Thursday, August 4, 2009 |
| | Session 4DI: Short Paper 1 (Syntax and Parsing) |
| 8:30–8:45 | Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge
Shay Cohen and Noah A Smith |
| 8:45–9:00 | Bypassed alignment graph for learning coordination in Japanese sentences
Hideharu Okuma, Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 9:00–9:15 | An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier and Yannick Parmentier |
| | Session 4DII: Short Paper 2 (Discourse and Dialogue) |
| 9:15–9:30 | Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova |
| 9:30–9:45 | Hybrid Approach to User Intention Modeling for Dialog Simulation
Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| 12:20–14:20 | Short Paper Poster Session |
| | Cluster 1: Phonology, Word Segmentation and POS Tagging (P1-4) |
| | Homophones and Tonal Patterns in English-Chinese Transliteration
Oi Yee Kwong |
| | Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words
Chao-Lin Liu, Kan-Wen Tien, Min-Hua Lai, Yi-Hsuan Chuang and Shih-Hung Wu |
| | 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 |
| | Part of Speech Tagger for Assamese Text
Navanath Saharia, Dhrubajyoti Das, Utpal Sharma and Jugal Kalita |
| | Cluster 2: Syntax and Parsing (P5-9) |
| | Improving data-driven dependency parsing using large-scale LFG grammars
Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn and Kathrin Spreyer |
| | Incremental Parsing with Monotonic Adjoining Operation
Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara |
| | Bayesian Learning of a Tree Substitution Grammar
Matt Post and Daniel Gildea |
| | A Unified Single Scan Algorithm for Japanese Base Phrase Chunking and Dependency Parsing
Manabu Sassano and Sadao Kurohashi |
| | Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers
Stephen Clark and James R. Curran |
| | Cluster 3: Semantics (P10-14) |
| | A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition
Dan Roth, Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran |
| | 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 |
| | Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions.
Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar |
| | Directional Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion
Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor and Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet |
| | Generalizing over Lexical Features: Selectional Preferences for Semantic Role Classification
Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre and Lluís Màrquez |
| | Cluster 4: Discourse and Dialogue (P15-19) |
| | A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter
Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke and Maite Taboada |
| | Realistic Grammar Error Simulation using Markov Logic
Sungjin Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| | Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution
Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito and Tomoko Izumi |
| | Predicting Barge-in Utterance Errors by using Implicitly-Supervised ASR Accuracy and Barge-in Rate per User
Kazunori Komatani and Alexander I. Rudnicky |
| | Automatic Generation of Information-seeking Questions Using Concept Clusters
Shuguang Li and Suresh Manandhar |
| | Cluster 5: Summarization and Generation (P20-25) |
| | Correlating Human and Automatic Evaluation of a German Surface Realiser
Aoife Cahill |
| | Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates
Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith and Carolyn P. Rose |
| | Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?
Rahul Katragadda and Vasudeva Varma |
| | Using Generation for Grammar Analysis and Error Detection
Michael Goodman and Francis Bond |
| | An Integrated Multi-document Summarization Approach based on Word Hierarchical Representation
You Ouyang, Wenjie Li and Qin Lu |
| | Co-Feedback Ranking for Query-Focused Summarization
Furu Wei, Wenjie Li and Yanxiang He |
| | Cluster 6: Machine Translation (P26-32) |
| | Reducing SMT Rule Table with Monolingual Key Phrase
Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu and Qun Liu |
| | A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on a Synthetic Synchronous Grammar
Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li and Bo Wang |
| | English-Chinese Bi-Directional OOV Translation based on Web Mining and Supervised Learning
Yuejie Zhang, Yang Wang and Xiangyang Xue |
| | The Backtranslation Score: Automatic MT Evalution at the Sentence Level without Reference Translations
Reinhard Rapp |
| | Sub-Sentence Division for Tree-Based Machine Translation
Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu and Qun Liu |
| | Asynchronous Binarization for Synchronous Grammars
John DeNero, Adam Pauls and Dan Klein |
| | Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation
Zdenek Zabokrtsky and Martin Popel |
| | Cluster 7: Sentiment Analysis (P33-40) |
| | Word to Sentence Level Emotion Tagging for Bengali Blogs
Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| | Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Using Comparative Lexical Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques
Seon Yang and Youngjoong Ko |
| | Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés Montoyo and Patricio Martínez-Barco |
| | Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?
Clint Burfoot and Timothy Baldwin |
| | Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Categorization with Global Margin Maximization
Xipeng Qiu, Wenjun Gao and Xuanjing Huang |
| | Toward finer-grained sentiment identification in product reviews through linguistic and ontological analyses
Hye-Jin Min and Jong C. Park |
| | Finding Hedges by Chasing Weasels: Hedge Detection Using Wikipedia Tags and Shallow Linguistic Features
Viola Ganter and Michael Strube |
| | Mining User Reviews: from Specification to Summarization
Xinfan Meng and Houfeng Wang |
| | Cluster 8: Information Retrieval (P41-44) |
| | An Ontology-Based Approach for Key Phrase Extraction
Chau Q. Nguyen and Tuoi T. Phan |
| | Query Segmentation Based on Eigenspace Similarity
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang and Tat-Seng Chua |
| | Learning Semantic Categories from Clickthrough Logs
Mamoru Komachi, Shimpei Makimoto, Kei Uchiumi and Manabu Sassano |
| | A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search
Janara Christensen, Mausam and Oren Etzioni |
| | Cluster 9: Text Mining and NLP Applications (P45-47) |
| | Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora
Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang and Hong Mei |
| | Mining Association Language Patterns for Negative Life Event Classification
Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan, Chung-Hsien Wu and Chao-Cheng Lin |
| | Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs
Hidetsugu Nanba, Haruka Taguma, Takahiro Ozaki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Aya Ishino and Toshiyuki Takezawa |
| | Cluster 10: Language Resources (P48-51) |
| | Play the Language: Play Coreference
Barbora Hladká, Jiří Mírovský and Pavel Schlesinger |
| | Chinese Term Extraction Using Different Types of Relevance
Yuhang Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Qin Lu, Dequan Zheng and Hao Yu |
| | iChi: a bilingual dictionary generating tool
István Varga and Shoichi Yokoyama |
| | CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank
Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth |
| | Session 6A: Short Paper 3 (Machine Translation) |
| 14:20–14:35 | A Beam-Search Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data
Christoph Tillmann |
| 14:35–14:50 | Optimizing Word Alignment Combination For Phrase Table Training
Yonggang Deng and Bowen Zhou |
| 14:50–15:05 | Bridging Morpho-Syntactic Gap between Source and Target Sentences for English-Korean Statistical Machine Translation
Gumwon Hong, Seung-Wook Lee and Hae-Chang Rim |
| 15:05–15:20 | Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT
Mei Yang and Jing Zheng |
| 15:20–15:35 | Handling phrase reorderings for machine translation
Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sandor Szedmak and Mahesan Niranjan |
| | Session 6B: Short Paper 4 (Semantics) |
| 14:20–14:35 | Syntax is from Mars while Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks
Chris Biemann, Monojit Choudhury and Animesh Mukherjee |
| 14:35–14:50 | Introduction of a new paraphrase generation tool based on Monte-Carlo sampling
Jonathan Chevelu, Thomas Lavergne, Yves Lepage and Thierry Moudenc |
| 14:50–15:05 | Prediction of Thematic Rank for Structured Semantic Role Labeling
Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui and Meng Wang |
| 15:05–15:20 | Transfer Learning, Feature Selection and Word Sense Disambiguation
Paramveer S. Dhillon and Lyle H. Ungar |
| | Session 6C: Short Paper 5 (Spoken Language Processing) |
| 14:20–14:35 | From Extractive to Abstractive Meeting Summaries: Can It Be Done by Sentence Compression?
Fei Liu and Yang Liu |
| 14:35–14:50 | Automatic Story Segmentation using a Bayesian Decision Framework for Statistical Models of Lexical Chain Features
Wai-Kit Lo, Wenying Xiong and Helen Meng |
| 14:50–15:05 | Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-native Speech
Gina-Anne Levow |
| 15:05–15:20 | A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish
Haşim Sak, Tunga Güngör and Murat Saraçlar |
| 15:20–15:35 | Parsing Speech Repair without Specialized Grammar Symbols
Tim Miller, Luan Nguyen and William Schuler |
| | Session 6D: Short Paper 6 (Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 1) |
| 14:20–14:35 | Efficient Inference of CRFs for Large-Scale Natural Language Data
Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| 14:35–14:50 | Iterative Scaling and Coordinate Descent Methods for Maximum Entropy
Fang-Lan Huang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang and Chih-Jen Lin |
| 14:50–15:05 | Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Yashar Mehdad |
| 15:05–15:20 | Markov Random Topic Fields
Hal Daume III |
| | Session 6E: Short Paper 7 (Summarization and Generation) |
| 15:40–15:55 | Multi-Document Summarization using Sentence-based Topic Models
Dingding Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li and Yihong Gong |
| 15:55–16:10 | 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 |
| 16:10–16:25 | Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse
Eva Banik |
| | Session 6F: Short Paper 8 (Sentiment Analysis) |
| 15:25–15:40 | The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language
Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava |
| 15:40–15:55 | Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining
Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn Penstein-Rosé |
| 15:55–16:10 | Graph Ranking for Sentiment Transfer
Qiong Wu, Songbo Tan and Xueqi Cheng |
| 16:10–16:25 | The Contribution of Stylistic Information to Content-based Mobile Spam Filtering
Dae-Neung Sohn, Jung-Tae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim |
| | Session 6G: Short Paper 9 (Question Answering) |
| 15:40–15:55 | Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas and Rani Pinchuk |
| 15:55–16:10 | Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan and Shafiq Joty |
| 16:10–16:25 | Where’s the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
Wei-Yun Ma and Kathy McKeown |
| | Session 6H: Short Paper 10 (Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 2) |
| 15:25–15:40 | A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson |
| 15:40–15:55 | A Succinct N-gram Language Model
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki |
| 15:55–16:10 | Modeling Morphologically Rich Languages Using Split Words and Unstructured Dependencies
Deniz Yuret and Ergun Bicici |
| 16:10–16:25 | Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts
Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk |
| | Session 7D: Short Paper 11 (Information Extraction) |
| 16:50–17:05 | Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data
Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman |
| 17:05–17:20 | Arabic Cross-Document Coreference Resolution
Asad Sayeed, Tamer Elsayed, Nikesh Garera, David Alexander, Tan Xu, Doug Oard, David Yarowsky and Christine Piatko |
| 17:20–17:35 | The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo and Enrique Amigó |
| 17:35–17:50 | Composite Kernels For Relation Extraction
Frank Reichartz, Hannes Korte and Gerhard Paass |
| 17:50–18:05 | Predicting Unknown Time Arguments based on Cross-Event Propagation
Prashant Gupta and Heng Ji |