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# EMNLP 2007 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2007 is the 2007 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 131 papers of it; our library holds 19 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**131** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**19** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/#works) · [**7,673** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/#works)**Prague, Czech Republic** where it was held**June 2007** when

## All accepted papers (131)

The most cited first; 19 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Comparative Evaluation of Deep and Shallow Approaches to the Automatic Detection of Common Grammatical Errors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1012/)**Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster, Josef van Genabith
2. **[A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1121/)**Sander Canisius, Erik Tjong Kim Sang
3. **[A Discriminative Learning Model for Coordinate Conjunctions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1064/)**Masashi Shimbo, Kazuo Hara
4. **[A Graph-Based Approach to Named Entity Categorization in Wikipedia Using Conditional Random Fields ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1068/)**Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto
5. **[A Multilingual Dependency Analysis System Using Online Passive-Aggressive Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1126/)**Le-Minh Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, Phuong-Thai Nguyen et al.
6. **[A New Perceptron Algorithm for Sequence Labeling with Non-Local Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1033/)**Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa
7. **[A Probabilistic Approach to Diachronic Phonology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1093/)**Alexandre Bouchard, Percy Liang, Thomas Griffiths et al.
8. **[A Sequence Alignment Model Based on the Averaged Perceptron ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1025/)**Dayne Freitag, Shahram Khadivi
9. **[A Statistical Language Modeling Approach to Lattice-Based Spoken Document Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1085/)**Tee Kiah Chia, Haizhou Li, Hwee Tou Ng
10. **[A Systematic Comparison of Training Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1055/)**Richard Zens, Saša Hasan, Hermann Ney
11. **[A Topic Model for Word Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1109/)**Jordan Boyd-Graber, David Blei, Xiaojin Zhu
12. **[A Two-Stage Parser for Multilingual Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1122/)**Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara
13. **[Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1082/)**Jingbo Zhu, Eduard Hovy
14. **[Adapting the RASP System for the CoNLL07 Domain-Adaptation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1130/)**Rebecca Watson, Ted Briscoe
15. **[An Approach to Text Corpus Construction which Cuts Annotation Costs and Maintains Reusability of Annotated Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1051/)**Katrin Tomanek, Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn
16. **[An Empirical Study on Computing Consensus Translations from Multiple Machine Translation Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1105/)**Wolfgang Macherey, Franz J. Och
17. **[Antecedent Selection Techniques for High-Recall Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/versley-2007-antecedent-selection-techniques-high-recall/)**Yannick Versley*our summary*
18. **[Automatic Identification of Important Segments and Expressions for Mining of Business-Oriented Conversations at Contact Centers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1048/)**Hironori Takeuchi, L Venkata Subramaniam, Tetsuya Nasukawa et al.
19. **[Automatically Identifying the Arguments of Discourse Connectives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1010/)**Ben Wellner, James Pustejovsky
20. **[Bayesian Document Generative Model with Explicit Multiple Topics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1044/)**Issei Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa
21. **[Bilingual Cluster Based Models for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1054/)**Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita
22. **[Binarizing Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Accuracy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1078/)**Wei Wang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu
23. **[Bootstrapping Feature-Rich Dependency Parsers with Entropic Priors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1070/)**David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
24. **[Bootstrapping Information Extraction from Field Books ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1087/)**Sander Canisius, Caroline Sporleder
25. **[Building Domain-Specific Taggers without Annotated (Domain) Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1118/)**John Miller, Manabu Torii, K. Vijay-Shanker

[See all 131 papers in EMNLP 2007 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (19)

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

1. **[V-Measure: A Conditional Entropy-Based External Cluster Evaluation Measure](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosenberg-2007-vmeasure-conditional-entropy-cluster-evaluation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg*2007 · 1,279 citations*
2. **[The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2007-conll-2007-shared-task-dependency/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Sandra Kübler, et al.*2007 · 1,010 citations*
3. **[Large Language Models in Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brants-2007-large-language-models-machine-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Thorsten Brants, Ashok C. Popat, Peng Xu, et al.*2007 · 706 citations*
4. **[Factored Translation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2007-factored-translation-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang*2007 · 699 citations*
5. **[Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2007-semantic-roles-improve-question-answering/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Dan Shen, Mirella Lapata*2007 · 523 citations*
6. **[What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2007-what-is-jeopardy-model-quasi/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura*2007 · 510 citations*
7. **[Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carpuat-2007-improving-statistical-machine-translation-word/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu*2007 · 505 citations*
8. [**Characterizing the Errors of Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Models**Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre*2007 · 403 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcdonald-2007-characterizing-errors-data-driven-dependency/)
9. **[Experiments with a Higher-Order Projective Dependency Parser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carreras-2007-experiments-higher-order-projective-dependency/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Xavier Carreras*2007 · 358 citations*
10. **[Chinese Syntactic Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2007-chinese-syntactic-reordering-statistical-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Chao Wang, Michael Collins, Philipp Koehn*2007 · 314 citations*
11. **[Dependency Parsing and Domain Adaptation with LR Models and Parser Ensembles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sagae-2007-dependency-parsing-domain-adaptation-lr/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Kenji Sagae, Jun'ichi Tsujii*2007 · 311 citations*
12. **[Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-improving-translation-quality-discarding-most/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Howard Johnson, Joel Martin, George Foster, et al.*2007 · 300 citations*
13. **[Why Doesn't EM Find Good HMM POS-Taggers?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-why-doesn-t-em-find/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Mark Johnson*2007 · 217 citations*
14. **[Improving Statistical Machine Translation Performance by Training Data Selection and Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2007-improving-statistical-machine-translation-performance/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yajuan Lü, Jin Huang, Qun Liu*2007 · 200 citations*
15. **[Identification and Resolution of Chinese Zero Pronouns: A Machine Learning Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2007-identification-resolution-chinese-zero-pronouns/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Shanheng Zhao, Hwee Tou Ng*2007 · 138 citations*
16. [**Frustratingly Hard Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing**Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Partha Pratim Talukdar, et al.*2007 · 109 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dredze-2007-frustratingly-hard-domain-adaptation-dependency/)
17. [**Part-of-Speech Tagging for Middle English through Alignment and Projection of Parallel Diachronic Texts**Taesun Moon, Jason Baldridge*2007 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moon-2007-part-speech-tagging-middle-english/)
18. [**Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew: A Case Study in Classifier Combination**Danny Shacham, Shuly Wintner*2007 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shacham-2007-morphological-disambiguation-hebrew-case-study/)
19. **[Antecedent Selection Techniques for High-Recall Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/versley-2007-antecedent-selection-techniques-high-recall/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yannick Versley*2007 · 27 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Dependency parsing (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Question answering (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [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/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Joakim Nivre**2 works here · 1,413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ryan McDonald**2 works here · 1,413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philipp Koehn**2 works here · 1,013 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-koehn/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andrew Rosenberg**1 work here · 1,279 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-rosenberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Julia Hirschberg**1 work here · 1,279 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Deniz Yuret**1 work here · 1,010 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jens Nilsson**1 work here · 1,010 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-nilsson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Johan Hall**1 work here · 1,010 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-hall/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sandra Kübler**1 work here · 1,010 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandra-kubler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sebastian Riedel**1 work here · 1,010 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ashok Popat**1 work here · 706 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashok-popat/) · [🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**1 work here · 706 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/)

## Top institutions

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

[🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento** Lisbon · Portugal 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-engenharia-de-sistemas-e-computadores-investigacao-e/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**The University of Tokyo** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-tokyo/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Tübingen** Tübingen · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tubingen/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/)

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

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