Friday, December 18, 2014 |
| | + 10:00-11:00 Keynote Lecture 1 by Aravind K Joshi |
| Keynote Lecture 1: Complexity of Dependency Representations for Natural Languages
Aravind K Joshi |
| | + 11:00-11:20 Tea Break |
| | + 11:20-13:20 Technical Session I: Statistical Machine Translation |
| SMT from Agglutinative Languages: Use of Suffix Separation and Word Splitting
Prakash B. Pimpale, Raj Nath Patel and Sasikumar M. |
| Tackling Close Cousins: Experiences In Developing Statistical Machine Translation Systems For Marathi And Hindi
Raj Dabre, Jyotesh Choudhari and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Correlating decoding events with errors in Statistical Machine Translation
Eleftherios Avramidis and Maja Popović |
| Supertag Based Pre-ordering in Machine Translation
Rajen Chatterjee, Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 11:20-13:20 Technical Session II: Speech |
| Duration Modeling by Multi-Models based on Vowel Production characteristics
V Ramu Reddy, Parakrant Sarkar and K Sreenivasa Rao |
| Voice Activity Detection using Temporal Characteristics of Autocorrelation Lag and Maximum Spectral Amplitude in Sub-bands
Sivanand Achanta, Nivedita Chennupati, Vishala Pannala, Mansi Rankawat and Kishore Prahallad |
| Use of GPU and Feature Reduction for Fast Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection
Gautam Mantena and Kishore Prahallad |
| Influence of Mother Tongue on English Accent
G. Radha Krishna and R. Krishnan |
| | + 13:20-14:15 Lunch |
| | + 14:15-15:15 Keynote Lecture 2 by Sobha L |
| Keynote Lecture 2: Text Analysis for identifying Entities and their mentions in Indian languages
Sobha L |
| | + 15:15-15:30 Tea Break |
| | + 15:30-16:20 Poster Session and Demonstrations: |
| HinMA: Distributed Morphology based Hindi Morphological Analyzer
Ankit Bahuguna, Lavita Talukdar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Smriti Singh |
| Roles of Nominals in Construing Meaning at the Level of Discourse
Soumya Sankar Ghosh and Samir Karmakar |
| Anou Tradir: Experiences In Building Statistical Machine Translation Systems For Mauritian Languages – Creole, English, French
Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| How Sentiment Analysis Can Help Machine Translation
Santanu Pal, Braja Gopal Patra, Dipankar Das, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay and Josef van Genabith |
| Introduction to Synskarta: An Online Interface for Synset Creation with Special Reference to Sanskrit
Hanumant Redkar, Jai Paranjape, Nilesh Joshi, Irawati Kulkarni, Malhar Kulkarni and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| LMSim : Computing Domain-specific Semantic Word Similarities Using a Language Modeling Approach
Sachin Pawar, Swapnil Hingmire and Girish K. Palshikar |
| Multiobjective Optimization and Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition for Named Entity Recognition and Classification
Govind, Asif Ekbal and Chris Biemann |
| Improving the accuracy of pronunciation lexicon using Naive Bayes classifier with character n-gram as feature: for language classified pronunciation lexicon generation
Aswathy P V, Arun Gopi, Sajini T and Bhadran V K |
| Learning phrase-level vocabulary in second language using pictures/gestures and voice
Lavanya Prahallad, Prathyusha Danda and Radhika Mamidi |
| Creating a PurposeNet Ontology: An insight into the issues encountered during ontology creation
Rishabh Srivastava and Soma Paul |
| Bundeli Folk-Song Genre Classification with kNN and SVM
Ayushi Pandey and Indranil Dutta |
| Word net based Method for Determining Semantic Sentence Similarity through various Word Senses
Madhuri A. Tayal, M. M. Raghuwanshi and Latesh Malik |
| Identification of Karaka relations in an English sentence
Sai Kiran Gorthi, Ashish Palakurthi, Radhika Mamidi and Dipti Misra Sharma |
| A Sentiment Analyzer for Hindi Using Hindi Senti Lexicon
Raksha Sharma and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| A Sandhi Splitter for Malayalam
Devadath V V, Litton J Kurisinkel, Dipti Misra Sharma and Vasudeva Varma |
| PaCMan : Parallel Corpus Management Workbench
Diptesh Kanojia, Manish Shrivastava, Raj Dabre and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 16:20-17:50 Technical Session III: Machine Translation |
| How to Know the Best Machine Translation System in Advance before Translating a Sentence?
