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# ACL 2003 — accepted papers

ACL 2003 is the 2003 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Sapporo, Japan, July 2003 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 112 papers of it; our library holds 12 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Sapporo, [Japan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/japan/) · 🗓 July 2003

[**112** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**12** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2003/#works) · [**6,705** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2003/#works)

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2003-accurate-unlexicalized-parsing/)**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning · 🏆 Best Paper*our summary*

## All accepted papers (112)

The most cited first; 12 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1043/)**Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding et al.
2. **[A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1019/)**Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
3. **[A Computational Treatment of Korean Temporal Markers, OE and DONGAN ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2010/)**Hyunjung Son
4. **[A Debug Tool for Practical Grammar Development ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2033/)**Akane Yakushiji, Yuka Tateisi, Yusuke Miyao et al.
5. **[A Limited-Domain English to Japanese Medical Speech Translator Built Using REGULUS 2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2024/)**Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Vol Van Dalsem III et al.
6. **[A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/strube-2003-machine-learning-approach-pronoun-resolution/)**Michael Strube, Christoph Müller*our summary*
7. **[A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1003/)**Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
8. **[A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing Based on Concept ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2007/)**Bo-Yeong Kang
9. **[A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1012/)**Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
10. **[A Prototype Text to British Sign Language (BSL) Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2018/)**Ian Marshall, Éva Sáfár
11. **[A Ranking Model of Proximal and Structural Text Retrieval Based on Region Algebra ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2008/)**Katsuya Masuda
12. **[A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1064/)**Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi
13. **[A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2034/)**Edward Schofield, Zhiping Zheng
14. **[A Speech Translation System with Mobile Wireless Clients ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2023/)**Kiyoshi Yamabana, Ken Hanazawa, Ryosuke Isotani et al.
15. **[A Spoken Dialogue Interface for TV Operations based on Data Collected by using WOZ Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2015/)**Jun Goto, Yeun-Bae Kim, Masaru Miyazaki et al.
16. **[A Syllable Based Word Recognition Model for Korean Noun Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1060/)**Do-Gil Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Heui-Seok Lim
17. **[A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1026/)**Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu
18. **[A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1053/)**William Gregory Sakas
19. **[ACL-03 Interactive Posters and Demonstrations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2014/)**
20. **[Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2003-accurate-unlexicalized-parsing/)**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning · 🏆 Best Paper*our summary*
21. **[Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1052/)**Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa, Masato Takeichi
22. **[An Adaptive Approach to Collecting Multimodal Input ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2005/)**Anurag Gupta
23. **[An Evaluation Method of Words Tendency using Decision Tree ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-2022/)**El-Sayed Atlam, Masaki Oono, Jun-ichi Aoe
24. **[An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2003-expert-lexicon-approach-identifying-english/)**Wei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu et al.*our summary*
25. **[An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1029/)**Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman

[See all 112 papers in ACL 2003 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2003/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (12)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning*2003 · 3,942 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2003-accurate-unlexicalized-parsing/)
2. **[Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/surdeanu-2003-predicate-argument-structures-information-extraction/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda Harabagiu, John Williams, et al.*2003 · 492 citations*
3. **[Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2003-discourse-segmentation-multi-party-conversation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Michel Galley, Kathleen R. McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier, et al.*2003 · 455 citations*
4. **[Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lapata-2003-probabilistic-text-structuring-experiments-sentence/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mirella Lapata*2003 · 356 citations*
5. [**Learning Non-Isomorphic Tree Mappings for Machine Translation**Jason Eisner*2003 · 354 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisner-2003-learning-non-isomorphic-tree-mappings/)
6. **[Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kudo-2003-fast-methods-kernel-based-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto*2003 · 266 citations*
7. **[Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gildea-2003-loosely-tree-based-alignment-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daniel Gildea*2003 · 220 citations*
8. **[Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2003-exploiting-parallel-texts-word-sense/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan*2003 · 209 citations*
9. **[Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2003-coreference-resolution-competition-learning-approach/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, et al.*2003 · 184 citations*
10. **[A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/strube-2003-machine-learning-approach-pronoun-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Michael Strube, Christoph Müller*2003 · 149 citations*
11. [**An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal Verbs**Wei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu, et al.*2003 · 50 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2003-expert-lexicon-approach-identifying-english/)
12. [**Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text**Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair, et al.*2003 · 28 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gordon-2003-recognizing-expressions-commonsense-psychology-english/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**1 work here · 3,942 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**1 work here · 3,942 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mihai Surdeanu**1 work here · 492 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihai-surdeanu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sanda Harabagiu**1 work here · 492 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanda-harabagiu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eric Fosler-Lussier**1 work here · 455 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-fosler-lussier/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hongyan Jing**1 work here · 455 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyan-jing/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathleen McKeown**1 work here · 455 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathleen-mckeown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michel Galley**1 work here · 455 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michel-galley/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mirella Lapata**1 work here · 356 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jason Eisner**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/) · [🧑‍🔬**Taku Kudo**1 work here · 266 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taku-kudo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yuji Matsumoto**1 work here · 266 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuji-matsumoto/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**Institute for Infocomm Research** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-for-infocomm-research/) · [🏢**Language Computer** Richardson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/language-computer/) · [🏢**European Media Laboratory** Heidelberg · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/european-media-laboratory/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🎓**Nara Institute of Science and Technology** Ikoma · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/)

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