North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2009)

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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Mari Ostendorf | Michael Collins | Shri Narayanan | Douglas W. Oard | Lucy Vanderwende

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Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses via Semi-supervised Mincuts
Fangzhong Su | Katja Markert

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Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling
Yaw Gyamfi | Janyce Wiebe | Rada Mihalcea | Cem Akkaya

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A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches
Eneko Agirre | Enrique Alfonseca | Keith Hall | Jana Kravalova | Marius Paşca | Aitor Soroa

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A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method Using Dependency Knowledge
Ping Chen | Wei Ding | Chris Bowes | David Brown

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Learning Phoneme Mappings for Transliteration without Parallel Data
Sujith Ravi | Kevin Knight

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A Corpus-Based Approach for the Prediction of Language Impairment in Monolingual English and Spanish-English Bilingual Children
Keyur Gabani | Melissa Sherman | Thamar Solorio | Yang Liu | Lisa Bedore | Elizabeth Peña

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A Discriminative Latent Variable Chinese Segmenter with Hybrid Word/Character Information
Xu Sun | Yaozhong Zhang | Takuya Matsuzaki | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Improved Reconstruction of Protolanguage Word Forms
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté | Thomas L. Griffiths | Dan Klein

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Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction
Shay Cohen | Noah A. Smith

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Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: a Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Jacob Eisenstein | Regina Barzilay

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Efficiently Parsable Extensions to Tree-Local Multicomponent TAG
Rebecca Nesson | Stuart Shieber

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Improving Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Richer Contexts and Smoothing
William P. Headden III | Mark Johnson | David McClosky

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Context-Dependent Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Jamie Brunning | Adrià de Gispert | William Byrne

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Graph-based Learning for Statistical Machine Translation
Andrei Alexandrescu | Katrin Kirchhoff

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Intersecting Multilingual Data for Faster and Better Statistical Translations
Yu Chen | Martin Kay | Andreas Eisele

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Without a ’doubt’? Unsupervised Discovery of Downward-Entailing Operators
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Lillian Lee | Richard Ducott

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The Role of Implicit Argumentation in Nominal SRL
Matthew Gerber | Joyce Chai | Adam Meyers

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Jointly Identifying Predicates, Arguments and Senses using Markov Logic
Ivan Meza-Ruiz | Sebastian Riedel

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Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering
Micha Elsner | Eugene Charniak | Mark Johnson

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Hierarchical Dirichlet Trees for Information Retrieval
Gholamreza Haffari | Yee Whye Teh

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Phrase-Based Query Degradation Modeling for Vocabulary-Independent Ranked Utterance Retrieval
J. Scott Olsson | Douglas W. Oard

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Japanese Query Alteration Based on Lexical Semantic Similarity
Masato Hagiwara | Hisami Suzuki

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Context-based Message Expansion for Disentanglement of Interleaved Text Conversations
Lidan Wang | Douglas W. Oard

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Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models
Hoifung Poon | Colin Cherry | Kristina Toutanova

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11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation
David Chiang | Kevin Knight | Wei Wang

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Efficient Parsing for Transducer Grammars
John DeNero | Mohit Bansal | Adam Pauls | Dan Klein

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Preference Grammars: Softening Syntactic Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
Ashish Venugopal | Andreas Zollmann | Noah A. Smith | Stephan Vogel

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Using a Dependency Parser to Improve SMT for Subject-Object-Verb Languages
Peng Xu | Jaeho Kang | Michael Ringgaard | Franz Och

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Learning Bilingual Linguistic Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Han-Bin Chen | Jian-Cheng Wu | Jason S. Chang

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May All Your Wishes Come True: A Study of Wishes and How to Recognize Them
Andrew B. Goldberg | Nathanael Fillmore | David Andrzejewski | Zhiting Xu | Bryan Gibson | Xiaojin Zhu

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Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression
Shimon Kogan | Dimitry Levin | Bryan R. Routledge | Jacob S. Sagi | Noah A. Smith

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Domain Adaptation with Latent Semantic Association for Named Entity Recognition
Honglei Guo | Huijia Zhu | Zhili Guo | Xiaoxun Zhang | Xian Wu | Zhong Su

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Semi-Automatic Entity Set Refinement
Vishnu Vyas | Patrick Pantel

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Unsupervised Constraint Driven Learning For Transliteration Discovery
Ming-Wei Chang | Dan Goldwasser | Dan Roth | Yuancheng Tu

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On the Syllabification of Phonemes
Susan Bartlett | Grzegorz Kondrak | Colin Cherry

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Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars
Mark Johnson | Sharon Goldwater

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Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition
Jenny Rose Finkel | Christopher D. Manning

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Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees
Y. Albert Park | Roger Levy

