Program

The program of the EUROLAN Summer School is at the basis of the program of the Doctoral Consortium.

The general program includes many social activities.

The Doctoral Consortium will take place every afternoon between July 30 and August 2, from 17.00 to 18.30.

The full-papers will be presented in the Senate Hall of the University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi. There will be a computer, a video-projector, a flip-chart, an audio amplification system. The participants will have their electronic presentations ready the latest the day of their oral presentation. Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes for oral presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussions.

The daily program of paper-presentations is the following:

Monday, July 30, 17.00 - 18.30

  1. Virginia Francisco and Raquel Hervas Ballesteros (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). EmoTag: Automated Mark Up of Affective Information in Texts.
  2. Mary Gardiner (Macquarie University, Australia). Sentiment and near-synonomy: do they go together?
  3. Taras Zagibalov (University of Sussex, UK). Sentiment zones approach to extracting a training corpus in unsupervised sentiment classification.

Tuesday, July 31, 17.00 - 18.30

  1. Ciprian Gerstenberger (University of Saarland, Germany). A mereology-based general linearization model for surface realization
  2. Maxim Khalilov (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain). Improving target language modeling techniques for statistical machine translation
  3. Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana (Language Tech. Research Centre, IIIT, Hyderabad, India). Using a Single Framework for Computational Modeling of Linguistic Similarity for Solving Many NLP Problems

Wednesday, August 1, 17.00 - 18.30

  1. Claudia Borg (University of Malta). Discovering grammar rules for Automatic Extraction of Definitions
  2. Alan Duca (University of Malta). SketchNet: Knowledge-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
  3. Miltiadis Kokkonidis (University of Oxford, UK). F-Structure: Derivation-based construction and constraints

Thursday, August 2, 17.00 - 18.30

  1. Adrian Iftene (University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania). Textual Entailment
  2. Ionut Cristian Pistol (University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania). Discourse parsing using NLP architectures
  3. Vladimir Popescu (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France). Pronominal Anaphora Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue, Using a Semantic-Pragmatic Approach

The posters will be displayed on the Hall of the Last Steps of the University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi. There will be poster holders and scotch. The participants can display the poster as soon as they arrive. The poster should be conformant to the recommendations available within the final recommendations.

The following posters will be presented on July 31, between 10.30 and 11.00.

  1. Dawn Borg Costanzi (University of Malta). Voice Control of Document Processing
  2. Alexandru Ceausu (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania). Statistical Machine Translation for Mobile Devices
  3. Costin-Gabriel Chiru (Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania). Unsupervised Cohesion Based Text Segmentation
  4. Elena Irimia (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania). RomGen - A Romanian morphological generator, essential component of an English-to-Romanian MT system
  5. Gabriela Pavel, Iustin Dornescu and Mihai Moruz (University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania). Anaphora Resolution
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