<br><div class="gmail_quote"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">: Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human
Language Technology, December 09, 2012 in conjunction with COLING-2012. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">The First International Workshop on Optimization
Techniques for Human Language Technology (<a href="http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/" target="_blank">http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/</a>)
will be held in conjunction with COLING-12</span><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">.</span></b><span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities
who are working in the areas of evolutionary computation,<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">optimization</span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">techniques</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">, machine learning,<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">language</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">technology</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">/Natural<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">Language</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">Processing, information retrieval, and text
mining. The workshop will be a starting platform to explore the possibilities
of interdisciplinary research that will focus on developing<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">optimization</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">based methods within the context of<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">human</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">language</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">technology</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">. Almost all the research and development
activities in<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">human</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">language</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">technology</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">rely on the high level of performance to satisfy
the users intended needs, and have to deal with many objectives and parameters.
For example, in Information Retrieval, it is often necessary to optimize the
recall and precision parameters. In automatic summarisation, it is desired to
optimize different objective functions like similarity to user query, ROUGE
metric, important sentence score, and difference in length between the scored
sentence and the desired sentence. Other examples of<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">optimization</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">in NLP include parsing, machine translation, and
computational models of<span> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">language</span></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-repeat:initial initial">acquisition.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">WORKSHOP DATE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">: December 09, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">INVITED SPEAKER</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">: PROF.
ARAVIND K. JOSHI</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">REGISTRATION</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">: Please visit (<a href="http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/registration.php" target="_blank">http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/registration.php</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><b>PROGRAMME:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
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9 December 2012, COLING 2012, Mumbai, India<br>
<br>
9:45 - Start<br>
<br>
10:00 - Keynote presentation<br>
<br>
Aravind K. Joshi<br>
Complexity of Parse representations,
Parsing complexity, Side<br>
Information: Relevance to
Optimization?<br>
<br>
11:00 - Session 1<br>
<br>
Ana Paula Silva, Arlindo Silva
and Irene Rodrigues<br>
BioPOS: Biologically Inspired
Algorithms for POS Tagging<br>
<br>
11:30 - 12:00 Tea<br>
<br>
12:00 - Session 2<br>
<br>
Optimization for Efficient
Determination of Chunk in Automatic<br>
Evaluation for Machine
Translation<br>
Hiroshi Echizen'ya, Kenji Araki and Eduard Hovy<br>
<br>
Manikrao Dhore, Shantanu Dixit
and Ruchi Dhore<br>
Optimizing Transliteration for
Hindi/Marathi to English Using<br>
only Two Weights<br>
<br>
Kuo-Ming TANG, Chien-Kang HUANG
and Chia-Ming LEE<br>
Selection of Discriminative Features
for Translation Texts<br>
<br>
1:30 -
2:30 Lunch<br>
<br>
2:30 - Session 3<br>
<br>
Nagesh Bhattu Sristy and D.V.L.N
Somayajulu<br>
Semi-supervised Learning of Naive
Bayes Classifier with<br>
Feature Constraints<br>
<br>
Marc Dymetman, Guillaume Bouchard
and Simon Carter<br>
Optimization and Sampling for NLP
from a Unified Viewpoint<br>
<br>
Chia-Ming LEE, Chien-Kang HUANG
and Kuo-Ming TANG<br>
Iterative Chinese Bi-gram Term
Extraction using Machine<br>
Learning Classification Approach<br>
<br>
Andon Tchechmedjiev, Jérôme
Goulian and Didier Schwab<br>
Parameter estimation under
uncertainty with Simulated<br>
Annealing applied to an ant
colony based probabilistic WSD<br>
algorithm<br>
<br>
4:30 - Workshop end<br>
</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> -</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222">Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Azerbaijan
National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan<u> </u> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> -Timothy
Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Malay
Bhattacharyya, Kalyani University, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Benjamin
Boerschingen, Macquarie University, Australia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Niladri Chatterjee, IIT Delhi, India </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Monojit Choudhury,
Microsoft Research India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Walter Daelemans,
University of Antwerp, Belgium</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> -</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222">Gaël Harry Dias, University of Caen
Basse-Normadie, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Soumyajit Dey,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Patrick
Saint-Dizier, Institut de Recherches en Informatique</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> de Toulouse,
France</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Lan Du, Macquarie
University, Australia</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Alexander Gelbukh,
National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Veronique Hoste,
University College Ghent, Belgium</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Nitin Indurkya,
University of New South Wales, Australia</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> -</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi,
University of Maryland College Park, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Zornitsa Kozareva,
Information Sciences Institute / University</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> of Southern
California, USA</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - A Kumaran,
Microsoft Research India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Pabitra Mitra,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Samrat Mondal,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Anirban
Mukhopadhyay, Kalyani University, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Massimo Poesio,
University of Trento, Italy</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Alexander M. Rush,
MIT/Columbia, USA</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Ashok Singh Sairam,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Soumi Sengupta,
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Jyoti Prakash
Singh, National Institute of Technology Patna, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Olga Uryupina,
University of Trento, Italy</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Sriram
Venkatapathy, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Jose Luis Vicedo,
University of Alicante, Spain</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222">ORGANISERS</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Pushpak
Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Asif Ekbal,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Sriparna
Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Mark Johnson,
Department of Computing, Macquarie</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> University,
Australia.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Diego
Molla-Aliod, Department of Computing, Macquarie</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> University,
Australia.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"> - Mark Dras,
Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><br><br clear="all"><div> </div><div> Asif Ekbal</div>
<div>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>Indian Institute of Technology Patna<br>Patna 800 013, India<br>Email: <a href="mailto:asif.ekbal@gmail.com,asif@iitp.ac.in" target="_blank">asif.ekbal@gmail.com,asif@iitp.ac.in</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.iitp.ac.in/departments/cse/iit_patna_cse_Asif_Ekbal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.iitp.ac.in/departments/cse/iit_patna_cse_Asif_Ekbal.htm</a><br></div>
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