Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Chairs
Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

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Front matter		bib
Unsupervised Discovery of a Statistical Verb Lexicon Trond Grenager and Christopher D. Manning	pp. 1–8	bib
An Empirical Approach to the Interpretation of Superlatives Johan Bos and Malvina Nissim	pp. 9–17	bib
Paraphrase Recognition via Dissimilarity Significance Classification Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua	pp. 18–26	bib
Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni	pp. 27–34	bib
Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst	pp. 35–43	bib
SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi and Kevin Knight	pp. 44–52	bib
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation George Foster, Roland Kuhn and Howard Johnson	pp. 53–61	bib
The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation Chris Quirk and Simon Corston-Oliver	pp. 62–69	bib
Statistical Machine Reordering Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa	pp. 70–76	bib
Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin and Eduard Hovy	pp. 77–84	bib
Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman	pp. 85–93	bib
Learning Information Status of Discourse Entities Malvina Nissim	pp. 94–102	bib
Automatic classification of citation function Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan and Dan Tidhar	pp. 103–110	bib
Is it Really that Difficult to Parse German? Sandra Kübler, Erhard W. Hinrichs and Wolfgang Maier	pp. 111–119	bib
Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira	pp. 120–128	bib
Incremental Integer Linear Programming for Non-projective Dependency Parsing Sebastian Riedel and James Clarke	pp. 129–137	bib
Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank: A Maximum Entropy Approach Zheng Ping Jiang and Hwee Tou Ng	pp. 138–145	bib
Identification of Event Mentions and their Semantic Class Steven Bethard and James H. Martin	pp. 146–154	bib
Extremely Lexicalized Models for Accurate and Fast HPSG Parsing Takashi Ninomiya, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 155–163	bib
Multilingual Deep Lexical Acquisition for HPSGs via Supertagging Phil Blunsom and Timothy Baldwin	pp. 164–171	bib
Lexical Reference: a Semantic Matching Subtask Oren Glickman, Eyal Shnarch and Ido Dagan	pp. 172–179	bib
Semantic Role Labeling via Instance-Based Learning Chi-san Althon Lin and Tony C. Smith	pp. 180–188	bib
Inducing Temporal Graphs Philip Bramsen, Pawan Deshpande, Yoong Keok Lee and Regina Barzilay	pp. 189–198	bib
A Weakly Supervised Learning Approach for Spoken Language Understanding Wei-Lin Wu, Ru-Zhan Lu, Jian-Yong Duan, Hui Liu, Feng Gao and Yu-Quan Chen	pp. 199–207	bib
Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for FRIENDS* Amruta Purandare and Diane Litman	pp. 208–215	bib
Distributed Language Modeling for N-best List Re-ranking Ying Zhang, Almut Silja Hildebrand and Stephan Vogel	pp. 216–223	bib
Efficient Search for Inversion Transduction Grammar Hao Zhang and Daniel Gildea	pp. 224–231	bib
A Discriminative Model for Tree-to-Tree Translation Brooke Cowan, Ivona Kučerová and Michael Collins	pp. 232–241	bib
Modeling Impression in Probabilistic Transliteration into Chinese LiLi Xu, Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa	pp. 242–249	bib
Unsupervised Named Entity Transliteration Using Temporal and Phonetic Correlation Tao Tao, Su-Youn Yoon, Andrew Fister, Richard Sproat and ChengXiang Zhai	pp. 250–257	bib
Capturing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Text Abdusalam F.A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi and Falk Scholer	pp. 258–266	bib
Using linguistically motivated features for paragraph boundary identification Katja Filippova and Michael Strube	pp. 267–274	bib
BESTCUT: A Graph Algorithm for Coreference Resolution Cristina Nicolae and Gabriel Nicolae	pp. 275–283	bib
Automatic Construction of Predicate-argument Structure Patterns for Biomedical Information Extraction Akane Yakushiji, Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 284–292	bib
Protein folding and chart parsing Julia Hockenmaier, Aravind K. Joshi and Ken A. Dill	pp. 293–300	bib
Learning Phrasal Categories William P. Headden III, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson	pp. 301–307	bib
Priming Effects in Combinatory Categorial Grammar David Reitter, Julia Hockenmaier and Frank Keller	pp. 308–316	bib
