| Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009) | |
| Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009 | |
| Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009 |
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009)
E09-1000: Front Matter
E09-1001 [bib]: Ann Copestake
Invited Talk: Slacker Semantics: Why Superficiality, Dependency and Avoidance of Commitment can be the Right Way to Go
E09-1002 [bib]: Francisca de Jong
Invited Talk: NLP and the Humanities: The Revival of an Old Liaison
E09-1003 [bib]: Sadaf Abdul-Rauf; Holger Schwenk
On the Use of Comparable Corpora to Improve SMT performance
E09-1004 [bib]: Apoorv Agarwal; Fadi Biadsy; Kathleen Mckeown
Contextual Phrase-Level Polarity Analysis Using Lexical Affect Scoring and Syntactic N-Grams
E09-1005 [bib]: Eneko Agirre; Aitor Soroa
Personalizing PageRank for Word Sense Disambiguation
E09-1006 [bib]: Eneko Agirre; Oier Lopez de Lacalle
Supervised Domain Adaption for WSD
E09-1007 [bib]: Julien Ah-Pine; Guillaume Jacquet
Clique-Based Clustering for Improving Named Entity Recognition Systems
E09-1008 [bib]: Joshua Albrecht; Rebecca Hwa; G. Elisabeta Marai
Correcting Automatic Translations through Collaborations between MT and Monolingual Target-\-Lan\-gua\-ge Users
E09-1009 [bib]: Krasimir Angelov
Incremental Parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars
E09-1010 [bib]: Marianna Apidianaki
Data-Driven Semantic Analysis for Multilingual WSD and Lexical Selection in Translation
E09-1011 [bib]: Ibrahim Badr; Rabih Zbib; James Glass
Syntactic Phrase Reordering for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
E09-1012 [bib]: Srinivas Bangalore; Amanda Stent
Incremental Parsing Models for Dialog Task Structure
E09-1013 [bib]: Samuel Brody; Mirella Lapata
Bayesian Word Sense Induction
E09-1014 [bib]: Aoife Cahill; Martin Forst
Human Evaluation of a German Surface Realisation Ranker
E09-1015 [bib]: Cohan Sujay Carlos; Monojit Choudhury; Sandipan Dandapat
Large-Coverage Root Lexicon Extraction for Hindi
E09-1016 [bib]: Bruno Cartoni
Lexical Morphology in Machine Translation: A Feasibility Study
E09-1017 [bib]: Jieun Chae; Ani Nenkova
Predicting the Fluency of Text with Shallow Structural Features: Case Studies of Machine Translation and Human-Written Text
E09-1018 [bib]: Eugene Charniak; Micha Elsner
EM Works for Pronoun Anaphora Resolution
E09-1019 [bib]: Mathias Creutz; Sami Virpioja; Anna Kovaleva
Web Augmentation of Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition of SMS Text Messages
E09-1020 [bib]: Fabien Cromierès; Sadao Kurohashi
An Alignment Algorithm Using Belief Propagation and a Structure-Based Distortion Model
E09-1021 [bib]: Dmitry Davidov; Ari Rappoport
Translation and Extension of Concepts Across Languages
E09-1022 [bib]: David DeVault; Matthew Stone
Learning to Interpret Utterances Using Dialogue History
E09-1023 [bib]: Markus Dickinson
Correcting Dependency Annotation Errors
E09-1024 [bib]: Marco Dinarelli; Alessandro Moschitti; Giuseppe Riccardi
Re-Ranking Models for Spoken Language Understanding
E09-1025 [bib]: Georgiana Dinu; Rui Wang
Inference Rules and their Application to Recognizing Textual Entailment
E09-1026 [bib]: Hagen Fürstenau; Mirella Lapata
Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling
E09-1027 [bib]: Lijun Feng; Noémie Elhadad; Matt Huenerfauth
Cognitively Motivated Features for Readability Assessment
E09-1028 [bib]: Junlan Feng; Srinivas Bangalore
Effects of Word Confusion Networks on Voice Search
E09-1029 [bib]: Katja Filippova; Mihai Surdeanu; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Hugo Zaragoza
Company-Oriented Extractive Summarization of Financial News
E09-1030 [bib]: Erin Fitzgerald; Keith Hall; Frederick Jelinek
Reconstructing False Start Errors in Spontaneous Speech Text
E09-1031 [bib]: Martin Forst; Ji Fang
TBL-Improved Non-Deterministic Segmentation and POS Tagging for a Chinese Parser
E09-1032 [bib]: Matthew Frampton; Raquel Fernández; Patrick Ehlen; Mario Christoudias; Trevor Darrell; Stanley Peters
Who is “You”? Combining Linguistic and Gaze Features to Resolve Second-Person References in Dialogue
