09:00-09:05 |
Welcome |
09:05-09:55 |
Invited Speech (Dan Roth) |
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Session 1: Question Answering |
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09:55-10:20 |
Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations |
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Apurva Jadhav, Ashutosh Joshi, Soumen Chakrabarti and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
10:20-10:50 |
Break |
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Session 2: Summarization |
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10:50-11:15 |
Using Thematic Information in Statistical Headline Generation |
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris and Robert Dale |
11:15-11:40 |
Combining Optimal Clustering and Hidden Markov Models for Extractive Summarization |
Pascale Fung, Grace Ngai and Chi-Shun Cheung |
11:40-12:05 |
Evaluation of Features for Sentence Extraction on Different Types of Corpora |
Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine and Hitoshi Isahara |
12:05-12:30 |
An Evolutionary Approach for Improving the Quality of Automatic Summaries |
Constantin Orasan |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:50 |
Invited Speech (Noriko Kando) |
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Session 3: New Directions in Question Answering |
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14:50-15:15 |
HITIQA: An Interactive Question Answering System: A Preliminary Report |
Sharon Small, Ting Liu, Nobuyuki Shimizu and Tomek Strzalkowski |
15:15-15:40 |
Discovery of Manner Relations and Their Applicability to Question Answering |
Roxana Girju, Manju Putcha and Dan Moldovan |
15:40-16:10 |
Break |
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Session 4: Machine Learning Approach to QA |
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16:10-16:35 |
Question Classification using HDAG Kernel |
Jun Suzuki, Hirotoshi Taira, Yutaka Sasaki and Eisaku Maeda |
16:35-17:00 |
Statistical QA - Classifier vs. Re-ranker: What's the difference? |
Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy and Franz Josef Och |
17:00-17:25 |
Automatic Detection of Causal Relations for Question Answering |
Roxana Girju |
17:25-17:50 |
Question Answering on a Case Insensitive Corpus |
Wei Li, Rohini Srihari, Cheng Niu and Xiaoge Li |
17:50-17:55 |
Closing Remarks and Adjourn |