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# EMNLP 2008 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2008 is the 2008 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 114 papers of it; our library holds 24 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**114** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**24** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2008/#works) · [**5,981** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2008/#works)**Honolulu, Hawaii** where it was held**October 2008** when

## All accepted papers (114)

The most cited first; 24 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1040/)**Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
2. **[A Dependency-based Word Subsequence Kernel](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1042/)**Rohit Kate
3. **[A Discriminative Candidate Generator for String Transformations](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1047/)**Naoaki Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou et al.
4. **[A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2008-generative-model-parsing-natural-language/)**Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee et al.*our summary*
5. **[A Graph-theoretic Model of Lexical Syntactic Acquisition](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1096/)**Hinrich Schütze, Michael Walsh
6. **[A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1055/)**Hirotoshi Taira, Sanae Fujita, Masaaki Nagata
7. **[A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1025/)**Roger Levy
8. **[A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1084/)**Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning
9. **[A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2008-simple-effective-hierarchical-phrase-reordering/)**Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning*our summary*
10. **[A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/erk-2008-structured-vector-space-model-word/)**Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó*our summary*
11. **[A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2008-tale-two-parsers-investigating-combining/)**Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark*our summary*
12. **[A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1036/)**Jianfeng Gao, Mark Johnson
13. **[Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1100/)**Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alexander Rudnicky
14. **[Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1050/)**Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark
15. **[Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1013/)**Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Gen Wang
16. **[An Analysis of Active Learning Strategies for Sequence Labeling Tasks](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1112/)**Burr Settles, Mark Craven
17. **[An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1079/)**Xiaojun Wan
18. **[Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1030/)**Yassine Benajiba, Mona Diab, Paolo Rosso
19. **[Attacking Decipherment Problems Optimally with Low-Order N-gram Models](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1085/)**Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight
20. **[Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1074/)**Nianwen Xue
21. **[Automatic Prediction of Parser Accuracy](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1093/)**Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight, Radu Soricut
22. **[Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1099/)**Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen et al.
23. **[Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pennacchiotti-2008-automatic-induction-framenet-lexical-units/)**Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili et al.*our summary*
24. **[Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisenstein-2008-bayesian-unsupervised-topic-segmentation/)**Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay*our summary*
25. **[Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1018/)**Xinying Song, Shilin Ding, Chin-Yew Lin

[See all 114 papers in EMNLP 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2008/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (24)

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

1. **[A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/erk-2008-structured-vector-space-model-word/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó*2008 · 508 citations*
2. **[A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2008-simple-effective-hierarchical-phrase-reordering/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 472 citations*
3. **[Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/macherey-2008-lattice-based-minimum-error-rate/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Och, Ignacio Thayer, et al.*2008 · 410 citations*
4. **[Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choi-2008-learning-compositional-semantics-as-structural/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie*2008 · 403 citations*
5. **[Cheap and Fast – But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/snow-2008-cheap-fast-but-is-it/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, et al.*2008 · 392 citations*
6. **[Understanding the Value of Features for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bengtson-2008-understanding-value-features-coreference-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Eric Bengtson, Dan Roth*2008 · 353 citations*
7. **[Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banea-2008-multilingual-subjectivity-analysis-machine-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe, et al.*2008 · 350 citations*
8. [**A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing**Yue Zhang, Stephen Clark*2008 · 336 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2008-tale-two-parsers-investigating-combining/)
9. **[Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisenstein-2008-bayesian-unsupervised-topic-segmentation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay*2008 · 297 citations*
10. **[Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poon-2008-joint-unsupervised-coreference-resolution-markov/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos*2008 · 272 citations*
11. **[Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pitler-2008-revisiting-readability-unified-framework-predicting/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova*2008 · 253 citations*
12. **[Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2008-unsupervised-models-coreference-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Vincent Ng*2008 · 223 citations*
13. **[A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2008-generative-model-parsing-natural-language/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, et al.*2008 · 210 citations*
14. **[Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/solorio-2008-learning-predict-code-switching-points/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu*2008 · 208 citations*
15. **[Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tromble-2008-lattice-minimum-bayes-risk-decoding/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Och, et al.*2008 · 206 citations*
16. **[Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2008-dependency-parsing-belief-propagation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**David Smith, Jason Eisner*2008 · 198 citations*
17. **[Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/solorio-2008-part-speech-tagging-english-spanish/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu*2008 · 192 citations*
18. **[Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mi-2008-forest-based-translation-rule-extraction/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Haitao Mi, Liang Huang*2008 · 178 citations*
19. **[Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/denis-2008-specialized-models-ranking-coreference-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge*2008 · 171 citations*
20. [**Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank**Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues*2008 · 139 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johansson-2008-dependency-based-semantic-role-labeling/)
21. **[Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/burch-2008-syntactic-constraints-paraphrases-extracted-parallel/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Chris Callison-Burch*2008 · 92 citations*
22. **[Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pennacchiotti-2008-automatic-induction-framenet-lexical-units/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, et al.*2008 · 88 citations*
23. [**Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation**Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk*2008 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/menezes-2008-syntactic-models-structural-word-insertion/)
24. **[Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baron-2008-who-is-who-what-is/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Alex Baron, Marjorie Freedman*2008 · 13 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Coreference resolution (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Machine translation (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Dependency parsing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Semantic role labeling (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (23)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (23)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**2 works here · 616 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wolfgang Macherey**2 works here · 616 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-macherey/) · [🧑‍🔬**Thamar Solorio**2 works here · 400 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thamar-solorio/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yang Liu**2 works here · 400 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Katrin Erk**1 work here · 508 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrin-erk/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sebastian Padó**1 work here · 508 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-pado/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**1 work here · 472 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michel Galley**1 work here · 472 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michel-galley/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ignacio Thayer**1 work here · 410 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ignacio-thayer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jakob Uszkoreit**1 work here · 410 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 403 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yejin Choi**1 work here · 403 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Rome Tor Vergata** Rome · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rome-tor-vergata/) · [🎓**University of North Texas** Denton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-texas/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/)

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

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