ALTA 2014 DRAFT Programme
Registration will be open from 12:30pm on Wednesday 26th and 8:30am on Thursday 27th. The ALTA tutorials and main programme will mainly be held in: RMIT Building 80, Room 80.01.02 (Street Address: 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000). The joint ALTA-ADCS sessions will be held in Room 80.02.07.
Please also see the programme of ADCS which is co-located with the ALTA Workshop.
Wednesday 26th November
| CANCELLED: Machine Learning Approaches for Dealing with Limited Bilingual Data in Statistical Machine Translation (Gholamreza Haffari) | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | part 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | part 2 | |
| Gaussian Processes for NLP (Trevor Cohn and Daniel Beck) | ||
| 13:30-15:00 | part 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | part 2 | |
Thursday 27th of November
| Opening remarks | 08:50-09:00 | |
| Joint ALTA-ADCS Keynote | 09:00-10:00 | Maarten de Rijke |
| (Room 80.02.07) | Diversity, Intent, and Aggregated Search | |
| Break | 10:00-10:30 | |
| Session 1: Linguistic Issues | 10:30-11:00 | Sunghwan Kim, John Pate and Mark Johnson |
| (Chair: Mark Dras) | The Effect of Dependency Representation Scheme on Syntactic Language Modelling | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Haoxing Wang and Laurianne Sitbon | |
| Multilingual lexical resources to detect cognates in non-aligned texts | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Tudor Groza and Karin Verspoor | |
| Automated Generation of Test Suites for Error Analysis of Concept Recognition Systems | ||
| Lunch Break | 12:00-13:30 | |
| Session 2: Joint ALTA-ADCS Session | 13:30-14:00 | Jie Yin, Sarvnaz Karimi and John Lingad (ADCS Paper) |
| (Room 80.02.07: Chair: Andrew Turpin) | Pinpointing Locational Focus in Tweets | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Johannes Schanda, Mark Sanderson and Paul Clough (ADCS Paper) | |
| Examining New Event Detection | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Kristy Hughes, Joel Nothman and James R. Curran (ALTA Paper) | |
| Trading accuracy for faster named entity linking | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Alexander Hogue, Joel Nothman and James R. Curran (ALTA Paper) | |
| Unsupervised Biographical Event Extraction Using Wikipedia Traffic | ||
| Break | 15:30-16:00 | |
| (ADCS Keynote) | 16:00-17:00 | Session 3: Spoken Language | 16:00-16:30 | Su Nam Kim, Ingrid Zukerman, Thomas Kleinbauer and Masud Moshtaghi |
| (Chair: Trevor Cohn) | A Comparative Study of Weighting Schemes for the Interpretation of Spoken Referring Expressions | |
| 16:30-16:45 | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Masoud Kiaeeha, Shahram Khadivi and Saeed Shiry Ghidary | |
| Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields For Spoken Language Understanding Using Unaligned Data | ||
| 16:45-17:00 | Dominique Estival and Steve Cassidy | |
| Alveo, a Human Communication Science Virtual Laboratory | ||
| Awards and Business Meeting | 17:00-17:30 | |
| Conference Dinner | 19:00 onwards |
Friday 28th of December
| ALTA Keynote | 09:00-10:00 | Jennifer Lai | (Chair: Karin Verspoor) | Deep QA: Moving beyond the hype to examine the challenges in creating a cognitive assistant for humans |
| Break | 10:00-10:30 | |
| Session 4: Emergency Applications and Social Media | 10:30-10:45 | Jennifer Biggs and Michael Broughton |
| (Chair: Ingrid Zukerman) | OCR and Automated Translation for the Navigation of non-English Handsets: A Feasibility Study with Arabic | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Simon Kocbek, Karin Verspoor and Wray Buntine | |
| Exploring Temporal Patterns in Emergency Department Triage Notes with Topic Models | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Bella Robinson, Hua Bai, Robert Power and Xunguo Lin | |
| Developing a Sina Weibo Incident Monitor for Disasters | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Michael Niemann | |
| Finding expertise using online community dialogue and the Duality of Expertise | Session 5: ALTA Shared Task | 12:00-12:15 | Diego Molla |
| (Chair: Diego Molla) | ALTA 2014 Shared Task overview | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Shared Task Winners (TBA) | |
| Presentation Title TBA | ||
| Lunch Break | 12:30-13:30 | |
| Session 6: Biomedical NLP and Text Classification | 13:30-14:00 | Diego Molla, Christopher Jones and Abeed Sarker |
| (Chair: Ben Hachey) | Impact of Citing Papers for Summarisation of Clinical Documents | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Tatyana Shmanina, Lawrence Cavedon and Ingrid Zukerman | |
| Challenges in Information Extraction from Tables in Biomedical Research Publications: a Dataset Analysis | ||
| 14:15-14:30 | Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Andrew MacKinlay, Justin Bedo, Rahil Garvani and Qiang Chen | |
| Deep Belief Networks and Biomedical Text Categorisation | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Fumiyo Fukumoto, Shougo Ushiyama, Yoshimi Suzuki and Suguru Matsuyoshi | |
| The Effect of Temporal-based Term Selection for Text Classification | ||
| Final Remarks | 15:00-15:15 | |
| Break | 15:15-15:30 | |
| Posters session with ADCS | 15:30-17:00 |
End of programme: 5pm