Proceedings of ACL-2003

Program Chairs: Erhard Hinrichs and Dan Roth

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Question Answering
pdfs pdf ps bib Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked pp. 1-7
Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy  and  Abdessamad Echihabi
pdfs pdf ps bib Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction pp. 8-15
Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda Harabagiu, John Williams  and  Paul Aarseth
pdfs pdf ps bib A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering pp. 16-23
Abdessamad Echihabi  and  Daniel Marcu
Machine Learning: Kernels
pdfs pdf ps bib Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis pp. 24-31
Taku Kudo  and  Yuji Matsumoto
pdfs pdf ps bib Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data pp. 32-39
Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki  and  Eisaku Maeda
pdfs pdf ps bib Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models pp. 40-47
Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri  and  Brian Roark
Subcategorization and Word Meaning
pdfs pdf ps bib Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation pp. 48-55
Anna Korhonen  and  Judita Preiss
pdfs pdf ps bib Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution pp. 56-63
Malvina Nissim  and  Katja Markert
pdfs pdf ps bib Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically pp. 64-71
Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski  and  Zvika Marx
Alignment for Machine Translation
pdfs pdf ps bib Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences pp. 72-79
Masao Utiyama  and  Hitoshi Isahara
pdfs pdf ps bib Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation pp. 80-87
Daniel Gildea
pdfs pdf ps bib A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment pp. 88-95
Colin Cherry  and  Dekang Lin
Parsing German
pdfs pdf ps bib Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies pp. 96-103
Amit Dubey  and  Frank Keller
pdfs pdf ps bib Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG pp. 104-111
Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer  and  Ulrich Schäfer
pdfs pdf ps bib Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German pp. 112-119
Michael Schiehlen
Vector Space Models
pdfs pdf ps bib Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information pp. 120-127
Hua Wu  and  Ming Zhou
pdfs pdf ps bib Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora pp. 128-135
Sebastian Padó  and  Mirella Lapata
pdfs pdf ps bib Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval pp. 136-143
Dominic Widdows
Statistical Machine Translation
pdfs pdf ps bib A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation pp. 144-151
Richard Zens  and  Hermann Ney
pdfs pdf ps bib tRuEcasIng pp. 152-159
Lucian Vlad Lita, Abe Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos  and  Nanda Kambhatla
pdfs pdf ps bib Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation pp. 160-167
Franz Josef Och
Coreference in Discourse and Dialogue
pdfs pdf ps bib A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue pp. 168-175
Michael Strube  and  Christoph Müller
pdfs pdf ps bib Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach pp. 176-183
Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su  and  Chew Lim Tan
Rule-based Parsing
pdfs pdf ps bib Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar pp. 184-191
Lionel Clément  and  Alexandra Kinyon
pdfs pdf ps bib Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting pp. 192-199
Jonas Kuhn
pdfs pdf ps bib A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying pp. 200-207
Gerald Penn  and  Cosmin Munteanu
Information Retrieval
pdfs pdf ps bib Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text pp. 208-215
Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair  and  Milena Petrova
pdfs pdf ps bib Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods pp. 216-223
Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng  and  Yoong Keok Lee
pdfs pdf ps bib An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition pp. 224-231
Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine  and  Ralph Grishman
pdfs pdf ps bib Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection pp. 232-239
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen  and  Thorsten Brants
Spoken Dialog
pdfs pdf ps bib Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems pp. 240-247
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano  and  Kiyoaki Aikawa
pdfs pdf ps bib Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches pp. 248-255
Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua  and  Yong-Cheng Wang
pdfs pdf ps bib Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems pp. 256-263
Kazunori Komatani, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara  and  Hiroshi G. Okuno
pdfs pdf ps bib Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture pp. 264-271
Charles B. Callaway
Statistical Modeling
pdfs pdf ps bib Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation pp. 272-279
Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li  and  Chang-Ning Huang
pdfs pdf ps bib Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency pp. 280-287
Mathias Creutz
