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Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mirella Lapata | Hwee Tou Ng
Mirella Lapata | Hwee Tou Ng
Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields
Jeremy Jancsary | Johannes Matiasek | Harald Trost
Jeremy Jancsary | Johannes Matiasek | Harald Trost
It’s a Contradiction – no, it’s not: A Case Study using Functional Relations
Alan Ritter | Stephen Soderland | Doug Downey | Oren Etzioni
Alan Ritter | Stephen Soderland | Doug Downey | Oren Etzioni
Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction
Yunyao Li | Rajasekar Krishnamurthy | Sriram Raghavan | Shivakumar Vaithyanathan | H. V. Jagadish
Yunyao Li | Rajasekar Krishnamurthy | Sriram Raghavan | Shivakumar Vaithyanathan | H. V. Jagadish
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
Omar Zaidan | Jason Eisner
Omar Zaidan | Jason Eisner
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text
Shane Bergsma | Dekang Lin | Randy Goebel
Shane Bergsma | Dekang Lin | Randy Goebel
Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
Qun Liu | Zhongjun He | Yang Liu | Shouxun Lin
Qun Liu | Zhongjun He | Yang Liu | Shouxun Lin
Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems
Xiaodong He | Mei Yang | Jianfeng Gao | Patrick Nguyen | Robert Moore
Xiaodong He | Mei Yang | Jianfeng Gao | Patrick Nguyen | Robert Moore
Coarse-to-Fine Syntactic Machine Translation using Language Projections
Slav Petrov | Aria Haghighi | Dan Klein
Slav Petrov | Aria Haghighi | Dan Klein
Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification
Jun Zhao | Kang Liu | Gen Wang
Jun Zhao | Kang Liu | Gen Wang
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
Carmen Banea | Rada Mihalcea | Janyce Wiebe | Samer Hassan
Carmen Banea | Rada Mihalcea | Janyce Wiebe | Samer Hassan
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen
Stacking Dependency Parsers
André Filipe Torres Martins | Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith | Eric P. Xing
André Filipe Torres Martins | Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith | Eric P. Xing
Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features
David Chiang | Yuval Marton | Philip Resnik
David Chiang | Yuval Marton | Philip Resnik
Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems
Shaolin Qu | Joyce Chai
Shaolin Qu | Joyce Chai
Cheap and Fast – But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks
Rion Snow | Brendan O’Connor | Daniel Jurafsky | Andrew Ng
Rion Snow | Brendan O’Connor | Daniel Jurafsky | Andrew Ng
Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference
Alex Baron | Marjorie Freedman
Alex Baron | Marjorie Freedman
Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
Yassine Benajiba | Mona Diab | Paolo Rosso
Yassine Benajiba | Mona Diab | Paolo Rosso
Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model
John DeNero | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté | Dan Klein
John DeNero | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté | Dan Klein
Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy
Weiwei Ding | Baobao Chang
Weiwei Ding | Baobao Chang
A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers
Jianfeng Gao | Mark Johnson
Jianfeng Gao | Mark Johnson
Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models
David Hall | Daniel Jurafsky | Christopher D. Manning
David Hall | Daniel Jurafsky | Christopher D. Manning
Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Saša Hasan | Juri Ganitkevitch | Hermann Ney | Jesús Andrés-Ferrer
Saša Hasan | Juri Ganitkevitch | Hermann Ney | Jesús Andrés-Ferrer
A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web
Shinsuke Higuchi | Rafal Rzepka | Kenji Araki
Shinsuke Higuchi | Rafal Rzepka | Kenji Araki
When Harry Met Harri: Cross-lingual Name Spelling Normalization
Fei Huang | Ahmad Emami | Imed Zitouni
Fei Huang | Ahmad Emami | Imed Zitouni
Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models
Jung-Tae Lee | Sang-Bum Kim | Young-In Song | Hae-Chang Rim
Jung-Tae Lee | Sang-Bum Kim | Young-In Song | Hae-Chang Rim
Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce
Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin
Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints
Yugo Murawaki | Sadao Kurohashi
Yugo Murawaki | Sadao Kurohashi
Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles
Ramesh Nallapati | Christopher D. Manning
Ramesh Nallapati | Christopher D. Manning
A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations
Naoaki Okazaki | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Sophia Ananiadou | Jun’ichi Tsujii
Naoaki Okazaki | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Sophia Ananiadou | Jun’ichi Tsujii
Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units
Marco Pennacchiotti | Diego De Cao | Roberto Basili | Danilo Croce | Michael Roth
Marco Pennacchiotti | Diego De Cao | Roberto Basili | Danilo Croce | Michael Roth
Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation
Stephan Raaijmakers | Khiet Truong | Theresa Wilson
Stephan Raaijmakers | Khiet Truong | Theresa Wilson
Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions
Germán Sanchis-Trilles | Daniel Ortiz-Martínez | Jorge Civera | Francisco Casacuberta | Enrique Vidal | Hieu Hoang
Germán Sanchis-Trilles | Daniel Ortiz-Martínez | Jorge Civera | Francisco Casacuberta | Enrique Vidal | Hieu Hoang
Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model
Lei Shi | Ming Zhou
Lei Shi | Ming Zhou
A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists
Hirotoshi Taira | Sanae Fujita | Masaaki Nagata
Hirotoshi Taira | Sanae Fujita | Masaaki Nagata
Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection
David Vickrey | Aaron Bronzan | William Choi | Aman Kumar | Jason Turner-Maier | Arthur Wang | Daphne Koller
David Vickrey | Aaron Bronzan | William Choi | Aman Kumar | Jason Turner-Maier | Arthur Wang | Daphne Koller
Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns
Stephen Wan | Robert Dale | Mark Dras | Cécile Paris
Stephen Wan | Robert Dale | Mark Dras | Cécile Paris
Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis
Xiaojun Wan
Xiaojun Wan
A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark
Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Bing Zhao | Yaser Al-onaizan
Bing Zhao | Yaser Al-onaizan
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks
Partha Pratim Talukdar | Joseph Reisinger | Marius Paşca | Deepak Ravichandran | Rahul Bhagat | Fernando Pereira
Partha Pratim Talukdar | Joseph Reisinger | Marius Paşca | Deepak Ravichandran | Rahul Bhagat | Fernando Pereira
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms
David Chiang | Steve DeNeefe | Yee Seng Chan | Hwee Tou Ng
David Chiang | Steve DeNeefe | Yee Seng Chan | Hwee Tou Ng
Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Roy Tromble | Shankar Kumar | Franz Och | Wolfgang Macherey
Roy Tromble | Shankar Kumar | Franz Och | Wolfgang Macherey
Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective
Markos Mylonakis | Khalil Sima’an
Markos Mylonakis | Khalil Sima’an
Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering
Nathanael Chambers | Daniel Jurafsky
Nathanael Chambers | Daniel Jurafsky
Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts
Roser Morante | Anthony Liekens | Walter Daelemans
Roser Morante | Anthony Liekens | Walter Daelemans
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Wolfgang Macherey | Franz Och | Ignacio Thayer | Jakob Uszkoreit
Wolfgang Macherey | Franz Och | Ignacio Thayer | Jakob Uszkoreit
Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation
Arul Menezes | Chris Quirk
Arul Menezes | Chris Quirk
Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization with Encyclopedic Knowledge and Spreading Activation
Vivi Nastase
Vivi Nastase
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
Wei Lu | Hwee Tou Ng | Wee Sun Lee | Luke S. Zettlemoyer
Wei Lu | Hwee Tou Ng | Wee Sun Lee | Luke S. Zettlemoyer
Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis
Yejin Choi | Claire Cardie
Yejin Choi | Claire Cardie
A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference
Bill MacCartney | Michel Galley | Christopher D. Manning
Bill MacCartney | Michel Galley | Christopher D. Manning
Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition
Xinhao Wang | Jiazhong Nie | Dingsheng Luo | Xihong Wu
Xinhao Wang | Jiazhong Nie | Dingsheng Luo | Xihong Wu
N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation
Bo-June Paul Hsu | James Glass
Bo-June Paul Hsu | James Glass
Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network
Gregor Leusch | Evgeny Matusov | Hermann Ney
Gregor Leusch | Evgeny Matusov | Hermann Ney
Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora
Matthew Snover | Bonnie Dorr | Richard Schwartz
Matthew Snover | Bonnie Dorr | Richard Schwartz
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Zhiheng Huang | Marcus Thint | Zengchang Qin
Zhiheng Huang | Marcus Thint | Zengchang Qin
CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation
Baoli Li | Yandong Liu | Eugene Agichtein
Baoli Li | Yandong Liu | Eugene Agichtein
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
Richard C. Wang | Nico Schlaefer | William W. Cohen | Eric Nyberg
Richard C. Wang | Nico Schlaefer | William W. Cohen | Eric Nyberg
Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning
Ananlada Chotimongkol | Alexander Rudnicky
Ananlada Chotimongkol | Alexander Rudnicky
Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features
Chikara Hashimoto | Daisuke Kawahara
Chikara Hashimoto | Daisuke Kawahara
Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study
Zhi Zhong | Hwee Tou Ng | Yee Seng Chan
Zhi Zhong | Hwee Tou Ng | Yee Seng Chan
Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms
Mamoru Komachi | Taku Kudo | Masashi Shimbo | Yuji Matsumoto
Mamoru Komachi | Taku Kudo | Masashi Shimbo | Yuji Matsumoto
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
Zhifei Li | David Yarowsky
Zhifei Li | David Yarowsky
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Jacob Eisenstein | Regina Barzilay
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Jacob Eisenstein | Regina Barzilay
Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking
Yixuan Liu | Bin Wang | Fan Ding | Sheng Xu
Yixuan Liu | Bin Wang | Fan Ding | Sheng Xu