9:15 - 9:30 | ADCS-ALTA Opening.* |
9:30 - 10:30 | ADCS Keynote: Doug Oard, University of Maryland.* |
10:30 - 11:00 | morning tea |
11:00 - 11:20 | (presentation) Trevor Cohn. Unlimited order Language Modeling with Compressed Suffix Trees. |
11:20 - 11:40 | (long paper) Caroline Mckinnon, Ibtehal Baazeem and Daniel Angus. How few is too few? Determining the minimum acceptable number of LSA dimensions to visualise text cohesion with Lex. |
11:40 - 12:00 | (long paper) Ping Tan, Karin Verspoor and Tim Miller. Structural Alignment as the Basis to Improve Significant Change Detection in Versioned Sentences. |
12:00 - 12:20 | (presentation) Kellie Webster and James Curran. Challenges in Resolving Nominal Reference. |
12:20 - 1:20 | lunch |
1:30 - 2:00 | Viet Phung and Lance De Vine, A study on the use of word embeddings and PageRank for Vietnamese text summarization.* |
2:00 - 2:20 | (long paper) Mahmood Yousefi Azar, Kairit Sirts, Len Hamey and Diego Molla. Query-Based Single Document Summarization Using an Ensemble Noisy Auto-Encoder.* |
2:20 - 2:40 | (long paper) Lan Du, Anish Kumar, Massimiliano Ciaramita and Mark Johnson. Using Entity Information from a Knowledge Base to Improve Relation Extraction.* |
2:40 - 2:50 | Hanna Suominen. CLEF 2016.* |
2:50 - 3:00 | break |
3:00 - 4:00 | Panel: NLP & IR in the Wild.* |
4:00 - 4:30 | afternoon tea |
4:30 - 4:50 | (long paper) Julio Cesar Salinas Alvarado, Karin Verspoor and Timothy Baldwin. Domain Adaption of Named Entity Recognition to Support Credit Risk Assessment. |
4:50 - 5:10 | (presentation) Ben Hachey, Anaïs Cadilhac and Andrew Chisholm. Entity linking and summarisation in a news-driven personal assistant app. |
5:10 - 5:30 | (long paper) Shungwan Kim and Steve Cassidy. Finding Names in Trove: Named Entity Recognition for Australian Historical Newspapers. |
6:00 | Conference Dinner @ The Collector Hotel. |
9:30 - 9:50 | (long paper) Jennifer Biggs. Comparison of Visual and Logical Character Segmentation in Tesseract OCR Language Data for Indic Writing Scripts. |
9:50 - 10:10 | (long paper) Daniel Frost and Shunichi Ishihara. Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Voice Comparison on L2 speakers: A Case of Hong Kong native male production of English vowels. |
10:10 - 10:30 | (long paper) Kairit Sirts and Mark Johnson. Do POS Tags Help to Learn Better Morphological Segmentations? |
10:30 - 11:00 | morning tea |
11:00 - 11:20 | Business Meeting |
11:20 - 11:30 | Awards |
11:30 - 11:45 | Diego Molla, Shared Task Overview |
11:45 - 12:00 | LookForward team, Best System in Shared Task |
12:00 - 12:10 | (short paper) Fiona Martin and Mark Johnson. More Efficient Topic Modelling Through a Noun Only Approach. |
12:10 - 12:20 | (short paper) Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts and Mark Johnson. Improving Topic Coherence with Latent Feature Word Representations in MAP Estimation for Topic Modeling. |
12:20 - 12:30 | (short paper) Joel Nothman, Atif Ahmad, Christoph Breidbach, David Malet and Tim Baldwin. Understanding engagement with insurgents through retweet rhetoric. |
12:30 - 12:40 | (short paper) Sam Shang Chun Wei and Ben Hachey. A comparison and analysis of models for event trigger detection. |
12:40 - 1:30 | lunch |
1:30 - 2:30 | Poster Session |
2:30 - 3:30 | ALTA Keynote: Mark Johnson, Macquarie University. (Building EA, Room G.18) |
3:30 - 4:00 | afternoon tea |
4:00 - 4:20 | (long paper) Hamed Hassanzadeh, Diego Molla, Tudor Groza, Anthony Nguyen and Jane Hunter. Similarity Metrics for Clustering PubMed Abstracts for Evidence Based Medicine. |
4:20 - 4:40 | (long paper) Lance De Vine, Mahnoosh Kholghi, Guido Zuccon, Laurianne Sitbon and Anthony Nguyen. Analysis of Word Embeddings and Sequence Features for Clinical Information Extraction. |
4:40 - 5:00 | (long paper) Shervin Malmasi and Hamed Hassanzadeh. Clinical Information Extraction Using Word Representations. |
5:00 - 5:20 | (presentation) Andrew MacKinlay, Antonio Jimeno Yepes and Bo Han. A System for Public Health Surveillance using Social Media. |
5:20 - 5:30 | ALTA Closing |