| Sunday, May 2 | |
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Reception: All Invited |
| Monday, May 3 | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Conference Welcome |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Keynote Speaker I:
Andrei Broder Ten Years of Web Search Technology |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Information Extraction I | |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking R Florian, H Hassan, A Ittycheriah, H Jing, N Kambhatla, X Luo, N Nicolov and S Roukos |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus Chung Heong Gooi and James Allan |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Robust Reading: Identification and Tracing of Ambiguous Names Xin Li, Paul Morie and Dan Roth |
| Dialogue and Discourse | |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment Jacob Eisenstein and C. Mario Christoudias |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System Srinivas Bangalore and Michael Johnston |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models Tim Paek and Eric Horvitz |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| Question Answering I | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid Radu Soricut and Eric Brill | 2:20 - 2:45 | A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R Greiff and Lisa Ferro |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents Keiji Shinzato and Kentaro Torisawa |
| Syntax and Semantics I | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does Michelle Gregory, Mark Johnson and Eugene Charniak |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection Miles Osborne and Jason Baldridge |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing Ron Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H King, John T Maxwell III, Alex Vasserman and Richard Crouch |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Training Tree Transducers Jonathan Graehl and Kevin Knight |
| 3:15 - 4:00 | Award and Demo |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Break |
| 4:15 - 6:00 | Poster and Demo Session |
| Tuesday, May 4 | |
| Human Language Technology | |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval Murat Saraclar and Richard Sproat |
| 10:15-10:45 | Break |
| Speech, Summarisation and Discourse | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning Joungbum Kim, Sarah E Schwarm and Mari Ostendorf |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method Ani Nenkova and Rebecca Passonneau |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides |
| Machine Translation I | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Anoop Sarkar, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, Libin Shen, David Smith, Katherine Eng, Viren Jain, Zhen Jin and Dragomir Radev |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation Shankar Kumar and William Byrne |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar and Franz Josef Och |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| Information Retrieval and Language Modelling | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu and Claudia Gentile |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty Kevyn Collins-Thompson and James P Callan |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman |
| Short Papers: Speech Recognition and Applications | |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition Karen Livescu and James Glass |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation Jeremy G. Kahn, Mari Ostendorf and Ciprian Chelba |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Comparison of Rule-Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement Ruhi Srikaya, Yuqing Gao and Michael Picheny |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Correction Grammars for Error Handling in a Speech Dialog System Hirohiko Sagawa, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, A. Stolcke, Y. Liu and E. Shriberg |
| Short Papers: Language Modelling and Machine Translation | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Multi-Speaker Language Modeling Gang Ji and Jeffrey Bilmes |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Computational Linkuistics: Word Triggers across Hyperlinks Dragomir Radev, Hong Qi, Adam Winkel and Daniel Tam |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation Christoph Tillman |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation Young-Suk Lee |
| Short Papers: Parsing and Ontologies | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation Emilia Soica and Marti A. Hearst |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging Kadri Hacioglu |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet Benfeng Chen and Pascale Fung |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese Sameer S. Pradhan, Honglin Sun, Wayne Ward, James H.Martin, and Dan Jurafsky |
| 3:45-4:15 | Break |
| Dialogue and Information Retrieval | |
| 4:15 - 4:40 | The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction Robert Porzel and Manja Baudis |
| 4:40 - 5:05 | Non-Native Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch Antoine Raux and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 5:05 - 5:30 | Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques Olga Vechtomova and Murat Karamuftuoglu |
| Syntax and Semantics II | |
| 4:15 - 4:40 | Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines Sameer S Pradhan, Wayne H Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H Martin and Dan Jurafsky |
| 4:40 - 5:05 | Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Okamoto and Sadao Kurohashi |
| 5:05 - 5:30 | Shallow Semantc Parsing of Chinese Honglin Sun and Daniel Jurafsky |
| 7:00 | Banquet |
| Wednesday, May 5 | |
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Keynote Speaker II:
Jill Burstein Automated Essay Evaluation: From NLP Research through Deployment as a Business |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Break |
| Machine Translation II | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens and Hermann Ney |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Alexander Fraser and Daniel Marcu |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | What's in a translation rule? Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Improving Named Entity Translation Combining Phonetic and Semantic Similarities Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel |
| Information Extraction II | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation Andrew Kehler, Douglas Appelt, Lara Taylor and Aleksandr Simma |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution David Bean and Ellen Riloff |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Exponential Priors for Maximum Entropy Models Joshua Goodman |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Multiple Similarity Measures and Source-Pair Information in Story Link Detection Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat and Thorsten Brants |
| 12:25 - 1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45 - 2:45 | NAACL Business Meeting |
| Short Papers: Statistical Techniques, Summarisation and IR | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation Andrew Kehler, Douglas Appelt, Lara Taylor and Aleksandr Simma |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points Andrew Rosenberg and Ed Binkowski |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Using N-Grams To Understand the Nature of Summaries Michele Banko and Lucy Vanderwende |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Web Search Intent Induction via Automatic Query Reformulation Hal Daume III and Eric Brill |
| Short Papers: Multimodal Representation and Processing | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis for Multimodal Reference Resolution in a Conversation System Joyce Y. Chai, Zahar Prasov and Pengyu Hong |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom, Sarel van Vuuren and Ronald Cole |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | A Speech-in List-out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces Vijay Divi, C. Forlines, Jan Van Gemert, Bhiksha Raj, B. Schmidt-Nielsen, Kent Wittenburg Joseph Woelfel and Fang-Fang Zhang |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Converting a Text into Agent Animations: Assigning Gestures to a Text Yukiko I. Nakano, Masashi Okamoto, Daisuke Kawahara, Qing Li and Toyoaki Nishida |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Break |
| Question Answering II | |
| 4:15 - 4:40 | Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes Patrick Pantel and Deepak Ravichandran |
| 4:40 - 5:05 | Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields Fuchun Peng and Andrew McCallum |
| 5:05 - 5:30 | Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness and Alex Zamanian |
| 5:30 | Conference End |
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