| 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 |