Accepted Short Papers (93 papers)

Christoph Tillmann
A Beam-Search Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data

Makoto Imamura, Yasuhiro Takayama, Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Toyoda and Masaru Kitsuregawa
A Combination of Active Learning and Semi-Supervised Learning Starting with Positive and Unlabeled Examples for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study on Japanese Web Search Query

Dan Roth, Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran
A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

Han-Cheol Cho, Do-Gil Lee, Jung-Tae Lee, Pontus Stenetorp, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Hae-Chang Rim
A Novel Word Segmentation Approach for Written Languages with Word Boundary Markers

Janara Christensen, Mausam and Oren Etzioni
A Rose Is a Roos Is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search

Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li and Bo Wang
A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on a Synthetic Synchronous Grammar

Haşim Sak, Tunga Güngör and Murat Saraçlar
A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish

Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki
A Succinct N-Gram Language Model

Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke and Maite Taboada
A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter

Manabu Sassano and Sadao Kurohashi
A Unified Single Scan Algorithm for Japanese Base Phrase Chunking and Dependency Parsing

Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier and Yannick Parmentier
An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars

You Ouyang, Wenjie Li and Qin Lu
An Integrated Multi-Document Summarization Approach Based pn Word Hierarchical Representation

Chau Q. Nguyen and Tuoi T. Phan
An Ontology–based Approach for Key Phrase Extraction

Asad Sayeed, Tamer Elsayed, Nikesh Garera, David Alexander, Tan Xu, Doug Oard, David Yarowsky and Christine Piatko
Arabic Cross-Document Coreference Resolution

John DeNero, Adam Pauls and Dan Klein
Asynchronous Binarization for Synchronous Grammars

Hidetsugu Nanba, Haruka Taguma, Takahiro Ozaki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Aya Ishino and Toshiyuki Takezawa
Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs

Yashar Mehdad
Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Shuguang Li and Suresh Manandhar
Automatic Generation of Information-Seeking Questions Using Concept Clusters

Clint Burfoot and Timothy Baldwin
Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?

Wai-Kit Lo, Wenying Xiong and Helen Meng
Automatic Story Segmentation Using a Bayesian Decision Framework for Statistical Models of Lexical Chain Features

Matt Post and Daniel Gildea
Bayesian Learning of a Tree Substitution Grammar

Gumwon Hong, Seung-Wook Lee and Hae-Chang Rim
Bridging Morpho-Syntactic Gap between Source and Target Sentences for English-Korean Statistical Machine Translation

Hideharu Okuma, Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo and Yuji Matsumoto
Bypassed Alignment Graph for Learning Coordination in Japanese Sentences

Chao-Lin Liu, Kan-Wen Tien, Min-Hua Lai, Yi-Hsuan Chuang and Shih-Hung Wu
Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words

Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth
Catib: The Columbia Arabic Treebank

Yuhang Yang, Tiejun Zhao, Qin Lu, Dequan Zheng and Hao Yu
Chinese Term Extraction Using Different Types of Relevance

Furu Wei, Wenjie Li and Yanxiang He
Co-Feedback Ranking for Query-Focused Summarization

Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
Comparing the Accuracy Of Ccg and Penn Treebank Parsers

Frank Reichartz, Hannes Korte and Gerhard Paass
Composite Kernels for Relation Extraction

Aoife Cahill
Correlating Human and Automatic Evaluation of a German Surface Realiser

Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar
Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions.

Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor and Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet
Directional Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion

Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito and Tomoko Izumi
Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan and Shafiq Joty
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?

Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin and Gary Geunbae Lee
Efficient Inference of Crfs for Large-Scale Natural Language Data

Yuejie Zhang, Yang Wang and Xiangyang Xue
English-Chinese Bi-Directional Oov Translation Based on Web Mining and Supervised Learning

Eva Banik
Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse

Seon Yang and Youngjoong Ko
Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Using Comparative Lexical Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques

Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang and Hong Mei
Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora

Viola Ganter and Michael Strube
Finding Hedges by Chasing Weasels: Hedge Detection Using Wikipedia Tags and Shallow Linguistic Features

Fei Liu and Yang Liu
From Extractive to Abstractive Meeting Summaries: Can It Be Done by Sentence Compression?

Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn Carolyn Penstein-Rosé
Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining

Be?at Zapirain, Eneko Agirre and Lluís Màrquez
Generalizing Over Lexical Features: Selectional Preferences for Semantic Role Classification

Qiong Wu, Songbo Tan and Xueqi Cheng
Graph Ranking for Sentiment Transfer

Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sandor Szedmak and Mahesan Niranjan
Handling Phrase Reorderings for Machine Translation

Zdenek Zabokrtsky and Martin Popel
Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation

Xipeng Qiu, Wenjun Gao and Xuanjing Huang
Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Categorization with Global Margin Maximization

Oi Yee Kwong
Homophones and Tonal Patterns in English-Chinese Transliteration

Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee
Hybrid Approach to User Intention Modeling for Dialog Simulation

István Varga and Shoichi Yokoyama
Ichi: A Bilingual Dictionary Generating Tool

Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk
Improved Smoothing for N-Gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts

Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn and Kathrin Spreyer
Improving Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Using Large-Scale Lfg Grammars

Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara
Incremental Parsing with Monotonic Adjoining Operation

Jonathan Chevelu, Thomas Lavergne, Yves Lepage and Thierry Moudenc
Introduction of a New Paraphrase Generation Tool Based on Monte-Carlo Sampling

Gina-Anne Levow
Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-Native Speech

Fang-Lan Huang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang and Chih-Jen Lin
Iterative Scaling and Coordinate Descent Methods for Maximum Entropy

Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas and Rani Pinchuk
Learning Foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps

Mamoru Komachi, Shimpei Makimoto, Kei Uchiumi and Manabu Sassano
Learning Semantic Categories from Clickthrough Logs

Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith and Carolyn P. Rose
Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates

Hal Daume III
Markov Random Topic Fields

Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan, Chung-Hsien Wu and Chao-Cheng Lin
Mining Association Language Patterns for Negative Life Event Classification

Xinfan Meng and Houfeng Wang
Mining User Reviews: From Specification to Summarization

Deniz Yuret and Ergun Bicici
Modeling Morphologically Rich Languages Using Split Words and Unstructured Dependencies

Dingding Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li and Yihong Gong
Multi-Document Summarization Using Sentence-based Topic Models

Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés Montoyo and Patricio Martínez-Barco
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: A Performance Analysis

Yonggang Deng and Bowen Zhou
Optimizing Word Alignment Combination for Phrase Table Training

Tim Miller, Luan Nguyen and William Schuler
Parsing Speech Repair without Specialized Grammar Symbols

Navanath Saharia, Dhrubajyoti Das, Utpal Sharma and Jugal Kalita
Part of Speech Tagger for Assamese Text

Barbora Hladká, Jiří Mírovský and Pavel Schlesinger
Play the Language: Play Coreference

Kazunori Komatani and Alexander I. Rudnicky
Predicting Barge-In Utterance Errors by Using Implicitly-Supervised Asr Accuracy and Barge-In Rate Per User

Prashant Gupta and Heng Ji
Predicting Unknown Time Arguments Based on Cross-Event Propagation

Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui and Meng Wang
Prediction of Thematic Rank for Structured Semantic Role Labeling

Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang and Tat-Seng Chua
Query Segmentation Based on Eigenspace Similarity

Rahul Katragadda and Vasudeva Varma
Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?

Sungjin Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee
Realistic Grammar Error Simulation Using Markov Logic

Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu and Qun Liu
Reducing Smt Rule Table with Monolingual Key Phrase

Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu and Qun Liu
Sub-Sentence Division for Tree-Based Machine Translation

Chris Biemann, Monojit Choudhury and Animesh Mukherjee
Syntax Is From Mars While Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks

Reinhard Rapp
The Backtranslation Score: Automatic Mt Evalution at the Sentence Level Without Reference Translations

Dae-Neung Sohn, Jung-Tae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim
The Contribution of Stylistic Information to Content-Based Mobile Spam Filtering

Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo and Enrique Amigó
The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task

Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava
The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language

Hye-Jin Min and Jong C. Park
Toward Finer-Grained Sentiment Identification in Product Reviews through Linguistic and Ontological Analyses

Mei Yang and Jing Zheng
Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based Smt

Paramveer S. Dhillon and Lyle H. Ungar
Transfer Learning, Feature Selection and Word Sense Disambiguation

Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman
Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data

Michael Goodman and Francis Bond
Using Generation for Grammar Analysis and Error Detection

Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova
Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text

Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Sara Dalzel-Job, Johanna Moore and Jon Oberlander
Validating the Web-based Evaluation of Nlg Systems

Shay Cohen and Noah A Smith
Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge

Wei-Yun Ma and Kathy McKeown
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation during Question Answering

Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Word to Sentence Level Emotion Tagging for Bengali Blogs