IJCNLP 2008

The Third International Joint Conference
on Natural Language Processing

January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India

Accepted Papers - Main Conference

Oral Presentation (75 papers)

Context-Sensitive Convolution Tree Kernel for Pronoun Resolution

GuoDong ZHOU and Fang KONG

 

Semi-Supervised Learning for Relation Extraction

GuoDong ZHOU, LongHua QIAN and QiaoMing ZHU

 

Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification

Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang and Eduard Hovy

 

A Semantic Feature for Relation Recognition Using a Web-based Corpus

ChenMing Hung

 

Formalising Multi-layer Corpora in OWL DL - Lexicon Modelling, Querying and Consistency Control

Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian Pado, Dennis Spohr, Anette Frank and Ulrich Heid

 

A Lemmatization Method for Modern Mongolian and its Application to Information Retrieval

Badam-Osor Khaltar and Atsushi Fujii

 

An Empirical Comparison of Goodness Measures for Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation with a Unified Framework

Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit

 

Memory-Inductive Categorial Grammar: An Approach to Gap Resolution in Analytic-Language Translation

Prachya Boonkwan and Thepchai Supnithi

 

Identifying Cross-Document Relations between Sentences

Yasunari Miyabe, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura

 

Answering Definition Questions via Temporally-Anchored Text Snippets

Marius Pasca

 

Projection-based Acquisition of a Temporal Labeller

Kathrin Spreyer and Anette Frank

 

Story Link Detection based on Dynamic Information Extending

Xiaoyan Zhang, Ting Wang and Huowang Chen

 

Bootstrapping Both Product Features and Opinion Words from Chinese Reviews with Cross-Inducing

Bo Wang and Houfeng Wang

 

Identify Temporal Websites Based on User Behavior Analysis

Yong Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma and Liyun Ru

 

Effective Compositional Model for Lexical Alignment

Béatrice Daille and Emmanuel Morin

 

Orthographic Disambiguation Incorporating Transliterated Probability

Eiji ARAMAKI, Takeshi IMAI, Kengo MIYO and Kazuhiko OHE

 

Automatic Estimation of Word Significance oriented for Speech-based Information Retrieval

Takashi SHICHIRI, Hiroaki NANJO and Takehiko YOSHIMI

 

Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using a Probabilistic Approach

Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun

 

Multi-View Co-Training of Transliteration Model

Jin-Shea Kuo and Haizhou Li

 

Computing Paraphrasability of Syntactic Variants using Web Snippets

Atsushi Fujita and Satoshi Sato

 

Context Feature Selection for Distributional Similarity

Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa and Katsuhiko Toyama

 

Lexical Chains as Document Features

Dinakar Jayarajan, Dipti Deodhare and Ravindran Balaraman

 

Combining Resources with Confidence Measures for Cross Language Information Retrieval

Youssef Kadri and Jian-Yun Nie

 

Gloss-Based Semantic Similarity Metrics for Predominant Sense Acquisition

Ryu Iida, Diana McCarthy and Rob Koeling

 

Chinese Unknown Word Translation by Subword Re-segmentation

Ruiqiang Zhang and Eiichiro Sumita

 

Multilingual Text Entry using Automatic Language Detection

Yo Ehara and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

 

Entity-driven Rewrite for Multi-document Summarization

Ani Nenkova

 

Hypotheses Selection in Machine Transliteration: A Web Mining Approach

Jong-Hoon Oh and Hitoshi Isahara

 

A Framework Based on Graphical Models with Logic for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Xiaofeng YU, Wai LAM and Shing-Kit CHAN

 

What Prompts Translators to Modify Draft Translations? An Analysis of Basic Modification Patterns for Use in the Automatic Notification of Awkwardly Translated Text

Takeshi Abekawa and Kyo Kageura

 

Improving Word Alignment by Adjusting Chinese Word Segmentation

Ming-Hong Bai, Keh-Jiann Chen and Jason S. Chang

 

A New Approach to Automatic Document Summarization

xiaofeng wu and chengqing zong

 

Constructing ontology of numerative classifiers for Asian languages

Kiyoaki Shirai, Takenobu Tokunaga, Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Ivy Kuo, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and Thatsanee Charoenporn

 

Effective methods of using Web based information for Relation Extraction

Stanley, Wai Keong Yong and Jian Su

 

UCSG: A Wide Coverage Shallow Parsing System

Bharadwaja Kumar G and Narayana Murthy K

 

Experiments on Semantic-based Clustering for Cross-document Coreference

Horacio Saggion

 

Dependency Parsing with Short Dependency Relations in Unlabeled Data

Wenliang Chen, Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara

 

Learning Patterns from the Web to Translate Named Entities for Cross Language Information Retrieval

Yu-Chun Wang, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu

 

Generic Text Summarization Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing

Harendra Bhandari, Masashi Shimbo, Takahiko Ito and Yuji Matsumoto

 

The Telling Tail: Signals of Success in Electronic Negotiation Texts

Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz

 

Corpus-based Question Answering for why-Questions

Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Hideki Isozaki

 

Using Roget’s Thesaurus for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition

Saima Aman and Stan Szpakowicz

 

Mining the Web for Relations between Digital Devices using a Probabilistic Maximum Margin Model

Oksana Yakhnenko and Barbara Rosario

 

Heterogeneous Automatic MT Evaluation Through Non-Parametric Metric Combinations

Jesus Gimenez and Lluis Marquez

 

TSUBAKI: An Open Search Engine Infrastructure for Developing New Information Access Methodology

Keiji Shinzato, Tomohide Shibata, Daisuke Kawahara, Chikara Hashimoto and Sadao Kurohashi

 

Japanese-Spanish Thesaurus Construction using English as a Pivot

Jessica Ramirez, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto

 

Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Roles using Conditional Random Fields for Legal Document Summarization

Saravanan M., Ravindran B. and Raman S.

 

Learning to Shift the Polarity of Words for Sentiment Classification

Daisuke Ikeda, Hiroya Takamura, Lev-Arie Ratinov and Manabu Okumura

 

Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags

Wisam Dakka and Silviu Cucerzan

 

Unsupervised Classification of Sentiment and Objectivity in Chinese Text

Taras Zagibalov and John Carroll

 

Using Contextual Speller Techniques and Language Modeling for ESL Error Correction

Michael Gamon, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Brockett, Alexandre Klementiev, William B. Dolan, Dmitriy Belenko and Lucy Vanderwende

 

Rapid Prototyping of Robust Language Understanding Modules for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kazunori Komatani, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata and Hiroshi G. Okuno

 

Automatic Extraction of Briefing Templates

Dipanjan Das, Mohit Kumar and Alexander I. Rudnicky

 

Identifying Sections in Scientific Abstracts using Conditional Random Fields

Kenji Hirohata, Naoaki Okazaki and Mitsuru Ishizuka

 

A Study on Effectiveness of Syntactic Relationship in Dependence Retrieval Model

Ding Fan and Wang Bin

 

Minimally Supervised Learning of Semantic Knowledge from Query Logs

Mamoru Komachi and Hisami Suzuki

 

Name Origin Recognition Using Maximum Entropy Model and Diverse Features

Min ZHANG, Chengjie SUN, Haizhou LI, Aiti AW and Chew Lim Tan

 

Benchmarking Noun Compound Interpretation

Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin

 

Automatic Prosodic Labeling with Conditional Random Fields and Rich Acoustic Features

Gina-Anne Levow

 

Modeling Context in Scenario Template Creation

Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua

 

Paraphrasing depending on Bilingual Context Toward Generalization of Translation Knowledge

Young-Sook Hwang, Young-Kil Kim and Sangkyu Park

 

Bilingual Synonym Identification with Spelling Variations

Takashi Tsunakawa and Jun'ichi Tsujii

 

A Hybrid Feature Set based Maximum Entropy Hindi Named Entity Recognition

Sujan Kumar Saha, Sudeshna Sarkar and Pabitra Mitra

 

Statistical Translation Models for Personalized Search

Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati and Vasudeva Varma

 

Repurposing Theoretical Linguistic Data for Tool Development and Search

Fei Xia and William Lewis

 

A Hybrid Approach to the Induction of Underlying Morphology

Michael Tepper and Fei Xia

 

Refinements in BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation

Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Ai Ti Aw, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin

 

Cluster-Based Query Expansion for Statistical Question Answering

Lucian Lita and Jaime Carbonell

 

Acquiring Event Relation Knowledge by Learning Cooccurrence Patterns and Fertilizing Cooccurrence Samples with Verbal Nouns

Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto

 

Simple Syntactic and Morphological Processing Can Help English-Hindi Statistical MT

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Jayprasad Hegde, Ritesh Shah, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Sasikumar M

 

Minimally Supervised Multilingual Taxonomy and Translation Lexicon Induction

Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky

 

Translation Lexicon Induction for Compound Words using Component Gloss Translation Models via Multiple Languages

Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky

 

Cross Language Text Categorization Using a Bilingual Lexicon

Ke Wu, Xiaolin Wang and Bao-Liang Lu

 

A More Discerning and Adaptable Multilingual Transliteration Mechanism for Indian Languages

Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana  

Poster Presentation (62 Papers)

A Linguistic and Navigational Knowledge Approach to Text Navigation

Javier Couto and Jean-Luc Minel

 

Coverage-based Evaluation of Parser Generalizability

Tuomo Kakkonen and Erkki Sutinen

 

Effects of Related Term Extraction in Transliteration into Chinese

HaiXiang Huang and Atsushi Fujii

 

How to Take Advantage of the Limitations with Markov Clustering?--The Foundations of Branching Markov Clustering (BMCL)

Hiroyuki AKAMA, Maki MIYAKE and Jaeyoung JUNG

 

Unsupervised All-words Word Sense Disambiguation with Grammatical Dependencies

Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube

 

Combining Context Features by Canonical Belief Network for Chinese Part-Of-Speech Tagging

Hongzhi Xu and Chunping Li

 

Learning Decision Lists with Known Rules for Text Mining

Venkatesan Chakravarthy, Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Godbole and Sreeram Balakrishnan

 

Syntactic and Semantic Frames in PrepNet

Saint-Dizier Patrick

 

An Online Cascaded Reranking Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition

Shing-Kit Chan and Wai Lam

 

Non-Factoid Japanese Question Answering through Passage Retrieval that Is Weighted Based on Types of Answers

Masaki Murata, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Qing Ma and Hitoshi Isahara

 

Automatic rule acquisition for Chinese multiword chunking

Qiang Zhou

 

Language Independent Text Correction using Finite State Automata

Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman and Hany Hassan

 

A Multi-Document Multi-Lingual Automatic Summarization System

Mohamad Ali Honarpisheh, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani and Ghassem Mirroshandel

 

A Re-examination of Dependency Path Kernels for Relation Extraction

Mengqiu Wang

 

Automatic Paraphrasing of Japanese Functional Expressions Using a Hierarchically Organized Dictionary

Suguru Matsuyoshi and Satoshi Sato

 

Mining Chinese-English Parallel Corpora from the Web

Bo Li and Juan Liu

 

Semantic Role Labeling of Chinese Using Transductive SVM and Semantic Heuristics

Yaodong Chen, Ting Wang and Huowang Chen

 

Synset Assignment for Bi-lingual Dictionary with Limited Resource

Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Chumpol Mokarat, Hitoshi Isahara, Hammam Riza and Purev Jaimai

 

Ranking words for building a Japanese defining vocabulary

Tomoya Noro and Takehiro Tokuda

 

Learning Reliability of Parses for Domain Adaptation of Dependency Parsing

Daisuke Kawahara and Kiyotaka Uchimoto

 

Dimensionality Reduction with Multilingual Resource

YingJu Xia, Hao Yu and Gang Zou

 

A Comparative Study of Mixture Models for Automatic Topic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogues

Maria Georgescul

 

Errgrams -- A Way to Improving ASR for Highly Inflected Dravidian Languages

Kamadev Bhanuprasad

 

Web-based English Proofing System for English as a Second Language Users

XING YI, Jianfeng Gao and William B. Dolan

 

Resolving Ambiguities of Chinese Conjunctive Structures by Divide-and-conquer Approaches

Duen-Chi Yang, Yu-Ming Hsieh and Keh-Jiann Chen

 

