INTRODUCTORY MESSAGES:
- Nicoletta Calzolari - Introduction of the Conference Chair
- Bente Maegaard - Message from ELRA President
- Khalid Choukri - Message from ELRA CEO
- Abdelhak Mouradi and Khalid Choukri - Message of the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
KEYNOTES SPEECHES:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates - The Web as a Semantic Source
- Julia Hirschberg - Detecting Deceptive Speech: Requirements, Resources and Evaluation
PANELS:
- Panel 1 - Joseph Mariani and Nicoletta Calzolari - Funding Agencies in Support to Language Processing: from the Regional to the Multinational Scale
- Panel 2 - Erhard Hinrichs - Key Issues in Building a Common Language Resources and Tools Infrastructure
- Panel 3 - Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri - The Role and Mission of Data Centers, Cost Principles in the creation and Sharing of Language Resources: Why there is no such thing as a free lunch?
SESSIONS: Browse articles of the conference sorted by session number
| Session O1 - Information Extraction and Question Answering | Chairperson : Bernardo Magnini | |
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| 12:05-12:25 | Kathrin Eichler, Holmer Hemsen and Günter Neumann | Unsupervised Relation Extraction From Web Documents |
| 12:25-12:45 | Muath Alzghool and Diana Inkpen | Combining Multiple Models for Speech Information Retrieval |
| 12:45-13:05 | Chun-Yuan Teng and Hsin-Hsi Chen | Event Detection and Summarization in Weblogs with Temporal Collocations |
| 13:05-13:25 | Cvetana Krstev, Ranka Stanković, Duško Vitas and Ivan Obradović | The Usage of Various Lexical Resources and Tools to Improve the Performance of Web Search Engines |
| Session O2 - LRs: Infrastructures, Projects, Centers | Chairperson : Chiu-yu Tseng | |
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| 12:05-12:25 | Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir Radev and Yee Fan Tan | The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics |
| 12:25-12:45 | Marian Reed, Denise DiPersio and Christopher Cieri | The Linguistic Data Consortium Member Survey: Purpose, Execution and Results |
| 12:45-13:05 | Dieter van Uytvanck, Alex Dukers, Jacquelijn Ringersma and Paul Trilsbeek | Language-Sites: Accessing and Presenting Language Resources via Geographic Information Systems |
| 13:05-13:25 | Tamás Váradi, Steven Krauwer, Peter Wittenburg, Martin Wynne and Kimmo Koskenniemi | CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
| Session O3 - Corpus, Lexicon and Evaluation | Chairperson : Nuria Bel | |
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| 12:05-12:25 | Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt | Evaluating Dialogue Act Tagging with Naive and Expert Annotators |
| 12:25-12:45 | Drahomíra johanka Spoustová, Pavel Pecina, Jan Hajič and Miroslav Spousta | Validating the Quality of Full Morphological Annotation |
| 12:45-13:05 | Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Adam Kilgarriff and Jan Pomikalek | Evaluating a German Sketch Grammar: A Case Study on Noun Phrase Case |
| 13:05-13:25 | Mark McConville and Myroslava O. Dzikovska | Evaluating Complement-Modifier Distinctions in a Semantically Annotated Corpus |
| Session O4 - Multiparty and non-Verbal Communication | Chairperson : Amy Isard | |
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| 12:05-12:25 | Petra-Maria Strauß, Holger Hoffmann, Wolfgang Minker, Heiko Neumann, Günther Palm, Stefan Scherer, Harald Traue and Ulrich Weidenbacher | The PIT Corpus of German Multi-Party Dialogues |
| 12:25-12:45 | Martine Adda-Decker, Claude Barras, Gilles Adda, Patrick Paroubek, Philippe Boula de Mareuil and Benoit Habert | Annotation and analysis of overlapping speech in political interviews |
| 12:45-13:05 | Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Susanne Burger and Khalid Choukri | Data Collection for the CHIL CLEAR 2007 Evaluation Campaign |
| 13:05-13:25 | Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski and Matthias Woelfel | A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora |
| Session O5 - Spatio-Temporal Annotation | Chairperson : Jerry Hobbs | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Inderjeet Mani, Janet Hitzeman, Justin Richer, Dave Harris, Rob Quimby and Ben Wellner | SpatialML: Annotation Scheme, Corpora, and Tools |
| 15:00-15:20 | Steven Bethard, William Corvey, Sara Klingenstein and James H. Martin | Building a Corpus of Temporal-Causal Structure |
| 15:20-15:40 | Alessandra Zarcone and Alessandro Lenci | Computational Models for Event Type Classification in Context |
| 15:40-16:00 | Corina Forăscu | GMT to +2 or how can TimeML be used in Romanian |
| 16:00-16:20 | Nianwen Xue, Hua Zhong and Kai-Yun Chen | Annotating “tense” in a Tense-less Language |
| Session O6 - Syntax and Parsing | Chairperson : Sadao Kurohashi | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Barbara Plank and Khalil Sima’an | Subdomain Sensitive Statistical Parsing using Raw Corpora |
| 15:00-15:20 | Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier and Johannes Dellert | Developing a TT-MCTAG for German with an RCG-based Parser |
| 15:20-15:40 | Peter Adolphs, Stephan Oepen, Ulrich Callmeier, Berthold Crysmann, Dan Flickinger and Bernd Kiefer | Some Fine Points of Hybrid Natural Language Parsing |
| 15:40-16:00 | Jeremy Nicholson, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin and Rebecca Dridan | Evaluating and Extending the Coverage of HPSG Grammars: A Case Study for German |
| 16:00-16:20 | Yi Zhang and Valia Kordoni | Robust Parsing with a Large HPSG Grammar |
| Session O7 - Document Classification | Chairperson : Chris Brew | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Jahna Otterbacher and Dragomir Radev | Modeling Document Dynamics: an Evolutionary Approach |
| 15:00-15:20 | Dominic Widdows and Kathleen Ferraro | Semantic Vectors: a Scalable Open Source Package and Online Technology Management Application |
| 15:20-15:40 | Magnus Rosell and Sumithra Velupillai | Revealing Relations between Open and Closed Answers in Questionnaires through Text Clustering Evaluation |
| 15:40-16:00 | Kim Luyckx and Walter Daelemans | Personae: a Corpus for Author and Personality Prediction from Text |
| 16:00-16:20 | Leanne Spracklin, Diana Inkpen and Amiya Nayak | Using the Complexity of the Distribution of Lexical Elements as a Feature in Authorship Attribution |
| Session O8 - Multimodal Annotation Tools | Chairperson : Jean-Claude Martin | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Thomas Schmidt, Susan Duncan, Oliver Ehmer, Jeffrey Hoyt, Michael Kipp, Dan Loehr, Magnus Magnusson, Travis Rose and Han Sloetjes | An Exchange Format for Multimodal Annotations |
| 15:00-15:20 | Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalena Shockley, Donna K. Byron and Eric Fosler-Lussier | SCARE: a Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions |
| 15:20-15:40 | Han Sloetjes and Peter Wittenburg | Annotation by Category: ELAN and ISO DCR |
| 15:40-16:00 | Hennie Brugman, Véronique Malaisé and Laura Hollink | A Common Multimedia Annotation Framework for Cross Linking Cultural Heritage Digital Collections |
| 16:00-16:20 | Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand and Gaëlle Ferré | Creating and Exploiting Multimodal Annotated Corpora |
| Session O9 - Lexicon, Corpus and Semantics | Chairperson : Claire Gardent | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Annie Zaenen, Daniel Bobrow and Cleo Condoravdi | The Encoding of lexical implications in VerbNet Predicates of change of locations |
| 17:00-17:20 | Aljoscha Burchardt and Marco Pennacchiotti | FATE: a FrameNet-Annotated Corpus for Textual Entailment |
| 17:20-17:40 | Stephen Boxwell and Michael White | Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCGbank |
| 17:40-18:00 | Piek Vossen, Isa Maks, Roxane Segers and Hennie VanderVliet | Integrating Lexical Units, Synsets and Ontology in the Cornetto Database |
| 18:00-18:20 | Javier Álvez, Jordi Atserias, Jordi Carrera, Salvador Climent, Egoitz Laparra, Antoni Oliver and German Rigau | Complete and Consistent Annotation of WordNet using the Top Concept Ontology |
| Session O10 - Multimodal and Speech Data over the Web | Chairperson : Siegfried Kunzmann | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Adrian Popescu and Gregory Grefenstette | A Conceptual Approach to Web Image Retrieval |
| 17:00-17:20 | Gwénolé Lecorvé, Guillaume Gravier and Pascale Sébillot | On the Use of Web Resources and Natural Language Processing Techniques to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition Systems |
| 17:20-17:40 | Stanislas Oger, Georges Linares and Frederic Bechet | Local Methods for On-Demand Out-of-Vocabulary Word Retrieval |
| 17:40-18:00 | Marc Kemps-Snijders, Alex Klassmann, Claus Zinn, Peter Berck, Albert Russel and Peter Wittenburg | Exploring and Enriching a Language Resource Archive via the Web |
| 18:00-18:20 | Florian Schiel and Hannes Mögele | Talking and Looking: the SmartWeb Multimodal Interaction Corpus |
| Session O11 - Coreference and Discourse | Chairperson : Rebecca Passonneau | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Erhard Hinrichs and Monica Lau | In Contrast - A Complex Discourse Connective |
| 17:00-17:20 | Georg Rehm, Marina Santini, Alexander Mehler, Pavel Braslavski, Rüdiger Gleim, Andrea Stubbe, Svetlana Symonenko, Mirko Tavosanis and Vedrana Vidulin | Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres for the Evaluation of Genre Identification Systems |
| 17:20-17:40 | Olga Uryupina | Error Analysis for Learning-based Coreference Resolution |
| 17:40-18:00 | Lucie Mladová, Sárka Zikánová and Eva Hajicová | From Sentence to Discourse: Building an Annotation Scheme for Discourse Based on Prague Dependency Treebank |
| 18:00-18:20 | David Day, Janet Hitzeman, Michael Wick, Keith Crouch and Massimo Poesio | A Corpus for Cross-Document Co-reference |
| Session O12 - Named Entity Recognition | Chairperson : Satoshi Sekine | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Antonio Toral, Rafael Muñoz and Monica Monachini | Named Entity WordNet |
| 17:00-17:20 | Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman | Is this NE tagger getting old? |
| 17:20-17:40 | Benjamin Farber, Dayne Freitag, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow | Improving NER in Arabic Using a Morphological Tagger |
| 17:40-18:00 | Stephan Busemann and Yajing Zhang | Identifying Foreign Person Names in Chinese Text |
| 18:00-18:20 | Marius Pasca | Low-Complexity Heuristics for Deriving Fine-Grained Classes of Named Entities from Web Textual Data |
| Session O13 - Parallel and Multilingual Resources | Chairperson : Thimothy Baldwin | |
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| 18:25-18:45 | Jin-Ji Li, Dong-Il Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee | Annotation Guidelines for Chinese-Korean Word Alignment |
| 18:45-19:05 | Ondřej Bojar, Miroslav Janíček, Zdeněk žabokrtský, Pavel Češka and Peter Beňa | CzEng 0.7: Parallel Corpus with Community-Supplied Translations |
| 19:05-19:25 | Jonathan Clark, Robert Frederking and Lori Levin | Toward Active Learning in Data Selection: Automatic Discovery of Language Features During Elicitation |
| 19:25-19:45 | Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea | Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages |
| Session O14 - Evaluation Tools and Methodologies | Chairperson : Mark Pryzbocki | |
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| 18:25-18:45 | Cong-phap Huynh, Christian Boitet and Hervé Blanchon | SECTra_w.1: an Online Collaborative System for Evaluating, Post-editing and Presenting MT Translation Corpora |
| 18:45-19:05 | Mark Arehart, Chris Wolf and Keith J. Miller | Adjudicator Agreement and System Rankings for Person Name Search |
| 19:05-19:25 | Paulo C F de Oliveira, Edson Wilson Torrens, Alexandre Cidral, Sidney Schossland and Evandro Bittencourt | Evaluating Summaries Automatically - A system Proposal |
| 19:25-19:45 | Thierry Poibeau and Cédric Messiant | Do we Still Need Gold Standards for Evaluation? |
| Session O15 - LRs: Large Programs, Policies, Strategies | Chairperson : Steven Krauwer | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Peter Spyns, Elisabeth D’Halleweyn and Catia Cucchiarini | The Dutch-Flemish Comprehensive Approach to HLT Stimulation and Innovation: STEVIN, HLT Agency and beyond |
| 10:05-10:25 | Christopher Cieri and Mark Liberman | 15 Years of Language Resource Creation and Sharing: a Progress Report on LDC Activities |
| 10:25-10:45 | Anil Kumar Singh, Kiran Pala and Harshit Surana | Estimating the Resource Adaption Cost from a Resource Rich Language to a Similar Resource Poor Language |
| 10:45-11:05 | Valérie Mapelli, Victoria Arranz, Hélène Mazo and Khalid Choukri | Latest Developments in ELRA’s Services |
| 11:05-11:25 | Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Mark Sanderson | From Research to Application in Multilingual Information Access: the Contribution of Evaluation |
| Session O16 - Biomedical Resources | Chairperson : Jian Su | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Scott Piao, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou | Clustering Related Terms with Definitions |
| 10:05-10:25 | Ngan Nguyen, Jin-Dong Kim and Jun’ichi Tsujii | Challenges in Pronoun Resolution System for Biomedical Text |
| 10:25-10:45 | Barry Haddow and Beatrice Alex | Exploiting Multiply Annotated Corpora in Biomedical Information Extraction Tasks |
| 10:45-11:05 | Yuka Tateisi, Yusuke Miyao, Kenji Sagae and Jun’ichi Tsujii | GENIA-GR: a Grammatical Relation Corpus for Parser Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain |
| 11:05-11:25 | Xinglong Wang and Claire Grover | Learning the Species of Biomedical Named Entities from Annotated Corpora |
| Session O17 - Semantics in Lexicons and Corpora | Chairperson : Nancy Ide | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao | Acquiring Naturalistic Concept Descriptions from the Web |
| 10:05-10:25 | Ulrich Heid and Marion Weller | Tools for Collocation Extraction: Preferences for Active vs. Passive |
| 10:25-10:45 | Francis Bond, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki and Kiyotaka Uchimoto | Boot-Strapping a WordNet Using Multiple Existing WordNets |
| 10:45-11:05 | Bartosz Broda, Magdalena Derwojedowa, Maciej Piasecki and Stanislaw Szpakowicz | Corpus-based Semantic Relatedness for the Construction of Polish WordNet |
| 11:05-11:25 | Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Lakshmi Bai and Dipti Misra Sharma | Developing Verb Frames for Hindi |
| Session O18 - Affect and Emotion in Speech | Chairperson : Nick Campbell | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman and Amruta Purandare | Uncertainty Corpus: Resource to Study User Affect in Complex Spoken Dialogue Systems |
| 10:05-10:25 | Milan Gnjatovic and Dietmar Roesner | On the Role of the NIMITEK Corpus in Developing an Emotion Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System |
| 10:25-10:45 | Stefan Scherer, Hansjörg Hofmann, Malte Lampmann, Martin Pfeil, Steffen Rhinow, Friedhelm Schwenker and Günther Palm | Emotion Recognition from Speech: Stress Experiment |
| 10:45-11:05 | Laure Charonnat, Gaëlle Vidal and Olivier Boeffard | Automatic Phone Segmentation of Expressive Speech |
| 11:05-11:25 | Márk Fék, Nicolas Audibert, János Szabó, Albert Rilliard, Géza Németh and Véronique Aubergé | Multimodal Spontaneous Expressive Speech Corpus for Hungarian |
| Session O19 - Opinion Mining and Summarization | Chairperson : Sophia Ananiadou | |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Wei-Hao Lin and Alexander Hauptmann | Vox Populi Annotation: Measuring Intensity of Ideological Perspectives by Aggregating Group Judgments |
| 12:05-12:25 | Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe | A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources |
| 12:25-12:45 | Josef Ruppenhofer, Swapna Somasundaran and Janyce Wiebe | Finding the Sources and Targets of Subjective Expressions |
| 12:45-13:05 | Veselin Stoyanov and Claire Cardie | Annotating Topics of Opinions |
| 13:05-13:25 | Zhuli Xie, Barbara Di Eugenio and Peter C. Nelson | From Extracting to Abstracting: Generating Quasi-abstractive Summaries |
| Session O20 - Coreference and Discourse | Chairperson : Antonio Branco | |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariet Theune and Pascal Touset | Controlling Redundancy in Referring Expressions |
| 12:05-12:25 | Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein | Anaphoric Annotation in the ARRAU Corpus |
| 12:25-12:45 | Mark-Christoph Mueller, Margot Mieskes and Michael Strube | Knowledge Sources for Bridging Resolution in Multi-Party Dialog |
| 12:45-13:05 | Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber | The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0. |
| 13:05-13:25 | Iris Hendrickx, Gosse Bouma, Frederik Coppens, Walter Daelemans, Veronique Hoste, Geert Kloosterman, Anne-Marie Mineur, Joeri Van Der Vloet and Jean-Luc Verschelde | A Coreference Corpus and Resolution System for Dutch |
| Session O21 - Semantic Resources and Acquisition | Chairperson : Peter Anick | |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Kirk Baker and Chris Brew | Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data |
| 12:05-12:25 | Diana Trandabat and Maria Husarciuc | Romanian Semantic Role Resource |
| 12:25-12:45 | Alessandro Lenci, Barbara McGillivray, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli | Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora |
| 12:45-13:05 | Daisuke Kawahara and Kiyotaka Uchimoto | A Method for Automatically Constructing Case Frames for English |
| 13:05-13:25 | Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja and Montserrat Marimon | Automatic Acquisition for low frequency lexical items |
| Session O23 - Corpus Annotation and Classification | Chairperson : Christopher Cieri | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Nancy Ide, Collin Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, Charles Fillmore and Rebecca Passonneau | MASC: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus of American English |
| 15:00-15:20 | Chu-Ren Huang, Lung-Hao Lee, Jia-Fei Hog, Wei-guang Qu and Shiwen Yu | Quality Assurance of Automatic Annotation of Very Large Corpora: a Study based on heterogeneous Tagging System |
| 15:20-15:40 | Claire Cardie, Cynthia Farina, Matt Rawding and Adil Aijaz | An eRulemaking Corpus: Identifying Substantive Issues in Public Comments |
| 15:40-16:00 | Branimir Boguraev and Mary Neff | Navigating through Dense Annotation Spaces |
| 16:00-16:20 | David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie and Yorick Wilks | An Unsupervised Probabilistic Approach for the Detection of Outliers in Corpora |
| Session O24 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality | Chairperson : Gregor Thurmair | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Michael Carl | Using Log-linear Models for Tuning Machine Translation Output |
| 15:00-15:20 | Bogdan Babych, Serge Sharoff and Anthony Hartley | Generalising Lexical Translation Strategies for MT Using Comparable Corpora |
| 15:20-15:40 | Masaki Itagaki and Takako Aikawa | Post-MT Term Swapper: Supplementing a Statistical Machine Translation System with a User Dictionary |
| 15:40-16:00 | Germán Sanchis and Joan Andreu Sánchez | Using Parsed Corpora for Estimating Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars |
| 16:00-16:20 | Mark Fishel and Heiki-Jaan Kaalep | Experiments on Processing Overlapping Parallel Corpora |
| Session O25 - Evaluation | Chairperson : Robert Frederking | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith | Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics |
| 15:00-15:20 | Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat and Christelle Ayache | EASY, Evaluation of Parsers of French: what are the Results? |
| 15:20-15:40 | Xavier Tannier and Philippe Muller | Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Temporal Annotation of Texts |
| 15:40-16:00 | Lena Grothe, Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger | A Comparative Study on Language Identification Methods |
| 16:00-16:20 | Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Christelle Ayache, Patrick Paroubek and Anne Vilnat | PASSAGE: from French Parser Evaluation to Large Sized Treebank |
| Session O26 - Broadcast News Processing | Chairperson : Florian Schiel | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Jáchym Kolář and Jan Švec | Structural Metadata Annotation of Speech Corpora: Comparing Broadcast News and Broadcast Conversations |
| 15:00-15:20 | Markpong Jongtaveesataporn, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Koji Iwano and Sadaoki Furui | Thai Broadcast News Corpus Construction and Evaluation |
| 15:20-15:40 | Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almberg and Torbjørn Svendsen | RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus |
| 15:40-16:00 | Sopheap Seng, Sethserey Sam, Laurent Besacier, Brigitte Bigi and Eric Castelli | First Broadcast News Transcription System for Khmer Language |
| 16:00-16:20 | Chomicha Bendahman, Meghan Glenn, Djamel Mostefa, Niklas Paulsson and Stephanie Strassel | Quick Rich Transcriptions of Arabic Broadcast News Speech Data |
| Session O27 - Ontologies | Chairperson : German Rigau | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Dennis Spohr | A General Methodology for Mapping EuroWordNets to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology |
| 17:00-17:20 | Satoshi Sekine | Extended Named Entity Ontology with Attribute Information |
| 17:20-17:40 | Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Asunción Gómez-Pérez | Towards a Glossary of Activities in the Ontology Engineering Field |
| 17:40-18:00 | Yirong Chen, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li and Gaoying Cui | Chinese Core Ontology Construction from a Bilingual Term Bank |
| 18:00-18:20 | Michael Kluck and Axel Huckstorf | The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies - a Multilingual Resource for Indexing, Retrieval, and Translation |
| Session O28 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality | Chairperson : Dan Tufis | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki and Jun’ichi Tsujii | Building Bilingual Lexicons using Lexical Translation Probabilities via Pivot Languages |
| 17:00-17:20 | Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele and Martin Kay | Improving Statistical Machine Translation Efficiency by Triangulation |
| 17:20-17:40 | Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois and Kamel Smaïli | Phrase-Based Machine Translation based on Simulated Annealing |
| 17:40-18:00 | Marine Carpuat and Dekai Wu | Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation |
| 18:00-18:20 | Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney | A Multi-Genre SMT System for Arabic to French |
| Session O29 - Information Extraction and Question Answering | Chairperson : Walter Daelemans | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Estelle Delpech and Patrick Saint-Dizier | Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions |
| 17:00-17:20 | Igor Leturia, Antton Gurrutxaga, Nerea Areta and Eli Pociello | Analysis and Performance of Morphological Query Expansion and Language-Filtering Words on Basque Web Searching |
| 17:20-17:40 | Kirk Roberts and Andrew Hickl | Scaling Answer Type Detection to Large Hierarchies |
| 17:40-18:00 | Majid Razmara and Leila Kosseim | Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering |
| 18:00-18:20 | Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller and Iryna Gurevych | Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary |
| Session O30 - Evaluation in Speech Processing | Chairperson : Edouard Geoffrois | |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Gregory Sanders, Sebastien Bronsart, Sherri Condon and Craig Schlenoff | Odds of Successful Transfer of Low-Level Concepts: a Key Metric for Bidirectional Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation in DARPA’s TRANSTAC Program |
| 17:00-17:20 | Lori Lamel, Sophie Rosset, Christelle Ayache, Djamel Mostefa, Jordi Turmo and Pere Comas | Question Answering on Speech Transcriptions: the QAST evaluation in CLEF |
| 17:20-17:40 | Willemijn Heeren, Franciska de Jong, Laurens van der Werff, Marijn Huijbregts and Roeland Ordelman | Evaluation of Spoken Document Retrieval for Historic Speech Collections |
| 17:40-18:00 | Sherri Condon, Jon Phillips, Christy Doran, John Aberdeen, Dan Parvaz, Beatrice Oshika, Greg Sanders and Craig Schlenoff | Applying Automated Metrics to Speech Translation Dialogs |
| 18:00-18:20 | Margot Mieskes and Michael Strube | A Three-stage Disfluency Classifier for Multi Party Dialogues |
| Session O31 - Evaluation and Machine Translation | Chairperson : Malek Boualem | |
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| 18:25-18:45 | Jesús Giménez and Lluis Màrquez | Towards Heterogeneous Automatic MT Error Analysis |
| 18:45-19:05 | Bogdan Babych and Anthony Hartley | Sensitivity of Automated MT Evaluation Metrics on Higher Quality MT Output: BLEU vs Task-Based Evaluation Methods |
| 19:05-19:25 | Mark Przybocki, Kay Peterson and Sebastien Bronsart | Translation Adequacy and Preference Evaluation Tool (TAP-ET) |
| 19:25-19:45 | Constantin Orasan and Oana Andreea Chiorean | Evaluation of a Cross-lingual Romanian-English Multi-document Summariser |
| Session O32 - Syntactically Annotated Corpora | Chairperson : Philippe Blache | |
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| 18:25-18:45 | Øistein E. Andersen, Julien Nioche, Ted Briscoe and John Carroll | The BNC Parsed with RASP4UIMA |
| 18:45-19:05 | Kiyotaka Uchimoto and Yasuharu Den | Word-level Dependency-structure Annotation to Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese and its Application |
| 19:05-19:25 | Tejaswini Deoskar and Mats Rooth | Induction of Treebank-Aligned Lexical Resources |
| 19:25-19:45 | Olga Pustylnikov, Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim | A Unified Database of Dependency Treebanks: Integrating, Quantifying & Evaluating Dependency Data |
| Session O33 - Terminology | Chairperson : Christophe Jouis | |
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| 18:25-18:45 | Aicha Bouhjar | Amazigh Language Terminology in Morocco or Management of a “Multidimensional” Variation |
| 18:45-19:05 | Yuhang Yang, Qin Lu and Tiejun Zhao | Chinese Term Extraction Based on Delimiters |
| 19:05-19:25 | Siham Boulaknadel, Beatrice Daille and Driss Aboutajdine | A Multi-Word Term Extraction Program for Arabic Language |
| 19:25-19:45 | Jonathan Butters and Fabio Ciravegna | Using Similarity Metrics For Terminology Recognition |
| Session O34 - Emotions | Chairperson : Claire Cardie | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava and Oliviero Stock | Resources for Persuasion |
| 10:05-10:25 | Guillaume Pitel and Gregory Grefenstette | Semi-automatic Building Method for a Multidimensional Affect Dictionary for a New Language |
| 10:25-10:45 | Laurence Devillers and Jean-Claude Martin | Coding Emotional Events in Audiovisual Corpora |
| 10:45-11:05 | Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani and Ilaria Urciuoli | Annotating Expressions of Opinion and Emotion in the Italian Content Annotation Bank |
| 11:05-11:25 | Isa Maks, Piek Vossen, Roxane Segers and Hennie van der Vliet | Adjectives in the Dutch Semantic Lexical Database CORNETTO |
| Session 035 - Semantics and Semantic Annotation | Chairperson : Stelios Piperidis | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Markus Dickinson and Chong Min Lee | Detecting Errors in Semantic Annotation |
| 10:05-10:25 | Michael Roth and Sabine Schulte im Walde | Corpus Co-Occurrence, Dictionary and Wikipedia Entries as Resources for Semantic Relatedness Information |
| 10:25-10:45 | Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi, Simonetta Montemagni and Roberto Bartolini | Ontology Learning and Semantic Annotation: a Necessary Symbiosis |
| 10:45-11:05 | Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaramita and Giuseppe Attardi | Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia |
| 11:05-11:25 | Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James Martin and Martha Palmer | Annotating Students’ Understanding of Science Concepts |
| Session O36 - Evaluation Methodologies | Chairperson : Keith Miller | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Rebecca Passonneau, Tom Lippincott, Tae Yano and Judith Klavans | Relation between Agreement Measures on Human Labeling and Machine Learning Performance: Results from an Art History Domain |
| 10:05-10:25 | Yves Peirsman, Simon De Deyne, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts | The Construction and Evaluation of Word Space Models |
| 10:25-10:45 | Olga Babko-Malaya | Annotation of Nuggets and Relevance in GALE Distillation Evaluation |
| 10:45-11:05 | J.V. White, D. Hunter and J.D. Goldstein | Statistical Evaluation of Information Distillation Systems |
| 11:05-11:25 | Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon | Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation |
| Session O37 - Lexicons, Corpora and Acquisition | Chairperson : Eva Hajicová | |
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| 9:45-10:05 | Viktor Bielický and Otakar Smrž | Building the Valency Lexicon of Arabic Verbs |
| 10:05-10:25 | Angus Roberts, Robert Gaizasukas, Mark Hepple and Yikun Guo | Combining Terminology Resources and Statistical Methods for Entity Recognition: an Evaluation |
| 10:25-10:45 | Rogelio Nazar, Jorge Vivaldi and Teresa Cabré | A Suite to Compile and Analyze an LSP Corpus |
| 10:45-11:05 | Eduardo Blanco, Nuria Castell and Dan Moldovan | Causal Relation Extraction |
| 11:05-11:25 | Grzegorz Chrupala, Georgiana Dinu and Josef van Genabith | Learning Morphology with Morfette |
| Session O39 - Multilingual Resources | Chairperson : Zygmunt Vetulani | |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa | Using the Multilingual Central Repository for Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation |
| 12:05-12:25 | Fredric Gey, David Evans and Noriko Kando | A Japanese-English Technical Lexicon for Translation and Language Research |
| 12:25-12:45 | Le An Ha, Gabriela Fernandez, Ruslan Mitkov and Gloria Corpas | Mutual Bilingual Terminology Extraction |
| 12:45-13:05 | Joao Graca, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luisa Coheur and Diamantino Caseiro | Building a Golden Collection of Parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment |
| 13:05-13:25 | Elena Cabrio, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Laura Hasler, Constantin Orasan, David Tomas, Jose Luis Vicedo, Guenter Neumann and Corinna Weber | The QALL-ME Benchmark: a Multilingual Resource of Annotated Spoken Requests for Question Answering |
| Session O40 - Tools for Corpus Construction and Annotation | Chairperson : Martin Wynne | |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Nick Campbell | Tools & Resources for Visualising Conversational-Speech Interaction |
| 12:05-12:25 | Maria Teresa Pazienza, Marco Pennacchiotti and Armando Stellato | A Web Browser Extension for Growing-up Ontological Knowledge from Traditional Web Content |
| 12:25-12:45 | Youssef Drissi, Branimir Boguraev, David Ferrucci, Paul Keyser and Anthony Levas | A Development Environment for Configurable Meta-Annotators in a Pipelined NLP Architecture |
| 12:45-13:05 | Georg Rehm, Richard Eckart, Christian Chiarcos and Johannes Dellert | Ontology-Based XQuery’ing of XML-Encoded Language Resources on Multiple Annotation Layers |
| 13:05-13:25 | Stefan Evert | A Lightweight and Efficient Tool for Cleaning Web Pages |
