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2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground (NLPLING 2010)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Friday, July 16, 2010

8:45–8:50Opening Remarks
8:50–9:50Invited Talk by Steven Bird: "The Human Language Project: Uniting computational linguistics with documentary linguistics"
 Paper Session 1
9:50–10:10Modeling and Encoding Traditional Wordlists for Machine Applications
Shakthi Poornima and Jeff Good
10:10–10:30Evidentiality for Text Trustworthiness Detection
Qi Su, Chu-Ren Huang and Kai-yun Chen
10:30–11:00Morning break
 Panel Session 1: NLP helps Linguistics
11:00–12:00Presentation and discussion from panelists (Hal Daume, Alexis Dimitriadis, Erhard Hinrichs, and Dipti Misra Sharma)
 On the Role of NLP in Linguistics
Dipti Misra Sharma
 Matching Needs and Resources: How NLP Can Help Theoretical Linguistics
Alexis Dimitriadis
 Paper Session 2
12:00–12:20Grammar-Driven versus Data-Driven: Which Parsing System Is More Affected by Domain Shifts?
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord
12:20–12:40A Cross-Lingual Induction Technique for German Adverbial Participles
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn and Christian Rohrer
12:40–14:10Lunch
 Paper Session 3
14:10–14:30You Talking to Me? A Predictive Model for Zero Auxiliary Constructions
Andrew Caines and Paula Buttery
14:30–14:50Cross-Lingual Variation of Light Verb Constructions: Using Parallel Corpora and Automatic Alignment for Linguistic Research
Tanja Samardžić and Paola Merlo
14:50–15:10No Sentence Is Too Confusing To Ignore
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson
15:10–15:30Consonant Co-Occurrence in Stems across Languages: Automatic Analysis and Visualization of a Phonotactic Constraint
Thomas Mayer, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam Butt and Daniel A. Keim
15:30–16:00Afternoon break
 Panel Session 2: Linguistics helps NLP
16:00–17:00Presentation and discussion from panelists (Julia Hockenmeier, Eduard Hovy, and Owen Rambow)
 Injecting Linguistics into NLP through Annotation
Eduard Hovy
17:00–17:30Group discussion and closing