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Conference Program
Overview of the Conference Program
Tutorials |
7 Jan (Mon) |
1000-1300
T2. How to Add a New Language on the NLP Map: Building Resources and Tools for Languages with Scarce Resources |
1400-1700
T1. Social Network inspired Models of NLP and Language Evolution |
1400-1700
T3. Introduction to Text Summarization and Other Information Access Technologies |
Main Conference |
8 Jan (Tue) |
9 Jan (Wed) |
10 Jan (Thru) |
0900-0930
Inauguration
0930-1030
Keynote
Prof Aravind Joshi,
Univ of
Pennsylvania
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0900-1100
TS4
(A2-1,B2-1,C2-1) |
0900-1030
TS6
(A3-1,B3-1,C3-1) |
1100-1230
TS1
(A1-1,B1-1,C1-1) |
1100-1230
PS1(30)
Poster Session 1 |
1100-1230
TS7
(A3-2,B3-2,C3-2) |
LUNCH |
LUNCH |
LUNCH |
1400-1530
TS2
(A1-2,B1-2,C1-2) |
1400-1500
Invited Talk 1
Prof Hyopil Shin,
Seoul National University |
1400-1500
Invited Talk 2
Dr S.H. Srinivasan,
Yahoo |
1600-1800
TS3
(A1-3,B1-3,C1-3) |
1500-1630
PS2(30)
Poster Session 2 |
1530-1700
TS8
(A3-3,B3-3,C3-3) |
1900
Banquet Dinner
(Optional) |
1600-1730
TS5
(A2-2,B2-2,C2-2) |
1700-1800
Panel and Closing Session |
Workshops |
11 Jan (Fri) |
12 Jan (Sat) |
0900-1800
W1: NLP for Less Privileged Languages (NLPLPL)
W2: The Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN6)
W4: Cross Language Information Access (CLIA)
W5: The 6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR6)
W6: Technologies and Corpora for Asia-Pacific Speech Translation (TCAST) |
0900-1230
W2: The Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN6)
W5: The 6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR6)
0900-1800
W3: Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages (NERSSEAL) |
Notes:
- Morning Tea/Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00
- Lunch: 12:30 – 14:00
- Afternoon Tea/Coffee Break: 15:30 – 16:00hrs (Exception on Jan 10th: 15:00–16:00)
Session Index of Main Conference
| Day1: January 8th (Tue) |
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| Day2: January 9th (Wed) |
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| Day 3: January 10th (Thu) |
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Details of Main Conference Schedule
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Day1: January 8th (Tue) |
09:00-09:30 |
Opening
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09:30-10:30 |
Keynote Speech: Penn Discourse Treebank: Complexity of Dependencies at The Discourse Level and at the Sentence Level
Prof. Aravind Joshi, University of
Pennsylvania |
10:30-11:00 |
Break
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11:00-12:30 |
Oral session: (3 + 3 + 3)
A1-1: Word Segmentation/POS tagging
A Lemmatization Method for Modern Mongolian and its Application to Information Retrieval
Badam-Osor Khaltar and Atsushi Fujii
An Empirical Comparison of Goodness Measures for Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation with a Unified Framework
Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit
A Hybrid Approach to the Induction of Underlying Morphology
Michael Tepper and Fei Xia
B1-1:Text Mining/Information Extraction (1)
Context-Sensitive Convolution Tree Kernel for Pronoun Resolution
GuoDong ZHOU and Fang KONG
Semi-Supervised Learning for Relation Extraction
GuoDong ZHOU, LongHua QIAN and QiaoMing ZHU
Story Link Detection based on Dynamic Information Extending
Xiaoyan Zhang, Ting Wang and Huowang Chen
C1-1: Asian Language Processing and Linguistics Issues
Orthographic Disambiguation Incorporating Transliterated Probability
Eiji ARAMAKI, Takeshi IMAI, Kengo MIYO and Kazuhiko OHE
Name Origin Recognition Using Maximum Entropy Model and Diverse Features
Min ZHANG, Chengjie SUN, Aiti AW and Chew Lim Tan
A More Discerning and Adaptable Multilingual Transliteration Mechanism for Indian Languages
Harshit Surana and Anil Kumar Singh |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00-15:30 |
Oral session: (3 + 3 + 3)
A1-2: Parsing/Grammar
UCSG: A Wide Coverage Shallow Parsing System
Bharadwaja Kumar G and Narayana Murthy K
Memory-Inductive Categorial Grammar: An Approach to Gap Resolution in Analytic-Language Translation
Prachya Boonkwan and Thepchai Supnithi
Dependency Parsing with Short Dependency Relations in Unlabeled Data
Wenliang Chen, Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara
B1-2: Text Mining/Information Extraction (2)
Effective Compositional Model for Lexical Alignment
Beatrice Daille and Emmanuel Morin
Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using a Probabilistic Approach
Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun
Lexical Chains as Document Features
Dinakar Jayarajan, Dipti Deodhare and Ravindran Balaraman
C1-2: Summarization
Entity-driven Rewrite for Multi-document Summarization
Ani Nenkova
A New Approach to Automatic Document Summarization
Xiaofeng Wu and Chengqing Zong
Generic Text Summarization Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing
Harendra Bhandari, Masashi Shimbo, Takahiko Ito and Yuji Matsumoto |
15:30-16:00 |
Break
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16:00-18:00 |
Oral session: (4 + 4 + 3)
A1-3: Multiple Document Processing
Identifying Cross-Document Relations between Sentences
Yasunari Miyabe, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
Experiments on Semantic-based Clustering for Cross-document Coreference
Horacio Saggion
Modeling Context in Scenario Template Creation
Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua
Cross Language Text Categorization Using a Bilingual Lexicon
Ke Wu, Xiaolin Wang and Bao-Liang Lu
B1-3: Information Retrieval
Identify Temporal Websites Based on User Behavior Analysis
Yong Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma and Liyun Ru
A Comparative Study for Query Translation using Linear Combination and Confidence Measure
Youssef Kadri and Jian-Yun Nie
TSUBAKI: An Open Search Engine Infrastructure for Developing New Information Access Methodology
Keiji Shinzato, Tomohide Shibata, Daisuke Kawahara, Chikara Hashimoto and Sadao Kurohashi
A Study on Effectiveness of Syntactic Relationship in Dependence Retrieval Model
Ding Fan and Wang Bin
C1-3: Spoken Language Processing
Automatic Estimation of Word Significance oriented for Speech-based Information Retrieval
Takashi Shichiri, Hiroaki Nanjo and Takehiko Yoshimi
Rapid Prototyping of Robust Language Understanding Modules for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kazunori Komatani, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata and Hiroshi G. Okuno
Automatic Prosodic Labeling with Conditional Random Fields and Rich Acoustic Features
Gina-Anne Levow
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Day2: January 9th (Wed) |
9:00-11:00 |
Oral session: (4 + 4 + 4)
A2-1: Machine Translation (1)
Chinese Unknown Word Translation by Subword Re-segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang and Eiichiro Sumita
Hypothesis Selection in Machine Transliteration: A Web Mining Approach
Jong-Hoon Oh and Hitoshi Isahara
What Prompts Translators to Modify Draft Translations? An Analysis of Basic Modification Patterns for Use in the Automatic Notification of Awkwardly Translated Text
Takeshi Abekawa and Kyo Kageura
Improving Word Alignment by Adjusting Chinese Word Segmentation
Ming-Hong Bai, Keh-Jiann Chen and Jason S. Chang
B2-1: Text Mining/Information Extraction (3)
The Telling Tail: Signals of Success in Electronic Negotiation Texts
Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
Automatic Extraction of Briefing Templates
Dipanjan Das, Mohit Kumar and Alexander I. Rudnicky
Mining the Web for Relations between Digital Devices using a Probabilistic Maximum Margin Model
Oksana Yakhnenko and Barbara Rosario
Learning Patterns from the Web to Translate Named Entities for Cross Language Information Retrieval
Yu-Chun Wang, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu
C2-1: Emotion/Sentiment Analysis
Bootstrapping Both Product Features and Opinion Words from Chinese Reviews with Cross-Inducing
Bo Wang and Houfeng Wang
Learning to Shift the Polarity of Words for Sentiment Classification
Daisuke Ikeda, Hiroya Takamura, Lev-Arie Ratinov and Manabu Okumura
Unsupervised Classification of Sentiment and Objectivity in Chinese Text
Taras Zagibalov and John Carroll
Using Roget's Thesaurus for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition
Saima Aman and Stan Szpakowicz
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11:00-12:30 |
Poster session 1 (with coffee break): (30)
Poster papers (Poster session 1):
Vaakkriti: Sanskrit Tokenizer
Aasish Pappu and Ratna Sanyal
A Bottom Up approach to Persian Stemming
Amir Azim Sharifloo and Mehrnoush Shamsfard
Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach
Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
An Online Cascaded Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition
Shing-Kit Chan, Wai Lam and Xiaofeng Yu
Automatic rule acquisition for Chinese intra-chunk relations
Qiang Zhou
Japanese Named Entity Recognition Using Structural Natural Language Processing
Ryohei Sasano and Sadao Kurohashi
Dimensionality Reduction with Multilingual Resource
YingJu Xia, Hao Yu and Gang Zou
A Web-based English Proofing System for English as a Second Language Users
XING YI, Jianfeng Gao and William B. Dolan
Analysis of Intention in Dialogues Using Category Trees and Its Application to Advertisement Recommendation
Hung-Chi Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
Term extraction through unithood and termhood unification
Thuy Vu, Ai Ti Aw and Zhang Min
Search Result Clustering Using Label Language model
Yeha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na and Jong-Hyeok Lee
Effects of Related Term Extraction in Transliteration into Chinese
HaiXiang Huang and Atsushi Fujii
A Structured Prediction Approach for Statistical Machine Translation
Dakun Zhang, Le Sun and Wenbo Li
Method of Selecting Training Data to Build a Compact and Efficient Translation Model
Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita
Large and Diverse Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Holger Schwenk and Philipp Koehn
A linguistic and navigational knowledge approach to text navigation
Javier Couto and Jean-Luc Minel
Synset Assignment for Bi-lingual Dictionary with Limited Resource
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Chumpol Mokarat, Hitoshi Isahara, Hammam Riza and Purev Jaimai
Ranking words for building a Japanese defining vocabulary
Tomoya Noro and Takehiro Tokuda
Automatically Identifying Computationally Relevant Typological Features
William Lewis and Fei Xia
Automatic Paraphrasing of Japanese Functional Expressions Using a Hierarchically Organized Dictionary
Suguru Matsuyoshi and Satoshi Sato
Generation of Referring Expression Using Prefix Tree Structure
Sibabrata Paladhi and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Coverage-based Evaluation of Parser Generalizability
Tuomo Kakkonen and Erkki Sutinen
Learning Reliability of Parses for Domain Adaptation of Dependency Parsing
Daisuke Kawahara and Kiyotaka Uchimoto
Resolving Ambiguities of Chinese Conjunctive Structures by Divide-and-conquer Approaches
Duen-Chi Yang, Yu-Ming Hsieh and Keh-Jiann Chen
Dependency Annotation Scheme for Indian Languages
Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Arun Dhwaj, Dipti Misra Sharma, Lakshmi Bai and Rajeev Sangal
Non-Factoid Japanese Question Answering through Passage Retrieval that Is Weighted Based on Types of Answers
Masaki Murata, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Qing Ma and Hitoshi Isahara
A Multi-Document Multi-Lingual Automatic Summarization System
Mohamad Ali Honarpisheh, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani and Ghassem Mirroshandel
Summarization by Analogy: An Example-based Approach for News Articles
Megumi Makino and Kazuhide Yamamoto
Sentence Ordering based on Cluster Adjacency in Multi-Document Summarization
Donghong Ji
Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering
Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu and Atsushi Fujii |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00-15:00 |
Invited Talk 1: The 21st Sejong Project: With a Focus On Building of the SELK(Sejong Electronic Lexicon of Korean) and the KNC(Korean National Corpus)
Prof Hyopil Shin,
Seoul National University
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15:00-16:30 |
Poster session 2 (with coffee break): (30)
Poster papers (Poster session 2)
Unsupervised All-words Word Sense Disambiguation with Grammatical Dependencies
Vivi Nastase
Syntactic and Semantic Frames in PrepNet
Saint-Dizier Patrick
Automatic Classification of English Verbs Using Rich Syntactic Features
Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen and Yuval Krymolowski
MRD-based Word Sense Disambiguation: Further Extending Lesk
Timothy Baldwin, Su Nam Kim, Francis Bond, Sanae Fujita, David Martinez and Takaaki Tanaka
Fast Computing Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling
Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
SYNGRAPH: A Flexible Matching Method based on Synonymous Expression Extraction from an Ordinary Dictionary and a Web Corpus
Tomohide Shibata, Michitaka Odani, Jun Harashima, Takashi Oonishi and Sadao Kurohashi
Annotation of Multiword Expressions in the Prague Dependency Treebank
Eduard Bejček, Pavel Straňk and Pavel Schlesinger
Learning Named Entity Hyponyms for Question Answering
Paul McNamee, Rion Snow, Patrick Schone and James Mayfield
Errgrams -- A Way to Improving ASR for Highly Inflected Dravidian Languages
Kamadev Bhanuprasad
Noise as a Tool for Spoken Language Identification
Sunita Maithani and J S Rawat
Identifying Real or Fake Articles: Towards better Language Modeling
Sameer Badaskar, Sachin Agarwal and Shilpa Arora
Multi-label Text Categorization with Model Combination based on F1-score Maximization
Akinori Fujino and Hideki Isozaki
An Experimental Comparison of the Voted Perceptron and Support Vector Machines in Japanese Analysis Tasks
Manabu Sassano
Learning Decision Lists with Known Rules for Text Mining
Venkatesan Chakravarthy, Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Godbole and Sreeram Balakrishnan
A re-examination of dependency path kernels for relation extraction
Mengqiu Wang
Mining Chinese-English Parallel Corpora from the Web
Bo Li and Juan Liu
Fast Duplicated Documents Detection using Multi-level Prefix-filter
Kenji Tateishi and Dai Kusui
Towards Data And Goal Oriented Analysis: Tool Inter-Operability And Combinatorial Comparison
Yoshinobu Kano, Ngan Nguyen, Rune Satre, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Fukamachi, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii
A Co-occurrence Graph-based Approach for Personal Name Alias Extraction from Anchor Texts
Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka
Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Biomedical Research Articles
Donghui Feng, Gully Burns, Jingbo Zhu and Eduard Hovy
Large Scale Diagnostic Code Classification for Medical Patient Records
Lucian Lita, Shipeng Yu, Stefan Niculescu and Jinbo Bi
Hacking Wikipedia for Hyponymy Relation Acquisition
Asuka Sumida and Kentaro Torisawa
A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction
Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka and Jun'ichi Tsujii
Linguistic Interpretation of Emotions for Affect Sensing from Text
Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka
How to Take Advantage of the Limitations with Markov Clustering?--The Foundations of Branching Markov Clustering (BMCL)
Hiroyuki AKAMA, Maki MIYAKE and Jaeyoung JUNG
Combining Context Features by Canonical Belief Network for Chinese Part-Of-Speech Tagging
Hongzhi Xu and Chunping Li
Language Independent Text Correction using Finite State Automata
Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman and Hany Hassan
Semantic Role Labeling of Chinese Using Transductive SVM and Semantic Heuristics
Yaodong Chen, Ting Wang, Huowang Chen and Xishan Xu
A Comparative Study of Mixture Models for Automatic Topic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogues
Maria Georgescul
Exploiting Unlabeled Text to Extract New Words of Different Semantic Transparency for Chinese Word Segmentation
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Hsi-Chuan Hung
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16:30-17:30 |
Oral session: (2 + 2 + 2)
A2-2: Machine Translation (2)
Heterogeneous Automatic MT Evaluation Through Non-Parametric Metric Combinations
Jesus Gimenez and Lluis Marquez
Paraphrasing depending on Bilingual Context Toward Generalization of Translation Knowledge
Young-Sook Hwang, Young-Kil Kim and Sangkyu Park
B2-2: Named Entity Recognition
A Framework Based on Graphical Models with Logic for Chinese Named Entity Recognition
Xiaofeng YU, Wai LAM and Shing-Kit CHAN
A Hybrid Feature Set based Maximum Entropy Hindi Named Entity Recognition
Sujan Kumar Saha, Sudeshna Sarkar and Pabitra Mitra
C2-2: Relation Extraction
Effective Methods of using Web based Information for Relation Extraction
Stanley, Wai Keong Yong and Jian Su
Minimally Supervised Learning of Semantic Knowledge from Query Logs
Mamoru Komachi and Hisami Suzuki
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Day 3: January 10th (Thu) |
09:00-10:30 |
Oral session: (3 + 3 + 3)
A3-1: Statistical Models/Machine Learning for NLP (1)
Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification
Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang and Eduard Hovy
Multi-View Co-Training of Transliteration Model
Jin-Shea Kuo and Haizhou Li
Identifying Sections in Scientific Abstracts using Conditional Random Fields
Kenji Hirohata, Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou and Mitsuru Ishizuka
B3-1: Ontologies and Linguistic Resources (1)
Formalising Multi-layer Corpora in OWL DL - Lexicon Modelling, Querying and Consistency Control
Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian Pado, Dennis Spohr, Anette Frank and Ulrich Heid
Constructing taxonomy of numerative classifiers for Asian languages
Kiyoaki Shirai, Takenobu Tokunaga, Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Tzu-Yi Kuo, Virach Sornlertlamvanich and Thatsanee Charoenporn
Translating Compounds by Learning Component Gloss Translation Models via Multiple Languages
Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky
C3-1: Question Answering
Answering Definition Questions via Temporally-Anchored Text Snippets
Marius Pasca
Corpus-based Question Answering for why-Questions
Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Hideki Isozaki
Cluster-Based Query Expansion for Statistical Question Answering
Lucian Lita and Jaime Carbonell |
10:30-11:00 |
Break
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11:00-12:30 |
Oral session: (3 + 3 + 3)
A3-2: Statistical Models/Machine Learning for NLP (2)
A Semantic Feature for Relation Recognition Using a Web-based Corpus
ChenMing Hung
Multilingual Text Entry using Automatic Language Detection
Yo Ehara and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Using Contextual Speller Techniques and Language Modeling for ESL Error Correction
Michael Gamon, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Brockett, Alexandre Klementiev, William B. Dolan, Dmitriy Belenko and Lucy Vanderwende
B3-2: Ontologies and Linguistic Resources (2)
Bilingual Synonym Identification with Spelling Variations
Takashi Tsunakawa and Jun'ichi Tsujii
Minimally Supervised Multilingual Taxonomy and Translation Lexicon Induction
Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky
Japanese-Spanish Thesaurus Construction using English as a Pivot
Jessica Ramirez, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto
C3-2: Event/Sentence Relation
Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Roles using Conditional Random Fields for Legal Document Summarization
Saravanan M., Ravindran B. and Raman S.
Projection-based Acquisition of a Temporal Labeller
Kathrin Spreyer and Anette Frank
Acquiring Event Relation Knowledge by Learning Cooccurrence Patterns and Fertilizing Cooccurrence Samples with Verbal Nouns
Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00-15:00 |
Invited talk 2: Language Processing for the evolving Web
Dr S.H. Srinivasan, Yahoo! |
15:00-15:30 |
Break
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15:30-17:00 |
Oral session: (3 + 3 + 3)
A3-3: Statistical Machine Translation
Refinements in BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Ai Ti Aw, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin
Simple Syntactic and Morphological Processing Can Help English-Hindi Statistical MT
Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Jayprasad Hegde, Ritesh Shah, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Sasikumar M
Statistical Translation Models for Personalized Search
Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati and Vasudeva Varma
B3-3: Ontologies and Linguistic Resources (3)
Repurposing Theoretical Linguistic Data for Tool Development and Search
Fei Xia and William Lewis
Computing Paraphrasability of Syntactic Variants using Web Snippets
Atsushi Fujita and Satoshi Sato
Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags
Wisam Dakka and Silviu Cucerzan
C3-3: Semantic Similarity
Context Feature Selection for Distributional Similarity
Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa and Katsuhiko Toyama
Gloss-Based Semantic Similarity Metrics for Predominant Sense Acquisition
Ryu Iida, Diana McCarthy and Rob Koeling
Benchmarking Noun Compound Interpretation
Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin |
17:00-17:30 |
Closing session
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