North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2004)

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Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

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Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

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A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking
R. Florian | H. Hassan | A. Ittycheriah | H. Jing | N. Kambhatla | X. Luo | N. Nicolov | S. Roukos

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Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus
Chung Heong Gooi | James Allan

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Robust Reading: Identification and Tracing of Ambiguous Names
Xin Li | Paul Morie | Dan Roth

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A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment
Jacob Eisenstein | C. Mario Christoudias

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Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System
Srinivas Bangalore | Michael Johnston

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Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models
Tim Paek | Eric Horvitz

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Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources
Wesley Hildebrandt | Boris Katz | Jimmy Lin

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Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
Radu Soricut | Eric Brill

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A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
Rense Lange | Juan Moran | Warren R. Greiff | Lisa Ferro

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Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents
Keiji Shinzato | Kentaro Torisawa

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Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does
Michelle Gregory | Mark Johnson | Eugene Charniak

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Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection
Miles Osborne | Jason Baldridge

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Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing
Ron Kaplan | Stefan Riezler | Tracy H. King | John T. Maxwell III | Alex Vasserman | Richard Crouch

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Training Tree Transducers
Jonathan Graehl | Kevin Knight

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Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization
Regina Barzilay | Lillian Lee

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The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks
Mirella Lapata | Frank Keller

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Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval
Murat Saraclar | Richard Sproat

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Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
Joungbum Kim | Sarah E. Schwarm | Mari Ostendorf

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Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method
Ani Nenkova | Rebecca Passonneau

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Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations
Mirella Lapata | Alex Lascarides

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A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation
Franz Josef Och | Daniel Gildea | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Anoop Sarkar | Kenji Yamada | Alex Fraser | Shankar Kumar | Libin Shen | David Smith | Katherine Eng | Viren Jain | Zhen Jin | Dragomir Radev

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Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Shankar Kumar | William Byrne

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Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation
Libin Shen | Anoop Sarkar | Franz Josef Och

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Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays
Derrick Higgins | Jill Burstein | Daniel Marcu | Claudia Gentile

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A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | James P. Callan

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Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources
Kate Forbes-Riley | Diane Litman

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The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Robert Porzel | Manja Baudis

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Non-Native Users in the Let’s Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch
Antoine Raux | Maxine Eskenazi

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Comparison of Two Interactive Search Refinement Techniques
Olga Vechtomova | Murat Karamuftuoglu

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Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
Sameer S. Pradhan | Wayne H. Ward | Kadri Hacioglu | James H. Martin | Dan Jurafsky

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Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web
Nobuhiro Kaji | Masashi Okamoto | Sadao Kurohashi

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Shallow Semantic Parsing of Chinese
Honglin Sun | Daniel Jurafsky

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Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Richard Zens | Hermann Ney

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Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Dragos Stefan Munteanu | Alexander Fraser | Daniel Marcu

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What’s in a translation rule?
Michel Galley | Mark Hopkins | Kevin Knight | Daniel Marcu

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Improving Named Entity Translation Combining Phonetic and Semantic Similarities
Fei Huang | Stephan Vogel | Alex Waibel

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The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation
Andrew Kehler | Douglas Appelt | Lara Taylor | Aleksandr Simma

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Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution
David Bean | Ellen Riloff

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Exponential Priors for Maximum Entropy Models
Joshua Goodman

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Multiple Similarity Measures and Source-Pair Information in Story Link Detection
Francine Chen | Ayman Farahat | Thorsten Brants

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Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes
Patrick Pantel | Deepak Ravichandran

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Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields
Fuchun Peng | Andrew McCallum

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Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training
Scott Miller | Jethran Guinness | Alex Zamanian

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Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004

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Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004

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Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web
David Kirk Evans | Judith L. Klavans | Kathleen R. McKeown

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ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System
Diane J. Litman | Scott Silliman

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Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto
Kristin Precoda | Horacio Franco | Ascander Dost | Michael Frandsen | John Fry | Andreas Kathol | Colleen Richey | Susanne Riehemann | Dimitra Vergyri | Jing Zheng | Christopher Culy

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MiTAP for SARS Detection
Laurie E. Damianos | Samuel Bayer | Michael A. Chisholm | John Henderson | Lynette Hirschman | William Morgan | Marc Ubaldino | Guido Zarrella | James M. Wilson V | Marat G. Polyak

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Multilingual Video and Audio News Alerting
David D. Palmer | Patrick Bray | Marc Reichman | Katherine Rhodes | Noah White | Andrew Merlino | Francis Kubala

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Open Text Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet
Lei Shi | Rada Mihalcea

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A Scaleable Multi-document Centroid-based Summarizer
Dragomir Radev | Timothy Allison | Matthew Craig | Stanko Dimitrov | Kareem Omer | Michael Topper | Adam Winkel | Jin Yi

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SenseClusters - Finding Clusters that Represent Word Senses
Amruta Purandare | Ted Pedersen

