Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
W08-0100: Front Matter
W08-0101 [bib]: Antoine Raux; Maxine Eskenazi
Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System
W08-0102 [bib]: Alexander Gruenstein
Response-Based Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
W08-0103 [bib]: Dan Bohus; Xiao Li; Patrick Nguyen; Geoffrey Zweig
Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
W08-0104 [bib]: Alex Lascarides; Nicholas Asher
Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue
W08-0105 [bib]: Rachel Baker; Alastair Gill; Justine Cassell
Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving
W08-0106 [bib]: Gregory Mills; Pat Healey
Semantic negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of alignment
W08-0107 [bib]: Antonio Roque; David Traum
Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding
W08-0108 [bib]: Tim Paek; Sudeep Gandhe; Max Chickering
Rapidly Deploying Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and Back-off Grammars
W08-0109 [bib]: Sebastian Varges; Giuseppe Riccardi; Silvia Quarteroni
Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture
W08-0110 [bib]: Anna Hjalmarsson
Speaking without knowing what to say... or when to end
W08-0111 [bib]: Crystal Nakatsu
Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence Realization Ranking
W08-0112 [bib]: Fei Liu; Yang Liu
What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus
W08-0113 [bib]: Alexander Siebert; David Schlangen
A Simple Method for Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context
W08-0114 [bib]: Mikio Nakano; Kotaro Funakoshi; Yuji Hasegawa; Hiroshi Tsujino
A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model
W08-0115 [bib]: Stefan Hamerich
From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems
W08-0116 [bib]: Marcus Colman; Arash Eshghi; Pat Healey
Quantifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding
W08-0117 [bib]: Yasuhiro Katagiri; Yosuke Matsusaka; Yasuharu Den; Mika Enomoto; Masato Ishizaki; Katsuya Takanashi
Implicit Proposal Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations
W08-0118 [bib]: Zhifei Li; Patrick Nguyen; Geoffrey Zweig
Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating Systems using POMDP Framework
W08-0119 [bib]: Milica Gašić; Simon Keizer; Francois Mairesse; Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Kai Yu; Steve Young
Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise
W08-0120 [bib]: Kyungduk Kim; Cheongjae Lee; Sangkeun Jung; Gary Geunbae Lee
A Frame-Based Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog Management Using Dialog Examples
W08-0121 [bib]: Julia Hirschberg
Speaking More Like You: Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems
W08-0122 [bib]: Swapna Somasundaran; Josef Ruppenhofer; Janyce Wiebe
Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study
W08-0123 [bib]: Pierre Andrews; Suresh Manandhar; Marco De Boni
Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue for Automated Persuasion
W08-0124 [bib]: Kornel Laskowski; Mari Ostendorf; Tanja Schultz
Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Participant Characterization in Multi-Party Conversation
W08-0125 [bib]: Raquel Fernández; Matthew Frampton; Patrick Ehlen; Matthew Purver; Stanley Peters
Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-party Dialogue
W08-0126 [bib]: Hua Ai; Fuliang Weng
User Simulation as Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems
W08-0127 [bib]: Sudeep Gandhe; David Traum
Evaluation Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models
W08-0128 [bib]: Sebastian Möller; Nigel Ward
A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems
W08-0129 [bib]: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova; Olga Kukina
The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users' Evaluation Judgments and Input Style
W08-0130 [bib]: David DeVault; David Traum; Ron Artstein
Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
W08-0200: Front Matter
W08-0201 [bib]: Jason Baldridge; Katrin Erk
Teaching Computational Linguistics to a Large, Diverse Student Body: Courses, Tools, and Interdepartmental Interaction
W08-0202 [bib]: Emily M. Bender; Fei Xia; Erik Bansleben
Building a Flexible, Collaborative, Intensive Master's Program in Computational Linguistics
W08-0203 [bib]: Heike Zinsmeister
Freshmen's CL Curriculum: The Benefits of Redundancy
W08-0204 [bib]: Steven Bird
Defining a Core Body of Knowledge for the Introductory Computational Linguistics Curriculum
W08-0205 [bib]: Eric Fosler-Lussier
Strategies for Teaching “Mixed” Computational Linguistics Classes
W08-0206 [bib]: Fei Xia
The Evolution of a Statistical NLP Course
W08-0207 [bib]: Jimmy Lin
Exploring Large-Data Issues in the Curriculum: A Case Study with MapReduce
W08-0208 [bib]: Steven Bird; Ewan Klein; Edward Loper; Jason Baldridge
Multidisciplinary Instruction with the Natural Language Toolkit
W08-0209 [bib]: Nitin Madnani; Bonnie J. Dorr
Combining Open-Source with Research to Re-engineer a Hands-on Introductory NLP Course
W08-0210 [bib]: Beth Ann Hockey; Gwen Christian
Zero to Spoken Dialogue System in One Quarter: Teaching Computational Linguistics to Linguists Using Regulus
W08-0211 [bib]: Dragomir R. Radev; Lori Levin; Thomas E. Payne
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
W08-0212 [bib]: Jason Eisner; Noah A. Smith
Competitive Grammar Writing
W08-0213 [bib]: Gina-Anne Levow
Studying Discourse and Dialogue with SIDGrid
W08-0214 [bib]: Reva Freedman
Teaching NLP to Computer Science Majors via Applications and Experiments
W08-0215 [bib]: William Gregory Sakas
Psychocomputational Linguistics: A Gateway to the Computational Linguistics Curriculum
W08-0216 [bib]: Matthew Stone
Support Collaboration by Teaching Fundamentals
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0300: Front Matter
W08-0301 [bib]: Chi-Ho Li; Hailei Zhang; Dongdong Zhang; Mu Li; Ming Zhou
An Empirical Study in Source Word Deletion for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0302 [bib]: Kevin Gimpel; Noah A. Smith
Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0303 [bib]: Jan Niehues; Stephan Vogel
Discriminative Word Alignment via Alignment Matrix Modeling
W08-0304 [bib]: Daniel Cer; Dan Jurafsky; Christopher D. Manning
Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training
W08-0305 [bib]: Marco Turchi; Tijl De Bie; Nello Cristianini
Learning Performance of a Machine Translation System: a Statistical and Computational Analysis
