Program

This year's workshop will be held on Thursday, July 10th from 10:30am - 12:15pm.  

The program will have three parallel sessions:

Session A: Syntax
(A1)  Finding Non-local Dependencies: Beyond Pattern Matching

Valentin Jijkoun, Language and Inference Technology, ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Panelists:

Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czech Republic

Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, USA

(A2) A Computational Treatment of Korean Temporal Markers, OE and DONGAN

Hyunjung Son, EHESS, Paris, Linguistic Department, CRLAO

Panelists:

Kiyong Lee, Korea University, Korea

Chris Brew, The Ohio State University, USA

(A3) Approaches to Zero Adnominal Recognition

Mitsuko Yamura-Takei, Hiroshima City University, Graduate School of Information Sciences

Panelists:

Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan

Shigeko Nariyama, NAIST, Japan

(A4) On the Applicability of Global Index Grammars (cancelled)

José Castaño, Computer Science Dept., Brandeis University

 

Session B: Semantics, IR
(B1) Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words

Huihsin Tseng, Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Panelists:

Dekang Lin, University of Alberta, Canada

Massimiliano Ciaramita, Brown University, USA

(B2) A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing Based on Concept

Bo-Yeong Kang, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, KOREA

Panelists:

Kyo Kegeura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada

(B3) An Ontology-based Semantic Tagger for IE system (cancelled)

Narjés Boufaden, Université de Montréal

(B4) A Ranking Model of Proximal and Structural Text Retrieval Based on Region Algebra

Katsuya Masuda, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Panelists:

Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea

 

Session C: Dialog, Discourse
(C1) Classifying Recognition Results for Spoken Dialog Systems

Malte Gabsdil, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

Panelists:

Akinobu Lee,  Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan

Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

(C2) An Adaptive Approach to Collecting Multimodal Input (cancelled)

Anurag Gupta, University of New South Wales

Panelists:

Mare Koit, University of Tartu, Estonia

Dietmar Roesner,  OvG-Univ. Magdeburg, Germany

(C3) Discourse Chunking: A Tool in Dialogue Act Tagging

Daniel Midgley, University of Western Australia

Panelists:

Donna Byron, The Ohio State University, USA

Mikio Nakano NTT, Japan

(C4) High-precision Identification of Discourse New and Unique Noun Phrases

Olga Uryupina, Computational Linguistics, Saarland University

Panelists:

Francis Bond, NTT, Japan

Renata Vieira, UNISINOS, Brazil