| 14:00-15:00 | Dimensions of Deep Grammar Validation
Dan Flickinger |
| 11:30-12:30 | Text Summarization: News and Beyond
Kathy McKeown |
| 16:45-17:45 | From Non-segmenting Language Processing to Web Language Engineering
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
Day 1 — 10 December, 2005 |
| 09:25-09:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:30-10:00 | Disambiguating Conjunctions in Named Entities
Pawel Mazur and Robert Dale |
| 10:00-10:30 | Learning of Graph Rules for Question Answering
Diego Molla and Menno van Zaanen |
| 10:30-11:00 | A Statistical Approach towards Unknown Word Type Prediction for Deep Grammars
Yi Zhang and Valia Kordoni |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:00 | Tagging Unknown Words with Raw Text Features
David Vadas and James R. Curran |
| 12:00-12:30 | POS Tagging with a More Informative Tagset
Andrew MacKinlay and Timothy Baldwin |
| 12:30-13:00 | Augmenting Approximate Similarity Searching with Lexical Information
James Gorman and James R. Curran |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break |
Poster Session 1 |
| | Word Prediction in a Running Text: A Statistical Language Modeling for the Persian Language
Masood Ghayoomi and Seyyed Mostafa Assi |
| | Using Diverse Information Sources to Retrieve Samples of Low Density Languages
Andrew MacKinlay |
| | Faking it: Synthetic Text-to-speech Synthesis for Under-resourced Languages – Experimental Design
Harold Somers |
| | Dual-Type Automatic Speech Recogniser Designs for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Jason Littlefield and Michael Broughton |
| | Efficient Knowledge Acquisition for Extracting Temporal Relations
Son Bao Pham and Achim Hoffmann |
| | Formal Grammars for Linguistic Treebank Queries
Mark Dras and Steve Cassidy |
| | Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System
Luiz Augusto Pizzato and Diego Molla |
| | Multimedia Presentation of Grammatical Description: Design Issues
Simon Musgrave |
| 16:30-17:00 | Structuring Documents Efficiently
Robert Marshall, Steven Bird and Peter Stuckey |
| 17:00-17:30 | Round-trip Translation: What Is It Good For?
Harold Somers |
| 17:30-18:00 | Evaluating the Utility of Appraisal Hierarchies as a Method for Sentiment Classification
Jeremy Fletcher and Jon Patrick |
Day 2 — 11 December, 2005 |
| 09:30-10:00 | Efficient Grapheme-phoneme Alignment for Japanese
Lars Yencken and Timothy Baldwin |
| 10:00-10:30 | Statistical Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations
Jeremy Nicholson and Timothy Baldwin |
| 10:30-11:00 | Paraphrase Identification by Text Canonicalization
Yitao Zhang and Jon Patrick |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
Poster Session 2 |
| | Words and Word Usage: Newspaper Text versus the Web
Vinci Liu and James R. Curran |
| | Automatic Induction of a POS Tagset for Italian
Raffaella Bernardi, Andrea Bolognesi, Corrado Seidenari and Fabio Tamburini |
| | A Dual-Iterative Method for Concept-Word Acquisition from Large-Scale Chinese Corpora
Guogang Tian and Cungen Cao |
| | Programming With Unrestricted Natural Language
David Vadas and James R. Curran |
| | Identifying FrameNet Frames for Verbs from a Real-Text Corpus
Matthew Honnibal and Tobias Hawker |
| | A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation
Baden Hughes, James Haggerty, Joel Nothman, Saritha Manickam and James R. Curran |
| | Multi-document Summarisation and the PASCAL Textual Entailment Challenge
Nicola Stokes and Eamonn Newman |
| | Design and Development of a Speech-driven Control for a In-car Personal Navigation System
Ying Su, Tao Bai and Catherine I. Watson |
| 15:15-15:45 | Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue
Lawrence Cavedon, Matthew Purver and Florin Ratiu |
| 15:45-16:15 | Automatic Utterance Segmentation in Instant Messaging Dialogue
Edward Ivanovic |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 17:45-18:00 | Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks |
