HLT-NAACL 2006: New York, New York, USA

Main Conference

• Wei Wang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu:
  Capitalizing Machine Translation.
  
• Christopher Quirk, Arul Menezes:
  Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Miles Osborne:
  Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases.
  
• Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George F. Foster, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson:
  Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Rion Snow, Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes:
  Effectively Using Syntax for Recognizing False Entailment.
  
• Bill MacCartney, Trond Grenager, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning:
  Learning to recognize features of valid textual entailments.
  
• Viktor Pekar:
  Acquisition of Verb Entailment from Text.
  
• Kentaro Torisawa:
  Acquiring Inference Rules with Temporal Constraints by Using Japanese Coordinated Sentences and Noun-Verb Co-occurrences.
  
• Tawanda C. Sibanda, Özlem Uzuner:
  Role of Local Context in Automatic Deidentification of Ungrammatical, Fragmented Text.
  
• Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Exploiting Domain Structure for Named Entity Recognition.
  
• Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth:
  Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora.
  
• Charles A. Sutton, Michael Sindelar, Andrew McCallum:
  Reducing Weight Undertraining in Structured Discriminative Learning.
  
• Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr:
  A Maximum Entropy Approach to Combining Word Alignments.
  
• Percy Liang, Benjamin Taskar, Dan Klein:
  Alignment by Agreement.
  
• Simon Lacoste-Julien, Benjamin Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael I. Jordan:
  Word Alignment via Quadratic Assignment.
  
• Jinying Chen, Andrew I. Schein, Lyle H. Ungar, Martha Palmer:
  An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Katrin Erk:
  Unknown word sense detection as outlier detection.
  
• Benjamin Han, Donna Gates, Lori S. Levin:
  Understanding Temporal Expressions in Emails.
  
• Stephen Clark, James R. Curran:
  Partial Training for a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser.
  
• David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson:
  Effective Self-Training for Parsing.
  
• Simon Corston-Oliver, Anthony Aue, Kevin Duh, Eric K. Ringger:
  Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines.
  
• Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, David Ellis, Isaac Haxton, Catherine Hill, R. Shrivaths, Jeremy Moore, Michael Pozar, Theresa Vu:
  Multilevel Coarse-to-Fine PCFG Parsing.
  
• Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi:
  A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Syntactic and Case Structure Analysis.
  
• Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick, Mitchell P. Marcus:
  Fully Parsing the Penn Treebank.
  
• Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube:
  Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution.
  
• Soo-Min Kim, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Identifying and Analyzing Judgment Opinions.
  
• Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions.
  
• Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar:
  Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech.
  
• Gina-Anne Levow:
  Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent.
  
• John Kominek, Alan W. Black:
  Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies.
  
• Bryant Huang, Kevin Knight:
  Relabeling Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Quality.
  
• Stefan Riezler, John T. Maxwell III:
  Grammatical Machine Translation.
  
• Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, Kevin Knight:
  Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation.
  
• Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman:
  Modelling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters.
  
• Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman:
  Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning.
  
• Gang Ji, Jeff Bilmes:
  Backoff Model Training using Partially Observed Data: Application to Dialog Act Tagging.
  
• Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su:
  Exploring Syntactic Features for Relation Extraction using a Convolution Tree Kernel.
  
• Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum, Jonathan Betz:
  Integrating Probabilistic Extraction Models and Data Mining to Discover Relations and Patterns in Text.
  
• Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine:
  Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery.
  
• Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark:
  Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros.
  
• Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein:
  Prototype-Driven Learning for Sequence Models.
  
• Deniz Yuret, Ferhan Ture:
  Learning Morphological Disambiguation Rules for Turkish.
  
• Anna Corazza, Giorgio Satta:
  Cross-Entropy and Estimation of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
  
• Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta:
  Estimation of Consistent Probabilistic Context-free Grammars.
  
• Jonathan May, Kevin Knight:
  A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata.
  
• Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata:
  Aggregation via Set Partitioning for Natural Language Generation.
  
• Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna D. Moore:
  Incorporating Speaker and Discourse Features into Speech Summarization.
  
• Gregory Marton, Alexey Radul:
  Nuggeteer: Automatic Nugget-Based Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements.
  
• Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman:
  Will Pyramids Built of Nuggets Topple Over?.
  
• Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
  Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
  
• Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari:
  A Machine Learning based Approach to Evaluating Retrieval Systems.
  
• Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Language Model Information Retrieval with Document Expansion.
  
• Zheng-Yu Zhou, Peng Yu, Ciprian Chelba, Frank Seide:
  Towards Spoken-Document Retrieval for the Internet: Lattice Indexing For Large-Scale Web-Search Architectures.
  
• Roy W. Tromble, Jason Eisner:
  A fast finite-state relaxation method for enforcing global constraints on sequence decoding.
  
• Nianwen Xue:
  Semantic role labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese.
  
• Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney:
  Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Eduard H. Hovy:
  ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically.
  
• David Kauchak, Regina Barzilay:
  Paraphrasing for Automatic Evaluation.
  
• Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie:
  An Information-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Summaries.
  
• Andrew Freeman, Sherri L. Condon, Christopher Ackerman:
  Cross Linguistic Name Matching in English and Arabic.
  
• Günes Erkan:
  Language Model-Based Document Clustering Using Random Walks.
  
• Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Ebru Arisoy, Vesa Siivola, Teemu Hirsimäki, Janne Pylkkönen, Tanel Alumäe, Murat Saraclar:
  Unlimited vocabulary speech recognition for agglutinative languages.
  

Short Papers

• Andrei Alexandrescu, Katrin Kirchhoff:
  Factored Neural Language Models.
  
• Alison Alvarez, Lori S. Levin, Robert E. Frederking, Simon Fung, Donna Gates, Jeff Good:
  The MILE Corpus for Less Commonly Taught Languages.
  
• Jaime Arguello, Carolyn Penstein Rosé:
  Museli: A Multi-Source Evidence Integration Approach to Topic Segmentation of Spontaneous Dialogue.
  
• Beata Beigman Klebanov:
  Measuring Semantic Relatedness Using People and WordNet.
  
• Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Tanja Schultz:
  Thai Grapheme-Based Speech Recognition.
  
• Pierre Chatain, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui:
  Class Model Adaptation for Speech Summarisation.
  
• Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu Niu:
  Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Label Propagation.
  
• Angelo Dalli:
  Temporal Classification of Text and Automatic Document Dating.
  
• Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll:
  Answering the question you wish they had asked: The impact of paraphrasing for Question Answering.
  
• Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis:
  Gesture Improves Coreference Resolution.
  
• Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ralf D. Brown, Jaime G. Carbonell:
  Spectral Clustering for Example Based Machine Translation.
  
• Olga Gurevich:
  A Finite-State Model of Georgian Verbal Morphology.
  
• Nizar Habash, Fatiha Sadat:
  Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Sangyun Hahn, Richard E. Ladner, Mari Ostendorf:
  Agreement/Disagreement Classification: Exploiting Unlabeled Data using Contrast Classifiers.
  
• Eduard H. Hovy, Mitchell P. Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance A. Ramshaw, Ralph M. Weischedel:
  OntoNotes: The 90% Solution.
  
• Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Gareth J. F. Jones, Douglas W. Oard:
  Investigating Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for a Spontaneous Conversational Speech Collection.
  
• Nikiforos Karamanis:
  Evaluating Centering for Sentence Ordering in Two New Domains.
  
• Seokhwan Kim, Yu Song, Kyungduk Kim, Jeongwon Cha, Gary Geunbae Lee:
  MMR-based Active Machine Learning for Bio Named Entity Recognition.
  
• Matthew Lease, Mark Johnson:
  Early Deletion of Fillers In Processing Conversational Speech.
  
• Esther Levin, Mehrbod Sharifi, Jerry T. Ball:
  Evaluation of Utility of LSA for Word Sense Discrimination.
  
• Yang Liu:
  Initial Study on Automatic Identification of Speaker Role in Broadcast News Speech.
  
• François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker:
  Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation.
  
• Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg:
  Summarizing Speech Without Text Using Hidden Markov Models.
  
• Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen:
  NER Systems that Suit User's Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction.
  
• Alessandro Moschitti:
  Syntactic Kernels for Natural Language Learning: the Semantic Role Labeling Case.
  
• Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo:
  Accurate Parsing of the Proposition Bank.
  
• Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad:
  Using Semantic Authoring for Blissymbols Communication Boards.
  
• Youngja Park, Ying Li:
  Extracting Salient Keywords from Instructional Videos Using Joint Text, Audio and Visual Cues.
  
• Michael Paul, Eiichiro Sumita:
  Exploiting Variant Corpora for Machine Translation.
  
• Gerald Penn, Travis Choma:
  Quantitative Methods for Classifying Writing Systems.
  
• David Reitter, Frank Keller, Johanna D. Moore:
  Computational Modelling of Structural Priming in Dialogue.
  
• Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg:
  Story Segmentation of Broadcast News in English, Mandarin and Arabic.
  
• Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie:
  Parser Combination by Reparsing.
  
• Manami Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Satoshi Sekine:
  Using Phrasal Patterns to Identify Discourse Relations.
  
• Franco Salvetti, Nicolas Nicolov:
  Weblog Classification for Fast Splog Filtering: A URL Language Model Segmentation Approach.
  
• Antonio Sanfilippo, Stephen Tratz, Michelle Gregory:
  Word Domain Disambiguation via Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis P. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  Selecting relevant text subsets from web-data for building topic specific language models.
  
• Christian Siefkes:
  A Comparison of Tagging Strategies for Statistical Information Extraction.
  
• Neal Snider, Mona T. Diab:
  Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes.
  
• Laura Stoia, Donna K. Byron, Darla Shockley, Eric Fosler-Lussier:
  Sentence Planning for Realtime Navigational Instruction.
  
• Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya:
  Using the Web to Disambiguate Acronyms.
  
• Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya:
  Word Pronunciation Disambiguation using the Web.
  
• Svetlana Symonenko, Steven Rowe, Elizabeth D. Liddy:
  Illuminating Trouble Tickets with Sublanguage Theory.
  
• Dave Toney, Johanna D. Moore, Oliver Lemon:
  Evolving optimal inspectable strategies for spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Brian Ulicny:
  Lycos Retriever: An Information Fusion Engine.
  
• Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang:
  Improved Affinity Graph Based Multi-Document Summarization.
  
• Kui Xu, Helen Meng, Fuliang Weng:
  A Maximum Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension.
  
• Hong Yu, Minsuk Lee:
  BioEx: A Novel User-Interface that Accesses Images from Abstract Sentences.
  
• Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita:
  Subword-based Tagging by Conditional Random Fields for Chinese Word Segmentation.
  
• Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn:
  Comparing the roles of textual, acoustic and spoken-language features on spontaneous-conversation summarization.
  
• Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel:
  Bridging the Inflection Morphology Gap for Arabic Statistical Machine Translation.
  

Doctoral Consortium

• Lei Chen:
  Incorporating Gesture and Gaze into Multimodal Models of Human-to-Human Communication.
  
• Jacob Eisenstein:
  Semantic Back-Pointers from Gesture.
  
• Ariadna Font Llitjós:
  Can the Internet help improve Machine Translation?.
  
• Liang Huang:
  Efficient Algorithms for Richer Formalisms: Parsing and Machine Translation.
  
• Wei-Hao Lin:
  Identifying Perspectives at the Document and Sentence Levels Using Statistical Models.
  
• Jackson Liscombe:
  Detecting Emotion in Speech: Experiments in Three Domains.
  
• Irina Matveeva:
  Document Representation and Multilevel Measures of Document Similarity.
  
• Anders Søgaard:
  Logical investigations on the adequacy of certain feature-based theories of natural language.
  
• Richard Tzong-Han Tsai:
  A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Semantic Role Labeling.
  
• Xiaojun Yuan:
  Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework.
  

Demonstrations

• Jaime Arguello, Carolyn Penstein Rosé:
  InfoMagnets: Making Sense of Corpus Data.
  
• Janet M. Baker, Patri J. Pugliese:
  From Pipedreams to Products, and Promise!
  
• Satanjeev Banerjee, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
  SmartNotes: Implicit Labeling of Meeting Data through User Note-Taking and Browsing.
  
• Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne:
  MTTK: An Alignment Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren:
  AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web.
  
• Philip V. Ogren:
  Knowtator: A Protégé plug-in for annotated corpus construction.
  
• Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni:
  Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistic.
  
• Dinoj Surendran:
  Automating the Creation of Interactive Glyph-supplemented Scatterplots for Visualizing Algorithm Results.
  
• Alicia Tribble, Benjamin Lambert, Scott E. Fahlman:
  SconeEdit: A Text-guided Domain Knowledge Editor.
  
• Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui:
  Factoid Question Answering with Web, Mobile and Speech Interfaces.
  
• Geoffrey Zweig, Olivier Siohan, George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Daniel Povey, Lidia Mangu, Brian Kingsbury:
  Automated Quality Monitoring for Call Centers using Speech and NLP Technologies.
  

Tutorial Abstracts

• Sherri L. Condon, Keith Miller:
  What's in a Name: Current Methods, Applications, and Evaluation in Multilingual Name Search and Matching.
  
• Hal Daumé III:
  Beyond EM: Bayesian Techniques for Human Language Technology Researchers.
  
• Rada Mihalcea, Dragomir R. Radev:
  Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
  
• Ciprian Chelba, Timothy J. Hazen:
  Automatic Spoken Document Processing for Retrieval and Browsing.
  
• Anoop Sarkar, Gholamreza Haffari:
  Tutorial on Inductive Semi-supervised Learning Methods: with Applicability to Natural Language Processing.
  
• Wen-tau Yih, Kristina Toutanova:
  Automatic Semantic Role Labeling.