NAACL 2010

181 papers

The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization

Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsky

Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation

Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, Francisco Casacuberta

Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options

Philipp Koehn

Urdu Word Segmentation

Nadir Durrani, Sarmad Hussain

Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM

Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan, Eric K. Ringger

Subword Variation in Text Message Classification

Robert Munro, Christopher D. Manning

Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech

Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank

Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search

Raghavendra Udupa, Mitesh M. Khapra

Learning to Link Entities with Knowledge Base

Zhicheng Zheng, Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs

Fabio de Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Amaç Herdaǧdelen

Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Andrew T. Wilson, Peter A. Chew

Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron

Ryan Mcdonald, Keith Hall, Gideon Mann

Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers

David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam Pauls, Sujith Ravi

Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman

Discriminative Learning over Constrained Latent Representations

Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth, Vivek Srikumar

Everybody loves a rich cousin: An empirical study of transliteration through bridge languages

Mitesh M. Khapra, A Kumaran, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Statistical Machine Translation of Texts with Misspelled Words

Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico

Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment

Jason R. Smith, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova

Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Abby Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne

Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model

Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein

“cba to check the spelling”: Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts

Jennifer Foster

Generalizing Syntactic Structures for Product Attribute Candidate Extraction

Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Shen Hu, Ting Liu

Improving Semantic Role Classification with Selectional Preferences

Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluis Marquez, Mihai Surdeanu

Predicting Human-Targeted Translation Edit Rate via Untrained Human Annotators

Omar F. Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch

For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia

Mark Yatskar, Bo Pang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee

Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries

Yu Wang, Eugene Agichtein

Word Sense Subjectivity for Cross-lingual Lexical Substitution

Fangzhong Su, Katja Markert

The Effect of Ambiguity on the Automated Acquisition of WSD Examples

Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo

Generalizing Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation using Rules with Adjacent Nonterminals

Hendra Setiawan, Philip Resnik

Crowdsourcing the evaluation of a domain-adapted named entity recognition system

Asad B. Sayeed, Timothy J. Meyer, Hieu C. Nguyen, Olivia Buzek, Amy Weinberg

Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar

Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu

The Simple Truth about Dependency and Phrase Structure Representations: An Opinion Piece

Owen Rambow

Generating Expository Dialogue from Monologue: Motivation, Corpus and Preliminary Rules

Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev

Information Content Measures of Semantic Similarity Perform Better Without Sense-Tagged Text

Ted Pedersen

A Comparative Study of Word Co-occurrence for Term Clustering in Language Model-based Sentence Retrieval

Saeedeh Momtazi, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Dietrich Klakow

Towards Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment

Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico

Time-Efficient Creation of an Accurate Sentence Fusion Corpus

Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, Coleman Moore

Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment

Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova

Improving Blog Polarity Classification via Topic Analysis and Adaptive Methods

Feifan Liu, Dong Wang, Bin Li, Yang Liu

Putting the User in the Loop: Interactive Maximal Marginal Relevance for Query-Focused Summarization

Jimmy Lin, Nitin Madnani, Bonnie Dorr

Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases

Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, Rebecca Hwa

Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context

Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder

Movie Reviews and Revenues: An Experiment in Text Regression

Mahesh Joshi, Dipanjan Das, Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith

Evaluation Metrics for the Lexical Substitution Task

Sanaz Jabbari, Mark Hepple, Louise Guthrie

Utility Evaluation of Cross-document Information Extraction

Heng Ji, Zheng Chen, Jonathan Feldman, Antonio Gonzalez, Ralph Grishman

Efficient Parsing of Well-Nested Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta

Fast Query for Large Treebanks

Sumukh Ghodke, Steven Bird

Two monolingual parses are better than one (synchronous parse)

Chris Dyer

Testing a Grammar Customization System with Sahaptin

Scott Drellishak

Extending the METEOR Machine Translation Evaluation Metric to the Phrase Level

Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie

Improving Semantic Role Labeling with Word Sense

Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Yongqiang Li

Task-based Evaluation of Multiword Expressions: a Pilot Study in Statistical Machine Translation

Marine Carpuat, Mona Diab

Inducing Synchronous Grammars with Slice Sampling

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn

Language Identification: The Long and the Short of the Matter

Timothy Baldwin, Marco Lui

Improved Extraction Assessment through Better Language Models

Arun Ahuja, Doug Downey

Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech

Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Denis Filimonov, Frederick Jelinek

Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription

Scott Novotney, Chris Callison-Burch

Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability

Maria Shugrina

Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion

Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Streaming First Story Detection with application to Twitter

Saša Petrović, Miles Osborne, Victor Lavrenko

Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations

Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry, Bill Dolan

Using Mostly Native Data to Correct Errors in Learners’ Writing

Michael Gamon

Training Paradigms for Correcting Errors in Grammar and Usage

Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth

Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time

Stanley Kok, Chris Brockett

Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li

Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars

David Burkett, John Blitzer, Dan Klein

Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars

Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, David Chiang, Kevin Knight

Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning

Joseph Reisinger, Raymond J. Mooney

Automatic Evaluation of Topic Coherence

David Newman, Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser, Timothy Baldwin

Visual Information in Semantic Representation

Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata

Taxonomy Learning Using Word Sense Induction

Ioannis P. Klapaftis, Suresh Manandhar

Minimally-Supervised Extraction of Entities from Text Advertisements

Sameer Singh, Dustin Hillard, Chris Leggetter

Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems

Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue

Qme! : A Speech-based Question-Answering system on Mobile Devices

Taniya Mishra, Srinivas Bangalore

Using Confusion Networks for Speech Summarization

Shasha Xie, Yang Liu

Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing

Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper

Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing

David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

Products of Random Latent Variable Grammars

Slav Petrov

Chart Mining-based Lexical Acquisition with Precision Grammars

Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin, Valia Kordoni, David Martinez, Jeremy Nicholson

Invited Talk: Recognition and Understanding of Meetings

Steve Renals

Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Ron Kaplan, Jill Burstein, Mary Harper, Gerald Penn