ACL 2005 Student Research Workshop

Student Research Workshop at ACL-05
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/
June 27th, 2005
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

1. General Information

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

We have expanded the student session this year to include a poster session in addition to the normal panel presentations.

The main conference also features tutorials, workshops, and demos that will be of interest to students. More information on these can be found at the main ACL-05 page, http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

2. Accepted Papers

Using Emoticons to Reduce Dependency in Machine Learning Techniques for Sentiment Classification by Jonathon Read

Jointly Labeling Multiple Sequences: A Factorial HMM Approach by Kevin Duh

Automatic Discovery of Intentions in Text and its Application to Question Answering by Marta Tatu

Mapping the Lexical Semantics of the Qur'an Using Multivariate Analysis by Naglaa Thabet

Hybrid Methods for POS Guessing of Chinese Unknown Words by Xiaofei Lu

American Sign Language Generation: Multimodal NLG with Multiple Linguistic Channels by Matt Huenerfauth

An Extensive Empirical Study of Collocation Extraction Methods by Pavel Pecina

Exploiting Named Entity Taggers in a Second Language by Thamar Solorio

Learning Meronyms from Biomedical Text by Angus Roberts

Using Readers to Identify Lexical Cohesive Structures in Texts by Beata Beigman Klebanov

Using Lexical Semantics for Resolution of Non-NP-Pronouns in Spoken Dialogues by Iryna Schenk

Towards an Optimal Lexicalization in a Natural-Sounding Portable Natural Language Generatorfor Dialog Systems by Inge M. R. De Bleecker

Phrase Linguistic Classification and Generalization for Improving Statistical Machine Translation by Adria de Gispert

Automatic Induction of a CCG Grammar for Turkish by Ruken Cakici

Dialogue Act Modelling for Automatic Tagging of Spontaneous Written Dialogue by Edward Ivanovic

Learning Strategies for Open-domain Natural Language Question Answering by Eugene Grois

Dependency-Based Statistical Machine Translation by Heidi J. Fox

Parsing Subjects Displaced from Embedded Clauses in Free Word Order Languages by Asad B. Sayeed

Centrality Measures in Text Mining: Prediction of Noun Phrases that Appear in Abstracts by Zhuli Xie

A Corpus-based Approach to Topic in Danish Dialog by Philip Diderichsen and Jakob Elming

Learning Information Structure in The Prague Treebank by Oana Postolache

Speech Recognition of Czech - Inclusion of Rare Words Helps by Petr Podvesky and Pavel Machek

Using Bilingual Dependencies to Align Words in English/French Parallel Corpora by Sylwia Ozdowska

An Unsupervised System for Identifying English Inclusions in German Text by Beatrice Alex

Corpus-Oriented Development of Japanese HPSG Parsers by Kazuhiro Yoshida

Unsupervised Discrimination and Labeling of Ambiguous Names by Anagha Kulkarni

4. Schedule

Submissions were due by February 8th, 2005. Late submissions cannot be accepted. Notification of acceptance was sent to authors by e-mail on March 26th, 2005.
Important Dates:

• Camera ready papers due: April 25th, 2005
• Workshop date: June 27, 2005

5. Travel Grants

Professor Barzilay has received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will help pay for the expenses of students whose work was accepted. We will send further information to authors.

Reimbursement instructions and forms for ACL SRW authors:

• Travel Voucher Instructions
• ACL Travel Voucher form
• Sample form

6. Contact Information

If you need to contact the co-chairs of the student workshop, please use: acl05-student@ics.mq.edu.au An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to the co-chairs.

Chris Callison-Burch
Edinburgh University

Stephen Wan
Macquarie University

The faculty advisor for the workshop is Regina Barzilay (MIT).

7. Program Committee

Laura Alonso (Barcelona)
Timothy Baldwin (Melbourne)
Colin Bannard (Edinburgh)
Phil Blunsom (Melbourne)
Bernd Bohnet (Stuttgart)
Cem Bozsahin (Middle East Technical University)
Chris Brew (Ohio State)
Marine Carpuat (HKUST)
Stephen Clark (Oxford)
Trevor Cohn (Melbourne)
James Curran (Sydney)
Tiphaine Dalmas (Edinburgh)
Hal Daume III (ISI)
Mona Diab (Stanford)
Mark Dras (Macquarie)
Pablo Duboue (IBM)
Elena Filatova (Columbia)
Erin Fitzgerald (JHU)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford)
Pablo Gamallo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Claire Grover (Edinburgh)
Graeme Hirst (Toronto)
Julia Hockenmaier (U Penn)
Ben Hutchinson (Edinburgh)
Frank Keller (Edinburgh)
Simon King (Edinburgh)
Alistair Knott (Otago)
Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh)
Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg)
Corrin Lakeland (Otago)
Mirella Lapata (Edinburgh)
Alon Lavie (CMU)
Maria Liakata (Oxford)
Daniel Marcu (ISI)
Daniel Midgley (University of Western Australia)
Diego Molla (Macquarie)
Ani Nenkova (Columbia)
Leif Nielsen (King's College)
Bo Pang (Cornell)
Cecile Paris (CSIRO)
Jean-Philippe Prost (Macquarie)
Steve Renals (Edinburgh)
Philip Resnik (Maryland)
Graeme Ritchie (Aberdeen)
Charles Schafer (JHU)
Advaith Siddharthan (Columbia)
Michel Simard (Xerox)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
Mark Swerts (Tilburg)
David Talbot (Edinburgh)
Leonoor van der Beek (Groningen)
Florian Wolf (Cambridge)