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Demo and Poster Sessions

COMPANION PROGRAM

  Demos
 Demo Session 1 - Tuesday, June 26, 9:00-10:40
 MIMUS: A Multimodal and Multilingual Dialogue System for the Home Domain
J. Gabriel Amores, Guillermo Pérez and Pilar Manchón
 A Translation Aid System with a Stratified Lookup Interface
Takeshi Abekawa and Kyo Kageura
 Multimedia Blog Creation System using Dialogue with Intelligent Robot
Akitoshi Okumura, Takahiro Ikeda, Toshihiro Nishizawa, Shin-ichi Ando and Fumihiro Adachi
 SemTAG: a platform for specifying Tree Adjoining Grammars and performing TAG-based Semantic Construction
Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier
 System Demonstration of On-Demand Information Extraction
Satoshi Sekine and Akira Oda
 Multilingual Ontological Analysis of European Directives
Gianmaria Ajani, Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Alessandro Mazzei and Piercarlo Rossi
 NICT-ATR Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu and Satoshi Nakamura
 Demo Session 2 - Tuesday, June 26, 13:30-15:20
 zipfR: Word Frequency Modeling in R
Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni
 Linguistically Motivated Large-Scale NLP with C&C and Boxer
James Curran, Stephen Clark and Johan Bos
 Don’t worry about metaphor: affect detection for conversational agents
Catherine Smith, Timothy Rumbell, John Barnden, Robert Hendley, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington and Li Zhang
 An efficient algorithm for building a distributional thesaurus (and other Sketch Engine developments)
Pavel Rychl\'y and Adam Kilgarriff
 Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition
Colin R. Batchelor and Peter T. Corbett
 An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Michael Strube
  Posters
 Poster Session 1 - Monday, June 25, 15:10-15:45
 Machine Learning, Corpus and Information Retrieval
 Deriving an Ambiguous Word’s Part-of-Speech Distribution from Unannotated Text
Reinhard Rapp
 Support Vector Machines for Query-focused Summarization trained and evaluated on Pyramid data
Maria Fuentes, Enrique Alfonseca and Horacio Rodríguez
 A Joint Statistical Model for Simultaneous Word Spacing and Spelling Error Correction for Korean
Hyungjong Noh, Jeong-Won Cha and Gary Geunbae Lee
 An Approximate Approach for Training Polynomial Kernel SVMs in Linear Time
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang and Yue-Shi Lee
 Rethinking Chinese Word Segmentation: Tokenization, Character Classification, or Wordbreak Identification
Chu-Ren Huang, Petr Simon, Shu-Kai Hsieh and Laurent Prévot
 A Feature Based Approach to Leveraging Context for Classifying Newsgroup Style Discussion Segments
Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn Rose
 Ensemble document clustering using weighted hypergraph generated by NMF
Hiroyuki Shinnou and Minoru Sasaki
 Using Error-Correcting Output Codes with Model-Refinement to Boost Centroid Text Classifier
Songbo Tan
 Poliqarp: An open source corpus indexer and search engine with syntactic extensions
Daniel Janus and Adam Przepiórkowski
 Test Collection Selection and Gold Standard Generation for a Multiply-Annotated Opinion Corpus
Lun-Wei Ku, Yong-Sheng Lo and Hsin-Hsi Chen
 Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus
Andrei Popescu-Belis and Paula Estrella
 Exploration of Term Dependence in Sentence Retrieval
Keke Cai, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen and Kangmiao Liu
 Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for BLEU
Nicola Ehling, Richard Zens and Hermann Ney
 Poster Session 2 - Tuesday, June 26, 10:40-11:10
 Speech Dialogue
 Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential "You" in Dialog
Surabhi Gupta, Matthew Purver and Dan Jurafsky
 On the formalization of Invariant Mappings for Metaphor Interpretation
Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Alan Wallington
 Real-Time Correction of Closed-Captions
Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne, Michel Comeau and Maryse Boisvert
 Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka and Hideki Isozaki
 Predicting Evidence of Understanding by Monitoring User’s Task Manipulation in Multimodal Conversations
Yukiko Nakano, Kazuyoshi Murata, Mika Enomoto, Yoshiko Arimoto, Yasuhiro Asa and Hirohiko Sagawa
 Automatically Assessing the Post Quality in Online Discussions on Software
Markus Weimer, Iryna Gurevych and Max Mühlhäuser
 WordNet-based Semantic Relatedness Measures in Automatic Speech Recognition for Meetings
Michael Pucher
 Poster Session 3 - Tuesday, June 26, 15:20-15:45
 Lexica and Ontologies
 Building Emotion Lexicon from Weblog Corpora
Changhua Yang, Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen
 Construction of Domain Dictionary for Fundamental Vocabulary
Chikara Hashimoto and Sadao Kurohashi
 Extracting Word Sets with Non-Taxonomical Relation
Eiko Yamamoto and Hitoshi Isahara
 A Linguistic Service Ontology for Language Infrastructures
Yoshihiko Hayashi
 Empirical Measurements of Lexical Similarity in Noun Phrase Conjuncts
Deirdre Hogan
 Automatic Discovery of Named Entity Variants: Grammar-driven Approaches to Non-Alphabetical Transliterations
Chu-Ren Huang, Petr Simon and Shu-Kai Hsieh
 Detecting Semantic Relations between Named Entities in Text Using Contextual Features
Toru Hirano, Yoshihiro Matsuo and Genichiro Kikui
 Mapping Concrete Entities from PAROLE-SIMPLE-CLIPS to ItalWordNet: Methodology and Results
Adriana Roventini, Nilda Ruimy, Rita Marinelli, Marisa Ulivieri and Michele Mammini
 Extracting Hypernym Pairs from the Web
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
 An OWL Ontology for HPSG
Graham Wilcock
 Poster Session 4 - Wednesday, June 27, 10:40-11:10
 Applications
 Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events
Nathanael Chambers, Shan Wang and Dan Jurafsky
 Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation
Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, Chris Dyer, Ondrej Bojar, Alexandra Constantin and Evan Herbst
 Boosting Statistical Machine Translation by Lemmatization and Linear Interpolation
Ruiqiang Zhang and Eiichiro Sumita
 Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Clustering
Maofu Liu, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu and Qin Lu
 Machine Translation between Turkic Languages
Ahmet Cüneyd Tantug, Esref Adali and Kemal Oflazer
 Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization
Surabhi Gupta, Ani Nenkova and Dan Jurafsky
 Expanding Indonesian-Japanese Small Translation Dictionary Using a Pivot Language
Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Ayu Purwarianti, Toshiyuki Wakita and Seiichi Nakagawa
 Poster Session 5 - Wednesday June 27, 15:10-15:45
 Parsing and Tagging
 Shallow Dependency Labeling
Manfred Klenner
 Minimally Lexicalized Dependency Parsing
Daisuke Kawahara and Kiyotaka Uchimoto
 Poster paper: HunPos – an open source trigram tagger
Péter Halácsy, András Kornai and Csaba Oravecz
 Extending MARIE: an N-gram-based SMT decoder
Josep M. Crego and José B. Mariño
 A Hybrid Approach to Word Segmentation and POS Tagging
Tetsuji Nakagawa and Kiyotaka Uchimoto
 Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali: An Approach for Morphologically Rich Languages in a Poor Resource Scenario
Sandipan Dandapat, Sudeshna Sarkar and Anupam Basu
 Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Sequential Labeling for Semi-spoken Language
Kenji Imamura, Genichiro Kikui and Norihito Yasuda