HLT-NAACL 2003:
Edmonton, Canada
HLT-NAACL 2003, Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, May 27 - June 1, Edmonton, Canada
- Hiyan Alshawi:
Effective Utterance Classification with Unsupervised Phonotactic Models.

- Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto:
Japanese Named Entity Extraction with Redundant Morphological Analysis.

- Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee:
Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment.

- Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Prager, Abraham Ittycheriah:
In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One.

- Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang:
Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems.

- Silviu Cucerzan, David Yarowsky:
Minimally Supervised Induction of Grammatical Gender.

- Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar:
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering.

- Yonggang Deng, Sanjeev Khudanpur:
Latent Semantic Information in Maximum Entropy Language Models for Conversational Speech Recognition.

- Jason Eisner:
Simpler and More General Minimization for Weighted Finite-State Automata.

- Ulrich Germann:
Greedy Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation in Almost Linear Time.

- Roxana Girju, Adriana Badulescu, Dan I. Moldovan:
Learning Semantic Constraints for the Automatic Discovery of Part-Whole Relations.

- Iryna Gurevych, Rainer Malaka, Robert Porzel, Hans-Peter Zorn:
Semantic Coherence Scoring Using an Ontology.

- Nizar Habash, Bonnie J. Dorr:
A Categorial Variation Database for English.

- James Henderson:
Inducing History Representations for Broad Coverage Statistical Parsing.

- Hiroyuki Kaji:
Word Sense Acquisition from Bilingual Comparable Corpora.

- Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning:
A* Parsing: Fast Exact Viterbi Parse Selection.

- Philipp Koehn, Franz Josef Och, Daniel Marcu:
Statistical Phrase-Based Translation.

- Okan Kolak, William J. Byrne, Philip Resnik:
A Generative Probabilistic OCR Model for NLP Applications.

- Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne:
A Weighted Finite State Transducer Implementation of the Alignment Template Model for Statistical Machine Translation.

- Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard H. Hovy:
Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics.

- I. Dan Melamed:
Multitext Grammars and Synchronous Parsers.

- Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Steven J. Maiorano:
COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering.

- Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie:
Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views.

- Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu:
Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences.

- Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang:
Language and Task Independent Text Categorization with Simple Language Models.

- Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard S. Crouch, Annie Zaenen:
Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic Disambiguation Methods for Lexical-Functional Grammar.

- Brian Roark, Michiel Bacchiani:
Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains.

- Fei Sha, Fernando C. N. Pereira:
Shallow Parsing with Conditional Random Fields.

- Stuart M. Shieber, Xiaopeng Tao:
Comma Restoration Using Constituency Information.

- Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu:
Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information.

- Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steven Baker, Jeremiah Crim:
Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers.

- Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke:
Frequency Estimates for Statistical Word Similarity Measures.

- Kristina Toutanova, Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning, Yoram Singer:
Feature-Rich Part-of-Speech Tagging with a Cyclic Dependency Network.

- Ellen M. Voorhees:
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track.

- Nina Wacholder, Peng Song:
Toward a Task-based Gold Standard for Evaluation of NP Chunks and Technical Terms.

- Dominic Widdows:
Unsupervised methods for developing taxonomies by combining syntactic and statistical information.

- Liang Zhou, Eduard H. Hovy:
A Web-Trained Extraction Summarization System.

Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Short Papers
- Shazia Akhtar, Ronan G. Reilly, John Dunnion:
Automating XML markup of text documents.

- Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff:
Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff.

- Ivan Bulyko, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke:
Getting More Mileage from Web Text Sources for Conversational Speech Language Modeling using Class-Dependent Mixtures.

- John D. Burger, John C. Henderson:
Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions.

- Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Thorsten Brants:
Story Link Detection and New Event Detection are Asymmetric.

- Takao Doi, Eiichiro Sumita, Hirofumi Yamamoto:
Adaptation Using Out-of-Domain Corpus within EBMT.

- Shona Douglas:
Active Learning for Classifying Phone Sequences from Unsupervised Phonotactic Models.

- Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy:
A Maximum Entropy Approach to FrameNet Tagging.

- Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward:
Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines.

- Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward:
Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes.

- Thomas Hanneforth, Silvan Heintze, Manfred Stede:
Rhetorical Parsing with Underspecification and Forests.

- Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth Shriberg:
Detection Of Agreement vs. Disagreement In Meetings: Training With Unlabeled Data.

- Kenji Imamura, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita:
Automatic Expansion of Equivalent Sentence Set Based on Syntactic Substitution.

- Abraham Ittycheriah, Lucian Vlad Lita, Nanda Kambhatla, Nicolas Nicolov, Salim Roukos, Margo Stys:
dentifying and Tracking Entity Mentions in a Maximum Entropy Framework.

- Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin:
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology for English and Inuktitut.

- Grzegorz Kondrak, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight:
Cognates Can Improve Statistical Translation Models.

- Dekang Lin, Colin Cherry:
Word Alignment with Cohesion Constraint.

- Diane J. Litman, Katherine Forbes, Scott Silliman:
Towards Emotion Prediction in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues.

