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Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Annie Zaenen | Antal van den Bosch

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Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge
Yonggang Deng | Yuqing Gao

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A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation
Pi-Chuan Chang | Kristina Toutanova

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Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation
John DeNero | Dan Klein

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Transductive learning for statistical machine translation
Nicola Ueffing | Gholamreza Haffari | Anoop Sarkar

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Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation
Yee Seng Chan | Hwee Tou Ng | David Chiang

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Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation
Lucia Specia | Mark Stevenson | Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation
Yee Seng Chan | Hwee Tou Ng

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Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao

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A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications
Hal Daumé III | Lyle Campbell

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A discriminative language model with pseudo-negative samples
Daisuke Okanohara | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components
Martijn Spitters | Marco De Boni | Jakub Zavrel | Remko Bonnema

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On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of ‘okay’
Agustín Gravano | Stefan Benus | Héctor Chávez | Julia Hirschberg | Lauren Wilcox

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Predicting Success in Dialogue
David Reitter | Johanna D. Moore

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Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog
Christoph Müller

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A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
Jianfeng Gao | Galen Andrew | Mark Johnson | Kristina Toutanova

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Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning
Smaranda Muresan | Owen Rambow

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Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark

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Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model
Aria Haghighi | Dan Klein

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Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Hua Wu | Haifeng Wang

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Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction
Tarek Sherif | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns
Guihua Sun | Xiaohua Liu | Gao Cong | Ming Zhou | Zhongyang Xiong | John Lee | Chin-Yew Lin

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Benefits of the ‘Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone’: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages
Peter Chew | Ahmed Abdelali

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A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation
Joshua Albrecht | Rebecca Hwa

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Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web
Philipp Cimiano | Johanna Wenderoth

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A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification
Alexis Palmer | Elias Ponvert | Jason Baldridge | Carlota Smith

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Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling
Marco Baroni | Stefan Evert

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A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora
Judita Preiss | Ted Briscoe | Anna Korhonen

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A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation
Vera Demberg

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Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology
François Barthélemy

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Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps
Robert Daland | Andrea D. Sims | Janet Pierrehumbert

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Substring-Based Transliteration
Tarek Sherif | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Antti Puurula | Mikko Kurimo

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Pipeline Iteration
Kristy Hollingshead | Brian Roark

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Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus
Yuk Wah Wong | Raymond Mooney

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Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing
Jens Nilsson | Joakim Nivre | Johan Hall

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Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
Rada Mihalcea | Carmen Banea | Janyce Wiebe

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Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach
Ann Devitt | Khurshid Ahmad

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Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature
Ben Medlock | Ted Briscoe

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Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation
Koen Deschacht | Marie-Francine Moens

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User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation
Vincenzo Pallotta | Violeta Seretan | Marita Ailomaa

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Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives
Pei-Yun Hsueh | Johanna D. Moore

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Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval
Liang-Chih Yu | Chung-Hsien Wu | Chin-Yew Lin | Eduard Hovy | Chia-Ling Lin

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Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Vera Demberg | Helmut Schmid | Gregor Möhler

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What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness
Iryna Gurevych | Christof Müller | Torsten Zesch

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Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts
Hongyan Jing | Nanda Kambhatla | Salim Roukos

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Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World’s Languages
Animesh Mukherjee | Monojit Choudhury | Anupam Basu | Niloy Ganguly

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Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method
Su-Youn Yoon | Kyoung-Young Kim | Richard Sproat

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Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names
Haizhou Li | Khe Chai Sim | Jin-Shea Kuo | Minghui Dong

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Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation
Einat Minkov | Kristina Toutanova | Hisami Suzuki

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Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer
Bogdan Babych | Anthony Hartley | Serge Sharoff | Olga Mudraya

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Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models
Liang Huang | David Chiang

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Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction
Srinivas Bangalore | Patrick Haffner | Stephan Kanthak

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Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages
Marco Kuhlmann | Mathias Möhl

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Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into efficiently-parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold
Mark Johnson

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Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries
Makoto Kanazawa

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Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
Daniel Gildea | David Temperley

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Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs
Andrew Gordon | Reid Swanson

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A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification
Min Zhang | Wanxiang Che | Aiti Aw | Chew Lim Tan | Guodong Zhou | Ting Liu | Sheng Li

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Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank
Chang Liu | Hwee Tou Ng

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A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences
Katrin Erk

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SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking
Yoav Goldberg | Michael Elhadad

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Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining
Dmitry Davidov | Ari Rappoport | Moshe Koppel

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Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank
David Vadas | James Curran

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Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank
Stephen Clark | James Curran

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Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation
Hal Daumé III

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Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai

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The Infinite Tree
Jenny Rose Finkel | Trond Grenager | Christopher D. Manning

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Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning
Ming-Wei Chang | Lev Ratinov | Dan Roth

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Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Hany Hassan | Khalil Sima’an | Andy Way

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Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References
Joshua Albrecht | Rebecca Hwa

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Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
Yanjun Ma | Nicolas Stroppa | Andy Way

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Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Antti-Veikko Rosti | Spyros Matsoukas | Richard Schwartz

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Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses
Katja Filippova | Michael Strube

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A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar
Claire Gardent | Eric Kow

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Sentence generation as a planning problem
Alexander Koller | Matthew Stone

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GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency
Andrew Mutton | Mark Dras | Stephen Wan | Robert Dale

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Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution
Jacob Eisenstein | Randall Davis

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The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mihai Rotaru | Diane Litman

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Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems
Yi Liu | Joyce Chai | Rong Jin

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A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home
Michael Johnston | Luis Fernando D’Haro | Michelle Levine | Bernard Renger

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Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing
Yoav Seginer

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K-best Spanning Tree Parsing
Keith Hall

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Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight?
Rens Bod

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An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses
Roi Reichart | Ari Rappoport

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Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems
Anindya Ghose | Panagiotis Ipeirotis | Arun Sundararajan

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PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining
Andrea Esuli | Fabrizio Sebastiani

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Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis
Ryan McDonald | Kerry Hannan | Tyler Neylon | Mike Wells | Jeff Reynar

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Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification
John Blitzer | Mark Dredze | Fernando Pereira

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Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach
Samuel Brody

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Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition
Idan Szpektor | Eyal Shnarch | Ido Dagan

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Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
Stefan Riezler | Alexander Vasserman | Ioannis Tsochantaridis | Vibhu Mittal | Yi Liu

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A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts
John Lee

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Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation
Olivier Ferret

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The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation
Seeger Fisher | Brian Roark

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PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue
François Mairesse | Marilyn Walker

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Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input
Igor Malioutov | Alex Park | Regina Barzilay | James Glass

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Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation
David Talbot | Miles Osborne

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Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation
Yik-Cheung Tam | Ian Lane | Tanja Schultz

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Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns
Xiaofeng Yang | Jian Su

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Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng

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Generating a Table-of-Contents
S. R. K. Branavan | Pawan Deshpande | Regina Barzilay

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Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction
Xiaojun Wan | Jianwu Yang | Jianguo Xiao

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Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture
Ronan Collobert | Jason Weston

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Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information
Roxana Girju

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Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision
Razvan Bunescu | Raymond Mooney

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A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity
Feiyu Xu | Hans Uszkoreit | Hong Li

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A Multi-resolution Framework for Information Extraction from Free Text
Mstislav Maslennikov | Tat-Seng Chua

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Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web
Benjamin Rosenfeld | Ronen Feldman

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Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures
Jiří Havelka

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Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets
Roi Reichart | Ari Rappoport

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HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints
Kenji Sagae | Yusuke Miyao | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks
Ivan Titov | James Henderson

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Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems
Sarvnaz Karimi | Andrew Turpin | Falk Scholer

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Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration
Sarvnaz Karimi | Falk Scholer | Andrew Turpin

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Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity
Shane Bergsma | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora
Emmanuel Morin | Béatrice Daille | Koichi Takeuchi | Kyo Kageura

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Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information
Feifan Liu | Yang Liu

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Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model
Deirdre Hogan

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A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization
Conghui Zhu | Jie Tang | Hang Li | Hwee Tou Ng | Tiejun Zhao

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Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue
Doug Downey | Stefan Schoenmackers | Oren Etzioni

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Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules
Yang Liu | Yun Huang | Qun Liu | Shouxun Lin

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Ordering Phrases with Function Words
Hendra Setiawan | Min-Yen Kan | Haizhou Li

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A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation
Chi-Ho Li | Minghui Li | Dongdong Zhang | Mu Li | Ming Zhou | Yi Guan

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Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Trevor Cohn | Mirella Lapata

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A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling
Martin Jansche

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A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging
Sharon Goldwater | Tom Griffiths

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Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models
Noah A. Smith | Douglas L. Vail | John D. Lafferty

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Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification
Libin Shen | Giorgio Satta | Aravind Joshi

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Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won’t Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors
Hoa Trang Dang | Jimmy Lin

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Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question Answer Classification
Alessandro Moschitti | Silvia Quarteroni | Roberto Basili | Suresh Manandhar

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Language-independent Probabilistic Answer Ranking for Question Answering
Jeongwoo Ko | Teruko Mitamura | Eric Nyberg