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| 8 November – 1 day workshops |
| WS1: South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP) – Morphology and Segmentation Link: http://www.sanlp.org/wssanlp2011 Chair: M. G. Abbas Malik |
| 12 November – 1 day workshops |
| WS2: 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ'11) Link: http://www.irit.fr/recherches/ILPL/KRAQ11.htm Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier |
| WS3: Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2011) Shared Task on Machine Transliteration Link: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2011 Chair: Min Zhang |
| WS4: Language Resources, Technology and Services in the Sharing Paradigm (LRTS) Link: http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LRTS-Sharing_Workshop_at_IJCNLP2011 Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari |
| 12-13 November – 2 day workshops |
| WS5: 9th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR9) Link: http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/alr9/2011/ Chair: Rachel Edita O. Roxas |
| 13 November – 1 day workshops |
| WS6: Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM) Link: http://sites.google.com/site/wtim2011/ Chair: Hisami Suzuki |
| WS7: 5th International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIA) Link: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~clia2011/ Chair: Asif Ekbal |
| WS8: Sentiment Analysis where AI Meets Psychology (SAAIP) Link: http://www.saaip.org/ Chair: Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
Workshop Program
WS1: South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP) – Morphology and Segmentation| 9:00 - 9:20 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:20 - 10:30 | Invited Talk by Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| WSSANLP Session I |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hybrid Inflectional Stemmer and Rule-based Derivational Stemmer for Gujarati Kartik Suba, Dipti Jiandani and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Improving Persian-English Statistical Machine Translation:Experiments in Domain Adaptation Mahsa Mohaghegh, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh and Tom Moir |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Thai Word Segmentation Verification Tool Supon Klaithin, Kanyanut Kriengket, Sitthaa Phaholphinyo and Krit Kosawats |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | The Semi-Automatic Construction of Part-Of-Speech Taggers for Specific Languages by Statistical Methods Tomohiro YAMASAKI, Hiromi WAKAKI and Masaru SUZUKI |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| WSSANLP Session II |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | Towards a Malay Derivational Lexicon: Learning Affixes Using Expectation Maximization Suriani Sulaiman, Michael Gasser and Sandra Kuebler |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Punjabi Language Stemmer for nouns and proper names Vishal Gupta and Gurpreet Singh Lehal |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Challenges in Urdu Text Tokenization and Sentence Boundary Disambiguation Zobia Rehman, Waqas Anwar and Usama Ijaz Bajwa |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| WSSANLP Session III |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Challenges in Developing a Rule based Urdu Stemmer Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Waqas Anwar and Usama Ijaz Bajwa |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Developing a New System for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Closing Remarks |
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| 8.30 - 10.00 Session 1 |
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| 08:30 - 08:40 | Opening Remarks Haizhou Li, A Kumaran, Min Zhang and Ming Liu |
| 08:40 - 09:00 | Integrating Models Derived from non-Parametric Bayesian Co- segmentation into a Statistical Machine Transliteration System Andrew Finch, Paul Dixon and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Simple Discriminative Training for Machine Transliteration Canasai Kruengkrai, Thatsanee Charoenporn and Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | English-Korean Named Entity Transliteration Using Statistical Substring-based and Rule-based Approaches Yu-Chun Wang and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Leveraging Transliterations from Multiple Languages Aditya Bhargava, Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Break |
| 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2 |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Comparative Evaluation of Spanish Segmentation Strategies for Spanish - Chinese Transliteration Rafael E. Banchs |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Using Features from a Bilingual Alignment Model in Transliteration Mining Takaaki Fukunishi, Andrew Finch, Seiichi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Product Name Identification and Classification in Thai Economic News Nattadaporn Lertcheva and Wirote Aroonmanakun |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Mining Multi-word Named Entity Equivalents from Comparable Corpora Abhijit Bhole, Goutham Tholpadi and Raghavendra Udupa |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 Session 3 |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | An Unsupervised Alignment Model for Sequence Labeling: Application to Name Transliteration Najmeh Mousavi Nejad and Shahram Khadivi |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Forward-backward Machine Transliteration between English and Chinese Based on Combined CRFs Ying Qin and GuoHua Chen |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | English-to-Chinese Machine Transliteration using Accessor Variety Features of Source Graphemes Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Chan-Hung Kuo and Wen-Lian Hsu |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | The Amirkabir Machine Transliteration System for NEWS 2011: Farsi-to-English Task Najmeh Mousavi Nejad, Shahram Khadivi and Kaveh Taghipour |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 Session 4 |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 | English-Chinese Personal Name Transliteration by Syllable-Based Maximum Matching Oi Yee Kwong |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Statistical Machine Transliteration with Multi-to-Multi Joint Source Channel Model Yu Chen, Rui Wang and Yi Zhang |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Named Entity Transliteration Generation Leveraging Statistical Machine Translation Technology Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab |
| 17:00 - 17:10 | Closing |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | Introduction |
| Language Services, Resources, Applications |
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| 08:40 - 09:00 | Prospects for an Ontology-Grounded Language Service Infrastructure Yoshihiko Hayashi |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | A Method Towards the Fully Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources N´uria Bel, Muntsa Padr´o and Silvia Necsulescu |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Service Quality Improvement in Web Service Based Machine Translation Sapa Chanyachatchawan, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and Thatsanee Charoenporn |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | The Semantically-enriched Translation Interoperability Protocol Sven Christian Andr¨a and J¨org Sch¨utz |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Interoperability |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Interoperability and Technology for a Language Resources Factory Marc Poch and N´uria Bel |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Interoperability Framework: The FLaReNet Action Plan Proposal Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini and Valeria Quochi |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Promoting Interoperability of Resources in META-SHARE Paul Thompson, Yoshinobu Kano, John McNaught, Steve Pettifer, Teresa Attwood, John Keane and Sophia Ananiadou |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Federated Operation Model for the Language Grid Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Yoko Kubota and Rieko Inaba |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Short Discussion |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| Services and Functionalities for the Community |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Open-Source Platform for Language Service Sharing Yohei Murakami, Masahiro Tanaka, Donghui Lin and Toru Ishida |
| 14:20 - 14:50 | Proposal for the International Standard Language Resource Number Khalid Choukri, Jungyeul Park, Olivier Hamon and Victoria Arranz |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | A Metadata Schema for the Description of Language Resources (LRs) Maria Gavrilidou, Penny Labropoulou, Stelios Piperidis, Monica Monachini, Francesca Frontini, Gil Francopoulo, Victoria Arranz and Val´erie Mapelli |
| 15:10 - 15:20 | The Language Library: Many Layers, More Knowledge Nicoletta Calzolari, Riccardo Del Gratta, Francesca Frontini and Irene Russo |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | Short Discussion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Sharing and Infrastructures |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 | Sharing Resources in CLARIN-NL Jan Odijk and Arjan van Hessen |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | META-NORD: Towards Sharing of Language Resources in Nordic and Baltic Countries Inguna Skadina, Andrejs Vasiljevs, Lars Borin, Koenraad De Smedt, Krister Lind´en and Eir´ıkur R¨ognvaldsson |
| 16:40 - 17:30 | PANEL Language Resources and Technologies Sharing: Priorities and Concrete Steps |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Participation in Language Resource Development and Sharing Virach Sornlertlamvanich Session Chair: Rachel Edita Roxas |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 1: Language Resources Session Chair: Allan Borra |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Towards a Computational Semantic Analyzer for Urdu Annette Hautli and Miriam Butt |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Engineering a Deep HPSG for Mandarin Chinese (Short Paper) Yi Zhang, Rui Wang and Yu Chen |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Experiences in Building Urdu WordNet Farah Adeeba and Sarmad Hussain |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Bantay-Wika: towards a better understanding of the dynamics of Filipino culture and linguistic change (Short Paper) Joel Ilao, Rowena Cristina Guevara, Virgilio Llenaresas, Eilene Antoinette Narvaez and Jovy Peregrino |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Corpus Session Chair: Stephen Beale |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Error Detection for Treebank Validation Bharat Ram Ambati, Rahul Agarwal, Mridul Gupta, Samar Husain and Dipti Misra Sharma |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Multi-stage Annotation using Pattern-based and Statistical-based Techniques for Automatic Thai Annotated Corpus Construction Nattapong Tongtep and Thanaruk Theeramunkong |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Feasibility of Leveraging Crowd Sourcing for the Creation of a Large Scale Annotated Resource for Hindi English Code Switched Data: A Pilot Annotation Mona Diab and Ankit Kamboj |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Philippine Languages Online Corpora: Status, issues, and prospects Shirley Dita and Rachel Edita Roxas |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | Panel Discussion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 3: NLP Tools Session Chair: Mona Diab |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 | Word Disambiguation in Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration Tejinder Singh Saini and Gurpreet Singh Lehal |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | A Grammar Checker for Tagalog using LanguageTool Nathaniel Oco and Allan Borra |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Linguist’s Assistant: A Resource For Linguists Stephen Beale and Tod Allman |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Providing Ad Links to Travel Blog Entries Based on Link Types Aya Ishino, Hidetsugu Nanba and Toshiyuki Takezawa |
| 17:20 - 17:30 | Panel Discussion |
| Sunday, November 13, 2011 |