pdfs pdf ps bib Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data pp. 288-295
Martin Jansche
pdfs pdf ps bib Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging pp. 296-302
Jin-Dong Kim, Hae-Chang Rim  and  Jun'ichi Tsujii
Machine Translation and Chunking
pdfs pdf ps bib Chunk-Based Statistical Translation pp. 303-310
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita  and  Hiroshi G. Okuno
pdfs pdf ps bib Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases pp. 311-318
Philipp Koehn  and  Kevin Knight
pdfs pdf ps bib Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models pp. 319-326
Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel  and  Alex Waibel
Named Entities and Bootstraping
pdfs pdf ps bib Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm pp. 327-334
Yunbo Cao, Hang Li  and  Li Lian
pdfs pdf ps bib A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners pp. 335-342
Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding  and  Rohini Srihari
pdfs pdf ps bib Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns pp. 343-350
Roman Yangarber
Parsing and Grammar Formalisms
pdfs pdf ps bib k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings pp. 351-358
Denis Béchet  and  Annie Foret
pdfs pdf ps bib Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure pp. 359-366
Julia Hockenmaier
pdfs pdf ps bib Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints pp. 367-374
Joachim Niehren  and  Stefan Thater
Summarization
pdfs pdf ps bib Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization pp. 375-382
Dragomir R. Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, John Blitzer, Hong Qi, Arda Çelebi, Danyu Liu  and  Elliott Drabek
pdfs pdf ps bib Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship pp. 383-390
Akiko Aizawa
Word Segmentation for Arabic
pdfs pdf ps bib Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus pp. 391-398
Monica Rogati, Scott McCarley  and  Yiming Yang
pdfs pdf ps bib Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation pp. 399-406
Young-Suk Lee, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Ossama Emam  and  Hany Hassan
Language Acquisition
pdfs pdf ps bib Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus pp. 407-414
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa  and  Masato Takeichi
pdfs pdf ps bib A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition pp. 415-422
William Gregory Sakas
Probabilistic Parsing
pdfs pdf ps bib Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing pp. 423-430
Dan Klein  and  Christopher D. Manning
pdfs pdf ps bib Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods pp. 431-438
Péter Dienes  and  Amit Dubey
pdfs pdf ps bib Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? pp. 439-446
Roger Levy  and  Christopher D. Manning
Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation
pdfs pdf ps bib Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation pp. 447-454
Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita  and  Yuji Matsumoto
pdfs pdf ps bib Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study pp. 455-462
Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang  and  Yee Seng Chan
pdfs pdf ps bib Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data pp. 463-470
Timothy Baldwin  and  Francis Bond
Phonology and Morphology
pdfs pdf ps bib A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction pp. 471-478
Do-Gil Lee, Hae-Chang Rim  and  Heui-Seok Lim
pdfs pdf ps bib Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese pp. 479-488
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada, Satoshi Sekine  and  Hitoshi Isahara
pdfs pdf ps bib Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch pp. 489-496
Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch, Walter Daelemans  and  Véronique Hoste
Chunk Parsing
pdfs pdf ps bib Text Chunking by Combining Hand-Crafted Rules and Memory-Based Learning pp. 497-504
Seong-Bae Park  and  Byoung-Tak Zhang
pdfs pdf ps bib A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking pp. 505-512
Libin Shen  and  Aravind K. Joshi
pdfs pdf ps bib An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs pp. 513-520
Wei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu, Yuankai Jiang  and  Rohini K. Srihari
Parsing and Semantics
pdfs pdf ps bib Unsupervised Learning of Dependency Structure for Language Modeling pp. 521-528
Jianfeng Gao  and  Hisami Suzuki
pdfs pdf ps bib Using Model-Theoretic Semantic Interpretation to Guide Statistical Parsing and Word Recognition in a Spoken Language Interface pp. 529-536
William Schuler
pdfs pdf ps bib Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation pp. 537-544
Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Padó  and  Manfred Pinkal
Discourse and Dialogue Segmentation
pdfs pdf ps bib Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering pp. 545-552
Mirella Lapata
pdfs pdf ps bib Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding pp. 553-561
Yukiko Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky  and  Justine Cassell
pdfs pdf ps bib Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation pp. 562-569
Michel Galley, Kathleen R. McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier  and  Hongyan Jing