NAACL 2009

181 papers

WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximizes Semantic Relatedness

Ted Pedersen, Varada Kolhatkar

Morpho Challenge - Evaluation of algorithms for unsupervised learning of morphology in various tasks and languages

Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville Turunen, Teemu Hirsimäki

STAT: Speech Transcription Analysis Tool

Stephen A. Kunath, Steven H. Weinberger

Building Conversational Agents with Basilica

Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Rosé, Michael J. Witbrock

Cross-document Temporal and Spatial Person Tracking System Demonstration

Heng Ji, Zheng Chen

Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Demonstration Session

Michael Johnston, Fred Popowich

Writing Systems, Transliteration and Decipherment

Kevin Knight, Richard Sproat

VerbNet overview, extensions, mappings and applications

Karin Kipper Schuler, Anna Korhonen, Susan Brown

OntoNotes: The 90% Solution

Sameer S. Pradhan, Nianwen Xue

OpenFst: An Open-Source, Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library and its Applications to Speech and Language

Michael Riley, Cyril Allauzen, Martin Jansche

Extracting World and Linguistic Knowledge from Wikipedia

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube

Dynamic Programming-based Search Algorithms in NLP

Liang Huang

Distributed Language Models

Thorsten Brants, Peng Xu

Data Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

Jimmy Lin, Chris Dyer

Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Tutorial Abstracts

Ciprian Chelba, Paul Kantor, Brian Roark

Disambiguation of Preposition Sense Using Linguistically Motivated Features

Stephen Tratz, Dirk Hovy

Modeling Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion as a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Problem with Minimum Error Rate Training

Taraka Rama, Anil Kumar Singh, Sudheer Kolachina

Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Dialogue Acts

Nicole Novielli, Carlo Strapparava

Domain-Independent Shallow Sentence Ordering

Thade Nahnsen

Towards Building a Competitive Opinion Summarization System: Challenges and Keys

Elena Lloret, Alexandra Balahur, Manuel Palomar, Andrés Montoyo

Syntactic Tree-based Relation Extraction Using a Generalization of Collins and Duffy Convolution Tree Kernel

Mahdy Khayyamian, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Hassan Abolhassani

Loss-Sensitive Discriminative Training of Machine Transliteration Models

Kedar Bellare, Koby Crammer, Dayne Freitag

Interactive Annotation Learning with Indirect Feature Voting

Shilpa Arora, Eric Nyberg

Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System

Jaime Acosta

Multiple Word Alignment with Profile Hidden Markov Models

Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak

Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping

Ting Qian, Benjamin Van Durme, Lenhart Schubert

Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language

Adriane Boyd

Using Language Modeling to Select Useful Annotation Data

Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer

Sentence Realisation from Bag of Words with Dependency Constraints

Karthik Gali, Sriram Venkatapathy

Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning

Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi

Solving the “Who’s Mark Johnson Puzzle”: Information Extraction Based Cross Document Coreference

Jian Huang, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smith, Konstantinos A. Fotiadis, C. Lee Giles

Classifier Combination Techniques Applied to Coreference Resolution

Smita Vemulapalli, Xiaoqiang Luo, John F. Pitrelli, Imed Zitouni

Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

Ulrich Germann, Chirag Shah, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Anoop Sarkar

Tightly coupling Speech Recognition and Search

Taniya Mishra, Srinivas Bangalore

Fast decoding for open vocabulary spoken term detection

Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Abhinav Sethy, Jonathan Mamou, Brian Kingsbury, Upendra Chaudhari

Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field

Dong Yang, Yi-cheng Pan, Sadaoki Furui

Score Distribution Based Term Specific Thresholding for Spoken Term Detection

Dogan Can, Murat Saraclar

Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering

Sibel Yaman, Gokhan Tur, Dimitra Vergyri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper

Reverse Revision and Linear Tree Combination for Dependency Parsing

Giuseppe Attardi, Felice Dell’Orletta

Recognising the Predicate-argument Structure of Tagalog

Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin

Combining Constituent Parsers

Victoria Fossum, Kevin Knight

Active Zipfian Sampling for Statistical Parser Training

Onur Çobanoğlu

Quadratic Features and Deep Architectures for Chunking

Joseph Turian, James Bergstra, Yoshua Bengio

Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S.

