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Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

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Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)
Michael Collins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shri Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research)

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pdf bib Front matter
pdf bib Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder
Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel and Colin Cherry 		pp. 1–4
pdf bib Revisiting Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation IBM Model 4
Sebastian Riedel and James Clarke 		pp. 5–8
pdf bib Efficient Extraction of Oracle-best Translations from Hypergraphs
Zhifei Li and Sanjeev Khudanpur 		pp. 9–12
pdf bib Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model
Dekai Wu and Pascale Fung 		pp. 13–16
pdf bib Comparison of Extended Lexicon Models in Search and Rescoring for SMT
Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney 		pp. 17–20
pdf bib A Simplex Armijo Downhill Algorithm for Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation Decoding Parameters
Bing Zhao and Shengyuan Chen 		pp. 21–24
pdf bib Translation Corpus Source and Size in Bilingual Retrieval
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield and Charles Nicholas 		pp. 25–28
pdf bib Large-scale Computation of Distributional Similarities for Queries
Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall and Silvana Hartmann 		pp. 29–32
pdf bib Text Categorization from Category Name via Lexical Reference
Libby Barak, Ido Dagan and Eyal Shnarch 		pp. 33–36
pdf bib Identifying Types of Claims in Online Customer Reviews
Shilpa Arora, Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn P. Rosé 		pp. 37–40
pdf bib Towards Automatic Image Region Annotation - Image Region Textual Coreference Resolution
Emilia Apostolova and Dina Demner-Fushman 		pp. 41–44
pdf bib TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora
Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain and James Allen 		pp. 45–48
pdf bib Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eun Young Ha, Michael Wallis, Mladen Vouk and James Lester 		pp. 49–52
pdf bib Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems
Kenji Sagae, Gwen Christian, David DeVault and David Traum 		pp. 53–56
pdf bib Spherical Discriminant Analysis in Semi-supervised Speaker Clustering
Hao Tang, Stephen Chu and Thomas Huang 		pp. 57–60
pdf bib Learning Bayesian Networks for Semantic Frame Composition in a Spoken Dialog System
Marie-Jean Meurs, Fabrice Lefèvre and Renato De Mori 		pp. 61–64
pdf bib Evaluation of a System for Noun Concepts Acquisition from Utterances about Images (SINCA) Using Daily Conversation Data
Yuzu Uchida and Kenji Araki 		pp. 65–68
pdf bib Web and Corpus Methods for Malay Count Classifier Prediction
Jeremy Nicholson and Timothy Baldwin 		pp. 69–72
pdf bib Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions
Adrià de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo and William Byrne 		pp. 73–76
pdf bib Generating Synthetic Children’s Acoustic Models from Adult Models
Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom and Kadri Hacioglu 		pp. 77–80
pdf bib Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable and Vowel Level
Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg 		pp. 81–84
pdf bib Shallow Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding
Bonaventura Coppola, Alessandro Moschitti and Giuseppe Riccardi 		pp. 85–88
pdf bib Automatic Agenda Graph Construction from Human-Human Dialogs using Clustering Method
Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Kyungduk Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee 		pp. 89–92
pdf bib A Simple Sentence-Level Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data
Christoph Tillmann and Jian-ming Xu 		pp. 93–96
pdf bib Learning Combination Features with L1 Regularization
Daisuke Okanohara and Jun’ichi Tsujii 		pp. 97–100
pdf bib Multi-scale Personalization for Voice Search Applications
Daniel Bolaños, Geoffrey Zweig and Patrick Nguyen 		pp. 101–104
pdf bib The Importance of Sub-Utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty
Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber 		pp. 105–108
pdf bib Using Integer Linear Programming for Detecting Speech Disfluencies
Kallirroi Georgila 		pp. 109–112
pdf bib Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews
Kevin Lerman and Ryan McDonald 		pp. 113–116
pdf bib Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality
Kino Coursey and Rada Mihalcea 		pp. 117–120
pdf bib Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpora with Dependency Heterogeneity
Kun Yu and Jun’ichi Tsujii 		pp. 121–124
pdf bib Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech
Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson and Paola Merlo 		pp. 125–128
pdf bib Extending Pronunciation Lexicons via Non-phonemic Respellings
Lucian Galescu 		pp. 129–132
pdf bib A Speech Understanding Framework that Uses Multiple Language Models and Multiple Understanding Models
Masaki Katsumaru, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tetsuya Ogata and Hiroshi G. Okuno 		pp. 133–136
pdf bib Taking into Account the Differences between Actively and Passively Acquired Data: The Case of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Datasets
Michael Bloodgood and Vijay Shanker 		pp. 137–140
pdf bib Faster MT Decoding Through Pervasive Laziness
Michael Pust and Kevin Knight 		pp. 141–144
pdf bib Evaluating the Syntactic Transformations in Gold Standard Corpora for Statistical Sentence Compression
Naman K. Gupta, Sourish Chaudhuri and Carolyn P. Rosé 		pp. 145–148
pdf bib Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation
Nguyen Bach, Roger Hsiao, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel and Alan Black 		pp. 149–152
pdf bib Name Perplexity
Octavian Popescu 		pp. 153–156
pdf bib Answer Credibility: A Language Modeling Approach to Answer Validation
Protima Banerjee and Hyoil Han 		pp. 157–160
pdf bib Exploiting Named Entity Classes in CCG Surface Realization
Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White and Dominic Espinosa 		pp. 161–164
pdf bib Search Engine Adaptation by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query
Ruiqiang Zhang, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Donald Metzler and Jian-yun Nie 		pp. 165–168
pdf bib A Local Tree Alignment-based Soft Pattern Matching Approach for Information Extraction
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong and Gary Geunbae Lee 		pp. 169–172
pdf bib Classifying Factored Genres with Part-of-Speech Histograms
Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero and Mari Ostendorf 		pp. 173–176
pdf bib Towards Effective Sentence Simplification for Automatic Processing of Biomedical Text
Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Luis Tari, Jörg Hakenberg, Chitta Baral and Graciela Gonzalez 		pp. 177–180
pdf bib Improving SCL Model for Sentiment-Transfer Learning
Songbo Tan and Xueqi Cheng 		pp. 181–184
pdf bib MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars (Application Note)
Srinivas Bangalore, Pierre Boullier, Alexis Nasr, Owen Rambow and Benoît Sagot 		pp. 185–188
pdf bib Lexical and Syntactic Adaptation and Their Impact in Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems
Svetlana Stoyanchev and Amanda Stent 		pp. 189–192
pdf bib Analysing Recognition Errors in Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Teemu Hirsimäki and Mikko Kurimo 		pp. 193–196
pdf bib The independence of dimensions in multidimensional dialogue act annotation
Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt 		pp. 197–200
pdf bib Improving Coreference Resolution by Using Conversational Metadata
Xiaoqiang Luo, Radu Florian and Todd Ward 		pp. 201–204
pdf bib Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination
Yong Zhao and Xiaodong He 		pp. 205–208
pdf bib Language Specific Issue and Feature Exploration in Chinese Event Extraction
Zheng Chen and Heng Ji 		pp. 209–212
pdf bib Improving A Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training
Zhongqiang Huang, Vladimir Eidelman and Mary Harper 		pp. 213–216
pdf bib Statistical Post-Editing of a Rule-Based Machine Translation System
Antonio-L. Lagarda, Vicent Alabau, Francisco Casacuberta, Roberto Silva and Enrique Díaz-de-Liaño 		pp. 217–220
pdf bib On the Importance of Pivot Language Selection for Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita and Satoshi Nakamura 		pp. 221–224
pdf bib Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches
Katja Filippova and Michael Strube 		pp. 225–228
pdf bib Determining the position of adverbial phrases in English
Huayan Zhong and Amanda Stent 		pp. 229–232
pdf bib Estimating and Exploiting the Entropy of Sense Distributions
Peng Jin, Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling and John Carroll 		pp. 233–236
pdf bib Semantic Classification with WordNet Kernels
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha 		pp. 237–240
pdf bib Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S.
Dan Gillick 		pp. 241–244
pdf bib Quadratic Features and Deep Architectures for Chunking
Joseph Turian, James Bergstra and Yoshua Bengio 		pp. 245–248
pdf bib Active Zipfian Sampling for Statistical Parser Training
Onur Çobanoglu 		pp. 249–252
pdf bib Combining Constituent Parsers
Victoria Fossum and Kevin Knight 		pp. 253–256
pdf bib Recognising the Predicate-argument Structure of Tagalog
Meladel Mistica and Timothy Baldwin 		pp. 257–260
pdf bib Reverse Revision and Linear Tree Combination for Dependency Parsing
Giuseppe Attardi and Felice Dell’Orletta 		pp. 261–264
pdf bib Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering
Sibel Yaman, Gokan Tur, Dimitra Vergyri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper and Wen Wang 		pp. 265–268
pdf bib Score Distribution Based Term Specific Thresholding for Spoken Term Detection
Dogan Can and Murat Saraclar 		pp. 269–272
pdf bib Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field
Dong Yang, Yi-Cheng Pan and Sadaoki Furui 		pp. 273–276
pdf bib Fast decoding for open vocabulary spoken term detection
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Abhinav Sethy, Jonathan Mamou, Brian Kingsbury and Upendra Chaudhari 		pp. 277–280
pdf bib Tightly coupling Speech Recognition and Search
Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore 		pp. 281–284

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