LREC 2008: Marrakech, Morocco

Session O1 - Information Extraction and Question Answering

• Kathrin Eichler, Holmer Hemsen, Günter Neumann:
  Unsupervised Relation Extraction From Web Documents.
  
• Muath Alzghool, Diana Inkpen:
  Combining Multiple Models for Speech Information Retrieval.
  
• Chun-Yuan Teng, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Event Detection and Summarization in Weblogs with Temporal Collocations.
  
• Cvetana Krstev, Ranka Stankovic, Dusko Vitas, Ivan Obradovic:
  The Usage of Various Lexical Resources and Tools to Improve the Performance of Web Search Engines.
  

Session O2 - LRs: Infrastructures, Projects, Centers

• Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie J. Dorr, Bryan R. Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir R. Radev, Yee Fan Tan:
  The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics.
  
• Marian Reed, Denise DiPersio, Christopher Cieri:
  The Linguistic Data Consortium Member Survey: Purpose, Execution and Results.
  
• Dieter Van Uytvanck, Alex Dukers, Jacquelijn Ringersma, Paul Trilsbeek:
  Language-Sites: Accessing and Presenting Language Resources via Geographic Information Systems.
  
• Tamás Váradi, Steven Krauwer, Peter Wittenburg, Martin Wynne, Kimmo Koskenniemi:
  CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure.
  

Session O3 - Corpus, Lexicon and Evaluation

• Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt:
  Evaluating Dialogue Act Tagging with Naive and Expert Annotators.
  
• Drahomíra "johanka" Spoustová, Pavel Pecina, Jan Hajic, Miroslav Spousta:
  Validating the Quality of Full Morphological Annotation.
  
• Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Adam Kilgarriff, Jan Pomikálek:
  Evaluating a German Sketch Grammar: A Case Study on Noun Phrase Case.
  
• Mark McConville, Myroslava Dzikovska:
  Evaluating Complement-Modifier Distinctions in a Semantically Annotated Corpus.
  

Session O4 - Multiparty and non-Verbal Communication

• Petra-Maria Strauß, Holger Hoffmann, Wolfgang Minker, Heiko Neumann, Günther Palm, Stefan Scherer, Harald C. Traue, Ulrich Weidenbacher:
  The PIT Corpus of German Multi-Party Dialogues.
  
• Martine Adda-Decker, Claude Barras, Gilles Adda, Patrick Paroubek, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Benoit Habert:
  Annotation and analysis of overlapping speech in political interviews.
  
• Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Susanne Burger, Khalid Choukri:
  Data Collection for the CHIL CLEAR 2007 Evaluation Campaign.
  
• Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski, Matthias Wölfel:
  A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora.
  

Session O5 - Spatio-Temporal Annotation

• Inderjeet Mani, Janet Hitzeman, Justin Richer, Dave Harris, Rob Quimby, Ben Wellner:
  SpatialML: Annotation Scheme, Corpora, and Tools.
  
• Steven Bethard, William Corvey, Sara Klingenstein, James H. Martin:
  Building a Corpus of Temporal-Causal Structure.
  
• Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci:
  Computational Models for Event Type Classification in Context.
  
• Corina Forascu:
  GMT to +2 or how can TimeML be used in Romanian.
  
• Nianwen Xue, Hua Zhong, Kai-Yun Chen:
  Annotating "tense" in a Tense-less Language.
  

Session O6 - Syntax and Parsing

• Barbara Plank, Khalil Sima'an:
  Subdomain Sensitive Statistical Parsing using Raw Corpora.
  
• Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert:
  Developing a TT-MCTAG for German with an RCG-based Parser.
  
• Peter Adolphs, Stephan Oepen, Ulrich Callmeier, Berthold Crysmann, Dan Flickinger, Bernd Kiefer:
  Some Fine Points of Hybrid Natural Language Parsing.
  
• Jeremy Nicholson, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin, Rebecca Dridan:
  Evaluating and Extending the Coverage of HPSG Grammars: A Case Study for German.
  
• Yi Zhang, Valia Kordoni:
  Robust Parsing with a Large HPSG Grammar.
  

Session O7 - Document Classification

• Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir R. Radev:
  Modeling Document Dynamics: an Evolutionary Approach.
  
• Dominic Widdows, Kathleen Ferraro:
  Semantic Vectors: a Scalable Open Source Package and Online Technology Management Application.
  
• Magnus Rosell, Sumithra Velupillai:
  Revealing Relations between Open and Closed Answers in Questionnaires through Text Clustering Evaluation.
  
• Kim Luyckx, Walter Daelemans:
  Personae: a Corpus for Author and Personality Prediction from Text.
  
• Leanne Spracklin, Diana Inkpen, Amiya Nayak:
  Using the Complexity of the Distribution of Lexical Elements as a Feature in Authorship Attribution.
  

Session O8 - Multimodal Annotation Tools

• Thomas Schmidt, Susan Duncan, Oliver Ehmer, Jeffrey Hoyt, Michael Kipp, Dan Loehr, Magnus Magnusson, R. Travis Rose, Han Sloetjes:
  An Exchange Format for Multimodal Annotations.
  
• Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalena Shockley, Donna K. Byron, Eric Fosler-Lussier:
  SCARE: a Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions.
  
• Han Sloetjes, Peter Wittenburg:
  Annotation by Category: ELAN and ISO DCR.
  
• Hennie Brugman, Véronique Malaisé, Laura Hollink:
  A Common Multimedia Annotation Framework for Cross Linking Cultural Heritage Digital Collections.
  
• Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand, Gaëlle Ferré:
  Creating and Exploiting Multimodal Annotated Corpora.
  

Session O9 - Lexicon, Corpus and Semantics

• Annie Zaenen, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi:
  The Encoding of lexical implications in VerbNet Predicates of change of locations.
  
• Aljoscha Burchardt, Marco Pennacchiotti:
  FATE: a FrameNet-Annotated Corpus for Textual Entailment.
  
• Stephen A. Boxwell, Michael White:
  Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCGbank.
  
• Piek T. J. M. Vossen, Isa Maks, Roxane Segers, Hennie VanderVliet:
  Integrating Lexical Units, Synsets and Ontology in the Cornetto Database.
  
• Javier Álvez, Jordi Atserias, Jordi Carrera, Salvador Climent, Egoitz Laparra, Antoni Oliver, German Rigau:
  Complete and Consistent Annotation of WordNet using the Top Concept Ontology.
  

Session O10 - Multimodal and Speech Data over the Web

• Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette:
  A Conceptual Approach to Web Image Retrieval.
  
• Gwénolé Lecorvé, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot:
  On the Use of Web Resources and Natural Language Processing Techniques to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition Systems.
  
• Stanislas Oger, Georges Linares, Frédéric Béchet:
  Local Methods for On-Demand Out-of-Vocabulary Word Retrieval.
  
• Marc Kemps-Snijders, Alexander Klassmann, Claus Zinn, Peter Berck, Albert Russel, Peter Wittenburg:
  Exploring and Enriching a Language Resource Archive via the Web.
  
• Florian Schiel, Hannes Mögele:
  Talking and Looking: the SmartWeb Multimodal Interaction Corpus.
  

Session O11 - Coreference and Discourse

• Erhard W. Hinrichs, Monica Lau:
  In Contrast - A Complex Discourse Connective.
  
• Georg Rehm, Marina Santini, Alexander Mehler, Pavel Braslavski, Rüdiger Gleim, Andrea Stubbe, Svetlana Symonenko, Mirko Tavosanis, Vedrana Vidulin:
  Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres for the Evaluation of Genre Identification Systems.
  
• Olga Uryupina:
  Error Analysis for Learning-based Coreference Resolution.
  
• Lucie Mladová, Sárka Zikánová, Eva Hajicová:
  From Sentence to Discourse: Building an Annotation Scheme for Discourse Based on Prague Dependency Treebank.
  
• David Day, Janet Hitzeman, Michael L. Wick, Keith Crouch, Massimo Poesio:
  A Corpus for Cross-Document Co-reference.
  

Session O12 - Named Entity Recognition

• Antonio Toral, Rafael Muñoz, Monica Monachini:
  Named Entity WordNet.
  
• Cristina Mota, Ralph Grishman:
  Is this NE tagger getting old?
  
• Benjamin Farber, Dayne Freitag, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow:
  Improving NER in Arabic Using a Morphological Tagger.
  
• Stephan Busemann, Yajing Zhang:
  Identifying Foreign Person Names in Chinese Text.
  
• Marius Pasca:
  Low-Complexity Heuristics for Deriving Fine-Grained Classes of Named Entities from Web Textual Data.
  

Session O13 - Parallel and Multilingual Resources

• Jinji Li, Dong-Il Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Annotation Guidelines for Chinese-Korean Word Alignment.
  
• Ondrej Bojar, Miroslav Janícek, Zdenek Zabokrtský, Pavel Ceska, Peter Bena:
  CzEng 0.7: Parallel Corpus with Community-Supplied Translations.
  
• Jonathan Clark, Robert E. Frederking, Lori S. Levin:
  Toward Active Learning in Data Selection: Automatic Discovery of Language Features During Elicitation.
  
• Michael Mohler, Rada Mihalcea:
  Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages.
  

Session O14 - Evaluation Tools and Methodologies

• Cong-phap Huynh, Christian Boitet, Hervé Blanchon:
  SECTra_w.1: an Online Collaborative System for Evaluating, Post-editing and Presenting MT Translation Corpora.
  
• Mark Arehart, Chris Wolf, Keith J. Miller:
  Adjudicator Agreement and System Rankings for Person Name Search.
  
• Paulo C. F. de Oliveira, Edson Wilson Torrens, Alexandre Cidral, Sidney Schossland, Evandro Bittencourt:
  Evaluating Summaries Automatically - A system Proposal.
  
• Thierry Poibeau, Cédric Messiant:
  Do we Still Need Gold Standards for Evaluation?
  

Session O15 - LRs: Large Programs, Policies, Strategies

• Peter Spyns, Elisabeth D'Halleweyn, Catia Cucchiarini:
  The Dutch-Flemish Comprehensive Approach to HLT Stimulation and Innovation: STEVIN, HLT Agency and beyond.
  
• Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman:
  15 Years of Language Resource Creation and Sharing: a Progress Report on LDC Activities.
  
• Anil Kumar Singh, Kiran Pala, Harshit Surana:
  Estimating the Resource Adaption Cost from a Resource Rich Language to a Similar Resource Poor Language.
  
• Valérie Mapelli, Victoria Arranz, Hélène Mazo, Khalid Choukri:
  Latest Developments in ELRA's Services.
  
• Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Mark Sanderson:
  From Research to Application in Multilingual Information Access: the Contribution of Evaluation.
  

Session O16 - Biomedical Resources

• Scott Songlin Piao, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou:
  Clustering Related Terms with Definitions.
  
• Ngan Nguyen, Jin-Dong Kim, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Challenges in Pronoun Resolution System for Biomedical Text.
  
• Barry Haddow, Beatrice Alex:
  Exploiting Multiply Annotated Corpora in Biomedical Information Extraction Tasks.
  
• Yuka Tateisi, Yusuke Miyao, Kenji Sagae, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  GENIA-GR: a Grammatical Relation Corpus for Parser Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain.
  
• Xinglong Wang, Claire Grover:
  Learning the Species of Biomedical Named Entities from Annotated Corpora.
  

Session O17 - Semantics in Lexicons and Corpora

• Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao:
  Acquiring Naturalistic Concept Descriptions from the Web.
  
• Ulrich Heid, Marion Weller:
  Tools for Collocation Extraction: Preferences for Active vs. Passive.
  
• Francis Bond, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Kiyotaka Uchimoto:
  Boot-Strapping a WordNet Using Multiple Existing WordNets.
  
• Bartosz Broda, Magdalena Derwojedowa, Maciej Piasecki, Stan Szpakowicz:
  Corpus-based Semantic Relatedness for the Construction of Polish WordNet.
  
• Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Lakshmi Bai, Dipti Misra Sharma:
  Developing Verb Frames for Hindi.
  

Session O18 - Affect and Emotion in Speech

• Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Scott Silliman, Amruta Purandare:
  Uncertainty Corpus: Resource to Study User Affect in Complex Spoken Dialogue Systems.
  
• Milan Gnjatovic, Dietmar Rösner:
  On the Role of the NIMITEK Corpus in Developing an Emotion Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System.
  
• Stefan Scherer, Hansjörg Hofmann, Malte Lampmann, Martin Pfeil, Steffen Rhinow, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günther Palm:
  Emotion Recognition from Speech: Stress Experiment.
  
• Laure Charonnat, Gaëlle Vidal, Olivier Boëffard:
  Automatic Phone Segmentation of Expressive Speech.
  
• Márk Fék, Nicolas Audibert, János Szabó, Albert Rilliard, Géza Németh, Véronique Aubergé:
  Multimodal Spontaneous Expressive Speech Corpus for Hungarian.
  

Session O19 - Opinion Mining and Summarization

• Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Vox Populi Annotation: Measuring Intensity of Ideological Perspectives by Aggregating Group Judgments.
  
• Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe:
  A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources.
  
• Josef Ruppenhofer, Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe:
  Finding the Sources and Targets of Subjective Expressions.
  
• Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie:
  Annotating Topics of Opinions.
  
• Zhuli Xie, Barbara Di Eugenio, Peter C. Nelson:
  From Extracting to Abstracting: Generating Quasi-abstractive Summaries.
  

Session O20 - Coreference and Discourse

• Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Pascal Touset:
  Controlling Redundancy in Referring Expressions.
  
• Massimo Poesio, Ron Artstein:
  Anaphoric Annotation in the ARRAU Corpus.
  
• Mark-Christoph Mueller, Margot Mieskes, Michael Strube:
  Knowledge Sources for Bridging Resolution in Multi-Party Dialog.
  
• Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind K. Joshi, Bonnie L. Webber:
  The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0.
  
• Iris Hendrickx, Gosse Bouma, Frederik Coppens, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste, Geert Kloosterman, Anne-Marie Mineur, Joeri Van Der Vloet, Jean-Luc Verschelde:
  A Coreference Corpus and Resolution System for Dutch.
  

Session O21 - Semantic Resources and Acquisition

• Kirk Baker, Chris Brew:
  Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data.
  
• Diana Trandabat, Maria Husarciuc:
  Romanian Semantic Role Resource.
  
• Alessandro Lenci, Barbara McGillivray, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli:
  Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora.
  
• Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto:
  A Method for Automatically Constructing Case Frames for English.
  
• Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja, Montserrat Marimon:
  Automatic Acquisition for low frequency lexical items.
  

Session O22 - Speaker and Dialect Identification

• Doroteo Torre Toledano, Daniel Hernández López, Cristina Esteve-Elizalde, Julian Fiérrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  BioSec Multimodal Biometric Database in Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition.
  
• Iker Luengo, Eva Navas, Iñaki Sainz, Ibon Saratxaga, Jon Sánchez, Igor Odriozola, Inma Hernáez:
  Text Independent Speaker Identification in Multilingual Environments.
  
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert E. Frederking:
  NineOneOne: Recognizing and Classifying Speech for Handling Minority Language Emergency Calls.
  
• Christopher Cieri, Stephanie Strassel, Meghan Lammie Glenn, Reva Schwartz, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell:
  Bridging the Gap between Linguists and Technology Developers: Large-Scale, Sociolinguistic Annotation for Dialect and Speaker Recognition.
  
• Linda Brandschain, Christopher Cieri, David Graff, Abby Neely, Kevin Walker:
  Speaker Recognition: Building the Mixer 4 and 5 Corpora.
  

Session O23 - Corpus Annotation and Classification

• Nancy Ide, Collin F. Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, Charles J. Fillmore, Rebecca J. Passonneau:
  MASC: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus of American English.
  
