HLT/NAACL 2004

May 2-7, 2004
The Park Plaza Hotel,
one block from the
Boston Common

Full Papers   Short Papers   Posters

Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection

Jason Baldridge and Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh)

Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System

Srinivas Bangalore and Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs-Research)

Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization

Regina Barzilay (MIT) and Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution

David Bean and Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)

Multiple Similarity Measures and Source-Pair Information in Story Link Detection

Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, and Thorsten Brants (Palo Alto Research Center)

A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment

Jacob Eisenstein and C. Mario Christoudias (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking

Radu Florian, H. Hassan (*), A. Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, X. Luo, Nicolas Nicolov, Salim Roukos, and T. Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, *IBM Egypt)

What's in a translation rule?

Michel Galley (Columbia University), Mark Hopkins (UCLA), Kevin Knight (USC/ISI), and Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI)

Training Tree Transducers

Jonathan Graehl and Kevin Knight (USC/ISI)

Exponential Priors for Maximum Entropy Models

Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research)

Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does

Michelle Gregory (Buffalo), Mark Johnson (Brown), and Eugene Charniak (Brown)

Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus

Chung Heong Gooi and James Allan (UMass)

Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays

Derrick Higgins (ETS), Jill Burstein (ETS), Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI), and Claudia Gentile (ETS)

Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources

Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, and Jimmy Lin (MIT CSAIL)

Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models

Tim Paek and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)

Improving Named Entity Translation Combining Phonetic and Semantic Similarities

Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel, and Alex Waibel (CMU/LTI)

Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web

Nobuhiro Kaji (Tokyo University), Masashi Okamoto (Osaka University), and Sadao Kurohashi (Tokyo University)

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 (Palo Alto Research Center)

The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation

Andrew Kehler (UCSD Linguistics), Douglas Appelt (SRI International), Lara Taylor (UCSD Linguistics), and Aleksandr Simma (UCSD Computer Science)

Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning

Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, and Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)

Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation

Shankar Kumar and William Byrne (JHU)

A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations

Rense Lange (Integrated Knowledge Systems & the Illinois State Board of Education), Juan Moran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Warren R. Greiff (MITRE), and Lisa Ferro (MITRE)

The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks

Mirella Lapata (University of Sheffield) and Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)

Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations

Mirella Lapata (University of Sheffield) and Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)

Robust Reading of Ambiguous Writing

Xin Li, Paul Morie, and Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources

Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley (University of Pittsburgh)

A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan (CMU/LTI)

Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training

Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness, Alex Zamanian (BBN)

Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora

Dragos Munteanu, Alexander Fraser, and Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI)

Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method

Ani Nenkova and Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University)

A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation

Franz Josef Och (USC/ISI), Daniel Gildea (Rochester University), Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU), Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University), Kenji Yamada (PARC), Alex Fraser (USC/ISI), Shankar Kumar (JHU), Libin Shen (UPenn), David Smith (JHU), Katherine Eng (Stanford University), Viren Jain (UPenn), Zhen Jin (Mt Holyoke), and Dragomir Radev (UMich)

Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes

Patrick Pantel (USC/ISI) and Deepak Ravichandran (USC/ISI)

Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields

Fuchun Peng and Andrew McCallum (UMass)

Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines

Sameer S. Pradhan (University of Colorado at Boulder), Wayne H. Ward (University of Colorado at Boulder), Kadri Hacioglu (University of Colorado at Boulder), James H. Martin (University of Colorado at Boulder), and Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)

The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction

Robert Porzel and Manja Baudis (European Media Laboratory, GmbH)

Non-Native Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch

Antoine Raux and Maxine Eskenazi (CMU/LTI)

Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval

Murat Saraclar (AT&T Research Labs) and Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation

Libin Shen (UPenn), Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University), and Franz Josef Och (USC/ISI)

Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents

Keiji Shinzato and Kentaro Torisawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid

Radu Soricut (USC/ISI) and Eric Brill (Microsoft Research)

Shallow Semantc Parsing of Chinese

Honglin Sun and Daniel Jurafsky (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques

Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo) and Murat Karamuftuoglu (Bilkent University)

Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Richard Zens and Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen)

Using N-Grams To Understand the Nature of Summaries

Michele Banko and Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research)

Multi-Speaker Language Modeling

Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington, Seattle)

Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis for Multimodal Reference Resolution in a Conversation System

Joyce Y. Chai (Michigan State University), Zahar Prasov (Michigan State University), and (Pengyu Hong - Harvard University)

Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet

Benfeng Chen and Pascale Fung (HKUST)

