ACL 2010
July 11-16

Workshops

Venue Thursday, July 15 Friday, July 16
a.m.p.m.a.m.p.m.
Venue A, Aula CoNLL-2010
Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Venue B, Lacture Hall 3 WS2:  WMT’10/MetricsMATR
Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
Venue B, Lecture Hall 4 WS1:  SemEval-2010
5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Venue A, Hall X WS3:  The LAW IV
The 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
 
Venue A, Hall IX WS4:  BioNLP2010
Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
WS6:  NLPLing 2010
NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground
Venue A, Hall IV WS11:  DANLP 2010
Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing
WS8:  TextGraphs-5
Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Venue A, Room VIII WS5:  CMCL
Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
WS9:  NEWS 2010
Named Entities Workshop
Venue A, Room XI WS7:  SIGMORPHON-11
11th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology
WS10:  ATANLP 2010
Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing
Venue A, Room II WS12:  CDS
Companionable Dialogue Systems
WS13:  GEMS-2010
Geometric Models of Natural Language Semantics

ACL 2010 Workshop Chairs

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
David Weir (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

E-mail: workshops@acl2010.org



CoNLL-2010

Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
July 15–16
Venue A, Aula
Chairs: Mirella Lapata and Anoop Sarkar
Homepage
Thursday, July 15, 2010
9:00–9:15
Opening Remarks
9:15–10:30
Session 1: Parsing
9:15–9:40
Improvements in Unsupervised Co-Occurrence-Based Parsing
Christian Hänig
show abstract
9:40–10:05
Viterbi Training Improves Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher D. Manning
show abstract
10:05–10:30
Driving Semantic Parsing from the World’s Response
James Clarke, Dan Goldwasser, Ming-Wei Chang and Dan Roth
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:15
Session 2: Grammar Induction
11:00–11:25
Efficient, Correct, Unsupervised Learning for Context-Sensitive Languages
Alexander Clark
show abstract
11:25–11:50
Identifying Patterns for Unsupervised Grammar Induction
Jesús Santamaría and Lourdes Araujo
show abstract
11:50–12:15
Learning Better Monolingual Models with Unannotated Bilingual Text
David Burkett, Slav Petrov, John Blitzer and Dan Klein
show abstract
12:15–14:15
Lunch
14:15–15:30
Invited Talk
14:15–15:30
Clueless: Explorations in Unsupervised, Knowledge-Lean Extraction of Lexical-Semantic Information
Lillian Lee
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Break
16:00–17:30
Shared Task Session 1: Overview and Oral Presentations
16:00–16:20
The CoNLL 2010 Shared Task: Learning to Detect Hedges and their Scope in Natural Language Text
Richárd Farkas, Veronika Vincze, György Móra, János Csirik and György Szarvas
show abstract
16:20–16:30
A Cascade Method for Detecting Hedges and their Scope in Natural Language Text
Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, Bo Yuan and Shixi Fan
show abstract
16:30–16:40
Detecting Speculative Language using Syntactic Dependencies and Logistic Regression
Andreas Vlachos and Mark Craven
show abstract
16:40–16:50
A Hedgehop over a Max-margin Framework using Hedge Cues
Maria Georgescul
show abstract
16:50–17:00
Detecting Hedge Cues and their Scopes with Average Perceptron
Feng Ji, Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang
show abstract
17:00–17:10
Memory-based Resolution of In-sentence Scopes of Hedge Cues
Roser Morante, Vincent Van Asch and Walter Daelemans
show abstract
17:10–17:20
Resolving Speculation: MaxEnt Cue Classification and Dependency-Based Scope Rules
Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid and Stephan Oepen
show abstract
17:20–17:30
Combining Manual Rules and Supervised Learning for Hedge Cue and Scope Detection
Marek Rei and Ted Briscoe
show abstract
17:30–18:00
Shared Task Discussion Panel
Friday, July 16, 2010
9:15–10:30
Invited Talk
9:15–10:30
Bayesian Hidden Markov Models and Extensions
Zoubin Ghahramani
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:30
Joint Poster Session: Main conference and shared task posters
Main conference posters
21
Improved Unsupervised POS Induction Using Intrinsic Clustering Quality and a Zipfian Constraint
Roi Reichart, Raanan Fattal and Ari Rappoport
show abstract
22
Syntactic and Semantic Structure for Opinion Expression Detection
Richard Johansson and Alessandro Moschitti
show abstract
23
Type Level Clustering Evaluation: New Measures and a POS Induction Case Study
Roi Reichart, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport
show abstract
24
Recession Segmentation: Simpler Online Word Segmentation Using Limited Resources
Constantine Lignos and Charles Yang
show abstract
25
Computing Optimal Alignments for the IBM-3 Translation Model
Thomas Schoenemann
show abstract
26
Semi-Supervised Recognition of Sarcasm in Twitter and Amazon
Dmitry Davidov, Oren Tsur and Ari Rappoport
show abstract
27
Learning Probabilistic Synchronous CFGs for Phrase-based Translation
Markos Mylonakis and Khalil Sima’an
show abstract
28
A Semi-Supervised Batch-Mode Active Learning Strategy for Improved Statistical Machine Translation
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Prasad, David Stallard and Prem Natarajan
show abstract
29
Improving Word Alignment by Semi-supervised Ensemble
Shujian Huang, Kangxi Li, Xinyu Dai and Jiajun Chen
show abstract
30
A Comparative Study of Bayesian Models for Unsupervised Sentiment Detection
Chenghua Lin, Yulan He and Richard Everson
show abstract
31
A Hybrid Approach to Emotional Sentence Polarity and Intensity Classification
Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Laura Plaza and Pablo Gervás
show abstract
32
Cross-Caption Coreference Resolution for Automatic Image Understanding
Micah Hodosh, Peter Young, Cyrus Rashtchian and Julia Hockenmaier
show abstract
33
Improved Natural Language Learning via Variance-Regularization Support Vector Machines
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin and Dale Schuurmans
show abstract
Shared Task posters
37
Hedge Detection using the RelHunter Approach
Eraldo Fernandes, Carlos Crestana and Ruy Milidiú
show abstract
38
A High-Precision Approach to Detecting Hedges and Their Scopes
Halil Kilicoglu and Sabine Bergler
show abstract
39
Exploiting Rich Features for Detecting Hedges and Their Scope
Xinxin Li, Jianping Shen, Xiang Gao and Xuan Wang
show abstract
40
Uncertainty Detection as Approximate Max-Margin Sequence Labelling
Oscar Täckström, Sumithra Velupillai, Martin Hassel, Gunnar Eriksson, Hercules Dalianis and Jussi Karlgren
show abstract
41
Hedge Detection and Scope Finding by Sequence Labeling with Procedural Feature Selection
Shaodian Zhang, Hai Zhao, Guodong Zhou and Bao-liang Lu
show abstract
42
Learning to Detect Hedges and their Scope using CRF
Qi Zhao, Chengjie Sun, Bingquan Liu and Yong Cheng
show abstract
43
Exploiting Multi-Features to Detect Hedges and Their Scope in Biomedical Texts
Huiwei Zhou, Xiaoyan Li, Degen Huang, Zezhong Li and Yuansheng Yang
show abstract
44
A Lucene and Maximum Entropy Model Based Hedge Detection System
Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio
show abstract
45
HedgeHunter: A System for Hedge Detection and Uncertainty Classification
David Clausen
show abstract
46
Exploiting CCG Structures with Tree Kernels for Speculation Detection
Liliana Paola Mamani Sanchez, Baoli Li and Carl Vogel
show abstract
47
Uncertainty Learning using SVMs and CRFs
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
show abstract
48
Features for Detecting Hedge Cues
Nobuyuki Shimizu and Hiroshi Nakagawa
show abstract
49
A Simple Ensemble Method for Hedge Identification
Ferenc Szidarovszky, Illés Solt and Domonkos Tikk
show abstract
50
A Baseline Approach for Detecting Sentences Containing Uncertainty
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
show abstract
51
Hedge Classification with Syntactic Dependency Features based on an Ensemble Classifier
Yi Zheng, Qifeng Dai, Qiming Luo and Enhong Chen
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:15
Session 3: Semantics and Information Extraction
14:00–14:25
Online Entropy-based Model of Lexical Category Acquisition
Grzegorz Chrupała and Afra Alishahi
show abstract
14:25–14:50
Tagging and Linking Web Forum Posts
Su Nam Kim, Li Wang and Timothy Baldwin
show abstract
14:50–15:15
Joint Entity and Relation Extraction using Card-Pyramid Parsing
Rohit Kate and Raymond Mooney
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Break
16:00–17:15
Session 4: Machine learning
16:00–16:25
Distributed Asynchronous Online Learning for Natural Language Processing
Kevin Gimpel, Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith
show abstract
16:25–16:50
On Reverse Feature Engineering of Syntactic Tree Kernels
Daniele Pighin and Alessandro Moschitti
show abstract
16:50–17:15
Inspecting the Structural Biases of Dependency Parsing Algorithms
Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad
show abstract
17:15–17:45
SIGNLL Business Meeting and Best Paper Award


WS2: WMT’10/MetricsMATR

Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
July 15–16
Venue B, Lecture Hall 3
Chairs: Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz and Kay Peterson
Homepage
Thursday, July 15, 2010
8:45–9:00
Opening Remarks
9:00–9:50
Full Paper Session 1
9:00–9:25
A Semi-supervised Word Alignment Algorithm with Partial Manual Alignments
Qin Gao, Nguyen Bach and Stephan Vogel
show abstract
9:25–9:50
Fast Consensus Hypothesis Regeneration for Machine Translation
Boxing Chen, George Foster and Roland Kuhn
show abstract
9:50–10:45
Shared Translation Task
9:50–10:15
Findings of the 2010 Joint Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics for Machine Translation
Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Kay Peterson, Mark Przybocki and Omar Zaidan
show abstract
10:15–10:45
Boaster Session 1: Translation Task
10:45–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–12:30
Poster Session: Translation Task
101
LIMSI’s Statistical Translation Systems for WMT’10
Alexandre Allauzen, Josep M. Crego, İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout and François Yvon
show abstract
102
2010 Failures in English-Czech Phrase-Based MT
Ondřej Bojar and Kamil Kos
show abstract
103
An Empirical Study on Development Set Selection Strategy for Machine Translation Learning
Hui Cong, Zhao Hai, Lu Bao-Liang and Song Yan
show abstract
104
The University of Maryland Statistical Machine Translation System for the Fifth Workshop on Machine Translation
Vladimir Eidelman, Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik
show abstract
105
Further Experiments with Shallow Hybrid MT Systems
Christian Federmann, Andreas Eisele, Yu Chen, Sabine Hunsicker, Jia Xu and Hans Uszkoreit
show abstract
106
Improved Features and Grammar Selection for Syntax-Based MT
Greg Hanneman, Jonathan Clark and Alon Lavie
show abstract
107
FBK at WMT 2010: Word Lattices for Morphological Reduction and Chunk-based Reordering
Christian Hardmeier, Arianna Bisazza and Marcello Federico
show abstract
109
The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2010
Carmen Heger, Joern Wuebker, Matthias Huck, Gregor Leusch, Saab Mansour, Daniel Stein and Hermann Ney
show abstract
110
Using Collocation Segmentation to Augment the Phrase Table
Carlos A. Henríquez Q., Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà, Vidas Daudaravicius, Rafael E. Banchs and José B. Mariño
show abstract
111
The RALI Machine Translation System for WMT 2010
Stéphane Huet, Julien Bourdaillet, Alexandre Patry and Philippe Langlais
show abstract
112
Exodus - Exploring SMT for EU Institutions
Michael Jellinghaus, Alexandros Poulis and David Kolovratník
show abstract
113
More Linguistic Annotation for Statistical Machine Translation
Philipp Koehn, Barry Haddow, Philip Williams and Hieu Hoang
show abstract
114
LIUM SMT Machine Translation System for WMT 2010
Patrik Lambert, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf and Holger Schwenk
show abstract
115
Lessons from NRC’s Portage System at WMT 2010
Samuel Larkin, Boxing Chen, George Foster, Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson and Roland Kuhn
show abstract
116
Joshua 2.0: A Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation with Syntax, Semirings, Discriminative Training and Other Goodies
Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Ann Irvine, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren Thornton, Ziyuan Wang, Jonathan Weese and Omar Zaidan
show abstract
117
The Karlsruhe Institute for Technology Translation System for the ACL-WMT 2010
Jan Niehues, Teresa Herrmann, Mohammed Mediani and Alex Waibel
show abstract
118
MATREX: The DCU MT System for WMT 2010
Sergio Penkale, Rejwanul Haque, Sandipan Dandapat, Pratyush Banerjee, Ankit K. Srivastava, Jinhua Du, Pavel Pecina, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Mikel L. Forcada and Andy Way
show abstract
119
The Cunei Machine Translation Platform for WMT ’10
Aaron Phillips
show abstract
120
The CUED HiFST System for the WMT10 Translation Shared Task
Juan Pino, Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Graeme Blackwood, Jamie Brunning and William Byrne
show abstract
121
The LIG Machine Translation System for WMT 2010
Marion Potet, Laurent Besacier and Hervé Blanchon
show abstract
122
Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path
Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre and Dekai Wu
show abstract
123
UPV-PRHLT English–Spanish System for WMT10
Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Guillem Gascó, Jesús González Rubio, Pascual Martínez-Gómez, Martha-Alicia Rocha, Joan-Andreu Sánchez and Francisco Casacuberta
show abstract
124
Reproducible Results in Parsing-Based Machine Translation: The JHU Shared Task Submission
Lane Schwartz
show abstract
125
Vs and OOVs: Two Problems for Translation between German and English
Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist and Lars Ahrenberg
show abstract
126
To Cache or not to Cache? Experiments with Adaptive Models in Statistical Machine Translation
Jörg Tiedemann
show abstract
127
Applying Morphological Decompositions to Statistical Machine Translation
Sami Virpioja, Jaakko Väyrynen, Andre Mansikkaniemi and Mikko Kurimo
show abstract
128
Maximum Entropy Translation Model in Dependency-Based MT Framework
Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Martin Popel and David Mareček
show abstract
129
UCH-UPV English–Spanish system for WMT10
Francisco Zamora-Martinez and Germán Sanchis-Trilles
show abstract
130
Hierarchical Phrase-Based MT at the Charles University for the WMT 2010 Shared Task
Daniel Zeman
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:00
Invited Talk
Hermann Ney
15:05–15:30
Full Paper Session 2
15:05–15:30
Incremental Decoding for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
Baskaran Sankaran, Ajeet Grewal and Anoop Sarkar
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Afternoon Break
16:00–17:40
Full Paper Session 3
16:00–16:25
How to Avoid Burning Ducks: Combining Linguistic Analysis and Corpus Statistics for German Compound Processing
Fabienne Fritzinger and Alexander Fraser
show abstract
16:25–16:50
Chunk-based Verb Reordering in VSO Sentences for Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation
Arianna Bisazza and Marcello Federico
show abstract
16:50–17:15
Head Finalization: A Simple Reordering Rule for SOV Languages
Hideki Isozaki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada and Kevin Duh
show abstract
17:15–17:40
Aiding Pronoun Translation with Co-Reference Resolution
Ronan Le Nagard and Philipp Koehn
show abstract
Friday, July 16, 2010
9:00–11:00
Shared Task Presentations
9:00–10:00
Overview: MetricsMATR
10:00–10:30
Discussion
10:30–10:45
Boaster Session
10:45–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–12:30
Poster Sessions
Full Paper
101
Jane: Open Source Hierarchical Translation, Extended with Reordering and Lexicon Models
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Matthias Huck and Hermann Ney
show abstract
System Combination Task
102
MANY: Open Source MT System Combination at WMT’10
Loïc Barrault
show abstract
103
Adaptive Model Weighting and Transductive Regression for Predicting Best System Combinations
Ergun Bicici and S. Serdar Kozat
show abstract
104
L1 Regularized Regression for Reranking and System Combination in Machine Translation
Ergun Bicici and Deniz Yuret
show abstract
105
An Augmented Three-Pass System Combination Framework: DCU Combination System for WMT 2010
Jinhua Du, Pavel Pecina and Andy Way
show abstract
106
The UPV-PRHLT Combination System for WMT 2010
Jesús González Rubio, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Joan-Andreu Sánchez, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Guillem Gascó, Pascual Martínez-Gómez, Martha-Alicia Rocha and Francisco Casacuberta
show abstract
107
CMU Multi-Engine Machine Translation for WMT 2010
Kenneth Heafield and Alon Lavie
show abstract
108
CMU System Combination via Hypothesis Selection for WMT’10
Almut Silja Hildebrand and Stephan Vogel
show abstract
109
JHU System Combination Scheme for WMT 2010
Sushant Narsale
show abstract
110
The RWTH System Combination System for WMT 2010
Gregor Leusch and Hermann Ney
show abstract
111
BBN System Description for WMT10 System Combination Task
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz
show abstract
Metrics Task
112
LRscore for Evaluating Lexical and Reordering Quality in MT
Alexandra Birch and Miles Osborne
show abstract
113
Document-level Automatic MT Evaluation based on Discourse Representations
Elisabet Comelles, Jesus Gimenez, Lluis Marquez, Irene Castellon and Victoria Arranz
show abstract
114
METEOR-NEXT and the METEOR Paraphrase Tables: Improved Evaluation Support for Five Target Languages
Michael Denkowski and Alon Lavie
show abstract
115
Normalized Compression Distance Based Measures for MetricsMATR 2010
Marcus Dobrinkat, Tero Tapiovaara, Jaakko Väyrynen and Kimmo Kettunen
show abstract
116
The DCU Dependency-Based Metric in WMT-MetricsMATR 2010
Yifan He, Jinhua Du, Andy Way and Josef van Genabith
show abstract
117
TESLA: Translation Evaluation of Sentences with Linear-programming-based Analysis
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng
show abstract
118
The Parameter-optimized ATEC Metric for MT Evaluation
Billy Wong and Chunyu Kit
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:40
Full Paper Session 4
14:00–14:25
A Unified Approach to Minimum Risk Training and Decoding
Abhishek Arun, Barry Haddow and Philipp Koehn
show abstract
14:25–14:50
N-best Reranking by Multitask Learning
Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki and Masaaki Nagata
show abstract
14:50–15:15
Taming Structured Perceptrons on Wild Feature Vectors
Ralf Brown
show abstract
15:15–15:40
Translation Model Adaptation by Resampling
Kashif Shah, Loïc Barrault and Holger Schwenk
show abstract
15:40–16:00
Afternoon Break
16:00–17:40
Full Paper Session 5
16:00–16:25
Integration of Multiple Bilingually-Learned Segmentation Schemes into Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Paul, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita
show abstract
16:25–16:50
Improved Translation with Source Syntax Labels
Hieu Hoang and Philipp Koehn
show abstract
16:50–17:15
Divide and Translate: Improving Long Distance Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation
Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata
show abstract
17:15–17:40
Decision Trees for Lexical Smoothing in Statistical Machine Translation
Rabih Zbib, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz and John Makhoul
show abstract


WS1: SemEval-2010

5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
July 15–16
Venue B, Lecture Hall 4
Chairs: Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava
Homepage
July 15, 2010
09:00–10:40
Task description papers
09:00–09:20
SemEval-2010 Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages
Marta Recasens, Lluís Màrquez, Emili Sapena, M. Antònia Martí, Mariona Taulé, Véronique Hoste, Massimo Poesio and Yannick Versley
show abstract
09:20–09:40
SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution
Rada Mihalcea, Ravi Sinha and Diana McCarthy
show abstract
09:40–10:00
SemEval-2010 Task 3: Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation
Els Lefever and Véronique Hoste
show abstract
10:00–10:20
SemEval-2010 Task 5 : Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles
Su Nam Kim, Olena Medelyan, Min-Yen Kan and Timothy Baldwin
show abstract
10:20–10:40
SemEval-2010 Task 7: Argument Selection and Coercion
James Pustejovsky, Anna Rumshisky, Alex Plotnick, Elisabetta Jezek, Olga Batiukova and Valeria Quochi
show abstract
10:40–11:00
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00–12:40
Task description papers
11:00–11:20
SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals
Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Sebastian Pado, Marco Pennacchiotti, Lorenza Romano and Stan Szpakowicz
show abstract
11:20–11:40
SemEval-2 Task 9: The Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Paraphrasing Verbs and Prepositions
Cristina Butnariu, Su Nam Kim, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Stan Szpakowicz and Tony Veale
show abstract
11:40–12:00
SemEval-2010 Task 10: Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse
Josef Ruppenhofer, Caroline Sporleder, Roser Morante, Collin Baker and Martha Palmer
show abstract
12:00–12:20
SemEval-2010 Task 12: Parser Evaluation using Textual Entailments
Deniz Yuret, Aydin Han and Zehra Turgut
show abstract
12:20–12:40
SemEval-2010 Task 13: TempEval-2
Marc Verhagen, Roser Sauri, Tommaso Caselli and James Pustejovsky
show abstract
12:40–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:20
Task description papers
14:00–14:20
SemEval-2010 Task 14: Word Sense Induction & Disambiguation
Suresh Manandhar, Ioannis Klapaftis, Dmitriy Dligach and Sameer Pradhan
show abstract
14:20–14:40
SemEval-2010 Task: Japanese WSD
Manabu Okumura, Kiyoaki Shirai, Kanako Komiya and Hikaru Yokono
show abstract
14:40–15:00
SemEval-2010 Task 17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain
Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Christiane Fellbaum, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Maurizio Tesconi, Monica Monachini, Piek Vossen and Roxanne Segers
show abstract
15:00–15:20
SemEval-2010 Task 18: Disambiguating Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives
Yunfang Wu and Peng Jin
show abstract
15:20–16:00
Coffee/Tea Break
16:00–17:30
Poster Session
101
RelaxCor: A Global Relaxation Labeling Approach to Coreference Resolution
Emili Sapena, Lluís Padró and Jordi Turmo
show abstract
102
SUCRE: A Modular System for Coreference Resolution
Hamidreza Kobdani and Hinrich Schütze
show abstract
103
UBIU: A Language-Independent System for Coreference Resolution
Desislava Zhekova and Sandra Kübler
show abstract
104
Corry: a System for Coreference Resolution
Olga Uryupina
show abstract
105
BART: A Multilingual Anaphora Resolution System
Samuel Broscheit, Massimo Poesio, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, Lorenza Romano, Olga Uryupina, Yannick Versley and Roberto Zanoli
show abstract
106
TANL-1: Coreference Resolution by Parse Analysis and Similarity Clustering
Giuseppe Attardi, Maria Simi and Stefano Dei Rossi
show abstract
107
FCC: Modeling Probabilities with GIZA++ for Task #2 and #3 of SemEval-2
Darnes Vilariño Ayala, Carlos Balderas Posada, David Eduardo Pinto Avendaño, Miguel Rodríguez Hernández and Saul León Silverio
show abstract
108
Combining Dictionaries and Contextual Information for Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution
Wilker Aziz and Lucia Specia
show abstract
110
COLEPL and COLSLM: An Unsupervised WSD Approach to Multilingual Lexical Substitution, Tasks 2 and 3 SemEval 2010
Weiwei Guo and Mona Diab
show abstract
111
UHD: Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Multilingual Co-occurrence Graphs
Carina Silberer and Simone Paolo Ponzetto
show abstract
112
OWNS: Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Weighted Overlap Counts and Wordnet Based Similarity Measures
Lipta Mahapatra, Meera Mohan, Mitesh Khapra and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
show abstract
113
273. Task 5. Keyphrase Extraction Based on Core Word Identification and Word Expansion
You Ouyang, Wenjie Li and Renxian Zhang
show abstract
114
DERIUNLP: A Context Based Approach to Automatic Keyphrase Extraction
Georgeta Bordea and Paul Buitelaar
show abstract
115
DFKI KeyWE: Ranking keyphrases extracted from scientific articles
Kathrin Eichler and Günter Neumann
show abstract
116
Single Document Keyphrase Extraction Using Sentence Clustering and Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Claude Pasquier
show abstract
117
SJTULTLAB: Chunk Based Method for Keyphrase Extraction
Letian Wang and Fang Li
show abstract
118
Likey: Unsupervised Language-independent Keyphrase Extraction
Mari-Sanna Paukkeri and Timo Honkela
show abstract
119
WINGNUS: Keyphrase Extraction Utilizing Document Logical Structure
Thuy Dung Nguyen and Minh-Thang Luong
show abstract
120
KX: A flexible system for Keyphrase eXtraction
Emanuele Pianta and Sara Tonelli
show abstract
121
BUAP: An Unsupervised Approach to Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles
Roberto Ortiz, David Pinto, Mireya Tovar and Héctor Jiménez-Salazar
show abstract
122
UNPMC: Naive Approach to Extract Keyphrases from Scientific Articles
Jungyeul Park, Jong Gun Lee and Béatrice Daille
show abstract
123
SEERLAB: A System for Extracting Keyphrases from Scholarly Documents
Pucktada Treeratpituk, Pradeep Teregowda, Jian Huang and C. Lee Giles
show abstract
124
SZTERGAK : Feature Engineering for Keyphrase Extraction
Gábor Berend and Richárd Farkas
show abstract
125
KP-Miner: Participation in SemEval-2
Samhaa R. El-Beltagy and Ahmed Rafea
show abstract
126
UvT: The UvT Term Extraction System in the Keyphrase Extraction task
Kalliopi Zervanou
show abstract
127
UNITN: Part-Of-Speech Counting in Relation Extraction
Fabio Celli
show abstract
128
FBK_NK: a WordNet-based System for Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations
Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov
show abstract
129
JU: A Supervised Approach to Identify Semantic Relations from Paired Nominals
Santanu Pal, Partha Pakray, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
show abstract
131
FBK-IRST: Semantic Relation Extraction using Cyc
Kateryna Tymoshenko and Claudio Giuliano
show abstract
132
ISTI@SemEval-2 Task #8: Boosting-Based Multiway Relation Classification
Andrea Esuli, Diego Marcheggiani and Fabrizio Sebastiani
show abstract
133
ISI: Automatic Classification of Relations Between Nominals Using a Maximum Entropy Classifier
Stephen Tratz and Eduard Hovy
show abstract
134
ECNU: Effective Semantic Relations Classification without Complicated Features or Multiple External Corpora
Yuan Chen, Man Lan, Jian Su, Zhi Min Zhou and Yu Xu
show abstract
135
UCD-Goggle: A Hybrid System for Noun Compound Paraphrasing
Guofu Li, Alejandra Lopez-Fernandez and Tony Veale
show abstract
136
UCD-PN: Selecting General Paraphrases Using Conditional Probability
Paul Nulty and Fintan Costello
show abstract
July 16, 2010
09:00–10:30
System papers
09:00–09:15
COLEPL and COLSLM: An Unsupervised WSD Approach to Multilingual Lexical Substitution, Tasks 2 and 3 SemEval 2010
Weiwei Guo and Mona Diab
show abstract
09:15–09:30
UBA: Using Automatic Translation and Wikipedia for Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution
Pierpaolo Basile and Giovanni Semeraro
show abstract
09:30–09:45
HUMB: Automatic Key Term Extraction from Scientific Articles in GROBID
Patrice Lopez and Laurent Romary
show abstract
09:45–10:00
UTDMet: Combining WordNet and Corpus Data for Argument Coercion Detection
Kirk Roberts and Sanda Harabagiu
show abstract
10:00–10:15
UTD: Classifying Semantic Relations by Combining Lexical and Semantic Resources
Bryan Rink and Sanda Harabagiu
show abstract
10:15–10:30
UvT: Memory-based pairwise ranking of paraphrasing verbs
Sander Wubben
show abstract
10:40–11:00
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00–12:30
System papers
11:00–11:15
SEMAFOR: Frame Argument Resolution with Log-Linear Models
Desai Chen, Nathan Schneider, Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith
show abstract
11:15–11:30
Cambridge: Parser Evaluation using Textual Entailment by Grammatical Relation Comparison
Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark
show abstract
11:30–11:45
MARS: A Specialized RTE System for Parser Evaluation
Rui Wang and Yi Zhang
show abstract
11:45–12:00
TRIPS and TRIOS System for TempEval-2: Extracting Temporal Information from Text
Naushad UzZaman and James Allen
show abstract
12:00–12:15
TIPSem (English and Spanish): Evaluating CRFs and Semantic Roles in TempEval-2
Hector Llorens, Estela Saquete Boro and Borja Navarro
show abstract
12:15–12:30
CityU-DAC: Disambiguating Sentiment-Ambiguous Adjectives within Context
Bin Lu and Benjamin K. Tsou
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Panel
15:30–16:00
Coffee/Tea Break
16:00–17:30
Posters Session
101
VENSES++: Adapting a deep semantic processing system to the identification of null instantiations
Sara Tonelli and Rodolfo Delmonte
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102
CLR: Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse Using a Comprehensive FrameNet Dictionary
Ken Litkowski
show abstract
103
PKU_HIT: An Event Detection System Based on Instances Expansion and Rich Syntactic Features
Shiqi Li, Peng-Yuan Liu, Tiejun Zhao, Qin Lu and Hanjing Li
show abstract
104
372:Comparing the Benefit of Different Dependency Parsers for Textual Entailment Using Syntactic Constraints Only
Alexander Volokh and Günter Neumann
show abstract
105
SCHWA: PETE using CCG Dependencies with the C&C Parser
Dominick Ng, James W.D. Constable, Matthew Honnibal and James R. Curran
show abstract
106
ID 392:TERSEO + T2T3 Transducer. A systems for recognizing and normalizing TIMEX3
Estela Saquete Boro
show abstract
107
HeidelTime: High Quality Rule-based Extraction and Normalization of Temporal Expressions
Jannik Strötgen and Michael Gertz
show abstract
108
KUL: Recognition and Normalization of Temporal Expressions
Oleksandr Kolomiyets and Marie-Francine Moens
show abstract
109
UC3M system: Determining the Extent, Type and Value of Time Expressions in TempEval-2
María Teresa Vicente-Díez, Julián Moreno-Schneider and Paloma Martínez
show abstract
110
Edinburgh-LTG: TempEval-2 System Description
Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Beatrice Alex and Kate Byrne
show abstract
111
USFD2: Annotating Temporal Expresions and TLINKs for TempEval-2
Leon Derczynski and Robert Gaizauskas
show abstract
112
NCSU: Modeling Temporal Relations with Markov Logic and Lexical Ontology
Eun Ha, Alok Baikadi, Carlyle Licata and James Lester
show abstract
113
JU_CSE_TEMP: A First Step towards Evaluating Events, Time Expressions and Temporal Relations
Anup Kumar Kolya, Asif Ekbal and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
show abstract
114
KCDC: Word Sense Induction by Using Grammatical Dependencies and Sentence Phrase Structure
Roman Kern, Markus Muhr and Michael Granitzer
show abstract
115
UoY: Graphs of Unambiguous Vertices for Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation
Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar
show abstract
116
HERMIT: Flexible Clustering for the SemEval-2 WSI Task
David Jurgens and Keith Stevens
show abstract
117
Duluth-WSI: SenseClusters Applied to the Sense Induction Task of SemEval-2
Ted Pedersen
show abstract
118
KSU KDD: Word Sense Induction by Clustering in Topic Space
Wesam Elshamy, Doina Caragea and William Hsu
show abstract
119
PengYuan@PKU: Extracting Infrequent Sense Instance with the Same N-gram Pattern for the SemEval-2010 Task 15
Peng-Yuan Liu, Shi-Wen Yu, Shui Liu and Tiejun Zhao
show abstract
120
RALI: Automatic weighting of text window distances
Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve, Noriko Kando and Jian-Yun Nie
show abstract
121
JAIST: Clustering and Classification based Approaches for Japanese WSD
Kiyoaki Shirai and Makoto Nakamura
show abstract
122
MSS: Investigating the Effectiveness of Domain Combinations and Topic Features for Word Sense Disambiguation
Sanae Fujita, Kevin Duh, Akinori Fujino, Hirotoshi Taira and Hiroyuki Shindo
show abstract
123
IIITH: Domain Specific Word Sense Disambiguation
Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella, Diana McCarthy and Mark Stevenson
show abstract
124
UCF-WS: Domain Word Sense Disambiguation using Web Selectors
Hansen A. Schwartz and Fernando Gomez
show abstract
125
TreeMatch: A Fully Unsupervised WSD System Using Dependency Knowledge on a Specific Domain
Andrew Tran, Chris Bowes, David Brown, Ping Chen, Max Choly and Wei Ding
show abstract
126
GPLSI-IXA: Using Semantic Classes to Acquire Monosemous Training Examples from Domain Texts
Rubén Izquierdo, Armando Suárez and German Rigau
show abstract
127
HIT-CIR: An Unsupervised {WSD} System Based on Domain Most Frequent Sense Estimation
Yuhang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Wei He, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
show abstract
128
RACAI: Unsupervised WSD experiments @ SemEval-2, Task #17
Radu Ion and Dan Ştefănescu
show abstract
129
Kyoto: An Integrated System for Specific Domain WSD
Aitor Soroa, Eneko Agirre, Oier López de Lacalle, Wauter Bosma, Piek Vossen, Monica Monachini, Jessie Lo and Shu-Kai Hsieh
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130
CFILT: Resource Conscious Approaches for All-Words Domain Specific WSD
Anup Kulkarni, Mitesh Khapra, Saurabh Sohoney and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
show abstract
131
UMCC-DLSI: Integrative Resource for Disambiguation Task
Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez, Antonio Fernandez Orquín, Andrés Montoyo Guijarro and Sonia Vázquez Pérez
show abstract
132
HR-WSD: System Description for All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain at SemEval-2010
Meng-Hsien Shih
show abstract
133
Twitter Based System: Using Twitter for Disambiguating Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives
Alexander Pak and Patrick Paroubek
show abstract
134
YSC-DSAA: An Approach to Disambiguate Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives Based On SAAOL
Shi-Cai Yang and Mei-Juan Liu
show abstract
135
OpAL: Applying Opinion Mining Techniques for the Disambiguation of Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives in SemEval-2 Task 18
Alexandra Balahur and Andrés Montoyo Guijarro
show abstract
136
HITSZ_CITYU: Combine Collocation, Context Words and Neighboring Sentence Sentiment in Sentiment Adjectives Disambiguation
Ruifeng Xu, Jun Xu and Chunyu Kit
show abstract
137
SWAT: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution using Local Context Matching, Bilingual Dictionaries and Machine Translation
Richard Wicentowski, Maria Kelly and Rachel Lee
show abstract
138
TUD: semantic relatedness for relation classification
György Szarvas and Iryna Gurevych
show abstract


WS3: The LAW IV

The 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
July 15–16
Venue A, Hall X
Chairs: Nianwen Xue and Massimo Poesio
Homepage
Thursday, July 15, 2010
08:40–08:50
Opening remarks
08:50–10:30
Session I
08:50–09:15
EmotiBlog: a Finer-Grained and More Precise Learning of Subjectivity Expression Models
Ester Boldrini, Alexandra Balahur, Patricio Martínez-Barco and Andrés Montoyo Guijarro
show abstract
09:15–09:40
Error-tagged Learner Corpus of Czech
Jirka Hana, Alexandr Rosen, Svatava Škodová and Barbora Štindlová
show abstract
09:40–10:05
Annotation Scheme for Social Network Extraction from Text
Apoorv Agarwal, Owen Rambow and Rebecca Passonneau
show abstract
10:05–10:30
Agile Corpus Annotation in Practice: An Overview of Manual and Automatic Annotation of CVs
Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Rongzhou Shen and Mijail Kabadjov
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:40
Session II
11:00–11:25
Consistency Checking for Treebank Alignment
Markus Dickinson and Yvonne Samuelsson
show abstract
11:25–11:50
Anveshan: A Framework for Analysis of Multiple Annotators’ Labeling Behavior
Vikas Bhardwaj, Rebecca Passonneau, Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi and Nancy Ide
show abstract
11:50–12:15
Influence of Pre-annotation on POS-tagged Corpus Development
Karën Fort and Benoît Sagot
show abstract
12:15–12:40
To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More
Dmitriy Dligach, Rodney Nielsen and Martha Palmer
show abstract
12:40–13:50
Lunch
13:50–15:30
Session III
13:50–14:15
Annotating Underquantification
Aurelie Herbelot and Ann Copestake
show abstract
14:15–14:40
PropBank Annotation of Multilingual Light Verb Constructions
Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Claire Bonial, Aous Mansouri, Ashwini Vaidya, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer
show abstract
14:40–15:05
Retrieving Correct Semantic Boundaries in Dependency Structure
Jinho Choi and Martha Palmer
show abstract
15:05–15:30
Complex Predicates Annotation in a Corpus of Portuguese
Iris Hendrickx, Amália Mendes, Sílvia Pereira, Anabela Gonçalves and Inês Duarte
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Break
16:00–17:30
Poster session
1
Using an Online Tool for the Documentation of Edo Language
Ota Ogie
show abstract
2
Cross-Lingual Validity of PropBank in the Manual Annotation of French
Lonneke van der Plas, Tanja Samardzic and Paola Merlo
show abstract
3
Characteristics of High Agreement Affect Snnotation in Text
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
show abstract
4
The Deep Re-annotation in a Chinese Scientific Treebank
Kun Yu, Xiangli Wang, Yusuke Miyao, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii
show abstract
5
The Unified Annotation of Syntax and Discourse in the Copenhagen Dependency Treebanks
Matthias Buch-Kromann and Iørn Korzen
show abstract
6
Identifying Sources of Inter-Annotator Variation: Evaluating Two Models of Argument Analysis
Barbara White
show abstract
7
Dependency-Based PropBanking of Clinical Finnish
Katri Haverinen, Filip Ginter, Timo Viljanen, Veronika Laippala and Tapio Salakoski
show abstract
8
Building the Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French Using NotaBene RDF Annotation Tool
Nicolas Mazziotta
show abstract
9
Chunking German: An Unsolved Problem
Sandra Kübler, Kathrin Beck, Erhard Hinrichs and Heike Telljohann
show abstract
10
Proposal for MWE Annotation in Running Text
Iris Hendrickx, Amália Mendes and Sandra Antunes
show abstract
11
A Feature Type Classification for Therapeutic Purposes: a preliminary evaluation with non-expert speakers
Gianluca E. Lebani and Emanuele Pianta
show abstract
12
Annotating Korean Demonstratives
Sun-Hee Lee and Jae-young Song
show abstract
21
Creating and Exploiting a Resource of Parallel Parses
Christian Chiarcos, Kerstin Eckart and Julia Ritz
show abstract
22
From Descriptive Annotation to Grammar Specification
Lars Hellan
show abstract
23
An Annotation Schema for Preposition Senses in German
Antje Müller, Olaf Hülscher, Claudia Roch, Katja Kesselmeier, Tobias Stadtfeld, Jan Strunk and Tibor Kiss
show abstract
24
OTTO: A Transcription and Management Tool for Historical Texts
Stefanie Dipper, Lara Kresse, Martin Schnurrenberger and Seong-Eun Cho
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25
Multimodal Annotation of Conversational Data
Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand, Emmanuel Bruno, Brigitte Bigi, Robert Espesser, Gaelle Ferre, Mathilde Guardiola, Daniel Hirst, Ning Tan, Edlira Cela, Jean-Claude Martin, Stéphane Rauzy, Mary-Annick Morel, Elisabeth Murisasco and Irina Nesterenko
show abstract
26
Combining Parallel Treebanks and Geo-Tagging
Martin Volk, Anne Goehring and Torsten Marek
show abstract
27
Challenges of Cheap Resource Creation
Jirka Hana and Anna Feldman
show abstract
28
Discourse Relation Configurations in Turkish and an Annotation Environment
Berfin Aktaş, Cem Bozşahin and Deniz Zeyrek
show abstract
29
An Overview of the CRAFT Concept Annotation Guidelines
Michael Bada, Miriam Eckert, Martha Palmer and Lawrence Hunter
show abstract
30
Syntactic Tree Queries in Prolog
Gerlof Bouma
show abstract
31
An Integrated Tool for Annotating Historical Corpora
Pablo Picasso Feliciano de Faria, Fabio Natanael Kepler and Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
show abstract
32
The Revised Arabic PropBank
Wajdi Zaghouani, Mona Diab, Aous Mansouri, Sameer Pradhan and Martha Palmer
show abstract
Friday, July 16, 2010
08:50–10:30
Session IV
08:50–09:15
PackPlay: Mining Semantic Data in Collaborative Games
Nathan Green, Paul Breimyer, Vinay Kumar and Nagiza Samatova
show abstract
09:15–09:40
A Proposal for a Configurable Silver Standard
Udo Hahn, Katrin Tomanek, Elena Beisswanger and Erik Faessler
show abstract
09:40–10:05
A Hybrid Model for Annotating Named Entity Training Corpora
Robert Voyer, Valerie Nygaard, Will Fitzgerald and Hannah Copperman
show abstract
10:05–10:30
Anatomy of Annotation Schemes: Mapping to GrAF
Nancy Ide and Harry Bunt
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–12:40
Session V
11:00–11:25
Annotating Participant Reference in English Spoken Conversation
John Niekrasz and Johanna D. Moore
show abstract
11:25–11:50
Design and Evaluation of Shared Prosodic Annotation for Spontaneous French Speech: From Expert Knowledge to Non-Expert Annotation
Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Nicolas Obin and Mathieu Avanzi
show abstract
11:50–12:15
Depends on What the French Say - Spoken Corpus Annotation With and Beyond Syntactic Functions
José Deulofeu, Lucie Duffort, Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
show abstract
12:15–12:40
The Annotation Scheme of the Turkish Discourse Bank and An Evaluation of Inconsistent Annotations
Deniz Zeyrek, Işin Demirşahin, Ayişiǧi Sevdik-Çalli, Hale Ögel Balaban, Ihsan Yalçinkaya and Ümit Deniz Turan
show abstract
12:40–13:00
Closing remarks


WS4: BioNLP2010

Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
July 15
Venue A, Hall IX
Chairs: K. Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Bonnie Webber
Homepage
Thursday, July 15, 2010
9:00–9:15
Opening Remarks
9:15–10:30
Session 1: Extraction
9:15–9:40
Two Strong Baselines for the BioNLP 2009 Event Extraction Task
Andreas Vlachos
show abstract
9:40–10:05
Recognizing Biomedical Named Entities Using Skip-Chain Conditional Random Fields
Jingchen Liu, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu
show abstract
10:05–10:30
Event Extraction for Post-Translational Modifications
Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Makoto Miwa, Jin-Dong Kim and Jun’ichi Tsujii
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Morning coffee break
11:00–12:30
Session 2
11:00–12:00
Keynote speaker, W. John Wilbur: Text Mining and Intelligence
W. John Wilbur
12:05–12:30
Scaling up Biomedical Event Extraction to the Entire PubMed
Jari Björne, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Tapio Salakoski
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–14:50
Session 3: Foundations
14:00–14:25
A Comparative Study of Syntactic Parsers for Event Extraction
Makoto Miwa, Sampo Pyysalo, Tadayoshi Hara and Jun’ichi Tsujii
show abstract
14:25–14:50
Arguments of Nominals in Semantic Interpretation of Biomedical Text
Halil Kilicoglu, Marcelo Fiszman, Graciela Rosemblat, Sean Marimpietri and Thomas Rindflesch
show abstract
14:50–15:15
Session 4: High-level tasks
14:50–15:15
Improving Summarization of Biomedical Documents Using Word Sense Disambiguation
Laura Plaza, Mark Stevenson and Alberto Díaz
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Afternoon coffee break
16:00–16:50
Session 4: High-level tasks, continued
16:00–16:25
Cancer Stage Prediction Based on Patient Online Discourse
Mukund Jha and Noemie Elhadad
show abstract
16:25–16:50
An Exploration of Mining Gene Expression Mentions and Their Anatomical Locations from Biomedical Text
Martin Gerner, Goran Nenadic and Casey M. Bergman
show abstract
16:50–17:00
Poster Boaster Session and Conclusions
17:00–17:30
Poster Session
37
Exploring Surface-Level Heuristics for Negation and Speculation Discovery in Clinical Texts
Emilia Apostolova and Noriko Tomuro
show abstract
38
Disease Mention Recognition with Specific Features
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury and Alberto Lavelli
show abstract
39
Extraction of Disease-Treatment Semantic Relations from Biomedical Sentences
Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen
show abstract
40
Identifying the Information Structure of Scientific Abstracts: An Investigation of Three Different Schemes
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Maria Liakata, Ilona Silins, Lin Sun and Ulla Stenius
show abstract
41
Reconstruction of Semantic Relationships from Their Projections in Biomolecular Domain
Juho Heimonen, Jari Björne and Tapio Salakoski
show abstract
42
Towards Internet-Age Pharmacovigilance: Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from User Posts in Health-Related Social Networks
Robert Leaman, Laura Wojtulewicz, Ryan Sullivan, Annie Skariah, Jian Yang and Graciela Gonzalez
show abstract
43
Semantic Role Labeling of Gene Regulation Events: Preliminary Results
Roser Morante
show abstract
44
Ontology-Based Extraction and Summarization of Protein Mutation Impact Information
Nona Naderi and René Witte
show abstract
45
Extracting Distinctive Features of Swine (H1N1) Flu through Data Mining Clinical Documents
Heekyong Park and Jinwook Choi
show abstract
46
Towards Event Extraction from Full Texts on Infectious Diseases
Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta, Han-Cheol Cho, Dan Sullivan, Chunhong Mao, Bruno Sobral, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou
show abstract
47
Applying the TARSQI Toolkit to Augment Text Mining of EHRs
Amber Stubbs and Benjamin Harshfield
show abstract
48
Integration of Static Relations to Enhance Event Extraction from Text
Sofie Van Landeghem, Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta and Yves Van de Peer
show abstract


WS6: NLPLing 2010

NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground
July 16
Venue A, Hall IX
Chairs: Fei Xia, William Lewis and Lori Levin
Homepage
Friday, July 16, 2010
8:45–9:50
Opening Remarks and Invited Talk
8:45–8:50
Opening Remarks
8:50–9:50
The Human Language Project: Uniting Computational Linguistics with Documentary Linguistics
Steven Bird
9:50–10:30
Paper Session 1
9:50–10:10
Modeling and Encoding Traditional Wordlists for Machine Applications
Shakthi Poornima and Jeff Good
show abstract
10:10–10:30
Evidentiality for Text Trustworthiness Detection
Su Qi, Huang Chu-Ren and Chen Kai-yun
show abstract
10:30–11:00
Morning break
11:00–12:00
Panel Session 1: NLP helps Linguistics
Presentation and discussion from panelists
Hal Daumé III, Alexis Dimitriadis, Erhard Hinrichs and Dipti Misra Sharma
On the Role of NLP in Linguistics
Dipti Misra Sharma
Matching Needs and Resources: How NLP Can Help Theoretical Linguistics
Alexis Dimitriadis
12:00–12:40
Paper Session 2
12:00–12:20
Grammar-Driven versus Data-Driven: Which Parsing System is More Affected by Domain Shifts?
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord
show abstract
12:20–12:40
A Cross-Lingual Induction Technique for German Adverbial Participles
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn and Christian Rohrer
show abstract
12:40–14:10
Lunch
14:10–15:30
Paper Session 3
14:10–14:30
You Talking to Me? A Predictive Model for Zero Auxiliary Constructions
Andrew Caines and Paula Buttery
show abstract
14:30–14:50
Cross-Lingual Variation of Light Verb Constructions: Using Parallel Corpora and Automatic Alignment for Linguistic Research
Tanja Samardzic and Paola Merlo
show abstract
14:50–15:10
No Sentence is Too Confusing to Ignore
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson
show abstract
15:10–15:30
Consonant Co-occurrence in Stems Across Languages: Automatic Analysis and Visualization of a Phonotactic Constraint
Thomas Mayer, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam Butt and Daniel A. Keim
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Afternoon break
16:00–17:00
Panel Session 2: Linguistics helps NLP
Presentation and discussion from panelists
Julia Hockenmaier, Eduard Hovy and Owen Rambow
Injecting Linguistics into NLP through Annotation
Eduard Hovy
17:00–17:30
Group discussion and closing


