NAACL 2007

162 papers

A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara

Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses

Kevyn Collins-thompson, Jamie Callan

Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring

Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff

Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi

Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinear Text

Fei Xia, William Lewis

Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems

Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, David Karger

A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence

Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, Eugene Charniak

Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models

Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow

A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions

David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke

Approximate Factoring for A* Search

Aria Haghighi, John DeNero, Dan Klein

Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing

Slav Petrov, Dan Klein

Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing

Joakim Nivre

Tree Revision Learning for Dependency Parsing

Giuseppe Attardi, Massimiliano Ciaramita

Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages

Mathias Creutz, Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Janne Pylkkönen

Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion

Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak, Tarek Sherif

A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs

Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian Lane, Stephan Vogel

Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus

Diana Inkpen

An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking

Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller

An Integrated Approach to Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Information Available on the Web

Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Multi-Document Relationship Fusion via Constraints on Probabilistic Databases

Gideon Mann

Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection

Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell

Whose Idea Was This, and Why Does it Matter? Attributing Scientific Work to Citations

Advaith Siddharthan, Simone Teufel

Extracting Appraisal Expressions

Kenneth Bloom, Navendu Garg, Shlomo Argamon

Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm

Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay

Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary

Hiroya Takamura, Takashi Inui, Manabu Okumura

An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces

Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai

Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: a Confidence Interval Approach

Joel Tetreault, Dan Bohus, Diane Litman

Combining Reinformation Learning with Information-State Update Rules

Peter Heeman

Using “Annotator Rationales” to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization

Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner, Christine Piatko

Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms

Damianos Karakos, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Carey Priebe

Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures

Emilia Stoica, Marti Hearst, Megan Richardson

Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming

Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge

Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems

Antti-Veikko Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz

A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them

Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan

Is Question Answering Better than Information Retrieval? Towards a Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series

Jimmy Lin

Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP

Andrei Alexandrescu, Katrin Kirchhoff

Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation

Rada Mihalcea

Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words

Xiaofei Lu

Lexicalized Markov Grammars for Sentence Compression

Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown

Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation

Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond Mooney

Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts

Anja Belz

High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation

Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng

Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules

Daniel Gildea, Daniel Stefankovic

Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Mark Johnson, Thomas Griffiths, Sharon Goldwater

The Domain Restriction Hypothesis: Relating Term Similarity and Semantic Consistency

Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel

Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web

Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni

A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction

Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai

A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants

Chris Biemann

Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks

Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew Goldberg, Jurgen Van Gael, David Andrzejewski

Information Retrieval On Empty Fields

Victor Lavrenko, Xing Yi, James Allan

First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution

Aron Culotta, Michael Wick, Andrew McCallum

Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution

Xiaoqiang Luo

Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution

Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie

Direct Translation Model 2

Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos

Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation

Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki

Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation

Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea

Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Rate of Accomplishment of Sub-Goals

Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Katsunori Kotani, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara

What Decisions Have You Made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations

Pei-Yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore

Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman

To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech

Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha Calhoun, Laura Whitton

Exploiting Acoustic and Syntactic Features for Prosody Labeling in a Maximum Entropy Framework

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan

Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference

Candace Sidner, Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai