9:00-9:20 Welcome
9:20-10:20 Keynote - Mengqiu Wang (Baidu)
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
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10:50-12:05 Text Mining I (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Le Sun
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| 10.50-11.15 |
Analyzing the Dynamics of Research by Extracting Key Aspects of Scientific Papers
Sonal Gupta and Christopher Manning
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| 11.15-11.40 |
Dependency-directed Tree Kernel-based Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Biomedical Literature Longhua Qian and Guodong Zhou
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| 11.40-12.05 |
Learning Logical Structures of Paragraphs in Legal Articles Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh, Tran Thi Oanh and Akira Shimazu
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10:50-12:05 Machine Translation I (Auditorium)
Chair: Hua Wu
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| 10.50-11.15 |
Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures
Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata
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| 11.15-11.40 |
Context-Sensitive Syntactic Source-Reordering by Statistical Transduction
Maxim Khalilov and Khalil Sima’an
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| 11.40-12.05 |
Discriminative Phrase-based Lexicalized Reordering Models using Weighted Reordering Graphs
Wang Ling, Jo˜ao Grac¸a, David Martins de Matos, Isabel Trancoso and Alan W Black
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10:50-12:05 Machine Learning I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Grzegorz Chrupala
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| 10.50-11.15 |
Active Learning Strategies for Support Vector Machines, Application to Temporal Relation Classification
Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani and Alexis Nasr
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| 11.15-11.40 |
A Fast Accurate Two-stage Training Algorithm for L1-regularized CRFs with Heuristic Line Search Strategy
Jinlong Zhou, Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang
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| 11.40-12.05 |
Automatic Topic Model Adaptation for Sentiment Analysis in Structured Domains
Geoffrey Levine and Gerald DeJong
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10:50-12:05 Discourse / Dialog I (Phayao)
Chair: Anton Leuski
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| 10.50-11.15 |
Multi-modal Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue by Integrating Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Clues
Ryu Iida, Masaaki Yasuhara and Takenobu Tokunaga
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| 11.15-11.40 |
Single and multi-objective optimization for feature selection in anaphora resolution
Sriparna Saha, Asif Ekbal, Olga Uryupina and Massimo Poesio
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| 11.40-12.05 |
A Unified Event Coreference Resolution by Integrating Multiple Resolvers
Bin Chen, Jian Su, Sinno Jialin Pan and Chew Lim Tan
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| 12.05-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:10 Machine Translation II (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Min Zhang
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Handling verb phrase morphology in highly inflected Indian languages for Machine Translation
Ankur Gandhe, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Karthik Visweswariah and Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Japanese Pronunciation Prediction as Phrasal Statistical Machine Translation
Jun Hatori and Hisami Suzuki
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Comparing Two Techniques for Learning Transliteration Models Using a Parallel Corpus
Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid and Alexander Fraser
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| 14.45-15.10 |
A Semantic-Specific Model for Chinese Named Entity Translation
Yufeng Chen and Chengqing Zong
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13:30-15:10 Text Mining II (Auditorium)
Chair: Sophia Ananiadou
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Mining Revision Log of Language Learning SNS for Automated Japanese Error Correction of Second Language Learners
Tomoya Mizumoto, Mamoru Komachi, Masaaki Nagata and Yuji Matsumoto
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Modality Specific Meta Features for Authorship Attribution in Web Forum Posts
Thamar Solorio, Sangita Pillay, Sindhu Raghavan and Manuel Montes-Gomez
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Keyphrase Extraction from Online News Using Binary Integer Programming
Zhuoye Ding, Qi Zhang and Xuanjing Huang
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Improving Related Entity Finding via Incorporating Homepages and Recognizing Finegrained Entities
Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai and Hideki Kashioka
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13:30-15:10 Semantics I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Enhancing Active Learning for Semantic Role Labeling via Compressed Dependency Trees
Chenhua Chen, Alexis Palmer and Caroline Sporleder
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Semantic Role Labeling Without Treebanks?
Stephen Boxwell, Chris Brew, Jason Baldridge, Dennis Mehay and Sujith Ravi
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis Exploiting Argument Position and Type
Yuta Hayashibe, Mamoru Komachi and Yuji Matsumoto
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| 14.45-15.10 |
An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns
Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar
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13:30-15:10 Syntax I(Phayao)
Chair: Yusuke Miyao
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Feature-Rich Log-Linear Lexical Model for Latent Variable PCFG Grammars
Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Improving Dependency Parsing with Fined-Grained Features
Guangyou Zhou, Li Cai, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Natural Language Programming Using Class Sequential Rules
Cohan Sujay Carlos
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Treeblazing: Using External Treebanks to Filter Parse Forests for Parse Selection and Treebanking
Andrew MacKinlay, Rebecca Dridan, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen and Timothy Baldwin
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| 15.10-15.30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-17:10 Text Mining/IE (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Jian Su
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Cross-Language Entity Linking
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Dawn Lawrie, Douglas Oard and David Doermann
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Generating Chinese Named Entity Data from a Parallel Corpus
Ruiji Fu, Bing Qin and Ting Liu
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Learning the Latent Topics for Question Retrieval in Community QA
Li Cai, Guangyou Zhou, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao
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| 16.45-17.10 |
Identifying Event Descriptions using Co-training with Online News Summaries
William Yang Wang, Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown
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15:30-17:10 Phonology/Morphology (Auditorium)
Chair: Greg Kondrak
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Automatic Labeling of Voiced Consonants for Morphological Analysis of Modern Japanese Literature
Teruaki Oka, Mamoru Komachi, Toshinobu Ogiso and Yuji Matsumoto
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| 15.55-16.20 |
S3 - Statistical Sandhi Splitting
Abhiram Natarajan and Eugene Charniak
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Improving Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging with Semi-supervised Methods Using Large Auto-Analyzed Data
Yiou Wang, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Kentaro Torisawa
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| 16.45-17.10 |
CODACT: Towards Identifying Orthographic Variants in Dialectal Arabic
Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab
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15:30-17:10 Sentiment I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Henning Wachsmuth
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Enhancing the HL-SOT Approach to Sentiment Analysis via a Localized Feature Selection Framework
Wei and Jon Atle Gulla
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis with Structural Features
C¨acilia Zirn, Mathias Niepert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Michael Strube
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Predicting Opinion Dependency Relations for Opinion Analysis
Lun-Wei Ku, Ting-Hao Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
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| 16.45-17.10 |
Detecting and Blocking False Sentiment Propagation
Hye-Jin Min and Jong C. Park
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15:30-17:10 Machine Learning II (Phayao)
Chair: Jun Suzuki
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Efficient induction of probabilistic word classes with LDA
Grzegorz Chrupala
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Quality-biased Ranking of Short Texts in Microblogging Services
Minlie Huang, Yi Yang and Xiaoyan Zhu
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Labeling Unlabeled Data using Cross-Language Guided Clustering
Sachindra Joshi, Danish Contractor and Sumit Negi
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| 16.45-17.10 |
Extracting Relation Descriptors with Conditional Random Fields
Yaliang Li, Jing Jiang, Hai Leong Chieu and Kian Ming A. Chai
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18:00-21:00 Poster/Demo (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Shiqi Zhao
Text Mining (Poster Presentations)
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- Safety Information Mining - What can NLP do in a disaster -
Graham Neubig, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Masato Hagiwara and Koji Murakami
- A Character-Level Machine Translation Approach for Normalization of SMS Abbreviations
Deana Pennell and Yang Liu
- Using Text Reviews for Product Entity Completion
Mrinmaya Sachan, Tanveer Faruquie, L. V. Subramaniam and Mukesh Mohania
- Mining bilingual topic hierarchies from unaligned text
Sumit Negi
- Efficient Near-Duplicate Detection for Q&A Forum
Yan Wu, Qi Zhang and Xuanjing Huang
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Information Extraction (Poster Presentations)
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- A Graph-based Method for Entity Linking
Yuhang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
- Harvesting Related Entities with a Search Engine
Shuqi Sun, Shiqi Zhao, Muyun Yang, Haifeng Wang and Sheng Li
- Acquiring Strongly-related Events using Predicate-argument Co-occurring Statistics and Case Frames
Tomohide Shibata and Sadao Kurohashi
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Information Retrieval (Poster Presentations)
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- Relevance Feedback using Latent Information
Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi
- Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision
Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao
- Query Expansion for IR using Knowledge-Based Relatedness
Arantxa Otegi, Xabier Arregi and Eneko Agirre
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Summarization (Poster Presentations)
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- Using Context Inference to Improve Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization
Peifeng Li, Guangxi Deng and Qiaoming Zhu
- Enhancing extraction based summarization with outside word space
Christian Smith and Arne J¨onsson
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Discourse (Poster Presentations)
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- Shallow Discourse Parsing with Conditional Random Fields
Sucheta Ghosh, Richard Johansson, Giuseppe Riccardi and Sara Tonelli
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Machine Learning (Poster Presentations)
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- Relational Lasso - An Improved Method Using the Relations Among Features -
Kotaro Kitagawa and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
- Enhance Top-down method with Meta-Classification for Very Large-scale Hierarchical Classification
Xiao-lin Wang, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu
- Using Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels to Improve Multi-Modality Manifold-Ranking for Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan and Kaisar Imam
- Automatic Determination of a Domain Adaptation Method forWord Sense Disambiguation Using Decision Tree Learning
Kanako Komiya and Manabu Okumura
- Learning from Chinese-English Parallel Data for Chinese Tense Prediction
Feifan Liu, Fei Liu and Yang Liu
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Semantics (Poster Presentations)
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- Jointly Extracting Japanese Predicate-Argument Relation with Markov Logic
Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto
- Word Meaning in Context: A Simple and Effective Vector Model
Stefan Thater, Hagen F¨urstenau and Manfred Pinkal
- Automatic Analysis of Semantic Coherence in Academic Abstracts Written in Portuguese
Vin´ıcius Mour˜ao Alves de Souza and Val´eria Delisandra Feltrim
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Sentiment (Poster Presentations)
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- Sentence Subjectivity Detection with Weakly-Supervised Learning
Chenghua Lin, Yulan He and Richard Everson
- Opinion Expression Mining by Exploiting Keyphrase Extraction
G´abor Berend
- Extracting Resource Terms for Sentiment Analysis
Lei Zhang and Bing Liu
- Towards Context-Based Subjectivity Analysis
Farah Benamara, Baptiste Chardon, Yannick Mathieu and Vladimir Popescu
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Phonology/Morphology (Poster Presentations)
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- Compression Methods by Code Mapping and Code Dividing for Chinese Dictionary Stored in a Double-Array Trie
Huidan Liu, Minghua Nuo, Longlong Ma, Jian Wu and Yeping He
- Functional Elements and POS Categories
Qiuye Zhao and Mitch Marcus
- Joint Alignment and Artificial Data Generation: An Empirical Study of Pivot-based Machine Transliteration
Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Ming Liu, Yunqing Xia and Haizhou Li
- Incremental Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing in Chinese
Jun Hatori, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii
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Resources (Poster Presentations)
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- Extending the adverbial coverage of a NLP oriented resource for French
Elsa Tolone and Stavroula Voyatzi
- Linguistic Phenomena, Analyses, and Representations: Understanding Conversion between Treebanks
Rajesh Bhatt, Owen Rambow and Fei Xia
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Syntax (Poster Presentations)
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- Automatic Transformation of the Thai Categorial Grammar Treebank to Dependency Trees
Christian Rishøj, Taneth Ruangrajitpakorn, Prachya Boonkwan and Thepchai Supnithi
- Parse Reranking Based on Higher-Order Lexical Dependencies
Zhiguo Wang and Chengqing Zong
- Improving Part-of-speech Tagging for Context-free Parsing
