technical schedule
The following is the Schedule of tutorials, keynote lectures and technical sessions at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2009:
Dec 14, Monday
| 08:00-09:30 | Registration | |
| Tutorials | Hall I | Hall II |
| 09:30-01:00 |
Tutorial 1 Mining Concepts from Text Sutanu Chakraborti, IIT Madras |
Tutorial 3 The Sketch Engine Adam Kilgariff, LexMaster Class, UK |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:30 |
Tutorial 2 Sentiment Analysis Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay |
Tutorial 3: Contd... The Sketch Engine Adam Kilgariff, LexMaster Class, UK |
| 18:30-21:00 | NLPAI meeting and dinner (Venue: IIIT Hyderabad) | |
Dec 15, Tuesday
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Inaugural Session | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Keynote Lecture 1: Discourse, Genre and Language Technology Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Technical Session I Information Retrieval |
Technical Session II Speech |
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An Information Retrieval Approach Based on Semantically Adapted Vector Space Model Pawan Goyal, Laxmidhar Behera, T. M. McGinnity Language Modeling Based Local Set Re-ranking using Manual Relevance Feedback Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Pushpak Bhattacharyya Monolingual Text Similarity Measures: A Comparison of Models over Wikipedia Articles Revisions Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Andreas Eiselt, Paolo Rosso Character Sequence Modeling for Transliteration Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Om P. Damani |
Kannada Text to Speech Synthesis Systems: Emotion Analysis Ravi D.J, Sudarshan Patilkulkarni A Framework for Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion using Artificial Neural Networks Srinivas Desai, Yegnanarayana B., Kishore Prahalla Database Pruning for Indian Language Unit Selection Synthesizers Veera Raghavendra Elluru, Kishore Prahallad Sunkeswari Subsegmental Features for Analysis of Speech at Different Speaking Rates Sri Harish Reddy Mallidi, Sudheer Kumar K, Guruprasad S, B. Yegnanarayana |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote Lecture 2: Cliques, Categories and Analogies: Building Ontologies Bottom-Up Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Dublin |
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| Parallel Session | ||
| 15:00-17:30 | Poster Session | Tea |
| 17:30–19:30 | Demonstrations of Major NLP Projects in India | |
| 19:30–21:00 | Banquet Dinner by AICL (Venue: University of Hyderabad) | |
Dec 16, Wednesday
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote Lecture 3: Current Trends in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Uppsala |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Technical Session III Machine Translation I |
Technical Session IV Syntax and Parsing |
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A Hybrid Approach for Bengali to Hindi Machine Translation Sanjay Chatterji, Devshri Roy, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu Hindi hE 'to be' in Bangla – Issues in Machine Translation Soma Paul Correlates between Performance, Prosodic and Phrase Structures in Bangla and Hindi: Insights from a Psycholinguistic Experiment Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Diptesh Chatterjee, Arpit Maheswari, Sankalan Prasad |
LTAG Spinal Treebank and Parser for Hindi Prashanth Mannem Part-Of-Speech Tagging using Neural Networks Ankur Parikh Using paradigms to handle certain morphological phenomena in Marathi Ashwini Vaidya, Dipti Misra-Sharma |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Technical Session V Machine Translation II |
Technical Session VI Summarization and Sentiment Analysis |
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Alignment Entropy as an Automated Predictor of Bitext Fidelity for Statistical Machine Translation Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan K-best machine translation reranking using global lexical selection Sriram Venkatapathy, Srinivas Bangalore, Karthik Gali GH-MAP: Rule Based Token Mapping For Translation between Sibling Language Pair: Gujarati-Hindi Kalyani Patel, Jyoti Pareek A Gurmukhi to Shahmukhi Transliteration System Gurpreet Singh Lehal |
Emotion Tagging –A Comparative Study on Bengali and English Blogs Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Modeling Novelty and Feature Combination using Support Vector Regression for Update Summarization Praveen Bysani, Vijay Yaram, Vasudeva Varma Have we had Hard Times or Cosy Times? A Discourse Analysis of Opinions Expressed over Socio-political Events in News Editorials Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint Dizier Summarization of Broadcast News Using Speaker Tracking Sree Harsha Yella, Kishore Prahallad, Vasudeva Varma |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote Lecture 4: Who decides what a text means? Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | NLP Tools Contest | |
| 18:30-22:30 | Cultural Program Banquet Dinner by ICON (Venue: University of Hyderabad) |
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Dec 17, Thursday
| 09:30-10:30 | Technical Session VII DIALOGUE |
Technical Session VIII Annotating Corpora |
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Measuring the Influence of Errors Induced by the Presence of Dialogues in Reference Clustering of Narrative Text Alaukik Aggarwal, Pablo Gervas, Raquel Hervas Syntactic Aggregation in Bengali Text Generation Sumit Das, Anupam Basu, Sudeshna Sarkar Sanskrit Compound Paraphrase Generator Anil Kumar, V Sheeba Sudheer, Amba Kulkarni |
Automatic Translation of English Nominal Compound in Hindi Prashant Mathur, Soma Paul Experiments with Annotating Discourse Relations in the Hindi Discourse Relation Bank Umangi Oza, Rashmi Prasad, Sudheer Kolachina, Suman Meena, Dipti Sharma, Aravind Joshi Hindi Syntax: Annotating Dependency, Lexical Predicate-Argument Structure, and Phrase Structurer Martha Palmer, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Fei Xia |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Tea Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel Discussion | |
| 12:30-13:00 | Closing Function | |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
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23rd nov 2009
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23rd nov 2009
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