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# Computational Linguistics 2008 — papers

The works of Computational Linguistics published in 2008 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 14 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**36** works that year](#all) · [**14** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2008/#works) · [**5,541** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2008/#works)

## All works of the year (36)

The most cited first; 14 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Global Joint Model for Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2008-global-joint-model-semantic-role/)**Kristina Toutanova, Aria Haghighi, Christopher D. Manning*our summary*
2. **[A Twin-Candidate Model for Learning-Based Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2008-twin-candidate-model-learning-based/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan*our summary*
3. **[ACL Lifetime Achievement Award: On Whose Shoulders?](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4001/)**Yorick Wilks
4. **[Algorithms for Deterministic Incremental Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2008-algorithms-deterministic-incremental-dependency-parsing/)**Joakim Nivre*our summary*
5. **[Book Review: Mathematical Linguistics by András Kornai](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4006/)**Richard Sproat, Roxana Gîrju
6. **[Book Reviews: A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication by Roland Hausser](https://aclanthology.org/J08-2007/)**Markus Egg
7. **[Book Reviews: Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-Based and Empirical Methods by Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, and Günter Neumann (editors)](https://aclanthology.org/J08-3008/)**George Kiraz
8. **[Book Reviews: Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark and Richard Sproat](https://aclanthology.org/J08-3007/)**Noah A. Smith
9. **[Book Reviews: Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Parsers and Pedagogues by Trude Heift and Mathias Schulze](https://aclanthology.org/J08-1006/)**Pius ten Hacken
10. **[Book Reviews: Incremental Conceptualization for Language Production by Markus Guhe](https://aclanthology.org/J08-1005/)**Paul Piwek
11. **[Book Reviews: Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context by Marie-Francine Moens](https://aclanthology.org/J08-2008/)**Diana Maynard
12. **[Book Reviews: Semisupervised Learning for Computational Linguistics by Steven Abney](https://aclanthology.org/J08-3006/)**Vincent Ng
13. **[Book Reviews: The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches to Analyzing Unstructured Data by Ronen Feldman and James Sanger](https://aclanthology.org/J08-1004/)**Rada Mihalcea
14. **[Constructing Corpora for the Development and Evaluation of Paraphrase Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohn-2008-constructing-corpora-development-evaluation-paraphrase/)**Trevor Cohn, Chris Callison-Burch, Mirella Lapata*our summary*
15. **[Dependency Parsing of Turkish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eryigit-2008-dependency-parsing-turkish/)**Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre, Kemal Oflazer*our summary*
16. **[Erratum: Dependency Parsing of Turkish](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4010/)**Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre, Kemal Oflazer
17. **[Feature Forest Models for Probabilistic HPSG Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyao-2008-feature-forest-models-probabilistic-hpsg/)**Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii*our summary*
18. **[Hybrid Reinforcement/Supervised Learning of Dialogue Policies from Fixed Data Sets](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4002/)**James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Kallirroi Georgila
19. **[Identifying Semitic Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/daya-2008-identifying-semitic-roots-machine-learning/)**Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, Shuly Wintner*our summary*
20. **[Labeling Chinese Predicates with Semantic Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2008-labeling-chinese-predicates-semantic-roles/)**Nianwen Xue*our summary*
21. **[Last Words: Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith](https://aclanthology.org/J08-3010/)**Ted Pedersen
22. **[Last Words: On Becoming a Discipline](https://aclanthology.org/J08-1008/)**Mark Steedman
23. **[Last Words: What's the Future for \textitComputational Linguistics](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4008/)**Robert Dale
24. **[Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2008-modeling-local-coherence-entity-based/)**Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata*our summary*
25. **[Publications Received](https://aclanthology.org/J08-1007/)**

[See all 36 papers in Computational Linguistics 2008 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2008/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (14)

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

1. **[Survey Article: Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/artstein-2008-survey-article-inter-coder-agreement/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Ron Artstein, Massimo Poesio*2008 · 1,770 citations*
2. **[Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2008-modeling-local-coherence-entity-based/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata*2008 · 913 citations*
3. [**Algorithms for Deterministic Incremental Dependency Parsing**Joakim Nivre*2008 · 643 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2008-algorithms-deterministic-incremental-dependency-parsing/)
4. **[The Importance of Syntactic Parsing and Inference in Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/punyakanok-2008-importance-syntactic-parsing-inference-semantic/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih*2008 · 538 citations*
5. **[Statistical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrachina-2009-statistical-approaches-computer-assisted-translation/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Sergio Barrachina, Oliver Bender, Francisco Casacuberta, et al.*2008 · 313 citations*
6. [**Feature Forest Models for Probabilistic HPSG Parsing**Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii*2008 · 279 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyao-2008-feature-forest-models-probabilistic-hpsg/)
7. **[A Global Joint Model for Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2008-global-joint-model-semantic-role/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Kristina Toutanova, Aria Haghighi, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 214 citations*
8. **[Tree Kernels for Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moschitti-2008-tree-kernels-semantic-role-labeling/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin, Roberto Basili*2008 · 203 citations*
9. **[Labeling Chinese Predicates with Semantic Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2008-labeling-chinese-predicates-semantic-roles/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Nianwen Xue*2008 · 181 citations*
10. **[Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pradhan-2008-robust-semantic-role-labeling/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin*2008 · 160 citations*
11. **[Dependency Parsing of Turkish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eryigit-2008-dependency-parsing-turkish/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre, Kemal Oflazer*2008 · 124 citations*
12. **[Constructing Corpora for the Development and Evaluation of Paraphrase Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohn-2008-constructing-corpora-development-evaluation-paraphrase/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Trevor Cohn, Chris Callison-Burch, Mirella Lapata*2008 · 118 citations*
13. **[A Twin-Candidate Model for Learning-Based Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2008-twin-candidate-model-learning-based/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan*2008 · 60 citations*
14. [**Identifying Semitic Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints**Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, Shuly Wintner*2008 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/daya-2008-identifying-semitic-roots-machine-learning/)

## Top topics

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

[Semantic role labeling (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Dependency parsing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Biblical Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Mirella Lapata**2 works here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joakim Nivre**2 works here · 767 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Roth**2 works here · 563 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) · [🧑‍🔬**Massimo Poesio**1 work here · 1,770 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ron Artstein**1 work here · 1,770 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ron-artstein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Regina Barzilay**1 work here · 913 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/regina-barzilay/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wen-tau Yih**1 work here · 538 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) · [🧑‍🔬**Enrique Vidal**1 work here · 313 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enrique-vidal/) · [🧑‍🔬**Francisco Casacuberta**1 work here · 313 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francisco-casacuberta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hermann Ney**1 work here · 313 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hermann-ney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Oliver Bender**1 work here · 313 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-bender/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jun'ichi Tsujii**1 work here · 279 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-ichi-tsujii/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Universitat Jaume I** Castellon · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-jaume-i/) · [🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🎓**University of Rome Tor Vergata** Rome · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rome-tor-vergata/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-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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