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This is the tenative programme, although only minor changes might be expected in the final one.
Tutorial Programme
Location: Theatre 3, Level 2, ICT building, 111 Barry Street (just off Grattan St), Carlton. Map. Note: It is not on campus but just across the road from it.
Sunday December 9, 2007
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9:00am - 12:15pm Tutorial 1
- Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems
Dr Shlomo Berkovsky
There will be a 20 mins break around 10:30am - 10 mins walk from the ICT building: Threshermans Bakehouse (221 Faraday St, Carlton)
- Title: Experimental Method and Evaluation in Word
Sense Disambiguation
Dr David Martinez
There will be a 20 mins break around 3:00pm
12:15pm - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm - 5:00pm Tutorial 2
Workshop Programme
Location: Melbourne Zoo, in the Bong Su room.
Monday December 10, 2007
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9:15am-10:30am: Session 1
- Welcome and Opening
- An Empirical Investigation into Grammatically Constrained
Contexts in predicting distributional similarity
Dongqiang Yang and David Powers - TAT: an author profiling tool with application to Arabic emails
Dominique Estival, Tanja Gaustad van Zaanen, Son Bao Pham, Will Radford and Ben Hutchinson - Extending Sense Collocations in Interpreting Noun Compounds
Su Nam Kim, Meladel Mistica and Timothy Baldwin - Dictionary Alignment for Context-sensitive Word Glossing
Willy Yap and Timothy Baldwin - Lightning preview of posters
- Exploring approaches to discriminating among near-synonyms
Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras - Practical Queries of a Massive n-gram Database
Tobias Hawker, Mary Gardiner and Andrew Bennetts - Named Entity Recognition in Question Answering of Speech Data
Diego Molla, Menno van Zaanen and Steve Cassidy - Experiments in Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping
Tara Murphy and James Curran -
Two-Step Comprehensive Open Domain Text Annotation with Frame
Semantics
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood and Liping Ma - Question Prediction Language Model
Luiz Augusto Pizzato and Diego Molla - Exploring extensions to machine-learning based gene
normalisation
Benjamin Goudey, Nicola Stokes and David Martinez - Extending CCGbank with quotes and multi-modal CCG
Daniel Tse and James Curran - Distributional Similarity of Multi-Word Expressions
Laura Ingram and James Curran - Exploring Abbreviation Expansion for Genomic Information
Retrieval
Nicola Stokes, Yi Li, Lawrence Cavedon and Justin Zobel - A Bottom-Up Term Extraction Approach for Web-Based Translation
in Chinese-English IR Systems
(ADCS authors) - Automatic Thread Classification for Linux User Forum
Information Access
(ADCS authors) -
Measures of Measurements: Robust Evaluation of Search Systems
Professor Justin Zobel
10.30am-11.00am: Coffee break
11.00am-12.15pm: Session 2
12.15pm-1.45pm: Lunch
1.45pm-3.15pm: Poster Session
Accepted papers
Student posters
3:15pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45pm - 4:00pm Walk through the zoo to room for joint session
4.00pm-4.45pm: Session 3 (Joint with ADCS)
4.30pm-5.30pm: Keynote 1 (Joint with ADCS)
6:00pm-7.00pm: Canapes and Drinks (Incorporating ADCS Best Paper Awards)
7:00pm Conference Dinner (not covered by registration)
Tuesday December 11 2007
Location: Melbourne Zoo, in the Rainforest room.
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9.15am-10.15am: Keynote 2
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Title: Text mining techniques for building a Biolexicon
Dr Sophia Ananiadou - Measuring Correlation Between Linguist's Judgments and Latent
Dirichlet Allocation Topics
Ari Chanen and Jon Patrick - Charting Democracy Across Parsers
Scott Nowson and Robert Dale - Parsing Internal Noun Phrase Structure with Collins' Models
David Vadas and James R. Curran - Entailment due to Syntactically Encoded Semantic Relationships
Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras - Statistical Machine Translation of Australian Aboriginal
Languages: Morphological Analysis with Languages of Differing
Morphological Richness
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras - Title: Does language technology offer anything to small languages?
Dr Nick Thieberger - Workshop Close
10.15am-10.45am: Session 4
10.45am-11.15am: Coffee break
11.15am-12.15pm: Session 5
12.15pm-1.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm-2.15pm: ALTA Annual General Meeting
2.15pm-3.15pm: Session 6
3.15pm-3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45pm-4.45pm: Keynote 3
4.45pm-5.00pm: ALTA Best Paper & Best Presentation Awards
For any comments or questions about the workshop please contact the organizers (workshop AT alta DOT asn DOT au).