WS11: DANLP 2010

Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing
July 15
Venue A, Hall IV
Chairs: Hal Daumé III, Tejaswini Deoskar, David McClosky, Barbara Plank and Jörg Tiedemann
Homepage
Thursday 15 July 2010
9:15–9:30
Opening
Barbara Plank
9:30–10:30
Invited Talk: Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation: From Practice to Theory
John Blitzer
10:30–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–12:25
Session I
11:00–11:25
Adaptive Parameters for Entity Recognition with Perceptron HMMs
Massimiliano Ciaramita and Olivier Chapelle
show abstract
11:30–11:55
Context Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation Using Models with Exponentially Decaying Cache
Jörg Tiedemann
show abstract
12:00–12:25
Domain Adaptation to Summarize Human Conversations
Oana Sandu, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray and Raymond Ng
show abstract
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:25
Session II
14:00–14:25
Exploring Representation-Learning Approaches to Domain Adaptation
Fei Huang and Alexander Yates
show abstract
14:30–14:55
Using Domain Similarity for Performance Estimation
Vincent Van Asch and Walter Daelemans
show abstract
15:00–15:25
Self-Training without Reranking for Parser Domain Adaptation and Its Impact on Semantic Role Labeling
Kenji Sagae
show abstract
15:30–16:00
Afternoon Break
16:00–16:55
Session III
16:00–16:25
Domain Adaptation with Unlabeled Data for Dialog Act Tagging
Anna Margolis, Karen Livescu and Mari Ostendorf
show abstract
16:30–16:55
Frustratingly Easy Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation
Hal Daumé III, Abhishek Kumar and Avishek Saha
show abstract
17:00–17:45
Panel Discussion
John Blitzer, Walter Daelemans, Hal Daumé III, Jing Jiang and Khalil Sima’an


WS8: TextGraphs-5

Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
July 16
Venue A, Hall IV
Chairs: Carmen Banea, Alessandro Moschitti, Swapna Somasundaran and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Homepage
Friday July 16, 2010
09:00–09:10
Welcome to TextGraphs 5
09:10–10:30
Session 1: Lexical Clustering and Disambiguation
09:10–09:30
Graph-based Clustering for Computational Linguistics: a Survey
Zheng Chen and Heng Ji
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09:30–09:50
Towards the Automatic Creation of a Wordnet from a Term-based Lexical Network
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Paulo Gomes
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09:50–10:10
An Investigation on the Influence of Frequency on the Lexical Organization of Verbs
Daniel German, Aline Villavicencio and Maity Siqueira
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10:10–10:30
Robust and Efficient Page Rank for Word Sense Disambiguation
Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano and Riccardo Rossi
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10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–11:40
Session 2: Clustering Languages and Dialects
11:00–11:20
Hierarchical Spectral Partitioning of Bipartite Graphs to Cluster Dialects and Identify Distinguishing Features
Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne
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11:20–11:40
A Character-Based Intersection Graph Approach to Linguistic Phylogeny
Jessica Enright
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11:40–12:40
Invited Talk
11:40–12:40
Spectral Approaches to Learning in the Graph Domain
Edwin Hancock
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12:50–13:50
Lunch break
13:50–15:30
Session 3: Lexical Similarity and Its application
13:50–14:10
Cross-lingual Comparison between Distributionally Determined Word Similarity Networks
Olof Görnerup and Jussi Karlgren
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14:10–14:30
Co-occurrence Cluster Features for Lexical Substitutions in Context
Chris Biemann
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14:30–14:50
Contextually-Mediated Semantic Similarity Graphs for Topic Segmentation
Geetu Ambwani and Anthony Davis
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14:50–15:10
MuLLinG: MultiLevel Linguistic Graphs for Knowledge Extraction
Vincent Archer
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15:10–15:30
Experiments with CST-based Multidocument Summarization
Maria Lucia Castro Jorge and Thiago Pardo
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15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:00
Special Session on Opinion Mining
16:00–16:20
Distinguishing between Positive and Negative Opinions with Complex Network Features
Diego Raphael Amancio, Renato Fabbri, Osvaldo Novais Oliveira Jr., Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes and Luciano da Fontoura Costa
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16:20–16:40
Image and Collateral Text in Support of Auto-annotation and Sentiment Analysis
Pamela Zontone, Giulia Boato, Jonathon Hare, Paul Lewis, Stefan Siersdorfer and Enrico Minack
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16:40–17:00
Aggregating Opinions: Explorations into Graphs and Media Content Analysis
Gabriele Tatzl and Christoph Waldhauser
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17:00–17:40
Session 5: Spectral Approaches
17:00–17:20
Eliminating Redundancy by Spectral Relaxation for Multi-Document Summarization
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Akina Sakai and Yoshimi Suzuki
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17:20–17:40
Computing Word Senses by Semantic Mirroring and Spectral Graph Partitioning
Martin Fagerlund, Magnus Merkel, Lars Eldén and Lars Ahrenberg
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17:40–18:00
Final Wrap-up


WS5: CMCL

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
July 15
Venue A, Room VIII
Chair: John Hale
Homepage
Thursday July 15th 2010
9:00–10:30
Language change at multiple levels
9:00–9:30
Using Sentence Type Information for Syntactic Category Acquisition
Stella Frank, Sharon Goldwater and Frank Keller
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9:30–10:00
Did Social Networks Shape Language Evolution? A Multi-Agent Cognitive Simulation
David Reitter and Christian Lebiere
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10:00–10:30
Syntactic Adaptation in Language Comprehension
Alex Fine, Ting Qian, Florian T. Jaeger and Robert Jacobs
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10:30–11:00
Morning break
11:00–12:00
Parsing and memory
11:00–11:30
HHMM Parsing with Limited Parallelism
Tim Miller and William Schuler
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11:30–12:00
The Role of Memory in Superiority Violation Gradience
Marisa Ferrara Boston
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12:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–15:30
Corpus-based modeling
14:00–14:30
Close = Relevant? The Role of Context in Efficient Language Production
Ting Qian and T. Florian Jaeger
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14:30–15:00
Predicting Cognitively Salient Modifiers of the Constitutive Parts of Concepts
Gerhard Kremer and Marco Baroni
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15:00–15:30
Towards a Data-Driven Model of Eye Movement Control in Reading
Mattias Nilsson and Joakim Nivre
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15:30–16:00
Afternoon break
16:00–17:00
Information-theoretical approaches
16:00–16:30
Modeling the Noun Phrase versus Sentence Coordination Ambiguity in Dutch: Evidence from Surprisal Theory
Harm Brouwer, Hartmut Fitz and John Hoeks
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16:30–17:00
Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure of Cognitive Processing Effort
Stefan Frank
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WS9: NEWS 2010

Named Entities Workshop
July 16
Venue A, Room VIII
Chairs: A Kumaran and Haizhou Li
Homepage
Friday, July 16, 2010
9:00–10:30
Session 1: Oral
9:00–9:15
Opening Remarks
A Kumaran and Haizhou Li
9:15–10:00
Keynote Speech
Dan Roth
10:00–10:30
Transliteration Generation and Mining with Limited Training Resources
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Kenneth Dwyer, Shane Bergsma, Aditya Bhargava, Qing Dou, Mi-Young Kim and Grzegorz Kondrak
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10:30–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–11:40
Session 2: Oral
11:00–11:20
Transliteration Using a Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation System to Re-Score the Output of a Joint Multigram Model
Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita
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11:20–11:40
Transliteration Mining with Phonetic Conflation and Iterative Training
Kareem Darwish
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11:40–12:40
Session 3: Poster Presentation
37
Language Independent Transliteration Mining System Using Finite State Automata Framework
Sara Noeman and Amgad Madkour
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38
Reranking with Multiple Features for Better Transliteration
Yan Song, Chunyu Kit and Hai Zhao
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39
Syllable-Based Thai-English Machine Transliteration
Chai Wutiwiwatchai and Ausdang Thangthai
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40
English to Indian Languages Machine Transliteration System at NEWS 2010
Amitava Das, Tanik Saikh, Tapabrata Mondal, Asif Ekbal and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
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41
Mining Transliterations from Wikipedia Using Pair HMMs
Peter Nabende
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42
Phrase-Based Transliteration with Simple Heuristics
Avinesh PVS and Ankur Parikh
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12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:20
Session 4: Oral
14:00–14:20
Classifying Wikipedia Articles into NE’s Using SVM’s with Threshold Adjustment
Iman Saleh, Kareem Darwish and Aly Fahmy
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14:20–14:40
Assessing the Challenge of Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition and Classification
Asif Ekbal, Eva Sourjikova, Anette Frank and Simone Paolo Ponzetto
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14:40–15:00
Using Deep Belief Nets for Chinese Named Entity Categorization
Yu Chen, You Ouyang, Wenjie Li, Dequan Zheng and Tiejun Zhao
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15:00–15:20
Simplified Feature Set for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Ahmed Abdul Hamid and Kareem Darwish
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15:20–16:00
Break
16:00–17:00
Session 5: Oral
16:00–16:20
Think Globally, Apply Locally: Using Distributional Characteristics for Hindi Named Entity Identification
Shalini Gupta and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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16:20–16:40
Rule-Based Named Entity Recognition in Urdu
Kashif Riaz
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16:40–17:00
CONE: Metrics for Automatic Evaluation of Named Entity Co-Reference Resolution
Bo Lin, Rushin Shah, Robert Frederking and Anatole Gershman
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17:00–17:10
Closing


WS7: SIGMORPHON-11

11th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology
July 15
Venue A, Room XI
Chairs: Jeffrey Heinz, Lynne Cahill and Richard Wicentowski
Homepage
Thursday, 15 July 2010
9:00–10:30
Session
9:00–9:30
Instance-Based Acquisition of Vowel Harmony
Fred Mailhot
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9:30–10:00
Verifying Vowel Harmony Typologies
Sara Finley
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10:00–10:30
Complexity of the Acquisition of Phonotactics in Optimality Theory
Giorgio Magri
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10:30–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–12:30
Session
11:00–11:30
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Feature-Based Distributions
Jeffrey Heinz and Cesar Koirala
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11:30–12:00
A Method for Compiling Two-Level Rules with Multiple Contexts
Kimmo Koskenniemi and Miikka Silfverberg
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12:00–12:30
Exploring Dialect Phonetic Variation Using PARAFAC
Jelena Prokic and Tim Van de Cruys
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12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Session
14:00–14:30
Quantitative Evaluation of Competing Syllable Parses
Jason A. Shaw and Adamantios I. Gafos
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14:30–15:00
Toward a Totally Unsupervised, Language-Independent Method for the Syllabification of Written Texts
Thomas Mayer
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15:00–15:30
Comparing Canonicalizations of Historical German Text
Bryan Jurish
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15:30–16:00
Afternoon Break
16:00–17:00
Session
16:00–16:30
Semi-Supervised Learning of Concatenative Morphology
Oskar Kohonen, Sami Virpioja and Krista Lagus
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16:30–17:00
Morpho Challenge 2005-2010: Evaluations and Results
Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville Turunen and Krista Lagus
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17:00–
Business Meeting (all are welcome)


WS10: ATANLP 2010

Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing
July 16
Venue A, Room XI
Chairs: Frank Drewes and Marco Kuhlmann
Homepage
Friday, July 16, 2010
09:00–09:15
Opening Remarks
09:15–10:30
Invited Talk
Kevin Knight
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–12:30
Full Paper Session 1
11:00–11:30
Preservation of Recognizability for Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars
Zoltán Fülöp, Andreas Maletti and Heiko Vogler
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11:30–12:00
A Decoder for Probabilistic Synchronous Tree Insertion Grammars
Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight and Heiko Vogler
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12:00–12:30
Parsing and Translation Algorithms Based on Weighted Extended Tree Transducers
Andreas Maletti and Giorgio Satta
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12:30–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:30
Full Paper Session 2
14:00–14:30
Millstream Systems – a Formal Model for Linking Language Modules by Interfaces
Suna Bensch and Frank Drewes
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14:30–15:00
Transforming Lexica as Trees
Mark-Jan Nederhof
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15:00–15:30
n-Best Parsing Revisited
Matthias Büchse, Daniel Geisler, Torsten Stüber and Heiko Vogler
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15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:30
Quickfire Presentations
16:00–16:15
Tree Automata Techniques and the Learning of Semantic Grammars
Michael Minock
16:15–16:30
Do We Really Want a Single Tree to Cover the Whole Sentence?
Aravind Joshi
16:30–16:45
The Tree Automata Workbench ‘Marbles’
Frank Drewes
16:45–17:00
Requirements on a Tree Transformation Model for Machine Translation
Andreas Maletti
17:00–17:30
Discussion


WS12: CDS

Companionable Dialogue Systems
July 15
Venue A, Room II
Chairs: Yorick Wilks, Morena Danieli and Björn Gambäck
Homepage
July 15
09:00–10:30
Invited Paper Session
09:00–9:15
Welcome
09:15–10:30
Do’s and Don’ts for Software Companions
David Traum
10:30–11:00
Morning break
11:00–12:30
Session
11:00–11:30
Episodic Memory for Companion Dialogue
Gregor Sieber and Brigitte Krenn
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11:30–12:00
MANA for the Ageing
David M W Powers, Martin H Luerssen, Trent W Lewis, Richard E Leibbrandt, Marissa Milne, John Pashalis and Kenneth Treharne
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12:00–12:30
Is a Companion a Distinctive Kind of Relationship with a Machine?
Yorick Wilks
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12:30–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–15:30
Session
14:00–14:30
“Hello Emily, How are You Today?” - Personalised Dialogue in a Toy to Engage Children.
Carole Adam, Lawrence Cavedon and Lin Padgham
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14:30–15:00
A Robot in the Kitchen
Peter Wallis
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15:00–15:30
An Embodied Dialogue System with Personality and Emotions
Stasinos Konstantopoulos
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15:30–16:00
Afternoon break
16:00–17:00
Session
16:00–16:30
How was Your Day?
Stephen Pulman, Johan Boye, Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith and Raúl Santos de la Cámara
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16:30–17:00
VCA: An Experiment With A Multiparty Virtual Chat Agent
Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Sarah Taylor and Nick Webb
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17:00–17:30
Wrap up discussion of the day’s issues


WS13: GEMS-2010

Geometric Models of Natural Language Semantics
July 16
Venue A, Room II
Chairs: Roberto Basili and Marco Pennacchiotti
Homepage
July 16, 2010
9:25–9:30
Welcome and Opening
9:30–10:30
Session: Geometry and Semantics
9:30–10:00
Capturing Nonlinear Structure in Word Spaces Through Dimensionality Reduction
David Jurgens and Keith Stevens
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10:00–10:30
Manifold Learning for the Semi-Supervised Induction of FrameNet Predicates: an Empirical Investigation
Danilo Croce and Daniele Previtali
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10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–12:10
Invited Talk
11:00–12:10
What is Word Meaning, Really? (And How Can Distributional Models Help Us Describe It?)
Katrin Erk
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12:10–13:10
Session: Lexical Acquisition 1
12:10–12:40
Relatedness Curves for Acquiring Paraphrases
Georgiana Dinu and Grzegorz Chrupała
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12:40–13:10
A Regression Model of Adjective-Noun Compositionality in Distributional Semantics
Emiliano Guevara and Daniele Previtali
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13:10–14:30
Lunch Break
14:30–15.30
Session: Lexical Acquisition 2
14:30–15:00
Semantic Composition with Quotient Algebras
Daoud Clarke, Rudi Lutz and David Weir
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15:00–15.30
Expectation Vectors: A Semiotics Inspired Approach to Geometric Lexical-Semantic Representation
Justin Washtell
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15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:00
Session: Computational Aspects
16:00–16:30
Sketch Techniques for scaling Distributional Similarity to the Web
Amit Goyal, Jagadeesh Jagaralamudi, Hal Daumé III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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16:30–17:00
Active learning for constrained Dirichlet process mixture models
Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani and Ted Briscoe
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17:00–17:55
GEMS panel
17:55–18:00
Closing Remarks