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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Fatiha Sadat, Nizar Habash: Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation.
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr: Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT.
Matthew Purver, Konrad P. Körding, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum: Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse.

Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan: Kernel-Based Pronoun Resolution with Structured Syntactic Knowledge.
Philippe Blache, Barbara Hemforth, Stéphane Rauzy: Acceptability Prediction by Means of Grammaticality Quantification.

Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu: Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora.
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng: Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti: Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations.
Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Min Zhang: Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction.
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu: Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-Supervised Learning.
Sylvain Kahane: Polarized Unification Grammars.

John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dorr, Mary P. Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew G. Snover, Robin Stewart: PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs.
Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuyoshi Inagaki: Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries.
Helmut Schmid: Trace Prediction and Recovery with Unlexicalized PCFGs and Slash Features.
Matthew Frampton, Oliver Lemon: Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features.
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman: Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues.
Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda Stent: Learning the Structure of Task-Driven Human-Human Dialogs.
Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-Hoon Lee, Russell Greiner, Dale Schuurmans: Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling.
Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki: Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures.
Tsunenori Ishioka, Masayuki Kameda: Automated Japanese Essay Scoring System based on Articles Written by Experts.
Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu: A Feedback-Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English.
Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon: Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques.
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker: Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Olivier Ferret, Michael Zock: Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations.
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport: Efficient Unsupervised Discovery of Word Categories Using Symmetric Patterns and High Frequency Words.
Peter D. Turney: Expressing Implicit Semantic Relations without Supervision.
Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel: Hybrid Parsing: Using Probabilistic Models as Predictors for a Symbolic Parser.

Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier: Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts.
Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama: Selection of Effective Contextual Information for Automatic Synonym Acquisition.
Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan: Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance.
James Clarke, Mirella Lapata: Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures.
Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka: A Bottom-Up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-Document Summarization.
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti: Automatic Learning of Textual Entailments with Cross-Pair Similarities.
Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater: An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations.
Amit Dubey, Frank Keller, Patrick Sturt: Integrating Syntactic Priming into an Incremental Probabilistic Parser, with an Application to Psycholinguistic Modeling.
Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, Dan Klein: Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation.
Oana Frunza, Diana Zaiu Inkpen: Semi-Supervised Learning of Partial Cognates Using Bilingual Bootstrapping.
Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Efrat Marmorshtein, Carlo Strapparava: Direct Word Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution.
Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jian-Min Yao, Ting Liu, Sheng Li: An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation.
Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition.
Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed Zitouni: Factorizing Complex Models: A Case Study in Mention Detection.
Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao: A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web.
John Judge, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith: QuestionBank: Creating a Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions.
Julia Hockenmaier: Creating a CCGbank and a Wide-Coverage CCG Lexicon for German.
Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin: Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation.

Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang: A Comparison and Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Words and Character-Bigrams as Features in Chinese Text Categorization.
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava: Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization.
Qi Zhang, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng: A Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm for Ultra Large Feature Spaces.
Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya: Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics.
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wan Chen, Wei Zhang: An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search.
Jiang Zhu, Haifeng Wang: The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Catherine Blake: A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces.
Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin: Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation.
Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki: Incorporating Speech Recognition Confidence into Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data.
Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto: Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution.
Seong-Bae Park, Yoon-Shik Tae, Se-Young Park: Self-Organizing n-gram Model for Automatic Word Spacing.
Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-Yeong Kang: Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR.
Niladri Chatterjee, Saumya Agrawal: Word Alignment in English-Hindi Parallel Corpus Using Recency-Vector Approach: Some Studies.
Badam-Osor Khaltar, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa: Extracting Loanwords from Mongolian Corpora and Producing a Japanese-Mongolian Bilingual Dictionary.
Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad: An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation.
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson: Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation.
Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad: Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew: Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features.
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto: Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information.
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi: A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation.
Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata: Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary.
Shourya Roy, L. Venkata Subramaniam: Automatic Generation of Domain Models for Call-Centers from Noisy Transcriptions.
John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Fintan J. Costello: Proximity in Context: An Empirically Grounded Computational Model of Proximity for Processing Topological Spatial Expressions.
Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong Min Lee, James Pustejovsky: Machine Learning of Temporal Relations.
Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein, Benjamin Taskar: An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation.
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki: Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation.
Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn: You Can't Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) - A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction.

Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, Alpa Jain: Names and Similarities on the Web: Fact Extraction in the Fast Lane.
Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth: Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora.
Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou: A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features.
Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura: Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements.
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin: Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering.
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti, Maria Teresa Pazienza: Discovering Asymmetric Entailment Relations between Verbs Using Selectional Preferences.
Rens Bod: An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing.

Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow: Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction.
Adrian Novischi, Dan I. Moldovan: Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments.
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl: Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering.
Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel: A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants.
Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, Elena Chiocchetti: Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project.
G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin, Jan Hajic, Pavel Pecina: Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-Scale Ontology Translation.
Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, Ignacio Thayer: Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models.
Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Melamed: Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence.
Yee Whye Teh: A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes.
Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li: Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation.
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei: Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking.
Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases.
Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou: Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction.
Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith: Robust PCFG-Based Generation Using Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations.
John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff: Incremental Generation of Spatial Referring Expressions in Situated Dialog.
Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann: Are These Documents Written from Different Perspectives? A Test of Different Perspectives Based on Statistical Distribution Divergence.
John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion.

Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane: A Polynomial Parsing Algorithm for the Topological Model: Synchronizing Constituent and Dependency Grammars, Illustrated by German Word Order Phenomena.
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu: Stochastic Language Generation Using WIDL-Expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization.
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White: Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality.
Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning: An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition.
M. G. Abbas Malik: Punjabi Machine Transliteration.
Soto Montalvo, Raquel Martínez-Unanue, Arantza Casillas, Víctor Fresno: Multilingual Document Clustering: An Heuristic Approach Based on Cognate Named Entities.
Taichi Noro, Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura: Time Period Identification of Events in Text.
Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata: Optimal Constituent Alignment with Edge Covers for Semantic Projection.
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions
Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Eli Izagirre, Montse Maritxalar: Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque.
Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura, Maria Ruiz-Casado: A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation.
Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo, Lluís Màrquez: MT Evaluation: Human-Like vs. Human Acceptable.
Michaela Atterer, Hinrich Schütze: The Effect of Corpus Size in Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Training for Disambiguation.
Ted Briscoe, John Carroll: Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank.
Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang, Tyler Baldwin: Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent.
Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li: A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling.
Conrad Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen: A High-Accurate Chinese-English NE Backward Translation System Combining Both Lexical Information and Web Statistics.
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu: Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering.
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin: Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training.
Zahra Abolhassani Chime: An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi.
Lin-Yi Chou: Techniques to Incorporate the Benefits of a Hierarchy in a Modified Hidden Markov Model.
Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly: Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach.
Grzegorz Chrupala, Josef van Genabith: Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish.
James Clarke, Mirella Lapata: Constraint-Based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach.
John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O'Leary: Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score.
Fintan J. Costello, Tony Veale, Simon Dunne: Using WordNet to Automatically Deduce Relations between Words in Noun-Noun Compounds.
Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Thomas L. Cornell, Lars Nilsson, Rohini K. Srihari: Automatically Extracting Nominal Mentions of Events with a Bootstrapped Probabilistic Classifier.
Jianyong Duan, Ruzhan Lu, Weilin Wu, Yi Hu, Yan Tian: A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Word Expression Extraction.
Richard Eckart: Towards A Modular Data Model For Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora.
Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration.
Gaolin Fang, Hao Yu, Fumihito Nishino: Chinese-English Term Translation Mining Based on Semantic Prediction.
Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown: Automatic Creation of Domain Templates.
Andrew M. Finch, Ezra Black, Young-Sook Hwang, Eiichiro Sumita: Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English.
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki: Using Bilingual Comparable Corpora and Semi-supervised Clustering for Topic Tracking.



