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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Monday, August 3, 2009 | |
| 08:30–08:40 | Opening Session |
| 08:40–09:40 | Invited Talk: Qiang Yang, Heterogeneous Transfer Learning with Real-world Applications |
| Invited Talk | |
| 08:40–09:40 | Heterogeneous Transfer Learning for Image Clustering via the SocialWeb Qiang Yang, Yuqiang Chen, Gui-Rong Xue, Wenyuan Dai and Yong Yu |
| 09:40–10:10 | Break |
| Session 1A: Semantics 1 | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nicholas Gaylord |
| 10:35–11:00 | A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| 11:00–11:25 | Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling Omri Abend, Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport |
| 11:25–11:50 | Brutus: A Semantic Role Labeling System Incorporating CCG, CFG, and Dependency Features Stephen Boxwell, Dennis Mehay and Chris Brew |
| Session 1B: Syntax and Parsing 1 | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Exploiting Heterogeneous Treebanks for Parsing Zheng-Yu Niu, Haifeng Wang and Hua Wu |
| 10:35–11:00 | Cross Language Dependency Parsing using a Bilingual Lexicon Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit and Guodong Zhou |
| 11:00–11:25 | Topological Field Parsing of German Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Gerald Penn |
| 11:25–11:50 | Unsupervised Multilingual Grammar Induction Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem and Regina Barzilay |
| Session 1C:Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 1 | |
| 10:10–10:35 | Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay |
| 10:35–11:00 | Learning Semantic Correspondences with Less Supervision Percy Liang, Michael Jordan and Dan Klein |
| 11:00–11:25 | Bayesian Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Nested Pitman-Yor Language Modeling Daichi Mochihashi, Takeshi Yamada and Naonori Ueda |
| 11:25–11:50 | Knowing the Unseen: Estimating Vocabulary Size over Unseen Samples Suma Bhat and Richard Sproat |
| Session 1D: Phonology and Morphology | |
| 10:10–10:35 | A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Qing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 10:35–11:00 | Reducing the Annotation Effort for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Kenneth Dwyer and Grzegorz Kondrak |
| 11:00–11:25 | Transliteration Alignment Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li and Bo Lin |
| 11:25–11:50 | Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike Bart Jongejan and Hercules Dalianis |
| 11:50–13:20 | Lunch |
| Session 2A: Machine Translation 1 | |
| 13:20–13:45 | Revisiting Pivot Language Approach for Machine Translation Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang |
| 13:45–14:10 | Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer and Franz Och |
| 14:10–14:35 | Forest-based Tree Sequence to String Translation Model Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Aiti Aw and Chew Lim Tan |
| 14:35–15:00 | Active Learning for Multilingual Statistical Machine Translation Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar |
| Session 2B: Generation and Summariation 1 | |
| 13:20–13:45 | DEPEVAL(summ): Dependency-based Evaluation for Automatic Summaries Karolina Owczarzak |
| 13:45–14:10 | Summarizing Definition from Wikipedia Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua and Jie LU |
| 14:10–14:35 | Automatically Generating Wikipedia Articles: A Structure-Aware Approach Christina Sauper and Regina Barzilay |
| 14:35–15:00 | Learning to Tell Tales: A Data-driven Approach to Story Generation Neil McIntyre and Mirella Lapata |
| Session 2C: Sentiment Analysis and Text Categorization 1 | |
| 13:20–13:45 | Recognizing Stances in Online Debates Swapna Somasundaran and Janyce Wiebe |
| 13:45–14:10 | Co-Training for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification Xiaojun Wan |
| 14:10–14:35 | A Non-negative Matrix Tri-factorization Approach to Sentiment Classification with Lexical Prior Knowledge Tao Li, Yi Zhang and Vikas Sindhwani |
| 14:35–15:00 | Discovering the Discriminative Views: Measuring Term Weights for Sentiment Analysis Jungi Kim, Jin-Ji Li and Jong-Hyeok Lee |
| Session 2D: Language Resources | |
| 13:20–13:45 | Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel Weld, Michael Skinner and Jeff Bilmes |
| 13:45–14:10 | A Metric-based Framework for Automatic Taxonomy Induction Hui Yang and Jamie Callan |
| 14:10–14:35 | Learning with Annotation Noise Eyal Beigman and Beata Beigman Klebanov |
| 14:35–15:00 | Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both? Paola Merlo and Lonneke van der Plas |
| 15:00–15:30 | Break |
| Session 3A: Machine Translation 2 | |
| 15:30–15:55 | Robust Machine Translation Evaluation with Entailment Features Sebastian Pado, Michel Galley, Dan Jurafsky and Christopher D. Manning |
| 15:55–16:20 | The Contribution of Linguistic Features to Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo |
| 16:20–16:45 | A Syntax-Driven Bracketing Model for Phrase-Based Translation Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw and Haizhou Li |
| 16:45–17:10 | Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Hendra Setiawan, Min Yen Kan, Haizhou Li and Philip Resnik |
| 17:10–17:35 | Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation as a Traveling Salesman Problem Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Marc Dymetman and Nicola Cancedda |
| Session 3B: Syntax and Parsing 2 | |
| 15:30–15:55 | Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing Andre Martins, Noah Smith and Eric Xing |
| 15:55–16:20 | Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time Joakim Nivre |
| 16:20–16:45 | Semi-supervised Learning of Dependency Parsers using Generalized Expectation Criteria Gregory Druck, Gideon Mann and Andrew McCallum |
| 16:45–17:10 | Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar |
| 17:10–17:35 | Cross-Domain Dependency Parsing Using a Deep Linguistic Grammar Yi Zhang and Rui Wang |
| Session 3C: Information Extraction 1 | |
| 15:30–15:55 | A Chinese-English Organization Name Translation System Using Heuristic Web Mining and Asymmetric Alignment Fan Yang, Jun Zhao and Kang Liu |
| 15:55–16:20 | Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran |
| 16:20–16:45 | Jointly Identifying Temporal Relations with Markov Logic Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Sebastian Riedel, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 16:45–17:10 | Profile Based Cross-Document Coreference Using Kernelized Fuzzy Relational Clustering Jian Huang, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smith, Konstantinos A. Fotiadis and C. Lee Giles |
| 17:10–17:35 | Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel Yaman |
| Session 3D: Semantics 2 | |
| 15:30–15:55 | Bilingual Co-Training for Monolingual Hyponymy-Relation Acquisition Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyotaka Uchimoto and Kentaro Torisawa |
| 15:55–16:20 | Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web Richard C. Wang and William W. Cohen |
| 16:20–16:45 | Extracting Lexical Reference Rules from Wikipedia Eyal Shnarch, Libby Barak and Ido Dagan |
| 16:45–17:10 | Employing Topic Models for Pattern-based Semantic Class Discovery Huibin Zhang, Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi and Ji-Rong Wen |
| 17:10–17:35 | Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition Dipanjan Das and Noah A. Smith |
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 | |
| Session 4A: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 2 | |
| 08:30–08:55 | Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for L1-regularized Log-linear Models with Cumulative Penalty Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou |
| 08:55–09:20 | A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction Kristina Toutanova and Colin Cherry |
| 09:20–09:45 | Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence-Labeling Fei Huang and Alexander Yates |
| Session 4B: Word Segmentation and POS Tagging | |
| 08:30–08:55 | Minimized Models for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight |
| 08:55–09:20 | An Error-Driven Word-Character Hybrid Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Canasai Kruengkrai, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Hitoshi Isahara |
| 09:20–09:45 | Automatic Adaptation of Annotation Standards: Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging – A Case Study Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang and Qun Liu |
| Session 4C: Spoken Language Processing 1 | |
| 08:30–08:55 | Linefeed Insertion into Japanese Spoken Monologue for Captioning Tomohiro Ohno, Masaki Murata and Shigeki Matsubara |
| 08:55–09:20 | Semi-supervised Learning for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Co-training Algorithm Je Hun Jeon and Yang Liu |
| 09:20–09:45 | Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn and Frank Rudzicz |
| Session 4DI: Short Paper 1 (Syntax and Parsing) | |
| Session 4DII: Short Paper 2 (Discourse and Dialogue) | |
| 09:45–10:15 | Break |
| Session 5A: Machine Translation 3 | |
| 10:15–10:40 | Improving Tree-to-Tree Translation with Packed Forests Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü and Qun Liu |
| 10:40–11:05 | Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests John DeNero, David Chiang and Kevin Knight |
| 11:05–11:30 | Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng and Qun Liu |
| 11:30–11:55 | Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li and Ming Zhou |
| 11:55–12:20 | Variational Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
| Session 5B: Semantics 3 | |
| 10:15–10:40 | Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky |
| 10:40–11:05 | Learning a Compositional Semantic Parser using an Existing Syntactic Parser Ruifang Ge and Raymond Mooney |
| 11:05–11:30 | Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca |
| 11:30–11:55 | The Chinese Aspect Generation Based on Aspect Selection Functions Guowen Yang and John Bateman |
| 11:55–12:20 | Quantitative modeling of the neural representation of adjective-noun phrases to account for fMRI activation Kai-min K. Chang, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Tom M. Mitchell and Marcel Adam Just |
| Session 5C: Discourse and Dialogue 1 | |
| 10:15–10:40 | Capturing Salience with a Trainable Cache Model for Zero-anaphora Resolution Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 10:40–11:05 | Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff |
| 11:05–11:30 | A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification David duVerle and Helmut Prendinger |
| 11:30–11:55 | Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank Bonnie Webber |
| 11:55–12:20 | Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova |
| Session 5D: Student Research Workshop | |
| 12:20–14:20 | Short Paper Poster / SRW Poster Session (Lunch) |
| Session 6A: Short Paper 3 (Machine Translation) | |
| Session 6B: Short Paper 4 (Semantics) | |
| Session 6C: Short Paper 5 (Spoken Language Processing) | |
| Session 6D: Short Paper 6 (Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 1) | |
| Session 6E: Short Paper 7 (Summarization and Generation) | |
| Session 6F: Short Paper 8 (Sentiment Analysis) | |
| Session 6G: Short Paper 9 (Question Answering) | |
| Session 6H: Short Paper 10 (Statistical and Machine Learning Methods 2) | |
| 16:25–16:50 | Break |
| Session 7A: Sentiment Analysis and Text Categorization 2 | |
| 16:50–17:15 | A Framework of Feature Selection Methods for Text Categorization Shoushan Li, Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong and Chu-Ren Huang |
| 17:15–17:40 | Mine the Easy, Classify the Hard: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Automatic Sentiment Classification Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng |
| 17:40–18:05 | Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky |
| Session 7B: Question Answering | |
| 16:50–17:15 | A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering Asli Celikyilmaz, Marcus Thint and Zhiheng Huang |
| 17:15–17:40 | Combining Lexical Semantic Resources with Question & Answer Archives for Translation-Based Answer Finding Delphine Bernhard and Iryna Gurevych |
| 17:40–18:05 | Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu |
| Session 7C: Spoken Language Processing 2 | |
| 16:50–17:15 | What lies beneath: Semantic and syntactic analysis of manually reconstructed spontaneous speech Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek and Robert Frank |
| 17:15–17:40 | Discriminative Lexicon Adaptation for Improved Character Accuracy - A New Direction in Chinese Language Modeling Yi-cheng Pan, Lin-shan Lee and Sadaoki Furui |
| 17:40–18:05 | Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Lectures through Transformation-based Rules Learned from Minimal Data Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn and Xiaodan Zhu |
| Session 7D: Short Paper 11 (Information Extraction) | |
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | |
| 08:30–09:30 | Invited Talk: Bonnie Webber, Discourse – Early Problems, Current Successes, Future Challenges |
| 09:30–10:00 | Break |
| Session 8A: Machine Translation 4 | |
| 09:55–10:20 | Quadratic-Time Dependency Parsing for Machine Translation Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning |
| 10:20–10:45 | A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer and Miles Osborne |
| 10:45–11:10 | Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman and Idan Szpektor |
| 11:10–11:35 | Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Hansraj Choudhary, Avishek Ghosh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Session 8B: Generation and Summarization 2 | |
| 09:55–10:20 | Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization Wei He, Haifeng Wang, Yuqing Guo and Ting Liu |
| 10:20–10:45 | Incorporating Information Status into Generation Ranking Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester |
| 10:45–11:10 | A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence Compression Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki and Hideki Isozaki |
| 11:10–11:35 | Application-driven Statistical Paraphrase Generation Shiqi Zhao, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu and Sheng Li |
| Session 8C: Text Mining and NLP applications | |
| 09:55–10:20 | Semi-Supervised Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Reports Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng |
| 10:20–10:45 | SMS based Interface for FAQ Retrieval Govind Kothari, Sumit Negi, Tanveer A. Faruquie, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy and L. Venkata Subramaniam |
| 10:45–11:10 | Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries Mehdi Manshadi and Xiao Li |
| 11:10–11:35 | Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu and Qingsheng Zhu |
| Session 8D: Discourse and Dialogue 2 | |
| 09:55–10:20 | Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani and Alois Knoll |
| 10:20–10:45 | Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development Hua Ai and Diane Litman |
| 10:45–11:10 | Dialogue Segmentation with Large Numbers of Volunteer Internet Annotators T. Daniel Midgley |
| 11:10–11:35 | Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| 11:35–12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30–14:00 | Business Meeting |
| 14:00–14:25 | Break |
| Session 9A: Machine Translation 5 | |
| 14:25–14:50 | A non-contiguous Tree Sequence Alignment-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation Jun Sun, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan |
| 14:50–15:15 | Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero and Dan Klein |
| 15:15–15:40 | Confidence Measure for Word Alignment Fei Huang |
| 15:40–16:05 | A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li and Aiti Aw |
| 16:05–16:30 | Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu and Ning Xi |
| Session 9B: Syntax and Parsing 3 | |
| 14:25–14:50 | K-Best A* Parsing Adam Pauls and Dan Klein |
| 14:50–15:15 | Coordinate Structure Analysis with Global Structural Constraints and Alignment-Based Local Features Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Hideharu Okuma and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 15:15–15:40 | Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins |
| 15:40–16:05 | An Optimal-Time Binarization Algorithm for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Giorgio Satta |
| 16:05–16:30 | A Polynomial-Time Parsing Algorithm for TT-MCTAG Laura Kallmeyer and Giorgio Satta |
| Session 9C: Information Extraction 2 | |
| 14:25–14:50 | Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data Mike Mintz, Steven Bills, Rion Snow and Daniel Jurafsky |
| 14:50–15:15 | Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Weakly-Supervised Relation Extraction Jing Jiang |
| 15:15–15:40 | Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Mining Wikipedia Texts Using Information from the Web Yulan Yan, Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Zhenglu Yang and Mitsuru Ishizuka |
| 15:40–16:05 | Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning Dekang Lin and Xiaoyun Wu |
| 16:05–16:30 | Semi-Supervised Active Learning for Sequence Labeling Katrin Tomanek and Udo Hahn |
| Sssion 9D: Information Retrieval | |
| 14:25–14:50 | Word or Phrase? Learning Which Unit to Stress for Information Retrieval Young-In Song, Jung-Tae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim |
| 14:50–15:15 | A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke |
| 15:15–15:40 | Language Identification of Search Engine Queries Hakan Ceylan and Yookyung Kim |
| 15:40–16:05 | Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou and Kam-Fai Wong |
| 16:35-18:00 | Best Paper Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award and Presentation |
| 18:00–18:30 | Closing Session |