HLT/EMNLP 2005: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

• Josef Steinberger, Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov, Massimo Poesio, Olivia Sanchez-Graillet:
  Improving LSA-based Summarization with Anaphora Resolution.
  
• Oana Postolache, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff:
  Data-driven Approaches for Information Structure Identification.
  
• Heng Ji, David Westbrook, Ralph Grishman:
  Using Semantic Relations to Refine Coreference Decisions.
  
• Xiaoqiang Luo:
  On Coreference Resolution Performance Metrics.
  
• Advaith Siddharthan, Kathleen McKeown:
  Improving Multilingual Summarization: Using Redundancy in the Input to Correct MT errors.
  
• Yongmei Shi, Lina Zhou:
  Error Detection Using Linguistic Features.
  
• Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Alain Désilets:
  Semantic Similarity for Detecting Recognition Errors in Automatic Speech Transcripts.
  
• Roman Yangarber, Lauri Jokipii:
  Redundancy-based Correction of Automatically Extracted Facts.
  
• Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Christof Monz:
  NeurAlign: Combining Word Alignments Using Neural Networks.
  
• Benjamin Taskar, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Dan Klein:
  A Discriminative Matching Approach to Word Alignment.
  
• Brooke Cowan, Michael Collins:
  Morphology and Reranking for the Statistical Parsing of Spanish.
  
• Giorgio Satta, Enoch Peserico:
  Some Computational Complexity Results for Synchronous Context-Free Grammars.
  
• Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi:
  Incremental LTAG Parsing.
  
• Jonathan Brown, Gwen A. Frishkoff, Maxine Eskenazi:
  Automatic Question Generation for Vocabulary Assessment.
  
• Amit Dubey, Patrick Sturt, Frank Keller:
  Parallelism in Coordination as an Instance of Syntactic Priming: Evidence from Corpus-based Modeling.
  
• Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst:
  Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Structural Ambiguity Resolution.
  
• Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn:
  Paradigmatic Modifiability Statistics for the Extraction of Complex Multi-Word Terms.
  
• Chenhai Xi, Rebecca Hwa:
  A Backoff Model for Bootstrapping Resources for Non-English Languages.
  
• Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata:
  Cross-linguistic Projection of Role-Semantic Information.
  
• Okan Kolak, Philip Resnik:
  OCR Post-Processing for Low Density Languages.
  
• Robert C. Moore:
  A Discriminative Framework for Bilingual Word Alignment.
  
• Dmitriy Genzel:
  Inducing a Multilingual Dictionary from a Parallel Multitext in Related Languages.
  
• Robert Swier, Suzanne Stevenson:
  Exploiting a Verb Lexicon in Automatic Semantic Role Labelling.
  
• Dan I. Moldovan, Adriana Badulescu:
  A Semantic Scattering Model for the Automatic Interpretation of Genitives.
  
• Sriram Venkatapathy, Aravind K. Joshi:
  Measuring the Relative Compositionality of Verb-Noun (V-N) Collocations by Integrating Features.
  
• Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan:
  A Semi-Supervised Feature Clustering Algorithm with Application to Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Jahna Otterbacher, Günes Erkan, Dragomir R. Radev:
  Using Random Walks for Question-focused Sentence Retrieval.
  
• Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe:
  Multi-Perspective Question Answering Using the OpQA Corpus.
  
• Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman:
  Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions.
  
• Jörg Tiedemann:
  Integrating Linguistic Knowledge in Passage Retrieval for Question Answering.
  
• Peng Yu, Kaijiang Chen, Lie Lu, Frank Seide:
  Searching the Audio Notebook: Keyword Search in Recorded Conversation.
  
• Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos:
  A Maximum Entropy Word Aligner for Arabic-English Machine Translation.
  
• Farooq Ahmad, Grzegorz Kondrak:
  Learning a Spelling Error Model from Search Query Logs.
  
• Masayuki Okabe, Kyoji Umemura, Seiji Yamada:
  Query Expansion with the Minimum User Feedback by Transductive Learning.
  
• Andrew Olney, Zhiqiang Cai:
  An Orthonormal Basis for Topic Segmentation in Tutorial Dialogue.
  
• Zvika Marx, Ido Dagan, Eli Shamir:
  A Generalized Framework for Revealing Analogous Themes across Related Topics.
  
