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# ACL 2004 — accepted papers

ACL 2004 is the 2004 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Barcelona, Spain, July 2004 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 122 papers of it; our library holds 18 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**122** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**18** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/#works) · [**9,426** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/#works)**Barcelona, Spain** where it was held**July 2004** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccarthy-2004-finding-predominant-word-senses-untagged/)**Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds et al. · 🏆 Best Paper*our summary*

## All accepted papers (122)

The most cited first; 18 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Distributional Model of Semantic Context Effects in Lexical Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1003/)**Scott McDonald, Chris Brew
2. **[A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1067/)**Eric Gaussier, J.M. Renders, I. Matveeva et al.
3. **[A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2004-joint-source-channel-model-machine/)**Haizhou Li, Min Zhang, Jian Su*our summary*
4. **[A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1081/)**Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat
5. **[A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based On the Bell Tree](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2004-mention-synchronous-coreference-resolution-algorithm/)**Xiaoqiang Luo, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing et al.*our summary*
6. **[A New Feature Selection Score for Multinomial Naive Bayes Text Classification Based on KL-Divergence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-3024/)**Karl-Michael Schneider
7. **[A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Word Sense Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-3026/)**Reinhard Rapp
8. **[A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2004-sentimental-education-sentiment-analysis-subjectivity/)**Bo Pang, Lillian Lee*our summary*
9. **[A Study on Convolution Kernels for Shallow Statistic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1043/)**Alessandro Moschitti
10. **[A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2004-tag-based-noisy-channel-model/)**Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak*our summary*
11. **[A Unified Framework For Automatic Evaluation Using 4-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1078/)**Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
12. **[Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hutchinson-2004-acquiring-meaning-discourse-markers/)**Ben Hutchinson*our summary*
13. **[Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1059/)**Jianfeng Gao, Andi Wu, Mu Li et al.
14. **[Aligning words using matrix factorisation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1064/)**Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier
15. **[Alternative approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1058/)**Gabriel Infante-Lopez, Maarten de Rijke
16. **[An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1070/)**Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
17. **[An Automatic Filter for Non-Parallel Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-3006/)**Chris Pike, I. Dan Melamed
18. **[An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1027/)**Enrique Amigo, Julio Gonzalo, Victor Peinado et al.
19. **[Analysis of Mixed Natural and Symbolic Input in Mathematical Dialogs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1004/)**Magdalena Wolska, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
20. **[Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1062/)**Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner
21. **[Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1074/)**Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Guihong Cao et al.
22. **[Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1006/)**Keith B. Hall, Mark Johnson
23. **[Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2004-automatic-evaluation-machine-translation-quality/)**Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och*our summary*
24. **[Automatic clustering of collocation for detecting practical sense boundary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-3027/)**Saim Shin, Key-Sun Choi
25. **[Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P04-1031/)**Gerald Penn

[See all 122 papers in ACL 2004 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (18)

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

1. **[A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2004-sentimental-education-sentiment-analysis-subjectivity/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Bo Pang, Lillian Lee*2004 · 3,849 citations*
2. **[Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/culotta-2004-dependency-tree-kernels-relation-extraction/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Aron Culotta, Jeffrey Sorensen*2004 · 999 citations*
3. **[Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2004-automatic-evaluation-machine-translation-quality/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och*2004 · 940 citations*
4. [**Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm**Michael Collins, Brian Roark*2004 · 568 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-2004-incremental-parsing-perceptron-algorithm/)
5. **[Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hasegawa-2004-discovering-relations-among-named-entities/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman*2004 · 486 citations*
6. [**Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text**Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, et al.*2004 · 445 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccarthy-2004-finding-predominant-word-senses-untagged/)
7. **[Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2004-parsing-wsj-ccg-log-linear/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Stephen Clark, James R. Curran*2004 · 388 citations*
8. **[A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2004-joint-source-channel-model-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Haizhou Li, Min Zhang, Jian Su*2004 · 380 citations*
9. **[A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based On the Bell Tree](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2004-mention-synchronous-coreference-resolution-algorithm/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaoqiang Luo, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, et al.*2004 · 308 citations*
10. **[Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2004-identifying-agreement-disagreement-conversational-speech/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, et al.*2004 · 278 citations*
11. **[A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2004-tag-based-noisy-channel-model/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak*2004 · 204 citations*
12. **[Learning to Resolve Bridging References](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poesio-2004-learning-resolve-bridging-references/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Massimo Poesio, Rahul Mehta, Axel Maroudas, et al.*2004 · 144 citations*
13. **[Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/steels-2004-constructivist-development-grounded-construction-grammar/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Luc Steels*2004 · 135 citations*
14. **[Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabsdil-2004-combining-acoustic-pragmatic-features-predict/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Malte Gabsdil, Oliver Lemon*2004 · 74 citations*
15. **[Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Conference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2004-learning-noun-phrase-anaphoricity-improve/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Vincent Ng*2004 · 72 citations*
16. **[FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/serafin-2004-flsa-extending-latent-semantic-analysis/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio*2004 · 68 citations*
17. **[Improving Pronoun Resolution by Incorporating Coreferential Information of Candidates](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2004-improving-pronoun-resolution-incorporating-coreferential/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, et al.*2004 · 47 citations*
18. **[Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hutchinson-2004-acquiring-meaning-discourse-markers/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ben Hutchinson*2004 · 41 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Coreference resolution (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Dialogue systems (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Jian Su**2 works here · 427 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bo Pang**1 work here · 3,849 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-pang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lillian Lee**1 work here · 3,849 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aron Culotta**1 work here · 999 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aron-culotta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jeffrey Sorensen**1 work here · 999 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-sorensen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chin-Yew Lin**1 work here · 940 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chin-yew-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**1 work here · 940 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) · [🧑‍🔬**Brian Roark**1 work here · 568 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-roark/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**1 work here · 568 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ralph Grishman**1 work here · 486 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ralph-grishman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Satoshi Sekine**1 work here · 486 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satoshi-sekine/) · [🧑‍🔬**Diana McCarthy**1 work here · 445 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-mccarthy/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🔬**Institute for Infocomm Research** Singapore · Singapore 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-for-infocomm-research/) · [🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) · [🎓**Vrije Universiteit Brussel** Brussels · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vrije-universiteit-brussel/) · [🎓**University of Sussex** Brighton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sussex/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🏢**NTT** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ntt/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/)

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