ALTA 2011 Program

Thursday 1 December 2011

[Friday]

9:00-10:00 Keynote presentation (chair: Mark Johnson)

• Wray Buntine
  Discovery in Text: Visualisation, Topics and Statistics

10:00-10:30 Coffee break (30 mins)

10:30-10:40 Introductory remarks by local organisers

10:40-12:20 Oral presentations (chair: James Curran)

• Benjamin Börschinger and Mark Johnson
  A Particle Filter algorithm for Bayesian Wordsegmentation
• Bevan Jones, Mark Johnson and Sharon Goldwater
  Formalizing Semantic Parsing with Tree Transducers
• Mark Johnson
  Parsing in Parallel on Multiple Cores and GPUs
• Mehdi Parviz, Mark Johnson, Blake Johnson and Jon Brock
  Using Language Models and Latent Semantic Analysis to Characterise the N400m Neural Response

LUNCH

14:00-15:15 Oral presentations (chair: Mark Dras)

• Shunichi Ishihara
  A Forensic Authorship Classification in SMS Messages: A Likelihood Ratio Based Approach Using N-gram
• Su Nam Kim and Lawrence Cavedon
  Classifying Domain-Specific Terms Using a Dictionary
• Stephen Merity and James Curran
  Frontier Pruning for Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing

15:15-15:45 Coffee break (30 mins)

15:45-16:15 Poster presentations (chair: Francois Lareau) (5 mins per poster)

• John Cocks and Te Taka Keegan
  A word-based approach for diacritic restoration in Māori
• Nobuagi Akagi and Francesco-Alessio Ursini
  The Interpretation of Complement Anaphorae: the case of The Others
• Francesco-Alessio Ursini and Nobuagi Akagi
  The Interpretation of Plural Pronouns in Discourse: The Case of They
• Jenny Mcdonald, Alistair Knott, Richard Zeng and Ayelet Cohen
  Learning from student responses: A domain-independent natural language tutor
• Md. Waliur Rahman Miah, John Yearwood and Sid Kulkarni
  Detection of child exploiting chats from a mixed chat dataset as a text classification task
• Marcin Nowina-Krowicki, Andrew Zschorn, Michael Pilling and Steven Wark
  ENGAGE: Automated Gestures for Animated Characters

16:15-17:25 Presenters put up their posters

17:25-18:45 Poster session with ALS

19:30- Dinner

Friday 2 December 2011

[Thursday]

9:00-10:40 Joint session with ADCS (chair: David Martinez)

• Li Wang, Diana Mccarthy and Timothy Baldwin
  Predicting Thread Linking Structure by Lexical Chaining
• Diego Molla and Maria Elena Santiago-Martinez
  Development of a Corpus for Evidence Based Medicine Summarisation
• Mike Symonds, Peter Bruza, Laurianne Sitbon and Ian Turner
  Tensor Query Expansion: A cognitively motivated relevance model
• Yan Shen, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu, Renato Lannella, Abdulmohsen Algarni and Xiaohui Tao
  An Ontology-based Mining Approach for User Search Intent Discovery

10:40-11:10 Coffee break (30 mins)

11:10-12:25 Oral presentations (chair: Tim Baldwin)

• (best paper award) Francois Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin Boerschinger and Robert Dale
  Collocations in multilingual text generation: Lexical Functions meet Lexical Functional Grammar
• Abeed Sarker, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris
  Outcome Polarity Identification of Medical Papers
• Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson
  Topic Modeling for Native Language Identification

14:00-15:00 Prizes and AGM

15:00-15:30 Special presentation

• Dominique Estival
  OzCLO: The Australian Computational Linguistic Olympiad

15:30-16:00 Coffee break (30 mins)

16:00-16:45 Special presentation

• Diego Molla and Abeed Sarker.
  Automatic Grading of Evidence: The 2011 ALTA Shared Task

16:45-17:00 Wrap-up

17:25-18:45 Poster session with ALS + drinks