Accepted Abstracts
Programme booklet (pdf) with all abstracts
| Alessandro | Lopopolo | University of Amsterdam | Biro, Tamas - University of Amsterdam | Language Evolution and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation |
| Alexander | Panchenko | Center for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) | Computing Semantic Relations from Heterogeneous Information Sources | |
| Anna | Lobanova | Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen | Successful extraction of opposites by means of textual patterns with part-of-speech information only. | |
| Antal | van den Bosch | Tilburg University | Memory-based text completion | |
| Barbara | Plank | University of Groningen | van Noord, Gertjan - University of Groningen | Simple Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing |
| Bert | Réveil | ELIS, Ghent University | Macken, Lieve - LT3, Language and Translation Technology Team | Towards a language-independent data-driven compound decomposition tool |
| Claudia | Peersman | CLiPS & Artesis | Daelemans, Walter - CLiPS Van Vaerenbergh, Leona - artesis | Age and Gender Prediction on Netlog Data |
| Cornelis H.A. | Koster | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | An Aboutness-based Dependency Parser for Dutch | |
| Cristiano | Chesi | Microsoft Language Development Center | Cho, Hyongsil - Microsoft Language Development Center, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Baldewijns, Daan - Microsoft Language Development Center, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Braga, Daniela - Microsoft Language Development Center, Porto Salvo, Portugal Dias, Miguel - Microsoft Language Development Center, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Portugal | A TN/ITN Framework for Western European languages |
| Crit | Cremers | universiteit leiden | Computing the meaning of multi-word expressions for semantic inference | |
| Daniël | de Kok | University of Groningen | van Noord, Gertjan - University of Groningen Plank, Barbara - University of Groningen | Reversible stochastic attribute-value grammars |
| Daniël | de Kok | University of Groningen | Discriminative features in reversible stochastic attribute-value grammars | |
| Daphne | Theijssen | Radboud University Nijmegen | van Halteren, Hans - Radboud University Nijmegen Boves, Lou - Radboud University Nijmegen Oostdijk, Nelleke - Radboud University Nijmegen | The more the merrier? How data set size and noisiness affect the accuracy of predicting the dative alternation |
| Dennis | de Vries | GridLine | Automatic terminology extraction: methods and practical applications | |
| Els | Lefever | LT3, University College Ghent | Hoste, Véronique - LT3, University College Ghent | ParaSense or how to use parallel corpora for Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation |
| Erik | Tjong Kim Sang | University of Groningen | Syntactic Analysis of Dutch via Web Services | |
| Fabrice | Nauze | Q-go | Clustering customer questions | |
| Frank | Van Eynde | K.U.Leuven | Treatments of the Dutch verb cluster in formal and computational linguistics | |
| Gertjan | van Noord | University of Groningen | de Kok, Daniel - University of Groningen van der Linde, Jelmer - University of Groningen | Search in the Lassy Small Corpus |
| Gideon | Kotzé | University of Groningen | Finding Statistically Motivated Features Influencing Subtree Alignment Performance | |
| Gideon | Maillette de Buy Wenniger | Institute for Logic Language and Computation | A Toolkit for Visualizing the Coherence of Tree-based Reordering with Word-Alignments | |
| Hans | van Halteren | Radboud University Nijmegen | Martell, Craig - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Du, Caixia - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Gu, Yan - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Johan, Kobben - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Panjaitan, Leequisach - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Schubotz, Louise - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Vasylenko, Kateryna - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT Vladimirova, Yuliya - ReMa L&C, RUN/UvT | Im chattin :-) u wanna NLP it: Analyzing Reduction in Chat |
| Hans | van Halteren | Radboud University Nijmegen | Theijssen, Daphne - Radboud University Nijmegen Oostdijk, Nelleke - Radboud University Nijmegen Boves, Lou - | On the difficulty of making concreteness concrete |
| Ineke | Schuurman | Centrum voor Computerlinguïstiek, K.U.Leuven | Vincent Vandeghinste - CCL, K.U.Leuven | What is the use of multidocument spatiotemporal analysis? |
| Ineke | Schuurman | Centrum voor Computerlinguïstiek, K.U.Leuven | Marc Kemps-Snijders - Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam | TTNWW: de facto standards for Dutch in the context of CLARIN |
| Jean-Luc | MANGUIN | GREYC - Univ.de Caen - France | A database for lexical orthographic errors in French | |
| Joachim | Van den Bogaert | Centre for Computational Linguistics, K.U. Leuven | Using easy distributed computing for data-intensive processing | |
| Kim | Luyckx | CLiPS Computational Linguistics Group, Antwerp University | Walter Daelemans - CLiPS, Antwerp University | Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Error Analysis in Multi-Topic Authorship Attribution |
| Kostadin | Cholakov | University of Groningen | van Noord, Gertjan - University of Groningen Kordoni, Valia - DFKI, Germany Zhang, Yi - University of Saarland, Germany | A Generalized Lexical Acqusuition Technique for Improved Parsing Accuracy |
| Kris | Heylen | QLVL, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Speelman, Dirk - QLVL, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Geeraerts, Dirk - QLVL, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | A Semantic Vector Space for Modelling Word Meaning in Context |
| Leonoor | van der Beek | Q-go | Of mathematicians and physicists: the history of language and speech technology in the Netherlands and Flanders | |
| Liesbeth | Augustinus | Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL), K.U. L | van Huyssteen, Gerhard - Centre for Text Technology (CTexT), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Pilon, Suléne - School for Languages, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa | Technology Recycling between Dutch and Afrikaans |
| Louis | ten Bosch | Radboud University Nijmegen | Versteegh, Maarten - Radboud University Nijmegen | The use of structure discovery methods to detect syntactic change |
| Louise-Amélie | Cougnon | UCLouvain - IL&C - Cental | Beaufort, Richard - Uclouvain - IL&C - Cental | SSLD: A smart tool for sms compression |
| Maarten | van Gompel | Tilburg University | van den Bosch, Antal - Tilburg University Berck, Peter - Tilburg University | Recent Advances in Memory-Based Machine Translation |
| Mahmoud | Shokrollahi-Far | Tilburg University | Authorship Verification of Quran | |
| Mahmoud | Shokrollahi-Far | Tilburg University | Source Verification in Quran | |
| Marc | Kemps-Snijders | Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam | Ineke Schuurman (CCL, K.U.Leuven) | TTNWW: NLP Tools for Dutch as Webservices in a Workflow |
| Margaux | Smets | QLVL, K.U.Leuven | Speelman, Dirk - QLVL, K.U.Leuven Geeraerts, Dirk - QLVL, K.U.Leuven | Subtrees as a new type of context in Word Space Models |
| Marieke | van Erp | VU University Amsterdam | Malaisé, Véronique - VU University Amsterdam van Hage, Willem - VU University Amsterdam Osinga, Vincent - VU University Amsterdam Coleto, Juan Manuel - VU University Amsterdam | Parse and Tag Somali Pirates |
| Marijn | Schraagen | Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science | Essentials of person names | |
| Martijn | Wieling | University of Groningen | Margaretha, Eliza - University of Groningen Nerbonne, John - University of Groningen | Automatically determining phonetic distances |
| Martin | Reynaert | ILK - TiCC - Tilburg University | Larger edit distance spelling correction | |
| Maxim | Khalilov | ILLC-UvA | Sima'an, Khalil - ILLC-UvA de Buy Wenniger, Gideon Maillette - ILLC-UvA | A discriminative syntactic model for source permutation via tree transduction for statistical machine translation |
| Menno | van Zaanen | Tilburg University | Collecting and using a corpus of lyrics and their moods | |
| Michael | Vallee | EDC | How can computational linguistics help determine the core meaning of then in oral speech? | |
| Mihai | Rotaru | Textkernel NL | From Tokens to Text Entities: Line-based Parsing of Resumes using Conditional Random Fields | |
| Mike | Kestemont | CLiPS Computational Linguistics Group | Daelemans, Walter - University of Antwerp (CLiPS Computational Linguistics Group) Sandra, Dominiek - University of Antwerp (CLiPS Psycholinguistics Group) | Robust Rhymes? The Stability of Authorial Style in Medieval Narratives |
| Mohammad Fazleh | Elahi | Monachesi, Paola - Dr. | An Examination of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences from Social Media Data with respect to Language Use | |
| Nicholas | Ruiz | University of Groningen | Weiffenbach, Edgar - University of Groningen | Using corpora tools to analyze gradable nouns in Dutch. |
| Orphée | De Clercq | LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team | Hoste, Véronique - LT3, Language and Translation Technology Team | Cross-Domain Dutch Coreference Resolution |
| Peter | Nabende | University of Groningen | An exploration of n-gram relationships for transliteration identification | |
| Philip | van Oosten | LT3, University College Ghent | Hoste, Véronique - LT3, University College Ghent Tanghe, Dries - LT3, University College Ghent | A Posteriori Agreement as a Quality Measure for Readability Prediction Systems |
| Richard | Beaufort | UCL CENTAL | Roekhaut, Sophie - UCL CENTAL | Combining e-learning and natural language processing. The example of automated dictation exercises |
| Roser | Morante | CLiPS - University of Antwerp | Schrauwen, Sarah - CLiPS - University of Antwerp Daelemans, Walter - CLiPS - University of Antwerp | Without a doubt no uncomplicated task: Negation cues and their scope |
| Roser | Morante | CLiPS - University of Antwerp | Semantic role labeling of gene regulation events | |
| Roxane | Segers | VU University Amsterdam | van Erp, Marieke - VU University Amsterdam van der Meij, Lourens - VU University Amsterdam | Extraction of Historical Events from Unstructered Texts |
| Sander | Wubben | Tilburg University | van den Bosch, Antal - Tilburg University Krahmer, Emiel - Tilburg University | Overlap-based Phrase Alignment for Language Transformation |
| Sarah | Schrauwen | CLiPS, Antwerp University | Daelemans, Walter - CLiPS, Antwerp University | Machine Learning Approaches to Sentiment Analysis Using the Dutch Netlog Corpus |
| Stephen | Doherty | Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin | Measuring the Impact of Controlled Language on Machine Translation Text via Readability and Comprehensibility | |
| Suléne | Pilon | North-West University (VTC) | Van Huyssteen, Gerhard - North-West University (PC) | Technology recycling for closely related languages: Dutch and Afrikaans |
| Tanja | Gaustad | TiCC, Tilburg University | van den Bosch, Antal - TiCC, Tilburg University | Building a Gold Standard for Dutch Spelling Correction |
| Thomas | François | UCL CENTAL | Naets, Hubert - UCL CENTAL | Dmesure: a readability platform for French as a foreign language |
| Thomas | Markus | Utrecht University | Westerhout, Eline - Utrecht University Monachesi, Paola - Utrecht University | Personalized Knowledge Discovery: Combining Social Media and Domain Ontologies |
| Tim | Stokman | Textkernel | Application of a Constraint Conditional Model for improving the performance of a Sequence Tagger : A Case Study | |
| Tim | Van de Cruys | INRIA & Université Paris VII | Automatically Constructing a Wordnet for Dutch | |
| Tom | De Smedt | CLiPS | Daelemans, Walter - CLiPS | "Pattern", a web mining module for Python |
| Tom | Vanallemeersch | Centrum voor Computerlinguïstiek, K.U.Leuven | Aligning translation divergences through semantic role projection | |
| Valentin | Jijkoun | University of Amsterdam | de Rijke, Maarten - University of Amsterdam Vishneuski, Andrei - University of Amsterdam | Fietstas: a web service for text analysis |
| Vincent | Vandeghinste | Centrum voor Computerlinguïstiek - KULeuven | Scott Martens (CCL, K.U.Leuven) | Rule Induction for Synchronous Tree-Substitution Grammars in Machine Translation |
| Vincent | Van Asch | CLiPS - University of Antwerp | Morante, Roser - CLiPS - University of Antwerp Daelemans, Walter - CLiPS - University of Antwerp | Towards improving the precision of a relation extraction system by processing negation and speculation |