NAACL 2003

116 papers

Automatic Speaker and Language Recognition

Doug Reynolds, Marc Zissman

Optimization, Maxent Models, and Conditional Estimation without Magic

Christopher Manning, Dan Klein

NLP R&D and Commercial Deployment

Mark Wasson

Annotation of Temporal and Event Expressions

James Pustejovsky, Inderjeet Mani

What’s New in Statistical Machine Translation

Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn

The State of the Art in Language Modeling

Joshua Goodman

Speech Recognition and Understanding

Alex Acero

Information Retrieval Systems as Integration Platforms for Language Technologies

Douglas W. Oard

Introduction to Non-Statistical Natural Language Processing

Graeme Hirst

Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Tutorial Abstracts

Identifying Opinionated Sentences

Theresa Wilson, David R. Pierce, Janyce Wiebe

Monolingual and Bilingual Concept Visualization from Corpora

Dominic Widdows, Scott Cederberg

Speechalator: Two-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation in Your Hand

Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W. Black, Robert Frederking, Donna Gates

Dynamic Integration of Distributed Semantic Services: Infrastructure for Process Queries and Question Answering

Paul Thompson

pre-CODIE–Crosslingual On-Demand Information Extraction

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman

Automatic Extraction of Semantic Networks from Text using Leximancer

Andrew E. Smith

Automatically Discovering Word Senses

Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin

JAVELIN: A Flexible, Planner-Based Architecture for Question Answering

Eric Nyberg, Robert Frederking

WordFreak: An Open Tool for Linguistic Annotation

Thomas Morton, Jeremy LaCivita

Columbia’s Newsblaster: New Features and Future Directions

Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, John Chen, David Elson, David Evans

Demonstration of the CROSSMARC System

Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, Dimitris Souflis, Claire Grover, Ben Hachey

QCS: A Tool for Querying, Clustering, and Summarizing Documents

Daniel M. Dunlavy, John Conroy, Dianne P. O’Leary

A Spoken Dialogue Interface to a Geologist’s Field Assistant

John Dowding, James Hieronymus

TAP-XL: An Automated Analyst’s Assistant

Sean Colbath, Francis Kubala

DOGHED: A Template-Based Generator for Multimodal Dialog Systems Targeting Heterogeneous Devices

Songsak Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy, Syed S. Ali

Alias-i Threat Trackers

Breck Baldwin, Bob Carpenter, Aaron Ross

TIPS: A Translingual Information Processing System

Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany Hassan, Young-Suk Lee

Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Demonstrations

Cooperative model-based language understanding

Donghui Feng

Spoken and Written News Story Segmentation Using Lexical Chains

Nicola Stokes

Investigations on Event Evolution on TDT

Juha Makkonen

Word Fragments Identification Using Acoustic-Prosodic Features in Conversational Speech

Yang Liu

A low-complexity, broad-coverage probabilistic Dependency Parser for English

Gerold Schneider

Indexing methods for efficient parsing

Cosmin Munteanu

Discriminating Among Word Senses Using McQuitty’s Similarity Analysis

Amruta Purandare

Language choice models for microplanning and readability

Sandra Williams

The Importance of Prosodic Factors in Phoneme Modeling with Applications to Speech Recognition

Sarah Borys

Semantic Language Models for Topic Detection and Tracking

Ramesh Nallapati

Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Student Research Workshop

Implicit Trajectory Modeling through Gaussian Transition Models for Speech Recognition

Hua Yu, Tanja Schultz

Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions

Ellen M. Voorhees

A Phrase-based Unigram Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Christoph Tillmann, Fei Xia

A Context-Sensitive Homograph Disambiguation in Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Virongrong Tesprasit, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Virach Sornlertlamvanich

Building lexical semantic representations for Natural Language instructions

Elena Terenzi, Barbara Di Eugenio

Automatically Predicting Information Quality in News Documents

Rong Tang, Kwong Bor Ng, Tomek Strzalkowski, Paul B. Kantor

Latent Semantic Analysis for Dialogue Act Classification

Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass

Auditory-based Acoustic Distinctive Features and Spectral Cues for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in Low-SNR Car Environments

Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Hesham Tolba, Douglas O’Shaughnessy

A Hybrid Approach to Content Analysis for Automatic Essay Grading

Carolyn P. Rosé, Antonio Roque, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Kurt VanLehn

Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System

Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos

LM Studies on Filled Pauses in Spontaneous Medical Dictation

Jochen Peters

Bayesian Nets for Syntactic Categorization of Novel Words

Leonid Peshkin, Avi Pfeffer, Virginia Savova

Desparately Seeking Cebuano

Douglas W. Oard, DAVID DOERMANN, Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik

Bootstrapping for Named Entity Tagging Using Concept-based Seeds

Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Srihari

References to Named Entities: a Corpus Study

Ani Nenkova, Kathleen McKeown

Category-based Pseudowords

Preslav I. Nakov, Marti A. Hearst

Semantic Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources

Behrang Mohit, Srini Narayanan

Precision and Recall of Machine Translation

I. Dan Melamed, Ryan Green, Joseph P. Turian

A Robust Retrieval Engine for Proximal and Structural Search

Katsuya Masuda, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Inferring Temporal Ordering of Events in News

Inderjeet Mani, Barry Schiffman, Jianping Zhang

Towards Emotion Prediction in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues

Diane Litman, Kate Forbes, Scott Silliman

Word Alignment with Cohesion Constraint

Dekang Lin, Colin Cherry

Cognates Can Improve Statistical Translation Models

Grzegorz Kondrak, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight

Unsupervised Learning of Morphology for English and Inuktitut

Howard Johnson, Joel Martin

Identifying and Tracking Entity Mentions in a Maximum Entropy Framework

Abraham Ittycheriah, Lucian Lita, Nanda Kambhatla, Nicolas Nicolov, Salim Roukos

Automatic Expansion of Equivalent Sentence Set Based on Syntactic Substitution

Kenji Imamura, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita

Detection Of Agreement vs. Disagreement In Meetings: Training With Unlabeled Data

Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth Shriberg

Rhetorical Parsing with Underspecification and Forests

Thomas Hanneforth, Silvan Heintze, Manfred Stede

Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward

Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines

Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward

A Maximum Entropy Approach to FrameNet Tagging

Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy

Active Learning for Classifying Phone Sequences from Unsupervised Phonotactic Models

Shona Douglas

Adaptation Using Out-of-Domain Corpus within EBMT

Takao Doi, Eiichiro Sumita, Hirofumi Yamamoto

Story Link Detection and New Event Detection are Asymmetric

Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Thorsten Brants

Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions

John Burger, John Henderson

Getting More Mileage from Web Text Sources for Conversational Speech Language Modeling using Class-Dependent Mixtures

Ivan Bulyko, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke

Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff

Jeff A. Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff

Automating XML markup of text documents

Shazia Akhtar, Ronan G. Reilly, John Dunnion

Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Short Papers

A Web-Trained Extraction Summarization System

Liang Zhou, Eduard Hovy

Unsupervised methods for developing taxonomies by combining syntactic and statistical information

Dominic Widdows

Toward a Task-based Gold Standard for Evaluation of NP Chunks and Technical Terms

Nina Wacholder, Peng Song

Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track

Ellen M. Voorhees

Feature-Rich Part-of-Speech Tagging with a Cyclic Dependency Network

Kristina Toutanova, Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning, Yoram Singer

Frequency Estimates for Statistical Word Similarity Measures

Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke

Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers

Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar

Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information

Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu

Comma Restoration Using Constituency Information

Stuart M. Shieber, Xiaopeng Tao

Shallow Parsing with Conditional Random Fields

Fei Sha, Fernando Pereira

Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains

Brian Roark, Michiel Bacchiani

Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic Disambiguation Methods for Lexical-Functional Grammar

Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Annie Zaenen

Language and Task Independent Text Categorization with Simple Language Models

Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang

Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences

Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu

Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views

Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie

COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering

Dan Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda Harabagiu, Steve Maiorano

Multitext Grammars and Synchronous Parsers

I. Dan Melamed

Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics

Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy

A Weighted Finite State Transducer Implementation of the Alignment Template Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Shankar Kumar, William Byrne

A Generative Probabilistic OCR Model for NLP Applications

Okan Kolak, William Byrne, Philip Resnik

Statistical Phrase-Based Translation

Philipp Koehn, Franz J. Och, Daniel Marcu

A* Parsing: Fast Exact Viterbi Parse Selection

Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning