Sat:
8:45-10:00: Invited Speaker: John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Optimization is the answer. Now, what is the question? abstract
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-11:00: Tim Miller and William Schuler, University of Minnesota
An Empirical Evaluation of HHMM Parsing Time
11:00-11:30: Marisa Ferrara Boston and Zhong Chen, Michigan State University
Multilingual feature selection for a human sentence processing model
11:30-12:00: Emily Jamison, Ohio State University
Using Discourse Features for Referring Expression Generation
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-2:00: Joshua Herring, Indiana University
Dreams of a Universal Translator: how language-independent can statistical machine translation be?
2:00-2:30: Shaolin Qu and Joyce Y. Chai, Michigan State University
Speech-Gaze Temporal Alignment for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems
2:30-3:00: Sonjia Waxmonsky, University of Chicago
Topic Summarization for Multiparty Meetings
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:00 Andrew Fister and Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Preliminary Investigation Toward an Automated Notetaking System
4:00-4:30 Daniel Parker and Benjamin Cool, Eastern Michigan University
Computational Approaches to Mapping and Visualizing Language Data
4:30-5:00 Chong Min Lee and Graham Katz, Georgetown University
Toward an Automated Time-Event Anchoring System
Sun:
8:45-10:00 Invited Speaker: Steve Abney, University of Michigan abstract
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-11:00: Alla Rozovskaya and Brandon Beamer and Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Experiments with SemScatt2 in the Task of Semantic Relation Extraction
11:00-11:30: Matt Gerber and Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Class-based nominal semantic role labeling: a preliminary investigation
11:30-12:00: Joseph Frazee, University of Texas at Austin
Dynamic Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Role Labeling
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-2:00: Victor Raskin and Max Petrenko, Purdue University
Modeling Abduction within Ontological Semantics
2:00-2:30: DJ Hovermale, Ohio State University
Developing an Annotation Scheme for ELL Spelling Errors
2:30-3:00: Markus Dickinson and Joshua Herring, Indiana University
Russian Morphological Processing for ICALL
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:00: Siwei Wang and Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago
Mandarin Chinese Tone Nucleus Modeling with Landmark Detection
4:00-4:30: Lane Schwartz, University of Minnesota
An Open-Source Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation System