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# COLING 2008 — accepted papers

COLING 2008 is the 2008 edition of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), held in Manchester, UK, August 2008 (publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)). The ACL Anthology lists 217 papers of it in 5 tracks; our library holds 12 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**217** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**12** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2008/#works) · [**2,067** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2008/#works)**Manchester, UK** where it was held**August 2008** when

## Tracks

Main 167Posters 35Demonstrations 12Educational Natural Language Processing - Tutorial notes 2Theory, Algorithms and Applications - Tutorial notes 1

## All accepted papers (217)

The most cited first; 12 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Basic Framework to Build a Test Collection for the Vietnamese Text Catergorization](https://aclanthology.org/I08-7019/)**Viet Hoang-Anh, Thu Dinh-Thi-Phuong, Thang Huynh-Quyet
2. **[A Classification of Dialogue Actions in Tutorial Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1010/)**Mark Buckley, Magdalena Wolska
3. **[A Classifier-Based Approach to Preposition and Determiner Error Correction in L2 English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/felice-2008-classifier-based-approach-preposition-determiner/)**Rachele De Felice, Stephen G. Pulman*our summary*
4. **[A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy](https://aclanthology.org/C08-2028/)**Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki · Posters
5. **[A Concept-Centered Approach to Noun-Compound Interpretation](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1011/)**Cristina Butnariu, Tony Veale
6. **[A Discourse Resource for Turkish: Annotating Discourse Connectives in the METU Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeyrek-2008-discourse-resource-turkish-annotating-discourse/)**Deniz Zeyrek, Bonnie Webber*our summary*
7. **[A Discriminative Alignment Model for Abbreviation Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1083/)**Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun'ichi Tsujii
8. **[A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1119/)**Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
9. **[A Framework for Identifying Textual Redundancy](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1110/)**Kapil Thadani, Kathleen McKeown
10. **[A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sasano-2008-fully-lexicalized-probabilistic-model-japanese/)**Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi*our summary*
11. **[A Grammar Checking System for Punjabi](https://aclanthology.org/C08-3002/)**Mandeep Singh Gill, Gurpreet Singh Lehal · Demonstrations
12. **[A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Framework to Train a Semantic Parser from an Un-annotated Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1140/)**Deyu Zhou, Yulan He
13. **[A Joint Information Model for N-Best Ranking](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1086/)**Patrick Pantel, Vishnu Vyas
14. **[A Language-Independent Approach to Keyphrase Extraction and Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/C08-2021/)**Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Ilari T. Nieminen, Matti Pöllä et al. · Posters
15. **[A Linguistic Knowledge Discovery Tool: Very Large Ngram Database Search with Arbitrary Wildcards](https://aclanthology.org/C08-3010/)**Satoshi Sekine · Demonstrations
16. **[A Local Alignment Kernel in the Context of NLP](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1053/)**Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans
17. **[A Method for Automatic POS Guessing of Chinese Unknown Words](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1089/)**Likun Qiu, Changjian Hu, Kai Zhao
18. **[A Multilingual Multimedia Indian Sign Language Dictionary Tool](https://aclanthology.org/I08-7008/)**Tirthankar Dasgupta, Sambit Shukla, Sandeep Kumar et al.
19. **[A Probabilistic Model for Measuring Grammaticality and Similarity of Automatically Generated Paraphrases of Predicate Phrases](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1029/)**Atsushi Fujita, Satoshi Sato
20. **[A Punjabi To Hindi Machine Translation System](https://aclanthology.org/C08-3004/)**Gurpreet Singh Josan, Gurpreet Singh Lehal · Demonstrations
21. **[A Scalable MMR Approach to Sentence Scoring for Multi-Document Update Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/C08-2006/)**Florian Boudin, Marc El-Bèze, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno · Posters
22. **[A Semantic Study on Yami Ontology in Traditional Songs](https://aclanthology.org/I08-7011/)**Yin-Sheng Tai, D. Victoria Rau, Meng-Chien Yang
23. **[A Supervised Algorithm for Verb Disambiguation into VerbNet Classes](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1002/)**Omri Abend, Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport
24. **[A Syntactic Time-Series Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1072/)**Tim Miller, William Schuler
25. **[A Systematic Comparison of Phrase-Based, Hierarchical and Syntax-Augmented Statistical MT](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1144/)**Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Franz Och et al.

[See all 217 papers in COLING 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2008/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (12)

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

1. **[Scientific Paper Summarization Using Citation Summary Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qazvinian-2008-scientific-paper-summarization-citation-summary/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev*2008 · 335 citations*
2. **[A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turney-2008-uniform-approach-analogies-synonyms-antonyms/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Peter Turney*2008 · 264 citations*
3. **[The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection in ESL Writing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tetreault-2008-ups-downs-preposition-error-detection/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Joel R. Tetreault, Martin Chodorow*2008 · 260 citations*
4. **[Estimation of Conditional Probabilities With Decision Trees and an Application to Fine-Grained POS Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmid-2008-estimation-conditional-probabilities-decision-trees/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Helmut Schmid, Florian Laws*2008 · 255 citations*
5. **[Sentence Compression Beyond Word Deletion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohn-2008-sentence-compression-beyond-word-deletion/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata*2008 · 250 citations*
6. **[Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pitler-2008-easily-identifiable-discourse-relations/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, et al.*2008 · 206 citations*
7. **[A Classifier-Based Approach to Preposition and Determiner Error Correction in L2 English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/felice-2008-classifier-based-approach-preposition-determiner/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Rachele De Felice, Stephen G. Pulman*2008 · 202 citations*
8. **[A Discourse Resource for Turkish: Annotating Discourse Connectives in the METU Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeyrek-2008-discourse-resource-turkish-annotating-discourse/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Deniz Zeyrek, Bonnie Webber*2008 · 93 citations*
9. **[Statistical Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gasperin-2008-statistical-anaphora-resolution-biomedical-texts/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Caroline Gasperin, Ted Briscoe*2008 · 66 citations*
10. **[A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sasano-2008-fully-lexicalized-probabilistic-model-japanese/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi*2008 · 63 citations*
11. **[Coreference Systems Based on Kernels Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/versley-2008-coreference-systems-based-kernels-methods/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Yannick Versley, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Poesio, et al.*2008 · 43 citations*
12. **[Towards an Annotated Corpus of Discourse Relations in Hindi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prasad-2008-annotated-corpus-discourse-relations-hindi/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Rashmi Prasad, Samar Husain, Dipti Sharma, et al.*2008 · 30 citations*

## Top topics

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

[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/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Aravind Joshi**2 works here · 236 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dragomir Radev**1 work here · 335 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vahed Qazvinian**1 work here · 335 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vahed-qazvinian/) · [🧑‍🔬**Peter Turney**1 work here · 264 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-turney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joel Tetreault**1 work here · 260 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-tetreault/) · [🧑‍🔬**Martin Chodorow**1 work here · 260 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-chodorow/) · [🧑‍🔬**Florian Laws**1 work here · 255 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florian-laws/) · [🧑‍🔬**Helmut Schmid**1 work here · 255 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helmut-schmid/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mirella Lapata**1 work here · 250 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) · [🧑‍🔬**Trevor Cohn**1 work here · 250 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/trevor-cohn/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alan Lee**1 work here · 206 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ani Nenkova**1 work here · 206 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ani-nenkova/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🤝**Educational Testing Service** Princeton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/educational-testing-service/) · [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🎓**Middle East Technical University** Ankara · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/middle-east-technical-university/) · [🎓**Kyoto University** Kyoto · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🔬**Institute for Infocomm Research** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-for-infocomm-research/) · [🎓**Hunter College** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hunter-college/) · [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/)

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