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Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Fast Query for Large Treebanks
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Efficient Parsing of Well-Nested Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
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Time-Efficient Creation of an Accurate Sentence Fusion Corpus
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Information Content Measures of Semantic Similarity Perform Better Without Sense-Tagged Text
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The Simple Truth about Dependency and Phrase Structure Representations: An Opinion Piece
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Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar
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Generalizing Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation using Rules with Adjacent Nonterminals
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The Effect of Ambiguity on the Automated Acquisition of WSD Examples
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Word Sense Subjectivity for Cross-lingual Lexical Substitution
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Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries
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For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia
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Generalizing Syntactic Structures for Product Attribute Candidate Extraction
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Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
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Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation
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Statistical Machine Translation of Texts with Misspelled Words
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Discriminative Learning over Constrained Latent Representations
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Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset
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Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers
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Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
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Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
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Learning to Link Entities with Knowledge Base
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Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search
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Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
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Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
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Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM
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Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options
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Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
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The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Daniel Cer | Christopher D. Manning | Daniel Jurafsky

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Variational Inference for Adaptor Grammars
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Type-Based MCMC
Percy Liang | Michael I. Jordan | Dan Klein

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Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté | John DeNero | Dan Klein

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Linguistic Steganography Using Automatically Generated Paraphrases
Ching-Yun Chang | Stephen Clark

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Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment
Aaron Dunlop | Margaret Mitchell | Brian Roark

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Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
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Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds
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Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses
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Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing?
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A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information
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Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?
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Enlarged Search Space for SITG Parsing
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Improving Data Driven Dependency Parsing using Clausal Information
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A Treebank Query System Based on an Extracted Tree Grammar
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An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation
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Making Conversational Structure Explicit: Identification of Initiation-response Pairs within Online Discussions
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Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays
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Summarizing Microblogs Automatically
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Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users
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Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework
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A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR
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Is Arabic Part of Speech Tagging Feasible Without Word Segmentation?
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Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis
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An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
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Extracting Phrase Patterns with Minimum Redundancy for Unsupervised Speaker Role Classification
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Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling
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Investigations into the Crandem Approach to Word Recognition
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Constraint-Driven Rank-Based Learning for Information Extraction
Sameer Singh | Limin Yao | Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

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Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions
Kevin Gimpel | Noah A. Smith

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Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities
Florian Schwarck | Alexander Fraser | Hinrich Schütze

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Invited Talk: Music, Language, and Computational Modeling: Lessons from the Key-Finding Problem
David Temperley

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An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing
Yoav Goldberg | Michael Elhadad

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From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky

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Relaxed Marginal Inference and its Application to Dependency Parsing
Sebastian Riedel | David A. Smith

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Optimal Parsing Strategies for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
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The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons
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Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables
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Convolution Kernels for Opinion Holder Extraction
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An Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews
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Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature
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Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure
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Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration
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A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
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Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation
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Why Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars?
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Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains
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Multi-document Summarization via Budgeted Maximization of Submodular Functions
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Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces
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Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles
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Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing
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Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization
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Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
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Model Combination for Machine Translation
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Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
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