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Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Eli Izagirre and Montse Maritxalar	pp. 1–8	bib
A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura and Maria Ruiz-Casado	pp. 9–16	bib
MT Evaluation: Human-Like vs. Human Acceptable Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo and Lluís Màrquez	pp. 17–24	bib
The Effect of Corpus Size in Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Training for Disambiguation Michaela Atterer and Hinrich Schütze	pp. 25–32	bib
A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao and Jian Su	pp. 33–40	bib
Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank Ted Briscoe and John Carroll	pp. 41–48	bib
N Semantic Classes are Harder than Two Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Wiley Greiner and Cory Barr	pp. 49–56	bib
Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang and Tyler Baldwin	pp. 57–64	bib
A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do and Dan Roth	pp. 65–72	bib
A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu and Sheng Li	pp. 73–80	bib
A High-Accurate Chinese-English NE Backward Translation System Combining Both Lexical Information and Web Statistics Conrad Chen and Hsin-Hsi Chen	pp. 81–88	bib
Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering Jinxiu Chen, Donghong Ji, Chew Lim Tan and Zhengyu Niu	pp. 89–96	bib
An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara	pp. 97–104	bib
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin	pp. 105–112	bib
An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi Zahra Abolhassani Chime	pp. 113–119	bib
Techniques to Incorporate the Benefits of a Hierarchy in a Modified Hidden Markov Model Lin-Yi Chou	pp. 120–127	bib
Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly	pp. 128–135	bib
Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish Grzegorz Chrupała and Josef van Genabith	pp. 136–143	bib
Constraint-Based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach James Clarke and Mirella Lapata	pp. 144–151	bib
Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger and Dianne P. O’Leary	pp. 152–159	bib
Using WordNet to Automatically Deduce Relations between Words in Noun-Noun Compounds Fintan J. Costello, Tony Veale and Simon Dunne	pp. 160–167	bib
Automatically Extracting Nominal Mentions of Events with a Bootstrapped Probabilistic Classifier Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Thomas L. Cornell, Lars Nilsson and Rohini K. Srihari	pp. 168–175	bib
A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Word Expression Extraction Jianyong Duan, Ruzhan Lu, Weilin Wu, Yi Hu and Yan Tian	pp. 176–182	bib
Towards A Modular Data Model For Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora Richard Eckart	pp. 183–190	bib
A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay	pp. 191–198	bib
Chinese-English Term Translation Mining Based on Semantic Prediction Gaolin Fang, Hao Yu and Fumihito Nishino	pp. 199–206	bib
Automatic Creation of Domain Templates Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou and Kathleen McKeown	pp. 207–214	bib
Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English Andrew Finch, Ezra Black, Young-Sook Hwang and Eiichiro Sumita	pp. 215–222	bib
The Benefit of Stochastic PP Attachment to a Rule-Based Parser Kilian A. Foth and Wolfgang Menzel	pp. 223–230	bib
Using Bilingual Comparable Corpora and Semi-supervised Clustering for Topic Tracking Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki	pp. 231–238	bib
Robust Word Sense Translation by EM Learning of Frame Semantics Pascale Fung and Benfeng Chen	pp. 239–246	bib
Coreference Handling in XMG Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier	pp. 247–254	bib
Conceptual Coherence in the Generation of Referring Expressions Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter	pp. 255–262	bib
Discriminative Reranking for Semantic Parsing Ruifang Ge and Raymond J. Mooney	pp. 263–270	bib
Multilingual Lexical Database Generation from Parallel Texts in 20 European Languages with Endogenous Resources Emmanuel Giguet and Pierre-Sylvain Luquet	pp. 271–278	bib
Factoring Synchronous Grammars by Sorting Daniel Gildea, Giorgio Satta and Hao Zhang	pp. 279–286	bib
Low-Cost Enrichment of Spanish WordNet with Automatically Translated Glosses: Combining General and Specialized Models Jesús Giménez and Lluís Màrquez	pp. 287–294	bib
Speeding Up Full Syntactic Parsing by Leveraging Partial Parsing Decisions Elliot Glaysher and Dan Moldovan	pp. 295–300	bib
Parsing Aligned Parallel Corpus by Projecting Syntactic Relations from Annotated Source Corpus Shailly Goyal and Niladri Chatterjee	pp. 301–308	bib
Reduced n-gram Models for English and Chinese Corpora Le Q Ha, P Hanna, D W Stewart and F J Smith	pp. 309–315	bib
Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre and Jens Nilsson	pp. 316–323	bib
Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara and Hitoshi Isahara	pp. 324–330	bib
