Full papers

Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morpholological Analysis
Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad
Improving Parsing and PP attachment Performance with Sense Information
Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin and David Martinez
Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges
Hua Ai and Diane Litman
When Specialists and Generalists Work Together: Overcoming Domain Dependence in Sentiment Tagging
Alina Andreevskaia and Sabine Bergler
Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition
Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati and William Cohen
Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation
Eleftherios Avramidis and Philipp Koehn
A Unified Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form Constraints in Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Jason Baldridge and Frederick Hoyt
The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction
Michele Banko and Oren Etzioni
A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search
Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Miao Xiong, Yunbo Cao and Yong Yu
Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-To-Phoneme Conversion
Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak and Colin Cherry
Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya
Emily M. Bender
Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin and Randy Goebel
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Rahul Bhagat and Deepak Ravichandran
An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production using Wikipedia
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg and Elena Filatova
Automatic Editing in a Back-End Speech-to-Text System
Maximilian Bisani, Paul Vozila, Olivier Divay and Jeff Adams
Discriminative Synchronous Transduction for Statistical Machine Translation
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn and Miles Osborne
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-text Annotations
S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein and Regina Barzilay
Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts
Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson and Jian-Yun Nie
Unsupervised Learning of Narratives
Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky
MAXSIM: A Maximum Similarity Metric for Machine Translation Evaluation
Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng
Cohesive Phrase-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Colin Cherry
Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing
Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea
Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships Using Pattern Clusters and its Evaluation by Automatically Generated SAT Analogy Questions
Dmitry Davidov and Ari Rappoport
Noun Compound Classification Using Pattern Clusters
Dmitry Davidov and Ari Rappoport
Finding Contradictions in Text
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna Rafferty and Christopher Manning
Phrase Table Training For Precision and Recall: What Makes a Good Phrase and a Good Phrase Pair?
Yonggang Deng, Jia Xu and Yuqing Gao
Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic Language using Kernel Methods
Mona Diab, Alessandro Moschitti and Daniele Pighin
Extracting Question-Context-Answer Triples from Online Forums
Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin and Xiaoyan Zhu
Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars
Rebecca Dridan and Valia Kordoni
Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus
Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin and Yong Yu
Generalizing Word Lattice Translation
Chris Dyer, Smaranda Muresan and Philip Resnik
Gestural Cohesion for Topic Segmentation
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay and Randall Davis
Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion
Tamer Elsayed, Douglas Oard and Galileo Namata
You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak
Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG
Dominic Espinosa, Michael White and Dennis Mehay
A Re-examination of Query expansion Using Lexical Resources
Hui Fang
Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information
Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata
Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing
Jenny Finkel, Alex Kleeman and Christopher Manning
Lexicalized Phonotactic Word Segmentation
Margaret Fleck
Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video
Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça and Ben Taskar
EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start)
Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad
Which words are hard to recognize? Prosodic, lexical, and disfluency factors that increase ASR error rates
Sharon Goldwater, Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning
A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, John Carroll and David Weir
Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora
Aria Haghighi, Percy Liang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein
Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features
Liang HUANG
Refining Event Extraction through Unsupervised Cross-document Inference
Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman
Joint Processing and Discriminative Training for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry and Grzegorz Kondrak
A Cascaded Linear Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang and Qun Liu
Evidence for Varying Search Results Summary Lengths
Michael Kaisser, Marti Hearst and John Lowe
Applying a Grammar-based Language Model to a Broadcast-News Transcription Task
Tobias Kaufmann and Beat Pfister
Regular tree grammars as a formalism for scope underspecification
Alexander Koller, Michaela Regneri and Stefan Thater
Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing
Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras and Michael Collins
Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs
Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff and Eduard Hovy
Robust Dialog Management with N-best Hypotheses Using Dialog Examples and Agenda
Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung and Gary Geunbae Lee
Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms
John Lee and Stephanie Seneff
Analyzing the Errors of Unsupervised Induction
Percy Liang and Dan Klein
Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment
Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme and Marius Pasca
Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-driven Parameter Estimation
François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker
Generalized Expectation Criteria for Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields
Gideon Mann and Andrew McCallum
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation
Yuval Marton and Philip Resnik
Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature
Qiaozhu Mei and ChengXiang Zhai
Shallow Forest-Based Tree-to-String Translation
Haitao Mi, Liang Huang and Qun Liu
Phrase Chunking using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning
Ruy Luiz Milidiu, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos and Julio Cesar Duarte
PDT 2.O Requirements on a Query Language
Jirí Mírovský
Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition
Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata
Task-Oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations
Yusuke Miyao, Rune Saetre, Kenji Sagae, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii
Can you summarize this? Identifying correlates of input difficulty for multi-document summarization
Ani Nenkova and Annie Louise
Optimal k-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar
Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta and Stuart Shieber
Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
Joakim Nivre and Ryan McDonald
A Generic Sentence Trimmer with CRFs
Tadashi Nomoto
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Open-Domain Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs
Marius Pasca and Benjamin Van Durme
Multi-Task Active Learning for Linguistic Annotations
Roi Reichart, Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn and Ari Rappoport
Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Alexander Richman and Patrick Schone
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon
A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model
Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel
Family-Based Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay
Extraction of Entailed Semantic Relations Through Syntax-based Comma Resolution
Vivek Srikumar, Roi Reichart, Mark Sammons, Ari Rappoport and Dan Roth
Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections
Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita and Hugo Zaragoza
Semi-Supervised Sequential Labeling and Segmentation using Giga-word Scale Unlabeled Data
Jun Suzuki and Hideki Isozaki
Hedge classification in biomedical texts with a weakly supervised selection of keywords
György Szarvas
Contextual Preferences
Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Roy Bar Haim and Jacob Goldberger
A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization
Ivan Titov and Ryan McDonald
Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation
Jakob Uszkoreit and Thorsten Brants
Parsing Noun Phrase Structure with CCG
David Vadas and James R. Curran
Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling
David Vickrey and Daphne Koller
Contradictions and Justifications: Extensions to the Textual Entailment Task
Ellen Voorhees
Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval
Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke
An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming
Xiaofeng Yang and Jian Su
Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging using a Single Perceptron
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
Measure Word Generation for English-Chinese SMT Systems
Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Nan Duan, Chi-Ho Li and Ming Zhou
Bayesian Learning of Non-compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing
Hao Zhang, Chris Quirk, Robert Moore and Daniel Gildea
Efficient Multi-pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars
Hao Zhang and Daniel Gildea
Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model
Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
Learning Bigrams from Unigrams
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew Goldberg, Michael Rabbat and Robert Nowak

