18:00 – 21:30

Reception

8:00 – 9:00	Registration Front Lobby of Conference Hall 2, First Floor
9:00 – 9:30	Opening Ceremonies Session Chair: Chengqing Zong Conference Hall 2, First Floor
9:30 – 10:30	Keynote Talk: John Gabrieli Neural Correlates of Language in the Human Brain Session Chair: Aravind Joshi Conference Hall 2, First Floor
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	Keynote Talk: Suzanne Stevenson Word Learning by Kids and Computers: How Can Research on One Inform the Other? Session Chair: Dan Jurafsky Conference Hall 2, First Floor
12:00 – 13:50	Lunch
13:50 – 15:30	Oral Session
	Semantics I Session Chair: Iryna Gurevych Conference Hall 2A 13:50 – 14:15 Estimating Linear Models for Compositional Distributional Semantics Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Francesca Fallucchi and Suresh Manandhar 14:15 – 14:40 Towards an optimal weighting of context words based on distance Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve, Jian-Yun Nie and Noriko Kando 14:40 – 15:05 Automatic analysis of semantic similarity in comparable text through syntactic tree matching Erwin Marsi and Emiel Krahmer 15:05 – 15:30 A Methodology for Automatic Identification of Nocuous Ambiguity Hui Yang, Anne De Roeck, Alistair Willis and Bashar Nuseibeh
	Machine Translation 1 and Dialog Session Chair: Yanjun Ma Conference Hall 2B 13:50 – 14:15 Syntax Based Reordering with Automatically Derived Rules for Improved Statistical Machine Translation Karthik Visweswariah, Jiri Navratil, Jeffrey Sorensen, Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Nandakishore Kambhatla 14:15 – 14:40 Constituent Reordering and Syntax Models for English-to-Japanese Statistical Machine Translation Young-Suk Lee, Bing Zhao and Xiaoqian Luo 14:40 – 15:05 Dependency Forest for Statistical Machine Translation Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin 15:05 – 15:30 Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling Derya Ozkan, Kenji Sagae and Louis-Philippe Morency
	Summarization 1 Session Chair: Lu, Qin Conference Hall 2C 13:50 – 14:15 A Rhetorical Syntax-Driven Model for Speech Summarization Jian Zhang and Pascale Fung 14:15 – 14:40 Opinosis: A Graph Based Approach to Abstractive Summarization of Highly Redundant Opinions Kavita Ganesan, ChengXiang Zhai and Jiawei Han 14:40 – 15:05 Multi-Document Summarization via the Minimum Dominating Set Chao Shen and Tao Li 15:05 – 15:30 Simultaneous Ranking and Clustering of Sentences: A Reinforcement Approach to Multi-Document Summarization Xiaoyan Cai, Wenjie Li, You Ouyang and Hong Yan
	Sentiment 1 Session Chair: Vincent Ng Meeting Room 311, Second Floor 13:50 – 14:15 Grouping Product Features Using Semi-Supervised Learning with Soft-Constraints Zhongwu Zhai, Bing Liu, Hua Xu and Peifa Jia 14:15 – 14:40 The Bag-of-Opinions Method for Review Rating Prediction from Sparse Text Patterns Lizhen Qu, Georgiana Ifrim and Gerhard Weikum 14:40 – 15:05 An Exploration of Features for Recognizing Word Emotion Changqin Quan and Fuji Ren 15:05 – 15:30 Sentiment Classification and Polarity Shifting Shoushan Li, Sophia Y. M. Lee, Ying Chen, Chu-Ren Huang and Guodong Zhou
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:40	Oral Session
	Semantics 2 Session Chair: Alessandro Moschitti Conference Hall 2A 16:00 – 16:25 SemanticRank: Ranking Keywords and Sentences Using Semantic Graphs George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis and Kjetil Nørvåg 16:25 – 16:50 Near-synonym Lexical Choice in Latent Semantic Space Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst 16:50 – 17:15 Value for Money: Balancing Annotation Effort, Lexicon Building and Accuracy for Multilingual WSD Mitesh Khapra, Saurabh Sohoney, Anup Kulkarni and Pushpak Bhattacharyya 17:15 – 17:40 Bringing Active Learning to Life Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Alexis Palmer
	Information Retrieval 1 Session Chair: Feiyu Xu Conference Hall 2B 16:00 – 16:25 Enhancing Cross Document Coreference of Web Documents with Context Similarity and Very Large Scale Text Categorization Jian Huang, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Sarah Taylor and C. Lee Giles 16:25 – 16:50 Automatic generation of inter-passage links based on semantic similarity Petr Knoth, Jakub Novotny and Zdenek Zdrahal 16:50 – 17:15 A Large Scale Ranker-Based System for Search Query Spelling Correction Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Quirk and Xu Sun 17:15 – 17:40 Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Approximate Dictionary Matching Naoaki Okazaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii
	Parsing 1 Session Chair: Julia Hockenmaier Conference Hall 2C 16:00 – 16:25 Heterogeneous Parsing via Collaborative Decoding Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu and Tong Xiao 16:25 – 16:50 Top Accuracy and Fast Dependency Parsing is not a Contradiction Bernd Bohnet 16:50 – 17:15 Fast and Accurate Arc Filtering for Dependency Parsing Shane Bergsma and Colin Cherry 17:15 – 17:40 2D Trie for fast parsing Xian Qian, Qi Zhang, Xuangjing Huang and Lide Wu
	Discourse 1: Coreference Session Chair: Pascal Denis Meeting Room 311, Second Floor 16:00 – 16:25 Maximum Metric Score Training for Coreference Resolution Shanheng Zhao and Hwee Tou Ng 16:25 – 16:50 Resolving Object and Attribute Coreference in Opinion Mining Xiaowen Ding and Bing Liu 16:50 – 17:15 Dependency-driven Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou, Longhua Qian and Qiaoming Zhu 17:15 – 17:40 End-to-End Coreference Resolution via Hypergraph Partitioning Jie Cai and Michael Strube

8:30 – 10:10	Oral Session
	Information Extraction 1 Session Chair: Gary Geunbae Lee Conference Hall 2A 8:30 – 8:55 Open Entity Extraction from Web Search Query Logs Alpa Jain and Marco Pennacchiotti 8:55 – 9:20 Entity Linking Leveraging Automatically Generated Annotation Wei Zhang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan and Wen Ting Wang 9:20 – 9:45 Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber and Tim Finin 9:45 – 10:10 Entity-Focused Sentence Simplification for Relation Extraction Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao and Jun'ichi Tsujii
	Machine Translation 2 Session Chair: Christian Boitet Conference Hall 2B 8:30 – 8:55 Joint Tokenization and Translation Xinyan Xiao, Yang Liu, YoungSook Hwang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin 8:55 – 9:20 EMDC: A Semi-supervised Approach for Word Alignment Qin Gao, Francisco Guzman and Stephan Vogel 9:20 – 9:45 Enhancing Morphological Alignment for Translating Highly Inflected Languages Minh-Thang Luong and Min-Yen Kan 9:45 – 10:10 Contextual Modeling for Meeting Translation Using Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Mei Yang and Katrin Kirchhoff
	Natural Language Generation Session Chair: Cecile Paris Conference Hall 2C 8:30 – 8:55 Computing EM-based Alignments of Routes and Route Directions as a Basis for Natural Language Generation Michael Roth and Anette Frank 8:55 – 9:20 Broad Coverage Multilingual Deep Sentence Generation with a Stochastic Multi-Level Realizer Bernd Bohnet, Leo Wanner, Simon Mill and Alicia Burga 9:20 – 9:45 RTG based surface realisation for TAG Claire Gardent and Laura Perez-Beltrachini 9:45 – 10:10 Unsupervised Synthesis of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles Yuncong Chen and Pascale Fung
	Sentiment 2 Session Chair: Maskey, Sameer Meeting Room 311, Second Floor 8:30 – 8:55 Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better? Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe 8:55 – 9:20 Disambiguating Dynamic Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives Yunfang Wu and Miaomiao Wen 9:20 – 9:45 Exploiting Structured Ontology to Organize Scattered Online Opinions Yue Lu, Huizhong Duan, Hongning Wang and ChengXiang Zhai 9:45 – 10:10 Build Chinese Emotion Lexicons Using A Graph-based Algorithm and Multiple Resources Ge Xu, Xinfan Meng and Houfeng Wang
10:10 – 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:20	Oral Session
	Semantics 3 Session Chair: Igor Boguslavsky Conference Hall 2A 10:40 – 11:05 Metaphor Identification Using Verb and Noun Clustering Ekaterina Shutova, Lin Sun and Anna Korhonen 11:05 – 11:30 A Structured Vector Space Model for Hidden Attribute Meaning in Adjective-Noun Phrases Matthias Hartung and Anette Frank 11:30 – 11:55 Resolving Surface Forms to Wikipedia Topics Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian Vasile and Scott Gaffney 11:55 – 12:20 Learning the Scope of Negation via Shallow Semantic Parsing Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hongling Wang and Qiaoming Zhu
	Multilingualism: Parallel and Comparable Corpora Session Chair: Nianwen Xue Conference Hall 2B 10:40 – 11:05 Improving Corpus Comparability for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Bo Li and Eric Gaussier 11:05 – 11:30 Revisiting Context-based Projection Methods for Term-Translation Spotting in Comparable Corpora Audrey Laroche and Philippe Langlais 11:30 – 11:55 An Empirical Study on Web Mining of Parallel Data Gumwon Hong, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou and Hae-Chang Rim 11:55 – 12:20 Robust Measurement and Comparison of Context Similarity for Finding Translation Pairs Daniel Andrade, Tetsuya Nasukawa and Junichi Tsujii
	Statistical and Machine Learning Models 1 Session Chair: Tiejun Zhao Conference Hall 2C 10:40 – 11:05 Probabilistic Tree-Edit Models with Structured Latent Variables for Textual Entailment and Question Answering Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning 11:05 – 11:30 A Monolingual Tree-based Translation Model for Sentence Simplification Zhemin Zhu, Delphine Bernhard and Iryna Gurevych 11:30 – 11:55 Semi-supervised dependency parsing using generalized tri-training Anders Søgaard and Christian Rishøj 11:55 – 12:20 Inducing Fine-Grained Semantic Classes via Hierarchical and Collective Classification Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng
	Language Resources 1 Session Chair: Eva Hajicova Meeting Room 311, Second Floor 10:40 – 11:05 An Ontology-driven System for Detecting Global Health Events Nigel Collier, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, John McCrae, Son Doan, Ai Kawazoe, Mike Conway, Asanee Kawtrakul, Koichi Takeuchi and Dinh Dien 11:05 – 11:30 Exploring Variation Across Biomedical Subdomains Tom Lippincott, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Lin Sun and Anna Korhonen 11:30 – 11:55 Hungarian Corpus of Light Verb Constructions Veronika Vincze and János Csirik 11:55 – 12:20 Standardizing Wordnets in the ISO Standard LMF: Wordnet-LMF for GermaNet Verena Henrich and Erhard Hinrichs
12:20 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:40	Oral Session
	Semantics 4 Session Chair: Shane Bergsma Conference Hall 2A 14:00 – 14:25 A Multiple-Domain Ontology Builder Sara Salem and Samir AbdelRahman 14:25 – 14:50 A Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Approach for Relation Detection Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Jonghoon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee 14:50 – 15:15 Automatic Detection of Non-deverbal Event Nouns for Quick Lexicon Production Nuria Bel, Maria Coll and Gabriela Resnik 15:15 – 15:40 Detection of Simple Plagiarism in Computer Science Papers Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Aharon Tayeb and Natan Ben-Dror
	Machine Translation 3 Session Chair: Yang Liu Conference Hall 2B 14:00 – 14:25 Adaptive Development Data Selection for Log-linear Model in Statistical Machine Translation Mu Li, Ying-Gong Zhao, Dongdong Zhang and Ming Zhou 14:25 – 14:50 Fluency Constraints for Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding of Statistical Machine Translation Lattices Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert and William Byrne 14:50 – 15:15 Mixture Model-based Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding using Multiple Machine Translation Systems Nan Duan, Mu Li, Dongdong Zhang and Ming Zhou 15:15 – 15:40 Feature-Rich Discriminative Phrase Rescoring for SMT Fei Huang and Bing Xiang
	Grammar and Parsing 1 Session Chair: Emily Bender Conference Hall 2C 14:00 – 14:25 Comparing Language Similarity Across Genetic and Typologically-Based Groupings Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia and William Lewis 14:25 – 14:50 Normal-form Parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammars with Generalized Composition and Type-raising Julia Hockenmaier and Yonatan Bisk 14:50 – 15:15 Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies Joakim Nivre, Laura Rimell, Ryan McDonald and Carlos Gómez Rodríguez 15:15 – 15:40 Syntactic Scope Resolution in Uncertainty Analysis Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal and Stephan Oepen
	Statistical and Machine Learning Models 2 Session Chair: Dekang Lin Meeting Room 311, Second Floor 14:00 – 14:25 Knowing What to Believe (When You Already Know Something) Jeff Pasternack and Dan Roth 14:25 – 14:50 Co-STAR: A Co-training Style Algorithm for Hyponymy Relation Acquisition from Structured and Unstructured Text Jong-Hoon Oh, Ichiro Yamada, Kentaro Torisawa and Stijn De Saeger 14:50 – 15:15 Kernel Slicing: Scalable Online Training with Conjunctive Features Naoki Yoshinaga and Masaru Kitsuregawa 15:15 – 15:40 Fast, Greedy Model Minimization for Unsupervised Tagging Sujith Ravi, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight and David Chiang
15:40 – 16:10	Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:40	Demo Session 1 - Language Processing, Data Annotation Session Chair: Philippe Blache Conference Hall 2A
	A High-Performance Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parser Anders Björkelund, Bernd Bohnet, Love Hafdell, Pierre Nugues LTP: A Chinese Language Technology Platform Wangxiang Che, Zhenghua Li, Ting Liu Annotation Tool for Discourse in PDT 2.0 Jiří Mírovský, Petr Pajas, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Lucie Mladová, Šárka Zikánová Pronoun Resolution for Text and Dialogue Eleni Miltsakaki Cloud Computing for Linguists Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylow PanLex and LEXTRACT: Translating all Words of all Languages of the World Timothy Baldwin, Jonathan Pool and Susan M. Colowick
16:10 – 17:40
	RING (RefreshINGenious Ideas) Session Session Chair: Aravind Joshi Conference Hall 2B and 2C 16:10 – 16:40 "The Pendulum has swung too far. The revival of empiricism in the 1990s was an exciting time. But now there is no longer much room for anything else." Ken Church and Mark Johnson 16:40 – 17:10 "PRO: CL works and has no need for theories from Linguistics, Psychology, or Cognitive Science. CON: It actually does not work yet, and won't until it starts listening." Ed Hovy and Michael Zock 17:10 – 17:40 "More Data or Better Data and How to Decide? Scaling up annotation and scaling down resources as future HLT trends." Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, and Dekang Lin

Day time	City/Culture Tour
Night time	ICCL Meeting

8:30 – 10:10	Oral Session
	Information Extraction 2 Session Chair: Roi Reichart Conference Hall 2A 8:30 – 8:55 TimeML Events Recognition and Classification: Learning CRF Models with Semantic Roles Hector Llorens, Estela Saquete and Borja Navarro-Colorado 8:55 – 9:20 Filtered Ranking for Bootstrapping in Event Extraction Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman 9:20 – 9:55 Evaluating Dependency Representations for Event Extraction Makoto Miwa, Sampo Pyysalo, Tadayoshi Hara and Jun'ichi Tsujii 9:55 – 10:20 Simplicity is Better: Revisiting Single Kernel PPI Extraction Sung-Pil Choi and Sung-Hyon Myaeng
	Sentiment 3 Session Chair: Jianfeng Gao Conference Hall 2B 8:30 – 8:55 Learning to Predict Readability using Diverse Linguistic Features Rohit Kate, Xiaoqiang Luo, Siddharth Patwardhan, Martin Franz, Radu Florian, Raymond Mooney, Salim Roukos and Chris Welty 8:55 – 9:20 A Hierarchical Classifier Applied to Multi-way Sentiment Detection Adrian Bickerstaffe and Ingrid Zukerman 9:20 – 9:45 Structure-Aware Review Mining and Summarization Fangtao Li, Chao Han, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ying-Ju Xia, Shu Zhang and Hao Yu 9:45 – 10:10 Reranking Models in Fine-grained Opinion Analysis Richard Johansson and Alessandro Moschitti
	Parsing 2 Session Chair: Fei Xia Conference Hall 2C 8:30 – 8:55 Automatic Discovery of Feature Sets for Dependency Parsing Peter Nilsson and Pierre Nugues 8:55 – 9:20 Using Web-scale N-grams to Improve Base NP Parsing Performance Emily Pitler, Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin and Kenneth Church 9:20 – 9:55 Data-Driven Parsing with Probabilistic Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems Laura Kallmeyer and Wolfgang Maier 9:55 – 10:20 Forest-guided Supertagger Training Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki and Jun'ichi Tsujii
8:50 – 10:30	Poster Session I (MT, ML and Applications) Session Chair: Smaranda Muresan Meeting Room 203
10:10 – 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:20	Oral Session
	Semantics 5 Session Chair: Alexis Palmer Conference Hall 2A 10:40 – 11:05 Leveraging Multiple MT Engines for Paraphrase Generation Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Xiang Lan and Ting Liu 11:05 – 11:30 Paraphrasing with Search Engine Query Logs Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu 11:30 – 11:55 Paraphrase Alignment for Synonym Evidence Discovery Guintaré Grigonyté, João Paulo Cordeiro, Gaël Dias, Rumen Moraliyski and Pavel Brazdil 11:55 – 12:20 Recognising Entailment within Discourse Shachar Mirkin, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan and Eyal Shnarch
	Machine Translation 4 Session Chair: Young-Suk Lee Conference Hall 2B 10:40 – 11:05 Automatically Learning Source-side Reordering Rules for Large Scale Machine Translation Dmitriy Genzel 11:05 – 11:30 Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation with Word-based Reordering Model Katsuhiko Hayashi, Hajime Tsukada, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh and Seiichi Yamamoto 11:30 – 11:55 A Novel Reordering Model Based on Multi-layer Phrase for Statistical Machine Translation Yanqing He, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong and Huilin Wang 11:55 – 12:20 A Discriminative Latent Variable-Based "DE" Classifier for Chinese-English SMT Jinhua Du and Andy Way
	Morphology 1 Session Chair: Shuly Wintner Conference Hall 2C 10:40 – 11:05 Unsupervised phonemic Chinese word segmentation using Adaptor Grammars Mark Johnson and Katherine Demuth 11:05 – 11:30 A Character-Based Joint Model for Chinese Word Segmentation Kun Wang, Chengqing Zong and Keh-Yih Su 11:30 – 11:55 Generating Learner-Like Morphological Errors in Russian Markus Dickinson 11:55 – 12:20 Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson and Robert Dale
11:00 – 12:40	Poster Session II (IR, Sentiment, Text Clasification and Mining) Session Chair: Mengqiu Wang Meeting Room 203
12:20 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:40	Oral Session
	Semantics 6 Session Chair: Yunfang Wu Conference Hall 2A 14:00 – 14:25 Jointly Modeling WSD and SRL with Markov Logic Wanxiang Che and Ting Liu 14:25 – 14:50 Semantic Role Labeling for News Tweets Xiaohua Liu, Kuan Li, Bo Han, Ming Zhou, Long Jiang, Zhongyang Xiong and Changning Huang 14:50 – 15:15 A Minimum Error Weighting Combination Strategy for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling Tao Zhuang and Chengqing Zong 15:15 – 15:40 Investigating the Cross-linguistic Potential of VerbNet-style Classification Lin Sun, Thierry Poibeau, Anna Korhonen and Cedric Messiant
	Machine Translation 5 Session Chair: Pierre Isabelle Conference Hall 2B 14:00 – 14:25 Semantic Role Features for Machine Translation Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea 14:25 – 14:50 Discriminative Induction of Sub-Tree Alignment using Limited Labeled Data Jun Sun, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan 14:50 – 15:15 Joint Parsing and Translation Yang Liu and Qun Liu
	Language Resources 2 Session Chair: Key-Sun Choi Conference Hall 2C 14:00 – 14:25 Chinese CCGbank: extracting CCG derivations from the Penn Chinese Treebank Daniel Tse and James R. Curran 14:25 – 14:50 Enriching Dictionaries with Images from the Internet - Targeting Wikipedia and a Japanese Semantic Lexicon: Lexeed Sanae Fujita and Masaaki Nagata 14:50 – 15:15 Using Cross-Lingual Projections to Generate Semantic Role Labeled Annotated Corpus for Urdu - A Resource Poor Language Smruthi Mukund, Debanjan Ghosh and Rohini Srihari 15:15 – 15:40 Evaluating N-gram based Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Keyphrase Extraction Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan
14:20 – 16:00	Poster Session III (Parsing, Syntax, Generation, Morphology) Session Chair: Hans Uszkoreit Meeting Room 203
	Demo Session 2 - NLP Applications Meeting Room 203 COMUNICA - A Question Answering System for Brazilian Portuguese Rodrigo Wilkens, Aline Villavicencio, Daniel Muller, Leandro Wives, Fabio da Silva, Stanley Loh Have2eat: a Restaurant Finder with Review Summarization for Mobile Phones Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Narendra Gupta, Sveva Besana, Premkumar Mani YanFa: An Online Automatic Scoring and Intelligent Feedback System Yan Tian, Shaoyun Yan A Paraphrasing System for Transforming Regular Expressions into Honorifics Dongli Han, Shuntaro Kamochi, Xin Song, Naoki Akegawa, Tomomasa Hori
15:40 – 16:10	Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:50	Oral Session
	Information Extraction 3 Session Chair: Weiguang Qu Conference Hall 2A 16:10 – 16:35 Bipolar Person Name Identification of Topic Documents Using Principal Component Analysis Chien Chin Chen and Chen-Yuan Wu 16:35 – 17:00 Exploiting Background Knowledge for Relation Extraction Yee Seng Chan and Dan Roth 17:00 – 17:25 Self-Annotation for Fine-grained Geospatial Relation Extraction Andre Blessing and Hinrich Schütze 17:25 – 17:50 Emotion Cause Detection with Linguistic Constructions Ying Chen, Sophia Yat Mei Lee, Shoushan Li and Chu-Ren Huang
	Machine Translation 6 Session Chair: Dan Gildea Conference Hall 2B 16:10 – 16:35 Phrase Clustering for Smoothing TM Probabilities - or, How to Extract Paraphrases from Phrase Tables Roland Kuhn, Boxing Chen, George Foster and Evan Stratford 16:35 – 17:00 Translation Model Generalization using Probability Averaging for Machine Translation Nan Duan, Hong Sun and Ming Zhou 17:00 – 17:25 Local Lexical Adaptation in Machine Translation through Triangulation: SMT Helping SMT Josep Maria Crego, Aurélien Max and François Yvon 17:25 – 17:50 Large Scale Parallel Document Mining for Machine Translation Jakob Uszkoreit, Jay Ponte, Ashok Popat and Moshe Dubiner
	Discourse 2 Session Chair: Ingrid Zukerman Conference Hall 2C 16:10 – 16:35 Modeling Socio-Cultural Phenomena in Discourse Tomek Strzalkowski, George Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Samira Shaikh, Sarah Taylor and Nick Webb 16:35 – 17:00 Comparison of different algebras for inducing the temporal structure of texts Pascal Denis and Philippe Muller 17:00 – 17:25 Testing SDRT's Right Frontier Stergos Afantenos and Nicholas Asher 17:25 – 17:50 A Twin-Candidate Based Approach for Event Pronoun Resolution using Composite Kernel Bin Chen, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan
18:30 – 21:30	Banquet

8:30 – 10:10	Oral Session
	Text Mining 1 Session Chair: Nigel Collier Conference Hall 2A 8:30 – 8:55 Discriminative Training for Near-Synonym Substitution Liang-Chih Yu, Hsiu-Min Shih, Yu-Ling Lai, Jui-Feng Yeh and Chung-Hsien Wu 8:55 – 9:20 FactRank: Random Walks on a Web of Facts Alpa Jain and Patrick Pantel 9:20 – 9:45 Corpus-based Semantic Class Mining: Distributional vs. Pattern-Based Approaches Shuming Shi, Huibin Zhang, Xiaojie Yuan and Ji-Rong Wen 9:45 –10:10 Explore the Structure of Social Tags by Subsumption Relations Xiance Si, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun
	Information Retrieval 2 Session Chair: Guodong Zhou Conference Hall 2B 8:30 – 8:55 A Utility-Driven Approach to Question Ranking in Social QA Razvan Bunescu and Yunfeng Huang 8:55 – 9:20 Exploiting Salient Patterns for Question Detection and Question Retrieval in Community-based Question Answering Kai Wang and Tat-Seng Chua 9:20 – 9:45 An Empirical Study on Learning to Rank of Tweets Yajuan Duan, Long Jiang, Tao Qin, Ming Zhou and Heung-Yeung Shum
	Grammar and Parsing 2 Session Chair: Sadao Kurohashi Conference Hall 2C 8:30 – 8:55 Improving the Quality of Text Understanding by Delaying Ambiguity Resolution Doo Soon Kim, Ken Barker and Bruce Porter 8:55 – 9:20 A Working Report on Statistically Modeling Dative Variation in Mandarin Chinese Yao Yao and Feng-hsi Liu 9:20 – 9:45 Constraining robust constructions for broad-coverage parsing with precision grammars Bart Cramer and Yi Zhang 9:45 –10:10 Better Arabic Parsing: Baselines, Evaluations, and Analysis Spence Green and Christopher D. Manning
8:50 – 10:30	Poster Session IV (Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse, Chinese) Session Chair: Adam Vogel Meeting Room 203
10:10 – 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:20	Oral Session
	Text Mining 2 Session Chair: Jun'ichi Tsujii Conference Hall 2A 10:40 – 11:05 Finding the Storyteller: Automatic Spoiler Tagging using Linguistic Cues Sheng Guo and Naren Ramakrishnan 11:05 – 11:30 Efficient Statement Identification for Automatic Market Forecasting Henning Wachsmuth, Peter Prettenhofer and Benno Stein 11:30 – 11:55 Plagiarism Detection across Distant Language Pairs Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, Eneko Agirre and Gorka Labaka 11:55 –12:20 “Got You!”: Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia with Web-based Shallow Syntactic-Semantic Modeling William Yang Wang and Kathleen McKeown
	Morphology 2 Session Chair: Tim Baldwin Conference Hall 2B 10:40 – 11:05 Weakly Supervised Morphology Learning for Agglutinating Languages Using Small Training Sets. Ksenia Shalonova and Bruno Golenia 11:05 – 11:30 Ukwabelana - An Open-source Morphological Zulu Corpus Sebastian Spiegler, Andrew van der Spuy and Peter A. Flach 11:30 – 11:55 EMMA: A Novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis Sebastian Spiegler and Christian Monson 11:55 –12:20 Identifying Multi-word Expressions by Leveraging Morphological and Syntactic Idiosyncrasy Hassan Al-haj and Shuly Wintner
	Summarization 2 Session Chair: Aitao Chen Conference Hall 2C 10:40 – 11:05 Towards a Unified Approach to Simultaneous Single-Document and Multi-Document Summarizations Xiaojun Wan 11:05 – 11:30 Citation Summarization Through Keyphrase Extraction Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev and Arzucan Ozgur 11:30 – 11:55 Text Summarization of Turkish Texts using Latent Semantic Analysis Makbule Ozsoy, Ilyas Cicekli and Ferda Alpaslan 11:55 –12:20 Multi-Sentence Compression: Finding Shortest Paths in Word Graphs Katja Filippova
11:00 – 12:40	Poster Session V (IE, Dialog, Speech, Summarization) Session Chair: Mona Diab Meeting Room 203
	Demo Session 3 - Word and Concept Session Chair: Pushpak Bhattacharyya Meeting Room 203 E-HowNet and Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology Wei-Te Chen, Su-Chu Lin, Shu-Ling Huang, You-Shan Chung, Keh-Jiann Chen Hownet Zhendong Dong PyCWN: a Python Module for Chinese Wordnet Yueh-Cheng Wu, Shu-Kai Hsieh HCAMiner: Mining Concept Associations for Knowledge Discovery through Concept Chain Queries Wei Jin, Xin Wu Multiword Expressions in the Wild? The Mwetoolkit Comes in Handy Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boitet
12:20 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:40
	Best Paper Finalists Session Chair: Sun, Le Conference Hall 2, First Floor 14:00 – 14:25 Controlling Listening-oriented Dialogue using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Kohji Dohsaka 14:25 – 14:50 Nonparametric Word Segmentation for Machine Translation ThuyLinh Nguyen, Stephan Vogel and Noah A. Smith 14:50 – 15:15 Recognition of Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation in Text Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka 15:15 –15:40 Measuring the Non-compositionality of Multiword Expressions Fan Bu, Xiaoyan Zhu and Ming Li
15:40 – 16:10	Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:10	Keynote Talk: Li Xiangting The Essence of Ancient Chinese Culture － The Art of the Guqin (Chinese Zither) Session Chair: Chu-Ren Huang Conference Hall 2, First Floor
17:10 – 17:40	Closing Session Session Chairs: Chu-Ren Huang and Dan Jurafsky Conference Hall 2, First Floor