Electronic Proceedings

Workshop Programme

Location: CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart, Tasmania

Monday December 8, 2008

3.45pm-5.00pm: ALTA/ADCS Joint Session
• Querying linguistic annotations
  Sumukh Ghodke and Steven Bird
• Using collaboratively constructed document collections to simulate real world object comparisons
  Karl Grieser, Timothy Baldwin, Fabian Bohnert, and Liz Sonenberg
• Answer Attenuation in Question Answering
  Katie Bell and James R Curran
• Using multiple sources of agreement information for sentiment classification of political transcripts
  Clint Burfoot
• Joint ADCS/ALTA Keynote
  Syntactic and Semantic Structure in Web Search Queries
  Rosie Jones, Yahoo!

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6.00pm-7.00pm: Canapes and Drinks (Incorporating ADCS Best Paper Awards)

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7.00pm-10.00pm Conference Dinner (not covered by registration)

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Tuesday December 9 2008

9.30am-10.30am: Session 1
• Requests and Commitments in Email are More Complex Than You Think: Eight Reasons to be Cautious
  Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris
• Automatic Event Reference Identification for Text Summarisation
  Olivia March and Timothy Baldwin

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10.30am-11.00am: Coffee break

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11.00am-12.00pm: Session 2

• Automatic Acquisition of Training Data for Statistical Parsers
  Susan Howlett and James Curran
• Weighted Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping for Domain Independent Lexicon and Template Acquisition
  Tara McIntosh and James Curran

12.00am-3.30pm: POSTER SESSIONS (posters should be mounted by the end of morning tea time)

• 12.00am-12.30pm: Speed Papers I

  • Speed Papers I
    
  • A Two-Level Morphological Analyser for the Indonesian Language
    Femphy Pisceldo, Rahmad Mahendra, Ruli Manurung and I Wayan Arka
  • Lexical Access via Phoneme to Grapheme conversion
    Michael Fridkin and David Dowe
  • Text Mining Based Query Expansion for Chinese IR
    Zhihan Li, Yue Xu and Shlomo Geva

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  12.30am-2.00pm: Lunch (posters may be previewed)

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  2.00am-2.30pm: Speed Papers II

  • Classification of Verb Particle Constructions with the Google Web1T Corpus
    Jonathan K Kummerfeld and James R Curran
  • Morphosyntactic Target Language Matching in Statistical Machine Translation
    Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras
  • Punctuation normalisation for cleaner treebanks and parsers
    Daniel Tse and James Curran

  2.30pm-3.30pm: Posters

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3:30pm-4:00pm: Coffee Break

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4.00pm-5.00pm: Session 3

• Generating Relational References: What Makes a Difference?
  Jette Viethen and Robert Dale
• Comparing the value of Latent Semantic Analysis on two English-to-Indonesian lexical mapping tasks: What is it good for?
  Eliza Margaretha and Ruli Manurung

Wednesday December 10 2008

9.30am-11.00am: Session 4
• Investigating Features for Classifying Noun Relations
  Dominick Ng, David J Kedziora, Terry T W Miu and James R Curran
• Transforming Wikipedia into Named Entity Training Data
  Joel Nothman, James Curran and Tara Murphy
• Learning Count Classifier Preferences of Malay Nouns
  Jeremy Nicholson and Timothy Baldwin

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11.00am-11.30am: Coffee break

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11.30am-1.00pm: Session 5

• Fit it in but say it well!
  Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lampert and Joan Giralt Duran
• Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages
  Tobias Kuhn and Rolf Schwitter
• All-Topology, Semi-Abstract Syntactic Features for Text Categorization
  Ari Chanen and Jon Patrick

1.00pm-2.45pm: ALTA Best Paper & Best Presentation Awards

• 1.00pm-2.00pm: Lunch (incorporating ALTA Best Paper Awards)

• 2.00pm-2.45pm: ALTA Annual General Meeting