W08-0306 [bib]: Victoria Fossum; Kevin Knight; Steven Abney
Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
W08-0307 [bib]: Josep M. Crego; Nizar Habash
Using Shallow Syntax Information to Improve Word Alignment and Reordering for SMT
W08-0308 [bib]: Ding Liu; Daniel Gildea
Improved Tree-to-String Transducer for Machine Translation
W08-0309 [bib]: Chris Callison-Burch; Cameron Fordyce; Philipp Koehn; Christof Monz; Josh Schroeder
Further Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
W08-0310 [bib]: Daniel Déchelotte; Gilles Adda; Alexandre Allauzen; Hélène Bonneau-Maynard; Olivier Galibert; Jean-Luc Gauvain; Philippe Langlais; François Yvon
Limsi's Statistical Translation Systems for WMT'08
W08-0311 [bib]: Attila Novák; László Tihanyi; Gábor Prószéky
The MetaMorpho Translation System
W08-0312 [bib]: Abhaya Agarwal; Alon Lavie
Meteor, M-BLEU and M-TER: Evaluation Metrics for High-Correlation with Human Rankings of Machine Translation Output
W08-0313 [bib]: Holger Schwenk; Jean-Baptiste Fouet; Jean Senellart
First Steps towards a General Purpose French/English Statistical Machine Translation System
W08-0314 [bib]: Amittai Axelrod; Mei Yang; Kevin Duh; Katrin Kirchhoff
The University of Washington Machine Translation System for ACL WMT 2008
W08-0315 [bib]: Maxim Khalilov; Adolfo Hernández H.; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep M. Crego; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Patrik Lambert; José A. R. Fonollosa; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs
The TALP-UPC Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for ACL-WMT 2008
W08-0316 [bib]: Graeme Blackwood; Adrià de Gispert; Jamie Brunning; William Byrne
European Language Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers: The CUED MT System for the 2008 ACL Workshop on SMT
W08-0317 [bib]: Sara Stymne; Maria Holmqvist; Lars Ahrenberg
Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English
W08-0318 [bib]: Philipp Koehn; Abhishek Arun; Hieu Hoang
Towards better Machine Translation Quality for the German-English Language Pairs
W08-0319 [bib]: Ondřej Bojar; Jan Hajič
Phrase-Based and Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0320 [bib]: Preslav Nakov
Improving English-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation: Experiments in Domain Adaptation, Sentence Paraphrasing, Tokenization, and Recasing
W08-0321 [bib]: Nguyen Bach; Qin Gao; Stephan Vogel
Improving Word Alignment with Language Model Based Confidence Scores
W08-0322 [bib]: Zhuoran Wang; John Shawe-Taylor
Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task
W08-0323 [bib]: Vassilina Nikoulina; Marc Dymetman
Using Syntactic Coupling Features for Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations (WMT-08 Shared Translation Task)
W08-0324 [bib]: Greg Hanneman; Edmund Huber; Abhaya Agarwal; Vamshi Ambati; Alok Parlikar; Erik Peterson; Alon Lavie
Statistical Transfer Systems for French-English and German-English Machine Translation
W08-0325 [bib]: Zdenek Zabokrtsky; Jan Ptacek; Petr Pajas
TectoMT: Highly Modular MT System with Tectogrammatics Used as Transfer Layer
W08-0326 [bib]: John Tinsley; Yanjun Ma; Sylwia Ozdowska; Andy Way
MaTrEx: The DCU MT System for WMT 2008
W08-0327 [bib]: Loïc Dugast; Jean Senellart; Philipp Koehn
Can we Relearn an RBMT System?
W08-0328 [bib]: Andreas Eisele; Christian Federmann; Hervé Saint-Amand; Michael Jellinghaus; Teresa Herrmann; Yu Chen
Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System
W08-0329 [bib]: Antti-Veikko Rosti; Bing Zhang; Spyros Matsoukas; Richard Schwartz
Incremental Hypothesis Alignment for Building Confusion Networks with Application to Machine Translation System Combination
W08-0330 [bib]: Joshua Albrecht; Rebecca Hwa
The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation
W08-0331 [bib]: Kevin Duh
Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation
W08-0332 [bib]: Jesús Giménez; Lluís Màrquez
A Smorgasbord of Features for Automatic MT Evaluation
W08-0333 [bib]: Chris Dyer; Aaron Cordova; Alex Mont; Jimmy Lin
Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce
W08-0334 [bib]: Andrew Finch; Eiichiro Sumita
Dynamic Model Interpolation for Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0335 [bib]: Ruiqiang Zhang; Keiji Yasuda; Eiichiro Sumita
Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation
W08-0336 [bib]: Pi-Chuan Chang; Michel Galley; Christopher D. Manning
Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2)
W08-0400: Front Matter
W08-0401 [bib]: Hirofumi Yamamoto; Hideo Okuma; Eiichiro Sumita
Imposing Constraints from the Source Tree on ITG Constraints for SMT
W08-0402 [bib]: Zhifei Li; Sanjeev Khudanpur
A Scalable Decoder for Parsing-Based Machine Translation with Equivalent Language Model State Maintenance
W08-0403 [bib]: Bowen Zhou; Bing Xiang; Xiaodan Zhu; Yuqing Gao
Prior Derivation Models For Formally Syntax-Based Translation Using Linguistically Syntactic Parsing and Tree Kernels
W08-0404 [bib]: Michael Subotin
Generalizing Local Translation Models
W08-0405 [bib]: Christoph Tillmann
A Rule-Driven Dynamic Programming Decoder for Statistical MT
W08-0406 [bib]: Jakob Elming
Syntactic Reordering Integrated with Phrase-Based SMT
W08-0407 [bib]: Vassilina Nikoulina; Marc Dymetman
Experiments in Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations on the Basis of Syntactic Coupling Features
W08-0408 [bib]: Niyu Ge; Abe Ittycheriah; Kishore Papineni
Multiple Reorderings in Phrase-Based Machine Translation
W08-0409 [bib]: Yanjun Ma; Sylwia Ozdowska; Yanli Sun; Andy Way
Improving Word Alignment Using Syntactic Dependencies
W08-0410 [bib]: Jonathan H. Clark; Robert Frederking; Lori Levin
Inductive Detection of Language Features via Clustering Minimal Pairs: Toward Feature-Rich Grammars in Machine Translation
W08-0411 [bib]: Alon Lavie; Alok Parlikar; Vamshi Ambati
Syntax-Driven Learning of Sub-Sentential Translation Equivalents and Translation Rules from Parsed Parallel Corpora
Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing
W08-0500: Front Matter
W08-0501 [bib]: Terry Heinze; Marc Light
Increasing Maintainability of NLP Evaluation Modules Through Declarative Implementations
W08-0502 [bib]: Dick Crouch; Tracy Holloway King
Type-checking in Formally Non-typed Systems
W08-0503 [bib]: Eric Breck
zymake: A Computational Workflow System for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
W08-0504 [bib]: Kenji Sagae; Yusuke Miyao; Rune Saetre; Jun'ichi Tsujii
Evaluating the Effects of Treebank Size in a Practical Application for Parsing
W08-0505 [bib]: Dina Demner-Fushman
Adapting Naturally Occurring Test Suites for Evaluation of Clinical Question Answering
W08-0506 [bib]: K. Bretonnel Cohen; William A. Baumgartner Jr.; Lawrence Hunter
Software Testing and the Naturally Occurring Data Assumption in Natural Language Processing
W08-0507 [bib]: Michael Poprat; Elena Beisswanger; Udo Hahn
Building a BioWordNet Using WordNet Data Structures and WordNet's Software Infrastructure–A Failure Story
W08-0508 [bib]: David Hardcastle; Richard Power
Fast, Scalable and Reliable Generation of Controlled Natural Language
W08-0509 [bib]: Qin Gao; Stephan Vogel
Parallel Implementations of Word Alignment Tool
W08-0510 [bib]: Hieu Hoang; Philipp Koehn
Design of the Moses Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
W08-0511 [bib]: Jeffrey Micher; Clare Voss
Buckwalter-based Lookup Tool as Language Resource for Arabic Language Learners
W08-0512 [bib]: Filipe M. Martins; Ana Mendes; Mácio Freitas Viveiros; Joana Paulo Pardal; Pedro Arez; Nuno J. Mamede; João Paulo Neto
Reengineering a Domain-Independent Framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing
W08-0600: Front Matter
W08-0601 [bib]: Antti Airola; Sampo Pyysalo; Jari Björne; Tapio Pahikkala; Filip Ginter; Tapio Salakoski
A Graph Kernel for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction
W08-0602 [bib]: Angus Roberts; Robert Gaizauskas; Mark Hepple
Extracting Clinical Relationships from Patient Narratives
W08-0603 [bib]: Barry Haddow
Using Automated Feature Optimisation to Create an Adaptable Relation Extraction System
W08-0604 [bib]: Catalina O Tudor; K Vijay-Shanker; Carl J Schmidt
Mining the Biomedical Literature for Genic Information
W08-0605 [bib]: Yoshimasa Tsuruoka; Jun'ichi Tsujii; Sophia Ananiadou
Accelerating the Annotation of Sparse Named Entities by Dynamic Sentence Selection
W08-0606 [bib]: György Szarvas; Veronika Vincze; Richárd Farkas; János Csirik
The BioScope corpus: annotation for negation, uncertainty and their scope in biomedical texts
W08-0607 [bib]: Halil Kilicoglu; Sabine Bergler
Recognizing Speculative Language in Biomedical Research Articles: A Linguistically Motivated Perspective
W08-0608 [bib]: Peter Corbett; Ann Copestake
Cascaded Classifiers for Confidence-Based Chemical Named Entity Recognition
W08-0609 [bib]: Yutaka Sasaki; Yoshimasa Tsuruoka; John McNaught; Sophia Ananiadou
How to Make the Most of NE Dictionaries in Statistical NER
W08-0610 [bib]: Xinglong Wang; Michael Matthews
Species Disambiguation for Biomedical Term Identification
W08-0611 [bib]: Mark Stevenson; Yinkun Guo; Robert Gaizauskas; David Martinez
Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation of Biomedical Text
W08-0612 [bib]: Aurelie Neveol; Sonya Shooshan; Vincent Claveau
Automatic inference of indexing rules for MEDLINE
W08-0613 [bib]: Hong-Woo Chun; Chisato Yamasaki; Naomi Saichi; Masayuki Tanaka; Teruyoshi Hishiki; Tadashi Imanishi; Takashi Gojobori; Jin-Dong Kim; Jun'ichi Tsujii; Toshihisa Takagi
Prediction of Protein Sub-cellular Localization using Information from Texts and Sequences.
W08-0614 [bib]: Hong Yu; Nadya Frid; Susan McRoy; Rashmi Prasad; Alan Lee; Aravind Joshi
A Pilot Annotation to Investigate Discourse Connectivity in Biomedical Text
W08-0615 [bib]: Dingcheng Li; Guergana Savova; Karin Kipper-Schuler
Conditional Random Fields and Support Vector Machines for Disorder Named Entity Recognition in Clinical Texts
W08-0616 [bib]: John Pestian; Pawel Matykiewicz; Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan; Sarah Arszman Lavanier; Jennifer Combs; Robert Kowatch
Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Suicide Notes
W08-0617 [bib]: Deyu Zhou; Yulan He
Extracting Protein-Protein Interaction based on Discriminative Training of the Hidden Vector State Model
W08-0618 [bib]: Isabel Segura-Bedmar; Paloma Martínez; Doaa Samy
A preliminary approach to extract drugs by combining UMLS resources and USAN naming conventions
W08-0619 [bib]: Yefeng Wang; Jon Patrick
Mapping Clinical Notes to Medical Terminologies at Point of Care
W08-0620 [bib]: Michael Bloodgood; K Vijay-Shanker
An Approach to Reducing Annotation Costs for BioNLP
W08-0621 [bib]: Danielle Mowery; Henk Harkema; Wendy Chapman
Temporal Annotation of Clinical Text
W08-0622 [bib]: Mariana Neves; Monica Chagoyen; José María Carazo; Alberto Pascual-Montano
CBR-Tagger: a case-based reasoning approach to the gene/protein mention problem
W08-0623 [bib]: Oana Frunza; Diana Inkpen
Textual Information for Predicting Functional Properties of the Genes
W08-0624 [bib]: Pieter van der Horn; Bart Bakker; Gijs Geleijnse; Jan Korst; Sergei Kurkin
Determining causal and non-causal relationships in biomedical text by classifying verbs using a Naive Bayesian Classifier
W08-0625 [bib]: Paul Buitelaar; Pinar Oezden Wennerberg; Sonja Zillner
Statistical Term Profiling for Query Pattern Mining
W08-0626 [bib]: Thamar Solorio; Yang Liu
Using Language Models to Identify Language Impairment in Spanish-English Bilingual Children
W08-0627 [bib]: Yue Wang; Kazuhiro Yoshida; Jin-Dong Kim; Rune Saetre; Jun'ichi Tsujii
Raising the Compatibility of Heterogeneous Annotations: A Case Study on
W08-0628 [bib]: Donghui Feng; Gully Burns; Eduard Hovy
Adaptive Information Extraction for Complex Biomedical Tasks
Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology
W08-0700: Front Matter
W08-0701 [bib]: Karen Livescu
Invited talk: Phonological Models in Automatic Speech Recognition
W08-0702 [bib]: Rebecca Morley
Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for Language Change
W08-0703 [bib]: David Ellis
A Bayesian Model of Natural Language Phonology: Generating Alternations from Underlying Forms
W08-0704 [bib]: Mark Johnson
Unsupervised Word Segmentation for Sesotho Using Adaptor Grammars
W08-0705 [bib]: Jason Riggle
Invited talk: Counting Rankings
W08-0706 [bib]: Max Bane; Jason Riggle
Three Correlates of the Typological Frequency of Quantity-Insensitive Stress Systems
W08-0707 [bib]: ‘Ōiwi Parker Jones
Phonotactic Probability and the Maori Passive: A Computational Approach
W08-0708 [bib]: Christian Monson; Alon Lavie; Jaime Carbonell; Lori Levin
Evaluating an Agglutinative Segmentation Model for ParaMor
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing
W08-0800: Front Matter
W08-0801 [bib]: Alexander Gruenstein; Bo-June (Paul) Hsu; James Glass; Stephanie Seneff; Lee Hetherington; Scott Cyphers; Ibrahim Badr; Chao Wang; Sean Liu
A Multimodal Home Entertainment Interface via a Mobile Device
W08-0802 [bib]: Kriste Krstovski; Michael Decerbo; Rohit Prasad; David Stallard; Shirin Saleem; Premkumar Natarajan
A Wearable Headset Speech-to-Speech Translation System
W08-0803 [bib]: Choong-Nyoung Seon; Harksoo Kim; Jungyun Seo
Information extraction using finite state automata and syllable n-grams in a mobile environment
W08-0804 [bib]: Kuzman Ganchev; Mark Dredze
Small Statistical Models by Random Feature Mixing
W08-0805 [bib]: David Huggins-Daines; Alexander I. Rudnicky
Mixture Pruning and Roughening for Scalable Acoustic Models
W08-0806 [bib]: Sonya Nikolova; Xiaojuan Ma
Assistive Mobile Communication Support
W08-0807 [bib]: Petr Homola
A Distributed Database for Mobile NLP Applications
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
W08-0900: Front Matter
W08-0901 [bib]: Markus Dickinson; Joshua Herring
Developing Online ICALL Resources for Russian
W08-0902 [bib]: Rodney D. Nielsen; Wayne Ward; James H. Martin
Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System
W08-0903 [bib]: Lisa N. Michaud
King Alfred: A Translation Environment for Learners of Anglo-Saxon English
W08-0904 [bib]: Ryo Nagata; Jun-ichi Kakegawa; Hiromi Sugimoto; Yukiko Yabuta
Recognizing Noisy Romanized Japanese Words in Learner English
W08-0905 [bib]: Barbora Hladka; Ondrej Kucera
An Annotated Corpus Outside Its Original Context: A Corpus-Based Exercise Book
W08-0906 [bib]: Delphine Bernhard; Iryna Gurevych
Answering Learners' Questions by Retrieving Question Paraphrases from Social Q&A Sites
W08-0907 [bib]: Kristy Boyer; Robert Phillips; Michael Wallis; Mladen Vouk; James Lester
Learner Characteristics and Feedback in Tutorial Dialogue
W08-0908 [bib]: Nick Pendar; Elena Cotos
Automatic Identification of Discourse Moves in Scientific Article Introductions
W08-0909 [bib]: Michael Heilman; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Maxine Eskenazi
An Analysis of Statistical Models and Features for Reading Difficulty Prediction
W08-0910 [bib]: Michael Heilman; Le Zhao; Juan Pino; Maxine Eskenazi
Retrieval of Reading Materials for Vocabulary and Reading Practice
W08-0911 [bib]: Eleni Miltsakaki; Audrey Troutt
Real Time Web Text Classification and Analysis of Reading Difficulty
W08-0912 [bib]: Klaus Zechner; Xiaoming Xi
Towards Automatic Scoring of a Test of Spoken Language with Heterogeneous Task Types
W08-0913 [bib]: Stacey Bailey; Detmar Meurers
Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions
Proceedings of the Workshop on Parsing German
W08-1000: Front Matter
W08-1001 [bib]: Yo Sato
Lexicalised Parsing of German V2
W08-1002 [bib]: Berthold Crysmann
Parse Selection with a German HPSG Grammar
W08-1003 [bib]: Yves Scherrer
Part-of-Speech Tagging with a Symbolic Full Parser: Using the TIGER Treebank to Evaluate Fips
W08-1004 [bib]: Adriane Boyd; Detmar Meurers
Revisiting the Impact of Different Annotation Schemes on PCFG Parsing: A Grammatical Dependency Evaluation
W08-1005 [bib]: Slav Petrov; Dan Klein
Parsing German with Latent Variable Grammars
W08-1006 [bib]: Anna Rafferty; Christopher D. Manning
Parsing Three German Treebanks: Lexicalized and Unlexicalized Baselines
W08-1007 [bib]: Johan Hall; Joakim Nivre
A Dependency-Driven Parser for German Dependency and Constituency Representations
W08-1008 [bib]: Sandra Kübler
The PaGe 2008 Shared Task on Parsing German
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
W08-1100: Front Matter
W08-1101: Shari R. Speer; Kiwako Ito
Prominence and Phrasing in Spoken Discourse Processing
W08-1102: Matthew Stone
Language, Embodiment and Social Intelligence
W08-1103: Seniz Demir; Sandra Carberry; Kathleen McCoy
Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts
W08-1104: Ross Turner; Somayajulu Sripada; Ehud Reiter; Ian Davy
Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data
W08-1105: Katja Filippova; Michael Strube
Dependency Tree Based Sentence Compression
W08-1106: Giuseppe Carenini; Jackie C. K. Cheung
Extractive vs. NLG-based Abstractive Summarization of Evaluative Text: The Effect of Corpus Controversiality
W08-1107: Carlos Areces; Alexander Koller; Kristina Striegnitz
Referring Expressions as Formulas of Description Logic
W08-1108: Albert Gatt; Anja Belz
Attribute Selection for Referring Expression Generation: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods
W08-1109: Jette Viethen; Robert Dale
The Use of Spatial Relations in Referring Expression Generation
W08-1110: Ielka van der Sluis; Chris Mellish
Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations
W08-1111: David DeVault; David Traum; Ron Artstein
Practical Grammar-Based NLG from Examples
W08-1112: Yuqing Guo; Haifeng Wang; Josef van Genabith
Accurate and Robust LFG-Based Generation for Chinese
W08-1113: Mary Ellen Foster
Automated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent
W08-1114: Xin Lu; Barbara Di Eugenio; Stellan Ohlsson; Davide Fossati
Simple but effective feedback generation to tutor abstract problem solving
W08-1115: Kavita Thomas; Yaji Sripada
What's In a Message? Interpreting Geo-referenced Data for the Visually-impaired
W08-1116: Mick O'Donnell
Evolving Questions in Text Planning
W08-1117: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova; Ciprian Gerstenberger; Olga Kukina; Jan Schehl
The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users' Evaluation Judgments and Input Style
W08-1118: Feikje Hielkema; Chris Mellish; Peter Edwards
Evaluating an Ontology-Driven WYSIWYM Interface
W08-1119: Ehud Reiter; Albert Gatt; Francois Portet; Marian van der Meulen
The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data
W08-1120: Mary Dee Harris
Building a Large-scale Commercial NLG System for an EMR
W08-1121: Raquel Hervás; Pablo Gervás
Degree of Abstraction in Referring Expression Generation and its Relation with the Construction of the Contrast Set
W08-1122: Deirdre Hogan; Jennifer Foster; Joachim Wagner; Josef van Genabith
Parser-Based Retraining for Domain Adaptation of Probabilistic Generators
W08-1123: Matthew Marge; Amy Isard; Johanna Moore
Creation of a New Domain and Evaluation of Comparison Generation in a Natural Language Generation System
W08-1124: Alice Oh; Howard Shrobe
Generating Baseball Summaries from Multiple Perspectives by Reordering Content
W08-1125: Keith Vander Linden
A Dynamic Programming Approach to Document Length Constraints
W08-1126: Anja Belz; Albert Gatt
REG Challenge Preface
W08-1127: Anja Belz; Eric Kow; Jette Viethen; Albert Gatt
The GREC Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
