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# EMNLP 2009 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2009 is the 2009 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Singapore, August 2009 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 163 papers of it; our library holds 20 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**163** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**20** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2009/#works) · [**3,354** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2009/#works)**Singapore** where it was held**August 2009** when

## All accepted papers (163)

The most cited first; 20 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1037/)**Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom
2. **[A Compact Forest for Scalable Inference over Entailment and Paraphrase Rules](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1110/)**Roy Bar-Haim, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan
3. **[A Comparison of Model Free versus Model Intensive Approaches to Sentence Compression](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1041/)**Tadashi Nomoto
4. **[A Comparison of Windowless and Window-Based Computational Association Measures as Predictors of Syntagmatic Human Associations](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1066/)**Justin Washtell, Katja Markert
5. **[A Joint Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1116/)**Denis Filimonov, Mary Harper
6. **[A Probabilistic Model for Associative Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sasano-2009-probabilistic-model-associative-anaphora-resolution/)**Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi*our summary*
7. **[A Relational Model of Semantic Similarity between Words using Automatically Extracted Lexical Pattern Clusters from the Web](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1084/)**Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka
8. **[A Rich Feature Vector for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Multiple Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1013/)**Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao et al.
9. **[A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1072/)**Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus
10. **[A Structural Support Vector Method for Extracting Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1054/)**Wen-Yun Yang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin
11. **[A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1139/)**Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych
12. **[A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1123/)**Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way
13. **[A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patwardhan-2009-unified-model-phrasal-sentential-evidence/)**Siddharth Patwardhan, Ellen Riloff*our summary*
14. **[Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: Towards Direct Error Minimization for Data-Oriented Translation](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1039/)**Daniel Galron, Sergio Penkale, Andy Way et al.
15. **[Accurate Semantic Class Classifier for Coreference Resolution](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1128/)**Zhiheng Huang, Guangping Zeng, Weiqun Xu et al.
16. **[Acquiring Translation Equivalences of Multiword Expressions by Normalized Correlation Frequencies](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1050/)**Ming-Hong Bai, Jia-Ming You, Keh-Jiann Chen et al.
17. **[Active Learning by Labeling Features](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1009/)**Gregory Druck, Burr Settles, Andrew McCallum
18. **[Adapting a Polarity Lexicon using Integer Linear Programming for Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1062/)**Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie
19. **[An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1088/)**Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an, Remko Scha
20. **[An Empirical Study of Semi-supervised Structured Conditional Models for Dependency Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1058/)**Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras et al.
21. **[Automatic Acquisition of the \textitArgument-Predicate Relations from a Frame-Annotated Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1144/)**Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov, Tonio Wandmacher
22. **[Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1032/)**Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
23. **[Bayesian Learning of Phrasal Tree-to-String Templates](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1136/)**Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea
24. **[Better Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1038/)**Tong Xiao, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang et al.
25. **[Bidirectional Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1117/)**Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita

[See all 163 papers in EMNLP 2009 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2009/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (20)

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

1. **[Phrase Dependency Parsing for Opinion Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2009-phrase-dependency-parsing-opinion-mining/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, et al.*2009 · 423 citations*
2. **[Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2009-recognizing-implicit-discourse-relations-penn/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan, Hwee Tou Ng*2009 · 413 citations*
3. **[Nested Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2009-nested-named-entity-recognition/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning*2009 · 403 citations*
4. **[Unsupervised Semantic Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poon-2009-unsupervised-semantic-parsing/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos*2009 · 346 citations*
5. [**Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features**Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein*2009 · 277 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haghighi-2009-simple-coreference-resolution-rich-syntactic/)
6. **[Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Monolingually-Derived Paraphrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marton-2009-improved-statistical-machine-translation-monolingually/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, Philip Resnik*2009 · 213 citations*
7. **[First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2009-first-second-order-expectation-semirings/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner*2009 · 194 citations*
8. **[Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsoukas-2009-discriminative-corpus-weight-estimation-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhang*2009 · 192 citations*
9. **[A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patwardhan-2009-unified-model-phrasal-sentential-evidence/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Siddharth Patwardhan, Ellen Riloff*2009 · 180 citations*
10. **[Supervised Models for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2009-supervised-models-coreference-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Altaf Rahman, Vincent Ng*2009 · 144 citations*
11. **[Supervised and Unsupervised Methods in Employing Discourse Relations for Improving Opinion Polarity Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/somasundaran-2009-supervised-unsupervised-methods-employing-discourse/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Janyce Wiebe, et al.*2009 · 119 citations*
12. **[Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/burch-2009-fast-cheap-creative-evaluating-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Chris Callison-Burch*2009 · 114 citations*
13. [**Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation**Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman*2009 · 86 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rimell-2009-unbounded-dependency-recovery-parser-evaluation/)
14. **[Labeled LDA: A supervised topic model for credit attribution in multi-labeled corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramage-2009-labeled-lda-supervised-topic-model/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Ramage, David Hall, Ramesh Nallapati, et al.*2009 · 86 citations*
15. [**Semantic Dependency Parsing of NomBank and PropBank: An Efficient Integrated Approach via a Large-scale Feature Selection**Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit*2009 · 42 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2009-semantic-dependency-parsing-nombank-propbank/)
16. **[Global Learning of Noun Phrase Anaphoricity in Coreference Resolution via Label Propagation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2009-global-learning-noun-phrase-anaphoricity/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**GuoDong Zhou, Fang Kong*2009 · 32 citations*
17. [**Feature-Rich Translation by Quasi-Synchronous Lattice Parsing**Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith*2009 · 30 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gimpel-2009-feature-rich-translation-quasi-synchronous/)
18. **[Employing the Centering Theory in Pronoun Resolution from the Semantic Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kong-2009-employing-centering-theory-pronoun-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Fang Kong, GuoDong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu*2009 · 29 citations*
19. **[A Probabilistic Model for Associative Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sasano-2009-probabilistic-model-associative-anaphora-resolution/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi*2009 · 20 citations*
20. [**Descriptive and Empirical Approaches to Capturing Underlying Dependencies among Parsing Errors**Tadayoshi Hara, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii*2009 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hara-2009-descriptive-empirical-approaches-capturing-underlying/)

## 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 (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Dependency parsing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Sentiment & emotion (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Physics and Astronomy (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**2 works here · 489 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chris Callison-Burch**2 works here · 327 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fang Kong**2 works here · 61 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fang-kong/) · [🧑‍🔬**Guodong Zhou**2 works here · 61 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guodong-zhou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Qi Zhang**1 work here · 423 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xuanjing Huang**1 work here · 423 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanjing-huang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yuanbin Wu**1 work here · 423 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanbin-wu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hwee Tou Ng**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hwee-tou-ng/) · [🧑‍🔬**Min-Yen Kan**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-yen-kan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ziheng Lin**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziheng-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jenny Rose Finkel**1 work here · 403 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jenny-rose-finkel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hoifung Poon**1 work here · 346 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hoifung-poon/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Soochow University** Suzhou · China 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/soochow-university/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**City University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Kyoto University** Kyoto · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) · [🎓**University of Utah** Salt Lake City · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-utah/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/)

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

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