Web Search Intent Induction via Automatic Query Reformulation

Hal Daume III (USC/ISI) and Eric Brill (Microsoft Research)

A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging

Kadri Hacioglu (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor

Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom, Sarel van Vuuren, and Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Improving Automatic Sentence Boundary Detection with Confusion Networks

Dustin Hillard (University of Washington, SSLI), Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington, SSLI), and Andreas Stolcke (SRI/ICSI)

A Comparison of Rule--Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement

Ruhi Srikaya, Yuqing Gao, and Michael Picheny (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Converting a Text into a Narration by an Animated Agent: Assigning Gestures to a Text

Yukiko I. Nakano, Masashi Okamoto, Daisuke Kawahara, Qing Li, and Toyoaki Nishida (Japan Science and Technology Corporation)

Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation

Jeremy G. Kahn (University of Washington, SSLI), Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington, SSLI), and Ciprian Chelba (Microsoft Research)

Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation

Andrew Kehler (UCSD Linguistics), Douglas Appelt (SRI International), Lara Taylor (UCSD Linguistics), and Aleksandr Simma (UCSD Computer Science)

Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation

Young-Suk Lee (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition

Karen Livescu and James Glass (MIT CSAIL)

Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese

Sameer S. Pradhan (University of Colorado at Boulder), Honglin Sun (University of Colorado at Boulder), Wayne Ward (University of Colorado at Boulder), James H.Martin (University of Colorado at Boulder), and Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)

Computational Linkuistics: word triggers across hyperlinks

Dragomir Radev, Hong Qi, Adam Winkel, and Daniel Tam (UMich)

A speech-in list-out approach to spoken user interfaces

Bhiksha Raj, Peter Wolf, Joe Woelfel, Jan Van Gemert (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs)

Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points

Andrew Rosenberg (Columbia University) and Ed Binkowski (Hunter College)

Correction Grammars for Error Handling in a Speech Dialog System

Hirohiko Sagawa, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg (CMU/LTI)

Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation

Emilia Stoica and Marti Hearst (University of California at Berkeley)

A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation

Christoph Tillmann (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Language model adaptation with MAP estimation and the perceptron algorithm

Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, and Murat Saraclar (AT&T Research Labs)

Confidence Estimation for Information Extraction

Aron Culotta and Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks

Mona Diab (Stanford University), Kadri Hacioglu (University of Colorado at Boulder), and Daniel Jurafsky (Stanford University)

Enhancing Linguistically Oriented Automatic Keyword Extraction

Anette Hulth (Stockholm University)

MMR-based Feature Selection for Text Categorization

Changki Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science & Technology)

Prosody-based Topic Segmentation for Mandarin Broadcast News

Gina-Anne Levow (University of Chicago)

Automated Team Discourse Annotation and Performance Prediction Using LSA

Melanie J. Martin and Peter W. Foltz (New Mexico State University)

Direct Maximization of Average Precision by Hill-Climbing, with a Comparison to a Maximum Entropy Approach

William Morgan, Warren Greiff, John Henderson (MITRE)

Feature Selection for Trainable Multilingual Broadcast News Segmentation

David D. Palmer, Marc Reichman, and Elyes Yaich (Virage)

Example-based Rescoring of Statistical Machine Translation Output

Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita, and Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR-SLT)

Summarizing Email Threads

Owen Rambow (Columbia University), Lokesh Shrestha (Columbia University), John Chen (Microsoft Research Asia), and Christy Laurdisen (IBM)

UI on the Fly: Generating a Multimodal User Interface

David Reitter (Media Lab Europe), Erin Panttaja (Media Lab Europe), and Fred Cummins (University College Dublin)

Context-based Speech Recognition Error Detection and Correction

Arup Sarma and David D. Palmer (Virage)

Polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in type-logical grammar

Chung-chieh Shan (Harvard University)

HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Analytical Question Answering

Sharon Small and Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY Albany/ILS Institute)

A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection

Matthew Snover (UMD), Bonnie Dorr (UMD), and Rich Schwartz (BBN)

Speech Graffiti vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience

Stefanie Tomko and Roni Rosenfeld (CMU/LTI)

An Empirical Study on Multiple LVCSR Model Combination by Machine Learning

Takehito Utsuro (Kyoto University), Yasuhiro Kodama (Sony), Tomohiro Watanabe (Toyohashi University), Hiromitsu Nishizaki (Yamanashi University), and Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi University)

Using N-best list for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech

Lufeng Zhai (HKUST), Pascale Fung (HKUST), Richard Schwartz (BBN), Marine Carpuat (HKUST), and Dekai Wu (HKUST)