Friday, August 7, 2009 |
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Session I: Opening |
8:30–8:45 |
Inauguration by Chairs |
8:45–9:48 |
Invited Talk by Prof. Vittorio Loreto |
9:48–10:00 |
Social (distributed) language modeling, clustering and dialectometry
David Ellis |
10:00–10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session II: Special Theme |
10:30–10:55 |
Network analysis reveals structure indicative of syntax in the corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions
Sitabhra Sinha, Raj Kumar Pan, Nisha Yadav, Mayank Vahia and Iravatham Mahadevan |
10:55–11:20 |
Bipartite spectral graph partitioning to co-cluster varieties and sound correspondences in dialectology
Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne |
11:20–12:10 |
Panel Discussion |
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Session III: Semantics |
13:50–14:15 |
Random Walks for Text Semantic Similarity
Daniel Ramage, Anna N. Rafferty and Christopher D. Manning |
14:15–14:40 |
Classifying Japanese Polysemous Verbs based on Fuzzy C-means Clustering
Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto |
14:40–15:05 |
WikiWalk: Random walks on Wikipedia for Semantic Relatedness
Eric Yeh, Daniel Ramage, Christopher D. Manning, Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa |
15:05–15:18 |
Measuring semantic relatedness with vector space models and random walks
Amaç Herdagdelen, Katrin Erk and Marco Baroni |
15:18–15:30 |
Graph-based Event Coreference Resolution
Zheng Chen and Heng Ji |
15:30–16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session IV: Classification and Clustering |
16:00–16:25 |
Ranking and Semi-supervised Classification on Large Scale Graphs Using Map-Reduce
Delip Rao and David Yarowsky |
16:25–16:50 |
Opinion Graphs for Polarity and Discourse Classification
Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Lise Getoor and Janyce Wiebe |
16:50–17:15 |
A Cohesion Graph Based Approach for Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-literal Use of Multiword Expressions
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder |
17:15–17:40 |
Quantitative analysis of treebanks using frequent subtree mining methods
Scott Martens |
17:40–18:00 |
Closing |