Coling 2008Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
Coling 2008Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
From a total of 612 submissions including full papers, posters and demos, we have accepted:
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Dr Elizabeth Shriberg, Senior Research Psycholinguist Speech Technology & Research Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park CA and International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley CA | |
| Prof John Shawe-Taylor, Director Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning University College London |
| Two-phased event relation acquisition: coupling the relation-oriented and argument-oriented approaches | Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto |
| A supervised algorithm for verb disambiguation into VerbNet classes | Omri Abend, Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport |
| On robustness and domain adaptation using SVD for word sense disambiguation | Eneko Agirre and Oier Lopez de Lacalle |
| An improved hierarchical Bayesian model of language for document classification | Ben Allison |
| Improving alignments for better confusion networks for combining machine translation systems | Necip Fazil Ayan, Jing Zheng and Wen Wang |
| Verification and implementation of language-based deception indicators in civil and criminal narratives | Joan Bachenko, Eileen Fitzpatrick and Michael Schonwetter |
| Enhancing multilingual latent semantic analysis with term alignment information | Brett Bader and Peter Chew |
| Weakly supervised supertagging with grammar-informed initialization | Jason Baldridge |
| Good neighbors make good senses: exploiting distributional similarity for unsupervised wsd | Samuel Brody and Mirella Lapata |
| Classifying dialogue actions in tutorial dialogue | Mark Buckley and Magdalena Wolska |
| An affordance-based approach to noun-compound interpretation | Cristina Butnariu and Tony Veale |
| Comparing the benefits of WordNet's semantic similarity with simple morpho-syntactic features for the resolution of noun phrase coordination ambiguity | Ekaterina Buyko and Udo Hahn |
| Parametric: an automatic evaluation metric for paraphrasing | Chris Callison-Burch, Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata |
| Other-anaphora resolution in biomedical texts with automatic mined patterns | Bin Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan |
| Improve SMT through hypotheses regeneration | Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Ai Ti Aw and Haizhou Li |
| Learning reliable information for dependency parsing adaptation | Wenliang Chen and Hitoshi Isahara |
| Latent morpho-semantic analysis: multilingual information retrieval with character n-grams and mutual information | Peter A. Chew, Brett W. Bader and Ahmed Abdelali |
| Sentence compression beyond word deletion | Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata |
| Mind the gap: dangers of divorcing evaluations of summary content from linguistic quality | John Conroy and Hoa Trang Dang |
| Hybrid processing for grammar and style checking | Berthold Crysmann, Nuria Bertomeu, Peter Adolphs, Daniel Flickinger and Tina Klüwer |
| KnowNet: building a large net of knowledge from the web | Montse Cuadros and German Rigau |
| A classifier-based approach to preposition and determiner error correction in L2 English | Rachele De Felice and Stephen Pulman |
| Pedagogically useful extractive summaries for science education | Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Martin and Tamara Sumner |
| Re-estimation of lexical parameters for treebank PCFGs | Tejaswini Deoskar |
| Looking for trouble | Stijn De Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa and Jun'ichi Kazama |
| Representations for category disambiguation | Markus Dickinson |
| Syntactic reordering integrated with phrase-based SMT | Jakob Elming |
| Efficiently parsing with the product-free Lambek calculus | Timothy A. D. Fowler |
| A probabilistic model for measuring grammaticality and similarity of automatically generated paraphrases of predicate phrases | Atsushi Fujita and Satoshi Sato |
| Retrieving bilingual verb-noun collocations by integrating cross-language category hierarchies | Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki and Kazuyuki Yamashita |
| Mining opinions in comparative sentences | Murthy Ganapathibhotla and Bing Liu |
| Semantic principles | Claire Gardent |
| Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts | Caroline Gasperin |
| Instance-based ontology population exploiting named-entity substitution | Claudio Giuliano and Alfio Gliozzo |
| Measuring topic homogeneity and its application to dictionary-based word sense disambiguation | Ann Gledson and John Keane |
| Using web-search results to measure word-group similarity | Ann Gledson and John Keane |
| An algorithm for adverbial aspect shift | Sabine Gruender |
| Dependency-based n-gram models for general purpose sentence realisation | Yuqing Guo, Josef van Genabith and Haifeng Wang |
