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# ACL 2008: all accepted papers

202 papers · page 1 of 3 · the most cited first · [← ACL 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2008/)

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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
26. **[Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roth-2008-arabic-morphological-tagging-diacritization-lemmatization/)**Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash et al. · HLT, Short Papers*our summary*
27. **[Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1071/)**Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman
28. **[Assessing the Costs of Sampling Methods in Active Learning for Annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2017/)**Robbie Haertel, Eric Ringger, Kevin Seppi et al. · HLT, Short Papers
29. **[Automatic Editing in a Back-End Speech-to-Text System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1014/)**Maximilian Bisani, Paul Vozila, Olivier Divay et al.
30. **[Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1032/)**Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
31. **[Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1065/)**Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, Colin Cherry
32. **[BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/versley-2008-bart-modular-toolkit-coreference-resolution/)**Yannick Versley, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio et al.*our summary*
33. **[Bayesian Learning of Non-Compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1012/)**Hao Zhang, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore et al.
34. **[Better Alignments = Better Translations? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1112/)**Kuzman Ganchev, João V. Graça, Ben Taskar
35. **[Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2010/)**Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff · HLT, Short Papers
36. **[Blog Categorization Exploiting Domain Dictionary and Dynamically Estimated Domains of Unknown Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2018/)**Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi · HLT, Short Papers
37. **[Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-5002/)**Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W Black et al.
38. **[Can You Summarize This? Identifying Correlates of Input Difficulty for Multi-Document Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1094/)**Ani Nenkova, Annie Louis
39. **[Chinese-English Backward Transliteration Assisted with Mining Monolingual Web Pages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1062/)**Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, Bo Zou et al.
40. **[Choosing Sense Distinctions for WSD: Psycholinguistic Evidence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2063/)**Susan Windisch Brown · HLT, Short Papers
41. **[Classification of Semantic Relationships between Nominals Using Pattern Clusters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1027/)**Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
42. **[Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1009/)**Colin Cherry
43. **[Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1051/)**Joanna Mrozinski, Edward Whittaker, Sadaoki Furui
44. **[Combined One Sense Disambiguation of Abbreviations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2016/)**Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz · HLT, Short Papers
45. **[Combining EM Training and the MDL Principle for an Automatic Verb Classification Incorporating Selectional Preferences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1057/)**Sabine Schulte im Walde, Christian Hying, Christian Scheible et al.
46. **[Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1116/)**Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou et al.
47. **[Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1053/)**J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
48. **[Computing Confidence Scores for All Sub Parse Trees ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2055/)**Feng Lin, Fuliang Weng · HLT, Short Papers
49. **[Construct State Modification in the Arabic Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabbard-2008-construct-state-modification-arabic-treebank/)**Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick · HLT, Short Papers*our summary*
50. **[Contextual Preferences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1078/)**Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim et al.
51. **[Contradictions and Justifications: Extensions to the Textual Entailment Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1008/)**Ellen M. Voorhees
52. **[Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsner-2008-coreference-inspired-coherence-modeling/)**Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak · HLT, Short Papers*our summary*
53. **[Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1021/)**John Lee, Stephanie Seneff
54. **[Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation of Extractive Meeting Summaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2051/)**Feifan Liu, Yang Liu · HLT, Short Papers
55. **[Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1105/)**Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
56. **[Decompounding query keywords from compounding languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2064/)**Enrique Alfonseca, Slaven Bilac, Stefan Pharies · HLT, Short Papers
57. **[Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-4001/)**Jason Williams
58. **[Demonstration of the UAM CorpusTool for Text and Image Annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-4004/)**Mick O'Donnell
59. **[Dialect Classification for Online Podcasts Fusing Acoustic and Language Based Structural and Semantic Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2006/)**Rahul Chitturi, John Hansen · HLT, Short Papers
60. **[Dictionary Definitions based Homograph Identification using a Generative Hierarchical Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2022/)**Anagha Kulkarni, Jamie Callan · HLT, Short Papers
61. **[Dimensions of Subjectivity in Natural Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2004/)**Wei Chen · HLT, Short Papers
62. **[Distributed Listening: A Parallel Processing Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2044/)**Yolanda McMillian, Juan Gilbert · HLT, Short Papers
63. **[Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1086/)**Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants
64. **[Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1002/)**Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Randy Goebel
65. **[EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1085/)**Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad
66. **[Efficient Multi-Pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1025/)**Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea
67. **[Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2062/)**Michaela Regneri, Markus Egg, Alexander Koller · HLT, Short Papers
68. **[Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2008-efficient-feature-based-conditional-random/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Manning*our summary*
69. **[Enforcing Transitivity in Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2008-enforcing-transitivity-coreference-resolution/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning · HLT, Short Papers*our summary*
70. **[Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1070/)**Rebecca Dridan, Valia Kordoni, Jeremy Nicholson
71. **[Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1087/)**Eleftherios Avramidis, Philipp Koehn
72. **[Enriching Spoken Language Translation with Dialog Acts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2057/)**Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan · HLT, Short Papers
73. **[Evaluating Roget`s Thesauri ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1048/)**Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz
74. **[Evaluating Word Prediction: Framing Keystroke Savings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2066/)**Keith Trnka, Kathleen McCoy · HLT, Short Papers
75. **[Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1111/)**Emily M. Bender
76. **[Event Matching Using the Transitive Closure of Dependency Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2037/)**Daniel M. Bikel, Vittorio Castelli · HLT, Short Papers
77. **[Evolving New Lexical Association Measures Using Genetic Programming ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2046/)**Jan Šnajder, Bojana Dalbelo Bašić, Saša Petrović et al. · HLT, Short Papers
78. **[Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1029/)**Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen
79. **[Exploiting N-best Hypotheses for SMT Self-Enhancement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2040/)**Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw et al. · HLT, Short Papers
80. **[Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2061/)**Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin et al. · HLT, Short Papers
81. **[Extraction of Entailed Semantic Relations Through Syntax-Based Comma Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1117/)**Vivek Srikumar, Roi Reichart, Mark Sammons et al.
82. **[Extractive Summaries for Educational Science Content ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2005/)**Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Martin et al. · HLT, Short Papers
83. **[FastSum: Fast and Accurate Query-based Multi-document Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2052/)**Frank Schilder, Ravikumar Kondadadi · HLT, Short Papers
84. **[Finding Contradictions in Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marneffe-2008-finding-contradictions-text/)**Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Christopher D. Manning*our summary*
85. **[Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1067/)**Liang Huang
86. **[Forest-Based Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mi-2008-forest-based-translation/)**Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu*our summary*
87. **[Four Techniques for Online Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2015/)**Nizar Habash · HLT, Short Papers
88. **[Generalized Expectation Criteria for Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1099/)**Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum
89. **[Generalizing Word Lattice Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dyer-2008-generalizing-word-lattice-translation/)**Christopher Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, Philip Resnik*our summary*
90. **[Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1093/)**Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai
91. **[Generating Research Websites Using Summarisation Techniques ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-4002/)**Advaith Siddharthan, Ann Copestake
92. **[Gestural Cohesion for Topic Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1097/)**Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis
93. **[Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1015/)**Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy
94. **[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/)**György Szarvas*our summary*
95. **[High Frequency Word Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2043/)**Ani Nenkova, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg · HLT, Short Papers
96. **[Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1022/)**Dominic Espinosa, Michael White, Dennis Mehay
97. **[Icelandic Data Driven Part of Speech Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2009/)**Mark Dredze, Joel Wallenberg · HLT, Short Papers
98. **[Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1037/)**Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez
99. **[Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-1080/)**Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe
100. **[Improving the Performance of the Random Walk Model for Answering Complex Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2003/)**Yllias Chali, Shafiq Joty · HLT, Short Papers

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