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  Erhard W. Hinrichs, Dan Roth (Eds.): Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7-12 July 2003, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan. ACL 2003

Cover - Preface - Program Committee - Table of Contents

Question Answering

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  Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Echihabi: Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked. 1-7
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  Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda M. Harabagiu, John Williams, Paul Aarseth: Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction. 8-15
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  Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu: A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering. 16-23

Machine Learning: Kernels

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  Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto: Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis. 24-31
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  Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku Maeda: Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data. 32-39
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  Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark: Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models. 40-47

Subcategorization and Word Meaning

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  Anna Korhonen, Judita Preiss: Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation. 48-55
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  Malvina Nissim, Katja Markert: Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution. 56-63
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  Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Zvika Marx: Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically. 64-71

Alignment for Machine Translation

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  Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara: Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences. 72-79
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  Daniel Gildea: Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation. 80-87
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  Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin: A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment. 88-95

Parsing German

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  Amit Dubey, Frank Keller: Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies. 96-103
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  Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer, Ulrich Schäfer: Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG. 104-111
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  Michael Schiehlen: Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German. 112-119

Vector Space Models

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  Hua Wu, Ming Zhou: Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information. 120-127
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  Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata: Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora. 128-135
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  Dominic Widdows: Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval. 136-143

Statistical Machine Translation

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  Richard Zens, Hermann Ney: A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation. 144-151
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  Lucian Vlad Lita, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos, Nanda Kambhatla: tRuEcasIng. 152-159
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  Franz Josef Och: Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation. 160-167

Coreference in Discourse and Dialogue

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  Michael Strube, Christoph Müller: A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue. 168-175
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  Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan: Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach. 176-183

Rule-based Parsing

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  Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon: Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar. 184-191
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  Jonas Kuhn: Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting. 192-199
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  Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu: A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying. 200-207

Information Retrieval

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  Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair, Milena Petrova: Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text. 208-215
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  Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng, Yoong Keok Lee: Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods. 216-223
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  Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman: An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition. 224-231
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  Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Thorsten Brants: Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection. 232-239

Spoken Dialog

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  Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa: Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 240-247
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  Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongcheng Wang: Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches. 248-255
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  Kazunori Komatani, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 256-263
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  Charles B. Callaway: Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture. 264-271

Statistical Modeling

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  Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li, Changning Huang: Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation. 272-279
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  Mathias Creutz: Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency. 280-287
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  Martin Jansche: Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data. 288-295
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  Jin-Dong Kim, Hae-Chang Rim, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging. 296-302

Machine Translation and Chunking

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  Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Chunk-Based Statistical Translation. 303-310
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  Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight: Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases. 311-318
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  Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel: Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models. 319-326

Named Entities and Bootstraping

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  Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Li Lian: Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm. 327-334
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  Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Srihari: A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners. 335-342
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  Roman Yangarber: Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns. 343-350

Parsing and Grammar Formalisms

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  Denis Béchet, Annie Foret: k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings. 351-358
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  Julia Hockenmaier: Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure. 359-366
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  Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater: Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints. 367-374

Summarization

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  Dragomir R. Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, John Blitzer, Hong Qi, Arda Çelebi, Danyu Liu, Elliott Drábek: Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization. 375-382
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  Akiko N. Aizawa: Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship. 383-390

Word Segmentation for Arabic

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  Monica Rogati, J. Scott McCarley, Yiming Yang: Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus. 391-398
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  Young-Suk Lee, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Ossama Emam, Hany Hassan: Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation. 399-406

Language Acquisition

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  Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa, Masato Takeichi: Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus. 407-414
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  William Gregory Sakas: A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition. 415-422

Probabilistic Parsing

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  Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning: Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing. 423-430
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  Péter Dienes, Amit Dubey: Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods. 431-438
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  Roger Levy, Christopher D. Manning: Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? 439-446

Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation

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  Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yuji Matsumoto: Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation. 447-454
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  Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan: Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study. 455-462
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  Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond: Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data. 463-470

Phonology and Morphology

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  Do-Gil Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Heui-Seok Lim: A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction. 471-478
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  Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara: Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese. 479-488
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  Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste: Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch. 489-496

Chunk Parsing

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  Seong-Bae Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang: Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning. 497-504
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  Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi: A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking. 505-512
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  Wei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu, Yuankai Jiang, Rohini K. Srihari: An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs. 513-520

Parsing and Semantics

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  Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki: Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling. 521-528
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  William Schuler: Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface. 529-536
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  Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Padó, Manfred Pinkal: Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation. 537-544

Discourse and Dialogue Segmentation

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  Mirella Lapata: Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering. 545-552
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  Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Justine Cassell: Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding. 553-561
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  Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Hongyan Jing: Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation. 562-569