---
title: "NAACL 2004 — accepted papers — Elamur Research"
description: "NAACL 2004 — accepted papers: 18 papers in the Elamur Research library (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), with our summaries, ranked by…"
canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/"
---
[Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/)

[home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [NAACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) / 2004

# NAACL 2004 — accepted papers

NAACL 2004 is the 2004 edition of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2004 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 95 papers of it in 2 tracks; our library holds 18 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**95** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**18** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/#works) · [**5,088** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/#works)**Boston, Massachusetts, USA** where it was held**May 2004** when

## Tracks

Main 55Short Papers 40

## All accepted papers (95)

The most cited first; 18 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Comparison of Rule–Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4017/)**Ruhi Sarikaya, Yuqing Gao, Michael Picheny · Short Papers
2. **[A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thompson-2004-language-modeling-approach-predicting-reading/)**Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan*our summary*
3. **[A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4040/)**Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz · Short Papers
4. **[A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4037/)**Kadri Hacioglu · Short Papers
5. **[A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1009/)**Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff et al.
6. **[A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1004/)**Jacob Eisenstein, C. Mario Christoudias
7. **[A Scaleable Multi-document Centroid-based Summarizer](https://aclanthology.org/N04-3007/)**Dragomir Radev, Timothy Allison, Matthew Craig et al.
8. **[A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2004-smorgasbord-features-statistical-machine-translation/)**Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur et al.*our summary*
9. **[A Speech-in List-out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4029/)**Vijay Divi, C. Forlines, Jan Van Gemert et al. · Short Papers
10. **[A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/florian-2004-statistical-model-multilingual-entity-detection/)**R. Florian, H. Hassan, A. Ittycheriah et al.*our summary*
11. **[A Thai Speech Translation System for Medical Dialogs](https://aclanthology.org/N04-3010/)**Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Alexander, Alan W. Black et al.
12. **[A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tillmann-2004-unigram-orientation-model-statistical-machine/)**Christoph Tillmann · Short Papers*our summary*
13. **[Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1042/)**Fuchun Peng, Andrew McCallum
14. **[Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1010/)**Keiji Shinzato, Kentaro Torisawa
15. **[Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4007/)**Andreas Hagen, Bryan Pellom, Sarel van Vuuren et al. · Short Papers
16. **[An Empirical Study on Multiple LVCSR Model Combination by Machine Learning](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4004/)**Takehito Utsuro, Yasuhiro Kodama, Tomohiro Watanabe et al. · Short Papers
17. **[Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1007/)**Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin
18. **[Augmenting the kappa statistic to determine interannotator reliability for multiply labeled data points](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4020/)**Andrew Rosenberg, Ed Binkowski · Short Papers
19. **[Automated Team Discourse Annotation and Performance Prediction Using LSA](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4025/)**Melanie J. Martin, Peter W. Foltz · Short Papers
20. **[Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet](https://aclanthology.org/N04-4008/)**Benfeng Chen, Pascale Fung · Short Papers
21. **[Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1008/)**Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
22. **[Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2004-automatic-tagging-arabic-text-raw/)**Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky · Short Papers*our summary*
23. **[Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2004-automatically-labeling-semantic-classes/)**Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran*our summary*
24. **[Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1005/)**Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Johnston
25. **[Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2004-catching-drift-probabilistic-content-models/)**Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee*our summary*

[See all 95 papers in NAACL 2004 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (18)

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

1. [**What's in a translation rule?**Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, et al.*2004 · 733 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2004-what-s-translation-rule/)
2. **[Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2004-minimum-bayes-risk-decoding-statistical/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Shankar Kumar, William Byrne*2004 · 585 citations*
3. **[Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pradhan-2004-shallow-semantic-parsing-support-vector/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Sameer S. Pradhan, Wayne H. Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, et al.*2004 · 497 citations*
4. **[A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tillmann-2004-unigram-orientation-model-statistical-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Christoph Tillmann*2004 · 430 citations*
5. **[Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2004-catching-drift-probabilistic-content-models/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee*2004 · 413 citations*
6. **[A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2004-smorgasbord-features-statistical-machine-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, et al.*2004 · 403 citations*
7. **[Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miller-2004-name-tagging-word-clusters-discriminative/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness, Alex Zamanian*2004 · 366 citations*
8. **[Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zens-2004-improvements-phrase-based-statistical-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Richard Zens, Hermann Ney*2004 · 284 citations*
9. **[Automatically Labeling Semantic Classes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2004-automatically-labeling-semantic-classes/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran*2004 · 277 citations*
10. **[Morphological Analysis for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2004-morphological-analysis-statistical-machine-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Young-Suk Lee*2004 · 251 citations*
11. **[A Statistical Model for Multilingual Entity Detection and Tracking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/florian-2004-statistical-model-multilingual-entity-detection/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**R. Florian, H. Hassan, A. Ittycheriah, et al.*2004 · 248 citations*
12. **[Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gooi-2004-cross-document-coreference-large-scale/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Chung Heong Gooi, James Allan*2004 · 145 citations*
13. **[Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-2004-unsupervised-learning-contextual-role-knowledge/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**David Bean, Ellen Riloff*2004 · 118 citations*
14. **[Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2004-automatic-tagging-arabic-text-raw/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky*2004 · 92 citations*
15. **[Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lapata-2004-inferring-sentence-internal-temporal-relations/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides*2004 · 83 citations*
16. **[A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thompson-2004-language-modeling-approach-predicting-reading/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan*2004 · 80 citations*
17. [**Training Tree Transducers**Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight*2004 · 53 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/graehl-2004-training-tree-transducers/)
18. **[Open Text Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2004-open-text-semantic-parsing-framenet/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Lei Shi, Rada Mihalcea*2004 · 30 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (16)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Shankar Kumar**2 works here · 988 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shankar-kumar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Knight**2 works here · 786 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Jurafsky**2 works here · 589 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kadri Hacioglu**2 works here · 589 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kadri-hacioglu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Marcu**1 work here · 733 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Hopkins**1 work here · 733 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-hopkins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michel Galley**1 work here · 733 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michel-galley/) · [🧑‍🔬**James H. Martin**1 work here · 497 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-martin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sameer Pradhan**1 work here · 497 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sameer-pradhan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wayne Ward**1 work here · 497 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wayne-ward/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christoph Tillmann**1 work here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-tillmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lillian Lee**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/)

## Top institutions

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

[🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**University of North Texas** Denton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-texas/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**RWTH Aachen University** Aachen · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/)

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

- [← previous NAACL 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2003/)
- [next → NAACL 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2006/)
- [↑ back to NAACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)