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PROCEEDINGS COVER |
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PREFACE (GENERAL CHAIR) |
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PREFACE (PROGRAM CHAIRS) |
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REVIEWERS |
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
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CONFERENCE WEB PAGE (live link) |
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CONFERENCE WEB PAGE (archive) |
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AUTHOR INDEX |
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Invited Talk: Processes that Shape Conversation and their Implications Computational Linguistics |
| Susan E. Brennan |
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Invited Talk: Generic NLP Technologies: Language, Knowledge and Information Extraction |
| Jun'ichi Tsujii |
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Invited Talk: Spoken Language Technology: Where Do We Go From Here? |
| Roger K. Moore |
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Translation with Cascaded Finite State Transducers |
| Stephan Vogel and Hermann Ney |
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Phrase-Pattern-based Korean to English Machine Translation using Two Level Translation Pattern Selection |
| Jung-jae Kim, Key-Sun Choi and Young-Soog Chae |
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A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model |
| George Foster |
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Incorporating Compositional Evidence in Memory-Based Partial Parsing |
| Yuval Krymolowski and Ido Dagan |
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Tree-gram Parsing: Lexical Dependencies and Structural Relations |
| K. Sima'an |
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An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical-Functional Analysis |
| Rens Bod |
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69 |
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Robust Temporal Processing of News |
| Inderjeet Mani and George Wilson |
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77 |
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Tagging Unknown Proper Names Using Decision Trees |
| Frédéric Béchet, Alexis Nasr and Franck Genet |
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85 |
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The Order of Prenominal Adjectives in Natural Language Generation |
| Robert Malouf |
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93 |
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Spoken Dialogue Management Using Probabilistic Reasoning |
| Nicholas Roy, Joelle Pineau and Sebastian Thrun |
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An Unsupervised Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment using Contextually Similar Words |
| Patrick Pantel and Dekang Lin |
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109 |
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A Unified Statistical Model for the Identification of English BaseNP |
| Endong Xun, Changning Huang and Ming Zhou |
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117 |
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Rule Writing or Annotation: Cost-efficient Resource Usage for Base Noun Phrase Chunking |
| Grace Ngai and David Yarowsky |
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126 |
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Using Existing Systems to Supplement Small Amounts of Annotated Grammatical Relations Training Data |
| Alexander Yeh |
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133 |
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Distributing Representation for Robust Interpretation of Dialogue Utterances |
| David Milward |
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142 |
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Can Nominal Expressions Achieve Multiple Goals?: An Empirical Study |
| Pamela Jordan |
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150 |
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An Empirical Study of the Influence of Argument Conciseness on Argument Effectiveness |
| Giuseppe Carenini and Johanna D. Moore |
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158 |
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Multi-Agent Explanation Strategies in Real-Time Domains |
| Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Ian Frank |
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166 |
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A Computational Approach to Zero-pronouns in Spanish |
| Antonio Ferrández and Jesús Peral |
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173 |
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Coreference for NLP Applications |
| Thomas S. Morton |
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181 |
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Learning Attribute Selections for Non-Pronominal Expressions |
| Pamela Jordan and Marilyn Walker |
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191 |
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Finite-State Non-Concatenative Morphotactics |
| Kenneth R. Beesley and Lauri Karttunen |
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199 |
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A Morphologically Sensitive Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Arabic Roots |
| Anne N. De Roeck and Waleed Al-Fares |
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207 |
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Minimally Supervised Morphological Analysis by Multimodal Alignment |
| David Yarowsky and Richard Wicentowski |
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217 |
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A Constraint-based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents |
| Ewan Klein |
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225 |
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Inducing Probabilistic Syllable Classes Using Multivariate Clustering |
| Karin Müller, Bernd Möbius and Detlef Prescher |
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233 |
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Modeling Local Context for Pitch Accent Prediction |
| Shimei Pan and Julia Hirschberg |
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241 |
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A New Statistical Approach To Chinese Pinyin Input |
| Zheng Chen and Kai-Fu Lee |
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248 |
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Automatic Detecting/Correcting Errors in Chinese Text by an Approximate Word-Matching Algorithm |
| Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang and Haihua Pan |
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Dependency-based Syntactic Analysis of Chinese and Annotation of Parsed Corpus |
| Tom B.Y. Lai and Changning Huang |
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Part-of-Speech Tagging Based on Hidden Markov Model Assuming Joint Independence |
| Sang-Zoo Lee, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Hae-Chang Rim |
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Language Independent, Minimally Supervised Induction of Lexical Probabilities |
| Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky |
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278 |
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Independence and Commitment: Assumptions for Rapid Training and Execution of Rule-based POS Taggers |
| Mark Hepple |
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286 |
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An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction |
| Eric Brill and Robert C. Moore |
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294 |
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Query-Relevant Summarization using FAQs |
| Adam Berger and Vibhu O. Mittal |