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| 10:30 - 12:00 | Discourse Structures (SemAF-DS) Koiti Hasida |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Multilinguality of ISO-Space Kiyong Lee, Alex C. Fang and James Pustejovsky |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | WG Plenary Nancy Ide and Kiyong Lee |
| 08.45 | Session 1: Opening and Keynote Speech |
| 10:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10:30 Session 2: Long Papers |
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| Challenges in Designing Input Method Editors for Indian Lan-guages: The Role of Word-Origin and Context Umair Z. Ahmed, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury and Sowmya VB |
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| Discriminative Method for Japanese Kana-Kanji Input Method Hiroyuki Tokunaga, Daisuke Okanohara and Shinsuke Mori |
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| Efficient Dictionary and Language Model Compression for Input Method Editors Taku Kudo, Toshiyuki Hanaoka, Jun Mukai, Yusuke Tabata and Hiroyuki Komatsu |
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| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 Session 3: Posters and Demos |
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| Different Input Systems for Different Devices Asad Habib, Masakazu Iwatate, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto |
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| An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing Takeshi Okadome, Junya Nakajima, Sho Ito and Koh Kakusho |
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| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 16:00 Session 4: Short and Long papers |
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| Error Correcting Romaji-kana Conversion for Japanese Language Education Seiji Kasahara, Mamoru Komachi, Masaaki Nagata and Yuji Matsumoto |
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| From pecher to pˆecher... or p´echer: Simplifying French Input by Accent Prediction Pallavi Choudhury, Chris Quirk and Hisami Suzuki |
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| Phrase Extraction for Japanese Predictive Input Method as Post-Processing Yoh Okuno |
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| Robustness Analysis of Adaptive Chinese Input Methods Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Cheng-Wei Lee, Chad Liu, Yung-Chun Chang and Wen-Lian Hsu |
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| 08:35 - 08.45 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:45 - 10:00 | Keynote Speech: Web-based Machine Translation Haifeng Wang |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | Using Explicit Semantic Analysis for Cross-Lingual Link Discovery Petr Knoth, Lukas Zilka and Zdenek Zdrahal |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Cross Language POS Taggers (and other Tools) for Indian Languages: An Experiment with Kannada using Telugu Resources Siva Reddy and Serge Sharoff |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Integrate Multilingual Web Search Results using Cross-Lingual Topic Models Duo Ding |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Soundex-based Translation Correction in Urdu–English Cross-Language Information Retrieval Manaal Faruqui, Prasenjit Majumder and Sebastian Pado |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Unsupervised Russian POS Tagging with Appropriate Context Li Yang, Erik Peterson, John Chen, Yana Petrova and Rohini Srihari |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Extending a multilingual Lexical Resource by bootstrapping Named Entity Classification using Wikipedia’s Category System Johannes Knopp |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Closing |
| 08:45 - 9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote: What are Subjectivity, Sentiment, and Affect? Eduard Hovy |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 1: |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | On Using Twitter to Monitor Political Sentiment and Predict Election Results Adam Bermingham and Alan Smeaton |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Taking Refuge in Your Personal Sentic Corner Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain and Chris Eckl |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Towards automatic detection of antisocial behavior from texts Myriam Munezero, Tuomo Kakkonen and Calkin Montero |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | User Profile Construction in the TWIN Personality-based Recommender System Alexandra Roshchina, John Cardiff and Paolo Rosso |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Enriching Social Communication through Semantics and Sentics Praphul Chandra, Erik Cambria and Alvin Pradeep |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2 |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Emotion Modeling from Writer/Reader Perspectives Using a Microblog Dataset Yi-jie Tang and Hsin-Hsi Chen |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | Introducing Argumention in Opinion Analysis: Language and Reasoning Challenges Leila Amgoud, Florence Bannay, Charlotte Costedoat, Patrick Saint-Dizier and Camille Albert |
| 14:35 - 14:55 | Sense-level Subjectivity in a Multilingual Setting Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe |
| 14:55 - 15:15 | Applying Sentiment-oriented Sentence Filtering to Multilingual Review Classification Takashi Inui and Mikio Yamamoto |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Chinese Sentiment Analysis Using Maximum Entropy Huey Yee Lee and Hemnaath Renganathan |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 3 |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 | Analyzing Emotional Statements - Roles of General and Physiological Variables Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| 16:20 - 16:35 | Incorporating Lexicon Knowledge into SVM Learning to Improve Sentiment Classification Ji Fang and Bi Chen |
| 16:35 - 16:55 | What is new? News media, General Elections, Sentiment, and Named Entities Khurshid Ahmad, Nicholas Daly and Vanessa Liston |
| 16:55 - 17:15 | Towards Enhanced Opinion Classification using NLP Techniques. Akshat Bakliwal, Piyush Arora, Ankit Patil and Vasudeva Varma |