Accepted Posters and Demos

• A Flexible Stand-Off Data Model with Query Language for Multi-Level Annotation
  Christoph Mueller
  
  
• A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Part-of-Speech Induction from Text
  Reinhard Rapp
  
  
• A Voice Enabled Procedure Browser for the International Space Station
  Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Kim Farrell, Jean-Michel Renders
  
  
• Accessing GermaNet Data and Computing Semantic Relatedness
  Iryna Gurevych and Hendrik Niederlich
  
  
• An information-state approach to collaborative reference
  David DeVault, Natalia Kariaeva, Anubha Kothari, Iris Oved and Matthew Stone
  
  
• Automating Temporal Annotation with TARSQI
  Marc Verhagen, Inderjeet Mani, Roser Sauri, Jessica Littman, Robert Knippen, Seok Bae Jang, Anna Rumshisky, John Phillips, James Pustejovsky
  
  
• CL Research's Knowledge Management System
  Kenneth C. Litkowski
  
  
• Descriptive Question Answering in Encyclopedia
  Hyo-Jung Oh,Chung-Hee Lee, Hyeon-Jin Kim, Myung-Gil Jang
  
  
• Dynamically Generating a Protein Entity Dictionary Using Online Resources
  Hongfang Liu, Zhangzhi Hu, Cathy Wu
  
  
• Efficient solving and exploration of scope ambiguities
  Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater
  
  
• HAHAcronym: A Computational Humor System
  Oliviero Stock and Carlo Strapparava
  
  
• High Throughput Modularized NLP System for Clinical Text
  Serguei Pakhomov, James Buntrock, Patrick Duffy
  
  
• Interactively Exploring a Machine Translation Model
  Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, and Hayward H. Chan
  
  
• Language Independent Extractive Summarization
  Rada Mihalcea
  
  
• Learning Source-Target Surface Patterns for Web-based Terminology Translation
  Jian-Cheng Wu,Tracy Lin,Jason S. Chang
  
  
• Multi-Engine Machine Translation Guided by Explicit Word Matching
  Shyamsundar Jayaraman and Alon Lavie
  
  
• Multimodal Generation in the COMIC Dialogue System
  Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White, Andrea Setzer, Roberta Catizone
  
  
• Organizing English Reading Materials for Vocabulary Learning
  Masao Utiyama, Midori Tanimura and Hitoshi Isahara
  
  
• Portable Translator Capable of Recognizing Characters on Signboard and Menu Captured by its Built-in Camera
  Hideharu Nakajima, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito
  
  
• SenseClusters: Unsupervised Clustering and Labeling of Similar Contexts
  Anagha Kulkarni and Ted Pedersen
  
  
• SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text
  Rada Mihalcea, Andras Csomai
  
  
• SenseRelate::LexSample - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation
  Siddharth Patwardhan, Satanjeev Banerjee, Ted Pedersen
  
  
• SPEECH OGLE: Indexing Uncertainty for Spoken Document Search
  Ciprian Chelba and Alex Acero
  
  
• Supporting Annotation Layers for Natural Language Processing
  Preslav Nakov, Ariel Schwartz, Brian Wolf, Marti Hearst
  
  
• Syntax-based Semi-Supervised Named Entity Tagging
  Behrang Mohit, Rebecca Hwa
  
  
• The Linguist's Search Engine: An Overview
  Philip Resnik and Aaron Elkiss
  
  
• The Wild Thing
  Ken Church, Bo Thiesson
  
  
• Transonics: A Practical Speech-to-Speech Translator for English-Farsi Medical Dialogs
  Robert Belvin, Emil Ettelaie, Sudeep Gandhe, Panayiotis Georgiou, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Scott Millward, Shrikanth Narayanan , Howard Neely, David Traum
  
  
• Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent Progress on TRIPS)
  James Allen, George Ferguson, Amanda Stent, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift, Lucian Galescu, Nathan Chambers, Ellen Campana, and Gregory Aist
  
  
• Web Document Structuring by Header Extraction
  Minoru Yoshida and Hiroshi Nakagawa
  
  
• Word Alignment and Cross-Lingual Resource Acquisition
  Carol Nichols and Rebecca Hwa

Program Committee

John Atkinson (Universidad de Concepcion)
Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service)
Mike Calcagno (Microsoft Research)
Charles Callaway (University of Edinburgh)
Ciprian Chelba (Microsoft Research)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research)
Mark Dras (Macquarie University)
Gregor Erbach (DFKI GmbH)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University)
Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research Asia)
Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
Alexander Hauptmann (CMU)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)
Camelia Ignat (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa)
Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research)
Jin-Dong Kim (University of Tokyo)
Taku Kudo (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Sadao Kurohashi (University of Tokyo)
Claudia Leacock (KAT Technologies)
Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH)
Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh)
Sun Maosong (Tsinghua University)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)
Vibhu Mittal (Google)
Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan)
Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Serguei Pakhomov (Mayo Clinic)
Patrick Pantel (ISI/USC)
Marius Pasca (Google)
David Pierce (University at Buffalo)
Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)
Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield)
William Schuler (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Kiyoaki Shirai (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Thamar Solorio (INAOE)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NICT Asia Research Center)
Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Resarch Centre)
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation)
Peter Turney (National Research Council Canada)
Masao Utiyama (NICT)
Takehito Utsuro (Kyoto University)
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)
Peter Wiemer-Hastings (DePaul University)