LIST of ACCEPTED PAPERS

 

The notification starts on Sunday July 24th and will finish on Tuesday July 26th

 

 

Regular papers

 

8: Customizing Sentiment Classifiers to New Domains: a Case Study

Anthony Aue, Michael Gamon

 

20: The SenSem Project: syntactico-semantic annotation of sentences in Spanish

Laura Alonso, Joan Antoni Capilla, Irene Castellón, Ana Fernández-Montraveta, Gloria Vázquez

 

28: Exploiting Linguistic Cues to Classify Rhetorical Relations

Caroline Sporleder, Alex Lascarides

 

30: A Practically Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Single-Snippet Answers to Definition Questions on the Web

Ion Androutsopoulos, Dimitrios Galanis

 

39: One Step toward a Richer Model of Unsupervised Grammar Induction

Heshaam Feili, Gholam-Reza Ghassem-Sani

 

50: A Data-driven Approach to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution for German

Erhard W. Hinrichs, Katja Filippova, HolgerWunsch

 

51: How Do Treebank Annotation Schemes Influence Parsing Results? Or How Not to Compare Apples And Oranges

Sandra Kübler

 

59: Optimizing information retrieval in question answering using syntactic annotation

Jörg Tiedemann

 

60: Tree Edit Distance for Textual Entailment

Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini

 

64. A Simple WWW-based Method for Semantic Word Class Acquisition

Keiji Shinzato, Kentaro Torisawa

 

65: Text Semantic Similarity, with Applications

Courtney Corley, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea

 

66: Using the Essence of Texts to Improve Document Categorization

Rada Mihalcea, Samer Hassan

 

77: Document Classification Using Semantic Networks with An Adaptive Similarity Measure

Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, and Tapio Salakoski

 

81: Semantic Indexing using Minimum Redundancy Cut in Ontologies

Florian Seydoux, Jean-Cédric Chappelier

 

82: Speeding up the training with Tree Kernels for Node Relation Labeling

Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa

 

89: Automatic Building of Wordnets

Eduard Barbu, Verginica Barbu Mititelu

 

90: Disambiguating Coordinations Using Word Distribution Information

Francis Chantree, Adam Kilgarriff, Anne de Roeck, Alistair Willis

 

97: Very Frequent Function Words do not Distribute Homogeneously

Avik Sarkar, Anne De Roeck, Paul H Garthwaite

 

104: Automatically Learning Cognitive Status for Multi-Document Summarization of Newswire

Ani Nenkova, Advaith Siddharthan, Kathleen McKeown

 

108: Multi-Perspective Evaluation of the FAME Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, English and Spanish

Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell

 

110: Paradigmatic Modifiability Statistics for the Recognition of Complex Multi-Word Terms

Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn

 

114: Lexico-Syntactic Subsumption for Textual Entailment

Vasile Rus, Art Graesser, Kirtan Desai

 

116: Lexical Transfer Selection Using Annotated Parallel Corpora

Stelios Piperidis, Panagiotis Dimitrakis, Irene Balta

 

129: Using Semantic Relations to Refine Coreference Decisions

Heng Ji, David Westbrook, Ralph Grishman

 

133: Parallel corpora for medium density languages

Dániel Varga, Péter Halácsy, András Kornai, Viktor Nagy, László Németh, Viktor Trón

 

139: Indexing and Querying Linguistic Metadata and Document Content

Niraj Aswani, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham

 

143: Data-driven approaches for Information Structure Identification

Oana Postolache, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff

 

144: Terms Representation with Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis

Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow, Ayman Farahat, Christiaan Royer

 

146: Exploiting Parallel Texts to Produce a Multilingual Sense Tagged Corpus for Word Sense Disambiguation

Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças V. Nunes, Mark Stevenson

 

 

(Selection rate of the regular papers: 18%)

 

 

Short papers

 

9: Persian word order is free but not discontinuous

Allan Ramsay, Najmeh Ahmed, Vahid Mirzaeian

 

11: Truecasing for the PORTAGE system

Akakpo Agbago, Roland Kuhn, George Foster

 

16: About the effects of using Anaphora Resolution in assessing free-text student answers

Diana Pérez, Oana Postolache, Enrique Alfonseca, Dan Cristea and Pilar Rodriguez

 

17: The Use of Causal Expressions for Abstracting and Question Answering

Christopher Paice, William Black

 

31: Using context-window overlapping in synonym discovery and ontology population

María Ruiz-Casado, Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells

 

32: Unsupervised, Knowledge-Free Morpheme Boundary Detection

Stefan Bordag

 

33: Knowledge-Poor Approach to Dependency Parsing: Dependency parsing based on Morpho-Syntactic Information

Julia Trushkina

 

35: Context-Based Ranking of Suggestions for Spelling Correction

Julia Trushkina

 

41: Exploring Features to Identify Semantic Nearest Neighbours: A Case Study on German Particle Verbs

Sabine Schulte im Walde

 

42: A Proposal For An Arabic Named Entity Tagger Leveraging a Parallel Corpus

Doaa Samy, Antonio Moreno, Josè Ma Guirao

 

43: Automatic Identification of Cognates and False Friends in French and English

Diana Inkpen, Oana Frunza, Grzegorz Kondrak

 

45: Towards large-scale, open-domain and ontology-based named entity classification

Philipp Cimiano, Johanna Voëlker

 

52: Extracting Predicate Structures from Parse Trees

Manfred Klenner

 

53: Exploring feature spaces with SVD and unlabeled data for Word Sense Disambiguation

Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, David Martínez

 

62: Summarizing Reports on Evolving Events; Part I: Linear Evolution

Stergos D. Afantenos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos

 

63. Automation of Summary Evaluation by the Pyramid Method

Aaron Harnly, Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau, Owen Rambow

 

69: Estimating Grammaticality from a Small Corpus

Asad B. Sayeed, Stan Szpakowicz

 

71: Target-Language-Driven Agglomerative Part-of-Speech Tag Clustering for Machine Translation

Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada

 

76: Assigning Function Labels to Unparsed Text

Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo

 

79: Building a Cross-lingual Referential Knowledge Database using Dictionaries

Shigeko Nariyama, Takaaki Tanaka, Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Hiromi Nakaiwa

 

80: An Integrated approach to Word Sense Disambiguation

Jordi Atserias, Lluís Padró, German Rigau

 

83: Feature Selection for Electronic Negotiation Texts

Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Mohak Shah, Stan Szpakowicz

 

101: Multilingual Lexical Acquisition by Bootstrapping Cognate Seed Lexicons

Kornél Markó, Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn

 

106: Robust stochastic parsing using optimal maximum coverage

Vladimír Kadlec, Marita Ailomaa, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Martin Rajman

 

107: Temporally Ordering Event Instances in Natural Language Texts

Argyrios Vasilakopoulos, William J. Black

 

112: Noun Phrases and Named Entities in Biomedical Texts: Does Domain Change without Retraining Matter?

Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter, Juliane Fluck

 

120: Comparing methods for authomatic acquisition of Topic Signatures

Montse Cuadros, Lluis Padro, German Rigau

 

122: Selecting Features for Semantic Roles in QA Systems

P. Moreda, M. Palomar

 

123: A framework for representing and managing linguistic annotations based on typed feature structures

X. Artola, A. Díaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, K. Gojenola, G. Labaka, A. Sologaistoa, A. Soroa

 

124: Enough is Enough --- Estimating Upper Bounds of the Size of Training Corpora for Unsupervised PP Attachment Disambiguation

Michael Poprat

 

131: Syntactic Identification of Attribution in the RST Treebank

Peter Rossen Skadhauge, Daniel Hardt

 

140: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Co-Occurrence Statistics on Random Labels

Martin Hassel

 

141: Faking Errors to Avoid Making Errors: Very Weakly Supervised Learning for Error Detection in Writing

Jonas Sjöbergh, Ola Knutsson

 

145: Optimizing the subtasks in the double classification approach to information extraction

Viktor Pekar, Richard Evans

 

148: Tree Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Role Labelling

Trevor Cohn, Philip Blunsom

 

152: Adapting Lexical Chaining to Summarize Conversational Dialogues

Iryna Gurevych, Thade Nahnsen

 

153: On the Instability of Using Search Engine Page Hits as a Proxy for n-gram Frequencies

Preslav Nakov, Marti Hearst

 

164: Integrating NLP Tools to Support Information Access to News Archives

H. Saggion, E. Barker, R. Gaizauskas, Jonathan Foster, A. Dali

 

168: Concept-centred summarisation: producing glossary entries for terms using summarisation methods

Le An Ha, Constantin Orasan

 

170: SpeechLab 2.0 -- A High-Quality Text-to-Speech System for Bulgarian

Maria Andreeva, Ivaylo Marinov, Stoyan Mihov

 

 

(Selection rate of the regular and short papers: 44%)

 

 

POSTERS

 

15: Discovering Topic Boundaries for Text Summarization based on Word Co-occurrence

Gaël Dias, Elsa Alves

 

18: Finite-State Morphology of Estonian: Two-Levelness Extended

Heli Uibo

 

19: Temporal Semantic Structure Modeling and Processing in Chinese Sentences

Jin Du, Yiping.Yang, Junfang.Zeng

 

25: Partial Forest Transfer for Spoken Language Translation

Tetsuro Chino, Satoshi Kamatani

 

27: Parameter reduction in unsupervised trained sliding-window part-of-speech taggers

Enrique Sánchez-Villamil, Mikel L. Forcada, Rafael C. Carrasco

 

34: On Measurement of Semantic Information and Valency of the English Written Text

Nataliya Fedyushkina, Nadya Vishnyakova

 

38: A corpus-based model for bridging anaphora resolution in Italian.

Tommaso Caselli, Irina Prodanof

 

40: Spelling Correction in Context

Guillaume Pinot, Chantal Enguehard

 

47: Recognition of Personal Names in Serbian Texts

Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas, Sandra Gucul

 

48: Guidelines for the syntactico-semantic annotation of a corpus  in Spanish

Gloria Vázquez, Ana Fernández-Montraveta, Laura Alonso

 

49: Using Wikipedia Link-Markup and Unlabeled Data to Bootstrap Features for German Named Entity Recognition

Marc Rössler

 

54: Improving Online Machine Translation Systems

Bart Mellebeek, Anna Khasin, Josef Van Genabith, Andy Way

 

56: Handling Corrupt Input in Domain-specific Spoken Dialogue Systems

Wei-Lin Wu, Ru-Zhan Lu, Feng Gao, Hui Liu

 

57: Analysis and Visualization for Daily Newspaper Corpora

Matthias Richter

 

61: Composite Topics in Discourse

Frédérik Bilhaut

 

67: Pattern Ambiguity and its Resolution in English to Hindi Translation

Niladri Chatterjee, Shailly Goyal, Anjali Naithani

 

70: Automatic Acquisition of Expressions Representing Preparation and Utilization of an Object

Kentaro Torisawa

 

74: Using Language Portable Detection for Spanish Named Entity  Recognition

Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferrández,  Andres Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz

 

75: Self-training and Co-training applied to Spanish Named Entity Recognition

Zornitsa Kozareva, Boyan Bonev, Andres Montoyo

 

78: Formal Semantics for Dependency Grammars

Alexander Dikovsky

 

84: Automatic Import of Verbal Syntactic Relations Using Parallel Corpora

Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Radu Ion

 

86: The Intersection of Latent Semantic Analysis and Educational Applications: A Research Taxonomy

Debra Trusso Haley, Pete Thomas, Anne DeRoeck, Marian Petre

 

91: An Algorithm Detecting and Tracing Errors in ICALL Systems

Veit Reuer, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

 

92: Knowledge based Feature Engineering using Text Sense Representation Trees

Ronald Winnemöller

 

98: Knowledge Acquisition Based on Automatically-Extracted Word Hierarchies from

Domain-Specific Texts

Eiko Yamamoto and Hitoshi Isahara

 

99: Compiling Two-Level Rules with Feature Structures into Finite-State Machines

François Barthélemy

 

100: Adapting a general parser to a sublanguage

Sophie Aubin, Adeline Nazarenko, Claire Nédellec

 

105: Evaluating corpus query systems on functionality and speed: TIGERSearch and Emdros

Ulrik Petersen

 

109: Visual Parser Builder

Dimitar Blagoev, George Totkov

 

111: An Example-Based Approach to Translating Sign Language

Sara Morrissey, Andy Way

 

115: Weak Named Entities Recognition using morphology and syntax

Antonio Toral, Rafael Muñoz, Andrès Montoyo

 

117: EAGLES compliant tagset for the morphosyntactic tagging of Esperanto

Antonio Toral, Sergio Ferrández, Andrés Montoyo

 

118: An interactive environment for creating and validating  syntactic rules

Panagiotis Bouros, Aggeliki Fotopoulou, Nicholas Glaros

 

121: Approaching Sequential NLP Tasks with an Automata Acquisition Algorithm

Muntsa Padró, Lluís Padró

 

127:  Lexicalization of Grammars with Parameterized Graphs

Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant

 

128: Comparison of Topic Identification methods for Arabic language

M. Abbas, K. Smaili

 

138: An Algorithm for the Semiautomatic Generation of WordNet Type Synsets with Special Reference to Romanian

Florentina Hristea, Cristina Vaţă

 

149: A Core Model of Systemic Linguistic Analysis

Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield

 

150: An advanced approach for English-Vietnamese syntactic tree transfer

DO Xuan Quang, NGUYEN Luu Ngan, DINH Dien

 

151: OLE - A New Ontology Learning Platform

Vít Nováček

 

154: Investigating the features that affect cue usage of non-native speakers of English

Xinyu Deng and Nakamura Jun-ichi

 

155: Towards the Automatic Derivation of Lexical Prototypes

Aleem Hossain, Mark G. Lee

 

159: Rapid methods for optimal text selection

Rahul Chitturi, Sebsibe H Mariam, Rohit Kumar

 

162: Knowledge Acquisition for Fine-grained Named Entity Classification

Olga Uryupina

 

163: Using NLP to build back-of-the-book indexes

Touria AÏT MEKKI, Adeline NAZARENKO

 

165: Finite State Morphological Analysis of Amharic for Parallel Text Alignment

Saba Amsalu, Dafydd Gibbon

 

169: A syntactic strategy for filtering sentences in a question answering

Vincent Barbier, Anne-Laure Ligozat

 

171: Using WordNet Similarity and Antonymy Relations to Aid Document

Thomas de Simone,  Dimitar Kazakov