Indiana University at Bloomington

The Sixth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2009
at Indiana University Bloomington


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MCLC 2009 Program

Ballantine Hall 006

Saturday, May 2

9:00-9:15 Opening
9:15-10:45 Session 1: Generation and iCALL
  • Benjamin Keil (University of California, Los Angeles), Generating Descriptions of Motion from Cognitive Representations, PDF
  • Liu Liu, Gregory Aist, Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon University), Generating Example Contexts for Vocabulary Words: Initial Steps
  • Markus Dickinson (Indiana University), Chong Min Lee, Soojeong Eom (Georgetown University), Analyzing Korean Learner Particles
10:45-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Spelling Correction
  • DJ Hovermale, Dennis N. Mehay (The Ohio State University), Context-sensitive Spelling Correction for CALL, Slides
  • C. Anton Rytting, Sarah Wayland, Michael Maxwell, Pamela Kling (University of Maryland), Spell Correction for Arabic Dialect Text and Speech Search
  • Emad Mohamed (Indiana University), Segment-based Arabic Spell Checker
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:30 Session 3: Semantics
  • Emily Jamison (Alias-i), Using Online Knowledge Sources for Semantic Noun Clustering, PDF
  • Thomas Mathew, Graham Katz (Georgetown University), Supervised Categorization of Habitual and Episodic Sentences, PDF, Slides
  • Roxana Girju (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mining the Web for Reciprocal Relationships
  • Holger Wunsch (University of Tuebingen), Sandra Kuebler, Rachael Cantrell (Indiana University), Instance Sampling Methods for Pronoun Resolution

Sunday, May 3

9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Matthias Scheutz (Indiana University), Natural Human-Robot Interaction -- and NLP will never be the same
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Session 4: Phonology
  • Nathan Sanders (Indiana University), Comparison of Phonological and Syntactic Distance Measures, Slides
  • John Pate, Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier (The Ohio State University), Assessing the Utility of Prosody for Word Segmentation in Phone Prediction
  • Wei-rong Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), An Interface between Formal Phonology and Speech Technology: Speech Accent Coloring in Speech Synthesis, PDF
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Session 5: Corpus Exploration
  • Rodney L. Summerscales, Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology), Jordan Hupert, Alan Schwartz (University of Illinois at Chicago), Identifying Treatments, Groups, and Outcomes in Medical Abstracts, PDF, Slides
  • Crystal Nakatsu (The Ohio State University), Contrastive Coverage Usage in the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus