1. 14 September
9.00-10.00 Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Morning session 1a Morning session 1b
Semantics Parsing
10.00-10.30 10.00-10.30
Unsupervised Extraction of False Friends Lexicalized Semi-Incremental Dependency
from Parallel Bi-Texts Using the Web as a Parsing
Corpus Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an and Andy
Svetlin Nakov and Elena Paskaleva Way
10.30-11.00 10.30-11.00
Identifying Semantic Relations in Context: Co-Parsing with Competitive Models
Near-misses and Overlaps Lidia Khmylko, Kilian Foth and Wolfgang
Alla Rozovskaya and Roxana Girju Menzel
11.00-11.30 Coffee break

2. Morning session 2a Morning session 2b
Sentiment analysis Lexicon, dictionary
11.30-12.00 11.35-12.00
Classification of Opinions with Non- A morphological and syntactic wide-
affective Adverbs and Adjectives coverage lexicon for Spanish: The Leffe
Marina Sokolova and Guy Lapalme Miguel Angel Molinero Alvarez, Benoit
Sagot and Lionel Nicolas
12.00-12.25 12.00-12.25
Multi-entity Sentiment Scoring Exploring the Vector Space Model for
Karo Moilanen and Stephen Pulman Finding Verb Synonyms in Portuguese
Luis Sarmento, Paula Carvalho and
Eugenio Oliveira
12.25-12.50 12.25-12.50
Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language Grouping synonyms by senses
using a Word Sense Disambiguation Ingrid Falk, Claire Gardent, Evelyne
Approach Jacquey and Fabienne Venant
Vassiliki Rentoumi, George
Giannakopoulos, George Vouros and
Vangelis Karkaletsis
12.45-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
Afternoon session 1a Afternoon session 1b
Summarisation Grammars, POS tagging
15.30-15.55 15.30-15.55
A Semi-supervised Approach for An Interaction Grammar of interro-gative
Generating a Table-of-Contents & relative clauses in French
Viet Cuong Nguyen, Le Minh Nguyen and Guy Perrier
Akira Shimazu
15.55-16.20 15.55-16.20
Summary Generation for Toponym- Evaluating the Impact of Morphosyntactic
Referenced Images using Object Type Ambiguity in Grammatical Error Detection
Language Models Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Koldo Gojenola
Ahmet Aker and Robert Gaizauskas and Maite Oronoz
16.20-16.45 16.20-16.45
Contextual salience in query-based Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagger for

3. summarization Factored Language Modeling
Wauter Bosma Martha Yifiru Tachbelie and Wolfgang
Menzel
16.45-17.15 Coffee break
17.15-18.30 Poster presentations: session 1
15 September
9.00-10.00 Mirella Lapata
Morning session 1a Morning session 1b
Applications: MT and QA: Semantics:
10.00-10.30 10.00-10.30
Interactive machine translation based on Extracting Synonyms from Dictionary
partial statistical phrase-based alignments Definitions
Daniel Ortiz-Martinez, Ismael Garcia- Tong Wang and Graeme Hirst
Varea and Francisco Casacuberta
10.30-11.00 10.30-11.00
Q...-Answering over Structured Data: an Combining Knowledge Sources for
Entailment-Based Approach to Question Contextual Synonym Expansion
Analysis Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea
Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Morning session 2a Morning session 2b
Parsing: Term extraction:
11.30-11.55 11.30-11.55
Prepositional Phrase Attachment in Evaluating term extraction
Shallow Parsing Adeline Nazarenko and Haifa Zargayouna
Vincent Van Asch and Walter Daelemans
11.55-12.20 11.55-12.20
Exploring Treebank Transforma-tions in Too Many Mammals: Improving the

4. Dependency Parsing Diversity of Automatically Recognized
Koldo Gojenola and Kepa Bengoetxea Terms
Ziqi Zhang, Lei Xia, Mark A. Greenwood
and Jose Iria
12.20-12.45
Dependency Parsing and Semantic Role
Labeling as a Single Task
Roser Morante, Vincent Van Asch and
Antal van den Bosch
12.45-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Shalom Lappin
Afternoon session 1a Afternoon session 1b
Word-sense disambiguation, temporal Language learning:
processing:
15.30-15.55 15.30-15.55
Integrating WordNet and FrameNet using a SVD for Feature Selection in Taxonomy
knowledge-based Word Sense Learning
Disambiguation algorithm Francesca Fallucchi and Fabio Massimo
Egoitz Laparra and German Rigau Zanzotto
15.55-16.20 15.55-16.20
Semi-Supervised Learning for Word Sense Prototype-based Active Learning for
Disambiguation: Quality vs. Quantity Lemmatization
Desislava Zhekova and Sandra Kubler Walter Daelemans, Hendrik J Groenewald
and Gerhard B Van Huyssteen
16.20-16.45 16.20-16.45
Using Semantic Networks to Identify Sources of performance in CRF transfer
Temporal Expressions from Semantic training: a business name-tagging case
Roles study
Hector Llorens, Borja Navarro and Estela Marc Vilain, Jonathan Huggins and Ben
Saquete Wellner
16.45-17.15 Coffee break
17.15-18.30 Poster presentations: session 2

5. 16 September
9.00-10.00 Walter Daelemans
Morning session 1a Morning session 1b
Dialogue, lexical resources: Named Entity Recognition, Diachritisation:
10.00-10.30 10.00-10.30
Improving Unsegmented Statistical Feature Subset Selection in Conditional
Dialogue Act Labelling Random Fields for Named Entity
Vicent Tamarit, Carlos-D. Martinez- Recognition
Hinarejos and Jose-Miguel Benedi Roman Klinger and Christoph M.
Friedrich
10.30-11.00 10.30-11.00
Three issues about cross-language frame Diacritization for Real-World Arabic Texts
information transfer Emad Mohamed and Sandra Kubler
Sara Tonelli and Emanuele Pianta
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Morning session 2a Morning session 2b
Topic segmentation and modellling: Natural Language Generation, keyphrase
extraction:
11.30-12.00 11.30-12.00
Improving text segmentation by combining Text content and task performance in the
endogenous and exogenous methods evaluation of a Natural Language
Olivier Ferret Generation system
Albert Gatt and Francois Portet
12.00-12.30 12.00-12.30
Topic Modeling of Research Fields: An A Classification-driven Approach to
Interdisciplinary Perspective Document Planning
Michael Paul and Roxana Girju Rafael Oliveira, Eder Novais, Roberto
Araujo and Ivandre Paraboni
12.30-1.00 12.30-1.00
Topic-based Multi-Document Approximate Matching for Evaluating
Summarization with Probabilistic Latent Keyphrase Extraction
Semantic Analysis Leonhard Hennig Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych
1.00-2.30 Lunch

6. 14.30-15.30 Massimo Poesio
Afternoon session 1a Afternoon session 1b
Similarity, Information Extraction: Language resources,, language models,
anaphora resolution:
15.30-16.00 15.30-15.55
A study on Linking and disambiguating Towards efficient production of linguistic
Wikipedia categories to Wordnet using text resources: the Victoria Project
similarity Lionel Nicolas, Miguel Molinero Alvarez,
Antonio Toral, Oscar Ferrandez, Eneko Benoit Sagot, Elena S. Trigo, Eric De la
Agirre and Rafael Munoz Clergerie, Miguel Al. Pardo, Joan Miquel
Verges and Jacques Farre
16.00-16.30
Comparing Statistical Similarity Measures 15.55-16.20
for Stylistic Multivariate Analysis A morphological and syntactic wide-
Marius Popescu and Liviu Dinu coverage lexicon for Spanish: The Leffe
Miguel Angel Molinero Alvarez, Benoit
Sagot and Lionel Nicolas
16.20-16.45
Cross-document Event Extraction and 16.20-16.45
Tracking: Task, Evaluation, Techniques Instance Sampling Methods for Pronoun
and Challenges Resolution
Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Zheng Chen and Holger Wunsch, Sandra Kubler and
Prashant Gupta Rachael Cantrell
Coffee break 16.45-17.15
Poster session 3: 17.15-18.30
Closing 18.30

7. Poster presentations: session 1
String Distance Based Stemming of the Highly Inflected Croatian Language
Jan Snajder and Bojana Dalbelo Basic
Global Evaluation of Random Indexing through Swedish Word Clustering Compared to
the People's Dictionary of Synonyms
Magnus Rosell, Martin Hassel and Viggo Kann
Exploiting Latent Semantic Relations in Highly Linked Hypertext for Information
Retrieval in Wikis
Tristan Miller, Bertin Klein and Elisabeth Wolf
Statistical Confidence Measures for Probabilistic Parsing
Ricardo Sanchez-Saez, Joan Andreu Sanchez and Jose Miguel Benedi
A Unified Method for Extracting Simple and Multiword Verbs with Valence Information
and Application for Hungarian
Balint Sass
Attribute Extraction for taxonomies of concepts
Eduard Barbu and Massimo Poesio
The Design of an Experiment in Anaphora Resolution for Referring Expressions
Generation
Diego Lucena and Ivandre Paraboni
From Partial Toward Full Parsing
Heshaam Faili
Word Sense Induction From Multiple Semantic Spaces
Claire Mouton, Guillaume Pitel, Gael de Chalendar and Anne Vilnat
A Robust Tool for Compositional Polarity Classification
Manfred Klenner, Stefanos Petrakis and Angela Fahrni
A Model for the Cross-Modal Influence of Visual Context upon Language Processing
Patrick McCrae
All Words Unsupervised Semantic Category Labeling for Hindi
Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella, Rajeev Sangal and Soma Paul
Fast Boosting-based POS-Tagging and Text Chunking with Efficient Rule
Representation for Sequential Labeling
Tomoya Iwakura
Random Indexing and the episodic memory metaphor. Application to text categorization
Yann Vigile Hoareau, Adil El Ghali and Denis Legros

8. Poster presentations: session 2
The Influence of Text Pre-proce-ssing on Plagiarism Detection
Zdenek Ceska and Chris Fox
Combining Finite State and Corpus-based Techniques for Unknown Word Prediction
Kostadin Cholakov and Gertjan van Noord
Identification of Parallel Text Pairs Using Fingerprints
Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis
Unsupervised Learning of Relation Extraction Patterns in the Biomedical Domain
Naveed Afzal and Viktor Pekar
Bimodal Corpora Terminology Extr-raction: Another Brick in the Wall
Claudiu Mihaila and Dalila Mekhaldi
Integrating Document Structure to a Multi-Document Summarizer
Aurelien Bossard and Thierry Poibeau
Machine Learning of Affective Words in Russian and Romanian Languages
Marina Sokolova and Victoria Bobicev
Cross-Linguistic Sentiment Analysis: From English to Spanish
Julian Brooke, Milan Tofiloski and Maite Taboada
A Comparative Study of Open Domain and Opinion Question Answering Systems for
Factual and Opinionated Queries
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andres Montoyo and Patricio Martinez-Barco
Sampling-based multilingual alignment
Adrien Lardilleux and Yves Lepage
Language-Independent Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity and Positional Information
Veselin Raychev and Preslav Nakov
Feature-Rich Named Entity Recognition for Bulgarian Using Conditional Random Fields
Georgi Georgiev, Preslav Nakov, Kuzman Ganchev, Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov
User's Choice of Precision and Recall in NE Recognition
Roman Klinger and Christoph M. Friedrich
Learning to Identify Educational Materials
Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea

9. Poster presentations: session 3
How Limited is the Limit?
Prakash Mondal
An Approach to Natural Language Command Processing using Linguistic Analysis
Shubham Shukla
Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge for Basic Level Concepts
Eduard Barbu
Uncertainty Detection for Structured Information Extraction
Benedicte Goujon
Stochastic Definite Clause Grammars
Christian Theil Have
A method to restrict the blow-up of hypotheses of a non-disambiguated shallow machine
translation system
Jernej Vicic, Petr Homola and Vladislav Kubon
From Bag of Languages to Family Trees From Noisy Corpus
Taraka Rama and Anil Kumar Singh
Treelex meets Adjectival Tables
Anna Kupsc
Ontology engineering and knowledge extraction for cross-lingual retrieval
Jantine Trapman and Paola Monachesi
Exploiting the use of Prior Probabilities for Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Surya Ganesh Veeravalli and Vasudeva Varma
Exploiting structure and content of Wikipedia for Query Expansion in the context of Q...-
Answering
Surya Ganesh Veeravalli and Vasudeva Varma
Edlin: an easy to read linear learning framework
Kuzman Ganchev and Georgi Georgiev
Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition for Bulgarian
Petar Mitankin, Stoyan Mihov and Tinko Tinchev