07:00w24:00

Paper

Authors

Page

Sunday 21

08:00–24:00

Tour to Neamt: bus from the hotel. Please be at the lobby at 7:45. Breakfast at the hotel is from 7:00.

Monday 22

09:00–09:20

Socializing: collective walk from the hotel. We all meet at the lobby and walk all together to the University

09:20–09:30

Registration

09:30–10:25

Opening ceremony; introductory address by Dan Cristea

10:30–10:55

Coffee break

Humor and Emotions

11:00–11:20

Computational Models for Incongruity Detection in Humor

Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava, Stephen Pulman

370

Lexical Resources

11:25–11:50

Awarded paper:
Cross-lingual Alignment of Framenet Annotations through Hidden Markov Models

Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili

13

11:55–12:15

On the automatic generation of Intermediate Logic Forms for WordNet glosses

Rodrigo Agerri, Anselmo Peñas

27

12:20–12:40

Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource --- A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet

Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

39

12:45–13:55

Orientation for the lunch place; lunch

14:00–14:20

EusPropBank: Integrating Semantic Information in the Basque Dependency Treebank

Izaskun Aldezabal, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Ainara Estarrona, Larraitz Uria

63

14:25–14:45

Morphological Annotation of a Corpus with a Collaborative Multiplayer Game

Onur Gungor, Tunga Gungor

77

Syntax and Parsing I

14:50–15:10

A Machine Learning Parser Using an Unlexicalized Distituent Model

Samuel Chan, Lawrence Cheung, Mickey Chong

126

15:15–15:35

Ontology-based Semantic Interpretation as Grammar Rule Constraints

Smaranda Muresan

142

15:40–16:00

Towards a cascade of morpho-syntactic tools  for Arabic Natural Language Processing

Slim Mesfar

155

16:05–17:35

Short presentations (poster papers). See the specific schedule below.

17:35–19:30

Welcome party and poster session

Tuesday 23

08:40–08:55

Socializing: collective walk from the hotel

09:00–10:00

Keynote talk:
Computational Models of Language Acquisition

Shuly Wintner

89

Syntax and Parsing II

10:05–10:25

An open-source computational grammar for Romanian

Ramona Enache, Aarne Ranta, Krasimir Angelov

168

10:30–10:55

Coffee break

Information Extraction I

11:00–11:20

Extraction of Genic Interactions with the Recursive Logical Theory of an Ontology

Alain-Pierre Manine, Erick Alphonse, Philippe Bessières

562

Text Categorization and Classification I

11:25–11:45

An Empirical Study on the Feature's Type Effect on the Automatic Classification of Arabic Documents

Saeed Raheel, Joseph Dichy

681

Word Sense Disambiguation and Named Entity Recognition I

11:50–12:10

A Named Entity Extraction using Word Information Repeatedly Collected from Unlabeled Data

Tomoya Iwakura

216

12:15–12:35

A Distributional Semantics Approach to Simultaneous Recognition of Multiple Classes of Named Entities

Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Robert Leaman, Trevor Cohen, Graciela Gonzalez

228

Semantics and Dialog I

12:40–13:00

Flexible disambiguation in DTS

Livio Robaldo, Jurij Di Carlo

263

13:05–13:55

Lunch

14:00–14:20

Semantic annotation of transcribed audio broadcast news using contextual features in graphical discriminative models

Azeddine Zidouni, Hervé Glotin

285

14:25–14:45

Lexical Chains using Distributional Measures of Concept Distance

Meghana Marathe, Graeme Hirst

297

14:50–15:10

Incorporating Cohesive Devices into Entity Grid Model in  Evaluating Local Coherence of Japanese Text

Hikaru Yokono, Manabu Okumura

309

15:15–15:35

A Sequential Model for Discourse Segmentation

Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishizuka

321

15:40–16:00

Towards Automatic Detection and Tracking of Topic Change

Holz Florian, Sven Teresniak

333

16:05–16:25

Modelling Illocutionary Structure: Combining Empirical Studies with Formal Model Analysis

Hui Shi, Robert J. Ross, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman

346

16:30–16:55

Coffee break

17:00–17:20

A Polyphonic Model and System for Inter-Animation Analysis in Chat Conversations with Multiple Participants

Stefan Trausan-Matu, Traian Rebedea

360

17:25–18:30

Special event

Shuly Wintner

Wednesday 24

06:00–24:00

Tour to Brasov county: bus from the hotel. Please be at the lobby at 5:45. You will miss the hotel's breakfast, sorry.

Thursday 25

09:15–09:30

Socializing: collective walk from the hotel

Machine Translation and Multilingualism

09:35–10:00

Awarded paper:
A chunk-driven bootstrapping approach to extracting translation patterns

Lieve Macken, Walter Daelemans

401

10:05–10:25

Computing transfer score in Example-Based Machine Translation

Rafał Jaworski

413

10:30–11:55

Coffee break

11:00–11:20

Syntax Augmented Inversion Transduction Grammars for Machine Translation

Guillem Gascó Mora, Joan Andreu Sánchez Peiró

435

11:25–11:45

Syntactic Structure Transfer in a Tamil -Hindi MT System - A Hybrid Approach

Sobha Lalitha Devi, Vijay Sundar Ram R, Bagyavathi T, Praveen Pralayankar

446

11:50–12:10

A Maximum Entropy Approach to Syntactic Translation Rule Filtering

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

459

12:15–12:35

Automatic Generation of Bilingual Dictionaries using Intermediary Languages and Comparable Corpora

Pablo Gamallo, José Ramom Pichel

482

12:40–13:00

Hierarchical finite-state models for speech translation using categorization of phrases

Raquel Justo, Alicia Pérez, M. Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta

493

13:05–13:55

Lunch

14:00–14:20

Drive-by Language Identification - A Byproduct of applied Prototype Semantics

Ronald Winnemöller

504

14:25–14:45

Identification of Translationese: A Machine Learning Approach

Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov

514

Information Extraction II

14:50–15:10

Acquiring IE patterns through Distributional Lexical Semantic Models

Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce, Cristina Giannone, Diego De Cao

523

15:15–15:35

Multi-View Bootstrapping for Relation Extraction by Exploring Web Features and Linguistic Features

Yulan Yan, Haibo Li, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

538

15:40–16:00

Sequential Patterns to Discover and Characterise Biological Relations

Peggy Cellier, Thierry Charnois, Marc Plantevit

550

16:05–16:25

Ontological Parsing of Encyclopedia Information

Victor Bocharov, Lidia Pivovarova, Valery Sh. Rubashkin, Boris Chuprin

577

16:30–16:55

Coffee break

17:00–17:20

17:25–18:30

Special event

James Pustejovsky

Friday 26

08:40–08:55

Socializing: collective walk from the hotel

09:00–10:00

Keynote talk:
The Recognition and Interpretation of Motion in Language

James Pustejovsky

240

Information Retrieval

10:05–10:25

Selecting the N-Top Retrieval Result Lists for an Effective Data Fusion

Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, David Pinto-Avendaño, Manuel Pérez-Coutiño

588

10:30–10:55

Coffee break

11:00–11:20

The Optimal IR in Genomics: How Far Away?

Xiangdong An, Jimmy Huang, Nick Cercone

611

Text Categorization and Classification II

11:25–11:45

Rank Distance Aggregation as a Fixed Classifier Combining Rule for Text Categorization

Liviu P. Dinu, Andrei Rusu

647

11:50–12:10

The Influence of Collocation Segmentation and Top 10 Items to Keyword Assignment Performance

Vidas Daudaravicius

657

12:15–12:35

A general bio-inspired method to improve the short-text clustering task

Diego Ingaramo, Marcelo Errecalde, Paolo Rosso

669

Plagiarism Detection

12:40–13:00

Word Length n-grams for Text Re-Use Detection

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Chiara Basile, Mirko Degli Esposti, Paolo Rosso

691

13:05–14:10

Lunch

Who's the Thief? Determining the Direction of Plagiarism

Cristian Grozea, Marius Popescu

704

Text Summarization

14:40–15:05

Awarded paper:
Integer Linear Programming for Dutch Sentence Compression

Jan De Belder, Marie-Francine Moens

716

15:10–15:30

GEMS: Generative Modeling for Evaluation of Summaries

Rahul Katragadda

729

15:35–15:55

Quantitative Evaluation of Grammaticality of Summaries

Vadlapudi Ravikiran, Rahul Katragadda

741

Speech Generation

16:00–16:20

Integrating Contrast in a Framework for Predicting Prosody

Pepi Stavropoulou, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou

753

16:25–16:50

Coffee break

Word Sense Disambiguation and Named Entity Recognition II

16:55–17:20

Awarded paper:
An Experimental Study on Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation

George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Kjetil Nørvåg

189

17:25–18:25

PROMISE transition event

Dan Cristea

18:30–18:45

Awarding and closing ceremony

Saturday 27

08:00–24:00

Tour to Bucovina county: bus from the hotel. Please be at the lobby at 7:45. Breakfast at the hotel is from 7:00.

Short Presentations

Monday 16:05–17:35

International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications

07:00w24:00

Computational Semantics

16:05–16:06

Exploring the Lexical Semantics of Dialogue Acts

Nicole Novielli, Carlo Strapparava

9

16:07–16:08

Learning Event Semantics from Online News

Hristo Tanev, Mijail Kabadjov, Monica Gemo

27

16:09–16:10

Exploiting Higher-level Semantic Information for the Opinion-oriented Summarization of Blogs

Alexandra Balahur, Mijail Kabadjov, Josef Steinberger

45

16:11–16:12

Thai Rhetorical Structure Tree Construction

Somnuk Sinthupoun, Ohm Sornil

61

16:13–16:14

Semantic Analysis using Dependency-based Grammars and Upper-Level Ontologies

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoît Ozell

85

Lexical Resources

16:15–16:16

Hypernymy Extraction Using a Semantic Network Representation

Tim Vor Der Brück

105

16:17–16:18

Linking Named Entities to a Structured Knowledge Base

Kranthi Reddy. B, Karuna Kumar, Sai Krishna, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma

121

16:19–16:20

Brazilian Portuguese WordNet: A Computational Linguistic Exercise of Encoding Bilingual Relational Lexicons

Bento Carlos Dias-Da-Silva

137

Parsing and Disambiguation

16:21–16:22

Identifying Different Meanings of a Chinese Morpheme through Latent Semantic Analysis  and Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis

Bruno Galmar, Jenn-Yeu Chen

153

16:23–16:24

Phrase-level Polarity Identification for Bangla

Amitava Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

169

Machine Translation and Multilinguism

16:25–16:26

Exploiting Charts in the MT Between Related Languages

Petr Homola, Vladislavkuboň

185

16:27–16:28

Manipuri-English Example Based Machine Translation System

Thoudam Doren Singh, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

201

16:29–16:30

Bilingual Document Clustering using Translation-Independent Features

Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-Y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Rita M. Aceves-Pérez

217

Applications

16:31–16:32

Interactive QA using the QALL-ME Framework

Iustin Dornescu, Constantin Orăsan

233

16:33–16:34

Using Linguistic Knowledge for Fine-tuning Ontologies in the Context of Requirements Engineering

Jürgen Vöhringer, Doris Gälle, Günther Flied, Christian Kop, Mykola Bazhenov

249

16:35–16:36

Incorporating TimeML into a GIS

Marta Guerrero Nieto, María José García Rodríguez, Adolfo Urrutia Zambrana, Willington Siabato, Miguel-Ángel Bernabé Poveda

269

16:37–16:38

A Dialogue System for Indoor Wayfinding Using Text-Based Natural Language

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Kai-Florian Richter, Thora Ten-Brink, John Bateman

285

16:39–16:40

A Case Study of Rule Based and Probabilistic Word Error Correction of Portuguese OCR Text in a "Real World" Environment for Inclusion in a Digital Library

Brett Drury, Jose Joao Almeida

305

Research in Computing Science

Semantics

16:41–16:42

Lexical Representation of Agentive Nominal Compounds in French and Swedish

Maria Rosenberg

3

16:43–16:44

Computing Linear Discriminants for Idiomatic Sentence Detection

Jing Peng, Anna Feldman, Laura Street

17

16:45–16:46

Robust Temporal Processing: from Model to System

Tommaso Caselli, Irina Prodanof

29

16:47–16:48

Near-Synonym Choice using a 5-gram Language Model

Aminul Islam, Diana Inkpen

41

Morphology, Syntax, Named Entity Recognition

16:49–16:50

Automatic derivational morphology contribution to Romanian lexical acquisition

Mircea Petic

67

16:51–16:52

POS-tagging for Oral Texts with CRF and Category Decomposition

Isabelle Tellier, Iris Eshkol, Samer Taalab, Jean-Philippe Prost

79

16:53–16:54

Chinese Named Entiy Recognition with the Improved Smoothed Conditional Random Fields

Xiaojia Pu, Qi Mao, Gangshan Wu, Chunfeng Yuan

91

16:55–16:56

Ontology-Driven Approach to Obtain Semantically Valid Chunks for NL-Enabled Business Applications

Shailly Goyal, Shefali Bhat, Shailja Gulati, C Anantaram

105

Opinion, Emotions, Textual Entailment

16:57–16:58

Word Sense Disambiguation in Opinion Mining: Pros and Cons

Tamara Martín, Alexandra Balahur, Andrés Montoyo, Aurora Pons

119

16:59–17:00

Improving Emotional Intensity Classification using Word Sense Disambiguation

Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Laura Plaza, Pablo Gervas

131

17:01–17:02

Sentence Level News Emotion Analysis in Fuzzy Multi-label Classification Framework

Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Anupam Basu, Pabitra Mitra, Abhisek Prasad

143

17:03–17:04

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Experiments with Machine Learning Algorithms and RTE Corpora

Julio Castillo

155

Text and Speech Generation

17:05–17:06

From Formal Specifications to Coherent Representation: A Grammar Based Approach

Dana Dannélls

167

17:07–17:08

An Improved Indonesian Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Using Statistic and Linguistic Information

Agus Hartoyo,  Suyanto

179

Machine Translation

17:09–17:10

Long-distance Revisions in Post-editing and Drafting

Michael Carl, Martin Kay, Kristian Jensen

193

17:11–17:12

Dependency-based translation equivalents for factored machine translation

Elena Irimia, Alexandru Ceausu

205

Information Retrieval and Text Clustering

17:13–17:14

Relation Learning from Persian Web: A Hybrid Approach

Hakimeh Fadaei, Mehrnoush Shamsfard

219

17:15–17:16

Towards a General Model of Answer Typing: Question Focus Identification

Razvan Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang

231

17:17–17:18

Traditional Rarámuri Songs used by a Recommender System to a Web Radio

Alberto Ochoa O. Zezzatti

243

17:19–17:20

Improving Clustering of Noisy Documents through  Automatic Summarisation

Seemab Latif, Mary McGee Wood, Goran Nenadic

253

Educational Applications

17:21–17:22

User Profile Modeling in eLearning using Sentiment Extraction from Text

Adrian Iftene, Ancuta Rotaru

267

17:23–17:24

Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple-Choice Close Questions for Computer-Adaptive Testing

Ayako Hoshino, Hiroshi Nakagawa

279

17:25–17:26

MathNat - Mathematical Text in a Controlled Natural Language

Muhammad Humayoun, Christophe Raffalli

293

Applications

17:27–17:28

A Low-Complexity Constructive Learning Automaton Approach to Handwritten Character Recognition

Aleksei Ustimov, M. Borahan Tumer, Tunga Gungor

311

17:29–17:30

Utterances Assessment in Chat Conversations

Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Philippe Dessus

323

17:31–17:32

Punctuation Detection with Full Syntactic Parsing

Miloš Jakubíček, Aleš Horák

335