NAACL 2009

181 papers

Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model

Dekai Wu, Pascale Fung

Efficient Extraction of Oracle-best Translations from Hypergraphs

Zhifei Li, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Revisiting Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation IBM Model 4

Sebastian Riedel, James Clarke

Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder

Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel, Colin Cherry

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

Mari Ostendorf, Michael Collins, Shri Narayanan, Douglas W. Oard, Lucy Vanderwende

A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs

Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy

Improved Syntactic Models for Parsing Speech with Repairs

Tim Miller

Linear Complexity Context-Free Parsing Pipelines via Chart Constraints

Brian Roark, Kristy Hollingshead

Extracting Social Meaning: Identifying Interactional Style in Spoken Conversation

Dan Jurafsky, Rajesh Ranganath, Dan McFarland

A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems

Antoine Raux, Maxine Eskenazi

Unsupervised Approaches for Automatic Keyword Extraction Using Meeting Transcripts

Feifan Liu, Deana Pennell, Fei Liu, Yang Liu

Online EM for Unsupervised Models

Percy Liang, Dan Klein

Hierarchical Bayesian Domain Adaptation

Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning

Non-Parametric Bayesian Areal Linguistics

Hal Daume III

Using Citations to Generate surveys of Scientific Paradigms

Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan

Graph-Cut-Based Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution

Vincent Ng

An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information

Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio

Hierarchical Search for Parsing

Adam Pauls, Dan Klein

Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars

Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater, Phil Blunsom

Optimal Reduction of Rule Length in Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta, David Weir

Semantic-based Estimation of Term Informativeness

Kirill Kireyev

The Effect of Corpus Size on Case Frame Acquisition for Discourse Analysis

Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi

Streaming for large scale NLP: Language Modeling

Amit Goyal, Hal Daume III, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

More than Words: Syntactic Packaging and Implicit Sentiment

Stephan Greene, Philip Resnik

For a few dollars less: Identifying review pages sans human labels

Luciano Barbosa, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins

An Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Fine-Grained Opinion Mining

Weifu Du, Songbo Tan

Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models

Tae Yano, William W. Cohen, Noah A. Smith

Shrinking Exponential Language Models

Stanley Chen

Tied-Mixture Language Modeling in Continuous Space

Ruhi Sarikaya, Mohamed Afify, Brian Kingsbury

Performance Prediction for Exponential Language Models

Stanley Chen

Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi

Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers

Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo R. Banga, William Byrne

Semi-Supervised Lexicon Mining from Parenthetical Expressions in Monolingual Web Pages

Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Active Learning for Statistical Phrase-based Machine Translation

Gholamreza Haffari, Maxim Roy, Anoop Sarkar

Using a maximum entropy model to build segmentation lattices for MT

Chris Dyer

Improving the Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary for Phone and Word Recognition with Linguistically-Based Pronunciation Rules

Fadi Biadsy, Nizar Habash, Julia Hirschberg

Geo-Centric Language Models for Local Business Voice Search

Amanda Stent, Ilija Zeljković, Diamantino Caseiro, Jay Wilpon

Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems

Timo Baumann, Michaela Atterer, David Schlangen

Global Models of Document Structure using Latent Permutations

Harr Chen, S.R.K. Branavan, Regina Barzilay, David R. Karger

Exploring Content Models for Multi-Document Summarization

Aria Haghighi, Lucy Vanderwende

Hierarchical Text Segmentation from Multi-Scale Lexical Cohesion

Jacob Eisenstein

Positive Results for Parsing with a Bounded Stack using a Model-Based Right-Corner Transform

William Schuler

Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees

Y. Albert Park, Roger Levy

Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition

Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning

Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars

Mark Johnson, Sharon Goldwater

On the Syllabification of Phonemes

Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, Colin Cherry

Unsupervised Constraint Driven Learning For Transliteration Discovery

Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth, Yuancheng Tu

Semi-Automatic Entity Set Refinement

Vishnu Vyas, Patrick Pantel

Domain Adaptation with Latent Semantic Association for Named Entity Recognition

Honglei Guo, Huijia Zhu, Zhili Guo, Xiaoxun Zhang, Xian Wu

Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression

Shimon Kogan, Dimitry Levin, Bryan R. Routledge, Jacob S. Sagi, Noah A. Smith

May All Your Wishes Come True: A Study of Wishes and How to Recognize Them

Andrew B. Goldberg, Nathanael Fillmore, David Andrzejewski, Zhiting Xu, Bryan Gibson

Learning Bilingual Linguistic Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Han-Bin Chen, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang

Using a Dependency Parser to Improve SMT for Subject-Object-Verb Languages

Peng Xu, Jaeho Kang, Michael Ringgaard, Franz Och

Preference Grammars: Softening Syntactic Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation

Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith, Stephan Vogel

Efficient Parsing for Transducer Grammars

John DeNero, Mohit Bansal, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein

11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation

David Chiang, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models

Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry, Kristina Toutanova

Context-based Message Expansion for Disentanglement of Interleaved Text Conversations

Lidan Wang, Douglas W. Oard

Japanese Query Alteration Based on Lexical Semantic Similarity

Masato Hagiwara, Hisami Suzuki

Phrase-Based Query Degradation Modeling for Vocabulary-Independent Ranked Utterance Retrieval

J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard

Hierarchical Dirichlet Trees for Information Retrieval

Gholamreza Haffari, Yee Whye Teh

Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering

Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

Jointly Identifying Predicates, Arguments and Senses using Markov Logic

Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel

The Role of Implicit Argumentation in Nominal SRL

Matthew Gerber, Joyce Chai, Adam Meyers

Without a ’doubt’? Unsupervised Discovery of Downward-Entailing Operators

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Richard Ducott

Intersecting Multilingual Data for Faster and Better Statistical Translations

Yu Chen, Martin Kay, Andreas Eisele

Graph-based Learning for Statistical Machine Translation

Andrei Alexandrescu, Katrin Kirchhoff

Context-Dependent Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Jamie Brunning, Adrià de Gispert, William Byrne

Improving Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Richer Contexts and Smoothing

William P. Headden III, Mark Johnson, David McClosky

Efficiently Parsable Extensions to Tree-Local Multicomponent TAG

Rebecca Nesson, Stuart Shieber

Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: a Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach

Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay

Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction

Shay Cohen, Noah A. Smith

Improved Reconstruction of Protolanguage Word Forms

Alexandre Bouchard-côté, Thomas L. Griffiths, Dan Klein

A Discriminative Latent Variable Chinese Segmenter with Hybrid Word/Character Information

Xu Sun, Yaozhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii

A Corpus-Based Approach for the Prediction of Language Impairment in Monolingual English and Spanish-English Bilingual Children

Keyur Gabani, Melissa Sherman, Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu, Lisa Bedore

Learning Phoneme Mappings for Transliteration without Parallel Data

Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight

A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method Using Dependency Knowledge

Ping Chen, Wei Ding, Chris Bowes, David Brown

Eneko Agirre, Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall, Jana Kravalova, Marius Pasca

Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling

Yaw Gyamfi, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea, Cem Akkaya

Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses via Semi-supervised Mincuts

Fangzhong Su, Katja Markert

Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Mari Ostendorf, Michael Collins, Shri Narayanan, Douglas W. Oard, Lucy Vanderwende