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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Managment, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS)

Supporter

Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB)

Organizers

Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thailand
Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna (RMUTL), Thailand
Chiangmai Rajabhat University, Thailand
Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand

Main Conference Program

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Program at a Glance


November 08, 2011 (Tuesday)
Time Details
8.30-12.00 Pre-Conference Workshop - Morning Session
8.30-12.00 Tutorial - Morning Session
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Pre-Conference Workshop - Afternoon Session
14.00-17.30 Tutorial - Afternoon Session


November 09, 2011 (Wednesday)
Time Details
9.00-09.20 Welcome
9.20-10.20 Keynote - Mengqiu Wang (Baidu)
10.20-10.50 Coffee Break
10.50-12.05 Full papers
12.05-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.10 Full papers
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.10 Full papers
18.00-21.00 Posters/Demos and Reception (Level I)


November 10, 2011 (Thursday)
Time Details
9.00-10.00 Keynote - Matt Lease (University of Texas)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.10 Full papers
12.10-13.55 Lunch
13.55-15.10 Full papers
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.10 Full papers
19.00-21.00 Banquet (River House Restaurant)


November 11, 2011 (Friday)
Time Details
9.00-10.00 Keynote - Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.00 Short papers
12.10-13.30 Lunch (1hr30min)
13.30-15.35 Full papers
15.35-16.05 Coffee Break
16.05-17.15 Best paper session
17.15-17.25 Presentation of Future Conferences
and Upcoming Conferences Announcement
17.25-17.35 Closing Ceremony


November 12-13, 2011 (Saturday-Sunday)
Time Details
8.30-12.00 Post-Conference Workshop - Morning Session
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 Post-Conference Workshop - Afternoon Session


Main Conference Program


November 09, 2011
Venue Lanna II,III Auditorium Sukhotai Phayao
09:00 - 09:20 Welcome
(Lanna II,III)
09:20 - 10:20 Keynote Speech - Mengqiu Wang (Baidu)
(Lanna II,III)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:05 Text Mining I MT I Machine Learning I Discourse/Dialog I
12:05 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 MT II Text Mining II Semantics I Syntax I
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 -17:10 Text Mining/IE Phonology/Morphology Sentiment I Machine Learning II
18:00 - 21:00 Poster/Demo and Reception (Level I at Poolside)
November 10, 2011
Venue Lanna II,III Auditorium Sukhotai Phayao
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech - Matt Lease (University of Texas)
(Lanna II,III)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:10 IR I Syntax II Generation/Summarization Spoken Language
12:10 - 13:55 Lunch
13:55 - 15:10 Machine Learning III IR II Discourse/Dialog II Sentiment II
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.10 MT III Semantics II IE Syntax III
19:00 - 21:00 Banquet
(River House Restaurant)
November 11, 2011
Venue Lanna II,III Auditorium Sukhotai Phayao
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech - Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
(Lanna II,III)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 MT/Machine Learning (Short) Semantics (Short) Text Mining/QA (Short) Other NLP (Short)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13.30-15.35 MT IV Morphology/NER Resources QA
15:35 - 16:05 Coffee Break
16:05 - 17:15 Best Papers
(Phayao)
17:15 - 17:25 Future Conferences and Upcoming Conferences Announcement
(Lanna II,III)
17:25 - 17:35 Closing Ceremony
(Lanna II,III)

Program Details


Main Conference Day 1, Nov 9
9:00-9:20      Welcome
9:20-10:20    Keynote - Mengqiu Wang (Baidu)
10:20-10:50  Coffee Break
10:50-12:05  Text Mining I (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Le Sun
10.50-11.15 Analyzing the Dynamics of Research by Extracting Key Aspects of Scientific Papers
Sonal Gupta and Christopher Manning
11.15-11.40 Dependency-directed Tree Kernel-based Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Biomedical Literature Longhua Qian and Guodong Zhou
11.40-12.05 Learning Logical Structures of Paragraphs in Legal Articles Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh, Tran Thi Oanh and Akira Shimazu

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10:50-12:05  Machine Translation I (Auditorium)
Chair: Hua Wu
10.50-11.15 Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures
Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata
11.15-11.40 Context-Sensitive Syntactic Source-Reordering by Statistical Transduction
Maxim Khalilov and Khalil Sima’an
11.40-12.05 Discriminative Phrase-based Lexicalized Reordering Models using Weighted Reordering Graphs
Wang Ling, Jo˜ao Grac¸a, David Martins de Matos, Isabel Trancoso and Alan W Black

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10:50-12:05   Machine Learning I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Grzegorz Chrupala
10.50-11.15 Active Learning Strategies for Support Vector Machines, Application to Temporal Relation Classification
Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani and Alexis Nasr
11.15-11.40 A Fast Accurate Two-stage Training Algorithm for L1-regularized CRFs with Heuristic Line Search Strategy
Jinlong Zhou, Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang
11.40-12.05 Automatic Topic Model Adaptation for Sentiment Analysis in Structured Domains
Geoffrey Levine and Gerald DeJong

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10:50-12:05  Discourse / Dialog I (Phayao)
Chair: Anton Leuski
10.50-11.15 Multi-modal Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue by Integrating Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Clues
Ryu Iida, Masaaki Yasuhara and Takenobu Tokunaga
11.15-11.40 Single and multi-objective optimization for feature selection in anaphora resolution
Sriparna Saha, Asif Ekbal, Olga Uryupina and Massimo Poesio
11.40-12.05 A Unified Event Coreference Resolution by Integrating Multiple Resolvers
Bin Chen, Jian Su, Sinno Jialin Pan and Chew Lim Tan
12.05-13.30 Lunch

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13:30-15:10  Machine Translation II (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Min Zhang
13.30-13.55 Handling verb phrase morphology in highly inflected Indian languages for Machine Translation
Ankur Gandhe, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Karthik Visweswariah and Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan
13.55-14.20 Japanese Pronunciation Prediction as Phrasal Statistical Machine Translation
Jun Hatori and Hisami Suzuki
14.20-14.45 Comparing Two Techniques for Learning Transliteration Models Using a Parallel Corpus
Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid and Alexander Fraser
14.45-15.10 A Semantic-Specific Model for Chinese Named Entity Translation
Yufeng Chen and Chengqing Zong

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13:30-15:10  Text Mining II (Auditorium)
Chair: Sophia Ananiadou
13.30-13.55 Mining Revision Log of Language Learning SNS for Automated Japanese Error Correction of Second Language Learners
Tomoya Mizumoto, Mamoru Komachi, Masaaki Nagata and Yuji Matsumoto
13.55-14.20 Modality Specific Meta Features for Authorship Attribution in Web Forum Posts
Thamar Solorio, Sangita Pillay, Sindhu Raghavan and Manuel Montes-Gomez
14.20-14.45 Keyphrase Extraction from Online News Using Binary Integer Programming
Zhuoye Ding, Qi Zhang and Xuanjing Huang
14.45-15.10 Improving Related Entity Finding via Incorporating Homepages and Recognizing Finegrained Entities
Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai and Hideki Kashioka

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13:30-15:10  Semantics I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Pushpak Bhattacharyya
13.30-13.55 Enhancing Active Learning for Semantic Role Labeling via Compressed Dependency Trees
Chenhua Chen, Alexis Palmer and Caroline Sporleder
13.55-14.20 Semantic Role Labeling Without Treebanks?
Stephen Boxwell, Chris Brew, Jason Baldridge, Dennis Mehay and Sujith Ravi
14.20-14.45 Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis Exploiting Argument Position and Type
Yuta Hayashibe, Mamoru Komachi and Yuji Matsumoto
14.45-15.10 An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns
Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar

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13:30-15:10   Syntax I(Phayao)
Chair: Yusuke Miyao
13.30-13.55 Feature-Rich Log-Linear Lexical Model for Latent Variable PCFG Grammars
Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
13.55-14.20 Improving Dependency Parsing with Fined-Grained Features
Guangyou Zhou, Li Cai, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao
14.20-14.45 Natural Language Programming Using Class Sequential Rules
Cohan Sujay Carlos
14.45-15.10 Treeblazing: Using External Treebanks to Filter Parse Forests for Parse Selection and Treebanking
Andrew MacKinlay, Rebecca Dridan, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen and Timothy Baldwin
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break

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15:30-17:10  Text Mining/IE (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Jian Su
15.30-15.55 Cross-Language Entity Linking
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Dawn Lawrie, Douglas Oard and David Doermann
15.55-16.20 Generating Chinese Named Entity Data from a Parallel Corpus
Ruiji Fu, Bing Qin and Ting Liu
16.20-16.45 Learning the Latent Topics for Question Retrieval in Community QA
Li Cai, Guangyou Zhou, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao
16.45-17.10 Identifying Event Descriptions using Co-training with Online News Summaries
William Yang Wang, Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown

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15:30-17:10  Phonology/Morphology (Auditorium)
Chair: Greg Kondrak
15.30-15.55 Automatic Labeling of Voiced Consonants for Morphological Analysis of Modern Japanese Literature
Teruaki Oka, Mamoru Komachi, Toshinobu Ogiso and Yuji Matsumoto
15.55-16.20 S3 - Statistical Sandhi Splitting
Abhiram Natarajan and Eugene Charniak
16.20-16.45 Improving Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging with Semi-supervised Methods Using Large Auto-Analyzed Data
Yiou Wang, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Kentaro Torisawa
16.45-17.10 CODACT: Towards Identifying Orthographic Variants in Dialectal Arabic
Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab

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15:30-17:10  Sentiment I (Sukhotai)
Chair: Henning Wachsmuth
15.30-15.55 Enhancing the HL-SOT Approach to Sentiment Analysis via a Localized Feature Selection Framework
Wei and Jon Atle Gulla
15.55-16.20 Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis with Structural Features
C¨acilia Zirn, Mathias Niepert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Michael Strube
16.20-16.45 Predicting Opinion Dependency Relations for Opinion Analysis
Lun-Wei Ku, Ting-Hao Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
16.45-17.10 Detecting and Blocking False Sentiment Propagation
Hye-Jin Min and Jong C. Park

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15:30-17:10  Machine Learning II (Phayao)
Chair: Jun Suzuki
15.30-15.55 Efficient induction of probabilistic word classes with LDA
Grzegorz Chrupala
15.55-16.20 Quality-biased Ranking of Short Texts in Microblogging Services
Minlie Huang, Yi Yang and Xiaoyan Zhu
16.20-16.45 Labeling Unlabeled Data using Cross-Language Guided Clustering
Sachindra Joshi, Danish Contractor and Sumit Negi
16.45-17.10 Extracting Relation Descriptors with Conditional Random Fields
Yaliang Li, Jing Jiang, Hai Leong Chieu and Kian Ming A. Chai

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18:00-21:00   Poster/Demo (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Shiqi Zhao
Text Mining (Poster Presentations)
  • Safety Information Mining - What can NLP do in a disaster -
    Graham Neubig, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Masato Hagiwara and Koji Murakami
  • A Character-Level Machine Translation Approach for Normalization of SMS Abbreviations
    Deana Pennell and Yang Liu
  • Using Text Reviews for Product Entity Completion
    Mrinmaya Sachan, Tanveer Faruquie, L. V. Subramaniam and Mukesh Mohania
  • Mining bilingual topic hierarchies from unaligned text
    Sumit Negi
  • Efficient Near-Duplicate Detection for Q&A Forum
    Yan Wu, Qi Zhang and Xuanjing Huang
Information Extraction (Poster Presentations)
  • A Graph-based Method for Entity Linking
    Yuhang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu and Sheng Li
  • Harvesting Related Entities with a Search Engine
    Shuqi Sun, Shiqi Zhao, Muyun Yang, Haifeng Wang and Sheng Li
  • Acquiring Strongly-related Events using Predicate-argument Co-occurring Statistics and Case Frames
    Tomohide Shibata and Sadao Kurohashi
Information Retrieval (Poster Presentations)
  • Relevance Feedback using Latent Information
    Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi
  • Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision
    Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao
  • Query Expansion for IR using Knowledge-Based Relatedness
    Arantxa Otegi, Xabier Arregi and Eneko Agirre
Summarization (Poster Presentations)
  • Using Context Inference to Improve Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization
    Peifeng Li, Guangxi Deng and Qiaoming Zhu
  • Enhancing extraction based summarization with outside word space
    Christian Smith and Arne J¨onsson
Discourse (Poster Presentations)
  • Shallow Discourse Parsing with Conditional Random Fields
    Sucheta Ghosh, Richard Johansson, Giuseppe Riccardi and Sara Tonelli
Machine Learning (Poster Presentations)
  • Relational Lasso - An Improved Method Using the Relations Among Features -
    Kotaro Kitagawa and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
  • Enhance Top-down method with Meta-Classification for Very Large-scale Hierarchical Classification
    Xiao-lin Wang, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu
  • Using Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels to Improve Multi-Modality Manifold-Ranking for Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization
    Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan and Kaisar Imam
  • Automatic Determination of a Domain Adaptation Method forWord Sense Disambiguation Using Decision Tree Learning
    Kanako Komiya and Manabu Okumura
  • Learning from Chinese-English Parallel Data for Chinese Tense Prediction
    Feifan Liu, Fei Liu and Yang Liu
Semantics (Poster Presentations)
  • Jointly Extracting Japanese Predicate-Argument Relation with Markov Logic
    Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto
  • Word Meaning in Context: A Simple and Effective Vector Model
    Stefan Thater, Hagen F¨urstenau and Manfred Pinkal
  • Automatic Analysis of Semantic Coherence in Academic Abstracts Written in Portuguese
    Vin´ıcius Mour˜ao Alves de Souza and Val´eria Delisandra Feltrim
Sentiment (Poster Presentations)
  • Sentence Subjectivity Detection with Weakly-Supervised Learning
    Chenghua Lin, Yulan He and Richard Everson
  • Opinion Expression Mining by Exploiting Keyphrase Extraction
    G´abor Berend
  • Extracting Resource Terms for Sentiment Analysis
    Lei Zhang and Bing Liu
  • Towards Context-Based Subjectivity Analysis
    Farah Benamara, Baptiste Chardon, Yannick Mathieu and Vladimir Popescu
Phonology/Morphology (Poster Presentations)
  • Compression Methods by Code Mapping and Code Dividing for Chinese Dictionary Stored in a Double-Array Trie
    Huidan Liu, Minghua Nuo, Longlong Ma, Jian Wu and Yeping He
  • Functional Elements and POS Categories
    Qiuye Zhao and Mitch Marcus
  • Joint Alignment and Artificial Data Generation: An Empirical Study of Pivot-based Machine Transliteration
    Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Ming Liu, Yunqing Xia and Haizhou Li
  • Incremental Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing in Chinese
    Jun Hatori, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii
Resources (Poster Presentations)
  • Extending the adverbial coverage of a NLP oriented resource for French
    Elsa Tolone and Stavroula Voyatzi
  • Linguistic Phenomena, Analyses, and Representations: Understanding Conversion between Treebanks
    Rajesh Bhatt, Owen Rambow and Fei Xia
Syntax (Poster Presentations)
  • Automatic Transformation of the Thai Categorial Grammar Treebank to Dependency Trees
    Christian Rishøj, Taneth Ruangrajitpakorn, Prachya Boonkwan and Thepchai Supnithi
  • Parse Reranking Based on Higher-Order Lexical Dependencies
    Zhiguo Wang and Chengqing Zong
  • Improving Part-of-speech Tagging for Context-free Parsing
    Xiao Chen and Chunyu Kit
  • Models Cascade for Tree-Structured Named Entity Detection
    Marco Dinarelli and Sophie Rosset
  • Clausal parsing helps data-driven dependency parsing: Experiments with Hindi
    Samar Husain, Phani Gadde, Joakim Nivre and Rajeev Sangal
Machine Translation (Poster Presentations)
  • Word-reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Using Trigram Language Model
    Jing He and Hongyu Liang
  • Extracting Hierarchical Rules from a Weighted Alignment Matrix
    Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin
  • Integration of Reduplicated Multiword Expressions and Named Entities in a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation System
    Thoudam Doren Singh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
  • Regularizing Mono- and Bi-Word Models for Word Alignment
    Thomas Schoenemann
  • Parametric Weighting of Parallel Data for Statistical Machine Translation
    Kashif Shah, Lo¨ıc Barrault and Holger Schwenk
  • An Effective and Robust Framework for Transliteration Exploration
    EA-EE JAN, Niyu Ge, Shih-Hsiang Lin and Berlin Chen
Demos
  • WikiNetTK - A Tool Kit for EmbeddingWorld Knowledge in NLP Applications
    Alex Judea, Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube
  • Using Linguist's Assistant for Language Description and Translation
    Stephen Beale
  • TTC TermSuite - A UIMA Application for Multilingual Terminology Extraction from Comparable Corpora
    J´erˆome Rocheteau and B´eatrice Daille

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Main Conference Day 2, Nov 10
9:00-10:00    Keynote - Matt Lease (University of Texas)
10:00-10:30  Coffee Break
10:30-12:10  Information Retrieval I (Lanna II, III)
Chair: TBA
10.30-10.55 Attribute Extraction from Synthetic Web Search Queries
Marius Pasca
10.55-11.20 Japanese Abbreviation Expansion with Query and Clickthrough Logs
Kei Uchiumi, Mamoru Komachi, Keigo Machinaga, Toshiyuki Maezawa, Toshinori Satou and Yoshinori Kobayashi
11.20-11.45 Mining Parallel Documents Using Low Bandwidth and High Precision CLIR from the Heterogeneous Web
Simon Shi, Pascale Fung, Emmanuel Prochasson, Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu
11.45-12.10 Crawling Back and Forth: Using Back and Out Links to Locate Bilingual Sites
Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore and Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar

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10:30-12:10   Syntax II (Auditorium)
Chair: Josef van Genabith
10.30-10.55 Grammar Induction from Text Using Small Syntactic Prototypes
Prachya Boonkwan and Mark Steedman
10.55-11.20 Transferring Syntactic Relations from English to Hindi Using Alignments on Local Word Groups
Aswarth Dara, Prashanth Mannem, Hemanth Sagar Bayyarapu and Avinesh PVS
11.20-11.45 Generative Modeling of Coordination by Factoring Parallelism and Selectional Preferences
Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi
11.45-12.10 Syntactic Parsing for Ranking-Based Coreference Resolution
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng

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10:30-12:10   Generation/Summarization (Sukhotai)
Chair: Xiaodan Zhu
10.30-10.55 TriS: A Statistical Sentence Simplifier with Log-linear Models and Margin-based Discriminative Training
Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel
10.55-11.20 Social Summarization via Automatically Discovered Social Context
Po Hu, Cheng Sun, Longfei Wu, Donghong Ji and Chong Teng
11.20-11.45 Simultaneous Clustering and Noise Detection for Theme-based Summarization
Xiaoyan Cai, Renxian Zhang, Dehong Gao and Wenjie Li
11.45-12.10 Extractive Summarization Method for Contact Center Dialogues based on Call Logs
Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa, Masahiro Saikou and Masaaki Tsuchida

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10:30-12:10   Spoken Language (Phayao)
Chair: Hsin-Hsi Chen
10.30-10.55 Indexing Spoken Documents with Hierarchical Semantic Structures: Semantic Tree-tostring Alignment Models
Xiaodan Zhu, Colin Cherry and Gerald Penn
10.55-11.20 Structured and Extended Named Entity Evaluation in Automatic Speech Transcriptions
Olivier Galibert, Sophie Rosset, Cyril Grouin, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Ludovic Quintard
11.20-11.45 Normalising Audio Transcriptions for Unwritten Languages
Adel Foda and Steven Bird
11.45-12.10 Similarity Based Language Model Construction for Voice Activated Open- Domain Question Answering
Istvan Varga, Kiyonori Ohtake, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Teruhisa Misu, Shigeki Matsuda and Jun'ichi Kazama
12:10-13:55 Lunch

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13:55-15:10   Machine Learning III (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Kevin Duh
13.55-14.20 The application of chordal graphs to inferring phylogenetic trees of languages
Jessica Enright and Grzegorz Kondrak
14.20-14.45 Cross-domain Feature Selection for Language Identification
Marco Lui and Timothy Baldwin
14.45-15.10 A Wikipedia-LDA Model for Entity Linking with Batch Size Changing Instance Selection
Wei Zhang, Jian Su and Chew-Lim Tan

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13:55-15:10   Information Retrieval II (Auditorium)
Chair: Qi Zhang
13.55-14.20 Discovering Latent Concepts and Exploiting Ontological Features for Semantic Text Search
Vuong M. Ngo and Tru H. Cao
14.20-14.45 CLGVSM: Adapting Generalized Vector Space Model to Cross-lingual Document Clustering
Guoyu Tang, Yunqing Xia, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li and Fang Zheng
14.45-15.10 Thread Cleaning and Merging for Microblog Topic Detection
Jianfeng Zhang, Yunqing Xia, Bin Ma, Jianmin Yao and Yu Hong

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13:55-15:10   Dialog/Discourse II (Sukhotai)
Chair: Ryu Iida
13.55-14.20 Training a BN-based user model for dialogue simulation with missing data
St'ephane Rossignol, Olivier Pietquin and Michel Ianotto
14.20-14.45 Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations
Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova

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13:55-15:10   Sentiment II (Phayao)
Chair: Rafael E. Banchs
13.55-14.20 A POS-based Ensemble Model for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification
Rui Xia and Chengqing Zong
14.20-14.45 Ensemble-style Self-training on Citation Classification
Cailing Dong and Ulrich Sch¨afer
14.45-15.10 Back to the Roots of Genres: Text Classification by Language Function
Henning Wachsmuth and Kathrin Bujna
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break

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15:30-17:10   Machine Transliteration III (Lanna II, III)
Chair: QUN LIU
15.30-15.55 Transductive Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Yinggong Zhao, Shujie Liu, Yangsheng Ji, Jiajun Chen and Guodong Zhou
15.55-16.20 Distributed Minimum Error Rate Training of SMT using Particle Swarm Optimization
Jun Suzuki, Kevin Duh and Masaaki Nagata
16.20-16.45 Going Beyond Word Cooccurrences in Global Lexical Selection for Statistical Machine Translation using a Multilayer Perceptron
Alexandre Patry and Philippe Langlais
16.45-17.10 System Combination Using Discriminative Cross-Adaptation
Jacob Devlin, Antti-Veikko Rosti, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Spyros Matsoukas

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15:30-17:10   Semantic II (Auditorium)
Chair: Chris Brew
15.30-15.55 Word Sense Disambiguation by Combining Labeled Data Expansion and Semi- Supervised Learning Method
Sanae Fujita and Akinori Fujino
15.55-16.20 Combining ConceptNet and WordNet for Word Sense Disambiguation
Junpeng Chen and Juan Liu
16.20-16.45 It Takes Two to Tango: A Bilingual Unsupervised Approach for Estimating Sense Distributions using Expectation Maximization
Mitesh M Khapra, Salil Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
16.45-17.10 Dynamic and Static Prototype Vectors for Semantic Composition
Siva Reddy, Ioannis Klapaftis, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar

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15:30-17:10   Information Extraction (Sukhotai)
Chair: Paul McNamee
15.30-15.55 Using Prediction from Sentential Scope to Build a Pseudo Co-Testing Learner for Event Extraction
Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman
15.55-16.20 Text Segmentation and Graph-based Method for Template Filling in Information Extraction
Ludovic Jean-Louis, Romaric Besanc¸on and Olivier Ferret
16.20-16.45 Joint Distant and Direct Supervision for Relation Extraction
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen and Alessandro Moschitti
16.45-17.10 A Cross-lingual Annotation Projection-based Self-supervision Approach for Open Information Extraction
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Jonghoon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee

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15:30-17:10   Syntax III (Phayao)
Chair: Fei Xia
15.30-15.55 Exploring Difficulties in Parsing Imperatives and Questions
Tadayoshi Hara, Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii
15.55-16.20 A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution with Large- scale Lexicalized Case Frames
Ryohei Sasano and Sadao Kurohashi
16.20-16.45 An Empirical Comparison of Unknown Word Prediction Methods
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord, Valia Kordoni and Yi Zhang
16.45-17.10 Training Dependency Parsers from Partially Annotated Corpora
Daniel Flannery, Yusuke Miayo, Graham Neubig and Shinsuke Mori
19.00-21.00 Banquet (River House Restaurant)

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Main Conference Day 3, Nov 11
9:00-10:00    Keynote - Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:00-10:30  Coffee Break
10:30-12:10  Short papers
10:30-12:10  Machine Translation / Machine Learning (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Chengqing Zong
  • Reducing Asymmetry between language-pairs to Improve Alignment and Translation Quality
    Rashmi Gangadharaiah
  • Clause-Based Reordering Constraints to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
    Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Karthik Visweswariah, Kushal Ladha and Ankur Gandhe
  • Generalized Minimum Bayes Risk System Combination
    Kevin Duh, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Hajime Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata
  • Enhancing scarce-resource language translation through pivot combinations
    Marta R. Costa-juss`a, Carlos Henr´ıquez and Rafael E. Banchs
  • A Baseline System for Chinese Near-Synonym Choice
    Liang-Chih Yu, Wei-Nan Chien and Shih-Ting Chen
  • Cluster Labelling based on Concepts in a Machine-Readable Dictionary
    Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

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10:30-12:10  Semantics (Auditorium)
Chair: Suresh Manandhar
  • Text Patterns and Compression Models for Semantic Class Learning
    Chung-Yao Chuang, Yi-Hsun Lee and Wen-Lian Hsu
  • Potts Model on the Case Fillers for Word Sense Disambiguation
    Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
  • Improving Word Sense Induction by Exploiting Semantic Relevance
    Zhenzhong Zhang and Le Sun
  • Predicting Word Clipping with Latent Semantic Analysis
    Julian Brooke, Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst
  • A Semantic Relatedness Measure Based on Combined Encyclopedic, Ontological and Collocational Knowledge
    Yannis Haralambous and Vitaly Klyuev
  • Going Beyond Text: A Hybrid Image-Text Approach for Measuring Word Relatedness
    Chee Wee Leong and Rada Mihalcea

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10:30-12:10  Text Mining / Question Answering (Sukhotai)
Chair: Gary Lee
  • Domain Independent Model for Product Attribute Extraction from User Reviews using Wikipedia
    Sudheer Kovelamudi, Sethu Ramalingam, Arpit Sood and Vasudeva Varma
  • Finding Problem Solving Threads in Online Forum
    Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu
  • Compiling Learner Corpus Data of Linguistic Output and Language Processing in Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading
    Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Hiroaki Nanjo and Hitoshi Isahara
  • Mining the Sentiment Expectation of Nouns Using Bootstrapping Method
    Miaomiao Wen and Yunfang Wu
  • An Analysis of Questions in a Q&A Site Resubmitted Based on Indications of Unclear Points of Original Questions
    Masahiro Kojima, Yasuhiko Watanabe and Yoshihiro Okada
  • Diversifying Information Needs in Results of Question Retrieval
    Yaoyun Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, Ruifeng Xu, Jun Xu and ShiXi Fan

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10:30-12:10  Other NLP topics (Phayao)
Chair: Wei He
  • Beyond Normalization: Pragmatics of Word Form in Text Messages
    Tyler Baldwin and Joyce Chai
  • Chinese Discourse Relation Recognition
    Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
  • Improving Chinese POS Tagging with Dependency Parsing
    Zhenghua Li, Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu
  • Exploring self training for Hindi dependency parsing
    Rahul Goutam and Bharat Ram Ambati
  • Reduction of Search Space to Annotate Monolingual Corpora
    Prajol Shrestha, Christine Jacquin and Beatrice Daille
  • Toward a Parallel Corpus of Spoken Cantonese and Written Chinese
    John Lee
12:00-13:30 Lunch

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13:30-15:35   Machine Translation IV (Lanna II, III)
Chair: Michael Paul
13.30-13.55 A Breadth-First Representation for Tree Matching in Large Scale Forest-Based Translation
Sumukh Ghodke, Steven Bird and Rui Zhang
13.55-14.20 Bayesian Subtree Alignment Model based on Dependency Trees
Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi
14.20-14.45 Enriching SMT Training Data via Paraphrasing
Wei He, Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu
14.45-15.10 Translation Quality Indicators for Pivot-based Statistical MT
Michael Paul and Eiichiro Sumita
15.10-15.35 Source Error-Projection for Sample Selection in Phrase-Based SMT for Resource-Poor Languages
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan

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13:30-15:35   Morphology/Named-Entity Recognition (Auditorium)
Chair: Kemal Oflazer
13.30-13.55 A Named Entity Recognition Method based on Decomposition and Concatenation of Word Chunks
Tomoya Iwakura, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
13.55-14.20 Extract Chinese Unknown Words from a Large-scale Corpus Using Morphological and Distributional Evidences
Kaixu Zhang, Ruining Wang, Ping Xue and Maosong Sun
14.20-14.45 Entity Disambiguation Using a Markov-Logic Network
Hong-Jie Dai, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu
14.45-15.10 Named Entity Recognition in Chinese News Comments on the Web
Xiaojun Wan, Liang Zong, Xiaojiang Huang, Tengfei Ma, Houping Jia, Yuqian Wu and Jianguo Xiao
15.10-15.35 Clustering Semantically Equivalent Words into Cognate Sets in Multilingual Lists
Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak

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13:30-15:35   Resources (Sukhotai)
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari
13.30-13.55 Extending WordNet with Hypernyms and Siblings Acquired from Wikipedia
Ichiro Yamada, Jong-Hoon Oh, Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun’ichi Kazama, Stijn De Saeger and Takuya Kawada
13.55-14.20 What Psycholinguists Know About Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage
Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych
14.20-14.45 From News to Comment: Resources and Benchmarks for Parsing the Language of Web 2.0
Jennifer Foster, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Joachim Wagner, Joseph Le Roux, Joakim Nivre, Deirdre Hogan and Josef van Genabith
14.45-15.10 Toward Finding Semantic Relations not Written in a Single Sentence: An Inference Method using Auto-Discovered Rules
Masaaki Tsuchida, Kentaro Torisawa, Stijn De Saeger, Jong Hoon Oh, Jun’ichi Kazama,Chikara Hashimoto and Hayato Ohwada
15.10-15.35 Fleshing it out: A Supervised Approach to MWE-token and MWE-type Classification
Richard Fothergill and Timothy Baldwin

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13:30-15:35   Question Answering (Phayao)
Chair: Yufeng Chen
13.30-13.55 Identification of relations between answers with global constraints for Community-based Question Answering services
Hikaru Yokono, Takaaki Hasegawa, Genichiro Kikui and Manabu Okumura
13.55-14.20 Automatically Generating Questions from Queries for Community-based Question Answering
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Chao Li, Ting Liu and Yi Guan
14.20-14.45 Question classification based on an extended class sequential rule model
Zijing Hui, Juan Liu and Lumei Ouyang
14.45-15.10 K2Q: Generating Natural Language Questions from Keywords with User Refinements
Zhicheng Zheng, Xiance Si, Edward Chang and Xiaoyan Zhu
15.10-15.35 Answering Complex Questions via Exploiting Social Q&A Collection
Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai and Hideki Kashioka
15.35-16.05 Coffee Break
16.05-17.15 Best paper session
(2 plenary papers announced during this session)
17.15-17.25 Presentation of Future Conferences (including ACL/IJCNLP 2012)
and Upcoming Conferences Announcement (COLING 2012)
17:25-17:35 Closing Ceremony

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