Job Information Retrieval based on Document Similarity

Jingfan Wang, Yunqing Xia, Thomas Fang Zheng and Xiaojun Wu

 

A Structured Prediction Approach for Statistical Machine Translation

Dakun Zhang, Le Sun and Wenbo Li

 

Analysis of Intention in Dialogues Using Category Trees and Its Application to Advertisement Recommendation

Hung-Chi Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen

 

Summarization by Analogy: An Example-based Approach for News Articles

Megumi Makino and Kazuhide Yamamoto

 

Fast Duplicated Documents Detection using Multi-level Prefix-filter

Kenji Tateishi and Dai Kusui

 

Sentence Ordering based on Cluster Adjacency in Multi-Document Summarization

Donghong Ji

 

Method of Selecting Training Data to Build a Compact and Efficient Translation Model

Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita

 

Generation of Referring Expression Using Prefix Tree Structure

Sibabrata Paladhi and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

 

Towards Data And Goal Oriented Analysis: Tool Inter-Operability And Combinatorial Comparison

Yoshinobu Kano, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Satre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Fukamachi, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii

 

Multi-label Text Categorization with Model Combination based on F1-score Maximization

Akinori Fujino and Hideki Isozaki

 

Automatic Classification of English Verbs Using Rich Syntactic Features

Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen and Yuval Krymolowski

 

MRD-based Word Sense Disambiguation: Further Extending Lesk

Timothy Baldwin, Su Nam Kim, Francis Bond, Sanae Fujita, David Martinez and Takaaki Tanaka

 

Exploiting Unlabeled Text to Extract New Words of Different Semantic Transparency for Chinese Word Segmentation

Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Hsi-Chuan Hung

 

Fast Computing Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling

Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Ting Liu and Sheng Li

 

Vaakkriti: Sanskrit Tokenizer

Aasish Pappu and Ratna Sanyal

 

SYNGRAPH: A Flexible Matching Method based on Synonymous Expression Extraction from an Ordinary Dictionary and a Web Corpus

Tomohide Shibata, Michitaka Odani, Jun Harashima, Takashi Oonishi and Sadao Kurohashi

 

Noise as a Tool for Spoken Language Identification

Sunita Maithani and J S Rawat

 

Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu and Atsushi Fujii

 

A Bottom Up approach to Persian Stemming

Amir Sharifloo

 

Japanese Named Entity Recognition Using Structural Natural Language Processing

Ryohei Sasano and Sadao Kurohashi

 

A Co-occurrence Graph-based Approach for Personal Name Alias Extraction from Anchor Texts

Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka

 

Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text

Donghui Feng, Gully Burns and Eduard Hovy

 

Annotation of Multiword Expressions in the Prague Dependency Treebank

Eduard Bejček, Pavel Straňák and Pavel Schlesinger

 

An Experimental Comparison of the Voted Perceptron and Support Vector Machines in Japanese Analysis Tasks

Manabu Sassano

 

Large Scale Code Classification for Medical Patient Records

Lucian Lita, Shipeng Yu, Stefan Niculescu and Jinbo Bi

 

Learning Named Entity Hyponyms for Question Answering

Paul McNamee, Rion Snow, Patrick Schone and James Mayfield

 

Hacking Wikipedia for Hyponymy Relation Acquisition

Asuka Sumida and Kentaro Torisawa

 

A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction

Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka and Jun'ichi Tsujii

 

Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach

Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

 

Linguistic Interpretation of Emotions for Affect Sensing from Text

Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka

 

Automatically Identifying Computationally Relevant Typological Features

William Lewis and Fei Xia

 

Term extraction through unithood and termhood unification

Thuy Vu, Ai Ti Aw and Zhang Min

 

Dependency Annotation Scheme for Indian Languages

Samar Husain, Rafiya Begum, Dipti Misra Sharma, Lakshmi Bai, Rajeev Sangal and Arun Dhwaj

 

Search Result Clustering Using Label Language model

Yeha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na and Jong-Hyeok Lee

 

Identifying Real or Fake Articles: Towards better Language Modeling

Sameer Badaskar, Sachin Agarwal and Shilpa Arora

 

Large and Diverse Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk and Philipp Koehn    

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