NAACL HLT 2009: Conference Program



Schedule Overview

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Sunday, May 31, 2009 - Tutorials and Reception

9:00-12:30 Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce Extracting world/linguistic knowledge from Wikipedia OpenFst: An Open-Source, Weighted FST Library OntoNotes: The 90% Solution
2:00-5:30 Distributed Language Models Search Algorithms in NLP: Theory and Practice with Dynamic Programming VerbNet overview, extensions, mappings and apps Writing Systems, Transliteration and Decipherment
6:30-9:30 Welcome Reception



Monday, June 1, 2009 - Main Conference

8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-10:10 Invited Talk by Antonio Torralba
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-12:20 Long Paper Sessions
Semantics Multilingual Processing /
Morphology and Phonology
Syntax and parsing Student Research Workshop 1
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Short Paper Sessions / Student Research Workshop
Machine Translation Information Retrieval /
Information Extraction /
Sentiment
Dialog /
Speech /
Semantics
Student Research Workshop 2
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:40 Long Paper Sessions
Machine Translation Semantics Information Retrieval Student Research Workshop 3
6:30-9:30 Poster/demo session




Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Main Conference

8:00 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:10 Plenary -- Paper Awards
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-12:20 Long paper sessions
Machine Translation Sentiment Analysis
/ Information Extraction
Machine Learning /
Morphology and Phonology
12:20-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Short Paper Sessions
Machine Translation Machine Learning /
Syntax
Speech Indexing and Retrieval
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:15 Long Paper Sessions
Syntax and Parsing Discourse and Summarization Spoken Language Systems
6:00 Buses to NCAR
7:00-9:30 Banquet




Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - Main Conference

8:00 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:10 Plenary -- Invited Talk by Dan Jurafsky
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-12:20 Long Paper Sessions
Machine Translation Speech Recognition and Language Modeling Sentiment Analysis
12:20-2:00 Lunch Break
12:40-1:40 Panel Discussion
1:40-2:30 NAACL Business Meeting
2:30-3:45 Long Paper Sessions
Large-scale NLP Syntax and Parsing Discourse and Summarization
3:45 - 4:15 Break
4:15-5:30 Long Paper Sessions
Machine Learning Dialog Systems Syntax and Parsing




Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Workshops

CoNLL (2-day)
BioNLP 2009 (2-day)
Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions(SEW-2009)
Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIAWS3)
Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity
Semi-supervised Learning for NLP




Friday, June 5, 2009 - Workshops

CoNLL (2-day)
BioNLP 2009 (2-day)
Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009)
Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics
Active Learning for NLP
Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3)