Noah Smith's papers by year
To Appear
- Favor Short Dependencies: Parsing with Soft and Hard Constraints on Dependency Length Jason Eisner and Noah A. Smith
In ed. Harry Bunt, Paola Merlo, and Joakim Nivre, Trends in Parsing Technology, chapter 9, to appear, Springer.
2009
- Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates
Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith, and Carolyn P. Rosé
In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Companion Volume), Singapore, August 2009.
- Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge
Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Companion Volume), Singapore, August 2009.
- Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition
Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 2009.
- Feature-Rich Translation by Quasi-Synchronous Lattice Parsing
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 2009.
- Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing
André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing
In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 2009.
- Ranking Automatically Generated Questions as a Shared Task
Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Question Generation, Brighton, UK, July 2009.
- Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking
Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith
T.R. CMU-LTI-09-013, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2009.
- Polyhedral Outer Approximations with Application to Natural Language Parsing
André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Montréal, Québec, June 2009.
- Summarization with a Joint Model for Sentence Extraction and Compression
André F. T. Martins and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing, Boulder, CO, June 2009.
- Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction
Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, Boulder, CO, May/June 2009.
- Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression
Shimon Kogan, Dimitry Levin, Bryan R. Routledge, Jacob S. Sagi, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, Boulder, CO, May/June 2009.
Also available: talk slides.
- Preference Grammars: Softening Syntactic Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith, and Stephan Vogel
In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, Boulder, CO, May/June 2009.
- Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models
Tae Yano, William W. Cohen, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, Boulder, CO, May/June 2009.
- From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences
Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, William W. Cohen, Matthew Hurst, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, San Jose, CA, May 2009.
- Nonextensive Information Theoretic Kernels on Measures
André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, and Pedro M. Q. Aguiar
Journal of Machine Learning Research 10:935-975, April 2009.
- Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Athens, Greece, March/April 2009.
2008
- Logistic Normal Priors for Unsupervised Probabilistic Grammar Induction
Shay B. Cohen, Kevin Gimpel, and Noah A. Smith
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, Vancouver, BC, December 2008.
- Dynamic Programming Algorithms as Products of Weighted Logic Programs
Shay B. Cohen, Robert J. Simmons, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming, Udine, Italy, December 2008.
Also available: extended technical report.
- The Shared Logistic Normal Distribution for Grammar Induction
Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Speech and Language: Unsupervised Latent-Variable Models, Whistler, BC, December 2008.
- Stacking Dependency Parsers
André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Waikiki, HI, October 2008.
- Wider Pipelines: N-Best Alignments and Parses in MT Training
Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Noah A. Smith, and Stephan Vogel
In Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, HI, October 2008.
- Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project
Noah A. Smith, Michael Heilman, and Rebecca Hwa
In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA, September 2008.
- Review of Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark and Richard Sproat
Noah A. Smith
Computational Linguistics 34(3):453-457, September 2008.
- Nonextensive Entropic Kernels
André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.
- Competitive Grammar Writing
Jason Eisner and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, pages 97-105, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
- Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 9-17, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
- SOUR CREAM: Toward Semantic Processing of Recipes
Dan Tasse and Noah A. Smith
T.R. CMU-LTI-08-005, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2008.
- Relative Keyboard Input System
Daniel R. Rashid and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 397-400, Canary Islands, Spain, January 2008.
2007
- Weighted and Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars Are Equally Expressive
Noah A. Smith and Mark Johnson
Computational Linguistics 33(4):477-491, December 2007.
- Joint Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation
Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 208-217, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
- Probabilistic Models of Nonprojective Dependency Trees
David A. Smith and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 132-140, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
- Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models
Noah A. Smith, Douglas L. Vail, and John D. Lafferty
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 752-759, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
Also available: talk slides.
- What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, and Teruko Mitamura
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 22-32, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
2006
- Novel Estimation Methods for Unsupervised Discovery of Latent Structure in Natural Language Text
Noah A. Smith
Ph.D. thesis, Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, October 2006.
- Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 569-576, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
- Vine Parsing and Minimum Risk Reranking for Speed and Precision
Markus Dreyer, David A. Smith, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning, pages 201-205, New York, NY, June 2006.
2005
- Compiling Comp Ling: Practical Weighted Dynamic Programming and the Dyna Language
Jason Eisner, Eric Goldlust, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 281-290, Vancouver, BC, October 2005.
- Context-Based Morphological Disambiguation with Random Fields
Noah A. Smith, David A. Smith, and Roy W. Tromble
In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 475-482, Vancouver, BC, October 2005.
- Parsing with Soft and Hard Constraints on Dependency Length
Jason Eisner and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 30-41, Vancouver, BC, October 2005.
- Guiding Unsupervised Grammar Induction Using Contrastive Estimation
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner
In Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Grammatical Inference Applications, pages 73-82, Edinburgh, UK, July 2005.
- Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 354-362, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005.
2004
- Annealing Techniques for Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 487-494, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
- Dyna: A Declarative Language for Implementing Dynamic Programs
Jason Eisner, Eric Goldlust, and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume, pages 218-221, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
- Bilingual Parsing with Factored Estimation: Using English to Parse Korean
David A. Smith and Noah A. Smith
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 49-56, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
2003
2002
2001
- Ellipsis Happens, and Deletion is How
Noah A. Smith
In ed. A. Gualmini, S.-M. Hong, and M. Motomura, University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 11, pages 176-191, 2001, University of Maryland Department of Linguistics.
- Detection of Translational Equivalence
Noah A. Smith
T.R. Technical report 4253, University of Maryland College Park Computer Science Department, College Park, MD, May 2001.
20th Century
- Statistical Machine Translation
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Jan Curin, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, John Lafferty, I. Dan Melamed, Noah A. Smith, Franz-Josef Och, David Purdy, and David Yarowsky
T.R. CLSP Research Notes 42, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1999.
- Cairo: An Alignment Visualization Tool
Noah A. Smith and Michael E. Jahr
In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 549-552, Athens, Greece, May/June 2000.