Noah Smith's papers by topic

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Weighted and Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars Are Equally Expressive
  Noah A. Smith and Mark Johnson
  Computational Linguistics 33(4):477-491, December 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Web as a Parallel Corpus
  Philip Resnik and Noah A. Smith
  Computational Linguistics 29(3):349-380, September 2003.
• From Words to Corpora: Recognizing Translation
  Noah A. Smith
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 95-102, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• An Adjective Analysis
  Noah A. Smith
  Manuscript, Johns Hopkins University, January 2002.
• 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.