[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology, COLING-12

[Asif Ekbal]

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*: Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human
Language Technology, December 09, 2012 in conjunction with COLING-2012.



The First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human
Language Technology (http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/) will be held in
conjunction with COLING-12*.* The aim of the workshop is to bring together
the communities who are working in the areas of evolutionary computation,
optimization techniques, machine learning, language technology/Natural
Language 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 optimization based
methods within the context of human language technology. Almost all the
research and development activities in human language technology 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 optimization in NLP include
parsing, machine translation, and computational models of language
acquisition.

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*WORKSHOP DATE*: December 09, 2012

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*INVITED SPEAKER*:  PROF. ARAVIND K. JOSHI

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*REGISTRATION*: Please visit (
http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/registration.php)

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*PROGRAMME:*

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9 December 2012, COLING 2012, Mumbai, India

 9:45 - Start

10:00 - Keynote presentation

       Aravind K. Joshi
      Complexity of Parse representations, Parsing complexity, Side
      Information: Relevance to Optimization?

11:00 - Session 1

      Ana Paula Silva, Arlindo Silva and Irene Rodrigues
      BioPOS: Biologically Inspired Algorithms for POS Tagging

11:30 - 12:00 Tea

12:00 - Session 2

        Optimization for Efficient Determination of Chunk in Automatic
        Evaluation for Machine Translation
         Hiroshi Echizen'ya, Kenji Araki and Eduard Hovy

        Manikrao Dhore, Shantanu Dixit and Ruchi Dhore
        Optimizing Transliteration for Hindi/Marathi to English Using
         only Two Weights

        Kuo-Ming TANG, Chien-Kang HUANG and Chia-Ming LEE
        Selection of Discriminative Features for Translation Texts

 1:30 -  2:30 Lunch

 2:30 - Session 3

        Nagesh Bhattu Sristy and D.V.L.N Somayajulu
        Semi-supervised Learning of Naive Bayes Classifier with
        Feature Constraints

      Marc Dymetman, Guillaume Bouchard and Simon Carter
        Optimization and Sampling for NLP from a Unified Viewpoint

        Chia-Ming LEE, Chien-Kang HUANG and Kuo-Ming TANG
        Iterative Chinese Bi-gram Term Extraction using Machine
        Learning Classification Approach

        Andon Tchechmedjiev, Jérôme Goulian and Didier Schwab
      Parameter estimation under uncertainty with Simulated
        Annealing applied to an ant colony based probabilistic WSD
        algorithm

 4:30 - Workshop end


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE***



 -Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan*
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 -Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia

 - Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India

 - Malay Bhattacharyya, Kalyani University, India

 - Benjamin Boerschingen, Macquarie University, Australia

 -  Niladri Chatterjee, IIT Delhi, India

 - Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research India

 - Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 -Gaël Harry Dias, University of Caen Basse-Normadie, France

 - Soumyajit Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

 - Patrick Saint-Dizier, Institut de Recherches en Informatique

   de Toulouse, France

 - Lan Du, Macquarie University, Australia

 - Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico

 - Veronique Hoste, University College Ghent, Belgium

 - Nitin Indurkya, University of New South Wales, Australia

 - Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, University of Maryland College Park, USA

 - Zornitsa Kozareva, Information Sciences Institute / University

   of Southern California, USA

 - A Kumaran, Microsoft Research India

 - Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

 - Samrat Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

 - Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Kalyani University, India

 - Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy

 - Alexander M. Rush, MIT/Columbia, USA

 - Ashok Singh Sairam, Indian Institute of Technology Patna

 - Soumi Sengupta, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India

 - Jyoti Prakash Singh, National Institute of Technology Patna, India

 - Olga Uryupina, University of Trento, Italy

 - Sriram Venkatapathy, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France

 - Jose Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain



*ORGANISERS***



 -  Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.

 -  Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

 -  Sriparna Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.

 -  Mark Johnson, Department of Computing, Macquarie

   University, Australia.

 -  Diego Molla-Aliod, Department of Computing, Macquarie

   University, Australia.

 -  Mark Dras, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia.





 Asif Ekbal
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Patna 800 013, India
Email: asif.ekbal at gmail.com,asif at iitp.ac.in
Web: http://www.iitp.ac.in/departments/cse/iit_patna_cse_Asif_Ekbal.htm
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