All Papers in The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

97 papers found.

• Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morphological Analysis
  Adler, Meni and Goldberg, Yoav and Gabay, David and Elhadad, Michael
  Topics: morphological analysis (11) maximum entropy (6) POS tagging (6) segmentations (3) word segmentation (3)
• Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information
  Agirre, Eneko and Baldwin, Timothy and Martinez, David
  Topics: gold-standard (25) semantic representation (20) WordNet (14) word sense (12) Treebank (12)
• Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges
  Ai, Hua and Litman, Diane J.
  Topics: human judgments (42) cross validation (9) regression model (6) gold standard (4)
• When Specialists and Generalists Work Together: Overcoming Domain Dependence in Sentiment Tagging
  Andreevskaia, Alina and Bergler, Sabine
  Topics: in-domain (26) unigrams (14) SVM (10) WordNet (9) bigrams (8)
• Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition
  Arnold, Andrew and Nallapati, Ramesh and Cohen, William W.
  Topics: CRF (11) news articles (9) named entity (8) domain adaptation (5) natural language (5)
• Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation
  Avramidis, Eleftherios and Koehn, Philipp
  Topics: translation model (6) language model (5) phrase-based (5) machine translation (4) NIST (4)
• The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction
  Banko, Michele and Etzioni, Oren
  Topics: lexicalized (11) CRF (9) Relation Extraction (9) part-of-speech (4) part-of-speech tagging (4)
• Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
  Bartlett, Susan and Kondrak, Grzegorz and Cherry, Colin
  Topics: SVM (16) error rate (12) development set (7) feature set (4) bigram (3)
• Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya
  Bender, Emily M.
  Topics: word order (8) development set (5) noun phrases (5) semantic representations (5) treebanking (4)
• Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns
  Bergsma, Shane and Lin, Dekang and Goebel, Randy
  Topics: F-Score (13) coreference (11) n-gram (9) coreference resolution (8) n-grams (6)
• Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
  Bhagat, Rahul and Ravichandran, Deepak
  Topics: relation extraction (8) distributional similarity (5) relation instances (5) cosine similarity (4) gold standard (3)
• Automatic Editing in a Back-End Speech-to-Text System
  Bisani, Maximilian and Vozila, Paul and Divay, Olivier and Adams, Jeff
  Topics: error rate (6) probabilistic model (3)
• A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation
  Blunsom, Phil and Cohn, Trevor and Osborne, Miles
  Topics: BLEU (10) latent variable (9) log-linear (7) language model (6) conditional probability (5)
• Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations
  Branavan, S.R.K. and Chen, Harr and Eisenstein, Jacob and Barzilay, Regina
  Topics: topic model (14) gold standard (6) language model (6) LDA (4) topic distribution (4)
• Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts
  Cao, Guihong and Robertson, Stephen and Nie, Jian-Yun
  Topics: Bigram (25) regression model (20) language model (8) linear regression (4) co-occurrence (3)
• Summarizing Emails with Conversational Cohesion and Subjectivity
  Carenini, Giuseppe and Ng, Raymond T. and Zhou, Xiaodong
  Topics: semantic similarity (17) cosine similarity (11) WordNet (5) edge weight (4) graph-based (4)
• MAXSIM: A Maximum Similarity Metric for Machine Translation Evaluation
  Chan, Yee Seng and Ng, Hwee Tou
  Topics: unigram (24) BLEU (20) bigrams (16) n-gram (14) sentence pair (14)
• Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
  Cherry, Colin
  Topics: subtrees (11) phrase-based (10) BLEU (9) dependency tree (7) BLEU score (6)
• Classification of Semantic Relationships between Nominals Using Pattern Clusters
  Davidov, Dmitry and Rappoport, Ari
  Topics: WordNet (13) semantic relationships (8) learning algorithms (6) f-score (4) feature vectors (4)
• Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships Using Pattern Clusters and its Evaluation by Automatically Generated SAT Analogy Questions
  Davidov, Dmitry and Rappoport, Ari
  Topics: word pairs (12) semantic relationship (7) content words (4) WordNet (4) development set (3)
• Phrase Table Training for Precision and Recall: What Makes a Good Phrase and a Good Phrase Pair?
  Deng, Yonggang and Xu, Jia and Gao, Yuqing
  Topics: phrase pair (51) word alignment (44) alignment models (20) BLEU (13) phrase table (11)
• Ad Hoc Treebank Structures
  Dickinson, Markus
  Topics: bigram (20) treebank (15)
• Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
  Ding, Shilin and Cong, Gao and Lin, Chin-Yew and Zhu, Xiaoyan
  Topics: CRFs (45) CRF (22) SVM (9) contextual information (6) Cosine similarity (6)
• Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars
  Dridan, Rebecca and Kordoni, Valia and Nicholson, Jeremy
  Topics: POS tags (48) lexicalised (10) treebank (9) gold standard (8) CCG (7)
• Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus
  Duan, Huizhong and Cao, Yunbo and Lin, Chin-Yew and Yu, Yong
  Topics: language modeling (16) vector space (5) Question answering (4) semantic similarities (3) Translation Probability (3)
• Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion
  Elsayed, Tamer and Oard, Douglas W. and Namata, Galileo
  Topics: lm (12) generative model (3)
• You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement
  Elsner, Micha and Charniak, Eugene
  Topics: feature set (4) human annotations (4)
• Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG
  Espinosa, Dominic and White, Michael and Mehay, Dennis
  Topics: logical form (13) POS tags (13) CCG (11) language model (8) BLEU (7)
• A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources
  Fang, Hui
  Topics: WordNet (23) synset (12) significantly improve (6) semantic similarity (5)
• Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information
  Feng, Yansong and Lapata, Mirella
  Topics: latent variable (13) LDA (12) news articles (7) development set (4) content words (3)
• Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing
  Finkel, Jenny Rose and Kleeman, Alex and Manning, Christopher D.
  Topics: generative model (5) objective function (5) binarization (3) CRF (3) dynamic programming (3)
• Lexicalized Phonotactic Word Segmentation
  Fleck, Margaret M.
  Topics: Language modelling (5) word segmentation (5) language acquisition (3)
• Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video
  Fleischman, Michael and Roy, Deb
  Topics: language model (46) error rate (13) bigram (5) unigram (5) gold standard (4)
• Better Alignments = Better Translations?
  Ganchev, Kuzman and Graça, João V. and Taskar, Ben
  Topics: word alignment (22) Viterbi (21) alignment models (17) BLEU (12) machine translation (11)
• A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing
  Goldberg, Yoav and Tsarfaty, Reut
  Topics: PoS tags (17) morphological analyzer (13) treebank (12) segmentations (6) syntactic context (5)
• Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates
  Goldwater, Sharon and Jurafsky, Dan and Manning, Christopher D.
  Topics: error rates (36) joint model (5) logistic regression (3)
• A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing
  Gómez-Rodr'iguez, Carlos and Carroll, John and Weir, David
  Topics: dependency parsing (28) dependency trees (18) parse tree (13) parsing algorithms (7) constituency parsers (6)
• Combined One Sense Disambiguation of Abbreviations
  HaCohen-Kerner, Yaakov and Kass, Ariel and Peretz, Ariel
  Topics: SVM (6) best result (3) natural languages (3)
• Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora
  Haghighi, Aria and Liang, Percy and Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor and Klein, Dan
  Topics: language pairs (10) feature vectors (8) generative model (6) edit distance (4) parallel corpora (4)
• Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate
  Hermjakob, Ulf and Knight, Kevin and Daumé III, Hal
  Topics: SMT system (16) named entities (9) BLEU (8) machine translation (6) end-to-end (5)
• A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG
  Hoyt, Frederick and Baldridge, Jason
  Topics: CCG (33) parse tree (6)
• Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features
  Huang, Liang
  Topics: reranking (38) perceptron (11) Treebank (11) F-score (8) dynamic programming (5)
• Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference
  Ji, Heng and Grishman, Ralph
  Topics: coreference (6) human annotators (6) development set (5) F-Measure (5) coreference resolution (3)
• Using Adaptor Grammars to Identify Synergies in the Unsupervised Acquisition of Linguistic Structure
  Johnson, Mark
  Topics: unigram (25) word segmentation (23) subtrees (12) f-score (9) segmentation model (6)
• Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths
  Kaisser, Michael and Hearst, Marti A. and Lowe, John B.
  Topics: natural language (4) question answering (3)
• Applying a Grammar-Based Language Model to a Simplified Broadcast-News Transcription Task
  Kaufmann, Tobias and Pfister, Beat
  Topics: language model (23) error rate (15) parse tree (10) baseline system (6) natural language (4)
• Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-Scale Clustering of Dependency Relations
  Kazama, Jun'ichi and Torisawa, Kentaro
  Topics: NER (21) named entity (9) hypernym (7) dependency relations (5) CRFs (4)
• Evaluating Roget's Thesauri
  Kennedy, Alistair and Szpakowicz, Stan
  Topics: WordNet (51) synset (6) semantic relatedness (5) statistically significant (5) part-of-speech (4)
• Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification
  Koller, Alexander and Regneri, Michaela and Thater, Stefan
  Topics: treebank (7) semantic representations (4)
• Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing
  Koo, Terry and Carreras, Xavier and Collins, Michael
  Topics: dependency parsing (18) feature sets (14) Treebank (8) semi-supervised (6) Penn Treebank (4)
• Dictionary Definitions based Homograph Identification using a Generative Hierarchical Model
  Kulkarni, Anagha and Callan, Jamie
  Topics: cosine similarity (4) gold standard (4) semi-supervised (4) unlabeled data (3)
• Robust Dialog Management with N-Best Hypotheses Using Dialog Examples and Agenda
  Lee, Cheongjae and Jung, Sangkeun and Lee, Gary Geunbae
  Topics: score functions (8) discourse structure (3) natural language (3)
• Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms
  Lee, John and Seneff, Stephanie
  Topics: parse trees (14) n-gram (6) n-grams (6)
• Which Are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification
  Li, Jianguo and Brew, Chris
  Topics: feature sets (37) classification tasks (9) feature space (8) data sparsity (6) dependency relations (5)
• Unsupervised Translation Induction for Chinese Abbreviations using Monolingual Corpora
  Li, Zhifei and Yarowsky, David
  Topics: baseline system (21) relation extraction (10) parallel corpora (9) SMT system (9) translation system (9)
• Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation
  Mairesse, François and Walker, Marilyn
  Topics: rule-based (17) SVM (6) human judges (5) models trained (5) regression model (4)
• Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature
  Mei, Qiaozhu and Zhai, ChengXiang
  Topics: language model (23) gold standard (5)
• Forest-Based Translation
  Mi, Haitao and Huang, Liang and Liu, Qun
  Topics: BLEU (12) parse tree (11) BLEU score (10) subtrees (7) +LM (6)
• PDT 2.0 Requirements on a Query Language
  Mírovský, Jiří
  Topics: Treebank (16) coreference (8) word order (8) dependency relations (3) dependency tree (3)
• Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition
  Mitchell, Jeff and Lapata, Mirella
  Topics: semantic space (9) human judgments (4) semantic similarity (4) co-occurrence (3) statistically significant (3)
• Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations
  Miyao, Yusuke and Saetre, Rune and Sagae, Kenji and Matsuzaki, Takuya and Tsujii, Jun'ichi
  Topics: dependency parsing (23) Treebank (11) CoNLL (9) domain adaptation (8) syntactic parsers (8)
• Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System
  Mrozinski, Joanna and Whittaker, Edward and Furui, Sadaoki
  Topics: Mechanical Turk (7)
• Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus
  Nakov, Preslav and Hearst, Marti A.
  Topics: WordNet (10) statistically significant (8) semantic relations (7) manually annotated (4) feature vector (3)
• Can You Summarize This? Identifying Correlates of Input Difficulty for Multi-Document Summarization
  Nenkova, Ani and Louis, Annie
  Topics: Cosine similarity (4) logistic regression (3)
• Optimal $k$-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar
  Nesson, Rebecca and Satta, Giorgio and Shieber, Stuart M.
  Topics: machine translation (4) parsing algorithms (3)
• Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
  Nivre, Joakim and McDonald, Ryan
  Topics: graph-based (24) dependency parsing (16) feature vector (6) scoring function (6) shared task (6)
• A Generic Sentence Trimmer with CRFs
  Nomoto, Tadashi
  Topics: CRFs (15) sentence compression (8) Dependency path (4) gold standard (4) generation model (3)
• Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models
  Olsson, J. Scott and Oard, Douglas W.
  Topics: logistic regression (6) statistically significant (6) language model (5) significant improvements (5)
• Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Open-Domain Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs
  Paşca, Marius and Van Durme, Benjamin
  Topics: WordNet (13) gold-standard (7) gold standard (4) random sample (4) vector representations (4)
• A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization
  Penn, Gerald and Zhu, Xiaodan
  Topics: POS tags (3) state of the art (3) statistically significant (3)
• Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation
  Polifroni, Joseph and Walker, Marilyn
  Topics: feature sets (6)
• Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
  Richman, Alexander E. and Schone, Patrick
  Topics: Named Entity (8) NER (8) human annotated (5)
• Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
  Rieser, Verena and Lemon, Oliver
  Topics: significantly improved (4) significantly outperform (4)
• Word Clustering and Word Selection Based Feature Reduction for MaxEnt Based Hindi NER
  Saha, Sujan Kumar and Mitra, Pabitra and Sarkar, Sudeshna
  Topics: NER (21) MaxEnt (16) cosine similarity (6) similarity measures (6) best result (5)
• Combining EM Training and the MDL Principle for an Automatic Verb Classification Incorporating Selectional Preferences
  Schulte im Walde, Sabine and Hying, Christian and Scheible, Christian and Schmid, Helmut
  Topics: WordNet (21) fine-grained (3) im (3) parse tree (3)
• A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model
  Shen, Libin and Xu, Jinxi and Weischedel, Ralph
  Topics: dependency tree (18) BLEU (11) language model (11) LM (10) TER (9)
• Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation
  Snyder, Benjamin and Barzilay, Regina
  Topics: cross-lingual (7) segmentations (7) Gibbs sampling (6) language pairs (4) morphological analysis (4)
• Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections
  Surdeanu, Mihai and Ciaramita, Massimiliano and Zaragoza, Hugo
  Topics: translation models (8) feature set (6) social media (6) bigrams (4) WordNet (4)
• Hedge Classification in Biomedical Texts with a Weakly Supervised Selection of Keywords
  Szarvas, Gy"orgy
  Topics: maxent (8) Maximum Entropy (8) unigram (6) bigrams (5) conditional probability (3)
• Contextual Preferences
  Szpektor, Idan and Dagan, Ido and Bar-Haim, Roy and Goldberger, Jacob
  Topics: statistically significantly (4) contextual information (3) entity types (3) highest scoring (3) NER (3)
• Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions
  Talbot, David and Brants, Thorsten
  Topics: n-grams (46) n-gram (36) language model (25) LM (9) BLEU (7)
• A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization
  Titov, Ivan and McDonald, Ryan
  Topics: topic model (11) LDA (8) Gibbs sampling (6) sentiment classifiers (4) co-occurrence (3)
• Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation
  Toutanova, Kristina and Suzuki, Hisami and Ruopp, Achim
  Topics: MT system (41) BLEU (26) word alignment (13) BLEU score (10) language model (8)
• Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation
  Uszkoreit, Jakob and Brants, Thorsten
  Topics: language models (15) machine translation (14) models trained (14) bigram (12) BLEU (10)
• Parsing Noun Phrase Structure with CCG
  Vadas, David and Curran, James R.
  Topics: F-score (20) NER (19) CCG (18) gold-standard (11) POS tags (9)
• Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes
  Veale, Tony and Hao, Yanfen and Li, Guofu
  Topics: WordNet (14) Chinese words (5) feature set (4) logical form (3)
• Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling
  Vickrey, David and Koller, Daphne
  Topics: role labeling (9) semantic role (6) semantic role labeling (6) Conll (5) parse tree (4)
• Contradictions and Justifications: Extensions to the Textual Entailment Task
  Voorhees, Ellen M.
  Topics: NIST (17)
• Semi-Supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing
  Wang, Qin Iris and Schuurmans, Dale and Lin, Dekang
  Topics: semi-supervised (39) dependency parsing (20) unlabeled data (18) dependency tree (9) labeled data (7)
• Chinese-English Backward Transliteration Assisted with Mining Monolingual Web Pages
  Yang, Fan and Zhao, Jun and Zou, Bo and Liu, Kang and Liu, Feifan
  Topics: edit distance (8) Chinese-English (5) language model (4) Name Entity (4)
• An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming
  Yang, Xiaofeng and Su, Jian and Lang, Jun and Tan, Chew Lim and Liu, Ting and Li, Sheng
  Topics: coreference (37) ILP (24) coreference resolution (22) F-measure (12) learning algorithms (5)
• Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets: PropBank vs. VerbNet
  Zapirain, Beñat and Agirre, Eneko and Màrquez, Llu'is
  Topics: CoNLL (13) role labels (6) statistically significant (6) Semantic Role (4) fine-grained (3)
• Measure Word Generation for English-Chinese SMT Systems
  Zhang, Dongdong and Li, Mu and Duan, Nan and Li, Chi-Ho and Zhou, Ming
  Topics: SMT system (23) language model (7) contextual information (6) machine translation (6) precision and recall (6)
• Bayesian Learning of Non-Compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing
  Zhang, Hao and Quirk, Chris and Moore, Robert C. and Gildea, Daniel
  Topics: phrase pairs (20) word alignment (13) sentence pair (10) Viterbi (8) word-level (8)
• A Tree Sequence Alignment-based Tree-to-Tree Translation Model
  Zhang, Min and Jiang, Hongfei and Aw, Aiti and Li, Haizhou and Tan, Chew Lim and Li, Sheng
  Topics: parse tree (18) translation model (18) phrase-based (16) lexicalized (9) BLEU (5)
• Efficient Multi-Pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars
  Zhang, Hao and Gildea, Daniel
  Topics: BLEU (19) bigram (15) language model (12) n-gram (12) BLEU score (8)
• Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora
  Zhao, Shiqi and Wang, Haifeng and Liu, Ting and Li, Sheng
  Topics: log-linear (12) log-linear model (12) word alignment (5) data sparseness (4) LM (4)