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WELCOME to the
5th Language & Technology Conference:
Human Language Technologies
as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics
November 25-27, 2011, Poznań, Poland
Patronage:
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Polish Presidency of the EU Council
and
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Ryszard Grobelny, Mayor of Poznań
 

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Adam Mickiewicz University,
Collegium Minus, Presidence
Faculty of Mathematics
and Computer Science

MEDIA GALLERY

Available movies




TVP Poznan - Teleskop 26.11.2011

Day Two - 26.11.2011 - Work (by Maciej Bronikowski "Matejza")

Day Two - 26.11.2011 - Leisure (by Maciej Bronikowski "Matejza")

Day 1 - November 25, 2011

fot. Sylwia Długołącka

fot. Jolanta Bachan

Day 2 - November 26, 2011

fot. Jolanta Bachan



fot. Zygmunt Vetulani


Day 3 - November 27, 2011

fot. Zygmunt Vetulani

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues,

The 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC'11), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 25-27, 2011.

Since very beginning the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important mission in the dynamically changing information-saturated world. We aim at contributing to this mission and we invite you to join us in that at LTC'11 in November 2011, traditionally held in Poznań, Poland.

Zygmunt Vetulani
LTC'11 Chair
vetulani@amu.edu.pl


CONFERENCE TOPICS

The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not significative):

  • electronic language resources and tools
  • formalization of natural languages
  • parsing and other forms of NL processing
  • computer modeling of language competence
  • NL user modeling
  • NL understanding by computers
  • knowledge representation
  • man-machine NL interfaces
  • Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
  • speech processing
  • NL applications in robotics
  • text-based information retrieval and extraction
  • question answering
  • tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems
  • translation enhancement tools
  • corpora-based methods in language engineering
  • WordNet-like ontologies
  • methodological issues in HLT
  • language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English)
  • validation in all areas of HLTs
  • HLT standards and best practices
  • HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching
  • HLTs as support for e-learning
  • communicative intelligence
  • legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges)
  • contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects)
  • visionary papers in the field of HLT
  • HLT related policies
  • system prototype presentations

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us with your suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectations concerning the program. The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) - chair
 
Victoria Arranz (ELRA, France)
Nuria Bel (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Janusz S. Bień (Warsaw University, Poland)
Krzysztof Bogacki (Warsaw University, Poland)
Christian Boitet (IMAG, France)
Leonard Bolc (IPI PAN, Poland)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Gerhard Budin (Univ. Vienna, Austria)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR, Italy)
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Julie Carson-Berndsen (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)
Adam Dąbrowski (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Elżbieta Dura (University of Skovde, Sweden)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Cedrick Fairon (University of Louvain, Belgium)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Franz Guenthner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany)
Jan Hajic (Charles Univ., Czech Republic)
Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Roland Hausser (Erlangen, Germany)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Eric Laporte (University Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Yves Lepage (University Caen Basse-Normandie, France)
Gerard Ligozat (LIMSI/CNRS, France)
Natalia Loukachevitch (Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Russia)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Denmark)
Bernardo Magnini (ITC IRST, Italy)
Alfred Majewicz (UAM, Poland)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jacek Martinek (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Gayrat Matlatipov (Urgench State University,Uzbekistan)
Keith J. Miller (MITRE, USA)
Asunción Moreno (UPC, Spain)
Jan Odijk (Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun Ltd., UK)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Pavel S. Pankov (National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyzstan)
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
Emil Pływaczewski (University of Bialystok, Poland)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)
Adam Przepiórkowski (IPI PAN, Poland)
Reinhard Rapp (University Mainz, Germany)
Mohsen Rashwan (Cairo Univ., Egypt)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, Fedex Inst. of Technology, USA)
Rafał Rzepka (University of Hokkaido, Japan)
Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Univ. del Pas Vasco, Spain)
Frédérique Ségond (Xerox, France)
Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hanna Szafrańska (UAM Foundation, Poland)
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH, Poland)
Marko Tadić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia)
Dan Tufiş (RCAI, Romania)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
Tamás Váradi (RIL, Hungary)
Cristina Vertan (Univ. Hamburg, Germany)
Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Tom Wachtel (Perlocutio, UK)
Jan Węglarz (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Mariusz Ziółko (AGH, Poland)
Richard Zuber (CNRS, France)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Zygmunt Vetulani - Chair
Wojciech Czarnecki
Marek Kubis - secretary
Jacek Marciniak
Tomasz Obrębski
Jędrzej Osiński
Grzegorz Taberski
 
All of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
 
Contact: ltc@amu.edu.pl

LANGUAGE

The conference language is English.


