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IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages (NERSSEAL-08)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Saturday, January 12, 2008

09:00-9:30Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages: Taking Stock
Anil Kumar Singh
 Session 1:
09:30-10:00Invited Talk: Named Entity Recognition: Different Approaches
Sobha L
10:00-10:30A Hybrid Named Entity Recognition System for South and South East Asian Languages
Sujan Kumar Saha, Sanjay Chatterji, Sandipan Dandapat, Sudeshna Sarkar and Pabitra Mitra
10:30-11:00Break
 Session 2:
11:00-11:30Invited Talk: Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
11:30-12:00Aggregating Machine Learning and Rule Based Heuristics for Named Entity Recognition
Karthik Gali, Harshit Surana, Ashwini Vaidya, Praneeth Shishtla and Dipti Misra Sharma
12:00-12:30Language Independent Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages
Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Amitava Das, Venkateswarlu Poka and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
12:30-14:00Lunch
 Session 3:
14:00-14:30Named Entity Recognition for Telugu
P Srikanth and Kavi Narayana Murthy
14:30-15:30Poster Display and Discussion
An Experiment on Automatic Detection of Named Entities in Bangla
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri and Suvankar Bhattacharya
Hybrid Named Entity Recognition System for South and South East Asian Languages
Praveen P and Ravi Kiran V
Named Entity Recognition for South Asian Languages
Amit Goyal
Named Entity Recognition for Indian Languages
Animesh Nayan, B. Ravi Kiran Rao, Pawandeep Singh, Sudip Sanyal and Ratna Sanyal
Experiments in Telugu NER: A Conditional Random Field Approach
Praneeth M Shishtla, Karthik Gali, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma
15:30-16:00Break
 Session 4:
16:00-16:30Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Support Vector Machine
Asif Ekbal and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
16:30-17:00Domain Focused Named Entity Recognizer for Tamil Using Conditional Random Fields
Vijayakrishna R and Sobha L
17:00-17:30A Character n-gram Based Approach for Improved Recall in Indian Language NER
Praneeth M Shishtla, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma
17:30-18:00Closing Discussion