Conference Programme - Day 2 - Morning Session Updated
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Conference Programme - Day 2 - Morning Session Updated

Thursday, 2nd April 2009
09:30–11:00
Student Research Workshop
Track 1
(Trianti Hall)		 Track 2
(Skalkotas Hall)		 Track 3
(MC3 Room)		 Track 4
(MC2 Room)
A Chain-starting Classifier of Definite NPs in Spanish
Marta Recasens		 Aligning Medical Domain Ontologies for Clinical Query Extraction
Pinar Wennerberg		 Speech Emotion Recognition with TGI+ classifier
Julia Sidorova		 Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL
Thomas Francois
Structural Correspondence Learning for Parse Disambiguation
Barbara Plank		 A Generalized Vector Space Model for Text Retrieval Based on Semantic Relatedness
George Tsatsaronis and Vicky Panagiotopoulou		 A Memory-Based Approach to the Treatment of Serial Verb Construction in Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Prachya Boonkwan		 Modelling Early Language Acquisition Skills: Towards a General Statistical Learning Mechanism
Guillaume Aimetti
Extraction of definitions using grammar-enhanced machine learning
Eline Westerhout		 Finding Word Substitutions Using a Distributional Similarity Baseline and Immediate Context Overlap
Aurelie Herbelot		 A Comparison of Merging Strategies for Translation of German Compounds
Sara Stymne
11:00–11:30 Break (Muses Foyer & Skalkotas Foyer)
11:30–12:00 T13. Information Retrieval
Chair:Ani Nenkova
(Skalkotas Hall)

Using Non-lexical Features to Identify Effective Indexing Terms for Biomedical Illustrations
Matthew Simpson, Dina Demner-Fushman, Charles Sneiderman, Sameer K. Antani and George R. Thoma

 T14. Question Answering
Chair:Timothy Baldwin
(MC2 Room)

Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin and Davood Rafiei

 T15. Text Categorization
Chair:Lori Levin
(MC3 Room)

Syntactic and Semantic Kernels for Short Text Pair Categorization
Alessandro Moschitti

 T16. Machine Learning
Chair:Vincent Ng
(Trianti Hall)

Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith
12:00–13:00 Q5. Semantics, Pragmatics and Learning
Chair:Ido Dagan
(Skalkotas Hall)		 Q6. Resources
Chair:Roberto Navigli
(MC2 Room)		 Q7. Dialogue and Speech
Chair:Amanda Stent
(MC3 Room)		 Q8. Translation
Chair:Robert Moore
(Trianti Hall)
Contextual Phrase-Level Polarity Analysis using Lexical Affect Scoring and Syntactic N-grams
Apoorv Agarwal, Fadi Biadsy and Kathleen Mckeown		 Empirical Evaluations of Animacy Annotation
Lilja Ovrelid		 User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas		 Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
Yanjun Ma and Andy Way
Inference Rules and their Application to Recognizing Textual Entailment
Georgiana Dinu and Rui Wang		 Large-Coverage Root Lexicon Extraction for Hindi
Cohan Sujay Carlos, Monojit Choudhury and Sandipan Dandapat		 Learning to Interpret Utterances Using Dialogue History
David DeVault and Matthew Stone		 Lexical Morphology in Machine Translation: a Feasibility Study
Bruno Cartoni
A Robust and Extensible Exemplar-Based Model of Thematic Fit
Bram Vandekerckhove, Dominiek Sandra and Walter Daelemans		 Growing Finely-Discriminating Taxonomies from Seeds of Varying Quality and Size
Tony Veale, Guofu Li and Yanfen Hao		 Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain
Gabriel Skantze and David Schlangen		 Improving Mid-Range Re-Ordering using Templates of Factors
Hieu Hoang and Philipp Koehn
An Alignment Algorithm using Belief Propagation and a Structure-based Distortion Model
Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi		 Semi-Supervised Polarity Lexicon Induction
Delip Rao and Deepak Ravichandran		 Frequency matters: Pitch Accents and Information Status
Katrin Schweitzer, Michael Walsh, Bernd Mobius, Arndt Riester, Antje Schweitzer and Hinrich Schuetze		 Feature-based Method for Document Alignment in Comparable News Corpora
Thuy Vu, Ai Ti Aw and Min Zhang
Sequential Labeling with Latent Variables: An Exact Inference Algorithm and Its Efficient Approximation
Xu Sun and Jun'ichi Tsujii		 Outclassing Wikipedia in Open-Domain Information Extraction: Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Attributes over Conceptual Hierarchies
Marius Pasca		 Web Augmentation of Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition of SMS Text Messages
Mathias Creutz, Sami Virpioja and Anna Kovaleva		 End-to-End Evaluation in Simultaneous Translation
Olivier Hamon, Christian Fugen, Djamel Mostefa, Victoria Arranz, Muntsin Kolss, Alex Waibel, and Khalid Choukri
13:00–14:00 Lunch (Muses Foyer)
14:00–15:00
Poster Session (Muses Foyer)
P5. Semantics, Pragmatics and Learning

See Q5.

 P6. Resources

See Q6.

 P7. Dialogue and Speech

See Q7.

 P8. Translation

See Q8.
15:00–16:00 T17. Dialogue
Chair:Oliver Lemon
(Skalkotas Hall)		 T18. Tagging
Chair:Stephen Clark
(MC2 Room)		 T19. Speech
Chair:Alessandro Moschitti
(MC3 Room)		 T20. Translation
Chair:Tony Veale
(Trianti Hall)
Who is "You"? Combining Linguistic and Gaze Features to Resolve Second-Person References in Dialogue
Matthew Frampton, Raquel Fernandez, Patrick Ehlen, Mario Christoudias, Trevor Darrell and Stanley Peters		 Tagging Urdu Text with Parts of Speech: A Tagger Comparison
Hassan Sajjad and Helmut Schmid		 Reconstructing False Start Errors in Spontaneous Speech Text
Erin Fitzgerald, Keith Hall and Frederick Jelinek		 Translation as Weighted Deduction
Adam Lopez
A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing
David Schlangen and Gabriel Skantze		 Semi-supervised Training for the Averaged Perceptron POS Tagger
Drahomira "johanka" Spoustova, Jan Hajič, Jan Raab and Miroslav Spousta		 Effects of Word Confusion Networks on Voice Search
Junlan Feng and Srinivas Bangalore		 Improvements in Analogical Learning: Application to translating Multi-Terms of the Medical Domain
Philippe Langlais, Francois Yvon and Pierre Zweigenbaum
16:00–16:30 Break (Muses Foyer & Skalkotas Foyer)
16:30–18:00 T21. Lexical Semantics
Chair:Ana Korhonen
(Skalkotas Hall)		 T22. Syntax/Parsing
Chair:Josef van Genabith
(MC2 Room)		 T23. Resources
Chair:James Curran
(MC3 Room)		 T24. Translation
Chair:Shuly Wintner
(Trianti Hall)
Bayesian Word Sense Induction
Samuel Brody and Mirella Lapata		 Dependency Trees and the Strong Generative Capacity of CCG
Alexander Koller and Marco Kuhlmann		 Language-Independent Bilingual Terminology Extraction from a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
Els Lefever, Lieve Macken and Veronique Hoste		 Word Lattices for Multi-Source Translation
Josh Schroeder, Trevor Cohn and Philipp Koehn
Co-dispersion: A Windowless Approach to Lexical Association
Justin Washtell		 Parsing Coordinations
Sandra Kubler, Erhard Hinrichs, Wolfgang Maier and Eva Klett		 Generating a Non-English Subjectivity Lexicon: Relations That Matter
Valentin Jijkoun and Katja Hofmann		 Translation and Extension of Concepts Across Languages
Dmitry Davidov and Ari Rappoport
Using Lexical and Relational Similarity to Classify Semantic Relations
Diarmuid O Seaghdha and Ann Copestake		 Enhancing Unlexicalized Parsing Performance using a Wide Coverage Lexicon, Fuzzy Tag-set Mapping, and EM-HMM-based Lexical Probabilities
Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad		 Language ID in the Context of Harvesting Language Data off the Web
Fei Xia, William Lewis and Hoifung Poon		 Syntactic Phrase Reordering for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib and James Glass