Electronic Proceedings

Workshop Programme

Location: Melbourne Zoo, in the Bong Su room.

Monday December 10, 2007

9:15am-10:30am: Session 1
• Welcome and Opening
• An Empirical Investigation into Grammatically Constrained Contexts in Predicting Distributional Similarity
  Dongqiang Yang and David Powers
• TAT: An Author Profiling Tool with Application to Arabic Emails
  Dominique Estival, Tanja Gaustad, Son Bao Pham, Will Radford and Ben Hutchinson

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10.30am-11.00am: Coffee break

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11.00am-12.15pm: Session 2

• Extending Sense Collocations in Interpreting Noun Compounds
  Su Nam Kim, Meladel Mistica and Timothy Baldwin
• Dictionary Alignment for Context-sensitive Word Glossing
  Willy Yap and Timothy Baldwin
• Lightning preview of posters

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12.15pm-1.45pm: Lunch

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1.45pm-3.15pm: Poster Session

Accepted papers

• Exploring Approaches to Discriminating among Near-Synonyms
  Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras
• Practical Queries of a Massive n-gram Database
  Tobias Hawker, Mary Gardiner and Andrew Bennetts
• Named Entity Recognition in Question Answering of Speech Data
  Diego Mollá, Menno van Zaanen and Steve Cassidy
• Experiments in Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping
  Tara Murphy and James Curran
• Two-Step Comprehensive Open Domain Text Annotation with Frame Semantics
  Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood and Liping Ma
• Question Prediction Language Model
  Luiz Augusto Pizzato and Diego Mollá

Student posters

• Exploring Extensions to Machine-learning based Gene Normalisation
  Benjamin Goudey, Nicola Stokes and David Martinez
• Extending CCGbank with Quotes and Multi-modal CCG
  Daniel Tse and James Curran
• Distributional Similarity of Multi-Word Expressions
  Laura Ingram and James Curran

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3:15pm - 3:30pm Walk through the zoo to room for joint session

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3:30pm - 4:00pm Tea Break with ADCS

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4.00pm-4.45pm: Session 3 (Joint with ADCS)

• Exploring Abbreviation Expansion for Genomic Information Retrieval
  Nicola Stokes, Yi Li, Lawrence Cavedon and Justin Zobel
• A Bottom-Up Term Extraction Approach for Web-Based Translation in Chinese-English IR Systems
  (ADCS authors)
• Automatic Thread Classification for Linux User Forum Information Access
  (ADCS authors)

4.30pm-5.30pm: Keynote 1 (Joint with ADCS)

• Measures of Measurements: Robust Evaluation of Search Systems
  Justin Zobel

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6:00pm-7.00pm: Canapes and Drinks (Incorporating ADCS Best Paper Awards)

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7:00pm Conference Dinner (not covered by registration)

Tuesday December 11 2007

Location: Melbourne Zoo, in the Rainforest room.

9.15am-10.15am: Keynote 2
• Text Mining Techniques for Building a Biolexicon
  Sophia Ananiadou

10.15am-10.45am: Session 4

• Measuring Correlation Between Linguist's Judgments and Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topics
  Ari Chanen and Jon Patrick

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10.45am-11.15am: Coffee break

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11.15am-12.15pm: Session 5

• Charting Democracy Across Parsers
  Scott Nowson and Robert Dale
• Parsing Internal Noun Phrase Structure with Collins' Models
  David Vadas and James R. Curran

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12.15pm-1.30pm: Lunch

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1.30pm-2.15pm: ALTA Annual General Meeting

2.15pm-3.15pm: Session 6

• Entailment due to Syntactically Encoded Semantic Relationships
  Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras
• Statistical Machine Translation of Australian Aboriginal Languages: Morphological Analysis with Languages of Differing Morphological Richness
  Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras

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3.15pm-3.45pm: Coffee break

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3.45pm-4.45pm: Keynote 3

• Does Language Technology Offer Anything to Small Languages?
  Nick Thieberger

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4.45pm-5.00pm: ALTA Best Paper & Best Presentation Awards

• Workshop Close