Conference Programme

Monday 19th MarchTuesday 20th March
10:30 - 11:30Registration
11:30 - 11:45Opening Address
11:45 - 13:00Session 1 Morphological and Syntactic Processing11:20 - 13:00Session 3 Semantics and Ontologies
13:00 - 14:00Lunch13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:30Poster Session14:00 - 14:30Why not check out the CamLing poster session?
14:30 - 16:10Session 2 Text Classification, Named Entity Recognition and Information Retrieval14:30 - 16:10Session 4 Modelling Discourse and Dialogue
16:30 - 17:30Invited Talk: Mark Craven16:30 - 17:30Invited Talk: Stephen Clark
18:00Dinner at a local pub, probably The Eagle17:30 - 18:15Wine reception sponsored by CUP
19:00 for 19:30Dinner at Selwyn College

Session 1: Morphological and Syntactic Processing

Ben Allison and Sanaz Jabbari (Sheffield): Part-of-Speech Tagging for Persian
Waris Abdukerim Janbaz (Paris): Verbal suffixes in Uyghur: Towards Natural Language Processing
Yue Zhang (Oxford): Chinese word segmentation using a word-based perceptron algorithm

Session 2: Text Classification, Named Entity Recognition and Information Retrieval

Ioannis Korkontzelos (York), Andreas Vlachos and Ian Lewin (Cambridge): From Gene Names to Actual Genes
Wei Liu, Ben Allison and David Guthrie (Sheffield): Do we need automatic segmentation for Chinese text classification?
Taras Zagibalov (Sussex): Basic units for Chinese opinionated information retrieval
Ben Allison and Sanaz Jabbari (Sheffield): Detecting anomalous documents

Session 3: Semantics and Ontologies

Stuart Moore (Cambridge): Using Machine Learning on Semantic Representations: Predicting Null Semantic Words
Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge): Extracting Entailing Words from Small Corpora for Ontology Building
Geraldine Herbert (Dublin): Mapping Princeton Synsets onto Irish Synsets
Brian Harrington (Oxford): ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network

Session 4: Modelling Discourse and Dialogue

Karo Moilanen (Oxford): Sentiment Composition
Jonathon Read (Sussex): Annotating Expressions of Appraisal in English
Mark Buckley and Dominik Dietrich (Saarbrücken): Integrating Task Information into the Dialogue Context for Natural Language Mathematics Tutoring
Eri Nomikou (Liverpool): Misunderstandings and Relevance

Poster Session

Rachele de Felice (Oxford): Automatically acquiring models of preposition use
Lydiya Buda (Munich): Sentiment Analysis using Local Grammars with Applications to German
Mary Ronner (Dublin): Authorship Attributions Applied to Longitudinal Cognitive Studies