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

P03-1000: Front Matter

P03-1001: Michael Fleischman; Eduard Hovy; Abdessamad Echihabi
Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked

P03-1002: Mihai Surdeanu; Sanda Harabagiu; John Williams; Paul Aarseth
Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction

P03-1003: Abdessamad Echihabi; Daniel Marcu
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering

P03-1004: Taku Kudo; Yuji Matsumoto
Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis

P03-1005: Jun Suzuki; Tsutomu Hirao; Yutaka Sasaki; Eisaku Maeda
Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data

P03-1006: Cyril Allauzen; Mehryar Mohri; Brian Roark
Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models

P03-1007: Anna Korhonen; Judita Preiss
Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation

P03-1008: Malvina Nissim; Katja Markert
Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution

P03-1009: Anna Korhonen; Yuval Krymolowski; Zvika Marx
Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically

P03-1010: Masao Utiyama; Hitoshi Isahara
Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences

P03-1011: Daniel Gildea
Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation

P03-1012: Colin Cherry; Dekang Lin
A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment

P03-1013: Amit Dubey; Frank Keller
Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies

P03-1014: Anette Frank; Markus Becker; Berthold Crysmann; Bernd Kiefer; Ulrich Schäfer
Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG

P03-1015: Michael Schiehlen
Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German

P03-1016: Hua Wu; Ming Zhou
Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information

P03-1017: Sebastian Padó; Mirella Lapata
Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora

P03-1018: Dominic Widdows
Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval

P03-1019: Richard Zens; Hermann Ney
A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation

P03-1020: Lucian Vlad Lita; Abe Ittycheriah; Salim Roukos; Nanda Kambhatla
tRuEcasIng

P03-1021: Franz Josef Och
Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation

P03-1022: Michael Strube; Christoph Müller
A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue

P03-1023: Xiaofeng Yang; Guodong Zhou; Jian Su; Chew Lim Tan
Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach

P03-1024: Lionel Clément; Alexandra Kinyon
Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar

P03-1025: Jonas Kuhn
Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting

P03-1026: Gerald Penn; Cosmin Munteanu
A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying

P03-1027: Andrew Gordon; Abe Kazemzadeh; Anish Nair; Milena Petrova
Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text

P03-1028: Hai Leong Chieu; Hwee Tou Ng; Yoong Keok Lee
Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods

P03-1029: Kiyoshi Sudo; Satoshi Sekine; Ralph Grishman
An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition

P03-1030: Ayman Farahat; Francine Chen; Thorsten Brants
Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection

P03-1031: Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Mikio Nakano; Kiyoaki Aikawa
Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems

P03-1032: Gang Wang; Tat-Seng Chua; Yong-Cheng Wang
Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches

P03-1033: Kazunori Komatani; Shinichi Ueno; Tatsuya Kawahara; Hiroshi G. Okuno
Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems

P03-1034: Charles B. Callaway
Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture

P03-1035: Jianfeng Gao; Mu Li; Chang-Ning Huang
Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation

P03-1036: Mathias Creutz
Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency

P03-1037: Martin Jansche
Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data

P03-1038: Jin-Dong Kim; Hae-Chang Rim; Jun'ichi Tsujii
Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging

P03-1039: Taro Watanabe; Eiichiro Sumita; Hiroshi G. Okuno
Chunk-Based Statistical Translation

P03-1040: Philipp Koehn; Kevin Knight
Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases

P03-1041: Ashish Venugopal; Stephan Vogel; Alex Waibel
Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models

P03-1042: Yunbo Cao; Hang Li; Li Lian
Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm

P03-1043: Cheng Niu; Wei Li; Jihong Ding; Rohini Srihari
A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners

P03-1044: Roman Yangarber
Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns

P03-1045: Denis Béchet; Annie Foret
k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings

P03-1046: Julia Hockenmaier
Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure

P03-1047: Joachim Niehren; Stefan Thater
Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints

P03-1048: Dragomir R. Radev; Simone Teufel; Horacio Saggion; Wai Lam; John Blitzer; Hong Qi; Arda Çelebi; Danyu Liu; Elliott Drabek
Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization

P03-1049: Akiko Aizawa
Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship

P03-1050: Monica Rogati; Scott McCarley; Yiming Yang
Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus

P03-1051: Young-Suk Lee; Kishore Papineni; Salim Roukos; Ossama Emam; Hany Hassan
Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation

P03-1052: Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii; Daichi Hayakawa; Masato Takeichi
Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus

P03-1053: William Gregory Sakas
A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition

P03-1054: Dan Klein; Christopher D. Manning
Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing

P03-1055: Péter Dienes; Amit Dubey
Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods

P03-1056: Roger Levy; Christopher D. Manning
Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank?

P03-1057: Kenji Imamura; Eiichiro Sumita; Yuji Matsumoto
Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation

P03-1058: Hwee Tou Ng; Bin Wang; Yee Seng Chan
Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study

P03-1059: Timothy Baldwin; Francis Bond
Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data

P03-1060: Do-Gil Lee; Hae-Chang Rim; Heui-Seok Lim
A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction

P03-1061: Kiyotaka Uchimoto; Chikashi Nobata; Atsushi Yamada; Satoshi Sekine; Hitoshi Isahara
Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese

P03-1062: Erwin Marsi; Martin Reynaert; Antal van den Bosch; Walter Daelemans; Véronique Hoste
Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch

P03-1063: Seong-Bae Park; Byoung-Tak Zhang
Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning

P03-1064: Libin Shen; Aravind K. Joshi
A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking

P03-1065: Wei Li; Xiuhong Zhang; Cheng Niu; Yuankai Jiang; Rohini K. Srihari
An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs

P03-1066: Jianfeng Gao; Hisami Suzuki
Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling

P03-1067: William Schuler
Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface

P03-1068: Katrin Erk; Andrea Kowalski; Sebastian Padó; Manfred Pinkal
Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation

P03-1069: Mirella Lapata
Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering

P03-1070: Yukiko Nakano; Gabe Reinstein; Tom Stocky; Justine Cassell
Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding

P03-1071: Michel Galley; Kathleen R. McKeown; Eric Fosler-Lussier; Hongyan Jing
Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation

The Companion Volume to the Proceedings of 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

P03-2001:
Proceedings of the ACL-2003 Student Research Workshop

P03-2002: Narjès Boufaden
An Ontology-based Semantic Tagger for IE system

P03-2003: José M. Castaño
On the Applicability of Global Index Grammars

P03-2004: Malte Gabsdil
Classifying Recognition Results for Spoken Dialog Systems

P03-2005: Anurag Gupta
An Adaptive Approach to Collecting Multimodal Input

P03-2006: Valentin Jijkoun
Finding Non-local Dependencies: Beyond Pattern Matching

P03-2007: Bo-Yeong Kang
A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing Based on Concept

P03-2008: Katsuya Masuda
A Ranking Model of Proximal and Structural Text Retrieval Based on Region Algebra

P03-2009: T. Daniel Midgley
Discourse Chunking: A Tool in Dialogue Act Tagging

P03-2010: Hyunjung Son
A Computational Treatment of Korean Temporal Markers, OE and DONGAN

P03-2011: Huihsin Tseng
Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words

P03-2012: Olga Uryupina
High-precision Identification of Discourse New and Unique Noun Phrases

P03-2013: Mitsuko Yamura-Takei
Approaches to Zero Adnominal Recognition

P03-2014:
ACL-03 Interactive Posters and Demonstrations

P03-2015: Jun Goto; Yeun-Bae Kim; Masaru Miyazaki; Kazuteru Komine; Noriyoshi Uratani
A Spoken Dialogue Interface for TV Operations based on Data Collected by using WOZ Method

P03-2016: Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii; Masato Yamamoto; Hiroshi Nakagawa
Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching

P03-2017: Marc Dymetman; Aurélien Max; Kenji Yamada
Towards Interactive Text Understanding

P03-2018: Ian Marshall; Éva Sáfár
A Prototype Text to British Sign Language (BSL) Translation System

P03-2019: Stephan Busemann; Witold Drozdzynski; Hans-Ulrich Krieger; Jakub Piskorski; Ulrich Schaefer; Hans Uszkoreit; Feiyu Xu
Integrating Information Extraction and Automatic Hyperlinking

P03-2020: Satoshi Sato; Yasuhiro Sasaki
Automatic Collection of Related Terms from the Web

P03-2021: Anton Leuski; Chin-Yew Lin; Eduard Hovy
iNeATS: Interactive Multi-Document Summarization

P03-2022: El-Sayed Atlam; Masaki Oono; Jun-ichi Aoe
An Evaluation Method of Words Tendency using Decision Tree

P03-2023: Kiyoshi Yamabana; Ken Hanazawa; Ryosuke Isotani; Seiya Osada; Akitoshi Okumura; Takao Watanabe
A Speech Translation System with Mobile Wireless Clients

P03-2024: Manny Rayner; Pierrette Bouillon; Vol Van Dalsem III; Hitoshi Isahara; Kyoko Kanzaki; Beth Ann Hockey
A Limited-Domain English to Japanese Medical Speech Translator Built Using REGULUS 2

P03-2025: Fatiha Sadat; Masatoshi Yoshikawa; Shunsuke Uemura
Bilingual Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora and Phrasal Translation to Cross-Language Information Retrieval

P03-2026: Emi Izumi; Kiyotaka Uchimoto; Toyomi Saiga; Thepchai Supnithi; Hitoshi Isahara
Automatic Error Detection in the Japanese Learners' English Spoken Data

P03-2027: Yoji Kiyota; Sadao Kurohashi; Teruhisa Misu; Kazunori Komatani; Tatsuya Kawahara; Fuyuko Kido
Dialog Navigator : A Spoken Dialog Q-A System based on Large Text Knowledge Base

P03-2028: Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Hajime Tsukada; Hideki Isozaki; Yutaka Sasaki; Eisaku Maeda
Spoken Interactive ODQA System: SPIQA

P03-2029: Koichi Yamashita; Keiichi Yoshida; Yukihiro Itoh
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pairwise Alignment

P03-2030: Collin F. Baker; Hiroaki Sato
The FrameNet Data and Software

P03-2031: Joohui An; Seungwoo Lee; Gary Geunbae Lee
Automatic Acquisition of Named Entity Tagged Corpus from World Wide Web

P03-2032: Atsuko Kida; Eiko Yamamoto; Kyoko Kanzaki; Hitoshi Isahara
Extraction and Verification of KO-OU Expressions from Large Corpora

P03-2033: Akane Yakushiji; Yuka Tateisi; Yusuke Miyao; Naoki Yoshinaga; Jun'ichi Tsujii
A Debug Tool for Practical Grammar Development

P03-2034: Edward Schofield; Zhiping Zheng
A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering

P03-2035: Koichi Takeuchi; Kyo Kageura; Teruo Koyama
Deverbal Compound Noun Analysis Based on Lexical Conceptual Structure

P03-2036: Naoki Yoshinaga; Kentaro Torisawa; Jun'ichi Tsujii
Comparison between CFG Filtering Techniques for LTAG and HPSG

P03-2037: Masatoshi Tsuchiya; Satoshi Sato
Automatic Detection of Grammar Elements that Decrease Readability

P03-2038: Manny Rayner; Beth Ann Hockey; Jim Hieronymus; John Dowding; Greg Aist; Susana Early
An Intelligent Procedure Assistant Built Using REGULUS 2 and ALTERF

P03-2039: Chooi Ling Goh; Masayuki Asahara; Yuji Matsumoto
Chinese Unknown Word Identification Using Character-based Tagging and Chunking

P03-2040: Jian-Cheng Wu; Kevin C. Yeh; Thomas C. Chuang; Wen-Chi Shei; Jason S. Chang
TotalRecall: A Bilingual Concordance for Computer Assisted Translation and Language Learning

P03-2041: Jason Eisner
Learning Non-Isomorphic Tree Mappings for Machine Translation