W08-1128: Bernd Bohnet
IS-G: The Comparison of Different Learning Techniques for the Selection of the Main Subject References
W08-1129: Iris Hendrickx; Walter Daelemans; Kim Luyckx; Roser Morante; Vincent Van Asch
CNTS: Memory-Based Learning of Generating Repeated References
W08-1130: Emily Jamison; Dennis Mehay
OSU-2: Generating Referring Expressions with a Maximum Entropy Classifier
W08-1131: Albert Gatt; Anja Belz; Eric Kow
The TUNA Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
W08-1132: Bernd Bohnet
The Fingerprint of Human Referring Expressions and their Surface Realization with Graph Transducers (IS-FP, IS-GT, IS-FP-GT)}
W08-1133: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio; Amanda J. Stent; Srinivas Bangalore
Referring Expression Generation Using Speaker-based Attribute Selection and Trainable Realization (ATTR)
W08-1134: Pablo Gervás; Raquel Hervás; Carlos León
NIL-UCM: Most-Frequent-Value-First Attribute Selection and Best-Scoring-Choice Realization
W08-1135: Diego Jesus de Lucena; Ivandré Paraboni
USP-EACH Frequency-based Greedy Attribute Selection for Referring Expressions Generation
W08-1136: John D. Kelleher; Brian Mac Namee
Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008 DIT System Descriptions (DIT-FBI, DIT-TVAS, DIT-CBSR, DIT-RBR, DIT-FBI-CBSR, DIT-TVAS-RBR)
W08-1137: Josh King
OSU-GP: Attribute Selection Using Genetic Programming
W08-1138: Emiel Krahmer; Mariët Theune; Jette Viethen; Iris Hendrickx
GRAPH: The Costs of Redundancy in Referring Expressions
W08-1139: Sibabrata Paladhi; Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
JU-PTBSGRE: GRE Using Prefix Tree Based Structure
W08-1140: Daniel Bastos Pereira; Ivandré Paraboni
From TUNA Attribute Sets to Portuguese Text: a First Report
Author Index
W08-1100: Front Matter
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics
W08-1200: Front Matter
W08-1201 [bib]: Martha Palmer; Susan Brown
Invited Talk: The Relevance of a Cognitive Model of the Mental Lexicon to Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation
W08-1202 [bib]: Beata Beigman Klebanov; Eyal Beigman; Daniel Diermeier
Analyzing Disagreements
W08-1203 [bib]: Dennis Reidsma; Rieks Op den Akker
Exploiting ‘Subjective' Annotations
W08-1204 [bib]: Jean-Baptiste Berthelin; Cyril Grouin; Martine Hurault-Plantet; Patrick Paroubek
Human Judgement as a Parameter in Evaluation Campaigns
W08-1205 [bib]: Joel Tetreault; Martin Chodorow
Native Judgments of Non-Native Usage: Experiments in Preposition Error Detection
W08-1206 [bib]: Anna Rumshisky; Olga Batiukova
Polysemy in Verbs: Systematic Relations between Senses and their Effect on Annotation
W08-1207 [bib]: Fangzhong Su; Katja Markert
Eliciting Subjectivity and Polarity Judgements on Word Senses
W08-1208 [bib]: Martin Volk; Torsten Marek; Yvonne Samuelsson
Human Judgements in Parallel Treebank Alignment
W08-1209 [bib]: Plaban Kumar Bhowmick; Anupam Basu; Pabitra Mitra
An Agreement Measure for Determining Inter-Annotator Reliability of Human Judgements on Affective Text
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation
W08-1300: Front Matter
W08-1301 [bib]: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe; Christopher D. Manning
The Stanford Typed Dependencies Representation
W08-1302 [bib]: Barbara Plank; Gertjan van Noord
Exploring an Auxiliary Distribution Based Approach to Domain Adaptation of a Syntactic Disambiguation Model
W08-1303 [bib]: Yuka Tateisi
Toward an Underspecifiable Corpus Annotation Scheme
W08-1304 [bib]: Dan Flickinger
Toward a Cross-Framework Parser Annotation Standard
W08-1305 [bib]: Wai Lok Tam; Yo Sato; Yusuke Miyao; Junichi Tsujii
Parser Evaluation Across Frameworks without Format Conversion
W08-1306 [bib]: Anne Vilnat; Gil Francopoulo; Olivier Hamon; Sylvain Loiseau; Patrick Paroubek; Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie
Large Scale Production of Syntactic Annotations to Move Forward
W08-1307 [bib]: Laura Rimell; Stephen Clark
Constructing a Parser Evaluation Scheme
W08-1308 [bib]: Mark McConville; Myroslava O. Dzikovska
‘Deep' Grammatical Relations for Semantic Interpretation
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization
W08-1400: Front Matter
W08-1401 [bib]: Robert Gaizauskas
Generating Image Captions using Topic Focused Multi-document Summarization
W08-1402 [bib]: Inderjeet Mani; Alex Yeh; Sherri Condon
Learning to Match Names Across Languages
W08-1403 [bib]: Sumithra Velupillai; Hercules Dalianis
Automatic Construction of Domain-specific Dictionaries on Sparse Parallel Corpora in the Nordic languages
W08-1404 [bib]: Marina Litvak; Mark Last
Graph-Based Keyword Extraction for Single-Document Summarization
W08-1405 [bib]: Mike Rosner; Carl Camilleri
MultiSum: Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization
W08-1406 [bib]: Ricardo Ribeiro; David Martins de Matos
Mixed-Source Multi-Document Speech-to-Text Summarization
W08-1407 [bib]: Ahmet Aker; Robert Gaizauskas
Evaluating automatically generated user-focused multi-document summaries for geo-referenced images
W08-1408 [bib]: Bruno Pouliquen; Ralf Steinberger; Olivier Deguernel
Story tracking: linking similar news over time and across languages
W08-1409 [bib]: Harald Hammarström
Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References with target Language
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications
W08-1500: Front Matter
W08-1501 [bib]: Emil Ettelaie; Panayiotis G. Georgiou; Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Mitigation of Data Sparsity in Classifier-Based Translation
W08-1502 [bib]: Björn Bringert
Speech Translation with Grammatical Framework
W08-1503 [bib]: Sangkeun Jung; Cheongjae Lee; Kyungduk Kim; Gary Geunbae Lee
An Integrated Dialog Simulation Technique for Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems
W08-1504 [bib]: Kulwinder Singh; Dong-Won Park
Economical Global Access to a VoiceXML Gateway Using Open Source Technologies
W08-1505 [bib]: Jaakko Hakulinen; Markku Turunen
Interoperability and Knowledge Representation in Distributed Health and Fitness Companion Dialogue System
W08-1506 [bib]: Manny Rayner; Pierrette Bouillon; Jane Brotanek; Glenn Flores; Sonia Halimi; Beth Ann Hockey; Hitoshi Isahara; Kyoko Kanzaki; Elisabeth Kron; Yukie Nakao; Marianne Santaholma; Marianne Starlander; Nikos Tsourakis
The 2008 MedSLT System
W08-1507 [bib]: Sergei Nirenburg; Stephen Beale; Marjorie McShane; Bruce Jarrell; George Fantry
Language Understanding in Maryland Virtual Patient
W08-1508 [bib]: Mark Seligman; Mike Dillinger
Rapid Portability among Domains in an Interactive Spoken Language Translation System
W08-1509 [bib]: Udhyakumar Nallasamy; Alan Black; Tanja Schultz; Robert Frederking; Jerry Weltman
Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phonecalls in Minority Languages
W08-1510 [bib]: Farzad Ehsani; Jim Kimzey; Elaine Zuber; Demitrios Master; Karen Sudre
Speech to Speech Translation for Nurse Patient Interaction
W08-1511 [bib]: Manny Rayner; Pierrette Bouillon; Glenn Flores; Farzad Ehsani; Marianne Starlander; Beth Ann Hockey; Jane Brotanek; Lukas Biewald
A Small-Vocabulary Shared Task for Medical Speech Translation
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions
W08-1600: Front Matter
W08-1601 [bib]: Shixi Fan; Yaoyun Zhang; Wing W. Y. Ng; Xuan Wang; Xiaolong Wang
Semantic Chunk Annotation for complex questions using Conditional Random Field
W08-1602 [bib]: Charlotte Price; Valeria de Paiva; Tracy Holloway King
Context Inducing Nouns
W08-1603 [bib]: Chaveevan Pechsiri; Phunthara Sroison; J. Janviriyasopak
Know-Why Extraction from Textual Data for Supporting What Questions
W08-1604 [bib]: Raffaella Bernardi; Manuel Kirschner
Context Modelling for IQA: the Role of Tasks and Entities
W08-1605 [bib]: Silvia Quarteroni
Personalized, Interactive Question Answering on the Web
W08-1606 [bib]: Lionel Fontan; Patrick Saint-Dizier
Creating and Querying a Domain dependent Know-How Knowledge Base of Advices and Warnings
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks
W08-1700: Front Matter
W08-1701 [bib]: Laura Kallmeyer; Timm Lichte; Wolfgang Maier; Yannick Parmentier; Johannes Dellert; Kilian Evang
TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering
W08-1702 [bib]: Elisabeth Kron; Manny Rayner; Marianne Santaholma; Pierrette Bouillon; Agnes Lisowska
Making Speech Look Like Text in the Regulus Development Environment
W08-1703 [bib]: Michael White; Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
A More Precise Analysis of Punctuation for Broad-Coverage Surface Realization with CCG
W08-1704 [bib]: Marianne Santaholma
Multilingual Grammar Resources in Multilingual Application Development
W08-1705 [bib]: Aoife Cahill; John T. Maxwell III; Paul Meurer; Christian Rohrer; Victoria Rosén
Speeding up LFG Parsing Using C-Structure Pruning
W08-1706 [bib]: Lars Hellan
From Grammar-Independent Construction Enumeration to Lexical Types in Computational Grammars
W08-1707 [bib]: Valeria de Paiva; Tracy Holloway King
Designing Testsuites for Grammar-based Systems in Applications
W08-1708 [bib]: Kostadin Cholakov; Valia Kordoni; Yi Zhang
Towards Domain-Independent Deep Linguistic Processing: Ensuring Portability and Re-Usability of Lexicalised Grammars
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
W08-1800: Front Matter
W08-1801 [bib]: Matthew Bilotti; Eric Nyberg
Improving Text Retrieval Precision and Answer Accuracy in Question Answering Systems
W08-1802 [bib]: Svetlana Stoyanchev; Young Chol Song; William Lahti
Exact Phrases in Information Retrieval for Question Answering
W08-1803 [bib]: Jörg Tiedemann; Jori Mur
Simple is Best: Experiments with Different Document Segmentation Strategies for Passage Retrieval
W08-1804 [bib]: Mahboob Khalid; Suzan Verberne
Passage Retrieval for Question Answering using Sliding Windows
W08-1805 [bib]: Leon Derczynski; Jun Wang; Robert Gaizauskas; Mark A. Greenwood
A Data Driven Approach to Query Expansion in Question Answering
W08-1806 [bib]: Fangtao Li; Xian Zhang; Xiaoyan Zhu
Answer Validation by Information Distance Calculation
W08-1807 [bib]: Lonneke van der Plas; Jörg Tiedemann
Using Lexico-Semantic Information for Query Expansion in Passage Retrieval for Question Answering
W08-1808 [bib]: Richard Shaw; Ben Solway; Robert Gaizauskas; Mark A. Greenwood
Evaluation of Automatically Reformulated Questions in Question Series
W08-1809 [bib]: Kisuh Ahn; Bonnie Webber
Topic Indexing and Retrieval for Factoid QA
W08-1810 [bib]: Luiz Augusto Pizzato; Diego Mollá
Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (COGALEX 2008)
W08-1900: Front Matter
W08-1901 [bib]: Terry Joyce; Irena Srdanović
Comparing Lexical Relationships Observed within Japanese Collocation Data and Japanese Word Association Norms
W08-1902 [bib]: Michael Zock; Didier Schwab
Lexical access based on underspecified input
W08-1903 [bib]: Fons Moerdijk; Carole Tiberius; Jan Niestadt
Accessing the ANW Dictionary
W08-1904 [bib]: Claire Brierley; Eric Atwell
ProPOSEL: a human-oriented prosody and PoS English lexicon for machine-learning and NLP
W08-1905 [bib]: Gerardo Sierra
Natural Language Searching in Onomasiological Dictionaries
W08-1906 [bib]: Carolin Möller-Spitzer; Christine Möhrs
First ideas of user-adapted views of lexicographic data exemplified on OWID and elexiko
W08-1907 [bib]: Chu-Ren Huang; Ya-Min Chou; Chiyo Hotani; Sheng-Yi Chen; Wan-Ying Lin
Multilingual Conceptual Access to Lexicon based on Shared Orthography: An ontology-driven study of Chinese and Japanese
W08-1908 [bib]: Neculai Curteanu; Alex Moruz; Diana Trandabat
Extracting Sense Trees from the Romanian Thesaurus by Sense Segmentation & Dependency Parsing
W08-1909 [bib]: Andreyeva Sasha
Lexical-Functional Correspondences and Their Use in the System of Machine Translation ETAP-3
W08-1910 [bib]: Kyoko Kanzaki; Noriko Tomuro; Hitoshi Isahara
The "Close-Distant" Relation of Adjectival Concepts Based on Self-Organizing Map
W08-1911 [bib]: Max Aurélien; Michael Zock
Looking up phrase rephrasings via a pivot language
W08-1912 [bib]: Bruno Gaume; Karine Duvignau; Laurent Prévot; Yann Desalle
Toward a cognitive organization for electronic dictionaries, the case for semantic proxemy
W08-1913 [bib]: Gerhard Kremer; Andrea Abel; Marco Baroni
Cognitively Salient Relations for Multilingual Lexicography
W08-1914 [bib]: Reinhard Rapp
The Computation of Associative Responses to Multiword Stimuli
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 3rd Textgraphs workshop on Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing
W08-2000: Front Matter
W08-2001 [bib]: Nabil Hathout
Acquistion of the Morphological Structure of the Lexicon Based on Lexical Similarity and Formal Analogy
W08-2002 [bib]: Smaranda Muresan
Learning to Map Text to Graph-Based Meaning Representations via Grammar Induction
W08-2003 [bib]: Alexandre Blondin Massé; Guillaume Chicoisne; Yassine Gargouri; Stevan Harnad; Odile Marcotte; Olivier Picard
How is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions?