Posters

Summarizing Emails with Conversational Cohesion and Subjectivity
Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng and Xiaodong Zhou
Ad Hoc Treebank Structures
Markus Dickinson
A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing
Yoav Goldberg and Reut Tsarfaty
Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate
Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight and Hal Daume
Using adaptor grammars to identify synergies in the unsupervised acquisition of linguistic structure
Mark Johnson
Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-scale Clustering of Dependency Relations
Jun'ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa
Evaluating Roget's Thesauri
Alistair Kennedy and Stan Szpakowicz
Unsupervised Translation Induction for Chinese Abbreviations using Monolingual Corpora
Zhifei Li and David Yarowsky
Which Are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification
Jianguo Li and Chris Brew
Collecting a Why-question corpus for development and evaluation of an automatic QA-system
Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui and Edward Whittaker
Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus
Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst
Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models
J. Scott Olsson and Douglas Oard
A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization
Gerald Penn and Xiaodan Zhu
Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation
Joseph Polifroni and Marilyn Walker
Word Clustering and Word Selection based Feature Reduction for MaxEnt based Hindi NER
Sujan Kumar Saha, Pabitra Mitra and Sudeshna Sarkar
Combining EM Training and the MDL Principle for an Automatic Verb Classification incorporating Selectional Preferences
Helmut Schmid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Christian Scheible and Christian Hying
Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions
David Talbot and Thorsten Brants
Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation
Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki and Achim Ruopp
Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes
Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao
Semi-supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing
Qin Iris Wang, Dekang Lin and Dale Schuurmans
Chinese-English Backward Transliteration Assisted with Mining Monolingual Web Pages
Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, Bo Zou and Kang Liu
Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets: PropBank vs. VerbNet
Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre and Lluís Màrquez
A Forest-to-Forest Alignment-based Model for Machine Translation
Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan and Sheng Li