Emmanuel Giguet, Pierre-Sylvain Luquet: Multilingual Lexical Database Generation from Parallel Texts in 20 European Languages with Endogenous Resources.
Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez: Low-Cost Enrichment of Spanish WordNet with Automatically Translated Glosses: Combining General and Specialized Models.
Elliot Glaysher, Dan I. Moldovan: Speeding Up Full Syntactic Parsing by Leveraging Partial Parsing Decisions.
Shailly Goyal, Niladri Chatterjee: Parsing Aligned Parallel Corpus by Projecting Syntactic Relations from Annotated Source Corpus.
Le Quan Ha, Philip Hanna, Darryl Stewart, F. Jack Smith: Reduced n-gram Models for English and Chinese Corpora.
Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre, Jens Nilsson: Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing.
Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hitoshi Isahara: Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese.
Xiwu Han, Tiejun Zhao, Xingshang Fu: Improving English Subcategorization Acquisition with Diathesis Alternations as Heuristic Information.
Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Pornpimon Palingoon, Sarawoot Kongyoung, Chaianun Damrongrat: A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web.
Chikara Hashimoto, Satoshi Sato, Takehito Utsuro: Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings.
Hideki Hirakawa: Graph Branch Algorithm: An Optimum Tree Search Method for Scored Dependency Graph with Arc Co-Occurrence Constraints.
Helmut Horacek, Magdalena Wolska: Transformation-Based Interpretation of Implicit Parallel Structures: Reconstructing the Meaning of "vice versa" and Similar Linguistic Operators.
Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang: When Conset Meets Synset: A Preliminary Survey of an Ontological Lexical Resource Based on Chinese Characters.
Sonja Hüwel, Britta Wrede: Spontaneous Speech Understanding for Robust Multi-Modal Human-Robot Communication.
Hiroshi Ichikawa, Keita Hakoda, Taiichi Hashimoto, Takenobu Tokunaga: Efficient Sentence Retrieval Based on Syntactic Structure.
Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie: Towards the Orwellian Nightmare: Separation of Business and Personal Emails.

Zhihui Jin, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii: Unsupervised Segmentation of Chinese Text by Use of Branching Entropy.

Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa: Automatic Construction of Polarity-Tagged Corpus from HTML Documents.
Nanda Kambhatla: Minority Vote: At-Least-N Voting Improves Recall for Extracting Relations.
Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney: Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata.
Janna Khegai: GF Parallel Resource Grammars and Russian.

Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, Kenji Yamada: Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems.

Jimmy J. Lin: The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions.
Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis: Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval.
Nicolas Loeff, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, David A. Forsyth: Discriminating Image Senses by Clustering with Multimodal Features.
Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Ramón Granell, José-Miguel Benedí: Segmented and Unsegmented Dialogue-Act Annotation with Statistical Dialogue Models.
Mstislav Maslennikov, Hai-Kiat Goh, Tat-Seng Chua: ARE: Instance Splitting Strategies for Dependency Relation-Based Information Extraction.
Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Maayan Geffet: Integrating Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity Methods for Lexical Entailment Acquisition.
Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado, Hitoshi Isahara: Machine-Learning-Based Transformation of Passive Japanese Sentences into Active by Separating Training Data into Each Input Particle.
Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu: Reinforcing English Countability Prediction with One Countability per Discourse Property.
Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura: An Automatic Method for Summary Evaluation Using Multiple Evaluation Results by a Manual Method.
Vincent Ng, Sajib Dasgupta, S. M. Niaz Arifin: Examining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Identification and Classification of Reviews.
Minh Le Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Xuan Hieu Phan: Semantic Parsing with Structured SVM Ensemble Classification Models.
Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson: Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text.
Kiyonori Ohtake: Analysis of Selective Strategies to Build a Dependency-Analyzed Corpus.

Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon: Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies.
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan R. Aronson: Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval.
Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki: Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer.
Marina Santini, Richard Power, Roger Evans: Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages.
Manabu Sato, Daisuke Bekki, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Translating HPSG-Style Outputs of a Robust Parser into Typed Dynamic Logic.
Bettina Schrader: ATLAS - A New Text Alignment Architecture.
Holger Schwenk, Daniel Déchelotte, Jean-Luc Gauvain: Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation.
Satoshi Sekine: On-Demand Information Extraction.
Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley: Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators.
Siwei Shen, Dragomir R. Radev, Agam Patel, Günes Erkan: Adding Syntax to Dynamic Programming for Aligning Comparable Texts for the Generation of Paraphrases.
Tomohide Shibata, Sadao Kurohashi: Unsupervised Topic Identification by Integrating Linguistic and Visual Information Based on Hidden Markov Models.