- Inderjeet Mani, Barry Schiffman, Jianping Zhang:
Inferring Temporal Ordering of Events in News.

- Katsuya Masuda, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
A Robust Retrieval Engine for Proximal and Structural Search.

- I. Dan Melamed, Ryan Green, Joseph P. Turian:
Precision and Recall of Machine Translation.

- Behrang Mohit, Srini Narayanan:
Semantic Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources.

- Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst:
Category-based Pseudowords.

- Ani Nenkova, Kathleen McKeown:
References to Named Entities: a Corpus Study.

- Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Srihari:
Bootstrapping for Named Entity Tagging Using Concept-based Seeds.

- Douglas W. Oard, David S. Doermann, Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William J. Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight:
Desparately Seeking Cebuano.

- Leonid Peshkin, Avi Pfeffer, Virginia Savova:
Bayesian Nets for Syntactic Categorization of Novel Words.

- Jochen Peters:
LM Studies on Filled Pauses in Spontaneous Medical Dictation.

- Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos:
Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System.

- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Antonio Roque, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Kurt VanLehn:
A Hybrid Approach to Content Analysis for Automatic Essay Grading.

- Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Hesham Tolba, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
Auditory-based Acoustic Distinctive Features and Spectral Cues for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in Low-SNR Car Environments.

- Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass:
Latent Semantic Analysis for Dialogue Act Classification.

- Rong Tang, Kwong Bor Ng, Tomek Strzalkowski, Paul B. Kantor:
Automatically Predicting Information Quality in News Documents.

- Elena Terenzi, Barbara Di Eugenio:
Building lexical semantic representations for Natural Language instructions.

- Virongrong Tesprasit, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Virach Sornlertlamvanich:
A Context-Sensitive Homograph Disambiguation in Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

- Christoph Tillmann, Fei Xia:
A Phrase-based Unigram Model for Statistical Machine Translation.

- Ellen M. Voorhees:
Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions.

- Hua Yu, Tanja Schultz:
Implicit Trajectory Modeling through Gaussian Transition Models for Speech Recognition.

Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Student Research Workshop
- Ramesh Nallapati:
Semantic Language Models for Topic Detection and Tracking.

- Sarah Borys:
The Importance of Prosodic Factors in Phoneme Modeling with Applications to Speech Recognition.

- Sandra Williams:
Language choice models for microplanning and readability.

- Amruta Purandare:
Discriminating Among Word Senses Using McQuitty's Similarity Analysis.

- Cosmin Munteanu:
Indexing methods for efficient parsing.

- Gerold Schneider:
A low-complexity, broad-coverage probabilistic Dependency Parser for English.

- Yang Liu:
Word Fragments Identification Using Acoustic-Prosodic Features in Conversational Speech.

- Juha Makkonen:
Investigations on Event Evolution on TDT.

- Nicola Stokes:
Spoken and Written News Story Segmentation Using Lexical Chains.

- Donghui Feng:
Cooperative model-based language understanding.

Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Demonstrations
- Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany Hassan, Young-Suk Lee, J. Scott McCarley, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Christoph Tillmann, Todd Ward, Fei Xia:
TIPS: A Translingual Information Processing System.

- Breck Baldwin, Bob Carpenter, Aaron Ross:
Alias-i Threat Trackers.

- Songsak Channarukul, Susan Weber McRoy, Syed S. Ali:
DOGHED: A Template-Based Generator for Multimodal Dialog Systems Targeting Heterogeneous Devices.

- Sean Colbath, Francis Kubala:
TAP-XL: An Automated Analyst's Assistant.

- John Dowding, James Hieronymus:
A Spoken Dialogue Interface to a Geologist's Field Assistant.

- Daniel M. Dunlavy, John M. Conroy, Dianne P. O'Leary:
QCS: A Tool for Querying, Clustering, and Summarizing Documents.

- Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, Dimitris Souflis, Claire Grover, Ben Hachey, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Michele Vindigni, Emmanuel Cartier, José Coch:
Demonstration of the CROSSMARC System.

- Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, John Chen, David K. Elson, David Kirk Evans, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman, Sergey Sigelman:
Columbia's Newsblaster: New Features and Future Directions.

- Thomas S. Morton, Jeremy LaCivita:
WordFreak: An Open Tool for Linguistic Annotation.

- Eric Nyberg, Robert E. Frederking:
JAVELIN: A Flexible, Planner-Based Architecture for Question Answering.

- Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin:
Automatically Discovering Word Senses.

- Andrew E. Smith:
Automatic Extraction of Semantic Networks from Text using Leximancer.

- Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman:
pre-CODIE--Crosslingual On-Demand Information Extraction.

- Paul Thompson:
Dynamic Integration of Distributed Semantic Services: Infrastructure for Process Queries and Question Answering.

- Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W. Black, Robert E. Frederking, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin, Kevin A. Lenzo, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Jürgen Reichert, Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Wallace, Monika Woszczyna, Jing Zhang:
Speechalator: Two-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation in Your Hand.

- Dominic Widdows, Scott Cederberg:
Monolingual and Bilingual Concept Visualization from Corpora.

- Theresa Wilson, David R. Pierce, Janyce Wiebe:
Identifying Opinionated Sentences.

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