PROGRAM FOR COLING 2012

Saturday 8 December, 2012

Pre-conference workshops and tutorials

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:30-11:00 11:00-11:20 11:20-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:20 16:20-18:00

WS-4 (2) Tutorial-2 (2) WS-4 (2) Tutorial-2 (2) WS-4 (1) Tutorial-1 (1) WS-4 (1) Tutorial-1 (1)

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Sunday 9 December, 2012

Pre-conference workshops (cont.)

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:30-11:00 11:00-11:20 11:20-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:20 16:20-18:00

WS-15 WS-15

WS-11
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-11
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

WS-13
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-13

All Day ISO/TC37 Meeting (VMCC Board Room) Monday 10 December, 2012
Main Conference

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31

8:00 onwards 9:00-9:45 9:45-10:00 10:00-11:00

Registration (VMCC Lobby)

Inauguration (Convocation Hall)

Tea Break (Convocation Hall)

Invited Talk by Prof. Barbara Moser-Mercer (Convocatio

The adaptive brain: acquiring a complex cognitive skill in complex Translatio Coreferen Machine n and ce Learning Parsing resolution
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

11:20-13:00

13:00-14:30
Expert or Word Discourse hybrid Sense and machine Disambigu Pragmatic translatio ation s n

14:30-16:10

16:10-16:30
Sentiment Word and text Sense Morpholo classificati Disambigu gy on ation

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

16:30-18:10

18:15-19:45 20:00-21:30 21:30-22:30

Poster Presentations with High Tea (VMCC)

Reception (Convocation Hall) ICCL Short Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar)

Tuesday 11 December, 2012

Main Conference (cont.)

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:00-10:00

Invited Talk by Prof. Makoto Nagao (Convocation H

Digital Book, Digital Library, and Natural Language Proces

10:00-11:20

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

11:20-13:00

Sentiment Speech and text and Summariz classificati Summariz ation on ation
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

13:00-14:30
Content Deployme Underreso Extraction nt, urced & and integratio Indian Disambigu n& languages ation quality

14:30-16:10

16:10-16:30
Sentiment Natural Morpholo and Text Language gy and Classificati Generatio Corpora on n

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

16:30-18:10

19:30 onwards

Banquet at Renaissance

Wednesday 12 December, 2012

All Day 19:00-23:00

Excursion Day (Trip to Bhaja Caves)

ICCL Business Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar) Thursday 13 December, 2012

Main Conference (cont.)

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:00-10:00

Invited Talk by Prof. Paul Kiparsky (Convocation Ha

Minimum Description Length as the basis of Panini's gramm

10:00-11:20 11:20-13:00
Empirical machine translatio n Parsing Question answering

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

13:00-14:30

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

14:30-16:10

Translatio Grammar n and and Summariz Informatio formalism ation n s Retrieval

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

16:10-16:30 16:30-18:10 18:10-19:30 19:30-onwards

Cultural Evening : Empirical machine translatio n Parsing Semantics

High Tea (VMCC Lobby)

Tabla Solo by Shri. Prasad Padhye & Sitar by

Friday 14 December, 2012

Main Conference (cont.)

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:00-10:00 10:00-11:20 11:20-13:00

Empirical machine translatio n Parsing Semantics

Invited Talk by Prof. Dipti Sharma (Convocation Ha

NLP from Paninian Perspective

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

13:00-14:30 14:30-16:10
Machine Informatio Translatio Semantics n retrieval n and Grammar

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

16:10-16:30

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

16:30-18:10

Pragmatic s, IE & text Extraction Disambigu mining from Text ation and Content Extraction

18:10-19:00

Valedictory Function (VMCC Auditorium)

Saturday 15 December, 2012

Post-conference workshops

TIME

VMCC AUDITO RIUM

VMCC SH-22

VMCC SH-31
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

8:00 onwards 9:30-11:00 11:00-11:20 11:20-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:20 16:20-18:00

WS-5 WS-5

WS-7
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-7
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

WS-5 (2)

WS-7 (2)
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-5 (2)

WS-7 (2)

All Day UNL Panel (VMCC Board Room)

MAIN CONFERENCE TIME SESSION

Dec 10, Monday

Translation and Parsing

11:20-11:50

Extraction of domain-specific bilingual lexicon from comparable corpora: compositional translation and ranking [#127]

11:55-12:25

Evaluating the translation accuracy of a novel language-independent MT methodology [#434]

12:30-13:00 Dec 10, Monday 11:20-11:50

The French Social Media Bank: a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content [#954] Machine Learning Multi-way Tensor Factorization for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition [#897]

11:55-12:25

Factored Language Model based on Recurrent Neural Network [#612]

12:30-13:00 Dec 10, Monday 11:20-11:50

Statistical Method of Building Dialect Language Models for ASR Systems [#1012] Coreference resolution Coreference Resolution with ILP-based Weighted Abduction [#989]

11:55-12:25 12:30-13:00 Dec 10, Monday 11:20-11:50

Exploring Local and Global Semantic Information for Event Pronoun Resolution [#241] Easy-first Coreference Resolution [#997] Underresourced languages Incremental Learning of Affix Segmentation [#625]

11:55-12:25

Tibetan Base Noun Phrase Identification Framework Based on ChineseTibetan Sentence Aligned Corpus [#167]

12:30-13:00 Dec 10, Monday 11:20-11:50

Efficient Discrimination Between Closely Related Languages [#522] Software internationalization & localization An Evaluation of Statistical Post-editing Systems applied to RBMT and SMT Systems [#655]

11:55-12:25 12:30-13:00 Dec 10, Monday 14:30-15:00 15:05-15:35

Inducing Crosslingual Distributed Representations of Words [#975] Attribute Extraction From Conjectural Queries [#1033] Expert or hybrid machine translation A Simplification-Translation-Restoration Framework for Cross-Domain SMT Applications [#111] Alignment by Bilingual Generation and Monolingual Derivation [#631]

15:40-16:10 Dec 10, Monday

Comparative quality estimation: Automatic sentence-level ranking of multiple Machine Translation outputs [#1038] Word Sense Disambiguation

14:30-15:00

Expanding Microblog Context to Enhance Disambiguation to Wikipedia [#213]

15:05-15:35

Tailored Feature Extraction for Lexical Disambiguation of English Verbs Based on Corpus Pattern Analysis [#1110]

15:40-16:10 Dec 10, Monday 14:30-15:00

Unsupervised Japanese-Chinese Opinion Word Translation Using Dependency Distance and Feature-Opinion Association Weight [#654] Discourse and Pragmatics Hunting for Entailing Pairs in the Penn Discourse Treebank. [#495]

15:05-15:35

The Utility of Discourse Structure in Identifying Resolved Threads in Technical User Forums [#343] Whos (Really) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions [#1149] Morphology & POS tagging Integrating Surface and Abstract Features for Robust Cross-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation [#543] S-restricted monotone alignments: Algorithm, search space, and applications [#141]

15:40-16:10 Dec 10, Monday 14:30-15:00

15:05-15:35

15:40-16:10 Dec 10, Monday 14:30-15:00

Long-tail distributions and unsupevised learning of morphology [#494] Summarization A supervised aggregation framework for multi-document summarization [#362]

15:05-15:35

Flexible Japanese Sentence Compression by Relaxing Unit Constraints [#594]

15:40-16:10 Dec 10, Monday 16:30-17:00

Graph-based Multi-tweet Summarization Using Social Signals [#554] Sentiment and text classification Robust, Lexicalized Native Language Identification [#551]

17:05-17:35

Native Language Identification Using Recurring N-grams - Investigating Abstraction and Domain Dependence [#268]

17:40-18:10 Dec 10, Monday

Automatic Detection of Point of View Differences in Wikipedia [#990] Word Sense Disambiguation

16:30-17:00

Improving Supervised Sense Disambiguation with Web-Scale Selectors [#833]

17:05-17:35

Ant Colony Algorithm for the unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation of texts: comparison and evaluation [#128]

17:40-18:10 Dec 10, Monday

Joint Entity Disambiguation and Clustering [#976] Morphology

16:30-17:00

Harnessing the CRF complexity with domain-specific constraints. The case of morphosyntactic tagging of a highly inflected language. [#938]

17:05-17:35

Semi-supervised Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation [#1036]

17:40-18:10

The Floating Arabic Dictionary: An Automatic Method for Updating a Lexical Database through the Detection and Lemmatization of Unknown Words [#131]

Dec 10, Monday 16:30-17:00

Resources and annotation To Exhibit is not to Loiter: Measuring Verb Similarity using a Multilingual, Word Sense Disambiguated Wiktionary [#403]

17:05-17:35

Problems in Evaluating Grammatical Error Detection Systems [#866]

17:40-18:10 Dec 10, Monday 16:30-17:00

Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System [#801] Named Entity recognition A machine learning approach for phenotype name recognition [#271]

17:05-17:35

NEER: An Unsupervised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition [#232]

17:40-18:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 11:20-11:50

Grammarless Parsing for Joint Inference [#1127] Sentiment and text classification Readability Classification for German using lexical, syntactic, and morphological features [#725]

11:55-12:25

Text Reuse Detection Using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures [#367]

12:30-13:00 Dec 11, Tuesday 11:20-11:50

Native Tongues, Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification [#1153] Speech and Summarization Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures [#861]

11:55-12:25

Improving Text Normalization Using Character-blocks based Models and System Combination [#991]

12:30-13:00 Dec 11, Tuesday 11:20-11:50

Topical Word Trigger Model for Keyphrase Extraction [#450] Summarization Update Summarization Using a Multi-level Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model [#178]

11:55-12:25

Extractive Multi-Document Summarization with Integer Linear Programming and Support Vector Regression [#208]

12:30-13:00

Bridging the Gap between Intrinsic and Perceived Relevance in Snippet Generation [#877]

Dec 11, Tuesday 11:20-11:50

Underresourced languages and alignment JMaxAlign: A Maximum Entropy Parallel Sentence Alignment Tool [#814]

11:55-12:25

Contribution of complex lexical information to solve syntactic ambiguity in Basque [#834]

12:30-13:00

ISO-TimeML Event Extraction in Persian Text [#729]

Dec 11, Tuesday 11:20-11:50

Psychological and neurological modelling Studying the effect of input size for Bayesian Word Segmentation on the Providence Corpus [#445]

11:55-12:25

Recognizing personal characteristics of readers using eye-movements and text features [#581]

12:30-13:00 Dec 11, Tuesday 14:30-15:00

Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Selecting Typical Training Examples [#191] Content Extraction and Disambiguation Joint Modeling of Trigger Identification and Event Type Determination in Chinese Event Extraction [#151]

15:05-15:35

Towards a Generic and Flexible Citation Classifier Based on a Faceted Classification Scheme [#216]

15:40-16:10 Dec 11, Tuesday

Using Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion in Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation [#368] Underresourced & Indian languages

14:30-15:00

Improving Topic Classification for Highly Inflective Languages [#513]

15:05-15:35

Differential Evolution based Feature Selection and Classifier Ensemble for Named Entity Recognition [#840]

15:40-16:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 14:30-15:00

Sentiment Analysis in Twitter with Lightweight Discourse Analysis [#555] Deployment, integration & quality Detecting Word Ordering Errors in Chinese Sentences for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language [#277]

15:05-15:35

Generating ``A for Alpha'' When There Are Thousands of Characters [#572]

15:40-16:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 14:30-15:00

A System For Multilingual Sentiment Learning On Big Data [#586] Textual entailment A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition Using Natural Logic [#1078]

15:05-15:35

Paraphrasing for Style [#1000]

15:40-16:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 14:30-15:00

User Behaviors Lend a Helping Hand: Learning Paraphrase Query Patterns from Search Log Sessions [#629] Summarization SentTopic-MultiRank: a novel ranking model for multi-document summarization [#133]

15:05-15:35

Exploiting Category-Specific Information for Multi-Document Summarization [#518]

15:40-16:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 16:30-17:00

RelationListwise for query-focused multi-document summarization [#157] Sentiment and text classification Statistical Mechanical Analysis of Semantic Orientations on Lexical Network [#561]

17:05-17:35 17:40-18:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 16:30-17:00

Multi-View AdaBoost for Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis [#575] Finding Thoughtful Comments from Social Media [#503] Morphology and Corpora Modeling ESL Word Choice Similarities By Representing Word Intensions and Extensions [#1019] A Corpus-Based Study of Edit Categories in Featured and Non-Featured Wikipedia Articles [#473]

17:05-17:35

17:40-18:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 16:30-17:00 17:05-17:35

A Diverse Dirichlet Process Ensemble for Unsupervised Induction of Syntactic Categories [#237] Natural Language Generation Towards Automatic Topical Question Generation [#290] Adjective Deletion for Linguistic Steganography and Secret Sharing [#161]

17:40-18:10 Dec 11, Tuesday

Error Mining with Suspicion Trees: Seeing the Forest for the Trees [#211] Question answering

16:30-17:00

A Semi-Supervised Bayesian Network Model for Microblog Topic Classification [#775]

17:05-17:35

Thread Specific Features Are Helpful For Identifying Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads [#806]

17:40-18:10 Dec 11, Tuesday 16:30-17:00

Mining the Web for Large-Scale Conversational Content [#222] Named Entity recognition A Pipeline Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using a Hybrid Approach [#176]

17:05-17:35

A Comparison and Improvement of Online Learning Algorithms for Sequence Labeling [#245] Initial explorations on using CRFs for Turkish Named Entity Recognition [#1044] Empirical machine translation Machine Translation by Modeling Predicate-Argument Structure Transformation [#657] Bilingual Lexicon Construction from Comparable Corpora via Dependency Mapping [#690] Unsupervised Discriminative Induction of Synchronous Grammar for Machine Translation [#874] Parsing Improvements to Training an RNN Parser [#574] A Dynamic Oracle for Arc-Eager Dependency Parsing [#842]

17:40-18:10 Dec 13, Thursday 11:20-11:50

11:55-12:25

12:30-13:00 Dec 13, Thursday 11:20-11:50 11:55-12:25

12:30-13:00 Dec 13, Thursday 11:20-11:50

Exploiting Lexical Dependencies from Large-Scale Data for Better ShiftReduce Constituency Parsing [#742] Question answering Answering Yes/No Questions via Question Inversion [#400]

11:55-12:25

Multi-dimensional feature merger for Question Answering [#946]

12:30-13:00 Dec 13, Thursday 11:20-11:50

The Use of Dependency Relation Graph to Enhance the Term Weighting in Question Retrieval [#649] Ontologies and terminology Method mention extraction from scientific research papers [#1155]

11:55-12:25

Bayesian Text Segmentation for Index Term Identification and Keyphrase Extraction [#505]

12:30-13:00 Dec 13, Thursday 11:20-11:50

Constructing Reference Semantic Predictions from Biomedical Knowledge Sources [#156] Discourse and Pragmatics Implicitness of Discourse Relations [#598]

11:55-12:25

Modeling Leadership and Influence in Multi-party Online Discourse [#510]

12:30-13:00 Dec 13, Thursday 14:30-15:00

Constrained decoding for text-level discourse parsing [#671] Translation and Information Retrieval Inverse Document Density: A Smooth Measure for Location-Dependent Term Irregularities [#259]

15:05-15:35

N-gram Fragment Sequence Based Unsupervised Domain-Specific Document Readability [#623]

15:40-16:10 Dec 13, Thursday 14:30-15:00

Approximate Sentence Retrieval for Scalable and Efficient Example-based Machine Translation [#795] Grammar and formalisms Semantics-Based Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars [#1098]

15:05-15:35

From Finite-State to Inversion Transductions: Toward Unsupervised Bilingual Grammar Induction [#1112]

15:40-16:10 Dec 13, Thursday 14:30-15:00

A Comprehensive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering [#992] Summarization On the Effectiveness of Using Sentence Compression Models for QueryFocused Multi-Document Summarization [#426]

15:05-15:35

Twitter Topic Summarization by Ranking Tweets Using Social Influence and Content Quality [#478]

15:40-16:10

Context-Enhanced Personalized Social Summarization [#404]

Dec 13, Thursday

Annotation and Generation

14:30-15:00

Natural Language Generation for Nature Conservation: Automating Feedback to help Volunteers identify Bumblebee Species [#331]

15:05-15:35

Modeling the Complexity of Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis [#251] The Secret's in the Word Order: Text-to-Text Generation for Linguistic Steganography [#149] Resources and annotation

15:40-16:10 Dec 13, Thursday

14:30-15:00

Creating an Extended Named Entity Dictionary from Wikipedia [#541]

15:05-15:35

Learnability-based Syntactic Annotation Design [#198]

15:40-16:10

Prague Dependency Treebank 2.5 [#895]

Dec 13, Thursday 16:30-17:00 17:05-17:35 17:40-18:10 Dec 13, Thursday

Empirical machine translation Optimizing for Sentence-Level BLEU+1 Yields Short Translations [#617] Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-based SMT [#884] Bayesian Language Modelling of German Compounds [#1074] Parsing

16:30-17:00

Stacking Heterogeneous Joint Models of Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#717]

17:05-17:35

Improving Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parse Reranking with Dependency Grammar Features [#424]

17:40-18:10 Dec 13, Thursday 16:30-17:00

Stacking of Dependency and Phrase Structure Parsers [#896] Semantics Unsupervised Discovery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction Patterns [#809]

17:05-17:35

Improved Temporal Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and Selective Crowdsourced Annotations [#770]

17:40-18:10 Dec 13, Thursday 16:30-17:00

Grounded Language Acquisition: A Minimal Commitment Approach [#761] Underresourced languages Employing Morphological Structures and Sememes for Chinese Event Extraction [#310]

17:05-17:35

A Collaborative Platform for Sanskrit Processing [#764]

17:40-18:10 Dec 13, Thursday 16:30-17:00

Deriving a Lexicon for a Precision Grammar from Language Documentation Resources: A Case Study of Chintang [#371] Psychological and neurological modelling Mining words in the minds of second language learners: learner-specific word difficulty [#1002]

17:05-17:35

Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity Assessment from Online Forum Posts [#1093]

17:40-18:10

A Computational Cognitive Model for Semantic Sub-network Extraction from Natural Language Queries [#316] Empirical machine translation Translation Quality-Based Supplementary Data Selection by Incremental Update of Translation Models [#520]

Dec 14, Friday

11:20-11:50

11:55-12:25

A Comparison of Syntactic Reordering Methods for English-German Machine Translation} [#560]

12:30-13:00 Dec 14, Friday 11:20-11:50 11:55-12:25

Tree-based Translation without Using Parse Trees [#489] Parsing Easy-First, Chinese, POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#616] Mining Rules for Rewriting States in a Transition-based Dependency Parser for English [#309]

12:30-13:00 Dec 14, Friday 11:20-11:50

A Separately Passive-Aggressive Training Algorithm for Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#446] Semantics Learning Effective and Interpretable Semantic Models using Non Negative Sparse Coding [#1088]

11:55-12:25

Learning Compositional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing [#882]

12:30-13:00 Dec 14, Friday 11:20-11:50

Deriving Paraphrases for Highly-Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents [#645] Ontologies and terminology Combining Wordnet and morphosyntactic information in terminology clustering [#687]

11:55-12:25 12:30-13:00 Dec 14, Friday 11:20-11:50

Experiments with Term Translation [#474] Structured Term Recognition in Medical Text [#923] Indian language technology Semantic Processing of Compounds in Indian Languages [#1034]

11:55-12:25

Noun Group and Verb Group Identification for Hindi POS Tagging [#835]

12:30-13:00

YouCat: Weakly Supervised Youtube Video Categorization System from Meta Data & User Comments using WordNet & Wikipedia [#557]

Dec 14, Friday 14:30-15:00

Information retrieval Unsupervised and semi-supervised morphological analysis for Information Retrieval in the biomedical domain [#979]

15:05-15:35

Combining Statistical Translation Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval [#441]

15:40-16:10

Measuring the similarity between TV programs using semantic relations [#467]

Dec 14, Friday 14:30-15:00

Machine Translation and Grammar Simple and Effective Parameter Tuning for Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation [#641]

15:05-15:35

Flexible Structural Analysis of Near-Meet-Semilattices for Typed Unificationbased Grammar Design [#1116]

15:40-16:10 Dec 14, Friday 14:30-15:00

Identifying Urdu Complex Predication via Bigram Extraction [#758] Semantics Accurate Unbounded Dependency Recovery using Generalized Categorial Grammars [#1046] Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling: Approaching from an Unsupervised Perspective [#786]

15:05-15:35

15:40-16:10 Dec 14, Friday 14:30-15:00 15:05-15:35 15:40-16:10 Dec 14, Friday 14:30-15:00

Walk-based Computation of Contextual Word Similarity [#1076] Natural Language Generation Towards efficient HPSG generation for German, a non-configurational language [#936] Quantifying Semantics Using Complex Network Analysis [#146] Structure-Driven Lexicalist Generation [#506] Ontologies and terminology Revising the Compositional Method for Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora [#477]

15:05-15:35

Using Argumentative Zones for Extractive Summarization of Scientific Articles [#182]

15:40-16:10 Dec 14, Friday

Comparing taxonomies for organising collections of documents [#255] IE & text mining

16:30-17:00

Tweet Ranking based on Heterogeneous Networks [#285]

17:05-17:35

A Lazy Learning Model for Entity Linking Using Query-Specific Information [#583]

17:40-18:10 Dec 14, Friday 16:30-17:00

Refinement of Underspecified Queries via Natural Language Question Generation from Unstructured Text [#276] Extraction from Text Understanding the Performance of Statistical MT Systems: A Linear Regression Framework [#525]

17:05-17:35

Chinese Evaluative Information Analysis [#1057]

17:40-18:10 Dec 14, Friday

Joint Modeling for Chinese Event Extraction with Rich Linguistic Features [#1157] Pragmatics, Disambiguation and Content Extraction

16:30-17:00

A hybrid approach to finding phenotype candidates in genetic texts [#618]

17:05-17:35 17:40-18:10 Dec 14, Friday 16:30-17:00

Geolocation Prediction in Social Media Data by Finding Location Indicative Words [#566] Identification of Social Acts in Dialogue [#514] Software Deployment and Translation SpeedRead: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline [#132]

17:05-17:35 17:40-18:10 Dec 14, Friday 16:30-17:00

Code Switching Language Model with Inversion Constraints for Mixed Language Speech Recognition [#1085] N/A MT, IR, Sentiment Extraction of Russian Sentiment Lexicon for Product Meta-Domain [#363]

17:05-17:35

Cross-Lingual Topical Relevance Models [#158]

17:40-18:10

Sub-corpora Sampling with an Application to Bilingual Lexicon Extraction [#493]

TUTORIALS
ID TITLE

T1

Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning

T2

Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP

T3

Multimodal Corpora

T4 T5 T6

The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu Natural Language Processing Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLP

WORKSHOPS
ID TITLE

WS1 WS2 WS3

Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM 2) Eye-tracking and Natural Language Processing

WS4

3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP)

WS5

Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)

WS6

10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources

WS7

2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)

WS8

Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

WS9

Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media Data

WS10

Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)

WS11

Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MT

(ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task) WS12 Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education

WS13

Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

WS14

Question Answering for Complex Domains

WS15

First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology

PROGRAM FOR COLING 2012

Saturday 8 December, 2012
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

Tutorial-3 (1)
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Tutorial-5 (1)

Tutorial-3 (1)
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Tutorial-5 (1)

Tutorial-4 (1)
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Tutorial-6 (1)

Tutorial-4 (1) Sunday 9 December, 2012

Pre-conference workshops (cont.)

Tutorial-6 (1)

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

WS-8
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-9 WS-9

WS-8
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

WS-8 (2)
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-9 (2)

WS-8 (2)

WS-9 (2)

All Day ISO/TC37 Meeting (VMCC Board Room) Monday 10 December, 2012
Main Conference

VMCC SH-32

VMCC SH-21

Registration (VMCC Lobby)

Inauguration (Convocation Hall)

Tea Break (Convocation Hall)

Invited Talk by Prof. Barbara Moser-Mercer (Convocation Hall)

The adaptive brain: acquiring a complex cognitive skill in complex contexts

Underresourced languages

Software internationalization & localization

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Morphology & POS tagging

Summarization

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Resources and annotation

Named Entity recognition

Poster Presentations with High Tea (VMCC)

Reception (Convocation Hall) ICCL Short Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar)

Tuesday 11 December, 2012

Main Conference (cont.)

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

Invited Talk by Prof. Makoto Nagao (Convocation Hall)

Digital Book, Digital Library, and Natural Language Processing

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

Underresourced languages and alignment

Psychological and neurological modelling

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Textual entailment

Summarization

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Question answering

Named Entity Recognition

Banquet at Renaissance

Wednesday 12 December, 2012

Excursion Day (Trip to Bhaja Caves) ICCL Business Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar) Thursday 13 December, 2012
Main Conference (cont.)

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

Invited Talk by Prof. Paul Kiparsky (Convocation Hall)

Minimum Description Length as the basis of Panini's grammar

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

Ontologies and terminology Discourse and Pragmatics

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Annotation and Generation

Resources and annotation

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Underresourced languages
High Tea (VMCC Lobby)

Psychological and neurological modelling

Tabla Solo by Shri. Prasad Padhye & Sitar by Pandit Nayan Ghosh

Friday 14 December, 2012

Main Conference (cont.)

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

Invited Talk by Prof. Dipti Sharma (Convocation Hall)

NLP from Paninian Perspective

Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)

Ontologies and terminology Indian language technology

Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

Natural Language Generation

Ontologies and terminology

Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

Software Deployment and Translation

MT,IR,Sentiment

Valedictory Function (VMCC Auditorium)

Saturday 15 December, 2012

Post-conference workshops

VMCC SH-32
Registration (VMCC Lobby)

VMCC SH-21

WS-3
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-1 WS-1

WS-3
Lunch (VMCC Lobby)

WS-12
Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)

WS-1 (2)

WS-12

WS-1 (2)

All Day UNL Panel (VMCC Board Room)

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIR AND AUTHORS

Translation and Parsing

Herv Blanchon

domain-specific bilingual lexicon from comparable corpora: compositional translation and ranking [#127]

Estelle Delpech, Batrice Daille, Emmanuel Morin an Claire Lemaire

ranslation accuracy of a novel language-independent MT methodology [#434]

George Tambouratzis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos and Marina Vassiliou

l Media Bank: a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content [#954] Machine Learning Factorization for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition [#897]

Djam Seddah, Benoit Sagot, Marie Candito, Virginie Mouilleron and Vanessa Combet Fei Xia

Tim Van de Cruys, Laura Rimell, Thierry Poibeau an Anna Korhonen

guage Model based on Recurrent Neural Network [#612]

Youzheng Wu, Xugang Lu, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Shige Matsuda, Chiori Hori and Hideki Kashioka

hod of Building Dialect Language Models for ASR Systems [#1012] Coreference resolution Resolution with ILP-based Weighted Abduction [#989]

Naoki Hirayama, Shinsuke Mori and Hiroshi G. Okun Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Naoya Inoue, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Kentaro Inui a Jerry Hobbs

al and Global Semantic Information for Event Pronoun Resolution [#241] Easy-first Coreference Resolution [#997] Underresourced languages mental Learning of Affix Segmentation [#625]

Fang Kong and Guodong Zhou Veselin Stoyanov and Jason Eisner Aravind Joshi

Wondwossen Mulugeta, Michael Gasser and Baye Yim

oun Phrase Identification Framework Based on ChineseTibetan Sentence Aligned Corpus [#167]

Ming Hua NUO, Hui Dan LIU, Wei Na ZHAO, Long Lon MA, Jian WU and Zhi Ming DING

crimination Between Closely Related Languages [#522]

Jrg Tiedemann and Nikola Ljube_i_ A Kumaran

ftware internationalization & localization Statistical Post-editing Systems applied to RBMT and SMT Systems [#655]

Hanna Bchara, Raphal Rubino, Yifan He, Yanjun Ma a Josef van Genabith

sslingual Distributed Representations of Words [#975]

Alexandre Klementiev, Ivan Titov and Binod Bhattar Marius Pasca Kartik Visweswariah

ute Extraction From Conjectural Queries [#1033] Expert or hybrid machine translation

Translation-Restoration Framework for Cross-Domain SMT Applications [#111]

Han-Bin Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen and Ching-Ting Tan Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi

Bilingual Generation and Monolingual Derivation [#631]

ty estimation: Automatic sentence-level ranking of multiple Machine Translation outputs [#1038] Word Sense Disambiguation

Eleftherios Avramidis Malhar Kulkarni

og Context to Enhance Disambiguation to Wikipedia [#213]

Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Hongzhao Huang, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Jing Zheng and Dan Rot

xtraction for Lexical Disambiguation of English Verbs Based on Corpus Pattern Analysis [#1110]

Martin Holub, Vincent Kr_, Silvie Cinkov and Eckhar Bick

anese-Chinese Opinion Word Translation Using Dependency Guo-Hau Lai, Ying-Mei Guo and Richard Tzong-Han T e and Feature-Opinion Association Weight [#654] Discourse and Pragmatics Eva Hajiova Sara Tonelli and Elena Cabrio

Entailing Pairs in the Penn Discourse Treebank. [#495]

ourse Structure in Identifying Resolved Threads in Technical User Forums [#343]

Li Wang, Su Nam Kim and Tim Baldwin

) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions [#1149] Morphology & POS tagging

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Owen Rambow and Mona Diab Josef van Genabith Xiaoqing Li, Kun Wang, Chengqing Zong and Keh-Yih

ce and Abstract Features for Robust Cross-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation [#543]

tone alignments: Algorithm, search space, and applications [#141]

Steffen Eger

ibutions and unsupevised learning of morphology [#494] Summarization

Qiuye Zhao and Mitch Marcus Asif Ekbal

gregation framework for multi-document summarization [#362]

Yulong Pei, Wenpeng Yin, Qifeng Fan and Lian'en Hua

Sentence Compression by Relaxing Unit Constraints [#594]

Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi

Multi-tweet Summarization Using Social Signals [#554] Sentiment and text classification

Xiaohua Liu, Yitong Li, Furu Wei and Ming Zhou Karel Oliva Julian Brooke and Graeme Hirst

Lexicalized Native Language Identification [#551]

ge Identification Using Recurring N-grams - Investigating bstraction and Domain Dependence [#268]

Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers

ection of Point of View Differences in Wikipedia [#990] Word Sense Disambiguation

Khalid Al Khatib and Hinrich Schutze Claire Gardent

ised Sense Disambiguation with Web-Scale Selectors [#833]

H. Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez and Lyle H. Ungar

rithm for the unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation of texts: comparison and evaluation [#128]

Didier Schwab, Jrme Goulian, Andon Tchechmedjie and Herv Blanchon

t Entity Disambiguation and Clustering [#976] Morphology

Angela Fahrni and Michael Strube Amba Kulkarni

F complexity with domain-specific constraints. The case of tactic tagging of a highly inflected language. [#938]

Jakub Waszczuk

d Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation [#1036]

Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo and Alexander Yates

ic Dictionary: An Automatic Method for Updating a Lexical the Detection and Lemmatization of Unknown Words [#131]

Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Khaled Shaalan an Josef van Genabith

Resources and annotation

Nicoletta Calzolari Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych

to Loiter: Measuring Verb Similarity using a Multilingual, ord Sense Disambiguated Wiktionary [#403]

valuating Grammatical Error Detection Systems [#866]

Martin Chodorow, Markus Dickinson, Ross Israel and Joel Tetreault

and Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System Bob Coyne, Alex Klapheke, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richa [#801] Sproat and Daniel Bauer Named Entity recognition Amitabh Das

rning approach for phenotype name recognition [#271]

Maryam Khordad, Robert E Mercer and Peter Rogan

vised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition [#232]

Nina Tahmasebi, Gerhard Gossen, Nattiya Kanhabua Helge Holzmann and Thomas Risse

mmarless Parsing for Joint Inference [#1127] Sentiment and text classification

Jason Naradowsky, Tim Vieira and David Smith Nanda Kambhatla

Classification for German using lexical, syntactic, and morphological features [#725]

Julia Hancke, Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers

tion Using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures [#367]

Daniel Br, Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych

, Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification [#1153] Speech and Summarization

Joel Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard, Aoife Cahill, Beat Beigman-Klebanov and Martin Chodorow Advaith Siddharthan

ling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures [#861]

Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori and Tatsuya Kawaha

Normalization Using Character-blocks based Models and System Combination [#991]

chen li and yang liu

Word Trigger Model for Keyphrase Extraction [#450] Summarization

Zhiyuan Liu, Chen Liang and Maosong Sun Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

rization Using a Multi-level Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model [#178]

Jiwei li, Sujian li, Xun Wang, Ye Tian and Baobao Cha

Document Summarization with Integer Linear Programming and Support Vector Regression [#208]

Dimitrios Galanis, Gerasimos Lampouras and Ion Androutsopoulos

ap between Intrinsic and Perceived Relevance in Snippet Generation [#877]

Jing He, Pablo Duboue and Jian-Yun Nie

Underresourced languages and alignment

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan Max Kaufmann

aximum Entropy Parallel Sentence Alignment Tool [#814]

omplex lexical information to solve syntactic ambiguity in Basque [#834]

Aitziber Atutxa, Eneko Agirre and Kepa Sarasola

imeML Event Extraction in Persian Text [#729]

Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Seyed Abolghassem Mirroshandel and Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh William Schuler

Psychological and neurological modelling

fect of input size for Bayesian Word Segmentation on the Providence Corpus [#445]

Benjamin Brschinger, Katherine Demuth and Mark Johnson

sonal characteristics of readers using eye-movements and text features [#581]

Pascual Martnez-Gmez, Tadayoshi Hara and Akiko Aizawa

urse Relation Recognition by Selecting Typical Training Examples [#191]

Xun Wang, Sujian Li, Jiwei Li, Wenjie Li Sobha Lalitha Devi

Content Extraction and Disambiguation

of Trigger Identification and Event Type Determination in Chinese Event Extraction [#151]

Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Hongjun Diao and Guodon Zhou

neric and Flexible Citation Classifier Based on a Faceted Classification Scheme [#216]

Charles Jochim and Hinrich Schtze

al Similarity for Lexical Expansion in Knowledge-based Word Tristan Miller, Chris Biemann, Torsten Zesch and Iry Sense Disambiguation [#368] Gurevych Underresourced & Indian languages Jrg Tiedemann

pic Classification for Highly Inflective Languages [#513]

Jurgita Kapo_i_t_-Dzikien_, Frederik Vaassen, Walte Daelemans and Algis Krupavi_ius

ution based Feature Selection and Classifier Ensemble for Named Entity Recognition [#840]

Utpal Kumar Sikdar, Asif Ekbal and Sriparna Saha

ysis in Twitter with Lightweight Discourse Analysis [#555] Deployment, integration & quality

Subhabrata Mukherjee and Pushpak Bhattacharyya Rajeev Sangal Chi-Hsin Yu and Hsin-Hsi Chen

rdering Errors in Chinese Sentences for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language [#277]

or Alpha'' When There Are Thousands of Characters [#572]

Hiroaki Kawasaki, Ryohei Sasano, Hiroya Takamura a Manabu Okumura

or Multilingual Sentiment Learning On Big Data [#586] Textual entailment

Evan Anderson and Oles Zhulyn Deepak Khemani

iminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition Using Natural Logic [#1078]

Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoa Okazaki and Kentaro Inui

Paraphrasing for Style [#1000]

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman an Colin Cherry

Lend a Helping Hand: Learning Paraphrase Query Patterns from Search Log Sessions [#629] Summarization

Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu Ramakanth Kavuluru

MultiRank: a novel ranking model for multi-document summarization [#133]

Wenpeng Yin, Yulong Pei, Fan Zhang and Lian'en Hua

ry-Specific Information for Multi-Document Summarization [#518]

Jun-Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Ka and Chew-Lim Tan

for query-focused multi-document summarization [#157] Sentiment and text classification

Wenpeng Yin, Lifu Huang, Yulong Pei and Lian'en Hua Georges Fafiotte Takuma Goto, Yoshiyuki Kabashima and Hiroya Takamura

nical Analysis of Semantic Orientations on Lexical Network [#561]

AdaBoost for Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis [#575] Thoughtful Comments from Social Media [#503] Morphology and Corpora

Min Xiao and Yuhong Guo Swapna Gottipati and Jing Jiang Irawati Kulkarni Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa

rd Choice Similarities By Representing Word Intensions and Extensions [#1019]

d Study of Edit Categories in Featured and Non-Featured Wikipedia Articles [#473]

Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych

t Process Ensemble for Unsupervised Induction of Syntactic Categories [#237] Natural Language Generation

Roi Reichart, Gal Elidan and Ari Rappoport Chris Biemann Yllias Chali and Sadid A. Hasan Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark

s Automatic Topical Question Generation [#290]

on for Linguistic Steganography and Secret Sharing [#161]

h Suspicion Trees: Seeing the Forest for the Trees [#211] Question answering

Shashi Narayan and Claire Gardent Kalika Bali

Bayesian Network Model for Microblog Topic Classification [#775]

Yan Chen, Zhoujun Li, Liqiang Nie, Xia Hu, Xiangyu Wang, Tat-Seng Chua and Xiaoming Zhang

eatures Are Helpful For Identifying Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads [#806]

Prakhar Biyani, Sumit Bhatia, Cornelia Caragea and Prasenjit Mitra

Web for Large-Scale Conversational Content [#222] Named Entity recognition Named Entity Recognition Using a Hybrid Approach [#176]

Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah and Lin Padgham Gerard de Melo Mai Oudah and Khaled Shaalan

d Improvement of Online Learning Algorithms for Sequence Labeling [#245]

Zhengyan He and Houfeng Wang

ions on using CRFs for Turkish Named Entity Recognition [#1044] Empirical machine translation

Gkhan Akn _eker and Gl_en Eryi_it Holger Schwenk

anslation by Modeling Predicate-Argument Structure Transformation [#657]

Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zo

n Construction from Comparable Corpora via Dependency Mapping [#690]

Longhua Qian, Hongling Wang, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu

criminative Induction of Synchronous Grammar for Machine Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Shoux Translation [#874] Lin Parsing Mark Johnson Richard Billingsley and James Curran Yoav Goldberg and Joakim Nivre

provements to Training an RNN Parser [#574]

ic Oracle for Arc-Eager Dependency Parsing [#842]

cal Dependencies from Large-Scale Data for Better ShiftReduce Constituency Parsing [#742] Question answering

Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu and Huizhen Wang L V Subramaniam Hiroshi Kanayama, Yusuke Miyao and John Prager

ng Yes/No Questions via Question Inversion [#400]

nsional feature merger for Question Answering [#946]

Apoorv Agarwal, J William Murdock, Jennifer ChuCarroll, Adam Lally and Aditya Kalyanpur

ndency Relation Graph to Enhance the Term Weighting in Question Retrieval [#649] Ontologies and terminology

Weinan Zhang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yu Zhang, Liqiang Nie Ting Liu and Tat-Seng Chua Michael Glass Hospice Houngbo and Robert Mercer

ion extraction from scientific research papers [#1155]

egmentation for Index Term Identification and Keyphrase Extraction [#505]

David Newman, Nagendra Koilada, Jey Han Lau and Timothy Baldwin

ference Semantic Predictions from Biomedical Knowledge Sources [#156] Discourse and Pragmatics

Demeke Ayele, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Million Meshes and Getnet Kassie Peter Scharf Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg

Implicitness of Discourse Relations [#598]

rship and Influence in Multi-party Online Discourse [#510]

Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, Georg Aaron Broadwell, Jenny Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylo Umit Boz, Veena Ravishankar and Xiaoai Ren

ed decoding for text-level discourse parsing [#671] Translation and Information Retrieval

Philippe Muller, Stergos Afantenos, Pascal Denis an Nicholas Asher Rohit Prasad Dennis Thom, Harald Bosch and Thomas Ertl

t Density: A Smooth Measure for Location-Dependent Term Irregularities [#259]

Sequence Based Unsupervised Domain-Specific Document Readability [#623]

Shoaib Jameel, Xiaojun Qian and Wai Lam

ntence Retrieval for Scalable and Efficient Example-based Machine Translation [#795] Grammar and formalisms

Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Sandipan Dandapat and Gareth Jones Gabor Proszeky

sed Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars [#1098]

Bevan Jones, Jacob Andreas, Daniel Bauer, Karl Mori Hermann and Kevin Knight

to Inversion Transductions: Toward Unsupervised Bilingual Grammar Induction [#1112]

Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki and Dekai Wu

sive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering [#992] Summarization

Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepirkowski David Rouquet Yllias Chali and Sadid A. Hasan

veness of Using Sentence Compression Models for Querycused Multi-Document Summarization [#426]

mmarization by Ranking Tweets Using Social Influence and Content Quality [#478]

Yajuan Duan, Zhumin Chen, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou an Heung-Yeung Shum

nhanced Personalized Social Summarization [#404]

Po Hu, Donghong Ji, Chong Teng and Yujing Guo

Annotation and Generation

Paul Kiparsky

Steven Blake, Advaith Siddharthan, Hien Nguyen, Generation for Nature Conservation: Automating Feedback Nirwan Sharma, Anne-Marie Robinson, Elaine O'Maho p Volunteers identify Bumblebee Species [#331] Ben Darvill, Chris Mellish and Rene van der Wal

omplexity of Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis [#251] the Word Order: Text-to-Text Generation for Linguistic Steganography [#149] Resources and annotation

Karen Fort, Adeline Nazarenko and Sophie Rosset

Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark Sriram Venkatapathy

xtended Named Entity Dictionary from Wikipedia [#541]

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Toshiro Makino and Yoshihiro Matsuo

ability-based Syntactic Annotation Design [#198]

Roy Schwartz, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport

Prague Dependency Treebank 2.5 [#895]

Eduard Bejcek, Jarmila Panevova, Jan Popelka, Pav Stranak, Magda Sevcikova, Jan Stepanek and Zdene Zabokrtsky Sadao Kurohashi

Empirical machine translation Sentence-Level BLEU+1 Yields Short Translations [#617]

Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzman and Stephan Voge Minwei Feng, Weiwei Sun and Hermann Ney Jan A. Botha, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom Owen Rambow

tic Cohesion Model for Phrase-based SMT [#884]

Language Modelling of German Compounds [#1074] Parsing

neous Joint Models of Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Meishan Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Zhenghu Parsing [#717] Li

ombinatory Categorial Grammar Parse Reranking with Dependency Grammar Features [#424]

Sunghwan Mac Kim, Dominick Ng, Mark Johnson and James Curran

of Dependency and Phrase Structure Parsers [#896] Semantics

Richard Farkas and Bernd Bohnet Igor Boguslavsky Alan Akbik, Larysa Visengeriyeva, Priska Herger, Holmer Hemsen and Alexander Lser

covery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction Patterns [#809]

oral Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and elective Crowdsourced Annotations [#770]

Jun-Ping Ng and Min-Yen Kan

age Acquisition: A Minimal Commitment Approach [#761] Underresourced languages

Sushobhan Nayak and Amitabha Mukerjee Vincent Berment Peifeng Li and Guodong Zhou

rphological Structures and Sememes for Chinese Event Extraction [#310]

borative Platform for Sanskrit Processing [#764]

Pawan Goyal, Grard Huet, Amba Kulkarni, Peter Scha and Ralph Bunker

on for a Precision Grammar from Language Documentation esources: A Case Study of Chintang [#371]

Emily M. Bender, Robert Schikowski and Balthasar Bickel Michael Carl Yo Ehara, Issei Sato, Hidekazu Oiwa and Hiroshi Nakagawa

Psychological and neurological modelling

e minds of second language learners: learner-specific word difficulty [#1002]

tection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity ssessment from Online Forum Posts [#1093]

Shirin Saleem, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Maciej Pacula and Rohit Prasad

Cognitive Model for Semantic Sub-network Extraction from Natural Language Queries [#316] Empirical machine translation

Suman Deb Roy and Wenjun Zeng

Chengqing Zong

lity-Based Supplementary Data Selection by Incremental Update of Translation Models [#520]

Pratyush Banerjee, Sudip Naskar, Johann Roturier, Andy Way and Josef van Genabith

Syntactic Reordering Methods for English-German Machine Translation} [#560]

Jiri Navratil, Karthik Visweswariah and Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan

sed Translation without Using Parse Trees [#489] Parsing

Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zo Chu-Ren Huang Ji Ma, Tong Xiao, JingBo Zhu and Feiliang Ren Akihiro Inokuchi and Ayumu Yamaoka

Chinese, POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#616]

ewriting States in a Transition-based Dependency Parser for English [#309]

ve-Aggressive Training Algorithm for Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#446] Semantics

Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che and Ting Li Sara Tonelli Brian Murphy, Partha Talukdar and Tom Mitchell

ve and Interpretable Semantic Models using Non Negative Sparse Coding [#1088]

tional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing [#882]

Phong Le and Willem Zuidema

hrases for Highly-Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents [#645] Ontologies and terminology

Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz Tim Baldwin Agnieszka Mykowiecka and Malgorzata Marciniak

ordnet and morphosyntactic information in terminology clustering [#687]

Experiments with Term Translation [#474]

Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann and Paul Buitela Michael Glass and Alfio Gliozzo Dipti Sharma Amba Kulkarni, Soma Paul, Malhar Kulkarni, Anil Kumar and Nitesh Surtani

tured Term Recognition in Medical Text [#923] Indian language technology

rocessing of Compounds in Indian Languages [#1034]

d Verb Group Identification for Hindi POS Tagging [#835]

Smriti Singh, Om P. Damani and Vaijayanthi M. Sarm

upervised Youtube Video Categorization System from Meta User Comments using WordNet & Wikipedia [#557]

Subhabrata Mukherjee and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Information retrieval

Monojit Choudhury Vincent Claveau

d semi-supervised morphological analysis for Information Retrieval in the biomedical domain [#979]

ical Translation Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval [#441]

Ferhan Ture, Jimmy Lin and Douglas W. Oard

larity between TV programs using semantic relations [#467]

Ichiro Yamada, Masaru Miyazaki, Hideki Sumiyoshi Atsushi Matsui, Hironori Furumiya and Hideki Tanak

Machine Translation and Grammar

Ulrich Schaefer

tive Parameter Tuning for Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation [#641]

Pavel Pecina, Antonio Toral and Josef van Genabith

l Analysis of Near-Meet-Semilattices for Typed Unificationbased Grammar Design [#1116]

Rouzbeh Farahmand and Gerald Penn

rdu Complex Predication via Bigram Extraction [#758] Semantics

Tafseer Ahmed, Tina Bgel, Miriam Butt, Annette Hau and Sebastian Sulger Massimo Poesio

nded Dependency Recovery using Generalized Categorial Grammars [#1046]

Luan Nguyen, Marten Van Schijndel and William Schu

Semantic Role Labeling: Approaching from an Unsupervised Perspective [#786]

Ivan Titov and Alexandre Klementiev

d Computation of Contextual Word Similarity [#1076] Natural Language Generation

Kazuo Hara, Ikumi Suzuki, Masashi Shimbo and Yuj Matsumoto Om Damani Berthold Crysmann and Woodley Packard Chris Biemann, Stefanie Roos and Karsten Weihe Shashi Narayan and Claire Gardent Philippe Blache Emmanuel Morin and Batrice Daille

ent HPSG generation for German, a non-configurational language [#936]

g Semantics Using Complex Network Analysis [#146]

ructure-Driven Lexicalist Generation [#506] Ontologies and terminology

Compositional Method for Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora [#477]

ve Zones for Extractive Summarization of Scientific Articles [#182]

Danish Contractor, Yufan Guo and Anna Korhonen

onomies for organising collections of documents [#255] IE & text mining

Samuel Fernando, Mark Hall, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Sor Paul Clough and Mark Stevenson Veselin Stoyanov

Ranking based on Heterogeneous Networks [#285]

Hongzhao Huang, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Heng Ji, Hongbo Deng, Dong Wang, Hieu Khac Le, Tarek Abdelzaher Jiawei Han, Alice Leung, John Hancock and Clare Vo

Model for Entity Linking Using Query-Specific Information [#583]

Wei Zhang, Jian Su and Chew-Lim Tan

Underspecified Queries via Natural Language Question Generation from Unstructured Text [#276] Extraction from Text Performance of Statistical MT Systems: A Linear Regression Framework [#525]

Hassan Sajjad, Patrick Pantel and Michael Gamon Dekai Wu Francisco Guzman and Stephan Vogel

nese Evaluative Information Analysis [#1057]

Yiou Wang, Junichi Kazama, Takuya Kawada and Kentaro Torisawa

or Chinese Event Extraction with Rich Linguistic Features [#1157]

Chen Chen and Vincent Ng Tim Van de Cruys

matics, Disambiguation and Content Extraction

ch to finding phenotype candidates in genetic texts [#618]

Nigel Collier, Mai-Vu Tran, Hoang-Quynh Le, Anika Oellrich, Ai Kawazoe, Martin Hall-May and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

diction in Social Media Data by Finding Location Indicative Words [#566]

Bo Han, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson and Hui Wang Herv Blanchon Rami Al-Rfou' and Steven Skiena

entification of Social Acts in Dialogue [#514] Software Deployment and Translation

d: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline [#132]

ng Language Model with Inversion Constraints for Mixed Language Speech Recognition [#1085] N/A MT, IR, Sentiment

Ying Li and Pascale Fung N/A Vincent Claveau Ilia Chetviorkin and Natalia Loukachevitch

ssian Sentiment Lexicon for Product Meta-Domain [#363]

oss-Lingual Topical Relevance Models [#158]

Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling and Gareth Jon

mpling with an Application to Bilingual Lexicon Extraction [#493]

Ivan Vuli_ and Marie-Francine Moens

TUTORIALS
TITLE SPEAKERS

ormation Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning

Prof. Dan Roth, Prof. Heng Ji, Taylor Cassidy, Quang

loiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP

Dr. Gerard de Melo

Multimodal Corpora

Prof. Patrizia Paggio, Prof. Dirk Heylen, Prof. Costan Navarretta

du Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu Natural Language Processing

Prof. Owen Rambow, Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashw Vaidya Prof. Kristiina Jokinen, Prof Graham Wilcock Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa

domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots

ng Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLP

WORKSHOPS
TITLE ORGANIZERS

n discourse analysis and its computational aspects

Eva Hajicova Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Yoh Okuno Michael Carl, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Kamal Kumar Choudhary

kshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM 2)

e-tracking and Natural Language Processing

South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP)

Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Abbas Malik

gnitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)

Michael Zock, Reinhard Rapp Ruvan Weerasinghe, Rachel Edita O. Roxas, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Sarmad Hussain

th Workshop on Asian Language Resources

n Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)

Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Manabu Okumura

shop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

Lipika Dey, Daniel Lopresti, Christoph Ringlstetter Shourya Roy, L. Venkata Subramaniam

n Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media Data

Sriram Raghavan, Ganesh Ramakrishnan

slation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)

Radhika Mamidi, Ranjani Parthasarathi, Sobha Lalith Devi, Dipti Misra Sharma, Joseph van Genabith Josef van Genabith, Toni Badia,

p on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MT

(ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task)

Christian Federmann Radhika Mamidi, Kishore Prahallad

h and Language Processing Tools in Education

ordering for Statistical Machine Translation

Karthik Visweswariah, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan Mitesh M. Khapra

Question Answering for Complex Domains

Nanda Kambhatla Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kiran Kate, Priyanka Agrawal

onal Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology

Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, M Johnson, Diego Molla-Aliod

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Hitoshi Yamamoto, Shigeki and Hideki Kashioka

Mori and Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Hongzhao Huang, Arkaitz , Jing Zheng and Dan Roth

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d Mitch Marcus

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d Sadao Kurohashi

Furu Wei and Ming Zhou

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Detmar Meurers

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an, Andon Tchechmedjiev Blanchon

d Michael Strube

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Samih, Khaled Shaalan and Genabith

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Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richard Daniel Bauer

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d Hinrich Schtze

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d Pushpak Bhattacharyya Sangal

d Hsin-Hsi Chen

sano, Hiroya Takamura and Okumura

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Wang and Ting Liu

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ni, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan -Lim Tan

ulong Pei and Lian'en Huang

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ti and Jing Jiang

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d Rebecca Hwa

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ng, Yu Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Tat-Seng Chua

l Glass

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Koilada, Jey Han Lau and Baldwin

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Scharf and Vera Demberg

a Shaikh, Ting Liu, George omer-Galley, Sarah Taylor, hankar and Xiaoai Ren

fantenos, Pascal Denis and s Asher

Prasad

Bosch and Thomas Ertl

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asis Ganguly, Sandipan Gareth Jones

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Addanki and Dekai Wu

d Adam Przepirkowski

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and Stephen Clark

katapathy

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end and Ari Rappoport

nevova, Jan Popelka, Pavel Jan Stepanek and Zdenek krtsky

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Sun and Hermann Ney

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d Min-Yen Kan

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k Visweswariah and an Ramanathan

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nd Ayumu Yamaoka

Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu

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Willem Zuidema

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nd Malgorzata Marciniak

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d Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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nd Claire Gardent

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KERS

Ji, Taylor Cassidy, Quang Do

d de Melo

Dirk Heylen, Prof. Costanza retta

Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini dya

, Prof Graham Wilcock

i, Raghavendra Udupa

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vanich, Abbas Malik

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nich, Sarmad Hussain

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anesh Ramakrishnan

arthasarathi, Sobha Lalitha isra Sharma,

n Genabith

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Federmann

Kishore Prahallad

nthakrishnan Ramanathan, . Khapra

hindra Joshi, Ganesh ate, Priyanka Agrawal

Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Mark o Molla-Aliod