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Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers

Chairs
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corp., Taiwan), General Conference Chair
Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Program Co-Chair
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Program Co-Chair
Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Local Organizing Chair

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pdf bib Front matter  
pdf bib Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge
Shay Cohen and Noah A Smith
pp. 1–4
pdf bib Bypassed alignment graph for learning coordination in Japanese sentences
Hideharu Okuma, Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo and Yuji Matsumoto
pp. 5–8
pdf bib An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier and Yannick Parmentier
pp. 9–12
pdf bib Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova
pp. 13–16
pdf bib Hybrid Approach to User Intention Modeling for Dialog Simulation
Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee
pp. 17–20
pdf bib Homophones and Tonal Patterns in English-Chinese Transliteration
Oi Yee Kwong
pp. 21–24
pdf bib Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words
Chao-Lin Liu, Kan-Wen Tien, Min-Hua Lai, Yi-Hsuan Chuang and Shih-Hung Wu
pp. 25–28
pdf bib A Novel Word Segmentation Approach for Written Languages with Word Boundary Markers
Han-Cheol Cho, Do-Gil Lee, Jung-Tae Lee, Pontus Stenetorp, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Hae-Chang Rim
pp. 29–32
pdf bib Part of Speech Tagger for Assamese Text
Navanath Saharia, Dhrubajyoti Das, Utpal Sharma and Jugal Kalita
pp. 33–36
pdf bib Improving data-driven dependency parsing using large-scale LFG grammars
Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn and Kathrin Spreyer
pp. 37–40
pdf bib Incremental Parsing with Monotonic Adjoining Operation
Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara
pp. 41–44
pdf bib Bayesian Learning of a Tree Substitution Grammar
Matt Post and Daniel Gildea
pp. 45–48
pdf bib A Unified Single Scan Algorithm for Japanese Base Phrase Chunking and Dependency Parsing
Manabu Sassano and Sadao Kurohashi
pp. 49–52
pdf bib Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers
Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
pp. 53–56
pdf bib A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition
Dan Roth, Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran
pp. 57–60
pdf bib A Combination of Active Learning and Semi-supervised Learning Starting with Positive and Unlabeled Examples for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study on Japanese Web Search Query
Makoto Imamura, Yasuhiro Takayama, Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Toyoda and Masaru Kitsuregawa
pp. 61–64
pdf bib Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions.
Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar
pp. 65–68
pdf bib Directional Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion
Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor and Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet
pp. 69–72
pdf bib Generalizing over Lexical Features: Selectional Preferences for Semantic Role Classification
Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre and Lluís Màrquez
pp. 73–76
pdf bib A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter
Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke and Maite Taboada
pp. 77–80
pdf bib Realistic Grammar Error Simulation using Markov Logic
Sungjin Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee
pp. 81–84
pdf bib Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution
Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito and Tomoko Izumi
pp. 85–88
pdf bib Predicting Barge-in Utterance Errors by using Implicitly-Supervised ASR Accuracy and Barge-in Rate per User
Kazunori Komatani and Alexander I. Rudnicky
pp. 89–92
pdf bib Automatic Generation of Information-seeking Questions Using Concept Clusters
Shuguang Li and Suresh Manandhar
pp. 93–96
pdf bib Correlating Human and Automatic Evaluation of a German Surface Realiser
Aoife Cahill
pp. 97–100
pdf bib Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates
Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith and Carolyn P. Rose
pp. 101–104
pdf bib Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?
Rahul Katragadda and Vasudeva Varma
pp. 105–108
pdf bib Using Generation for Grammar Analysis and Error Detection
Michael Goodman and Francis Bond
pp. 109–112
pdf bib An Integrated Multi-document Summarization Approach based on Word Hierarchical Representation
You Ouyang, Wenjie Li and Qin Lu
pp. 113–116
pdf bib Co-Feedback Ranking for Query-Focused Summarization
Furu Wei, Wenjie Li and Yanxiang He
pp. 117–120
pdf bib Reducing SMT Rule Table with Monolingual Key Phrase
Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu and Qun Liu
pp. 121–124
pdf bib A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on a Synthetic Synchronous Grammar
Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li and Bo Wang
pp. 125–128
pdf bib English-Chinese Bi-Directional OOV Translation based on Web Mining and Supervised Learning
Yuejie Zhang, Yang Wang and Xiangyang Xue
pp. 129–132
pdf bib The Backtranslation Score: Automatic MT Evalution at the Sentence Level without Reference Translations
Reinhard Rapp
pp. 133–136
pdf bib Sub-Sentence Division for Tree-Based Machine Translation
Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu and Qun Liu
pp. 137–140
pdf bib Asynchronous Binarization for Synchronous Grammars
John DeNero, Adam Pauls and Dan Klein
pp. 141–144
pdf bib Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation
Zdenek Zabokrtsky and Martin Popel
pp. 145–148
pdf bib Word to Sentence Level Emotion Tagging for Bengali Blogs
Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
pp. 149–152
pdf bib Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Using Comparative Lexical Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques
Seon Yang and Youngjoong Ko
pp. 153–156
pdf bib Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés Montoyo and Patricio Martínez-Barco
pp. 157–160
pdf bib Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?
Clint Burfoot and Timothy Baldwin
pp. 161–164
pdf bib Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Categorization with Global Margin Maximization
Xipeng Qiu, Wenjun Gao and Xuanjing Huang
pp. 165–168
pdf bib Toward finer-grained sentiment identification in product reviews through linguistic and ontological analyses
Hye-Jin Min and Jong C. Park
pp. 169–172
pdf bib Finding Hedges by Chasing Weasels: Hedge Detection Using Wikipedia Tags and Shallow Linguistic Features
Viola Ganter and Michael Strube
pp. 173–176
pdf bib Mining User Reviews: from Specification to Summarization
Xinfan Meng and Houfeng Wang
pp. 177–180
pdf bib An Ontology-Based Approach for Key Phrase Extraction
Chau Q. Nguyen and Tuoi T. Phan
pp. 181–184
pdf bib Query Segmentation Based on Eigenspace Similarity
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang and Tat-Seng Chua
pp. 185–188
pdf bib Learning Semantic Categories from Clickthrough Logs
Mamoru Komachi, Shimpei Makimoto, Kei Uchiumi and Manabu Sassano
pp. 189–192
pdf bib A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search
Janara Christensen, Mausam and Oren Etzioni
pp. 193–196
pdf bib Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora
Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang and Hong Mei
pp. 197–200
pdf bib Mining Association Language Patterns for Negative Life Event Classification
Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan, Chung-Hsien Wu and Chao-Cheng Lin
pp. 201–204
pdf bib Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs
Hidetsugu Nanba, Haruka Taguma, Takahiro Ozaki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Aya Ishino and Toshiyuki Takezawa
pp. 205–208
pdf bib Play the Language: Play Coreference
Barbora Hladká, Jiří Mírovský and Pavel Schlesinger
pp. 209–212
pdf bib Chinese Term Extraction Using Different Types of Relevance
Yuhang Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Qin Lu, Dequan Zheng and Hao Yu
pp. 213–216
pdf bib iChi: a bilingual dictionary generating tool
István Varga and Shoichi Yokoyama
pp. 217–220
pdf bib CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank
Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth
pp. 221–224
pdf bib A Beam-Search Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data
Christoph Tillmann
pp. 225–228
pdf bib Optimizing Word Alignment Combination For Phrase Table Training
Yonggang Deng and Bowen Zhou
pp. 229–232
pdf bib Bridging Morpho-Syntactic Gap between Source and Target Sentences for English-Korean Statistical Machine Translation
Gumwon Hong, Seung-Wook Lee and Hae-Chang Rim
pp. 233–236
pdf bib Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT
Mei Yang and Jing Zheng
pp. 237–240
pdf bib Handling phrase reorderings for machine translation
Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sandor Szedmak and Mahesan Niranjan
pp. 241–244
pdf bib Syntax is from Mars while Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks
Chris Biemann, Monojit Choudhury and Animesh Mukherjee
pp. 245–248
pdf bib Introduction of a new paraphrase generation tool based on Monte-Carlo sampling
Jonathan Chevelu, Thomas Lavergne, Yves Lepage and Thierry Moudenc
pp. 249–252
pdf bib Prediction of Thematic Rank for Structured Semantic Role Labeling
Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui and Meng Wang
pp. 253–256
pdf bib Transfer Learning, Feature Selection and Word Sense Disambiguation
Paramveer S. Dhillon and Lyle H. Ungar
pp. 257–260
pdf bib From Extractive to Abstractive Meeting Summaries: Can It Be Done by Sentence Compression?
