42. ACL 2004: Barcelona, Spain

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 21-26 July, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

Cover - Preface - Table of Contents

• Joyce Y. Chai, Pengyu Hong, Michelle X. Zhou, Zahar Prasov:
  Optimization in Multimodal Interpretation. 1-8
  
• Luc Steels:
  Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammar. 9-16
  
• Scott McDonald, Chris Brew:
  A Distributional Model of Semantic Context Effects in Lexical Processing. 17-24
  
• Magdalena Wolska, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová:
  Analysis of Mixed Natural and Symbolic Input in Mathematical Dialogs. 25-32
  
• Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak:
  A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs. 33-39
  
• Keith B. Hall, Mark Johnson:
  Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech. 40-46
  
• Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, Mark Johnson:
  Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm. 47-54
  
• Mehryar Mohri, Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley:
  Statistical Modeling for Unit Selection in Speech Synthesis. 55-62
  
• Grace Chung:
  Developing a Flexible Spoken Dialog System Using Simulation. 63-70
  
• Hilda Hardy, Tomek Strzalkowski, Min Wu, Cristian Ursu, Nick Webb, Alan W. Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye, Ashley McKenzie:
  Data-Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System. 71-78
  
• Amanda Stent, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker:
  Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentations in Spoken Dialog Systems. 79-86
  
• Kristiina Jokinen, Kari Kanto:
  User Expertise Modeling and Adaptivity in a Speech-Based E-Mail System. 87-94
  
• James Henderson:
  Discriminative Training of a Neural Network Statistical Parser. 95-102
  
• Stephen Clark, James R. Curran:
  Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models. 103-110
  
• Michael Collins, Brian Roark:
  Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm. 111-118
  
• Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Eisaku Maeda:
  Convolution Kernels with Feature Selection for Natural Language Processing Tasks. 119-126
  
• Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew Lim Tan:
  Improving Pronoun Resolution by Incorporating Coreferential Information of Candidates. 127-134
  
• Xiaoqiang Luo, Abraham Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Salim Roukos:
  A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based On the Bell Tree. 135-142
  
• Massimo Poesio, Rahul Mehta, Axel Maroudas, Janet Hitzeman:
  Learning to Resolve Bridging References. 143-150
  
• Vincent Ng:
  Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Conference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization. 151-158
  
• Haizhou Li, Min Zhang, Jian Su:
  A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration. 159-166
  
• Yajuan Lü, Ming Zhou:
  Collocation Translation Acquisition Using Monolingual Corpora. 167-174
  
• Chris Callison-Burch, David Talbot, Miles Osborne:
  Statistical Machine Translation with Word- and Sentence-Aligned Parallel Corpora. 175-182
  
• Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette:
  Finding Ideographic Representations of Japanese Names Written in Latin Script via Language Identification and Corpus Validation. 183-190
  
• Jasmin Saric, Lars Juhl Jensen, Peer Bork, Rossitza Ouzounova, Isabel Rojas:
  Extracting Regulatory Gene Expression Networks From Pubmed. 191-198
  
• Hans van Halteren:
  Linguistic Profiling for Authorship Recognition and Verification. 199-206
  
• Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo:
  An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task. 207-214
  
• Carlos Rodríguez Penagos:
  Mining Metalinguistic Activity in Corpora to Create Lexical Resources Using Information Extraction Techniques: the MOP System. 215-222
  
• Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn:
  Optimizing Typed Feature Structure Grammar Parsing through Non-Statistical Indexing. 223-230
  
• Christopher Collins, Bob Carpenter, Gerald Penn:
  Head-Driven Parsing for Word Lattices. 231-238
  
• Gerald Penn:
  Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying. 239-246
  
• Ruth Fuchss, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater:
  Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis. 247-254
  
• Youngjoong Ko, Jungyun Seo:
  Learning with Unlabeled Data for Text Categorization Using a Bootstrapping and a Feature Projection Technique. 255-262
  
• Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan:
  The Sentimental Factor: Improving Review Classification Via Human-Provided Information. 263-270
  
• Bo Pang, Lillian Lee:
  A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts. 271-278
  
• Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, John A. Carroll:
  Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text. 279-286
  
• Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor, Yoshua Bengio:
  Unsupervised Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Probabilistic Models. 287-294
  
• Jinying Chen, Martha Stone Palmer:
  Chinese Verb Sense Discrimination Using an EM Clustering Model with Rich Linguistic Features. 295-302
  
• Mona T. Diab:
  Relieving the data Acquisition Bottleneck in Word Sense Disambiguation. 303-310
  
• Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
  Enriching the Output of a Parser Using Memory-based Learning. 311-318
  
• Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way:
  Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations. 319-326
  
• Roger Levy, Christopher D. Manning:
  Deep Dependencies from Context-Free Statistical Parsers: Correcting the Surface Dependency Approximation. 327-334
  
• Alessandro Moschitti:
  A Study on Convolution Kernels for Shallow Statistic Parsing. 335-342
  
• Malte Gabsdil, Oliver Lemon:
  Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 343-350
  
• Diane J. Litman, Katherine Forbes-Riley:
  Predicting Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues. 351-358
  
• Fernando Gomez:
  Building Verb Predicates: A Computational View. 359-366
  
• Ruth O'Donovan, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way:
  Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II Treebank. 367-374
  
• Rebecca Green, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip Resnik:
  Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE. 375-382
  
• Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson:
  Paragraph-, Word-, and Coherence-based Approaches to Sentence Ranking: A Comparison of Algorithm and Human Performance. 383-390
  
• Nikiforos Karamanis, Massimo Poesio, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander:
  Evaluating Centering-Based Metrics of Coherence. 391-398
  
• Ernst Althaus, Nikiforos Karamanis, Alexander Koller:
  Computing Locally Coherent Discourses. 399-406
  
• Advaith Siddharthan, Ann A. Copestake:
  Generating Referring Expressions in Open Domains. 407-414
  
• Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman:
  Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora. 415-422
  
• Aron Culotta, Jeffrey S. Sorensen:
  Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction. 423-429
  
• Barbara Rosario, Marti A. Hearst:
  Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Texts. 430-437
  
• Razvan C. Bunescu, Raymond J. Mooney:
  Collective Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks. 438-445
  
• Gertjan van Noord:
  Error Mining for Wide-Coverage Grammar Engineering. 446-453
  
• Gabriel G. Infante López, Maarten de Rijke:
  Alternative approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules. 454-461
  
• Jianfeng Gao, Andi Wu, Cheng-Ning Huang, Hongqiao Li, Xinsong Xia, Hauwei Qin:
  Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation. 462-469
  
• Jonas Kuhn:
  Experiments in parallel-text based grammar induction. 470-477
  
• Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning:
  Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency. 478-485
  
• Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner:
  Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning. 486-493
  
• Tadashi Nomoto:
  Multi-Engine Machine Translation with Voted Language Model. 494-501
  
• Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Éric Gaussier:
  Aligning words using matrix factorisation. 502-509
  
• Stephan Kanthak, Hermann Ney:
  FSA: An Efficient and Flexible C++ Toolkit for Finite State Automata Using On-Demand Computation. 510-517
  
• Robert C. Moore:
  Improving IBM Word Alignment Model 1. 518-525
  
• Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders, Irina Matveeva, Cyril Goutte, Hervé Déjean:
  A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora. 526-533
  
• Pu-Jen Cheng, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jei-Wen Teng, Lee-Feng Chien:
  Creating Multilingual Translation Lexicons with Regional Variations Using Web Corpora. 534-541
  
• Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta:
  Probabilistic Parsing Strategies. 542-549
  
• Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta:
  An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers. 550-557
  
• James Rogers:
  Wrapping of Trees. 558-565
  
• Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Rafael Muñoz, José Luis Vicedo González:
  Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems. 566-573
  
• John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba:
  Question Answering Using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-By-Dossier-With-Contraints. 574-581
  
• Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Guihong Cao, Chunfa Yuan:
  Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution. 582-588
  
• Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew Lim Tan:
  Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition. 589-596
  
• Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Rohini K. Srihari:
  Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction. 597-604
  
• Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och:
  Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics. 605-612
  
• Radu Soricut, Eric Brill:
  A Unified Framework For Automatic Evaluation Using 4-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics. 613-620
  
• Bogdan Babych, Tony Hartley:
  Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings. 621-628
  
• Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan:
  Learning Word Sense With Feature Selection and Order Identification Capabilities. 629-636
  
• Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat:
  A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation. 637-644
  
• Richard Campbell:
  Using Linguistic Principles to Recover Empty Categories. 645-652
  
• I. Dan Melamed:
  Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing. 653-660
  
• I. Dan Melamed, Giorgio Satta, Benjamin Wellington:
  Generalized Multitext Grammars. 661-668
  
• Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg:
  Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies. 669-676
  
• Michelle Gregory, Yasemin Altun:
  Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech. 677-683
  
• Ben Hutchinson:
  Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers. 684-691
  
• Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio:
  FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification. 692-699