W08-2004 [bib]: Alessandro Moschitti; Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Encoding Tree Pair-Based Graphs in Learning Algorithms: The Textual Entailment Recognition Case
W08-2005 [bib]: Kenichi Ichioka; Fumiyo Fukumoto
Graph-Based Clustering for Semantic Classification of Onomatopoetic Words
W08-2006 [bib]: Delip Rao; David Yarowsky; Chris Callison-Burch
Affinity Measures Based on the Graph Laplacian
W08-2007 [bib]: Barbara McGillivray; Christer Johansson; Daniel Apollon
Semantic Structure from Correspondence Analysis
W08-2008 [bib]: Laura Plaza; Alberto Díaz; Pablo Gervás
Concept-Graph Based Biomedical Automatic Summarization Using Ontologies
W08-2009 [bib]: Hiroyuki Akama; Jaeyoung Jung; Terry Joyce; Maki Miyake
Random Graph Model Simulations of Semantic Networks for Associative Concept Dictionaries
CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
W08-2100: Front Matter
W08-2101 [bib]: Paola Merlo; Gabriele Musillo
Semantic Parsing for High-Precision Semantic Role Labelling
W08-2102 [bib]: Xavier Carreras; Michael Collins; Terry Koo
TAG, Dynamic Programming, and the Perceptron for Efficient, Feature-Rich Parsing
W08-2103 [bib]: Tomoya Iwakura; Seishi Okamoto
A Fast Boosting-based Learner for Feature-Rich Tagging and Chunking
W08-2104 [bib]: Lilja Ovrelid
Linguistic features in data-driven dependency parsing
W08-2105 [bib]: Rohit Kate
Transforming Meaning Representation Grammars to Improve Semantic Parsing
W08-2106 [bib]: Hemant Misra; Olivier Cappe; Francois Yvon
Using LDA to detect semantically incoherent documents
W08-2107 [bib]: Carlos Ramisch; Aline Villavicencio; Leonardo Moura; Marco Idiart
Picking them up and Figuring them out: Verb-Particle Constructions, Noise and Idiomaticity
W08-2108 [bib]: Afra Alishahi; Afsaneh Fazly; Suzanne Stevenson
Fast Mapping in Word Learning: What Probabilities Tell Us
W08-2109 [bib]: Daniel Blanchard; Jeffrey Heinz
Improving Word Segmentation by Simultaneously Learning Phonotactics
W08-2110 [bib]: Harmony Marchal; Benoît Lemaire; Maryse Bianco; Philippe Dessus
A MDL-based Model of Gender Knowledge Acquisition
W08-2111 [bib]: Michael Connor; Yael Gertner; Cynthia Fisher; Dan Roth
Baby SRL: Modeling Early Language Acquisition.
W08-2112 [bib]: Christopher Parisien; Afsaneh Fazly; Suzanne Stevenson
An Incremental Bayesian Model for Learning Syntactic Categories
W08-2113 [bib]: Gaël Dias; Raycho Mukelov; Guillaume Cleuziou
Fully Unsupervised Graph-Based Discovery of General-Specific Noun Relationships from Web Corpora Frequency Counts
W08-2114 [bib]: Hansen A. Schwartz; Fernando Gomez
Acquiring Knowledge from the Web to be used as Selectors for Noun Sense Disambiguation
W08-2115 [bib]: Han Ren; Donghong Ji; Jing Wan; Lei Han
Automatic Chinese Catchword Extraction Based on Time Series Analysis
W08-2116 [bib]: Andrew B. Goldberg; Xiaojin Zhu; Charles R. Dyer; Mohamed Eldawy; Lijie Heng
Easy as ABC? Facilitating Pictorial Communication via Semantically Enhanced Layout
W08-2117 [bib]: John Lee
A Nearest-Neighbor Approach to the Automatic Analysis of Ancient Greek Morphology
W08-2118 [bib]: Thuy Linh Nguyen; Stephan Vogel
Context-based Arabic Morphological Analysis for Machine Translation
W08-2119 [bib]: Thai Phuong Nguyen; Akira Shimazu; Tu Bao Ho; Minh Le Nguyen; Vinh Van Nguyen
A Tree-to-String Phrase-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation
W08-2120 [bib]: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio; Amanda Stent; Srinivas Bangalore
Trainable Speaker-Based Referring Expression Generation
W08-2121 [bib]: Mihai Surdeanu; Richard Johansson; Adam Meyers; Lluís Màrquez; Joakim Nivre
The CoNLL 2008 Shared Task on Joint Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
W08-2122 [bib]: James Henderson; Paola Merlo; Gabriele Musillo; Ivan Titov
A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Parsing for Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
W08-2123 [bib]: Richard Johansson; Pierre Nugues
Dependency-based Syntactic–Semantic Analysis with PropBank and NomBank
W08-2124 [bib]: Xavier Lluís; Lluís Màrquez
A Joint Model for Parsing Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
W08-2125 [bib]: Sebastian Riedel; Ivan Meza-Ruiz
Collective Semantic Role Labelling with Markov Logic
W08-2126 [bib]: Yi Zhang; Rui Wang; Hans Uszkoreit
Hybrid Learning of Dependency Structures from Heterogeneous Linguistic Resources
W08-2127 [bib]: Hai Zhao; Chunyu Kit
Parsing Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies with Two Single-Stage Maximum Entropy Models
W08-2128 [bib]: Roser Morante; Walter Daelemans; Vincent Van Asch
A Combined Memory-Based Semantic Role Labeler of English
W08-2129 [bib]: Alexander Volokh; Günter Neumann
A Puristic Approach for Joint Dependency Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling
W08-2130 [bib]: Lu Li; Shixi Fan; Xuan Wang; Xiaolong Wang
Discriminative Learning of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
W08-2131 [bib]: Deniz Yuret; Mehmet Ali Yatbaz; Ahmet Engin Ural
Discriminative vs. Generative Approaches in Semantic Role Labeling
W08-2132 [bib]: Yotaro Watanabe; Masakazu Iwatate; Masayuki Asahara; Yuji Matsumoto
