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ORCIDEMNLP 2009: Singapore
- Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2009, 6-7 August 2009, Singapore, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL. ACL 2009, ISBN 978-1-932432-59-6
- Hoifung Poon, Pedro M. Domingos:
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing. 1-10 - Hagen Fürstenau, Mirella Lapata:
Graph Alignment for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. 11-20 - Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens:
Semi-supervised Semantic Role Labeling Using the Latent Words Language Model. 21-29 - Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit:
Semantic Dependency Parsing of NomBank and PropBank: An Efficient Integrated Approach via a Large-scale Feature Selection. 30-39 - Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner:
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests. 40-51 - Omar Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch:
Feasibility of Human-in-the-loop Minimum Error Rate Training. 52-61 - Mark Hopkins, Greg Langmead:
Cube Pruning as Heuristic Search. 62-71 - Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas, Ralph M. Weischedel:
Effective Use of Linguistic and Contextual Information for Statistical Machine Translation. 72-80 - Gregory Druck, Burr Settles, Andrew McCallum:
Active Learning by Labeling Features. 81-90 - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Lorenzo Dell'Arciprete:
Efficient kernels for sentence pair classification. 91-100 - Markus Dreyer, Jason Eisner:
Graphical Models over Multiple Strings. 101-110 - Daniele Pighin, Alessandro Moschitti:
Reverse Engineering of Tree Kernel Feature Spaces. 111-120 - Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
A Rich Feature Vector for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Multiple Corpora. 121-130 - Kedar Bellare, Andrew McCallum:
Generalized Expectation Criteria for Bootstrapping Extractors using Record-Text Alignment. 131-140 - Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning:
Nested Named Entity Recognition. 141-150 - Siddharth Patwardhan, Ellen Riloff:
A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction. 151-160 - Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff:
Review Sentiment Scoring via a Parse-and-Paraphrase Paradigm. 161-169 - Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Janyce Wiebe, Lise Getoor:
Supervised and Unsupervised Methods in Employing Discourse Relations for Improving Opinion Polarity Classification. 170-179 - Ramanathan Narayanan, Bing Liu, Alok N. Choudhary:
Sentiment Analysis of Conditional Sentences. 180-189 - Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea:
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation. 190-199 - Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins:
Non-Projective Parsing for Statistical Machine Translation. 200-209 - Arne Mauser, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney:
Extending Statistical Machine Translation with Discriminative and Trigger-Based Lexicon Models. 210-218 - Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith:
Feature-Rich Translation by Quasi-Synchronous Lattice Parsing. 219-228 - Ulf Hermjakob:
Improved Word Alignment with Statistics and Linguistic Heuristics. 229-237 - Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel:
Entity Extraction via Ensemble Semantics. 238-247 - Daniel Ramage, David Hall, Ramesh Nallapati, Christopher D. Manning:
Labeled LDA: A supervised topic model for credit attribution in multi-labeled corpora. 248-256 - Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Yabin Zheng, Maosong Sun:
Clustering to Find Exemplar Terms for Keyphrase Extraction. 257-266 - Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport:
Geo-mining: Discovery of Road and Transport Networks Using Directional Patterns. 267-275 - Sara Tonelli, Claudio Giuliano:
Wikipedia as Frame Information Repository. 276-285 - Chris Callison-Burch:
Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. 286-295 - Jason Baldridge, Alexis Palmer:
How well does active learning. 296-305 - Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova:
Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models. 306-314 - Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder:
Classifier Combination for Contextual Idiom Detection Without Labelled Data. 315-323 - Brian Roark, Asaf Bachrach, Carlos Cardenas, Christophe Pallier:
Deriving lexical and syntactic expectation-based measures for psycholinguistic modeling via incremental top-down parsing. 324-333 - Rajesh Ranganath, Daniel Jurafsky, Daniel A. McFarland:
It's Not You, it's Me: Detecting Flirting and its Misperception in Speed-Dates. 334-342 - Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan, Hwee Tou Ng:
Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank. 343-351 - Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom:
A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction. 352-361 - Tong Xiao, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang, Jingbo Zhu, Ming Zhou:
Better Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation. 362-370 - Daniel Galron, Sergio Penkale, Andy Way, I. Dan Melamed:
Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: Towards Direct Error Minimization for Data-Oriented Translation. 371-380 - Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, Philip Resnik:
Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Monolingually-Derived Paraphrases. 381-390 - Tadashi Nomoto:
A Comparison of Model Free versus Model Intensive Approaches to Sentence Compression. 391-399 - Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee:
Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields. 400-409 - Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar:
Perceptron Reranking for CCG Realization. 410-419 - Ben Hachey:
Multi-Document Summarisation Using Generic Relation Extraction. 420-429 - Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata:
Language Models Based on Semantic Composition. 430-439 - Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy:
Graded Word Sense Assignment. 440-449 - Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng, Tanja Schultz:
Joint Learning of Preposition Senses and Semantic Roles of Prepositional Phrases. 450-458 - Mitesh M. Khapra, Sapan Shah, Piyush Kedia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya:
Projecting Parameters for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation. 459-467 - Ram Boukobza, Ari Rappoport:
Multi-Word Expression Identification Using Sentence Surface Features. 468-477 - Ming-Hong Bai, Jia-Ming You, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jason S. Chang:
Acquiring Translation Equivalences of Multiword Expressions by Normalized Correlation Frequencies. 478-486 - Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li:
Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method. 487-495 - Koby Crammer, Mark Dredze, Alex Kulesza:
Multi-Class Confidence Weighted Algorithms. 496-504 - Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta M. Svore, Yi Su, Nazan Khan, Shalin Shah, Hongyan Zhou:
Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking. 505-513 - Wen-Yun Yang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin:
A Structural Support Vector Method for Extracting Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums. 514-523 - Huihsin Tseng, Longbin Chen, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang, Lei Duan, Belle L. Tseng:
Mining Search Engine Clickthrough Log for Matching N-gram Features. 524-533 - Javier Artiles, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo:
The role of named entities in Web People Search. 534-542 - Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Asli Celikyilmaz:
Investigation of Question Classifier in Question Answering. 543-550 - Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins:
An Empirical Study of Semi-supervised Structured Conditional Models for Dependency Parsing. 551-560 - Richard Johansson:
Statistical Bistratal Dependency Parsing. 561-569 - Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Kentaro Torisawa:
Improving Dependency Parsing with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Data. 570-579 - Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng:
Topic-wise, Sentiment-wise, or Otherwise? Identifying the Hidden Dimension for Unsupervised Text Classification. 580-589 - Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie:
Adapting a Polarity Lexicon using Integer Linear Programming for Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification. 590-598 - Saif M. Mohammad, Cody Dunne, Bonnie J. Dorr:
Generating High-Coverage Semantic Orientation Lexicons From Overtly Marked Words and a Thesaurus. 599-608 - Nilesh N. Dalvi, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins:
Matching Reviews to Objects using a Language Model. 609-618 - Brian Murphy, Marco Baroni, Massimo Poesio:
EEG responds to conceptual stimuli and corpus semantics. 619-627 - Justin Washtell, Katja Markert:
A Comparison of Windowless and Window-Based Computational Association Measures as Predictors of Syntagmatic Human Associations. 628-637 - Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen:
Improving Verb Clustering with Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences. 638-647 - Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumoulin:
Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features. 648-657 - Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Kentaro Torisawa:
Can Chinese Phonemes Improve Machine Transliteration?: A Comparative Study of English-to-Chinese Transliteration Models. 658-667 - Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge:
Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries. 668-677 - Jurgen Van Gael, Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani:
The infinite HMM for unsupervised PoS tagging. 678-687 - Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus:
A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon. 688-697 - Min Zhang, Haizhou Li:
Tree Kernel-based SVM with Structured Syntactic Knowledge for BTG-based Phrase Reordering. 698-707 - Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhang:
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation. 708-717 - Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea:
Unsupervised Tokenization for Machine Translation. 718-726 - Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight:
Synchronous Tree Adjoining Machine Translation. 727-736 - Tim Miller:
Word Buffering Models for Improved Speech Repair Parsing. 737-745 - Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk:
Less is More: Significance-Based N-gram Selection for Smaller, Better Language Models. 746-755 - Abby D. Levenberg, Miles Osborne:
Stream-based Randomised Language Models for SMT. 756-764 - Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Keith B. Hall:
Integrating sentence- and word-level error identification for disfluency correction. 765-774 - Yuval Marton, Saif M. Mohammad, Philip Resnik:
