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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Program Overview | |
Monday, June 1, 2009 | |
| 9:00–10:10 | Plenary Session – Invited Talk by Antonio Torralba: Understanding Visual Scenes |
| 10:40–11:20 | Session 1A: Semantics Session 1B: Multilingual Processing / Morphology and Phonology Session 1C: Syntax and Parsing Student Research Workshop Session 1 |
| 2:00–3:30 | Short Paper Presentations: Session 2A: Machine Translation Session 2B: Information Retrieval / Information Extraction / Sentiment Session 2C: Dialog / Speech / Semantics Student Research Workshop Session 2 |
| 4:00–5:40 | Session 3A: Machine Translation Session 3B: Semantics Session 3C: Information Retrieval Student Research Workshop Session 3 |
| 6:30–9:30 | Poster and Demo Session Student Research Workshop Poster Session |
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | |
| 9:00-10:10 | Plenary Session: Paper Award Presentations |
| 10:10–11:40 | Session 4A: Machine Translation Session 4B: Sentiment Analysis / Information Extraction Session 4C: Machine Learning / Morphology and Phonology |
| 2:00–3:30 | Short Paper Presentations: Session 5A: Machine Translation / Generation / Semantics Session 5B: Machine Learning / Syntax Session 5C: SPECIAL SESSION – Speech Indexing and Retrieval |
| 4:00–5:15 | Session 6A: Syntax and Parsing Session 6B: Discourse and Summarization Session 6C: Spoken Language Systems |
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | |
| 9:00–10:10 | Plenary Session – Invited Talk by Dan Jurafsky: Ketchup, Espresso, and Chocolate Chip Cookies: Travels in the Language of Food |
| 10:40–12:20 | Session 7A: Machine Translation Session 7B: Speech Recognition and Language Modeling Session 7C: Sentiment Analysis |
| 12:40-1:40 | Panel Discussion: Emerging Application Areas in Computational Linguistics |
| 1:40–2:30 | NAACL Business Meeting |
| 2:30–3:45 | Session 8A: Large-scale NLP Session 8B: Syntax and Parsing Session 8C: Discourse and Summarization |
| 4:15–5:30 | Session 9A: Machine Learning Session 9B: Dialog Systems Session 9C: Syntax and Parsing |
Program | |
Monday, June 1, 2009 | |
| Plenary Session | |
| 9:00–10:10 | Welcome and Invited Talk: Understanding Visual Scenes Antonio Torralba |
| 10:10–10:40 | Break |
| Session 1A: Semantics | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses via Semi-supervised Mincuts Fangzhong Su and Katja Markert |
| 11:05–11:30 | Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling Yaw Gyamfi, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea and Cem Akkaya |
| 11:30–11:55 | A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches Eneko Agirre, Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall, Jana Kravalova, Marius Pasca and Aitor Soroa |
| 11:55–12:20 | A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method Using Dependency Knowledge Ping Chen, Wei Ding, Chris Bowes and David Brown |
| Session 1B: Multilingual Processing / Morphology and Phonology | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Learning Phoneme Mappings for Transliteration without Parallel Data Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight |
| 11:05–11:30 | A Corpus-Based Approach for the Prediction of Language Impairment in Monolingual English and Spanish-English Bilingual Children Keyur Gabani, Melissa Sherman, Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu, Lisa Bedore and Elizabeth Peña |
| 11:30–11:55 | A Discriminative Latent Variable Chinese Segmenter with Hybrid Word/Character Information Xu Sun, Yaozhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| 11:55–12:20 | Improved Reconstruction of Protolanguage Word Forms Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Thomas L. Griffiths and Dan Klein |
| Session 1C: Syntax and Parsing | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction Shay Cohen and Noah A. Smith |
| 11:05–11:30 | Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: a Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein and Regina Barzilay |
| 11:30–11:55 | Efficiently Parsable Extensions to Tree-Local Multicomponent TAG Rebecca Nesson and Stuart Shieber |
| 11:55–12:20 | Improving Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Richer Contexts and Smoothing William P. Headden III, Mark Johnson and David McClosky |
| Student Research Workshop Session 1: | |
| + | Note: all student research workshop papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 10:40–11:10 | Classifier Combination Techniques Applied to Coreference Resolution Smita Vemulapalli, Xiaoqiang Luo, John F. Pitrelli and Imed Zitouni |
| 11:15–11:45 | Solving the "Who’s Mark Johnson Puzzle": Information Extraction Based Cross Document Coreference Jian Huang, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smith, Konstantinos A. Fotiadis and C. Lee Giles |
| 11:50–12:20 | Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi |
| 12:20–2:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session 2A: Short Paper Presentations: Machine Translation | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel and Colin Cherry |
| 2:15–2:30 | Revisiting Optimal Decoding for IBM Machine Translation Model 4 James Clarke and Sebastian Riedel |
| 2:30–2:45 | Efficient Extraction of Oracle-best Translations from Hypergraphs Zhifei Li and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
| 2:45–3:00 | Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model Dekai Wu and Pascale Fung |
| 3:00–3:15 | Comparison of Extended Lexicon Models in Search and Rescoring for SMT Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney |
| 3:15–3:30 | Simplex Armijo Downhill Algorithm for Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation System Parameters Bing Zhao and Shengyuan Chen |
| Session 2B: Short Paper Presentations: Information Retrieval / Information Extraction / Sentiment | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | Translation Corpus Source and Size in Bilingual Retrieval Paul McNamee, James Mayfield and Charles Nicholas |
| 2:15–2:30 | Large-scale Computation of Distributional Similarities for Queries Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall and Silvana Hartmann |
| 2:30–2:45 | Text Categorization from Category Name via Lexical Reference Libby Barak, Ido Dagan and Eyal Shnarch |
| 2:45–3:00 | Identifying Types of Claims in Online Customer Reviews Shilpa Arora, Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn Rose |
| 3:00–3:15 | Towards Automatic Image Region Annotation - Image Region Textual Coreference Resolution Emilia Apostolova and Dina Demner-Fushman |
| 3:15–3:30 | TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain and James Allen |
| Session 2C: Short Paper Presentations: Dialog / Speech / Semantics | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | 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 |
| 2:15–2:30 | Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems Kenji Sagae, Gwen Christian, David DeVault and David Traum |
| 2:30–2:45 | Spherical Discriminant Analysis in Semi-supervised Speaker Clustering Hao Tang, Stephen Chu and Thomas Huang |
| 2:45–3:00 | Learning Bayesian Networks for Semantic Frame Composition in a Spoken Dialog System Marie-Jean Meurs, Fabrice Lefèvre and Renato De Mori |
| 3:00–3:15 | Evaluation of a System for Noun Concepts Acquisition from Utterances about Images (SINCA) Using Daily Conversation Data Yuzu Uchida and Kenji Araki |
| 3:15–3:30 | Web and Corpus Methods for Malay Count Classifier Prediction Jeremy Nicholson and Timothy Baldwin |
| Student Research Workshop Session 2 | |
| + | Note: all student research workshop papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:30 | Sentence Realisation from Bag of Words with Dependency Constraints Karthik Gali and Sriram Venkatapathy |
| 2:35–3:05 | Using Language Modeling to Select Useful Annotation Data Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer |
| 3:30–4:00 | Break |
| Session 3A: Machine Translation | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Context-Dependent Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation Jamie Brunning, Adrià de Gispert and William Byrne |
| 4:25–4:50 | Graph-based Learning for Statistical Machine Translation Andrei Alexandrescu and Katrin Kirchhoff |
| 4:50–5:15 | Intersecting Multilingual Data for Faster and Better Statistical Translations Yu Chen, Martin Kay and Andreas Eisele |
| 5:15–5:40 | No Presentation |
| Session 3B: Semantics | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Without a ’doubt’? Unsupervised Discovery of Downward-Entailing Operators Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee and Richard Ducott |
| 4:25–4:50 | The Role of Implicit Argumentation in Nominal SRL Matthew Gerber, Joyce Chai and Adam Meyers |
| 4:50–5:15 | Jointly Identifying Predicates, Arguments and Senses using Markov Logic Ivan Meza-Ruiz and Sebastian Riedel |
| 5:15–5:40 | Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson |
| Session 3C: Information Retrieval | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Hierarchical Dirichlet Trees for Information Retrieval Gholamreza Haffari and Yee Whye Teh |
| 4:25–4:50 | Phrase-Based Query Degradation Modeling for Vocabulary-Independent Ranked Utterance Retrieval J. Scott Olsson and Douglas W. Oard |
| 4:50–5:15 | Japanese Query Alteration Based on Lexical Semantic Similarity Masato Hagiwara and Hisami Suzuki |
| 5:15–5:40 | Context-based Message Expansion for Disentanglement of Interleaved Text Conversations Lidan Wang and Douglas W. Oard |
| Student Research Workshop Session 3 | |
| + | Note: all student research workshop papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 4:00–4:30 | Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language Adriane Boyd |
| 4:35–5:05 | Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping Ting Qian, Benjamin Van Durme and Lenhart Schubert |
| 5:10–5:40 | Multiple Word Alignment with Profile Hidden Markov Models Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 6:30–9:30 | Poster and Demo Session |
| + | Note: all short papers and demo abstracts are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| + | Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions Adrià de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo and William Byrne |
| + | Generating Synthetic Children’s Acoustic Models from Adult Models Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom and Kadri Hacioglu |
| + | Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable and Vowel Level Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg |
| + | Shallow Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding Bonaventura Coppola, Alessandro Moschitti and Giuseppe Riccardi |
| + | Automatic Agenda Graph Construction from Human-Human Dialogs using Clustering Method Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Kyungduk Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| + | A Simple Sentence-Level Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data Christoph Tillmann and Jian-ming Xu |
| + | Learning Combination Features with L1 Regularization Daisuke Okanohara and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| + | Multi-scale Personalization for Voice Search Daniel Bolanos, Geoffrey Zweig and Patrick Nguyen |
| + | The Importance of Sub-Utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber |
| + | Using Integer Linear Programming for Detecting Speech Disfluencies Kallirroi Georgila |
| + | Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews Kevin Lerman and Ryan McDonald |
| + | Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality Kino Coursey and Rada Mihalcea |
| + | Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpora with Dependency Heterogeneity Kun Yu and Junichi Tsujii |
| + | Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson and Paola Merlo |
| + | Extending Pronunciation Lexicons via Non-phonemic Respellings Lucian Galescu |
| + | 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 |
| + | 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 |
| + | Faster MT Decoding Through Pervasive Laziness Michael Pust and Kevin Knight |
| + | Evaluating the Syntactic Transformations in Gold Standard Corpora for Statistical Sentence Compression Naman K Gupta, Sourish Chaudhuri and Carolyn P Rose |
| + | 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 |
| + | Name Perplexity Octavian Popescu |
| + | Answer Credibility: A Language Modeling Approach to Answer Validation Protima Banerjee and Hyoil Han |
| + | Exploiting Named Entity Classes in CCG Surface Realization Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White and Dominic Espinosa |
| + | Search Engine Adaptation by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query Ruiqiang zhang, yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Donald Metzler and Jian-yun Nie |
| + | A Local Tree Alignment-based Soft Pattern Matching Approach for Information Extraction Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| + | Classifying Factored Genres with Part-of-Speech Histograms Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero and Mari Ostendorf |
