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# NAACL 2006 — accepted papers

NAACL 2006 is the 2006 edition of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), held in New York City, USA, June 2006 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 140 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 14 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**140** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**14** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2006/#works) · [**4,281** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2006/#works)**New York City, USA** where it was held**June 2006** when

## Tracks

Main 72Short Papers 51Demonstrations 11Tutorial Abstracts 6

## All accepted papers (140)

The most cited first; 14 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1045/)**Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
2. **[A Comparison of Tagging Strategies for Statistical Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2038/)**Christian Siefkes · Short Papers
3. **[A Finite-State Model of Georgian Verbal Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2012/)**Olga Gurevich · Short Papers
4. **[A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Syntactic and Case Structure Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1023/)**Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi
5. **[A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Semantic Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-3009/)**Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
6. **[A Machine Learning based Approach to Evaluating Retrieval Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1051/)**Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
7. **[A Maximum Entropy Approach to Combining Word Alignments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1013/)**Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr
8. **[A Maximum Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2047/)**Kui Xu, Helen Meng, Fuliang Weng · Short Papers
9. **[A fast finite-state relaxation method for enforcing global constraints on sequence decoding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1054/)**Roy Tromble, Jason Eisner
10. **[Accurate Parsing of the Proposition Bank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2026/)**Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo · Short Papers
11. **[Acquiring Inference Rules with Temporal Constraints by Using Japanese Coordinated Sentences and Noun-Verb Co-occurrences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1008/)**Kentaro Torisawa
12. **[Acquisition of Verb Entailment from Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1007/)**Viktor Pekar
13. **[Aggregation via Set Partitioning for Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1046/)**Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata
14. **[Agreement/Disagreement Classification: Exploiting Unlabeled Data using Contrast Classifiers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2014/)**Sangyun Hahn, Richard Ladner, Mari Ostendorf · Short Papers
15. **[Alignment by Agreement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liang-2006-alignment-agreement/)**Percy Liang, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein*our summary*
16. **[An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1016/)**Jinying Chen, Andrew Schein, Lyle Ungar et al.
17. **[An Information-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Summaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1059/)**Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao et al.
18. **[Answering the question you wish they had asked: The impact of paraphrasing for Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-2009/)**Pablo Duboue, Jennifer Chu-Carroll · Short Papers
19. **[AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-4005/)**Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren · Demonstrations
20. **[Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2006-arabic-preprocessing-schemes-statistical-machine/)**Nizar Habash, Fatiha Sadat · Short Papers*our summary*
21. **[Automated Quality Monitoring for Call Centers using Speech and NLP Technologies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-4011/)**G. Zweig, O. Siohan, G. Saon et al. · Demonstrations
22. **[Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistic ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-4007/)**Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni · Demonstrations
23. **[Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mairesse-2006-automatic-recognition-personality-conversation/)**François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker · Short Papers*our summary*
24. **[Automatic Semantic Role Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-5006/)**Scott Wen-tau Yih, Kristina Toutanova · Tutorial Abstracts
25. **[Automatic Spoken Document Processing for Retrieval and Browsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-5004/)**Ciprian Chelba, T. J. Hazen · Tutorial Abstracts

[See all 140 papers in NAACL 2006 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2006/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (14)

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

1. [**Effective Self-Training for Parsing**David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson*2006 · 847 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcclosky-2006-effective-self-training-parsing/)
2. **[Alignment by Agreement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liang-2006-alignment-agreement/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Percy Liang, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein*2006 · 652 citations*
3. **[Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wong-2006-learning-semantic-parsing-statistical-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond Mooney*2006 · 371 citations*
4. **[Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2006-arabic-preprocessing-schemes-statistical-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Nizar Habash, Fatiha Sadat*2006 · 359 citations*
5. **[Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponzetto-2006-exploiting-semantic-role-labeling-wordnet/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube*2006 · 347 citations*
6. **[Paraphrasing for Automatic Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kauchak-2006-paraphrasing-automatic-evaluation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**David Kauchak, Regina Barzilay*2006 · 323 citations*
7. **[Preemptive Information Extraction using Unrestricted Relation Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shinyama-2006-preemptive-information-extraction-unrestricted-relation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine*2006 · 312 citations*
8. **[Parser Combination by Reparsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sagae-2006-parser-combination-reparsing/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie*2006 · 276 citations*
9. **[Prototype-Driven Learning for Sequence Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haghighi-2006-prototype-driven-learning-sequence-models/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein*2006 · 249 citations*
10. **[Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2006-synchronous-binarization-machine-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, et al.*2006 · 192 citations*
11. **[Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mairesse-2006-automatic-recognition-personality-conversation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker*2006 · 164 citations*
12. [**Fully Parsing the Penn Treebank**Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick, Mitchell Marcus*2006 · 115 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabbard-2006-fully-parsing-penn-treebank/)
13. **[Using Phrasal Patterns to Identify Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saito-2006-phrasal-patterns-identify-discourse-relations/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Manami Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Satoshi Sekine*2006 · 50 citations*
14. **[Gesture Improves Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisenstein-2006-gesture-improves-coreference-resolution/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis*2006 · 24 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [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/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**2 works here · 901 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Satoshi Sekine**2 works here · 362 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satoshi-sekine/) · [🧑‍🔬**David McClosky**1 work here · 847 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-mcclosky/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eugene Charniak**1 work here · 847 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-charniak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Johnson**1 work here · 847 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ben Taskar**1 work here · 652 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-taskar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Percy Liang**1 work here · 652 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Raymond Mooney**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raymond-mooney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yuk Wah Wong**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuk-wah-wong/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fatiha Sadat**1 work here · 359 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatiha-sadat/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nizar Habash**1 work here · 359 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Strube**1 work here · 347 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-strube/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🏢**European Media Laboratory** Heidelberg · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/european-media-laboratory/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**University of Rochester** Rochester · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rochester/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

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