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# EMNLP 1999 — accepted papers

EMNLP 1999 is the 1999 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 35 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**35** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/1999/#works) · [**1,866** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/1999/#works)

## All accepted papers (35)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Learning Approach to Shallow Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0621/)**Marcia Muñoz, Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth et al.
2. **[An Information-Theoretic Empirical Analysis of Dependency-Based Feature Types for Word Prediction Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0618/)**Dekai Wu, Jun Zhao, Zhifang Sui
3. **[An Iterative Approach to Estimating Frequencies over a Semantic Hierarchy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0631/)**Stephen Clark, David Weir
4. **[Applying Extrasentential Context To Maximum Entropy Based Tagging With A Large Semantic And Syntactic Tagset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0607/)**Ezra Black, Andrew Finch, Ruiqiang Zhang
5. **[Automatic Construction of Weighted String Similarity Measures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0626/)**Jorg Tiedemann
6. **[Automatically Merging Lexicons that have Incompatible Part-of-Speech Categories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0630/)**Daniel Ka-Leung Chan, Dekai Wu
7. **[Boosting Applied to Tagging and PP Attachment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0606/)**Steven Abney, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
8. **[Cascaded Grammatical Relation Assignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0629/)**Sabine Buchholz, Jorn Veenstra, Walter Daelemans
9. **[Corpus-Based Approach for Nominal Compound Analysis for Korean Based on Linguistic and Statistical Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0635/)**Juntae Yoon, Key-Sun Choi, Mansuk Song
10. **[Corpus-Based Learning for Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0634/)**Wee Meng Soon, Hwee Tou Ng, Chung Yong Lim
11. **[Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Technical Documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0605/)**Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa
12. **[Detecting Text Similarity over Short Passages: Exploring Linguistic Feature Combinations via Machine Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0625/)**Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Eleazar Eskin
13. **[Determining the specificity of nouns from text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0609/)**Sharon A. Caraballo, Eugene Charniak
14. **[Exploiting Diversity in Natural Language Processing: Combining Parsers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0623/)**John C. Henderson, Eric Brill
15. **[Guiding a Well-Founded Parser with Corpus Statistics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0622/)**Amon Seagull, Lenhart Schubert
16. **[HMM Specialization with Selective Lexicalization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0615/)**Jin-Dong Kim, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim
17. **[Hybrid Disambiguation of Prepositional Phrase Attachment and Interpretation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0614/)**Sven Hartrumpf
18. **[Improved Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-1999-improved-alignment-models-statistical-machine/)**Franz Josef Och, Christoph Tillmann, Hermann Ney*our summary*
19. **[Improving Brill's POS Tagger for an Agglutinative Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0633/)**Beata Megyesi
20. **[Improving POS Tagging Using Machine-Learning Techniques ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0608/)**Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez, Josep Carmona et al.
21. **[Language Independent Named Entity Recognition Combining Morphological and Contextual Evidence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0612/)**Silviu Cucerzan, David Yarowsky
22. **[Learning Discourse Relations with Active Data Selection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0620/)**Tadashi Nomoto, Yuji Matsumoto
23. **[Lexical ambiguity and Information Retrieval revisited ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0624/)**Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Penas, Felisa Verdejo
24. **[Mapping Multilingual Hierarchies Using Relaxation Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W99-0603/)**J. Daudé, L. Padró, G. Rigau
25. **[Noun Phrase Coreference as Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cardie-1999-noun-phrase-coreference-as-clustering/)**Claire Cardie, Kiri Wagstaff*our summary*

[See all 35 papers in EMNLP 1999 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/1999/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

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

1. **[Unsupervised Models for Named Entity Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1999-unsupervised-models-named-entity-classification/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Michael Collins, Yoram Singer*1999 · 991 citations*
2. **[Improved Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-1999-improved-alignment-models-statistical-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Franz Josef Och, Christoph Tillmann, Hermann Ney*1999 · 677 citations*
3. **[Noun Phrase Coreference as Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cardie-1999-noun-phrase-coreference-as-clustering/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Claire Cardie, Kiri Wagstaff*1999 · 198 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**1 work here · 991 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoram Singer**1 work here · 991 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoram-singer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christoph Tillmann**1 work here · 677 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-tillmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**1 work here · 677 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hermann Ney**1 work here · 677 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hermann-ney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 198 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/)

## Top institutions

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

[🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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