ACL 2007 Accepted papers

This is an official list of all accepted papers and authors:

Andrew Gordon and Reid Swanson

Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs

Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer

Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems

Philipp Cimiano and Johanna Wenderoth

Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web

Peter Chew and Ahmed Abdelali

Benefits of the "Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone": Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages

Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan

Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems

Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin

Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules

Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond Mooney

Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus

Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport

Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets

Francois Barthelemy

Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology

Hal Daume III and Lyle Campbell

A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications

Hal Daume III

Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation

Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille, koichi Takeuchi and Kyo Kageura

Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora

Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark

Pipeline Iteration

Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport

An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses

Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao

Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive

Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta and Aravind Joshi

Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification

Mark Johnson

Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into Efficiently-Parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold

Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang

Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre and Johan Hall

Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing

Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale

GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency

Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl

Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages

Stephen Clark and James Curran

Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank

Katja Filippova and Michael Strube

Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses

Agustin Gravano, Stefan Benus, Hector Chavez, Julia Hirschberg and Lauren Wilcox

On the Role of Context and Prosody in the Interpretation of 'okay'

Ann Devitt and Khurshid Ahmad

Cohesion-based Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News

Jacob Eisenstein and Randall Davis

Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution

Ryan McDonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike Wells and Jeff Reynar

Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis

Xiaofeng Yang and Jian Su

Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns

Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin

Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration

Shane Bergsma and Grzegorz Kondrak

Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity

Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo and Minghui Dong

Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names

Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Aiti Aw and Chew Lim Tan

A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification

John Lee

A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts

Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy and Chia-Ling Lin

Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval

Yi Liu, Joyce Chai and Rong Jin

Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems

Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark

Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm

Hendra Setiawan, Min Yen Kan and Haizhou Li

Ordering Phrases with Function Words

Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Minghui Li and Ming Zhou

A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

Samuel Brody

Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach

Xiaojun Wan

Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction

Mark Dredze, John Blitzer and Fernando Pereira

Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification

Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an and Andy Way

Integrating Supertags into Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong, John Lee and Chin-Yew Lin

Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns

Antti Puurula and Mikko Kurimo

Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata

Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora

Yoav Seginer

Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing

Makoto Kanazawa

Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries

Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng and Tiejun Zhao

A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization

Ivan Titov and James Henderson

Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks

Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein

Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model

Daisuke Okanohara and Jun'ichi Tsujii

A Discriminative Language Model with Pseudo-Negative Samples

Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani

PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining

Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation

Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim and Richard Sproat

Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel

Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining

Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch and Ido Dagan

Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition

Katrin Erk

A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences

Olivier Ferret

Finding Document Topics for Improving Topic Segmentation

Chang Liu and Hwee Tou Ng

Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and David Chiang

Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation

Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa

A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation

Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan and Marita Ailomaa

User Requirement Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval based on Query Elicitation

Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa

Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References

Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly

Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World's Languages

Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar

Transductive Learning for Statistical Machine Translation

David Reitter and Johanna D. Moore

Predicting Success in Dialogue

Jeongwoo Ko, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg

Probabilistic Answer Ranking in Multilingual Question Answering

Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe and Anna Korhonen

A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora

David Talbot and Miles Osborne

Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation

Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni

Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue

Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa and Andy Way

Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing

Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz

Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation

Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni, Roberto Basili and Suresh Manandhar

Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question/Answer Classification

Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson and Kristina Toutanova

A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing

Smaranda Muresan and Owen Rambow

Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning

Ben Medlock and Edward Briscoe

Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature

Vera Demberg

A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation

Claire Gardent and Eric Kow

A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar

Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid and Gregor Möhler

Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion

Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston

Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture

Feifan Liu and Yang Liu

Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information

Hoa Trang Dang and Jimmy Lin

Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won't Topple, and Neither Will Human Users

Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng

Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation

Deirdre Hogan

Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model

Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark

The Utility of Parse-derived Features for Automatic Discourse Segmentation

Iryna Gurevych, Christof Müller and Torsten Zesch

What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness

Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay and James Glass

Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input

Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova and Hisami Suzuki

Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation

Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad

SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking

Koen Deschacht and Marie-Francine Moens

Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation

Benjamin Rosenfeld and Ronen Feldman

Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web

Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner and Stephan Kanthak

Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction

Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone

Sentence Generation as a Planning Problem

Yonggang Deng and Yuqing Gao

Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge

Martijn Spitters, Marco De Boni, Jakub Zavrel and Remko Bonnema

Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components

François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker

PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue

Roxana Girju

Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information

S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande and Regina Barzilay

Generating a Table-of-Contents: A Hierarchical Discriminative Approach

Noah Smith, John Lafferty and Douglas Vail

Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models

Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Hong Li

A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity

Mihai Rotaru and Diane Litman

The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Sharon Goldwater and Tom Griffiths

A Fully Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging

Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff and Olga Mudraya

Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer

Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal and Yi Liu

Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval

Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Michelle Levine and Bernard Renger

A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home

Daniel Gildea and David Temperley

Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length

Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak

Substring-Based Transliteration

David Vadas and James R. Curran

Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank

Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager and Christopher D. Manning

The Infinite Tree

Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak

Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction

Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz

Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation

Razvan Bunescu and Raymond Mooney

Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision

Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Janyce Wiebe

Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections

Pi-Chuan Chang and Kristina Toutanova

A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation

Keith Hall

K-best Spanning Tree Parsing

Mstislav Maslennikov and Chua Tat-Seng

Multi-resolution Framework to Information Extraction from Free Text

Martin Jansche

A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling

Pei-Yun Hsueh and Johanna Moore

Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives

Liang Huang and David Chiang

Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models.

Vincent Ng

Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution

Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos

Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts

Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert

Much Ado about Nothing: A Social Network Model of Russian Paradigmatic Gaps

Rens Bod

Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight?

Christoph Müller

Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog

John DeNero and Dan Klein

Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation

Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai

Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP

Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota Smith

A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification

Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov and Dan Roth

Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning

Baroni Marco and Evert Stefan

Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling

Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao and Jun'ichi Tsujii

HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints

Jiri Havelka

Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures