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The special-interest group for
computational linguistics
in the UK and Ireland |
12th Annual Research Colloquium
April 23-24, 2009 | Dublin, Ireland |
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
| TIME |
EVENT |
| 09:45-10:45 |
Registration |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Opening Remarks |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Chris Venour.
Quantifying Humorous Incongruity |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Ismail Bhula.
Towards a Computational Model of Child Motion Verb Acquisition
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| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Antal van den Bosch. Memory-based Language Models for Spelling Correction |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Rejwanul
Haque. Using Supertags as Source Language Context in SMT |
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14:30-15:00 |
Yifan He.
Regression on Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation
Evaluation |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-16:00 |
Kumutha
Swampillai. Cross-sentence Relations in Information Extraction Corpora |
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16:00-16:30 |
Tsuyoshi
Okita. Enhanced Algorithm for IBM Model 4 Word Alignment |
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16:30-17:00 |
Behrang
Qasemizadeh. Transcription of the Persian language in the Electronic
Format |
Friday, April 24, 2009
| TIME |
EVENT |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Invited Talk:
Steve Gotz |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Sergio
Penkale. Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources in Statistical
Machine Translation |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Ankit
Srivastava. Evaluating Uniqueness and Usefulness of Percolated
Dependencies in Statistical Machine Translation |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Khalil Sima'an. Some Challenges for Statistical Machine Translation |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Paul Crook.
Accurate Probability Estimation of Hypothesised User Acts for POMDP
Approaches to Dialogue Management |
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14:30-15:00 |
Thade
Nahnsen. Domain-Independent Shallow Sentence Ordering |
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15:00-15:10 |
Seemab Latif.
Automatic Summarization as a Pre-processing Technique for Document
Clustering |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Closing |
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