Automatic Summarization
Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation
Adaptation in Dialog Systems
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations
Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
W01-0501: David Pierce; Claire Cardie
Limitations of Co-Training for Natural Language Learning from Large Datasets
W01-0502: Yair Even-Zohar; Dan Roth
A Sequential Model for Multi-Class Classification
W01-0503: Elena Eneva; Rose Hoberman; Lucian Lita
Learning Within-Sentence Semantic Coherence
W01-0504: Philipp Koehn; Kevin Knight
Knowledge Sources for Word-Level Translation Models
W01-0505: Seonho Kim; Juntae Yoon; Mansuk Song
Improving Lexical Mapping Model of English-Korean Bitext Using Structural Features
W01-0506: Georgios Sakkis; Ion Androutsopoulos; Georgios Paliouras; Vangelis Karkaletsis; Constantine D. Spyropoulos; Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
Stacking Classifiers for Anti-Spam Filtering of E-Mail
W01-0507: Hiroya Takamura; Yuji Matsumoto
Feature Space Restructuring for SVMs with Application to Text Categorization
W01-0508: Carl Sable; Kenneth W. Church
Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for Text Categorization
W01-0509: Hwee Tou Ng; Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan; Yiyuan Xia
Question Answering Using a Large Text Database: A Machine Learning Approach
W01-0510: Ciprian Chelba; Milind Mahajan
Information Extraction Using the Structured Language Model
W01-0511: Barbara Rosario; Marti Hearst
Classifying the Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via a Domain-Specific Lexical Hierarchy
W01-0512: Kiyotaka Uchimoto; Satoshi Sekine; Hitoshi Isahara
The Unknown Word Problem: a Morphological Analysis of Japanese Using Maximum Entropy Aided by a Dictionary
W01-0513: Patrick Schone; Daniel Jurafsky
Is Knowledge-Free Induction of Multiword Unit Dictionary Headwords a Solved Problem?
W01-0514: Freddy Y. Y. Choi; Peter Wiemer-Hastings; Johanna Moore
Latent Semantic Analysis for Text Segmentation
W01-0515: Caroline Lyon; James Malcolm; Bob Dickerson
Detecting Short Passages of Similar Text in Large Document Collections
W01-0516: Youngja Park; Roy J. Byrd
Hybrid Text Mining for Finding Abbreviations and their Definitions
W01-0517: Jin-Seok Lee; Byeongchang Kim; Gary Geunbae Lee
Automatic Corpus-based Tone Prediction using K-ToBI Representation
W01-0518: Karin Müller
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Syllabification and Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
W01-0519: Beáta Megyesi
Comparing Data-Driven Learning Algorithms for PoS Tagging of Swedish
W01-0520: Srinivas Bangalore; John Chen; Owen Rambow
Impact of Quality and Quantity of Corpora on Stochastic Generation
W01-0521: Daniel Gildea
Corpus Variation and Parser Performance
SENSEVAL Workshop
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (ConLL)
W01-0700: Front Matter
W01-0701: Radu Florian; Grace Ngai
Multidimensional transformation-based learning
W01-0702: James Hammerton; Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
Combining a self-organising map with memory-based learning
W01-0703: Eneko Agirre; David Martinez
Learning class-to-class selectional preferences
W01-0704: MaximilianoSaiz-Noeda; Armando Suárez; Manuel Palomar
Semantic pattern learning through maximum entropy-based WSD technique
W01-0705: Vivian Tsang; Suzanne Stevenson
Automatic verb classification using multilingual resources
W01-0706: Xin Li; Dan Roth
Exploring evidence for shallow parsing
W01-0707: Eric Gaussier; Nicola Cancedda
Probabilistic models for PP-attachment resolution and NP analysis
W01-0708: Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang; Hervé Déjean
Introduction to the CoNLL-2001 shared task: clause identification
W01-0709: Andrew Estabrooks; Nathalie Japkowicz
A mixture-of-experts framework for text classification
W01-0710: Rebecca Hwa
On minimizing training corpus for parser acquisition
W01-0711: Rémi Zajac
Morpholog: Constrained and Supervised Learning of Morphology
W01-0712: John Nerbonne; Anja Belz; Nicola Cancedda; Hervé Déjean; James Hammerton; Rob Koeling; Stasinos Konstantopoulos; Miles Osborne; Franck Thollard; Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
Learning Computational Grammars
W01-0713: Alexander Clark
Unsupervised induction of stochastic context-free grammars using distributional clustering
W01-0714: Dan Klein; Christopher D. Manning
Distributional phrase structure induction
W01-0715: Paola Merlo; Matthias Leybold
Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the case of prepositional phrases
W01-0716: Constantin Orasan; Evans Richard
Learning to identify animate references
W01-0717: Sven Hartrumpf
Coreference resolution with syntactico-semantic rules and corpus statistics
W01-0718: Michael Carl
Inducing probabilistic invertible translation grammars from aligned texts
W01-0719: Smaranda Muresan; Evelyne Tzoukermann; Judith L. Klavans
Combining linguistic and machine learning techniques for email summarization
W01-0720: Stephen Watkinson; Suresh Manandhar
A psychologically plausible and computationally effective approach to learning syntax
W01-0721: Jon D. Patrick; Ishaan Goyal
Boosted decision graphs for NLP learning tasks
W01-0722: James Hammerton
Clause identification with long short-term memory
W01-0723: Hervé Déjean
Using ALLiS for clausing
W01-0724: Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
Memory-based clause identification
W01-0725: Antonio Molina; Ferran Pla
Clause detection using HMM
W01-0726: Xavier Carreras; Lluís Màrquez
Boosting trees for clause splitting
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Eighth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG)
W01-0800: Front Matter
W01-0801: Owen Rambow
Corpus-Based Methods in Natural Language Generation: Friends or Foe? (invited talk)
W01-0802: Somayajula G. Sripada; Ehud Reiter; Jim Hunter; Jin Yu
A Two-Staged Model For Content Determination
W01-0803: Laurence Danlos; Bertrand Gaiffe; Laurent Roussarie
Document Structuring à la SDRT
W01-0804: Kees van Deemter; Magnús M. Halldórsson
Logical Form Equivalence: the Case of Referring Expressions Generation
W01-0805: Emiel Krahmer; Sebastiaan van Erk; André Verleg
A Meta-Algorithm for the Generation of Referring Expressions
W01-0806: Bruce Eddy; Diana Bental; Alison Cawsey
An Algorithm for Efficiently Generating Summary Paragraphs Using Tree-Adjoining Grammar
W01-0807: Bernd Bohnet; Leo Wanner
On Using a Parallel Graph Rewriting Formalism in Generation
W01-0808: Takako Aikawa; Maite Melero; Lee Schwartz; Andi Wu
Multilingual Sentence Generation
W01-0809: Doan-Nguyen Hai
Generation of Vietnamese for French-Vietnamese and English-Vietnamese Machine Translation
W01-0810: Geert-Jan M. Kruijff; Ivana Kruijff-Korbayovà; John Bateman; Elke Teich
Linear Order as Higher-Level Decision: Information Structure in Strategic and Tactical Generation
W01-0811: Michael Zock
Learn to Speak and to Write, Learn to Use Your Mind The Relevance of the Work of Natural Language Generation (invited talk)
W01-0812: Kevin Humphreys; Mike Calcagno; David Weise
Reusing a Statistical Language Model for Generation
W01-0813: Min-Yen Kan; Kathleen R. McKeown; Judith L. Klavans
Applying Natural Language Generation to Indicative Summarization
W01-0814: Kentaro Inui; Masaru Nogami
A Paraphrase-Based Exploration of Cohesiveness Criteria
W01-0815: Anthony Hartley; Donia Scott
Evaluating Text Quality: Judging Output Texts Without a Clear Source
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies for Language and Dialogue Systems
W01-0900: Front Matter
W01-0901: Patrick Paroubek
Introduction
W01-0902: Tim Paek
Empirical Methods for Evaluating Dialog Systems
W01-0903: Laila Dybkaer; Niels O. Bernsen
Usability Evaluation in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
W01-0904: Stephen Watkinson; Suresh Manandhar
Translating Treebank Annotation for Evaluation
W01-0905: Jean-Baptiste Berthelin; Brigitte Grau; Martine Hurault-Plantet
Two Levels of valuation in a Complex NL System
W01-0906: Valerie Barr; Judith L. Klavans
Verification and validation of language processing systems: Is it evaluation?
W01-0907: Widad Mustafa El Hadi; Ismail Timimi; Annette Beguin; Marcilio de Brito
The ARC A3 Project: Terminology Acquisition Tools: Evaluation Method and Task
W01-0908: Yuval Krymolowski
Using the Distribution of Performance for Studying Statistical NLP Systems and Corpora
W01-0909: Michele Jardino; Brigitte Grau; Olivier Ferret
A Cross-Comparison of Two Clustering Methods
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management
W01-1000: Front Matter
W01-1001: Steffen Staab
Knowledge Portals (invited talk)
W01-1002: Mark Maybury
Human Language Technologies for Knowledge Management
W01-1003: Hans Uszkoreit
Crosslingual Language Technologies for Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing (invited talk)
W01-1004: Kalina Bontcheva; Christopher Brewster; Fabio Ciravegna; Hamish Cunningham; Louise Guthrie; Robert Gaizauskas; Yorick Wilks
Using HLT for Acquiring, Retrieving and Publishing Knowledge in AKT
W01-1005: Paola Velardi; Michele Missikoff; Roberto Basili
Identification of Relevant Terms to Support the Construction of Domain Ontologies
W01-1006: Sin-Jae Kang; Jong-Hyeok Lee
Semi-Automatic Practical Ontology Construction by Using a Thesaurus, Computational Dictionaries, and Large Corpora
W01-1007: Niegel Dewdney; Carol VanEss-Dykema; Richard MacMillan
The Form is the Substance: Classification of Genres in Text
W01-1008: Christof Monz
Document Fusion for Comprehensive Event Description
W01-1009: Boris Katz; Jimmy Lin; Sue Felshin
Gathering Knowledge for a Question Answering System from Heterogeneous Information Sources
W01-1010: J. B. Domingue
Invited Speaker - Supporting Organisational Learning through the Enrichment of Documents
W01-1011: Evelyne Tzoukermann; Smaranda Muresan; Judith L. Klavans
GIST-IT: Combining Linguistic and Machine Learning Techniques for Email Summarization
W01-1012: Jean-François Delannoy
What are the points? What are the stances? Decanting for Question-driven Retrieval and Executive Summarization
W01-1013: Roberto Basili; Roberta Catizone; Luis Padro; Maria Teresa Pazienza; German Rigau; Andrea Setzer; Nick Webb; Yorick Wilks; Fabio Massimo Zanzottomm
Multilingual Authoring: the NAMIC Approach
W01-1014: Hodong Lee; Jong C. Park
Automatic Augmentation of Translation Dictionary with Database Terminologies In Multilingual Query Interpretation
W01-1015: Ana García-Serrano; Paloma Martínez; Luis Rodrigo
Adapting and Extending Lexical Resources in a Dialogue System
W01-1016: Georg Niklfeld
Component-Based Multimodal Dialog Interfaces for Mobile Knowledge Creation
W01-1017: Thierry Declerck; Peter Wittenburg; Hamish Cunningham
The Automatic Generation of Formal Annotations in a Multimedia Indexing and Searching Environment
W01-1018: Niels Ole Bernsen
Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management - Final Roadmap Session
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Arabic Language Processing: Status and Prospects
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Open-Domain Question Answering
W01-1200: Front Matter
W01-1201: Eric Breck; Marc Light; Gideon Mann; Ellen Riloff; Brianne Brown; Pranav Anand
Looking Under the Hood: Tools for Diagnosing Your Question Answering Engine
W01-1202: Harksoo Kim; Kyungsun Kim; Gary Geunbae Lee; Jungyun Seo
MAYA: A Fast Question-answering System Based on a Predictive Answer Indexer
W01-1203: Ulf Hermjakob
Parsing and Question Classification for Question Answering
W01-1204: Gideon Mann
A Statistical Method for Short Answer Extraction
W01-1205: Remi Zajac
Towards Ontological Question Answering
W01-1206: Marius Pasca; Sanda Harabagiu
Answer Mining from On-Line Documents
W01-1207: Olivier Ferret; Brigitte Grau; Martine Hurault-Plantet; Gabriel Illouz; Christian Jacquemin
Terminological Variants for Document Selection and Question/Answer Matching
W01-1208: Atsushi Fujii; Tetsuya Ishikawa
Question Answering Using Encyclopedic Knowledge Generated from the Web
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing
W01-1300: Front Matter
W01-1301: Sylvain Dupuy; Arjan Egges; Vincent Legendre; Pierre Nugues
Generating A 3D Simulation Of A Car Accident From A Written Description In Natural Language: The CarSim System
W01-1302: Viktor Pekar
Specification In Terms Of Interactional Properties As A Way To Optimize Semantic Representation Of Spatial Expressions
W01-1303: Jean-Pierre Desclés; Ewa Gwiazdecka; Azucena Montes-Rendon
Towards Invariant Meanings Of Spatial Prepositions and Preverbs
W01-1304: Didier Maillat
Directional PPs And Reference Frames In DRT
W01-1305: Wenjie Li; Kam-Fai Wong; Chunfa Yuan
A Model For Processing Temporal References In Chinese
W01-1306: Telmo Móia
Telling Temporal Locating Adverbials And Time-Denoting Expressions Apart
W01-1307: Myriam Bras; Anne Le Draoulec; Laure Vieu
Temporal Information And Discourse Relations In Narratives: The Role Of French Connectives `Puis' And `Un Peu Plus Tard'
W01-1308: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Unifying Tense, Aspect And Modality Across Languages
W01-1309: Frank Schilder; Christopher Habel
From Temporal Expressions To Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging Of News Messages
W01-1310: Fabio Pianesi
Some Facts About Times, Events and Subjects - Invited Talk
W01-1311: Andrea Setzer; Robert Gaizauskas
A Pilot Study On Annotating Temporal Relations In Text
W01-1312: George Wilson; Inderjeet Mani; Beth Sundheim; Lisa Ferro
A Multilingual Approach To Annotating And Extracting Temporal Information
W01-1313: Elena Filatova; Eduard Hovy
Assigning Time-Stamps To Event-Clauses
W01-1314: Nikolai Vazov
A System For Extraction Of Temporal Expressions From French Texts Based On Syntactic And Semantic Constraints
W01-1315: Graham Katz; Fabrizio Arosio
The Annotation Of Temporal Information In Natural Language Sentences
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Methods in Machine Translation
W01-1400: Front Matter
W01-1401: Eiichiro Sumita
Example-based machine translation using DP-matching between work sequences
W01-1402: Stephen D. Richardson; William B. Dolan; Arul Menezes; Monica Corston-Oliver
Overcoming the customization bottleneck using example-based MT
W01-1403: Benoit Lavoie; Michael White; Tanya Korelsky
Inducing Lexico-Structural Transfer Rules from Parsed Bi-texts
W01-1404: Mark-Jan Nederhof
Approximating Context-Free by Rational Transduction for Example-Based MT
W01-1405: Hermann Ney
Stochastic Modelling: From Pattern Classification to Language Translation
W01-1406: Arul Menezes; Stephen D. Richardson
A best-first alignment algorithm for automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora
W01-1407: Sonja Niessen; Hermann Ney
Toward hierarchical models for statistical machine translation of inflected languages
W01-1408: Franz Josef Och; Nicola Ueffing; Hermann Ney
An Efficient A* Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation
W01-1409: Ulrich Germann
Building a Statistical Machine Translation System from Scratch: How Much Bang for the Buck Can We Expect?
W01-1410: Federico Prat
Machine Translation with Grammar Association: Some Improvements and the Loco_C Model
W01-1411: Robert C. Moore
Towards a Simple and Accurate Statistical Approach to Learning Translation Relationships among Words
W01-1412: Kaoru Yamamoto; Yuji Matsumoto; Mihoko Kitamura
A Comparative Study on Translation Units for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction
W01-1413: Masaaki Nagata; Teruka Saito; Kenji Suzuki
Using the Web as a Bilingual Dictionary
W01-1414: Jessie Pinkham; Monica Corston-Oliver
Adding Domain Specificity to an MT System
W01-1415: Masaki Murata; Kiyotaka Uchimoto; Qing Ma; Hitoshi Isahara
Using a Support-Vector Machine for Japanese-to-English Translation of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources
W01-1500: Front Matter
W01-1501: Mike Rosner
Preface
W01-1502: Thierry Declerck
Introduction: Extending NLP Tools Repositories for the Interaction with Language Data Resource Repositories
W01-1503: Erjavec Tomaz; Varadi Tamas
The TELRI tool catalogue: structure and prospects
W01-1504: Wynne Martin
An Archive for all of Europe
W01-1505: A. Lavelli; F. Pianesi; E. Maci; I. Prodanoff; L. Dini; G. Mazzini
SiSSA - An Infrastructure for NLP Application Development
W01-1506: S. Bird; G. Simons
The OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies
W01-1507: N. Calzolari; A. Lenci; A. Zampolli
International Standards for Multilingual Resource Sharing: The ISLE Computational Lexicon Working Group
W01-1508: D. Broeder; P. Wittenburg
Multimedia Language Resources
W01-1509: F. Barthelemy; P. Bouiller; Philippe Deschamp; L. Kaouane; Éric Villemont de la Clergerie
