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Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2004

Chairs
Donia Scott, University of Brighton, UK (General Chair)
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium (PC Co-Chair)
Marilyn Walker, University of Sheffield, UK (PC Co-Chair)

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pdf ps bib Optimization in Multimodal Interpretation
Joyce Y. Chai, Pengyu Hong, Michelle X. Xhou and Zahar Prasov 		pp. 1-8
pdf ps bib Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammar
Luc Steels 		pp. 9-16
pdf ps bib A Distributional Model of Semantic Context Effects in Lexical Processing
Scott McDonald and Chris Brew 		pp. 17-24
pdf ps bib Analysis of Mixed Natural and Symbolic Input in Mathematical Dialogs
Magdalena Wolska and Ivana Kruijff-KorBayová 		pp. 25-32
pdf ps bib A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs
Mark Johnson and Eugene Charniak 		pp. 33-39
pdf ps bib Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech
Keith B. Hall and Mark Johnson 		pp. 40-46
pdf ps bib Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm
Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins and Mark Johnson 		pp. 47-54
pdf ps bib Statistical Modeling for Unit Selection in Speech Synthesis
Mehryar Mohri, Cyril Allauzen and Michael Riley 		pp. 55-62
pdf ps bib Developing a Flexible Spoken Dialog System Using Simulation
Grace Chung 		pp. 63-70
pdf ps bib Data-Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System
Hilda Hardy, Tomek Strzalkowski, Min Wu, Cristian Ursu, Nick Webb, Alan Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye and Ashley McKenzie 		pp. 71-78
pdf ps bib Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentations in Spoken Dialog Systems
Amanda Stent, Rashmi Prassad and Marilyn Walker 		pp. 79-86
pdf ps bib User Expertise Modeling and Adaptivity in a Speech-Based E-Mail System
Kristiina Jokinen and Kari Kanto 		pp. 87-94
pdf ps bib Discriminative Training of a Neural Network Statistical Parser
James Henderson 		pp. 95-102
pdf ps bib Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models
Stephen Clark and James R. Curran 		pp. 103-110
pdf ps bib Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm
Michael Collins and Brian Roark 		pp. 111-118
pdf ps bib Convolution Kernels with Feature Selection for Natural Language Processing Tasks
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki and Eisaku Maeda 		pp. 119-126
pdf ps bib Improving Pronoun Resolution by Incorporating Coreferential Information of Candidates
Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou and Chew-Lim Tan 		pp. 127-134
pdf ps bib A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based On the Bell Tree
Xiaoqiang Luo, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos 		pp. 135-142
pdf ps bib Learning to Resolve Bridging References
Massimo Poesio, Rahul Mehta, Axel Maroudas and Janet Hitzeman 		pp. 143-150
pdf ps bib Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Conference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization
Vincent Ng 		pp. 151-158
pdf ps bib A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration
Haizhou Li, Min Zhang and Jian Su 		pp. 159-166
pdf ps bib Collocation Translation Acquisition Using Monolingual Corpora
Yajuan Lü and Ming Zhou 		pp. 167-174
pdf ps bib Statistical Machine Translation with Word- and Sentence-Aligned Parallel Corpora
Chris Callison-Burch, David Talbot and Miles Osborne 		pp. 175-182
pdf ps bib Finding Ideographic Representations of Japanese Names Written in Latin Script via Language Identification and Corpus Validation
Yan Qu and Gregory Grefenstette 		pp. 183-190
pdf ps bib Extracting Regulatory Gene Expression Networks From Pubmed
Jasmin Saric, Lars J. Jensen, Peer Bork, Rossitza Ouzounova and Isabel Rojas 		pp. 191-198
pdf ps bib Linguistic Profiling for Authorship Recognition and Verification
Hans van Halteren 		pp. 199-206
pdf ps bib An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task
Enrique Amigo, Julio Gonzalo, Victor Peinado, Anselmo Peñas and Felisa Verdejo 		pp. 207-214
pdf ps bib Mining Metalinguistic Activity in Corpora to Create Lexical Resources Using Information Extraction Techniques: the MOP System
Carlos Rodriguez Penagos 		pp. 215-222
pdf ps bib Optimizing Typed Feature Structure Grammar Parsing through Non-Statistical Indexing
Cosmin Munteanu and Gerald Penn 		pp. 223-230
pdf ps bib Head-Driven Parsing for Word Lattices
Christopher Collins, Bob Carpenter and Gerald Penn 		pp. 231-238
pdf ps bib Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying
Gerald Penn 		pp. 239-246
pdf ps bib Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis
Ruth Fuchss, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren and Stefan Thater 		pp. 247-254
pdf ps bib Learning with Unlabeled Data for Text Categorization Using a Bootstrapping and a Feature Projection Technique
Youngjoong Ko and Jungyun Seo 		pp. 255-262
pdf ps bib The Sentimental Factor: Improving Review Classification Via Human-Provided Information
Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan 		pp. 263-270
pdf ps bib A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts
Bo Pang and Lillian Lee 		pp. 271-278
pdf ps bib Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text
Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds and John Carroll 		pp. 279-286
pdf ps bib Unsupervised Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Probabilistic Models
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor and Yoshua Bengio 		pp. 287-294
pdf ps bib Chinese Verb Sense Discrimination Using an EM Clustering Model with Rich Linguistic Features
Jinying Chen and Martha Palmer 		pp. 295-302
pdf ps bib Relieving the data Acquisition Bottleneck in Word Sense Disambiguation
Mona Diab 		pp. 303-310
pdf ps bib Enriching the Output of a Parser Using Memory-based Learning
Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke 		pp. 311-318
pdf ps bib Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations
Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way 		pp. 319-326
pdf ps bib Deep Dependencies from Context-Free Statistical Parsers: Correcting the Surface Dependency Approximation
Roger Levy and Christopher Manning 		pp. 327-334
pdf ps bib A Study on Convolution Kernels for Shallow Statistic Parsing
Alessandro Moschitti 		pp. 335-342
pdf ps bib Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Malte Gabsdil and Oliver Lemon 		pp. 343-350
pdf ps bib Predicting Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues
Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley 		pp. 351-358
pdf ps bib Building Verb Predicates: A Computational View
Fernando Gomez 		pp. 359-366
pdf ps bib Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II Treebank
Ruth O'Donovan, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way 		pp. 367-374
pdf ps bib Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE
Rebecca Green, Bonnie J. Dorr and Philip Resnik 		pp. 375-382
pdf ps bib Paragraph-, Word-, and Coherence-based Approaches to Sentence Ranking: A Comparison of Algorithm and Human Performance
Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson 		pp. 383-390
pdf ps bib Evaluating Centering-Based Metrics of Coherence
Nikiforos Karamanis, Massimo Poesio, Chris Mellish and Jon Oberlander 		pp. 391-398
pdf ps bib Computing Locally Coherent Discourses
Ernst Althaus, Nikiforos Karamanis and Alexander Koller 		pp. 399-406
pdf ps bib Generating Referring Expressions in Open Domains
Advaith Siddharthan and Ann Copestake 		pp. 407-414
pdf ps bib Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora
Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine and Ralph Grishman 		pp. 415-422
pdf ps bib Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction
Aron Culotta and Jeffrey Sorensen 		pp. 423-429
pdf ps bib Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Texts
Barbara Rosario and Marti Hearst 		pp. 430-437
pdf ps bib Collective Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond Mooney 		pp. 438-445
pdf ps bib Error Mining for Wide-Coverage Grammar Engineering
Gertjan van Noord 		pp. 446-453
pdf ps bib Alternative approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules
Gabriel Infante-Lopez and Maarten de Rijke 		pp. 454-461
pdf ps bib Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation
Jianfeng Gao, Andi Wu, Cheng-Ning Huang, Hong qiao Li, Xinsong Xia and Hauwei Qin 		pp. 462-469
pdf ps bib Experiments in parallel-text based grammar induction
Jonas Kuhn 		pp. 470-477
pdf ps bib Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency
Dan Klein and Christopher Manning 		pp. 478-485
pdf ps bib Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner 		pp. 486-493
pdf ps bib Multi-Engine Machine Translation with Voted Language Model
Tadashi Nomoto 		pp. 494-501
pdf ps bib Aligning words using matrix factorisation
Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada and Eric Gaussier 		pp. 502-509
pdf ps bib FSA: An Efficient and Flexible C++ Toolkit for Finite State Automata Using On-Demand Computation
Stephan Kanthak and Hermann Ney 		pp. 510-517
pdf ps bib Improving IBM Word Alignment Model 1
Robert C. Moore 		pp. 518-525
pdf ps bib A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Eric Gaussier, J.M. Renders, I. Matveeva, C. Goutte and H. Dejean 		pp. 526-533
pdf ps bib Creating Multilingual Translation Lexicons with Regional Variations Using Web Corpora
Pu-Jen Cheng, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jei-Wen Teng and Lee-Feng Chien 		pp. 534-541
pdf ps bib Probabilistic Parsing Strategies
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta 		pp. 542-549
pdf ps bib An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta 		pp. 550-557
pdf ps bib Wrapping of Trees
James Rogers 		pp. 558-565
pdf ps bib Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems
E. Saquete, P. Martínez-Barco, R. Muñoz and J.L. Vicedo 		pp. 566-573
pdf ps bib Question Answering Using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-By-Dossier-With-Contraints
John Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll and Krzysztof Czuba 		pp. 574-581
pdf ps bib Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution
Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Guihong Cao and Chunfa Yuan 		pp. 582-588
pdf ps bib Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou and Chew-Lim Tan 		pp. 589-596
pdf ps bib Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction
Cheng Niu, Wei Li and Rohini K. Srihari 		pp. 597-604
pdf ps bib Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics
Chin-Yew Lin and Franz Josef Och 		pp. 605-612
pdf ps bib A Unified Framework For Automatic Evaluation Using 4-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics
Radu Soricut and Eric Brill 		pp. 613-620
pdf ps bib Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings
Bogdan Babych and Tony Hartley 		pp. 621-628
pdf ps bib Learning Word Sense With Feature Selection and Order Identification Capabilities
Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji and Chew-Lim Tan 		pp. 629-636
pdf ps bib A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation
Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su and Marine Carpuat 		pp. 637-644
pdf ps bib Using Linguistic Principles to Recover Empty Categories
Richard Campbell 		pp. 645-652
pdf ps bib Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing
I. Dan Melamed 		pp. 653-660
pdf ps bib Generalized Multitext Grammars
I. Dan Melamed, Giorgio Satta and Benjamin Wellington 		pp. 661-668
pdf ps bib Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies
Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg and Elizabeth Shriberg 		pp. 669-676
pdf ps bib Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
Michelle Gregory and Yasemin Altun 		pp. 677-683
pdf ps bib Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers
Ben Hutchinson 		pp. 684-691
pdf ps bib FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification
Riccardo Serafin and Barbara Di Eugenio 		pp. 692-699