Feb 24-28

Lexicom Workshop

Saturday

Pre-registration (optional, at the hotel, 20:00 to 21:30).

Sunday

Tour: Teotihuacan pyramids, at 8 am

Monday

Talks; welcome party and poster session*

Tuesday

Talks

Wednesday

Tour: Monarch butterfly wintering site, at 7 am

Thursday

Talks

Friday

Talks; closing ceremony; possibly banquet

Saturday

Tour: Xochicalco pyramids, Cacahuamilpa cave, town of Taxco, at 7 am

* All posters will be presented on Monday

Monday 2

Tuesday 3

Thursday 5

Friday 6

Registration

8:00 Bus from hotel

8:00 Bus from hotel

8:00 Bus from hotel

8:00 Bus from hotel

Material

Keynote:
Jill Burstein

Keynote:
Ken Church

Keynote:
Dekang Lin

9:30 Inauguration

Keynote:
Bernardo Magnini

Technical session

Technical session

Technical session

Technical session

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Panel: Corpus design
in the age of the web:
The new model corpus

Technical session

Technical session

Technical session

Special event:
Bernardo Magnini

Special event:
Jill Burstein

Special event:
Ken Church

Special event:
Dekang Lin

Welcome party &
Posters & Demos

Bus to hotel

Bus to hotel

Bus to hotel

Closing ceremony

Bus to banquet* --
hotel -- banquet*

Banquet*

* In case if the banquet is organized

Bus to hotel*

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Monday
morning

Linguistic Knowledge Representation Formalisms

Information Structure in a Formal Framework: Unification-Based Combinatory Categorial Grammar

 28

Maarika Traat

A Karaka Based Annotation Scheme for English

 41

Ashwini Vaidya, Samar Husain, Prashanth Mannem, and Dipti Misra Sharma

Tuesday
morning

Trends and Opportunities I

Keynote talk:

Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education

 6

Jill Burstein

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources I

Evaluation of the Syntactic Annotation in EPEC, the Reference Corpus for the Processing of Basque

 72

Larraitz Uria, Ainara Estarrona, Izaskun Aldezabal, Maria Jesús Aranzabe, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, and Mikel Iruskieta

Information Retrieval and Text Comparison I

 CHANGED  Empirical Paraphrasing of Modern Greek Text in Two Phases: An Application to Steganography

535

Katia Lida Kermanidis and Emmanouil Magkos

Applications to the Humanities

 CHANGED  Linguistic Ethnography: Identifying Dominant Word Classes in Text

594

Rada Mihalcea and Stephen Pulman

Extraction of Lexical Knowledge

Semantic Mapping for Related Term Identification

111

Rafael E. Banchs

An Improved Automatic Term Recognition Method for Spanish

125

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Gerardo Sierra, Patrick Drouin, and Sophia Ananiadou

Bootstrapping a Verb Lexicon for Biomedical Information Extraction

137

Giulia Venturi, Simonetta Montemagni, Simone Marchi, Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, John McNaught, and Sophia Ananiadou

TermeX: A Tool for Collocation Extraction

149

Davor Delac, Zoran Krleza, Jan Snajder, Bojana Dalbelo Basic, and Frane Saric

Tuesday
afternoon

corrected

CHANGED

Text Summarization II (cont.)

 CHANGED  The Decomposition of Human-Written Book Summaries

582

Hakan Ceylan and Rada Mihalcea

Morphology and Parsing I

Guessers for Finite-State Transducer Lexicons

158

Krister Lindén

Formal Grammar for Hispanic Named Entities Analysis

183

Grettel Barceló, Eduardo Cendejas, Grigori Sidorov, and Igor A. Bolshakov

Automatic Extraction of Clause Relationships from a Treebank

195

Oldrich Kruza and Vladislav Kubon

A General Method for Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers

207

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Miguel A. Alonso, and Manuel Vilares

Semantics

Topic-Focus Articulation from the Semantic Point of View

220

Marie Duzí

The Value of Weights in Automatically Generated Text Structures

233

Dana Dannélls

AORTE for Recognizing Textual Entailment

245

Reda Siblini and Leila Kosseim

Thursday
morning

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources II (cont.)

Keynote talk:
Substring Statistics

 53

Kyoji Umemura and Kenneth Church

Word Sense Disambiguation

Semi-supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using the Web as Corpus

256

Rafael Guzmán-Cabrera, Paolo Rosso, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, and David Pinto-Avendaño

Semi-supervised Clustering for Word Instances and its Effect on Word Sense Disambiguation

266

Kazunari Sugiyama and Manabu Okumura

Invited Paper:
Alleviating the Problem of Wrong Coreferences in Web Person Search

280

Octavian Popescu and Bernardo Magnini

Improved Unsupervised Name Discrimination with Very Wide Bigrams and Automatic Cluster Stopping

294

Ted Pedersen

Machine Translation and Multilinguism

Best Student Paper Award:
Enriching Statistical Translation Models Using a Domain-Independent Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base

306

Miguel García, Jesús Giménez, and Lluís Màrquez

Best Paper Award, 1^st place:
Cross-Language Frame Semantics Transfer in Bilingual Corpora

332

Roberto Basili, Diego De Cao, Danilo Croce, Bonaventura Coppola, and Alessandro Moschitti

Thursday
afternoon

Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation.

318

John Tinsley, Mary Hearne, and Andy Way

A Parallel Corpus Labeled Using Open and Restricted Domain Ontologies

346

Ester Boldrini, Sergio Ferrández, Ruben Izquierdo, David Tomás, and Jose Luis Vicedo

Language Identification on the Web: Extending the Dictionary Method

357

Radim Rehurek and Milan Kolkus

Information Extraction and Text Mining I

Business Specific Online Information Extraction from German Websites

369

Yeong Su Lee and Michaela Geierhos

Low-Cost Supervision for Multiple-Source Attribute Extraction

382

Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca

An Integrated Architecture for Processing Business Documents in Turkish

394

Serif Adali, A. Coskun Sonmez, and Mehmet Gokturk

Using a Bigram Event Model to Predict Causal Potential

430

Brandon Beamer and Roxana Girju

Semantic-Based Temporal Text-Rule Mining

442

Kjetil Nørvag and Ole Kristian Fivelstad

Trends and Opportunities II (cont.)

Part of the special event:
Has Computational Linguistics Become More Applied?

 1

Kenneth Church

Friday
morning

Information Extraction and Text Mining II (cont.)

Best Paper Award, 2^nd place:
Detecting Protein-Protein Interactions in Biomedical Texts Using a Parser and Linguistic Resources

406

Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Fabio Rinaldi

Best Paper Award, 3^rd place:
Learning to Learn Biological Relations from a Small Training Set

418

Laura Alonso i Alemany and Santiago Bruno

Generating Executable Scenarios from Natural Language

456

Michal Gordon and David Harel

Determining the Polarity and Source of Opinions Expressed in Political Debates.

468

Alexandra Balahur, Zornitsa Kozareva, and Andrés Montoyo

Information Retrieval and Text Comparison II (cont.)

Query Translation and Expansion for Searching Normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text

481

Tarek Elghazaly and Aly Fahmy

NLP for Shallow Question Answering of Legal Documents Using Graphs

498

Alfredo Monroy, Hiram Calvo, and Alexander Gelbukh

Friday
afternoon

Semantic Clustering for a Functional Text Classi.cation Task

509

Thomas Lippincott and Rebecca Passonneau

Reducing the Plagiarism Detection Search Space on the Basis of the Kullback-Leibler Distance

523

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, and José-Miguel Benedí

BorderFlow: A Local Graph Clustering Algorithm for Natural Language Processing

547

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Frank Schumacher

Generalized Mongue-Elkan Method for Approximate Text String Comparison

559

Sergio Jimenez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander Gelbukh, and Fabio Gonzalez

Text Summarization II (cont.)

Estimating Risk of Picking a Sentence for Document Summarization

571

Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, and Vasudeva Varma

Morphology and Parsing II (cont.)

Invited Paper:
 CHANGED  Combining Language Modeling and Discriminative Classification for Word Segmentation

170

Dekang Lin

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources III (cont.)

 CHANGED  Reducing Noise in Labels and Features for a Real World Dataset: Application of NLP Corpus Annotation Methods.

86

Rebecca J. Passonneau, Cynthia Rudin, Axinia Radeva, and Zhi An Liu

 CHANGED  Unsupervised Classification of Verb Noun Multi-Word Expression Tokens

 98

Mona T. Diab and Madhav Krishna