NAACL 2010

181 papers

Textual Entailment

Mark Sammons, Idan Szpektor, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran

Computational psycholinguistics

Roger Levy, Klinton Bicknell, Nathaniel Smith

Distributional Semantic Models

Stefan Evert

Integer Linear Programming in NLP - Constrained Conditional Models

Ming-Wei Wang, Nicholas Rizzolo, Dan Roth

Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing

Qin Iris Wang, Yue Zhang

Noisy Text Analytics

L. Venkata Subramaniam

Markov Logic in Natural Language Processing: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

Hoifung Poon

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

Jimmy Lin, Chris Dyer

NAACL HLT 2010 Tutorial Abstracts

Jason Baldwin, Peter Clark, Gokhan Tur

Fine-Tuning in Brazilian Portuguese-English Statistical Transfer Machine Translation: Verbal Tenses

Lucia Silva

A Data Mining Approach to Learn Reorder Rules for SMT

Avinesh PVS

Identifying Opinion Holders and Targets with Dependency Parser in Chinese News Texts

Bin Lu

Temporal Relation Identification with Endpoints

Chong Min Lee

A Learning-based Sampling Approach to Extractive Summarization

Vishal Juneja, Sebastian Germesin, Thomas Kleinbauer

Distinguishing Use and Mention in Natural Language

Shomir Wilson

Towards a Matrix-based Distributional Model of Meaning

Eugenie Giesbrecht

Extrinsic Parse Selection

David Goss-Grubbs

Detecting Novelty in the context of Progressive Summarization

Praveen Bysani

On Automated Evaluation of Readability of Summaries: Capturing Grammaticality, Focus, Structure and Coherence

Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Rahul Katragadda

Improving Syntactic Coordination Resolution using Language Modeling

Philip Ogren

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Student Research Workshop

Julia Hockenmaier, Diane Litman, Adriane Boyd, Mahesh Joshi, Frank Rudzicz

An Overview of Microsoft Web N-gram Corpus and Applications

Kuansan Wang, Chris Thrasher, Evelyne Viegas, Xiaolong Li, Bo-June Paul Hsu

SIMPLIFICA: a tool for authoring simplified texts in Brazilian Portuguese guided by readability assessments

Carolina Scarton, Matheus Oliveira, Arnaldo Candido Jr., Caroline Gasperin, Sandra Aluísio

Interactive Predictive Parsing using a Web-based Architecture

Ricardo Sánchez-Sáez, Luis A. Leiva, Joan-Andreu Sanchez, Jose-Miguel Benedi

Interpretation of Partial Utterances in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems

Kenji Sagae, David DeVault, David Traum

Serious Game Environments for Language and Culture Education

Alicia Sagae, W. Lewis Johnson, Rebecca Row

An Interactive Tool for Supporting Error Analysis for Text Mining

Elijah Mayfield, Carolyn Penstein-Rosé

A Detailed, Accurate, Extensive, Available English Lexical Database

Adam Kilgarriff

KSC-PaL: A Peer Learning Agent that Encourages Students to take the Initiative

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, Sandra Katz

Multilingual Propbank Annotation Tools: Cornerstone and Jubilee

Jinho Choi, Claire Bonial, Martha Palmer

Phrasal: A Statistical Machine Translation Toolkit for Exploring New Model Features

Daniel Cer, Michel Galley, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning

Summarizing Textual Information about Locations In a Geo-Spatial Information Display System

Congxing Cai, Eduard Hovy

Camtology: Intelligent Information Access for Science

Ted Briscoe, Karl Harrison, Andrew Naish-guzman, Andy Parker, Advaith Siddharthan

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Demonstration Session

Carolyn Penstein Rosé

Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task

Ekaterina Shutova

Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition

Yashar Mehdad, Alessandro Moschitti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions

Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith

Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers

Advaith Siddharthan, Napoleon Katsos

Evaluating Hierarchical Discourse Segmentation

Lucien Carroll

Detecting Emails Containing Requests for Action

Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cecile Paris

Model Combination for Machine Translation

John DeNero, Shankar Kumar, Ciprian Chelba, Franz Och

Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization

Cyril Allauzen, Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley

Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing

Dipanjan Das, Nathan Schneider, Desai Chen, Noah A. Smith

Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles

Joel Lang, Mirella Lapata

Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces

Yves Peirsman, Sebastian Padó

Multi-document Summarization via Budgeted Maximization of Submodular Functions

Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes

Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains

Hakan Ceylan, Rada Mihalcea, Umut Ozertem, Elena Lloret, Manuel Palomar

Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations

Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng

An extractive supervised two-stage method for sentence compression

Dimitrios Galanis, Ion Androutsopoulos

Why Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars?

Andreas Maletti

Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation

Spence Green, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Context-free reordering, finite-state translation

Chris Dyer, Philip Resnik

A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation

Niyu Ge

Learning about Voice Search for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Rebecca Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein, Tiziana Ligorio, Joshua B. Gordon, Pravin Bhutada

Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration

Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata

Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure

Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes

Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Hoifung Poon, Lucy Vanderwende

An Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews

Samuel Brody, Noemie Elhadad

Convolution Kernels for Opinion Holder Extraction

Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow

Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables

Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui, Sadao Kurohashi

The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons

Leonid Velikovich, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kerry Hannan, Ryan Mcdonald

Optimal Parsing Strategies for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems

Daniel Gildea

Relaxed Marginal Inference and its Application to Dependency Parsing

Sebastian Riedel, David A. Smith

From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing

Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky

An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing

Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad

Invited Talk: Music, Language, and Computational Modeling: Lessons from the Key-Finding Problem

David Temperley

Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities

Florian Schwarck, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze

Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions

Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith

Constraint-Driven Rank-Based Learning for Information Extraction

Sameer Singh, Limin Yao, Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum

Investigations into the Crandem Approach to Word Recognition

Rohit Prabhavalkar, Preethi Jyothi, William Hartmann, Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling

Andrew Rosenberg

Extracting Phrase Patterns with Minimum Redundancy for Unsupervised Speaker Role Classification

Bin Zhang, Brian Hutchinson, Wei Wu, Mari Ostendorf

An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion

Sravana Reddy, John Goldsmith

Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis

Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni

Is Arabic Part of Speech Tagging Feasible Without Word Segmentation?

Emad Mohamed, Sandra Kübler

A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR

Amr El-Desoky, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework

Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak

Language identification of names with SVMs

Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak

Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users

Wei Wu, Bin Zhang, Mari Ostendorf

Summarizing Microblogs Automatically

Beaux Sharifi, Mark-Anthony Hutton, Jugal Kalita

Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays

Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault, Slava Andreyev

Engaging learning groups using Social Interaction Strategies

Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Rosé

Making Conversational Structure Explicit: Identification of Initiation-response Pairs within Online Discussions

Yi-Chia Wang, Carolyn P. Rosé

An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation

Whitney L. Cade, Blair A. Lehman, Andrew Olney

Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers

Mark Johnson, Ahmet Engin Ural

A Treebank Query System Based on an Extracted Tree Grammar

Seth Kulick, Ann Bies

Improving Data Driven Dependency Parsing using Clausal Information

Phani Gadde, Karan Jindal, Samar Husain, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal

Enlarged Search Space for SITG Parsing

Guillem Gascó, Joan-Andreu Sanchez, Jose-Miguel Benedi

Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?

Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher D. Manning

A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information

Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun’ichi Tsujii

Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing?

Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar

Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses

Weisi Duan, Alexander Yates

Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds

Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard Hovy

Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation

Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith

Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment

Aaron Dunlop, Margaret Mitchell, Brian Roark

Linguistic Steganography Using Automatically Generated Paraphrases

Ching-Yun Chang, Stephen Clark

Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-côté, John DeNero, Dan Klein

Type-Based MCMC

Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein

Variational Inference for Adaptor Grammars

Shay B. Cohen, David M. Blei, Noah A. Smith