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ALTA 2013 Programme
Registration will be open from 08:30 on Thursday 5th in Level 5 of P-block on QUT Gardens Point campus.
All the sessions (except for the poster session and ADCS joint session) will be located in P-512 (Level 5).
The ALTA-ADCS joint Keynote and the joint session will be in P421. Lunches (except for the tutorial day) are served in Level 6.
Tutorials with run in P-504.
Wednesday 4 December
Start time: 10am, Room P-504
Tutorial 1: Working with the HCS vLab (Dominique Estival and Steve Cassidy) | |
10:00-12:00 | Tutorial 1, part 1 |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch break |
13:00-14:30 | Tutorial 1, part 2 |
Tutorial 2: Applying Wikipedia as a machine-readable knowledge base (David Milne) | |
15:00-16:30 | Tutorial 2, part 1 |
16:30-16:45 | Short break |
16:45-17:45 | Tutorial 2, part 2 |
Thursday 5 December
Opening remarks | 08:50-09:00 | |
Keynote: Bonnie Webber | 09:00-10:00 | Concurrent Discourse Relations |
Break | 10:00-10:30 | |
Session 1 | 10:30-11:00 | - Marco Lui and Paul Cook |
(Chair: Ingrid Zukerman) | | Classifying English Documents by National Dialect |
| 11:00-11:30 | - Tim O'Keefe, Kellie Webster, James R. Curran and Irena Koprinska. |
| | Examining the Impact of Coreference Resolution on Quote Attribution |
| 11:30-12:00 | - Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel |
| | Crowd-Sourcing of Human Judgments of Machine Translation Fluency |
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Lunch Break | 12:00-13:30 | |
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Session 2 | 13:30-14:00 | - Shunichi Ishihara |
(Chair: Lawrence Cavedon) | | The Effect of the Within-speaker Sample Size on the Performance of Likelihood Ratio Based Forensic Voice Comparison: Monte Carlo Simulations |
| 14:00-14:30 | - Hanna Suominen and Gabriela Ferraro. Noise in Speech-to-Text Voice: Analysis of Errors and Feasibility of Phonetic Similarity for Their Correction |
| 14:30-15:00 | - Robert Power, Bella Robinson and David Ratcliffe |
| | Finding Fires with Twitter |
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Break | 15:00-15:30 | |
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Session 3 | 15:30-16:00 | - Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Diego Molla and K Ravikumar |
(Chair: Timothy Baldwin) | | Multi-Objective Optimization for Clustering of Medical Publications |
| 16:00-16:20 | - Tatyana Shmanina, Ingrid Zukerman, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Lawrence Cavedon and Karin Verspoor |
| | Impact of Corpus Diversity and Complexity on NER Performance |
| 16:20-16:50 | - Rolf Schwitter |
| | Working with Defaults in a Controlled Natural Language |
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Business Meeting | 16:50-17:20 | |
Conference Dinner at Plough Inn, South Bank, 7:00pm |
Friday 6 December
Keynote: Mark Steedman | 09:00-10:00 | Robust Computational Semantics (Joint with ADCS) |
Break | 10:00-10:30 | |
Joint ALTA-ADCS Session | 10:30-11:00 | - ADCS paper (Conditional Collocation in Japanese) |
| 11:00-11:30 | - ADCS paper (Visual Text Summarision for Surveillance and Situational Awareness in Hospitals) |
| 11:30-12:00 | - Antti Puurula |
| | Cumulative Progress in Language Models for Information Retrieval |
| 12:00-12:30 | - Oldooz Dianat, Cecile Paris, and Stephen Wan |
| | A Study: From Electronic Laboratory Notebooks to Generated Queries for Literature Recommendation |
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Lunch Break | 12:30-13:30 | |
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ALTA Shared Task | 13:30-13:45 | - Diego Molla |
(Chair: Cecile Paris) | | ALTA 2013 Shared Task overview |
| 13:45-14:00 | - Marco Lui and Li Wang |
| | Recovering Casing and Punctuation using Conditional Random Fields |
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Session 5 | 14:00-14:30 | - Shunichi Ishihara |
(Chair: David Martinez) | | A Comparative Study of Likelihood Ratio Based Forensic Text Comparison in Procedures: Multivariate Kernel Density vs. Gaussian Mixture Model-Universal Background Model |
| 14:30-14:50 | - Farshid Zavareh, Ingrid Zukerman, Su Nam Kim and Thomas Kleinbauer |
| | Error Detection in Automatic Speech Recognition |
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Awards and final remarks | 14:50-15:05 | |
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ALTA Poster Boosters | 15:05-15:10 | - Jared Willett, Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez and J. Angus Webb |
| | Automatic Climate Classification of Environmental Science Literature |
| 15:10-15:15 | - Jason Brown and Sam Mandal |
| | Rhythm, Metrics, and the Link to Phonology |
| 15:15-15:20 | - Shunichi Ishihara |
| | Differences in Speaker Individualising Information between Case Particles and Fillers in Spoken Japanese |
Posters and cocktail with ADCS | 15:30-17:00 | |
End of programme: 5pm
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