A Pipeline Approach for Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing
W08-2133 [bib]: Joo-Young Lee; Han-Cheol Cho; Hae-Chang Rim
Semantic Dependency Parsing using N-best Semantic Role Sequences and Roleset Information
W08-2134 [bib]: Wanxiang Che; Zhenghua Li; Yuxuan Hu; Yongqiang Li; Bing Qin; Ting Liu; Sheng Li
A Cascaded Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing System
W08-2135 [bib]: Weiwei Sun; Hongzhan Li; Zhifang Sui
The Integration of Dependency Relation Classification and Semantic Role Labeling Using Bilayer Maximum Entropy Markov Models
W08-2136 [bib]: Yvonne Samuelsson; Oscar Täckström; Sumithra Velupillai; Johan Eklund; Mark Fishel; Markus Saers
Mixing and Blending Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
W08-2137 [bib]: Hongling Wang; Honglin Wang; Guodong Zhou; Qiaoming Zhu
Dependency Tree-based SRL with Proper Pruning and Extensive Feature Engineering
W08-2138 [bib]: Massimiliano Ciaramita; Giuseppe Attardi; Felice Dell'Orletta; Mihai Surdeanu
DeSRL: A Linear-Time Semantic Role Labeling System
W08-2139 [bib]: Enhong Chen; Liu Shi; Dawei Hu
Probabilistic Model for Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing
W08-2140 [bib]: David Vickrey; Daphne Koller
Applying Sentence Simplification to the CoNLL-2008 Shared Task
Semantics in Text Processing. STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings
W08-2200: Front Matter
W08-2201 [bib]: Harry Bunt
A New Life for Semantic Annotations?
W08-2202 [bib]: Pierpaolo Basile; Marco de Gemmis; Pasquale Lops; Giovanni Semeraro
Combining Knowledge-based Methods and Supervised Learning for Effective Italian Word Sense Disambiguation
W08-2203 [bib]: Emily M. Bender; David Goss-Grubbs
Semantic Representations of Syntactically Marked Discourse Status in Crosslinguistic Perspective
W08-2204 [bib]: Antonio Branco; Francisco Costa
High Precision Analysis of NPs with a Deep Processing Grammar
W08-2205 [bib]: Peter Clark; Christiane Fellbaum; Jerry R. Hobbs; Phil Harrison; William R. Murray; John Thompson
Augmenting WordNet for Deep Understanding of Text
W08-2206 [bib]: Irene Cramer
How Well Do Semantic Relatedness Measures Perform? A Meta-Study
W08-2207 [bib]: Montse Cuadros; German Rigau
KnowNet: A Proposal for Building Highly Connected and Dense Knowledge Bases from the Web
W08-2208 [bib]: Diego De Cao; Danilo Croce; Marco Pennacchiotti; Roberto Basili
Combining Word Sense and Usage for Modeling Frame Semantics
W08-2209 [bib]: Rodolfo Delmonte; Emanuele Pianta
Answering Why-Questions in Closed Domains from a Discourse Model
W08-2210 [bib]: Lionel Fontan; Patrick Saint-Dizier
Analyzing the Explanation Structure of Procedural Texts: Dealing with Advice and Warnings
W08-2211 [bib]: Rob Koeling; Diana McCarthy
From Predicting Predominant Senses to Local Context for Word Sense Disambiguation
W08-2212 [bib]: Maria Liakata; Stephen Pulman
Automatic Fine-Grained Semantic Classification for Domain Adaptation
W08-2213 [bib]: Evguenia Malaia; John Borneman; Ronnie B. Wilbur
Analysis of ASL Motion Capture Data towards Identification of Verb Type
W08-2214 [bib]: Marjorie McShane; Sergei Nirenburg
The Idiom-Reference Connection
W08-2215 [bib]: Sergei Nirenburg; Marjorie McShane; Stephen Beale
Resolving Paraphrases to Support Modeling Language Perception in an Intelligent Agent
W08-2216 [bib]: Allan Ramsay; Debora Field
Everyday Language is Highly Intensional
W08-2217 [bib]: Livio Robaldo; Eleni Miltsakaki; Jerry R. Hobbs
Refining the Meaning of Sense Labels in PDTB: ``Concession''
W08-2218 [bib]: Manfred Stede
Connective-based Local Coherence Analysis: A Lexicon for Recognizing Causal Relationships
W08-2219 [bib]: Benjamin Van Durme; Lenhart Schubert
Open Knowledge Extraction through Compositional Language Processing
W08-2220 [bib]: Johan Bos
Introduction to the Shared Task on Comparing Semantic Representations
W08-2221 [bib]: Peter Clark; Phil Harrison
Boeing's NLP System and the Challenges of Semantic Representation
W08-2222 [bib]: Johan Bos
Wide-Coverage Semantic Analysis with Boxer
W08-2223 [bib]: Rodolfo Delmonte
Semantic and Pragmatic Computing with GETARUNS
W08-2224 [bib]: Antonio Branco; Francisco Costa
LXGram in the Shared Task ``Comparing Semantic Representations'' of STEP 2008
W08-2225 [bib]: Sergei Nirenburg; Stephen Beale; Marjorie McShane
Baseline Evaluation of WSD and Semantic Dependency in OntoSem
W08-2226 [bib]: Charles B. Callaway
The TextCap Semantic Interpreter
W08-2227 [bib]: James F. Allen; Mary Swift; Will de Beaumont
Deep Semantic Analysis of Text
W08-2228 [bib]: Rodrigo Agerri; John Barnden; Mark Lee; Alan Wallington
Textual Entailment as an Evaluation Framework for Metaphor Resolution: A Proposal
W08-2229 [bib]: Delphine Battistelli; Javier Couto; Jean-Luc Minel; Sylviane R. Schwer
Representing and Visualizing Calendar Expressions in Texts
W08-2230 [bib]: Jon Chamberlain; Massimo Poesio; Udo Kruschwitz
Addressing the Resource Bottleneck to Create Large-Scale Annotated Texts
W08-2231 [bib]: Nils Reiter; Matthias Hartung; Anette Frank
A Resource-Poor Approach for Linking Ontology Classes to Wikipedia Articles
W08-2232 [bib]: Doina Tatar; Andreea Diana Mihis; Gabriela Serban
Top-Down Cohesion Segmentation in Summarization