--- title: "EMNLP 2006 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "EMNLP 2006 — accepted papers: 8 papers in the Elamur Research library (Sydney, Australia), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) / 2006 # EMNLP 2006 — accepted papers EMNLP 2006 is the 2006 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Sydney, Australia, July 2006 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 73 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. [**73** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/#works) · [**3,290** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/#works)**Sydney, Australia** where it was held**July 2006** when ## All accepted papers (73) The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Discriminative Model for Tree-to-Tree Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1628/)**Brooke Cowan, Ivona Kuc̆erová, Michael Collins 2. **[A Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1655/)**Galen Andrew 3. **[A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1643/)**Michel Galley 4. **[A Weakly Supervised Learning Approach for Spoken Language Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1624/)**Wei-Lin Wu, Ru-Zhan Lu, Jian-Yong Duan et al. 5. **[An Empirical Approach to the Interpretation of Superlatives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1602/)**Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim 6. **[Arabic OCR Error Correction Using Character Segment Correction, Language Modeling, and Shallow Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1648/)**Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish 7. **[Automatic Construction of Predicate-argument Structure Patterns for Biomedical Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1634/)**Akane Yakushiji, Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta et al. 8. **[Automatic classification of citation function](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teufel-2006-automatic-classification-citation-function/)**Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar*our summary* 9. **[Automatically Assessing Review Helpfulness ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1650/)**Soo-Min Kim, Patrick Pantel, Tim Chklovski et al. 10. **[BESTCUT: A Graph Algorithm for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nicolae-2006-bestcut-graph-algorithm-coreference-resolution/)**Cristina Nicolae, Gabriel Nicolae*our summary* 11. **[Better Informed Training of Latent Syntactic Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1638/)**Markus Dreyer, Jason Eisner 12. **[Boosting Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Using NER ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1656/)**Ronen Feldman, Benjamin Rosenfeld 13. **[Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ciaramita-2006-broad-coverage-sense-disambiguation-information/)**Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yasemin Altun*our summary* 14. **[Capturing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1631/)**Abdusalam F.A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer 15. **[Competitive generative models with structure learning for NLP classification tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1668/)**Kristina Toutanova 16. **[Context-Dependent Term Relations for Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1665/)**Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Guihong Cao 17. **[Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1646/)**Izhak Shafran, Keith Hall 18. **[Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1604/)**Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni 19. **[Discriminative Methods for Transliteration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1672/)**Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone 20. **[Distributed Language Modeling for $N$-best List Re-ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1626/)**Ying Zhang, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel 21. **[Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1605/)**Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst 22. **[Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blitzer-2006-domain-adaptation-structural-correspondence-learning/)**John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira*our summary* 23. **[Efficient Search for Inversion Transduction Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1627/)**Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea 24. **[Empirical Study on the Performance Stability of Named Entity Recognition Model across Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1660/)**Hong Lei Guo, Li Zhang, Zhong Su 25. **[Entity Annotation based on Inverse Index Operations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1658/)**Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sreeram Balakrishnan, Sachindra Joshi [See all 73 papers in EMNLP 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (8) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blitzer-2006-domain-adaptation-structural-correspondence-learning/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira*2006 · 1,794 citations* 2. **[Automatic classification of citation function](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teufel-2006-automatic-classification-citation-function/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar*2006 · 517 citations* 3. **[Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thomas-2006-get-out-vote-determining-support/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee*2006 · 307 citations* 4. **[Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ciaramita-2006-broad-coverage-sense-disambiguation-information/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yasemin Altun*2006 · 295 citations* 5. **[Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2006-phrasetable-smoothing-statistical-machine-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson*2006 · 174 citations* 6. **[SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2006-spmt-statistical-machine-translation-syntactified/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, et al.*2006 · 96 citations* 7. **[Partially Supervised Coreference Resolution for Opinion Summarization through Structured Rule Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoyanov-2006-partially-supervised-coreference-resolution-opinion/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie*2006 · 90 citations* 8. **[BESTCUT: A Graph Algorithm for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nicolae-2006-bestcut-graph-algorithm-coreference-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Cristina Nicolae, Gabriel Nicolae*2006 · 17 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [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/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (7)](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. [🧑‍🔬**Fernando Pereira**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernando-pereira/) · [🧑‍🔬**John Blitzer**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-blitzer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ryan McDonald**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/) · [🧑‍🔬**Advaith Siddharthan**1 work here · 517 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/advaith-siddharthan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Simone Teufel**1 work here · 517 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-teufel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bo Pang**1 work here · 307 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-pang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lillian Lee**1 work here · 307 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Massimiliano Ciaramita**1 work here · 295 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimiliano-ciaramita/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yasemin Altun**1 work here · 295 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/) · [🧑‍🔬**George Foster**1 work here · 174 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-foster/) · [🧑‍🔬**Howard Johnson**1 work here · 174 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Roland Kuhn**1 work here · 174 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roland-kuhn/) ## 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/) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🤝**National Research Council** Rome · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/national-research-council/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous EMNLP 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2004/) - [next → EMNLP 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/) - [↑ back to EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)