HLT-NAACL 2006: New York, New York, USA

Robert C. Moore, Jeff A. Bilmes, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Mark Sanderson (Eds.): Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, June 4-9, 2006, New York, New York, USA. The Association for Computational Linguistics 2006 BibTeX

Main Conference

Wei Wang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu:
Capitalizing Machine Translation.
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Christopher Quirk, Arul Menezes:
Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation.
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Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Miles Osborne:
Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases.
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Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George F. Foster, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson:
Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation.
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Rion Snow, Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes:
Effectively Using Syntax for Recognizing False Entailment.
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Bill MacCartney, Trond Grenager, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning:
Learning to recognize features of valid textual entailments.
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Viktor Pekar:
Acquisition of Verb Entailment from Text.
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Kentaro Torisawa:
Acquiring Inference Rules with Temporal Constraints by Using Japanese Coordinated Sentences and Noun-Verb Co-occurrences.
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Tawanda C. Sibanda, Özlem Uzuner:
Role of Local Context in Automatic Deidentification of Ungrammatical, Fragmented Text.
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Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai:
Exploiting Domain Structure for Named Entity Recognition.
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Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth:
Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora.
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Charles A. Sutton, Michael Sindelar, Andrew McCallum:
Reducing Weight Undertraining in Structured Discriminative Learning.
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Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr:
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Combining Word Alignments.
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Percy Liang, Benjamin Taskar, Dan Klein:
Alignment by Agreement.
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Simon Lacoste-Julien, Benjamin Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael I. Jordan:
Word Alignment via Quadratic Assignment.
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Jinying Chen, Andrew I. Schein, Lyle H. Ungar, Martha Palmer:
An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Katrin Erk:
Unknown word sense detection as outlier detection.
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Benjamin Han, Donna Gates, Lori S. Levin:
Understanding Temporal Expressions in Emails.
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Stephen Clark, James R. Curran:
Partial Training for a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser.
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David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson:
Effective Self-Training for Parsing.
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Simon Corston-Oliver, Anthony Aue, Kevin Duh, Eric K. Ringger:
Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines.
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Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, David Ellis, Isaac Haxton, Catherine Hill, R. Shrivaths, Jeremy Moore, Michael Pozar, Theresa Vu:
Multilevel Coarse-to-Fine PCFG Parsing.
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Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi:
A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Syntactic and Case Structure Analysis.
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Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick, Mitchell P. Marcus:
Fully Parsing the Penn Treebank.
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Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube:
Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution.
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Soo-Min Kim, Eduard H. Hovy:
Identifying and Analyzing Judgment Opinions.
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Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy:
Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions.
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Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar:
Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech.
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Gina-Anne Levow:
Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent.
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John Kominek, Alan W. Black:
Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies.
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Bryant Huang, Kevin Knight:
Relabeling Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Quality.
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Stefan Riezler, John T. Maxwell III:
Grammatical Machine Translation.
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Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, Kevin Knight:
Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation.
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Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman:
Modelling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters.
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Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman:
Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning.
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Gang Ji, Jeff Bilmes:
Backoff Model Training using Partially Observed Data: Application to Dialog Act Tagging.
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Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su:
Exploring Syntactic Features for Relation Extraction using a Convolution Tree Kernel.
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Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum, Jonathan Betz:
Integrating Probabilistic Extraction Models and Data Mining to Discover Relations and Patterns in Text.
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Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine:
Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery.
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Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark:
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros.
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Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein:
Prototype-Driven Learning for Sequence Models.
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Deniz Yuret, Ferhan Ture:
Learning Morphological Disambiguation Rules for Turkish.
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Anna Corazza, Giorgio Satta:
Cross-Entropy and Estimation of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
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Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta:
Estimation of Consistent Probabilistic Context-free Grammars.
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Jonathan May, Kevin Knight:
A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata.
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Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata:
Aggregation via Set Partitioning for Natural Language Generation.
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Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna D. Moore:
Incorporating Speaker and Discourse Features into Speech Summarization.
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Gregory Marton, Alexey Radul:
Nuggeteer: Automatic Nugget-Based Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements.
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Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Will Pyramids Built of Nuggets Topple Over?.
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Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
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Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari:
A Machine Learning based Approach to Evaluating Retrieval Systems.
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Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai:
Language Model Information Retrieval with Document Expansion.
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Zheng-Yu Zhou, Peng Yu, Ciprian Chelba, Frank Seide:
Towards Spoken-Document Retrieval for the Internet: Lattice Indexing For Large-Scale Web-Search Architectures.
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Roy W. Tromble, Jason Eisner:
A fast finite-state relaxation method for enforcing global constraints on sequence decoding.
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Nianwen Xue:
Semantic role labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese.
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Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney:
Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation.
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Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Eduard H. Hovy:
ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically.
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David Kauchak, Regina Barzilay:
Paraphrasing for Automatic Evaluation.
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Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie:
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Summaries.
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Andrew Freeman, Sherri L. Condon, Christopher Ackerman:
Cross Linguistic Name Matching in English and Arabic.
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Günes Erkan:
Language Model-Based Document Clustering Using Random Walks.
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Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Ebru Arisoy, Vesa Siivola, Teemu Hirsimäki, Janne Pylkkönen, Tanel Alumäe, Murat Saraclar:
Unlimited vocabulary speech recognition for agglutinative languages.
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Short Papers

