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11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2014)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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 Non‐Propositional 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-Nyāya 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