| 8:45 – 10:10 |
Plenary Session I
Session Chair: Mary Harper
Biltmore Bowl |
| 10:40 – 12:20 | Long Paper Sessions – Morning |
Parsing I
Session Chair: Noah Smith
Biltmore Bowl
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Chart Mining-based Lexical Acquisition with Precision Grammars
Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin, Valia Kordoni, David Martinez and Jeremy Nicholson |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Products of Random Latent Variable Grammars
Slav Petrov |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing
Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper |
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Semantics I
Session Chair: Eduard Hovy
Gold Room
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Taxonomy Learning Using Word Sense Induction
Ioannis P. Klapaftis and Suresh Manandhar |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Visual Information in Semantic Representation
Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Automatic Evaluation of Topic Coherence
David Newman, Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser and Timothy Baldwin |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning
Joseph Reisinger and Raymond J. Mooney |
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Noisy Genre I
Session Chair: Jonathan May
Crystal Room
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Using Confusion Networks for Speech Summarization
Shasha Xie and Yang Liu |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Qme! : A Speech-based Question-Answering system on Mobile Devices
Taniya Mishra and Srinivas Bangalore |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems
Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff and Victor Zue |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Minimally-Supervised Extraction of Entities from Text Advertisements
Sameer Singh, Dustin Hillard and Chris Leggetter |
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Student Research Workshop I
Emerald Room
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Improving Syntactic Coordination Resolution using Language Modeling
Philip Ogren |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | On Automated Evaluation of Readability of Summaries: Capturing Grammaticality, Focus, Structure and Coherence
Ravikiran Vadlapudi and Rahul Katragadda |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Detecting Novelty in the Context of Progressive Summarization
Praveen Bysani |
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| 12:20 – 2:00 |
IBM Student Luncheon
Bernard's
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| 2:00 – 3:40 | Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon |
Machine Translation I
Session Chair: Philipp Koehn
Biltmore Bowl
| 2:00 – 2:25 | Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, David Chiang and Kevin Knight |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars
David Burkett, John Blitzer and Dan Klein |
| 2:50 – 3:15 | Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang and Haizhou Li |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time
Stanley Kok and Chris Brockett |
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Speech Processing
Session Chair: Eric Fosler-Lussier
Gold Room
| 2:00 – 2:25 | Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy and Bhuvana Ramabhadran |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability
Maria Shugrina |
| 2:50 – 3:15 | Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription
Scott Novotney and Chris Callison-Burch |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech
Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Denis Filimonov and Frederick Jelinek |
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Noisy Genre II
Session Chair: Jennifer Foster
Crystal Room
| 2:00 – 2:25 | Training Paradigms for
Correcting Errors in Grammar and Usage
Alla Rozovskaya and
Dan Roth |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Using Mostly Native Data to Correct Errors in Learners' Writing
Michael Gamon |
| 2:50 – 3:15 | Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations
Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and Bill Dolan |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Streaming First Story Detection with application to Twitter
Saša Petrović, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko |
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Student Research Workshop II
Emerald Room
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Extrinsic Parse Selection
David Goss-Grubbs |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Towards a Matrix-based Distributional Model of Meaning
Eugenie Giesbrecht |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Distinguishing Use and Mention in Natural Languag
Shomir Wilson |
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| 4:10 – 5:30 |
Plenary Session II – Posters and Demos: One Minute Madness
Session Chair: Carolyn P. Rosé
Crystal Room
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| 6:30 – 8:30 |
Posters and Demos Session
Biltmore Bowl
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| 9:00 – 10:15 |
Plenary Session III: Best
Paper Awards
Session Chair: Aravind Joshi
Biltmore Bowl
| 9:10 – 9:40 | Best Short Paper
“cba to check the spelling”: Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts
Jennifer Foster |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | Best Long Paper
Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein |
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| 10:45 – 12:25 | Long Paper Sessions – Morning |
Machine Translation II
Session Chair: Chris Dyer
Biltmore Bowl
| 10:45 – 11:10 | Stream-based
Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Abby
Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Extracting Parallel Sentences
from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment
Jason
R. Smith, Chris Quirk and Kristina Toutanova |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Statistical Machine
Translation of Texts with Misspelled Words
Nicola Bertoldi,
Mauro Cettolo and Marcello Federico |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Everybody loves a rich
cousin: An empirical study of transliteration through bridge
languages
Mitesh M. Khapra, A Kumaran and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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IR and Extraction I
Session Chair: Donald Metzler
Gold Room
| 10:45 – 11:10 | Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Andrew T. Wilson and Peter A. Chew |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
Fabio De Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Amaç Herdağdelen and Maria Holmqvist |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Learning to Link Entities
with Knowledge Base
Zhicheng Zheng, Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang
and Xiaoyan Zhu |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Improving the Multilingual
User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name
Search
Raghavendra Udupa and Mitesh Khapra |
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Machine Learning I
Session Chair: Damianos Karakos
Crystal Room
| 10:45 – 11:10 | Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
Ryan McDonald, Keith Hall and Gideon Mann |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Discriminative Learning over Constrained Latent Representations
Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth and Vivek Srikumar |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers
David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam Pauls and Sujith Ravi |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset
Beata Beigman Klebanov and Eyal Beigman |
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Morphology/Phonology
Session Chair: Greg Kondrak
Emerald Room
| 10:45 – 11:10 | Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson and Michael C. Frank |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
Robert Munro and Christopher D. Manning |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM
Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan and Eric K. Ringger |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Urdu Word Segmentation
Nadir Durrani and Sarmad Hussain |
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| 12:40 – 2:00 |
Bag Lunch Panel: Recent and Future HLT Challenges in Industry
Session Chair: Kristina Toutanova
Biltmore Bowl
Dekang Lin
Google Research |
Arul Menezes
Microsoft Research |
Bo Pang
Yahoo! Research |
Rion Snow
Twitter |
Bowen Zhou
IBM Research |
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| 2:15 – 3:30 | Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon |
Machine Translation III
Session Chair: Kevin Knight
Biltmore Bowl
| 2:15 – 2:40 | Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options
Philipp Koehn |
| 2:40 – 3:05 | Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea and Francisco Casacuberta |
| 3:05 – 3:30 | The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning and Daniel Jurafsky |
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Generation
Session Chair: Kathy McKeown
Gold Room
| 2:15 – 2:40 | Linguistic Steganography Using Automatically Generated Paraphrases
Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark |
| 2:40 – 3:05 | Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment
Aaron Dunlop, Margaret Mitchell and Brian Roark |
| 3:05 – 3:30 | Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith |
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Machine Learning II
Session Chair: Jenny Rose Finkel
Crystal Room
| 2:15 – 2:40 | Variational Inference for Adaptor Grammars
Shay B. Cohen, David M. Blei and Noah A. Smith |
| 2:40 – 3:05 | Type-Based MCMC
Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan and Dan Klein |
| 3:05 – 3:30 | Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, John DeNero and Dan Klein |
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Lexical Semantics
Session Chair: Ted Pedersen
Emerald Room
| 2:15 – 2:40 | Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds
Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy |
| 2:40 – 3:05 | Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses
Weisi Duan and Alexander Yates |
| 3:05 – 3:30 | Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing?
Ioannis Korkontzelos and Suresh Manandhar |
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| 4:00 – 5:30 | Short Paper Sessions |
Parsing
Session Chair: Jason Eisner
Biltmore Bowl
| 4:00 – 4:15 | A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information
Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?
Mihai Surdeanu and Christopher D. Manning |
| 4:30 – 4:45 | Enlarged Search Space for SITG Parsing
Guillem Gascó, Joan-Andreu Sánchez and José-Miguel Benedí |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Improving Data Driven Dependency Parsing using Clausal Information
Phani Gadde, Karan Jindal, Samar Husain, Dipti Misra Sharma and Rajeev Sangal |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | A Treebank Query System Based on an Extracted Tree Grammar
Seth Kulick and Ann Bies |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers
Mark Johnson and Ahmet Engin Ural |
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Morphology/Phonology
Session Chair: Kemal Oflazer
Gold Room
| 4:00 – 4:15 | Language identification of names with SVMs
Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 4:30 – 4:45 | A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR
Amr El-Desoky Mousa, Ralf Schlüter and Hermann Ney |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Is Arabic Part of Speech Tagging Feasible Without Word Segmentation?
