| 2008 | 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2008, Proceedings of the Conference, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL |
| 2008 | A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web. Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki |
| 2008 | A Dependency-based Word Subsequence Kernel. Rohit J. Kate |
| 2008 | A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations. Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| 2008 | A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations. Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemoyer |
| 2008 | A Graph-theoretic Model of Lexical Syntactic Acquisition. Hinrich Schütze, Michael Walsh |
| 2008 | A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists. Hirotoshi Taira, Sanae Fujita, Masaaki Nagata |
| 2008 | A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input. Roger Levy |
| 2008 | A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference. Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning |
| 2008 | A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model. Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning |
| 2008 | A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context. Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó |
| 2008 | A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing. Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark |
| 2008 | A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers. Jianfeng Gao, Mark Johnson |
| 2008 | Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning. Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alexander I. Rudnicky |
| 2008 | Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains. Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark |
| 2008 | Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification. Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Gen Wang |
| 2008 | An Analysis of Active Learning Strategies for Sequence Labeling Tasks. Burr Settles, Mark Craven |
| 2008 | An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization. Xiaojun Wan |
| 2008 | Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets. Yassine Benajiba, Mona T. Diab, Paolo Rosso |
| 2008 | Attacking Decipherment Problems Optimally with Low-Order N-gram Models. Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight |
| 2008 | Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text. Nianwen Xue |
| 2008 | Automatic Prediction of Parser Accuracy. Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight, Radu Soricut |
| 2008 | Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering. Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen, Eric Nyberg |
| 2008 | Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units. Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce, Michael Roth |
| 2008 | Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation. Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay |
| 2008 | Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing. Xinying Song, Shilin Ding, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2008 | Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models. Jung-Tae Lee, Sang-Bum Kim, Young-In Song, Hae-Chang Rim |
| 2008 | Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks. Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng |
| 2008 | CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation. Baoli Li, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein |
| 2008 | Coarse-to-Fine Syntactic Machine Translation using Language Projections. Slav Petrov, Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein |
| 2008 | Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network. Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney |
| 2008 | Computing Word-Pair Antonymy. Saif M. Mohammad, Bonnie J. Dorr, Graeme Hirst |
| 2008 | Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features. Chikara Hashimoto, Daisuke Kawahara |
| 2008 | Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training. Hal Daumé III |
| 2008 | Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms. David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng |
| 2008 | Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation. David A. Smith, Jason Eisner |
| 2008 | Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank. Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues |
| 2008 | Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text. Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Randy Goebel |
| 2008 | Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction. Haitao Mi, Liang Huang |
| 2008 | Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation. Bing Zhao, Yaser Al-Onaizan |
| 2008 | Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms. Mamoru Komachi, Taku Kudo, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto |
| 2008 | HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts. Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li |
| 2008 | HotSpots: Visualizing Edits to a Text. Srinivas Bangalore, David Smith |
| 2008 | Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model. Lei Shi, Ming Zhou |
| 2008 | Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy. Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang |
| 2008 | Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions. Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Jorge Civera, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, Hieu Hoang |
| 2008 | Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems. Shaolin Qu, Joyce Yue Chai |
| 2008 | Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems. Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguyen, Robert Moore |
| 2008 | Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking. Yi-Xuan Liu, Bin Wang, Fan Ding, Sheng Xu |
| 2008 | Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition. Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong Wu |
| 2008 | It's a Contradiction - no, it's not: A Case Study using Functional Relations. Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni |
| 2008 | Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic. Hoifung Poon, Pedro M. Domingos |
| 2008 | Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering. Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky |
| 2008 | LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction. Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi |
| 2008 | Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora. Matthew G. Snover, Bonnie J. Dorr, Richard M. Schwartz |
| 2008 | Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods. Markus Dreyer, Jason Smith, Jason Eisner |
| 2008 | Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfgang Macherey |
| 2008 | Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation. Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer, Jakob Uszkoreit |
| 2008 | Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text. Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen |
| 2008 | Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts. Roser Morante, Anthony M. L. Liekens, Walter Daelemans |
| 2008 | Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points. Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu |
| 2008 | Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis. Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie |
| 2008 | Learning with Probabilistic Features for Improved Pipeline Models. Razvan C. Bunescu |
| 2008 | Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles. Ramesh Nallapati, Christopher D. Manning |
| 2008 | Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. Qun Liu, Zhongjun He, Yang Liu, Shouxun Lin |
| 2008 | Mention Detection Crossing the Language Barrier. Imed Zitouni, Radu Florian |
| 2008 | Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora. Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky |
| 2008 | Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales. Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner |
| 2008 | Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation. Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe, Samer Hassan |
| 2008 | Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation. Stephan Raaijmakers, Khiet P. Truong, Theresa Wilson |
| 2008 | N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation. Bo-June Paul Hsu, James R. Glass |
| 2008 | One-Class Clustering in the Text Domain. Ron Bekkerman, Koby Crammer |
| 2008 | Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints. Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi |
| 2008 | Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features. David Chiang, Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik |
| 2008 | Online Methods for Multi-Domain Learning and Adaptation. Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer |
| 2008 | Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection. David Vickrey, Aaron Bronzan, William Choi, Aman Kumar, Jason Turner-Maier, Arthur Wang, Daphne Koller |
| 2008 | Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text. Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu |
| 2008 | Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective. Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an |
| 2008 | Predicting Success in Machine Translation. Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn |
| 2008 | Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation. Phil Blunsom, Miles Osborne |
| 2008 | Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms. Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin |
| 2008 | Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression. Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen |
| 2008 | Refining Generative Language Models using Discriminative Learning. Ben Sandbank |
| 2008 | Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction. Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, H. V. Jagadish |
| 2008 | Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis. Juan M. Huerta |
| 2008 | Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields. Jeremy Jancsary, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost |
| 2008 | Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality. Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova |
| 2008 | Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model. John DeNero, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein |
| 2008 | Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce. Jimmy Lin |
| 2008 | Scaling Textual Inference to the Web. Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld |
| 2008 | Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns. Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris |
| 2008 | Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora. Nicholas Andrews, Naren Ramakrishnan |
| 2008 | Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions. Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty |
| 2008 | Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression. Katja Filippova, Michael Strube |
| 2008 | Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification. Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff A. Bilmes |
| 2008 | Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing. Slav Petrov, Dan Klein |
| 2008 | Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution. Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge |
| 2008 | Stacking Dependency Parsers. André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing |
| 2008 | Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models. David Hall, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning |
| 2008 | Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations. Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini |
| 2008 | Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora. Chris Callison-Burch |
| 2008 | Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation. Arul Menezes, Christopher Quirk |
| 2008 | The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries. Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson |
| 2008 | Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization with Encyclopedic Knowledge and Spreading Activation. Vivi Nastase |
| 2008 | Transliteration as Constrained Optimization. Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth |
| 2008 | Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation. Sasa Hasan, Juri Ganitkevitch, Hermann Ney, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer |
| 2008 | Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing). David Burkett, Dan Klein |
| 2008 | Understanding the Value of Features for Coreference Resolution. Eric Bengtson, Dan Roth |
| 2008 | Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution. Vincent Ng |
| 2008 | Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging. Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay |
| 2008 | Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis. Xiaojun Wan |
| 2008 | Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks. Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat, Fernando C. N. Pereira |
| 2008 | When Harry Met Harri: Cross-lingual Name Spelling Normalization. Fei Huang, Ahmad Emami, Imed Zitouni |
| 2008 | Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference. Alex Baron, Marjorie Freedman |
| 2008 | Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study. Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng, Yee Seng Chan |