Monday, December 19, 2016 |
| | + 9:00-9:30 Inaugural Ceremony |
| | + 9:30-10:00 Keynote Lecture 1 by Bruno Pouliquen |
| Keynote Lecture 1: Practical Use of Machine Translation in International Organizations
Bruno Pouliquen |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session I: Machine Translation and WSD: |
| Integrating WordNet for Multiple Sense Embeddings in Vector Semantics
David Foley and Jugal Kalita |
| Can SMT and RBMT Improve each other’s Performance?- An Experiment with English-Hindi Translation
Debajyoty Banik, Sukanta Sen, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Composition of Compound Nouns Using Distributional Semantics
Kyra Yee and Jugal Kalita |
| Towards Building a SentiWordNet for Tamil
Abishek Kannan, Gaurav Mohanty and Radhika Mamidi |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session II : Discourse Analysis: |
| Extending AIDA framework by incorporating coreference resolution on detected mentions and pruning based on popularity of an entity
Samaikya Akarapu and C Ravindranath Chowdary |
| Sentence Based Discourse Classification for Hindi Story Text-to-Speech (TTS) System
Kumud Tripathi, Parakrant Sarkar and K. Sreenivasa Rao |
| Biomolecular Event Extraction using a Stacked Generalization based Classifier
Amit Majumder, Asif Ekbal and Sudip Kumar Naskar |
| Syntax and Pragmatics of Conversation: A Case of Bangla
Samir Karmakar and Soumya Sankar Ghosh |
| | + 13:00-14:00 Lunch |
| | + 14:00-15:00 Technical Session III: New Trends: |
| Dependency grammars as Haskell programs
Tomasz Obrebski |
| Improving Document Ranking using Query Expansion and Classification Techniques for Mixed Script Information Retrieval
Subham Kumar, Anwesh Sinha Ray, Sabyasachi Kamila, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 15:00-15:30 Tea Break |
| | + 15:30-17:30 Poster and Demo Session-1: |
| Feature based Sentiment Analysis using a Domain Ontology
Neha Yadav and C Ravindranath Chowdary |
| Cross-lingual transfer parser from Hindi to Bengali using delexicalization and chunking
Ayan Das, Agnivo Saha and Sudeshna Sarkar |
| Constraint Grammar-based conversion of Dependency Treebanks
Eckhard Bick |
| Meaning Matters: Senses of Words are More Informative than Words for Cross-domain Sentiment Analysis
Raksha Sharma, Sudha Bhingardive and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| POS Tagging Experts via Topic Modeling
Atreyee Mukherjee, Sandra Kübler and Matthias Scheutz |
| Graph theoretic interpretation of Bangla traditional grammar
Samir Karmakar, Sayantani Banerjee and Soumya Ghosh |
| A method for Automatic Text Summarization using Consensus of Multiple Similarity Measures and Ranking Techniques
Mukesh Kumar Jadon and Ayush Pareek |
| Automatic Translation of English Text to Indian Sign Language Synthetic Animations
Lalit Goyal and Vishal Goyal |
| Towards Deep Learning in Hindi NER: An approach to tackle the Labelled Data Sparsity
Vinayak Athavale, Shreenivas Bharadwaj, Monik Pamecha, Ameya Prabhu and Manish Shrivastava |
| Vaidya: A Spoken Dialog System for Health Domain
Prathyusha Danda, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava and Manish Shrivastava |
| Cosmopolitan Mumbai, Orthodox Delhi, Techcity Bangalore:Understanding City Specific Societal Sentiment
Aishwarya N Reganti, Tushar Maheshwari, Upendra Kumar and Amitava Das |
| | + 17:30-18:30 NLPAI Meeting |
| | + 18:30-19:30 Cultural Program |
| | + 19:30-20:30 Dinner |
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 |
| | + 9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 2: |
| Keynote Lecture 2: Neural (and other Machine Learning) Approaches to Text Normalization
Richard Sproat |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session IV: Statistical Methods: |
| Wisdom of Students: A Consistent Automatic Short Answer Grading Technique
Shourya Roy, Sandipan Dandapat, Ajay Nagesh and Narahari Y. |
| A Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for De-identifying Clinical Records
Shweta, Ankit Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Twitter Named Entity Extraction and Linking Using Differential Evolution
Utpal Kumar Sikdar and Björn Gambäck |
| Learning Non-Linear Functions for Text Classification
Cohan Sujay Carlos and Geetanjali Rakshit |
| | + 13:00-14:00 Lunch |
| | + 14:-15:30 Poster and Demo Session-2: |
| A Computational Analysis of Mahabharata
Debarati Das, Bhaskarjyoti Das and Kavi Mahesh |
| Use of Features for Accentuation of ghañanta Words
Samir Janardan Sohoni and Malhar A. Kulkarni |
| Learning to Identify Subjective Sentences
Girish K. Palshikar, Manoj Apte, Deepak Pandita and Vikram Singh |
| Opinion Mining in a Code-Mixed Environment: A Case Study with Government Portals
Deepak Gupta, Ankit Lamba, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Use of Semantic Knowledge Base for Enhancement of Coherence of Code-mixed Topic-Based Aspect Clusters
Kavita Asnani and Jyoti D Pawar |
| Genetic Algorithm (GA) Implementation for Feature Selection in Manipuri POS Tagging
Kishorjit Nongmeikapam and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Effect of Syntactic Features in Bangla Sentence Comprehension
Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta and Anupam Basu |
| A New Feature Selection Technique Combined with ELM Feature Space for Text Classification
Rajendra Kumar Roul and Pranav Rai |
| On Why Coarse Class Classification is Bottleneck in Noun Compound Interpretation
Girishkumar Ponkiya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish K. Palshikar |
| Verbframator:Semi-Automatic Verb Frame Annotator Tool with Special Reference to Marathi
Hanumant Redkar, Sandhya Singh, Nandini Ghag, Jai Paranjape, Nilesh Joshi, Malhar Kulkarni and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Towards Building A Domain Agnostic Natural Language Interface to Real-World Relational Databases
Sree Harsha Ramesh, Jayant Jain, Sarath K S and Krishna R Sundaresan |
| | + 15:30-16:00 Tea Break |
| | + 16:00-17:30 Technical Session V: Speech Processing: |
| Experimental Study of Vowels in Nagamese, Ao and Lotha: Languages of Nagaland
Joyanta Basu, Tulika Basu, Soma Khan, Madhab Pal, Rajib Roy and Tapan Kumar Basu |
| Perception of Phi-Phrase boundaries in Hindi.
Somnath Roy |
| | + 16:00-17:30 Technical Session VI : NLP Tool Contest |
| | + 17:30-18:00 Valedictory Session |