NAACL 2007

162 papers

Introduction to Classification: Likelihoods, Margins, Features, and Kernels

Dan Klein

Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial

Mona Diab, Nizar Habash

Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai

BioNLP

K. Bretonnel Cohen

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Tutorial Abstracts

Marti Hearst, Gina-Anne Levow, James Allan

Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings

Geoffrey Zweig, Y.C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang

Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets

Liang Zhou

The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System

Steve Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye

TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web

Alexander Yates, Michele Banko, Matthew Broadhead, Michael Cafarella, Oren Etzioni

A Conversational In-Car Dialog System

Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, Madhuri Raya

Learning to Find Transliteration on the Web

Chien-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang

OMS-J: An Opinion Mining System for Japanese Weblog Reviews Using a Combination of Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches

Guangwei Wang, Kenji Araki

The CALO Meeting Assistant

L. Lynn Voss, Patrick Ehlen

RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar

Svetlana Stenchikova, Basia Mucha, Sarah Hoffman, Amanda Stent

Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning

Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, Chih-yu Chao

Cedit – Semantic Networks Manual Annotation Tool

Václav Novák

Automatic Segmentation and Summarization of Meeting Speech

Gabriel Murray, Pei-Yun Hsueh, Simon Tucker, Jonathan Kilgour, Jean Carletta

POSSLT: A Korean to English Spoken Language Translation System

Donghyeon Lee, Jonghoon Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee

Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques

Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-Pita, Colin Matheson

The Automated Text Adaptation Tool

Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Yong-Won Lee, Matthew Ventura

Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning

James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung

Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)

Bob Carpenter, Amanda Stent, Jason D. Williams

Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models

Chris Biemann

Combining Evidence for Improved Speech Retrieval

J. Scott Olsson

Semantic Frames in Romanian Natural Language Processing Systems

Diana Marie Trandabăţ

Dynamic Use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems

Joana Paulo Pardal

Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text

Rajen Subba

Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Experiments

Marie-Josée Goulet

Knowledge-Based Labeling of Semantic Relationships in English

Alicia Tribble

Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia

Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing

Qin Iris Wang

Query Expansion Using Domain Information in Compounds

Karin Friberg

Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007 Doctoral Consortium

Jackson Liscombe, Phillip Michalak

A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation

Liang Zhou, Namhee Kwon, Eduard Hovy

Speech Summarization Without Lexical Features for Mandarin Broadcast News

Jian Zhang, Pascale Fung

Selective Phrase Pair Extraction for Improved Statistical Machine Translation

Luke Zettlemoyer, Robert Moore

Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets

Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser

A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing

Kun Yu, Sadao Kurohashi, Hao Liu

Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Cascaded Hybrid Model

Xiaofeng Yu

Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News

Lei Xie, Chuan Liu, Helen Meng

Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions

Guangwei Wang, Kenji Araki

Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation

Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor, Sandor Szedmak

Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem—Or is it?

Marc Vilain, Jennifer Su, Suzi Lubar

Language Modeling for Determiner Selection

Jenine Turner, Eugene Charniak

The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC

Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, John McCaw, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher Pennington

A High Accuracy Method for Semi-Supervised Information Extraction

Stephen Tratz, Antonio Sanfilippo

Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers Using Partially Labeled Data

Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes

Simultaneous Identification of Biomedical Named-Entity and Functional Relation Using Statistical Parsing Techniques

Zhongmin Shi, Anoop Sarkar, Fred Popowich

Are Some Speech Recognition Errors Easier to Detect than Others?

Yongmei Shi, Lina Zhou

Reversible Sound-to-Letter/Letter-to-Sound Modeling Based on Syllable Structure

Stephanie Seneff

Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System

Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye, Steve Young

Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Machine Translation

Ruhi Sarikaya, Yonggang Deng

Stating with Certainty or Stating with Doubt: Intercoder Reliability Results for Manual Annotation of Epistemically Modalized Statements

Victoria L. Rubin

Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems

Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, David Vilar, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño

An Integrated Architecture for Speech-Input Multi-Target Machine Translation

Alicia Pérez, M. Teresa González, M. Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta

Advances in the CMU/Interact Arabic GALE Transcription System

Mohamed Noamany, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz

Subtree Mining for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia

Dat P.T. Nguyen, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

RH: A Retro-Hybrid Parser

Paula Newman

On using Articulatory Features for Discriminative Speaker Adaptation

Florian Metze

Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding

Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow

Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields

Gideon Mann, Andrew McCallum

Tagging Icelandic Text using a Linguistic and a Statistical Tagger

Hrafn Loftsson

Look Who is Talking: Soundbite Speaker Name Recognition in Broadcast News Speech

Feifan Liu, Yang Liu

Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Relationship Extraction from Biomedical Articles

Yudong Liu, Zhongmin Shi, Anoop Sarkar

Detection of Non-Native Sentences Using Machine-Translated Training Data

John Lee, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu

A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings

Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz

Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation

Patrik Lambert, Rafael E. Banchs, Josep M. Crego

Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines

Rohit Kate, Raymond Mooney

ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions

Douglas Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen

Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription

David Huggins-Daines, Alexander I. Rudnicky

Clustered Sub-Matrix Singular Value Decomposition

Fang Huang, Yorick Wilks

iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification

Dustin Hillard, Bjoern Hoffmeister, Mari Ostendorf, Ralf Schlueter, Hermann Ney

Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, Their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness

Jiří Havelka

Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT?

Saša Hasan, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney

Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging

Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

Olga Gurevich, Paul Deane

A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems

Olac Fuentes, David Vera, Thamar Solorio

Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development

Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane Litman, Joel Tetreault

Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval

Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy

Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation

Karim Filali, Jeff Bilmes

A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification

Jessica Enright, Grzegorz Kondrak

Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes

Jakob Elming, Nizar Habash

Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation

Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

K-Best Suffix Arrays

Kenneth Church, Bo Thiesson, Robert Ragno

Joint Versus Independent Phonological Feature Models within CRF Phone Recognition

Ilana Bromberg, Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Conquest—An Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences

Dan Bohus, Sergio Grau Puerto, David Huggins-Daines, Venkatesh Keri, Gopala Krishna

Automatic Acquisition of Grammatical Types for Nouns

Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja, Montserrat Marimon

Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning

Hua Ai, Joel Tetreault, Diane Litman

Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers

Candace Sidner, Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai

Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching

Feng Pan, Robert Farrell

ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences

Patrick Pantel, Rahul Bhagat, Bonaventura Coppola, Timothy Chklovski, Eduard Hovy

Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling

Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James Martin

Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres?

Szu-ting Yi, Edward Loper, Martha Palmer

Toward Multimedia: A String Pattern-Based Passage Ranking Model for Video Question Answering

Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang

Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction

Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman, James Allan

A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering

Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg

Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions

Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma

Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing

Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte, Pierre Isabelle

An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT

Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Stephan Vogel

Efficient Phrase-Table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation

Richard Zens, Hermann Ney