Xiao Chen and Chunyu Kit
- Models Cascade for Tree-Structured Named Entity Detection
Marco Dinarelli and Sophie Rosset
- Clausal parsing helps data-driven dependency parsing: Experiments with Hindi
Samar Husain, Phani Gadde, Joakim Nivre and Rajeev Sangal
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Machine Translation (Poster Presentations)
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- Word-reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Using Trigram Language Model
Jing He and Hongyu Liang
- Extracting Hierarchical Rules from a Weighted Alignment Matrix
Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin
- Integration of Reduplicated Multiword Expressions and Named Entities in a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation System
Thoudam Doren Singh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
- Regularizing Mono- and Bi-Word Models for Word Alignment
Thomas Schoenemann
- Parametric Weighting of Parallel Data for Statistical Machine Translation
Kashif Shah, Lo¨ıc Barrault and Holger Schwenk
- An Effective and Robust Framework for Transliteration Exploration
EA-EE JAN, Niyu Ge, Shih-Hsiang Lin and Berlin Chen
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Demos
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- WikiNetTK - A Tool Kit for EmbeddingWorld Knowledge in NLP Applications
Alex Judea, Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube
- Using Linguist's Assistant for Language Description and Translation
Stephen Beale
- TTC TermSuite - A UIMA Application for Multilingual Terminology Extraction from Comparable Corpora
J´erˆome Rocheteau and B´eatrice Daille
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9:00-10:00 Keynote - Matt Lease (University of Texas)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
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10:30-12:10 Information Retrieval I (Lanna II, III)
Chair: TBA
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| 10.30-10.55 |
Attribute Extraction from Synthetic Web Search Queries
Marius Pasca
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| 10.55-11.20 |
Japanese Abbreviation Expansion with Query and Clickthrough Logs
Kei Uchiumi, Mamoru Komachi, Keigo Machinaga, Toshiyuki Maezawa, Toshinori Satou and Yoshinori Kobayashi
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| 11.20-11.45 |
Mining Parallel Documents Using Low Bandwidth and High Precision CLIR from the Heterogeneous Web
Simon Shi, Pascale Fung, Emmanuel Prochasson, Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu
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| 11.45-12.10 |
Crawling Back and Forth: Using Back and Out Links to Locate Bilingual Sites
Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore and Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar
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10:30-12:10 Syntax II (Auditorium)
Chair: Josef van Genabith
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| 10.30-10.55 |
Grammar Induction from Text Using Small Syntactic Prototypes
Prachya Boonkwan and Mark Steedman
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| 10.55-11.20 |
Transferring Syntactic Relations from English to Hindi Using Alignments on Local Word Groups
Aswarth Dara, Prashanth Mannem, Hemanth Sagar Bayyarapu and Avinesh PVS
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| 11.20-11.45 |
Generative Modeling of Coordination by Factoring Parallelism and Selectional Preferences
Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi
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| 11.45-12.10 |
Syntactic Parsing for Ranking-Based Coreference Resolution
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng
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10:30-12:10 Generation/Summarization (Sukhotai)
Chair: Xiaodan Zhu
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| 10.30-10.55 |
TriS: A Statistical Sentence Simplifier with Log-linear Models and Margin-based Discriminative Training
Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel
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| 10.55-11.20 |
Social Summarization via Automatically Discovered Social Context
Po Hu, Cheng Sun, Longfei Wu, Donghong Ji and Chong Teng
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| 11.20-11.45 |
Simultaneous Clustering and Noise Detection for Theme-based Summarization
Xiaoyan Cai, Renxian Zhang, Dehong Gao and Wenjie Li
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| 11.45-12.10 |
Extractive Summarization Method for Contact Center Dialogues based on Call Logs
Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa, Masahiro Saikou and Masaaki Tsuchida
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10:30-12:10 Spoken Language (Phayao)
Chair: Hsin-Hsi Chen
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| 10.30-10.55 |
Indexing Spoken Documents with Hierarchical Semantic Structures: Semantic Tree-tostring Alignment Models
Xiaodan Zhu, Colin Cherry and Gerald Penn
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| 10.55-11.20 |
Structured and Extended Named Entity Evaluation in Automatic Speech Transcriptions
Olivier Galibert, Sophie Rosset, Cyril Grouin, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Ludovic Quintard
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| 11.20-11.45 |
Normalising Audio Transcriptions for Unwritten Languages
Adel Foda and Steven Bird
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| 11.45-12.10 |
Similarity Based Language Model Construction for Voice Activated Open- Domain Question Answering
Istvan Varga, Kiyonori Ohtake, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Teruhisa Misu, Shigeki Matsuda and Jun'ichi Kazama
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| 12:10-13:55 |
Lunch |
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13:55-15:10 Machine Learning III (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Kevin Duh
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| 13.55-14.20 |
The application of chordal graphs to inferring phylogenetic trees of languages
Jessica Enright and Grzegorz Kondrak
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Cross-domain Feature Selection for Language Identification
Marco Lui and Timothy Baldwin
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| 14.45-15.10 |
A Wikipedia-LDA Model for Entity Linking with Batch Size Changing Instance Selection
Wei Zhang, Jian Su and Chew-Lim Tan
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13:55-15:10 Information Retrieval II (Auditorium)
Chair: Qi Zhang
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Discovering Latent Concepts and Exploiting Ontological Features for Semantic Text Search
Vuong M. Ngo and Tru H. Cao
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| 14.20-14.45 |
CLGVSM: Adapting Generalized Vector Space Model to Cross-lingual Document Clustering
Guoyu Tang, Yunqing Xia, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li and Fang Zheng
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Thread Cleaning and Merging for Microblog Topic Detection
Jianfeng Zhang, Yunqing Xia, Bin Ma, Jianmin Yao and Yu Hong
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13:55-15:10 Dialog/Discourse II (Sukhotai)
Chair: Ryu Iida
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Training a BN-based user model for dialogue simulation with missing data
St'ephane Rossignol, Olivier Pietquin and Michel Ianotto
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations
Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
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13:55-15:10 Sentiment II (Phayao)
Chair: Rafael E. Banchs
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| 13.55-14.20 |
A POS-based Ensemble Model for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification
Rui Xia and Chengqing Zong
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Ensemble-style Self-training on Citation Classification
Cailing Dong and Ulrich Sch¨afer
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Back to the Roots of Genres: Text Classification by Language Function
Henning Wachsmuth and Kathrin Bujna
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| 15.10-15.30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-17:10 Machine Transliteration III (Lanna II, III)
Chair: QUN LIU
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Transductive Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Yinggong Zhao, Shujie Liu, Yangsheng Ji, Jiajun Chen and Guodong Zhou
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Distributed Minimum Error Rate Training of SMT using Particle Swarm Optimization
Jun Suzuki, Kevin Duh and Masaaki Nagata
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Going Beyond Word Cooccurrences in Global Lexical Selection for Statistical Machine Translation using a Multilayer Perceptron
Alexandre Patry and Philippe Langlais
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| 16.45-17.10 |
System Combination Using Discriminative Cross-Adaptation
Jacob Devlin, Antti-Veikko Rosti, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Spyros Matsoukas
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15:30-17:10 Semantic II (Auditorium)
Chair: Chris Brew
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Word Sense Disambiguation by Combining Labeled Data Expansion and Semi- Supervised Learning Method
Sanae Fujita and Akinori Fujino
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Combining ConceptNet and WordNet for Word Sense Disambiguation
Junpeng Chen and Juan Liu
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| 16.20-16.45 |
It Takes Two to Tango: A Bilingual Unsupervised Approach for Estimating Sense Distributions using Expectation Maximization
Mitesh M Khapra, Salil Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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| 16.45-17.10 |
Dynamic and Static Prototype Vectors for Semantic Composition
Siva Reddy, Ioannis Klapaftis, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar
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15:30-17:10 Information Extraction (Sukhotai)
Chair: Paul McNamee
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Using Prediction from Sentential Scope to Build a Pseudo Co-Testing Learner for Event Extraction
Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman
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| 15.55-16.20 |
Text Segmentation and Graph-based Method for Template Filling in Information Extraction
Ludovic Jean-Louis, Romaric Besanc¸on and Olivier Ferret
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| 16.20-16.45 |
Joint Distant and Direct Supervision for Relation Extraction
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen and Alessandro Moschitti
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| 16.45-17.10 |
A Cross-lingual Annotation Projection-based Self-supervision Approach for Open Information Extraction
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Jonghoon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee
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15:30-17:10 Syntax III (Phayao)
Chair: Fei Xia
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| 15.30-15.55 |
Exploring Difficulties in Parsing Imperatives and Questions
Tadayoshi Hara, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii
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| 15.55-16.20 |
A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution with Large- scale Lexicalized Case Frames
Ryohei Sasano and Sadao Kurohashi
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| 16.20-16.45 |
An Empirical Comparison of Unknown Word Prediction Methods
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord, Valia Kordoni and Yi Zhang
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| 16.45-17.10 |
Training Dependency Parsers from Partially Annotated Corpora
Daniel Flannery, Yusuke Miayo, Graham Neubig and Shinsuke Mori
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| 19.00-21.00 |
Banquet (River House Restaurant) |
9:00-10:00 Keynote - Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
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10:30-12:10 Short papers
10:30-12:10 Machine Translation / Machine Learning (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Chengqing Zong
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- Reducing Asymmetry between language-pairs to Improve Alignment and Translation Quality
Rashmi Gangadharaiah
- Clause-Based Reordering Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Karthik Visweswariah, Kushal Ladha and Ankur Gandhe
- Generalized Minimum Bayes Risk System Combination
Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Hajime Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata
- Enhancing scarce-resource language translation through pivot combinations
Marta R. Costa-juss`a, Carlos Henr´ıquez and Rafael E. Banchs
- A Baseline System for Chinese Near-Synonym Choice
Liang-Chih Yu, Wei-Nan Chien and Shih-Ting Chen
- Cluster Labelling based on Concepts in a Machine-Readable Dictionary
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
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10:30-12:10 Semantics (Auditorium)
Chair: Suresh Manandhar
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- Text Patterns and Compression Models for Semantic Class Learning
Chung-Yao Chuang, Yi-Hsun Lee and Wen-Lian Hsu
- Potts Model on the Case Fillers for Word Sense Disambiguation
Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
- Improving Word Sense Induction by Exploiting Semantic Relevance
Zhenzhong Zhang and Le Sun
- Predicting Word Clipping with Latent Semantic Analysis
Julian Brooke, Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst
- A Semantic Relatedness Measure Based on Combined Encyclopedic, Ontological and Collocational Knowledge
Yannis Haralambous and Vitaly Klyuev
- Going Beyond Text: A Hybrid Image-Text Approach for Measuring Word Relatedness
Chee Wee Leong and Rada Mihalcea
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10:30-12:10 Text Mining / Question Answering (Sukhotai)
Chair: Gary Lee
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- Domain Independent Model for Product Attribute Extraction from User Reviews using Wikipedia
Sudheer Kovelamudi, Sethu Ramalingam, Arpit Sood and Vasudeva Varma
- Finding Problem Solving Threads in Online Forum
Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu
- Compiling Learner Corpus Data of Linguistic Output and Language Processing in Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading
Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Hiroaki Nanjo and Hitoshi Isahara
- Mining the Sentiment Expectation of Nouns Using Bootstrapping Method
Miaomiao Wen and Yunfang Wu
- An Analysis of Questions in a Q&A Site Resubmitted Based on Indications of Unclear Points of Original Questions
Masahiro Kojima, Yasuhiko Watanabe and Yoshihiro Okada
- Diversifying Information Needs in Results of Question Retrieval
Yaoyun Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, Ruifeng Xu, Jun Xu and ShiXi Fan
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10:30-12:10 Other NLP topics (Phayao)
Chair: Wei He
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- Beyond Normalization: Pragmatics of Word Form in Text Messages
Tyler Baldwin and Joyce Chai
- Chinese Discourse Relation Recognition
Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
- Improving Chinese POS Tagging with Dependency Parsing
Zhenghua Li, Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu
- Exploring self training for Hindi dependency parsing
Rahul Goutam and Bharat Ram Ambati
- Reduction of Search Space to Annotate Monolingual Corpora
Prajol Shrestha, Christine Jacquin and Beatrice Daille
- Toward a Parallel Corpus of Spoken Cantonese and Written Chinese
John Lee
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| 12:00-13:30 Lunch |
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13:30-15:35 Machine Translation IV (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Michael Paul
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| 13.30-13.55 |
A Breadth-First Representation for Tree Matching in Large Scale Forest-Based Translation
Sumukh Ghodke, Steven Bird and Rui Zhang
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Bayesian Subtree Alignment Model based on Dependency Trees
Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Enriching SMT Training Data via Paraphrasing
Wei He, Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Translation Quality Indicators for Pivot-based Statistical MT
Michael Paul and Eiichiro Sumita
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| 15.10-15.35 |
Source Error-Projection for Sample Selection in Phrase-Based SMT for Resource-Poor Languages
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan
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13:30-15:35 Morphology/Named-Entity Recognition (Auditorium)
Chair: Kemal Oflazer
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| 13.30-13.55 |
A Named Entity Recognition Method based on Decomposition and Concatenation of Word Chunks
Tomoya Iwakura, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Extract Chinese Unknown Words from a Large-scale Corpus Using Morphological and Distributional Evidences
Kaixu Zhang, Ruining Wang, Ping Xue and Maosong Sun
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Entity Disambiguation Using a Markov-Logic Network
Hong-Jie Dai, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Named Entity Recognition in Chinese News Comments on the Web
Xiaojun Wan, Liang Zong, Xiaojiang Huang, Tengfei Ma, Houping Jia, Yuqian Wu and Jianguo Xiao
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| 15.10-15.35 |
Clustering Semantically Equivalent Words into Cognate Sets in Multilingual Lists
Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak
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13:30-15:35 Resources (Sukhotai)
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Extending WordNet with Hypernyms and Siblings Acquired from Wikipedia
Ichiro Yamada, Jong-Hoon Oh, Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun’ichi Kazama, Stijn De Saeger and Takuya Kawada
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| 13.55-14.20 |
What Psycholinguists Know About Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage
Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych
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| 14.20-14.45 |
From News to Comment: Resources and Benchmarks for Parsing the Language of Web 2.0
Jennifer Foster, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Joachim Wagner, Joseph Le Roux, Joakim Nivre, Deirdre Hogan and Josef van Genabith
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| 14.45-15.10 |
Toward Finding Semantic Relations not Written in a Single Sentence: An Inference Method using Auto-Discovered Rules
Masaaki Tsuchida, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Jong Hoon Oh, Jun’ichi Kazama,Chikara Hashimoto and Hayato Ohwada
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| 15.10-15.35 |
Fleshing it out: A Supervised Approach to MWE-token and MWE-type Classification
Richard Fothergill and Timothy Baldwin
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13:30-15:35 Question Answering (Phayao)
Chair: Yufeng Chen
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| 13.30-13.55 |
Identification of relations between answers with global constraints for Community-based Question Answering services
Hikaru Yokono, Takaaki Hasegawa, Genichiro Kikui and Manabu Okumura
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| 13.55-14.20 |
Automatically Generating Questions from Queries for Community-based Question Answering
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Chao Li, Ting Liu and Yi Guan
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| 14.20-14.45 |
Question classification based on an extended class sequential rule model
Zijing Hui, Juan Liu and Lumei Ouyang
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| 14.45-15.10 |
K2Q: Generating Natural Language Questions from Keywords with User Refinements
Zhicheng Zheng, Xiance Si, Edward Chang and Xiaoyan Zhu
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| 15.10-15.35 |
Answering Complex Questions via Exploiting Social Q&A Collection
Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai and Hideki Kashioka
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| 15.35-16.05 |
Coffee Break |
| 16.05-17.15 |
Best paper session
(2 plenary papers announced during this session) |
| 17.15-17.25 |
Presentation of Future Conferences (including ACL/IJCNLP 2012)
and Upcoming Conferences Announcement (COLING 2012)
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| 17:25-17:35 |
Closing Ceremony
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