Program


Outline (Please also check PDF version.)

December 11 (Sunday)

09:00 - 12:30

Tutorial T-1
Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Dimitri Kartsaklis

Tutorial T-2
Chinese Textual Sentiment Analysis: Datasets, Resources and Tools
Lun-Wei Ku and Wei-Fan Chen

Workshops:
WSSANLP2016, GramLex, WNUT, LT4DH, CL4LC, ClinicalNLP, OKBQA2016, HyTra6
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00

Tutorial T-3
Natural Language Processing for Intelligent Access to Scientific Information
Horacio Saggion and Francesco Ronzano

Tutorial T-4
Quality Estimation for Language Output Applications
Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, and Lucia Specia

Workshops:
(the same as above)

December 12 (Monday)

09:00 - 12:30

Tutorial T-5
Translationese: Between Human and Machine Translation
Shuly Wintner

Tutorial T-6
Succinct Data Structures for NLP-at-Scale
Matthias Petri and Trevor Cohn

Workshops:
WAT2016, CompuTerm2016, VarDial3, NLPTEA2016, ExProM, BioTxtM2016, WLSI3nOIAF2, CogALex - V, ALR12
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break (Workshop PEOPLES starts)
14:00 - 17:00

Tutorial T-7
The Role of Wikipedia in Text Analysis and Retrieval
Marius Pasca

Workshops:
(the same as above + PEOPLES)
17:30 - 19:30

Welcome Reception at OICC 12F
(Short talk & a toast will be held at Conference Hall (Admission 17:20 ~ ))

December 13 (Tuesday)

09:00 - 09:30

Opening
09:30 - 10:30

Invited talk 1
Universal Dependencies - Dubious Linguistics and Crappy Parsing?
Joakim Nivre

Slides

11:00 - 12:30

Syntactic and Semantic Parsing, Grammar Induction I

Natural Language Generation, Summarization I

Applications I

Resources, Software, Tools & Under-resourced languages I

[Demo Session 1]

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00

Machine Learning for NLP I

Morphology, Segmentation Tagging, Chunking I

Natural Language Generation, Summarization II

Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding

[Demo Session 2]

[Poster Session]
16:30 - 18:00

Natural Language Generation, Summarization III

Syntactic and Semantic Parsing, Grammar Induction II

Morphology, Segmentation Tagging, Chunking II

Applications II

[Poster Session]

December 14 (Wednesday)

09:00 - 10:00

Invited talk 2
Getting the Input Right: Refining our Understanding of What Children Hear
Reiko Mazuka
10:30 - 12:00

Morphology, Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking III

Applications III

Computational Psycholinguistics and Linguistic Issues in NLP I

Resources, Software, Tools & Under-resourced languages II

[Poster Session]
12:00 - 17:00

Lunch & Excursion

December 15 (Thursday)

09:00 - 10:00

Invited talk 3
NLP to support clinical tasks and decisions
Dina Demner-Fushman
10:30 - 12:30

Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics, Compositionality I

Computational Psycholinguistics and Linguistic Issues in NLP II

Lexical Semantics, Ontologies & Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment I

Machine Translation I

[Demo Session 3]

[Poster Session]
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00

Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering I

Machine Learning for NLP II

Machine Translation II

Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics, Compositionality II

[Demo Session 4]

[Poster Session]
16:30 - 18:00

Machine Translation III

Applications IV

Computational Psycholinguistics and Linguistic Issues in NLP III

Lexical Semantics, Ontologies & Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment II

[Poster Session]

December 16 (Friday)

09:00 - 10:00

Invited talk 4
A Look at Computational Argumentation and Summarisation from a Text-Understanding Perspective
Simone Teufel
10:30 - 12:30

Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering II

Machine Translation IV

Discourse Relations, Coreference, Pragmatics

Sentiment Analysis, Computational Argumentation I

[Demo Session 5]

[Poster Session]
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering III

Sentiment Analysis, Computational Argumentation II

Applications V

Resources, Software, Tools & Under-resourced languages III

[Demo Session 6]

[Poster Session]
16:00 - 17:30

Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering IV

Sentiment Analysis, Computational Argumentation III

Applications VI

Dialog Processing and Dialog Systems, Multimodal Interfaces

[Poster Session]
17:45 - 18:30

Closing