Improving English Subcategorization Acquisition with Diathesis Alternations as Heuristic Information Xiwu Han, Tiejun Zhao and Xingshang Fu	pp. 331–336	bib
Local Constraints on Sentence Markers and Focus in Somali Katherine Hargreaves and Allan Ramsay	pp. 337–344	bib
A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Pornpimon Palingoon, Sarawoot Kongyoung and Chaianun Damrongrat	pp. 345–352	bib
Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings Chikara Hashimoto, Satoshi Sato and Takehito Utsuro	pp. 353–360	bib
Graph Branch Algorithm: An Optimum Tree Search Method for Scored Dependency Graph with Arc Co-Occurrence Constraints Hideki Hirakawa	pp. 361–368	bib
Exploring the Potential of Intractable Parsers Mark Hopkins and Jonas Kuhn	pp. 369–376	bib
Transformation-Based Interpretation of Implicit Parallel Structures: Reconstructing the Meaning of “vice versa” and Similar Linguistic Operators Helmut Horacek and Magdalena Wolska	pp. 377–384	bib
When Conset Meets Synset: A Preliminary Survey of an Ontological Lexical Resource Based on Chinese Characters Shu-Kai Hsieh and Chu-Ren Huang	pp. 385–390	bib
Spontaneous Speech Understanding for Robust Multi-Modal Human-Robot Communication Sonja Hüwel and Britta Wrede	pp. 391–398	bib
Efficient Sentence Retrieval Based on Syntactic Structure Hiroshi Ichikawa, Keita Hakoda, Taiichi Hashimoto and Takenobu Tokunaga	pp. 399–406	bib
Towards the Orwellian Nightmare: Separation of Business and Personal Emails Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, David Guthrie and Louise Guthrie	pp. 407–411	bib
Exploiting Non-Local Features for Spoken Language Understanding Minwoo Jeong and Gary Geunbae Lee	pp. 412–419	bib
Analysis and Repair of Name Tagger Errors Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman	pp. 420–427	bib
Unsupervised Segmentation of Chinese Text by Use of Branching Entropy Zhihui Jin and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii	pp. 428–435	bib
A FrameNet-Based Semantic Role Labeler for Swedish Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues	pp. 436–443	bib
Obfuscating Document Stylometry to Preserve Author Anonymity Gary Kacmarcik and Michael Gamon	pp. 444–451	bib
Automatic Construction of Polarity-Tagged Corpus from HTML Documents Nobuhiro Kaji and Masaru Kitsuregawa	pp. 452–459	bib
Minority Vote: At-Least-N Voting Improves Recall for Extracting Relations Nanda Kambhatla	pp. 460–466	bib
Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata Shahram Khadivi, Richard Zens and Hermann Ney	pp. 467–474	bib
GF Parallel Resource Grammars and Russian Janna Khegai	pp. 475–482	bib
Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews Soo-Min Kim and Eduard Hovy	pp. 483–490	bib
Interpreting Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via Verb Semantics Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin	pp. 491–498	bib
Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod and Kenji Yamada	pp. 499–506	bib
Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures Marco Kuhlmann and Joakim Nivre	pp. 507–514	bib
Parsing and Subcategorization Data Jianguo Li and Chris Brew	pp. 515–522	bib
The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions Jimmy Lin	pp. 523–530	bib
Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis	pp. 531–538	bib
Stochastic Iterative Alignment for Machine Translation Evaluation Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea	pp. 539–546	bib
Discriminating Image Senses by Clustering with Multimodal Features Nicolas Loeff, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm and David A. Forsyth	pp. 547–554	bib
Modeling Adjectives in Computational Relational Lexica Palmira Marrafa and Sara Mendes	pp. 555–562	bib
Segmented and Unsegmented Dialogue-Act Annotation with Statistical Dialogue Models Carlos D. Martínez Hinarejos, Ramón Granell and José Miguel Benedí	pp. 563–570	bib
ARE: Instance Splitting Strategies for Dependency Relation-Based Information Extraction Mstislav Maslennikov, Hai-Kiat Goh and Tat-Seng Chua	pp. 571–578	bib
Integrating Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity Methods for Lexical Entailment Acquisition Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan and Maayan Geffet	pp. 579–586	bib
Machine-Learning-Based Transformation of Passive Japanese Sentences into Active by Separating Training Data into Each Input Particle Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado and Hitoshi Isahara	pp. 587–594	bib
Reinforcing English Countability Prediction with One Countability per Discourse Property Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro and Naoki Isu	pp. 595–602	bib
An Automatic Method for Summary Evaluation Using Multiple Evaluation Results by a Manual Method Hidetsugu Nanba and Manabu Okumura	pp. 603–610	bib
Examining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Identification and Classification of Reviews Vincent Ng, Sajib Dasgupta and S. M. Niaz Arifin	pp. 611–618	bib
Semantic Parsing with Structured SVM Ensemble Classification Models Le-Minh Nguyen, Akira Shimazu and Xuan-Hieu Phan	pp. 619–626	bib
Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text Jon Oberlander and Scott Nowson	pp. 627–634	bib
Analysis of Selective Strategies to Build a Dependency-Analyzed Corpus Kiyonori Ohtake	pp. 635–642	bib
A Term Recognition Approach to Acronym Recognition Naoaki Okazaki and Sophia Ananiadou	pp. 643–650	bib
Combining Association Measures for Collocation Extraction Pavel Pecina and Pavel Schlesinger	pp. 651–658	bib
Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon	pp. 659–666	bib
URES : an Unsupervised Web Relation Extraction System Benjamin Rosenfeld and Ronen Feldman	pp. 667–674	bib
Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill and Alan R. Aronson	pp. 675–682	bib
Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara and Yasuyoshi Inagaki	pp. 683–690	bib
A Best-First Probabilistic Shift-Reduce Parser Kenji Sagae and Alon Lavie	pp. 691–698	bib
Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages Marina Santini, Richard Power and Roger Evans	pp. 699–706	bib
Translating HPSG-Style Outputs of a Robust Parser into Typed Dynamic Logic Manabu Sato, Daisuke Bekki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 707–714	bib
ATLAS – A New Text Alignment Architecture Bettina Schrader	pp. 715–722	bib
Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Holger Schwenk, Daniel Dechelotte and Jean-Luc Gauvain	pp. 723–730	bib
On-Demand Information Extraction Satoshi Sekine	pp. 731–738	bib
Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych and Anthony Hartley	pp. 739–746	bib
Adding Syntax to Dynamic Programming for Aligning Comparable Texts for the Generation of Paraphrases Siwei Shen, Dragomir R. Radev, Agam Patel and Güneş Erkan	pp. 747–754	bib
Unsupervised Topic Identification by Integrating Linguistic and Visual Information Based on Hidden Markov Models Tomohide Shibata and Sadao Kurohashi	pp. 755–762	bib
Exact Decoding for Jointly Labeling and Chunking Sequences Nobuyuki Shimizu and Andrew Haas	pp. 763–770	bib
Compiling a Lexicon of Cooking Actions for Animation Generation Kiyoaki Shirai and Hiroshi Ookawa	pp. 771–778	bib
Morphological Richness Offsets Resource Demand – Experiences in Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi Smriti Singh, Kuhoo Gupta, Manish Shrivastava and Pushpak Bhattacharyya	pp. 779–786	bib
Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models David A. Smith and Jason Eisner	pp. 787–794	bib
Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA Neal Snider and Mona Diab	pp. 795–802	bib
Discourse Generation Using Utility-Trained Coherence Models Radu Soricut and Daniel Marcu	pp. 803–810	bib
A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles Reid Swanson and Andrew S. Gordon	pp. 811–818	bib
A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment Marta Tatu and Dan Moldovan	pp. 819–826	bib
Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Chu-Ren Huang, YingJu Xia, Hao Yu, Laurent Prevot and Kiyoaki Shirai	pp. 827–834	bib
Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation Jesús Tomás and Francisco Casacuberta	pp. 835–841	bib
Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System Jia-Lin Tsai	pp. 842–849	bib
Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii	pp. 850–857	bib
Word Vectors and Two Kinds of Similarity Akira Utsumi and Daisuke Suzuki	pp. 858–865	bib
Finding Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional Similarity Lonneke van der Plas and Jörg Tiedemann	pp. 866–873	bib
Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu and Zhanyi Liu	pp. 874–881	bib
Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan and John Lee	pp. 882–889	bib
Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe and Kumudu Gamage	pp. 890–897	bib
From Prosodic Trees to Syntactic Trees Andi Wu and Kirk Lowery	pp. 898–904	bib
A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs Dekai Wu and Ken Wing Kuen Lee	pp. 905–912	bib
Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Zhanyi Liu	pp. 913–920	bib
Aligning Features with Sense Distinction Dimensions Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen and Martha Palmer	pp. 921–928	bib
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context Dongqiang Yang and David M. W. Powers	pp. 929–936	bib
Stochastic Discourse Modeling in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Semantic Dependency Graphs Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu and Mao-Zhu Yang	pp. 937–944	bib
HAL-Based Cascaded Model for Variable-Length Semantic Pattern Induction from Psychiatry Web Resources Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu and Fong-Lin Jang	pp. 945–952	bib
Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees Hao Zhang and Daniel Gildea	pp. 953–960	bib
Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui and Eiichiro Sumita	pp. 961–968	bib
BiTAM: Bilingual Topic AdMixture Models for Word Alignment Bing Zhao and Eric P. Xing	pp. 969–976	bib
An HMM-Based Approach to Automatic Phrasing for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis Jing Zhu and Jian-Hua Li	pp. 977–982	bib