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Monday July 17th: Morning
9:00-9:30 Plenary: Opening Session, Bayside Auditorium A
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
1A: Machine Translation I 1B: Topic Segmentation 1C: Coreference 1D: Grammars I
Session Chair: David Chiang Session Chair: Martha Palmer Session Chair: Vincent Ng Session Chair: Martin Kay
9:30-10:00 Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse Bootstrapping Path-based Pronoun Resolution A Finite-State Model of Human Sentence Processing
  Fatiha Sadat, Nizar Habash   Matthew Purver, Konrad Körding, Thomas Griffiths, Joshua Tenebaum   Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin   Jihyun Park, Chris Brew
10:00-10:30 Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT Minimum Cut Model for Spoken Lecture Segmentation Kernel-Based Pronoun Resolution with Structured Syntactic Knowledge Acceptability Prediction by Means of Grammaticality Quantification
  Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr   Igor Malioutov, Regina Barzilay   Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan   Philippe Blache, Barbara Hemforth, Stéphane Rauzy
10:30-11:00 Break
2A: Machine Translation II 2B: Word Sense Disambiguation I 2C: Information Extraction I 2D: Grammars II
Session Chair: David Chiang Session Chair: Martha Palmer Session Chair: Vincent Ng Session Chair: Martin Kay
11:00-11:30 Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations Polarized Unification Grammars
  Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn   Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng   Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti   Sylvain Kahane
11:30-12:00 Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora Ensemble Methods for Unsupervised WSD

Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction

 Partially Specified Signatures: a Vehicle for Grammar Modularity
  Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai   Samuel Brody, Roberto Navigli, Mirella Lapata   GuoDong Zhou, Jian Su, Min Zhang   Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner
12:00-12:30 Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora Meaningful Clustering of Senses Helps Boost Word Sense Disambiguation Performance Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-supervised Learning Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG
  Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu   Roberto Navigli   Jinxiu Chen, Donghong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zhengyu Niu   Özlem Çetinoglu and Kemal Oflazer
12:30-2:00 Lunch


Monday July 17th: Afternoon
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
3A: Parsing I 3B: Dialogue I 3C: Machine Learning Methods I 3D: Applications I
Session Chair: Joakim Nivre Session Chair: Stanley Peters Session Chair: Hal Daumé III Session Chair: John Prager
2:00-2:30 PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling Automated Japanese Essay Scoring System based on Articles Written by Experts
  John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie Dorr, Mary Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew Snover, Robin Stewart   Matthew Frampton, Oliver Lemon   Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chihoon Lee, Russ Greiner, Dale Schuurmans   Tsunenori Ishioka, Masayuki Kameda
2:30-3:00 Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures A Feedback-Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English
  Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuyoshi Inagaki   Mihai Rotaru, Diane Litman   Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki   Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu
3:00-3:30 Trace Prediction and Recovery With Unlexicalized PCFGs and Slash Features Learning the Structure of Task-driven Human-Human Dialogs Approximation Lasso Methods for Language Modeling Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques
  Helmut Schmid   Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda Stent   Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki, Bin Yu   Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon
3:30-4:00 Break
4A: Parsing II 4B: Dialogue II 4C: Linguistic Kinships 4D: Applications II
Session Chair: John Hale Session Chair: Stanley Peters Session Chair: Hal Daumé III Session Chair: John Prager
4:00-4:30 Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison Enhancing electronic dictionaries with an index based on associations
  Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall   Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker   T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby   Olivier Ferret, Michael Zock
4:30-5:30 Plenary: Bayside Auditorium A
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
5:30-6:30 Poster Session
6:30-7:30 Poster Session


Tuesday July 18th: Morning
9:00-10:00 Invited Talk, Bayside Auditorium A
Daniel Marcu: Argmax Search in Natural Language Processing
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
5A: Parsing III 5B: Lexical Issues I 5C: Summarization I 5D: Semantics I
Session Chair: Dan Klein Session Chair: Chu Ren Huang Session Chair: Simone Teufel Session Chair: Johan Bos
10:00-10:30 Guiding a Constraint Dependency Parser with Supertags Efficient Unsupervised Discovery of Word Categories Using Symmetric Patterns and High Frequency Words Bayesian Query-Focused Summarization Expressing Implicit Semantic Relations without Supervision
  Kilian A. Foth, Tomas By, Wolfgang Menzel   Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport   Hal Daumé III, Daniel Marcu   Peter Turney
10:30-11:00 Break
6A: Parsing IV 6B: Lexical Issues II 6C: Summarization II 6D: Semantics II
Session Chair: Owen Rambow Session Chair: Chu Ren Huang Session Chair: Simone Teufel Session Chair: Johan Bos
11:00-11:30 Hybrid Parsing: Using Probabilistic Models as Predictors for a Symbolic Parser Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance Learning Event Durations from Event Descriptions
  Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel   Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier   Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan   Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar, Jerry Hobbs
11:30-12:00 Error mining in parsing results Selection of Effective Contextual Information for Automatic Synonym Acquisition Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures Automatic learning of textual entailments with cross-pair similarities
  Benoît Sagot, Éric de La Clergerie   Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama   James Clarke, Mirella Lapata   Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti
12:00-12:30 Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations
  David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson   James Gorman, James Curran   Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka   Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater
12:30-2:00 Lunch


Tuesday July 18th: Afternoon
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
7A: Parsing V 7B: Word Sense Disambiguation II 7C: Information Extraction II 7D: Resources I
Session Chair: Takashi Ninomiya Session Chair: Hwee Tou Ng Session Chair: Ming Zhou Session Chair: Erhard Hinrichs
2:00-2:30 Integrating Syntactic Priming into an Incremental Probabilistic Parser, with an Application to Psycholinguistic Modeling Semi-Supervised Learning of Partial Cognates using Bilingual Bootstrapping Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web
  Amit Dubey, Frank Keller, Patrick Sturt   Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen   Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun'ichi Tsujii   Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao
2:30-3:00 A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese Direct Word Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution Factorizing Complex Models: A Case Study in Mention Detection QuestionBank: Creating a Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions
  Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura   Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Alfio Gliozzo, Efrat Marmorshtein, Carlo Strapparava   Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed Zitouni   John Judge, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith
3:00-3:30 Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Segment-based Hidden Markov Models for Information Extraction Creating a CCGbank and a wide-coverage CCG lexicon for German
  Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, Dan Klein   Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sheng Li   Zhenmei Gu, Nick Cercone   Julia Hockenmaier
3:30-4:00 Break
8A: Machine Translation III 8B: Text Classification I 8C: Machine Learning Methods II 8D: Information Retrieval I
Session Chair: Kevin Knight Session Chair: Janyce Wiebe Session Chair: Anoop Sarkar Session Chair: Jian-Yun Nie
4:00-4:30 Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment A Study on Automatically Extracted Keywords in Text Categorization A Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm for Ultra Large Feature Spaces An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search
  Robert C. Moore, Wen-tau Yih, Andreas Bode   Anette Hulth and Beáta B. Megyesi   Qi Zhang, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng   Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wan Chen, Wei Zhang
4:30-5:00 Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation A Comparison and Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Words and Character-Bigrams as Features in Chinese Text Categorization Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval
  Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin   Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang   Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner   Jiang Zhu, Haifeng Wang
5:00-5:30 Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces
  Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni   Alfio Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava   Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya   Catherine Blake
5:30-6:30 Poster Sessions
6:30-7:30 Poster Sessions


Wednesday July 19th

EXCURSION DAY                    

                       


Thursday July 20th: Morning
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
Best Asian Language Paper Nominees
Session Chair: Benjamin T'sou Session Chair: Yuji Matsumoto Session Chair: Gary Guenbae Lee Session Chair: Fei Xia
9:00-9:30 Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation Incorporating speech recognition confidence into discriminative named entity recognition of speech data Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution Self-Organizing n-gram Model for Automatic Word Spacing
  Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin   Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki   Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto   Seong-Bae Park, Yoon-Shik Tae, Se-Young Park
9:30-10:30 Plenary: Asian Language Special Event: Challenges in NLP: Some New Perspectives from the East
Benjamin T'sou, Tsujii Jun'ichi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya; Moderator: Aravind Joshi
10:30-11:00 Break
10A: Asian Language Processing 10B: Morphology and Word Segmentation 10C: Tagging and Chunking SRW 1: Multilinguality
Session Chair: Michael White Session Chair: Yuji Matsumoto Session Chair: Jan Hajič Session Chair: Marine Carpuat
11:00-11:30 Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew – Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features Discursive Usage of Six Chinese Punctuation Marks
  Qing Li, Sung Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-yeong Kang   Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad   Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad   Ming Yue
11:30-12:00 Word Alignment in English-Hindi Parallel Corpus Using Recency-Vector Approach: Some Studies Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew
  Niladri Chatterjee, Saumya Agrawal   Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson   James Curran, Stephen Clark, David Vadas   Reut Tsarfaty
12:00-12:30 Extracting loanwords from Mongolian corpora and producing a Japanese-Mongolian bilingual dictionary MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD
  Badam-Osor Khaltar, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa   Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow   Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto   Lucia Specia
12:30-1:30 Lunch


