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Call for Participation
5th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Language Resources for Machine Translation
in Less-Resourced Languages and Domains
Co-located with LREC 2012
Lütfi Kırdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Endorsed by
* ACL SIGWAC (Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus)
* FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network)
* META-NET (Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance)
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (formatted version see URL above)
Saturday, 26 May 2012
09:00 Opening
Oral Presentations 1: Multilinguality (Chair: Pierre Zweigenbaum)
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09:10 Philipp Petrenz, Bonnie Webber: Robust Cross-Lingual Genre Classification through Comparable Corpora
09:30 Qian Yu, François Yvon, Auréen Max: Revisiting sentence alignment algorithms for alignment visualization and evaluation
Invited Project Session (Chair: Serge Sharoff)
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09:50 Inguna Skadiņa: Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (ACCURAT, http://www.accurat-project.eu)
10:10 Andrejs Vasiļjevs: LetsMT! — Platform to Drive Development and Application of Statistical Machine Translation (LetsMT!, http://www.letsmt.eu)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Núria Bel, Vassilis Papavasiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Antonio Toral, Victoria Arranz: Mining and Exploiting Domain-Specific Corpora in the PANACEA Platform (PANACEA, http://panacea-lr.eu)
11:20 Adam Kilgarriff, George Tambouratzis: The PRESEMT Project (PRESEMT, http://www.presemt.eu)
11:40 Béatrice Daille: Building Bilingual Terminologies from Comparable Corpora: The TTC TermSuite (TTC, http://www.ttc-project.eu)
12:00 Panel Discussion with Invited Speakers
12:30 Lunch Break
Oral Presentations 2: Building Comparable Corpora (Chair: Reinhard Rapp)
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14:00 Aimée Lahaussois, Séverine Guillaume: A viewing and processing tool for the analysis of a comparable corpus of Kiranti mythology
14:20 Nancy Ide: MultiMASC: An Open Linguistic Infrastructure for Language Research
Poster Presentations with Booster Session (Chair: Marko Tadić)
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14:40 Elena Irimia: Experimenting with Extracting Lexical Dictionaries from Comparable Corpora for: English-Romanian language pair
14:45 Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Gloria Corpas, Ruslan Mitkov: Romanian Translational Corpora: Building Comparable Corpora for Translation Studies
14:50 Angelina Ivanova: Evaluation of a Bilingual Dictionary Extracted from Wikipedia
14:55 Quoc Hung-Ngo, Werner Winiwarter: A Visualizing Annotation Tool for Semi-Automatical Building a Bilingual Corpus
15:00 Lene Offersgaard, Dorte Haltrup Hansen: SMT systems for less-resourced languages based on domain-specific data
15:05 Magdalena Plamada, Martin Volk: Towards a Wikipedia-extracted Alpine Corpus
15:10 Sanja Štajner, Ruslan Mitkov: Using Comparable Corpora to Track Diachronic and Synchronic Changes in Lexical Density and Lexical Richness
15:15 Dan Stefanescu: Mining for Term Translations in Comparable Corpora
15:20 George Tambouratzis, Michalis Troullinos, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassiliou: Accurate phrase alignment in a bilingual corpus for EBMT systems
15:25 Kateřina VeselovskáNguy Giang Linh, Michal Novák Using Czech-English Parallel Corpora in Automatic Identification of 'It'
15:30 Manuela Yapomo, Gloria Corpas, Ruslan Mitkov: CLIR- and Ontology-Based Approach for Bilingual Extraction of Comparable Documents
15:35 Poster Session and Coffee Break (coffee from 16:00 — 16:30)
Oral Presentations 3: Lexicon Extraction and Corpus Analysis
(Chair: Andrejs Vasiļjevs)
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16:30 Amir Hazem, Emmanuel Morin: ICA for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora
16:50 Hiroyuki Kaji, Takashi Tsunakawa, Yoshihoro Komatsubara: Improving Compositional Translation with Comparable Corpora
17:10 Nikola Ljubešić, Špela Vintar, Darja Fišer: Multi-word term extraction from comparable corpora by combining contextual and constituent clues
17:30 Robert Remus, Mathias Bank: Textual Characteristics of Different-sized Corpora
17:50 Wrapup discussion and end of the workshop
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Leeds (UK)
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde SIA, Riga (Latvia)
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay, and ERTIM, INALCO, Paris (France)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
* Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, USA)
* Caroline Barrière (National Research Council Canada)
* Chris Biemann (Microsoft / Powerset, San Francisco, USA)
* Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)
* Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
* Andreas Eisele (DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
* Rob Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
* Nikos Glaros (ILSP, Athens, Greece)
* Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead/Dassault Systemes, Paris, France)
* Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
* Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
* Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
* Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
* Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK)
* Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
* Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver Inc., USA)
* Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Mainz, Germany, and Leeds, UK)
* Sujith Ravi (Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA)
* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
* Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
* Inguna Skadiņa (Tilde, Riga, Latvia)
* Monique Slodzian (INALCO, Paris, France)
* Benjamin Tsou (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)
* Dan Tufiş (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
* Justin Washtell (University of Leeds, UK)
* Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS Marseille, France)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
For further information, please contact
Reinhard Rapp reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
or Marko Tadić marko.tadic (at) ffzg (dot) hr