The Third Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium

Saturday, May 20

08:30-09:00 Registration and Welcome

CHAIR: Richard Sproat

09:00-09:25

Dependency Parsing with a Linear Pipeline Model
Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth
UIUC

09:25-09:50

An Investigation into Improving Part-of-Speech Tagging
Markus Dickinson
Georgetown University

09:50-10:15

Ordering Sentences According to Topicality
Ilana Bromberg
OSU

10:15-10:40

Evaluating a summarizer for legal text with a large text collection
Frank Schilder, Hugo Molina-Salgado
Thomson Legal & Regulatory

10:40-11:00 BREAK

CHAIR: Roxana Girju

11:00-11:25

Semantic Relatedness: Computational Investigation of Human Data
Beata Beigman Klebanov
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

11:25-11:50

Context Sensitive Paraphrasing
Michael Connor, Dan Roth
UIUC

11:50-12:15

Topic Term Identification for Context Question Answering
Matt Gerber and Joyce Chai
Michigan State University

12:15-14:00 LUNCH

CHAIR: Richard Sproat

14:00-15:00 INVITED TALK

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
Partha Niyogi
University of Chicago

CHAIR: Roxana Girju

15:00-15:25

An Unsupervised Verb Class Disambiguation
Jianguo Li
OSU

15:25-15:50

Ontology-Based Inference Methods
Olga Krachina, Victor Raskin
Purdue University

15:50-16:10 BREAK

CHAIR: ChengXiang Zhai

16:10-16:35

Named Entity Discovery in Multilingual Comparable Corpora
Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth
UIUC

16:35-17:00

Computing Term Translation Probabilities with Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis
Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow
University of Chicago

17:00-17:25

A Maxent NER for Chinese Based on Ratnaparkhi's POS Tagger
Jack Zhao
UIUC

17:25-17:50

Bartlett's Test Applied in a Latent Semantic Analysis of Parallel-Aligned Sentences in French and English
Katri A. Clodfelder
Indiana University

18:30 RECEPTION

Sunday, May 21

CHAIR: Chilin Shih

09:25-09:50

Analysis of Pitch Contours in Repetition-Disfluency using Stem-ML
Rajiv M. Reddy, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
UIUC

09:50-10:15

On the creation of a pronunciation dictionary for Hungarian
Stephen Grimes
Indiana University

10:15-10:40

Voice Quality Dependent Speech Recognition
Tae-Jin Yoon, Xiaodan Zhuang, Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
UIUC

10:40-11:00 BREAK

CHAIR: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

11:00-11:25

Steps towards Incremental Semantics for Spoken Dialog Systems
Gregory S. Aist, Scott Stoness, James Allen
University of Rochester

11:25-11:50

Incrementally Segmenting Incoming Speech into Pragmatic Fragments
Gregory S. Aist
University of Rochester

11:50-12:15

Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic Stylistic Analysis of Shakespeare's Characters
Sobhan Raj Hota, Shlomo Argamon
Illinois Institute of Technoloy

12:15-14:00 LUNCH

CHAIR: Dan Roth

14:00-14:25

Predicting User Attention using Eye Gaze in Conversational Interfaces
Zahar Prasov, Joyce Chai
Michigan State University

14:25-14:50

Tutorial Dialogue Patterns: Expert vs. Non-expert Tutors
Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Stellan Ohlsson, Andrew Corrigan-Halpern
University of Illinois at Chicago

Unpresented Accepted Papers

Dialectal Clustering Using Exemplar-based Models of Phonotactics
Paul Rodrigues
Indiana University

On the possibility of lexical bootstrapping
Aarre Laakso
Indiana University

Mutual Information as a Segmentation Cue in Connectionist Learning Approaches
Joshua Herring
Indiana University