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Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics

General Chair
John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK

Program Chairs
Antal van den Bosch, (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Annie Zaenen, (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

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pdf ps bib Front matter
pdf ps bib Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge
Yonggang Deng and Yuqing Gao 		pp. 1–8
pdf ps bib A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation
Pi-Chuan Chang and Kristina Toutanova 		pp. 9–16
pdf ps bib Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation
John DeNero and Dan Klein 		pp. 17–24
pdf ps bib Transductive learning for statistical machine translation
Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar 		pp. 25–32
pdf ps bib Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and David Chiang 		pp. 33–40
pdf ps bib Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation
Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson and Maria das Gra cas Volpe Nunes 		pp. 41–48
pdf ps bib Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation
Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng 		pp. 49–56
pdf ps bib Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive
Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao 		pp. 57–64
pdf ps bib A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications
Hal Daume III and Lyle Campbell 		pp. 65–72
pdf ps bib A discriminative language model with pseudo-negative samples
Daisuke Okanohara and Jun’ichi Tsujii 		pp. 73–80
pdf ps bib Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns
Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong, John Lee and Chin-Yew Lin 		pp. 81–88
pdf ps bib Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Antti Puurula and Mikko Kurimo 		pp. 89–95
pdf ps bib Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid and Gregor Möhler 		pp. 96–103
pdf ps bib Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World’s Languages
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly 		pp. 104–111
pdf ps bib Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method
Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim and Richard Sproat 		pp. 112–119
pdf ps bib Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names
Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo and Minghui Dong 		pp. 120–127
pdf ps bib Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation
Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova and Hisami Suzuki 		pp. 128–135
pdf ps bib Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer
Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff and Olga Mudraya 		pp. 136–143
pdf ps bib Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models
Liang Huang and David Chiang 		pp. 144–151
pdf ps bib Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction
Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner and Stephan Kanthak 		pp. 152–159
pdf ps bib Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages
Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl 		pp. 160–167
pdf ps bib Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into efficiently-parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold
Mark Johnson 		pp. 168–175
pdf ps bib Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries
Makoto Kanazawa 		pp. 176–183
pdf ps bib Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
Daniel Gildea and David Temperley 		pp. 184–191
pdf ps bib Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs
Andrew Gordon and Reid Swanson 		pp. 192–199
pdf ps bib A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification
Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Guodong Zhou, Ting Liu and Sheng Li 		pp. 200–207
pdf ps bib Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank
Chang Liu and Hwee Tou Ng 		pp. 208–215
pdf ps bib A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences
Katrin Erk 		pp. 216–223
pdf ps bib SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking
Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad 		pp. 224–231
pdf ps bib Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel 		pp. 232–239
pdf ps bib Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank
David Vadas and James Curran 		pp. 240–247
pdf ps bib Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank
Stephen Clark and James Curran 		pp. 248–255
pdf ps bib Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation
Hal Daume III 		pp. 256–263
pdf ps bib Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP
Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai 		pp. 264–271
pdf ps bib The Infinite Tree
Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager and Christopher D. Manning 		pp. 272–279
pdf ps bib Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning
Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov and Dan Roth 		pp. 280–287
pdf ps bib Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an and Andy Way 		pp. 288–295
pdf ps bib Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa 		pp. 296–303
pdf ps bib Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa and Andy Way 		pp. 304–311
pdf ps bib Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz 		pp. 312–319
pdf ps bib Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses
Katja Filippova and Michael Strube 		pp. 320–327
pdf ps bib A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar
Claire Gardent and Eric Kow 		pp. 328–335
pdf ps bib Sentence generation as a planning problem
Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone 		pp. 336–343
pdf ps bib GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency
Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale 		pp. 344–351
pdf ps bib Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution
Jacob Eisenstein and Randall Davis 		pp. 352–359
pdf ps bib The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mihai Rotaru and Diane Litman 		pp. 360–367
pdf ps bib Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems
Yi Liu, Joyce Chai and Rong Jin 		pp. 368–375
pdf ps bib A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home
Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Michelle Levine and Bernard Renger 		pp. 376–383
pdf ps bib Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing
Yoav Seginer 		pp. 384–391
pdf ps bib K-best Spanning Tree Parsing
Keith Hall 		pp. 392–399
pdf ps bib Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight?
Rens Bod 		pp. 400–407
pdf ps bib An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses
Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport 		pp. 408–415
pdf ps bib Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems
Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis Ipeirotis and Arun Sundararajan 		pp. 416–423
pdf ps bib PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining
Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani 		pp. 424–431
pdf ps bib Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis
Ryan McDonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike Wells and Jeff Reynar 		pp. 432–439
pdf ps bib Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification
John Blitzer, Mark Dredze and Fernando Pereira 		pp. 440–447
pdf ps bib Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach
Samuel Brody 		pp. 448–455
pdf ps bib Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition
Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch and Ido Dagan 		pp. 456–463
pdf ps bib Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal and Yi Liu 		pp. 464–471
pdf ps bib A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts
John Lee 		pp. 472–479
pdf ps bib Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation
Olivier Ferret 		pp. 480–487
pdf ps bib The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation
Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark 		pp. 488–495
pdf ps bib PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue
Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker 		pp. 496–503
pdf ps bib Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input
Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay and James Glass 		pp. 504–511
pdf ps bib Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation
David Talbot and Miles Osborne 		pp. 512–519
pdf ps bib Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation
Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz 		pp. 520–527
pdf ps bib Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns
Xiaofeng Yang and Jian Su 		pp. 528–535
pdf ps bib Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng 		pp. 536–543
pdf ps bib Generating a Table-of-Contents
S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande and Regina Barzilay 		pp. 544–551
pdf ps bib Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction
Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang and Jianguo Xiao 		pp. 552–559
pdf ps bib Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture
Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston 		pp. 560–567
pdf ps bib Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information
Roxana Girju 		pp. 568–575
pdf ps bib Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond Mooney 		pp. 576–583
pdf ps bib A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity
Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Hong Li 		pp. 584–591
pdf ps bib A Multi-resolution Framework for Information Extraction from Free Text
Mstislav Maslennikov and Tat-Seng Chua 		pp. 592–599
pdf ps bib Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web
Benjamin Rosenfeld and Ronen Feldman 		pp. 600–607
pdf ps bib Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures
Jiri Havelka 		pp. 608–615
pdf ps bib Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets
Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport 		pp. 616–623
pdf ps bib HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints
Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii 		pp. 624–631
pdf ps bib Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks
Ivan Titov and James Henderson 		pp. 632–639
pdf ps bib Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems
Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer 		pp. 640–647
pdf ps bib Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration
Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin 		pp. 648–655
pdf ps bib Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity
Shane Bergsma and Grzegorz Kondrak 		pp. 656–663
pdf ps bib Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora
Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille, Koichi Takeuchi and Kyo Kageura 		pp. 664–671
pdf ps bib Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information
Feifan Liu and Yang Liu 		pp. 672–679
pdf ps bib Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model
Deirdre Hogan 		pp. 680–687
pdf ps bib A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization
Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng and Tiejun Zhao 		pp. 688–695
pdf ps bib Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue
Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni 		pp. 696–703
pdf ps bib Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules
Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin 		pp. 704–711
pdf ps bib Ordering Phrases with Function Words
Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li 		pp. 712–719
pdf ps bib A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation
Chi-Ho Li, Minghui Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Yi Guan 		pp. 720–727
pdf ps bib Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata 		pp. 728–735
pdf ps bib A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling
Martin Jansche 		pp. 736–743
pdf ps bib A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging
Sharon Goldwater and Tom Griffiths 		pp. 744–751
pdf ps bib Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models
Noah A. Smith, Douglas L. Vail and John D. Lafferty 		pp. 752–759
pdf ps bib Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification
Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta and Aravind Joshi 		pp. 760–767
pdf ps bib Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won’t Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors
Hoa Trang Dang and Jimmy Lin 		pp. 768–775
pdf ps bib Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question Answer Classification
Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni, Roberto Basili and Suresh Manandhar 		pp. 776–783
pdf ps bib Language-independent Probabilistic Answer Ranking for Question Answering
Jeongwoo Ko, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg 		pp. 784–791
pdf ps bib Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components
Martijn Spitters, Marco De Boni, Jakub Zavrel and Remko Bonnema 		pp. 792–799
pdf ps bib On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of ’okay’
Agustin Gravano, Stefan Benus, Hector Chavez, Julia Hirschberg and Lauren Wilcox 		pp. 800–807
pdf ps bib Predicting Success in Dialogue
David Reitter and Johanna D. Moore 		pp. 808–815
pdf ps bib Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog
Christoph Müller 		pp. 816–823
pdf ps bib A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson and Kristina Toutanova 		pp. 824–831
pdf ps bib Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning
Smaranda Muresan and Owen Rambow 		pp. 832–839
pdf ps bib Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark 		pp. 840–847
pdf ps bib Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model
Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein 		pp. 848–855
pdf ps bib Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang 		pp. 856–863
pdf ps bib Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction
Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak 		pp. 864–871
pdf ps bib Benefits of the ‘Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone’: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages
Peter Chew and Ahmed Abdelali 		pp. 872–879
pdf ps bib A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa 		pp. 880–887
pdf ps bib Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web
Philipp Cimiano and Johanna Wenderoth 		pp. 888–895
pdf ps bib A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification
Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota Smith 		pp. 896–903
pdf ps bib Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling
Baroni Marco and Evert Stefan 		pp. 904–911
pdf ps bib A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora
Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe and Anna Korhonen 		pp. 912–919
pdf ps bib A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation
Vera Demberg 		pp. 920–927
pdf ps bib Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology
Francois Barthelemy 		pp. 928–935
pdf ps bib Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps
Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert 		pp. 936–943
pdf ps bib Substring-Based Transliteration
Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak 		pp. 944–951
pdf ps bib Pipeline Iteration
Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark 		pp. 952–959
pdf ps bib Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus
Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond Mooney 		pp. 960–967
pdf ps bib Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing
Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre and Johan Hall 		pp. 968–975
pdf ps bib Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Janyce Wiebe 		pp. 976–983
pdf ps bib Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach
Ann Devitt and Khurshid Ahmad 		pp. 984–991
pdf ps bib Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature
Ben Medlock and Ted Briscoe 		pp. 992–999
pdf ps bib Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation
Koen Deschacht and Marie-Francine Moens 		pp. 1000–1007
pdf ps bib User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation
Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan and Marita Ailomaa 		pp. 1008–1015
pdf ps bib Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives
Pei-Yun Hsueh and Johanna D. Moore 		pp. 1016–1023
pdf ps bib Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval
Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy and Chia-Ling Lin 		pp. 1024–1031
pdf ps bib What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness
Iryna Gurevych, Christof Müller and Torsten Zesch 		pp. 1032–1039
pdf ps bib Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts
Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos 		pp. 1040–1047

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