• Chu-Ren Huang, Lung-Hao Lee, Jia-Fei Hong, Weiguang Qu, Shiwen Yu:
  Quality Assurance of Automatic Annotation of Very Large Corpora: a Study based on heterogeneous Tagging System.
  
• Claire Cardie, Cynthia Farina, Matt Rawding, Adil Aijaz:
  An eRulemaking Corpus: Identifying Substantive Issues in Public Comments.
  
• Branimir Boguraev, Mary S. Neff:
  Navigating through Dense Annotation Spaces.
  
• David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie, Yorick Wilks:
  An Unsupervised Probabilistic Approach for the Detection of Outliers in Corpora.
  

Session O24 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• Michael Carl:
  Using Log-linear Models for Tuning Machine Translation Output.
  
• Bogdan Babych, Serge Sharoff, Anthony Hartley:
  Generalising Lexical Translation Strategies for MT Using Comparable Corpora.
  
• Masaki Itagaki, Takako Aikawa:
  Post-MT Term Swapper: Supplementing a Statistical Machine Translation System with a User Dictionary.
  
• Germán Sanchis, Joan-Andreu Sánchez:
  Using Parsed Corpora for Estimating Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars.
  
• Mark Fishel, Heiki Jaan Kaalep:
  Experiments on Processing Overlapping Parallel Corpora.
  

Session O25 - Evaluation

• Jennifer Foster, Josef van Genabith:
  Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics.
  
• Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Christelle Ayache:
  EASY, Evaluation of Parsers of French: what are the Results?
  
• Xavier Tannier, Philippe Muller:
  Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Temporal Annotation of Texts.
  
• Lena Grothe, Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger:
  A Comparative Study on Language Identification Methods.
  
• Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Christelle Ayache, Patrick Paroubek, Anne Vilnat:
  PASSAGE: from French Parser Evaluation to Large Sized Treebank.
  

Session O26 - Broadcast News Processing

• Jáchym Kolár, Jan Svec:
  Structural Metadata Annotation of Speech Corpora: Comparing Broadcast News and Broadcast Conversations.
  
• Markpong Jongtaveesataporn, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Koji Iwano, Sadaoki Furui:
  Thai Broadcast News Corpus Construction and Evaluation.
  
• Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almberg, Torbjørn Svendsen:
  RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus.
  
• Sopheap Seng, Sethserey Sam, Laurent Besacier, Brigitte Bigi, Eric Castelli:
  First Broadcast News Transcription System for Khmer Language.
  
• Chomicha Bendahman, Meghan Lammie Glenn, Djamel Mostefa, Niklas Paulsson, Stephanie Strassel:
  Quick Rich Transcriptions of Arabic Broadcast News Speech Data.
  

Session O27 - Ontologies

• Dennis Spohr:
  A General Methodology for Mapping EuroWordNets to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology.
  
• Satoshi Sekine:
  Extended Named Entity Ontology with Attribute Information.
  
• María del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez:
  Towards a Glossary of Activities in the Ontology Engineering Field.
  
• Yi-Rong Chen, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Gaoying Cui:
  Chinese Core Ontology Construction from a Bilingual Term Bank.
  
• Michael Kluck, Axel Huckstorf:
  The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies - a Multilingual Resource for Indexing, Retrieval, and Translation.
  

Session O28 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• Takashi Tsunakawa, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Building Bilingual Lexicons using Lexical Translation Probabilities via Pivot Languages.
  
• Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Martin Kay:
  Improving Statistical Machine Translation Efficiency by Triangulation.
  
• Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois, Kamel Smaïli:
  Phrase-Based Machine Translation based on Simulated Annealing.
  
• Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu:
  Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation.
  
• Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney:
  A Multi-Genre SMT System for Arabic to French.
  

Session O29 - Information Extraction and Question Answering

• Estelle Delpech, Patrick Saint-Dizier:
  Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions.
  
• Igor Leturia, Antton Gurrutxaga, Nerea Areta, Eli Pociello:
  Analysis and Performance of Morphological Query Expansion and Language-Filtering Words on Basque Web Searching.
  
• Kirk Roberts, Andrew Hickl:
  Scaling Answer Type Detection to Large Hierarchies.
  
• Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim:
  Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering.
  
• Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych:
  Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
  

Session O30 - Evaluation in Speech Processing

• Gregory A. Sanders, Sebastien Bronsart, Sherri L. Condon, Craig Schlenoff:
  Odds of Successful Transfer of Low-Level Concepts: a Key Metric for Bidirectional Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation in DARPA's TRANSTAC Program.
  
• Lori Lamel, Sophie Rosset, Christelle Ayache, Djamel Mostefa, Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas:
  Question Answering on Speech Transcriptions: the QAST evaluation in CLEF.
  
• Willemijn Heeren, Franciska de Jong, Laurens van der Werff, Marijn Huijbregts, Roeland Ordelman:
  Evaluation of Spoken Document Retrieval for Historic Speech Collections.
  
• Sherri L. Condon, Jon Phillips, Christy Doran, John S. Aberdeen, Dan Parvaz, Beatrice T. Oshika, Gregory A. Sanders, Craig Schlenoff:
  Applying Automated Metrics to Speech Translation Dialogs.
  
• Margot Mieskes, Michael Strube:
  A Three-stage Disfluency Classifier for Multi Party Dialogues.
  

Session O31 - Evaluation and Machine Translation

• Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez:
  Towards Heterogeneous Automatic MT Error Analysis.
  
• Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley:
  Sensitivity of Automated MT Evaluation Metrics on Higher Quality MT Output: BLEU vs Task-Based Evaluation Methods.
  
• Mark A. Przybocki, Kay Peterson, Sebastien Bronsart:
  Translation Adequacy and Preference Evaluation Tool (TAP-ET).
  
• Constantin Orasan, Oana Andreea Chiorean:
  Evaluation of a Cross-lingual Romanian-English Multi-document Summariser.
  

Session O32 - Syntactically Annotated Corpora

• Øistein E. Andersen, Julien Nioche, Ted Briscoe, John Carroll:
  The BNC Parsed with RASP4UIMA.
  
• Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yasuharu Den:
  Word-level Dependency-structure Annotation to Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese and its Application.
  
• Tejaswini Deoskar, Mats Rooth:
  Induction of Treebank-Aligned Lexical Resources.
  
• Olga Pustylnikov, Alexander Mehler, Rüdiger Gleim:
  A Unified Database of Dependency Treebanks: Integrating, Quantifying & Evaluating Dependency Data.
  

Session O33 - Terminology

• Aïcha Bouhjar:
  Amazigh Language Terminology in Morocco or Management of a "Multidimensional" Variation.
  
• Yuhang Yang, Qin Lu, Tiejun Zhao:
  Chinese Term Extraction Based on Delimiters.
  
• Siham Boulaknadel, Béatrice Daille, Driss Aboutajdine:
  A Multi-Word Term Extraction Program for Arabic Language.
  
• Jonathan Butters, Fabio Ciravegna:
  Using Similarity Metrics For Terminology Recognition.
  

Session O34 - Emotions

• Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock:
  Resources for Persuasion.
  
• Guillaume Pitel, Gregory Grefenstette:
  Semi-automatic Building Method for a Multidimensional Affect Dictionary for a New Language.
  
• Laurence Devillers, Jean-Claude Martin:
  Coding Emotional Events in Audiovisual Corpora.
  
• Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Ilaria Urciuoli:
  Annotating Expressions of Opinion and Emotion in the Italian Content Annotation Bank.
  
• Isa Maks, Piek Vossen, Roxane Segers, Hennie van der Vliet:
  Adjectives in the Dutch Semantic Lexical Database CORNETTO.
  

Session 035 - Semantics and Semantic Annotation

• Markus Dickinson, Chong Min Lee:
  Detecting Errors in Semantic Annotation.
  
• Michael Roth, Sabine Schulte im Walde:
  Corpus Co-Occurrence, Dictionary and Wikipedia Entries as Resources for Semantic Relatedness Information.
  
• Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi, Simonetta Montemagni, Roberto Bartolini:
  Ontology Learning and Semantic Annotation: a Necessary Symbiosis.
  
• Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Giuseppe Attardi:
  Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia.
  
• Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer:
  Annotating Students' Understanding of Science Concepts.
  

Session O36 - Evaluation Methodologies

• Rebecca J. Passonneau, Thomas Lippincott, Tae Yano, Judith L. Klavans:
  Relation between Agreement Measures on Human Labeling and Machine Learning Performance: Results from an Art History Domain.
  
• Yves Peirsman, Simon De Deyne, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts:
  The Construction and Evaluation of Word Space Models.
  
• Olga Babko-Malaya:
  Annotation of Nuggets and Relevance in GALE Distillation Evaluation.
  
• J. V. White, D. Hunter, J. D. Goldstein:
  Statistical Evaluation of Information Distillation Systems.
  
• Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon:
  Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation.
  

Session O37 - Lexicons, Corpora and Acquisition

• Viktor Bielický, Otakar Smrz:
  Building the Valency Lexicon of Arabic Verbs.
  
• Angus Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, Yikun Guo:
  Combining Terminology Resources and Statistical Methods for Entity Recognition: an Evaluation.
  
• Rogelio Nazar, Jorge Vivaldi, M. Teresa Cabré:
  A Suite to Compile and Analyze an LSP Corpus.
  
• Eduardo Blanco, Núria Castell, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Causal Relation Extraction.
  
• Grzegorz Chrupala, Georgiana Dinu, Josef van Genabith:
  Learning Morphology with Morfette.
  

Session O38 - Ontologies

• Gaoying Cui, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yi-Rong Chen:
  Corpus Exploitation from Wikipedia for Ontology Construction.
  
• Shiyan Ou, Viktor Pekar, Constantin Orasan, Christian Spurk, Matteo Negri:
  Development and Alignment of a Domain-Specific Ontology for Question Answering.
  
• David Manzano-Macho, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Daniel Borrajo:
  Unsupervised and Domain Independent Ontology Learning: Combining Heterogeneous Sources of Evidence.
  
• Alessandra Potrich, Emanuele Pianta:
  L-ISA: Learning Domain Specific Isa-Relations from the Web.
  
• Arno Hartholt, Thomas A. Russ, David R. Traum, Eduard H. Hovy, Susan Robinson:
  A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture.
  

Session O39 - Multilingual Resources

• Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa:
  Using the Multilingual Central Repository for Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Fredric C. Gey, David Kirk Evans, Noriko Kando:
  A Japanese-English Technical Lexicon for Translation and Language Research.
  
• Le An Ha, Gabriela Fernandez, Ruslan Mitkov, Gloria Corpas Pastor:
  Mutual Bilingual Terminology Extraction.
  
• João Graça, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luísa Coheur, Diamantino Caseiro:
  Building a Golden Collection of Parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment.
  
• Elena Cabrio, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Laura Hasler, Constantin Orasan, David Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González, Guenter Neumann, Corinna Weber:
  The QALL-ME Benchmark: a Multilingual Resource of Annotated Spoken Requests for Question Answering.
  

Session O40 - Tools for Corpus Construction and Annotation

• Nick Campbell:
  Tools & Resources for Visualising Conversational-Speech Interaction.
  
• Maria Teresa Pazienza, Marco Pennacchiotti, Armando Stellato:
  A Web Browser Extension for Growing-up Ontological Knowledge from Traditional Web Content.
  
• Youssef Drissi, Branimir Boguraev, David Ferrucci, Paul Keyser, Anthony Levas:
  A Development Environment for Configurable Meta-Annotators in a Pipelined NLP Architecture.
  
• Georg Rehm, Richard Eckart, Christian Chiarcos, Johannes Dellert:
  Ontology-Based XQuery'ing of XML-Encoded Language Resources on Multiple Annotation Layers.
  
• Stefan Evert:
  A Lightweight and Efficient Tool for Cleaning Web Pages.
  

Session O41 - Speech Varieties

• Lynette Melnar, Chen Liu:
  Borrowing Language Resources for Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for Low- and Middle-Density Languages.
  
• Sebastian Möller, Florian Gödde, Maria Wolters:
  Corpus Analysis of Spoken Smart-Home Interactions with Older Users.
  
• Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Vasilis Karaiskos, Melissa Kronenthal, Robert H. Logie, Neil Mayo, Johanna D. Moore, Matthew Watson:
  A Fully Annotated Corpus for Studying the Effect of Cognitive Ageing on Users' Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Systems.
  
• Catia Cucchiarini, Joris Driesen, Hugo Van Hamme, Eric Sanders:
  Recording Speech of Children, Non-Natives and Elderly People for HLT Applications: the JASMIN-CGN Corpus.
  
• Christoph Draxler, Florian Schiel, Tania Ellbogen:
  F0 of Adolescent Speakers - First Results for the German Ph@ttSessionz Database.
  

Session O42 - Multimodal Dialogue

• Yorick Wilks, David Benyon, Christopher Brewster, Pavel Ircing, Oli Mival:
  Dialogue, Speech and Images: the Companions Project Data Set.
  
• Jade Goldstein-Stewart, Kerri A. Goodwin, Roberta Evans Sabin, Ransom K. Winder:
  Creating and Using a Correlated Corpus to Glean Communicative Commonalities.
  
• Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto, Yorick Wilks:
  Information Extraction Tools and Methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion.
  
• Carlos Gómez Gallo, T. Florian Jaeger, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift:
  Production in a Multimodal Corpus: how Speakers Communicate Complex Actions.
  

Session O43 - Semantic Resources

• Harry Bunt, Chwhynny Overbeeke:
  Towards Formal Interpretation of Semantic Annotation.
  
• Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Paolo Marocco, Roberto Basili:
  Towards a Vector Space Model for FrameNet-like Resources.
  
• Pavel Smrz:
  KnoFusius: a New Knowledge Fusion System for Interpretation of Gene Expression Data.
  
• Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman:
  Modelling Word Similarity: an Evaluation of Automatic Synonymy Extraction Algorithms.
  

Session O44 - Corpora and Evaluation Resources

• Leen Cleuren, Jacques Duchateau, Pol Ghesquière, Hugo Van Hamme:
  Children's Oral Reading Corpus (CHOREC): Description and Assessment of Annotator Agreement.
  
• Tommaso Caselli, Nancy Ide, Roberto Bartolini:
  A Bilingual Corpus of Inter-linked Events.
  
• Stephanie Strassel, Lauren Friedman, Safa Ismael, Linda Brandschain:
  New Resources for Document Classification, Analysis and Translation Technologies.
  
• Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn:
  Approximating Learning Curves for Active-Learning-Driven Annotation.
  

Session O45 - Lexicons

• Thorsten Trippel, Michael Maxwell, Greville Corbett, Cambell Prince, Christopher D. Manning, Stephen Grimes, Steve Moran:
  Lexicon Schemas and Related Data Models: when Standards Meet Users.
  
• Cédric Messiant, Thierry Poibeau, Anna Korhonen:
  LexSchem: a Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs.
  
• Horacio Rodríguez, David Farwell, Javi Ferreres, Manuel Bertrán, Musa Alkhalifa, M. Antonia Martí:
  Arabic WordNet: Semi-automatic Extensions using Bayesian Inference.
  

Session O46 - Evaluation Methodologies

• Iñaki Sainz, Ibon Saratxaga, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez, Jon Sánchez, Iker Luengo, Igor Odriozola:
  Subjective Evaluation of an Emotional Speech Database for Basque.
  
• Sandra Kübler, Wolfgang Maier, Ines Rehbein, Yannick Versley:
  How to Compare Treebanks.
  
• Romaric Besançon, Stéphane Chaudiron, Djamel Mostefa, Ismaïl Timimi, Khalid Choukri:
  The INFILE Project: a Crosslingual Filtering Systems Evaluation Campaign.
  

Session O47 - Authoring Tools and Corpora

• Dan Tufis, Alexandru Ceausu:
  DIAC+: a Professional Diacritics Recovering System.
  
• Ghazi Abuhakema, Reem Faraj, Anna Feldman, Eileen Fitzpatrick:
  Annotating an Arabic Learner Corpus for Error.
  
• Martin Reynaert:
  All, and only, the Errors: more Complete and Consistent Spelling and OCR-Error Correction Evaluation.
  

Session O48 - TV and Video Processing

• Einav Itamar, Alon Itai:
  Using Movie Subtitles for Creating a Large-Scale Bilingual Corpora.
  
• Rob van Son, Wieneke Wesseling, Eric Sanders, Henk van den Heuvel:
  The IFADV Corpus: a Free Dialog Video Corpus.
  
• Alessio Brutti, Luca Cristoforetti, Walter Kellermann, Lutz Marquardt, Maurizio Omologo:
  WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV.
  

Session P1 - Corpus Construction and Annotation

• Mikko Lounela:
  Process Model for Composing High-quality Text Corpora.
  
• Mariona Taulé, Maria Antònia Martí, Marta Recasens:
  AnCora: Multilevel Annotated Corpora for Catalan and Spanish.
  
• Stephen Purpura, John Wilkerson, Dustin Hillard:
  The U.S. Policy Agenda Legislation Corpus Volume 1 - a Language Resource from 1947 - 1998.
  
• Jeremy Bensley, Andrew Hickl:
  Unsupervised Resource Creation for Textual Inference Applications.
  
• Markus Dickinson, Charles Jochim:
  A Simple Method for Tagset Comparision.
  
• Nelleke Oostdijk, Martin Reynaert, Paola Monachesi, Gertjan van Noord, Roeland Ordelman, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste:
  From D-Coi to SoNaR: a reference corpus for Dutch.
  
• Hiromi Itoh Ozaku, Akinori Abe, Kaoru Sagara, Kiyoshi Kogure:
  Relationships between Nursing Converstaions and Activities.
  
• Meghan Lammie Glenn, Stephanie Strassel, Lauren Friedman, Haejoong Lee, Shawn Medero:
  Management of Large Annotation Projects Involving Multiple Human Judges: a Case Study of GALE Machine Translation Post-editing.
  
• Harald Hammarström, Christina Thornell, Malin Petzell, Torbjörn Westerlund:
  Bootstrapping Language Description: the case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic).
  
• Satoshi Sato, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Yohsuke Kondoh:
  Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus.
  

Session P2 - LRs for Specific Domains: Bio-Medicine and Chemistry

• Paul Thompson, Philip Cotter, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou, Simonetta Montemagni, Andrea Trabucco, Giulia Venturi:
  Building a Bio-Event Annotated Corpus for the Acquisition of Semantic Frames from Biomedical Corpora.
  
• C. J. Rupp, Ann A. Copestake, Peter Corbett, Peter Murray-Rust, Advaith Siddharthan, Simone Teufel, Benjamin Waldron:
  Language Resources and Chemical Informatics.
  
• Udo Hahn, Elena Beisswanger, Ekaterina Buyko, Michael Poprat, Katrin Tomanek, Joachim Wermter:
  Semantic Annotations for Biology: a Corpus Development Initiative at the Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab.
  
• Valeria Quochi, Monica Monachini, Riccardo Del Gratta, Nicoletta Calzolari:
  A lexicon for biology and bioinformatics: the BOOTStrep experience.
  
• Fabio Rinaldi, Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess:
  Dependency-Based Relation Mining for Biomedical Literature.
  
• Dimitrios Kokkinakis:
  MeSH(c): from a Controlled Vocabulary to a Processable Resource.
  
• Dimitrios Kokkinakis:
  A Semantically Annotated Swedish Medical Corpus.
  
• Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret:
  Learning Patterns for Building Resources about Semantic Relations in the Medical Domain.
  

Session P3 - Syntactically Annotated Resources and Related Tools

• Dino Ienco, Serena Villata, Cristina Bosco:
  Automatic extraction of subcategorization frames for Italian.
  
• Jerid Francom, Mans Hulden:
  Parallel Multi-Theory Annotations of Syntactic Structure.
  
• Meni Adler, Yael Dahan Netzer, Yoav Goldberg, David Gabay, Michael Elhadad:
  Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: the Case of Participles.
  
• Joy Deep Nath, Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Christian Biemann, Niloy Ganguly:
  Unsupervised Parts-of-Speech Induction for Bengali.
  
• Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Javier Puche, José Ángel Ramos:
  Tagging Spanish Texts: the Problem of Problem of "SE".
  
• Jirí Mírovský:
  Does Netgraph Fit Prague Dependency Treebank?
  
• Tomas By:
  The Kalshnikov 691 Dependency Bank.
  
• Natalie Schluter, Josef van Genabith:
  Treebank-Based Acquisition of LFG Parsing Resources for French.
  
• Svetla Koeva, Borislav Rizov, Svetlozara Leseva:
  Chooser: a Multi-Task Annotation Tool.
  
• Pavlina Fragkou, Georgios Petasis, Aris Theodorakos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos:
  BOEMIE Ontology-Based Text Annotation Tool.
  
• Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler, René Witte:
  Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles.
  

Session P4 - Named Entity Recognition, Information Extraction and Document Classification

• Piek Vossen, Eneko Agirre, Nicoletta Calzolari, Christiane Fellbaum, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Andrea Marchetti, Monica Monachini, Federico Neri, Remo Raffaelli, German Rigau, Maurizio Tesconi, Joop VanGent:
  KYOTO: a System for Mining, Structuring and Distributing Knowledge across Languages and Cultures.
  
• Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Torsten Marek, Yajing Zhang:
  Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers on Language Technology.
  
• Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu:
  Named Entity Relation Mining using Wikipedia.
  
• Claire Grover, Sharon Givon, Richard Tobin, Julian Ball:
  Named Entity Recognition for Digitised Historical Texts.
  
• Zhiyi Song, Stephanie Strassel:
  Entity Translation and Alignment in the ACE-07 ET Task.
  
• Yoji Kiyota, Noriyuki Tamura, Satoshi Sakai, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hidetaka Masuda:
  Automated Subject Induction from Query Keywords through Wikipedia Categories and Subject Headings.
  
• Linus Sellberg, Arne Jönsson:
  Using Random Indexing to improve Singular Value Decomposition for Latent Semantic Analysis.
  

Session P5 - Multi-Word Expressions

• Spela Vintar, Darja Fiser:
  Harvesting Multi-Word Expressions from Parallel Corpora.
  
• Andrea Agili, Marco Fabbri, Alessandro Panunzi, Manuel Zini:
  Integration of a Multilingual Keyword Extractor in a Document Management System.
  
• Daiga Deksne, Raivis Skadins, Inguna Skadina:
  Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages.
  
• Grazyna Vetulani, Zygmunt Vetulani, Tomasz Obrêbski:
  Verb-Noun Collocation SyntLex Dictionary: Corpus-Based Approach.
  
• Weiruo Qu, Christoph Ringlstetter, Randy Goebel:
  Targeting Chinese Nominal Compounds in Corpora.
  
• Margarita Alonso Ramos, Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner:
  Using Semantically Annotated Corpora to Build Collocation Resources.
  

Session P6 - Ontologies and Knowledge

• Katia Kermanidis, Aristomenis Thanopoulos, Manolis Maragoudakis, Nikos Fakotakis:
  Eksairesis: A Domain-Adaptable System for Ontology Building from Unstructured Text.
  
• Francisco Alvarez Montero, Antonio Vaquero Sanchez, Fernando Sáenz-Pérez:
  Conceptual Modeling of Ontology-based Linguistic Resources with a Focus on Semantic Relations.
  
• Paul Buitelaar, Thomas Eigner:
  Ontology Search with the OntoSelect Ontology Library.
  
• Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira:
  A Framework for Multilingual Ontology Mapping.
  
• Laura Kassner, Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube:
  Acquiring a Taxonomy from the German Wikipedia.
  
• Davide Picca, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Aldo Gangemi:
  LMM: an OWL-DL MetaModel to Represent Heterogeneous Lexical Knowledge.
  
• Hitoshi Isahara, Francis Bond, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Masao Utiyama, Kyoko Kanzaki:
  Development of the Japanese WordNet.
  
• Neil Newbold, Bogdan Vrusias, Lee Gillam:
  Lexical Ontology Extraction using Terminology Analysis: Automating Video Annotation.
  
• Mukda Suktarachan, Dussadee Thamvijit, Sachit Rajbhandari, Daoyos Noikongka, Puwarat Pavaputanont Na Mahasarakham, Panita Yongyuth, Asanee Kawtrakul, Margherita Sini:
  Workbench with Authoring Tools for Collaborative Multi-lingual Ontological Knowledge Construction and Maintenance.
  
• Mehrnoush Shamsfard:
  Towards Semi Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology for Persian.
  
• Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum:
  Mapping Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet to French.
  
• Christophe Jouis, Julien Bourdaillet:
  Representation of Atypical Entities in Ontologies.
  
• Siaw-Fong Chung, Laurent Prévot, Mingwei Xu, Kathleen Ahrens, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang:
  Extracting Concrete Senses of Lexicon through Measurement of Conceptual Similarity in Ontologies.
  
• Jun Okamoto, Kiyoko Uchiyama, Shun Ishizaki:
  A Contextual Dynamic Network Model for WSD Using Associative Concept Dictionary.
  
• Berenike Loos, Lasse Schwarten:
  A Semantic Memory for Incremental Ontology Population.
  

Session P7 - Term Identification/Extraction and Terminological Databases

• Jorge Vivaldi, Anna Joan, Mercè Lorente:
  Turning a Term Extractor into a new Domain: first Experiences.
  
• Peter G. Anick, Vijay Murthi, Shaji Sebastian:
  Similar Term Discovery using Web Search.
  
• Junko Kubo, Keita Tsuji, Shigeo Sugimoto:
  Temporal Aspects of Terminology for Automatic Term Recognition: Case Study on Women's Studies Terms.
  
• Ziqi Zhang, José Iria, Christopher Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna:
  A Comparative Evaluation of Term Recognition Algorithms.
  
• Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever, Klaar Vanopstal, Isabelle Delaere:
  Learning-based Detection of Scientific Terms in Patient Information.
  
• Eli Pociello, Antton Gurrutxaga, Eneko Agirre, Izaskun Aldezabal, German Rigau:
  WNTERM: Enriching the MCR with a Terminological Dictionary.
  
• Rita Marinelli, Melissa Tiberi, Remo Bindi:
  Encoding Terms from a Scientific Domain in a Terminological Database: Methodology and Criteria.
  

Session P8 - Information Extraction, Question Answering and Document Classification

• Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker:
  An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval.
  
• Jorge Civera, Alfons Juan-Císcar:
  Bilingual Text Classification using the IBM 1 Translation Model.
  
• Hiroyuki Shinnou, Minoru Sasaki:
  Ping-pong Document Clustering using NMF and Linkage-Based Refinement.
  
• Hiroyuki Shinnou, Minoru Sasaki:
  Spectral Clustering for a Large Data Set by Reducing the Similarity Matrix Size.
  
• Danica Damljanovic, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva:
  A Text-based Query Interface to OWL Ontologies.
  
• Han Ren, Dong-Hong Ji, Lei Han:
  A Research on Automatic Chinese Catchword Extraction.
  
• Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles, Min-Yen Kan:
  ParsCit: an Open-source CRF Reference String Parsing Package.
  
• Shunsuke Kozawa, Hitomi Tohyama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Shigeki Matsubara:
  Automatic Acquisition of Usage Information for Language Resources.
  
• Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klakow:
  Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction.
  
• Lukasz Degórski, Michal Marcinczuk, Adam Przepiórkowski:
  Definition Extraction Using a Sequential Combination of Baseline Grammars and Machine Learning Classifiers.
  
• Francesca Fallucchi, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto:
  Yet another Platform for Extracting Knowledge from Corpora.
  
• Milena Yankova, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham:
  A Framework for Identity Resolution and Merging for Multi-source Information Extraction.
  
• Jussi Karlgren, Hercules Dalianis, Bart Jongejan:
  Experiments to Investigate the Connection between Case Distribution and Topical Relevance of Search Terms in an Information Retrieval Setting.
  
• Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Chaomei Chen, Roberto Pinho:
  Identifying Strategic Information from Scientific Articles through Sentence Classification.
  
• Susana Azeredo, Silvia Moraes, Vera Lima:
  Keywords, k-NN and Neural Networks: a Support for Hierarchical Categorization of Texts in Brazilian Portuguese.
  
• Hossam Ibrahim, Kareem Darwish, Abdel-Rahim Madany:
  Automatic Extraction of Textual Elements from News Web Pages.
  
• Eiko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Isahara, Akira Terada, Yasunori Abe:
  Extraction of Informative Expressions from Domain-specific Documents.
  
• Rune Sætre, Brian Kemper, Kanae Oda, Naoaki Okazaki, Yukiko Matsuoka, Norihiro Kikuchi, Hiroaki Kitano, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun-ichi Tsujii:
  Connecting Text Mining and Pathways using the PathText Resource.
  
• Jan Pomikálek, Pavel Rychlý:
  Detecting Co-Derivative Documents in Large Text Collections.
  
• Lothar Lemnitzer, Paola Monachesi:
  Extraction and Evaluation of Keywords from Learning Objects: a Multilingual Approach.
  
• Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yuexian Hou:
  Exploiting the Role of Position Feature in Chinese Relation Extraction.
  
• Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie:
  Authorship Attribution of E-Mail: Comparing Classifiers over a New Corpus for Evaluation.
  
• Michael Kaisser, John Lowe:
  Creating a Research Collection of Question Answer Sentence Pairs with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
  
• Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Hong Li, Niko Felger:
  Adaptation of Relation Extraction Rules to New Domains.
  
• Asuka Sumida, Naoki Yoshinaga, Kentaro Torisawa:
  Boosting Precision and Recall of Hyponymy Relation Acquisition from Hierarchical Layouts in Wikipedia.
  
• Margot Mieskes, Michael Strube:
  Parameters for Topic Boundary Detection in Multi-Party Dialogues.
  
• Eugenio Picchi, Eva Sassolini, Sebastiana Cucurullo, Francesca Bertagna, Paola Baroni:
  Semantic Press.
  
• Lei Xia, José Iria:
  An Approach to Modeling Heterogeneous Resources for Information Extraction.
  
• Anca Dinu:
  On Classifying Coherent/Incoherent Romanian Short Texts.
  
• Lorraine Goeuriot, Natalia Grabar, Béatrice Daille:
  Characterization of Scientific and Popular Science Discourse in French, Japanese and Russian.
  
• Jalal Maleki, Lars Ahrenberg:
  Converting Romanized Persian to the Arabic Writing Systems.
  
• Nasser Abouzakhar, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie:
  Unsupervised Learning-based Anomalous Arabic Text Detection.
  
• Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassia Karra, Aggeliki Papagianopoulou, Stelios Piperidis:
  Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation.
  
• Simon Mille, Leo Wanner:
  Making Text Resources Accessible to the Reader: the Case of Patent Claims.
  

Session P9 - Authoring Tools and Related Resources

• Jack Halpern:
  Exploiting Lexical Resources for Disambiguating CJK and Arabic Orthographic Variants.
  
• Neil Newbold, Lee Gillam:
  Automatic Document Quality Control.
  
• Thepchai Supnithi, Suchinder Singh, Taneth Ruangrajitpakorn, Prachya Boonkwan, Monthika Boriboon:
  OpenCCG Workbench and Visualization Tool.
  
• Matthieu Hermet, Alain Désilets, Stan Szpakowicz:
  Using the Web as a Linguistic Resource to Automatically Correct Lexico-Syntactic Errors.
  
• Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio:
  I saw TREE trees in the park: How to Correct Real-Word Spelling Mistakes.
  
• Martí Quixal, Toni Badia, Francesc Benavent, José Roberto de Freitas Boullosa, Judith Domingo, Bernat Grau, Guillem Massó, Oriol Valentín:
  User-Centred Design of Error Correction Tools.
  
• Wei Liu, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie:
  Professor or Screaming Beast? Detecting Anomalous Words in Chinese.
  
• Iñaki Alegria, Klara Ceberio, Nerea Ezeiza, Aitor Soroa, Gregorio Hernandez:
  Spelling Correction: from Two-Level Morphology to Open Source.
  
• Catalina Hallett, David Hardcastle:
  Automatic Rewriting of Patient Record Narratives.
  

Session P10 - Coreference and Discourse

• Yannick Versley, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio, Vladimir Eidelman, Alan Jern, Jason Smith, Xiaofeng Yang, Alessandro Moschitti:
  BART: A modular toolkit for coreference resolution.
  
• Massimo Poesio, Udo Kruschwitz, Jon Chamberlain:
  ANAWIKI: Creating Anaphorically Annotated Resources through Web Cooperation.
  
• Daniela Goecke, Maik Stührenberg, Andreas Witt:
  Influence of Text Type and Text Length on Anaphoric Annotation.
  
• Costanza Navarretta, Sussi Olsen:
  Annotating Abstract Pronominal Anaphora in the DAD Project.
  
• Sandra Williams, Richard Power:
  Deriving Rhetorical Complexity Data from the RST-DT Corpus.
  
• Márton Miháltz:
  Knowledge-based Coreference Resolution for Hungarian.
  
• Malvina Nissim, Sara Perboni:
  The Italian Particle "ne": Corpus Construction and Analysis.
  

Session P11 - Tools, Systems, Applications

• Dawn Knight, Paul Tennent:
  Introducing DRS (The Digital Replay System): a Tool for the Future of Corpus Linguistic Research and Analysis.
  
• Michaela Atterer, Hinrich Schütze:
  An Inverted Index for Storing and Retrieving Grammatical Dependencies.
  
• Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre:
  MaltEval: an Evaluation and Visualization Tool for Dependency Parsing.
  
• Hiroaki Sato:
  New Functions of FrameSQL for Multilingual FrameNets.
  
• Hiroyuki Shinnou, Minoru Sasaki:
  Division of Example Sentences Based on the Meaning of a Target Word Using Semi-Supervised Clustering.
  
• Hiroaki Saito, Shunta Kuboya, Takaaki Sone, Hayato Tagami, Kyoko Ohara:
  The Japanese FrameNet Software Tools.
  
• Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato, Alexandra Tudorache:
  JMWNL: an Extensible Multilingual Library for Accessing Wordnets in Different Languages.
  
• Diana Maynard:
  Benchmarking Textual Annotation Tools for the Semantic Web.
  
• Liviu Petrisor Dinu, Marius Popescu, Anca Dinu:
  Authorship Identification of Romanian Texts with Controversial Paternity.
  

Session P12 - Lexical Resources and Tools

• Marc Kemps-Snijders, Claus Zinn, Jacquelijn Ringersma, Menzo Windhouwer:
  Ensuring Semantic Interoperability on Lexical Resources.
  
• Marc Finthammer, Irene M. Cramer:
  Exploring and Navigating: Tools for GermaNet.
  
• Marianne Santaholma, Nikos Chatzichrisafis:
  A Knowledge-Modeling Approach for Multilingual Regulus Lexica.
  
• Michael Rosner:
  ODL: an Object Description Language for Lexical Information.
  
• Dan Cristea, Corina Forascu, Marius Raschip, Michael Zock:
  How to Evaluate and Raise the Quality in a Collaborative Lexicographic Approach.
  
• Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Anna Braasch, Lina Henriksen, Sussi Olsen, Claus Povlsen:
  Merging a Syntactic Resource with a WordNet: a Feasibility Study of a Merge between STO and DanNet.
  
• Borislav Rizov:
  Hydra: a Modal Logic Tool for Wordnet Development, Validation and Exploration.
  

Session P13 - Evaluation: Resources, Tools, Methodologies, Campaigns

• Míriam Luján-Mares, Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Vicent Alabau Gonzalvo:
  Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression Variants for Language Adaptation.
  
• Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, Philippe Blache:
  Evaluation of Lexical Resources and Semantic Networks on a Corpus of Mental Associations.
  
• Heike Bieler, Stefanie Dipper:
  Measures for Term and Sentence Relevances: an Evaluation for German.
  
• Julia Ritz, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze:
  Annotation of Information Structure: an Evaluation across different Types of Texts.
  
• Quang Thang Dinh, Hong Phuong Le, Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen, Cam-Tu Nguyen, Mathias Rossignol, Xuân Luong Vu:
  Word Segmentation of Vietnamese Texts: a Comparison of Approaches.
  
• Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo, Giuseppe Attardi, Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli, Leonardo Lesmo, Giorgio Satta, Maria Simi:
  Comparing Italian parsers on a common Treebank: the EVALITA experience.
  
• Bernardo Magnini, Amedeo Cappelli, Fabio Tamburini, Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo, Francesca Bertagna, Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonio Toral, Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi, Rachele Sprugnoli, Manuela Speranza:
  Evaluation of Natural Language Tools for Italian: EVALITA 2007.
  
• Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato, Alexandra Tudorache:
  A Bottom-up Comparative Study of EuroWordNet and WordNet 3.0 Lexical and Semantic Relations.
  
• Simon Scerri, Myriam Mencke, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh:
  Evaluating the Ontology underlying sMail - the Conceptual Framework for Semantic Email Communication.
  
• Václav Novák, Keith Hall:
  Inter-sentential Coreferences in Semantic Networks: An Evaluation of Manual Annotation.
  
• Mohamed Maamouri, Seth Kulick, Ann Bies:
  Diacritic Annotation in the Arabic Treebank and its Impact on Parser Evaluation.
  
• Chantal Enguehard, Harouna Naroua:
  Evaluation of Virtual Keyboards for West-African Languages.
  
• Constantin Orasan, Dan Cristea, Ruslan Mitkov, António Horta Branco:
  Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview.
  
• Diana Santos, Alberto Simões:
  Portuguese-English Word Alignment: some Experiments.
  
• Karin Schuler, Vinod Kaggal, James J. Masanz, Philip V. Ogren, Guergana K. Savova:
  System Evaluation on a Named Entity Corpus from Clinical Notes.
  
• Philip V. Ogren, Guergana K. Savova, Christopher G. Chute:
  Constructing Evaluation Corpora for Automated Clinical Named Entity Recognition.
  
• Eric K. Ringger, Marc Carmen, Robbie Haertel, Kevin D. Seppi, Deryle Lonsdale, Peter McClanahan, James L. Carroll, Noel Ellison:
  Assessing the Costs of Machine-Assisted Corpus Annotation through a User Study.
  
• Alexandre Allauzen, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard:
  Training and Evaluation of POS Taggers on the French MULTITAG Corpus.
  
• Marco Baroni, Francis Chantree, Adam Kilgarriff, Serge Sharoff:
  Cleaneval: a Competition for Cleaning Web Pages.
  
• Mark Arehart, Keith J. Miller:
  A Ground Truth Dataset for Matching Culturally Diverse Romanized Person Names.
  
• Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto, Takehito Utsuro:
  Producing a Test Collection for Patent Machine Translation in the Seventh NTCIR Workshop.
  
• Marilisa Amoia, Claire Gardent:
  A Test Suite for Inference Involving Adjectives.
  
• Takanobu Nishiura, Masato Nakayama, Yuki Denda, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Takeshi Yamada, Satoru Tsuge, Chiyomi Miyajima, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Satoshi Tamura, Shingo Kuroiwa, Kazuya Takeda, Satoshi Nakamura:
  Evaluation Framework for Distant-talking Speech Recognition under Reverberant Environments: newest Part of the CENSREC Series -.
  
• Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa:
  An Experimental Methodology for an End-to-End Evaluation in Speech-to-Speech Translation.
  

Session P14 - Evaluation: Resources, Tools, Systems, Methodologies

• Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Vicent Tamarit:
  Evaluation of Different Segmentation Techniques for Dialogue Turns.
  
• David Griol, Lluís F. Hurtado, Encarna Segarra, Emilio Sanchis:
  Acquisition and Evaluation of a Dialog Corpus through WOz and Dialog Simulation Techniques.
  
• Susan Robinson, David R. Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah, Joe Henderer:
  What would you Ask a conversational Agent? Observations of Human-Agent Dialogues in a Museum Setting.
  
• Dave Toney, Sophie Rosset, Aurélien Max, Olivier Galibert, Eric Bilinski:
  An Evaluation of Spoken and Textual Interaction in the RITEL Interactive Question Answering System.
  
• Muriel Amar, Sophie David, Rachel Panckhurst, Lisa Whistlecroft:
  Classification Procedures for Software Evaluation.
  
• Sylwia Ozdowska:
  Cross-Corpus Evaluation of Word Alignment.
  
• Diana Maynard, Wim Peters, Yaoyong Li:
  Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Ontology-Based Applications: Infinite Reflection.
  
• Diana McCarthy:
  Lexical Substitution as a Framework for Multiword Evaluation.
  
• Martin Emms:
  Tree Distance and Some Other Variants of Evalb.
  
• A. Cüneyd Tantug, Kemal Oflazer, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout:
  BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation.
  
• C. Ray Graham, Deryle Lonsdale, Casey Kennington, Aaron Johnson, Jeremiah McGhee:
  Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure with ASR Scoring.
  
• Pedro Concejero Cerezo, Daniel Tapias Merino, Juan José Rodríguez Soler, Juan Carlos Luengo, Sebastián Sánchez:
  Methodology for Evaluating the Usability of User Interfaces in Mobile Services.
  
• Edouard Geoffrois:
  An Economic View on Human Language Technology Evaluation.
  
• Beatrice Alex:
  Comparing Corpus-based to Web-based Lookup Techniques for Automatic English Inclusion Detection.
  
• Laura Hasler:
  Centering Theory for Evaluation of Coherence in Computer-Aided Summaries.
  
• Stephanie Strassel, Mark A. Przybocki, Kay Peterson, Zhiyi Song, Kazuaki Maeda:
  Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Techniques for Evaluation of Cross-Document Automatic Content Extraction.
  
• Johan Bos:
  Let's not Argue about Semantics.
  
• David Hardcastle, Donia Scott:
  Can we Evaluate the Quality of Generated Text?
  
• Keith J. Miller, Mark Arehart, Catherine Ball, John Polk, Alan Rubenstein, Kenneth Samuel, Elizabeth Schroeder, Eva Vecchi, Chris Wolf:
  An Infrastructure, Tools and Methodology for Evaluation of Multicultural Name Matching Systems.
  
• Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, Philippe Blache:
  Evaluating Robustness Of A QA System Through A Corpus Of Real-Life Questions.
  
• Ann Devitt, Khurshid Ahmad:
  Sentiment Analysis and the Use of Extrinsic Datasets in Evaluation.
  
• Cyril Grouin:
  Certification and Cleaning up of a Text Corpus: Towards an Evaluation of the "Grammatical" Quality of a Corpus.
  
• Laurent Blin, Olivier Boëffard, Vincent Barreaud:
  WEB-Based Listening Test System for Speech Synthesis and Speech Conversion Evaluation.
  
• Renata Queiroz Dividino, Massimo Romanelli, Daniel Sonntag:
  Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval).
  
• George Demetriou, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Haotian Sun, Angus Roberts:
  ANNALIST - ANNotation ALIgnment and Scoring Tool.
  
• Andrei Popescu-Belis, Mike Flynn, Pierre Wellner, Philippe Baudrion:
  Task-Based Evaluation of Meeting Browsers: from Task Elicitation to User Behavior Analysis.
  
• Paula Estrella, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Maghi King:
  Improving Contextual Quality Models for MT Evaluation Based on Evaluators' Feedback.
  
• Brian A. Weiss, Craig Schlenoff, Gregory A. Sanders, Michelle Potts Steves, Sherri L. Condon, Jon Phillips, Dan Parvaz:
  Performance Evaluation of Speech Translation Systems.
  
• Arne Mauser, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney:
  Automatic Evaluation Measures for Statistical Machine Translation System Optimization.
  

Session P15 - LR Infrastructures and Architectures

• Dan Tufis, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Stefanescu:
  RACAI's Linguistic Web Services.
  
• Hanno Biber, Evelyn Breiteneder, Karlheinz Mörth:
  Words in Contexts: Digital Editions of Literary Journals in the "AAC - Austrian Academy Corpus".
  
• Chris Biemann, Uwe Quasthoff, Gerhard Heyer, Florian Holz:
  ASV Toolbox: a Modular Collection of Language Exploration Tools.
  
• António Branco, Francisco Costa, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes, João Silva, Sara Silveira:
  LX-Service: Web Services of Language Technology for Portuguese.
  
• Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi, Roberto Zanoli:
  The TextPro Tool Suite.
  
• Bayan Abu Shawar, Eric Atwell:
  An AI-inspired intelligent agent/student architecture to combine Language Resources research and teaching.
  
• Kjell Elenius, Eva Forsbom, Beáta Megyesi:
  Language Resources and Tools for Swedish: A Survey.
  
• Lars Nygaard, Joel Priestley, Anders Nøklestad, Janne Bondi Johannessen:
  Glossa: a Multilingual, Multimodal, Configurable User Interface.
  
• Ekaterina Buyko, Christian Chiarcos, Antonio Pareja-Lora:
  Ontology-Based Interface Specifications for a NLP Pipeline Architecture.
  
• Daan Broeder, Thierry Declerck, Erhard W. Hinrichs, Stelios Piperidis, Laurent Romary, Nicoletta Calzolari, Peter Wittenburg:
  Foundation of a Component-based Flexible Registry for Language Resources and Technology.
  
• Daan Broeder, David Nathan, Sven Strömqvist, Remco van Veenendaal:
  Building a Federation of Language Resource Repositories: the DAM-LR Project and its Continuation within CLARIN.
  
• Paul Trilsbeek, Daan Broeder, Tobias Valkenhoef, Peter Wittenburg:
  A Grid of Regional Language Archives.
  
• Takenobu Tokunaga, Dain Kaplan, Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Kiyoaki Shirai, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Yingju Xia:
  Adapting International Standard for Asian Language Technologies.
  
• Keiji Shinzato, Daisuke Kawahara, Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi:
  A Large-Scale Web Data Collection as a Natural Language Processing Infrastructure.
  
• Riccardo Del Gratta, Roberto Bartolini, Tommaso Caselli, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari:
  UFRA: a UIMA-based Approach to Federated Language Resource Architecture.
  
• Georg Rehm, Oliver Schonefeld, Andreas Witt, Timm Lehmberg, Christian Chiarcos, Hanan Bechara, Florian Eishold, Kilian Evang, Magdalena Leshtanska, Aleksandar Savkov, Matthias Stark:
  The Metadata-Database of a Next Generation Sustainability Web-Platform for Language Resources.
  
• Piroska Lendvai, Steve Hunt:
  From Field Notes towards a Knowledge Base.
  
• Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Shigeki Matsubara, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Construction of a Metadata Database for Efficient Development and Use of Language Resources.
  
• Bodil Nistrup Madsen, Hanne Erdman Thomsen:
  A Taxonomy of Lexical Metadata Categories.