Tuesday 

 Wednesday 

 Thursday 

 Friday 

 Saturday

8 am

7 am

8 am

8am

7 am

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

Tuesday 3

Thursday 5

Friday 6

8:00 Bus from hotel

8:00 Bus from hotel

8:00 Bus from hotel

Keynote:
Jill Burstein

Keynote:
Ken Church

Keynote:
Dekang Lin

Technical session

Technical session

Technical session

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Technical session

Technical session

Technical session

Special event:
Jill Burstein

Special event:
Ken Church

Special event:
Dekang Lin

Bus to hotel

Bus to hotel

Closing ceremony

Bus to banquet* -
hotel - banquet*

Banquet*

* In case if the banquet is organized   

Bus to hotel*

page 

Tuesday

8:00

Bus to the conference venue (don’t be late!)

Trends and Opportunities I

09:00‑09:55

Keynote talk:
Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education

 6

Jill Burstein

10:00‑10:10

Break

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources I

10:15‑10:30

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

10:35‑10:50

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

535

Katia Lida Kermanidis and Emmanouil Magkos

Applications to the Humanities

10:55‑11:10

Linguistic Ethnography: Identifying Dominant Word Classes in Text

594

Rada Mihalcea and Stephen Pulman

11:15‑11:30

Break

Extraction of Lexical Knowledge

11:35‑11:50

Semantic Mapping for Related Term Identification

111

Rafael E. Banchs

11:55‑12:10

An Improved Automatic Term Recognition Method for Spanish

125

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

12:15‑12:30

Bootstrapping a Verb Lexicon for Biomedical Information Extraction

137

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

12:35‑12:50

TermeX: A Tool for Collocation Extraction

149

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

12:55‑13:50

Lunch

Text Summarization II (cont.)

13:55‑14:10

The Decomposition of Human-Written Book Summaries

582

Hakan Ceylan and Rada Mihalcea

Morphology and Parsing I

14:15‑14:30

Guessers for Finite-State Transducer Lexicons

158

Krister Lindén

14:35‑14:50

Formal Grammar for Hispanic Named Entities Analysis

183

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

14:55‑15:15

Break

14:20‑15:35

Automatic Extraction of Clause Relationships from a Treebank

195

Oldrich Kruza and Vladislav Kubon

15:40‑15:55

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

207

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

Semantics

16:00‑16:15

Topic-Focus Articulation from the Semantic Point of View

220

Marie Duzí

16:20‑16:35

AORTE for Recognizing Textual Entailment

245

Reda Siblini and Leila Kosseim

16:40‑16:50

Break

16:55‑17:50

Special event: Jill Burstein

18:00

Bus to the hotel (don’t be late!)

Wednesday: Monarch butterfly site

7:00

Bus to the tour (don’t be late!); back to hotel about midnight

Thursday

8:00

Bus to the conference venue (don’t be late!)

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources II (cont.)

9:00‑9:55

Keynote talk:
Substring Statistics

 53

Kyoji Umemura and Kenneth Church

10:00‑10:10

Break

Word Sense Disambiguation

10:15‑10:30

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

10:35‑10:50

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

266

Kazunari Sugiyama and Manabu Okumura

10:55‑11:20

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

280

Octavian Popescu and Bernardo Magnini

11:25‑11:50

Break

11:55‑12:10

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

294

Ted Pedersen

Machine Translation and Multilinguism

12:15‑12:40

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

306

Miguel García, Jesús Giménez, and Lluís Màrquez

12:45‑13:10

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

13:15‑14:10

Lunch

14:15‑14:30

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

318

John Tinsley, Mary Hearne, and Andy Way

14:35‑14:50

A Parallel Corpus Labeled Using Open and Restricted Domain Ontologies

346

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

14:55‑15:10

Language Identification on the Web: Extending the Dictionary Method

357

Radim Rehurek and Milan Kolkus

15:15‑15:30

Break

Information Extraction and Text Mining I

15:35‑15:50

Business Specific Online Information Extraction from German Websites

369

Yeong Su Lee and Michaela Geierhos

15:55‑16:10

Low-Cost Supervision for Multiple-Source Attribute Extraction

382

Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca

16:15‑16:30

An Integrated Architecture for Processing Business Documents in Turkish

394

Serif Adali, A. Coskun Sonmez, and Mehmet Gokturk

16:35‑16:50

Using a Bigram Event Model to Predict Causal Potential

430

Brandon Beamer and Roxana Girju

16:55‑17:10

Semantic-Based Temporal Text-Rule Mining

442

Kjetil Nørvag and Ole Kristian Fivelstad

17:15‑17:20

Break

Trends and Opportunities II (cont.)

17:25‑18:20

Special event: Ken Church
Includes: Has Computational Linguistics Become More Applied?

 1

Kenneth Church

18:30

Bus to the hotel (don’t be late!)

Friday

8:00

Bus to the conference venue (don’t be late!)

09:00‑09:55

Keynote talk

Dekang Lin

10:00‑10:10

Break

Information Extraction and Text Mining II (cont.)

10:15‑10:40

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

10:45‑11:10

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

418

Laura Alonso i Alemany and Santiago Bruno

11:15‑11:30

Generating Executable Scenarios from Natural Language

456

Michal Gordon and David Harel

11:35‑11:45

Break

11:50‑12:05

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.)

12:10‑12:25

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

481

Tarek Elghazaly and Aly Fahmy

12:30‑12:45

NLP for Shallow Question Answering of Legal Documents Using Graphs

498

Alfredo Monroy, Hiram Calvo, and Alexander Gelbukh

12:50‑13:45

Break

13:50‑14:05

Semantic Clustering for a Functional Text Classi.cation Task

509

Thomas Lippincott and Rebecca Passonneau

14:10‑14:25

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

523

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

14:30‑14:45

BorderFlow: A Local Graph Clustering Algorithm for Natural Language Processing

547

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Frank Schumacher

14:50‑15:05

Generalized Mongue-Elkan Method for Approximate Text String Comparison

559

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

15:10‑15:25

Break

Text Summarization II (cont.)

15:30‑15:45

Estimating Risk of Picking a Sentence for Document Summarization

571

Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, and Vasudeva Varma

Morphology and Parsing II (cont.)

15:50‑16:15

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

170

Dekang Lin

Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources III (cont.)

16:20‑16:35

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

16:40‑16:55

Unsupervised Classification of Verb Noun Multi-Word Expression Tokens

 98

Mona T. Diab and Madhav Krishna

17:00‑17:10

Break

17:15‑18:10

Special event: Dekang Lin

18:20

Bus to the hotel (don’t be late!)

Saturday: Xochicalco & Cave

7:00

Bus to the tour (don’t be late!); back to hotel about midnight