrence Graph-based Approach for Personal Name Alias Extraction from Anchor Texts

Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Towards Data and Goal Oriented Analysis: Tool Inter-operability and Combinatorial Comparison

Yoshinobu Kano, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Sætre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Fukamachi

Fast Duplicated Documents Detection using Multi-level Prefix-filter

Kenji Tateishi, Dai Kusui

Mining Chinese-English Parallel Corpora from the Web

Bo Li, Juan Liu

A Re-examination of Dependency Path Kernels for Relation Extraction

Mengqiu Wang

Learning Decision Lists with Known Rules for Text Mining

Venkatesan Chakravarthy, Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Godbole, Sreeram Balakrishnan

An Experimental Comparison of the Voted Perceptron and Support Vector Machines in Japanese Analysis Tasks

Manabu Sassano

Multi-label Text Categorization with Model Combination based on F1-score Maximization

Akinori Fujino, Hideki Isozaki, Jun Suzuki

Identifying Real or Fake Articles: Towards better Language Modeling

Sameer Badaskar, Sachin Agarwal, Shilpa Arora

Noise as a Tool for Spoken Language Identification

Sunita Maithani, J.S. Rawat

Errgrams – A Way to Improving ASR for Highly Inflected Dravidian Languages

Kamadev Bhanuprasad, Mats Svenson

Learning Named Entity Hyponyms for Question Answering

Paul McNamee, Rion Snow, Patrick Schone, James Mayfield

Annotation of Multiword Expressions in the Prague Dependency Treebank

Eduard Bejček, Pavel Straňák, Pavel Schlesinger

SYNGRAPH: A Flexible Matching Method based on Synonymous Expression Extraction from an Ordinary Dictionary and a Web Corpus

Tomohide Shibata, Michitaka Odani, Jun Harashima, Takashi Oonishi, Sadao Kurohashi

Fast Computing Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling

Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ai Ti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Ting Liu

MRD-based Word Sense Disambiguation: Further Extending Lesk

Timothy Baldwin, Su Nam Kim, Francis Bond, Sanae Fujita, David Martinez

Automatic Classification of English Verbs Using Rich Syntactic Features

Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski

Syntactic and Semantic Frames in PrepNet

Patrick Saint-Dizier

Unsupervised All-words Word Sense Disambiguation with Grammatical Dependencies

Vivi Nastase

Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu, Atsushi Fujii

Sentence Ordering based on Cluster Adjacency in Multi-Document Summarization

Donghong Ji, Yu Nie

Summarization by Analogy: An Example-based Approach for News Articles

Megumi Makino, Kazuhide Yamamoto

A Multi-Document Multi-Lingual Automatic Summarization System

Mohamad Ali Honarpisheh, Gholamreza Ghassem-sani, Ghassem Mirroshandel

Non-Factoid Japanese Question Answering through Passage Retrieval that Is Weighted Based on Types of Answers

Masaki Murata, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara

Dependency Annotation Scheme for Indian Languages

Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Arun Dhwaj, Dipti Misra Sharma, Lakshmi Bai

Resolving Ambiguities of Chinese Conjunctive Structures by Divide-and-conquer Approaches

Duen-Chi Yang, Yu-Ming Hsieh, Keh-Jiann Chen

Learning Reliability of Parses for Domain Adaptation of Dependency Parsing

Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto

Coverage-based Evaluation of Parser Generalizability

Tuomo Kakkonen, Erkki Sutinen

Generation of Referring Expression Using Prefix Tree Structure

Sibabrata Paladhi, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Automatic Paraphrasing of Japanese Functional Expressions Using a Hierarchically Organized Dictionary

Suguru Matsuyoshi, Satoshi Sato

Automatically Identifying Computationally Relevant Typological Features

William D. Lewis, Fei Xia

Ranking Words for Building a Japanese Defining Vocabulary

Tomoya Noro, Takehiro Tokuda

Synset Assignment for Bi-lingual Dictionary with Limited Resource

Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Chumpol Mokarat, Hitoshi Isahara, Hammam Riza

A Linguistic and Navigational Knowledge Approach to Text Navigation

Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel

Large and Diverse Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk, Philipp Koehn

Method of Selecting Training Data to Build a Compact and Efficient Translation Model

Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita

A Structured Prediction Approach for Statistical Machine Translation

Dakun Zhang, Le Sun, Wenbo Li

HaiXiang Huang, Atsushi Fujii

Search Result Clustering Using Label Language Model

Yeha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee

Term Extraction Through Unithood and Termhood Unification

Thuy Vu, Ai Ti Aw, Min Zhang

Analysis of Intention in Dialogues Using Category Trees and Its Application to Advertisement Recommendation

Hung-Chi Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin

A Web-based English Proofing System for English as a Second Language Users

Xing Yi, Jianfeng Gao, William B. Dolan

Dimensionality Reduction with Multilingual Resource

YingJu Xia, Hao Yu, Gang Zou

Japanese Named Entity Recognition Using Structural Natural Language Processing

Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi

Automatic Rule Acquisition for Chinese Intra-chunk Relations

Qiang Zhou

An Online Cascaded Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition

Shing-Kit Chan, Wai Lam, Xiaofeng Yu

Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach

Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

A Bottom Up approach to Persian Stemming

Amir Azim Sharifloo, Mehrnoush Shamsfard

Vaakkriti: Sanskrit Tokenizer

Aasish Pappu, Ratna Sanyal

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-II

Benchmarking Noun Compound Interpretation

Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin

Gloss-Based Semantic Similarity Metrics for Predominant Sense Acquisition

Ryu Iida, Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling

Context Feature Selection for Distributional Similarity

Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama

Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags

Wisam Dakka, Silviu Cucerzan

Computing Paraphrasability of Syntactic Variants Using Web Snippets

Atsushi Fujita, Satoshi Sato

Repurposing Theoretical Linguistic Data for Tool Development and Search

Fei Xia, William D. Lewis

Statistical Machine Translation Models for Personalized Search

Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati, Vasudeva Varma

Simple Syntactic and Morphological Processing Can Help English-Hindi Statistical Machine Translation

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Jayprasad Hegde, Ritesh M. Shah, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sasikumar M.

Refinements in BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu

Acquiring Event Relation Knowledge by Learning Cooccurrence Patterns and Fertilizing Cooccurrence Samples with Verbal Nouns

Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

Projection-based Acquisition of a Temporal Labeller

Kathrin Spreyer, Anette Frank

Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Roles using Conditional Random Fields for Legal Document Summarization

M. Saravanan, B. Ravindran, S. Raman

Japanese-Spanish Thesaurus Construction Using English as a Pivot

Jessica Ramírez, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto

Minimally Supervised Multilingual Taxonomy and Translation Lexicon Induction

Nikesh Garera, David Yarowsky