HLT-NAACL 2006: New York, New York, USA
Robert C. Moore, Jeff A. Bilmes, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Mark Sanderson (Eds.): Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, June 4-9, 2006, New York, New York, USA. The Association for Computational Linguistics 2006
Main Conference
- Christopher Quirk, Arul Menezes: Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation.
- Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Miles Osborne: Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases.
- Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George F. Foster, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson: Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation.
- Rion Snow, Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes: Effectively Using Syntax for Recognizing False Entailment.
- Bill MacCartney, Trond Grenager, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel M. Cer, Christopher D. Manning: Learning to recognize features of valid textual entailments.
- Viktor Pekar: Acquisition of Verb Entailment from Text.
- Kentaro Torisawa: Acquiring Inference Rules with Temporal Constraints by Using Japanese Coordinated Sentences and Noun-Verb Co-occurrences.
- Tawanda C. Sibanda, Özlem Uzuner: Role of Local Context in Automatic Deidentification of Ungrammatical, Fragmented Text.
- Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth: Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora.
- Charles A. Sutton, Michael Sindelar, Andrew McCallum: Reducing Weight Undertraining in Structured Discriminative Learning.
- Simon Lacoste-Julien, Benjamin Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael I. Jordan: Word Alignment via Quadratic Assignment.
- Jinying Chen, Andrew I. Schein, Lyle H. Ungar, Martha Palmer: An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation.
- Katrin Erk: Unknown word sense detection as outlier detection.
- Simon Corston-Oliver, Anthony Aue, Kevin Duh, Eric K. Ringger: Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines.
- Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Micha Elsner, Joseph L. Austerweil, David Ellis, Isaac Haxton, Catherine Hill, R. Shrivaths, Jeremy Moore, Michael Pozar, Theresa Vu: Multilevel Coarse-to-Fine PCFG Parsing.
- Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi: A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Syntactic and Case Structure Analysis.
- Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube: Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution.
- Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy: Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions.
- Gina-Anne Levow: Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent.
- John Kominek, Alan W. Black: Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies.
- Bryant Huang, Kevin Knight: Relabeling Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Quality.
- Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, Kevin Knight: Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation.
- Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman: Modelling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters.
- Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman: Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning.
- Gang Ji, Jeff Bilmes: Backoff Model Training using Partially Observed Data: Application to Dialog Act Tagging.
- Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum, Jonathan Betz: Integrating Probabilistic Extraction Models and Data Mining to Discover Relations and Patterns in Text.
- Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine: Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery.
- Jonathan May, Kevin Knight: A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata.
- Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna D. Moore: Incorporating Speaker and Discourse Features into Speech Summarization.
- Gregory Marton, Alexey Radul: Nuggeteer: Automatic Nugget-Based Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements.
- Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson: Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
- Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari: A Machine Learning based Approach to Evaluating Retrieval Systems.
- Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai: Language Model Information Retrieval with Document Expansion.
- Zheng-Yu Zhou, Peng Yu, Ciprian Chelba, Frank Seide: Towards Spoken-Document Retrieval for the Internet: Lattice Indexing For Large-Scale Web-Search Architectures.
- Roy W. Tromble, Jason Eisner: A fast finite-state relaxation method for enforcing global constraints on sequence decoding.
- Nianwen Xue: Semantic role labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese.
- Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney: Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation.
- Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Eduard H. Hovy: ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically.
- Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Summaries.
- Andrew Freeman, Sherri L. Condon, Christopher Ackerman: Cross Linguistic Name Matching in English and Arabic.
- Günes Erkan: Language Model-Based Document Clustering Using Random Walks.
- Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Ebru Arisoy, Vesa Siivola, Teemu Hirsimäki, Janne Pylkkönen, Tanel Alumäe, Murat Saraclar: Unlimited vocabulary speech recognition for agglutinative languages.
Short Papers
- Alison Alvarez, Lori S. Levin, Robert E. Frederking, Simon Fung, Donna Gates, Jeff Good: The MILE Corpus for Less Commonly Taught Languages.
- Jaime Arguello, Carolyn Penstein Rosé: Museli: A Multi-Source Evidence Integration Approach to Topic Segmentation of Spontaneous Dialogue.
- Beata Beigman Klebanov: Measuring Semantic Relatedness Using People and WordNet.
- Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Tanja Schultz: Thai Grapheme-Based Speech Recognition.
- Pierre Chatain, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui: Class Model Adaptation for Speech Summarisation.
- Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu: Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Label Propagation.
- Angelo Dalli: Temporal Classification of Text and Automatic Document Dating.
- Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Answering the question you wish they had asked: The impact of paraphrasing for Question Answering.
- Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ralf D. Brown, Jaime G. Carbonell: Spectral Clustering for Example Based Machine Translation.
- Olga Gurevich: A Finite-State Model of Georgian Verbal Morphology.
- Sangyun Hahn, Richard E. Ladner, Mari Ostendorf: Agreement/Disagreement Classification: Exploiting Unlabeled Data using Contrast Classifiers.