Thursday July 20th: Afternoon
1:30-2:30 Plenary, Bayside Auditorium A:  ACL Business Meeting
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
11A: Machine Translation IV 11B: Speech 11C: Discourse SRW 2: Speech
Session Chair: Alon Lavie Session Chair: Roland Kuhn Session Chair: Daniel Marcu Session Chair: Kevin Duh
2:30-3:00 A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary Proximity in Context: an empirically grounded computational model of proximity for processing topological spatial expressions On2L - A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems
  Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi   Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata   John Kelleher, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Fintan Costello   Berenike Loos
3:00-3:30 A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT Automatic Generation of Domain Models for Call-Centers from Noisy Transcriptions Machine Learning of Temporal Relations Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation
  Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang   Shourya Roy, L Venkata Subramaniam   Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong Min Lee, James Pustejovsky   Lalita Narupiyakul
3:30-4:00 Break
12A: Machine Translation V 12B: Lexical Issues III 12C: Information Extraction III SRW 3: Parsing
Session Chair: Alon Lavie Session Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari Session Chair: Yorick Wilks Session Chair: Stephen Wan
4:00-4:30 An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation You Can't Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) -- A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction Names and Similarities on the Web: Fact Extraction in the Fast Lane Extraction of Tree Adjoining Grammars from a Treebank for Korean
  Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein, Ben Taskar   Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn   Marius Paşca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, Alpa Jain   Jungyeul Park
4:30-5:00 Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment Ontologizing Semantic Relations Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora Parsing and Subcategorization Data 
  Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu   Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel   Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth   Jianguo Li
5:00-5:30 Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with both Flat and Structured Features Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction
  Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki   Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Ng   Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou   Frank Rudzicz


Friday July 21st: Morning
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
9:00-10:00 Invited Talk, Bayside Auditorium A
Sally McConnell-Ginet: Language, Gender and Sexuality: Do Bodies Always Matter?
13A: Parsing VI 13B: Question Answering I 13C: Semantics III 13D: Applications III
Session Chair: Srinivas Bangalore Session Chair: Dan Moldovan Session Chair: Alexander Koller Session Chair:  Eva Hajicova
10:00-10:30 Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering Discovering asymmetric entailment relations between verbs using selectional preferences Event Extraction in a Plot Advice Agent
  Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura   Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy Lin   Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti, Maria Teresa Pazienza   Harry Halpin, Johanna Moore
10:30-11:00 Break
14A: Parsing VII 14B: Question Answering II 14C: Semantics IV 14D: Resources II
Session Chair: Srinivas Bangalore Session Chair: Dan Moldovan Session Chair: Alexander Koller Session Chair:  Eva Hajičová
11:00-11:30 An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction Using String-Kernels for Learning Semantic Parsers Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project
  Rens Bod   Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow   Rohit Kate, Raymond Mooney   Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, Elena Chiocchetti
11:30-12:00 Advances in Discriminative Parsing Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants Leveraging Reusability: Cost-effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-scale Ontology Translation
  Joseph Turian, I. Dan Melamed   Adrian Novischi, Dan Moldovan   Rashid M Abdalla, Simone Teufel   G. Craig Murray, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Jan Hajič, Pavel Pecina
12:00-12:30 Prototype-Driven Grammar Induction Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering Semantic Role Labeling via FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank Accurate Collocation Extraction Using a Multilingual Parser
  Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein   Sanda Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl   Ana-Maria Giuglea, Alessandro Moschitti   Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli
12:30-2:00 Lunch


Friday July 21st: Afternoon
Bayside Auditorium A Bayside 103 Bayside 104 Bayside 102
15A: Machine Translation VI 15B: Language Modelling 15C: Information Retrieval II 15D: Generation I
Session Chair: Dekai Wu Session Chair: Jianfeng Gao Session Chair: Rosie Jones Session Chair: Donia Scott
2:00-2:30 Scalable Inference and Training of Context-rich Syntactic Translation Models A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking Robust PCFG-Based Generation using Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations
  Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, Ignacio Thayer   Yee Whye Teh   Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei   Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith
2:30-3:00 Modelling lexical redundancy for machine translation A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases Incremental generation of spatial referring expressions in situated dialog
  David Talbot, Miles Osborne   Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li   Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun'ichi Tsujii   John Kelleher, Geert-Jan Kruijff
3:00-3:30 Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese
  Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Melamed   Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li   Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou   Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova
3:30-4:00 Break
16A: Text Classification II 16B: Question Answering III 16C: Grammars III 16D: Generation II
Session Chair: Peter Turney Session Chair: John Prange Session Chair: Gerald Penn Session Chair: Donia Scott
4:00-4:30 Are These Documents Written from Different Perspectives? A Test of Different Perspectives Based On Statistical Distribution Divergence Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion Highly constrained unification grammars Stochastic Language Generation Using WIDL-expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization
  Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander Hauptmann   John Prager, Pablo Duboue, Jennifer Chu-Carroll   Daniel Feinstein, Shuly Wintner   Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu
4:30-5:00 Word Sense and Subjectivity Reranking Answers for Definitional QA Using Language Modeling A polynomial parsing algorithm for the topological model Synchronizing Constituent and Dependency Grammars, Illustrated by German Word Order Phenomena Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
  Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea   Yi Chen, Ming Zhou, Shilong Wang   Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane   Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
5:00-5:30 Plenary, Bayside Auditorium A: Closing Session