The Second Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC-2005)
Program
Conference Venue
120 Baker Systems Engineering Building
The Ohio State University Campus
1971 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Campus Map
Saturday, May 14, 2005
08:30-09:00am
Registration and Welcome
09:00-09:30am
Identifying Linguistic Knowledge for Textual Inference
Stacey Bailey, The Ohio State University
09:30-10:00am
Predicting Obligation Dialogue Act Types from Prosodic Information
Sergio Coria and Luis Pineda, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
10:00-10:30am
Syntactic and Lexical Changes in Esperanto: A Corpus-Based Survey
Joshua Herring, Indiana University
10:30-11:15am
Break
11:15-11:45am
The Necessity of Syntactic Parsing for Semantic Role Labeling
Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, and Wen-tau Yih, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
11:45-12:15pm
Towards Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora
Markus Dickinson and Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University
12:15-02:00pm
Lunch
02:00-02:30pm
Extracting Morphemes without #
Toshikazu Ikuta, Indiana University
02:30-03:00pm
Using Appraisal Taxonomies for Sentiment Analysis
Casey Whitelaw, University of Sydney
Navendu Garg and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
03:00-03:30pm
A Computational Model of Tonal Variation
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
03:30-04:15pm
Break
04:15-05:15pm
Invited talk: Named Entity Recognition and Transliteration for 50 Languages
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Sunday, May 15, 2005
09:00-09:30am
Discriminative Training of Clustering Functions: Theory and Experiments with Entity Identification
Xin Li and Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
09:30-10:00am
Statistical Learning of Semitic Morphology Using Autosegmental Orthography
Paul Rodrigues, Indiana University
10:00-10:30am
Utilizing Visual Attention for Cross-Modal Coreference Interpretation
Donna Byron, Thomas Mampilly, Vinay Sharma, Tianfang Xu, The Ohio State University
10:30-11:15am
Break
11:15-11:45am
Context Grammar and POS Tagging
Shian-jung Dick Chen and Don Loritz, LexisNexis
11:45-12:15pm
Phonetic Segment Rescoring Using SVMs
Yeojin Kim and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
12:15-02:00pm
Lunch
02:00-02:30pm
Predicting Types of Pitch Accent and Boundary Tone Using Structural Information
Tae-Jin Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
02:30-03:00pm
Methodology and Tools for Ontological Semantic Acquisition
John M. Spartz, Evguenia Malaia, Courtney Falk, Purdue University
03:00-03:30pm
Using Morphological and Distributional Cues for Inductive Part-of-Speech Tagging
Damir Cavar, Paul Rodrigues, and
Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana University
03:30-04:15pm
Break
04:15-04:45pm
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, and
Mark Sammons, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
04:45-05:15pm
Ontological Semantic Support for a Specific Domain
Victor Raskin, Katrina E. Triezenberg, Evguenia Malaia, Olga Krachina, Purdue University
Accepted papers that could not be presented
A Corpus-based Study on Abstract Anaphora Resolution
Ping Yu, University of Michigan
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