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# EMNLP 2002 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2002 is the 2002 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in July 2002 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 41 papers of it; our library holds 8 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

🗓 July 2002

[**41** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2002/#works) · [**12,833** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2002/#works)

## All accepted papers (41)

The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thelen-2002-bootstrapping-method-learning-semantic-lexicons/)**Michael Thelen, Ellen Riloff*our summary*
2. **[A Hybrid Approach to Natural Language Web Search ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1024/)**Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John Prager, Yael Ravin et al.
3. **[A Machine-Learning Approach to Introspection in a Question Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1034/)**Krzysztof Czuba, John Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll
4. **[A Method for Open-Vocabulary Speech-Driven Text Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1025/)**Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou, Tetsuya Ishikawa
5. **[A Phrase-Based,Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-phrase-based-joint-probability-model/)**Daniel Marcu, Daniel Wong*our summary*
6. **[An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1033/)**Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, Michele Banko
7. **[An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2002-empirical-evaluation-knowledge-sources-learning/)**Yoong Keok Lee, Hwee Tou Ng*our summary*
8. **[An Incremental Decision List Learner ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1003/)**Joshua Goodman
9. **[Augmented Mixture Models for Lexical Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1005/)**Silviu Cucerzan, David Yarowsky
10. **[Bootstrapping Lexical Choice via Multiple-Sequence Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1022/)**Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee
11. **[Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition for Italian Broadcast News ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1038/)**Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Vanessa Sandrini
12. **[Combining Outputs of Multiple Japanese Named Entity Chunkers by Stacking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1036/)**Takehito Utsuro, Manabu Sassano, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
13. **[Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2002-combining-sample-selection-error-driven/)**Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie*our summary*
14. **[Conditional Structure versus Conditional Estimation in NLP Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1002/)**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning
15. **[Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-2002-discriminative-training-methods-hidden-markov/)**Michael Collins*our summary*
16. **[Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1029/)**James Curran
17. **[Exploiting Headword Dependency and Predictive Clustering for Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1032/)**Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki, Yang Wen
18. **[Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1017/)**William Phillips, Ellen Riloff
19. **[Extensions to HMM-based Statistical Word Alignment Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1012/)**Kristina Toutanova, H. Tolga Ilhan, Christopher Manning
20. **[Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1035/)**Narendra Gupta, Srinivas Bangalore
21. **[Fast LR parsing Using Rich (Tree Adjoining) Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1014/)**Carlos A. Prolo
22. **[From Words to Corpora: Recognizing Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1013/)**Noah A. Smith
23. **[Generation of Word Graphs in Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1021/)**Nicola Ueffing, Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney
24. **[Handling Noisy Training and Testing Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1015/)**Don Blaheta
25. **[Information Extraction from Voicemail Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W02-1041/)**Martin Jansche, Steven Abney

[See all 41 papers in EMNLP 2002 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2002/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (8)

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

1. **[Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2002-thumbs-up-sentiment-classification-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Bo Pang, Lillian Lee, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan*2002 · 7,762 citations*
2. [**Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms**Michael Collins*2002 · 2,511 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-2002-discriminative-training-methods-hidden-markov/)
3. **[Kernel Methods for Relation Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zelenko-2002-kernel-methods-relation-extraction/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone, Anthony Richardella*2002 · 831 citations*
4. **[A Phrase-Based,Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-phrase-based-joint-probability-model/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Marcu, Daniel Wong*2002 · 661 citations*
5. **[A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thelen-2002-bootstrapping-method-learning-semantic-lexicons/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Michael Thelen, Ellen Riloff*2002 · 449 citations*
6. **[An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2002-empirical-evaluation-knowledge-sources-learning/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yoong Keok Lee, Hwee Tou Ng*2002 · 303 citations*
7. **[Phrasal Cohesion and Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fox-2002-phrasal-cohesion-statistical-machine-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Heidi Fox*2002 · 250 citations*
8. **[Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2002-combining-sample-selection-error-driven/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie*2002 · 66 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (8)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Bo Pang**1 work here · 7,762 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-pang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lillian Lee**1 work here · 7,762 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shivakumar Vaithyanathan**1 work here · 7,762 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivakumar-vaithyanathan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**1 work here · 2,511 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chinatsu Aone**1 work here · 831 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chinatsu-aone/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dmitry Zelenko**1 work here · 831 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dmitry-zelenko/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Marcu**1 work here · 661 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ellen Riloff**1 work here · 449 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hwee Tou Ng**1 work here · 303 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hwee-tou-ng/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoong Keok Lee**1 work here · 303 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 66 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vincent Ng**1 work here · 66 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-ng/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**University of Utah** Salt Lake City · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-utah/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Almaden** San Jose · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-almaden/) · [🏢**SRA International** Fairfax · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/sra-international/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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