Sheet1PROGRAM FOR COLING 2012

Saturday 8 December, 2012Pre-conference workshops and tutorialsTIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:30-11:00WS-4 (1)Tutorial-1 (1)Tutorial-3 (1)Tutorial-5 (1)11:00-11:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)11:20-13:00WS-4 (1)Tutorial-1 (1)Tutorial-3 (1)Tutorial-5 (1)13:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:00WS-4 (2)Tutorial-2 (2)Tutorial-4 (1)Tutorial-6 (1)16:00-16:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:20-18:00WS-4 (2)Tutorial-2 (2)Tutorial-4 (1)Tutorial-6 (1)

Sunday 9 December, 2012Pre-conference workshops (cont.)TIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:30-11:00WS-15WS-11WS-8WS-9WS-14WS-611:00-11:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)11:20-13:00WS-15WS-11WS-8WS-9WS-14WS-613:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:00WS-13WS-8 (2)WS-9 (2)WS-14 (2)WS-6 (2)16:00-16:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:20-18:00WS-13WS-8 (2)WS-9 (2)WS-14 (2)WS-6 (2)

All Day ISO/TC37 Meeting (VMCC Board Room)

Monday 10 December, 2012Main ConferenceTIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:00-9:45Inauguration (Convocation Hall)9:45-10:00Tea Break (Convocation Hall)10:00-11:00Invited Talk by Prof. Barbara Moser-Mercer (Convocation Hall)The adaptive brain: acquiring a complex cognitive skill in complex contexts11:20-13:00Translation and ParsingMachine LearningCoreference resolutionUnderresourced languagesSoftware internationalization & localizationDemo SessionDemo Session

13:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:10Expert or hybrid machine translationWord Sense DisambiguationDiscourse and PragmaticsMorphology & POS taggingSummarization

16:10-16:30Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:30-18:10Sentiment and text classificationWord Sense DisambiguationMorphologyResources and annotationNamed Entity recognition

18:15-19:45Poster Presentations with High Tea (VMCC)20:00-21:30Reception (Convocation Hall)21:30-22:30ICCL Short Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar)

Tuesday 11 December, 2012Main Conference (cont.)TIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:00-10:00Invited Talk by Prof. Makoto Nagao (Convocation Hall)Digital Book, Digital Library, and Natural Language Processing10:00-11:20Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)11:20-13:00Sentiment and text classificationSpeech and SummarizationSummarizationUnderresourced languages and alignmentPsychological and neurological modellingDemo SessionDemo Session

13:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:10Content Extraction and DisambiguationUnderresourced & Indian languagesDeployment, integration & qualityTextual entailmentSummarization

16:10-16:30Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:30-18:10Sentiment and Text ClassificationMorphology and CorporaNatural Language GenerationQuestion answeringNamed Entity Recognition

19:30 onwardsBanquet at Renaissance

Wednesday 12 December, 2012All DayExcursion Day (Trip to Bhaja Caves)19:00-23:00ICCL Business Meeting (Seminar Room, Jalvihar)

Thursday 13 December, 2012Main Conference (cont.)TIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:00-10:00Invited Talk by Prof. Paul Kiparsky (Convocation Hall)Minimum Description Length as the basis of Panini's grammar10:00-11:20Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)11:20-13:00Empirical machine translationParsingQuestion answeringOntologies and terminologyDiscourse and PragmaticsDemo SessionDemo Session

13:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:10Translation and Information RetrievalGrammar and formalismsSummarizationAnnotation and GenerationResources and annotation

16:10-16:30Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:30-18:10Empirical machine translationParsingSemanticsUnderresourced languagesPsychological and neurological modelling18:10-19:30High Tea (VMCC Lobby)19:30-onwardsCultural Evening :Tabla Solo by Shri. Prasad Padhye & Sitar by Pandit Nayan Ghosh

Friday 14 December, 2012Main Conference (cont.)TIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:00-10:00Invited Talk by Prof. Dipti Sharma (Convocation Hall)NLP from Paninian Perspective10:00-11:20Poster Presentations with Tea (Convocation Hall)11:20-13:00Empirical machine translationParsingSemanticsOntologies and terminologyIndian language technologyDemo SessionDemo Session

13:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:10Information retrievalMachine Translation and GrammarSemanticsNatural Language GenerationOntologies and terminology

16:10-16:30Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:30-18:10IE & text miningExtraction from TextPragmatics, Disambiguation and Content ExtractionSoftware Deployment and TranslationMT,IR,Sentiment

18:10-19:00Valedictory Function (VMCC Auditorium)

Saturday 15 December, 2012Post-conference workshopsTIMEVMCC AUDITORIUMVMCC SH-22VMCC SH-31VMCC SH-32VMCC SH-21SH-01SH-028:00 onwardsRegistration (VMCC Lobby)9:30-11:00WS-5WS-7WS-3WS-1WS-10WS-211:00-11:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)11:20-13:00WS-5WS-7WS-3WS-1WS-10WS-213:00-14:30Lunch (VMCC Lobby)14:30-16:00WS-5 (2)WS-7 (2)WS-12WS-1 (2)WS-10 (2)WS-2 (2)16:00-16:20Tea Break (VMCC Lobby)16:20-18:00WS-5 (2)WS-7 (2)WS-12WS-1 (2)WS-10 (2)WS-2 (2)

All Day UNL Panel (VMCC Board Room)

MAIN CONFERENCETIMESESSIONCHAIR AND AUTHORSDec 10, MondayTranslation and ParsingHerv Blanchon11:20-11:50Extraction of domain-specific bilingual lexicon from comparable corpora: compositional translation and ranking [#127]Estelle Delpech, Batrice Daille, Emmanuel Morin and Claire Lemaire11:55-12:25Evaluating the translation accuracy of a novel language-independent MT methodology [#434]George Tambouratzis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos and Marina Vassiliou12:30-13:00The French Social Media Bank: a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content [#954]Djam Seddah, Benoit Sagot, Marie Candito, Virginie Mouilleron and Vanessa CombetDec 10, MondayMachine LearningFei Xia11:20-11:50Multi-way Tensor Factorization for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition [#897]Tim Van de Cruys, Laura Rimell, Thierry Poibeau and Anna Korhonen11:55-12:25Factored Language Model based on Recurrent Neural Network [#612]Youzheng Wu, Xugang Lu, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori and Hideki Kashioka12:30-13:00Statistical Method of Building Dialect Language Models for ASR Systems [#1012]Naoki Hirayama, Shinsuke Mori and Hiroshi G. OkunoDec 10, MondayCoreference resolutionGanesh Ramakrishnan11:20-11:50Coreference Resolution with ILP-based Weighted Abduction [#989]Naoya Inoue, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Kentaro Inui and Jerry Hobbs11:55-12:25Exploring Local and Global Semantic Information for Event Pronoun Resolution [#241]Fang Kong and Guodong Zhou12:30-13:00Easy-first Coreference Resolution [#997]Veselin Stoyanov and Jason EisnerDec 10, MondayUnderresourced languagesAravind Joshi11:20-11:50Incremental Learning of Affix Segmentation [#625]Wondwossen Mulugeta, Michael Gasser and Baye Yimam11:55-12:25Tibetan Base Noun Phrase Identification Framework Based on Chinese-Tibetan Sentence Aligned Corpus [#167]Ming Hua NUO, Hui Dan LIU, Wei Na ZHAO, Long Long MA, Jian WU and Zhi Ming DING12:30-13:00Efficient Discrimination Between Closely Related Languages [#522]Jrg Tiedemann and Nikola Ljube_i_Dec 10, MondaySoftware internationalization & localizationA Kumaran11:20-11:50An Evaluation of Statistical Post-editing Systems applied to RBMT and SMT Systems [#655]Hanna Bchara, Raphal Rubino, Yifan He, Yanjun Ma and Josef van Genabith11:55-12:25Inducing Crosslingual Distributed Representations of Words [#975]Alexandre Klementiev, Ivan Titov and Binod Bhattarai12:30-13:00Attribute Extraction From Conjectural Queries [#1033]Marius PascaDec 10, MondayExpert or hybrid machine translationKartik Visweswariah14:30-15:00A Simplification-Translation-Restoration Framework for Cross-Domain SMT Applications [#111]Han-Bin Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen and Ching-Ting Tan15:05-15:35Alignment by Bilingual Generation and Monolingual Derivation [#631]Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi15:40-16:10Comparative quality estimation: Automatic sentence-level ranking of multiple Machine Translation outputs [#1038]Eleftherios AvramidisDec 10, MondayWord Sense DisambiguationMalhar Kulkarni14:30-15:00Expanding Microblog Context to Enhance Disambiguation to Wikipedia [#213]Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Hongzhao Huang, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Jing Zheng and Dan Roth15:05-15:35Tailored Feature Extraction for Lexical Disambiguation of English Verbs Based on Corpus Pattern Analysis [#1110]Martin Holub, Vincent Kr_, Silvie Cinkov and Eckhard Bick15:40-16:10Unsupervised Japanese-Chinese Opinion Word Translation Using Dependency Distance and Feature-Opinion Association Weight [#654]Guo-Hau Lai, Ying-Mei Guo and Richard Tzong-Han TsaiDec 10, MondayDiscourse and PragmaticsEva Hajiova14:30-15:00Hunting for Entailing Pairs in the Penn Discourse Treebank. [#495]Sara Tonelli and Elena Cabrio15:05-15:35The Utility of Discourse Structure in Identifying Resolved Threads in Technical User Forums [#343]Li Wang, Su Nam Kim and Tim Baldwin15:40-16:10Whos (Really) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions [#1149]Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Owen Rambow and Mona DiabDec 10, MondayMorphology & POS taggingJosef van Genabith14:30-15:00Integrating Surface and Abstract Features for Robust Cross-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation [#543]Xiaoqing Li, Kun Wang, Chengqing Zong and Keh-Yih Su15:05-15:35S-restricted monotone alignments: Algorithm, search space, and applications [#141]Steffen Eger15:40-16:10Long-tail distributions and unsupevised learning of morphology [#494]Qiuye Zhao and Mitch MarcusDec 10, MondaySummarizationAsif Ekbal14:30-15:00A supervised aggregation framework for multi-document summarization [#362]Yulong Pei, Wenpeng Yin, Qifeng Fan and Lian'en Huang15:05-15:35Flexible Japanese Sentence Compression by Relaxing Unit Constraints [#594]Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi15:40-16:10Graph-based Multi-tweet Summarization Using Social Signals [#554]Xiaohua Liu, Yitong Li, Furu Wei and Ming ZhouDec 10, MondaySentiment and text classificationKarel Oliva16:30-17:00Robust, Lexicalized Native Language Identification [#551]Julian Brooke and Graeme Hirst17:05-17:35Native Language Identification Using Recurring N-grams - Investigating Abstraction and Domain Dependence [#268]Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers17:40-18:10Automatic Detection of Point of View Differences in Wikipedia [#990]Khalid Al Khatib and Hinrich SchutzeDec 10, MondayWord Sense DisambiguationClaire Gardent16:30-17:00Improving Supervised Sense Disambiguation with Web-Scale Selectors [#833]H. Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez and Lyle H. Ungar17:05-17:35Ant Colony Algorithm for the unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation of texts: comparison and evaluation [#128]Didier Schwab, Jrme Goulian, Andon Tchechmedjiev and Herv Blanchon17:40-18:10Joint Entity Disambiguation and Clustering [#976]Angela Fahrni and Michael StrubeDec 10, MondayMorphologyAmba Kulkarni16:30-17:00Harnessing the CRF complexity with domain-specific constraints. The case of morphosyntactic tagging of a highly inflected language. [#938]Jakub Waszczuk17:05-17:35Semi-supervised Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation [#1036]Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo and Alexander Yates17:40-18:10The Floating Arabic Dictionary: An Automatic Method for Updating a Lexical Database through the Detection and Lemmatization of Unknown Words [#131]Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Khaled Shaalan and Josef van GenabithDec 10, MondayResources and annotationNicoletta Calzolari16:30-17:00To Exhibit is not to Loiter: Measuring Verb Similarity using a Multilingual, Word Sense Disambiguated Wiktionary [#403]Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych17:05-17:35Problems in Evaluating Grammatical Error Detection Systems [#866]Martin Chodorow, Markus Dickinson, Ross Israel and Joel Tetreault17:40-18:10Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System [#801]Bob Coyne, Alex Klapheke, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richard Sproat and Daniel BauerDec 10, MondayNamed Entity recognitionAmitabh Das16:30-17:00A machine learning approach for phenotype name recognition [#271]Maryam Khordad, Robert E Mercer and Peter Rogan17:05-17:35NEER: An Unsupervised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition [#232]Nina Tahmasebi, Gerhard Gossen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Helge Holzmann and Thomas Risse17:40-18:10Grammarless Parsing for Joint Inference [#1127]Jason Naradowsky, Tim Vieira and David SmithDec 11, TuesdaySentiment and text classificationNanda Kambhatla11:20-11:50Readability Classification for German using lexical, syntactic, and morphological features [#725]Julia Hancke, Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers11:55-12:25Text Reuse Detection Using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures [#367]Daniel Br, Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych12:30-13:00Native Tongues, Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification [#1153]Joel Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard, Aoife Cahill, Beata Beigman-Klebanov and Martin ChodorowDec 11, TuesdaySpeech and SummarizationAdvaith Siddharthan11:20-11:50Language Modeling for Spoken Dialogue System based on Filtering using Predicate-Argument Structures [#861]Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori and Tatsuya Kawahara11:55-12:25Improving Text Normalization Using Character-blocks based Models and System Combination [#991]chen li and yang liu12:30-13:00Topical Word Trigger Model for Keyphrase Extraction [#450]Zhiyuan Liu, Chen Liang and Maosong SunDec 11, TuesdaySummarizationSivaji Bandyopadhyay11:20-11:50Update Summarization Using a Multi-level Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model [#178]Jiwei li, Sujian li, Xun Wang, Ye Tian and Baobao Chang11:55-12:25Extractive Multi-Document Summarization with Integer Linear Programming and Support Vector Regression [#208]Dimitrios Galanis, Gerasimos Lampouras and Ion Androutsopoulos12:30-13:00Bridging the Gap between Intrinsic and Perceived Relevance in Snippet Generation [#877]Jing He, Pablo Duboue and Jian-Yun NieDec 11, TuesdayUnderresourced languages and alignmentAnanthakrishnan Ramanathan11:20-11:50JMaxAlign: A Maximum Entropy Parallel Sentence Alignment Tool [#814]Max Kaufmann11:55-12:25Contribution of complex lexical information to solve syntactic ambiguity in Basque [#834]Aitziber Atutxa, Eneko Agirre and Kepa Sarasola12:30-13:00ISO-TimeML Event Extraction in Persian Text [#729]Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani, Seyed Abolghassem Mirroshandel and Mahbaneh EshaghzadehDec 11, TuesdayPsychological and neurological modellingWilliam Schuler11:20-11:50Studying the effect of input size for Bayesian Word Segmentation on the Providence Corpus [#445]Benjamin Brschinger, Katherine Demuth and Mark Johnson11:55-12:25Recognizing personal characteristics of readers using eye-movements and text features [#581]Pascual Martnez-Gmez, Tadayoshi Hara and Akiko Aizawa12:30-13:00Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Selecting Typical Training Examples [#191]Xun Wang, Sujian Li, Jiwei Li, Wenjie LiDec 11, TuesdayContent Extraction and DisambiguationSobha Lalitha Devi14:30-15:00Joint Modeling of Trigger Identification and Event Type Determination in Chinese Event Extraction [#151]Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Hongjun Diao and Guodong Zhou15:05-15:35Towards a Generic and Flexible Citation Classifier Based on a Faceted Classification Scheme [#216]Charles Jochim and Hinrich Schtze15:40-16:10Using Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion in Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation [#368]Tristan Miller, Chris Biemann, Torsten Zesch and Iryna GurevychDec 11, TuesdayUnderresourced & Indian languagesJrg Tiedemann14:30-15:00Improving Topic Classification for Highly Inflective Languages [#513]Jurgita Kapo_i_t_-Dzikien_, Frederik Vaassen, Walter Daelemans and Algis Krupavi_ius15:05-15:35Differential Evolution based Feature Selection and Classifier Ensemble for Named Entity Recognition [#840]Utpal Kumar Sikdar, Asif Ekbal and Sriparna Saha15:40-16:10Sentiment Analysis in Twitter with Lightweight Discourse Analysis [#555]Subhabrata Mukherjee and Pushpak BhattacharyyaDec 11, TuesdayDeployment, integration & qualityRajeev Sangal14:30-15:00Detecting Word Ordering Errors in Chinese Sentences for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language [#277]Chi-Hsin Yu and Hsin-Hsi Chen15:05-15:35Generating ``A for Alpha'' When There Are Thousands of Characters [#572]Hiroaki Kawasaki, Ryohei Sasano, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura15:40-16:10A System For Multilingual Sentiment Learning On Big Data [#586]Evan Anderson and Oles ZhulynDec 11, TuesdayTextual entailmentDeepak Khemani14:30-15:00A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition Using Natural Logic [#1078]Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui15:05-15:35Paraphrasing for Style [#1000]Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman and Colin Cherry15:40-16:10User Behaviors Lend a Helping Hand: Learning Paraphrase Query Patterns from Search Log Sessions [#629]Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang and Ting LiuDec 11, TuesdaySummarizationRamakanth Kavuluru14:30-15:00SentTopic-MultiRank: a novel ranking model for multi-document summarization [#133]Wenpeng Yin, Yulong Pei, Fan Zhang and Lian'en Huang15:05-15:35Exploiting Category-Specific Information for Multi-Document Summarization [#518]Jun-Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and Chew-Lim Tan15:40-16:10RelationListwise for query-focused multi-document summarization [#157]Wenpeng Yin, Lifu Huang, Yulong Pei and Lian'en HuangDec 11, TuesdaySentiment and text classificationGeorges Fafiotte16:30-17:00Statistical Mechanical Analysis of Semantic Orientations on Lexical Network [#561]Takuma Goto, Yoshiyuki Kabashima and Hiroya Takamura17:05-17:35Multi-View AdaBoost for Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis [#575]Min Xiao and Yuhong Guo17:40-18:10Finding Thoughtful Comments from Social Media [#503]Swapna Gottipati and Jing JiangDec 11, TuesdayMorphology and CorporaIrawati Kulkarni16:30-17:00Modeling ESL Word Choice Similarities By Representing Word Intensions and Extensions [#1019]Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa17:05-17:35A Corpus-Based Study of Edit Categories in Featured and Non-Featured Wikipedia Articles [#473]Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych17:40-18:10A Diverse Dirichlet Process Ensemble for Unsupervised Induction of Syntactic Categories [#237]Roi Reichart, Gal Elidan and Ari RappoportDec 11, TuesdayNatural Language GenerationChris Biemann16:30-17:00Towards Automatic Topical Question Generation [#290]Yllias Chali and Sadid A. Hasan17:05-17:35Adjective Deletion for Linguistic Steganography and Secret Sharing [#161]Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark17:40-18:10Error Mining with Suspicion Trees: Seeing the Forest for the Trees [#211]Shashi Narayan and Claire GardentDec 11, TuesdayQuestion answeringKalika Bali16:30-17:00A Semi-Supervised Bayesian Network Model for Microblog Topic Classification [#775]Yan Chen, Zhoujun Li, Liqiang Nie, Xia Hu, Xiangyu Wang, Tat-Seng Chua and Xiaoming Zhang17:05-17:35Thread Specific Features Are Helpful For Identifying Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads [#806]Prakhar Biyani, Sumit Bhatia, Cornelia Caragea and Prasenjit Mitra17:40-18:10Mining the Web for Large-Scale Conversational Content [#222]Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah and Lin PadghamDec 11, TuesdayNamed Entity recognitionGerard de Melo16:30-17:00A Pipeline Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using a Hybrid Approach [#176]Mai Oudah and Khaled Shaalan17:05-17:35A Comparison and Improvement of Online Learning Algorithms for Sequence Labeling [#245]Zhengyan He and Houfeng Wang17:40-18:10Initial explorations on using CRFs for Turkish Named Entity Recognition [#1044]Gkhan Akn _eker and Gl_en Eryi_itDec 13, ThursdayEmpirical machine translationHolger Schwenk11:20-11:50Machine Translation by Modeling Predicate-Argument Structure Transformation [#657]Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing Zong11:55-12:25Bilingual Lexicon Construction from Comparable Corpora via Dependency Mapping [#690]Longhua Qian, Hongling Wang, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu12:30-13:00Unsupervised Discriminative Induction of Synchronous Grammar for Machine Translation [#874]Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Shouxun LinDec 13, ThursdayParsingMark Johnson11:20-11:50Improvements to Training an RNN Parser [#574]Richard Billingsley and James Curran11:55-12:25A Dynamic Oracle for Arc-Eager Dependency Parsing [#842]Yoav Goldberg and Joakim Nivre12:30-13:00Exploiting Lexical Dependencies from Large-Scale Data for Better Shift-Reduce Constituency Parsing [#742]Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu and Huizhen WangDec 13, ThursdayQuestion answeringL V Subramaniam11:20-11:50Answering Yes/No Questions via Question Inversion [#400]Hiroshi Kanayama, Yusuke Miyao and John Prager11:55-12:25Multi-dimensional feature merger for Question Answering [#946]Apoorv Agarwal, J William Murdock, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Adam Lally and Aditya Kalyanpur12:30-13:00The Use of Dependency Relation Graph to Enhance the Term Weighting in Question Retrieval [#649]Weinan Zhang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yu Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Ting Liu and Tat-Seng ChuaDec 13, ThursdayOntologies and terminologyMichael Glass11:20-11:50Method mention extraction from scientific research papers [#1155]Hospice Houngbo and Robert Mercer11:55-12:25Bayesian Text Segmentation for Index Term Identification and Keyphrase Extraction [#505]David Newman, Nagendra Koilada, Jey Han Lau and Timothy Baldwin12:30-13:00Constructing Reference Semantic Predictions from Biomedical Knowledge Sources [#156]Demeke Ayele, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Million Meshesha and Getnet KassieDec 13, ThursdayDiscourse and PragmaticsPeter Scharf11:20-11:50Implicitness of Discourse Relations [#598]Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg11:55-12:25Modeling Leadership and Influence in Multi-party Online Discourse [#510]Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Jenny Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylor, Umit Boz, Veena Ravishankar and Xiaoai Ren12:30-13:00Constrained decoding for text-level discourse parsing [#671]Philippe Muller, Stergos Afantenos, Pascal Denis and Nicholas AsherDec 13, ThursdayTranslation and Information RetrievalRohit Prasad14:30-15:00Inverse Document Density: A Smooth Measure for Location-Dependent Term Irregularities [#259]Dennis Thom, Harald Bosch and Thomas Ertl15:05-15:35N-gram Fragment Sequence Based Unsupervised Domain-Specific Document Readability [#623]Shoaib Jameel, Xiaojun Qian and Wai Lam15:40-16:10Approximate Sentence Retrieval for Scalable and Efficient Example-based Machine Translation [#795]Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Sandipan Dandapat and Gareth JonesDec 13, ThursdayGrammar and formalismsGabor Proszeky14:30-15:00Semantics-Based Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars [#1098]Bevan Jones, Jacob Andreas, Daniel Bauer, Karl Moritz Hermann and Kevin Knight15:05-15:35From Finite-State to Inversion Transductions: Toward Unsupervised Bilingual Grammar Induction [#1112]Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki and Dekai Wu15:40-16:10A Comprehensive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering [#992]Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam PrzepirkowskiDec 13, ThursdaySummarizationDavid Rouquet14:30-15:00On the Effectiveness of Using Sentence Compression Models for Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization [#426]Yllias Chali and Sadid A. Hasan15:05-15:35Twitter Topic Summarization by Ranking Tweets Using Social Influence and Content Quality [#478]Yajuan Duan, Zhumin Chen, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou and Heung-Yeung Shum15:40-16:10Context-Enhanced Personalized Social Summarization [#404]Po Hu, Donghong Ji, Chong Teng and Yujing GuoDec 13, ThursdayAnnotation and GenerationPaul Kiparsky14:30-15:00Natural Language Generation for Nature Conservation: Automating Feedback to help Volunteers identify Bumblebee Species [#331]Steven Blake, Advaith Siddharthan, Hien Nguyen, Nirwan Sharma, Anne-Marie Robinson, Elaine O'Mahony, Ben Darvill, Chris Mellish and Rene van der Wal15:05-15:35Modeling the Complexity of Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis [#251]Karen Fort, Adeline Nazarenko and Sophie Rosset15:40-16:10The Secret's in the Word Order: Text-to-Text Generation for Linguistic Steganography [#149]Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen ClarkDec 13, ThursdayResources and annotationSriram Venkatapathy14:30-15:00Creating an Extended Named Entity Dictionary from Wikipedia [#541]Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito, Toshiro Makino and Yoshihiro Matsuo15:05-15:35Learnability-based Syntactic Annotation Design [#198]Roy Schwartz, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport15:40-16:10Prague Dependency Treebank 2.5 [#895]Eduard Bejcek, Jarmila Panevova, Jan Popelka, Pavel Stranak, Magda Sevcikova, Jan Stepanek and Zdenek ZabokrtskyDec 13, ThursdayEmpirical machine translationSadao Kurohashi16:30-17:00Optimizing for Sentence-Level BLEU+1 Yields Short Translations [#617]Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzman and Stephan Vogel17:05-17:35Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-based SMT [#884]Minwei Feng, Weiwei Sun and Hermann Ney17:40-18:10Bayesian Language Modelling of German Compounds [#1074]Jan A. Botha, Chris Dyer and Phil BlunsomDec 13, ThursdayParsingOwen Rambow16:30-17:00Stacking Heterogeneous Joint Models of Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#717]Meishan Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Zhenghua Li17:05-17:35Improving Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parse Reranking with Dependency Grammar Features [#424]Sunghwan Mac Kim, Dominick Ng, Mark Johnson and James Curran17:40-18:10Stacking of Dependency and Phrase Structure Parsers [#896]Richard Farkas and Bernd BohnetDec 13, ThursdaySemanticsIgor Boguslavsky16:30-17:00Unsupervised Discovery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction Patterns [#809]Alan Akbik, Larysa Visengeriyeva, Priska Herger, Holmer Hemsen and Alexander Lser17:05-17:35Improved Temporal Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and Selective Crowdsourced Annotations [#770]Jun-Ping Ng and Min-Yen Kan17:40-18:10Grounded Language Acquisition: A Minimal Commitment Approach [#761]Sushobhan Nayak and Amitabha MukerjeeDec 13, ThursdayUnderresourced languagesVincent Berment16:30-17:00Employing Morphological Structures and Sememes for Chinese Event Extraction [#310]Peifeng Li and Guodong Zhou17:05-17:35A Collaborative Platform for Sanskrit Processing [#764]Pawan Goyal, Grard Huet, Amba Kulkarni, Peter Scharf and Ralph Bunker17:40-18:10Deriving a Lexicon for a Precision Grammar from Language Documentation Resources: A Case Study of Chintang [#371]Emily M. Bender, Robert Schikowski and Balthasar BickelDec 13, ThursdayPsychological and neurological modellingMichael Carl16:30-17:00Mining words in the minds of second language learners: learner-specific word difficulty [#1002]Yo Ehara, Issei Sato, Hidekazu Oiwa and Hiroshi Nakagawa17:05-17:35Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity Assessment from Online Forum Posts [#1093]Shirin Saleem, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Maciej Pacula and Rohit Prasad17:40-18:10A Computational Cognitive Model for Semantic Sub-network Extraction from Natural Language Queries [#316]Suman Deb Roy and Wenjun ZengDec 14, FridayEmpirical machine translationChengqing Zong11:20-11:50Translation Quality-Based Supplementary Data Selection by Incremental Update of Translation Models [#520]Pratyush Banerjee, Sudip Naskar, Johann Roturier, Andy Way and Josef van Genabith11:55-12:25A Comparison of Syntactic Reordering Methods for English-German Machine Translation} [#560]Jiri Navratil, Karthik Visweswariah and Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan12:30-13:00Tree-based Translation without Using Parse Trees [#489]Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou and Chengqing ZongDec 14, FridayParsingChu-Ren Huang11:20-11:50Easy-First, Chinese, POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#616]Ji Ma, Tong Xiao, JingBo Zhu and Feiliang Ren11:55-12:25Mining Rules for Rewriting States in a Transition-based Dependency Parser for English [#309]Akihiro Inokuchi and Ayumu Yamaoka12:30-13:00A Separately Passive-Aggressive Training Algorithm for Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing [#446]Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che and Ting LiuDec 14, FridaySemanticsSara Tonelli11:20-11:50Learning Effective and Interpretable Semantic Models using Non Negative Sparse Coding [#1088]Brian Murphy, Partha Talukdar and Tom Mitchell11:55-12:25Learning Compositional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing [#882]Phong Le and Willem Zuidema12:30-13:00Deriving Paraphrases for Highly-Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents [#645]Kfir Bar and Nachum DershowitzDec 14, FridayOntologies and terminologyTim Baldwin11:20-11:50Combining Wordnet and morphosyntactic information in terminology clustering [#687]Agnieszka Mykowiecka and Malgorzata Marciniak11:55-12:25Experiments with Term Translation [#474]Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann and Paul Buitelaar12:30-13:00Structured Term Recognition in Medical Text [#923]Michael Glass and Alfio GliozzoDec 14, FridayIndian language technologyDipti Sharma11:20-11:50Semantic Processing of Compounds in Indian Languages [#1034]Amba Kulkarni, Soma Paul, Malhar Kulkarni, Anil Kumar and Nitesh Surtani11:55-12:25Noun Group and Verb Group Identification for Hindi POS Tagging [#835]Smriti Singh, Om P. Damani and Vaijayanthi M. Sarma12:30-13:00YouCat: Weakly Supervised Youtube Video Categorization System from Meta Data & User Comments using WordNet & Wikipedia [#557]Subhabrata Mukherjee and Pushpak BhattacharyyaDec 14, FridayInformation retrievalMonojit Choudhury14:30-15:00Unsupervised and semi-supervised morphological analysis for Information Retrieval in the biomedical domain [#979]Vincent Claveau15:05-15:35Combining Statistical Translation Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval [#441]Ferhan Ture, Jimmy Lin and Douglas W. Oard15:40-16:10Measuring the similarity between TV programs using semantic relations [#467]Ichiro Yamada, Masaru Miyazaki, Hideki Sumiyoshi, Atsushi Matsui, Hironori Furumiya and Hideki TanakaDec 14, FridayMachine Translation and GrammarUlrich Schaefer14:30-15:00Simple and Effective Parameter Tuning for Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation [#641]Pavel Pecina, Antonio Toral and Josef van Genabith15:05-15:35Flexible Structural Analysis of Near-Meet-Semilattices for Typed Unification-based Grammar Design [#1116]Rouzbeh Farahmand and Gerald Penn15:40-16:10Identifying Urdu Complex Predication via Bigram Extraction [#758]Tafseer Ahmed, Tina Bgel, Miriam Butt, Annette Hautli and Sebastian SulgerDec 14, FridaySemanticsMassimo Poesio14:30-15:00Accurate Unbounded Dependency Recovery using Generalized Categorial Grammars [#1046]Luan Nguyen, Marten Van Schijndel and William Schuler15:05-15:35Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling: Approaching from an Unsupervised Perspective [#786]Ivan Titov and Alexandre Klementiev15:40-16:10Walk-based Computation of Contextual Word Similarity [#1076]Kazuo Hara, Ikumi Suzuki, Masashi Shimbo and Yuji MatsumotoDec 14, FridayNatural Language GenerationOm Damani14:30-15:00Towards efficient HPSG generation for German, a non-configurational language [#936]Berthold Crysmann and Woodley Packard15:05-15:35Quantifying Semantics Using Complex Network Analysis [#146]Chris Biemann, Stefanie Roos and Karsten Weihe15:40-16:10Structure-Driven Lexicalist Generation [#506]Shashi Narayan and Claire GardentDec 14, FridayOntologies and terminologyPhilippe Blache14:30-15:00Revising the Compositional Method for Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora [#477]Emmanuel Morin and Batrice Daille15:05-15:35Using Argumentative Zones for Extractive Summarization of Scientific Articles [#182]Danish Contractor, Yufan Guo and Anna Korhonen15:40-16:10Comparing taxonomies for organising collections of documents [#255]Samuel Fernando, Mark Hall, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa, Paul Clough and Mark StevensonDec 14, FridayIE & text miningVeselin Stoyanov16:30-17:00Tweet 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 Voss17:05-17:35A Lazy Learning Model for Entity Linking Using Query-Specific Information [#583]Wei Zhang, Jian Su and Chew-Lim Tan17:40-18:10Refinement of Underspecified Queries via Natural Language Question Generation from Unstructured Text [#276]Hassan Sajjad, Patrick Pantel and Michael GamonDec 14, FridayExtraction from TextDekai Wu16:30-17:00Understanding the Performance of Statistical MT Systems: A Linear Regression Framework [#525]Francisco Guzman and Stephan Vogel17:05-17:35Chinese Evaluative Information Analysis [#1057]Yiou Wang, Junichi Kazama, Takuya Kawada and Kentaro Torisawa17:40-18:10Joint Modeling for Chinese Event Extraction with Rich Linguistic Features [#1157]Chen Chen and Vincent NgDec 14, FridayPragmatics, Disambiguation and Content ExtractionTim Van de Cruys16:30-17:00A hybrid approach 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-Schuhmann17:05-17:35Geolocation Prediction in Social Media Data by Finding Location Indicative Words [#566]Bo Han, Paul Cook and Timothy Baldwin17:40-18:10Identification of Social Acts in Dialogue [#514]David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson and Hui WangDec 14, FridaySoftware Deployment and TranslationHerv Blanchon16:30-17:00SpeedRead: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline [#132]Rami Al-Rfou' and Steven Skiena17:05-17:35Code Switching Language Model with Inversion Constraints for Mixed Language Speech Recognition [#1085]Ying Li and Pascale Fung17:40-18:10N/AN/ADec 14, FridayMT, IR, SentimentVincent Claveau16:30-17:00Extraction of Russian Sentiment Lexicon for Product Meta-Domain [#363]Ilia Chetviorkin and Natalia Loukachevitch17:05-17:35Cross-Lingual Topical Relevance Models [#158]Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling and Gareth Jones17:40-18:10Sub-corpora Sampling with an Application to Bilingual Lexicon Extraction [#493]Ivan Vuli_ and Marie-Francine Moens

TUTORIALSIDTITLESPEAKERST1Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal ReasoningProf. Dan Roth, Prof. Heng Ji, Taylor Cassidy, QuangDoT2Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLPDr. Gerard de MeloT3Multimodal CorporaProf. Patrizia Paggio, Prof. Dirk Heylen, Prof.Costanza NavarrettaT4The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu Natural Language ProcessingProf. Owen Rambow, Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini VaidyaT5Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid RobotsProf. Kristiina Jokinen, Prof Graham WilcockT6Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLPJagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa

WORKSHOPSIDTITLEORGANIZERSWS1Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspectsEva HajicovaWS2Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM 2)Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Yoh OkunoWS3Eye-tracking and Natural Language ProcessingMichael Carl, Pushpak Bhattacharya,Kamal Kumar ChoudharyWS43rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP)Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Abbas MalikWS5Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)Michael Zock, Reinhard RappWS610th Workshop on Asian Language ResourcesRuvan Weerasinghe, Rachel Edita O. Roxas,Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Sarmad HussainWS72nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Manabu OkumuraWS8Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text DataLipika Dey, Daniel Lopresti, Christoph Ringlstetter, Shourya Roy, L. Venkata SubramaniamWS9Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media DataSriram Raghavan, Ganesh RamakrishnanWS10Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)Radhika Mamidi, Ranjani Parthasarathi, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Dipti Misra Sharma,Joseph van GenabithWS11Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MTJosef van Genabith, Toni Badia,(ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task)Christian FedermannWS12Speech and Language Processing Tools in EducationRadhika Mamidi, Kishore PrahalladWS13Reordering for Statistical Machine TranslationKarthik Visweswariah, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Mitesh M. KhapraWS14Question Answering for Complex DomainsNanda Kambhatla Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kiran Kate, Priyanka AgrawalWS15First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language TechnologyPushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Mark Johnson, Diego Molla-Aliod

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