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# LREC 2008 — accepted papers

LREC 2008 is the 2008 edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), held in Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 620 papers of it; our library holds 27 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**620** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**27** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/works/) · [**3,266** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/works/)**Marrakech, Morocco** where it was held**May 2008** when

## All accepted papers (620)

The most cited first; 27 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[15 Years of Language Resource Creation and Sharing: a Progress Report on LDC Activities](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1066/)**Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman
2. **[A Bilingual Corpus of Inter-linked Events](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1206/)**Tommaso Caselli, Nancy Ide, Roberto Bartolini
3. **[A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1086/)**Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe
4. **[A Bottom-up Comparative Study of EuroWordNet and WordNet 3.0 Lexical and Semantic Relations](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1358/)**Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato, Alexandra Tudorache
5. **[A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1181/)**Arno Hartholt, Thomas Russ, David Traum et al.
6. **[A Common Multimedia Annotation Framework for Cross Linking Cultural Heritage Digital Collections](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1035/)**Hennie Brugman, Véronique Malaisé, Laura Hollink
7. **[A Common Parts-of-Speech Tagset Framework for Indian Languages](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1544/)**Baskaran Sankaran, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury et al.
8. **[A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2008-compact-arabic-lexical-semantics-language/)**Mohamed Attia, Mohsen Rashwan, Ahmed Ragheb et al.*our summary*
9. **[A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1016/)**Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski, Matthias Woelfel
10. **[A Comparative Evaluation of Term Recognition Algorithms](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1281/)**Ziqi Zhang, Jose Iria, Christopher Brewster et al.
11. **[A Comparative Study on Language Identification Methods](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1118/)**Lena Grothe, Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger
12. **[A Comparison of Various Methods for Concept Tagging for Spoken Language Understanding](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1495/)**Stefan Hahn, Patrick Lehnen, Christian Raymond et al.
13. **[A Conceptual Approach to Web Image Retrieval](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1042/)**Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette
14. **[A Contextual Dynamic Network Model for WSD Using Associative Concept Dictionary](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1276/)**Jun Okamoto, Kiyoko Uchiyama, Shun Ishizaki
15. **[A Coreference Corpus and Resolution System for Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hendrickx-2008-coreference-corpus-resolution-system-dutch/)**Iris Hendrickx, Gosse Bouma, Frederik Coppens et al.*our summary*
16. **[A Corpus for Cross-Document Co-reference](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1051/)**David Day, Janet Hitzeman, Michael Wick et al.
17. **[A Dependency Parser for Thai](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1542/)**Shisanu Tongchim, Randolf Altmeyer, Virach Sornlertlamvanich et al.
18. **[A Development Environment for Configurable Meta-Annotators in a Pipelined NLP Architecture](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1189/)**Youssef Drissi, Branimir Boguraev, David Ferrucci et al.
19. **[A Flexible Wizard of Oz Environment for Rapid Prototyping](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1482/)**Stefan Scherer, Petra-Maria Strauß
20. **[A Framework for Identity Resolution and Merging for Multi-source Information Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1296/)**Milena Yankova, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham
21. **[A Framework for Multilingual Ontology Mapping](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1266/)**Cássia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira
22. **[A Framework for Standardized Syntactic Annotation](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1433/)**Thierry Declerck
23. **[A Fully Annotated Corpus for Studying the Effect of Cognitive Ageing on Users' Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1194/)**Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Vasilis Karaiskos et al.
24. **[A General Methodology for Mapping EuroWordNets to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1125/)**Dennis Spohr
25. **[A Grid of Regional Language Archives](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1415/)**Paul Trilsbeek, Daan Broeder, Tobias Valkenhoef et al.

[See all 620 papers in LREC 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (27)

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

1. [**The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0.**Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, et al.*2008 · 1,794 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prasad-2008-penn-discourse-treebank-2-0/)
2. **[The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bird-2008-acl-anthology-reference-corpus-reference/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, et al.*2008 · 366 citations*
3. **[Anaphoric Annotation in the ARRAU Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poesio-2008-anaphoric-annotation-arrau-corpus/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Massimo Poesio, Ron Artstein*2008 · 197 citations*
4. [**Learning Morphology with Morfette**Grzegorz Chrupala, Georgiana Dinu, Josef van Genabith*2008 · 189 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chrupala-2008-learning-morphology-morfette/)
5. **[Reusable Tagset Conversion Using Tagset Drivers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeman-2008-reusable-tagset-conversion-tagset-drivers/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Daniel Zeman*2008 · 181 citations*
6. **[A Coreference Corpus and Resolution System for Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hendrickx-2008-coreference-corpus-resolution-system-dutch/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Iris Hendrickx, Gosse Bouma, Frederik Coppens, et al.*2008 · 92 citations*
7. **[Annotation of Information Structure: an Evaluation across different Types of Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ritz-2008-annotation-information-structure-evaluation-across/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Julia Ritz, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze*2008 · 86 citations*
8. **[A Linguistic Resource for Discovering Event Structures and Resolving Event Coreference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bejan-2008-linguistic-resource-discovering-event-structures/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Cosmin Bejan, Sanda Harabagiu*2008 · 64 citations*
9. **[Automatic Construction of a Japanese-Chinese Dictionary via English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaji-2008-automatic-construction-japanese-chinese-dictionary/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Hiroyuki Kaji, Shin'ichi Tamamura, Dashtseren Erdenebat*2008 · 36 citations*
10. **[FATE: a FrameNet-Annotated Corpus for Textual Entailment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/burchardt-2008-fate-framenet-annotated-corpus-textual/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Aljoscha Burchardt, Marco Pennacchiotti*2008 · 35 citations*
11. **[Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/orasan-2008-anaphora-resolution-exercise-overview/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Constantin Orăsan, Dan Cristea, Ruslan Mitkov, et al.*2008 · 32 citations*
12. **[A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2008-compact-arabic-lexical-semantics-language/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Mohamed Attia, Mohsen Rashwan, Ahmed Ragheb, et al.*2008 · 27 citations*
13. [**Tree-distance and some other variants of evalb**Martin Emms*2008 · 24 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/emms-2008-tree-distance-some-other-variants/)
14. **[The Annotation Guidelines of the Latin Dependency Treebank and Index Thomisticus Treebank: the Treatment of some specific Syntactic Constructions in Latin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bamman-2008-annotation-guidelines-latin-dependency-treebank/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**David Bamman, Marco Passarotti, Roberto Busa, et al.*2008 · 23 citations*
15. [**Word-Based or Morpheme-Based? Annotation Strategies for Modern Hebrew Clitics**Reut Tsarfaty, Yoav Goldberg*2008 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsarfaty-2008-word-based-or-morpheme-based/)
16. [**Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: the Case of Participles**Meni Adler, Yael Netzer, Yoav Goldberg, et al.*2008 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adler-2008-tagging-hebrew-corpus-case-participles/)
17. [**Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics**Jennifer Foster, Josef van Genabith*2008 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2008-parser-evaluation-bnc-evaluating-4/)
18. [**Diacritic Annotation in the Arabic Treebank and its Impact on Parser Evaluation**Mohamed Maamouri, Seth Kulick, Ann Bies*2008 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maamouri-2008-diacritic-annotation-arabic-treebank-its/)
19. [**Towards Heterogeneous Automatic MT Error Analysis**Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez*2008 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gimenez-2008-heterogeneous-automatic-mt-error-analysis/)
20. **[Error Analysis for Learning-based Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uryupina-2008-error-analysis-learning-based-coreference/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Olga Uryupina*2008 · 13 citations*
21. **[Building the Valency Lexicon of Arabic Verbs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bielicky-2008-building-valency-lexicon-arabic-verbs/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Viktor Bielický, Otakar Smrž*2008 · 10 citations*
22. **[Identification of Naturally Occurring Numerical Expressions in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2008-identification-naturally-occurring-numerical-expressions/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth*2008 · 6 citations*
23. **[Unsupervised Learning-based Anomalous Arabic Text Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouzakhar-2008-unsupervised-learning-based-anomalous-arabic/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Nasser Abouzakhar, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie*2008 · 4 citations*
24. **[Quick Rich Transcriptions of Arabic Broadcast News Speech Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bendahman-2008-quick-rich-transcriptions-arabic-broadcast/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Chomicha Bendahman, Meghan Glenn, Djamel Mostefa, et al.*2008 · 1 citation*
25. **[MEDAR: Collaboration between European and Mediterranean Arabic Partners to Support the Development of Language Technology for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maegaard-2008-medar-collaboration-between-european-mediterranean/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Bente Maegaard, Mohammed Atiyya, Khalid Choukri, et al.*2008 · 1 citation*

[See all 27 works in LREC 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/works/)

## Top topics

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

[Semitic languages (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Coreference resolution (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Treebanks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Morphology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Modern Hebrew (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Latin (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/latin/)

**1 more topics**

[Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (26)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (25)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Engineering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Josef van Genabith**2 works here · 207 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/josef-van-genabith/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoav Goldberg**2 works here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-goldberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alan Lee**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aravind Joshi**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bonnie Webber**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-webber/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eleni Miltsakaki**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eleni-miltsakaki/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nikhil Dinesh**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikhil-dinesh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rashmi Prasad**1 work here · 1,794 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rashmi-prasad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bonnie Dorr**1 work here · 366 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dongwon Lee**1 work here · 366 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwon-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dragomir Radev**1 work here · 366 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) · [🧑‍🔬**Min-Yen Kan**1 work here · 366 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-yen-kan/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**Ben-Gurion University of the Negev** Beersheba · Israel 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**Dublin City University** Dublin · Ireland 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/) · [🎓**Saarland University** Saarbrücken · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) · [🎓**Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore** Milan · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore/) · [🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**Tufts University** Medford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tufts-university/) · [🏢**Nuance Communications (Austria)** Vienna · Austria 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nuance-communications/) · [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-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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