Andrei Alexandrescu, Katrin Kirchhoff:
Factored Neural Language Models.
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Alison Alvarez, Lori S. Levin, Robert E. Frederking, Simon Fung, Donna Gates, Jeff Good:
The MILE Corpus for Less Commonly Taught Languages.
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Jaime Arguello, Carolyn Penstein Rosé:
Museli: A Multi-Source Evidence Integration Approach to Topic Segmentation of Spontaneous Dialogue.
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Beata Beigman Klebanov:
Measuring Semantic Relatedness Using People and WordNet.
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Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Tanja Schultz:
Thai Grapheme-Based Speech Recognition.
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Pierre Chatain, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui:
Class Model Adaptation for Speech Summarisation.
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Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu:
Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Label Propagation.
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Angelo Dalli:
Temporal Classification of Text and Automatic Document Dating.
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Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll:
Answering the question you wish they had asked: The impact of paraphrasing for Question Answering.
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Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis:
Gesture Improves Coreference Resolution.
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Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ralf D. Brown, Jaime G. Carbonell:
Spectral Clustering for Example Based Machine Translation.
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Olga Gurevich:
A Finite-State Model of Georgian Verbal Morphology.
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Nizar Habash, Fatiha Sadat:
Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation.
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Sangyun Hahn, Richard E. Ladner, Mari Ostendorf:
Agreement/Disagreement Classification: Exploiting Unlabeled Data using Contrast Classifiers.
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Eduard H. Hovy, Mitchell P. Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance A. Ramshaw, Ralph M. Weischedel:
OntoNotes: The 90% Solution.
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Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Gareth J. F. Jones, Douglas W. Oard:
Investigating Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for a Spontaneous Conversational Speech Collection.
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Nikiforos Karamanis:
Evaluating Centering for Sentence Ordering in Two New Domains.
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Seokhwan Kim, Yu Song, Kyungduk Kim, Jeongwon Cha, Gary Geunbae Lee:
MMR-based Active Machine Learning for Bio Named Entity Recognition.
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Matthew Lease, Mark Johnson:
Early Deletion of Fillers In Processing Conversational Speech.
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Esther Levin, Mehrbod Sharifi, Jerry T. Ball:
Evaluation of Utility of LSA for Word Sense Discrimination.
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Yang Liu:
Initial Study on Automatic Identification of Speaker Role in Broadcast News Speech.
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François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker:
Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation.
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Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg:
Summarizing Speech Without Text Using Hidden Markov Models.
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Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen:
NER Systems that Suit User's Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction.
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Alessandro Moschitti:
Syntactic Kernels for Natural Language Learning: the Semantic Role Labeling Case.
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Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo:
Accurate Parsing of the Proposition Bank.
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Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad:
Using Semantic Authoring for Blissymbols Communication Boards.
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Youngja Park, Ying Li:
Extracting Salient Keywords from Instructional Videos Using Joint Text, Audio and Visual Cues.
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Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita:
Exploiting Variant Corpora for Machine Translation.
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Gerald Penn, Travis Choma:
Quantitative Methods for Classifying Writing Systems.
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David Reitter, Frank Keller, Johanna D. Moore:
Computational Modelling of Structural Priming in Dialogue.
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Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg:
Story Segmentation of Broadcast News in English, Mandarin and Arabic.
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Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie:
Parser Combination by Reparsing.
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Manami Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Satoshi Sekine:
Using Phrasal Patterns to Identify Discourse Relations.
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Franco Salvetti, Nicolas Nicolov:
Weblog Classification for Fast Splog Filtering: A URL Language Model Segmentation Approach.
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Antonio Sanfilippo, Stephen Tratz, Michelle Gregory:
Word Domain Disambiguation via Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis P. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan:
Selecting relevant text subsets from web-data for building topic specific language models.
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Christian Siefkes:
A Comparison of Tagging Strategies for Statistical Information Extraction.
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Neal Snider, Mona T. Diab:
Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes.
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Laura Stoia, Donna K. Byron, Darla Shockley, Eric Fosler-Lussier:
Sentence Planning for Realtime Navigational Instruction.
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Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya:
Using the Web to Disambiguate Acronyms.
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Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya:
Word Pronunciation Disambiguation using the Web.
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Svetlana Symonenko, Steven Rowe, Elizabeth D. Liddy:
Illuminating Trouble Tickets with Sublanguage Theory.
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Dave Toney, Johanna D. Moore, Oliver Lemon:
Evolving optimal inspectable strategies for spoken dialogue systems.
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Brian Ulicny:
Lycos Retriever: An Information Fusion Engine.
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Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang:
Improved Affinity Graph Based Multi-Document Summarization.
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Kui Xu, Helen Meng, Fuliang Weng:
A Maximum Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension.
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Hong Yu, Minsuk Lee:
BioEx: A Novel User-Interface that Accesses Images from Abstract Sentences.
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Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita:
Subword-based Tagging by Conditional Random Fields for Chinese Word Segmentation.
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Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn:
Comparing the roles of textual, acoustic and spoken-language features on spontaneous-conversation summarization.
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Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel:
Bridging the Inflection Morphology Gap for Arabic Statistical Machine Translation.
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Doctoral Consortium

