Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2009, 6-7 August 2009, Singapore, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

EMNLP versus ACL: Analyzing NLP research over time

The conferences ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) rank among the premier venues that track the research developments in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. In this paper, we present a study on the research papers of approximately two decades from these two NLP conferences. We apply keyphrase extrac...

What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?

The first workshop on Very Large Corpora was held just before the 1993 ACL meeting in Columbus, Ohio. The turnout was even greater than anyone could have predicted (or else we would have called the meeting a conference rather than a workshop). We knew that corpus-based language processing was a "hot area," but we didn't appreciate just how hot it would turn out to be. The 1990s were: witnessing...

Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models

We present a fully automatic method for content selection evaluation in summarization that does not require the creation of human model summaries. Our work capitalizes on the assumption that the distribution of words in the input and an informative summary of that input should be similar to each other. Results on a large scale evaluation from the Text Analysis Conference show that input-summary...

Emnlp 2009

ACL 2007 - The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, June 23-30, 2007

e 45th ACL Annual Meeting has been held in Prague on June 23–30, 2007 organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague. It was the largest ACL meeting ever held by the ACL during the time of its existence. ere were more than 1000 participants from abroad, coming from 48 countries, and about 70 researchers and students from the Czech Republic, mostly...