Tools and resources for Tree Adjoining Grammars
W01-1510: N. Yoshinaga; Y. Miyao; K. Torisawa; J. Tsuji
Resource Sharing Amongst HPSG and LTAG Communities by a Method of Grammar Conversion between FB-LTAG and HPSG
W01-1511: A. Meyers; R. Grishman; M. Kosaka; S. Zhao
Covering Treebanks with GLARF
W01-1512: A. Copestake; John Carroll; D. Flickinger; R. Malouf; S. Oepen
Using an Open-Source Unification-Based System for CL/NLP Teaching
W01-1513: R. Delmonte; L. Chiran; C. Bacalu
How to Integrate Linguistic information in FILES and generate feedback for grammar errors
W01-1514: C. Cierri; S. Bird
Annotation Graphs and Servers and Multi-Modal Resources: Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Education, Research and Development
W01-1515: S. Bird; K. Maeda; X. Ma; H. Lee
Annotation Tools Based on the Annotation Graph API
Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
W01-1601: Jens Allwood; Leif Groenqvist; Elisabeth Ahlsen; Magnus Gunnarsson
Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus
W01-1602: Hiyan Alshawi; Shona Douglas
Variant Transduction: A Method for Rapid Development of Interactive Spoken Interfaces
W01-1603: Masahiro Araki; Yukihiko Kimura; Takuya Nishimoto; Yasuhisa Niimi
Development of a Machine Learnable Discourse Tagging Tool
W01-1604: Peter Bosch
Against the Identification of Anaphora and Presupposition
W01-1605: Lynn Carlson; Daniel Marcu; Mary Ellen Okurovsky
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory
W01-1606: Marc Cavazza
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in a Task-Oriented Dialogue System
W01-1607: Christine Doran; John Aberdeen; Laurie Damianos; Lynette Hirschman
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues
W01-1608: Christian Ebert; Shalom Lappin; Howard Gregory; Nicolas Nicolov
Generating Full Paraphrases of Fragments in a Dialogue Interpretation System
W01-1609: John Fry; Matt Ginzton; Stanley Peters; Brady Clark; Heather Pon-Barry
Automated Tutoring Dialogues for Training in Shipboard Damage Control
W01-1610: Julia Hirschberg; Marc Swerts; Diane Litman
Labeling Corrections and Aware Sites in Spoken Dialogue Systems
W01-1611: Kristiina Jokinen; Graham Wilcock
Confidence-Based Adaptivity in Response Generation for a Spoken Dialogue System
W01-1612: Christoph Mueller; Michael Strube
Annotating Anaphoric and Bridging Relations with MMAX
W01-1613: Kathleen Murray
A Study of Automatic Pitch Tracker Doubling/Halving "Errors"
W01-1614: Tim Paek
Empirical Methods for Evaluating Dialog Systems
W01-1615: Michael Paul; Eiichiro Sumita
Integration of Referential Scope Limitations into Japanese Pronoun Resolution
W01-1616: Matthew Purver; Jonathan Ginzburg; Patrick Healey
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue
W01-1617: Manny Rayner; Ian Lewin; Genevieve Gorrell; Johan Boye
Plug and Play Speech Understanding
W01-1618: Ruben San-Segundo; Juan Manuel Montero; Jose Manuel Pardo
Designing Confirmation Mechanisms and Error Recover Techniques in a Railway Information System for Spanish
W01-1619: Ruben San-Segundo; Juan M. Montero; Juana M. Guitierrez; Ascension Gallardo; Jose D. Romeral; Jose M. Pardo
A Telephone-Based Railway Information System for Spanish: Development of a Methodology for Spoken Dialogue Design
W01-1620: Emilio Sanchis; Isabel Galiano; Fernando Garcia; Antonio Cano
A Hybrid Approach to the Development of Dialogue Systems directed by Semantics
W01-1621: Susan E. Strayer; Peter A. Heeman
Reconciling Initiative and Discourse Structure
W01-1622: Janienke Sturm; Fusi Wang; Bert Cranen
Adding Extra Input/Output Modalities to a Spoken Dialogue System
W01-1623: Shu-Chuan Tseng
Toward a Large Spontaneous Mandarin Dialogue Corpus
W01-1624: Robert van Rooy
Conversational Implicatures
W01-1625: Anne Wichmann; Johanneke Caspers
Melodic Cues to Turn-Taking in English: Evidence from Perception
W01-1626: Janyce Wiebe; Rebecca Bruce; Matthew Bell; Melanie Martin; Theresa Wilson
A Corpus Study of Evaluative and Speculative Language
W01-1627: Mary McGee Wood
Dialogue Tagsets in Oncology
W01-1628: Li-chiung Yang
Visualizing Spoken Discourse: Prosodic Form and Discourse Functions of Interruptions
W01-1629: Norihi Yasuda; Kohji Dohsaka; Kiyoaki Aikawa
Spoken Dialogue Control Based on a Turn-minimization Criterion Depending on the Speech Recognition Accuracy