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302 |
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An Algorithm for One-page Summarization of a Long Text Based on Thematic Hierarchy Detection |
| Yoshio Nakao |
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310 |
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Summarizing Multilingual Spoken Negotiation Dialogues |
| Norbert Reithinger, Michael Kipp, Ralf Engel and Jan Alexandersson |
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318 |
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Headline Generation Based on Statistical Translation |
| Michele Banko, Vibhu O. Mittal and Michael J. Witbrock |
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326 |
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Named Entity Extraction Based on A Maximum Entropy Model and Transformation Rules |
| Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, Masaki Murata, Hiromi Ozaku and Hitoshi Isahara |
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336 |
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Extracting Causal Knowledge from a Medical Database Using Graphical Patterns |
| Christopher S. G. Khoo, Syin Chan and Yun Niu |
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344 |
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Difficulty Indices for the Named Entity Task in Japanese |
| Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
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Memory-Efficient and Thread-Safe Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification |
| Marcel P. van Lohuizen |
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360 |
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Processing Optimality-theoretic Syntax by Interleaved Chart Parsing and Generation |
| Jonas Kuhn |
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368 |
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A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints |
| Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn and Joachim Niehren |
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Hidden Markov Model-Based Korean Part-of-Speech Tagging Considering High Agglutinativity, Word-Spacing, and Lexical Correlativity |
| Sang-Zoo Lee, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Hae-Chang Rim |
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Synchronous Morphological Analysis of Grapheme and Phoneme for Japanese OCR |
| Masaaki Nagata |
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392 |
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Chinese-Korean Word Alignment Based on Linguistic Comparison |
| Jin-Xia Huang and Key-Sun Choi |
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Specifying the Parameters of Centering Theory: a Corpus-Based Evaluation using Text from Application-Oriented Domains |
| M. Poesio, H. Cheng, R. Henschel, J. Hitzeman, R. Kibble and R. Stevenson |
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The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills |
| Eleni Miltsakaki and Karen Kukich |
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416 |
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A Hierarchical Account of Referential Accessibility |
| Nancy Ide and Dan Cristea |
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425 |
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Lexical Transfer Using a Vector-Space Model |
| Eiichiro Sumita |
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432 |
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Using Confidence Bands for Parallel Texts Alignment |
| António Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes and João Mexia |
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440 |
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Improved Statistical Alignment Models |
| Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney |
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448 |
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Multi-Component TAG and Notions of Formal Power |
| William Schuler, David Chiang and Mark Dras |
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456 |
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Statistical Parsing with an Automatically-Extracted Tree Adjoining Grammar |
| David Chiang |
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Corpus-Based Lexical Choice in Natural Language Generation |
| Srinivas Bangalore and Owen Rambow |
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An Information-Theory-Based Feature Type Analysis for the Modeling of Statistical Parsing |
| Zhifang Sui, Jun Zhao and Dekai Wu |
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Lexicalized Stochastic Modeling of Constraint-Based Grammars using Log-Linear Measures and EM Training |
| Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn and Mark Johnson |
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Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts |
| Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa |
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Term Recognition Using Technical Dictionary Hierarchy |
| Jong-Hoon Oh, KyungSoon Lee and Key-Sun Choi |
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Mapping WordNets Using Structural Information |
| J. Daudé, L. Padró and G. Rigau |
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Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles |
| Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky |
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Feature Logic for Dotted Types: A Formalism for Complex Word Meanings |
| Manfred Pinkal and Michael Kohlhase |
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PENS: A Machine-aided English Writing System for Chinese Users |
| Ting Liu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Endong Xun and Changning Huang |
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Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning |
| Jun'ichi Kakegawa, Hisayuki Kanda, Eitaro Fujioka, Makoto Itami and Kohji Itoh |
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Word Sense Disambiguation by Learning from Unlabeled Data |
| Seong-Bae Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang and Yung Taek Kim |
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Importance of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Question Answering Systems |
| José L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrández |
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The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System |
| Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum and Vasile Rus |
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Dimension-Reduced Estimation of Word Co-occurrence Probability |
| Kilyoun Kim and Key-Sun Choi |
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Distribution-Based Pruning of Backoff Language Models |
| Jianfeng Gao and Kai-Fu Lee |
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Panel: Computational Linguistics Research on Philippine Languages |
| Rachel Edita O. Roxas and Allan Borra |
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Panel: Development of Computational Linguistics Research: A Challenge for Indonesia |
| Bobby Nazief |
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593 |
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Panel: Good Spelling of Vietnamese Texts,One Aspect of Computational Linguistics in Vietnam |
| Huy Khanh Phan |
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Panel: Computational Linguistics in India: An Overview |
| Akshar Bharati, Vineet Chaitanya and Rajeev Sangal |
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Panel: The State of the Art in Thai Language Processing |
| Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Tanapong Potipiti, Chai Wutiwiwatchai and Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk |
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Panel: Computational Linguistics in Malaysia |
| Zaharin Yusoff |
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