24.3090, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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Subject: 24.3090, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:38:25
From: Roman Yangarber [Roman.Yangarber at cs.helsinki.fi]
Subject: Fourth Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

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 Fourth Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: BSNLP 

Date: 08-Aug-2013 - 09-Aug-2013 
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact: Roman Yangarber 
Contact Email: roman at cs.nyu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 4th Biennial Workshop on
Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing
In conjunction with ACL 2013:
51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Organizers:
    Jakub Piskorski, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki
    Hristo Tanev, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
    Roman Yangarber, University of Helsinki 

DAY 1: 08 August	

09:15 - 09:30	
Welcome remarks

09:30 - 10:30 	
Ontologies and linked open data for acquisition and exploitation of language resources
	Invited talk by Kiril Simov

10:30 - 11:00	
Coffee break

Session I: Opinion mining and sentiment analysis

11:00 - 11:25	
A comparison of approaches for sentiment classification on Lithuanian internet comments
	Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Algis Krupavičius and Tomas Krilavičius

11:25 - 11:45	
Evaluating sentiment analysis systems in Russian
	Ilia Chetviorkin and Natalia Loukachevitch

11:45 - 12:05	
Aspect oriented opinion mining from user reviews in Croatian
	Goran Glavaš, Damir Korencić and Jan Šnajder
	Session II: Morphology, Syntax and Semantics

12:05 - 12:30	
Frequently asked questions retrieval for Croatian based on semantic textual similarity
	Mladen Karan, Lovro Žmak and Jan Šnajder

12:30 - 14:00	
Lunch

14:00 - 14:25	
Parsing Russian: A hybrid approach
	Dan Skatov, Sergey Liverko, Vladimir Okatiev and Dmitry Strebkov

14:25 - 14:45 	
GPKEX: Genetically Programmed Keyphrase Extraction from Croatian Texts
	Marko Bekavac and Jan Šnajder

14:45 - 15:10 	
Lemmatization and morphosyntactic tagging of Croatian and Serbian
	Željko Agić, Nikola Ljubešić and Danijela Merkler
	Session III: Cross-lingual methods and Machine Translation

15:10 - 15:30 	
Modernizing historical Slovene words with character-based SMT
	Yves Scherrer and Tomaž Erjavec

15:30 - 16:00	
Coffee break

16:00 - 16:25	
Improving English-Russian sentence alignment through POS tagging and Damerau-Levenshtein distance
	Andrey Kutuzov

16:25 - 16:50	
Identifying false friends between closely related languages
	Nikola Ljubešić and Darja Fišer

16:50 - 17:15	
Discussion: Establishing BSNLP SIG

DAY 2: 09 August	

Session IV: Information extraction

09:20 - 09:45	
Named Entity recognition in Estonian
	Alexander Tkachenko, Timo Petmanson and Sven Laur

09:45 - 10:10	
On named entity recognition in targeted twitter streams in polish
	Jakub Piskorski and Maud Ehrmann

10:10 - 10:30	
Recognition of named entities boundaries in Polish texts
	Michał Marcińczuk and Jan Kocoń

10:30 - 11:00	
Coffee break

11:00 - 11:25	
Adapting the PULS event extraction framework to analyze Russian text
	Lidia Pivovarova, Mian Du and Roman Yangarber

11:25 - 11:50	
Semi-automatic acquisition of lexical resources and grammars for event extraction in Bulgarian and Czech
	Hristo Tanev and Josef Steinberger

11:50 - 12:15	
Wordnet based cross language identification of semantic relations
	Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetla Koeva and Svetlozara Leseva

12:15 - 12:30	
Concluding discussion

12:30 - 14:00	
Lunch

End of Workshop



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