Saturday, December 12, 2015 |
| | + 9:00-9:35 Inaugural Ceremony |
| | + 9:35-10:30 Keynote Lecture by Yuji Matsumoto |
| Keynote Lecture 1: Scientific Paper Analysis
Yuji Matsumoto |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:05 Technical Session I: Statistical Methods |
| Addressing Class Imbalance in Grammatical Error Detection with Evaluation Metric Optimization
Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Words are not Equal: Graded Weighting Model for Building Composite Document Vectors
Pranjal Singh and Amitabha Mukerjee |
| Online Adspace Posts’ Category Classification
Dhawal Joharapurkar, Vaishak Salin and Vishal Krishna |
| Noun Phrase Chunking for Marathi using Distant Supervision
Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish K. Palshikar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Swapnil Hingmire |
| Self-Organizing Maps for Classification of a Multi-Labeled Corpus
Lars Bungum and Björn Gambäck |
| | + 11:00-13:05 Technical Session II: WSD and Lexicon |
| Word Sense Disambiguation in Hindi Language Using Hyperspace Analogue to Language and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Devendra K. Tayal, Leena Ahuja and Shreya Chhabra |
| Using Word Embeddings for Bilingual Unsupervised WSD
Sudha Bhingardive, Dhirendra Singh, Rudramurthy V and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Compositionality in Bangla Compound Verbs and their Processing in the Mental Lexicon
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha and Anupam Basu |
| IndoWordNet Dictionary: An Online Multilingual Dictionary using IndoWordNet
Hanumant Redkar, Sandhya Singh, Nilesh Joshi, Anupam Ghosh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 13:05-14:00 Lunch |
| | + 14:00-15:30 Poster and Demo Session: |
| Let Sense Bags Do Talking: Cross Lingual Word Semantic Similarity for English and Hindi
Apurva Nagvenkar, Jyoti Pawar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| A temporal expression recognition system for medical documents by
Naman Gupta, Aditya Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| An unsupervised EM method to infer time variation in sense probabilities
Martin Emms and Arun Jayapal |
| Solving Data Sparsity by Morphology Injection in Factored SMT
Sreelekha S, Piyush Dungarwal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Malathi D |
| Authorship Attribution in Bengali Language
Shanta Phani, Shibamouli Lahiri and Arindam Biswas |
| TransChat: Cross-Lingual Instant Messaging for Indian Languages
Diptesh Kanojia, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Abhijit Mishra, Naman Gupta and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| A Database of Infant Cry Sounds to Study the Likely Cause of Cry
Shivam Sharma, Shubham Asthana and V. K. Mittal |
| Perplexed Bayes Classifier
Cohan Sujay Carlos |
| An Empirical Study of Diversity of Word Alignment and its Symmetrization Techniques for System Combination
Thoudam Doren Singh |
| Domain Sentiment Matters: A Two Stage Sentiment Analyzer
Raksha Sharma and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Extracting Information from Indian First Names
Akshay Gulati |
| punct-An Alternative Verb Semantic Ontology Representation
Kavitha Rajan |
| SMT Errors Requiring Grammatical Knowledge for Prevention
Yukiko Sasaki Alam |
| Isolated Word Recognition System for Malayalam using Machine Learning
Maya Moneykumar, Elizabeth Sherly and Win Sam Varghese |
| Judge a Book by its Cover: Conservative Focused Crawling under Resource Constraints
Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Arjun Atreya V, Ravi Kumar Yadav and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 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 |
| Morphological Analyzer for Gujarati using Paradigm based approach with Knowledge based and Statistical Methods
Jatayu Baxi, Pooja Patel and Brijesh Bhatt |
| Resolution of Pronominal Anaphora for Telugu Dialogues
Hemanth Reddy Jonnalagadda and Radhika Mamidi |
| A Study on Divergence in Malayalam and Tamil Language in Machine Translation Perceptive
Jisha P Jayan and Elizabeth Sherly |
| Automatic conversion of Indian Language Morphological Processors into Grammatical Framework (GF)
Harsha Vardhan Grandhi and Soma Paul |
| Logistic Regression for Automatic Lexical Level Morphological Paradigm Selection for Konkani Nouns
Shilpa Desai, Jyoti Pawar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Ruchi: Rating Individual Food Items in Restaurant Reviews
Burusothman Ahiladas, Paraneetharan Saravanaperumal, Sanjith Balachandran, Thamayanthy Sripalan and Surangika Ranathunga |
| Dependency Extraction for Knowledge-based Domain Classification
Lokesh Kumar Sharma and Namita Mittal |
| An Approach to Collective Entity Linking
Ashish Kulkarni, Kanika Agarwal, pararth Shah, Sunny Raj Rathod and Ganesh Ramakrishnan |
| Development of Speech corpora for different Speech Recognition tasks in Malayalam language
Cini Kurian |
| | + 15:30-16:00 Tea Break |
| | + 16:00-17:40 Technical Session III: Emerging Areas |
| POS Tagging of Hindi-English Code Mixed Text from Social Media: Some Machine Learning Experiments
Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury and Kalika Bali |
| Automated Analysis of Bangla Poetry for Classification and Poet Identification
Geetanjali Rakshit, Anupam Ghosh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Gholamreza Haffari |
| Sentence Boundary Detection for Social Media Text
Dwijen Rudrapal, Anupam Jamatia, Kunal Chakma, Amitava Das and Björn Gambäck |
| Mood Classification of Hindi Songs based on Lyrics
Braja Gopal Patra, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| | + 16:00-17:40 Technical Session IV : Sentiment Analysis |
| Using Skipgrams, Bigrams, and Part of Speech Features for Sentiment Classification of Twitter Messages
Badr Mohammed Badr and S. Sameen Fatima |
| A Hybrid Approach for Bracketing Noun Sequence
Arpita Batra and Soma Paul |
| Simultaneous Feature Selection and Parameter Optimization Using Multi-objective Optimization for Sentiment Analysis
Mohammed Arif Khan, Asif Ekbal and Eneldo Loza Mencía |
| Detection of Multiword Expressions for Hindi Language using Word Embeddings and WordNet-based Features
Dhirendra Singh, Sudha Bhingardive, Kevin Patel and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 17:40-18:40 NLPAI Meeting |
| | + 19:00-20:00 Cultural Program |
| | + 20:00-20:30 Dinner |
Sunday, December 13, 2015 |
| | + 9:30-10:30 Panel Discussion |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:05 Technical Session V:Statistical Machine Translation |
| Augmenting Pivot based SMT with word segmentation
Rohit More, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Raj Dabre |
| Using Multilingual Topic Models for Improved Alignment in English-Hindi MT
Diptesh Kanojia, Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Mark James Carman |
| Triangulation of Reordering Tables: An Advancement Over Phrase Table Triangulation in Pivot-Based SMT
Deepak Patil, Harshad Chavan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 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 Páez |
| Generating Translation Corpora in Indic Languages:Cultivating Bilingual Texts for Cross Lingual Fertilization
Niladri Sekhar Dash, Arulmozi Selvraj and Mazhar Hussain |
| | + 11:00-13:05 Technical Session VI: NLP Tools Contest |
| | + 13:20-14:20 Lunch |
| | + 14:00-15:30 Technical Session VII: Machine Translation |
| Translation Quality and Effort: Options versus Post-editing
Donald Sturgeon and John S. Y. Lee |
| Investigating the potential of post-ordering SMT output to improve translation quality
Pratik Mehta, Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Applying Sanskrit Concepts for Reordering in MT
Akshar Bharati, , Prajna Jha, Soma Paul and Dipti M Sharma |
| | + 14:00-15:30 Technical Session VIII: Dialog System and Question |
| Dialogue Act Recognition for Text-based Sinhala
Sudheera Palihakkara, Dammina Sahabandu, Ahsan Shamsudeen, Chamika Bandara and Surangika Ranathunga |
| A Semi Supervised Dialog Act Tagging for Telugu
Suman Dowlagar and Radhika Mamidi |
| Ranking Model with a Reduced Feature Set for an Automated Question Generation System
Manisha Satish Divate and Ambuja Salgaonkar |
| | + 15:30-16:00 Tea Break |
| | + 16:00-17:30 Technical Session IX: Speech Processing |
| Natural Language Processing for Solving Simple Word Problems
Sowmya S Sundaram and Deepak Khemani |
| Analysis of Influence of L2 English Speakers’ Fluency on Occurrence and Duration of Sentence-medial Pauses in English Readout Speech
Shambhu Nath Saha and Shyamal Kr. Das Mandal |
| Acoustic Correlates of Voicing and Gemination in Bangla
Aanusha Ghosh |
| | + 17:30-18:00 Valedictory Function |