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# ACL 2008 — accepted papers

ACL 2008 is the 2008 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Columbus, Ohio, June 2008 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 202 papers of it in 2 tracks; our library holds 25 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**202** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**25** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2008/#works) · [**6,424** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2008/#works)**Columbus, Ohio** where it was held**June 2008** when

## Tracks

Main 134HLT, Short Papers 68

## All accepted papers (202)

The most cited first; 25 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Cascaded Linear Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1102/)**Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu et al.
2. **[A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1054/)**Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu
3. **[A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1110/)**Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, John Carroll, David Weir
4. **[A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blunsom-2008-discriminative-latent-variable-model-statistical/)**Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne*our summary*
5. **[A Generic Sentence Trimmer with CRFs](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1035/)**Tadashi Nomoto
6. **[A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/titov-2008-joint-model-text-aspect-ratings/)**Ivan Titov, Ryan McDonald*our summary*
7. **[A Linguistically Annotated Reordering Model for BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2038/)**Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw et al. · HLT, Short Papers
8. **[A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1038/)**Frederick Hoyt, Jason Baldridge
9. **[A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2008-new-string-dependency-machine-translation/)**Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph Weischedel*our summary*
10. **[A Novel Feature-based Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2023/)**Wenjie Li, Peng Zhang, Furu Wei et al. · HLT, Short Papers
11. **[A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1104/)**Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou et al.
12. **[A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1017/)**Hui Fang
13. **[A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1043/)**Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty
14. **[A Tree Sequence Alignment-based Tree-to-Tree Translation Model](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1064/)**Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Aiti Aw et al.
15. **[A Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2027/)**Tim Miller, William Schuler · HLT, Short Papers
16. **[Active Learning with Confidence](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2059/)**Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer · HLT, Short Papers
17. **[Active Sample Selection for Named Entity Transliteration](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2014/)**Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth · HLT, Short Papers
18. **[Ad Hoc Treebank Structures](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1042/)**Markus Dickinson
19. **[Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2008-adapting-wsj-trained-parser-grammatically/)**Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabith · HLT, Short Papers*our summary*
20. **[Advanced Online Learning for Natural Language Processing](https://aclanthology.org/P08-5004/)**Koby Crammer
21. **[An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2008-entity-mention-model-coreference-resolution/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Jun Lang et al.*our summary*
22. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production Using Wikipedia](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1092/)**Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Elena Filatova
23. **[Analyzing the Errors of Unsupervised Learning](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1100/)**Percy Liang, Dan Klein
24. **[Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2008-applying-morphology-generation-models-machine/)**Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp*our summary*
25. **[Applying a Grammar-Based Language Model to a Simplified Broadcast-News Transcription Task](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1013/)**Tobias Kaufmann, Beat Pfister

[See all 202 papers in ACL 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2008/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (25)

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

1. **[A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/titov-2008-joint-model-text-aspect-ratings/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ivan Titov, Ryan McDonald*2008 · 729 citations*
2. **[Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koo-2008-simple-semi-supervised-dependency-parsing/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins*2008 · 657 citations*
3. **[Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ji-2008-refining-event-extraction-through-cross/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman*2008 · 577 citations*
4. **[Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haghighi-2008-learning-bilingual-lexicons-monolingual-corpora/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Aria Haghighi, Percy Liang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, et al.*2008 · 427 citations*
5. [**A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model**Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph Weischedel*2008 · 383 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2008-new-string-dependency-machine-translation/)
6. **[Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2008-integrating-graph-based-transition-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Joakim Nivre, Ryan McDonald*2008 · 354 citations*
7. **[Finding Contradictions in Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marneffe-2008-finding-contradictions-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 301 citations*
8. **[Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kozareva-2008-semantic-class-learning-web-hyponym/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard Hovy*2008 · 273 citations*
9. **[Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2008-efficient-feature-based-conditional-random/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 261 citations*
10. [**Forest-Based Translation**Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu*2008 · 252 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mi-2008-forest-based-translation/)
11. **[Generalizing Word Lattice Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dyer-2008-generalizing-word-lattice-translation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Christopher Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, Philip Resnik*2008 · 249 citations*
12. **[Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/snyder-2008-unsupervised-multilingual-learning-morphological-segmentation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay*2008 · 221 citations*
13. [**Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking**Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, et al.*2008 · 217 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roth-2008-arabic-morphological-tagging-diacritization-lemmatization/)
14. **[BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/versley-2008-bart-modular-toolkit-coreference-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yannick Versley, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio, et al.*2008 · 197 citations*
15. **[Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using a Single Perceptron](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2008-joint-word-segmentation-pos-tagging/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark*2008 · 187 citations*
16. **[Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2008-applying-morphology-generation-models-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp*2008 · 184 citations*
17. **[Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marton-2008-soft-syntactic-constraints-hierarchical-phrased/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik*2008 · 183 citations*
18. **[A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blunsom-2008-discriminative-latent-variable-model-statistical/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne*2008 · 179 citations*
19. [**Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations**Yusuke Miyao, Rune Sætre, Kenji Sagae, et al.*2008 · 129 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyao-2008-task-oriented-evaluation-syntactic-parsers/)
20. **[Enforcing Transitivity in Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2008-enforcing-transitivity-coreference-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 128 citations*
21. **[Hedge Classification in Biomedical Texts with a Weakly Supervised Selection of Keywords](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/szarvas-2008-hedge-classification-biomedical-texts-weakly/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**György Szarvas*2008 · 107 citations*
22. **[An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2008-entity-mention-model-coreference-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Jun Lang, et al.*2008 · 94 citations*
23. **[Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsner-2008-coreference-inspired-coherence-modeling/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak*2008 · 84 citations*
24. [**Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text**Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabith*2008 · 45 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2008-adapting-wsj-trained-parser-grammatically/)
25. [**Construct State Modification in the Arabic Treebank**Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick*2008 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabbard-2008-construct-state-modification-arabic-treebank/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Coreference resolution (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Morphology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Dependency parsing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [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/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (25)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (25)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Social Sciences (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**3 works here · 690 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ryan McDonald**2 works here · 1,083 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philip Resnik**2 works here · 432 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-resnik/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jenny Rose Finkel**2 works here · 389 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jenny-rose-finkel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xiaofeng Yang**2 works here · 291 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaofeng-yang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ivan Titov**1 work here · 729 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**1 work here · 657 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Terry Koo**1 work here · 657 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-koo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xavier Carreras**1 work here · 657 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xavier-carreras/) · [🧑‍🔬**Heng Ji**1 work here · 577 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ralph Grishman**1 work here · 577 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ralph-grishman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aria Haghighi**1 work here · 427 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aria-haghighi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 4 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏛️**Agency for Science, Technology and Research** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/agency-for-science-technology-and-research/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Alicante** Alicante · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alicante/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/)

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