Better Informed Training of Latent Syntactic Features Markus Dreyer and Jason Eisner	pp. 317–326	bib
Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts Matt Thomas, Bo Pang and Lillian Lee	pp. 327–335	bib
Partially Supervised Coreference Resolution for Opinion Summarization through Structured Rule Learning Veselin Stoyanov and Claire Cardie	pp. 336–344	bib
Sentiment Retrieval using Generative Models Koji Eguchi and Victor Lavrenko	pp. 345–354	bib
Fully Automatic Lexicon Expansion for Domain-oriented Sentiment Analysis Hiroshi Kanayama and Tetsuya Nasukawa	pp. 355–363	bib
A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance Michel Galley	pp. 364–372	bib
Style & Topic Language Model Adaptation Using HMM-LDA Bo-June (Paul) Hsu and James Glass	pp. 373–381	bib
Text data acquisition for domain-specific language models Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan	pp. 382–389	bib
Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages Izhak Shafran and Keith Hall	pp. 390–398	bib
Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning Kevin Duh and Katrin Kirchhoff	pp. 399–407	bib
Arabic OCR Error Correction Using Character Segment Correction, Language Modeling, and Shallow Morphology Walid Magdy and Kareem Darwish	pp. 408–414	bib
Partially Supervised Sense Disambiguation by Learning Sense Number from Tagged and Untagged Corpora Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji and Chew Lim Tan	pp. 415–422	bib
Automatically Assessing Review Helpfulness Soo-Min Kim, Patrick Pantel, Tim Chklovski and Marco Pennacchiotti	pp. 423–430	bib
Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations for Opinion Recognition Yejin Choi, Eric Breck and Claire Cardie	pp. 431–439	bib
Feature Subsumption for Opinion Analysis Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan and Janyce Wiebe	pp. 440–448	bib
Relevance Feedback Models for Recommendation Masao Utiyama and Mikio Yamamoto	pp. 449–456	bib
Random Indexing using Statistical Weight Functions James Gorman and James R. Curran	pp. 457–464	bib
A Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation Galen Andrew	pp. 465–472	bib
Boosting Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Using NER Ronen Feldman and Benjamin Rosenfeld	pp. 473–481	bib
Short Text Authorship Attribution via Sequence Kernels, Markov Chains and Author Unmasking: An Investigation Conrad Sanderson and Simon Guenter	pp. 482–491	bib
Entity Annotation based on Inverse Index Operations Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sreeram Balakrishnan and Sachindra Joshi	pp. 492–500	bib
Unsupervised Information Extraction Approach Using Graph Mutual Reinforcement Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan and Ossama Emam	pp. 501–508	bib
Empirical Study on the Performance Stability of Named Entity Recognition Model across Domains Hong Lei Guo, Li Zhang and Zhong Su	pp. 509–516	bib
Statistical Ranking in Tactical Generation Erik Velldal and Stephan Oepen	pp. 517–525	bib
Sentence ordering with manifold-based classification in multi-document summarization Paul D Ji and Stephen Pulman	pp. 526–533	bib
Quality Assessment of Large Scale Knowledge Resources Montse Cuadros and German Rigau	pp. 534–541	bib
Graph-based Word Clustering using a Web Search Engine Yutaka Matsuo, Takeshi Sakaki, Kôki Uchiyama and Mitsuru Ishizuka	pp. 542–550	bib
Context-Dependent Term Relations for Information Retrieval Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie and Guihong Cao	pp. 551–559	bib
Loss Minimization in Parse Reranking Ivan Titov and James Henderson	pp. 560–567	bib
Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation with Order Identification Capabilities Jinxiu Chen, Donghong Ji, ChewLim Tan and Zhengyu Niu	pp. 568–575	bib
Competitive generative models with structure learning for NLP classification tasks Kristina Toutanova	pp. 576–584	bib
Two graph-based algorithms for state-of-the-art WSD Eneko Agirre, David Martínez, Oier López de Lacalle and Aitor Soroa	pp. 585–593	bib
Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger Massimiliano Ciaramita and Yasemin Altun	pp. 594–602	bib
Learning Field Compatibilities to Extract Database Records from Unstructured Text Michael Wick, Aron Culotta and Andrew McCallum	pp. 603–611	bib
Discriminative Methods for Transliteration Dmitry Zelenko and Chinatsu Aone	pp. 612–617	bib
Solving the Problem of Cascading Errors: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning and Andrew Y. Ng	pp. 618–626	bib