HLT-NAACL 2007: Rochester, New York, USA
- Candace L. Sidner, Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai:
Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York, USA. The Association for Computational Linguistics 2007
Proceedings of the Main Conference
- Front Matter.
- Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan:
Exploiting Acoustic and Syntactic Features for Prosody Labeling in a Maximum Entropy Framework. 1-8 - Ani Nenkova, Jason M. Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha Calhoun, Laura Whitton, David Beaver, Daniel Jurafsky:
To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech. 9-16 - Pei-yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore:
What Decisions Have You Made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations. 25-32 - Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Katsunori Kotani, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara:
Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Rate of Accomplishment of Sub-Goals. 33-40 - Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea:
Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation. 41-48 - Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie:
Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution. 65-72 - Aron Culotta, Michael L. Wick, Andrew McCallum:
First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution. 81-88 - Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Jurgen Van Gael, David Andrzejewski:
Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks. 97-104 - Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai:
A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction. 113-120 - Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel:
The Domain Restriction Hypothesis: Relating Term Similarity and Semantic Consistency. 131-138 - Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, Sharon Goldwater:
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo. 139-146 - Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng:
High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation. 155-163 - Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney:
Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation. 172-179 - Andrei Alexandrescu, Katrin Kirchhoff:
Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP. 204-211 - Jimmy J. Lin:
Is Question Answering Better than Information Retrieval? Towards a Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series. 212-219 - Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, Spyridon Matsoukas, Richard M. Schwartz, Bonnie J. Dorr:
Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems. 228-235 - Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge:
Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming. 236-243 - Emilia Stoica, Marti A. Hearst, Megan Richardson:
Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures. 244-251 - Damianos Karakos, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Carey E. Priebe:
Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms. 252-259 - Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner, Christine D. Piatko:
Using "Annotator Rationales" to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization. 260-267 - Joel R. Tetreault, Dan Bohus, Diane J. Litman:
Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: a Confidence Interval Approach. 276-283 - Shaolin Qu, Joyce Yue Chai:
An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. 284-291 - Hiroya Takamura, Takashi Inui, Manabu Okumura:
Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary. 292-299 - Advaith Siddharthan, Simone Teufel:
Whose Idea Was This, and Why Does it Matter? Attributing Scientific Work to Citations. 316-323 - Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell:
Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection. 324-331 - Gideon S. Mann:
Multi-Document Relationship Fusion via Constraints on Probabilistic Databases. 332-339 - Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
An Integrated Approach to Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Information Available on the Web. 340-347 - Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel:
A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs. 364-371 - Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak, Tarek Sherif:
Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion. 372-379 - Mathias Creutz, Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Janne Pylkkönen, Vesa Siivola, Matti Varjokallio, Ebru Arisoy, Murat Saraclar, Andreas Stolcke:
Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages. 380-387 - David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke:
A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions. 420-427 - Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow:
Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models. 428-435 - Micha Elsner, Joseph L. Austerweil, Eugene Charniak:
A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence. 436-443 - Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, David R. Karger:
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems. 444-451 - Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskénazi:
Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts. 460-467 - Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff:
Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring. 468-475 - Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan:
Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses. 476-483 - Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara:
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. 484-491 - Richard Zens, Hermann Ney:
Efficient Phrase-Table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation. 492-499 - Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Stephan Vogel:
An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT. 500-507 - Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg:
A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering. 524-531 - Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman, James Allan:
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. 532-539 - Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang:
Toward Multimedia: A String Pattern-Based Passage Ranking Model for Video Question Answering. 540-547 - Patrick Pantel, Rahul Bhagat, Bonaventura Coppola, Timothy Chklovski, Eduard H. Hovy:
ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences. 564-571 - Feng Pan, Robert Farrell:
Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching. 572-579
Companion Volume: Short Papers
- Front Matter.
- Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman:
Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning. 1-4 - Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja, Montserrat Marimon:
Automatic Acquisition of Grammatical Types for Nouns. 5-8 - Dan Bohus, Sergio Grau Puerto, David Huggins-Daines, Venkatesh Keri, Gopala Krishna, Rohit Kumar, Antoine Raux, Stefanie Tomko:
Conquestâ - An Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences. 9-12 - Ilana Bromberg, Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier:
Joint Versus Independent Phonological Feature Models within CRF Phone Recognition. 13-16 - Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel:
Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation. 21-24 - Jakob Elming, Nizar Habash:
Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes. 25-28 - Karim Filali, Jeff A. Bilmes:
Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation. 33-36 - Katherine Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman, Joel R. Tetreault:
Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development. 41-44 - Olac Fuentes, David Vera, Thamar Solorio:
A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems. 45-48 - Olga Gurevich, Paul Deane:
Document Similarity Measures to Distinguish Native vs. Non-Native Essay Writers. 49-52 - Jirí Havelka:
Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, Their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness. 61-64 - Dustin Hillard, Björn Hoffmeister, Mari Ostendorf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney:
iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification. 65-68 - David Huggins-Daines, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription. 73-76 - Douglas A. Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Edward Gibson, Michael Emonts:
ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions. 77-80 - Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney:
Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines. 81-84 - Patrik Lambert, Rafael E. Banchs, Josep Maria Crego:
Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation. 85-88 - Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz:
A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings. 89-92 - John Lee, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu:
Detection of Non-Native Sentences Using Machine-Translated Training Data. 93-96 - Yudong Liu, Zhongmin Shi, Anoop Sarkar:
Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Relationship Extraction from Biomedical Articles. 97-100 - Feifan Liu, Yang Liu:
Look Who is Talking: Soundbite Speaker Name Recognition in Broadcast News Speech. 101-104 - Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum:
Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields. 109-112 - Dat P. T. Nguyen, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
Subtree Mining for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia. 125-128 - Mohamed Noamany, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz:
Advances in the CMU/Interact Arabic GALE Transcription System. 129-132 - Alicia Pérez, Maria-Teresa González, M. Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta:
An Integrated Architecture for Speech-Input Multi-Target Machine Translation. 133-136 - Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Josep Maria Crego, David Vilar, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño, Hermann Ney:
Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems. 137-140 - Victoria L. Rubin:
Stating with Certainty or Stating with Doubt: Intercoder Reliability Results for Manual Annotation of Epistemically Modalized Statements. 141-144 - Ruhi Sarikaya, Yonggang Deng:
Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Machine Translation. 145-148 - Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye, Steve J. Young:
Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System. 149-152 - Stephanie Seneff:
Reversible Sound-to-Letter/Letter-to-Sound Modeling Based on Syllable Structure. 153-156 - Zhongmin Shi, Anoop Sarkar, Fred Popowich:
Simultaneous Identification of Biomedical Named-Entity and Functional Relation Using Statistical Parsing Techniques. 161-164 - Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff A. Bilmes:
Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers Using Partially Labeled Data. 165-168 - Stephen Tratz, Antonio Sanfilippo:
A High Accuracy Method for Semi-Supervised Information Extraction. 169-172 - Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, John McCaw, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington:
The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC. 173-176 - Marc B. Vilain, Jennifer Su, Suzi Lubar:
Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem - Or is it? 181-184 - Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor, Sándor Szedmák:
Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation. 185-188 - Guangwei Wang, Kenji Araki:
Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions. 189-192 - Lei Xie, Chuan Liu, Helen Meng:
Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News. 193-196 - Kun Yu, Sadao Kurohashi, Hao Liu:
A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing. 201-204 - Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser:
Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets. 205-208 - Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Robert Moore:
Selective Phrase Pair Extraction for Improved Statistical Machine Translation. 209-212 - Justin Jian Zhang, Pascale Fung:
Speech Summarization Without Lexical Features for Mandarin Broadcast News. 213-216 - Liang Zhou, Namhee Kwon, Eduard H. Hovy:
A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation. 217-220
Doctoral Consortium
- Front Matter.
- Simone Paolo Ponzetto:
Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia. 9-12