8:30 - 10:00

Registration

Pre-Conference Tutorials

10:00 – 11:15

Tutorial 1: Eilenberg machines, the Zen toolkit, and applications to Sanskrit Computational Linguistics

Presenters:

Gérard Huet, Directeur de recherches, INRIA
Benoît Razet, Doctoral student, Paris 7 University

Tutorial 2: Linguistic Data Annotation for Indian Languages

Presenters:

Dipti Misra Sharma, Samar Husain, Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad

11:15 - 11:30

Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00

Tutorial 1: Contd…

Tutorial 2: Contd…

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:00

Tutorial 3: Sense Disambiguation and Structure Disambiguation
Presenters: Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Mitesh Khapra, IIT Bombay

Tutorial 2: Contd…

16:00 - 16:15

Tea Break

16:15 – 17:30

Tutorial 3: Contd…

Tutorial 2: Contd…

NLP Tools Contest

14:00 – 15:30

Presentation By NLP Tools Contest Participants

9:00 - 9:30

Registration

9:30 - 10:00

Inaugural Session

Welcome: Hemant Darbari

Introducing ICON: Rajeev Sangal
Address by the Special Guest: S Ramakrishnan

Address by the Chief Guest: Aravind K. Joshi

Introducing the Programme: Dipti M. Sharma

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote Lecture 1: Machine Translation in a Mobile World: From Models to Monetization

Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, New Jersey, USA

Chair: Anupam Basu

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00

Technical Session I: Parsing

Chair: Leonardo Lesmo

Two semantic features make all the difference in Parsing accuracy

Akshar Bharati, Samar Husain, Bharat Ambati, Sambhav Jain, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal

A System for Compound Noun Multiword Expression Extraction for Hindi

Anoop Kunchukuttan, Om P. Damani

Rule Based Approach for Automatic Annotation of a Hindi Tree Bank

Mridul Gupta, Vineet Yadav, Samar Husain, Dipti M Sharma

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:45

Poster Session

Demonstrations

15:45 – 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 – 17:00

Technical Session II: POS Tagging

Chair: B Mallikarjun

Morpheme Components based Part of Speech Tagging

S. Lakshmana Pandian, T.V. Geetha

Hindi POS Tagger Using Naive Stemming: Harnessing Morphological Information without Extensive Linguistic Knowledge

Manish Shrivastava, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

17:30 – 19:00

NLPAI Governing Council meeting

At C-DAC, NSG IT Park

19:30 - 22:30

Banquet Dinner

At Sentosa Resort

9:00 – 10:00

Keynote Lecture 2: Phonetic Knowledgebase of Indian Languages

for Language Technology

Peri Bhaskararao, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Chair: Mahesh Kulkarni

10:00 – 11:30

Technical Session III: Machine Translation

Chair: Srinivas Bangalore

Sequence Labeling Approach for English to Tamil Transliteration using Memory-based Learning

Vijaya M.S, Dhanalakshmi V, Shivapratap G, Ajith V.P, Soman K.P

Towards Developing an English-Persian Word-level Parallel Concordancer

Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah, Mahshid Shakiba

A Dependency Treelet-based Phrasal SMT: Evaluation and Issues in English-Hindi Language Pair

Kalika Bali, Sankaran Baskaran, A Kumaran

11:30 – 12:00

Tea Break

Parallel Session

12:00 – 13:00

Technical Session IV-a: Morphology & Syntax

Chair: Lakshmi Bai

A Corpus-based Study of “kare” in Bangla: Theoretical and Computational Perspectives

Priyanka Biswas, Sandipan Dandapat,

Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury

A Generative Lexicon account of A-V Complex Predicates of Bangla

Sanjukta Ghosh

Technical Session IV-b: Speech

Chair: Peri Bhaskar Rao

Throat Microphone Signals for Syllable Recognition using Linear Prediction Cepstrum

A.Shahina, B.Yegnanarayana,

A Nayeemulla Khan, M R Kesheorey

Semi-Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Dictionary for Proper Names: An Optimization Approach

Laxmi Narayana M, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Parallel Session - Student Paper Competition

Chair: Sivaji Bandyopadhayay

14:00 – 15:00

Track-I: Natural Language Processing [NLP]

Judge: To be Announced at the

start of the Contest

An Efficient Graph Based Ranking Algorithm for text Extraction

Sankar K

Improving statistical POS tagging using Linguistic feature for Hindi and Telugu

S Phani Kumar Gadde, Meher Vijay Yeleti

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) in the field of subtitling of Hindi movies/songs

Vineet Kashyap

Track-II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax & Semantics)

Judge: To be Announced at the

start of the Contest

Nominal Modification in Pnar: A Relativization Strategy

Joyshree Sutradhar

Exploring the Lexicon-Syntax-Semantics Morphology-Phonology Interface: A Multipartite Interface Architecture

Prakash Mondal

A Method for pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Bengali

Arnab Dhar, Utpal Garain

15:00 – 15:30

Tea Break

Parallel Session

15:30 – 17:00

Technical Session V-a: Word Sense Disambiguation

Chair: L Sobha

Dictionary containing Example based Nepali WSD

Niraj Shrestha, Patrick A.V. Hall,

Sanat K. Bista

Automatic Evaluation of Wordnet Synonyms and Hypernyms

Raghuvar Nadig, J. Ramanand,

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Domain Specific Iterative Word Sense Disambiguation in a Multilingual Setting

Mitesh M. Khapra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Shashank Chauhan, Soumya Nair, Aditya Sharma

Technical Session V-b: Stastical Methods

Chair: A Kumaran

Effect of Modifiers for Sentiment Classification of Reviews

Meenakshi Sundaram Murugeshan,

Ajay Sampath, Faraaz Ahmed,

Barath Ashok, Saswati Mukherjee

Design and Evaluation of soft keyboards for Telugu

Sowmya V.B., Vasudeva Varma

NL Query Interpretation in Restricted Domains

Leonardo Lesmo

17:00 – 17:30

Closing Function