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Day 1
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09.00
09.30 |
Introduction |
09.30
10.30 |
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10.30
11.00 |
Break |
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Parsing |
Machine
learning |
Machine translation |
11.00
11.30 |
Neural
Network Probability Estimation for Broad Coverage Parsing,
James
Henderson |
Toward
Evaluation of Writing Style: Overly Repetitious Word Use,
Jill
Burstein, Magdalena Wolska
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Czech-English
Dependency Tree-based Machine Translation,
Curin, Cmejrek,
Havelka |
11.30
12.00 |
An
efficient implementation of a new DOP model,
Rens Bod |
French
Amalgam: a quick adaptation of a sentence realization system to French,
Martine Smets, Michael Gamon, Simon Corston-Oliver and Eric Ringger
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Using
POS Information for SMT into Morphologically Rich Languages,
Nicola
Ueffing, Hermann Ney |
12.00
12.30 |
Bootstrapping
statistical parsers from small datasets,
Steedman, Sarkar, Osborne, Hwa, Clark, Hockenmaier, Ruhlen, Baker,
Crim |
Combining
Distributional and Morphological Information for Part of Speech Induction,
Alexander Clark |
Automatic
Evaluation for a Palpable Measure of a Speech Translation System’s Capability,
Yasuda, Sugaya, Takezawa, Yamamoto, Yanagida |
12.30
13.50 |
Lunch |
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Research
notes and demonstrations |
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IE |
Corpora
& Treebank |
Demos
1 |
13.50
14.10 |
Alexiei
Dingli, Fabio Ciravegna, David Guthrie, Yorick Wilks: Mining
Web Sites Using Unsupervised Adaptive Information Extraction |
Zoltán
Alexin et al: Annotated
Hungarian National Corpus
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Greg
Aist et al: Talking
through Procedures: An Intelligent Space Station Procedure Assistant
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, Elena Karagjosova:
A
dialogue system with contextually appropriate spoken output intonation
Adam Kilgarriff, Roger Evans, Rob Koeling, David Tugwell: WASPBENCH:
a lexicographer's workbench incorporating state-of-the-art word sense
disambiguation
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding: An
Open-Source Environment for Compiling Typed Unification Grammars into
Speech Recognisers
Bogdan Sacaleanu, Paul Buitelaar, Martin Volk: A
Cross Language Document Retrieval System Based on Semantic Annotation
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham: Robust
Generic and Query-based Summarization |
14.10
14.30 |
Junko
Hosaka, Judice Koh, Akihiko Konagaya: Effect
of utilizing terminology on extraction of protein-protein interaction
information from biomedical literature |
Zdenek
Zabokrtsky, Otakar Smrz: Arabic
Syntactic Trees: from Constituency to Dependency |
14.30
14.50 |
Thierry
Poibeau: The
Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework |
Serge
A. Yablonsky: The
Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technologies |
14.50
15.00 |
Minibreak |
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Research
notes and demonstrations |
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NLG
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Lexical
Resources 1 |
Demos
2 |
15.00
15.20 |
Helmut
Horacek: A
Best-First Search Algorithm for Generating Referring Expressions
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Luisa
Bentivogli, Emanuele Pianta: Beyond
Lexical Units: Enriching WordNets with Phrasets |
Roger
Evans, Richard Power: WYSIWYM
- building user interfaces with natural language feedback
Karin Harbusch, Michael Kühn: Towards
an Adaptive Communication Aid with Ambiguous Text Input
Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva: Multilingual
adaptations of a reusable information extraction tool
Jose Relaño-Gil, M. Carmen Rodriguez-Gancedo, Luis Hernandez
Gomez: AGORA.
Multilingual Multiplatform Architecture for the development of Natural
Language Voice Services
Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Jan Kuper, Thierry Declerck, Peter
Wittenburg: Event-Coreference
across Multiple, Multi-lingual Sources in the Mumis Project
Zhiping Zheng: Question
Answering Using Web News as Knowledge Base |
15.20
15.40 |
Paul
Piwek: A
Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents |
Beate
Dorow, Dominic Widdows: Discovering
Corpus-Specific Word Senses |
15.40
16.00 |
Somayajulu
G. Sripada, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter, Jin Yu: Summarizing
Neonatal Time Series Data
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Luka
Nerima, Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli: Creating
a multilingual collocations dictionary from large
text corpora |
16.00
16.30 |
Break |
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Machine translation
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Compositional
semantics |
Parsing |
16.30
17.00 |
Effect
of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable
Corpora,
Utsuro, Horiuchi, Hamamoto, Hino, Nakayama
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Underspecification
formalisms: Hole semantics as dominance constraints,
Koller,
Niehren, Thater |
Using
Grammatical Relations to Compare Parsers,
Judita Preiss
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17.00
17.30 |
Combining
Clues for Word Alignment,
Jörg Tiedemann |
Well-Nested
Parallelism Constraints for Ellipsis Resolution,
Katrin Erk,
Joachim Niehren |
AVM
Description Compilation using Types as Modes,
Gerald Penn |
17.30
18.00 |
Automatic
Construction of Machine Translation Knowledge Using Translation Literalness,
Imamura, Sumita, Matsumoto
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Semantic
construction in F-TAG,
Claire Gardent, Laura Kallmeyer |
Describing
Syntax with Star-Free Regular Expressions,
Anssi Yli-Jyrä |
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Day 2
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Machine translation
and named entities |
Grammar
formalisms |
Lexicon |
09.00
09.30 |
Efficient
Search for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation,
Richard
Zens, Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney |
Rigid
grammars in the Associative-Commutative Lambek Calculus are not learnable,
Christophe Costa Florencio |
Evaluating
and Combining Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition,
Carsten Brockmann, Mirella Lapata |
09.30
10.00 |
Learning
Translations of Named-Entity Phrases from Parallel Corpora,
Robert
C. Moore |
Multi-modal
combinatory categorial grammar,
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Jason
Baldridge |
Experiments
on the Choice of Features for Learning Verb Classes,
Sabine
Schulte im Walde
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10.00
10.30 |
Named
Entity Recognition For Catalan Using Only Spanish Resources and Unlabelled
Data,
Carreras, Màrquez, Padró |
Topological
Parsing,
Penn, Haji-Abdolhosseini |
A
General Feature Space for Automatic Verb Classification,
Eric
Joanis, Suzanne Stevenson |
10.30
11.00 |
Break |
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Student
research workshop |
11.00
11.30 |
Piroska Lendvai: Learning
to Identify Fragmented Words in Spoken Discourse |
Laura
Alonso Alemany and Maria Fuentes Fort: Integrating
cohesion and coherence for Automatic Summarization |
11.30
12.00 |
Gemma Boleda and
Laura Alonso Alemany: Clustering
Adjectives for Class Discovery |
Milena
Yankova and Svetla Boytcheva:
Focusing
on Scenario Recognition in Infomation Extraction |
12.00
12.30 |
Raquel Fernandez: A
Dynamic Logic Formalisation of the Dialogue Gameboard |
Aurélien
Max: Reversing
Controlled Document Authoring to Normalize Documents |
12.30
13.50 |
Lunch |
13.50
14.35 |
EACL
Business meeting |
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Research
notes and demonstrations |
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Grammar
& Syntax |
Speech
& Machine Translation |
Dictionary |
14.40
15.00 |
Frederik
Fouvry: Lexicon
Acquisition with a large-coverage unification-based grammar |
Johan
Bos, Ewan Klein, Tetsushi Oka: Meaningful
Conversation with a Mobile Robot |
Birte
Lönneker, Primo Jakopin: Contents
and evaluation of the first Slovenian-German online dictionary |
15.00
15.20 |
Valia
Kordoni: The
key role of semantics in the development of large-scale grammars of natural
language |
Stefan
Schaden: Rule-based
lexical modelling of foreign-accented
pronunciation variants |
James McCracken,
Adam Kilgarriff: Oxford
Dictionary of English - current developments |
15.20
15.40 |
Yusuke
Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Lexicalized
Grammar Acquisition |
Eiichiro
Sumita et al: A
corpus-centered approach to spoken language translation |
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15.40
16.00 |
Derrick
Higgins: A
machine learning approach to the identification of WH gaps |
Stephan
Vogel: Using
Noisy Biligual Data for Statistical Machine Translation |
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16.00
16.30 |
Break |
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Prosody and
information structure |
Algorithms |
Classification |
16.30
17.00 |
Learning
PP attachment for filtering prosodic phrasing,
van Herwijnen,
van den Bosch, Terken, Marsi |
Constraint
Based Integration of Deep and Shallow Parsing Techniques,
Daum,
Foth, Menzel |
Language
Independent Authorship Attribution with Character Level N-Grams,
Peng, Schuurmans, Keselj, Wang
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17.00
17.30 |
Information
Structure in Topological Dependency Grammar,
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff,
Denys Duchier |
Comparison
of Alignment Templates and Maximum Entropy Models for NLP,
Bender,
Macherey, Och, Ney
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Classifying
the Hungarian Web,
Kornai, Krellenstein, Mulligan, Twomey,
Veress, Wysoker
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17.30
18.00 |
Producing
Contextually Appropriate Intonation is an Information-State Based Dialogue
System,
Kruijff-Korbayova, Rodrguez, Ericsson, Karagjosova
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Linear
Text Segmentation using a Dynamic Programming Algorithm,
Kehagias,
Fragkou, Petridis |
A
Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Anti-Spam E-Mail Filtering,
Karl-Michael Schneider |
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Day 3
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Research
notes and demonstrations |
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Q/A
& Summarization |
IE
& Metaphor |
Demos
3 |
09.00
09.20 |
Farah
Benamara, Patrick Saint Dizier: WEBCOOP:
A Cooperative Question Answering System on the Web |
Toshiaki
Fujiki, Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura: Automatic
Acquisition of Script Knowledge from a Text Collection |
Dirk
Kraus: Suregen-2:
a shell system for the generation of clinical documents
Graham Wilcock: Integrating
Natural Language Generation with the Apache Cocoon XML Server
Paul Piwek: A
Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
Kiril Simov et al: Development
of Corpora within the CLaRK System: The BulTreeBank Project Experience
Serge A. Yablonsky: The
Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technologies |
09.20
09.40 |
Constantin
Orasan, Doina Tatar, Gabriela Seban, Dana Avram, Adrian Onet: How
to build a QA system in your back-garden: application for Romanian |
Horacio
Saggion, Katerina Pastra, Yorick Wilks: NLP
for Indexing and Retrieval of Captioned Photographs |
09.40
10.00 |
Constantin
Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov, Laura Hasler: CAST:
A computer-aided summarisation tool |
John
Barnden, Sheila Glasbey, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington: Domain-transcending
mappings in a system for metaphorical reasoning |
10.00
10.30 |
Break |
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POS tagging
and corpus tools |
Dialogue |
Lexicon |
10.30
11.00 |
Detecting
Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation,
Markus Dickinson, Detmar
Meurers |
A
model of back-channel acknowledgements in spoken dialogue,
Cathcart,
Carletta, Klein |
QUALIFIER:
Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources,
Hui
Yang, Tat-Seng Chua |
11.00
11.30 |
Investigating
GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers,
James R. Curran,
Stephen Clark |
The
Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue,
Core, J.D. Moore,
Zinn |
Detecting
Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence,
Mirella
Lapata, Alex Lascarides |
11.30
12.00 |
Finite
Structure Query: A Tool for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora,
Stephan Kepser |
Targeted
Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems,
Hockey, Lemon, Campana, Hiatt,
Aist, Hieronymus, Dowding |
Empirical
Methods for Compound Splitting,
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight |
12.00
12.30 |
An
Integrated Term-Based Corpus Query System,
Manios, Nenadic, Spasic, Ananiadou |
Transparent
combination of rule-based and data-driven approaches in speech understanding,
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey |
Generalised
PP-attachment Disambiguation Using Corpus-based Linguistic Diagnostics,
Paola Merlo |
12.30
14.00 |
Lunch |
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Research
notes and demonstrations |
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Lexical
Resources 2 |
PoS
Tagging & Parsing |
Demos
4 |
14.00
14.20 |
Stefan
Evert and Hannah Kermes: Experiments
on Candidate Data for Collocation Extraction |
Oi
Yee Kwong: Categorial
Fluidity in Chinese and its Implications for
Part-of-speech Tagging |
Caroline
Brun, Marc Dymetman, Eric Fanchon, Stanislas Lhomme: Controlled
Authoring of Biological Experiment Reports
Ola Åkerberg, Hans Svensson, Bastian Schulz, Pierre Nugues:
CarSim:
An Automatic 3D Text-to-Scene Conversion System Applied to Road Accident
Reports
Thierry Poibeau: The
Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework
Violeta Seretan: Creating
a multilingual collocations dictionary from large text corpora |
14.20
14.40 |
Viktor
Pekar, Steffen Staab: Word
classification based on combined measures of distributional and semantic
similarity |
Véronique
Gendner, Gabriel Illouz, Michèle Jardino, Laura Monceaux, Patrick
Paroubek, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat: PEAS,
the first instantiation of a comparative framework for evaluating parsers
of French |
14.40
15.00 |
Lars
Ahrenberg, Magnus Merkel, Michael Petterstedt: Interactive
Word Alignment for Language Engineering |
Michael
Schiehlen: A
Cascaded Finite-State Parser for German |
15.00
15.30 |
Break |
15.30
16.30 |
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16.30
17.00 |
Closing
and best paper award |