- Eduard H. Hovy, Mitchell P. Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance A. Ramshaw, Ralph M. Weischedel: OntoNotes: The 90% Solution.
- Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Gareth J. F. Jones, Douglas W. Oard: Investigating Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for a Spontaneous Conversational Speech Collection.
- Nikiforos Karamanis: Evaluating Centering for Sentence Ordering in Two New Domains.
- Seokhwan Kim, Yu Song, Kyungduk Kim, Jeongwon Cha, Gary Geunbae Lee: MMR-based Active Machine Learning for Bio Named Entity Recognition.
- Esther Levin, Mehrbod Sharifi, Jerry T. Ball: Evaluation of Utility of LSA for Word Sense Discrimination.
- Yang Liu: Initial Study on Automatic Identification of Speaker Role in Broadcast News Speech.
- Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen: NER Systems that Suit User's Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction.
- Alessandro Moschitti: Syntactic Kernels for Natural Language Learning: the Semantic Role Labeling Case.
- Youngja Park, Ying Li: Extracting Salient Keywords from Instructional Videos Using Joint Text, Audio and Visual Cues.
- David Reitter, Frank Keller, Johanna D. Moore: Computational Modelling of Structural Priming in Dialogue.
- Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg: Story Segmentation of Broadcast News in English, Mandarin and Arabic.
- Manami Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Satoshi Sekine: Using Phrasal Patterns to Identify Discourse Relations.
- Franco Salvetti, Nicolas Nicolov: Weblog Classification for Fast Splog Filtering: A URL Language Model Segmentation Approach.
- Antonio Sanfilippo, Stephen Tratz, Michelle L. Gregory: Word Domain Disambiguation via Word Sense Disambiguation.
- Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan: Selecting relevant text subsets from web-data for building topic specific language models.
- Christian Siefkes: A Comparison of Tagging Strategies for Statistical Information Extraction.
- Laura Stoia, Donna K. Byron, Darla Magdalena Shockley, Eric Fosler-Lussier: Sentence Planning for Realtime Navigational Instruction.
- Svetlana Symonenko, Steven Rowe, Elizabeth D. Liddy: Illuminating Trouble Tickets with Sublanguage Theory.
- Dave Toney, Johanna D. Moore, Oliver Lemon: Evolving optimal inspectable strategies for spoken dialogue systems.
- Brian Ulicny: Lycos Retriever: An Information Fusion Engine.
- Kui Xu, Helen M. Meng, Fuliang Weng: A Maximum Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension.
- Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita: Subword-based Tagging by Conditional Random Fields for Chinese Word Segmentation.
- Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn: Comparing the roles of textual, acoustic and spoken-language features on spontaneous-conversation summarization.
- Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel: Bridging the Inflection Morphology Gap for Arabic Statistical Machine Translation.
Doctoral Consortium
- Lei Chen: Incorporating Gesture and Gaze into Multimodal Models of Human-to-Human Communication.
- Jacob Eisenstein: Semantic Back-Pointers from Gesture.
- Ariadna Font Llitjós: Can the Internet help improve Machine Translation?.
- Liang Huang: Efficient Algorithms for Richer Formalisms: Parsing and Machine Translation.
- Wei-Hao Lin: Identifying Perspectives at the Document and Sentence Levels Using Statistical Models.
- Jackson Liscombe: Detecting Emotion in Speech: Experiments in Three Domains.
- Irina Matveeva: Document Representation and Multilevel Measures of Document Similarity.
- Anders Søgaard: Logical investigations on the adequacy of certain feature-based theories of natural language.
- Richard Tzong-Han Tsai: A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Semantic Role Labeling.
- Xiaojun Yuan: Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework.
Demonstrations
- Satanjeev Banerjee, Alexander I. Rudnicky: SmartNotes: Implicit Labeling of Meeting Data through User Note-Taking and Browsing.
- Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren: AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web.
- Philip V. Ogren: Knowtator: A Protégé plug-in for annotated corpus construction.
- Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni: Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistic.
- Dinoj Surendran: Automating the Creation of Interactive Glyph-supplemented Scatterplots for Visualizing Algorithm Results.
- Alicia Tribble, Benjamin Lambert, Scott E. Fahlman: SconeEdit: A Text-guided Domain Knowledge Editor.
- Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui: Factoid Question Answering with Web, Mobile and Speech Interfaces.
- Geoffrey Zweig, Olivier Siohan, George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Daniel Povey, Lidia Mangu, Brian Kingsbury: Automated Quality Monitoring for Call Centers using Speech and NLP Technologies.
Tutorial Abstracts
- Sherri L. Condon, Keith Miller: What's in a Name: Current Methods, Applications, and Evaluation in Multilingual Name Search and Matching.
- Hal Daumé III: Beyond EM: Bayesian Techniques for Human Language Technology Researchers.
- Rada Mihalcea, Dragomir R. Radev: Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
- Anoop Sarkar, Gholamreza Haffari: Tutorial on Inductive Semi-supervised Learning Methods: with Applicability to Natural Language Processing.
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