CoNLL-2013: Program

Venue: National Palace of Culture, Plaza Bulgaria 1, Sofia, Bulgaria

Please note that every full CoNLL paper is allotted a 15 minute oral presentation slot as well as a poster slot. As a consequence of this new format we have two poster sessions. Papers whose oral presentation is on Day 1 of the conference participate in the poster session on Day 1. The shared task posters and the CoNLL papers that are presented on Day 2 participate in the poster session on Day 2. We hope that this will provide everybody with the opportunity to present their work in a plenary session, while also allowing more in-depth conversations during the two poster sessions.

Thursday August 8, 2013

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM    Session 1

8:30 AM    Opening Remarks

8:45 AM   Online Active Learning for Cost Sensitive Domain Adaptation Min Xiao and Yuhong Guo Temple University

9:00 AM   Analysis of Stopping Active Learning based on Stabilizing Predictions Michael Bloodgood1 and John Grothendieck2 1University of Maryland, 2Raytheon BBN Technologies

9:15 AM   Improving Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) by Incorporating Significant Co-occurrence Om Damani IIT Bombay

9:30 AM   Supervised Morphological Segmentation in a Low-Resource Learning Setting using Conditional Random Fields Teemu Ruokolainen,  Oskar Kohonen,  Sami Virpioja,  Mikko Kurimo Aalto University

9:45 AM   Graph-Based Posterior Regularization for Semi-Supervised Structured Prediction Luheng He1,  Jennifer Gillenwater1,  Ben Taskar2 1University of Pennsylvania, 2University of Washington

10:00 AM   A Boosted Semi-Markov Perceptron Tomoya Iwakura Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

10:15 AM   Spectral Learning of Refinement HMMs Karl Stratos1,  Alexander Rush2,  Shay B. Cohen1,  Michael Collins3 1Columbia University, 2MIT CSAIL, 3Columbia University

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM    Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM    Session 2

11:00 AM   Sentence Compression with Joint Structural Inference Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown Columbia University

11:15 AM   Learning Adaptable Patterns for Passage Reranking Aliaksei Severyn1,  Massimo Nicosia1,  Alessandro Moschitti1,2 1DISI, University of Trento, 2QCRI, Qatar Foundation

11:30 AM   Documents and Dependencies: an Exploration of Vector Space Models for Semantic Composition Alona Fyshe,  Brian Murphy,  Partha Talukdar,  Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University

11:45 AM   Hidden Markov tree models for semantic class induction Edouard Grave1,  Guillaume Obozinski2,  Francis Bach1 1Ecole normale superieure - Inria, 2Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech

12:00 PM   Better Word Representations with Recursive Neural Networks for Morphology Thang Luong,  Richard Socher,  Christopher Manning Stanford University

12:15 PM   Separating Disambiguation from Composition in Distributional Semantics Dimitri Kartsaklis1,  Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh2,  Stephen Pulman1 1University of Oxford, 2Queen Mary University of London

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM    Lunch break

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM    Session 3

2:00 PM   Frame Semantics for Stance Classification Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng University of Texas at Dallas

2:15 PM   Philosophers are Mortal: Inferring the Truth of Unseen Facts Gabor Angeli and Christopher Manning Stanford University

2:30 PM   Towards Robust Linguistic Analysis using OntoNotes Sameer Pradhan1,  Alessandro Moschitti2,  Nianwen Xue3,  Hwee Tou Ng4,  Anders Björkelund5,  Olga Uryupina6,  Yuchen Zhang3,  Zhi Zhong4 1Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 2QCRI, Qatar Foundation and DISI, University of Trento, 3Brandeis University, 4National University of Singapore, 5IMS, Stuttgart, 6University of Trento

2:45 PM   Dynamic Knowledge-Base Alignment for Coreference Resolution Jiaping Zheng1,  Luke Vilnis1,  Sameer Singh1,  Jinho D. Choi2,  Andrew McCallum1 1University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2IPsoft Inc.

3:00 PM   A Non-Monotonic Arc-Eager Transition System for Dependency Parsing Matthew Honnibal1,  Yoav Goldberg2,  Mark Johnson1 1Macquarie University, 2Bar Ilan University

3:15 PM   Collapsed Variational Bayesian Inference for PCFGs Pengyu Wang and Phil Blunsom University of Oxford

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM    Poster session 1

5:00 PM - 6 PM    Keynote 1

5:00 PM    Invited Talk: Probabilistic Models of Diversity: Determinantal Point Processes Ben Taskar

Friday August 9, 2013

8:45 AM - 10:30 AM    Session 4

8:45 AM   Polyglot: Distributed Word Representations for Multilingual NLP Rami Al-Rfou1,  Bryan Perozzi2,  Steven Skiena2 1Stony Brook University / Computer Science Dept, 2Stony Brook University

