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Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Michael Fleischman | Eduard Hovy | Abdessamad Echihabi

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Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction
Mihai Surdeanu | Sanda Harabagiu | John Williams | Paul Aarseth

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A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
Abdessamad Echihabi | Daniel Marcu

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Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis
Taku Kudo | Yuji Matsumoto

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Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data
Jun Suzuki | Tsutomu Hirao | Yutaka Sasaki | Eisaku Maeda

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Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models
Cyril Allauzen | Mehryar Mohri | Brian Roark

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Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation
Anna Korhonen | Judita Preiss

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Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution
Malvina Nissim | Katja Markert

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Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically
Anna Korhonen | Yuval Krymolowski | Zvika Marx

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Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences
Masao Utiyama | Hitoshi Isahara

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Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation
Daniel Gildea

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A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment
Colin Cherry | Dekang Lin

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Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies
Amit Dubey | Frank Keller

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Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG
Anette Frank | Markus Becker | Berthold Crysmann | Bernd Kiefer | Ulrich Schäfer

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Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German
Michael Schiehlen

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Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information
Hua Wu | Ming Zhou

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Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora
Sebastian Padó | Mirella Lapata

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Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval
Dominic Widdows

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A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation
Richard Zens | Hermann Ney

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tRuEcasIng
Lucian Vlad Lita | Abe Ittycheriah | Salim Roukos | Nanda Kambhatla

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Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation
Franz Josef Och

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A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue
Michael Strube | Christoph Müller

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Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach
Xiaofeng Yang | Guodong Zhou | Jian Su | Chew Lim Tan

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Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar
Lionel Clément | Alexandra Kinyon

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Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting
Jonas Kuhn

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A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying
Gerald Penn | Cosmin Munteanu

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Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text
Andrew Gordon | Abe Kazemzadeh | Anish Nair | Milena Petrova

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Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods
Hai Leong Chieu | Hwee Tou Ng | Yoong Keok Lee

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An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition
Kiyoshi Sudo | Satoshi Sekine | Ralph Grishman

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Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection
Ayman Farahat | Francine Chen | Thorsten Brants

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Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Mikio Nakano | Kiyoaki Aikawa

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Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches
Gang Wang | Tat-Seng Chua | Yong-Cheng Wang

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Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani | Shinichi Ueno | Tatsuya Kawahara | Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture
Charles B. Callaway

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Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation
Jianfeng Gao | Mu Li | Chang-Ning Huang

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Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency
Mathias Creutz

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Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data
Martin Jansche

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Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging
Jin-Dong Kim | Hae-Chang Rim | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Chunk-Based Statistical Translation
Taro Watanabe | Eiichiro Sumita | Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases
Philipp Koehn | Kevin Knight

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Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models
Ashish Venugopal | Stephan Vogel | Alex Waibel

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Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm
Yunbo Cao | Hang Li | Li Lian

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A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners
Cheng Niu | Wei Li | Jihong Ding | Rohini Srihari

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Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns
Roman Yangarber

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k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings
Denis Béchet | Annie Foret

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Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure
Julia Hockenmaier

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Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints
Joachim Niehren | Stefan Thater

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Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization
Dragomir R. Radev | Simone Teufel | Horacio Saggion | Wai Lam | John Blitzer | Hong Qi | Arda Çelebi | Danyu Liu | Elliott Drabek

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Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship
Akiko Aizawa

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Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus
Monica Rogati | Scott McCarley | Yiming Yang

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Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation
Young-Suk Lee | Kishore Papineni | Salim Roukos | Ossama Emam | Hany Hassan

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Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii | Daichi Hayakawa | Masato Takeichi

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A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition
William Gregory Sakas

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Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing
Dan Klein | Christopher D. Manning

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Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods
Péter Dienes | Amit Dubey

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Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank?
Roger Levy | Christopher D. Manning

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Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation
Kenji Imamura | Eiichiro Sumita | Yuji Matsumoto

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Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study
Hwee Tou Ng | Bin Wang | Yee Seng Chan

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Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data
Timothy Baldwin | Francis Bond

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A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction
Do-Gil Lee | Hae-Chang Rim | Heui-Seok Lim

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Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese
Kiyotaka Uchimoto | Chikashi Nobata | Atsushi Yamada | Satoshi Sekine | Hitoshi Isahara

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Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch
Erwin Marsi | Martin Reynaert | Antal van den Bosch | Walter Daelemans | Véronique Hoste

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Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning
Seong-Bae Park | Byoung-Tak Zhang

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A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking
Libin Shen | Aravind K. Joshi

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An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs
Wei Li | Xiuhong Zhang | Cheng Niu | Yuankai Jiang | Rohini K. Srihari

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Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling
Jianfeng Gao | Hisami Suzuki

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Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface
William Schuler

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Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation
Katrin Erk | Andrea Kowalski | Sebastian Padó | Manfred Pinkal

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Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering
Mirella Lapata

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Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding
Yukiko Nakano | Gabe Reinstein | Tom Stocky | Justine Cassell

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Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation
Michel Galley | Kathleen R. McKeown | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Hongyan Jing