EMNLP 2006: Sydney, Australia
Dan Jurafsky, Éric Gaussier (Eds.): EMNLP 2007, Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 22-23 July 2006, Sydney, Australia. ACL 2006 ISBN 1-932432-73-6
Front Matter.
Computational Semantics


Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua: Paraphrase Recognition via Dissimilarity Significance Classification. 18-26
Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni: Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters. 27-34
Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst: Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation. 35-43
MT
Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, Kevin Knight: SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases. 44-52
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson: Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation. 53-61
Chris Quirk, Simon Corston-Oliver: The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation. 62-69
Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard H. Hovy: Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support. 77-84
Discourse
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman: Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis. 85-93
Malvina Nissim: Learning Information Status of Discourse Entities. 94-102
Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar: Automatic classification of citation function. 103-110
Parsing
Sandra Kübler, Erhard W. Hinrichs, Wolfgang Maier: Is it Really that Difficult to Parse German? 111-119
John Blitzer, Ryan T. McDonald, Fernando Pereira: Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning. 120-128
Sebastian Riedel, James Clarke: Incremental Integer Linear Programming for Non-projective Dependency Parsing. 129-137
Computational Semantics
Zheng Ping Jiang, Hwee Tou Ng: Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank: A Maximum Entropy Approach. 138-145
Parsing
Takashi Ninomiya, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Extremely Lexicalized Models for Accurate and Fast HPSG Parsing. 155-163
Phil Blunsom, Timothy Baldwin: Multilingual Deep Lexical Acquisition for HPSGs via Supertagging. 164-171
Long Poster Session 1: Discourse, Dialogue, MT, Computational Semantics, Parsing



Wei-Lin Wu, Ruzhan Lu, Jianyong Duan, Hui Liu, Feng Gao, Yuquan Chen: A Weakly Supervised Learning Approach for Spoken Language Understanding. 199-207
Amruta Purandare, Diane J. Litman: Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for F*R*I*E*N*D*S*. 208-215
Ying Zhang, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel: Distributed Language Modeling for N-best List Re-ranking. 216-223
Brooke Cowan, Ivona Kucerova, Michael Collins: A Discriminative Model for Tree-to-Tree Translation. 232-241
LiLi Xu, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa: Modeling Impression in Probabilistic Transliteration into Chinese. 242-249
Tao Tao, Su-Youn Yoon, Andrew Fister, Richard Sproat, ChengXiang Zhai: Unsupervised Named Entity Transliteration Using Temporal and Phonetic Correlation. 250-257
Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer: Capturing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Text. 258-266
Katja Filippova, Michael Strube: Using linguistically motivated features for paragraph boundary identification. 267-274
Akane Yakushiji, Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Automatic Construction of Predicate-argument Structure Patterns for Biomedical Information Extraction. 284-292

David Reitter, Julia Hockenmaier, Frank Keller: Priming Effects in Combinatory Categorial Grammar. 308-316
Sentiment
Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee: Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts. 327-335
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie: Partially Supervised Coreference Resolution for Opinion Summarization through Structured Rule Learning. 336-344
Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa: Fully Automatic Lexicon Expansion for Domain-oriented Sentiment Analysis. 355-363
Michel Galley: A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance. 364-372
Language Modeling

Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan: Text data acquisition for domain-specific language models. 382-389
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff: Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning. 399-407
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish: Arabic OCR Error Correction Using Character Segment Correction, Language Modeling, and Shallow Morphology. 408-414
Short Poster Session 2: Sentiment, WSD, Machine Learning Models and Methods, Term and Entity Extraction
Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan: Partially Supervised Sense Disambiguation by Learning Sense Number from Tagged and Untagged Corpora. 415-422
Soo-Min Kim, Patrick Pantel, Timothy Chklovski, Marco Pennacchiotti: Automatically Assessing Review Helpfulness. 423-430
Yejin Choi, Eric Breck, Claire Cardie: Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations for Opinion Recognition. 431-439


Galen Andrew: A Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation. 465-472
Conrad Sanderson, Simon Günter: Short Text Authorship Attribution via Sequence Kernels, Markov Chains and Author Unmasking: An Investigation. 482-491
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sreeram Balakrishnan, Sachindra Joshi: Entity Annotation based on Inverse Index Operations. 492-500
Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, Ossama Emam: Unsupervised Information Extraction Approach Using Graph Mutual Reinforcement. 501-508
Honglei Guo, Li Zhang, Zhong Su: Empirical Study on the Performance Stability of Named Entity Recognition Model across Domains. 509-516
Generation, Summarization, and Lexical Semantics

Paul D. Ji, Stephen G. Pulman: Sentence ordering with manifold-based classification in multi-document summarization. 526-533
Yutaka Matsuo, Takeshi Sakaki, Koki Uchiyama, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Graph-based Word Clustering using a Web Search Engine. 542-550
Machine Learning Models and Methods
Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Guihong Cao: Context-Dependent Term Relations for Information Retrieval. 551-559
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu: Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation with Order Identification Capabilities. 568-575
Kristina Toutanova: Competitive generative models with structure learning for NLP classification tasks. 576-584
Word Senses
Eneko Agirre, David Martínez, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Aitor Soroa: Two graph-based algorithms for state-of-the-art WSD. 585-593
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yasemin Altun: Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger. 594-602
Machine Learning Models and Methods
Michael L. Wick, Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum: Learning Field Compatibilities to Extract Database Records from Unstructured Text. 603-611
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Y. Ng: Solving the Problem of Cascading Errors: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines. 618-626



