44. ACL 2006: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• Fatiha Sadat, Nizar Habash:
  Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr:
  Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT.
  
• Matthew Purver, Konrad P. Körding, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum:
  Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse.
  
• Igor Malioutov, Regina Barzilay:
  Minimum Cut Model for Spoken Lecture Segmentation.
  
• Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin:
  Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution.
  
• Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan:
  Kernel-Based Pronoun Resolution with Structured Syntactic Knowledge.
  
• Jihyun Park, Chris Brew:
  A Finite-State Model of Human Sentence Processing.
  
• Philippe Blache, Barbara Hemforth, Stéphane Rauzy:
  Acceptability Prediction by Means of Grammaticality Quantification.
  
• Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn:
  Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields.
  
• Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora.
  
• Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu:
  Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora.
  
• Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng:
  Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Samuel Brody, Roberto Navigli, Mirella Lapata:
  Ensemble Methods for Unsupervised WSD.
  
• Roberto Navigli:
  Meaningful Clustering of Senses Helps Boost Word Sense Disambiguation Performance.
  
• Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti:
  Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations.
  
• Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Min Zhang:
  Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction.
  
• Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu:
  Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-Supervised Learning.
  
• Sylvain Kahane:
  Polarized Unification Grammars.
  
• Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner:
  Partially Specified Signatures: A Vehicle for Grammar Modularity.
  
• Özlem Çetinoglu, Kemal Oflazer:
  Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG.
  
• John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dorr, Mary P. Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew G. Snover, Robin Stewart:
  PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs.
  
• Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuyoshi Inagaki:
  Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries.
  
• Helmut Schmid:
  Trace Prediction and Recovery with Unlexicalized PCFGs and Slash Features.
  
• Matthew Frampton, Oliver Lemon:
  Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features.
  
• Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman:
  Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues.
  
• Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda Stent:
  Learning the Structure of Task-Driven Human-Human Dialogs.
  
• Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-Hoon Lee, Russell Greiner, Dale Schuurmans:
  Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling.
  
• Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki:
  Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures.
  
• Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki, Bin Yu:
  Approximation Lasso Methods for Language Modeling.
  
• Tsunenori Ishioka, Masayuki Kameda:
  Automated Japanese Essay Scoring System based on Articles Written by Experts.
  
• Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu:
  A Feedback-Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English.
  
• Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon:
  Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques.
  
• Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall:
  Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing.
  
• Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker:
  Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
  
• T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby:
  Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison.
  
• Olivier Ferret, Michael Zock:
  Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations.
  
• Kilian A. Foth, Tomas By, Wolfgang Menzel:
  Guiding a Constraint Dependency Parser with Supertags.
  
• Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport:
  Efficient Unsupervised Discovery of Word Categories Using Symmetric Patterns and High Frequency Words.
  
• Hal Daumé III, Daniel Marcu:
  Bayesian Query-Focused Summarization.
  
• Peter D. Turney:
  Expressing Implicit Semantic Relations without Supervision.
  
• Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel:
  Hybrid Parsing: Using Probabilistic Models as Predictors for a Symbolic Parser.
  
• Benoît Sagot, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie:
  Error Mining in Parsing Results.
  
• David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson:
  Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation.
  
• Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier:
  Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts.
  
• Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama:
  Selection of Effective Contextual Information for Automatic Synonym Acquisition.
  
• James Gorman, James R. Curran:
  Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora.
  
• Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan:
  Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance.
  
• James Clarke, Mirella Lapata:
  Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures.
  
• Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  A Bottom-Up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-Document Summarization.
  
• Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jerry R. Hobbs:
  Learning Event Durations from Event Descriptions.
  
• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti:
  Automatic Learning of Textual Entailments with Cross-Pair Similarities.
  
• Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater:
  An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations.
  
• Amit Dubey, Frank Keller, Patrick Sturt:
  Integrating Syntactic Priming into an Incremental Probabilistic Parser, with an Application to Psycholinguistic Modeling.
  
• Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura:
  A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese.
  
• Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, Dan Klein:
  Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation.
  
• Oana Frunza, Diana Zaiu Inkpen:
  Semi-Supervised Learning of Partial Cognates Using Bilingual Bootstrapping.
  
• Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Efrat Marmorshtein, Carlo Strapparava:
  Direct Word Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution.
  
• Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sheng Li:
  An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition.
  
• Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed Zitouni:
  Factorizing Complex Models: A Case Study in Mention Detection.
  
• Zhenmei Gu, Nick Cercone:
  Segment-Based Hidden Markov Models for Information Extraction.
  
• Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao:
  A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web.
  
• John Judge, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith:
  QuestionBank: Creating a Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions.
  
• Julia Hockenmaier:
  Creating a CCGbank and a Wide-Coverage CCG Lexicon for German.
  
• Robert C. Moore, Wen-tau Yih, Andreas Bode:
  Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment.
  
• Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin:
  Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni:
  Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Anette Hulth, Beáta Megyesi:
  A Study on Automatically Extracted Keywords in Text Categorization.
  
• Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang:
  A Comparison and Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Words and Character-Bigrams as Features in Chinese Text Categorization.
  
• Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava:
  Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization.
  
• Qi Zhang, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng:
  A Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm for Ultra Large Feature Spaces.
  
• Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner:
  Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction.
  
• Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya:
  Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics.
  
• Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wan Chen, Wei Zhang:
  An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search.
  
• Jiang Zhu, Haifeng Wang:
  The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
  
• Catherine Blake:
  A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces.
  
• Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin:
  Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki:
  Incorporating Speech Recognition Confidence into Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data.
  
• Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution.
  
• Seong-Bae Park, Yoon-Shik Tae, Se-Young Park:
  Self-Organizing n-gram Model for Automatic Word Spacing.
  
• Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-Yeong Kang:
  Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR.
  
• Niladri Chatterjee, Saumya Agrawal:
  Word Alignment in English-Hindi Parallel Corpus Using Recency-Vector Approach: Some Studies.
  
• Badam-Osor Khaltar, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa:
  Extracting Loanwords from Mongolian Corpora and Producing a Japanese-Mongolian Bilingual Dictionary.
  
• Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad:
  An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation.
  
• Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson:
  Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation.
  
• Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow:
  MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects.
  
• Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad:
  Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew: Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features.
  
• James R. Curran, Stephen Clark, David Vadas:
  Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing.
  
• Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information.
  
• Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kazuteru Ohashi:
  A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang:
  A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT.
  
• Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata:
  Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary.
  
• Shourya Roy, L. Venkata Subramaniam:
  Automatic Generation of Domain Models for Call-Centers from Noisy Transcriptions.
  
• John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Fintan J. Costello:
  Proximity in Context: An Empirically Grounded Computational Model of Proximity for Processing Topological Spatial Expressions.
  
• Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong Min Lee, James Pustejovsky:
  Machine Learning of Temporal Relations.
  
• Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein, Benjamin Taskar:
  An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation.
  
• Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu:
  Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment.
  
• Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki:
  Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation.
  
• Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn:
  You Can't Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) - A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction.
  
• Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel:
  Ontologizing Semantic Relations.
  
• Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence.
  
• Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, Alpa Jain:
  Names and Similarities on the Web: Fact Extraction in the Fast Lane.
  
• Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth:
  Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora.
  
• Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou:
  A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features.
  
• Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura:
  Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements.
  
• Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin:
  Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering.
  
• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti, Maria Teresa Pazienza:
  Discovering Asymmetric Entailment Relations between Verbs Using Selectional Preferences.
  
• Harry Halpin, Johanna D. Moore:
  Event Extraction in a Plot Advice Agent.
  
• Rens Bod:
  An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing.
  
• Joseph P. Turian, I. Dan Melamed:
  Advances in Discriminative Parsing.
  
• Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein:
  Prototype-Driven Grammar Induction.
  
• Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow:
  Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction.
  
• Adrian Novischi, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments.
  
• Sanda M. Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl:
  Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering.
  
• Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney:
  Using String-Kernels for Learning Semantic Parsers.
  
• Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel:
  A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants.
  
• Ana-Maria Giuglea, Alessandro Moschitti:
  Semantic Role Labeling via FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank.
  
• Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, Elena Chiocchetti:
  Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project.
  
• G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin, Jan Hajic, Pavel Pecina:
  Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-Scale Ontology Translation.
  
• Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli:
  Accurate Collocation Extraction Using a Multilingual Parser.
  
• Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, Ignacio Thayer:
  Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models.
  
• David Talbot, Miles Osborne:
  Modelling Lexical Redundancy for Machine Translation.
  
• Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Melamed:
  Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence.
  
• Yee Whye Teh:
  A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes.
  
• Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li:
  A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization.
  
• Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li:
  Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation.
  
• Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei:
  Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking.
  
• Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases.
  
• Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou:
  Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction.
  
• Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith:
  Robust PCFG-Based Generation Using Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations.
  
• John D. Kelleher, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff:
  Incremental Generation of Spatial Referring Expressions in Situated Dialog.
  
• Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova:
  Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese.
  
• Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Are These Documents Written from Different Perspectives? A Test of Different Perspectives Based on Statistical Distribution Divergence.
  
• Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea:
  Word Sense and Subjectivity.
  
• John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll:
  Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion.
  
• Yi Chen, Ming Zhou, Shilong Wang:
  Reranking Answers for Definitional QA Using Language Modeling.
  
• Daniel Feinstein, Shuly Wintner:
  Highly Constrained Unification Grammars.
  
• Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane:
  A Polynomial Parsing Algorithm for the Topological Model: Synchronizing Constituent and Dependency Grammars, Illustrated by German Word Order Phenomena.
  
• Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu:
  Stochastic Language Generation Using WIDL-Expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization.
  
• Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White:
  Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality.
  
• Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning:
  An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition.
  
• Jin-Shea Kuo, Haizhou Li, Ying-Kuei Yang:
  Learning Transliteration Lexicons from the Web.
  
• M. G. Abbas Malik:
  Punjabi Machine Transliteration.
  
• Soto Montalvo, Raquel Martínez, Arantza Casillas, Víctor Fresno:
  Multilingual Document Clustering: An Heuristic Approach Based on Cognate Named Entities.
  
• Taichi Noro, Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura:
  Time Period Identification of Events in Text.
  
• Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata:
  Optimal Constituent Alignment with Edge Covers for Semantic Projection.
  
• Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski:
  Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering.
  

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions

• Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Eli Izagirre, Montse Maritxalar:
  Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque.
  
• Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura, Maria Ruiz-Casado:
  A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation.
  
• Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo, Lluís Màrquez:
  MT Evaluation: Human-Like vs. Human Acceptable.
  
• Michaela Atterer, Hinrich Schütze:
  The Effect of Corpus Size in Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Training for Disambiguation.
  
• AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao, Jian Su:
  A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization.
  
• Ted Briscoe, John Carroll:
  Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank.
  
• Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Wiley Greiner, Cory Barr:
  N Semantic Classes are Harder than Two.
  
• Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang, Tyler Baldwin:
  Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent.
  
• Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth:
  A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing.
  
• Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li:
  A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling.
  
• Conrad Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  A High-Accurate Chinese-English NE Backward Translation System Combining Both Lexical Information and Web Statistics.
  
• Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu:
  Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering.
  
• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara:
  An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking.
  
• Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin:
  Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training.
  
• Zahra Abolhassani Chime:
  An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi.
  
• Lin-Yi Chou:
  Techniques to Incorporate the Benefits of a Hierarchy in a Modified Hidden Markov Model.
  
• Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly:
  Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach.
  
• Grzegorz Chrupala, Josef van Genabith:
  Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish.
  
• James Clarke, Mirella Lapata:
  Constraint-Based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach.
  
• John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score.
  
• Fintan J. Costello, Tony Veale, Simon Dunne:
  Using WordNet to Automatically Deduce Relations between Words in Noun-Noun Compounds.
  
• Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Thomas L. Cornell, Lars Nilsson, Rohini K. Srihari:
  Automatically Extracting Nominal Mentions of Events with a Bootstrapped Probabilistic Classifier.
  
• Jianyong Duan, Ruzhan Lu, Weilin Wu, Yi Hu, Yan Tian:
  A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Word Expression Extraction.
  
• Richard Eckart:
  Towards A Modular Data Model For Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora.
  
• Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay:
  A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration.
  
• Gaolin Fang, Hao Yu, Fumihito Nishino:
  Chinese-English Term Translation Mining Based on Semantic Prediction.
  
• Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown:
  Automatic Creation of Domain Templates.
  
• Andrew M. Finch, Ezra Black, Young-Sook Hwang, Eiichiro Sumita:
  Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English.
  
• Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel:
  The Benefit of Stochastic PP Attachment to a Rule-Based Parser.
  
• Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki:
  Using Bilingual Comparable Corpora and Semi-supervised Clustering for Topic Tracking.
  
• Pascale Fung, Benfeng Chen:
  Robust Word Sense Translation by EM Learning of Frame Semantics.
  
• Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier:
  Coreference Handling in XMG.
  
• Albert Gatt, Kees van Deemter:
  Conceptual Coherence in the Generation of Referring Expressions.
  
• Ruifang Ge, Raymond J. Mooney:
  Discriminative Reranking for Semantic Parsing.
  
• Emmanuel Giguet, Pierre-Sylvain Luquet:
  Multilingual Lexical Database Generation from Parallel Texts in 20 European Languages with Endogenous Resources.
  
• Daniel Gildea, Giorgio Satta, Hao Zhang:
  Factoring Synchronous Grammars by Sorting.
  
• Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez:
  Low-Cost Enrichment of Spanish WordNet with Automatically Translated Glosses: Combining General and Specialized Models.
  
• Elliot Glaysher, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Speeding Up Full Syntactic Parsing by Leveraging Partial Parsing Decisions.
  
• Shailly Goyal, Niladri Chatterjee:
  Parsing Aligned Parallel Corpus by Projecting Syntactic Relations from Annotated Source Corpus.
  
• Le Quan Ha, Philip Hanna, Darryl Stewart, F. Jack Smith:
  Reduced n-gram Models for English and Chinese Corpora.
  
• Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre, Jens Nilsson:
  Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing.
  
• Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese.
  
• Xiwu Han, Tiejun Zhao, Xingshang Fu:
  Improving English Subcategorization Acquisition with Diathesis Alternations as Heuristic Information.
  
• Katherine Hargreaves, Allan Ramsay:
  Local Constraints on Sentence Markers and Focus in Somali.
  
• Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Pornpimon Palingoon, Sarawoot Kongyoung, Chaianun Damrongrat:
  A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web.
  
• Chikara Hashimoto, Satoshi Sato, Takehito Utsuro:
  Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings.
  
• Hideki Hirakawa:
  Graph Branch Algorithm: An Optimum Tree Search Method for Scored Dependency Graph with Arc Co-Occurrence Constraints.
  
• Mark Hopkins, Jonas Kuhn:
  Exploring the Potential of Intractable Parsers.
  
• Helmut Horacek, Magdalena Wolska:
  Transformation-Based Interpretation of Implicit Parallel Structures: Reconstructing the Meaning of "vice versa" and Similar Linguistic Operators.
  
• Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang:
  When Conset Meets Synset: A Preliminary Survey of an Ontological Lexical Resource Based on Chinese Characters.
  
• Sonja Hüwel, Britta Wrede:
  Spontaneous Speech Understanding for Robust Multi-Modal Human-Robot Communication.
  
• Hiroshi Ichikawa, Keita Hakoda, Taiichi Hashimoto, Takenobu Tokunaga:
  Efficient Sentence Retrieval Based on Syntactic Structure.
  
• Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie:
  Towards the Orwellian Nightmare: Separation of Business and Personal Emails.
  
• Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee:
  Exploiting Non-Local Features for Spoken Language Understanding.
  
• Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman:
  Analysis and Repair of Name Tagger Errors.
  
• Zhihui Jin, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii:
  Unsupervised Segmentation of Chinese Text by Use of Branching Entropy.
  
• Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues:
  A FrameNet-Based Semantic Role Labeler for Swedish.
  
• Gary Kacmarcik, Michael Gamon:
  Obfuscating Document Stylometry to Preserve Author Anonymity.
  
• Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa:
  Automatic Construction of Polarity-Tagged Corpus from HTML Documents.
  
• Nanda Kambhatla:
  Minority Vote: At-Least-N Voting Improves Recall for Extracting Relations.
  
• Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney:
  Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata.
  
• Janna Khegai:
  GF Parallel Resource Grammars and Russian.
  
• Soo-Min Kim, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews.
  
• Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin:
  Interpreting Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via Verb Semantics.
  
• Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, Kenji Yamada:
  Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems.
  
• Marco Kuhlmann, Joakim Nivre:
  Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures.
  
• Jianguo Li, Chris Brew:
  Parsing and Subcategorization Data.
  
• Jimmy J. Lin:
  The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions.
  
• Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis:
  Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval.
  
• Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea:
  Stochastic Iterative Alignment for Machine Translation Evaluation.
  
• Nicolas Loeff, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, David A. Forsyth:
  Discriminating Image Senses by Clustering with Multimodal Features.
  
• Palmira Marrafa, Sara Mendes:
  Modeling Adjectives in Computational Relational Lexica.
  
• Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Ramón Granell, José-Miguel Benedí:
  Segmented and Unsegmented Dialogue-Act Annotation with Statistical Dialogue Models.
  
• Mstislav Maslennikov, Hai-Kiat Goh, Tat-Seng Chua:
  ARE: Instance Splitting Strategies for Dependency Relation-Based Information Extraction.
  
• Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Maayan Geffet:
  Integrating Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity Methods for Lexical Entailment Acquisition.
  
• Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Machine-Learning-Based Transformation of Passive Japanese Sentences into Active by Separating Training Data into Each Input Particle.
  
• Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro, Naoki Isu:
  Reinforcing English Countability Prediction with One Countability per Discourse Property.
  
• Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura:
  An Automatic Method for Summary Evaluation Using Multiple Evaluation Results by a Manual Method.
  
• Vincent Ng, Sajib Dasgupta, S. M. Niaz Arifin:
  Examining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Identification and Classification of Reviews.
  
• Minh Le Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Xuan Hieu Phan:
  Semantic Parsing with Structured SVM Ensemble Classification Models.
  
• Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson:
  Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text.
  
• Kiyonori Ohtake:
  Analysis of Selective Strategies to Build a Dependency-Analyzed Corpus.
  
• Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou:
  A Term Recognition Approach to Acronym Recognition.
  
• Pavel Pecina, Pavel Schlesinger:
  Combining Association Measures for Collocation Extraction.
  
• Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon:
  Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies.
  
• Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman:
  URES : an Unsupervised Web Relation Extraction System.
  
• Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan R. Aronson:
  Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval.
  
• Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki:
  Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer.
  
• Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie:
  A Best-First Probabilistic Shift-Reduce Parser.
  
• Marina Santini, Richard Power, Roger Evans:
  Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages.
  
• Manabu Sato, Daisuke Bekki, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Translating HPSG-Style Outputs of a Robust Parser into Typed Dynamic Logic.
  
• Bettina Schrader:
  ATLAS - A New Text Alignment Architecture.
  
• Holger Schwenk, Daniel Dechelotte, Jean-Luc Gauvain:
  Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Satoshi Sekine:
  On-Demand Information Extraction.
  
• Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley:
  Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators.
  
• Siwei Shen, Dragomir R. Radev, Agam Patel, Günes Erkan:
  Adding Syntax to Dynamic Programming for Aligning Comparable Texts for the Generation of Paraphrases.
  
• Tomohide Shibata, Sadao Kurohashi:
  Unsupervised Topic Identification by Integrating Linguistic and Visual Information Based on Hidden Markov Models.
  
• Nobuyuki Shimizu, Andrew R. Haas:
  Exact Decoding for Jointly Labeling and Chunking Sequences.
  
• Kiyoaki Shirai, Hiroshi Ookawa:
  Compiling a Lexicon of Cooking Actions for Animation Generation.
  
• Smriti Singh, Kuhoo Gupta, Manish Shrivastava, Pushpak Bhattacharyya:
  Morphological Richness Offsets Resource Demand - Experiences in Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi.
  
• David A. Smith, Jason Eisner:
  Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models.
  
• Neal Snider, Mona T. Diab:
  Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA.
  
• Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu:
  Discourse Generation Using Utility-Trained Coherence Models.
  
• Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon:
  A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles.
  
• Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan:
  A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment.
  
• Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Chu-Ren Huang, Yingju Xia, Hao Yu, Laurent Prévot, Kiyoaki Shirai:
  Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources.
  
• Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta:
  Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation.
  
• Jia-Lin Tsai:
  Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System.
  
• Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches.
  
• Akira Utsumi, Daisuke Suzuki:
  Word Vectors and Two Kinds of Similarity.
  
• Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann:
  Finding Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional Similarity.
  
• Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Zhan-yi Liu:
  Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs.
  
• Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee:
  Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models.
  
• Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Kumudu Gamage:
  Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis.
  
• Andi Wu, Kirk Lowery:
  From Prosodic Trees to Syntactic Trees.
  
• Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee:
  A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs.
  
• Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhan-yi Liu:
  Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data.
  
• Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen, Martha Palmer:
  Aligning Features with Sense Distinction Dimensions.
  
• Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers:
  Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context.
  
• Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Mao-Zhu Yang:
  Stochastic Discourse Modeling in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Semantic Dependency Graphs.
  
• Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Fong-Lin Jang:
  HAL-Based Cascaded Model for Variable-Length Semantic Pattern Induction from Psychiatry Web Resources.
  
• Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea:
  Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees.
  
• Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita:
  Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation.
  
• Bing Zhao, Eric P. Xing:
  BiTAM: Bilingual Topic AdMixture Models for Word Alignment.
  
• Jing Zhu, Jian-Hua Li:
  An HMM-Based Approach to Automatic Phrasing for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis.
  

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop

• Pradipta Biswas:
  A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children.
  
• Chris Biemann:
  Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering.
  
• Fabien Cromierès:
  Sub-Sentential Alignment Using Substring Co-Occurrence Counts.
  
• Wolfgang Maier:
  Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results.
  
• Jihyun Park:
  Modeling Human Sentence Processing Data with a Statistical Parts-of-Speech Tagger.
  
• Nobuyuki Shimizu:
  Semantic Discourse Segmentation and Labeling for Route Instructions.
  
• Mingli Wu:
  Investigations on Event-Based Summarization.
  
• Ming Yue:
  Discursive Usage of Six Chinese Punctuation Marks.
  
• Reut Tsarfaty:
  Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew.
  
• Lucia Specia:
  A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD - First Results.
  
• Berenike Loos:
  On2L - A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems.
  
• Lalita Narupiyakul:
  Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation.
  
• Jungyeul Park:
  Extraction of Tree Adjoining Grammars from a Treebank for Korean.
  
• Jianguo Li:
  Parsing and Subcategorization Data.
  
• Frank Rudzicz:
  Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction.
  

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions

• Chia-Yin Chen, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang:
  FAST - An Automatic Generation System for Grammar Tests.
  
• Calkin A. S. Montero, Kenji Araki:
  Is It Correct? - Towards Web-Based Evaluation of Automatic Natural Language Phrase Generation.
  
• Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Marchetti, Francesca Bertagna, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari:
  LeXFlow: A System for Cross-Fertilization of Computational Lexicons.
  
• Roberto Navigli:
  Valido: A Visual Tool for Validating Sense Annotations.
  
• Tomoko Ohta, Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Akane Yakushiji, Katsuya Masuda, Jumpei Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Tadayoshi Hara, Jin-Dong Kim, Yuka Tateisi, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  An Intelligent Search Engine and GUI-based Efficient MEDLINE Search Tool Based on Deep Syntactic Parsing.
  
• Hideki Mima:
  MIMA Search: A Structuring Knowledge System towards Innovation for Engineering Education.
  
• Andrew Hickl, Patrick Wang, John Lehmann, Sanda M. Harabagiu:
  FERRET: Interactive Question-Answering for Real-World Environments.
  
• Young-In Song, Hoo-Jung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, Joo-Young Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Jae-Won Lee:
  K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain.
  
• Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale:
  An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions.
  
• Tianfang Yao, Hans Uszkoreit:
  Chinese Named Entity and Relation Identification System.
  
• Jien-Chen Wu, Yu-Chia Chang, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang:
  Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts.
  
• Dragomir R. Radev, Günes Erkan, Anthony Fader, Patrick Jordan, Siwei Shen, James P. Sweeney:
  LexNet: A Graphical Environment for Graph-Based NLP.
  
• Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska, Martin Rajman, Susan Armstrong:
  Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval.
  
• Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen:
  Re-Usable Tools for Precision Machine Translation.
  
• Tilman Becker, Peter Poller, Jan Schehl, Nate Blaylock, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová:
  The SAMMIE System: Multimodal In-Car Dialogue.
  
• Eric Wehrli:
  TwicPen: Hand-held Scanner and Translation Software for non-Native Readers.
  
• Sanae Fujita, Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Hiromi Nakaiwa:
  An Implemented Description of Japanese: The Lexeed Dictionary and the Hinoki Treebank.
  
• Steven Bird:
  NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit.
  
• Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant:
  Outilex, a Linguistic Platform for Text Processing.
  
• Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Rebecca Watson:
  The Second Release of the RASP System.