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CLIN 2007

Friday December 7, 2007
University of Nijmegen

CLIN 2007 is organized by the Language and Speech group of the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Programme

Each session holds two talks of 20 minutes each.

Room Buitendijkkamer
(Aula building)
Senaatszaal
(Aula building)
A -1.46
(Spinoza building)
A 01.11
(Spinoza building)
Mohrmannkamer
(Aula building)
8:45-9:30Registration
9:30-10:15 Discourse and dialogue I

Tony Mullen & Robert Malouf: "A Strife of Interests: The Challenges of Sentiment Analysis of Informal Political Discourse"

Iris Hendrickx et al.: " Corea Wrap-up:the corpus and evaluation"
Information Extraction I

Carole Tiberius: "Dutch Word Sketches"

Eline Westerhout & Paola Monachesi: "Semi-automatic glossary creation from learning objects"
Semantics I

Maarten Hijzelendoorn & Crit Cremers: "A Fast and Object-Oriented Lexicon for Semantic Generation"

Crit Cremers et al.: "Exploiting logical forms"
Proofing Tools I

Johan Zuidema & Michel Boekestein: "Spelspiek"

Thomas Pilz & Wolfram Luther: "Automatic support of nonstandard spelling detection using a Naïve Bayes classifier"
Lexical Patterns or Dependency Patterns

Katja Hofmann & Erik Tjong Kim Sang: "Lexical Patterns or Dependency Patterns: Which is better?"

Kris Heylen & Yves Peirsman: "Automatic Thesaurus Extraction: Comparing Context Models"
10:15-10:45 Poster session and coffee break
. Ana Guimarães et al.: "A natural language interface to a cinema database"

Michael Streit: "Reference vs. Assertion - New answers to an Old Problem"
G. Borensztajn & W. Zuidema: "Bayesian Model Merging for Unsupervised Constituent Labeling" Ineke Schuurman & Vincent Vandeghinste: "The MiniSTEx ontology" Roser Morante & Antal van den Bosch: "An ensemble of Spanish dependency parsers" Sandra Kanters: "The detection of noun phrases in Dutch newspapers"
10:45-11:30 Discourse and dialogue II

Daphne Theijssen et al.: "Finding features for detecting discourse relations between sentences"

Jeroen Geertzen: "Automatic segmentation and classification of acts in Dutch task-oriented information-seeking dialogue"
Information Extraction II

Willem-Olaf Huijsen et al.: "Deriving Ontologies from Wikipedia for Semantic Annotation of Texts"

Erwin Marsi & Emiel Krahmer: "Detecting semantic overlap: Announcing a parallel monolingual treebank for Dutch"
Semantics II

Ismail Fahmi & Gosse Bouma: "Learning patterns for relation extraction using dependency parse trees and semantic information"

Stefan Frank: "The need for fast sentence processing causes lexical semantic priming"
Proofing Tools II

Herman Stehouwer & Antal van den Bosch: "Putting the t where it belongs"

Martin Reynaert: "Automatic post-correction of OCR'ed Cultural Heritage corpora"
Speech Technology

Frans Adriaans: "Modeling Phonotactic Cues for Speech Segmentation"

Nivja de Jong & Ton Wempe: "Automatic measure of speech rate in spoken Dutch"
11:45-12:45Keynote Speaker: Ted Briscoe, Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Cambridge:
"In Search of the Optimal Combination of Knowledge-based and Data-based Techniques for Robust Parsing"
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:45 Classification I

Dieter Van Uytvanck et al.: "Orthography-based dating and localisation of Middle Dutch charters"

Els Lefever et al.: "A combined classification and clustering approach for web people disambiguation"
Information Extraction III

Veronique Hoste et al.: "The Automatic Detection of Scientific Terms in Patient Information"

Luit Gazendam et al.: "Exploiting background knowledge during automatic controlled keyword suggestion"
Parsing I

Antske Fokkens: "Identifying Nominalisation Compounds"

Nelleke Oostdijk: "Exploring the word-formation * type-frequency hypothesis"
Machine Translation I

Antal van den Bosch: "Memory-based machine translation: Case studies in Dutch-English translation"

Philippe Langlais et al.: "What Analogical Learning can do for Terminology Translation"
Question Answering I

Ana Mendes et al.: "Question-Answering using a Constraint Relaxation Mechanism"

Jörg Tiedemann & Jori Mur: "Document segmentation for passage retrieval in question answering"
15:00-15:45 Classification II

Rob Opsomer et al.: "Machine Learning Applied to Gender and Age Classification of Children"

Walter Daelemans & Kim Luyckx: "Predicting Author Personality from Text"
Information Extraction IV

Gijs Geleijnse: "Creating a Dead Poets Society: extracting a social network of historical persons from the web"

Sophia Katrenko: "Informative Features for Relation Extraction"
Parsing II

Gertjan van Noord: "Self-trained Bilexical Preferences for Improved Syntactic Disambiguation"

Maarten Janssen: "OSLIN: Morphological Analysis"
Machine Translation II

Vincent Vandeghinste et al.: "The Effect of Adding Cooccurrence Metrics to a data-driven MT system."

Scott Martens & Vincent Vandeghinste: "Efficient Indexing of Sentence Structures for Hybrid MT"
Question Answering II

Suzan Verberne et al.: "Paragraph Retrieval for why-question answering"

Leonoor van der Beek: "The relevance of Natural Language {website|internet|enterprise} Search"
15:45-16:15 Poster session and coffee break
. Ana Guimarães et al.: "A natural language interface to a cinema database"

Michael Streit: "Reference vs. Assertion - New answers to an Old Problem"
G. Borensztajn & W. Zuidema: "Bayesian Model Merging for Unsupervised Constituent Labeling" Ineke Schuurman & Vincent Vandeghinste: "The MiniSTEx ontology" Roser Morante & Antal van den Bosch: "An ensemble of Spanish dependency parsers" Sandra Kanters: "The detection of noun phrases in Dutch newspapers"
16:15-17:00 Classification III

Tim Van de Cruys: "Exploiting Topic Models for Word Sense Discrimination"

Michel Boedeltje & Arjan van Hessen: "In response to your inquiry"
Information Retrieval and Extraction

Lothar Lemnitzer & Paola Monachesi: "Evaluating a multi-lingual keyphrase extractor in an eLearning context"

Jantine Trapman & Paola Monachesi: "Merging LT4eL with the Cornetto Database"
Morphology

Nahed Abul-Hassan & Salwa Hamada: "Improving Tokenization of Clitics in Some Statistical Processing Tools for Arabic: AlwAw Coordinating Conjunction as A Case Example"

Mahmoud Shokrollahi-Far & Javad Saraie: "An Enhanced Knowledge-Based Tagger for Arabic Verbs"
Machine Translation III

Lieve Macken: "Aligning linguistically motivated phrases"

Rens Bod: "Can Unsupervised Parsing Help Machine Translation?"
Question Answering III

René Ouendag: "Named Entities in a Question matching environment"

Lonneke van der Plas: "Automatic Acquisition of Lexico-Semantic Information for Question Answering."
17:00Reception