Please find enclosed an extract of Natural Language Processing presentations at the Intelligent Information Systems 2008 conference to be held in the mountain resort of Zakopane, Poland, on 16-18 June 2008.
The full programme and further information may be found at the conference site: http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/.
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Tuesday (17th June)
8:30 - 9:30 *Invited Talk:
"Language Resources: Standardization, Interoperability, and Multi-Linguality" by Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany
Session Chair: Adam Przepiórkowski
9:30 - 9:40 *Break*
9:40 - 11:00 *Session: Computational linguistics (1)
Session Chair: Karel Pala
* Jan Daciuk and Rafael C. Carrasco, Perfect Hashing with
Pseudo-minimal Bottom-up Deterministic Tree Automata
* Jarosław Lipski and Krzysztof Jassem, A new tool for the
bilingual text aligning at the sentence level
* Petr Homola and Vladislav Kuboň, A Method of Hybrid MT for
Related Languages
* Jernej Vicic and Mikel L. Forcada, Comparing greedy and optimal
coverage strategies for shallow-transfer machine translation
11:00 - 11:20 *Coffee Break*
11:20 - 12:40 *Session: Computational linguistics (2)
Session Chair: Stan Szpakowicz
* Anna Kupść, Adjectives in TreeLex
* Elżbieta Hajnicz and Marek Wiech, Applying grade methods to
detect similarity of semantic categories of nouns for semantic
valence dictionary creation
* Bartosz Broda and Maciej Piasecki, Experiments in Documents
Clustering for the Automatic Acquisition of Lexical Semantic
Networks for Polish
* Ali Choumane and Jacques Siroux, Natural Language and Visual
based Gesture Disambiguation in Multimodal Communication Systems
12:40 - 14:00 *Lunch*
14:00 - 15:00 *Invited Talk:
"Searching for Intelligent Behavior" by Jarosław Arabas and Paweł Cichosz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Session Chair: Krzysztof Trojanowski
15:00 - 15:20 *Coffee break*
15:20 - 16:40 *Invited Session: Wordnets for Slavic languages
invited by Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa,
Canada
* Svetla Koeva, Derivational and Morphosemantic Relations in
Bulgarian Wordnet
* Karel Pala, Dana Hlaváčková and Vašek Nemčík, Semi-automatic
Linking of New Czech Synsets using Princeton WordNet
* Magdalena Derwojedowa, Maciej Piasecki, Stanisław Szpakowicz and
Magdalena Zawisławska, Lexical units as the centrepiece of a
WordNet
* Irina Azarova, RussNet as a Computer Lexicon for Russian
16:40 - 17:00 *Break*
17:00 - 18:20 *Session: Computational linguistics (3)
Session Chair: Tomek Strzałkowski
* Dawid Weiss, Adam Dudczak and Jerzy Stefanowski, Comparing
Performance of Text Summarization Methods on Polish News
Articles
* Jan Dedek and Peter Vojtáš, Exploitation of linguistic tools in
semantic extraction - a design
* Aleksander Buczyński and Aleksander Wawer, Automated
classification of product review sentiments using Bag of Words
and Sentipejd
* Maciej Piasecki and Adam Radziszewski, Towards computational
verification of Self-organising Logic of Structures
19:00 *Conference Dinner*
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Wednesday (18th June)
8:30 - 10:00 *Session: IELRT (1)
Session Chair: Peter Wittenburg
* Adam Pawłowski, Chronological Corpus of Polish Press Texts
* Natalia Kotsyba, Olga Shypnivska and Magdalena Turska,
Principles of organising a common morphological tagset for
PolUKR (Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus)
* Adam Przepiórkowski, Linguistic resources and tools at ICS PAS:
Towards interoperability
10:00 - 10:20 *Coffee Break*
10:20 - 11:50 *Session: IELRT (2)
Session Chair: Erhard Hinrichs
* Violetta Koseska-Toszewa and Małgorzata Korytkowska, ,,Polish -
Bulgarian Contrastive Grammar" - A Synthesis of Many-Volume
Semantic Contrastive Grammar
* Alexander Horák, Karel Pala and Adam Rambousek, Tools for
Managing Multilingual Lexical Resources
* Bartosz Broda, Maciej Piasecki and Adam Radziszewski, Towards a
Set of General Purpose Morphosyntactic Tools for Polish
11:50 - 12:50 *Invited Talk:
"Semantic Composition for Speech Understanding" by Renato De Mori, University of Avignon, France
Session Chair: Ryszard Gubrynowicz
12:50 - 14:00 *Lunch*
14:00 - 15:00 *Invited Talk:
Interactive Open-Domain Question Answering by Tomek Strzałkowski, SUNY Albany (State University of New York), USA
Session Chair: Agnieszka Mykowiecka
15:00 - 16:15 *Session: SLUDS (1)
Session Chair: Krzysztof Marasek
* Frédéric Duvert, Marie-Jean Meurs, Christophe Servan, Frédéric
Béchet, Fabrice Lefčvre and Renato De Mori, Semantic composition
process in a spoken language understanding system
* Geraldine Damnati, Frederic Béchet and Renato de Mori, First
implementationn of the LUNA Spoken Language Understanding
strategy on a telephone service application
* Marie-Jean Meurs, Frédéric Duvert, Fabrice Lefčvre and Renato De
Mori, Markov Logic Networks for Spoken Language Interpretation
16:15 - 16:30 *Coffee Break*
16:30 - 17:45 *Session: SLUDS (2)
Session Chair: Giuseppe Ricardi
* Małgorzata Marciniak, Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska and Agnieszka
Mykowiecka, Proper Names in Dialogs from the Warsaw
Transportation Call Center
* Danijel Koržinek, Łukasz Brocki, Ryszard Gubrynowicz and
Krzysztof Marasek, Wizard of Oz Experiment for a Telephony-Based
City Transport Dialog System
* Marco Matassoni, Maurizio Omologo, Roberto Manione, Timo Sowa
and Mark E. Epstein, The DICIT project: an example of
distant-talking based spoken dialogue interactive system
17:45 - 18:30 *Panel on methodologies for the evaluation of NLU and
spoken dialogue systems*
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Regards,
Adam P.
-- Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/ ----- Linguistic Engineering Group http://korpus.pl/ ------------- the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish