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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
8:45-9:00 |
Opening Session |
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9:00-10:00 |
Invited Talk by Tom Mitchel |
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10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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Session 1A: Machine translation 1 Pascale Fung |
Session 1B: Word Sense Disambiguation Diana McCarthy |
Session 1C: Language Modeling 1 Gertjan van Noord |
Session 1D: Phonology and Morphology 1 Lauri Karttunen |
10:30-10:55 |
Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge Yonggang Deng and Yuqing Gao |
Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and David Chiang |
A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications Hal Daumé III and Lyle Campbell |
Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid and Gregor Möhler |
10:55-11:20 |
A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation Pi-Chuan Chang and Kristina Toutanova |
Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes |
A Discriminative Language Model with Pseudo-negative Samples Daisuke Okanohara and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World’s Languages Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly |
11:20-11:45 |
Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation John DeNero and Dan Klein |
Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng |
Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong, John Lee and Chin-Yew Lin |
Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim and Richard Sproat |
11:45-12:10 |
Transductive Learning for Statistical Machine Translation Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar |
Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao |
Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition Antti Puurula and Mikko Kurimo |
Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo and Minghui Dong |
12:10-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
Corridor of TOP Congress Hall |
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Session 2A: Machine Translation 2 Kevin Knight |
Session 2B: Grammars Tracy King |
Session 2C: Semantic Role Labeling Lluis Marquez |
Session 2D: Language Resources Martha Palmer |
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13:30-13:55 |
Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova and Hisami Suzuki |
Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl |
Generalizing Semantic Role Annotations Across Syntactically Similar Verbs Andrew Gordon and Reid Swanson |
SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad |
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13:55-14:20 |
Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff and Olga Mudraya |
Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into Efficiently-parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold Mark Johnson |
A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Guodong Zhou, Ting Liu and Sheng Li |
Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel |
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14:20-14:45 |
Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models Liang Huang and David Chiang |
Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries Makoto Kanazawa |
Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank Chang Liu and Hwee Tou Ng |
Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank David Vadas and James Curran |
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14:45-15:10 |
Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner and Stephan Kanthak |
Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length Daniel Gildea and David Temperley |
A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences Katrin Erk |
Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank Stephen Clark and James R. Curran |
SRW Poster Session (14:45-16:35) for detail list see the SRW page |
15:10-15:45 |
Break |
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Session 3A: Machine Learning Methods 1 Fernando Pereira |
Session 3B: Machine Translation 3 Dekai Wu |
Session 3C: Generation Donia Scott |
Session 3D: Multimodality 1 Bonnie Webber |
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15:45-16:10 |
Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation Hal Daumé III |
Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an and Andy Way |
Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses Katja Filippova and Michael Strube |
Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution Jacob Eisenstein and Randall Davis |
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16:10-16:35 |
Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai |
Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References Joshua S. Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa |
A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar Claire Gardent and Eric Kow |
The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman |
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16:35-17:00 |
The Infinite Tree Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager and Christopher D. Manning |
Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa and Andy Way |
Sentence Generation as a Planning Problem Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone |
Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems Yi Liu, Joyce Y. Chai and Rong Jin |
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17:00-17:25 |
Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov and Dan Roth |
Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz |
GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale |
A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Michelle Levine and Bernard Renger |
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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
Lounge 1 |
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Session 4A: Parsing 1 Ron Kaplan |
Session 4B: Sentiment 1 Rada Mihalcea |
Session 4C: Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment Dan Roth |
Session 4D: Discourse and Dialog 1 Johanna Moore |
SRW: Grammar and the Lexicon |
9:00-9:25 |
Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing Yoav Seginer |
Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis and Arun Sundararajan |
Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach Samuel Brody |
Finding Document Topics for Improving Topic Segmentation Olivier Ferret |
Student Research Workshop Opening (9:15-9:25) |
9:25-9:50 |
K-best Spanning Tree Parsing Keith Hall |
PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani |
Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch and Ido Dagan |
The Utility of Parse-derived Features for Automatic Discourse Segmentation Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark |
Limitations of Current Grammar Induction Algorithms Bart Cramer |
9:50-10:15 |
Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight? Rens Bod |
Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis Ryan McDonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike Wells and Jeff Reynar |
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal and Yi Liu |
PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker |
Logistic Online Learning Methods and Their Application to Incremental Dependency Parsing Richard Johansson |
10:15-10:40 |
An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport |
Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification John Blitzer, Mark Dredze and Fernando Pereira |
A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts John Lee |
Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay and James Glass |
Adaptive String Distance Measures for Bilingual Dialect Lexicon Induction Yves Scherrer |
10:40-11:10 |
Break |
11:10-12:10 |
Lifetime Achievement Award |
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12:10-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
Lounge 1 |
13:00-14:30 |
ACL Business Meeting |
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Session 5A: Language Modeling 2 Chris Manning |
Session 5B: Coreference Claire Cardie |
Session 5C: Summarization Simone Teufel |
Session 5D: Semantic Relations Timothy Baldwin |
SRW: Quantitative and Formal Linguistics |
14:30-14:55 |
Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation David Talbot and Miles Osborne |
Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns Xiaofeng Yang and Jian Su |
Generating a Table-of-Contents S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande and Regina Barzilay |
Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston |
Identifying Linguistic Structure in a Quantitative Analysis of Dialect Pronunciation Jelena Prokiæ |
14:55-15:20 |
Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz |
Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution Vincent Ng |
Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang and Jianguo Xiao |
Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information Roxana Girju |
Towards a Computational Treatment of Superlatives Silke Scheible |
15:20-15:45 |
Break |
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Session 6A: Information Extraction Antal van den Bosch |
Session 6B: Parsing 2 Michael Collins |
Session 6C: Multilinguality 1 Chu-Ren Huang |
Session 6D: Language Modeling 3 Kristina Toutanova |
SRW: Semantics |
15:45-16:10 |
Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision Razvan Bunescu and Raymond Mooney |
Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures Jiøí Havelka |
Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer |
Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information Feifan Liu and Yang Liu |
Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
16:10-16:35 |
A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Hong Li |
Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport |
Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille, Koichi Takeuchi and Kyo Kageura |
Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model Deirdre Hogan |
Semantic Classification of Noun Phrases Using Web Counts and Learning Algorithms Paul Nulty |
16:35-17:00 |
A Multi-resolution Framework for Information Extraction from Free Text Mstislav Maslennikov and Tat-Seng Chua |
HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity Shane Bergsma and Grzegorz Kondrak |
A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng and Tiejun Zhao |
Computing Lexical Chains with Graph Clustering Olena Medelyan |
17:00-17:25 |
Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web Benjamin Rosenfeld and Ronen Feldman |
Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks Ivan Titov and James Henderson |
Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin |
Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni |
Clustering Hungarian Verbs on the Basis of Complementation Patterns Kata Gábor and Enikõ Héja |
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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
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Session 7A: Machine Translation 4 Stefan Riezler |
Session 7B: Sequence Processing Miles Osborne |
Session 7C: Question Answering Dan Moldovan |
Session 7D: Discourse and Dialog 2 Lyn Walker |
9:00-9:25 |
Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin |
A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling Martin Jansche |
Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won’t Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors Hoa Trang Dang and Jimmy Lin |
Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components Martijn Spitters, Marco De Boni, Jakub Zavrel and Remko Bonnema |
9:25-9:50 |
Ordering Phrases with Function Words Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li |
A Fully Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Part-of-speech Tagging Sharon Goldwater and Tom Griffiths |
Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question Answer Classification Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni, Roberto Basili and Suresh Manandhar |
On the Role of Context and Prosody in the Interpretation of ’okay’ Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Héctor Chávez, Julia Hirschberg and Lauren Wilcox |
9:50-10:15 |
A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Chi-Ho Li, Minghui Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Yi Guan |
Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models Noah A. Smith, Douglas L. Vail and John D. Lafferty |
Language-independent Probabilistic Answer Ranking for Question Answering Jeongwoo Ko, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg |
Predicting Success in Dialogue David Reitter and Johanna D. Moore |
10:15-10:40 |
Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata |
Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta and Aravind K. Joshi |
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Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog Christoph Müller |
10:40-11:10 |
Break |
11:10-12:10 |
Invited Talk by Barney Pell |
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12:10-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Top Congress Hall |
Hall Praha |
Hall II, 1st stage |
Hall III |
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Session 8A: Machine Learning Methods 2 Yuji Matsumoto |
Session 8B: Machine Translation and Multilinguality Hans Uszkoreit |
Session 8C: Lexicon and Lexical Semantics Hwee Tou Ng |
Session 8D: Phonology and Morphology 2 Jason Eisner |
13:30-13:55 |
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson and Kristina Toutanova |
Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang |
Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web Philipp Cimiano and Johanna Wenderoth |
A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation Vera Demberg |
13:55-14:20 |
Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning Smaranda Muresan and Owen Rambow |
Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak |
A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota Smith |
Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology François Barthélemy |
14:20-14:45 |
Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark |
Benefits of the Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages Peter A. Chew and Ahmed Abdelali |
Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling Baroni Marco and Evert Stefan |
Much ado about nothing: A Social Network Model of Russian Paradigmatic Gaps Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert |
14:45-15:10 |
Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein |
A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation Joshua S. Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa |
A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe and Anna Korhonen |
Substring-Based Transliteration Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak |
15:10-15:45 |
Break |
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Session 9A: Parsing 3 Mark Johnson |
Session 9B: Sentiment 2 Robert Dale |
Session 9C: Multimodality 2 Julia Hirschberg |
Session 9D: Text mining and Retrieval Claire Grover |
15:45-16:10 |
Pipeline Iteration Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark |
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Janyce Wiebe |
Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation Koen Deschacht and Marie-Francine Moens |
Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy and Chia-Ling Lin |
16:10-16:35 |
Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney |
Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach Ann Devitt and Khurshid Ahmad |
User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan and Marita Ailomaa |
What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness Iryna Gurevych, Christof Müller and Torsten Zesch |
16:35-17:00 |
Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre and Johan Hall |
Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature Ben Medlock and Ted Briscoe |
Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives Pei-Yun Hsueh and Johanna D. Moore |
Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos |
17:10-17:30 |
Best Paper Award and Closing Session |
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