Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference
N07-1000: Front Matter
N07-1001 [bib]: Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar; Srinivas Bangalore; Shrikanth Narayanan
Exploiting Acoustic and Syntactic Features for Prosody Labeling in a Maximum Entropy Framework
N07-1002 [bib]: Ani Nenkova; Jason Brenier; Anubha Kothari; Sasha Calhoun; Laura Whitton; David Beaver; Dan Jurafsky
To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech
N07-1003 [bib]: Fan Yang; Peter A. Heeman
Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue
N07-1004 [bib]: Pei-yun Hsueh; Johanna D. Moore
What Decisions Have You Made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations
N07-1005 [bib]: Kiyotaka Uchimoto; Katsunori Kotani; Yujie Zhang; Hitoshi Isahara
Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Rate of Accomplishment of Sub-Goals
N07-1006 [bib]: Ding Liu; Daniel Gildea
Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation
N07-1007 [bib]: Kristina Toutanova; Hisami Suzuki
Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation
N07-1008 [bib]: Abraham Ittycheriah; Salim Roukos
Direct Translation Model 2
N07-1009 [bib]: Yejin Choi; Claire Cardie
Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution
N07-1010 [bib]: Xiaoqiang Luo
Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution
N07-1011 [bib]: Aron Culotta; Michael Wick; Andrew McCallum
First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution
N07-1012 [bib]: Victor Lavrenko; Xing Yi; James Allan
Information Retrieval On Empty Fields
N07-1013 [bib]: Xiaojin Zhu; Andrew Goldberg; Jurgen Van Gael; David Andrzejewski
Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks
N07-1014 [bib]: Chris Biemann
A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants
N07-1015 [bib]: Jing Jiang; ChengXiang Zhai
A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction
N07-1016 [bib]: Alexander Yates; Oren Etzioni
Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web
N07-1017 [bib]: Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo; Marco Pennacchiotti; Patrick Pantel
The Domain Restriction Hypothesis: Relating Term Similarity and Semantic Consistency
N07-1018 [bib]: Mark Johnson; Thomas Griffiths; Sharon Goldwater
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
N07-1019 [bib]: Daniel Gildea; Daniel Stefankovic
Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules
N07-1020 [bib]: Sajib Dasgupta; Vincent Ng
High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation
N07-1021 [bib]: Anja Belz
Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts
N07-1022 [bib]: Yuk Wah Wong; Raymond Mooney
Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation
N07-1023 [bib]: Michel Galley; Kathleen McKeown
Lexicalized Markov Grammars for Sentence Compression
N07-1024 [bib]: Xiaofei Lu
Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words
N07-1025 [bib]: Rada Mihalcea
Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation
N07-1026 [bib]: Andrei Alexandrescu; Katrin Kirchhoff
Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP
N07-1027 [bib]: Jimmy Lin
Is Question Answering Better than Information Retrieval? Towards a Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series
N07-1028 [bib]: Giridhar Kumaran; James Allan
A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them
N07-1029 [bib]: Antti-Veikko Rosti; Necip Fazil Ayan; Bing Xiang; Spyros Matsoukas; Richard Schwartz; Bonnie Dorr
Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems
N07-1030 [bib]: Pascal Denis; Jason Baldridge
Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming
N07-1031 [bib]: Emilia Stoica; Marti Hearst; Megan Richardson
Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures
N07-1032 [bib]: Damianos Karakos; Jason Eisner; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Carey Priebe
Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms
N07-1033 [bib]: Omar Zaidan; Jason Eisner; Christine Piatko
Using “Annotator Rationales” to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization
N07-1034 [bib]: Peter Heeman
Combining Reinformation Learning with Information-State Update Rules
N07-1035 [bib]: Joel Tetreault; Dan Bohus; Diane Litman
Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: a Confidence Interval Approach
N07-1036 [bib]: Shaolin Qu; Joyce Chai
An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces
N07-1037 [bib]: Hiroya Takamura; Takashi Inui; Manabu Okumura
Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary
N07-1038 [bib]: Benjamin Snyder; Regina Barzilay
Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm
N07-1039 [bib]: Kenneth Bloom; Navendu Garg; Shlomo Argamon
Extracting Appraisal Expressions
N07-1040 [bib]: Advaith Siddharthan; Simone Teufel
Whose Idea Was This, and Why Does it Matter? Attributing Scientific Work to Citations
N07-1041 [bib]: Paul N. Bennett; Jaime G. Carbonell
Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection
N07-1042 [bib]: Gideon Mann
Multi-Document Relationship Fusion via Constraints on Probabilistic Databases
N07-1043 [bib]: Danushka Bollegala; Yutaka Matsuo; Mitsuru Ishizuka
An Integrated Approach to Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Information Available on the Web
N07-1044 [bib]: Mirella Lapata; Frank Keller
An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking
N07-1045 [bib]: Diana Inkpen
Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus
N07-1046 [bib]: Bing Zhao; Nguyen Bach; Ian Lane; Stephan Vogel
A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs
N07-1047 [bib]: Sittichai Jiampojamarn; Grzegorz Kondrak; Tarek Sherif
Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
N07-1048 [bib]: Mathias Creutz; Teemu Hirsimäki; Mikko Kurimo; Antti Puurula; Janne Pylkkönen; Vesa Siivola; Matti Varjokallio; Ebru Arisoy; Murat Saraclar; Andreas Stolcke
Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages
N07-1049 [bib]: Giuseppe Attardi; Massimiliano Ciaramita
Tree Revision Learning for Dependency Parsing
N07-1050 [bib]: Joakim Nivre
Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
N07-1051 [bib]: Slav Petrov; Dan Klein
Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing
N07-1052 [bib]: Aria Haghighi; John DeNero; Dan Klein
Approximate Factoring for A* Search
N07-1053 [bib]: David Ahn; Joris
A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions
N07-1054 [bib]: Sasha Blair-Goldensohn; Kathleen McKeown; Owen Rambow
Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models
N07-1055 [bib]: Micha Elsner; Joseph Austerweil; Eugene Charniak
A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence
N07-1056 [bib]: Pawan Deshpande; Regina Barzilay; David Karger
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems
N07-1057 [bib]: Fei Xia; William Lewis
Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinear Text
N07-1058 [bib]: Michael Heilman; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan; Maxine Eskenazi
Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts
N07-1059 [bib]: Chao Wang; Stephanie Seneff
Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring
N07-1060 [bib]: Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan
Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses
N07-1061 [bib]: Masao Utiyama; Hitoshi Isahara
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
N07-1062 [bib]: Richard Zens; Hermann Ney
Efficient Phrase-Table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation
N07-1063 [bib]: Ashish Venugopal; Andreas Zollmann; Vogel Stephan
An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT
N07-1064 [bib]: Michel Simard; Cyril Goutte; Pierre Isabelle
Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing
N07-1065 [bib]: Christopher Pinchak; Shane Bergsma
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
N07-1066 [bib]: Jeongwoo Ko; Luo Si; Eric Nyberg
A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering
N07-1067 [bib]: Barry Schiffman; Kathleen McKeown; Ralph Grishman; James Allan
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
N07-1068 [bib]: Yu-Chieh Wu; Jie-Chi Yang
Toward Multimedia: A String Pattern-Based Passage Ranking Model for Video Question Answering
N07-1069 [bib]: Szu-ting Yi; Edward Loper; Martha Palmer
Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres?
N07-1070 [bib]: Sameer Pradhan; Wayne Ward; James Martin
Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling
N07-1071 [bib]: Patrick Pantel; Rahul Bhagat; Bonaventura Coppola; Timothy Chklovski; Eduard Hovy
ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences
N07-1072 [bib]: Feng Pan; Robert Farrell
Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
N07-2000: Front Matter
N07-2001 [bib]: Hua Ai; Joel Tetreault; Diane Litman
Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning
N07-2002 [bib]: Nuria Bel; Sergio Espeja; Montserrat Marimon
Automatic Acquisition of Grammatical Types for Nouns
N07-2003 [bib]: Dan Bohus; Sergio Grau Puerto; David Huggins-Daines; Venkatesh Keri; Gopala Krishna; Rohit Kumar; Antoine Raux; Stefanie Tomko
Conquest—An Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences
N07-2004 [bib]: Ilana Bromberg; Jeremy Morris; Eric Fosler-Lussier
Joint Versus Independent Phonological Feature Models within CRF Phone Recognition
N07-2005 [bib]: Kenneth Church; Bo Thiesson; Robert Ragno
K-Best Suffix Arrays
N07-2006 [bib]: Matthias Eck; Stephan Vogel; Alex Waibel
Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation
N07-2007 [bib]: Jakob Elming; Nizar Habash
Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes
N07-2008 [bib]: Jessica Enright; Grzegorz Kondrak
A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification
N07-2009 [bib]: Karim Filali; Jeff Bilmes
Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation
N07-2010 [bib]: Michael Fleischman; Deb Roy
Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval
N07-2011 [bib]: Kate Forbes-Riley; Mihai Rotaru; Diane Litman; Joel Tetreault
Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development
N07-2012 [bib]: Olac Fuentes; David Vera; Thamar Solorio
A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems
N07-2013 [bib]: Olga Gurevich; Paul Deane
Document Similarity Measures to Distinguish Native vs. Non-Native Essay Writers
N07-2014 [bib]: Nizar Habash; Owen Rambow
Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging
N07-2015 [bib]: Sasa Hasan; Richard Zens; Hermann Ney
Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT?
N07-2016 [bib]: Jirí Havelka
Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, Their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness
N07-2017 [bib]: Dustin Hillard; Bjoern Hoffmeister; Mari Ostendorf; Ralf Schlueter; Hermann Ney
iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification
N07-2018 [bib]: Fang Huang; Yorick Wilks
Clustered Sub-Matrix Singular Value Decomposition
N07-2019 [bib]: David Huggins-Daines; Alexander I. Rudnicky
Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription
N07-2020 [bib]: Douglas Jones; Martha Herzog; Hussny Ibrahim; Arvind Jairam; Wade Shen; Edward Gibson; Michael Emonts
ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions
N07-2021 [bib]: Rohit Kate; Raymond Mooney
Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
N07-2022 [bib]: Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs; Josep M. Crego
Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation
N07-2023 [bib]: Kornel Laskowski; Tanja Schultz
A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings
N07-2024 [bib]: John Lee; Ming Zhou; Xiaohua Liu
Detection of Non-Native Sentences Using Machine-Translated Training Data
N07-2025 [bib]: Yudong Liu; Zhongmin Shi; Anoop Sarkar
Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Relationship Extraction from Biomedical Articles
N07-2026 [bib]: Feifan Liu; Yang Liu
Look Who is Talking: Soundbite Speaker Name Recognition in Broadcast News Speech
N07-2027 [bib]: Hrafn Loftsson
Tagging Icelandic Text using a Linguistic and a Statistical Tagger
N07-2028 [bib]: Gideon Mann; Andrew McCallum
Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
N07-2029 [bib]: Irina Matveeva; Gina-Anne Levow
Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding
N07-2030 [bib]: Florian Metze
On using Articulatory Features for Discriminative Speaker Adaptation
N07-2031 [bib]: Paula Newman
RH: A Retro-Hybrid Parser
N07-2032 [bib]: Dat P.T. Nguyen; Yutaka Matsuo; Mitsuru Ishizuka
Subtree Mining for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia
N07-2033 [bib]: Mohamed Noamany; Thomas Schaaf; Tanja Schultz
Advances in the CMU/Interact Arabic GALE Transcription System
N07-2034 [bib]: Alicia Pérez; M. Teresa González; M. Inés Torres; Francisco Casacuberta
An Integrated Architecture for Speech-Input Multi-Target Machine Translation
N07-2035 [bib]: Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep M. Crego; David Vilar; José A. R. Fonollosa; José B. Mariño; Hermann Ney
Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems
N07-2036 [bib]: Victoria L. Rubin
Stating with Certainty or Stating with Doubt: Intercoder Reliability Results for Manual Annotation of Epistemically Modalized Statements
N07-2037 [bib]: Ruhi Sarikaya; Yonggang Deng
Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Machine Translation
N07-2038 [bib]: Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Karl Weilhammer; Hui Ye; Steve Young
Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System
N07-2039 [bib]: Stephanie Seneff
Reversible Sound-to-Letter/Letter-to-Sound Modeling Based on Syllable Structure
N07-2040 [bib]: Yongmei Shi; Lina Zhou
Are Some Speech Recognition Errors Easier to Detect than Others?
N07-2041 [bib]: Zhongmin Shi; Anoop Sarkar; Fred Popowich
Simultaneous Identification of Biomedical Named-Entity and Functional Relation Using Statistical Parsing Techniques
N07-2042 [bib]: Amarnag Subramanya; Jeff Bilmes
Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers Using Partially Labeled Data
N07-2043 [bib]: Stephen Tratz; Antonio Sanfilippo
A High Accuracy Method for Semi-Supervised Information Extraction
N07-2044 [bib]: Keith Trnka; Debra Yarrington; John McCaw; Kathleen F. McCoy; Christopher Pennington
The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC
N07-2045 [bib]: Jenine Turner; Eugene Charniak
Language Modeling for Determiner Selection
N07-2046 [bib]: Marc Vilain; Jennifer Su; Suzi Lubar
Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem—Or is it?
N07-2047 [bib]: Zhuoran Wang; John Shawe-Taylor; Sandor Szedmak
Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation
N07-2048 [bib]: Guangwei Wang; Kenji Araki
Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions
N07-2049 [bib]: Lei Xie; Chuan Liu; Helen Meng
Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News
N07-2050 [bib]: Xiaofeng Yu
Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Cascaded Hybrid Model
N07-2051 [bib]: Kun Yu; Sadao Kurohashi; Hao Liu
A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing
N07-2052 [bib]: Torsten Zesch; Iryna Gurevych; Max Mühlhäuser
Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets
N07-2053 [bib]: Luke Zettlemoyer; Robert Moore
Selective Phrase Pair Extraction for Improved Statistical Machine Translation
N07-2054 [bib]: Jian Zhang; Pascale Fung
Speech Summarization Without Lexical Features for Mandarin Broadcast News
N07-2055 [bib]: Liang Zhou; Namhee Kwon; Eduard Hovy
A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation
Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007 Doctoral Consortium
N07-3000: Front Matter
N07-3001 [bib]: Karin Friberg
Query Expansion Using Domain Information in Compounds
N07-3002 [bib]: Qin Iris Wang
Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing
N07-3003 [bib]: Simone Paolo Ponzetto
Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia
N07-3004 [bib]: Alicia Tribble
Knowledge-Based Labeling of Semantic Relationships in English
N07-3005 [bib]: Marie-Josée Goulet
Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Experiments
N07-3006 [bib]: Rajen Subba
Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text
N07-3007 [bib]: Joana Paulo Pardal
Dynamic Use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems
N07-3008 [bib]: Diana Marie Trandabat
Semantic Frames in Romanian Natural Language Processing Systems
N07-3009 [bib]: J. Scott Olsson
Combining Evidence for Improved Speech Retrieval
N07-3010 [bib]: Chris Biemann
Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)
N07-4000: Front Matter
N07-4001 [bib]: James Allen; Nathanael Chambers; George Ferguson; Lucian Galescu; Hyuckchul Jung; Mary Swift; William Taysom
Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning
N07-4002 [bib]: Jill Burstein; Jane Shore; John Sabatini; Yong-Won Lee; Matthew Ventura
The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
N07-4003 [bib]: Myroslava O. Dzikovska; Charles B. Callaway; Elaine Farrow; Manuel Marques-Pita; Colin Matheson; Johanna D. Moore
Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques
N07-4004 [bib]: Donghyeon Lee; Jonghoon Lee; Gary Geunbae Lee
POSSLT: A Korean to English Spoken Language Translation System
N07-4005 [bib]: Gabriel Murray; Pei-Yun Hsueh; Simon Tucker; Jonathan Kilgour; Jean Carletta; Johanna D. Moore; Steve Renals
Automatic Segmentation and Summarization of Meeting Speech
N07-4006 [bib]: Václav Novák
Cedit – Semantic Networks Manual Annotation Tool
N07-4007 [bib]: Stephanie Seneff; Chao Wang; Chih-yu Chao
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning
N07-4008 [bib]: Svetlana Stenchikova; Basia Mucha; Sarah Hoffman; Amanda Stent
RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar
N07-4009 [bib]: L. Lynn Voss; Patrick Ehlen
The CALO Meeting Assistant
N07-4010 [bib]: Guangwei Wang; Kenji Araki
OMS-J: An Opinion Mining System for Japanese Weblog Reviews Using a Combination of Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches
N07-4011 [bib]: Chien-Cheng Wu; Jason S. Chang
Learning to Find Transliteration on the Web
N07-4012 [bib]: Baoshi Yan; Fuliang Weng; Zhe Feng; Florin Ratiu; Madhuri Raya; Yao Meng; Sebastian Varges; Matthew Purver; Annie Lien; Tobias Scheideck; Badri Raghunathan; Feng Lin; Rohit Mishra; Brian Lathrop; Zhaoxia Zhang; Harry Bratt; Stanley Peters
A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
N07-4013 [bib]: Alexander Yates; Michele Banko; Matthew Broadhead; Michael Cafarella; Oren Etzioni; Stephen Soderland
TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web
N07-4014 [bib]: Steve Young; Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Karl Weilhammer; Hui Ye
The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System
N07-4015 [bib]: Liang Zhou
Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets
N07-4016 [bib]: Geoffrey Zweig; Y.C. Ju; Patrick Nguyen; Dong Yu; Ye-Yi Wang; Alex Acero
Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Tutorial Abstracts
N07-5000: Front Matter
N07-5001 [bib]: K. Bretonnel Cohen
BioNLP
N07-5002 [bib]: ChengXiang Zhai
Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval
N07-5003 [bib]: Mona Diab; Nizar Habash
Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial
N07-5004 [bib]: Dan Klein
Introduction to Classification: Likelihoods, Margins, Features, and Kernels