E09-1033 [bib]: Alexander Fraser; Renjing Wang; Hinrich Schütze
Rich Bitext Projection Features for Parse Reranking
E09-1034 [bib]: Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez; David Weir; John Carroll
Parsing Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures
E09-1035 [bib]: Nikesh Garera; David Yarowsky
Structural, Transitive and Latent Models for Biographic Fact Extraction
E09-1036 [bib]: Michael Gasser
Semitic Morphological Analysis and Generation Using Finite State Transducers with Feature Structures
E09-1037 [bib]: Kevin Gimpel; Noah A. Smith
Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings
E09-1038 [bib]: Yoav Goldberg; Reut Tsarfaty; Meni Adler; Michael Elhadad
Enhancing Unlexicalized Parsing Performance Using a Wide Coverage Lexicon, Fuzzy Tag-Set Mapping, and EM-HMM-Based Lexical Probabilities
E09-1039 [bib]: Jade Goldstein-Stewart; Ransom Winder; Roberta Sabin
Person Identification from Text and Speech Genre Samples
E09-1040 [bib]: Olivier Hamon; Christian Fügen; Djamel Mostefa; Victoria Arranz; Muntsin Kolss; Alex Waibel; Khalid Choukri
End-to-End Evaluation in Simultaneous Translation
E09-1041 [bib]: Kazi Saidul Hasan; Md. Altaf ur Rahman; Vincent Ng
Learning-Based Named Entity Recognition for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages
E09-1042 [bib]: Kazi Saidul Hasan; Vincent Ng
Weakly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages
E09-1043 [bib]: Hieu Hoang; Philipp Koehn
Improving Mid-Range Re-Ordering Using Templates of Factors
E09-1044 [bib]: Gonzalo Iglesias; Adrià de Gispert; Eduardo R. Banga; William Byrne
Rule Filtering by Pattern for Efficient Hierarchical Translation
E09-1045 [bib]: Rubén Izquierdo; Armando Suárez; German Rigau
An Empirical Study on Class-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
E09-1046 [bib]: Valentin Jijkoun; Katja Hofmann
Generating a Non-English Subjectivity Lexicon: Relations That Matter
E09-1047 [bib]: Sandra Kübler; Erhard Hinrichs; Wolfgang Maier; Eva Klett
Parsing Coordinations
E09-1048 [bib]: Itamar Kastner; Christof Monz
Automatic Single-Document Key Fact Extraction from Newswire Articles
E09-1049 [bib]: Maxim Khalilov; José A. R. Fonollosa
N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation versus Syntax Augmented Machine Translation: Comparison and System Combination
E09-1050 [bib]: Amit Kirschenbaum; Shuly Wintner
Lightly Supervised Transliteration for Machine Translation
E09-1051 [bib]: Manfred Klenner; Étienne Ailloud
Optimization in Coreference Resolution is not Needed: A Nearly-Optimal Algorithm with Intensional Constraints
E09-1052 [bib]: Alexander Koller; Alex Lascarides
A Logic of Semantic Representations for Shallow Parsing
E09-1053 [bib]: Alexander Koller; Marco Kuhlmann
Dependency Trees and the Strong Generative Capacity of CCG
E09-1054 [bib]: Selçuk Köprü; Adnan Yazıcı
Lattice Parsing to Integrate Speech Recognition and Rule-Based Machine Translation
E09-1055 [bib]: Marco Kuhlmann; Giorgio Satta
Treebank Grammar Techniques for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
E09-1056 [bib]: Philippe Langlais; François Yvon; Pierre Zweigenbaum
Improvements in Analogical Learning: Application to Translating Multi-Terms of the Medical Domain
E09-1057 [bib]: Els Lefever; Lieve Macken; Veronique Hoste
Language-Independent Bilingual Terminology Extraction from a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
E09-1058 [bib]: Oliver Lemon; Ioannis Konstas
User Simulations for Context-Sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems
E09-1059 [bib]: Kevin Lerman; Sasha Blair-Goldensohn; Ryan McDonald
Sentiment Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences
E09-1060 [bib]: Hrafn Loftsson
Correcting a POS-Tagged Corpus Using Three Complementary Methods
E09-1061 [bib]: Adam Lopez
Translation as Weighted Deduction
E09-1062 [bib]: Annie Louis; Ani Nenkova
Performance Confidence Estimation for Automatic Summarization
E09-1063 [bib]: Yanjun Ma; Andy Way
Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
E09-1064 [bib]: Shachar Mirkin; Ido Dagan; Eyal Shnarch
Evaluating the Inferential Utility of Lexical-Semantic Resources
