ALTA 2009 Program

9:00-10:00

Plenary talk: Eckart Altenmuller

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-10:45

Opening remarks

Session 1 - 10:45 - 12:30

Full papers

10:45-11:15

Ben Hachey
Evaluation of Generic Relation Identification

11:15-11:45

Will Radford, Ben Hachey, James R Curran and Maria Milosavljevic
Tracking Information Flow in Financial Text

Short papers

11:45-12:00

Christopher Chua, Maria Milosavljevic and James R. Curran
A Sentiment Detection Engine for Internet Stock Message Boards

12:00-12:15

Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan
Extracting Domain-Specific Words - A Statistical Approach

12:15-12:30

Jon Patrick and Min Li
A Cascade Approach to Extracting Medication Events

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:00

Plenary talk: Jonathan Harrington

3:00-3:30

Coffee break

Session 2 - 3:30-4:30

Full paper

3:30-4:00

Nicky Ringland, Joel Nothman, Tara Murphy and James R Curran
Classifying articles in English and German Wikipedia

Short papers

4:00-4:15

Sam Tardif, James R Curran and Tara Murphy
Improved Text Categorisation for Wikipedia Named Entities

4:15-4:30

Aleksandar Igic, Catherine Watson, Jonathan Teutenberg, Elizabeth Broadbent, Rie Tamagawa and Bruce MacDonald
Towards a flexible platform for voice accent and expression selection on a Healthcare Robot

ALTA AGM

4:30-5:30

2009 Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Language Technology Association

9:00-10:00

Plenary talk: David Traum

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session 3 - 10:30-12:30

Full papers

10:30-11:00

Simon Musgrave and Michael Haugh
The AusNC Project: Plans, Progress and Implications for Language Technology

11:00-11:30

James Breen and Timothy Baldwin
Corpus-based Extraction of Japanese Compound Verbs

11:30-12:00

Meladel Mistica, Wayan Arka, Timothy Baldwin and Avery Andrews
Double Double, Morphology and Trouble: Looking into Reduplication in Indonesian

12:00-12:30

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras
Contrastive Analysis and Native Language Identification

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:00

Plenary talk: Mark Sanderson

3:00-3:30

Coffee break

Session 4 - 3:30-5:30

Full papers

3:30-4:00

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Jessika Roesner and James Curran
Faster parsing and supertagging model estimation

4:00-4:30

Tim Dawborn and James R. Curran
CCG parsing with one syntactic structure per n-gram

4:30-5:00

Colin White and Rolf Schwitter
An Update on PENG Light

Short papers

5:00-5:15

James Constable and James Curran
Integrating Verb-Particle Constructions into CCG Parsing

5:15-5:30

Bahadorreza Ofoghi and John Yearwood
From Lexical Entailment to Recognizing Textual Entailment Using Linguistic Resources

5:30

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