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