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# ACL 2009 — accepted papers

ACL 2009 is the 2009 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Suntec, Singapore, August 2009 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 231 papers of it; our library holds 27 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**231** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**27** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2009/works/) · [**5,129** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2009/works/)**Suntec, Singapore** where it was held**August 2009** when

## All accepted papers (231)

The most cited first; 27 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Beam-Search Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2057/)**Christoph Tillmann
2. **[A Chinese-English Organization Name Translation System Using Heuristic Web Mining and Asymmetric Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1044/)**Fan Yang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
3. **[A Combination of Active Learning and Semi-supervised Learning Starting with Positive and Unlabeled Examples for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study on Japanese Web Search Query ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2016/)**Makoto Imamura, Yasuhiro Takayama, Nobuhiro Kaji et al.
4. **[A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1106/)**Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li et al.
5. **[A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsubayashi-2009-comparative-study-generalization-semantic-roles/)**Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun'ichi Tsujii*our summary*
6. **[A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2015/)**Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran
7. **[A Framework of Feature Selection Methods for Text Categorization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1078/)**Shoushan Li, Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong et al.
8. **[A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1119/)**Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
9. **[A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1088/)**Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer et al.
10. **[A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1081/)**Asli Celikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Huang
11. **[A Metric-based Framework for Automatic Taxonomy Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1031/)**Hui Yang, Jamie Callan
12. **[A NLG-based Application for Walking Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-4010/)**Michael Roth, Anette Frank
13. **[A Non-negative Matrix Tri-factorization Approach to Sentiment Classification with Lexical Prior Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1028/)**Tao Li, Yi Zhang, Vikas Sindhwani
14. **[A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2085/)**Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater et al.
15. **[A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/duverle-2009-novel-discourse-parser-based-support/)**David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger*our summary*
16. **[A Novel Word Segmentation Approach for Written Languages with Word Boundary Markers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2008/)**Han-Cheol Cho, Do-Gil Lee, Jung-Tae Lee et al.
17. **[A Polynomial-Time Parsing Algorithm for TT-MCTAG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1112/)**Laura Kallmeyer, Giorgio Satta
18. **[A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1014/)**Qing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn et al.
19. **[A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2049/)**Janara Christensen, Mausam, Oren Etzioni
20. **[A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on a Synthetic Synchronous Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2032/)**Hongfei Jiang, Muyun Yang, Tiejun Zhao et al.
21. **[A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2069/)**Haşim Sak, Tunga Güngör, Murat Saraçlar
22. **[A Succinct N-gram Language Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2086/)**Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki
23. **[A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-2020/)**Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke, Maite Taboada
24. **[A Syntax-Driven Bracketing Model for Phrase-Based Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1036/)**Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw et al.
25. **[A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence Compression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P09-1093/)**Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki

[See all 231 papers in ACL 2009 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2009/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (27)

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

1. **[Co-Training for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2009-co-training-cross-lingual-sentiment/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaojun Wan*2009 · 595 citations*
2. **[Learning Semantic Correspondences with Less Supervision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liang-2009-learning-semantic-correspondences-less-supervision/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Percy Liang, Michael Jordan, Dan Klein*2009 · 456 citations*
3. [**Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text**Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova*2009 · 418 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pitler-2009-automatic-sense-prediction-implicit-discourse/)
4. [**Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text**Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova*2009 · 408 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pitler-2009-syntax-disambiguate-explicit-discourse-connectives/)
5. **[Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2009-non-projective-dependency-parsing-expected/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Joakim Nivre*2009 · 357 citations*
6. **[Bayesian Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Nested Pitman-Yor Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mochihashi-2009-bayesian-unsupervised-word-segmentation-nested/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daichi Mochihashi, Takeshi Yamada, Naonori Ueda*2009 · 312 citations*
7. **[Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2009-phrase-clustering-discriminative-learning/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dekang Lin, Xiaoyun Wu*2009 · 296 citations*
8. **[Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/das-2009-paraphrase-identification-as-probabilistic-quasi/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith*2009 · 277 citations*
9. **[Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zettlemoyer-2009-learning-context-dependent-mappings-sentences/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Luke Zettlemoyer, Michael Collins*2009 · 246 citations*
10. [**Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art**Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie, et al.*2009 · 199 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoyanov-2009-conundrums-noun-phrase-coreference-resolution/)
11. [**CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank**Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth*2009 · 192 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2009-catib-columbia-arabic-treebank/)
12. **[Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ganchev-2009-dependency-grammar-induction-bitext-projection/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater, Ben Taskar*2009 · 191 citations*
13. **[Application-driven Statistical Paraphrase Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2009-application-driven-statistical-paraphrase-generation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shiqi Zhao, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu, et al.*2009 · 186 citations*
14. **[Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haghighi-2009-better-word-alignments-supervised-itg/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero, et al.*2009 · 163 citations*
15. **[Finding Hedges by Chasing Weasels: Hedge Detection Using Wikipedia Tags and Shallow Linguistic Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ganter-2009-finding-hedges-chasing-weasels-hedge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Viola Ganter, Michael Strube*2009 · 151 citations*
16. **[A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/duverle-2009-novel-discourse-parser-based-support/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger*2009 · 135 citations*
17. **[The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mihalcea-2009-lie-detector-explorations-automatic-recognition/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava*2009 · 102 citations*
18. [**Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike**Bart Jongejan, Hercules Dalianis*2009 · 90 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jongejan-2009-automatic-training-lemmatization-rules-that/)
19. **[Discriminative Approach to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis with Zero-Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/imamura-2009-discriminative-approach-predicate-argument-structure/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Tomoko Izumi*2009 · 77 citations*
20. [**A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction**Kristina Toutanova, Colin Cherry*2009 · 58 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2009-global-model-joint-lemmatization-part/)
21. [**Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?**Paola Merlo, Lonneke van der Plas*2009 · 45 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merlo-2009-abstraction-generalisation-semantic-role-labels/)
22. **[A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsubayashi-2009-comparative-study-generalization-semantic-roles/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun'ichi Tsujii*2009 · 39 citations*
23. [**Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions**Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar*2009 · 35 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/korkontzelos-2009-detecting-compositionality-multi-word-expressions/)
24. [**Incorporating Information Status into Generation Ranking**Aoife Cahill, Arndt Riester*2009 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cahill-2009-incorporating-information-status-into-generation/)
25. [**Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation**Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li, et al.*2009 · 31 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/setiawan-2009-topological-ordering-function-words-hierarchical/)

[See all 27 works in ACL 2009 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2009/works/)

## Top topics

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

[English (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Discourse analysis (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Coreference resolution (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semantic role labeling (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Morphology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [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/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

**2 more topics**

[Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (27)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (27)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Ani Nenkova**2 works here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ani-nenkova/) · [🧑‍🔬**Emily Pitler**2 works here · 826 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emily-pitler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**2 works here · 619 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xiaojun Wan**1 work here · 595 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojun-wan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael I. Jordan**1 work here · 456 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-i-jordan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Percy Liang**1 work here · 456 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Annie Louis**1 work here · 418 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-louis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joakim Nivre**1 work here · 357 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dekang Lin**1 work here · 296 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekang-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dipanjan Das**1 work here · 277 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dipanjan-das/) · [🧑‍🔬**Noah A. Smith**1 work here · 277 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luke Zettlemoyer**1 work here · 246 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏢**NTT** Tokyo · Japan 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ntt/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**University of North Texas** Denton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-texas/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🏢**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/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/)

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