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CICLing-2008
Accepted Papers and Program

     
 

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  • The bus from hotel on the days other than Monday will start at 8:45 and not 8:30.
 

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Program Outline

  Sunday
17-Feb
Monday
18-Feb
Tuesday
19-Feb
Wednesday
20-Feb
Thursday
21-Feb

Friday
schedule

Friday
22-Feb

Saturday
23-Feb
(See below)

Transportation to the University

09:15-09:30

Excursion:
8:00-20:00

Welcome

Excursion:
8:00-20:00

 
09:30-10:30 Keynote I Keynote II Keynote III   Keynote IV

Excursion:
10:00-15:00

10:30-11:00 1 paper Award talk Award talk   Award talk
11:00-11:20 Break Break Break  

Break

11:20-13:00 4 papers 4 papers 4 papers   4 papers
13:00-14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch 13:00-13:45 Lunch
14:00-15:40 4 papers 4 papers 4 papers 13:45-14:05 1 paper
15:40-16:10 Poster Session
16:00-18:00
Break Break 14:10-15:10 Special IV
16:10-17:50 4 papers 4 papers   Break
17:50-18:00 Short break Short break
18:00-19:00 Special I Special II Special III
  19:00-21:00 Dinner and closing

 

Detailed Program

 

 

Title

Authors

Page LNCS

 

 

 

 

Sunday

 

 

 

 

8:00-20:00

Tour to the North

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

 

 

 

 

8:30 Bus from the hotel to the conf    
09:15-09:25 Welcome ceremony    

09:30-10:25

Keynote:
Stat-XFER: A General Search-based Syntax-driven Framework for Machine Translation

Alon Lavie

365

10:30-10:55

Paper nominated for best student paper award:
Linguistic Support for Revising and Editing

Cerstin Mahlow, Michael Piotrowski

642

11:00-11:15

Break

 

 

 

Language Resources I

 

 

 

 

11:20-11:40

A Distributed Database System for Developing Ontological and Lexical Resources in Harmony

Ales Horak, Piek Vossen, Adam Rambousek

1

11:45-12:05

Growing TreeLex

Anna Kupsc, Anne Abeille

28

12:10-12:30

Acquisition of elementary synonym relations from biological structured terminology

Thierry Hamon, Natalia Grabar

40

12:35-12:55

Various Criteria of Collocation Cohesion in Internet: Comparison of Resolving Power

Igor Bolshakov, Elena I. Bolshakova, Alexey Kotlyarov

64

13:00-13:55

Lunch

 

 

 

Spell-Checking

 

 

 

 

14:00-14:20

The Role of PP Attachment in Preposition Generation

John Lee, Ola Knutsson

654

 

 

 

 

 

Morphology and Syntax

 

 

 

 

14:25-14:45

A Probabilistic Model for Guessing Base Forms of New Words by Analogy

Krister Lindén

107

14:50-15:10

Unsupervised and Knowledge-free Learning of Compound Splits and Periphrases

Florian Holz, Chris Biemann

119

15:15-15:35

German decompounding in a difficult corpus

Enrique Alfonseca, Slaven Bilac, Stefan Pharies

130

 

Walking to the poster session

 

 

16:00-18:00

Poster session. All posters will be presented here. The session will be held in another building.

 

 

 

Walking from the poster session

 

 

18:00-18:55

Special event

Alon Lavie

 

  Bus from the conf to the hotel    

 

Tuesday

 

 

 

 

8:45 Bus from the hotel to the conf    

09:30-10:25

Keynote:
Statistical Machine Translation into a Morphologically Complex Language

Kemal Oflazer

380

10:30-10:55

Best Paper, 1st place:
Discovering Word Senses from Text Using Random Indexing

Niladri Chatterjee, Shiwali Mohan

301

11:00-11:15

Break

 

 

 

Word Sense Disambiguation I and Named Entity Recognition

 

 

 

 

11:20-11:40

Domain Information for Fine-grained Person Name Categorization

Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo

313

11:45-12:05

Language Independent First and Last Name Identification

Octavian Popescu, Bernardo Magnini

325

12:10-12:30

Mixing Statistical and Symbolic Approaches for Chemical Names Recognition

Florian Boudin, Juan Manuel Torres-Moreno, Marc EL BEZE

337

 

 

 

 

 

Information Retrieval I

 

 

 

 

12:35-12:55

Alignment-based Expansion of Textual Database Fields

Piroska Lendvai

535

13:00-13:55

Lunch

 

 

 

Language Resources II

 

 

 

 

14:00-14:20

Why Don't Romanians Have a Five O'clock Tea nor Halloween, but Have a Kind of Valentine's Day?

Corina Forascu

73

 

 

 

 

 

Semantics and Discourse

 

 

 

 

14:25-14:45

Layer Structures and Conceptual Hierarchies in Semantic Representations for NLP

Hermann Helbig, Ingo Glöckner, Rainer Osswald

173

14:50-15:10

Deep Lexical Semantics

Jerry Hobbs

185

15:15-15:35

On Ontology Based Abduction For Text Interpretation

Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, Atila Kaya, Sylvia Melzer, Ralf Möller

196

15:40-16:05

Break

 

 

16:10-16:30

A Preliminary Study on the Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets for Semantic Role Labeling

Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluis Marquez Villodre

220

16:35-16:55

XTM: A Robust Temporal Text Processor

Caroline HAGEGE, Xavier TANNIER

232

17:00-17:20

Trusting Politicians Words (for Persuasive NLP)

Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock

265

17:25-17:45

Sense annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank

Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi

277

17:50-17:55

Short break

 

 

18:00-18:55

Special event

Kemal Oflazer

 

  Bus from the conf to the hotel    

 

Wednesday

 

 

 

 

8:00-20:00 Tour to Jerusalem

 

Thursday

 

 

 

 

8:45 Bus from the hotel to the conf    

09:30-10:25

Keynote:
Natural Language as the Basis for Meaning Representation and Inference

Ido Dagan

153

10:30-10:55

Best Paper, 3rd place:
Lexical Cohesion Based Topic Modeling for Summarization

ILYAS CICEKLI, Ercan Gonenc

593

11:00-11:15

Break

 

 

 

Word Sense Disambiguation II

 

 

 

 

11:20-11:40

A Semantics-Enhanced Language Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation

Shou-de Lin, Karin Verspoor

289

 

 

 

 

 

Anaphora and Co-reference

 

 

 

 

11:45-12:05

Portuguese Pronoun Resolution: Resources and Evaluation

Ramon Re Moya Cuevas, Willian Yukio Honda, Diego Jesus de Lucena, Ivandre Paraboni, Patricia Rufino Oliveira

346

 

 

 

 

 

Natural Language Generation

 

 

 

 

12:10-12:30

Innovative Approach for Engineering NLG Systems: the Content Determination Case Study

Marco Fonseca, Leonardo Junior, Alexandre Melo, Hendrik Macedo

489

 

 

 

 

 

Multilingual Text Summarization

 

 

 

 

12:35-12:55

Arabic/English Multi-Document Summarization with CLASSY

Judith Schlesinger, Dianne O'Leary, John Conroy

581

 

 

 

 

13:00-13:55

Lunch

 

 

 

Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora

 

 

 

 

14:00-14:20

Translation Paraphrases in Phrase-Based Machine Translation

Francisco Javier Guzman, Leonardo Garrido

392

14:25-14:45

n-Best Reranking for the Efficient Integration of Word Sense Disambiguation and Statistical Machine Translation

Lucia Specia, Baskaran Sankaran, Maria Nunes

404

14:50-15:10

Learning finite state transducers using bilingual phrases

Jorge González, Germán Sanchis, Francisco Casacuberta

416

15:15-15:35

Learning Spanish-Galician Translation Equivalents using a Comparable Corpus and a Bilingual Dictionary

Pablo Gamallo, José Ramom Pichel Campos

428

15:40-16:05

Break

 

 

16:10-16:30

Context-Based Sentence Alignment in Parallel Corpora

Ergun Bicici

440

16:35-16:55

Bilingual Segmentation for Alignment and Translation

Chung-Chi Huang, Wei-Teh Chen, Jason S. Chang

452

17:00-17:20

Dynamic Translation Memory: Using Statistical Machine Translation to improve Translation Memory Fuzzy Matches

Ergun Bicici, Marc Dymetman

464

17:25-17:45

Identification of Transliterated Foreign Words in Hebrew Script

Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad

477

17:50-17:55

Short break

 

 

18:00-18:55

Special event

Ido Dagan

 

  Bus from the conf to the hotel    

 

Friday

 

 

8:45 Bus from the hotel to the conf  

09:30-10:25

Keynote:
What we are talking about and what we are saying about it

Eva Hajicova

243

10:30-10:55

Best Paper, 2nd place:
Non-Interactive OCR Post-Correction for Giga-Scale Digitization Projects

Martin Reynaert

628

11:00-11:15

Break

 

 

Information Retrieval II and Question Answering

 

 

11:20-11:40

Word Distribution Analysis for Relevance Ranking and Query Expansion

Patricio Galeas, Bernd Freisleben

512

11:45-12:05

Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Scientific Digital Libraries

Thanh-Trung Van, Michel Beigbeder

524

12:10-12:30

Detecting Expected Answer Relations through Textual Entailment

Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini

545

 

 

 

Educational Applications

 

 

12:35-12:55

EFL Learner Reading Time Model for Evaluating Reading Proficiency

Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Takeshi Kutsumi, Ichiko Sata, Hitoshi Isahara

666

13:00-13:55

Lunch

 

14:00-14:55

Special event

Eva Hajicova

 

Bus from the conf to the hotel  

 

Break

 

19:00-21:00

Dinner, cultural event, closing

 

 

Saturday

 

 

 

 

10:00-15:00 Walking tour to Haifa

 

Posters
(Monday 16:00-18:00)

 

 

 

Springer LNCS volume

 

 

 

Verb Class Discovery from Rich Syntactic Data

Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski

LNCS 16

A Comparison of Co-occurrence and Similarity Measures as Simulations of Context

Stefan Bordag

LNCS 52

Clause Boundary Identification using Conditional Random Fields

Vijay Sundar Ram, Sobha L.

LNCS 142

Analysis of Joint Inference Strategies for The Semantic Role Labeling of Spanish and Catalan

Mihai Surdeanu, Roser Morante, Lluis Marquez Villodre

LNCS 208

Semantic and Syntactic Features for Dutch Coreference Resolution

Iris Hendrickx, Veronique Hoste, Walter Daelemans

LNCS 353

Comparison of Different Modeling Units for Language Model Adaptation for Inflected Languages

Tanel Alumäe

LNCS 500

Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems via Answer Validation

Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Anselmo Peñas

LNCS 557

Frequent Sequences as Terms for Text Summarization

Yulia Ledeneva, Alexander Gelbukh

LNCS 604

Real-word spelling correction with trigrams: A reconsideration of the Mays, Damerau, and Mercer model

Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn, Graeme Hirst, Alexander Budanitsky

LNCS 616

 

 

 

 

LF volume

 

 

 

 

Data Model for a Lexical Resource Based on Lexical Functions

Socorro Bernardos, María  A. Barrios

LF 9

 

Ontology-Supported Automated Mark Up of Affective Information in Texts

Virginia Francisco, Pablo Gervás

LF 23

 

The Knowledge of Good and Evil: Multilingual Ideology Classification with PARAFAC2 and Machine Learning

Peter Chew, Philip Kegelmeyer, Brett Bader, Ahmed Abdelali

LF 37

 

Image Specific Language Model: Comparing Language Models from Two Independent Distributions from FlickR and the Web

Gregory Grefenstette, Guillaume Pitel

LF 53

 

Revealing Granularity of Domain Terminology with Inductive Method of Model Self-Organization

Natalia Ponomareva

LF 65

 

Using Meaning Aspects for Word Sense Disambiguation

Ronald Winnemöller

LF 81

 

Using Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation to Guess Verb Subjects on Untagged Corpora

Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins De Matos

LF 95

 

Automatic Extraction of Case Frames for Chinese Verbs

Xiaohong Wu, Wenliang Chen, Hitoshi Isahara

LF 107

 

Mining Wikipedia as a Parallel and Comparable Corpus

Jesús Tomás, Jordi Bataller, Francisco Casacuberta, Jaime Lloret

LF 123

 

Cross-Language Transcription of Proper Names

Edward Klyshinsky, Vadim Maximov, Sergey Yolkeen

LF 137

 

A Classification Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Based on Word Alignment

Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Hitoshi Isahara, Takeshi Kutsumi, Ichiko Sata

LF 153

 

 

 

 

RCS volume
(complete papers available for download)

 

 

 

 

Semantics 

 

 

 

 

A Language Independent Approach  for Recognizing Textual Entailment

Adrian Iftene and Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu

RCS 3

 

Summarization by Logic Segmentationand Text Entailment

Doina Tatar, Emma Tamaianu-Morita, Andreea Mihis and Dana Lupsa

RCS 15

 

TIL as the Logic of Communication  in a Multi-Agent System

Marie Duží

RCS 27

 

 

 

 

Parsing and Part of Speech Tagging

 

 

 

 

Collins-LA: Collins' Head-Driven Model  with Latent Annotation

Seung-Hoon Na, Meixun Jin, In-Su Kang and Jong-Hyeok Lee

RCS 43

 

Study on Architectures  for Chinese POS Tagging and Parsing

Hailong Cao, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara

RCS 55

 

Maximum Entropy Based Bengali Part of Speech Tagging

Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

RCS 67

 

 

 

 

Morphology and Word Segmentation

 

 

 

 

