Conference Program for October 29, 2014

Tutorials

09:00–12:30	Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation (Al Areen 4) Philip Williams and Philipp Koehn
09:00–12:30	Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing (Al Areen 5) Antoine Bordes and Jason Weston
14:00–17:30	Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects (Al Areen 4) Mona Diab and Nizar Habash
14:00–17:30	Text Quantification (Al Areen 5) Fabrizio Sebastiani

Workshops

TextGraphs-9: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

(Al Areen 3)

09:00–09:10	Welcome and Introduction
09:10–10:15	Keynote Talk by Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki
10:15–10:30	Normalized Entity Graph for Computing Local Coherence Mohsen Mesgar and Michael Strube
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:25	Exploiting Timegraphs in Temporal Relation Classification Natsuda Laokulrat, Makoto Miwa and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
11:25–11:50	Multi-document Summarization Using Bipartite Graphs Daraksha Parveen and Michael Strube
11:50–12:15	A Novel Two-stage Framework for Extracting Opinionated Sentences from News Articles Pujari Rajkumar, Swara Desai, Niloy Ganguly and Pawan Goyal
12:15–12:30	Constructing Coherent Event Hierarchies from News Stories Goran Glavaš and Jan Šnajder
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:05	Invited Talk by Prof. Partha Talukdar Title: Graph-based methods for Web-scale Knowledge Harvesting
15:05–15:30	Semi-supervised Graph-based Genre Classification for Web Pages Noushin Rezapour Asheghi, Katja Markert and Serge Sharoff
15:30–16:00	Coffee break
16:00–16:25	The Modular Community Structure of Linguistic Predication Networks Aaron Gerow and James Evans
16:25–16:50	From Visualisation to Hypothesis Construction for Second Language Acquisition Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras
16:50–17:00	Conclusion

 

LT4CloseLang: Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants

(Al Areen 1)

	Opening Session and Invited Talk 1
8:50–9:00	Opening Remarks The organizers
9:00–10:00	INVITED TALK 1: Computational Processing of Arabic Dialects Nizar Habash
	Session 1: Parsing
10:00–10:20	Learning from a Neighbor: Adapting a Japanese Parser for Korean Through Feature Transfer Learning Hiroshi Kanayama, Youngja Park, Yuta Tsuboi and Dongmook Yi
10:20–10:40	Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing of Related Languages with Rich Morphosyntactic Tagsets Željko Agić, Jörg Tiedemann, Danijela Merkler, Simon Krek, Kaja Dobrovoljc and Sara Moze
10:40–11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Variety and Adaptation
11:00–11:20	Language variety identification in Spanish tweets Wolfgang Maier and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
11:20–11:40	Exploiting Language Variants Via Grammar Parsing Having Morphologically Rich Information Qaiser Abbas
11:40–12:00	Adapting Predicate Frames for Urdu PropBanking Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Naman Jain, Ashwini Vaidya, Martha Palmer, Tafseer Ahmed Khan, Dipti Misra Sharma and James Babani
12:00–12:20	Measuring Language Closeness by Modeling Regularity Javad Nouri and Roman Yangarber
12:20–14:00	Lunch
	Invited Talk 2
14:00–15:00	INVITED TALK 2: Towards Universal Syntactic Processing of Natural Language Slav Petrov
	Session 3: Machine Translation I
15:00–15:20	Proper Name Machine Translation from Japanese to Japanese Sign Language Taro Miyazaki, Naoto Kato, Seiki Inoue, Shuichi Umeda, Makiko Azuma, Nobuyuki Hiruma and Yuji Nagashima
15:20–15:40	Exploring cross-language statistical machine translation for closely related South Slavic languages Maja Popović and Nikola Ljubešić
15:40–16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4: Machine Translation II
16:00–16:20	Exploring System Combination approaches for Indo-Aryan MT Systems Karan Singla, Anupam Singh, Nishkarsh Shastri, Megha Jhunjhunwala, Srinivas Bangalore and Dipti Misra Sharma
16:20–16:40	A Comparison of MT Methods for Closely Related Languages: a Case Study on Czech - Slovak Language Pair Vladislav Kubon and Jernej Vicic
16:40–17:00	Handling OOV Words in Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation Maryam Aminian, Mahmoud Ghoneim and Mona Diab
	Closing Session
17:00–18:00	Panel Panelists: Houda Bouamor, Kareem Darwish, Vladislav Kubon, Wolfgang Maier, Kemal Oflazer
18:00–18:10	Closing Remarks The organizers