• Ryan T. McDonald, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira:
  Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification.
  
• Jeff A. Bilmes, Xiao Li, Jonathan Malkin, Kelley Kilanski, Richard Wright, Katrin Kirchhoff, Amar Subramanya, Susumu Harada, James A. Landay, Patricia Dowden, Howard Chizeck:
  The Vocal Joystick: A Voice-Based Human-Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments.
  
• Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara:
  Speech-based Information Retrieval System with Clarification Dialogue Strategy.
  
• Michael English, Peter A. Heeman:
  Learning Mixed Initiative Dialog Strategies By Using Reinforcement Learning On Both Conversants.
  
• Hal Daumé III, Daniel Marcu:
  A Large-Scale Exploration of Effective Global Features for a Joint Entity Detection and Tracking Model.
  
• Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman:
  Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience.
  
• Elena Filatova, John M. Prager:
  Tell Me What You Do and I'll Tell You What You Are: Learning Occupation-Related Activities for Biographies.
  
• Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan:
  Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection.
  
• Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava, Ido Dagan:
  Investigating Unsupervised Learning for Text Categorization Bootstrapping.
  
• Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa:
  Speeding up Training with Tree Kernels for Node Relation Labeling.
  
• Tsutomu Hirao, Manabu Okumura, Hideki Isozaki:
  Kernel-based Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation Technologies: Application to Automatic Summarization.
  
• Dmitri Roussinov, Weiguo Fan:
  Discretization Based Learning for Information Retrieval.
  
• Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne:
  Local Phrase Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne:
  HMM Word and Phrase Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Bing Zhao, Niyu Ge, Kishore Papineni:
  Inner-Outer Bracket Models for Word Alignment using Hidden Blocks.
  
• Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Christof Monz:
  Alignment Link Projection Using Transformation-Based Learning.
  
• Steffen Bickel, Peter Haider, Tobias Scheffer:
  Predicting Sentences using N-Gram Language Models.
  
• Holger Schwenk, Jean-Luc Gauvain:
  Training Neural Network Language Models on Very Large Corpora.
  
• Jianfeng Gao, Hao Yu, Wei Yuan, Peng Xu:
  Minimum Sample Risk Methods for Language Modeling.
  
• Joyce Y. Chai, Shaolin Qu:
  A Salience Driven Approach to Robust Input Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems.
  
• Dan Bohus, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
  Error Handling in the RavenClaw Dialog Management Architecture.
  
• Jeremy G. Kahn, Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Mari Ostendorf:
  Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech.
  
• Ani Nenkova, Advaith Siddharthan, Kathleen McKeown:
  Automatically Learning Cognitive Status for Multi-Document Summarization of Newswire.
  
• Tadashi Nomoto:
  Bayesian Learning in Text Summarization.
  
• Caroline Sporleder, Mirella Lapata:
  Discourse Chunking and its Application to Sentence Compression.
  
• Hisami Suzuki, Jianfeng Gao:
  A Comparative Study on Language Model Adaptation Techniques Using New Evaluation Metrics.
  
• Marian Olteanu, Dan I. Moldovan:
  PP-attachment Disambiguation using Large Context.
  
• Jason Eisner, Eric Goldlust, Noah A. Smith:
  Compiling Comp Ling: Weighted Dynamic Programming and the Dyna Language.
  
• Hugo Zaragoza, Chi-Ho Li:
  Learning What to Talk about in Descriptive Games.
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Using Question Series to Evaluate Question Answering System Effectiveness.
  
• Fuchun Peng, Ralph M. Weischedel, Ana Licuanan, Jinxi Xu:
  Combining Deep Linguistics Analysis and Surface Pattern Learning: A Hybrid Approach to Chinese Definitional Question Answering.
  
• Vijay Krishnan, Sujatha Das, Soumen Chakrabarti:
  Enhanced Answer Type Inference from Questions using Sequential Models.
  
• Ion Androutsopoulos, Dimitrios Galanis:
  A Practically Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Single-Snippet Answers to Definition Questions on the Web.
  
• Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata:
  Collective Content Selection for Concept-to-Text Generation.
  
• Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni:
  Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews.
  
• Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, Paul Hoffmann:
  Recognizing Contextual Polarity in Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis.
  
• Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan:
  Identifying Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns.
  
• Eric Garbin, Inderjeet Mani:
  Disambiguating Toponyms in News.
  
• Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan:
  A Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment.
  
• Kadri Hacioglu, Benjamin Douglas, Ying Chen:
  Detection of Entity Mentions Occuring in English and Chinese Text.
  
• Aria Haghighi, Andrew Y. Ng, Christopher D. Manning:
  Robust Textual Inference via Graph Matching.
  
• Jason Eisner, Damianos Karakos:
  Bootstrapping Without the Boot.
  
• Christopher Stokoe:
  Differentiating Homonymy and Polysemy in Information Retrieval.
  
• Rada Mihalcea:
  Unsupervised Large-Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation with Graph-based Algorithms for Sequence Data Labeling.
  
• Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, John Carroll:
  Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition.
  
• Youzheng Wu, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu, Hao Yu:
  Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Multiple Features.
  
• Fei Huang:
  Cluster-specific Named Entity Transliteration.
  
• Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen:
  Extracting Personal Names from Email: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text.
  
• Hema Raghavan, James Allan:
  Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval.
  
• Sheila M. Reynolds, Jeff A. Bilmes:
  Part-of-Speech Tagging using Virtual Evidence and Negative Training.
  
• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Bidirectional Inference with the Easiest-First Strategy for Tagging Sequence Data.
  
• Noah A. Smith, David A. Smith, Roy W. Tromble:
  Context-Based Morphological Disambiguation with Random Fields.
  
• Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel:
  Mining Key Phrase Translations from Web Corpora.
  
• Benoît Favre, Frédéric Béchet, Pascal Nocera:
  Robust Named Entity Extraction from Large Spoken Archives.
  
• Dmitri Roussinov, J. Leon Zhao, Weiguo Fan:
  Mining Context Specific Similarity Relationships Using The World Wide Web.
  
• Terry Koo, Michael Collins:
  Hidden-Variable Models for Discriminative Reranking.
  
• Helmut Schmid:
  Disambiguation of Morphological Structure using a PCFG.
  
• Ryan T. McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov, Jan Hajic:
  Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms.
  
• Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava:
  Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition.
  
• Art Munson, Claire Cardie, Rich Caruana:
  Optimizing to Arbitrary NLP Metrics using Ensemble Selection.
  
• Xinglong Wang, John Carroll:
  Word Sense Disambiguation Using Sense Examples Automatically Acquired from a Second Language.
  
• Stephan Kepser:
  Using MONA for Querying Linguistic Treebanks.
  
• Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni:
  KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction from the Web.
  
• Eric Fosler-Lussier, C. Anton Rytting:
  A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hybrid Phone-Manner Representations for ASR.
  
• Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Dan Roth, Richard Sproat:
  Emotions from Text: Machine Learning for Text-based Emotion Prediction.
  
• Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan:
  Combining Multiple Forms of Evidence While Filtering.
  
• Donghui Feng, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Handling Biographical Questions with Implicature.
  
• Yongping Du, Helen Meng, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu:
  The Use of Metadata, Web-derived Answer Patterns and Passage Context to Improve Reading Comprehension Performance.
  
• Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alissa Melinger:
  Identifying Semantic Relations and Functional Properties of Human Verb Associations.
  
• Paola Merlo, Gabriele Musillo:
  Accurate Function Parsing.
  
• Johan Bos, Katja Markert:
  Recognising Textual Entailment with Logical Inference.
  
• Praharshana Perera, René Witte:
  A Self-Learning Context-Aware Lemmatizer for German.
  
• Lluís Màrquez, Mihai Surdeanu, Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo:
  A Robust Combination Strategy for Semantic Role Labeling.
  
• Michael Crystal, Alex Baron, Katherine Godfrey, Linnea Micciulla, Yvette J. Tenney, Ralph M. Weischedel:
  A Methodology for Extrinsically Evaluating Information Extraction Performance.
  
• Xiaoqiang Luo, Imed Zitouni:
  Multi-Lingual Coreference Resolution With Syntactic Features.
  
• Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó:
  Analyzing Models for Semantic Role Assignment using Confusability.
  
• Sharon Goldwater, David McClosky:
  Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis.
  
• Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft:
  A Translation Model for Sentence Retrieval.
  
• Martin Jansche:
  Maximum Expected F-Measure Training of Logistic Regression Models.
  
• Roser Sauri, Robert Knippen, Marc Verhagen, James Pustejovsky:
  Evita: A Robust Event Recognizer For QA Systems.
  
• Ping Li, Kenneth Ward Church:
  Using Sketches to Estimate Associations.
  
• Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown:
  Context and Learning in Novelty Detection.
  
• Razvan C. Bunescu, Raymond J. Mooney:
  A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction.
  
• Barbara Rosario, Marti A. Hearst:
  Multi-way Relation Classification: Application to Protein-Protein Interactions.
  
• Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati, Alon Lavie:
  BLANC: Learning Evaluation Metrics for MT.
  
• Charles A. Sutton, Andrew McCallum:
  Composition of Conditional Random Fields for Transfer Learning.
  
• Michel Simard, Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Éric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Philippe Langlais, Arne Mauser:
  Translating with Non-contiguous Phrases.
  
• Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney:
  Word-Level Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation using Phrase-Based Translation Models.
  
• David Vickrey, Luke Biewald, Marc Teyssier, Daphne Koller:
  Word-Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation.
  
• David Chiang, Adam Lopez, Nitin Madnani, Christof Monz, Philip Resnik, Michael Subotin:
  The Hiero Machine Translation System: Extensions, Evaluation, and Analysis.
  
• Kristy Hollingshead, Seeger Fisher, Brian Roark:
  Comparing and Combining Finite-State and Context-Free Parsers.
  

HLT/EMNLP 2005 Interactive Demonstrations

• Graham Russell, George F. Foster, Ngoc Tran Nguyen:
  Automatic Detection of Translation Errors: The State of the Art.
  
• Thomas Hoeft, Nick Cramer, M. L. Gregory, Elizabeth G. Hetzler:
  Bridging the Gap between Technology and Users: Leveraging Machine.
  
• Liang Zhou, Erin Shaw, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Classummary: Introducing Discussion Summarization to Online Classrooms.
  
• Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, Wen-tau Yih:
  Demonstrating an Interactive Semantic Role Labeling System.
  
• Lucy Vanderwende, Gary Kacmarcik, Hisami Suzuki, Arul Menezes:
  MindNet: An Automatically-Created Lexical Resource.
  
• Max Silberztein:
  NooJ: a Linguistic Annotation System for Corpus Processing.
  
• Adam Lopez, Philip Resnik:
  Pattern Visualization for Machine Translation Output.
  
• Barbora Hladká, Ondrej Kucera:
  Prague Dependency Treebank as an Exercise Book of Czech.
  
• Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu:
  Translation Exercise Assistant: Automated Generation of Translation.
  
• Ayako Hoshino, Hiroshi Nakagawa:
  WebExperimenter for Multiple-Choice Question Generation.
  
• Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman:
  DialogueView: an Annotation Tool for Dialogue.
  
• Roman Yangarber, Lauri Jokipii, Antti Rauramo, Silja Huttunen:
  Extracting Information about Outbreaks of Infectious Epidemics.
  
• Fuliang Weng, Lawrence Cavedon, Badri Raghunathan, Danilo Mirkovic, Ben Bei, Heather Pon-Barry, Harry Bratt, Hua Cheng, Hauke Schmidt, Rohit Mishra, Brian Lathrop, Qi Zhang, Tobias Scheideck, Kui Xu, Tess Hand-Bender, Stanley Peters, Liz Shriberg, Carsten Bergmann:
  A Flexible Conversational Dialog System for MP3 Player.
  
• Manny Rayner, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Pierrette Bouillon, Yukie Nakao, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Beth Ann Hockey, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander:
  Japanese Speech Understanding using Grammar Specialization.
  
• James R. Glass, Timothy J. Hazen, D. Scott Cyphers, Ken Schutte, Alex Park:
  The MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Project.
  
• Arman Tajarobi, Jean-François Garneau, François Paradis:
  MBOI: Discovery of Business Opportunities on the Internet.
  
• Ana-Maria Popescu, Bao Nguyen, Oren Etzioni:
  OPINE: Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews.
  
• Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, Janyce Wiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan:
  OpinionFinder: A System for Subjectivity Analysis.
  
• Kyungduk Kim, Yu Song, Gary Geunbae Lee:
  POSBIOTM/W: A Development Workbench for Machine Learning Oriented Biomedical Text Mining System.