13th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for computational Linguistics

13th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for computational Linguistics


Avignon France April 23 - 27 2012



ACCEPTED PAPERS

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TECHNIQUES ON DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT 
Alexandros Papangelis 
CROSS-LINGUAL GENRE CLASSIFICATION 
Philipp Petrenz 
DISCOURSE TYPE CLUSTERING USING POS N-GRAM PROFILES AND HIGH-DIMENSIONAL EMBEDDINGS 
Christelle Cocco 
HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN LANGUAGE MODELLING FOR THE LINGUISTICALLY INFORMED 
Jan A. Botha 
IMPROVING AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION OF NULL SUBJECTS IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH 
Lorenza Russo, Sharid Loáiciga and Asheesh Gulati 
IMPROVING PRONOUN TRANSLATION FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION 
Liane Guillou 
LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION -- WHAT WE REALLY KNOW? Martin Majliš 
MANUALLY CONSTRUCTED CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMAR FOR MYANMAR SYLLABLE STRUCTURE 
Tin Htay Hlaing
MINING CO-OCCURRENCE MATRICES FOR SO-PMI PARADIGM WORD CANDIDATES 
Aleksander Wawer 
WHAT'S IN A NAME? ENTITY TYPE VARIATION ACROSS TWO BIOMEDICAL SUBDOMAINS
Claudiu Mihăilă and Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro

Program


Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

10:30 – 11:00

Hierarchical Bayesian Language Modelling for the Linguistically Informed (Jan A. Botha)


Improving Machine Translation of Null Subjects in Italian and Spanish

(Lorenza Russo, Sharid Loáiciga and Asheesh Gulati)

Discourse Type Clustering Using POS N-gram Profiles and High-Dimensional Embeddings (Christelle Cocco)

11:00 – 11:30

A Comparative Study of Reinforcement Learning Techniques on Dialogue Management (Alexandros Papangelis)

Improving Pronoun Translation for Statistical Machine Translation (Liane Guillou)

Cross-Lingual Genre Classification

(Philipp Petrenz)

11:30 – 12:00

Mining Co-Occurrence Matrices for SO-PMI Paradigm Word Candidates (Aleksander Wawer)

What's in a Name? Entity Type Variation across two Biomedical Subdomains (Claudiu Mihăilă and Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro)

 

Yet Another Language Identifier

(Martin Majliš)

STUDENTSHIPS


Five EACL Studentships are available on a competitive basis, covering up to 500 euros of conference expenses (registration, travelling, accommodation). Only students who have a paper accepted at either the EACL main conference or Student Workshop are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to students who have a paper accepted at the Student Workshop and with limited travel funds.

Applications should be emailed to student-workshop@eacl2012.org by March 9, and they must include the following documents:
- Applicant's name, email, affiliation, PhD/masters year, source and amount of yearly income, and overview of the estimated conference costs
- Motivation letter
- Recommendation letter from a university faculty member
- Proof of student status

Important dates: 
 9 March: studentship applications due 
 23 March: studentship notifications

Call for papers.