ICON-2007 :TECHNICAL SCHEDULE

Thursday,4^th 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

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

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������� 1.� Unsupervised Morphological Learning for Bangla

����������������������������������������� Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng

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������� 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

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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,� 5^th January 2007

�9:00 � 10:00����� :� Keynote Address�

�������� Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large

Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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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

�������� Jos� M. G�mez , Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis-Arnal

17:00����������������� :� Valedictory Function� ���������