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# EMNLP 2008: all accepted papers

114 papers · page 1 of 2 · the most cited first · [← EMNLP 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2008/)

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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
26. **[Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1043/)**Jung-Tae Lee, Sang-Bum Kim, Young-In Song et al.
27. **[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/)**Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky et al.*our summary*
28. **[CoCQA: Co-Training over Questions and Answers with an Application to Predicting Question Subjectivity Orientation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1098/)**Baoli Li, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein
29. **[Coarse-to-Fine Syntactic Machine Translation using Language Projections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1012/)**Slav Petrov, Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
30. **[Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1088/)**Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney
31. **[Computing Word-Pair Antonymy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1103/)**Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Graeme Hirst
32. **[Construction of an Idiom Corpus and its Application to Idiom Identification based on WSD Incorporating Idiom-Specific Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1104/)**Chikara Hashimoto, Daisuke Kawahara
33. **[Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1071/)**Hal Daumé III
34. **[Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1064/)**David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan et al.
35. **[Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2008-dependency-parsing-belief-propagation/)**David Smith, Jason Eisner*our summary*
36. **[Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johansson-2008-dependency-based-semantic-role-labeling/)**Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues*our summary*
37. **[Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1007/)**Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Randy Goebel
38. **[Forest-based Translation Rule Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mi-2008-forest-based-translation-rule-extraction/)**Haitao Mi, Liang Huang*our summary*
39. **[Generalizing Local and Non-Local Word-Reordering Patterns for Syntax-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1060/)**Bing Zhao, Yaser Al-onaizan
40. **[Graph-based Analysis of Semantic Drift in Espresso-like Bootstrapping Algorithms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1106/)**Mamoru Komachi, Taku Kudo, Masashi Shimbo et al.
41. **[HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1054/)**Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao et al.
42. **[HotSpots: Visualizing Edits to a Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1028/)**Srinivas Bangalore, David Smith
43. **[Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1053/)**Lei Shi, Ming Zhou
44. **[Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1034/)**Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang
45. **[Improving Interactive Machine Translation via Mouse Actions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1051/)**Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Jorge Civera et al.
46. **[Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1026/)**Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai
47. **[Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1011/)**Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao et al.
48. **[Information Retrieval Oriented Word Segmentation based on Character Association Strength Ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1111/)**Yixuan Liu, Bin Wang, Fan Ding et al.
49. **[Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1086/)**Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo et al.
50. **[It's a Contradiction – no, it's not: A Case Study using Functional Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1002/)**Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Doug Downey et al.
51. **[Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poon-2008-joint-unsupervised-coreference-resolution-markov/)**Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos*our summary*
52. **[Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1073/)**Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky
53. **[LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1052/)**Libin Shen, Aravind Joshi
54. **[Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1090/)**Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz
55. **[Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1113/)**Markus Dreyer, Jason Smith, Jason Eisner
56. **[Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tromble-2008-lattice-minimum-bayes-risk-decoding/)**Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Och et al.*our summary*
57. **[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/)**Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Och, Ignacio Thayer et al.*our summary*
58. **[Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1095/)**Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
59. **[Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1075/)**Roser Morante, Anthony Liekens, Walter Daelemans
60. **[Learning to Predict Code-Switching Points](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/solorio-2008-learning-predict-code-switching-points/)**Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu*our summary*
61. **[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/)**Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie*our summary*
62. **[Learning with Probabilistic Features for Improved Pipeline Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1070/)**Razvan Bunescu
63. **[Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1046/)**Ramesh Nallapati, Christopher D. Manning
64. **[Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1010/)**Qun Liu, Zhongjun He, Yang Liu et al.
65. **[Mention Detection Crossing the Language Barrier ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1063/)**Imed Zitouni, Radu Florian
66. **[Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1108/)**Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
67. **[Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1004/)**Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner
68. **[Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banea-2008-multilingual-subjectivity-analysis-machine-translation/)**Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe et al.*our summary*
69. **[Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1049/)**Stephan Raaijmakers, Khiet Truong, Theresa Wilson
70. **[N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1087/)**Bo-June Paul Hsu, James Glass
71. **[One-Class Clustering in the Text Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1005/)**Ron Bekkerman, Koby Crammer
72. **[Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1045/)**Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi
73. **[Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1024/)**David Chiang, Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik
74. **[Online Methods for Multi-Domain Learning and Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1072/)**Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer
75. **[Online Word Games for Semantic Data Collection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1056/)**David Vickrey, Aaron Bronzan, William Choi et al.
76. **[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/)**Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu*our summary*
77. **[Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1066/)**Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an
78. **[Predicting Success in Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1078/)**Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn
79. **[Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1023/)**Phil Blunsom, Miles Osborne
80. **[Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1097/)**Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin
81. **[Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1015/)**Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
82. **[Refining Generative Language Models using Discriminative Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1006/)**Ben Sandbank
83. **[Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1003/)**Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan et al.
84. **[Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1101/)**Juan Huerta
85. **[Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1001/)**Jeremy Jancsary, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost
86. **[Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pitler-2008-revisiting-readability-unified-framework-predicting/)**Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova*our summary*
87. **[Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1033/)**John DeNero, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Dan Klein
88. **[Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1044/)**Jimmy Lin
89. **[Scaling Textual Inference to the Web ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1009/)**Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel Weld
90. **[Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1057/)**Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras et al.
91. **[Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1062/)**Nicholas Andrews, Naren Ramakrishnan
92. **[Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1032/)**Yllias Chali, Shafiq Joty
93. **[Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1019/)**Katja Filippova, Michael Strube
94. **[Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1114/)**Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes
95. **[Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1091/)**Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
96. **[Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/denis-2008-specialized-models-ranking-coreference-resolution/)**Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge*our summary*
97. **[Stacking Dependency Parsers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1017/)**André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith et al.
98. **[Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1038/)**David Hall, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning
99. **[Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1081/)**Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
100. **[Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/burch-2008-syntactic-constraints-paraphrases-extracted-parallel/)**Chris Callison-Burch*our summary*

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