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[Mon 6/25 A.M.] [Mon 6/25 P.M.] [Tue 6/26 A.M.] [Tue 6/26 P.M.] [Wed 6/27 A.M.] [Wed 6/27 P.M.]

Monday June 25th, Morning

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III
8:45-9:00	Opening Session
9:00-10:00	Invited Talk by Tom Mitchel
10:00-10:30	Break
	Session 1A: Machine translation 1 Pascale Fung	Session 1B: Word Sense Disambiguation Diana McCarthy	Session 1C: Language Modeling 1 Gertjan van Noord	Session 1D: Phonology and Morphology 1 Lauri Karttunen
10:30-10:55	Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge Yonggang Deng and Yuqing Gao	Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and David Chiang	A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications Hal Daumé III and Lyle Campbell	Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid and Gregor Möhler
10:55-11:20	A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation Pi-Chuan Chang and Kristina Toutanova	Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes	A Discriminative Language Model with Pseudo-negative Samples Daisuke Okanohara and Jun’ichi Tsujii	Redundancy Ratio: An Invariant Property of the Consonant Inventories of the World’s Languages Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly
11:20-11:45	Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation John DeNero and Dan Klein	Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng	Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong, John Lee and Chin-Yew Lin	Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim and Richard Sproat
11:45-12:10	Transductive Learning for Statistical Machine Translation Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar	Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao	Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition Antti Puurula and Mikko Kurimo	Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo and Minghui Dong
12:10-13:30	Lunch

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Monday June 25th, Afternoon

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III	Corridor of TOP Congress Hall
	Session 2A: Machine Translation 2 Kevin Knight	Session 2B: Grammars Tracy King	Session 2C: Semantic Role Labeling Lluis Marquez	Session 2D: Language Resources Martha Palmer
13:30-13:55	Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova and Hisami Suzuki	Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl	Generalizing Semantic Role Annotations Across Syntactically Similar Verbs Andrew Gordon and Reid Swanson	SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad
13:55-14:20	Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff and Olga Mudraya	Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into Efficiently-parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold Mark Johnson	A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Aiti Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Guodong Zhou, Ting Liu and Sheng Li	Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel
14:20-14:45	Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models Liang Huang and David Chiang	Parsing and Generation as Datalog Queries Makoto Kanazawa	Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank Chang Liu and Hwee Tou Ng	Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank David Vadas and James Curran
14:45-15:10	Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner and Stephan Kanthak	Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length Daniel Gildea and David Temperley	A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences Katrin Erk	Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank Stephen Clark and James R. Curran	SRW Poster Session (14:45-16:35) for detail list see the SRW page
15:10-15:45	Break
	Session 3A: Machine Learning Methods 1 Fernando Pereira	Session 3B: Machine Translation 3 Dekai Wu	Session 3C: Generation Donia Scott	Session 3D: Multimodality 1 Bonnie Webber
15:45-16:10	Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation Hal Daumé III	Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima’an and Andy Way	Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses Katja Filippova and Michael Strube	Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution Jacob Eisenstein and Randall Davis
16:10-16:35	Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai	Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References Joshua S. Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa	A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar Claire Gardent and Eric Kow	The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman
16:35-17:00	The Infinite Tree Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager and Christopher D. Manning	Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa and Andy Way	Sentence Generation as a Planning Problem Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone	Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems Yi Liu, Joyce Y. Chai and Rong Jin
17:00-17:25	Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov and Dan Roth	Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz	GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale	A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Michelle Levine and Bernard Renger

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Tuesday June 26th, Morning

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III	Lounge 1
	Session 4A: Parsing 1 Ron Kaplan	Session 4B: Sentiment 1 Rada Mihalcea	Session 4C: Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment Dan Roth	Session 4D: Discourse and Dialog 1 Johanna Moore	SRW: Grammar and the Lexicon
9:00-9:25	Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing Yoav Seginer	Opinion Mining using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis and Arun Sundararajan	Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach Samuel Brody	Finding Document Topics for Improving Topic Segmentation Olivier Ferret	Student Research Workshop Opening (9:15-9:25)
9:25-9:50	K-best Spanning Tree Parsing Keith Hall	PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani	Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch and Ido Dagan	The Utility of Parse-derived Features for Automatic Discourse Segmentation Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark	Limitations of Current Grammar Induction Algorithms Bart Cramer
9:50-10:15	Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight? Rens Bod	Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis Ryan McDonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike Wells and Jeff Reynar	Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal and Yi Liu	PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker	Logistic Online Learning Methods and Their Application to Incremental Dependency Parsing Richard Johansson
10:15-10:40	An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport	Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification John Blitzer, Mark Dredze and Fernando Pereira	A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts John Lee	Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay and James Glass	Adaptive String Distance Measures for Bilingual Dialect Lexicon Induction Yves Scherrer
10:40-11:10	Break
11:10-12:10	Lifetime Achievement Award
12:10-13:30	Lunch

[Mon 6/25 A.M.] [Mon 6/25 P.M.] [Tue 6/26 A.M.] [Tue 6/26 P.M.] [Wed 6/27 A.M.] [Wed 6/27 P.M.]

Tuesday June 26th, Afternoon

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III	Lounge 1
13:00-14:30	ACL Business Meeting
	Session 5A: Language Modeling 2 Chris Manning	Session 5B: Coreference Claire Cardie	Session 5C: Summarization Simone Teufel	Session 5D: Semantic Relations Timothy Baldwin	SRW: Quantitative and Formal Linguistics
14:30-14:55	Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation David Talbot and Miles Osborne	Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Relatedness Information from Automatically Discovered Patterns Xiaofeng Yang and Jian Su	Generating a Table-of-Contents S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande and Regina Barzilay	Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston	Identifying Linguistic Structure in a Quantitative Analysis of Dialect Pronunciation Jelena Prokić
14:55-15:20	Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz	Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution Vincent Ng	Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang and Jianguo Xiao	Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information Roxana Girju	Towards a Computational Treatment of Superlatives Silke Scheible
15:20-15:45	Break
	Session 6A: Information Extraction Antal van den Bosch	Session 6B: Parsing 2 Michael Collins	Session 6C: Multilinguality 1 Chu-Ren Huang	Session 6D: Language Modeling 3 Kristina Toutanova	SRW: Semantics
15:45-16:10	Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision Razvan Bunescu and Raymond Mooney	Beyond Projectivity: Multilingual Evaluation of Constraints and Measures on Non-Projective Structures Jiří Havelka	Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer	Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information Feifan Liu and Yang Liu	Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
16:10-16:35	A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Hong Li	Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport	Bilingual Terminology Mining - Using Brain, not brawn comparable corpora Emmanuel Morin, Béatrice Daille, Koichi Takeuchi and Kyo Kageura	Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model Deirdre Hogan	Semantic Classification of Noun Phrases Using Web Counts and Learning Algorithms Paul Nulty
16:35-17:00	A Multi-resolution Framework for Information Extraction from Free Text Mstislav Maslennikov and Tat-Seng Chua	HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao and Jun’ichi Tsujii	Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity Shane Bergsma and Grzegorz Kondrak	A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng and Tiejun Zhao	Computing Lexical Chains with Graph Clustering Olena Medelyan
17:00-17:25	Using Corpus Statistics on Entities to Improve Semi-supervised Relation Extraction from the Web Benjamin Rosenfeld and Ronen Feldman	Constituent Parsing with Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks Ivan Titov and James Henderson	Collapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin	Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni	Clustering Hungarian Verbs on the Basis of Complementation Patterns Kata Gábor and Enikő Héja

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Wednesday June 27th, Morning

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III
	Session 7A: Machine Translation 4 Stefan Riezler	Session 7B: Sequence Processing Miles Osborne	Session 7C: Question Answering Dan Moldovan	Session 7D: Discourse and Dialog 2 Lyn Walker
9:00-9:25	Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin	A Maximum Expected Utility Framework for Binary Sequence Labeling Martin Jansche	Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won’t Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors Hoa Trang Dang and Jimmy Lin	Learning to Compose Effective Strategies from a Library of Dialogue Components Martijn Spitters, Marco De Boni, Jakub Zavrel and Remko Bonnema
9:25-9:50	Ordering Phrases with Function Words Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li	A Fully Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Part-of-speech Tagging Sharon Goldwater and Tom Griffiths	Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question Answer Classification Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni, Roberto Basili and Suresh Manandhar	On the Role of Context and Prosody in the Interpretation of ’okay’ Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Héctor Chávez, Julia Hirschberg and Lauren Wilcox
9:50-10:15	A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Chi-Ho Li, Minghui Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou and Yi Guan	Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models Noah A. Smith, Douglas L. Vail and John D. Lafferty	Language-independent Probabilistic Answer Ranking for Question Answering Jeongwoo Ko, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg	Predicting Success in Dialogue David Reitter and Johanna D. Moore
10:15-10:40	Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata	Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta and Aravind K. Joshi		Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog Christoph Müller
10:40-11:10	Break
11:10-12:10	Invited Talk by Barney Pell
12:10-13:30	Lunch

[Mon 6/25 A.M.] [Mon 6/25 P.M.] [Tue 6/26 A.M.] [Tue 6/26 P.M.] [Wed 6/27 A.M.] [Wed 6/27 P.M.]

Wednesday June 27th, Afternoon

	Top Congress Hall	Hall Praha	Hall II, 1st stage	Hall III
	Session 8A: Machine Learning Methods 2 Yuji Matsumoto	Session 8B: Machine Translation and Multilinguality Hans Uszkoreit	Session 8C: Lexicon and Lexical Semantics Hwee Tou Ng	Session 8D: Phonology and Morphology 2 Jason Eisner
13:30-13:55	A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson and Kristina Toutanova	Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang	Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web Philipp Cimiano and Johanna Wenderoth	A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation Vera Demberg
13:55-14:20	Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning Smaranda Muresan and Owen Rambow	Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak	A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota Smith	Using Mazurkiewicz Trace Languages for Partition-Based Morphology François Barthélemy
14:20-14:45	Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark	Benefits of the Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages Peter A. Chew and Ahmed Abdelali	Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling Baroni Marco and Evert Stefan	Much ado about nothing: A Social Network Model of Russian Paradigmatic Gaps Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert
14:45-15:10	Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein	A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation Joshua S. Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa	A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe and Anna Korhonen	Substring-Based Transliteration Tarek Sherif and Grzegorz Kondrak
15:10-15:45	Break
	Session 9A: Parsing 3 Mark Johnson	Session 9B: Sentiment 2 Robert Dale	Session 9C: Multimodality 2 Julia Hirschberg	Session 9D: Text mining and Retrieval Claire Grover
15:45-16:10	Pipeline Iteration Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark	Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Janyce Wiebe	Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation Koen Deschacht and Marie-Francine Moens	Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy and Chia-Ling Lin
16:10-16:35	Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney	Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach Ann Devitt and Khurshid Ahmad	User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan and Marita Ailomaa	What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness Iryna Gurevych, Christof Müller and Torsten Zesch
16:35-17:00	Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre and Johan Hall	Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature Ben Medlock and Ted Briscoe	Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Dialogue Segmentation in Multimedia Archives Pei-Yun Hsueh and Johanna D. Moore	Extracting Social Networks and Biographical Facts From Conversational Speech Transcripts Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos
17:10-17:30	Best Paper Award and Closing Session

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