HLT-NAACL 2007: Rochester, New York, USA

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
  
• Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman:
  Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue. 17-24
  
• 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
  
• Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki:
  Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation. 49-56
  
• Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos:
  Direct Translation Model 2. 57-64
  
• Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie:
  Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution. 65-72
  
• Xiaoqiang Luo:
  Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution. 73-80
  
• Aron Culotta, Michael L. Wick, Andrew McCallum:
  First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution. 81-88
  
• Victor Lavrenko, Xing Yi, James Allan:
  Information Retrieval On Empty Fields. 89-96
  
• Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Jurgen Van Gael, David Andrzejewski:
  Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks. 97-104
  
• Chris Biemann:
  A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants. 105-112
  
• Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai:
  A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction. 113-120
  
• Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni:
  Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web. 121-130
  
• 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
  
• Daniel Gildea, Daniel Stefankovic:
  Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules. 147-154
  
• Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng:
  High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation. 155-163
  
• Anja Belz:
  Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts. 164-171
  
• Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney:
  Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation. 172-179
  
• Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown:
  Lexicalized Markov Grammars for Sentence Compression. 180-187
  
• Xiaofei Lu:
  Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words. 188-195
  
• Rada Mihalcea:
  Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation. 196-203
  
• 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
  
• Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan:
  A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them. 220-227
  
• 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 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
  
• Peter A. Heeman:
  Combining Reinformation Learning with Information-State Update Rules. 268-275
  
• 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
  
• Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay:
  Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm. 300-307
  
• Kenneth Bloom, Navendu Garg, Shlomo Argamon:
  Extracting Appraisal Expressions. 308-315
  
• 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
  
• Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller:
  An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking. 348-355
  
• Diana Zaiu Inkpen:
  Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus. 356-363
  
• 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
  
• Giuseppe Attardi, Massimiliano Ciaramita:
  Tree Revision Learning for Dependency Parsing. 388-395
  
• Joakim Nivre:
  Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing. 396-403
  
• Slav Petrov, Dan Klein:
  Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing. 404-411
  
• Aria Haghighi, John DeNero, Dan Klein:
  Approximate Factoring for A* Search. 412-419
  
• 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 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
  
• Fei Xia, William Lewis:
  Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinear Text. 452-459
  
• Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi:
  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
  
• Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte, Pierre Isabelle:
  Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing. 508-515
  
• Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma:
  Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions. 516-523
  
• 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
  
• Szu-ting Yi, Edward Loper, Martha Palmer:
  Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres? 548-555
  
• Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin:
  Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling. 556-563
  
• 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
  
• Kenneth Ward Church, Bo Thiesson, Robert Ragno:
  K-Best Suffix Arrays. 17-20
  
• 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
  
• Jessica Enright, Grzegorz Kondrak:
  A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification. 29-32
  
• Karim Filali, Jeff A. Bilmes:
  Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation. 33-36
  
• Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy:
  Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval. 37-40
  
• 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
  
• Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow:
  Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging. 53-56
  
• Sasa Hasan, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney:
  Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT? 57-60
  
• 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
  
• Fang Huang, Yorick Wilks:
  Clustered Sub-Matrix Singular Value Decomposition. 69-72
  
• David Huggins-Daines, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
  Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription. 73-76
  
• Douglas 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
  
• Hrafn Loftsson:
  Tagging Icelandic Text using a Linguistic and a Statistical Tagger. 105-108
  
• Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum:
  Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields. 109-112
  
• Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow:
  Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding. 113-116
  
• Florian Metze:
  On using Articulatory Features for Discriminative Speaker Adaptation. 117-120
  
• Paula Newman:
  RH: A Retro-Hybrid Parser. 121-124
  
• 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 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
  
• Yongmei Shi, Lina Zhou:
  Are Some Speech Recognition Errors Easier to Detect than Others? 157-160
  
• 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
  
• Jenine Turner, Eugene Charniak:
  Language Modeling for Determiner Selection. 177-180
  
• Marc 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
  
• Xiaofeng Yu:
  Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Cascaded Hybrid Model. 197-200
  
• 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.
  
• Karin Friberg:
  Query Expansion Using Domain Information in Compounds. 1-4
  
• Qin Iris Wang:
  Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing. 5-8
  
• Simone Paolo Ponzetto:
  Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia. 9-12
  
• Alicia Tribble:
  Knowledge-Based Labeling of Semantic Relationships in English. 13-16
  
• Marie-Josée Goulet:
  Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Experiments. 17-20
  
• Rajen Subba:
  Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text. 21-24
  
• Joana Paulo Pardal:
  Dynamic Use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems. 25-28
  
• Diana Trandabat:
  Semantic Frames in Romanian Natural Language Processing Systems. 29-32
  
• J. Scott Olsson:
  Combining Evidence for Improved Speech Retrieval. 33-36
  
• Chris Biemann:
  Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models. 37-40
  

Demonstrations

• Front Matter.
  
• James F. Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary D. Swift, William Taysom:
  Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning. 1-2
  
• Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Yong-Won Lee, Matthew Ventura:
  The Automated Text Adaptation Tool. 3-4
  
• Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-Pita, Colin Matheson, Johanna D. Moore:
  Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques. 5-6
  
• Donghyeon Lee, Jonghoon Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee:
  POSSLT: A Korean to English Spoken Language Translation System. 7-8
  
• Gabriel Murray, Pei-yun Hsueh, Simon Tucker, Jonathan Kilgour, Jean Carletta, Johanna D. Moore, Steve Renals:
  Automatic Segmentation and Summarization of Meeting Speech. 9-10
  
• Václav Novák:
  Cedit - Semantic Networks Manual Annotation Tool. 11-12
  
• Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, Chih-yu Chao:
  Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning. 13-14
  
• Svetlana Stenchikova, Basia Mucha, Sarah Hoffman, Amanda Stent:
  RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar. 15-16
  
• L. Lynn Voss, Patrick Ehlen:
  The CALO Meeting Assistant. 17-18
  
• Guangwei Wang, Kenji Araki:
  OMS-J: An Opinion Mining System for Japanese Weblog Reviews Using a Combination of Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches. 19-20
  
• Chien-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang:
  Learning to Find Transliteration on the Web. 21-22
  
• Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, Madhuri Raya, Yao Meng, Sebastian Varges, Matthew Purver, Annie Lien, Tobias Scheideck, Badri Raghunathan, Feng Lin, Rohit Mishra, Brian Lathrop, Zhaoxia Zhang, Harry Bratt, Stanley Peters:
  A Conversational In-Car Dialog System. 23-24
  
• Alexander Yates, Michele Banko, Matthew Broadhead, Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni, Stephen Soderland:
  TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web. 25-26
  
• Steve Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye:
  The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System. 27-28
  
• Liang Zhou:
  Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets. 29-30
  
• Geoffrey Zweig, Y. C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero:
  Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings. 31-32
  

Tutorial Abstracts

• Front Matter.
  
• K. Bretonnel Cohen:
  BioNLP. 1-2
  
• ChengXiang Zhai:
  Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval. 3-4
  
• Mona T. Diab, Nizar Habash:
  Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial. 5-6
  
• Dan Klein:
  Introduction to Classification: Likelihoods, Margins, Features, and Kernels. 7
  

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