Estimating Semantic Distance Using Soft Semantic Constraints in Knowledge-Source - Corpus Hybrid Models. 775-783 - Rui Wang, Yi Zhang:
Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures. 784-792 - Wen-tau Yih:
Learning Term-weighting Functions for Similarity Measures. 793-802 - Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
A Relational Model of Semantic Similarity between Words using Automatically Extracted Lexical Pattern Clusters from the Web. 803-812 - Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman:
Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation. 813-821 - David A. Smith, Jason Eisner:
Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar Features. 822-831 - Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harper:
Self-Training PCFG Grammars with Latent Annotations Across Languages. 832-841 - Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an, Remko Scha:
An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language. 842-851 - Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport:
Enhancement of Lexical Concepts Using Cross-lingual Web Mining. 852-861 - István Varga, Shoichi Yokoyama:
Bilingual dictionary generation for low-resourced language pairs. 862-870 - Dani Yogatama, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii:
Multilingual Spectral Clustering Using Document Similarity Propagation. 871-879 - David M. Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, David A. Smith, Andrew McCallum:
Polylingual Topic Models. 880-889 - Casey Whitelaw, Ben Hutchinson, Grace Chung, Ged Ellis:
Using the Web for Language Independent Spellchecking and Autocorrection. 890-899 - Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson:
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction. 900-909 - Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube:
Combining Collocations, Lexical and Encyclopedic Knowledge for Metonymy Resolution. 910-918 - Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cécile Paris:
Segmenting Email Message Text into Zones. 919-928 - Ichiro Yamada, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kow Kuroda, Masaki Murata, Stijn De Saeger, Francis Bond, Asuka Sumida:
Hypernym Discovery Based on Distributional Similarity and Hierarchical Structures. 929-937 - Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, Ana-Maria Popescu, Vishnu Vyas:
Web-Scale Distributional Similarity and Entity Set Expansion. 938-947 - Eduard H. Hovy, Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff:
Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification. 948-957 - Jacob Eisenstein, James Clarke, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth:
Reading to Learn: Constructing Features from Semantic Abstracts. 958-967 - Md. Altaf ur Rahman, Vincent Ng:
Supervised Models for Coreference Resolution. 968-977 - Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong:
Global Learning of Noun Phrase Anaphoricity in Coreference Resolution via Label Propagation. 978-986 - Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu:
Employing the Centering Theory in Pronoun Resolution from the Semantic Perspective. 987-996 - Octavian Popescu:
Person Cross Document Coreference with Name Perplexity Estimates. 997-1006 - Roy W. Tromble, Jason Eisner:
Learning Linear Ordering Problems for Better Translation. 1007-1016 - Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, Qun Liu:
Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation. 1017-1026 - Matti Kääriäinen:
Sinuhe - Statistical Machine Translation using a Globally Trained Conditional Exponential Family Translation Model. 1027-1036 - Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan:
Fast Translation Rule Matching for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. 1037-1045 - Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith B. Hall:
Gazpacho and summer rash: lexical relationships from temporal patterns of web search queries. 1046-1055 - Roy Bar-Haim, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan:
A Compact Forest for Scalable Inference over Entailment and Paraphrase Rules. 1056-1065 - Colin Cherry, Hisami Suzuki:
Discriminative Substring Decoding for Transliteration. 1066-1075 - Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi:
Re-Ranking Models Based-on Small Training Data for Spoken Language Understanding. 1076-1085 - Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li, Zhaohui Zheng:
Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking. 1086-1095 - Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, Ming Zhou:
The Feature Subspace Method for SMT System Combination. 1096-1104 - Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, Yajuan Lü:
Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation. 1105-1113 - Denis Filimonov, Mary P. Harper:
A Joint Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags. 1114-1123 - Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita:
Bidirectional Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. 1124-1132 - Matthew Frampton, Jia Huang, Trung H. Bui, Stanley Peters:
Real-time decision detection in multi-party dialogue. 1133-1141 - Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad
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On the Role of Lexical Features in Sequence Labeling. 1142-1151 - Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein:
Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features. 1152-1161 - Tadayoshi Hara, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
Descriptive and Empirical Approaches to Capturing Underlying Dependencies among Parsing Errors. 1162-1171 - Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Kow Kuroda, Stijn De Saeger, Masaki Murata, Jun'ichi Kazama:
Large-Scale Verb Entailment Acquisition from the Web. 1172-1181 - Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way:
A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding. 1182-1191 - Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea:
Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge. 1192-1201 - Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova:
Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination. 1202-1211 - Matthew Honnibal, James R. Curran:
Fully Lexicalising CCGbank with Hat Categories. 1212-1221 - Liang Huang, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu:
Bilingually-Constrained (Monolingual) Shift-Reduce Parsing. 1222-1231 - Zhiheng Huang, Guangping Zeng, Weiqun Xu, Asli Celikyilmaz:
Accurate Semantic Class Classifier for Coreference Resolution. 1232-1240 - Aminul Islam, Diana Inkpen:
Real-Word Spelling Correction using Google Web 1T 3-grams. 1241-1249 - Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin, Gary Geunbae Lee:
Semi-supervised Speech Act Recognition in Emails and Forums. 1250-1259 - Lun-Wei Ku, Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Using Morphological and Syntactic Structures for Chinese Opinion Analysis. 1260-1269 - Gerasimos Lampouras, Ion Androutsopoulos:
Finding Short Definitions of Terms on Web Pages. 1270-1279 - Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hai Zhao, Qiaoming Zhu, Peide Qian:
Improving Nominal SRL in Chinese Language with Verbal SRL Information and Automatic Predicate Recognition. 1280-1288 - Xiao Li:
On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields. 1289-1297 - Xiaojun Lin, Yang Fan, Meng Zhang, Xihong Wu, Huisheng Chi:
Refining Grammars for Parsing with Hierarchical Semantic Knowledge. 1298-1307 - Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea:
Bayesian Learning of Phrasal Tree-to-String Templates. 1308-1317 - Olena Medelyan, Eibe Frank, Ian H. Witten:
Human-competitive tagging using automatic keyphrase extraction. 1318-1327 - Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
Supervised Learning of a Probabilistic Lexicon of Verb Semantic Classes. 1328-1337 - Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych:
A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval. 1338-1347 - Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini:
Predicting Subjectivity in Multimodal Conversations. 1348-1357 - Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng:
Improved Statistical Machine Translation for Resource-Poor Languages Using Related Resource-Rich Languages. 1358-1367 - Vivi Nastase, Marius Popescu:
What's in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender. 1368-1377 - Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi:
Convolution Kernels on Constituent, Dependency and Sequential Structures for Relation Extraction. 1378-1387 - Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov, Tonio Wandmacher:
Automatic Acquisition of the. 1388-1397 - Arzucan Özgür, Dragomir R. Radev:
Detecting Speculations and their Scopes in Scientific Text. 1398-1407 - Michael J. Paul, Roxana Girju:
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-Collection Topic Models. 1408-1417 - Adam Pauls, John DeNero, Dan Klein:
Consensus Training for Consensus Decoding in Machine Translation. 1418-1427 - Emily Pitler, Ken Ward Church:
Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent. 1428-1436 - Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zhu:
Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Relation Classification using Stratified Sampling Strategy. 1437-1445 - Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren:
Construction of a Blog Emotion Corpus for Chinese Emotional Expression Analysis. 1446-1454 - Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi:
A Probabilistic Model for Associative Anaphora Resolution. 1455-1464 - Prakash Srinivasan, Alexander Yates:
Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results. 1465-1474 - Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui, Meng Wang, Xin Wang:
Chinese Semantic Role Labeling with Shallow Parsing. 1475-1483 - Hisami Suzuki, Xiao Li, Jianfeng Gao:
Discovery of Term Variation in Japanese Web Search Queries. 1484-1492 - Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Colin R. Batchelor:
Towards Domain-Independent Argumentative Zoning: Evidence from Chemistry and Computational Linguistics. 1493-1502 - Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen:
Character-level Analysis of Semi-Structured Documents for Set Expansion. 1503-1512 - Xinglong Wang, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou:
Classifying Relations for Biomedical Named Entity Disambiguation. 1513-1522 - Dan Wu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Ye, Hai Leong Chieu:
Domain adaptive bootstrapping for named entity recognition. 1523-1532 - Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu:
Phrase Dependency Parsing for Opinion Mining. 1533-1541 - Naoki Yoshinaga, Masaru Kitsuregawa:
Polynomial to Linear: Efficient Classification with Conjunctive Features. 1542-1551 - Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan, Haizhou Li:
K-Best Combination of Syntactic Parsers. 1552-1560 - Yi Zhang, Flora S. Tsai:
Chinese Novelty Mining. 1561-1570 - Dong Zhou, Vincent Wade:
Latent Document Re-Ranking. 1571-1580
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