Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mirella Lapata, Hwee Tou Ng (Editors)
- Anthology ID:
- D08-1
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2008
- Address:
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D08-1
- DOI:
- PDF:
- https://aclanthology.org/D08-1.pdf
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mirella Lapata
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Hwee Tou Ng
Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields
Jeremy Jancsary
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Johannes Matiasek
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Harald Trost
It’s a Contradiction – no, it’s not: A Case Study using Functional Relations
Alan Ritter
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Stephen Soderland
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Doug Downey
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Oren Etzioni
Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction
Yunyao Li
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Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
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Sriram Raghavan
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Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
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H. V. Jagadish
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
Omar Zaidan
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Jason Eisner
One-Class Clustering in the Text Domain
Ron Bekkerman
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Koby Crammer
Refining Generative Language Models using Discriminative Learning
Ben Sandbank
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text
Shane Bergsma
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Dekang Lin
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Randy Goebel
Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank
Richard Johansson
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Pierre Nugues
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Stefan Schoenmackers
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Oren Etzioni
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Daniel Weld
Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
Qun Liu
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Zhongjun He
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Yang Liu
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Shouxun Lin
Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems
Xiaodong He
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Mei Yang
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Jianfeng Gao
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Patrick Nguyen
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Robert Moore
Coarse-to-Fine Syntactic Machine Translation using Language Projections
Slav Petrov
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Aria Haghighi
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Dan Klein
Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification
Jun Zhao
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Kang Liu
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Gen Wang
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
Carmen Banea
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Rada Mihalcea
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Janyce Wiebe
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Samer Hassan
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation
David Smith
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Jason Eisner
Stacking Dependency Parsers
André Filipe Torres Martins
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Dipanjan Das
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Noah A. Smith
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Eric P. Xing
Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing
Xinying Song
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Shilin Ding
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Chin-Yew Lin
Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression
Katja Filippova
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Michael Strube
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
Emily Pitler
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Ani Nenkova
Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora
Chris Callison-Burch
Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction
Haitao Mi
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Liang Huang
Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation
Phil Blunsom
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Miles Osborne
Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features
David Chiang
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Yuval Marton
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Philip Resnik
A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input
Roger Levy
Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems
Shaolin Qu
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Joyce Chai
Cheap and Fast – But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks
Rion Snow
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Brendan O’Connor
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Daniel Jurafsky
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Andrew Ng
HotSpots: Visualizing Edits to a Text
Srinivas Bangalore
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David Smith
Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference
Alex Baron
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Marjorie Freedman
Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
Yassine Benajiba
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Mona Diab
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Paolo Rosso
Understanding the Value of Features for Coreference Resolution
Eric Bengtson
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Dan Roth
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Yllias Chali
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Shafiq Joty
Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model
John DeNero
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Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
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Dan Klein
Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy
Weiwei Ding
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Baobao Chang
Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation
Jacob Eisenstein
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Regina Barzilay
A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers
Jianfeng Gao
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Mark Johnson
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
Dan Goldwasser
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Dan Roth
Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models
David Hall
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Daniel Jurafsky
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Christopher D. Manning
Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Saša Hasan
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Juri Ganitkevitch
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Hermann Ney
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Jesús Andrés-Ferrer
A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web
Shinsuke Higuchi
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Rafal Rzepka
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Kenji Araki
When Harry Met Harri: Cross-lingual Name Spelling Normalization
Fei Huang
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Ahmad Emami
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Imed Zitouni
A Dependency-based Word Subsequence Kernel
Rohit Kate
Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models
Jung-Tae Lee
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Sang-Bum Kim
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Young-In Song
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Hae-Chang Rim
Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce
Jimmy Lin
Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints
Yugo Murawaki
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Sadao Kurohashi
Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles
Ramesh Nallapati
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Christopher D. Manning
A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations
Naoaki Okazaki
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Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
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Sophia Ananiadou
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Jun’ichi Tsujii
Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units
Marco Pennacchiotti
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Diego De Cao
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Roberto Basili
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Danilo Croce
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Michael Roth
Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation
Stephan Raaijmakers
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Khiet Truong
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Theresa Wilson
Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains
Laura Rimell
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Stephen Clark
Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions
Germán Sanchis-Trilles
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Daniel Ortiz-Martínez
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Jorge Civera
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Francisco Casacuberta
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Enrique Vidal
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Hieu Hoang
LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction
Libin Shen
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Aravind Joshi
Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model
Lei Shi
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Ming Zhou
HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts
Congkai Sun
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Bin Gao
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Zhenfu Cao
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Hang Li
A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists
Hirotoshi Taira
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Sanae Fujita
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Masaaki Nagata
Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection
David Vickrey
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Aaron Bronzan
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William Choi
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Aman Kumar
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Jason Turner-Maier
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Arthur Wang
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Daphne Koller
Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns
Stephen Wan
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Robert Dale
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Mark Dras
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Cécile Paris
Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis
Xiaojun Wan
A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Yue Zhang
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Stephen Clark
Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Bing Zhao
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Yaser Al-onaizan
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks
Partha Pratim Talukdar
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Joseph Reisinger
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Marius Paşca
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Deepak Ravichandran
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Rahul Bhagat
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Fernando Pereira
Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora
Nicholas Andrews
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Naren Ramakrishnan
Mention Detection Crossing the Language Barrier
Imed Zitouni
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Radu Florian
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms
David Chiang
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Steve DeNeefe
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Yee Seng Chan
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Hwee Tou Ng
Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Roy Tromble
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Shankar Kumar
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Franz Och
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Wolfgang Macherey
Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective
Markos Mylonakis
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Khalil Sima’an
Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng
Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic
Hoifung Poon
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Pedro Domingos
Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution
Pascal Denis
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Jason Baldridge
Learning with Probabilistic Features for Improved Pipeline Models
Razvan Bunescu
Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training
Hal Daumé III
Online Methods for Multi-Domain Learning and Adaptation
Mark Dredze
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Koby Crammer
Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering
Nathanael Chambers
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Daniel Jurafsky
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Nianwen Xue
Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts
Roser Morante
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Anthony Liekens
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Walter Daelemans
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Wolfgang Macherey
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Franz Och
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Ignacio Thayer
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Jakob Uszkoreit
Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation
Arul Menezes
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Chris Quirk
Predicting Success in Machine Translation
Alexandra Birch
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Miles Osborne
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Philipp Koehn
An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization
Xiaojun Wan
Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization with Encyclopedic Knowledge and Spreading Activation
Vivi Nastase
Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations
Gabriel Murray
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Giuseppe Carenini
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
Wei Lu
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Hwee Tou Ng
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Wee Sun Lee
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Luke S. Zettlemoyer
Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis
Yejin Choi
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Claire Cardie
A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference
Bill MacCartney
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Michel Galley
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Christopher D. Manning
Attacking Decipherment Problems Optimally with Low-Order N-gram Models
Sujith Ravi
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Kevin Knight
Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition
Xinhao Wang
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Jiazhong Nie
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Dingsheng Luo
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Xihong Wu
N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation
Bo-June Paul Hsu
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James Glass
Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network
Gregor Leusch
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Evgeny Matusov
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Hermann Ney
A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model
Michel Galley
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Christopher D. Manning
Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora
Matthew Snover
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Bonnie Dorr
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Richard Schwartz
Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing
Slav Petrov
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Dan Klein
Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing)
David Burkett
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Dan Klein
Automatic Prediction of Parser Accuracy
Sujith Ravi
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Kevin Knight
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Radu Soricut
A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context
Katrin Erk
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Sebastian Padó
Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text
Einat Minkov
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William W. Cohen
A Graph-theoretic Model of Lexical Syntactic Acquisition
Hinrich Schütze
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Michael Walsh
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Zhiheng Huang
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Marcus Thint
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Zengchang Qin
CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation
Baoli Li
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Yandong Liu
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Eugene Agichtein
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
Richard C. Wang
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Nico Schlaefer
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William W. Cohen
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Eric Nyberg
Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning
Ananlada Chotimongkol
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Alexander Rudnicky
Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis
Juan Huerta
Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points
Thamar Solorio
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Yang Liu
Computing Word-Pair Antonymy
Saif Mohammad
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Bonnie Dorr
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Graeme Hirst
Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features
Chikara Hashimoto
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Daisuke Kawahara
Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study
Zhi Zhong
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Hwee Tou Ng
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Yee Seng Chan
Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms
Mamoru Komachi
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Taku Kudo
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Masashi Shimbo
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Yuji Matsumoto
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Cory Barr
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Rosie Jones
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Moira Regelson
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
Zhifei Li
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David Yarowsky
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
Benjamin Snyder
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Tahira Naseem
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Jacob Eisenstein
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Regina Barzilay
Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text
Thamar Solorio
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Yang Liu
Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking
Yixuan Liu
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Bin Wang
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Fan Ding
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Sheng Xu
An Analysis of Active Learning Strategies for Sequence Labeling Tasks
Burr Settles
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Mark Craven
Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods
Markus Dreyer
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Jason Smith
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Jason Eisner
Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification
Amarnag Subramanya
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Jeff Bilmes