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Spoken Dialogue for Simulation Control and Conversational Tutoring
Elizabeth Owen Bratt | Karl Schultz | Brady Clark

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A Thai Speech Translation System for Medical Dialogs
Tanja Schultz | Dorcas Alexander | Alan W. Black | Kay Peterson | Sinaporn Suebvisai | Alex Waibel

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Use and Acquisition of Semantic Language Model
Kuansan Wang | Ye-Yi Wang | Alex Acero

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WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts
Ted Pedersen | Siddharth Patwardhan | Jason Michelizzi

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Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

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Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

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Using N-Grams To Understand the Nature of Summaries
Michele Banko | Lucy Vanderwende

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MMR-based Feature Selection for Text Categorization
Changki Lee | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Example-based Rescoring of Statistical Machine Translation Output
Michael Paul | Eiichiro Sumita | Seiichi Yamamoto

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An Empirical Study on Multiple LVCSR Model Combination by Machine Learning
Takehito Utsuro | Yasuhiro Kodama | Tomohiro Watanabe | Hiromitsu Nishizaki | Seiichi Nakagawa

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Enhancing Linguistically Oriented Automatic Keyword Extraction
Anette Hulth

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Language Model Adaptation with MAP Estimation and the Perceptron Algorithm
Michiel Bacchiani | Brian Roark | Murat Saraclar

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Advances in Children’s Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor
Andreas Hagen | Bryan Pellom | Sarel van Vuuren | Ronald Cole

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Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet
Benfeng Chen | Pascale Fung

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Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation
Andrew Kehler | Douglas Appelt | Lara Taylor | Aleksandr Simma

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Using N-best lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech
Lufeng Zhai | Pascale Fung | Richard Schwartz | Marine Carpuat | Dekai Wu

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Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis for Multimodal Reference Resolution in a Conversation System
Joyce Y. Chai | Zahar Prasov | Pengyu Hong

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UI on the Fly: Generating a Multimodal User Interface
David Reitter | Erin Panttaja | Fred Cummins

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Web Search Intent Induction via Automatic Query Reformulation
Hal Daumé III | Eric Brill

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HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Analytical Question Answering
Sharon Small | Tomek Strzalkowski

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Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation
Young-Suk Lee

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Correction Grammars for Error Handling in a Speech Dialog System
Hirohiko Sagawa | Teruko Mitamura | Eric Nyberg

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A Comparison of Rule–Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement
Ruhi Srikaya | Yuqing Gao | Michael Picheny

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Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks
D. Hillard | M. Ostendorf | A. Stolcke | Y. Liu | E. Shriberg

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Speech Graffiti vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience
Stefanie Tomko | Roni Rosenfeld

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Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points
Andrew Rosenberg | Ed Binkowski

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Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition
Karen Livescu | James Glass

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Context-based Speech Recognition Error Detection and Correction
Arup Sarma | David D. Palmer

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Feature Selection for Trainable Multilingual Broadcast News Segmentation
David D. Palmer | Marc Reichman | Elyes Yaich

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Direct Maximization of Average Precision by Hill-Climbing, with a Comparison to a Maximum Entropy Approach
William Morgan | Warren Greiff | John Henderson

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Automated Team Discourse Annotation and Performance Prediction Using LSA
Melanie J. Martin | Peter W. Foltz

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A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Christoph Tillmann

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Summarizing Email Threads
Owen Rambow | Lokesh Shrestha | John Chen | Christy Laurdisen

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Confidence Estimation for Information Extraction
Aron Culotta | Andrew McCallum

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A Speech-in List-out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces
Vijay Divi | C. Forlines | Jan Van Gemert | Bhiksha Raj | B. Schmidt-Nielsen | Kent Wittenburg | Joseph Woelfel | Fang-Fang Zhang

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Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation
Emilia Stoica | Marti A. Hearst

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Computational Linkuistics: Word Triggers across Hyperlinks
Dragomir Radev | Hong Qi | Adam Winkel | Daniel Tam

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Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation
Jeremy G. Kahn | Mari Ostendorf | Ciprian Chelba

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Polarity Sensitivity and Evaluation Order in Type-Logical Grammar
Chung-chieh Shan

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Multi-Speaker Language Modeling
Gang Ji | Jeffrey Bilmes

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Prosody-based Topic Segmentation for Mandarin Broadcast News
Gina-Anne Levow

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Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese
Sameer Pradhan | Honglin Sun | Wayne Ward | James H. Martin | Daniel Jurafsky

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A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging
Kadri Hacioglu

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Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks
Mona Diab | Kadri Hacioglu | Daniel Jurafsky

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Converting Text into Agent Animations: Assigning Gestures to Text
Yukiko I. Nakano | Masashi Okamoto | Daisuke Kawahara | Qing Li | Toyoaki Nishida

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A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection
Matthew Snover | Bonnie Dorr | Richard Schwartz