A Two-Pass Search Algorithm for Thai Morphological Analysis

Canasai Kruengkrai and Hitoshi Isahara

RCS 81

 

Exploiting Unlabeled Text with Different Unsupervised Segmentation Criteria for Chinese Word Segmentation

Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit

RCS 93

 

 

 

 

Word Sense Disambiguation

 

 

 

 

Defining Relative Strengths of Classifiers at Randomly Generated Datasets

Harri M.T. Saarikoski

RCS 107

 

 

 

 

Machine Translation

 

 

 

 

Features and Categories Design  for the English-Russian Transfer Model

Elena Kozerenko 

RCS 123

 

Translation of the Light Verb Constructions  in Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation

Yiou Wang and Takashi Ikeda

RCS 139

 

Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration System:  A Corpus based Approach

Tejinder Singh Saini and Gurpreet Singh Lehal

RCS 151

 

 

 

 

Information Retrieval and Question Answering

 

 

 

 

Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion

José R. Pérez-Agüera and Lourdes Araujo

RCS 177

 

Meta-Search Utilizing Evolutionary Recommendation: A Web Search Architecture Proposal

Dušan Húsek, Keyhanipour, Pavel Krömer, Behzad Moshiri, Suhail Owais and Václav Snášel

RCS 189

 

Structuring Job Search via Local Grammars

Sandra Bsiri, Michaela Geierhos and Christoph Ringlstetter

RCS 201

 

ExpLSA: An Approach Based on Syntactic Knowledge in Order to Improve LSA for a Conceptual Classification Task

Nicolas Béchet, Mathieu Roche and Jacques Chauché

RCS 213

 

Gathering Definition Answers by Information Gain

Carmen Martínez-Gil and A. López-López

RCS 225

 

 

 

 

Human-Computer Interfaces 

 

 

 

 

 

Improving Word-Based Predictive Text Entry with Transformation-Based Learning

David J. Brooks and Mark G. Lee

RCS 237

 

Cancelled talks

 

 

SIGNUM - A graph algorithm for terminology extraction

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

85

Arabic Morphology Parsing Revisited

Suhel Jaber, Rodolfo Delmonte

96

Evaluation of Internal Validy Measures in Short-Text Corpora

Diego Ingaramo, David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, Marcelo Errecalde

568

Vector based Approaches  to Semantic Similarity Measures

Juan M. Huerta

RCS 163

 


 

Transportation to the university

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, a bus will leave from the Dan Panorama to the University at 8:30. Transportation back to the hotel will be provided by the end of each day's sessions.

Poster session

The poster session will be combined with an informal reception and will take place on Monday, 16:00-18:00 (4:00pm-6:00pm) at the CRI, Education Building, 6th floor.

Sunday tour to the Galilee

We will leave from Dan Panorama at 8:00am. The tour will take us to Beit She'arim, Beit She'an, the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth, with several other sites along the way. Light lunch will be provided. Before returning to Haifa, we will stop for dinner (the cost, approximately 100 shekel, is to be paid individually). Recommended equipment: good walking shoes, umbrella and a rain jacket, modest clothing (no mini skirts or sleeveless shirts), a water bottle. Expected arrival time: 20:00 (8:00pm).

Wednesday tour to Jerusalem

We will leave from Dan Panorama at 8:00am. A two-hour bus ride to Jerusalem will be followed by a six-hour walking tour of the Old City, covering the Armenian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter, the Wailing Wall, the Christian Quarter, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Bazaar. Before returning to Haifa, we will stop for dinner (the cost, approximately 100 shekel, is to be paid individually). Recommended equipment: good walking shoes, umbrella and a rain jacket, modest clothing (no mini skirts or sleeveless shirts), a water bottle, a backpack to store lunch in (your conference bag should be perfect). Expected arrival time: 20:00 (8:00pm).

Saturday tour of Haifa

We will leave from Dan Panorama at 10:00am. We will start with a guided tour of the Bahai Gardens, followed by a leisurely walk in the Arab quarter of Haifa. The way back involves some serious climbing up hundreds of steps. Recommended equipment: good walking shoes, umbrella and a rain jacket, modest clothing (no mini skirts or sleeveless shirts), a water bottle. Expected arrival time: 15:00 (3:00pm).

Friday schedule

Friday schedule will be somewhat different. At 15:00 (3:00pm) we will provide transportation back from the University to the Dan Panorama, where the special event will take place at 15:30 (3:30pm). There will then be a longer break until dinner.

Friday dinner

The conference dinner will take place at the Pythagoras Hall of the Dan Panorama on Friday at 19:00 (7:00pm). Dinner will be followed by an informal, non-scientific discussion and closing ceremony.

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