13 May

NODALIDA Satellite events


Satellite Workshop [0-96]
 9.15-12:20 Linguistic Theory and Raw Sound 
            Organiser: Peter Juel Henrichsen (Copenhagen Business School)


15.00-18.00 NGSLT board meeting [U77] 


14 May

9-17 	Workshops (cf. the individual workshop pages for program details)
	W1: Nordic perspectives on the CLARIN infrastructure of common 
            language resource [0-95]
	W2: Multimodal Communication: from Human Behaviour to Computational 
            Models [0-96]
	W3: WordNets and other Lexical Semantic Resources [0-97]
	W4: Extraction and Use of Constructions in NLP [0-98]
	W5: Constraint Grammar and robust parsing [0-99]

19.00 	Reception at Odense Town Hall


15 May

 9.00- 9.30	Opening [0-100](pdf)
		Kimmo Koskenniemi (President of NEALT)
        	Eckhard Bick (Chair of the local Organizing Committee)
        	Kristiina Jokinen (Chair of the Program Committee)

 9.30-10.30	Invited Talk [0-100] (Chair: Patrizia Paggio)

                Developing Meeting Support Technologies: From Data to Demonstration (and Beyond)
		Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh)

10.30-11.00	Coffee
	
11.00-13.00	Regular papers (3 parallel sessions)
Corpus, annotation, and their use [0-95](Chair: Rickard Domeij)
11.00-11.30 	Janne Bondi Johannessen, Joel Priestley, Kristin Hagen, 
		Øystein Alexander Vangsnes and Tor Anders Åfarli. The 
		Nordic Dialect Corpus - an advanced research tool

11.30-12.00 	Nathan Green, Paul Breimyer, Vinay Kumar and Nagiza F 
		Samatova. WebBANC: Building Semantically-Rich Annotated 
		Corpora from Web User Annotations of Minority Languages

12.00-12.30 	Olga Mitrofanova and Olga Lyashevskaya. Disambiguation 
		of Taxonomy Markers in Context: Russian Nouns

12.30-13.00 	Krister Lindén and Jussi Tuovila. Corpus-based Paradigm 
		Selection for Morphological Entries

Morphology and Syntax [0-96](Chair: Koenraad de Smedt)
11.00-11.30 	Krister Lindén and Tommi Pirinen. Weighted Finite-State
		Morphological Analysis of Finnish Compounding with hfst-lexc

11.30-12.00 	Miikka Silfverberg and Krister Lindén. Conflict Resolution 
		Using Weighted Rules in Hfst-TwolC

12.00-12.30 	Hrafn Loftsson, Ida Kramarczyk, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and 
		Sigrún Helgadóttir. Improving the PoS tagging accuracy of 
		Icelandic text

12.30-13.00 	Katri Haverinen, Filip Ginter, Veronika Laippala and Tapio 
		Salakoski. Parsing Clinical Finnish: Experiments with 
		Rule-Based and Statistical Dependency Parsers

Semantic Classification [0-97](Chair: Robin Cooper)
11.00-11.30 	Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow. Predictive Features 
		in Semi-Supervised Learning for Polarity Classification 
		and the Role of Adjectives

11.30-12.00 	Jari Björne, Filip Ginter, Juho Heimonen, Sampo Pyysalo 
		and Tapio Salakoski. Learning to Extract Biological Event 
		and Relation Graphs

12.00-12.30 	Jacob Persson, Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues. Text
		Categorization Using Predicate-Argument Structures

12.30-13.00 	Peter Kolb. Experiments on the difference between 
		distributional similarity and relatedness
			
13.00-14.00	Lunch
	
14.00-14.45	Demos (Chair: Eirikur Rögnvaldsson)

		Eckhard Bick. DeepDict - A Graphical Corpus-based Dictionary 
		of Word Relations [0-95]

		Staffan Larsson, Peter Ljunglöf, Gunilla Thunberg and Katarina [0-96]
		Mühlenbock. TRIK: A talking and drawing robot for children with
		communication disabilities

		Arne Martinus Lindstad, Anders Nøklestad, Janne Bondi Johannessen
		and Øystein A. Vangsnes. The Nordic Dialect Database: Mapping [0-97]
		Microsyntactic Variation in the Scandinavian Languages

		Peter Ljunglöf, Maria Olsson and Sandra Derbring. SubTTS:
		Light-weight automatic reading of subtitles [0-96]

		Bodil Nistrup Madsen and Hanne Erdman Thomsen. CAOS - A tool for 
		the Construction of Terminological Ontologies [0-99]


