38. ACL 2000: Hong Kong, China
38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong, China, October 1-8, 2000. ACL 2000
Susan Brennan: Invited Talk: Processes that Shape Conversation and their Implications for Computational Linguistics.
Jun'ichi Tsujii: Invited Talk: Generic NLP Technologies: Language, Knowledge and Information Extraction.
Roger K. Moore: Invited Talk: Spoken Language Technology: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jung-jae Kim, Key-Sun Choi, Young-Soog Chae: Phrase-Pattern-based Korean to English Machine Translation using Two Level Translation Pattern Selection.
George F. Foster: A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model.
Khalil Sima'an: Tree-gram Parsing: Lexical Dependencies and Structural Relations.
Rens Bod: An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical-Functional Analysis.

Rob Malouf: The Order of Prenominal Adjectives in Natural Language Generation.
Nicholas Roy, Joelle Pineau, Sebastian Thrun: Spoken Dialogue Management Using Probabilistic Reasoning.
Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin: An Unsupervised Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment using Contextually Similar Words.
Endong Xun, Changning Huang, Ming Zhou: A Unified Statistical Model for the Identification of English BaseNP.
Grace Ngai, David Yarowsky: Rule Writing or Annotation: Cost-efficient Resource Usage for Base Noun Phrase Chunking.
Alexander S. Yeh: Using Existing Systems to Supplement Small Amounts of Annotated Grammatical Relations Training Data.
David Milward: Distributing Representation for Robust Interpretation of Dialogue Utterances.
Pamela W. Jordan: Can Nominal Expressions Achieve Multiple Goals? An Empirical Study.
Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna D. Moore: An Empirical Study of the Influence of Argument Conciseness on Argument Effectiveness.

Thomas S. Morton: Coreference for NLP Applications.

Anne N. De Roeck, Waleed Al-Fares: A Morphologically Sensitive Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Arabic Roots.
David Yarowsky, Richard Wicentowski: Minimally Supervised Morphological Analysis by Multimodal Alignment.
Ewan Klein: A Constraint-based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents.
Karin Müller, Bernd Möbius, Detlef Prescher: Inducing Probabilistic Syllable Classes Using Multivariate Clustering.

Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang, Haihua Pan: Automatic Detecting/Correcting Errors in Chinese Text by an Approximate Word-Matching Algorithm.
Tom B. Y. Lai, Changning Huang: Dependency-based Syntactic Analysis of Chinese and Annotation of Parsed Corpus.
Sang-Zoo Lee, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Hae-Chang Rim: Part-of-Speech Tagging Based on Hidden Markov Model Assuming Joint Independence.
Silviu Cucerzan, David Yarowsky: Language Independent, Minimally Supervised Induction of Lexical Probabilities.
Mark Hepple: Independence and Commitment: Assumptions for Rapid Training and Execution of Rule-based POS Taggers.

Yoshio Nakao: An Algorithm for One-page Summarization of a Long Text Based on Thematic Hierarchy Detection.
Norbert Reithinger, Michael Kipp, Ralf Engel, Jan Alexandersson: Summarizing Multilingual Spoken Negotiation Dialogues.
Michele Banko, Vibhu O. Mittal, Michael J. Witbrock: Headline Generation Based on Statistical Translation.
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, Masaki Murata, Hiromi Ozaku, Hitoshi Isahara: Named Entity Extraction Based on A Maximum Entropy Model and Transformation Rules.
Christopher S. G. Khoo, Syin Chan, Yun Niu: Extracting Causal Knowledge from a Medical Database Using Graphical Patterns.
Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Difficulty Indices for the Named Entity Task in Japanese.
Marcel P. van Lohuizen: Memory-Efficient and Thread-Safe Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification.
Jonas Kuhn: Processing Optimality-theoretic Syntax by Interleaved Chart Parsing and Generation.
Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn, Joachim Niehren: A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints.
Sang-Zoo Lee, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Hae-Chang Rim: Hidden Markov Model-Based Korean Part-of-Speech Tagging Considering High Agglutinativity, Word-Spacing, and Lexical Correlativity.
Masaaki Nagata: Synchronous Morphological Analysis of Grapheme and Phoneme for Japanese OCR.
Massimo Poesio, Hua Cheng, Renate Henschel, Janet Hitzeman, Rodger Kibble, Rosemary Stevenson: Specifying the Parameters of Centering Theory: a Corpus-Based Evaluation using Text from Application-Oriented Domains.
Eleni Miltsakaki, Karen Kukich: The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills.
Eiichiro Sumita: Lexical Transfer Using a Vector-Space Model.
António Ribeiro, José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, João Mexia: Using Confidence Bands for Parallel Texts Alignment.

David Chiang: Statistical Parsing with an Automatically-Extracted Tree Adjoining Grammar.
Zhifang Sui, Jun Zhao, Dekai Wu: An Information-Theory-Based Feature Type Analysis for the Modeling of Statistical Parsing.
Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn, Mark Johnson: Lexicalized Stochastic Modeling of Constraint-Based Grammars using Log-Linear Measures and EM Training.
Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa: Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts.


Manfred Pinkal, Michael Kohlhase: Feature Logic for Dotted Types: A Formalism for Complex Word Meanings.
Ting Liu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Endong Xun, Changning Huang: PENS: A Machine-aided English Writing System for Chinese Users.
Jun'ichi Kakegawa, Hisayuki Kanda, Eitaro Fujioka, Makoto Itami, Kohji Itoh: Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning.
Seong-Bae Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Yung Taek Kim: Word Sense Disambiguation by Learning from Unlabeled Data.
José Luis Vicedo González, Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez: Importance of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Question Answering Systems.
Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum, Vasile Rus: The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System.


Bobby Nazief: Panel: Development of Computational Linguistics Research: A Challenge for Indonesia.
Huy Khanh Phan: Panel: Good Spelling of Vietnamese Texts, One Aspect of Computational Linguistics in Vietnam.
Akshar Bharati, Vineet Chaitanya, Rajeev Sangal: Panel: Computational Linguistics in India: An Overview.
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Tanapong Potipiti, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk: Panel: The State of the Art in Thai Language Processing.
Yusoff Zaharin: Panel: Computational Linguistics in Malaysia.



