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TextGraphs-4: 2009 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Friday, August 7, 2009

 Session I: Opening
8:30–8:45Inauguration by Chairs
8:45–9:48Invited Talk by Prof. Vittorio Loreto
9:48–10:00Social (distributed) language modeling, clustering and dialectometry
David Ellis
10:00–10:30Coffee Break
 Session II: Special Theme
10:30–10:55Network analysis reveals structure indicative of syntax in the corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions
Sitabhra Sinha, Raj Kumar Pan, Nisha Yadav, Mayank Vahia and Iravatham Mahadevan
10:55–11:20Bipartite spectral graph partitioning to co-cluster varieties and sound correspondences in dialectology
Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne
11:20–12:10Panel Discussion
 Session III: Semantics
13:50–14:15Random Walks for Text Semantic Similarity
Daniel Ramage, Anna N. Rafferty and Christopher D. Manning
14:15–14:40Classifying Japanese Polysemous Verbs based on Fuzzy C-means Clustering
Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto
14:40–15:05WikiWalk: Random walks on Wikipedia for Semantic Relatedness
Eric Yeh, Daniel Ramage, Christopher D. Manning, Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa
15:05–15:18Measuring semantic relatedness with vector space models and random walks
Amaç Herdagdelen, Katrin Erk and Marco Baroni
15:18–15:30Graph-based Event Coreference Resolution
Zheng Chen and Heng Ji
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
 Session IV: Classification and Clustering
16:00–16:25Ranking and Semi-supervised Classification on Large Scale Graphs Using Map-Reduce
Delip Rao and David Yarowsky
16:25–16:50Opinion Graphs for Polarity and Discourse Classification
Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Lise Getoor and Janyce Wiebe
16:50–17:15A Cohesion Graph Based Approach for Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-literal Use of Multiword Expressions
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder
17:15–17:40Quantitative analysis of treebanks using frequent subtree mining methods
Scott Martens
17:40–18:00Closing