technical schedule

The following is the Schedule of tutorials, keynote lectures and technical sessions at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2010:

Dec 8, Wednesday

08:00-09:30	Registration
Tutorials	Hall I	Hall II
09:30-13:00	Tutorial 1: Organization of the Mental Lexicon: From Cognition to Computation Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu, Monojit Choudhury	Tutorial 2: Building Morphological Analyzers and Generators for Indian Languages using FST Amba Kulkarni, G UmaMaheshwar Rao,
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	Tutorial 1: Contd... Organization of the Mental Lexicon: From Cognition to Computation Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu, Monojit Choudhury	Tutorial 2: Contd... Building Morphological Analyzers and Generators for Indian Languages using FST Amba Kulkarni, G UmaMaheshwar Rao,

Workshop	Hall III
09:30-13:00	Workshop: Indowordnet Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	Workshop: Contd.... Indowordnet Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India

Dec 9, Thursday

08:00-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:30	Inaugural Session
09:30-10:30	Keynote Lecture 1: NLP and IR: Coming Closer or Moving Apart? Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
10:30-11:00	Tea Break
11:00-13:00	Technical Session I: Dialogues and Query
	Learning Automata based Approach to Model Dialogue Strategy in Spoken Dialogue System: A Performance Evaluation G Kumaravelan, R Sivakumar Exploring Sentence level Query Expansion in Language Model Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Levelling, Gareth Jones Insights on Transferability of Dialog-Act Cue-Phrases Across Communication Domains, Modality and Semantically Similar Dialog-Acts Ashish Sureka, Atul Goyal A Simple Unsupervised Query Categorizer for Web Search Engines Prashant Ullegaddi, Vasudeva Varma
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15.30	Technical Session II: Lexicon and Semantics	Technical Session III: Text Mining
	Identification of MWEs Using CRF in Manipuri and Improvement Using Reduplicated MWEs Kishorjit Nongmeikapa, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Mental Representation and Access of Polymorphemic Words in Bangla: Evidence from Cross-modal Priming Experiments Tirthankar Dasgupta, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu An Iterative approach to extract dictionaries from wikipedia for under-resourced languages Rohit Bharadwaj G, Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma	Semantically Driven Soft-clustering of Documents using Lexical Chains Dipti Deodhare, Govind Sharma, Ashish Srivastava, Alind Sharma Learning grounded semantics of Hindi nouns from video surveillance and user commentary Gopi Srinath S V P, Nikhil Joshi, Prabhat Mudgal, Amitabha Mukerjee
15:30-16:00	Tea Break
16:00-17:30	Technical Session IV: Sentiment Analysis	Technical Session V: NLP Tools Contest on Indian Language Dependency Parsing
	Cross-Domain Sentiment Tagging Using Meta-Classifier and a High Accuracy In-Domain Classifier Balamurali A R, Debraj Manna, Pushpak Bhattacharyya Emotion Analysis of Internet Chat Shashank Chauhan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya Identifying Emotion Holder and Topic from Bengali Emotional Sentences Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay	Presentations by contest participants (Details will be provided soon to you.)
17:30-19:00	NLPAI Meeting
19:00-20:30	Cultural Programme
20:30 onwards	Dinner

Dec 10, Friday

09:00-10:00	Keynote Lecture 2: Supporting Group Work with Language Technologies Carolyn P. Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
10:00-10:30	Tea Break
10:30-12:30	Technical Session VI Morphology and Syntax	Technical Session VII Student Paper Competition
	Probabilistic approach for automatic last suffix extraction Vasudevan N, Pushpak Bhattacharyya Arabic-French morphological alignment for syntactic disambiguation of Arabic text Ines Turki Khemakhem, Salma Jamoussi, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou Performance Evaluation of Text Chunking Suchismita Biswas, Arnab Dhar, Sankar De, Utpal Garain Syntactic Normalization of Twitter Messages Joseph Kaufmann, Jugal Kalita	Identification of Noun-Noun (N-N) Collocations as Multi-Word Expressions in Bengali Corpus Tanmoy Chakraborty A Novel Algorithm for Tamil Morphological generator Anand Kumar M, Rekha R U Can We Mimic Human Pragmatics Knowledge into Computational Lexicon? Amitava Das
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:00-15:15	Poster Sessions and Demonstrations
15:00-15:15	Tea Break
15:15-16:45	Technical Session VIII Machine Translation	Technical Session IX Miscellaneous Applications
	Implementation of Subject-Predicate Agreement in Hindi and Telugu: A Machine Translation Perspective Christopher Mala, G Uma Maheshwar Rao Statistically Motivated Example-based Machine Translation using Translation Memory Sandipan Dandapat, Sara Morrissey, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Harold Somers METEOR-Hindi : Automatic MT Evaluation Metric for Hindi as a Target Language Ankush Gupta, Sriram Venkatapathy, Rajeev Sangal	Designing Soft Keyboards for Brahmic Scripts Lauren Hinkle, Miguel Lezcano, Jugal Kalita A novel multi-trie based approach for Spell-Checking Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Subhadeep Banik An Empirical Approach for Optimization of Acoustic Models in Hindi Speech Recognition Systems Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal, Mayank Dave
16:45-17:15	Concluding Session

Dec 11, Saturday

Tutorials	Hall I	Hall II
09:30-13:00	Tutorial 3: Detection of Plagiarism and Text Reuse Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño	Tutorial 4: Anaphora Resolution Sobha L
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	Tutorial 3: Contd.... Detection of Plagiarism and Text Reuse Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño	Tutorial 4: Contd.... Anaphora Resolution Sobha L

organizing bodies

• NLP Association, India
• IIIT Hyderabad
• LDC-IL, CIIL
• University of Hyderabad

latest updates

4th Nov 2010

Complete list of accepted papers released.

2nd Nov 2010

The technical schedule has been released.

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