Programme; CLIN 21, 11th of February 2011

Programme

Overall programme for CLIN21 on Friday February 11th.

09:00-09:30	Registration and coffee.
	Social media	Syntax and parsing	Lexical semantics	Machine translation	Methodology
09:30-09:50	Age and Gender Prediction on Netlog Data C. Peersman, W. Daelemans, L. Van Vaerenbergh	The use of structure discovery methods to detect syntactic change L. ten Bosch, M. Versteegh	A Semantic Vector Space for Modelling Word Meaning in Context K. Heylen, D. Speelman, D. Geeraerts	Rule Induction for Synchronous Tree-Substitution Grammars in Machine Translation V. Vandeghinste, Scott Martens	Using easy distributed computing for data-intensive processing J. Van den Bogaert
09:50-10:10	Im chattin :-) u wanna NLP it: Analyzing Reduction in Chat H. van Halteren, G. Martell, C. Du, Y. Gu, J. Kobben, L. Panjaitan, L. Schubotz, K. Vasylenko, Y. Vladimirova	An Aboutness-based Dependency Parser for Dutch C. H.A. Koster	Automatically Constructing a Wordnet for Dutch T. Van de Cruys	Recent Advances in Memory-Based Machine Translation M. van Gompel, A. van den Bosch, P. Berck	Application of a Constraint Conditional Model for improving the performance of a Sequence Tagger : A Case Study T. Stokman
10:10-10:30	Personalized Knowledge Discovery: Combining Social Media and Domain Ontologies Th. Markus, E. Westerhout, P. Monachesi	A Generalized Lexical Acquisition Technique for Improved Parsing Accuracy K. Cholakov, G. van Noord, V. Kordoni, Y. Zhang	Successful extraction of opposites by means of textual patterns with part-of-speech information only. A. Lobanova	A discriminative syntactic model for source permutation via tree transduction for statistical machine translation M. Khalilov, Kh. Sima'an, G.M. de Buy Wenniger	Technology Recycling between Dutch and Afrikaans L. Augustinus, G. van Huyssteen, S. Pilon
10:30-10:50	Machine Learning Approaches to Sentiment Analysis Using the Dutch Netlog Corpus S. Schrauwen, W. Daelemans	Search in the Lassy Small Corpus G. van Noord, D. de Kok, J. van der Linde	Computing the meaning of multi-word expressions for semantic inference C. Cremers	Measuring the Impact of Controlled Language on Machine Translation Text via Readability and Comprehensibility St. Doherty	Technology recycling for closely related languages: Dutch and Afrikaans S. Pilon, G. Van Huyssteen
10:50-11:10	Coffee break.
11:10-11:20	Welcome
11:20-11:30	STIL thesis prize
11:30-12:30	Invited talk: Rethinking anaphora M. Poesio
12:30-12:50	Of mathematicians and physicists: the history of language and speech technology in the Netherlands and Flanders L. van der Beek
12:50-13:50	Lunch break
	Information extraction	Syntax and parsing	Semantics	Translation	Discourse
13:50-14:10	Extraction of Historical Events from Unstructered Texts R. Segers, M. van Erp, L. van der Meij	Reversible stochastic attribute-value grammars D. de Kok, G. van Noord, B. Plank	Computing Semantic Relations from Heterogeneous Information Sources A. Panchenko	Finding Statistically Motivated Features Influencing Subtree Alignment Performance G. Kotzé	Cross-Domain Dutch Coreference Resolution O. De Clercq, V. Hoste
14:10-14:30	Clustering customer questions F. Nauze	The more the merrier? How data set size and noisiness affect the accuracy of predicting the dative alternation D. Theijssen, H. van Halteren, L. Boves, N. Oostdijk	Essentials of person names M. Schraagen	A Toolkit for Visualizing the Coherence of Tree-based Reordering with Word-Alignments G. Maillette de Buy Wenniger	What is the use of multidocument spatiotemporal analysis? I. Schuurman, V. Vandeghinste
14:30-14:50	Parse and Tag Somali Pirates M. van Erp, V. Malaisé, W. van Hage, V. Osinga, J.M. Coleto	Simple Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing B. Plank, G. van Noord	Subtrees as a new type of context in Word Space Models M. Smets, D. Speelman, D. Geeraerts	Overlap-based Phrase Alignment for Language Transformation S. Wubben, A. van den Bosch, E. Krahmer	Language Evolution and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation A. Lopopolo, T. Biro
14:50-15:10	From Tokens to Text Entities: Line-based Parsing of Resumes using Conditional Random Fields M. Rotaru	Treatments of the Dutch verb cluster in formal and computational linguistics F. Van Eynde	Using corpora tools to analyze gradable nouns in Dutch. N. Ruiz, E. Weiffenbach	Aligning translation divergences through semantic role projection T. Vanallemeersch	Without a doubt no uncomplicated task: Negation cues and their scope R. Morante, S. Schrauwen, W. Daelemans
15:10-16:10	Poster session & coffee break.
	Standards/CLARIN	Syntax/Spelling	Lexical semantics/ Discourse	Beyond text	Tools
16.10-16.30	TTNWW: de facto standards for Dutch in the context of CLARIN I. Schuurman, M. Kemps-Snijders	A U-DOP approach to modeling language acquisition M. Smets	An exploration of n-gram relationships for transliteration identification P. Nabende	Automatically determining phonetic distances M. Wieling, E. Margaretha, J. Nerbonne	Dmesure: a readability platform for French as a foreign language Th. François, H. Naets
16.30-16.50	TTNWW: NLP Tools for Dutch as Webservices in a Workflow M. Kemps-Snijders, I. Schuurman	Memory-based text completion A. van den Bosch	Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Error Analysis in Multi-Topic Authorship Attribution K. Luyckx, W. Daelemans	Combining e-learning and natural language processing. The example of automated dictation exercises R. Beaufort, S. Roekhaut	Automatic terminology extraction: methods and practical applications D. de Vries
16.50-17.10	Syntactic Analysis of Dutch via Web Services E. Tjong Kim Sang	Building a Gold Standard for Dutch Spelling Correction T. Gaustad, A. van den Bosch	Robust Rhymes? The Stability of Authorial Style in Medieval Narratives M. Kestemont, W. Daelemans, D. Sandra	Collecting and using a corpus of lyrics and their moods M. van Zaanen	SSLD: A smart tool for sms compression L.-A. Cougnon, R. Beaufort
17:10-19:00	Drinks