| ICON-2015: 12th International Conference on Natural
Language Processing |
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| December 11-14, 2015 |
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| Venue: Park Centre,
Technopark, Trivandrum, India |
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| Main Conference
(12-13 Dec 2015) |
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| Technical Programme
Schedule |
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| Day 1: Saturday, December 12, 2015 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
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| 9:00 - 9:35 |
Inaugural Session
9:00am -9:03 am : PRAYER DANCE
9:03am -9:08am : WELCOME
ADDRESS
(Dr. Elizabeth Sherly, Chair ICON2015)
9:08am- 9:15am : ABOUT
ICON (Prof.Rajeev Sangal, Conference General Chair)
9:15am-9:20am : ICON
WALK THROUGH (Dr.Dipti Misra Sharma, Co-Chair ICON 2015)
9:20am- 9:25am : PRESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS (Shri. Madhavan Nambiar ,Rtd IAS &
Chairman ,IIITM-K)
9:25am-9:30am : Inauguration by Lighting of Lamp (Yuji Matsumoto, Nara
Institute of Science
and Technology
(NAIST), Japan
9:30am-9:35am : Vote of Thanks (Dr. Rajasree MS, Director, IIITMK-K) |
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| 9:35 - 10:30 |
Keynote Lecture 1: Scientific Paper Analysis
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of
Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan Chair: Rajeev
Sangal
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| 10:30 –
11:00 |
TEA |
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| 11:00 –
13:05 |
Technical
Session I: Statistical Methods
Chair: Yuji Matsumoto |
Technical
Session II: WSD & Lexicon
Chair: Kalika Bali |
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Addressing
Class Imbalance in Grammatical Error Detection with Evaluation Metric
Optimization
Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
Word
Sense Disambiguation in Hindi Language Using Hyperspace Analogue to Language
and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Devendra Tayal, Leena
Ahuja and Shreya Chhabra |
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| Words are not Equal: Graded Weighting Model for
building Composite Document Vectors Pranjal Singh and
Amitabha Mukerjee |
Using
Word Embeddings for Bilingual Unsupervised WSD
Sudha Bhingardive, Dhirendra Singh,
Rudramurthy V and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Online Adspace PostsÕ Category Classification
Dhawal Joharapurkar, Vaishak Salin and Vishal Krishna |
Compositionality
in Bangla Compound Verbs and their Processing in the Mental Lexicon
Tirthankar
Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha and Anupam Basu |
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| Noun Phrase Chunking for Marathi using Distant
Supervision
Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish K.
Palshikar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Swapnil Hingmire |
IndoWordNet
Dictionary: An Online Multilingual Dictionary using IndoWordNet
Hanumant Redkar, Sandhya Singh, Nilesh Joshi, Anupam
Ghosh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Self-Organizing Maps for Classification of a
Multi-Labeled Corpus
Lars Bungum and Bjšrn GambŠck |
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| 13:05 - 14:00 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Poster Session (List of
Poster Papers is given below) and Demonstrations |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
TEA |
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| 16:00 –
17:40 |
Technical
Session III: Emerging Areas
Chair: Amitabha Mukerjee |
Technical
Session IV : Sentiment Analysis
Chair: Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
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Tagging of Hindi-English Code Mixed Text from Social Media: Some Machine
Learning Experiments
Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury and Kalika
Bali |
Using
Skipgrams, Bigrams, and Part of Speech Features for Sentiment Classification
of Twitter Messages
Badr Mohammed Badr and S. Sameen Fatima |
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| Automated Analysis of Bangla Poetry for
Classification and Poet Identification Geetanjali
Rakshit, Anupam Ghosh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Gholamreza Haffari |
A Hybrid Approach for Bracketing Noun Sequence
Arpita Batra and
Soma Paul |
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| Sentence Boundary Detection for Social Media
Text
Dwijen Rudrapal, Anupam Jamatia, Kunal Chakma,
Amitava Das and Bjšrn GambŠck |
Simultaneous
Feature Selection and Parameter Optimization Using Multi-objective
Optimization for Sentiment Analysis
Mohammed Arif Khan, Asif Ekbal and Eneldo
Loza Menc’a |
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| Mood Classification of Hindi Songs based on
Lyrics
Braja Gopal Patra, Dipankar Das and Sivaji
Bandyopadhyay |
Detection
of Multiword Expressions for Hindi Language using Word Embeddings and
WordNet-based Features
Dhirendra Singh, Sudha Bhingardive, Kevin Patel and
Pushpak Bhattachryya |
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| 17:40 - 18:40 |
NLPAI Meeting |
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| 19:00 - 20:00 |
Cultural Programme |
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| 20:00 onwards |
Dinner |
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| Day 2: Sunday,
December 13 , 2015 |
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| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Panel Discussion on "NLP and Linguistics" |
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| 10:30 –
11:00 |
TEA |
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| 11:00 –
13:05 |
Technical
Session V:Statistical Machine
Translation
Chair: G S Lehal |
Technical Session
VI: NLP Tools Contest |
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Augmenting
Pivot based SMT with word segmentation
Rohit More, Anoop Kunchukuttan,
Raj Dabre and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Using multilingual topic models for improved
alignment in English-Hindi MT Diptesh
Kanojia, Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Mark J Carman |
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| Triangulation of Reordering Tables: An
Advancement Over Phrase Table Triangulation in Pivot-Based SMT
Deepak Patil, Harshad Chavan and
Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Post-editing a chapter of a specialized
textbook into 7 languages: importance of terminological proximity with
English for productivity
Ritesh Shah , Christian Boitet , Pushpak
Bhattacharyya, Mithun Padmakumar, Leonardo Zilio, Ruslan Kalitvianski,
Mohammad Nasiruddin, Mutsuko Tomokiyo, and Sandra Castellanos P«aez |
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| Generating Translation Corpora in Indic
Languages: Cultivating Bilingual Texts for Cross Lingual Fertilization
Niladri Sekhar Dash, Arulmozi
Selvraj and Mazhar Hussain |
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14:20 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:00 –
15:30 |
Technical
Session VII: Machine Translation
Chair: Sobha L |
Technical
Session VIII: Dialog System
and
Question
Chair: Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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Translation
Quality and Effort: Options versus Post-editing
Donald
Sturgeon and John S.Y. Lee |
Dialogue
Act Recognition for Text-based Sinhala
Sudheera Palihakkara, Dammina
Sahabandu, Ahsan Shamsudeen, Chamika Bandara and Surangika Ranathunga |
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| Investigating the potential of post-ordering
SMT output to improve translation quality Pratik Mehta, Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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Semi Supervised Dialog Act Tagging for Telugu
Suman
Dowlagar and Radhika Mamidi |
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| Applying Sanskrit Concepts for Reordering in MT
Akshar Bharati, Sukhada, Prajna Jha, Soma Paul and
Dipti M Sharma |
Ranking
Model with a Reduced Feature Set for an Automated Question Generation System
Manisha Satish Divate and Ambuja Salgaonkar |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
TEA |
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| 16:00 –
17:30 |
Technical Session IX: Speech Processing
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Natural
Language Processing for Solving Simple Word Problems
Sowmya S Sundaram and Deepak Khemani |
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| Analysis of Influence of L2 English SpeakersÕ Fluency on
Occurrence and Duration of Sentence-medial Pauses in English Readout Speech
Shambhu Nath Saha and Shyamal Kr.
Das Mandal |
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| Acoustic Correlates of Voicing and Gemination in Bangla
Aanusha Ghosh |
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18:00 |
Valedictory Function |
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| List of Poster
Session Papers: |
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| Let Sense Bags Do Talking: Cross Lingual Word Semantic
Similarity for English and Hindi
Apurva Nagvenkar, Jyoti Pawar and Pushpak
Bhattacharyya |
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| A temporal expression recognition system for
medical documents by taking help of news domain corpora
Naman Gupta, Aditya Joshi and Pushpak
Bhattacharyya |
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| An unsupervised EM method to infer time variation in sense
probabilities
Martin Emms and Arun Jayapal |
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| Solving
Data Sparsity by Morphology Injection in Factored SMT
Sreelekha S, Piyush Dungarwal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Malathi D |
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| Authorship Attribution in Bengali Language
Shanta Phani, Shibamouli
Lahiri and Arindam Biswas |
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| TransChat: Cross-Lingual Instant Messaging for Indian Languages
Diptesh Kanojia, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Abhijit
Mishra, Naman Gupta and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| A
Database of Infant Cry Sounds to Study the Likely Cause of Cry
Shivam Sharma, Shubham Asthana and V.K. Mittal |
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| Perplexed
Bayes Classifier
Cohan Sujay Carlos |
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| An Empirical Study of Diversity of Word Alignment
and its Symmetrization techniques for System Combination
Thoudam Doren Singh |
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| Domain Sentiment Matters: A Two Stage Sentiment Analyzer
Raksha Sharma and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Extracting
Information from Indian First Names
Akshay Gulati |
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- An Alternative Verb Semantic Ontology Representation
Kavitha Rajan |
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| SMT
Errors Requiring Grammatical Knowledge for Prevention
Yukiko Sasaki Alam |
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| Isolated Word Recognition System for Malayalam using Machine
Learning Maya Moneykumar, Elizabeth Sherly and Win Sam Varghese |
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| Judge a Book by its Cover: Conservative Focused Crawling under
Resource Constraint Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Arjun Atreya V, Ravi Kumar Yadav and
Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Text Normalization and Unit Selection for a Memory
Based Non Uniform Unit Selection TTS in Malayalam
Gokul P., Neethu Thomas, Crisil Thomas and Dr.
Deepa P. Gopinath |
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| Morphological Analyzer for Gujarati using Paradigm based
approach with Knowledge based and Statistical Methods
Jatayu Baxi, Pooja Patel and
Brijesh Bhatt |
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| Resolution
of Pronominal Anaphora for Telugu Dialogues
Hemanth Reddy Jonnalagadda and Radhika Mamidi |
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| A Study on Divergence in Malayalam and Tamil Language in Machine
Translation Perceptive Jisha P Jayan and Elizabeth Sherly |
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| Automatic conversion of Indian Language Morphological Processors
into Grammatical Framework (GF) Harsha
Vardhan Grandhi and Soma Paul |
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| Logistic Regression for Automatic Lexical Level Morphological
Paradigm Selection for Konkani Nouns Shilpa Desai, Jyoti Pawar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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Ruchi: Rating Individual Food Items in Restaurant Reviews
Burusothman Ahiladas, Paraneetharan
Saravanaperumal, Sanjith Balachandran,
Thamayanthy Sripalan and Surangika Ranathunga
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| Dependency Extraction for Knowledge-based Domain Classification
Lokesh Kumar
Sharma and Namita Mittal |
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| An Approach to Collective Entity Linking
Ashish
Kulkarni, Kanika Agarwal, Pararth Shah, Sunny Raj Rathod and Ganesh
Ramakrishnan |
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| Development of Speech corpora for different Speech Recognition
tasks in Malayalam language Cini Kurian |
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