| + | Towards Effective Sentence Simplification for Automatic Processing of Biomedical Text Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Luis Tari, Jörg Hakenberg, Chitta Baral and Graciela Gonzalez |
| + | Improving SCL Model for Sentiment-Transfer Learning Songbo Tan and Xueqi Cheng |
| + | MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars (Application Note) Srinivas Bangalore, Pierre Boullier, Alexis Nasr, Owen Rambow and Benoît Sagot |
| + | Lexical and Syntactic Adaptation and Their Impact in Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems Svetlana Stoyanchev and Amanda Stent |
| + | Analysing Recognition Errors in Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition Teemu Hirsimäki and Mikko Kurimo |
| + | The independence of dimensions in multidimensional dialogue act annotation Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt |
| + | Improving Coreference Resolution by Using Conversational Metadata Xiaoqiang Luo, Radu Florian and Todd Ward |
| + | Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination Yong Zhao and Xiaodong He |
| + | Language Specific Issue and Feature Exploration in Chinese Event Extraction Zheng Chen and Heng Ji |
| + | Improving A Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training Zhongqiang Huang, Vladimir Eidelman and Mary Harper |
| 6:30–9:30 | Student Research Workshop Poster Session |
| + | Note: all student research workshop papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| + | Also: All papers presented in the morning and afternoon sessions of the student research workshop will also be shown as posters. |
| + | Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System Jaime Acosta |
| + | Interactive Annotation Learning with Indirect Feature Voting Shilpa Arora and Eric Nyberg |
| + | Loss-Sensitive Discriminative Training of Machine Transliteration Models Kedar Bellare, Koby Crammer and Dayne Freitag |
| + | Syntactic Tree-based Relation Extraction Using a Generalization of Collins and Duffy Convolution Tree Kernel Mahdy Khayyamian, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Hassan Abolhassani |
| + | Towards Building a Competitive Opinion Summarization System: Challenges and Keys Elena Lloret, Alexandra Balahur, Manuel Palomar and AndrŽes Montoyo |
| + | Domain-Independent Shallow Sentence Ordering Thade Nahnsen |
| + | Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Dialogue Acts Nicole Novielli and Carlo Strapparava |
| + | Modeling Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion as a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Problem with Minimum Error Rate Training Taraka Rama, Anil Kumar Singh and Sudheer Kolachina |
| + | Disambiguation of Preposition Sense Using Linguistically Motivated Features Stephen Tratz and Dirk Hovy |
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | |
| Plenary Session | |
| 9:00–9:10 | Paper Awards |
| 9:10–9:40 | Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova |
| 9:40–10:10 | 11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation David Chiang, Kevin Knight and Wei Wang |
| 10:10-10:40 | Break |
| Session 4A: Machine Translation | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Efficient Parsing for Transducer Grammars John DeNero, Mohit Bansal, Adam Pauls and Dan Klein |
| 10:35–10:50 | Preference Grammars: Softening Syntactic Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith and Stephan Vogel |
| 10:50–11:15 | Using a Dependency Parser to Improve SMT for Subject-Object-Verb Languages Peng Xu, Jaeho Kang, Michael Ringgaard and Franz Och |
| 11:15–11:40 | Learning Bilingual Linguistic Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation Han-Bin Chen, Jian-Cheng Wu and Jason S. Chang |
| Session 4B: Sentiment Analysis / Information Extraction | |
| 10:10–10:35 | May All Your Wishes Come True: A Study of Wishes and How to Recognize Them Andrew B. Goldberg, Nathanael Fillmore, David Andrzejewski, Zhiting Xu, Bryan Gibson and Xiaojin Zhu |
| 10:35–10:50 | Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression Shimon Kogan, Dimitry Levin, Bryan R. Routledge, Jacob S. Sagi and Noah A. Smith |
| 10:50–11:15 | Domain Adaptation with Latent Semantic Association for Named Entity Recognition Honglei Guo, Huijia Zhu, Zhili Guo, Xiaoxun Zhang, Xian Wu and Zhong Su |
| 11:15–11:40 | Semi-Automatic Entity Set Refinement Vishnu Vyas and Patrick Pantel |
| Session 4C: Machine Learning / Morphology and Phonology | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Unsupervised Constraint Driven Learning For Transliteration Discovery Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth and Yuancheng Tu |
| 10:35–10:50 | On the Syllabification of Phonemes Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak and Colin Cherry |
| 10:50–11:15 | Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars Mark Johnson and Sharon Goldwater |
| 11:15–11:40 | No Presentation |
| 12:20–2:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session 5A: Short Paper Presentations: Machine Translation / Generation / Semantics | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | Statistical Post-Editing of a Rule-Based Machine Translation System Antonio-L. Lagarda, Vicent Alabau, Francisco Casacuberta, Roberto Silva and Enrique Díaz-de-Liaño |
| 2:15–2:30 | On the Importance of Pivot Language Selection for Statistical Machine Translation Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita and Satoshi Nakamura |
| 2:30–2:45 | Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches Katja Filippova and Michael Strube |
| 2:45–3:00 | Determining the position of adverbial phrases in English Huayan Zhong and Amanda Stent |
| 3:00–3:15 | Estimating and Exploiting the Entropy of Sense Distributions Peng Jin, Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling and John Carroll |
| 3:15–3:30 | Semantic classification with WordNet Kernels Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
| Session 5B: Short Paper Presentations: Machine Learning / Syntax | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S. Dan Gillick |
| 2:15–2:30 | Quadratic Features and Deep Architectures for Chunking Joseph Turian, James Bergstra and Yoshua Bengio |
| 2:30–2:45 | Active Zipfian Sampling for Statistical Parser Training Onur Cobanoglu |
| 2:45–3:00 | Combining Constituent Parsers Victoria Fossum and Kevin Knight |
| 3:00–3:15 | Recognising the Predicate-argument Structure of Tagalog Meladel Mistica and Timothy Baldwin |
| 3:15–3:30 | Reverse Revision and Linear Tree Combination for Dependency Parsing Giuseppe Attardi and Felice Dell’Orletta |
| Session 5C: Short Paper Presentations: SPECIAL SESSION – Speech Indexing and Retrieval | |
| + | Note: all short papers are located in the Companion volume of the proceedings |
| 2:00–2:15 | Introduction to the Special Session on Speech Indexing and Retrieval |
| 2:15–2:30 | Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering Sibel Yaman, Gokan Tur, Dimitra Vergyri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper and Wen Wang |
| 2:30–2:45 | Score Distribution Based Term Specific Thresholding for Spoken Term Detection Dogan Can and Murat Saraclar |
| 2:45–3:00 | Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field Dong Yang, Yi-Cheng Pan and Sadaoki Furui |
| 3:00–3:15 | Fast decoding for open vocabulary spoken term detection Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Abhinav Sethy, Jonathan Mamou, Brian Kingsbury and Upendra Chaudhari |
| 3:15–3:30 | Tightly coupling Speech Recognition and Search Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore |
| 3:30–4:00 | Break |
| Session 6A: Syntax and Parsing | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition Jenny Rose Finkel and Christopher D. Manning |
| 4:25–4:50 | Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy |
| 4:50–5:15 | Positive Results for Parsing with a Bounded Stack using a Model-Based Right-Corner Transform William Schuler |
| Session 6B: Discourse and Summarization | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Hierarchical Text Segmentation from Multi-Scale Lexical Cohesion Jacob Eisenstein |
| 4:25–4:50 | Exploring Content Models for Multi-Document Summarization Aria Haghighi and Lucy Vanderwende |
| 4:50–5:15 | Global Models of Document Structure using Latent Permutations Harr Chen, S.R.K. Branavan, Regina Barzilay and David R. Karger |
| Session 6C: Spoken Language Systems | |
| 4:00–4:25 | Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems Timo Baumann, Michaela Atterer and David Schlangen |
| 4:25–4:50 | Geo-Centric Language Models for Local Business Voice Search Amanda Stent, Ilija Zeljkovic, Diamantino Caseiro and Jay Wilpon |
| 4:50–5:15 | Improving the Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary for Phone and Word Recognition with Linguistically-Based Pronunciation Rules Fadi Biadsy, Nizar Habash and Julia Hirschberg |
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | |
| Plenary Session | |
| 9:00–10:10 | Invited Talk: Ketchup, Espresso, and Chocolate Chip Cookies: Travels in the Language of Food Dan Jurafsky |
| 10:10–10:40 | Break |
| Session 7A: Machine Translation | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Using a maximum entropy model to build segmentation lattices for MT Chris Dyer |
| 11:05–11:30 | Active Learning for Statistical Phrase-based Machine Translation Gholamreza Haffari, Maxim Roy and Anoop Sarkar |
| 11:30–11:55 | Semi-Supervised Lexicon Mining from Parenthetical Expressions in Monolingual Web Pages Xianchao Wu, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| 11:55–12:20 | Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo R. Banga and William Byrne |
| Session 7B: Speech Recognition and Language Modeling | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner and Xiaoming Xi |
| 11:05–11:30 | Performance Prediction for Exponential Language Models Stanley Chen |
| 11:30–11:55 | Tied-Mixture Language Modeling in Continuous Space Ruhi Sarikaya, Mohamed Afify and Brian Kingsbury |
| 11:55–12:20 | Shrinking Exponential Language Models Stanley Chen |
| Session 7C: Sentiment Analysis | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models Tae Yano, William W. Cohen and Noah A. Smith |
| 11:05–11:30 | An Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Fine-Grained Opinion Mining Weifu Du and Songbo Tan |
| 11:30–11:55 | For a few dollars less: Identifying review pages sans human labels Luciano Barbosa, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang and Andrew Tomkins |
| 11:55–12:20 | More than Words: Syntactic Packaging and Implicit Sentiment Stephan Greene and Philip Resnik |
| 12:20–1:40 | Lunch Break |
| 12:40-1:40 | Panel Discussion: Emerging Application Areas in Computational Linguistics Chaired by Bill Dolan, Microsoft Panelists: Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service; Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service; Patrick Pantel, Yahoo; Andy Hickl, Language Computer Corporation + Swingly |
| 1:40–2:30 | NAACL Business Meeting |
| Session 8A: Large-scale NLP | |
| 2:30–2:55 | Streaming for large scale NLP: Language Modeling Amit Goyal, Hal Daume III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian |
| 2:55–3:20 | The Effect of Corpus Size on Case Frame Acquisition for Discourse Analysis Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi |
| 3:20–3:45 | Semantic-based Estimation of Term Informativeness Kirill Kireyev |
| Session 8B: Syntax and Parsing | |
| 2:30–2:55 | Optimal Reduction of Rule Length in Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta and David Weir |
| 2:55–3:20 | Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater and Phil Blunsom |
| 3:20–3:45 | Hierarchical Search for Parsing Adam Pauls and Dan Klein |
| Session 8C: Discourse and Summarization | |
| 2:30–2:55 | An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information Rajen Subba and Barbara Di Eugenio |
| 2:55–3:20 | Graph-Cut-Based Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution Vincent Ng |
| 3:20–3:45 | Using Citations to Generate surveys of Scientific Paradigms Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev and David Zajic |
| 3:45–4:15 | Break |
| Session 9A: Machine Learning | |
| 4:15–4:40 | Non-Parametric Bayesian Areal Linguistics Hal Daume III |
| 4:40–5:05 | Hierarchical Bayesian Domain Adaptation Jenny Rose Finkel and Christopher D. Manning |
| 5:05–5:30 | Online EM for Unsupervised Models Percy Liang and Dan Klein |
| Session 9B: Dialog Systems | |
| 4:15–4:40 | Unsupervised Approaches for Automatic Keyword Extraction Using Meeting Transcripts Feifan Liu, Deana Pennell, Fei Liu and Yang Liu |
| 4:40–5:05 | A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems Antoine Raux and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 5:05–5:30 | Extracting Social Meaning: Identifying Interactional Style in Spoken Conversation Dan Jurafsky, Rajesh Ranganath and Dan McFarland |
| Session 9C: Syntax and Parsing | |
| 4:15–4:40 | Linear Complexity Context-Free Parsing Pipelines via Chart Constraints Brian Roark and Kristy Hollingshead |
| 4:40–5:05 | Improved Syntactic Models for Parsing Speech with Repairs Tim Miller |
| 5:05–5:30 | A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy |