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Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04)

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Optimization in Multimodal Interpretation
Joyce Y. Chai | Pengyu Hong | Michelle X. Zhou | Zahar Prasov

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Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammar
Luc Steels

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A Distributional Model of Semantic Context Effects in Lexical Processing
Scott McDonald | Chris Brew

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Analysis of Mixed Natural and Symbolic Input in Mathematical Dialogs
Magdalena Wolska | Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová

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A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs
Mark Johnson | Eugene Charniak

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Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech
Keith B. Hall | Mark Johnson

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Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm
Brian Roark | Murat Saraclar | Michael Collins | Mark Johnson

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Statistical Modeling for Unit Selection in Speech Synthesis
Mehryar Mohri | Cyril Allauzen | Michael Riley

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Developing a Flexible Spoken Dialog System Using Simulation
Grace Chung

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Data-Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System
Hilda Hardy | Tomek Strzalkowski | Min Wu | Cristian Ursu | Nick Webb | Alan Biermann | R. Bryce Inouye | Ashley McKenzie

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Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentations in Spoken Dialog Systems
Amanda Stent | Rashmi Prasad | Marilyn Walker

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User Expertise Modeling and Adaptivity in a Speech-Based E-Mail System
Kristiina Jokinen | Kari Kanto

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Discriminative Training of a Neural Network Statistical Parser
James Henderson

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Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models
Stephen Clark | James R. Curran

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Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm
Michael Collins | Brian Roark

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Convolution Kernels with Feature Selection for Natural Language Processing Tasks
Jun Suzuki | Hideki Isozaki | Eisaku Maeda

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Improving Pronoun Resolution by Incorporating Coreferential Information of Candidates
Xiaofeng Yang | Jian Su | Guodong Zhou | Chew-Lim Tan

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A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based On the Bell Tree
Xiaoqiang Luo | Abe Ittycheriah | Hongyan Jing | Nanda Kambhatla | Salim Roukos

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Learning to Resolve Bridging References
Massimo Poesio | Rahul Mehta | Axel Maroudas | Janet Hitzeman

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Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Conference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization
Vincent Ng

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A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration
Haizhou Li | Min Zhang | Jian Su

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Collocation Translation Acquisition Using Monolingual Corpora
Yajuan Lü | Ming Zhou

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Statistical Machine Translation with Word- and Sentence-Aligned Parallel Corpora
Chris Callison-Burch | David Talbot | Miles Osborne

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Finding Ideographic Representations of Japanese Names Written in Latin Script via Language Identification and Corpus Validation
Yan Qu | Gregory Grefenstette

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Extracting Regulatory Gene Expression Networks From Pubmed
Jasmin Saric | Lars J. Jensen | Peer Bork | Rossitza Ouzounova | Isabel Rojas

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Linguistic Profiling for Authorship Recognition and Verification
Hans van Halteren

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An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task
Enrique Amigo | Julio Gonzalo | Victor Peinado | Anselmo Peñas | Felisa Verdejo

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Mining Metalinguistic Activity in Corpora to Create Lexical Resources Using Information Extraction Techniques: the MOP System
Carlos Rodriguez Penagos

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Optimizing Typed Feature Structure Grammar Parsing through Non-Statistical Indexing
Cosmin Munteanu | Gerald Penn

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Head-Driven Parsing for Word Lattices
Christopher Collins | Bob Carpenter | Gerald Penn

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Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying
Gerald Penn

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Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis
Ruth Fuchss | Alexander Koller | Joachim Niehren | Stefan Thater

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Learning with Unlabeled Data for Text Categorization Using a Bootstrapping and a Feature Projection Technique
Youngjoong Ko | Jungyun Seo

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The Sentimental Factor: Improving Review Classification Via Human-Provided Information
Philip Beineke | Trevor Hastie | Shivakumar Vaithyanathan

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A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts
Bo Pang | Lillian Lee

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Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text
Diana McCarthy | Rob Koeling | Julie Weeds | John Carroll

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Unsupervised Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Probabilistic Models
Indrajit Bhattacharya | Lise Getoor | Yoshua Bengio

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Chinese Verb Sense Discrimination Using an EM Clustering Model with Rich Linguistic Features
Jinying Chen | Martha Palmer

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Relieving the data Acquisition Bottleneck in Word Sense Disambiguation
Mona Diab

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Enriching the Output of a Parser Using Memory-based Learning
Valentin Jijkoun | Maarten de Rijke

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Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations
Aoife Cahill | Michael Burke | Ruth O’Donovan | Josef van Genabith | Andy Way

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Deep Dependencies from Context-Free Statistical Parsers: Correcting the Surface Dependency Approximation
Roger Levy | Christopher Manning

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A Study on Convolution Kernels for Shallow Statistic Parsing
Alessandro Moschitti

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Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Malte Gabsdil | Oliver Lemon

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Predicting Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues
Diane J. Litman | Kate Forbes-Riley

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Building Verb Predicates: A Computational View
Fernando Gomez

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Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II Treebank
Ruth O’Donovan | Michael Burke | Aoife Cahill | Josef van Genabith | Andy Way

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Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE
Rebecca Green | Bonnie J. Dorr | Philip Resnik

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Paragraph-, Word-, and Coherence-based Approaches to Sentence Ranking: A Comparison of Algorithm and Human Performance
Florian Wolf | Edward Gibson

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Evaluating Centering-Based Metrics of Coherence
Nikiforos Karamanis | Massimo Poesio | Chris Mellish | Jon Oberlander

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Computing Locally Coherent Discourses
Ernst Althaus | Nikiforos Karamanis | Alexander Koller

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Generating Referring Expressions in Open Domains
Advaith Siddharthan | Ann Copestake

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Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora
Takaaki Hasegawa | Satoshi Sekine | Ralph Grishman

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Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction
Aron Culotta | Jeffrey Sorensen

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Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Texts
Barbara Rosario | Marti Hearst

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Collective Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks
Razvan Bunescu | Raymond Mooney

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Error Mining for Wide-Coverage Grammar Engineering
Gertjan van Noord

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Alternative approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules
Gabriel Infante-Lopez | Maarten de Rijke

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Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation
Jianfeng Gao | Andi Wu | Mu Li | Chang-Ning Huang | Hongqiao Li | Xinsong Xia | Haowei Qin

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Experiments in parallel-text based grammar induction
Jonas Kuhn

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Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency
Dan Klein | Christopher Manning

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Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning
Noah A. Smith | Jason Eisner

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Multi-Engine Machine Translation with Voted Language Model
Tadashi Nomoto

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Aligning words using matrix factorisation
Cyril Goutte | Kenji Yamada | Eric Gaussier

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FSA: An Efficient and Flexible C++ Toolkit for Finite State Automata Using On-Demand Computation
Stephan Kanthak | Hermann Ney

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Improving IBM Word Alignment Model 1
Robert C. Moore

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A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Eric Gaussier | J.M. Renders | I. Matveeva | C. Goutte | H. Dejean

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Creating Multilingual Translation Lexicons with Regional Variations Using Web Corpora
Pu-Jen Cheng | Wen-Hsiang Lu | Jei-Wen Teng | Lee-Feng Chien

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Probabilistic Parsing Strategies
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

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An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

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Wrapping of Trees
James Rogers

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Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems
E. Saquete | P. Martínez-Barco | R. Muñoz | J.L. Vicedo

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Question Answering Using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-By-Dossier-With-Contraints
John Prager | Jennifer Chu-Carroll | Krzysztof Czuba

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Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution
Wenjie Li | Kam-Fai Wong | Guihong Cao | Chunfa Yuan

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Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
Dan Shen | Jie Zhang | Jian Su | Guodong Zhou | Chew-Lim Tan

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Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction
Cheng Niu | Wei Li | Rohini K. Srihari

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Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics
Chin-Yew Lin | Franz Josef Och

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A Unified Framework For Automatic Evaluation Using 4-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics
Radu Soricut | Eric Brill

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Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings
Bogdan Babych | Tony Hartley

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Learning Word Sense With Feature Selection and Order Identification Capabilities
Zheng-Yu Niu | Dong-Hong Ji | Chew-Lim Tan

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A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation
Dekai Wu | Weifeng Su | Marine Carpuat

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Using Linguistic Principles to Recover Empty Categories
Richard Campbell

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Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing
I. Dan Melamed

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Generalized Multitext Grammars
I. Dan Melamed | Giorgio Satta | Benjamin Wellington

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Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies
Michel Galley | Kathleen McKeown | Julia Hirschberg | Elizabeth Shriberg

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Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
Michelle Gregory | Yasemin Altun

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Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers
Ben Hutchinson

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FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification
Riccardo Serafin | Barbara Di Eugenio