ICON-2007 :TECHNICAL SCHEDULE


Thursday,4th January 2007


  8:30  -    9:30    :  Registration

 

  9:30  -  10:00    :  Inauguration 

 

 

10:00  -  11:00    :  Keynote Address:    

                                    The Semantic Quilt: Contexts, Co-occurrences, Kernels, and Ontologies

                              Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth

                                

11:30 – 13:00   :  Session 1:  Morphology

       

        1.  Unsupervised Morphological Learning for Bangla

                                          Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng

 

        2.  Chinese Terminology Extraction Using Window-based Contextual Information

                                          Luning Ji, Mantai Sum, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yirong Chen

 

3.  Building Feature Rich POS Tagger for Morphologically Rich Languages: Experiences in Hindi

                                          Aniket Dalal, Kumar Nagaraj, Uma Sawant, Sandeep Shelke, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

 

14:00 – 14:30    :  Session 2:  Speech

 

                   1.  Pause Prediction from Lexical and Syntax Information

                          Venkatesh Keri, Sathish Chandra Pammi, Kishore Prahallad

 

14:30 – 15:30    :  Keynote Address:    

                                    Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation

                              Vineet Chaitanya, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, India

                              Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad, India

                       

16:00  – 17:30    :  Session 3:  Machine Translation 

 

        1.  Some Issues in Automatic Evaluation of English-Hindi MT: more blues for BLEU

                                          R Ananthakrishnan,  Pushpak Bhattacharyya,  M. Sasikumar,  Ritesh Shah

 

        2.  Semantically Relatable Sequences in the Context of Interlingua Based Machine Translation

Rajat Kumar Mohanty, M. Krishna Prasad, Lakshmi Narayanaswamy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

 

 3.  INGIT: Limited Domain Formulaic Translation from Hindi to Indian Sign Language

Purushottam Kar, Madhusudan Reddy,  Amitabha Mukerjee,  Achla M Raina




Friday,  5th January 2007


 9:00 – 10:00      :  Keynote Address 

         Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large

Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    

   

10:00 – 10:30    :  Session 4:  Semantics

 

     1.  Grounded Acquisition of Containment Prepositions

                    Amitabha Mukerjee, Mausoom Sarkar

 

11:00 – 12:30    :  Session 5 :  Poster Session 

 

1.   A Morphological Analyzer for Sinhala Language

         B. Hettige, A. S. Karunananda

2.   SenseNet: A Linguistic Tool to visualize numerical-valence Based Sentiment of Textual Data

         Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

3.   Social Network Analysis of Natural Language Text

         Delip Rao, Deepak Khemani

4.   Duration Analysis for Malayalam Text to speech Systems

         Deepa P. Gopinath, Sheeba P.S, Achuthsankar S. Nair

5.   Access to Cultural Event Information via NL

         Leonardo Lesmo, Livio Robaldo

6.   A Hybrid Approach to Example based Machine Translation for Indian Languages

         Vamshi Ambati,   Rohini. U

7.   Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognizer and String Pattern Similarity Based Spelling-Checker for Bangla

         Munshi Asadullah, Md. Zahurul Islam, Mumit Khan

8.   Lexical Pattern Learning from Corpus Data for Named entity recognition

         Asif Ekbal, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

9.   A Standardized General X-bar Rule Schemata

         Manjeet Singh, A.K. Sharma

10.    A Corpus-based approach for noun phrase parsing

         Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

 

13:30 – 15:00    :  Session 6 :  Poster Session  (Continued)

 

15:00 – 16:00    :  Keynote Address 

         On Estimating Probability Mass Functions from Small Samples

Sanjeev Khudanpur, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

 

16:00 – 17:00    :  Session 7:  Information Retrieval & Question Answering

 

                   1.  An Evaluation Framework based on Gold Standard Models for Definition Question Answering

         Samir Kanaan, Jordi Turmo

 

                   2.  A JIRS Language-Independent Passage Retrieval System A Comparative Study

         Josι M. Gσmez , Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis-Arnal

 

 

17:00                  :  Valedictory Function