17-19 September, Warsaw, Poland
| 9:00– | REGISTRATION |
| 9:50–10:00 | OPENING |
| 10:00–11:00 |
INVITED TALK Johan Bos |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 Daniel Hladek, Ján Staš and Jozef Juhar 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 |
| 11:00–13:00 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10:00–11:00 |
INVITED TALK Mark Steedman |
| 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 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 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