Fei Liu and Yang Liu
pp. 261–264
pdf bib Automatic Story Segmentation using a Bayesian Decision Framework for Statistical Models of Lexical Chain Features
Wai-Kit Lo, Wenying Xiong and Helen Meng
pp. 265–268
pdf bib Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-native Speech
Gina-Anne Levow
pp. 269–272
pdf bib A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish
Haşim Sak, Tunga Güngör and Murat Saraçlar
pp. 273–276
pdf bib Parsing Speech Repair without Specialized Grammar Symbols
Tim Miller, Luan Nguyen and William Schuler
pp. 277–280
pdf bib Efficient Inference of CRFs for Large-Scale Natural Language Data
Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin and Gary Geunbae Lee
pp. 281–284
pdf bib Iterative Scaling and Coordinate Descent Methods for Maximum Entropy
Fang-Lan Huang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang and Chih-Jen Lin
pp. 285–288
pdf bib Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Yashar Mehdad
pp. 289–292
pdf bib Markov Random Topic Fields
Hal Daume III
pp. 293–296
pdf bib Multi-Document Summarization using Sentence-based Topic Models
Dingding Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li and Yihong Gong
pp. 297–300
pdf bib Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems
Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Sara Dalzel-Job, Johanna Moore and Jon Oberlander
pp. 301–304
pdf bib Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse
Eva Banik
pp. 305–308
pdf bib The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language
Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava
pp. 309–312
pdf bib Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining
Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn Penstein-Rosé
pp. 313–316
pdf bib Graph Ranking for Sentiment Transfer
Qiong Wu, Songbo Tan and Xueqi Cheng
pp. 317–320
pdf bib The Contribution of Stylistic Information to Content-based Mobile Spam Filtering
Dae-Neung Sohn, Jung-Tae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim
pp. 321–324
pdf bib Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas and Rani Pinchuk
pp. 325–328
pdf bib Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan and Shafiq Joty
pp. 329–332
pdf bib Where’s the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
Wei-Yun Ma and Kathy McKeown
pp. 333–336
pdf bib A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson
pp. 337–340
pdf bib A Succinct N-gram Language Model
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki
pp. 341–344
pdf bib Modeling Morphologically Rich Languages Using Split Words and Unstructured Dependencies
Deniz Yuret and Ergun Bicici
pp. 345–348
pdf bib Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts
Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk
pp. 349–352
pdf bib Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data
Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman
pp. 353–356
pdf bib Arabic Cross-Document Coreference Resolution
Asad Sayeed, Tamer Elsayed, Nikesh Garera, David Alexander, Tan Xu, Doug Oard, David Yarowsky and Christine Piatko
pp. 357–360
pdf bib The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo and Enrique Amigó
pp. 361–364
pdf bib Composite Kernels For Relation Extraction
Frank Reichartz, Hannes Korte and Gerhard Paass
pp. 365–368
pdf bib Predicting Unknown Time Arguments based on Cross-Event Propagation
Prashant Gupta and Heng Ji
pp. 369–372

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