| Session O42 - Multimodal Dialogue | Chairperson : Kristiina Jokinen | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Yorick Wilks, David Benyon, Christopher Brewster, Pavel Ircing and Oli Mival | Dialogue, Speech and Images: the Companions Project Data Set |
| 15:00-15:20 | Jade Goldstein-Stewart, Kerri Goodwin, Roberta Sabin and Ransom Winder | Creating and Using a Correlated Corpus to Glean Communicative Commonalities |
| 15:20-15:40 | Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto and Yorick Wilks | Information Extraction Tools and Methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion |
| 15:40-16:00 | Carlos Gómez Gallo, T. Florian Jaeger, James Allen and Mary Swift | Production in a Multimodal Corpus: how Speakers Communicate Complex Actions |
| Session O43 - Semantic Resources | Chairperson : Gregory Grefenstette | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Harry Bunt and Chwhynny Overbeeke | Towards Formal Interpretation of Semantic Annotation |
| 15:00-15:20 | Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Paolo Marocco and Roberto Basili | Towards a Vector Space Model for FrameNet-like Resources |
| 15:20-15:40 | Pavel Smrz | KnoFusius: a New Knowledge Fusion System for Interpretation of Gene Expression Data |
| 15:40-16:00 | Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman | Modelling Word Similarity: an Evaluation of Automatic Synonymy Extraction Algorithms. |
| Session O44 - Corpora and Evaluation Resources | Chairperson : Takenobu Tokunaga | |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Leen Cleuren, Jacques Duchateau, Pol Ghesquière and Hugo Van hamme | Children’s Oral Reading Corpus (CHOREC): Description and Assessment of Annotator Agreement |
| 15:00-15:20 | Tommaso Caselli, Nancy Ide and Roberto Bartolini | A Bilingual Corpus of Inter-linked Events |
| 15:20-15:40 | Stephanie Strassel, Lauren Friedman, Safa Ismael and Linda Brandschain | New Resources for Document Classification, Analysis and Translation Technologies |
| 15:40-16:00 | Tomanek Katrin and Udo Hahn | Approximating Learning Curves for Active-Learning-Driven Annotation |
| Session O45 - Lexicons | Chairperson : Monica Monachini | |
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| 16:20-16:40 | Thorsten Trippel, Michael Maxwell, Greville Corbett, Cambell Prince, Christopher Manning, Stephen Grimes and Steve Moran | Lexicon Schemas and Related Data Models: when Standards Meet Users |
| 16:40-17:00 | Cédric Messiant, Thierry Poibeau and Anna Korhonen | LexSchem: a Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs |
| 17:00-17:20 | Horacio Rodríquez, David Farwell, Javi Ferreres, Manuel Bertran, Musa Alkhalifa and M. Antonia Martí | Arabic WordNet: Semi-automatic Extensions using Bayesian Inference |
| Session O46 - Evaluation Methodologies | Chairperson : Anthony Hartley | |
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| 16:20-16:40 | Iñaki Sainz, Ibon Saratxaga, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez, Jon Sanchez, Iker Luengo and Igor Odriozola | Subjective Evaluation of an Emotional Speech Database for Basque |
| 16:40-17:00 | Sandra Kübler, Wolfgang Maier, Ines Rehbein and Yannick Versley | How to Compare Treebanks |
| 17:00-17:20 | Romaric Besançon, Stéphane Chaudiron, Djamel Mostefa, Ismail Timimi and Khalid Choukri | The INFILE Project: a Crosslingual Filtering Systems Evaluation Campaign |
| Session O47 - Authoring Tools and Corpora | Chairperson : Nizar Habash | |
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| 16:20-16:40 | Dan Tufiş and Alexandru Ceauşu | DIAC+: a Professional Diacritics Recovering System |
| 16:40-17:00 | Ghazi Abuhakema, Reem Faraj, Anna Feldman and Eileen Fitzpatrick | Annotating an Arabic Learner Corpus for Error |
| 17:00-17:20 | Martin Reynaert | All, and only, the Errors: more Complete and Consistent Spelling and OCR-Error Correction Evaluation |
| Session O48 - TV and Video Processing | Chairperson : Michael Kipp | |
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| 16:20-16:40 | Einav Itamar and Alon Itai | Using Movie Subtitles for Creating a Large-Scale Bilingual Corpora |
| 16:40-17:00 | Rob van Son, Wieneke Wesseling, Eric Sanders and Henk van den Heuvel | The IFADV Corpus: a Free Dialog Video Corpus |
| 17:00-17:20 | Alessio Brutti, Luca Cristoforetti, Walter Kellermann, Lutz Marquardt and Maurizio Omologo | WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV |
| Session P5 - Multi-Word Expressions | Chair : Simonetta Montemagni | |
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| 14:40-16:20 | Špela Vintar and Darja Fišer | Harvesting Multi-Word Expressions from Parallel Corpora |
| 14:40-16:20 | Andrea Agili, Marco Fabbri, Alessandro Panunzi and Manuel Zini | Integration of a Multilingual Keyword Extractor in a Document Management System |
| 14:40-16:20 | Daiga Deksne, Raivis Skadins and Inguna Skadina | Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages |
| 14:40-16:20 | Grazyna Vetulani, Zygmunt Vetulani and Tomasz Obrębski | Verb-Noun Collocation SyntLex Dictionary: Corpus-Based Approach |
| 14:40-16:20 | Weiruo Qu, Christoph Ringlstetter and Randy Goebel | Targeting Chinese Nominal Compounds in Corpora |
| 14:40-16:20 | Margarita Alonso Ramos, Owen Rambow and Leo Wanner | Using Semantically Annotated Corpora to Build Collocation Resources |