Emad Mohamed and Sandra Kübler |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis
Yassine Benajiba and Imed Zitouni |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Sravana Reddy and John Goldsmith |
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Noisy Genre
Session Chair: Adam Kilgarriff
Crystal Room
| 4:00 – 4:15 | An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation
Whitney L. Cade, Blair A. Lehman and Andrew Olney |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Making Conversational Structure Explicit: Identification of Initiation-response Pairs within Online Discussions
Yi-Chia Wang and Carolyn P. Rosé |
| 4:30 – 4:45 | Engaging learning groups using Social Interaction Strategies
Rohit Kumar and Carolyn P. Rosé |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays
Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault and Slava Andreyev |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | Summarizing Microblogs Automatically
Beaux Sharifi, Mark-Anthony Hutton and Jugal Kalita |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users
Wei Wu, Bin Zhang and Mari Ostendorf |
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Machine Learning
Session Chair: Bowen Zhou
Emerald Room
| 4:00 – 4:15 | Extracting Phrase Patterns with Minimum Redundancy for Unsupervised Speaker Role Classification
Bin Zhang, Brian Hutchinson, Wei Wu and Mari Ostendorf |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling
Andrew Rosenberg |
| 4:30 – 4:45 | Investigations into the Crandem Approach to Word Recognition
Rohit Prabhavalkar, Preethi Jyothi, William Hartmann, Jeremy Morris and Eric Fosler-Lussier |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Constraint-Driven Rank-Based Learning for Information Extraction
Sameer Singh, Limin Yao, Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities
Florian Schwarck, Alexander Fraser and Hinrich Schütze |
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| 7:00 – 9:30 | Banquet, Maguire Gardens |
| 9:00 – 10:10 |
Plenary Session IV
Session Chair: Jill Burstein
Biltmore Bowl
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| 10:40 – 12:20 | Long Paper Sessions – Morning |
Parsing II
Session Chair: Slav Petrov
Biltmore Bowl
| 10:40 – 11:05 | An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing
Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi and Daniel Jurafsky |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Relaxed Marginal Inference and its Application to Dependency Parsing
Sebastian Riedel and David A. Smith |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Optimal Parsing Strategies for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Dan Gildea |
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Information Retrieval and Extraction II
Session Chair: Burr Settles
Gold Room
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature
Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie and Martin Dawes |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration
Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Learning about Voice Search for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Rebecca Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein, Tiziana Ligorio, Joshua B. Gordon and Pravin Bhutada |
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Sentiment Analysis
Session Chair: Philip Resnik
Crystal Room
| 10:40 – 11:05 | The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons
Leonid Velikovich, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kerry Hannan and Ryan McDonald |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui and Sadao Kurohashi |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Convolution Kernels for Opinion Holder Extraction
Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | An Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews
Samuel Brody and Noemie Elhadad |
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| 1:00 – 2:00 |
Business Meeting
Biltmore Bowl
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| 2:00 – 3:40 | Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon I |
Machine Translation IV
Session Chair: Radu Soricut
Biltmore Bowl
| 2:00 – 2:25 | A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Niyu Ge |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Context-free reordering, finite-state translation
Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik |
| 2:50 – 3:15 | Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation
Spence Green, Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Why Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars?
Andreas Maletti |
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Semantics II
Session Chair: Benjamin Van Durme
Gold Room
| 2:00 – 2:25 | Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces
Yves Peirsman and Sebastian Padó |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Paper Withdrawn
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| 2:50 – 3:15 | Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles
Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing
Dipanjan Das, Nathan Schneider, Desai Chen and Noah A. Smith |
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Summarization
Session Chair: Ani Nenkova
Crystal Room
| 2:00 – 2:25 | An extractive supervised two-stage method for sentence compression
Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos |
| 2:25 – 2:50 | Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng |
| 2:50 – 3:15 | Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains
Hakan Ceylan, Rada Mihalcea, Umut Özertem, Elena Lloret and Manuel Palomar |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Multi-document Summarization via Budgeted Maximization of Submodular Functions
Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes |
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| 4:00 – 5:15 | Long Paper Sessions – Afternoon II |
Machine Translation V
Session Chair: Yaser Al-Onaizan
Biltmore Bowl
| 4:00 – 4:25 | Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization
Cyril Allauzen, Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Mehryar Mohri and Michael Riley |
| 4:25 – 4:50 | Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning |
| 4:50 – 5:15 | Model Combination for Machine Translation
John DeNero, Shankar Kumar, Ciprian Chelba and Franz Och |
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Semantics III
Session Chair: Dan Roth
Gold Room
| 4:00 – 4:25 | Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith |
| 4:25 – 4:50 | Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition
Yashar Mehdad, Alessandro Moschitti and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto |
| 4:50 – 5:15 | Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task
Ekaterina Shutova |
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Discourse
Session Chair: Joel Tetreault
Crystal Room
| 4:00 – 4:25 | Detecting Emails Containing Requests for Action
Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris |
| 4:25 – 4:50 | Evaluating Hierarchical Discourse Segmentation
Lucien Carroll |
| 4:50 – 5:15 | Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers
Advaith Siddharthan and Napoleon Katsos |
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