14.45-15.30	Student posters [Main hall](Chair: Kaili Müürisep)

		Maria Eskevich. Prominence detected by listeners for future 
		speech synthesis application

		Okko Räsänen and Joris Driesen. A comparison and combination of
		segmental and fixed-frame signal representations in NMF-based 
		word recognition

		Bálint Sass. Verb Argument Browser for Danish

		Regular poster

		Anders Søgaard. A linear time extension of deterministic 
		pushdown automata

		
15.30-16.00 	Coffee

16.00-17.00	Tutorial [0-100] (Chair: Joakim Nivre)

		Text Annotation with OpenNLP and UIMA
		Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki) 

19.00- 		Conference dinner [Den gamle Kro, Overgade 23]


16 May

 9.00-10.00	Invited Talk [0-100] (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen)

                Linking News Content Across Languages
		Ralf Steinberger (EC - Joint Research Centre)

10.00-10.30	Coffee

10.30-11.30	Regular papers (3 parallel sessions)
Semantics [0-95] (Chair: Costanza Navarretta)
10.30-11.00 	Bolette Sandford Pedersen and Anna Braasch. What do we 
		need to know about humans? A view into the DanNet database

11.00-11.30 	Kristina Nilsson and Hans Hjelm. Using Semantic Features 
		Derived from Word-Space Models for Swedish Coreference 
		Resolution

Parallel Corpora and Translation [0-96] (Chair: Inguna Skadina)
10.30-11.00 	Hercules Dalianis, Martin Rimka and Viggo Kann. Using 
		Uplug and SiteSeeker to construct a cross language search 
		engine for Scandinavian languages

11.00-11.30 	Christian Hardmeier and Martin Volk. Using Linguistic 
		Annotations in Statistical Machine Translation of Film 
		Subtitles

Algorithms [0-97] (Chair: Kimmo Koskenniemi)
10.30-11.00 	Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud and Saara Huhmarniemi. 
		Interactive pedagogical programs based on constraint grammar


11.00-11.30 	Anssi Yli-Jyrä. An Efficient Double Complementation 
		Algorithm for Superposition-Based Finite-State Morphology


11.30-12.30	Posters [Main hall] (Chair: Eckhard Bick)



		Eva Forsbom. Extending the View: Explorations in 
		Bootstrapping a	Swedish PoS Tagger

		Tatiana Gornostay and Inguna Skadina. Pattern-based 
		English-Latvian Toponym Translation
 
		Yves Lepage and Chooiling Goh. Towards automatic acquisition 
		of linguistic features

		Miguel A, Molinero, Benoit Sagot and Lionel Nicolas. Building 
		a morphological and syntactic lexicon by merging various 
		linguistic resources

		Magnus Rosell. Part of Speech Tagging for Text Clustering 
		in Swedish

		Natalie Schluter and Josef van Genabith. Dependency Parsing
		Resources for French: Converting Acquired Lexical Functional 
		Grammar F-Structure


12.30-13.30	Lunch

13.30-14.30	Short regular papers (3 parallel sessions)
Parsing and Tagging [0-95] (Chair: Janne Bondi Johannessen)
13.30-13.50 	Mark Fishel and Joakim Nivre. Voting and Stacking in 
		Data-Driven Dependency Parsing

13.50-14.10 	Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ralf Brown and Jaime Carbonell. 
		Active Learning in Example-Based Machine Translation

14.10-14.30 	Beata B. Megyesi. The Open Source Tagger HunPoS for Swedish

Semantic Analysis [0-96] (Chair: Poul Søren Kjærsgaard)
13.30-13.50 	Eckhard Bick and M. Pilar Valverde. Automatic Semantic 
		Role Annotation for Spanish

13.50-14.10 	Manfred Klenner, Angela Fahrni and Stefanos Petrakis. 
		PolArt: A Robust Tool for Sentiment Analysis

14.10-14.30 	Lilja Øvrelid. Cross-lingual porting of distributional 
		semantic classification 
		
Applications [0-97] (Chair: Klaus Robering)
13.30-13.50 	Inguna Skadina and Edgars Bralitis. English-Latvian SMT: knowledge or data?

13.50-14.10 	Karin Friberg Heppin. MedEval - Six Test Collections in One

14.10-14.30 	Anton Karl Ingason, Skúli Bernhard Jóhannsson, Hrafn Loftsson,
		Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Sigrún Helgadóttir. Context-Sensitive 
		Spelling Correction and Rich Morphology

14.30-15.30	NEALT Business meeting [0-100] 

15.30-16.00 	Closing [0-100](pdf)

16.00-16.30 	Coffee