41. ACL 2003: Sapporo, Japan

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7-12 July 2003, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan.

Cover - Preface - Program Committee - Table of Contents

Question Answering

• Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Echihabi:
  Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked. 1-7
  
• Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda M. Harabagiu, John Williams, Paul Aarseth:
  Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction. 8-15
  
• Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu:
  A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering. 16-23
  

Machine Learning: Kernels

• Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis. 24-31
  
• Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku Maeda:
  Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data. 32-39
  
• Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark:
  Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models. 40-47
  

Subcategorization and Word Meaning

• Anna Korhonen, Judita Preiss:
  Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation. 48-55
  
• Malvina Nissim, Katja Markert:
  Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution. 56-63
  
• Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Zvika Marx:
  Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically. 64-71
  

Alignment for Machine Translation

• Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences. 72-79
  
• Daniel Gildea:
  Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation. 80-87
  
• Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin:
  A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment. 88-95
  

Parsing German

• Amit Dubey, Frank Keller:
  Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies. 96-103
  
• Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer, Ulrich Schäfer:
  Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG. 104-111
  
• Michael Schiehlen:
  Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German. 112-119
  

Vector Space Models

• Hua Wu, Ming Zhou:
  Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information. 120-127
  
• Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata:
  Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora. 128-135
  
• Dominic Widdows:
  Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval. 136-143
  

Statistical Machine Translation

• Richard Zens, Hermann Ney:
  A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation. 144-151
  
• Lucian Vlad Lita, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos, Nanda Kambhatla:
  tRuEcasIng. 152-159
  
• Franz Josef Och:
  Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation. 160-167
  

Coreference in Discourse and Dialogue

• Michael Strube, Christoph Müller:
  A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue. 168-175
  
• Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan:
  Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach. 176-183
  

Rule-based Parsing

• Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon:
  Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar. 184-191
  
• Jonas Kuhn:
  Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting. 192-199
  
• Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu:
  A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying. 200-207
  

Information Retrieval

• Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair, Milena Petrova:
  Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text. 208-215
  
• Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng, Yoong Keok Lee:
  Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods. 216-223
  
• Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman:
  An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition. 224-231
  
• Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Thorsten Brants:
  Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection. 232-239
  

Spoken Dialog

• Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa:
  Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 240-247
  
• Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongcheng Wang:
  Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches. 248-255
  
• Kazunori Komatani, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 256-263
  
• Charles B. Callaway:
  Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture. 264-271
  

Statistical Modeling

• Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li, Changning Huang:
  Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation. 272-279
  
• Mathias Creutz:
  Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency. 280-287
  
• Martin Jansche:
  Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data. 288-295
  
• Jin-Dong Kim, Hae-Chang Rim, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging. 296-302
  

Machine Translation and Chunking

• Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Chunk-Based Statistical Translation. 303-310
  
• Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight:
  Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases. 311-318
  
• Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel:
  Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models. 319-326
  

Named Entities and Bootstraping

• Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Li Lian:
  Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm. 327-334
  
• Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Srihari:
  A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners. 335-342
  
• Roman Yangarber:
  Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns. 343-350
  

Parsing and Grammar Formalisms

• Denis Béchet, Annie Foret:
  k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings. 351-358
  
• Julia Hockenmaier:
  Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure. 359-366
  
• Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater:
  Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints. 367-374
  

Summarization

• Dragomir R. Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, John Blitzer, Hong Qi, Arda Çelebi, Danyu Liu, Elliott Drábek:
  Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization. 375-382
  
• Akiko N. Aizawa:
  Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship. 383-390
  

Word Segmentation for Arabic

• Monica Rogati, J. Scott McCarley, Yiming Yang:
  Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus. 391-398
  
• Young-Suk Lee, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Ossama Emam, Hany Hassan:
  Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation. 399-406
  

Language Acquisition

• Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa, Masato Takeichi:
  Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus. 407-414
  
• William Gregory Sakas:
  A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition. 415-422
  

Probabilistic Parsing

• Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning:
  Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing. 423-430
  
• Péter Dienes, Amit Dubey:
  Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods. 431-438
  
• Roger Levy, Christopher D. Manning:
  Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? 439-446
  

Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation

• Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation. 447-454
  
• Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan:
  Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study. 455-462
  
• Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond:
  Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data. 463-470
  

Phonology and Morphology

• Do-Gil Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Heui-Seok Lim:
  A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction. 471-478
  
• Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese. 479-488
  
• Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste:
  Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch. 489-496
  

Chunk Parsing

• Seong-Bae Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning. 497-504
  
• Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi:
  A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking. 505-512
  
• Wei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu, Yuankai Jiang, Rohini K. Srihari:
  An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs. 513-520
  

Parsing and Semantics

• Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki:
  Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling. 521-528
  
• William Schuler:
  Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface. 529-536
  
• Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Padó, Manfred Pinkal:
  Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation. 537-544
  

Discourse and Dialogue Segmentation

• Mirella Lapata:
  Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering. 545-552
  
• Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Justine Cassell:
  Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding. 553-561
  
• Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Hongyan Jing:
  Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation. 562-569