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Positive Results for Parsing with a Bounded Stack using a Model-Based Right-Corner Transform
William Schuler

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Hierarchical Text Segmentation from Multi-Scale Lexical Cohesion
Jacob Eisenstein

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Exploring Content Models for Multi-Document Summarization
Aria Haghighi | Lucy Vanderwende

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Global Models of Document Structure using Latent Permutations
Harr Chen | S.R.K. Branavan | Regina Barzilay | David R. Karger

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Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems
Timo Baumann | Michaela Atterer | David Schlangen

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Geo-Centric Language Models for Local Business Voice Search
Amanda Stent | Ilija Zeljković | Diamantino Caseiro | Jay Wilpon

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Improving the Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary for Phone and Word Recognition with Linguistically-Based Pronunciation Rules
Fadi Biadsy | Nizar Habash | Julia Hirschberg

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Using a maximum entropy model to build segmentation lattices for MT
Chris Dyer

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Active Learning for Statistical Phrase-based Machine Translation
Gholamreza Haffari | Maxim Roy | Anoop Sarkar

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Semi-Supervised Lexicon Mining from Parenthetical Expressions in Monolingual Web Pages
Xianchao Wu | Naoaki Okazaki | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers
Gonzalo Iglesias | Adrià de Gispert | Eduardo R. Banga | William Byrne

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Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech
Lei Chen | Klaus Zechner | Xiaoming Xi

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Performance Prediction for Exponential Language Models
Stanley Chen

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Tied-Mixture Language Modeling in Continuous Space
Ruhi Sarikaya | Mohamed Afify | Brian Kingsbury

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Shrinking Exponential Language Models
Stanley Chen

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Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models
Tae Yano | William W. Cohen | Noah A. Smith

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An Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Fine-Grained Opinion Mining
Weifu Du | Songbo Tan

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For a few dollars less: Identifying review pages sans human labels
Luciano Barbosa | Ravi Kumar | Bo Pang | Andrew Tomkins

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More than Words: Syntactic Packaging and Implicit Sentiment
Stephan Greene | Philip Resnik

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Streaming for large scale NLP: Language Modeling
Amit Goyal | Hal Daumé III | Suresh Venkatasubramanian

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The Effect of Corpus Size on Case Frame Acquisition for Discourse Analysis
Ryohei Sasano | Daisuke Kawahara | Sadao Kurohashi

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Semantic-based Estimation of Term Informativeness
Kirill Kireyev

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Optimal Reduction of Rule Length in Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Marco Kuhlmann | Giorgio Satta | David Weir

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Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars
Trevor Cohn | Sharon Goldwater | Phil Blunsom

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Hierarchical Search for Parsing
Adam Pauls | Dan Klein

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An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information
Rajen Subba | Barbara Di Eugenio

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Graph-Cut-Based Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng

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Using Citations to Generate surveys of Scientific Paradigms
Saif Mohammad | Bonnie Dorr | Melissa Egan | Ahmed Hassan | Pradeep Muthukrishan | Vahed Qazvinian | Dragomir Radev | David Zajic

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Non-Parametric Bayesian Areal Linguistics
Hal Daumé III

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Hierarchical Bayesian Domain Adaptation
Jenny Rose Finkel | Christopher D. Manning

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Online EM for Unsupervised Models
Percy Liang | Dan Klein

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Unsupervised Approaches for Automatic Keyword Extraction Using Meeting Transcripts
Feifan Liu | Deana Pennell | Fei Liu | Yang Liu

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A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems
Antoine Raux | Maxine Eskenazi

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Extracting Social Meaning: Identifying Interactional Style in Spoken Conversation
Dan Jurafsky | Rajesh Ranganath | Dan McFarland

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Linear Complexity Context-Free Parsing Pipelines via Chart Constraints
Brian Roark | Kristy Hollingshead

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Improved Syntactic Models for Parsing Speech with Repairs
Tim Miller

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A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs
Klinton Bicknell | Roger Levy

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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Mari Ostendorf | Michael Collins | Shri Narayanan | Douglas W. Oard | Lucy Vanderwende

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Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder
Nguyen Bach | Stephan Vogel | Colin Cherry

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Revisiting Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation IBM Model 4
Sebastian Riedel | James Clarke

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Efficient Extraction of Oracle-best Translations from Hypergraphs
Zhifei Li | Sanjeev Khudanpur

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Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model
Dekai Wu | Pascale Fung

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Comparison of Extended Lexicon Models in Search and Rescoring for SMT
Saša Hasan | Hermann Ney

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A Simplex Armijo Downhill Algorithm for Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation Decoding Parameters
Bing Zhao | Shengyuan Chen

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Translation Corpus Source and Size in Bilingual Retrieval
Paul McNamee | James Mayfield | Charles Nicholas

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Large-scale Computation of Distributional Similarities for Queries
Enrique Alfonseca | Keith Hall | Silvana Hartmann

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Text Categorization from Category Name via Lexical Reference
Libby Barak | Ido Dagan | Eyal Shnarch

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Identifying Types of Claims in Online Customer Reviews
Shilpa Arora | Mahesh Joshi | Carolyn P. Rosé

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Towards Automatic Image Region Annotation - Image Region Textual Coreference Resolution
Emilia Apostolova | Dina Demner-Fushman

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TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora
Nate Blaylock | Bradley Swain | James Allen

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Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | Robert Phillips | Eun Young Ha | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester

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Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems
Kenji Sagae | Gwen Christian | David DeVault | David Traum

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Spherical Discriminant Analysis in Semi-supervised Speaker Clustering
Hao Tang | Stephen Chu | Thomas Huang

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Learning Bayesian Networks for Semantic Frame Composition in a Spoken Dialog System
Marie-Jean Meurs | Fabrice Lefèvre | Renato de Mori

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Evaluation of a System for Noun Concepts Acquisition from Utterances about Images (SINCA) Using Daily Conversation Data
Yuzu Uchida | Kenji Araki

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Web and Corpus Methods for Malay Count Classifier Prediction
Jeremy Nicholson | Timothy Baldwin

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Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions
Adrià de Gispert | Sami Virpioja | Mikko Kurimo | William Byrne

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Generating Synthetic Children’s Acoustic Models from Adult Models
Andreas Hagen | Bryan Pellom | Kadri Hacioglu

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Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable and Vowel Level
Andrew Rosenberg | Julia Hirschberg

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Shallow Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding
Bonaventura Coppola | Alessandro Moschitti | Giuseppe Riccardi

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Automatic Agenda Graph Construction from Human-Human Dialogs using Clustering Method
Cheongjae Lee | Sangkeun Jung | Kyungduk Kim | Gary Geunbae Lee

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A Simple Sentence-Level Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data
Christoph Tillmann | Jian-ming Xu

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Learning Combination Features with L1 Regularization
Daisuke Okanohara | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Multi-scale Personalization for Voice Search Applications
Daniel Bolaños | Geoffrey Zweig | Patrick Nguyen

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The Importance of Sub-Utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty
Heather Pon-Barry | Stuart Shieber

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Using Integer Linear Programming for Detecting Speech Disfluencies
Kallirroi Georgila

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Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews
Kevin Lerman | Ryan McDonald

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Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality
Kino Coursey | Rada Mihalcea

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Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpora with Dependency Heterogeneity
Kun Yu | Junichi Tsujii

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Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech
Lonneke van der Plas | James Henderson | Paola Merlo

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Extending Pronunciation Lexicons via Non-phonemic Respellings
Lucian Galescu

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A Speech Understanding Framework that Uses Multiple Language Models and Multiple Understanding Models
Masaki Katsumaru | Mikio Nakano | Kazunori Komatani | Kotaro Funakoshi | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Taking into Account the Differences between Actively and Passively Acquired Data: The Case of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Datasets
Michael Bloodgood | K. Vijay-Shanker

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Faster MT Decoding Through Pervasive Laziness
Michael Pust | Kevin Knight

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Evaluating the Syntactic Transformations in Gold Standard Corpora for Statistical Sentence Compression
Naman K. Gupta | Sourish Chaudhuri | Carolyn P. Rosé

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Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation
Nguyen Bach | Roger Hsiao | Matthias Eck | Paisarn Charoenpornsawat | Stephan Vogel | Tanja Schultz | Ian Lane | Alex Waibel | Alan Black

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Name Perplexity
Octavian Popescu

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Answer Credibility: A Language Modeling Approach to Answer Validation
Protima Banerjee | Hyoil Han

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Exploiting Named Entity Classes in CCG Surface Realization
Rajakrishnan Rajkumar | Michael White | Dominic Espinosa

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Search Engine Adaptation by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query
Ruiqiang Zhang | Yi Chang | Zhaohui Zheng | Donald Metzler | Jian-yun Nie

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A Local Tree Alignment-based Soft Pattern Matching Approach for Information Extraction
Seokhwan Kim | Minwoo Jeong | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Classifying Factored Genres with Part-of-Speech Histograms
Sergey Feldman | Marius Marin | Julie Medero | Mari Ostendorf

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Towards Effective Sentence Simplification for Automatic Processing of Biomedical Text
Siddhartha Jonnalagadda | Luis Tari | Jörg Hakenberg | Chitta Baral | Graciela Gonzalez

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Improving SCL Model for Sentiment-Transfer Learning
Songbo Tan | Xueqi Cheng

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MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars (Application Note)
Srinivas Bangalore | Pierre Boullier | Alexis Nasr | Owen Rambow | Benoît Sagot

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Lexical and Syntactic Adaptation and Their Impact in Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems
Svetlana Stoyanchev | Amanda Stent

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Analysing Recognition Errors in Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Teemu Hirsimäki | Mikko Kurimo

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The independence of dimensions in multidimensional dialogue act annotation
Volha Petukhova | Harry Bunt

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Improving Coreference Resolution by Using Conversational Metadata
Xiaoqiang Luo | Radu Florian | Todd Ward

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Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination
Yong Zhao | Xiaodong He

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Language Specific Issue and Feature Exploration in Chinese Event Extraction
Zheng Chen | Heng Ji

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Improving A Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training
Zhongqiang Huang | Vladimir Eidelman | Mary Harper

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Statistical Post-Editing of a Rule-Based Machine Translation System
Antonio-L. Lagarda | Vicent Alabau | Francisco Casacuberta | Roberto Silva | Enrique Díaz-de-Liaño

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On the Importance of Pivot Language Selection for Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Paul | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Eiichiro Sumita | Satoshi Nakamura

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Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches
Katja Filippova | Michael Strube

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Determining the position of adverbial phrases in English
Huayan Zhong | Amanda Stent

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Estimating and Exploiting the Entropy of Sense Distributions
Peng Jin | Diana McCarthy | Rob Koeling | John Carroll

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Semantic Classification with WordNet Kernels
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

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Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S.
Dan Gillick

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Quadratic Features and Deep Architectures for Chunking
Joseph Turian | James Bergstra | Yoshua Bengio

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Active Zipfian Sampling for Statistical Parser Training
Onur Çobanoğlu

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Combining Constituent Parsers
Victoria Fossum | Kevin Knight

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Recognising the Predicate-argument Structure of Tagalog
Meladel Mistica | Timothy Baldwin

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Reverse Revision and Linear Tree Combination for Dependency Parsing
Giuseppe Attardi | Felice Dell’Orletta

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Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering
Sibel Yaman | Gokhan Tur | Dimitra Vergyri | Dilek Hakkani-Tur | Mary Harper | Wen Wang

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Score Distribution Based Term Specific Thresholding for Spoken Term Detection
Doğan Can | Murat Saraçlar

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Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field
Dong Yang | Yi-cheng Pan | Sadaoki Furui

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Fast decoding for open vocabulary spoken term detection
Bhuvana Ramabhadran | Abhinav Sethy | Jonathan Mamou | Brian Kingsbury | Upendra Chaudhari

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Tightly coupling Speech Recognition and Search
Taniya Mishra | Srinivas Bangalore

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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium
Ulrich Germann | Chirag Shah | Svetlana Stoyanchev | Carolyn Penstein Rosé | Anoop Sarkar

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Classifier Combination Techniques Applied to Coreference Resolution
Smita Vemulapalli | Xiaoqiang Luo | John F. Pitrelli | Imed Zitouni

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Solving the “Who’s Mark Johnson Puzzle”: Information Extraction Based Cross Document Coreference
Jian Huang | Sarah M. Taylor | Jonathan L. Smith | Konstantinos A. Fotiadis | C. Lee Giles

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Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning
Manuel Kirschner | Raffaella Bernardi

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Sentence Realisation from Bag of Words with Dependency Constraints
Karthik Gali | Sriram Venkatapathy

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Using Language Modeling to Select Useful Annotation Data
Dmitriy Dligach | Martha Palmer

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Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language
Adriane Boyd

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Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping
Ting Qian | Benjamin Van Durme | Lenhart Schubert

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 Multiple Word Alignment with Profile Hidden Markov Models
Aditya Bhargava | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System
Jaime Acosta

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Interactive Annotation Learning with Indirect Feature Voting
Shilpa Arora | Eric Nyberg

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Loss-Sensitive Discriminative Training of Machine Transliteration Models
Kedar Bellare | Koby Crammer | Dayne Freitag

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Syntactic Tree-based Relation Extraction Using a Generalization of Collins and Duffy Convolution Tree Kernel
Mahdy Khayyamian | Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel | Hassan Abolhassani

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Towards Building a Competitive Opinion Summarization System: Challenges and Keys
Elena Lloret | Alexandra Balahur | Manuel Palomar | Andrés Montoyo

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Domain-Independent Shallow Sentence Ordering
Thade Nahnsen

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Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Dialogue Acts
Nicole Novielli | Carlo Strapparava

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Modeling Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion as a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Problem with Minimum Error Rate Training
Taraka Rama | Anil Kumar Singh | Sudheer Kolachina

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Disambiguation of Preposition Sense Using Linguistically Motivated Features
Stephen Tratz | Dirk Hovy