North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2007)


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Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference

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Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference
Candace Sidner | Tanja Schultz | Matthew Stone | ChengXiang Zhai

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Exploiting Acoustic and Syntactic Features for Prosody Labeling in a Maximum Entropy Framework
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar | Srinivas Bangalore | Shrikanth Narayanan

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To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech
Ani Nenkova | Jason Brenier | Anubha Kothari | Sasha Calhoun | Laura Whitton | David Beaver | Dan Jurafsky

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Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue
Fan Yang | Peter A. Heeman

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What Decisions Have You Made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations
Pei-Yun Hsueh | Johanna D. Moore

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Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Rate of Accomplishment of Sub-Goals
Kiyotaka Uchimoto | Katsunori Kotani | Yujie Zhang | Hitoshi Isahara

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Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation
Ding Liu | Daniel Gildea

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Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation
Kristina Toutanova | Hisami Suzuki

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Direct Translation Model 2
Abraham Ittycheriah | Salim Roukos

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Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution
Yejin Choi | Claire Cardie

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Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution
Xiaoqiang Luo

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First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution
Aron Culotta | Michael Wick | Andrew McCallum

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Information Retrieval On Empty Fields
Victor Lavrenko | Xing Yi | James Allan

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Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks
Xiaojin Zhu | Andrew Goldberg | Jurgen Van Gael | David Andrzejewski

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A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants
Chris Biemann

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A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai

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Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web
Alexander Yates | Oren Etzioni

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The Domain Restriction Hypothesis: Relating Term Similarity and Semantic Consistency
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo | Marco Pennacchiotti | Patrick Pantel

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Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Mark Johnson | Thomas Griffiths | Sharon Goldwater

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Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules
Daniel Gildea | Daniel Štefankovič

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High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation
Sajib Dasgupta | Vincent Ng

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Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts
Anja Belz

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Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation
Yuk Wah Wong | Raymond Mooney

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Lexicalized Markov Grammars for Sentence Compression
Michel Galley | Kathleen McKeown

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Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words
Xiaofei Lu

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Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation
Rada Mihalcea

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Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP
Andrei Alexandrescu | Katrin Kirchhoff

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Is Question Answering Better than Information Retrieval? Towards a Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series
Jimmy Lin

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A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them
Giridhar Kumaran | James Allan

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Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems
Antti-Veikko Rosti | Necip Fazil Ayan | Bing Xiang | Spyros Matsoukas | Richard Schwartz | Bonnie Dorr

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Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming
Pascal Denis | Jason Baldridge

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Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures
Emilia Stoica | Marti Hearst | Megan Richardson

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Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms
Damianos Karakos | Jason Eisner | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Carey Priebe

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Using “Annotator Rationales” to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization
Omar Zaidan | Jason Eisner | Christine Piatko

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Combining Reinformation Learning with Information-State Update Rules
Peter Heeman

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Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: a Confidence Interval Approach
Joel Tetreault | Dan Bohus | Diane Litman

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An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces
Shaolin Qu | Joyce Chai

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Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary
Hiroya Takamura | Takashi Inui | Manabu Okumura

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Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm
Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay

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Extracting Appraisal Expressions
Kenneth Bloom | Navendu Garg | Shlomo Argamon

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Whose Idea Was This, and Why Does it Matter? Attributing Scientific Work to Citations
Advaith Siddharthan | Simone Teufel

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Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection
Paul N. Bennett | Jaime G. Carbonell

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Multi-Document Relationship Fusion via Constraints on Probabilistic Databases
Gideon Mann

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An Integrated Approach to Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Information Available on the Web
Danushka Bollegala | Yutaka Matsuo | Mitsuru Ishizuka

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An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking
Mirella Lapata | Frank Keller

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Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus
Diana Inkpen

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A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs
Bing Zhao | Nguyen Bach | Ian Lane | Stephan Vogel

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Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
Sittichai Jiampojamarn | Grzegorz Kondrak | Tarek Sherif

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Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages
Mathias Creutz | Teemu Hirsimäki | Mikko Kurimo | Antti Puurula | Janne Pylkkönen | Vesa Siivola | Matti Varjokallio | Ebru Arisoy | Murat Saraçlar | Andreas Stolcke

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Tree Revision Learning for Dependency Parsing
Giuseppe Attardi | Massimiliano Ciaramita

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Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
Joakim Nivre

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Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing
Slav Petrov | Dan Klein

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Approximate Factoring for A* Search
Aria Haghighi | John DeNero | Dan Klein

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A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions
David Ahn | Joris van Rantwijk | Maarten de Rijke

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Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn | Kathleen McKeown | Owen Rambow

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A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence
Micha Elsner | Joseph Austerweil | Eugene Charniak

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Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems
Pawan Deshpande | Regina Barzilay | David Karger

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Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinear Text
Fei Xia | William Lewis

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Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts
Michael Heilman | Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Jamie Callan | Maxine Eskenazi

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Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring
Chao Wang | Stephanie Seneff

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Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Jamie Callan

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A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Masao Utiyama | Hitoshi Isahara

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Efficient Phrase-Table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation
Richard Zens | Hermann Ney

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An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT
Ashish Venugopal | Andreas Zollmann | Stephan Vogel

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Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing
Michel Simard | Cyril Goutte | Pierre Isabelle

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Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
Christopher Pinchak | Shane Bergsma

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A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering
Jeongwoo Ko | Luo Si | Eric Nyberg

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Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
Barry Schiffman | Kathleen McKeown | Ralph Grishman | James Allan

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Toward Multimedia: A String Pattern-Based Passage Ranking Model for Video Question Answering
Yu-Chieh Wu | Jie-Chi Yang

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Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres?
Szu-ting Yi | Edward Loper | Martha Palmer

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Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling
Sameer Pradhan | Wayne Ward | James Martin

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ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences
Patrick Pantel | Rahul Bhagat | Bonaventura Coppola | Timothy Chklovski | Eduard Hovy

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Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching
Feng Pan | Robert Farrell


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Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers

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Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
Candace Sidner | Tanja Schultz | Matthew Stone | ChengXiang Zhai

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Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning
Hua Ai | Joel Tetreault | Diane Litman

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Automatic Acquisition of Grammatical Types for Nouns
Núria Bel | Sergio Espeja | Montserrat Marimon

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Conquest—An Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences
Dan Bohus | Sergio Grau Puerto | David Huggins-Daines | Venkatesh Keri | Gopala Krishna | Rohit Kumar | Antoine Raux | Stefanie Tomko

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Joint Versus Independent Phonological Feature Models within CRF Phone Recognition
Ilana Bromberg | Jeremy Morris | Eric Fosler-Lussier

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K-Best Suffix Arrays
Kenneth Church | Bo Thiesson | Robert Ragno

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Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation
Matthias Eck | Stephan Vogel | Alex Waibel

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Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes
Jakob Elming | Nizar Habash

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A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification
Jessica Enright | Grzegorz Kondrak

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Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation
Karim Filali | Jeff Bilmes

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Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval
Michael Fleischman | Deb Roy

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Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development
Kate Forbes-Riley | Mihai Rotaru | Diane Litman | Joel Tetreault

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A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems
Olac Fuentes | David Vera | Thamar Solorio

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Document Similarity Measures to Distinguish Native vs. Non-Native Essay Writers
Olga Gurevich | Paul Deane

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Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging
Nizar Habash | Owen Rambow

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Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT?
Saša Hasan | Richard Zens | Hermann Ney

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Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, Their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness
Jiří Havelka

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iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification
Dustin Hillard | Bjoern Hoffmeister | Mari Ostendorf | Ralf Schlueter | Hermann Ney

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Clustered Sub-Matrix Singular Value Decomposition
Fang Huang | Yorick Wilks

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Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription
David Huggins-Daines | Alexander I. Rudnicky

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ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions
Douglas Jones | Martha Herzog | Hussny Ibrahim | Arvind Jairam | Wade Shen | Edward Gibson | Michael Emonts

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Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
Rohit Kate | Raymond Mooney

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Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation
Patrik Lambert | Rafael E. Banchs | Josep M. Crego

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A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings
Kornel Laskowski | Tanja Schultz

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Detection of Non-Native Sentences Using Machine-Translated Training Data
John Lee | Ming Zhou | Xiaohua Liu

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Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Relationship Extraction from Biomedical Articles
Yudong Liu | Zhongmin Shi | Anoop Sarkar

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Look Who is Talking: Soundbite Speaker Name Recognition in Broadcast News Speech
Feifan Liu | Yang Liu

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Tagging Icelandic Text using a Linguistic and a Statistical Tagger
Hrafn Loftsson

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Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
Gideon Mann | Andrew McCallum

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Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding
Irina Matveeva | Gina-Anne Levow

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On using Articulatory Features for Discriminative Speaker Adaptation
Florian Metze

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RH: A Retro-Hybrid Parser
Paula Newman

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Subtree Mining for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia
Dat P.T. Nguyen | Yutaka Matsuo | Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Advances in the CMU/Interact Arabic GALE Transcription System
Mohamed Noamany | Thomas Schaaf | Tanja Schultz

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An Integrated Architecture for Speech-Input Multi-Target Machine Translation
Alicia Pérez | M. Teresa González | M. Inés Torres | Francisco Casacuberta

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Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems
Marta R. Costa-jussà | Josep M. Crego | David Vilar | José A. R. Fonollosa | José B. Mariño | Hermann Ney

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Stating with Certainty or Stating with Doubt: Intercoder Reliability Results for Manual Annotation of Epistemically Modalized Statements
Victoria L. Rubin

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Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Machine Translation
Ruhi Sarikaya | Yonggang Deng

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Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System
Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Karl Weilhammer | Hui Ye | Steve Young

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Reversible Sound-to-Letter/Letter-to-Sound Modeling Based on Syllable Structure
Stephanie Seneff

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Are Some Speech Recognition Errors Easier to Detect than Others?
Yongmei Shi | Lina Zhou

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Simultaneous Identification of Biomedical Named-Entity and Functional Relation Using Statistical Parsing Techniques
Zhongmin Shi | Anoop Sarkar | Fred Popowich

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Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers Using Partially Labeled Data
Amarnag Subramanya | Jeff Bilmes

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A High Accuracy Method for Semi-Supervised Information Extraction
Stephen Tratz | Antonio Sanfilippo

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The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC
Keith Trnka | Debra Yarrington | John McCaw | Kathleen F. McCoy | Christopher Pennington

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Language Modeling for Determiner Selection
Jenine Turner | Eugene Charniak

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Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem—Or is it?
Marc Vilain | Jennifer Su | Suzi Lubar

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Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation
Zhuoran Wang | John Shawe-Taylor | Sandor Szedmak

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Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions
Guangwei Wang | Kenji Araki

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Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News
Lei Xie | Chuan Liu | Helen Meng

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Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Cascaded Hybrid Model
Xiaofeng Yu

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A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing
Kun Yu | Sadao Kurohashi | Hao Liu

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Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets
Torsten Zesch | Iryna Gurevych | Max Mühlhäuser

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Selective Phrase Pair Extraction for Improved Statistical Machine Translation
Luke Zettlemoyer | Robert Moore

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Speech Summarization Without Lexical Features for Mandarin Broadcast News
Jian Zhang | Pascale Fung

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A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation
Liang Zhou | Namhee Kwon | Eduard Hovy



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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)

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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)
Bob Carpenter | Amanda Stent | Jason D. Williams

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Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning
James Allen | Nathanael Chambers | George Ferguson | Lucian Galescu | Hyuckchul Jung | Mary Swift | William Taysom

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The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
Jill Burstein | Jane Shore | John Sabatini | Yong-Won Lee | Matthew Ventura

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Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques
Myroslava O. Dzikovska | Charles B. Callaway | Elaine Farrow | Manuel Marques-Pita | Colin Matheson | Johanna D. Moore

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POSSLT: A Korean to English Spoken Language Translation System
Donghyeon Lee | Jonghoon Lee | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Automatic Segmentation and Summarization of Meeting Speech
Gabriel Murray | Pei-Yun Hsueh | Simon Tucker | Jonathan Kilgour | Jean Carletta | Johanna D. Moore | Steve Renals

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Cedit – Semantic Networks Manual Annotation Tool
Václav Novák

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Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning
Stephanie Seneff | Chao Wang | Chih-yu Chao

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RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar
Svetlana Stenchikova | Basia Mucha | Sarah Hoffman | Amanda Stent

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The CALO Meeting Assistant
L. Lynn Voss | Patrick Ehlen

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OMS-J: An Opinion Mining System for Japanese Weblog Reviews Using a Combination of Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches
Guangwei Wang | Kenji Araki

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Learning to Find Transliteration on the Web
Chien-Cheng Wu | Jason S. Chang

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A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
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

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TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web
Alexander Yates | Michele Banko | Matthew Broadhead | Michael Cafarella | Oren Etzioni | Stephen Soderland

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The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System
Steve Young | Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Karl Weilhammer | Hui Ye

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Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets
Liang Zhou

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Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
Geoffrey Zweig | Y.C. Ju | Patrick Nguyen | Dong Yu | Ye-Yi Wang | Alex Acero