NAACL 2004

109 papers

A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection

Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz

Converting Text into Agent Animations: Assigning Gestures to Text

Yukiko I. Nakano, Masashi Okamoto, Daisuke Kawahara, Qing Li, Toyoaki Nishida

Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks

Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky

A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging

Kadri Hacioglu

Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese

Sameer Pradhan, Honglin Sun, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky

Prosody-based Topic Segmentation for Mandarin Broadcast News

Gina-Anne Levow

Multi-Speaker Language Modeling

Gang Ji, Jeffrey Bilmes

Polarity Sensitivity and Evaluation Order in Type-Logical Grammar

Chung-chieh Shan

Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation

Jeremy G. Kahn, Mari Ostendorf, Ciprian Chelba

Computational Linkuistics: Word Triggers across Hyperlinks

Dragomir Radev, Hong Qi, Adam Winkel, Daniel Tam

Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation

Emilia Stoica, Marti A. Hearst

A Speech-in List-out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces

Vijay Divi, C. Forlines, Jan van Gemert, Bhiksha Raj, B. Schmidt-Nielsen

Confidence Estimation for Information Extraction

Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum

Summarizing Email Threads

Owen Rambow, Lokesh Shrestha, John Chen, Christy Laurdisen

A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Christoph Tillmann

Automated Team Discourse Annotation and Performance Prediction Using LSA

Melanie J. Martin, Peter W. Foltz

Direct Maximization of Average Precision by Hill-Climbing, with a Comparison to a Maximum Entropy Approach

William Morgan, Warren Greiff, John Henderson

Feature Selection for Trainable Multilingual Broadcast News Segmentation

David D. Palmer, Marc Reichman, Elyes Yaich

Context-based Speech Recognition Error Detection and Correction

Arup Sarma, David D. Palmer

Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition

Karen Livescu, James Glass

Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points

Andrew Rosenberg, Ed Binkowski

Speech Graffiti vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience

Stefanie Tomko, Roni Rosenfeld

Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks

D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, A. Stolcke, Y. Liu, E. Shriberg

A Comparison of Rule–Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement

Ruhi Srikaya, Yuqing Gao, Michael Picheny

Correction Grammars for Error Handling in a Speech Dialog System

Hirohiko Sagawa, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg

Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation

Young-Suk Lee

HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Analytical Question Answering

Sharon Small, Tomek Strzalkowski

Web Search Intent Induction via Automatic Query Reformulation

Hal Daume III, Eric Brill

UI on the Fly: Generating a Multimodal User Interface

David Reitter, Erin Panttaja, Fred Cummins

Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis for Multimodal Reference Resolution in a Conversation System

Joyce Y. Chai, Zahar Prasov, Pengyu Hong

Using N-best lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech

Lufeng Zhai, Pascale Fung, Richard Schwartz, Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu

Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation

Andrew Kehler, Douglas Appelt, Lara Taylor, Aleksandr Simma

Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet

Benfeng Chen, Pascale Fung

Advances in Children’s Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor

Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom, Sarel van Vuuren, Ronald Cole

Language Model Adaptation with MAP Estimation and the Perceptron Algorithm

Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar

Enhancing Linguistically Oriented Automatic Keyword Extraction

Anette Hulth

An Empirical Study on Multiple LVCSR Model Combination by Machine Learning

Takehito Utsuro, Yasuhiro Kodama, Tomohiro Watanabe, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Seiichi Nakagawa

Example-based Rescoring of Statistical Machine Translation Output

Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita, Seiichi Yamamoto

MMR-based Feature Selection for Text Categorization

Changki Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee

Using N-Grams To Understand the Nature of Summaries

Michele Banko, Lucy Vanderwende

Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

Ted Pedersen, Siddharth Patwardhan, Jason Michelizzi

Use and Acquisition of Semantic Language Model

Kuansan Wang, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero

A Thai Speech Translation System for Medical Dialogs

Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Alexander, Alan W. Black, Kay Peterson, Sinaporn Suebvisai

Spoken Dialogue for Simulation Control and Conversational Tutoring

Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Karl Schultz, Brady Clark

SenseClusters - Finding Clusters that Represent Word Senses

Amruta Purandare, Ted Pedersen

A Scaleable Multi-document Centroid-based Summarizer

Dragomir Radev, Timothy Allison, Matthew Craig, Stanko Dimitrov, Kareem Omer

Open Text Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet

Lei Shi, Rada Mihalcea

Multilingual Video and Audio News Alerting

David D. Palmer, Patrick Bray, Marc Reichman, Katherine Rhodes, Noah White

MiTAP for SARS Detection

Laurie E. Damianos, Samuel Bayer, Michael A. Chisholm, John Henderson, Lynette Hirschman

Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto

Kristin Precoda, Horacio Franco, Ascander Dost, Michael Frandsen, John Fry

ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System

Diane J. Litman, Scott Silliman

Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web

David Kirk Evans, Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown

Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004

Speaker Recognition with Mixtures of Gaussians with Sparse Regression Matrices

Constantinos Boulis

Construction of Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts

Svetlana Hensman

Greek Word Segmentation Using Minimal Information

C. Anton Rytting

A Preliminary Look into the Use of Named Entity Information for Bioscience Text Tokenization

Robert Arens

Automatic Article Restoration

John Lee

A Multi-Path Architecture for Machine Translation of English Text into American Sign Language Animation

Matt Huenerfauth

A Computational Framework for Non-Lexicalist Semantics

Jimmy Lin

Maximum Entropy Modeling in Sparse Semantic Tagging

Jia Cui, David Guthrie

Identifying Chemical Names in Biomedical Text: an Investigation of Substring Co-occurrence Based Approaches

Alexander Vasserman

Multilingual Speech Recognition for Information Retrieval in Indian Context

N. Udhaykumar, S.K. Ramakrishnan, R. Swaminathan

Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2004

Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training

Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness, Alex Zamanian

Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields

Fuchun Peng, Andrew McCallum

Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes

Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran

Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Thorsten Brants

Exponential Priors for Maximum Entropy Models

Joshua Goodman

Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution

David Bean, Ellen Riloff

The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation

Andrew Kehler, Douglas Appelt, Lara Taylor, Aleksandr Simma

Improving Named Entity Translation Combining Phonetic and Semantic Similarities

Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

What’s in a translation rule?

Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu

Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu

Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Richard Zens, Hermann Ney

Shallow Semantic Parsing of Chinese

Honglin Sun, Daniel Jurafsky

Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web

Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Okamoto, Sadao Kurohashi

Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines

Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Dan Jurafsky

Comparison of Two Interactive Search Refinement Techniques

Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu

Non-Native Users in the Let’s Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch

Antoine Raux, Maxine Eskenazi

The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction

Robert Porzel, Manja Baudis

Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources

Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman

A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty

Kevyn Collins-thompson, James P. Callan

Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays

Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Claudia Gentile

Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation

Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar, Franz Josef Och

Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation

Shankar Kumar, William Byrne

A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation

Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Anoop Sarkar, Kenji Yamada

Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations

Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides

Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method

Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau

Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning

Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf

Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval

Murat Saraclar, Richard Sproat

The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks

Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller

Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization

Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee

Training Tree Transducers

Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight

Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing

Ron Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, John T. Maxwell III, Alex Vasserman

Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection

Miles Osborne, Jason Baldridge

Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does

Michelle Gregory, Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak

Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents

Keiji Shinzato, Kentaro Torisawa

A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations

Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Ferro