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Sunday, April 22, 2007

6:00-9:00pm

Welcoming reception in the Galleria of the Rochester Convention Center, across St. Paul Street from the Hyatt Regency.

Monday, April 23, 2007

9:00-9:10	Opening Session
9:10-10:10	Invited talk by Franz Josef Och, Google Machine Translation at Google
10:10-10:40	Break
10:40-12:20	Paper Sessions
	Conversational speech	Machine Translation 1	Coreference
10:40-11:05	Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore and Shrikanth Narayanan	Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Rate of Accomplishment of Sub-goals Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Katsunori Kotani, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara	Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie
11:05-11:30	To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Dan Jurafsky, Sasha Calhoun, David Beaver and Laura Whitton	Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea	Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution Xiaoqiang Luo
11:30-11:55	Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue Fan Yang and Peter A. Heeman	Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation Kristina Toutanova and Hisami Suzuki	First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution Aron Culotta, Michael Wick and Andrew McCallum
11:55-12:20	What decisions have you made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations Pei-yun Hsueh and Johanna D. Moore	Direct Translation Model 2 Abraham Ittycheriah and Salim Roukos
12:20-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:15	Paper sesions
	Information retrieval models	Information extraction 1	Grammatical inference
2:00-2:25	Information Retrieval On Empty Fields Victor Lavrenko, Xing Yi and James Allan	A Systematic Exploration of The Feature Space for Relation Extraction Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai	Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo Mark Johnson, Thomas Griffiths and Sharon Goldwater
2:25-2:50	Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew Goldberg, Jurgen Van Gael and David Andrzejewski	Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni	Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules Daniel Gildea and Daniel Stefankovic
2:50-3:15	A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants Chris Biemann	The Domain Restriction Hypothesis: Relating Term Similarity and Semantic Consistency Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Marco Pennacchiotti and Patrick Pantel	High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng
3:45-5:05	Paper sessions
	Generation	Word senses	Frontiers of Information Retrieval
3:45-4:10	Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts Anja Belz	Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words Xiaofei Lu	Is Question Answering Better Than Information Retrieval? A Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series Jimmy Lin
4:10-4:35	Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that uses Statistical Machine Translation Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond Mooney	Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation Rada Mihalcea	A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them Giridhar Kumaran and James Allan
4:35-5:00	Lexicalized Markov Grammars for Sentence Compression Michel Galley	Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP Andrei Alexandrescu and Katrin Kirchhoff	Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy (Short Paper) Speech Summarization Without Lexical Features for Mandarin Broadcast News Jian Zhang and Pascale Fung (Short Paper)
5:30-8:00	Posters and demos
	Short Papers		Demonstrations
	Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning Hua Ai, Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman Automatic acquisition of grammatical types for nouns Nuria Bel, Sergio Espeja and Montserrat Marimon Conquest - an Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences Dan Bohus, Sergio Grau Puerto, David Huggins-Daines, Venkatesh Keri, Gopala Krishna, Rohit Kumar, Antoine Raux and Stefanie Tomko K-Best Suffix Arrays Kenneth Church, Bo Thiesson and Robert Ragno Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-gram-based Statistical Machine Translation Systems Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, David Vilar, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño and Hermann Ney Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes Jakob Elming and Nizar Habash A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification Jessica Enright and Grzegorz Kondrak A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems Olac Fuentes, David Vera and Thamar Solorio Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness Jiri Havelka Clustered Sub-matrix Singular Value Decomposition Fang Huang and Yorick Wilks Implicitly Supervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Transcription David Huggins-Daines and Alexander I. Rudnicky ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions Douglas Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Edward Gibson and Michael Emonts A Geometric Interpretation of Normalized Maximum Crosscorrelation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz Detection of Non-native Sentences using Machine-translated Training Data John Lee, Ming Zhou and Xiaohua Liu Look Who is Talking: Soundbite Speaker Name Recognition in Broadcast News Speech Feifan Liu and Yang Liu Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Relationship Extraction from Biomedical Articles Yudong Liu, Zhongmin Shi and Anoop Sarkar Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields Gideon Mann and Andrew McCallum Hybrid Document Indexing with Spectral Embedding Irina Matveeva and Gina-Anne Levow An integrated architecture for speech-input multi-target machine translation Alicia Pérez, M. Teresa González, M. Inés Torres and Francisco Casacuberta Stating with Certainty or Stating with Doubt: Intercoder Reliability Results for Manual Annotation of Epistemically Modalized Statements Victoria L. Rubin Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers using Partially Labeled Data Amarnag Subramanya and Jeff Bilmes A High Accuracy Method for Semi-supervised Information Extraction Stephen Tratz and Antonio Sanfilippo The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, John McCaw, Kathleen F. McCoy and Christopher Pennington Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions Guangwei Wang and Kenji Araki Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News Lei Xie, Chuan Liu and Helen Meng Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych and Max Mühlhäuser Selective Phrase Pair Extraction for Improved Statistical Machine Translation Luke Zettlemoyer and Robert Moore		Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift and William Taysom The Automated Text Adaptation Tool Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Yong-Won Lee and Matthew Ventura Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-Pita, Colin Matheson and Johanna D. Moore POSSLT: A Korean to English Spoken Language Translation System Donghyeon Lee, Jonghoon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee Automatic Segmentation and Summarization of Meeting Speech Gabriel Murray, Pei-Yun Hsueh, Simon Tucker, Jonathan Kilgour, Jean Carletta, Johanna D. Moore and Steve Renals Cedit Semantic Networks Manual Annotation Tool Václav Novák Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang and Chih-yu Chao RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar Svetlana Stenchikova, Basia Mucha, Sarah Hoffman and Amanda Stent The CALO Meeting Assistant L. Lynn Voss and Patrick Ehlen OMS-J: An Opinion Mining System for Japanese Weblog Reviews Using a Combination of Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches Guangwei Wang and Kenji Araki Learning to Find Transliteration on the Web Chien-Cheng Wu and Jason S. Chang A Conversational In-Car Dialog System Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, Madhuri Raya, Yao Meng, Sebastian Varges, Matthew Purver, Annie Lien, Tobias Scheideck, Badri Raghunathan, Feng Lin, Rohit Mishra, Brian Lathrop, Zhaoxia Zhang, Harry Bratt and Stanley Peters TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web Alexander Yates, Michele Banko, Matthew Broadhead, Michael Cafarella, Oren Etzioni and Stephen Soderland The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System Steve Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer and Hui Ye Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets Liang Zhou Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings Geoffrey Zweig, Y.C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero Doctoral consortium posters Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models Chris Biemann Query Expansion Using Domain Information in Compounds Karen Friberg Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Experiments Marie-Josée Goulet Combining Evidence for Improved Speech Retrieval J. Scott Olsson Dynamic Use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems Joana Paolo Pardal Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopeodia Simone Paolo Ponzetto Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structures of Natural Language Text Rajen Subba Semantic Frames in Romanian Natural Language Processing Systems Diana Marie Trandabat Knowledge-Based Labeling of Semantic Relationships in English Alicia Tribble Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing Qin Iris Wang

