Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)

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Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)

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Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)

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pdf	ps	bib	Front matter
pdf	ps	bib	Modelling Compression with Discourse Constraints James Clarke and Mirella Lapata	pp. 1–11
pdf	ps	bib	Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering Dan Shen and Mirella Lapata	pp. 12–21
pdf	ps	bib	What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith and Teruko Mitamura	pp. 22–32
pdf	ps	bib	Learning Unsupervised SVM Classifier for Answer Selection in Web Question Answering Youzheng Wu, Ruiqiang Zhang, Xinhui Hu and Hideki Kashioka	pp. 33–41
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Word Alignment with Bridge Languages Shankar Kumar, Franz J. Och and Wolfgang Macherey	pp. 42–50
pdf	ps	bib	Getting the Structure Right for Word Alignment: LEAF Alexander Fraser and Daniel Marcu	pp. 51–60
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation Marine Carpuat and Dekai Wu	pp. 61–72
pdf	ps	bib	Large Margin Synchronous Generation and its Application to Sentence Compression Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata	pp. 73–82
pdf	ps	bib	Incremental Text Structuring with Online Hierarchical Ranking Erdong Chen, Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay	pp. 83–91
pdf	ps	bib	Automatically Identifying the Arguments of Discourse Connectives Ben Wellner and James Pustejovsky	pp. 92–101
pdf	ps	bib	Incremental Generation of Plural Descriptions: Similarity and Partitioning Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter	pp. 102–111
pdf	ps	bib	A Comparative Evaluation of Deep and Shallow Approaches to the Automatic Detection of Common Grammatical Errors Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith	pp. 112–121
pdf	ps	bib	Characterizing the Errors of Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Models Ryan McDonald and Joakim Nivre	pp. 122–131
pdf	ps	bib	Probabilistic Models of Nonprojective Dependency Trees David A. Smith and Noah A. Smith	pp. 132–140
pdf	ps	bib	Structured Prediction Models via the Matrix-Tree Theorem Terry Koo, Amir Globerson, Xavier Carreras and Michael Collins	pp. 141–150
pdf	ps	bib	Using Foreign Inclusion Detection to Improve Parsing Performance Beatrice Alex, Amit Dubey and Frank Keller	pp. 151–160
pdf	ps	bib	LEDIR: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Learning Directionality of Inference Rules Rahul Bhagat, Patrick Pantel and Eduard Hovy	pp. 161–170
pdf	ps	bib	Modelling Polysemy in Adjective Classes by Multi-Label Classification Gemma Boleda, Sabine Schulte im Walde and Toni Badia	pp. 171–180
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Query Spelling Correction Using Web Search Results Qing Chen, Mu Li and Ming Zhou	pp. 181–189
pdf	ps	bib	Towards Robust Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation Ying Chen and James Martin	pp. 190–198
pdf	ps	bib	Compressing Trigram Language Models With Golomb Coding Kenneth Church, Ted Hart and Jianfeng Gao	pp. 199–207
pdf	ps	bib	Joint Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith	pp. 208–217
pdf	ps	bib	Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Acquisition for Resource-Scarce Languages Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng	pp. 218–227
pdf	ps	bib	Semi-Supervised Classification for Extracting Protein Interaction Sentences using Dependency Parsing Gunes Erkan, Arzucan Ozgur and Dragomir R. Radev	pp. 228–237
