Conference programme

September 17, Wednesday 

9:00– REGISTRATION
9:50–10:00 OPENING
10:00–11:00

INVITED TALK

Johan Bos

Adventures in Meaning Banking

11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00–13:00

POSTER SESSION P1: LEXICAL SEMANTICS, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Bastian Entrup

Graph-based, Supervised Machine Learning Approach to (Irregular) Polysemy in WordNet

Adrian Czardybon, Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen

Statistical analysis of the role of word order in Polish determination types

Eriks Sneiders, Alyaa Alfalahi and Gunnar Eriksson

Exploring the Traits of Manual E-Mail Categorization Text Patterns

Konrad Gołuchowski

Experiments on the identification of predicate-argument structure in Polish

Maciej Falkowski, Maciej Nowak, Czesław Jędrzejek and Jakub Dutkiewicz

Event extraction with use of frames

Natalia Kotsyba

Using Polish wordnet for predicting semantic roles for the valency dictionary of Polish verbs

11:30–13:00

ORAL SESSION O1: MORPHOLOGY, NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION, TERM EXTRACTION

Jan Kocoń and Maciej Piasecki

Named Entity Matching Method Based on the Context-free Morphological Generator

Juan Antonio Lossio Ventura, Clement Jonquet, Mathieu Roche and Maguelonne Teisseire (cancelled; presentation available)

Yet another ranking function to automatic multi-word term extraction

Thierry Hamon, Christopher Engström and Sergei Silvestrov

Term ranking adaptation to the domain: genetic algorithm based optimisation of the C-Value

13:00–14:00 LUNCH
14:00–15:30

ORAL SESSION O2: MORPHOLOGY, NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION, TERM EXTRACTION, SPEECH PROCESSING, LANGUAGE MODELLING, SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECKING

Mesfin Abate and Yaregal Assabie

The Development of Amharic Morphological Analyzer Using Memory Based Learning

Evanthia Petropoulou, Eleni Galiotou and Angela Ralli

A Finite-state Treatment of Neoclassical compounds in Modern Greek and English

Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Asaf Applebaum and Jacob Bitterman

Experiments with Language Models for Word Completion and Prediction in Hebrew

Roman Grundkiewicz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

The WikEd Error Corpus: A Corpus of Corrective Wikipedia Edits and its Application to Grammatical Error Correction

15:30–16:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:30–17:00

POSTER SESSION P2: SENTENCE-LEVEL SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

Jabesa Daba and Yaregal Assabie

A Hybrid Approach to the Development of Bidirectional English-Oromiffa Machine Translation

Motaz Saad, David Langlois and Kamel Smaili

Cross-lingual Semantic Similarity Measure for Comparable Articles

Nibaran Das, Swarnendu Gosh, Teresa Gonçalves and Paulo Quaresma

Using graphs and semantic information to improve text classifiers

Amandine Périnet and Thierry Hamon

Distributional context generalisation and normalisation as a mean to reduce data sparsity: evaluation of medical corpora

16:00–17:00

ORAL SESSION O3: SPEECH PROCESSING, LANGUAGE MODELLING, SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECKING

Girma Zemedu and Yaregal Assabie

Concatenative Hymn Synthesis from Yared Notations Using Unit Selection Approach

Maité Boyé, Thi Mai Tran and Natalia Grabar

NLP-oriented contrastive study of linguistic productions of Alzheimer and control people

Iris Eshkol and Natalia Grabar

Paraphrastic reformulations in spoken corpora

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım and Banu Diri (cancelled; presentation available)

An Integrated Approach to Automatic Synonym Detection in Turkish Corpus

17:00–19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION

 

September 18, Thursday 

10:00–11:00

INVITED TALK

Ann Copestake

Lexicalised compositionality: relating distributional and model-theoretic semantics

11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00–13:00

POSTER SESSION P3: MORPHOLOGY, NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION, TERM EXTRACTION, DISCOURSE, COREFERENCE RESOLUTION, SUMMARISATION, QUESTION ANSWERING, SPEECH PROCESSING, LANGUAGE MODELLING, SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECKING

Hege Fromreide and Anders Søgaard

NER in tweets using a small crowdsourced dataset

Somnath Banerjee, Pintu Lohar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

The First Resource for Bengali Question Answering Research

Marcos Zampieri and Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

Between Sound and Spelling: Combining Phonetics and Clustering Algorithms to Improve Target Word Recovery

Rui Correia, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista and Maxine Eskenazi

Toward Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse

Inese Vira, Janis Teselskis and Inguna Skadiņa 

Towards the development of the multilingual multimodal virtual agent

Anne H. Schneider, Johannes Hellrich and Saturnino Luz

Word, syllable and phoneme based metrics do not correlate with human performance in ASR-mediated tasks

Daniel Hladek, Ján Staš and Jozef Juhar

Slovak Web Discussion Corpus

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Alicja Wójcicka, Katarzyna Głowińska and Mateusz Kopeć

Nested Mention Detection for Polish Coreference Resolution

Krešimir Šojat, Matea Srebacic and Tin Pavelić

CroDeriV 2.0: Initial Experiments

Michał Jungiewicz and Michał Łopuszyński

Unsupervised keyword extraction from Polish legal texts

Mitra Akasereh, Piotr Malak and Adam Pawłowski

Evaluation of IR Strategies for Polish

11:00–13:00

SAMSUNG HLT YOUNG RESEARCHERS SYMPOSIUM

11:30–13:00

ORAL SESSION O4: LEXICAL SEMANTICS, SENTENCE-LEVEL SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

Małgorzata Marciniak and Agnieszka Mykowiecka

Descriptive Adjectives Clustering – Towards Concepts' Attributes Identification

Wei Wang, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau

Semantic Clustering of Relations between Named Entities

Wei Yang and Yves Lepage

Inflating a Training Corpus for SMT by Using Unrelated Unaligned Monolingual Data

13:00–14:00 LUNCH
14:00–16:00

ORAL SESSION O5: SENTENCE-LEVEL SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska, Anna Zaretskaya and Milan Soucek

Stanford Typed Dependencies: Slavic Languages Application

Alina Wróblewska and Adam Przepiórkowski

Towards a Weighted Induction Method of Dependency Annotation

Wojciech Jaworski and Adam Przepiórkowski

Syntactic Approximation of Semantic Roles

Eckhard Bick

Constraint Grammar-based Swedish-Danish Machine Translation

16:15–17:15 GUIDED BUS TOUR OF WARSAW
17:30–19:00 BOAT TRIP ON VISTULA RIVER
19:00–19:30 SHORT GUIDED TOUR OF OLD TOWN
19:30–22:00 GALA DINNER IN CAFE ZAMEK, PL. ZAMKOWY 4

 

September 19, Friday

10:00–11:00

INVITED TALK

Mark Steedman

A Robust Semantics for NLP

11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30–13:15

ORAL SESSION O6: TEXT CLASSIFICATION, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Melanie Reiplinger, Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow

Relation Extraction for the Food Domain without Labeled Training Data – Is Distant Supervision the Best Solution?

Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Gabriele Piccoli and Joaquin Alfredo Rodriguez

Automatic Prediction of Future Business Conditions

Magdalena Wolska, Andrea Horbach and Alexis Palmer

Computer-assisted Scoring of Short Responses: The Efficiency of a Clustering-based Approach in a Real-life Task

Munhyong Kim and Hyopil Shin

Pinpointing Sentence-level Subjectivity through Balanced Subjective and Objective Features

13:15–13:30 CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE
13:30–14:30 LUNCH
14:30–15:30

ORAL SESSION O7: DISCOURSE, COREFERENCE RESOLUTION, SUMMARISATION, QUESTION ANSWERING

Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco

Uncovering Discourse Relations to Insert Connectives between the Sentences of an Automatic Summary

Temesgen Dawit and Yaregal Assabie

Amharic Anaphora Resolution Using Knowledge-Poor Approach

 

Accepted papers

1. MORPHOLOGY, NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION, TERM EXTRACTION
    
Mesfin Abate and Yaregal Assabie
Development of Amharic Morphological Analyzer Using Memory-Based Learning

Evanthia Petropoulou, Eleni Galiotou and Angela Ralli
A Finite-state Treatment of Neoclassical Compounds in Modern Greek and English

Krešimir Šojat, Matea Srebacic and Tin Pavelić
CroDeriV 2.0.: Initial Experiments

Jan Kocoń and Maciej Piasecki
Named Entity Matching Method Based on the Context-free Morphological Generator

Hege Fromreide and Anders Søgaard
NER in Tweets Using Bagging and a Small Crowdsourced Dataset

Juan Antonio Lossio Ventura, Clement Jonquet, Mathieu Roche and Maguelonne Teisseire
Yet Another Ranking Function for Automatic Multiword Term Extraction

Michał Jungiewicz and Michał Łopuszyński
Unsupervised Keyword Extraction from Polish Legal Texts

Thierry Hamon, Christopher Engström and Sergei Silvestrov
Term Ranking Adaptation to the Domain: Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimisation of the C-Value


2. LEXICAL SEMANTICS

Bastian Entrup
Graph-based, Supervised Machine Learning Approach to (Irregular) Polysemy in WordNet

Malgorzata Marciniak and Agnieszka Mykowiecka
Attribute Value Acquisition Through Clustering of Adjectives

Motaz Saad, David Langlois and Kamel Smaili
Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity Measure for Comparable Articles

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım and Banu Diri
An Integrated Approach to Automatic Synonym Detection in Turkish Corpus

Amandine Périnet and Thierry Hamon
Distributional Context Generalisation and Normalisation as a Mean to Reduce Data Sparsity: Evaluation of Medical Corpora

Emil Nasirov, Anatoly Anisimov, Oleksandr Marchenko and Stepan Palamarchuk
A Parallel Non-Negative Sparse Large Matrix Factorization


3. SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

Adrian Czardybon, Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen
Statistical Analysis of the Interaction between Word Order and Definiteness in Polish

Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska, Anna Zaretskaya and Milan Soucek
Stanford Typed Dependencies: Slavic Languages Application

Alina Wróblewska and Adam Przepiórkowski
Towards a Weighted Induction Method of Dependency Annotation

Oleksandr Marchenko, Anatoly Anisimov, Volodymyr Taranukha and Taras Voznyuk
Semantic and Syntactic Model of Natural Language Based on Non-negative Matrix and Tensor Factorization

Konrad Gołuchowski
Experiments on the Identification of Predicate-Argument Structure in Polish

Wojciech Jaworski and Adam Przepiórkowski
Syntactic Approximation of Semantic Roles

Natalia Kotsyba
Using Polish Wordnet for Predicting Semantic Roles for the Valency Dictionary of Polish Verbs

Maciej Falkowski, Maciej Nowak, Czeslaw Jedrzejek and Jakub Dutkiewicz
Semantic Extraction with Use of Frames

Eckhard Bick
Constraint Grammar-based Swedish-Danish Machine Translation

Jabesa Daba and Yaregal Assabie
A Hybrid Approach to the Development of Bidirectional English-Oromiffa Machine Translation

Wei Yang and Yves Lepage
Inflating a Training Corpus for SMT by Using Unrelated Unaligned Monolingual Data


4. DISCOURSE, COREFERENCE RESOLUTION, SUMMARISATION, QUESTION ANSWERING

Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco
Uncovering Discourse Relations to Insert Connectives between the Sentences of an Automatic Summary

Rui Correia, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista and Maxine Eskenazi
Toward Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Alicja Wójcicka, Katarzyna Głowińska and Mateusz Kopeć
Detection of Nested Mentions for Coreference Resolution in Polish

Temesgen Dawit and Yaregal Assabie
Amharic Anaphora Resolution Using Knowledge-Poor Approach

Somnath Banerjee, Pintu Lohar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
The First Resource for Bengali Question Answering Research

Magdalena Wolska, Andrea Horbach and Alexis Palmer
Computer-assisted Scoring of Short Responses: The Efficiency of a Clustering-based Approach in a Real-life Task

Munhyong Kim and Hyopil Shin
Pinpointing Sentence-level Subjectivity through Balanced Subjective and Objective Features


5. TEXT CLASSIFICATION, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Nibaran Das, Swarnendu Gosh, Teresa Gonçalves and Paulo Quaresma
Using Graphs and Semantic Information to Improve Text Classifiers

Eriks Sneiders, Alyaa Alfalahi and Gunnar Eriksson
Exploring the Traits of Manual E-Mail Categorization Text Patterns

Melanie Reiplinger, Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
Relation Extraction for the Food Domain without Labeled Training Data – Is Distant Supervision the Best Solution?

Wei Wang, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau
Semantic Clustering of Relations between Named Entities

Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Gabriele Piccoli and Joaquin Alfredo Rodriguez
Automatic Prediction of Future Business Conditions

Mitra Akasereh, Piotr Malak and Adam Pawłowski
Evaluation of IR Strategies for Polish


6. SPEECH PROCESSING, LANGUAGE MODELLING, SPELL- AND GRAMMAR-CHECKING

Anne H. Schneider, Johannes Hellrich and Saturnino Luz
Word, Syllable and Phoneme Based Metrics Do Not Correlate with Human Performance in ASR-Mediated Tasks

Girma Zemedu and Yaregal Assabie
Concatenative Hymn Synthesis from Yared Notations

Maité Boyé, Thi Mai Tran and Natalia Grabar
NLP-Oriented Contrastive Study of Linguistic Productions of Alzheimer's And Control People

Iris Eshkol and Natalia Grabar
Paraphrastic Reformulations in Spoken Corpora

Marcos Zampieri and Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
Between Sound and Spelling: Combining Phonetics and Clustering Algorithms to Improve Target Word Recovery

Yaakov Hacohen-Kerner, Asaf Applebaum and Jacob Bitterman
Experiments with Language Models for Word Completion and Prediction in Hebrew

Daniel Hladek, Ján Staš and Jozef Juhar
Slovak Web Discussion Corpus

Inese Vira, Janis Teselskis and Inguna Skadina
Towards the Development of the Multilingual Multimodal Virtual Agent

Roman Grundkiewicz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
The WikEd Error Corpus: A Corpus of Corrective Wikipedia Edits and its Application to Grammatical Error Correction