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# NAACL 2007 — accepted papers

NAACL 2007 is the 2007 edition of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), held in Rochester, New York, April 2007 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 157 papers of it in 2 tracks; our library holds 14 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**157** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**14** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2007/#works) · [**4,042** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2007/#works)**Rochester, New York** where it was held**April 2007** when

## Tracks

Main 153Tutorial Abstracts 4

## All accepted papers (157)

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

1. **[A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1053/)**David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke
2. **[A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1028/)**Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan
3. **[A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/utiyama-2007-comparison-pivot-methods-phrase-based/)**Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara*our summary*
4. **[A Conversational In-Car Dialog System](https://aclanthology.org/N07-4012/)**Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng et al.
5. **[A Fast Method for Parallel Document Identification](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2008/)**Jessica Enright, Grzegorz Kondrak
6. **[A Filter-Based Approach to Detect End-of-Utterances from Prosody in Dialog Systems](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2012/)**Olac Fuentes, David Vera, Thamar Solorio
7. **[A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2023/)**Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz
8. **[A High Accuracy Method for Semi-Supervised Information Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2043/)**Stephen Tratz, Antonio Sanfilippo
9. **[A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1046/)**Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian Lane et al.
10. **[A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1066/)**Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg
11. **[A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1014/)**Chris Biemann
12. **[A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2055/)**Liang Zhou, Namhee Kwon, Eduard Hovy
13. **[A Systematic Exploration of the Feature Space for Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1015/)**Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
14. **[A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2051/)**Kun Yu, Sadao Kurohashi, Hao Liu
15. **[A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsner-2007-unified-local-global-model-discourse/)**Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, Eugene Charniak*our summary*
16. **[Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques](https://aclanthology.org/N07-4003/)**Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow et al.
17. **[Advances in the CMU/Interact Arabic GALE Transcription System](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2033/)**Mohamed Noamany, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz
18. **[Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schatzmann-2007-agenda-based-user-simulation-bootstrapping/)**Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer et al.*our summary*
19. **[An Efficient Two-Pass Approach to Synchronous-CFG Driven Statistical MT](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1063/)**Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Stephan Vogel
20. **[An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1036/)**Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai
21. **[An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1044/)**Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller
22. **[An Integrated Approach to Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Information Available on the Web](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1043/)**Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka
23. **[An Integrated Architecture for Speech-Input Multi-Target Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2034/)**Alicia Pérez, M. Teresa González, M. Inés Torres et al.
24. **[Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2035/)**Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, David Vilar et al.
25. **[Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages](https://aclanthology.org/N07-1048/)**Mathias Creutz, Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo et al.

[See all 157 papers in NAACL 2007 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2007/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petrov-2007-improved-inference-unlexicalized-parsing/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Slav Petrov, Dan Klein*2007 · 941 citations*
2. **[Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schatzmann-2007-agenda-based-user-simulation-bootstrapping/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, et al.*2007 · 456 citations*
3. **[Using “Annotator Rationales” to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaidan-2007-annotator-rationales-improve-machine-learning/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner, Christine Piatko*2007 · 354 citations*
4. **[Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-bayesian-inference-pcfgs-markov-chain/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Mark Johnson, Thomas Griffiths, Sharon Goldwater*2007 · 352 citations*
5. **[Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiampojamarn-2007-applying-many-many-alignments-hidden/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak, Tarek Sherif*2007 · 274 citations*
6. **[Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simard-2007-statistical-phrase-based-post-editing/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte, Pierre Isabelle*2007 · 270 citations*
7. **[A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/utiyama-2007-comparison-pivot-methods-phrase-based/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara*2007 · 264 citations*
8. **[Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosti-2007-combining-outputs-multiple-machine-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Antti-Veikko Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, et al.*2007 · 240 citations*
9. **[Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/denis-2007-joint-determination-anaphoricity-coreference-resolution/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge*2007 · 224 citations*
10. **[First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/culotta-2007-first-order-probabilistic-models-coreference/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Aron Culotta, Michael Wick, Andrew McCallum*2007 · 212 citations*
11. [**Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging**Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow*2007 · 184 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2007-arabic-diacritization-through-full-morphological/)
12. [**Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that Uses Statistical Machine Translation**Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond Mooney*2007 · 135 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wong-2007-generation-inverting-semantic-parser-that/)
13. **[A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsner-2007-unified-local-global-model-discourse/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, Eugene Charniak*2007 · 102 citations*
14. **[Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2007-coreference-or-not-twin-model/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Xiaoqiang Luo*2007 · 34 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 (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [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

[Computer Science (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (13)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Mathematics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**1 work here · 941 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Slav Petrov**1 work here · 941 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/slav-petrov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Blaise Thomson**1 work here · 456 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/blaise-thomson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steve Young**1 work here · 456 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christine Piatko**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jason Eisner**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/) · [🧑‍🔬**Omar F. Zaidan**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-f-zaidan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Johnson**1 work here · 352 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sharon Goldwater**1 work here · 352 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-goldwater/) · [🧑‍🔬**Thomas L. Griffiths**1 work here · 352 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-l-griffiths/) · [🧑‍🔬**Grzegorz Kondrak**1 work here · 274 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grzegorz-kondrak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Cyril Goutte**1 work here · 270 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-goutte/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🔬**National Institute of Information and Communications Technology** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/)

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