IWPT 2011 - Programme

12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

October 5-7, 2011, Dublin City University

Please click on titles to view abstracts. The list of accepted papers can be found here.

Wednesday October 5, 2011
08:30-09:15	Registration
09:15-09:30	Opening
09:30-10:30	Invited Talk Chair: Harry Bunt
Computing Scope in a CCG Parser Mark Steedman
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Long Talks 1 Chair: John Carroll
A Generalized View on Parsing and Translation Alexander Koller and Marco Kuhlmann
Tree Parsing with Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars Matthias Büchse, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Heiko Vogler
Finding the Most Probable String and the Consensus String: an Algorithmic Study Colin de la Higuera and Jose Oncina
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Short Talks 1 Chair: Özlem Çetinoğlu
A Word Clustering Approach to Domain Adaptation: Effective Parsing of Biomedical Texts Marie Candito, Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, Djamé Seddah
Sentence-Level Instance-Weighting for Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsing Anders Søgaard and Martin Haulrich
Analysis of the Difficulties in Chinese Deep Parsing Kun Yu, Yusuke Miyao, Takuya Matsuzaki, Xiangli Wang, Junichi Tsujii
On the Role of Explicit Morphological Feature Representation in Syntactic Dependency Parsing for German Wolfgang Seeker and Jonas Kuhn
Bayesian Network Automata for Modelling Unbounded Structures James Henderson
Model-Theory of Property Grammars with Features Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier
15:30-16:30	Break and Poster Session
16:30-18:00	Long Talks 2 Chair: Mark-Jan Nederhof
Learning Structural Dependencies of Words in the Zipfian Tail Tejaswini Deoskar, Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an
One-Step Statistical Parsing of Hybrid Dependency-Constituency Syntactic Representations Kais Dukes and Nizar Habash
PLCFRS Parsing of English Discontinuous Constituents Kilian Evang and Laura Kallmeyer
Thursday October 6, 2011
09:00-09:30	Morning Coffee/Tea
09:30-10:30	Invited Talk Chair: Joakim Nivre
Towards a Neurobiologically Plausible Model of Human Sentence Comprehension Across Languages Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Long Talks 3 Chair: Khalil Sima'an
Minimally Supervised Domain-Adaptive Parse Reranking for Relation Extraction Feiyu Xu, Hong Li, Yi Zhang, Hans Uszkoreit, Sebastian Krause
Simple Semi-Supervised Learning for Prepositional Phrase Attachment Gregory F. Coppola, Alexandra Birch, Tejaswini Deoskar, Mark Steedman
Active Learning for Dependency Parsing Using Partially Annotated Sentences Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Alexis Nasr
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-17:30	SPMRL Workshop
Friday October 7, 2011
09:00-09:30	Morning Coffee/Tea
09:30-10:30	Invited Talk Chair: Jennifer Foster
Lagrangian Relaxation for Inference in Natural Language Processing Michael Collins
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Long Talks 4 Chair: James Henderson
Prefix Probabilities for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta
Efficient Matrix-Encoded Grammars and Low Latency Parallelization Strategies for CYK Aaron Dunlop, Nathan Bodenstab, Brian Roark
Efficient Parallel CKY Parsing on GPUs Youngmin Yi, Chao-Yue Lai, Slav Petrov, Kurt Keutzer
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Short Talks 2 Chair: Marie Candito
CuteForce -- Deep Deterministic HPSG Parsing Gisle Ytrestøl
Large-Scale Corpus-Driven PCFG Approximation of an HPSG Yi Zhang and Hans-Ulrich Krieger
Features for Phrase-Structure Reranking from Dependency Parses Richàrd Farkas, Bernd Bohnet, Helmut Schmid
Comparing the Use of Edited and Unedited Text in Parser Self-Training Jennifer Foster, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabith
Beyond Chart Parsing: An Analytic Comparison of Dependency Chart Parsing Algorithms Meixun Jin, Hwidong Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee
Parser Evaluation Using Elementary Dependency Matching Rebecca Dridan and Stephan Oepen
15:30-16:30	Break and Poster Session
16:30-17:30	Long Talks 5 Chair: Yusuke Miyao
Parsing of Partially Bracketed Structures for Parse Selection Mark-Jan Nederhof and Ricardo Sánchez-Sáez
Detecting Dependency Parse Errors with Minimal Resources Markus Dickinson and Amber Smith
17:30-17:45	Closing