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# NAACL 2009 — accepted papers

NAACL 2009 is the 2009 edition of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2009 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 159 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 12 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**159** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**12** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2009/#works) · [**3,063** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2009/#works)**Boulder, Colorado** where it was held**June 2009** when

## Tracks

Main 75Short Papers 71Tutorial Abstracts 8Demonstration Session 5

## All accepted papers (159)

The most cited first; 12 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1025/)**David Chiang, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang
2. **[A Corpus-Based Approach for the Prediction of Language Impairment in Monolingual English and Spanish-English Bilingual Children](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1006/)**Keyur Gabani, Melissa Sherman, Thamar Solorio et al.
3. **[A Discriminative Latent Variable Chinese Segmenter with Hybrid Word/Character Information](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1007/)**Xu Sun, Yaozhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki et al.
4. **[A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1071/)**Antoine Raux, Maxine Eskenazi
5. **[A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method Using Dependency Knowledge](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1004/)**Ping Chen, Wei Ding, Chris Bowes et al.
6. **[A Local Tree Alignment-based Soft Pattern Matching Approach for Information Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2043/)**Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee · Short Papers
7. **[A Simple Sentence-Level Extraction Algorithm for Comparable Data](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2024/)**Christoph Tillmann, Jian-ming Xu · Short Papers
8. **[A Simplex Armijo Downhill Algorithm for Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation Decoding Parameters](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2006/)**Bing Zhao, Shengyuan Chen · Short Papers
9. **[A Speech Understanding Framework that Uses Multiple Language Models and Multiple Understanding Models](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2034/)**Masaki Katsumaru, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani et al. · Short Papers
10. **[A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2009-study-similarity-relatedness-distributional-wordnet/)**Eneko Agirre, Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall et al.*our summary*
11. **[A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1075/)**Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy
12. **[Active Learning for Statistical Phrase-based Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1047/)**Gholamreza Haffari, Maxim Roy, Anoop Sarkar
13. **[Active Zipfian Sampling for Statistical Parser Training](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2063/)**Onur Çobanoğlu · Short Papers
14. **[Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: a Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1010/)**Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein et al.
15. **[An Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Fine-Grained Opinion Mining](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1055/)**Weifu Du, Songbo Tan
16. **[An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/subba-2009-effective-discourse-parser-that-uses/)**Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio*our summary*
17. **[Analysing Recognition Errors in Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2049/)**Teemu Hirsimäki, Mikko Kurimo · Short Papers
18. **[Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2067/)**Sibel Yaman, Gokhan Tur, Dimitra Vergyri et al. · Short Papers
19. **[Answer Credibility: A Language Modeling Approach to Answer Validation](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2040/)**Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han · Short Papers
20. **[Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems](https://aclanthology.org/N09-1043/)**Timo Baumann, Michaela Atterer, David Schlangen
21. **[Automatic Agenda Graph Construction from Human-Human Dialogs using Clustering Method](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2023/)**Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Kyungduk Kim et al. · Short Papers
22. **[Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2069/)**Dong Yang, Yi-cheng Pan, Sadaoki Furui · Short Papers
23. **[Building Conversational Agents with Basilica](https://aclanthology.org/N09-5002/)**Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Rosé · Demonstration Session
24. **[Classifying Factored Genres with Part-of-Speech Histograms](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2044/)**Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero et al. · Short Papers
25. **[Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder](https://aclanthology.org/N09-2001/)**Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel, Colin Cherry · Short Papers

[See all 159 papers in NAACL 2009 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2009/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (12)

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

1. **[A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2009-study-similarity-relatedness-distributional-wordnet/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Eneko Agirre, Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall, et al.*2009 · 1,122 citations*
2. **[Exploring Content Models for Multi-Document Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haghighi-2009-exploring-content-models-multi-document/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Aria Haghighi, Lucy Vanderwende*2009 · 632 citations*
3. **[Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2009-joint-parsing-named-entity-recognition/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning*2009 · 264 citations*
4. **[Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poon-2009-unsupervised-morphological-segmentation-log-linear/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry, Kristina Toutanova*2009 · 210 citations*
5. **[Using a Dependency Parser to Improve SMT for Subject-Object-Verb Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2009-dependency-parser-improve-smt-subject/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Peng Xu, Jaeho Kang, Michael Ringgaard, et al.*2009 · 180 citations*
6. **[Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohen-2009-shared-logistic-normal-distributions-soft/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith*2009 · 177 citations*
7. **[An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/subba-2009-effective-discourse-parser-that-uses/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio*2009 · 163 citations*
8. [**Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S.**Dan Gillick*2009 · 109 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gillick-2009-sentence-boundary-detection-problem-u/)
9. **[More than Words: Syntactic Packaging and Implicit Sentiment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/greene-2009-more-than-words-syntactic-packaging/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Stephan Greene, Philip Resnik*2009 · 78 citations*
10. [**Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches**Katja Filippova, Michael Strube*2009 · 57 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/filippova-2009-tree-linearization-english-improving-language/)
11. **[Graph-Cut-Based Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2009-graph-cut-based-anaphoricity-determination/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Vincent Ng*2009 · 51 citations*
12. **[OntoNotes: The 90% Solution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pradhan-2009-ontonotes-90-solution/) [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, Nianwen Xue*2009 · 20 citations*

## Top topics

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

[English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (11)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Aitor Soroa**1 work here · 1,122 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-soroa/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eneko Agirre**1 work here · 1,122 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Enrique Alfonseca**1 work here · 1,122 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enrique-alfonseca/) · [🧑‍🔬**Keith Hall**1 work here · 1,122 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keith-hall/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marius Paşca**1 work here · 1,122 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marius-pasca/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aria Haghighi**1 work here · 632 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aria-haghighi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lucy Vanderwende**1 work here · 632 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucy-vanderwende/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**1 work here · 264 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jenny Rose Finkel**1 work here · 264 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jenny-rose-finkel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Colin Cherry**1 work here · 210 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hoifung Poon**1 work here · 210 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hoifung-poon/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kristina Toutanova**1 work here · 210 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-toutanova/)

## Top institutions

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

[🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**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/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/) · [🏢**European Media Laboratory** Heidelberg · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/european-media-laboratory/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

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