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# ACL 2006 — accepted papers

ACL 2006 is the 2006 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Sydney, Australia, July 2006 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 292 papers of it; our library holds 28 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**292** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**28** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/works/) · [**10,029** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/works/)**Sydney, Australia** where it was held**July 2006** when

## All accepted papers (292)

The most cited first; 28 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Best-First Probabilistic Shift-Reduce Parser](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2089/)**Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie
2. **[A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Word Expression Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2023/)**Jianyong Duan, Ruzhan Lu, Weilin Wu et al.
3. **[A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1116/)**Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel
4. **[A Bottom-Up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-Document Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1049/)**Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka
5. **[A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1090/)**Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto et al.
6. **[A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2045/)**Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Pornpimon Palingoon et al.
7. **[A Comparison and Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Words and Character-Bigrams as Features in Chinese Text Categorization](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1069/)**Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang
8. **[A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2104/)**Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
9. **[A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1076/)**Catherine Blake
10. **[A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2006-composite-kernel-extract-relations-between/)**Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su et al.*our summary*
11. **[A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1062/)**Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou et al.
12. **[A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1091/)**Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang
13. **[A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1054/)**Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura
14. **[A Feedback-Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1031/)**Ryo Nagata, Atsuo Kawai, Koichiro Morihiro et al.
15. **[A Finite-State Model of Human Sentence Processing](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1007/)**Jihyun Park, Chris Brew
16. **[A FrameNet-Based Semantic Role Labeler for Swedish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johansson-2006-framenet-based-semantic-role-labeler/)**Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues*our summary*
17. **[A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2116/)**Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee
18. **[A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teh-2006-hierarchical-bayesian-language-model-based/)**Yee Whye Teh*our summary*
19. **[A High-Accurate Chinese-English NE Backward Translation System Combining Both Lexical Information and Web Statistics](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2011/)**Conrad Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen
20. **[A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2010/)**Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu et al.
21. **[A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2105/)**Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan
22. **[A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2025/)**Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
23. **[A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization](https://aclanthology.org/P06-1125/)**Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li
24. **[A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aw-2006-phrase-based-statistical-model-sms/)**AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao et al.*our summary*
25. **[A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2009/)**Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth

[See all 292 papers in ACL 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (28)

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

1. **[NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bird-2006-nltk-natural-language-toolkit/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Steven Bird*2006 · 1,374 citations*
2. [**Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation**Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, et al.*2006 · 1,244 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petrov-2006-learning-accurate-compact-interpretable-tree/)
3. **[Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2006-espresso-leveraging-generic-patterns-automatically/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti*2006 · 680 citations*
4. [**Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models**Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, et al.*2006 · 638 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2006-scalable-inference-training-context-rich/)
5. **[A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teh-2006-hierarchical-bayesian-language-model-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yee Whye Teh*2006 · 573 citations*
6. **[The Second Release of the RASP System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/briscoe-2006-second-release-rasp-system/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Rebecca Watson*2006 · 504 citations*
7. [**Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation**Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin*2006 · 454 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2006-tree-string-alignment-template-statistical/)
8. **[Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goldwater-2006-contextual-dependencies-unsupervised-word-segmentation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson*2006 · 372 citations*
9. **[Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2006-maximum-entropy-based-phrase-reordering/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin*2006 · 360 citations*
10. **[A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aw-2006-phrase-based-statistical-model-sms/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao, et al.*2006 · 356 citations*
11. [**Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation**David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson*2006 · 352 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcclosky-2006-reranking-self-training-parser-adaptation/)
12. **[Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brockett-2006-correcting-esl-errors-phrasal-smt/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon*2006 · 320 citations*
13. **[Using String-Kernels for Learning Semantic Parsers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kate-2006-string-kernels-learning-semantic-parsers/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney*2006 · 308 citations*
14. **[A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2006-composite-kernel-extract-relations-between/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, et al.*2006 · 306 citations*
15. **[Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/harabagiu-2006-methods-textual-entailment-open-domain/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sanda Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl*2006 · 289 citations*
16. **[Minimum Cut Model for Spoken Lecture Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malioutov-2006-minimum-cut-model-spoken-lecture/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Igor Malioutov, Regina Barzilay*2006 · 270 citations*
17. **[Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/munteanu-2006-extracting-parallel-sub-sentential-fragments/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu*2006 · 238 citations*
18. **[Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2006-minimum-risk-annealing-training-log/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**David A. Smith, Jason Eisner*2006 · 217 citations*
19. **[Meaningful Clustering of Senses Helps Boost Word Sense Disambiguation Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/navigli-2006-meaningful-clustering-senses-helps-boost/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Roberto Navigli*2006 · 213 citations*
20. [**MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects**Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow*2006 · 209 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2006-magead-morphological-analyzer-generator-arabic/)
21. [**Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics**Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya*2006 · 196 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zitouni-2006-maximum-entropy-based-restoration-arabic/)
22. **[Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bergsma-2006-bootstrapping-path-based-pronoun-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin*2006 · 193 citations*
23. **[Kernel-Based Pronoun Resolution with Structured Syntactic Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2006-kernel-based-pronoun-resolution-structured/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan*2006 · 100 citations*
24. [**An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation**Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad*2006 · 99 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adler-2006-unsupervised-morpheme-based-hmm-hebrew/)
25. **[Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iida-2006-exploiting-syntactic-patterns-as-clues/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto*2006 · 84 citations*

[See all 28 works in ACL 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/works/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semitic languages (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Coreference resolution (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Morphology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Modern Hebrew (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) · [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/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

**1 more topics**

[Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (28)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (28)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Jian Su**3 works here · 762 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Marcu**2 works here · 876 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Qun Liu**2 works here · 814 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qun-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shouxun Lin**2 works here · 814 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shouxun-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Johnson**2 works here · 724 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Min Zhang**2 works here · 662 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Meni Adler**2 works here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meni-adler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Elhadad**2 works here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-elhadad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steven Bird**1 work here · 1,374 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-bird/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**1 work here · 1,244 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Slav Petrov**1 work here · 1,244 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/slav-petrov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marco Pennacchiotti**1 work here · 680 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-pennacchiotti/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🔬**Institute for Infocomm Research** Singapore · Singapore 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-for-infocomm-research/) · [🎓**Ben-Gurion University of the Negev** Beersheba · Israel 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Rome Tor Vergata** Rome · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rome-tor-vergata/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**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/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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