| Homotopy-based semi-supervised hidden Markov models for sequence labeling | Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar |
| Tracking the dynamic evolution of participants salience in a discussion | Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Kevin Quinn, Burt Monroe, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev |
| Improving statistical machine translation using lexicalized rule selection | Zhongjun He, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin |
| Evaluating unsupervised part-of-speech tagging for grammar induction | William Headden, David McClosky and Eugene Charniak |
| Using discourse commitments to recognize textual entailment | Andrew Hickl |
| Modeling Chinese documents with topical word-character models | Wei Hu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Huanye Sheng |
| Generation of referring expressions: managing structural ambiguities | Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Graeme Ritchie and Kees van Deemter |
| Non-compositional language model and pattern dictionary development for Japanese compound and complex sentences | Satoru Ikehara, Masato Tokuhisa and Jin'ichi Murakami |
| Japanese dependency parsing using tournament model | Masakazu Iwatate, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto |
| Contents modelling of Neo-Sumerian Ur III economic text corpus | Wojciech Jaworski |
| Generating Chinese couplets using a statistical MT approach | Long Jiang and Ming Zhou |
| Word lattice reranking for Chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging | Wenbin Jiang, Haitao Mi, Yajuan Lv and Qun Liu |
| The effect of syntactic representation on semantic role labeling | Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues |
| Using hidden Markov random fields to combine distribution and co-occurrence for word clustering | Nobuhiro Kaji and Masaru Kitsuregawa |
| Textual demand analysis: detection of users’ wants and needs from opinions | Hiroshi Kanayama and Tetsuya Nasukawa |
| A local alignment kernel in practice : a relation extraction task | Sophia Katrenko and Pieter Adriaans |
| Coordination disambiguation without any similarities | Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi |
| Normalizing SMS: are two metaphors better than one ? | Catherine Kobus, François Yvon and Géraldine Damnati |
| The choice of features for classification of verbs in biomedical texts | Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski and Nigel Collier |
| Extending a thesaurus with words from pan-Chinese sources | Oi Yee Kwong and Benjamin K. Tsou |
| Stopping criteria for active learning of named entity recognition | Florian Laws and Hinrich Schütze |
| Reading the markets: forecasting public opinion of political candidates by news analysis | Kevin Lerman, Ari Gilder, Mark Dredze and Fernando Pereira |
| Classifying what-type questions by head noun tagging | Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan and Xiaoyan Zhu |
| PNR2: ranking sentences with positive and negative reinforcement for query-oriented update summarization | Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Yanxiang He and Qin Lu |
| Understanding and summarizing answers in community-based question answering services | Yuanjie Liu, Shasha Li, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Dingyi Han and Yong Yu |
| Tera-scale statistical translation models via pattern matching | Adam Lopez |
| Authorship attribution and verification with many authors and limited data | Kim Luyckx and Walter Daelemans |
| Modeling semantic containment and exclusion in natural language inference | Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning |
| Linguistically-based sub-sentential alignment for terminology extraction from a bilingual automotive corpus | Lieve Macken, Els Lefever and Veronique Hoste |
| Hindi Urdu machine transliteration using finite-state transducers | M G Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Comparative parser performance analysis across grammar frameworks through automatic tree conversion using synchronous grammars | Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| What's the date? High accuracy interpretation of weekday names | Pawel Mazur and Robert Dale |
| When is self-training effective for parsing? | David McClosky, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson |
| A unified syntactic model for parsing fluent and disfluent speech | Tim Miller and William Schuler |
| Applying discourse analysis and data mining methods to spoken OSCE assessments | Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella and Simon Musgrave |
| Random restarts in minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation | Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk |
| Robust similarity measures for named entities matching | Erwan Moreau, François Yvon and Olivier Cappé |
| Modeling the structure and dynamics of the consonant inventories: a complex network approach | Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly |
| Detecting multiple facets of an event using graph-based unsupervised methods | Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Joshua Gerrish and Dragomir Radev |
| Investigating statistical techniques for sentence-level event classification | Martina Naughton, Nicola Stokes and Joe Carthy |
| Feature selection for pronoun resolution towards domain adaptation | Ngan L.T. Nguyen |
| Computer aided correction and extension of a syntactic wide-coverage lexicon | Lionel Nicolas, Benoît Sagot, Jacques Farré, Miguel Angel Molinero Alvarez and Eric De la Clergerie |
| Parsing the SynTagRus treebank of Russian | Joakim Nivre, Igor M. Boguslavsky and Leonid K. Iomdin |
| A discriminative alignment model for abbreviation recognition | Naoaki Okazaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| Semantic classification with distributional kernels | Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha and Ann Copestake |
| Towards semantic role labelling for event nominalisations through bootstrapping from verbal data | Sebastian Pado, Marco Pennacchiotti and Caroline Sporleder |
| Recent advances in a feature-rich framework for treebank annotation | Petr Pajas and Jan Štepánek |
| A joint information model for n-best ranking | Patrick Pantel and Vishnu Vyas |
| Scientific paper summarization using citation summary networks | Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev |
| Exploiting constituent dependencies for tree kernel-based semantic relation extraction | Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong and Qiaoming Zhu |
| A method for automatic POS guessing of unknown words | Likun Qiu, Changjian Hu and Kai Zhao |
| Almost flat functional semantics for speech translation | Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey and Yukie Nakao |
| Unsupervised induction of labeled parse trees by clustering with syntactic features | Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport |
| Anomalies in the WordNet verb hierarchy | Tom Richens |
| Translating queries into snippets for improved query expansion | Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu and Alexander Vasserman |
| Classifying chart cells for quadratic complexity context-free inference | Brian Roark and Kristy Hollingshead |
| Shift-reduce dependency DAG parsing | Kenji Sagae and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| Event frame extraction based on a gene regulation corpus | Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, Philip Cotter, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou |
| A fully-lexicalized probabilistic model for Japanese zero anaphora resolution | Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi |
| Estimation of conditional probabilities with decision trees and an application to fine-grained POS tagging | Helmut Schmid |
| Toward a psycholinguistically-motivated model of language processing | William Schuler, Samir AbdelRahman, Tim Miller and Lane Schwartz |
| Metric learning for synonym acquisition | Nobuyuki Shimizu, Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama and Hiroshi Nakagawa |
| Discourse level opinion interpretation | Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe and Josef Ruppenhofer |
| Acquiring sense tagged examples using relevance feedback | Mark Stevenson, Yinkun Guo and Robert Gaizauskas |
| Topic identification for fine-grained opinion analysis | Veselin Stoyanov and Claire Cardie |
| From word to sense: a case study of subjectivity recognition | Fangzhong Su and Katja Markert |
| Prediction of maximal projection for semantic role labeling | Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui and Haifeng Wang |
| Modeling latent-dynamics in shallow parsing | Xu Sun, Louis-Philippe Morency and Daisuke Okanohara |
| Learning entailment rules for unary templates | Idan Szpektor and Ido Dagan |
| Experiments with reasoning for temporal relations between events | Marta Tatu and Munirathnam Srikanth |
| The ups and downs of evaluating preposition error detection in non-native English writing | Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow |
| A framework for identifying textual redundancy | Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown |
| Emotion classification using massive examples extracted from the web | Ryoko Tokuhisa, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto |
| Relational-realizational parsing | Reut Tsarfaty |
| Training conditional random fields using incomplete annotations | Yuta Tsuboi, Hisashi Kashima, Shinsuke Mori, Hiroki Oda and Yuji Matsumoto |
| A uniform approach to analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and associations | Peter Turney |
| Tighter integration of rule-based and statistical MT in serial system combination | Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loïc Dugast, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jean Senellart and Jin Yang |
| Using three way data for word sense discrimination | Tim Van de Cruys |
| Class-driven attribute extraction | Benjamin Van Durme, Ting Qian and Lenhart Schubert |
| Source language markers in Europarl translations | Hans van Halteren |
| A fluid knowledge representation for understanding and generating creative metaphors | Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao |
| Using syntactic information for improving why-question answering | Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk and Peter-Arno Coppen |
| Coreference systems based on kernels methods | Yannick Versley, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Poesio and Xiaofeng Yang |
| Collabrank: towards a collaborative approach to single-document keyphrase extraction | Xiaojun Wan |
| Investigating the portability of corpus-derived cue phrases for dialogue act classification | Nick Webb and Ting Liu |
| Extractive summarization using supervised and semi-supervised learning | Kam-Fai Wong, Mingli Wu and Wenjie Li |
| Domain adaptation for statistical machine translation with domain dictionary and monolingual corpora | Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Chengqing Zong |
| Exploiting graph structure for accelerating the calculation of shortest paths in wordnets | Holger Wunsch |
| Linguistically annotated BTG for statistical machine translation | Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw and Haizhou Li |
| Bayesian semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation for statistical machine translation | Jia Xu, Jianfeng Gao, Kristina Toutanova and Hermann Ney |
| Switching to real-time tasks in multi-tasking dialogue | Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman and Andrew Kun |
| Chinese term extraction using minimal resources | Yuhang Yang, Qin Lu and Tiejun Zhao |
| Measuring and predicting orthographic associations: modelling the similarity of Japanese kanji | Lars Yencken and Timothy Baldwin |
| An integrated probabilistic and logic approach to encyclopedia relation extraction with multiple features | Xiaofeng YU and Wai LAM |
| Chinese dependency parsing with large scale automatically constructed case structures | Kun Yu, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi |
| OntoNotes: corpus cleanup of mistaken agreement using word sense disambiguation | Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu and Eduard Hovy |
| Automatic seed word selection for unsupervised sentiment classification of Chinese text | Taras Zagibalov and John Carroll |
| Generalized Uno and Yagiura's algorithm for alignment decomposition | Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea and David Chiang |
| Grammar comparison study for translational equivalence modeling and statistical machine translation | Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Haizhou Li, Aiti Aw and Sheng Li |
| Sentence type based reordering model for statistical machine translation | Jiajun Zhang and chengqing zong |
| Automatic generation of parallel treebanks | Ventsislav Zhechev and Andy Way |
| A hybrid generative/discriminative framework to train a semantic parser from an un-annotated corpus | Deyu Zhou and Yulan He |
| Diagnostic evaluation of machine translation systems using automatically constructed linguistic check-points | Ming Zhou, Bo Wang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li and Tiejun Zhao |
| Active learning with sampling by uncertainty and density for word sense disambiguation and text classification | Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang and Benjamin Tsou |
| Multi-criteria-based strategy to stop active learning for data annotation | Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang and Eduard Hovy |
| A systematic comparison of phrase-based, hierarchical and syntax-augmented statistical mt | Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Franz Och and Jay Ponte |
| To reorder or not to reorder effects of word reordering in statistical machine translation | Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras |
| Metaphor in textual entailment | Rodrigo Agerri and John Barnden |
| Discourse based opinion categorization: a preliminary study | Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara and Yvettes Yannick Mathieu |
| Towards incremental end-of-utterance detection in dialogue systems | Michaela Atterer, Timo Baumann and David Schlangen |
| The power of negative thinking: exploiting label disagreement in the min-cut classification framework | Mohit Bansal, Claire Cardie and Lillian Lee |
| Phrasal segmentation models for statistical machine translation | Graeme Blackwood, Adria de Gispert and William Byrne |
| A scalable MMR approach to sentence scoring for multi-document update summarization | Florian Boudin, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno and Marc El-Bèze |
| Hindi compound verbs and their automatic extraction | Debasri Chakrabarti, Hemang Mandalia, Ritwik Priya, Vaijayanthi Sarma and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Detecting erroneous uses of complex postpositions in an agglutinative language | Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Koldo Gojenola and Maite Oronoz |
| Underspecified modelling of complex discourse constraints | Markus Egg and Michaela Regneri |
| Construct state modification in the Arabic treebank: further analysis and improvements | Ryan Gabbard and Seth Kulick |
| The impact of reference quality on automatic MT evaluation | Olivier Hamon and Djamel Mostefa |
| Word sense disambiguation for all words using tree-structured conditional random fields | Jun Hatori, Yusuke Miyao and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| Conceptual representation and ILP-based analysis for Chinese NPs | Dong Paul Ji |
| Scaling up analogical learning | Philippe Langlais and François Yvon |
| Multilingual alignments by monolingual string differences | Adrien Lardilleux and Yves Lepage |
| Bayes risk-based dialogue management for document retrieval system with speech interface | Teruhisa Misu and Tatsuya Kawahara |
| Exact inference for multi-label classification using sparse graphical models | Yusuke Miyao and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| Modeling multilinguality in ontologies | Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Asunción Gómez-Pérez and Wim Peters |
| Quantification and implication in calendar expressions represented with finite-state transducers | Jyrki Niemi and Kimmo Koskenniemi |
| Experiments in discriminating phrase-based translations on the basis of syntactic coupling features | Vassilina Nikoulina and Marc Dymetman |
| Using very simple statistics for review search: an exploration | Bo Pang and Lillian Lee |
| Generation under space constraints | Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lampert and Joan Giralt Duran |
| A language-independent approach to keyphrase extraction and evaluation | Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Ilari Nieminen, Matti Pöllä and Timo Honkela |
| Easily identifiable discourse relations | Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani Nenkova, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi |
| Rank distance as a stylistic similarity | Marius Popescu and Liviu Dinu |
| Integrating motion predicate classes with spatial and temporal annotations | James Pustejovsky and Jessica Moszkowicz |
| Comparative evaluation of Arabic language morphological analysers and stemmers | Majdi Sawalha and Eric Atwell |
| A complete and modestly funny system for generating and performing Japanese stand-up comedy | Jonas Sjobergh and Kenji Araki |
| On the weak generative capacity of weighted context-free grammars | Anders Søgaard |
| Range concatenation grammars for translation | Anders Søgaard |
| On "redundancy" in selecting attributes for generating referring expressions | Philipp Spanger, Takehiro Kurosawa and Takenobu Tokunaga |
| Construction of an infrastructure for providing users with suitable language resources | Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Shigeki Matsubara and Hitoshi Isahara |
| Experiments in base-NP chunking and its role in dependency parsing for Thai | Shisanu Tongchim, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and Hitoshi Isahara |
| Building a bilingual lexicon using phrase-based statistical machine translation via a pivot language | Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| Explaining similarity of terms | Vishnu Vyas and Patrick Pantel |
| Robust and efficient Chinese word dependency analysis with linear kernel support vector machines | Yu-Chieh Wu |
| Sentence compression as a step in summarization or an alternative path in text shortening | Mehdi Yousfi-Monod and Violaine Prince |
| Online-monitoring security-related events | Martin Atkinson, Jakub Piskorski, Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, Hristo Tanev and Vanni Zavarella |
| Semantic visualization and meaning computation | Venant Fabienne |
| A grammar checking system for Punjabi | Mandeep Gill and Gurpreet Lehal |
| A toolchain for grammarians | Bruno Guillaume, Joseph Le Roux, Jonathan Marchand, Guy Perrier, Karën Fort and Jennifer Planul |
| A Punjabi to Hindi machine translation system | Gurpreet Singh Josan and Gurpreet Singh Lehal |
| Advanced dialogue tools for automatically generating information state update dialogue systems from business user resources | Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu and Hastie Helen |
| Multilingual mobile-phone translation services for world travelers | Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, Shigeki Matsuda, Tohru Shimizu and Satoshi Nakamura |
| Multilingual assistant for medical diagnosing and drug prescription based on category ranking | Fernando Ruiz-Rico, Jose-Luis Vicedo and María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez |
| Entailment-based question answering for structured data | Bogdan Sacaleanu, Christian Spurk, Constantin Orasan, Oscar Ferrandez, Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri and Shiyan Ou |
| Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi transliteration system | Tejinder Singh Saini and Gurpreet Singh Lehal |
| A linguistic knowledge discovery tool: Very large ngram database search with arbitrary wildcards | Satoshi Sekine |
| Temporal processing with the TARSQI toolkit | Marc Verhagen and James Pustejovsky |