Smriti Singh, Kuhoo Gupta, Manish Shrivastava, Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Morphological Richness Offsets Resource Demand - Experiences in Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi.
Neal Snider, Mona T. Diab: Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA.
Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon: A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles.
Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Chu-Ren Huang, Yingju Xia, Hao Yu, Laurent Prévot, Kiyoaki Shirai: Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources.
Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta: Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation.
Jia-Lin Tsai: Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System.
Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann: Finding Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional Similarity.
Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Zhan-yi Liu: Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs.
Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee: Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models.
Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Kumudu Gamage: Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis.
Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee: A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs.
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhan-yi Liu: Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data.
Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context.
Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Mao-Zhu Yang: Stochastic Discourse Modeling in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Semantic Dependency Graphs.
Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Fong-Lin Jang: HAL-Based Cascaded Model for Variable-Length Semantic Pattern Induction from Psychiatry Web Resources.
Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita: Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation.
Jing Zhu, Jian-Hua Li: An HMM-Based Approach to Automatic Phrasing for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis.
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop
Pradipta Biswas: A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children.
Chris Biemann: Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering.
Fabien Cromierès: Sub-Sentential Alignment Using Substring Co-Occurrence Counts.
Wolfgang Maier: Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results.
Jihyun Park: Modeling Human Sentence Processing Data with a Statistical Parts-of-Speech Tagger.
Nobuyuki Shimizu: Semantic Discourse Segmentation and Labeling for Route Instructions.
Mingli Wu: Investigations on Event-Based Summarization.
Ming Yue: Discursive Usage of Six Chinese Punctuation Marks.
Reut Tsarfaty: Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew.
Lucia Specia: A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD - First Results.
Berenike Loos: On2L - A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems.
Lalita Narupiyakul: Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation.
Jungyeul Park: Extraction of Tree Adjoining Grammars from a Treebank for Korean.
Jianguo Li: Parsing and Subcategorization Data.
Frank Rudzicz: Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction.
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions
Chia-Yin Chen, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang: FAST - An Automatic Generation System for Grammar Tests.
Calkin A. S. Montero, Kenji Araki: Is It Correct? - Towards Web-Based Evaluation of Automatic Natural Language Phrase Generation.
Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Marchetti, Francesca Bertagna, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari: LeXFlow: A System for Cross-Fertilization of Computational Lexicons.
Tomoko Ohta, Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Akane Yakushiji, Katsuya Masuda, Jumpei Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Tadayoshi Hara, Jin-Dong Kim, Yuka Tateisi, Jun'ichi Tsujii: An Intelligent Search Engine and GUI-based Efficient MEDLINE Search Tool Based on Deep Syntactic Parsing.
Hideki Mima: MIMA Search: A Structuring Knowledge System towards Innovation for Engineering Education.
Andrew Hickl, Patrick Wang, John Lehmann, Sanda M. Harabagiu: FERRET: Interactive Question-Answering for Real-World Environments.
Young-In Song, Hoo-Jung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, Joo-Young Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Jae-Won Lee: K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain.
Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale: An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions.
Jien-Chen Wu, Yu-Chia Chang, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang: Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts.
Dragomir R. Radev, Günes Erkan, Anthony Fader, Patrick Jordan, Siwei Shen, James P. Sweeney: LexNet: A Graphical Environment for Graph-Based NLP.
Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska, Martin Rajman, Susan Armstrong: Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval.
Tilman Becker, Peter Poller, Jan Schehl, Nate Blaylock, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová: The SAMMIE System: Multimodal In-Car Dialogue.
Eric Wehrli: TwicPen: Hand-held Scanner and Translation Software for non-Native Readers.
Sanae Fujita, Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Hiromi Nakaiwa: An Implemented Description of Japanese: The Lexeed Dictionary and the Hinoki Treebank.
Steven Bird: NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit.




