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ALTA 2012 Programme

The workshop and tutorials will be held in the Department of Computer Science, Owheo Building, 133 Union Street East, Dunedin.

Registration will be open from 08:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday in the department office in the Owheo Building.

Tuesday 4 December

Biomedical Natural Language Processing (Owheo Room 106)

David Martinez (NICTA), Diego Molla Aliod (Macquarie University), Hanna Suominen (NICTA), and Karin Verspoor (NICTA)

Morning: Biomedical NLP tutorial

  • 09:00–09:30   Introduction to the domain and motivations for text mining/Biomedical NLP
  • 09:30–10:30   Language processing issues and language technology applications in the biomedical domain
  • 10:30–10:50   Coffee
  • 10:50–11:35   Overview of Shared Tasks
  • 11:35–12:20   Overview of platforms, tools, and resources in the domain

Afternoon: Biomedical Application research

  • 1:40–2:20   Hanna Suominen (NICTA), Natural Language Processing as Tools for Decision Support in Nursing: From Concept to Implementation
  • 2:20–3:00   David Martinez (NICTA), Text Mining for Biosurveillance of Invasive Fungal Diseases
  • 3:00–3:20   Coffee
  • 3:20–4:00   Diego Molla Aliod (Macquarie University), Text Summarisation for Evidence Based Medicine
  • 4:00–4:40   Karin Verspoor (NICTA), Text Mining for protein function prediction

A Crash Course in Statistical Natural Language Processing (Owheo Lab F)

James Curran

9:00–4:40 Coffee and lunch break times will align with the biomedical NLP tutorial.

Wednesday 5 December

8:50–9:00 Opening remarks (Owheo 106)

9:00–10:00 Invited talk (Owheo 106; Chair: Paul Cook)

  • Jennifer Hay
    Using a large annotated historical corpus to study word-specific effects in sound change

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:00 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Ingrid Zukerman)

  • Angrosh M.A., Stephen Cranefield and Nigel Stanger
    A Citation Centric Annotation Scheme for Scientific Articles
  • Michael Symonds, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Peter Bruza and Anthony Nguyen
    Semantic Judgement of Medical Concepts: Combining Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Information with the Tensor Encoding Model
  • Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster, Mark Dras and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha
    Active Learning and the Irish Treebank

12:00–1:30 Lunch

1:30–3:00 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Diego Mollá)

  • Marco Lui, Timothy Baldwin and Diana McCarthy
    Unsupervised Estimation of Word Usage Similarity
  • Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras
    Valence Shifting: Is It A Valid Task?
  • Minh Duc Cao and Ingrid Zukerman
    Experimental Evaluation of a Lexicon- and Corpus-based Ensemble for Multi-way Sentiment Analysis

3:00–3:30 Coffee

3:30–4:30 Oral presentations (Owheo 106; Chair: Chris Brockett)

  • James Breen, Timothy Baldwin and Francis Bond
    Extraction and Translation of Japanese Multi-word Loanwords
  • Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Aaron Harwood, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel
    Measurement of Progress in Machine Translation

4:30–5:30 ALTA business meeting (Owheo 106)

7:30– Conference dinner at Filadelfio's

Thursday 6 December

9:00–10:00 Invited talk (Owheo 206; Chair: Timothy Baldwin)

  • Chris Brockett
    Diverse Words, Shared Meanings: Statistical Machine Translation for Paraphrase, Grounding, and Intent

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:30 Shared session with ADCS (Owheo 106; Chair: Alistair Knott)

  • ADCS paper Lida Ghahremanloo, James Thom and Liam Magee
    An Ontology Derived from Heterogeneous Sustainability Indicator Set Documents
  • ADCS paper Bevan Koopman, Peter Bruza, Guido Zuccon, Michael John Lawley and Laurianne Sitbon
    Graph-based Concept Weighting for Medical Information Retrieval
  • Abeed Sarker, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris
    Towards Two-step Multi-document Summarisation for Evidence Based Medicine: A Quantitative Analysis
  • Alex G. Smith, Christopher X. S. Zee and Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
    In Your Eyes: Identifying Clichés in Song Lyrics

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–2:30 Oral presentation (Owheo 206; Chair: Karin Verspoor)

  • Iman Amini, David Martinez and Diego Molla
    ALTA 2012 Shared Task overview

2:30–2:50 Poster boasters (Owheo 206; Chair: Karin Verspoor)

ALTA posters

  • Paul Cook and Marco Lui
    langid.py for better language modelling
  • Robert Fromont and Jennifer Hay
    LaBB-CAT: an Annotation Store
  • Jenny Mcdonald, Alistair Knott and Richard Zeng
    Free-text input vs menu selection: exploring the difference with a tutorial dialogue system.
  • Jared Willett, Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez and Angus Webb
    Classification of Study Region in Environmental Science Abstracts

ALTA Shared Task posters

  • Marco Lui
    Feature Stacking for Sentence Classification in Evidence-based Medicine
  • Abeed Sarker
    Multi-class classification of medical sentences using SVMs

2:50–3:00 Awards and final remarks (Owheo 206)

3:00–3:30 Coffee

3:30–5:00 Poster session with ADCS (Owheo 106)

  • The above ALTA and ALTA Shared Task posters will be presented, along with 8 posters from ADCS

7:30–21:30 Boat trip: Meet at 19:00 at wharf, 20 Fryatt St.


 

© ALTA 2012. Workshop Organisers.