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

9:00-10:40	Plenary session
9:00-9:05	Award presentations
9:05-9:30	Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems Antti-Veikko Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz and Bonnie Dorr (Full paper)
9:30-9:55	Global, Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge (Student Paper)
9:55-10:10	Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane Litman and Joel Tetreault (Late-breaking news)
10:10-10:25	Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift and William Taysom
10:25-10:40	Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang and Chih-yu Chao
10:40-11:10	Break
11:10-12:25	Paper Sessions
	Text classification	Conversational systems	Extracting sentiment
11:10-11:35	Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures Emilia Stoica, Marti Hearst and Megan Richardson	Combining Reinformation Learning with Information-State Update Rules Peter Heeman	Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary Hiroya Takamura, Takashi Inui and Manabu Okumura
11:35-12:00	Tuning Jensen-Renyi Divergences with Statistically Similar Examples for Unsupervised Document Categorization via Iterative Denoising Trees Damianos Karakos, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur and Carey E. Priebe	Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: a Confidence Interval Approach Joel Tetreault, Dan Bohus and Diane Litman	Multiple Aspect Ranking using the Good Grief Algorithm Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay
12:00-12:25	Using "Annotator Rationales" to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner and Christine Piatko	An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Shaolin Qu and Joyce Chai	Extracting Appraisal Expressions Kenneth Bloom, Shlomo Argamon and Navendu Garg
12:25-2:00	Lunch
2:00-4:00	Short paper sessions
	Translation and tagging	Language understanding	Speech and IR
2:00-2:15	Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow	A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing Kun Yu, Sadao Kurohashi and Hao Liu	Joint versus Independent Phonological Feature Models within CRF Phone Recognition Ilana Bromberg, Jeremy Morris and Eric Fosler-Lussier
2:15-2:30	Tagging Icelandic Text Using a Linguistic and a Statistical Tagger Hrafn Loftsson	RH: A Retro-Hybrid Parser Paula Newman	On Using Articulatory Features for Discriminative Speaker Adaptation Florian Metze
2:30-2:45	Language Modeling for Determiner Selection Jenine Turner and Eugene Charniak	Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines Rohit Kate and Raymond Mooney	Reversible Sound-to-letter/Letter-to-sound Modeling based On Syllable Structure Stephanie Seneff
2:45-3:00	Joint Morphological-lexical Language Modeling for Machine Translation Ruhi Sarikaya and Yonggang Deng	Subtree Mining for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia Dat P.T. Nguyen, Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka	iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification Dustin Hillard, Bjoern Hoffmeister, Mari Ostendorf, Ralf Schlueter and Hermann Ney
3:00-3:15	Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation Patrik Lambert, Josep M. Crego and Rafael E. Banchs	Simultaneous Identification of Biomedical Named-Entity and Functional Relationship using Statistical Parsing Techniques Zhongmin Shi, Fred Popowich and Anoop Sarkar	Advances in the CMU/INTERACT Arabic GALE Transcription System Mohamed Noamany, Thomas Schaaf and Tanja Schultz
3:15-3:30	Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation Karim Filali and Jeff Bilmes	Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Cascaded Hybrid Model Xiaofeng YU	Are some Speech Recognition Errors Easier to Detect than Others? Yongmei Shi and Lina Zhou
3:30-3:45	Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor and Sandor Szedmak	Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem -- or is it? Marc Vilain, Jennifer Su and Suzi Lubar	Agenda-based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye and Steve Young
3:45-4:00	Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT? Sasa Hasan, Richard Zens and Hermann Ney	A Semi-automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation Liang Zhou, Namhee Kwon and Eduard Hovy	Document Similarity Measures to Distinguish Native vs. Non-Native Essay Writers Olga Gurevich and Paul Deane
4:00-4:30	Break
4:30-5:45	Paper sessions
	Information extraction 2	Words and similarity	Letters and sounds
4:30-4:55	Whose idea was this, and why does it matter? Attributing scientific work to citations Advaith Siddharthan and Simone Teufel	An integrated approach to measuring Semantic Similarity between Words using Information available on the Web Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka	A Log-linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian Lane and Stephan Vogel
4:55-5:20	Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection Paul N. Bennett and Jaime G. Carbonell	An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller	Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak and Tarek Sherif
5:20-5:45	Multi-Document Fusion Using Probabilistic Database Constraints Gideon Mann	Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus Diana Inkpen	Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages Mathias Creutz, Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Janne Pylkkönen, Vesa Siivola, Matti Varjokallio, Ebru Arisoy, Murat Saraclar and Andreas Stolcke
7:00	Banquet

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

9:00-10:00	Invited talk by Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University Human Computation
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:15	Panel: MINDS: High Impact Future Research Directions for HLT
11:15-12:00	NAACL Business Meeting
12:00-1:45	Lunch
1:45-3:25	Paper sessions
	Parsing	Semantics and discourse	Applications
1:45-2:10	Tree Revision Learning for Dependency Parsing Giuseppe Attardi and Massimiliano Ciaramita	A cascaded machine learning approach to interpreting temporal expressions David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk and Maarten de Rijke	Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinearized Text Fei Xia, William Lewis and Dan Jinguji
2:10-2:35	Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing Joakim Nivre	Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown and Owen Rambow	Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan and Maxine Eskenazi
2:35-3:00	Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing Slav Petrov and Dan Klein	A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil and Eugene Charniak	Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
3:00-3:25	Approximate Factoring for A* Search Aria Haghighi, John DeNero and Dan Klein	Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay and David Karger	Automatic and human scoring of word definition responses Kevyn Collins-Thompson and Jamie Callan
3:25-3:55	Break
3:55-5:35	Paper sessions
	Machine translation 2	Question answering	Semantics
3:55-4:20	A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara	Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions Christopher Pinchak and Shane Bergsma	Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres? Szu-ting Yi, Edward Loper and Martha Palmer
4:20-4:45	Efficient Phrase-table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation Richard Zens and Hermann Ney	A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si and Eric Nyberg	Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward and James Martin
4:45-5:10	An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT Ashish Venugopal and Andreas Zollmann	Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman and James Allan	ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences Patrick Pantel, Rahul Bhagat, Bonaventura Coppola, Timothy Chklovski and Eduard Hovy
5:10-5:35	Statistical Phrase-based Post-editing Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte and Pierre Isabelle	Toward Multimedia: A String Pattern-based Passage Ranking Model for Video Question Answering Yu-Chieh Wu	Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching Feng Pan and Robert Farrell