8th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
BUCC
Location: 
ACL
Thursday, 30 July 2015
Country: 
China
Contact Email: 
City: 
Beijing
Contact: 
Pierre Zweigenbaum
Serge Sharoff
Reinhard Rapp

BUCC, 8th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Call for participation

Co-located with ACL 2015
Beijing (China)
30 July 2015
https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2015/bucc2015-program.html

INVITED SPEAKER: Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong
Benjamin K. Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
Augmented Comparable Corpora and Monitoring Corpus in Chinese:
LIVAC and Sketch Search Engine Compared
https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2015/bucc2015-invited-speakers.html

PROGRAM

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Session 1: 09:00-10:30 Opening Session
09:00-09:05 Introduction to the BUCC Workshop (Pierre Zweigenbaum, Serge Sharoff, Reinhard Rapp)

09:05-10:05 INVITED TALK:
09:05-10:05 Augmented Comparative Corpora and Monitoring Corpus in Chinese: LIVAC and Sketch Search Engine Compared
Benjamin K. Tsou

10:05-10:30 A Factory of Comparable Corpora from Wikipedia
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Cristina España-Bonet, Josu Boldoba and Lluís Màrquez

Session 2: 11:00-12:30
11:00-11:25 Knowledge-lean projection of coreference chains across languages
Yulia Grishina and Manfred Stede
11:25-11:50 Projective methods for mining missing translations in DBpedia
Laurent Jakubina and Phillippe Langlais
11:50-12:05 Attempting to Bypass Alignment from Comparable Corpora via Pivot Language
Alexis Linard, Béatrice Daille and Emmanuel Morin
12:05-12:20 Application of a Corpus to Identify Gaps between English Learners and Native Speakers
Katsunori Kotani and Takehiko Yoshimi

Session 3: 14:00-15:30 Alignment
14:00-14:25 A Generative Model for Extracting Parallel Fragments from Comparable Documents
Somayeh Bakhshaei, Shahram Khadivi and Reza Safabakhsh
14:25-14:50 Evaluating Features for Identifying Japanese-Chinese Bilingual Synonymous Technical Terms from Patent Families
Zi Long, Takehito Utsuro, Tomoharu Mitsuhashi and Mikio Yamamoto
14:50-15:05 Extracting Bilingual Lexica from Comparable Corpora Using Self-Organizing Maps
Hyeong-Won Seo, Minah Cheon and Jae-Hoon Kim
15:05-15:20 Obtaining SMT dictionaries for related languages
Miguel Rios and Serge Sharoff

Session 4: 16:00-17:00 Shared Task
16:00-16:15 BUCC Shared Task: Cross-Language Document Similarity
Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Reinhard Rapp
16:15-16:30 AUT Document Alignment Framework for BUCC Workshop Shared Task
Atefeh Zafarian, Amir Pouya Agha Sadeghi, Fatemeh Azadi, Sonia Ghiasifard, Zeinab Ali Panahloo, Somayeh Bakhshaei and Seyyed Mohammad Mohammadzadeh Ziabary
16:30-16:45 LINA: Identifying Comparable Documents from Wikipedia
Emmanuel Morin, Amir Hazem, Florian Boudin and Elizaveta Loginova-Clouet
16:45-17:00 Shared Task: General Discussion

ORGANISERS

Pierre Zweigenbaum LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France), Chair
Serge Sharoff University of Leeds (UK), Shared Task Chair
Reinhard Rapp University of Mainz (Germany)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada)
Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
Sujith Ravi (Google, US)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)