24th July

 

(116)  Session 22: Linguistic and Mathematical Models of Language

Srinivas Bangalore

(115)  Session 25: Evaluation of Machine Translation

Ido Dagan

(114)  Session 28

 

9.05 – 9.30

Probabilistic Parsing Strategies

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics

Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och

Demonstrations & Interactive Posters: Short Presentations

 

9.30 – 9.55

An alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR parsers

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta

A Unified Framework for Automatic Evaluation using 4-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics

Radu Soricut, Eric Brill

9.55 – 10.20

Wrapping of Trees

James Rogers

Extending BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weighting

Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley

10.20 – 11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00 – 12.00

(117)  BUSINESS MEETING

12.00 – 13.30

LUNCH

13.30 – 14.30

(117)  Plenary: Invited talk: Anne Cutler: The flexibility of human speech recognition and the seeds of language change

 

(116)  Session 23: Question Answering

Jill Burstein

(115)  Session 26: Word Sense Disambiguation

Eric Gaussier

(114)  Session 29: Conversational Spoken Language Processing

David Traum

(113)

Demo/poster session

14.30 – 14.55

Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems

E. Saquete, P.Martínez-Barco, R. Muñoz, J.L. Viñedo

Learning Word Sense With Feature Selection and Order Identification Capabilities

Zhengyu Niu, Donghong Ji, Kim-Teng Lua

Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies

Michel Gallery, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Elizabeth Shriberg

14.55 – 15.20

Question Answering using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-by-Dossier-with-Constraints

John Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krysztof Czuba

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation

Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat

Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech

Michelle Gregory, Yasemin Altun

15.20 – 15.50

COFFEE BREAK

 

(116)  Session 24: Information Retrieval/Information Extraction

Claire Cardie

(115)  Session 27: Syntax/Semantics/Parsing

Gertjan van Noord

(114)  Session 30: Discourse and Dialogue

Martha Palmer

(113)

Demo/poster session

15.50 – 16.15

Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution

Wenjie Li

Using linguistic principles to recover empty categories

Richard Campbell

Acquiring the Meaning of Discourse Markers

Ben Hutchinson

16.15 – 16.40

Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew-Lim Tan

Generalized Multitext Grammars

I. Dan Melamed, Giorgio Satta, Benjamin Wellington

FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with features for dialogue act classification

Riccardo Serafin, Barbara di Eugenio

16.40 – 17.05

Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction

Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Rohini K Srihari

Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing

I. Dan Melamed

 

17.05 – 17.30

(117)  Plenary: Best Paper Award and Closing