Monday, June 1, 2009 |
| | Morning Session |
| 10:40–11:10 | Classifier Combination Techniques Applied to Coreference Resolution
Smita Vemulapalli, Xiaoqiang Luo, John F. Pitrelli and Imed Zitouni |
| 11:15–11:45 | Solving the “Who’s Mark Johnson Puzzle”: Information Extraction Based Cross Document Coreference
Jian Huang, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smith, Konstantinos A. Fotiadis and C. Lee Giles |
| 11:50–12:20 | Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning
Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi |
| | First Afternoon Session |
| 2:00–2:30 | Sentence Realisation from Bag of Words with Dependency Constraints
Karthik Gali and Sriram Venkatapathy |
| 2:35–3:05 | Using Language Modeling to Select Useful Annotation Data
Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer |
| | Second Afternoon Session |
| 4:00–4:30 | Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language
Adriane Boyd |
| 4:35–5:05 | Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping
Ting Qian, Benjamin Van Durme and Lenhart Schubert |
| 5:10–5:40 | Multiple Word Alignment with Profile Hidden Markov Models
Aditya Bhargava and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| | Poster Session (6:30–9:30) |
| | Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System
Jaime Acosta |
| | Interactive Annotation Learning with Indirect Feature Voting
Shilpa Arora and Eric Nyberg |
| | Loss-Sensitive Discriminative Training of Machine Transliteration Models
Kedar Bellare, Koby Crammer and Dayne Freitag |
| | Syntactic Tree-based Relation Extraction Using a Generalization of Collins and Duffy Convolution Tree Kernel
Mahdy Khayyamian, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Hassan Abolhassani |
| | Towards Building a Competitive Opinion Summarization System: Challenges and Keys
Elena Lloret, Alexandra Balahur, Manuel Palomar and Andrés Montoyo |
| | Domain-Independent Shallow Sentence Ordering
Thade Nahnsen |
| | Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Dialogue Acts
Nicole Novielli and Carlo Strapparava |
| | Modeling Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion as a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Problem with Minimum Error Rate Training
Taraka Rama, Anil Kumar Singh and Sudheer Kolachina |
| | Disambiguation of Preposition Sense Using Linguistically Motivated Features
Stephen Tratz and Dirk Hovy |
| + | All papers presented in the morning and afternoon sessions will also be shown as posters. |