9:00 AM   Exploiting multiple hypotheses for Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding Marcos Calvo1,  Fernando García1,  Lluís-F. Hurtado1,  Santiago Jiménez1,  Emilio Sanchis2 1Universitat Politècnica de València, 2Universidad Politecnica València

9:15 AM   Multilingual WSD-like Constraints for Paraphrase Extraction Wilker Aziz1 and Lucia Specia2 1University of Wolverhampton, 2University of Sheffield

9:30 AM   Topic Models + Word Alignment = A Flexible Framework for Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpus Xiaodong Liu,  Kevin Duh,  Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology

9:45 AM   Terminology Extraction Approaches for Product Aspect Detection in Customer Reviews Jürgen Broß1 and Heiko Ehrig2 1Freie Universität Berlin, 2Neofonie Gmb

10:00 AM   The CoNLL-2013 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction Hwee Tou Ng, Siew Mei Wu, Yuanbin Wu, Christian Hadiwinoto and Joel Tetreault

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM    Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:30 AM    CoNLL Shared Task Presentations

11:00 AM   The University of Illinois System in the CoNLL-2013 Shared Task Alla Rozovskaya, Kai-Wei Chang, Mark Sammons and Dan Roth

11:10 AM   CoNLL-2013 Shared Task: Grammatical Error Correction NTHU System Description Ting-hui Kao, Yu-wei Chang, Hsun-wen Chiu, Tzu-Hsi Yen, Joanne Boisson, Jian-cheng Wu and Jason S. Chang

11:20 AM   NAIST at 2013 CoNLL Grammatical Error Correction Shared Task Ippei Yoshimoto, Tomoya Kose, Kensuke Mitsuzawa, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Yuta Hayashibe, Mamoru Komachi and Yuji Matsumoto

11:30 AM   UM-Checker: A Hybrid System for English Grammatical Error Correction Junwen Xing, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao and Xiaodong Zeng

11:40 AM   A Tree Transducer Model for Grammatical Error Correction Jan Buys and Brink van der Merwe

11:50 AM   Constrained Grammatical Error Correction using Statistical Machine Translation Zheng Yuan and Mariano Felice

12:00 AM   Shared Task Discussion

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM    Lunch break

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM    Keynote 2

2:00 PM    Invited Talk: Probabilistic Knowledge and Uncertain Input in Human Sentence Processing Roger Levy

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM    Best Paper Award

3:00 PM   Acquisition of Desires before Beliefs: A Computational Investigation Libby Barak,  Afsaneh Fazly,  Suzanne Stevenson University of Toronto

3:30 PM   Poster session 2 (incl. Shared Task)

Polyglot: Distributed Word Representations for Multilingual NLP Rami Al-Rfou,  Bryan Perozzi,  Steven Skiena

Exploiting multiple hypotheses for Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding Marcos Calvo,  Fernando García,  Lluís-F. Hurtado,  Santiago Jiménez,  Emilio Sanchis

Multilingual WSD-like Constraints for Paraphrase Extraction Wilker Aziz and Lucia Specia

Topic Models + Word Alignment = A Flexible Framework for Extracting Bilingual Dictionary from Comparable Corpus Xiaodong Liu,  Kevin Duh,  Yuji Matsumoto

Terminology Extraction Approaches for Product Aspect Detection in Customer Reviews Jürgen Broß and Heiko Ehrig

LFG-based Features for Noun Number and Article Grammatical Errors Gabor Berend, Veronika Vincze, Sina Zarrieß and Richárd Farkas

Toward More Precision in Correction of Grammatical Errors Dan Flickinger and Jiye Yu

Grammatical Error Correction as Multiclass Classification with Single Model Zhongye Jia, Peilu Wang and Hai Zhao

IITB System for CoNLL 2013 Shared Task: A Hybrid Approach to Grammatical Error Correction Anoop Kunchukuttan, Ritesh Shah and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

UdS at CoNLL 2013 Shared Task Desmond Darma Putra and Lili Szabo

Rule-based System for Automatic Grammar Correction Using Syntactic N-grams for English Language Learning (L2) Grigori Sidorov, Anubhav Gupta, Martin Tozer, Dolors Catala, Angels Catena and Sandrine Fuentes

Memory-based Grammatical Error Correction Antal van den Bosch and Peter Berck

A Noisy Channel Model Framework for Grammatical Correction L. Amber Wilcox-O’Hearn

A Hybrid Model For Grammatical Error Correction Yang Xiang, Bo Yuan, Yaoyun Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Wen Zheng and Chongqiang Wei

KUNLP Grammatical Error Correction System For CoNLL-2013 Shared Task Bong-Jun Yi, Ho-Chang Lee and Hae-Chang Rim

5:00 PM    Business meeting