E09-1065 [bib]: Michael Mohler; Rada Mihalcea
Text-to-Text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading
E09-1066 [bib]: Alessandro Moschitti
Syntactic and Semantic Kernels for Short Text Pair Categorization
E09-1067 [bib]: Animesh Mukherjee; Monojit Choudhury; Ravi Kannan
Discovering Global Patterns in Linguistic Networks through Spectral Analysis: A Case Study of the Consonant Inventories
E09-1068 [bib]: Roberto Navigli
Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses
E09-1069 [bib]: Takashi Ninomiya; Takuya Matsuzaki; Nobuyuki Shimizu; Hiroshi Nakagawa
Deterministic Shift-Reduce Parsing for Unification-Based Grammars by Using Default Unification
E09-1070 [bib]: Joel Nothman; Tara Murphy; James R. Curran
Analysing Wikipedia and Gold-Standard Corpora for NER Training
E09-1071 [bib]: Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha; Ann Copestake
Using Lexical and Relational Similarity to Classify Semantic Relations
E09-1072 [bib]: Lilja Øvrelid
Empirical Evaluations of Animacy Annotation
E09-1073 [bib]: Marius Paşca
Outclassing Wikipedia in Open-Domain Information Extraction: Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Attributes over Conceptual Hierarchies
E09-1074 [bib]: Yves Peirsman; Dirk Geeraerts
Predicting Strong Associations on the Basis of Corpus Data
E09-1075 [bib]: Marco Pennacchiotti; Michael Wirth
Measuring Frame Relatedness
E09-1076 [bib]: Christopher Pinchak; Dekang Lin; Davood Rafiei
Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking
E09-1077 [bib]: Delip Rao; Deepak Ravichandran
Semi-Supervised Polarity Lexicon Induction
E09-1078 [bib]: Verena Rieser; Oliver Lemon
Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems
E09-1079 [bib]: Hassan Sajjad; Helmut Schmid
Tagging Urdu Text with Parts of Speech: A Tagger Comparison
E09-1080 [bib]: Federico Sangati; Willem Zuidema
Unsupervised Methods for Head Assignments
E09-1081 [bib]: David Schlangen; Gabriel Skantze
A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing
E09-1082 [bib]: Josh Schroeder; Trevor Cohn; Philipp Koehn
Word Lattices for Multi-Source Translation
E09-1083 [bib]: Katrin Schweitzer; Michael Walsh; Bernd Möbius; Arndt Riester; Antje Schweitzer; Hinrich Schütze
Frequency Matters: Pitch Accents and Information Status
E09-1084 [bib]: Matthew Simpson; Dina Demner-Fushman; Charles Sneiderman; Sameer K. Antani; George R. Thoma
Using Non-Lexical Features to Identify Effective Indexing Terms for Biomedical Illustrations
E09-1085 [bib]: Gabriel Skantze; David Schlangen
Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain
E09-1086 [bib]: Caroline Sporleder; Linlin Li
Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions
E09-1087 [bib]: Drahomíra “johanka” Spoustová; Jan Hajič; Jan Raab; Miroslav Spousta
Semi-Supervised Training for the Averaged Perceptron POS Tagger
E09-1088 [bib]: Xu Sun; Jun'ichi Tsujii
Sequential Labeling with Latent Variables: An Exact Inference Algorithm and its Efficient Approximation
E09-1089 [bib]: Hiroya Takamura; Manabu Okumura
Text Summarization Model Based on Maximum Coverage Problem and its Variant
E09-1090 [bib]: Yoshimasa Tsuruoka; Jun'ichi Tsujii; Sophia Ananiadou
Fast Full Parsing by Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields
E09-1091 [bib]: Raghavendra Udupa; K Saravanan; A Kumaran; Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi
MINT: A Method for Effective and Scalable Mining of Named Entity Transliterations from Large Comparable Corpora
E09-1092 [bib]: Benjamin Van Durme; Phillip Michalak; Lenhart Schubert
Deriving Generalized Knowledge from Corpora Using WordNet Abstraction
E09-1093 [bib]: Gertjan van Noord
Learning Efficient Parsing
E09-1094 [bib]: Bram Vandekerckhove; Dominiek Sandra; Walter Daelemans
A Robust and Extensible Exemplar-Based Model of Thematic Fit
E09-1095 [bib]: Tony Veale; Guofu Li; Yanfen Hao
Growing Finely-Discriminating Taxonomies from Seeds of Varying Quality and Size
E09-1096 [bib]: Thuy Vu; Ai Ti Aw; Min Zhang
Feature-Based Method for Document Alignment in Comparable News Corpora
E09-1097 [bib]: Stephen Wan; Mark Dras; Robert Dale; Cécile Paris
Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model
E09-1098 [bib]: Justin Washtell
Co-Dispersion: A Windowless Approach to Lexical Association
E09-1099 [bib]: Fei Xia; William Lewis; Hoifung Poon
Language ID in the Context of Harvesting Language Data off the Web
E09-1100 [bib]: Hai Zhao
Character-Level Dependencies in Chinese: Usefulness and Learning
Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009
E09-2000: Front Matter
E09-2001 [bib]: Luciana Benotti
Frolog: an Accommodating Text-Adventure Game
E09-2002 [bib]: Aurélien Bossard; Michel Généreux; Thierry Poibeau
CBSEAS, a Summarization System – Integration of Opinion Mining Techniques to Summarize Blogs
E09-2003 [bib]: Björn Bringert; Krasimir Angelov; Aarne Ranta
Grammatical Framework Web Service
E09-2004 [bib]: Xiwen Cheng; Peter Adolphs; Feiyu Xu; Hans Uszkoreit; Hong Li
Gossip Galore – A Self-Learning Agent for Exchanging Pop Trivia
E09-2005 [bib]: Dimitrios Galanis; George Karakatsiotis; Gerasimos Lampouras; Ion Androutsopoulos
An Open-Source Natural Language Generator for OWL Ontologies and its Use in Protege and Second Life
E09-2006 [bib]: Rüdiger Gleim; Ulli Waltinger; Alexandra Ernst; Alexander Mehler; Tobias Feith; Dietmar Esch
eHumanities Desktop - An Online System for Corpus Management and Analysis in Support of Computing in the Humanities
E09-2007 [bib]: Karin Harbusch; Mare Koit; Haldur Õim
A Comparison of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis in Estonian and German: Remarkably Similar Elision Rules Allow a Language-Independent Ellipsis-Generation Module
E09-2008 [bib]: Mans Hulden
Foma: a Finite-State Compiler and Library
E09-2009 [bib]: Alexander Koller; Donna Byron; Justine Cassell; Robert Dale; Johanna Moore; Jon Oberlander; Kristina Striegnitz
The Software Architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments
E09-2010 [bib]: Stasinos Konstantopoulos; Athanasios Tegos; Dimitrios Bilidas; Ion Androutsopoulos; Gerasimos Lampouras; Colin Matheson; Olivier Deroo; Prodromos Malakasiotis
Adaptive Natural Language Interaction
E09-2011 [bib]: William Lewis; Fei Xia
Parsing, Projecting & Prototypes: Repurposing Linguistic Data on the Web
E09-2012 [bib]: Athina Michou; Violeta Seretan
A Tool for Multi-Word Expression Extraction in Modern Greek Using Syntactic Parsing
E09-2013 [bib]: Eleni Miltsakaki
Matching Readers' Preferences and Reading Skills with Appropriate Web Texts
E09-2014 [bib]: Katerina Pastra; Eirini Balta
A Text-Based Search Interface for Multimedia Dialectics
E09-2015 [bib]: Aarne Ranta; Krasimir Angelov; Björn Bringert
Grammar Development in GF
E09-2016 [bib]: Yutaka Sasaki; Paul Thompson; John McNaught; Sophia Ananiadou
Three BioNLP Tools Powered by a Biological Lexicon
E09-2017 [bib]: Olov Stahl; Björn Gambäck; Markku Turunen; Jaakko Hakulinen
A Mobile Health and Fitness Companion Demonstrator
Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009
E09-3000: Front Matter
E09-3001 [bib]: Guillaume Aimetti
Modelling Early Language Acquisition Skills: Towards a General Statistical Learning Mechanism
E09-3002 [bib]: Prachya Boonkwan
A Memory-Based Approach to the Treatment of Serial Verb Construction in Combinatory Categorial Grammar
E09-3003 [bib]: Thomas François
Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL
E09-3004 [bib]: Aurelie Herbelot
Finding Word Substitutions Using a Distributional Similarity Baseline and Immediate Context Overlap
E09-3005 [bib]: Barbara Plank
Structural Correspondence Learning for Parse Disambiguation
E09-3006 [bib]: Marta Recasens
A Chain-starting Classifier of Definite NPs in Spanish
E09-3007 [bib]: Julia Sidorova
Speech Emotion Recognition With TGI+.2 Classifier
E09-3008 [bib]: Sara Stymne
A Comparison of Merging Strategies for Translation of German Compounds
E09-3009 [bib]: George Tsatsaronis; Vicky Panagiotopoulou
A Generalized Vector Space Model for Text Retrieval Based on Semantic Relatedness
E09-3010 [bib]: Pinar Wennerberg
Aligning Medical Domain Ontologies for Clinical Query Extraction
E09-3011 [bib]: Eline Westerhout
Extraction of Definitions Using Grammar-Enhanced Machine Learning