| Session P10 - Coreference and Discourse | Chair : Inderjeet Mani | |
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| 18:25-19:45 | Yannick Versley, Simone Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio, Vladimir Eidelman, Alan Jern, Jason Smith, Xiaofeng Yang and Alessandro Moschitti | BART: A modular toolkit for coreference resolution |
| 18:25-19:45 | Massimo Poesio, Udo Kruschwitz and Chamberlain Jon | ANAWIKI: Creating Anaphorically Annotated Resources through Web Cooperation |
| 18:25-19:45 | Daniela Goecke, Maik Stührenberg and Andreas Witt | Influence of Text Type and Text Length on Anaphoric Annotation |
| 18:25-19:45 | Costanza Navarretta and Sussi Olsen | Annotating Abstract Pronominal Anaphora in the DAD Project |
| 18:25-19:45 | Sandra Williams and Richard Power | Deriving Rhetorical Complexity Data from the RST-DT Corpus |
| 18:25-19:45 | Márton Miháltz | Knowledge-based Coreference Resolution for Hungarian |
| 18:25-19:45 | Malvina Nissim and Sara Perboni | The Italian Particle “ne”: Corpus Construction and Analysis |
| Session P12 - Lexical Resources and Tools | Chair : Hitoshi Isahara | |
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| 18:25-19:45 | Marc Kemps-Snijders, Claus Zinn, Jacquelijn Ringersma, and Menzo Windhouwer | Ensuring Semantic Interoperability on Lexical Resources |
| 18:25-19:45 | Marc Finthammer and Irene Cramer | Exploring and Navigating: Tools for GermaNet |
| 18:25-19:45 | Marianne Santaholma and Nikos Chatzichrisafis | A Knowledge-Modeling Approach for Multilingual Regulus Lexica |
| 18:25-19:45 | Michael Rosner | ODL: an Object Description Language for Lexical Information |
| 18:25-19:45 | Dan Cristea, Corina Forăscu, Marius Răschip and Michael Zock | How to Evaluate and Raise the Quality in a Collaborative Lexicographic Approach |
| 18:25-19:45 | Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Anna Braasch, Lina Henriksen, Sussi Olsen and Claus Povlsen | Merging a Syntactic Resource with a WordNet: a Feasibility Study of a Merge between STO and DanNet |
| 18:25-19:45 | Borislav Rizov | Hydra: a Modal Logic Tool for Wordnet Development, Validation and Exploration |
| Session P16 - LR National/International Projects, Organizational/Policy Issues | Chair : Tamas Varadi | |
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| 14:40-16:20 | Shuichi Itahashi and Chiu-yu Tseng | The 2008 Oriental COCOSDA Book Project: in Commemoration of the First Decade of Sustained Activities in Asia |
| 14:40-16:20 | Adam Przepiórkowski, Rafał L. Górski, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszyk and Marek Łaziński | Towards the National Corpus of Polish |
| 14:40-16:20 | Einar Meister and Jaak Vilo | Strengthening the Estonian Language Technology |
| 14:40-16:20 | Bente Maegaard, Mohammed Atiyya, Khalid Choukri, Steven Krauwer, Chafic Mokbel and Mustafa Yaseen | MEDAR: Collaboration between European and Mediterranean Arabic Partners to Support the Development of Language Technology for Arabic |
| 14:40-16:20 | Simon Krek, Vojko Gorjanc and Špela Arhar | Slovene Terminology Web Portal and the TBX-Compatible Simplified DTD/schema |
| Session P17 - Standards and Best Practices for LRs | Chair : Gil Francopoulo | |
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| 14:40-16:20 | Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt | LIRICS Semantic Role Annotation: Design and Evaluation of a Set of Data Categories |
| 14:40-16:20 | Daniel Zeman | Reusable Tagset Conversion Using Tagset Drivers |
| 14:40-16:20 | Marie-Jeanne Derouin and André Le Meur | Presentation of the New ISO-Standard for the Representation of Entries in Dictionaries: ISO 1951 |
| 14:40-16:20 | Marc Kemps-Snijders, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter Wittenburg and Sue Ellen Wright | ISOcat: Corralling Data Categories in the Wild |
| 14:40-16:20 | Isa Maks, Carole Tiberius and Remco van Veenendaal | Standardising Bilingual Lexical Resources According to the Lexicon Markup Framework |
| 14:40-16:20 | Thierry Declerck | A Framework for Standardized Syntactic Annotation |
| 14:40-16:20 | Victoria Arranz, Franck Gandcher, Valérie Mapelli and Khalid Choukri | A Guide for the Production of Reusable Language Resources |
| Session P30 -Sentiment and Opinion Analysis | Chair : Diana Inkpen | |
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| 16:20-17:20 | Jonas Sjöbergh and Kenji Araki | A Multi-Lingual Dictionary of Dirty Words |
| 16:20-17:20 | Jonas Sjöbergh and Kenji Araki | What is poorly Said is a Little Funny |
| 16:20-17:20 | Yves Bestgen | Building Affective Lexicons from Specific Corpora for Automatic Sentiment Analysis |
| 16:20-17:20 | Ruifeng Xu, Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong and Wenjie Li | Opinion Annotation in On-line Chinese Product Reviews |
| 16:20-17:20 | Xiwen Cheng and Feiyu Xu | Fine-grained Opinion Topic and Polarity Identification |
| 16:20-17:20 | Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Satoshi Sekine and Mikio Yamamoto | Sentiment Analysis Based on Probabilistic Models Using Inter-Sentence Information |
| 16:20-17:20 | Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava and Oliviero Stock | Valentino: A Tool for Valence Shifting of Natural Language Texts |