WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Monday, April 3

9:00-9:15 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY NOTES

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FULL PAPER SESSION

9:15-9:40 Maximum Entropy Tagging with Binary and Real-Valued Features

Vanessa Sandrini, Marcello Federico and Mauro Cettolo

9:40-10:05 Constraint Satisfaction Inference: Non-probabilistic Global Inference for Sequence Labelling

Sander Canisius, Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans

10:05-10:30 Decomposition Kernels for Natural Language Processing

Fabrizio Costa, Sauro Menchetti, Alessio Ceroni, Andrea Passerini and Paolo Frasconi

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10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:05-11:50 Invited Speaker: Thomas Gäertner, Fraunhofer AIS.KD

Title of the Talk: A Survey of Kernels for Structured Data

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POSITION PAPER SESSION

11:50-12:10 A Multiclassifier based Document Categorization System: profiting from the Singular Value

Decomposition Dimensionality Reduction Technique

Ana Zelaia, Iñaki Alegria, Olatz Arregi and Basilio Sierra

12:10-12:30 Discourse Parsing: Learning FOL Rules based on Rich Verb Semantic Representations to

automatically label Rhetorical Relations

Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio and Su Nam Kim

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12:30-14:00 LAUNCH BREAK

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FULL PAPER SESSION

14:00-14:25 Reranking Translation Hypotheses Using Structural Properties

Saša Hasan, Oliver Bender, and Hermann Ney

14:25-14:50 Tree Kernel Engineering in Semantic Role Labeling Systems

Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin and Roberto Basili

14:50-15:15 Syntagmatic Kernels: a Word Sense Disambiguation Case Study

Claudio Giuliano, Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava

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POSITION PAPER SESSION

15:15-15:35 Learning to Identify Definitions using Syntactic Features

Ismail Fahmi and Gosse Bouma

15:35-15:55 An Ontology-Based Approach to Disambiguation of Semantic Relations

Tine Lassen and Thomas Vestskov Terney

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15:55-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

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FULL PAPER SESSION

16:30-16:55 Towards Free-text Semantic Parsing:

A Unified Framework Based on FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank

Ana-Maria Giuglea and Alessandro Moschitti

16:55-17:20 Constructing a Rule Based Naming System for Thai Names Using the Concept of Ontologies

Chakkrit Snae

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17:20-18:00 CONCLUSIVE REMARKS AND DISCUSSION