Dan Gillick

Semantic Classification with WordNet Kernels

Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

Estimating and Exploiting the Entropy of Sense Distributions

Peng Jin, Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, John Carroll

Determining the position of adverbial phrases in English

Huayan Zhong, Amanda Stent

Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches

Katja Filippova, Michael Strube

On the Importance of Pivot Language Selection for Statistical Machine Translation

Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura

Statistical Post-Editing of a Rule-Based Machine Translation System

Antonio-L. Lagarda, Vicent Alabau, Francisco Casacuberta, Roberto Silva, Enrique Díaz-de-Liaño

Improving A Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training

Zhongqiang Huang, Vladimir Eidelman, Mary Harper

Language Specific Issue and Feature Exploration in Chinese Event Extraction

Zheng Chen, Heng Ji

Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination

Yong Zhao, Xiaodong He

Improving Coreference Resolution by Using Conversational Metadata

Xiaoqiang Luo, Radu Florian, Todd Ward

The independence of dimensions in multidimensional dialogue act annotation

Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt

Analysing Recognition Errors in Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo

Lexical and Syntactic Adaptation and Their Impact in Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems

Svetlana Stoyanchev, Amanda Stent

MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars (Application Note)

Srinivas Bangalore, Pierre Boullier, Alexis Nasr, Owen Rambow, Benoît Sagot

Improving SCL Model for Sentiment-Transfer Learning

Songbo Tan, Xueqi Cheng

Towards Effective Sentence Simplification for Automatic Processing of Biomedical Text

Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Luis Tari, Jörg Hakenberg, Chitta Baral, Graciela Gonzalez

Classifying Factored Genres with Part-of-Speech Histograms

Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf

A Local Tree Alignment-based Soft Pattern Matching Approach for Information Extraction

Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee

Search Engine Adaptation by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query

Ruiqiang Zhang, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Donald Metzler, Jian-Yun Nie

Exploiting Named Entity Classes in CCG Surface Realization

Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White, Dominic Espinosa

Answer Credibility: A Language Modeling Approach to Answer Validation

Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han

Name Perplexity

Octavian Popescu

Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Nguyen Bach, Roger Hsiao, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Stephan Vogel

Evaluating the Syntactic Transformations in Gold Standard Corpora for Statistical Sentence Compression

Naman K. Gupta, Sourish Chaudhuri, Carolyn P. Rosé

Faster MT Decoding Through Pervasive Laziness

Michael Pust, Kevin Knight

Taking into Account the Differences between Actively and Passively Acquired Data: The Case of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Datasets

Michael Bloodgood, K. Vijay-Shanker

A Speech Understanding Framework that Uses Multiple Language Models and Multiple Understanding Models

Masaki Katsumaru, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tetsuya Ogata

Extending Pronunciation Lexicons via Non-phonemic Respellings

Lucian Galescu

Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech

Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson, Paola Merlo

Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpora with Dependency Heterogeneity

Kun Yu, Junichi Tsujii

Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality

Kino Coursey, Rada Mihalcea

Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews

Kevin Lerman, Ryan Mcdonald

Using Integer Linear Programming for Detecting Speech Disfluencies

Kallirroi Georgila

The Importance of Sub-Utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty

Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Shieber

Multi-scale Personalization for Voice Search Applications

Daniel Bolaños, Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen

Learning Combination Features with L1 Regularization

Daisuke Okanohara, Jun’ichi Tsujii

A Simple Sentence-Level Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data

Christoph Tillmann, Jian-Ming Xu

Automatic Agenda Graph Construction from Human-Human Dialogs using Clustering Method

Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Kyungduk Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

Shallow Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding

Bonaventura Coppola, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi

Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable and Vowel Level

Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg

Generating Synthetic Children’s Acoustic Models from Adult Models

Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom, Kadri Hacioglu

Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions

Adrià de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne

Web and Corpus Methods for Malay Count Classifier Prediction

Jeremy Nicholson, Timothy Baldwin

Evaluation of a System for Noun Concepts Acquisition from Utterances about Images (SINCA) Using Daily Conversation Data

Yuzu Uchida, Kenji Araki

Learning Bayesian Networks for Semantic Frame Composition in a Spoken Dialog System

Marie-Jean Meurs, Fabrice Lefèvre, Renato de Mori

Spherical Discriminant Analysis in Semi-supervised Speaker Clustering

Hao Tang, Stephen Chu, Thomas Huang

Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems

Kenji Sagae, Gwen Christian, David DeVault, David Traum

Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eun Young Ha, Michael Wallis, Mladen Vouk

TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora

Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain, James Allen

Towards Automatic Image Region Annotation - Image Region Textual Coreference Resolution

Emilia Apostolova, Dina Demner-Fushman

Identifying Types of Claims in Online Customer Reviews

Shilpa Arora, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn P. Rosé

Text Categorization from Category Name via Lexical Reference

Libby Barak, Ido Dagan, Eyal Shnarch

Large-scale Computation of Distributional Similarities for Queries

Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall, Silvana Hartmann

Translation Corpus Source and Size in Bilingual Retrieval

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Charles Nicholas

A Simplex Armijo Downhill Algorithm for Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation Decoding Parameters

Bing Zhao, Shengyuan Chen

Comparison of Extended Lexicon Models in Search and Rescoring for SMT

Saša Hasan, Hermann Ney