Lei Chen:
Incorporating Gesture and Gaze into Multimodal Models of Human-to-Human Communication.
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Jacob Eisenstein:
Semantic Back-Pointers from Gesture.
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Ariadna Font Llitjós:
Can the Internet help improve Machine Translation?.
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Liang Huang:
Efficient Algorithms for Richer Formalisms: Parsing and Machine Translation.
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Wei-Hao Lin:
Identifying Perspectives at the Document and Sentence Levels Using Statistical Models.
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Jackson Liscombe:
Detecting Emotion in Speech: Experiments in Three Domains.
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Irina Matveeva:
Document Representation and Multilevel Measures of Document Similarity.
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Anders Søgaard:
Logical investigations on the adequacy of certain feature-based theories of natural language.
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Richard Tzong-Han Tsai:
A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Semantic Role Labeling.
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Xiaojun Yuan:
Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework.
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Demonstrations

Jaime Arguello, Carolyn Penstein Rosé:
InfoMagnets: Making Sense of Corpus Data.
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Janet M. Baker, Patri J. Pugliese:
From Pipedreams to Products, and Promise!
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Satanjeev Banerjee, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
SmartNotes: Implicit Labeling of Meeting Data through User Note-Taking and Browsing.
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Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne:
MTTK: An Alignment Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation.
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Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren:
AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web.
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Philip V. Ogren:
Knowtator: A Protégé plug-in for annotated corpus construction.
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Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni:
Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistic.
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Dinoj Surendran:
Automating the Creation of Interactive Glyph-supplemented Scatterplots for Visualizing Algorithm Results.
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Alicia Tribble, Benjamin Lambert, Scott E. Fahlman:
SconeEdit: A Text-guided Domain Knowledge Editor.
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Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui:
Factoid Question Answering with Web, Mobile and Speech Interfaces.
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Geoffrey Zweig, Olivier Siohan, George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Daniel Povey, Lidia Mangu, Brian Kingsbury:
Automated Quality Monitoring for Call Centers using Speech and NLP Technologies.
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Tutorial Abstracts

Sherri L. Condon, Keith Miller:
What's in a Name: Current Methods, Applications, and Evaluation in Multilingual Name Search and Matching.
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Hal Daumé III:
Beyond EM: Bayesian Techniques for Human Language Technology Researchers.
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Rada Mihalcea, Dragomir R. Radev:
Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
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Ciprian Chelba, Timothy J. Hazen:
Automatic Spoken Document Processing for Retrieval and Browsing.
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Anoop Sarkar, Gholamreza Haffari:
Tutorial on Inductive Semi-supervised Learning Methods: with Applicability to Natural Language Processing.
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Wen-tau Yih, Kristina Toutanova:
Automatic Semantic Role Labeling.
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