Friday, 11 January 2008 |
| 09:00–09:10 |
Opening Remarks |
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Session 1: Translation and Transliteration |
| 09:10–09:35 |
An Example-based Decoder for Spoken Language Machine Translation
Zhou-Jun Li, Wen-Han Chao and Yue-Xin Chen |
| 09:35–10:00 |
Automatic Extraction of English-Chinese Transliteration Pairs using Dynamic Window and Tokenizer
Chengguo Jin, Seung-Hoon Na, Dong-Il Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Mining Transliterations from Web Query Results: An Incremental Approach
Jin-Shea Kuo, Haizhou Li and Chih-Lung Lin |
| 10:25–11:00 |
Break |
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Session 2: Information Extraction and Word Sense Disambiguation |
| 11:00–11:25 |
An Effective Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Coreference Resolution
Feiliang Ren and Jingbo Zhu |
| 11:25–11:50 |
Use of Event Types for Temporal Relation Identification in Chinese Text
Yuchang Cheng, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 11:50–12:15 |
Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with PageRank and HowNet
Jinghua Wang, Jianyi Liu and Ping Zhang |
| 12:15–14:15 |
Lunch |
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Session 3: Word Segmentation and Parsing |
| 14:15–14:40 |
Stochastic Dependency Parsing Based on A* Admissible Search
Bor-shen Lin |
| 14:40–15:05 |
Analyzing Chinese Synthetic Words with Tree-based Information and a Survey on Chinese Morphologically Derived Words
Jia Lu, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto |
| 15:05–15:30 |
Which Performs Better on In-Vocabulary Word Segmentation: Based on Word or Character?
Zhenxing Wang, Changning Huang and Jingbo Zhu |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Break |
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Session 4: Bakeoff Overview and Presentations |
| 16:00–16:20 |
The Fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff: Chinese Word Segmentation, Named Entity Recognition and Chinese POS Tagging
Guangjin Jin and Xiao Chen |
| 16:20–16:40 |
A Two-Stage Approach to Chinese Part-of-Speech Tagging
Aitao Chen, Ya Zhang and Gordon Sun |
| 16:40–17:00 |
NOKIA Research Center Beijing Chinese Word Segmentation System for the SIGHAN Bakeoff 2007
Jiang Li, Rile Hu, Guohua Zhang, Yuezhong Tang, Zhanjiang Song and Xia Wang |
| 17:00–17:20 |
Chinese Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition Based on Conditional Random Fields
Xinnian Mao, Yuan Dong, Saike He, Sencheng Bao and Haila Wang |
Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
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Session 5: Bakeoff Presentations |
| 09:10–09:30 |
BUPT Systems in the SIGHAN Bakeoff 2007
Ying Qin, Caixia Yuan, Jiashen Sun and Xiaojie Wang |
| 09:30–09:50 |
The Character-based CRF Segmenter of MSRA&NEU for the 4th Bakeoff
Zhenxing Wang, Changning Huang and Jingbo Zhu |
| 09:50–10:10 |
Chinese NER Using CRFs and Logic for the Fourth SIGHAN Bakeoff
Xiaofeng Yu, Wai Lam, Shing-Kit Chan, Yiu Kei Wu and Bo Chen |
| 10:10–10:30 |
Unsupervised Segmentation Helps Supervised Learning of Character Tagging for Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition
Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00–12:30 |
SIGHAN Business Meeting |
