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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 |
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- 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
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| 10:45-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Session 2: Spelling Correction |
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- 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
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| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30-16:30 |
Session 3: Semantics |
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- 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
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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 |
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- 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
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Session 5: Corpus Exploration |
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- 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
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