NODALIDA 2011 |
The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational LinguisticsRiga, Latvia, May 11–13, 2011 |
You can download program in PDF format here.
Registration 8.00–17.30
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19:00 — Welcome reception (Albert Hotel, Dzirnavu iela 33)
Registration 8.00–11.00
| 9.00–9.30 |
Opening Mārcis Auziņš (Rector of the University of Latvia) Janne Bondi Johannessen (President of NEALT) Inguna Skadiņa (Chair of the local Organizing Committee) Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Chair of the Program Committee) | Small Hall |
| 9.30–10.30 |
Invited Talk Chair: Costanza Navarretta Topic: Discourse Structures and Language Technologies [slides] Prof. Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) | Small Hall |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee | Room 240 |
| 11.00–13.00 | 3 parallel sessions: REGULAR papers | |
| Corpus creation, annotation and use (Chair: Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson) | Auditorium 16 | |
| 11.00–11.30 | Creating Comparable Multimodal Corpora for Nordic Languages Costanza Navarretta, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Jens Allwood, Kristiina Jokinen and Patrizia Paggio | |
| 11.30–12.00 | Iterative, MT-based Sentence Alignment of Parallel Texts Rico Sennrich and Martin Volk | |
| 12.00–12.30 | Evaluation of terminologies acquired from comparable corpora: an application perspective Estelle Delpech | |
| 12.30–13.00 | What kind of corpus is a web corpus? Janne Bondi Johannessen and Emiliano Raúl Guevara | |
| Text and language classification (Chair: Hanne Fersøe) | Museum Hall | |
| 11.00–11.30 | Estimating language relationships from a parallel corpus. A study of the Europarl corpus Taraka Rama and Lars Borin | |
| 11.30–12.00 | Improving Sentence-level Subjectivity Classification through Readability Measurement Robert Remus | |
| 12.00–12.30 | Convolution Kernels for Subjectivity Detection Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow | |
| Morphology and POS tagging (Chair: Anders Nøklestad) | Room 205 | |
| 11.00–11.30 | Combining Statistical Models for POS Tagging using Finite-State Calculus Miikka Silfverberg and Krister Lindén | |
| 11.30–12.00 | Decision Strategies for Incremental POS Tagging Niels Beuck, Arne Köhn and Wolfgang Menzel | |
| 12.00–12.30 | Explorations on Positionwise Flag Diacritics in Finite-State Morphology Anssi Yli-Jyrä | |
| 12.30–13.00 | Morphological analysis of a non-standard language variety Heiki-Jaan Kaalep and Kadri Muischnek | |
| 13.00–14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00–15.30 | 12 Posters and Demos (Chair: Janne Bondi Johannessen) | |
| Wordnets and lexical issues | Museum Hall | |
| Do wordnets also improve human performance on NLP tasks? Kristiina Muhonen and Krister Lindén | ||
| The Formal Patterns of the Lithuanian Verb Forms Loïc Boizou | ||
| Identification of sense selection in regular polysemy using shallow features Hector Martinez Alonso, Núria Bel and Bolette Sandford Pedersen | ||
| "Andre ord" — a wordnet browser for the Danish wordnet, DanNet (DEMO) Anders Johannsen and Bolette Sandford Pedersen | ||
| Syntax | Museum Hall | |
| Extraction from relative and embedded interrogative clauses in Danish Anne Bjerre | ||
| Something Old, Something New — Applying a Pre-trained Parsing Model to Clinical Swedish Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson and Sumithra Velupillai. | ||
| A double-blind experiment on interannotator agreement: the case of dependency syntax and Finnish Atro Voutilainen and Tanja Purtonen | ||
| A Prague Markup Language profile for the SemTi-Kamols grammar model Lauma Pretkalniņa, Gunta Nešpore, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova and Baiba Saulīte | ||
| CFG based grammar checker for Latvian Daiga Deksne and Raivis Skadins | ||
| Evaluating the effect of word frequencies in a probabilistic generative model of morphology Sami Virpioja, Oskar Kohonen and Krista Lagus | ||
| Modularisation of Finnish Finite-State Language Description — Towards Wide Collaboration in Open Source Development of a Morphological Analyser Tommi Pirinen | ||
| Machine translation | Museum Hall | |
| Iterative reordering and word alignment for statistical MT Sara Stymne | ||
| 15.30–15.45 | Coffee | Room 240 |
| 15.45–17.15 | 3 parallel sessions: REGULAR papers | |
| Speech (Chair: Meelis Mihkla) | Auditorium 16 | |
| 15.45–16.15 | Corrective re-synthesis of deviant speech using unit selection Sofia Strömbergsson | |
| 16.15–16.45 | Fishing in a speech stream, angling for a lexicon Peter Juel Henrichsen | |
| 16.45–17.15 | Psycho-acoustically motivated formant feature extraction Bea Valkenier, Dirkjan Krijnders, Ronald Van Elburg and Tjeerd Andringa | |
| Search and information extraction (Chair: Costanza Navarretta) | Museum Hall | |
| 15.45–16.15 | Semantic search in literature as an e-Humanities research tool: CONPLISIT — Consumption patterns and life-style in 19th century Swedish literature Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg and Christer Ahlberger | |
| 16.15–16.45 | Relevance Prediction in Information Extraction using Discourse and Lexical Features Silja Huttunen, Arto Vihavainen and Roman Yangarber | |
| 16.45–17.15 | Experiments on Lithuanian Term Extraction Gintarė Grigonytė, Erika Rimkutė, Andrius Utka and Loïc Boizou | |
| Syntax, indexing (Chair: Jussi Karlgren) | Room 205 | |
| 15.45–16.15 | Editing Syntax Trees on the Surface Peter Ljunglöf | |
| 16.15–16.45 | Using graphical models for PP attachment Anders Søgaard | |
| 16.45–17.15 | Random Indexing Re-Hashed Erik Velldal | |
| 17.15–18.15 |
Invited Talk Chair: Inguna Skadiņa Topic: When FrameNet meets a Controlled Natural Language [slides] Prof. Guntis Bārzdiņš (University of Latvia) | Small Hall |
| 19.30– | Conference dinner | Restaurant Rozengrāls Rozena iela 1 |
| 9.00–10.00 |
Invited Talk Chair: Kristiina Jokinen Topic: Bare-Bones Dependency Parsing — A Case for Occam's Razor? [slides] Prof. Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University) | Small Hall |
| 10.00–10.30 | Coffee | Room 240 |
| 10.30–12.00 | 3 parallel sessions: REGULAR papers and STUDENT papers | |
| Lexicon, etymology (Chair: Bolette Sandford Pedersen) | Auditorium 16 | |
| 10.30–11.00 | A FrameNet for Danish Eckhard Bick | |
| 11.00–11.30 | The Impact of Part-of-Speech Filtering on Generation of a Swedish-Japanese Dictionary Using English as Pivot Language Ingemar Hjälmstad, Martin Hassel and Maria Skeppstedt | |
| 11.30–12.00 | Probabilistic Models for Alignment of Etymological Data Hannes Wettig and Roman Yangarber | |
| Machine translation; classification (Chair: Andrejs Vasiļjevs) | Museum Hall | |
| 10.30–11.00 | Disambiguation of English Contractions for Machine Translation of TV Subtitles Martin Volk and Rico Sennrich | |
| 11.00–11.30 | Toponym Disambiguation in English-Lithuanian SMT System with Spatial Knowledge Raivis Skadiņš, Tatiana Gornostay and Valters Šics | |
| 11.30–12.00 | A quantitative and qualitative analysis of Nordic surnames Eirini Florou and Stasinos Konstantopoulos | |
| Student papers (Chair: Normunds Grūzītis) | Room 205 | |
| 10.30–11.00 | Evaluating the speech quality of the Norwegian synthetic voice Brage Marius Olaussen | |
| 11.00–11.30 | A Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagger for Persian Mojgan Seraji | |
| 11.30–12.00 | Linguistic Motivation in Automatic Sentence Alignment of Parallel Corpora: the Case of Danish-Bulgarian and English-Bulgarian Angel Genov and Georgi Iliev | |
| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00–14.30 | 12 Posters and Demos (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen) | |
| Classification & summarization | Museum Hall | |
| Automatic summarization as means of simplifying texts, an evaluation for Swedish Christian Smith and Arne Jönsson | ||
| Experiments to investigate the utility of nearest neighbour metrics based on linguistically informed features for detecting textual plagiarism Per Almquist and Jussi Karlgren | ||
| A categorization scheme for analyzing rules from a handbook of Swedish writing rules Jody Foo | ||
| Dialect classification in the Himalayas: a computational approach Anju Saxena and Lars Borin | ||
| Knowledge systems | Museum Hall | |
| Query Constraining Aspects of Knowledge Ann-Marie Eklund | ||
| Automatic Question Generation from Swedish Documents as a Tool for Information Extraction Kenneth Wilhelmsson | ||
| Corpus creation, annotation and use | Museum Hall | |
| Knowledge-free Verb Detection through Sentence Sequence Alignment Christian Hänig | ||
| A Gold Standard for English–Swedish Word Alignment Maria Holmqvist and Lars Ahrenberg | ||
| Corpus-based terminology: detection, description and representation of knowledge-rich contexts in Russian Anne-Kathrin Schumann | ||
| Student posters | Museum Hall | |
| Identification of context markers for Russian nouns Anastasia Shimorina and Maria Grachkova | ||
| Finding statistically motivated features influencing subtree alignment performance Gideon Kotzé | ||
| 14.30–15.30 | NEALT Business meeting | Small Hall |
| 15.30–16.00 | Closing | Small Hall |
| 16.00–16.30 | Coffee | Museum Hall |