46. ACL 2008: Columbus, Ohio, USA

• Front Matter.
  
• Alexander E. Richman, Patrick Schone:
  Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition. 1-9
  
• Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Randy Goebel:
  Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns. 10-18
  
• Marius Pasca, Benjamin Van Durme:
  Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Open-Domain Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs. 19-27
  
• Michele Banko, Oren Etzioni:
  The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction. 28-36
  
• Jirí Mírovský:
  PDT 2.0 Requirements on a Query Language. 37-45
  
• Yusuke Miyao, Rune Sætre, Kenji Sagae, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
  Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations. 46-54
  
• Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng:
  MAXSIM: A Maximum Similarity Metric for Machine Translation Evaluation. 55-62
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Contradictions and Justifications: Extensions to the Textual Entailment Task. 63-71
  
• Colin Cherry:
  Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. 72-80
  
• Yonggang Deng, Jia Xu, Yuqing Gao:
  Phrase Table Training for Precision and Recall: What Makes a Good Phrase and a Good Phrase Pair? 81-88
  
• Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Nan Duan, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou:
  Measure Word Generation for English-Chinese SMT Systems. 89-96
  
• Hao Zhang, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore, Daniel Gildea:
  Bayesian Learning of Non-Compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing. 97-105
  
• Tobias Kaufmann, Beat Pfister:
  Applying a Grammar-Based Language Model to a Simplified Broadcast-News Transcription Task. 106-113
  
• Maximilian Bisani, Paul Vozila, Olivier Divay, Jeff Adams:
  Automatic Editing in a Back-End Speech-to-Text System. 114-120
  
• Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy:
  Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video. 121-129
  
• Margaret M. Fleck:
  Lexicalized Phonotactic Word Segmentation. 130-138
  
• Hui Fang:
  A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources. 139-147
  
• Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie:
  Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts. 148-155
  
• Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu:
  Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus. 156-164
  
• François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker:
  Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation. 165-173
  
• John Lee, Stephanie Seneff:
  Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms. 174-182
  
• Dominic Espinosa, Michael White, Dennis Mehay:
  Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG. 183-191
  
• Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu:
  Forest-Based Translation. 192-199
  
• Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne:
  A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation. 200-208
  
• Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea:
  Efficient Multi-Pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars. 209-217
  
• Alexander Koller, Michaela Regneri, Stefan Thater:
  Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification. 218-226
  
• Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport:
  Classification of Semantic Relationships between Nominals Using Pattern Clusters. 227-235
  
• Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata:
  Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition. 236-244
  
• Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen:
  Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition. 245-253
  
• Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman:
  Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference. 254-262
  
• S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay:
  Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations. 263-271
  
• Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata:
  Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information. 272-280
  
• György Szarvas:
  Hedge Classification in Biomedical Texts with a Weakly Supervised Selection of Keywords. 281-289
  
• Alina Andreevskaia, Sabine Bergler:
  When Specialists and Generalists Work Together: Overcoming Domain Dependence in Sentiment Tagging. 290-298
  
• Tadashi Nomoto:
  A Generic Sentence Trimmer with CRFs. 299-307
  
• Ivan Titov, Ryan T. McDonald:
  A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization. 308-316
  
• Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin, David Martínez:
  Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information. 317-325
  
• Frederick Hoyt, Jason Baldridge:
  A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG. 326-334
  
• David Vadas, James R. Curran:
  Parsing Noun Phrase Structure with CCG. 335-343
  
• David Vickrey, Daphne Koller:
  Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling. 344-352
  
• Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng, Xiaodong Zhou:
  Summarizing Emails with Conversational Cohesion and Subjectivity. 353-361
  
• Markus Dickinson:
  Ad Hoc Treebank Structures. 362-370
  
• Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty:
  A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing. 371-379
  
• Sharon Goldwater, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning:
  Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates. 380-388
  
• Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Hal Daumé III:
  Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate. 389-397
  
• Mark Johnson:
  Using Adaptor Grammars to Identify Synergies in the Unsupervised Acquisition of Linguistic Structure. 398-406
  
• Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa:
  Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-Scale Clustering of Dependency Relations. 407-415
  
• Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz:
  Evaluating Roget's Thesauri. 416-424
  
• Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky:
  Unsupervised Translation Induction for Chinese Abbreviations using Monolingual Corpora. 425-433
  
• Jianguo Li, Chris Brew:
  Which Are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification. 434-442
  
• Joanna Mrozinski, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Sadaoki Furui:
  Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System. 443-451
  
• Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst:
  Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus. 452-460
  
• J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard:
  Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models. 461-469
  
• Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu:
  A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization. 470-478
  
• Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn A. Walker:
  Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation. 479-487
  
• Sujan Kumar Saha, Pabitra Mitra, Sudeshna Sarkar:
  Word Clustering and Word Selection Based Feature Reduction for MaxEnt Based Hindi NER. 488-495
  
• Sabine Schulte im Walde, Christian Hying, Christian Scheible, Helmut Schmid:
  Combining EM Training and the MDL Principle for an Automatic Verb Classification Incorporating Selectional Preferences. 496-504
  
• David Talbot, Thorsten Brants:
  Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions. 505-513
  
• Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp:
  Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation. 514-522
  
• Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao, Guofu Li:
  Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes. 523-531
  
• Qin Iris Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Dekang Lin:
  Semi-Supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing. 532-540
  
• Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, Bo Zou, Kang Liu, Feifan Liu:
  Chinese-English Backward Transliteration Assisted with Mining Monolingual Web Pages. 541-549
  
• Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluís Màrquez:
  Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets: PropBank vs. VerbNet. 550-558
  
• Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan, Sheng Li:
  A Tree Sequence Alignment-based Tree-to-Tree Translation Model. 559-567
  
• Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, Colin Cherry:
  Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion. 568-576
  
• Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel:
  A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model. 577-585
  
• Liang Huang:
  Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features. 586-594
  
• Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins:
  Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing. 595-603
  
• Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber:
  Optimal $k$-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar. 604-612
  
• Rebecca Dridan, Valia Kordoni, Jeremy Nicholson:
  Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars. 613-621
  
• Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman:
  Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges. 622-629
  
• Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Gary Geunbae Lee:
  Robust Dialog Management with N-Best Hypotheses Using Dialog Examples and Agenda. 630-637
  
• Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon:
  Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation. 638-646
  
• Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Julio C. Duarte:
  Phrase Chunking Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning. 647-655
  
• Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Michael Rabbat, Robert D. Nowak:
  Learning Bigrams from Unigrams. 656-664
  
• Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki:
  Semi-Supervised Sequential Labeling and Segmentation Using Giga-Word Scale Unlabeled Data. 665-673
  
• Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran:
  Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns. 674-682
  
• Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Jacob Goldberger:
  Contextual Preferences. 683-691
  
• Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport:
  Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships Using Pattern Clusters and its Evaluation by Automatically Generated SAT Analogy Questions. 692-700
  
• Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe:
  Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths. 701-709
  
• Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu:
  Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums. 710-718
  
• Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zaragoza:
  Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections. 719-727
  
• Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg, David Gabay, Michael Elhadad:
  Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morphological Analysis. 728-736
  
• Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay:
  Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation. 737-745
  
• Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad:
  EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start). 746-754
  
• Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants:
  Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation. 755-762
  
• Eleftherios Avramidis, Philipp Koehn:
  Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation. 763-770
  
• Aria Haghighi, Percy Liang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein:
  Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora. 771-779
  
• Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li:
  Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora. 780-788
  
• Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky:
  Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains. 789-797
  
• Mona T. Diab, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin:
  Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic using Kernel Methods. 798-806
  
• Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Elena Filatova:
  An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production Using Wikipedia. 807-815
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature. 816-824
  
• Ani Nenkova, Annie Louis:
  Can You Summarize This? Identifying Correlates of Input Difficulty for Multi-Document Summarization. 825-833
  
• Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak:
  You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement. 834-842
  
• Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Jun Lang, Chew Lim Tan, Ting Liu, Sheng Li:
  An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming. 843-851
  
• Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis:
  Gestural Cohesion for Topic Segmentation. 852-860
  
• Roi Reichart, Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn, Ari Rappoport:
  Multi-Task Active Learning for Linguistic Annotations. 861-869
  
• Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum:
  Generalized Expectation Criteria for Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields. 870-878
  
• Percy Liang, Dan Klein:
  Analyzing the Errors of Unsupervised Learning. 879-887
  
• Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark:
  Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using a Single Perceptron. 888-896
  
• Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu, Yajuan Lü:
  A Cascaded Linear Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging. 897-904
  
• Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak:
  Joint Processing and Discriminative Training for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion. 905-913
  
• Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Miao Xiong, Yunbo Cao, Yong Yu:
  A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search. 914-922
  
• Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke:
  Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval. 923-931
  
• Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea:
  Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing. 932-940
  
• Tamer Elsayed, Douglas W. Oard, Galileo Namata:
  Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion. 941-949
  
• Joakim Nivre, Ryan T. McDonald:
  Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers. 950-958
  
• Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Manning:
  Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing. 959-967
  
• Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, John A. Carroll, David J. Weir:
  A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing. 968-976
  
• Emily M. Bender:
  Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya. 977-985
  
• Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Ben Taskar:
  Better Alignments = Better Translations? 986-993
  
• Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, Marius Pasca:
  Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment. 994-1002
  
• Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik:
  Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation. 1003-1011
  
• Christopher Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, Philip Resnik:
  Generalizing Word Lattice Translation. 1012-1020
  
• Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, Sheng Li:
  Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model. 1021-1029
  
• Vivek Srikumar, Roi Reichart, Mark Sammons, Ari Rappoport, Dan Roth:
  Extraction of Entailed Semantic Relations Through Syntax-Based Comma Resolution. 1030-1038
  
• Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Christopher D. Manning:
  Finding Contradictions in Text. 1039-1047
  
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs. 1048-1056
  

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