pdf	ps	bib	A Sequence Alignment Model Based on the Averaged Perceptron Dayne Freitag and Shahram Khadivi	pp. 238–247
pdf	ps	bib	Instance Based Lexical Entailment for Ontology Population Claudio Giuliano and Alfio Gliozzo	pp. 248–256
pdf	ps	bib	Recovering Non-Local Dependencies for Chinese Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith	pp. 257–266
pdf	ps	bib	Exploiting Multi-Word Units in History-Based Probabilistic Generation Deirdre Hogan, Conor Cafferkey, Aoife Cahill and Josef van Genabith	pp. 267–276
pdf	ps	bib	Hierarchical System Combination for Machine Translation Fei Huang and Kishore Papineni	pp. 277–286
pdf	ps	bib	Using RBMT Systems to Produce Bilingual Corpus for SMT Xiaoguang Hu, Haifeng Wang and Hua Wu	pp. 287–295
pdf	ps	bib	Why Doesn’t EM Find Good HMM POS-Taggers? Mark Johnson	pp. 296–305
pdf	ps	bib	Probabilistic Coordination Disambiguation in a Fully-Lexicalized Japanese Parser Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi	pp. 306–314
pdf	ps	bib	A New Perceptron Algorithm for Sequence Labeling with Non-Local Features Jun’ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa	pp. 315–324
pdf	ps	bib	Extending a Thesaurus in the Pan-Chinese Context Oi Yee Kwong and Benjamin K. Tsou	pp. 325–333
pdf	ps	bib	Low-Quality Product Review Detection in Opinion Summarization Jingjing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yalou Huang and Ming Zhou	pp. 334–342
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Statistical Machine Translation Performance by Training Data Selection and Optimization Yajuan Lu, Jin Huang and Qun Liu	pp. 343–350
pdf	ps	bib	Topic Segmentation with Hybrid Document Indexing Irina Matveeva and Gina-Anne Levow	pp. 351–359
pdf	ps	bib	Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation Jonathan May and Kevin Knight	pp. 360–368
pdf	ps	bib	Detecting Compositionality of Verb-Object Combinations using Selectional Preferences Diana McCarthy, Sriram Venkatapathy and Aravind Joshi	pp. 369–379
pdf	ps	bib	Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization Rada Mihalcea and Hakan Ceylan	pp. 380–389
pdf	ps	bib	Part-of-Speech Tagging for Middle English through Alignment and Projection of Parallel Diachronic Texts Taesun Moon and Jason Baldridge	pp. 390–399
pdf	ps	bib	Flexible, Corpus-Based Modelling of Human Plausibility Judgements Sebastian Padó, Ulrike Padó and Katrin Erk	pp. 400–409
pdf	ps	bib	V-Measure: A Conditional Entropy-Based External Cluster Evaluation Measure Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg	pp. 410–420
pdf	ps	bib	Bayesian Document Generative Model with Explicit Multiple Topics Issei Sato and Hiroshi Nakagawa	pp. 421–429
pdf	ps	bib	Smooth Bilingual N-Gram Translation Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-jussa and Jose A. R. Fonollosa	pp. 430–438
pdf	ps	bib	Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew: A Case Study in Classifier Combination Danny Shacham and Shuly Wintner	pp. 439–447
pdf	ps	bib	Enhancing Single-Document Summarization by Combining RankNet and Third-Party Sources Krysta Svore, Lucy Vanderwende and Christopher Burges	pp. 448–457
pdf	ps	bib	Automatic Identification of Important Segments and Expressions for Mining of Business-Oriented Conversations at Contact Centers Hironori Takeuchi, L Venkata Subramaniam, Tetsuya Nasukawa and Shourya Roy	pp. 458–467
pdf	ps	bib	Smoothed Bloom Filter Language Models: Tera-Scale LMs on the Cheap David Talbot and Miles Osborne	pp. 468–476
pdf	ps	bib	Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Lexical and Structural Semantic Information Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, Sanae Fujita and Chikara Hashimoto	pp. 477–485
pdf	ps	bib	An Approach to Text Corpus Construction which Cuts Annotation Costs and Maintains Reusability of Annotated Data Katrin Tomanek, Joachim Wermter and Udo Hahn	pp. 486–495
pdf	ps	bib	Antecedent Selection Techniques for High-Recall Coreference Resolution Yannick Versley	pp. 496–505
pdf	ps	bib	Methods to Integrate a Language Model with Semantic Information for a Word Prediction Component Tonio Wandmacher and Jean-Yves Antoine	pp. 506–513
pdf	ps	bib	Bilingual Cluster Based Models for Statistical Machine Translation Hirofumi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita	pp. 514–523
pdf	ps	bib	A Systematic Comparison of Training Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens, Sasa Hasan and Hermann Ney	pp. 524–532
pdf	ps	bib	Phrase Reordering Model Integrating Syntactic Knowledge for SMT Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li and Ming Zhou	pp. 533–540
pdf	ps	bib	Identification and Resolution of Chinese Zero Pronouns: A Machine Learning Approach Shanheng Zhao and Hwee Tou Ng	pp. 541–550
pdf	ps	bib	Parsimonious Data-Oriented Parsing Willem Zuidema	pp. 551–560
pdf	ps	bib	Generating Lexical Analogies Using Dependency Relations Andy Chiu, Pascal Poupart and Chrysanne DiMarco	pp. 561–570
pdf	ps	bib	Cross-Lingual Distributional Profiles of Concepts for Measuring Semantic Distance Saif Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych, Graeme Hirst and Torsten Zesch	pp. 571–580
pdf	ps	bib	Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Random Graph Walks Thad Hughes and Daniel Ramage	pp. 581–589
pdf	ps	bib	Experimental Evaluation of LTAG-Based Features for Semantic Role Labeling Yudong Liu and Anoop Sarkar	pp. 590–599
pdf	ps	bib	Japanese Dependency Analysis Using the Ancestor-Descendant Relation Akihiro Tamura, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura	pp. 600–609
pdf	ps	bib	A Discriminative Learning Model for Coordinate Conjunctions Masashi Shimbo and Kazuo Hara	pp. 610–619
pdf	ps	bib	Recovery of Empty Nodes in Parse Structures Denis Filimonov and Mary Harper	pp. 620–629
pdf	ps	bib	Treebank Annotation Schemes and Parser Evaluation for German Ines Rehbein and Josef van Genabith	pp. 630–639
pdf	ps	bib	Semi-Markov Models for Sequence Segmentation Qinfeng Shi, Yasemin Altun, Alex Smola and S.V.N. Vishwanathan	pp. 640–648
pdf	ps	bib	A Graph-Based Approach to Named Entity Categorization in Wikipedia Using Conditional Random Fields Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto	pp. 649–657
pdf	ps	bib	MavenRank: Identifying Influential Members of the US Senate Using Lexical Centrality Anthony Fader, Dragomir R. Radev, Michael H. Crespin, Burt L. Monroe, Kevin M. Quinn and Michael Colaresi	pp. 658–666
pdf	ps	bib	Bootstrapping Feature-Rich Dependency Parsers with Entropic Priors David A. Smith and Jason Eisner	pp. 667–677
pdf	ps	bib	Online Learning of Relaxed CCG Grammars for Parsing to Logical Form Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins	pp. 678–687
pdf	ps	bib	The Infinite PCFG Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes Percy Liang, Slav Petrov, Michael Jordan and Dan Klein	pp. 688–697
pdf	ps	bib	Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition Jun’ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa	pp. 698–707
pdf	ps	bib	Large-Scale Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia Data Silviu Cucerzan	pp. 708–716
pdf	ps	bib	Effective Information Extraction with Semantic Affinity Patterns and Relevant Regions Siddharth Patwardhan and Ellen Riloff	pp. 717–727
pdf	ps	bib	Tree Kernel-Based Relation Extraction with Context-Sensitive Structured Parse Tree Information GuoDong Zhou, Min Zhang, DongHong Ji and QiaoMing Zhu	pp. 728–736
pdf	ps	bib	Chinese Syntactic Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Chao Wang, Michael Collins and Philipp Koehn	pp. 737–745
pdf	ps	bib	Binarizing Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Accuracy Wei Wang, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu	pp. 746–754
pdf	ps	bib	What Can Syntax-Based MT Learn from Phrase-Based MT? Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang and Daniel Marcu	pp. 755–763
pdf	ps	bib	Online Large-Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki	pp. 764–773
pdf	ps	bib	Scalable Term Selection for Text Categorization Jingyang Li and Maosong Sun	pp. 774–782
pdf	ps	bib	Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem Jingbo Zhu and Eduard Hovy	pp. 783–790
pdf	ps	bib	Semi-Supervised Structured Output Learning Based on a Hybrid Generative and Discriminative Approach Jun Suzuki, Akinori Fujino and Hideki Isozaki	pp. 791–800
pdf	ps	bib	Finding Good Sequential Model Structures using Output Transformations Edward Loper	pp. 801–809
pdf	ps	bib	A Statistical Language Modeling Approach to Lattice-Based Spoken Document Retrieval Tee Kiah Chia, Haizhou Li and Hwee Tou Ng	pp. 810–818
pdf	ps	bib	Learning Noun Phrase Query Segmentation Shane Bergsma and Qin Iris Wang	pp. 819–826
pdf	ps	bib	Bootstrapping Information Extraction from Field Books Sander Canisius and Caroline Sporleder	pp. 827–836
pdf	ps	bib	Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text Donghui Feng, Gully Burns and Eduard Hovy	pp. 837–846
pdf	ps	bib	Multiple Alignment of Citation Sentences with Conditional Random Fields and Posterior Decoding Ariel Schwartz, Anna Divoli and Marti Hearst	pp. 847–857
pdf	ps	bib	Large Language Models in Machine Translation Thorsten Brants, Ashok C. Popat, Peng Xu, Franz J. Och and Jeffrey Dean	pp. 858–867
pdf	ps	bib	Factored Translation Models Philipp Koehn and Hieu Hoang	pp. 868–876
pdf	ps	bib	Translating Unknown Words by Analogical Learning Philippe Langlais and Alexandre Patry	pp. 877–886
pdf	ps	bib	A Probabilistic Approach to Diachronic Phonology Alexandre Bouchard, Percy Liang, Thomas Griffiths and Dan Klein	pp. 887–896
pdf	ps	bib	Learning Structured Models for Phone Recognition Slav Petrov, Adam Pauls and Dan Klein	pp. 897–905
pdf	ps	bib	Inducing Search Keys for Name Filtering L. Karl Branting	pp. 906–914
pdf	ps	bib	The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Sandra Kübler, Ryan McDonald, Jens Nilsson, Sebastian Riedel and Deniz Yuret	pp. 915–932
pdf	ps	bib	Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Gülsen Eryigit, Beáta Megyesi, Mattias Nilsson and Markus Saers	pp. 933–939
pdf	ps	bib	Probabilistic Parsing Action Models for Multi-Lingual Dependency Parsing Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao and Bo Xu	pp. 940–946
pdf	ps	bib	Fast and Robust Multilingual Dependency Parsing with a Generative Latent Variable Model Ivan Titov and James Henderson	pp. 947–951
pdf	ps	bib	Multilingual Dependency Parsing Using Global Features Tetsuji Nakagawa	pp. 952–956
pdf	ps	bib	Experiments with a Higher-Order Projective Dependency Parser Xavier Carreras	pp. 957–961
pdf	ps	bib	Log-Linear Models of Non-Projective Trees, k-best MST Parsing and Tree-Ranking Keith Hall, Jiri Havelka and David A. Smith	pp. 962–966
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable Howard Johnson, Joel Martin, George Foster and Roland Kuhn	pp. 967–975
pdf	ps	bib	Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Suffix Arrays Adam Lopez	pp. 976–985
pdf	ps	bib	An Empirical Study on Computing Consensus Translations from Multiple Machine Translation Systems Wolfgang Macherey and Franz J. Och	pp. 986–995
pdf	ps	bib	Learning to Find English to Chinese Transliterations on the Web Jian-Cheng Wu and Jason S. Chang	pp. 996–1004
pdf	ps	bib	Learning to Merge Word Senses Rion Snow, Sushant Prakash, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng	pp. 1005–1014
pdf	ps	bib	Improving Word Sense Disambiguation Using Topic Features Junfu Cai, Wee Sun Lee and Yee Whye Teh	pp. 1015–1023
pdf	ps	bib	A Topic Model for Word Sense Disambiguation Jordan Boyd-Graber, David Blei and Xiaojin Zhu	pp. 1024–1033
pdf	ps	bib	Validation and Evaluation of Automatically Acquired Multiword Expressions for Grammar Engineering Aline Villavicencio, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang, Marco Idiart and Carlos Ramisch	pp. 1034–1043
pdf	ps	bib	Dependency Parsing and Domain Adaptation with LR Models and Parser Ensembles Kenji Sagae and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 1044–1050
pdf	ps	bib	Frustratingly Hard Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Kuzman Ganchev, João Graca and Fernando Pereira	pp. 1051–1055
pdf	ps	bib	Crystal: Analyzing Predictive Opinions on the Web Soo-Min Kim and Eduard Hovy	pp. 1056–1064
pdf	ps	bib	Extracting Aspect-Evaluation and Aspect-Of Relations in Opinion Mining Nozomi Kobayashi, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto	pp. 1065–1074
pdf	ps	bib	Building Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis from Massive Collection of HTML Documents Nobuhiro Kaji and Masaru Kitsuregawa	pp. 1075–1083
pdf	ps	bib	Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features Nizar Habash, Ryan Gabbard, Owen Rambow, Seth Kulick and Mitch Marcus	pp. 1084–1092
pdf	ps	bib	Mandarin Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper and Wen Wang	pp. 1093–1102
pdf	ps	bib	Building Domain-Specific Taggers without Annotated (Domain) Data John Miller, Manabu Torii and K. Vijay-Shanker	pp. 1103–1111
pdf	ps	bib	Multilingual Dependency Parsing and Domain Adaptation using DeSR Giuseppe Attardi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Maria Simi, Atanas Chanev and Massimiliano Ciaramita	pp. 1112–1118
pdf	ps	bib	Hybrid Ways to Improve Domain Independence in an ML Dependency Parser Eckhard Bick	pp. 1119–1123
pdf	ps	bib	A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Dependency Parsing Sander Canisius and Erik Tjong Kim Sang	pp. 1124–1128
pdf	ps	bib	A Two-Stage Parser for Multilingual Dependency Parsing Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara	pp. 1129–1133
pdf	ps	bib	Incremental Dependency Parsing Using Online Learning Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues	pp. 1134–1138
pdf	ps	bib	Online Learning for Deterministic Dependency Parsing Prashanth Reddy Mannem	pp. 1139–1143
pdf	ps	bib	Covington Variations Svetoslav Marinov	pp. 1144–1148
pdf	ps	bib	A Multilingual Dependency Analysis System Using Online Passive-Aggressive Learning Le-Minh Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Phuong-Thai Nguyen and Xuan-Hieu Phan	pp. 1149–1155
pdf	ps	bib	Global Learning of Labeled Dependency Trees Michael Schiehlen and Kristina Spranger	pp. 1156–1160
pdf	ps	bib	Pro3Gres Parser in the CoNLL Domain Adaptation Shared Task Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi and Tobias Kuhn	pp. 1161–1165
pdf	ps	bib	Structural Correspondence Learning for Dependency Parsing Nobuyuki Shimizu and Hiroshi Nakagawa	pp. 1166–1169
pdf	ps	bib	Adapting the RASP System for the CoNLL07 Domain-Adaptation Task Rebecca Watson and Ted Briscoe	pp. 1170–1174
pdf	ps	bib	Multilingual Deterministic Dependency Parsing Framework using Modified Finite Newton Method Support Vector Machines Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang and Yue-Shi Lee	pp. 1175–1181

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