Bibekananda Kundu and Sanjay Kumar Choudhury |
| A Domain-Restricted, Rule Based, English-Hindi Machine Translation System Based on Dependency Parsing
Pratik Desai, Amit Sangodkar and Om P. Damani |
| Translation of TO infinitives in Anusaaraka Platform: an English Hindi MT system
Akshar Bharati, Sukhada and Soma Paul |
| | + 16:20-17:50 Technical Session IV : Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection |
| Determing Trustworthiness in E-Commerce Customer Reviews
Dhruv Gupta and Asif Ekbal |
| Naturalistic Audio-Visual Emotion Database
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, P. Gangamohan, V.K. Mittal and B. Yegnanarayana |
| Discriminating Neutral and Emotional Speech using Neural Networks
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, P. Gangamohan and B. Yegnanarayana |
| | + 17:50-18:50 NLPAI Meeting |
| | + 19:00-20:00 Cultural Program |
| | + 20:00-20:30 Dinner |
Saturday, December 20, 2014 |
| | + 9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 3 by Lori Levin |
| Keynote Lecture 3: Modeling NonâPropositional Semantics
Lori Levin |
| | + 10:30-10:50 Tea Break |
| | + 10:50-13:20 Technical Session V: Statistical Methods |
| Text Readability in Hindi: A Comparative Study of Feature Performances Using Support Vectors
Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta and Anupam Basu |
| Sangam: A Perso-Arabic to Indic Script Machine Transliteration Model
Gurpreet Singh Lehal and Tejinder Singh Saini |
| AutoParSe: An Automatic Paradigm Selector For Nouns in Konkani
Shilpa Desai, Neenad Desai, Jyoti Pawar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Continuum models of semantics for language discovery
Deepali Semwal, Sunakshi Gupta and Amitabha Mukerjee |
| Syllables as Linguistic Units?
Amitabha Mukerjee and Prashant Jalan |
| | + 10:50-13:20 Technical Session VI: Parsing |
| Accurate Identification of the Karta (Subject) Relation in Bangla
Arnab Dhar and Sudeshna Sarkar |
| Manipuri Chunking: An Incremental Model with POS and RMWE
Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, Thiyam Ibungomacha Singh, Ngariyanbam Mayekleima Chanu and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Segmentation of Navya-NyÄya Expressions
Arjuna S. R. and Amba Kulkarni |
| Handling Plurality in Bengali Noun Phrases
Biswanath Barik and Sudeshna Sarkar |
| Making Verb Frames for Bangla Vector Verbs
Sanjukta Ghosh |
| | + 10:50-13:20 Technical Session VII: Student Paper Contest |
| English to Punjabi Transliteration using Orthographic and Phonetic Information
Kamaljeet Kaur and Parminder Singh |
| | + 14:20-16:50 Technical Session VIII: Lexical Resources and Corpora Annotation |
| Evaluating Two Annotated Corpora of Hindi Using a Verb Class Identifier
Neha Dixit and Narayan Choudhary |
| Hindi Word Sketches
Anil Krishna Eragani, Varun Kuchib Hotla, Dipti Misra Sharma, Siva Reddy and Adam Kilgarriff |
| Extracting and Selecting Relevant Corpora for Domain Adaptation in MT
Lars Bungum |
| Merging Verb Senses of Hindi WordNet using Word Embeddings
Sudha Bhingardive, Ratish Puduppully, Dhirendra Singh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Hierarchical Recursive Tagset for Annotating Cooking Recipes
Sharath Reddy Gunamgari, Sandipan Dandapat and Monojit Choudhury |
| | + 14:20-16:50 Technical Session IX: Emerging Areas |
| Named Entity Based Answer Extraction form Hindi Text Corpus Using n-grams
Lokesh Kumar Sharma and Namita Mittal |
| “ye word kis lang ka hai bhai?” Testing the Limits of Word level Language Identification
Spandana Gella, Kalika Bali and Monojit Choudhury |
| Identifying Languages at the Word Level in Code-Mixed Indian Social Media Text
Amitava Das and Björn Gambäck |
| Unsupervised Detection and Promotion of Authoritative Domains for Medical Queries in Web Search
Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Rupesh K. Mehta and Vipul Agrawal |
| Significance of Paralinguistic Cues in the Synthesis of Mathematical Equations
Venkatesh Potluri, SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Priyanka Srivastava and Kishore Prahallad |
| | + 14:20-16:50 Technical Session X: NLP Tools Contest |