NAACL 2000

101 papers

Author Index to the Proceedings of ANLP-NAACL 2000 and the Student Research Workshop

Multiple Discourse Marker Occurrence: Creating Hierarchies for Natural Language Generation

Sarah Louise Oates

Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Mary Xiaoyong Liu, Ted Diamond, Anne R. Diekema

The use of error tags in ARTFL’s Encyclopédie: Does good error identification lead to good error correction?

Derrick Higgins

Corpus-Based Syntactic Error Detection Using Syntactic Patterns

Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz

A Weighted Robust Parsing Approach to Semantic Annotation

Hatem Ghorbel, Vincenzo Pallotta

Generating Text with a Theorem Prover

Ivan I. Garibay

Efficient parsing strategies for syntactic analysis of closed captions

Krzysztof Czuba

Experimenting with the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Structuring

Hua Cheng

Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Student Research Workshop

An Empirical Assessment of Semantic Interpretation

Martin Romacker, Udo Hahn

Understanding “Each Other”

Claire Gardent, Karsten Konrad

A Framework for Robust Semantic Interpretation Learning

Carolyn P. Rosé

A Finite State and Data-Oriented Method for Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion

Gosse Bouma

Finite-State Reduplication in One-Level Prosodic Morphology

Markus Walther

A New Algorithm for the Alignment of Phonetic Sequences

Grzegorz Kondrak

Acknowledgments in Human-Computer Interaction

Karen Ward, Peter A. Heeman

Left-To-Right Parsing and Bilexical Context-Free Grammars

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

Tagging Sentence Boundaries

Andrei Mikheev

Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations

Diana McCarthy

Removing Left Recursion from Context-Free Grammars

Robert C. Moore

Mostly-Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Japanese: Applications to Kanji

Rie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee

Assigning Function Tags to Parsed Text

Don Blaheta, Eugene Charniak

A Novel Use of Statistical Parsing to Extract Information from Text

Scott Miller, Heidi Fox, Lance Ramshaw, Ralph Weischedel

Predicting Automatic Speech Recognition Performance Using Prosodic Cues

Diane J. Litman, Julia B. Hirschberg, Marc Swerts

Learning to Predict Problematic Situations in a Spoken Dialogue System: Experiments with How May I Help You?

Marilyn Walker, Irene Langkilde, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Diane Litman

Evaluating Automatic Dialogue Strategy Adaptation for a Spoken Dialogue System

Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Trainable Methods for Surface Natural Language Generation

Adwait Ratnaparkhi

Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language

Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel

Cut and Paste Based Text Summarization

Hongyan Jing, Kathleen R. McKeown

Forest-Based Statistical Sentence Generation

Irene Langkilde

Ambiguity Packing in Constraint-based Parsing Practical Results

Stephan Oepen, John Carroll

Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars

Mark Johnson, Stefan Riezler

Detecting Errors within a Corpus using Anomaly Detection

Eleazar Eskin

An Unsupervised Method for Detecting Grammatical Errors

Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock

A Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser

Eugene Charniak

A Classification Approach to Word Prediction

Yair Even-Zohar, Dan Roth

Rapid Parser Development: A Machine Learning Approach for Korean

Ulf Hermjakob

Analyzing Dependencies of Japanese Subordinate Clauses based on Statistics of Scope Embedding Preference

Takehito Utsuro, Shigeyuki Nishiokayama, Masakazu Fujio, Yuji Matsumoto

The Effectiveness of Corpus-Induced Dependency Grammars for Post-processing Speech

M. P. Harper, C. M. White, W. Wang, M. T. Johnson, R. A. Helzerman

Morphological Tagging: Data vs. Dictionaries

Jan Hajic

Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Abdelhadi Soudi, Teruko Mitamura

Word-for-Word Glossing with Contextually Similar Words

Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin

Generation in the Lambek Calculus Framework: an Approach with Semantic Proof Nets

Sylvain Pogodalla

A Simple Approach to Building Ensembles of Naive Bayesian Classifiers for Word Sense Disambiguation

Ted Pedersen

The FrameNet tagset for frame-semantic and syntactic coding of predicate-argument structure

Christopher Johnson, Charles J. Fillmore

Noun Phrase Recognition by System Combination

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

Encoding information on adjectives in a lexical-semantic net for computational applications

Antonietta Alonge, Francesca Bertagna, Nicoletta Calzolari, Adriana Roventini, Antonio Zampolli

Bagging and Boosting a Treebank Parser

John C. Henderson, Eric Brill

Advances in domain independent linear text segmentation

Freddy Y. Y. Choi

A Probabilistic Genre-Independent Model of Pronominalization

Michael Strube, Maria Wolters

The Automatic Translation of Discourse Structures

Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, Maki Watanabe

Modelling Grounding and Discourse Obligations Using Update Rules

Colin Matheson, Massimo Poesio, David Traum

1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The Efficiency of Multimodal Interaction for a Map-based Task

Philip Cohen, David McGee, Josh Clow

Improving Testsuites via Instrumentation

Norbert Broker

Named Entity Extraction from Noisy Input: Speech and OCR

David Miller, Sean Boisen, Richard Schwartz, Rebecca Stone, Ralph Weischedel

Sentence Reduction for Automatic Text Summarization

Hongyan Jing

Evaluation of Automatically Identified Index Terms for Browsing Electronic Documents

Nina Wacholder, Judith L. Klavans, David K. Evans

Answer Extraction

Steven Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal

Using Corpus-derived Name Lists for Named Entity Recognition

Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas

Unsupervised Discovery of Scenario-Level Patterns for Information Extraction

Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Pasi Tapanainen

Large-scale Controlled Vocabulary Indexing for Named Entities

Mark Wasson

Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition from Text

Dan Moldovan, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus

Linguistic Knowledge can Improve Information Retrieval

William A. Woods, Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston, Robert J. Kuhns, Paul Martin

Spelling and Grammar Correction for Danish in SCARRIE

Patrizia Paggio

A Hybrid Approach for Named Entity and Sub-Type Tagging

Rohini Srihari

A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Shallow Parsing of German Free Texts

Günter Neumann, Christian Braun, Jakub Piskorski

Language Independent Morphological Analysis

Tatsuo Yamashita, Yuji Matsumoto

TnT – A Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagger

Thorsten Brants

Aggressive Morphology for Robust Lexical Coverage

William A. Woods

A Tool for Automated Revision of Grammars for NLP Systems

Nanda Kambhatla, Wlodek Zadrozny

Experiments with Corpus-based LFG Specialization

Nicola Cancedda, Christer Samuelsson

Compound Noun Segmentation Based on Lexical Data Extracted from Corpus

Juntae Yoon

Extracting Molecular Binding Relationships from Biomedical Text

Thomas C. Rindflesch, Jayant V. Rajan, Lawrence Hunter

Examining the Role of Statistical and Linguistic Knowledge Sources in a General-Knowledge Question-Answering System

Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce, Chris Buckley

Categorizing Unknown Words: Using Decision Trees to Identify Names and Misspellings

Janine Toole

A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction

Rohini Srihari, Wei Li

Message Classification in the Call Center

Stephan Busemann, Sven Schmeier, Roman G. Arens

Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation

Dragomir R. Radev, John Prager, Valerie Samn

Multilingual Coreference Resolution

Sanda M. Harabagiu, Steven J. Maiorano

Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System

Philippe Langlais, George Foster, Guy Lapalme

An Automatic Reviser: The TransCheck System

Jean-Marc Jutras Rali

A Representation for Complex and Evolving Data Dependencies in Generation

C Mellish, R Evans, L Cahill, C Doran, D Paiva

A Compact Architecture for Dialogue Management Based on Scripts and Meta-Outputs

Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James

Javox: A Toolkit for Building Speech-Enabled Applications

Michael S. Fulkerson, Alan W. Biermann

MIMIC: An Adaptive Mixed Initiative Spoken Dialogue System for Information Queries

Jennifer Chu-Carroll

DP: A Detector for Presuppositions in survey questions

Katja Wiemer-Hastings, Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Sonya Rajah

Experiments on Sentence Boundary Detection

Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas

REES: A Large-Scale Relation and Event Extraction System

Chinatsu Aone, Mila Ramos-Santacruz

Talk’n’Travel: A Conversational System for Air Travel Planning

David Stallard

A Framework for MT and Multilingual NLG Systems Based on Uniform Lexico-Structural Processing

Benoit Lavoie, Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsky, Owen Rambow

Plan-Based Dialogue Management in a Physics Tutor

Reva Freedman

Distilling dialogues - A method using natural dialogue corpora for dialogue systems development

Arne Jönsson, Nils Dahlbäck

Translation using Information on Dialogue Participants

Setsuo Yamada, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka

PartsID: A Dialogue-Based System for Identifying Parts for Medical Systems

Amit Bagga, Tomek Strzalkowski, G. Bowden Wise

Automatic construction of parallel English-Chinese corpus for cross-language information retrieval

Jiang Chen, Jian-Yun Nie

Cross-Language Multimedia Information Retrieval

Sharon Flank

Machine Translation of Very Close Languages

Jan Hajic

BusTUC - A natural language bus route oracle

Tore Amble