PAPER SUBMISSION

The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by July 31, 2011 (midnight, any time zone) and should not identify the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:

  1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).
  2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm between columns (gutter).
  3. The document size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.
  4. The use of PDF format is strongly recommended, although MS Word will also be accepted. (Please no latex and other formats).

The Word template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available here.

Detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be published on the conference web site before October 15, 2011.

All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC'11 web submission system (EasyChair).

Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by September 27, 2011.


FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION

Final papers are due by October 27, 2011. Please use templates for MS Word. In any case, please do observe the following:

  1. Accepted fonts for English text are Time Roman, Times New Roman and Courier (recommended for program listings); character size for the main text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).
  2. The only allowed paper format is A4. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,20 cm each with 0,80 cm between columns (gutter). Please note: we have slightly changed column parameters.
  3. The document size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.
    Only one additional page is allowed. In that case an extra page fee of 10 EURO must be paid by one of the authors registered to the conference. If your paper is longer than 5 pages, please notify us by sending an e-mail to ltc@amu.edu.pl.
  4. The only accepted document type is PDF.
  5. Do not use color images (nor any other color elements) in your paper. Convert all color elements into grayscale. Note that your paper will be printed in grayscale.
  6. Please, embed fonts (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean,...) with your PDF. Use the appriopiate option in your PDF-generator.

Final papers should be sent by e-mail to ltc@amu.edu.pl as an attachment. A security copy should be sent to jacekmar@amu.edu.pl.

  • The attached file should be named ltc-PAPERID-FirstAuthorName.pdf   e.g. ltc-005-vetulani.pdf (the paper #5 with Vetulani as the submitting author).
  • As the subject of your e-mail use: LTC FINAL PAPER  PAPERID   e.g. LTC FINAL PAPER 005.

The PAPERID is your paper ID from EasyChair.



PUBLICATION POLICY

Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors before October 27, 2011.
For the obvious reason that the conference fee must cover (in particular) the publication costs, the following rule is applied: "One payment may cover at most one paper" (Cf. "Registration", below)

As this was the case for post-LTC'07 (v. 5603) and LTC'09 (v. 6562), a post-proceedings volume with the selection of 40 revised and extended versions of LTC'11 papers will be published. It has been accepted (2013) for publication in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

The LTC 2005 post conference selection appeared in form of Special Issue of Archives of Control Sciences (2005, Volume 15 nb. 3 and Volume 15 nb. 4)

Archives Of Control Sciences Archives Of Control Sciences

The LTC 2007 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 5603).

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (5603)

The LTC 2009 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) has just appeared (April, 2011) in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 6562).

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (6562)

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINE EXTENSION*

  • Deadline for submission of papers for review: July 31, 2011 September 5, 2011
  • Deadline for submission of LRL Workshop papers for review: September 5, 2011
  • Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 27, 2011**
  • Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: October 26, 2011
  • Conference: November 25-27, 2011
  • Deadline for registration for the Authors of accepted papers (mandatory) is November 6, 2011

*) This extension was possible due to the special arrangement with the Publisher of the proceedings.

**) We are sorry to inform you about a delay of the acceptance/refusal paper notification. We are still expecting some missing reviews. We will do our best to reduce this delay to the minimum.


REGISTRATION

Registration deadline for the Authors is November 6.



If you encounter any troubles sending us this form - please fill in this one and send by mail to the ltc@amu.edu.pl
REGISTRATION FORM
1. First name:
 
2. Surname:
 
3. Salutation:
  Mr Ms
4. Affiliation:
 
5. Address:
 
6. E-mail:
 
7. Telephone:
 
8. Payment date:
 
9. Payment amount:
 
10. List of papers related to this registration (if applicable):
 
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Paper 2*Yes No
Paper 3**Yes No
* remember to cover the additional paper fee (50 euro)
** remember to cover fee for two additional papers (100 euro)
*** remember to cover extra fee (10 euro)
11. Is your paper eligible for "The best student paper" contest?
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No
12. Have you submited materials for LREMAP?
  Yes
No
13. Accompanying person(s):
(leave empty if not applicable)
  Name(s) and surname(s):
 
14. Do you intend to participate in the banquet (November 26)?
  Yes, with accompanying person (additional fee may be payed on site /no cash, card only/.)
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No
15. Information necessary to issue the invoice (name, address, VAT number /if applicable/, NIP /if applicable/)
 
16. Remarks/Additional information
 
17. Are you a student?
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Important! If you are entitled to the student fee, please send a copy of your Student ID (scanned) on the LTC email adress directly to ltc[at]amu.edu.pl


 
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1, Friday, November 25, 2011
Collegium Iuridicum Novum - Auditorium

8:00 - 9:30

Registration and coffee

9.30 - 9:50

Introduction

Welcome address by Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University (Bronisław Marciniak)

Welcome address by Major of Poznań (Ryszard Grobelny)

Address by the President of the Council of National Center for Research and Development (Jerzy Kątcki, Warsaw, Poland)

9:50 - 10:30

Invited presentation by Kimmo Rossi (EU) "Connecting Europe - New Opportunities for Language Technologies in the Horizon"

10:30 - 11:10

Invited Talk on the "FlaReNet recommendations and future prospects" by Nicoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy)

11:15 - 12:30

Panel on Strategic Priorities for LT in Europe (moderated by Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbruecken, Germany)

12:30 - 13:50

Lunch Break

Hotel Polonez - Conference Area

Less-Resourced Languages 2011 Special Track
"Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and Technologies"
(a joint LTC-ELRA-FLaReNet-META-NET event)

13:50 - 13:55

Introduction

13:55 - 15:05

European approach for addressing the gaps

15:05 - 16:35

Monolingual Processing of LRL

16:35 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 17:30

Bilingual Processing of LRL

17:30 - 19:00

Multilingual Processing for LRL

19:00 - 19:20

General discussion on Strategies for Addressing the LRL Gaps

20:00 - 22:30

Welcome Reception (Bus departure at 19:45)




Day 2, Saturday, November 26, 2011
Hotel Polonez - Conference Area

8:30 - 9:50

Ontologies / wordnet 1

Text analysis 1

Text classification

9:50 - 10:20

Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:40

Computational semantics 1

Text analysis 2

Speech 1

11:40 - 11:50

Technical Break

11:50 - 12:50

Verb valency / WSD

Text analysis 3

Language resources and tools 1

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

Dialogue 1

Machine translation 1

Language resources and tools 2

15:00 - 15:10

Technical Break

15:10 - 16:30

Dialogue 2

Text analysis 4

Speech 2

16:30 - 17:00

Demo session

Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:20

Applications

Parsing 1

18:20 - 18:40

20:00 - 00:00

Conference Gala Dinner / Best Student Paper Award




Day 3, Sunday, November 27, 2011
Hotel Polonez - Conference Area

8:30 - 9:30

Computational semantics 2

Machine translation 2

Speech 3

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:20

IE /IR

Machine translation 3

Language resources and tools 3

11:20 - 11:30

Technical Break

11:30 - 12:50

Ontologies / wordnet 2

Parsing 2

Text annotation

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Collegium Iuridicum Novum - Auditorium

14:00 - 14:45

Gerard Ligozat: Invited Talk on the "Extracting, Representing, and Reasoning about Time and Space in Texts and Discourse"

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:45

Closure



TECHNICAL SESSIONS PROGRAM

Day 1: November 25, 2011
Session: European approach for addressing the gaps
14:25 - 14:35
Detecting Gaps in Language Resources and Tools in the Project CESAR Radovan Garabík, Svetla Koeva, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Marko Tadić, Tamás Váradi and Duško Vitas
Session: Monolingual Processing of LRL
15:05 - 16:35
Strategies to develop Language Technologies for Less-Resourced Languages based on the case of Basque Ińaki Alegria, Xabier Artola, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza and Kepa Sarasola
A first LVCSR system for Luxembourgish, an under-resourced European language Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel and Gilles Adda
Spell Checking an Agglutinative Language: Quechua Annette Rios
Challenges for Design of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) for Punjabi Language Swaran Lata
Challenges in Developing LRs for Non-Scheduled Languages: A Case of Magahi Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri and Deepak Alok
Challenges and Open Problems in Persian Text processing Mehrnoush Shamsfard
Session: Bilingual Processing of LRL
17:00 - 17:30
A Survey on Existing Chinese-Japanese Bilingual Resources Jing Sun and Yves Lepage
Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from one Less-Resourced Language to Another Montse Maritxalar, Elaine Ui Donnchadha, Jennifer Foster and Monica Ward
Session: Multilingual Processing for LRL
17:30 - 19:00
A Multilingual Text Normalization Approach Brigitte Bigi
Creating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in Indian Languages Narayan Choudhary and Girish Jha
Issues in annotating less resourced languages – the case of Hindi from Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) Pinkey Nainwani, Esha Banerjee, Shiv Kaushik and Girish Nath Jha
Natural Language Ontology of Action. A gap with huge consequences for Natural Language Understanding and Machine Translation Massimo Moneglia
Principles of Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging of Indian Language Corpora Niladri Sekhar Dash
Inducing grammar from IGT Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beerman
Day 2: November 26, 2011
Session OWN1: Ontologies/Wordnet 1
8:30 - 9:50
Acquiring Relational Patterns from Wikipedia: A Case Study Rahmad Mahendra, Lilian Wanzare, Bernardo Magnini, Raffaella Bernardi and Alberto Lavelli
Enhancing tagging systems by wordnet based ontologies Jacek Marciniak
Semi-automated construction of a topic ontology from research papers in the domain of language technologies Jasmina Smailović and Senja Pollak
Semi-Automatic Extension of GermaNet with Sense Definitions from Wiktionary Verena Henrich, Erhard Hinrichs and Tatiana Vodolazova
Session TANA1: Text Analysis 1
8:30 - 9:50
Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts Sarah Ebling, Rico Sennrich, David Klaper and Martin Volk
Recognizing Named Entities using Automatically Extracted Transduction Rules Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburger and Arnaud Soulet
Temporal Expression Recognition Using Dependency Trees Paweł Mazur and Robert Dale
Temporal Relation Classification Using Dependency Convolution Tree Kernels Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani
Session TCLA: Text Classification
8:30 - 9:50
Patent Document Classification using expanded Technical Term Thesaurus Yoshimi Suzuki
Relation based text classifier Ewa Thlon and Tomasz Pędzimąż
The Use of Latent Semantic Indexing to Cluster documents into their subject areas Roseline Antai, Chris Fox and Udo Kruchwitz
Session SEM1: Computational Semantics 1
10:20 - 11:40
End-to-end coreference resolution baseline system for Polish Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Mateusz Kopeć
Resolving Anaphors in Sanskrit Madhav Gopal and Girish Nath Jha
Thel, a language for formalization of Polish Sign Language utterances Nina Suszczańska and Przemysław Szmal
Unsupervised Coreference Resolution Using a Multi-pass Graph Labeling Approach Nafise Sadat Moosavi and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani
Session TANA2: Text Analysis 2
10:20 - 11:40
Automatic extraction of multiword lexical units from Polish text Michał Woźniak
Automatic Selection of Clustering Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation Bartosz Broda and Wojciech Mazur
Identifying Event and Subject of Continuous News Streams for Multi-Document Summarization Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto
Identifying Lexical Bundles in Secondary School Textbooks Carola Ribeck
Session SP1: Speech 1
10:20 - 11:40
Comparison of Syllable and Triphone Based Speech Recognition for Amharic Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Laurent Besacier and Solange Rossato
Impact of choice of training data and patterns reduction in speaker dependent speech recognition Jakub Gałka, Tomasz Jadczyk, Bartosz Ziółko and Dawid Skurzok
Language modeling using SOM network Leszek Gajecki and Ryszard Tadeusiewicz
Speech Recognition Training for Pre-Elementary School Language Learning Alejandro Curado-Fuentes, J. Enrique Agudo-Garzón and Héctor Sánchez-Santamaría
Session VAL: Verb Valency/WSD
11:50 - 12:50
A Syntactic Valency Lexicon for Persian Verbs: The First Steps towards Persian Dependency Treebank Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Manouchehr Kouhestani and Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli
Ordering Slots of Semantically Related Schemata of Polish Verbs Elżbieta Hajnicz
Polish Word Sketches Adam Radziszewski, Adam Kilgarriff and Robert Lew
Session TANA3: Text Analysis 3
11:50 - 12:50
Enhancing the discovery of informality levels in Web 2.0 texts Alejandro Mosquera and Paloma Moreda
Incremental Genre Detection for Recommendation in the Long Tail Paula Cristina Vaz and David Martins De Matos
SurZe: A Tool for Pragmatic NLP Ritesh Kumar
Session LRT1: Language Resources and Tools 1
11:50 - 12:50
Through Wordnet to Lexicon Grammar Zygmunt Vetulani, Grażyna Vetulani
National Corpus of Polish Adam Przepiórkowski, Mirosław Bańko, Rafał L. Górski, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Marek Łaziński and Piotr Pęzik
Extending a Tool Resource Framework with U-Compare Mike Rosner, Andrew Attard, Paul Thompson, Albert Gatt and Sophia Ananiadou
Session DIA1: Dialogue 1
14:00 - 15:00
A comparative study of intention-level user simulations on the Communicator data Magdalena Wolska, Ruth Schreiber and Dietrich Klakow
Towards the Modelling of Backend Functionalities in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems Markus Berg
Unsupervised learning of dialogue structure in task-oriented dialogues Tassilo Barth, Dietrich Klakow and Magdalena Wolska
Session MT1: Machine Translation 1
14:00 - 15:00
A Study of The Number of Proportional Analogies between Marker-based Chunks in 11 European Languages Kota Takeya and Yves Lepage
Exploring N-grams Distribution for Sampling-based Alignment Juan Luo, Adrien Lardilleux and Yves Lepage
Two Memory-Based Methods for Phrase Alignment Johan Segura and Violaine Prince
Session LRT2: Language Resources and Tools 2
14:00 - 15:00
A Preliminary Version of Składnica – a Treebank of Polish Marcin Woliński, Katarzyna Głowińska and Marek Świdziński
Crowdsourcing for Language Resource Development: Critical Analysis of Amazon Mechanical Turk Overpowering Use Gilles Adda, Benoît Sagot, Karën Fort and Joseph Mariani
Defining the Annotation Scheme of a Treebank: The End-Use Perspective Kristiina Muhonen and Tanja Purtonen
Session DIA2: Dialogue 2
15:10 - 16:30
Active Learning to Speed-up the Training Process for Dialogue Act Labelling Fabrizio Ghigi, Carlos David Martinez-Hinarejos and José Miguel Benedi
Extraction of query conditions from queries formulated in natural Polish language Piotr Wnęk and Jan Jagielski
Modelling semantic alignment in emergency dialogue Jolanta Bachan
How-To Question-Answering: hints extraction Marc Canitrot, Sarah Bourse, Thomas De Filipo, Pierre Yves Roger and Patrick Saint Dizier
Session TANA4: Text Analysis 4
15:10 - 16:30
A Rule based Method for the Identification of TAM features in a PoS Tagged Corpus Narayan Choudhary, Pramod Pandey and Girish Nath Jha
Applying Rule-Based Normalization to Different Types of Historical Texts – An Evaluation Marcel Bollmann, Florian Petran and Stefanie Dipper
Enhancing Labeled Data using Unlabeled Data for Topic Tracking Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
Text normalization using deep and surface parsing Krzysztof Jassem and Marta Wieczorek
Session SP2: Speech 2
15:10 - 16:30
Adaptable Phone and Syllable HMM-Based Ibibio TTS Systems Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Escor Udosen and EmemObong Udoh
Kernel matrix size reduction methods for speaker verification Szymon Drgas and Adam Dąbrowski
Slovak Automatic Transcription and Dictation System for the Judicial Domain Milan Rusko, Jozef Juhár, Marian Trnka, Ján Staš, Sakhia Darjaa, Daniel Hládek, Miloš Cerňak, Marek Papco, Róbert Sabo, Matúš Pleva, Marian Ritomský and Martin Lojka
The intonation of backchannels in Italian task-oriented dialogues: cues to turn-taking dynamics, information status and speaker’s attitude Michelina Savino
Session: Demo
16:30 - 18:40
Language Processing Chains in ATLAS Anelia Belogay, Dan Cristea, Eugen Ignat, Diman Karagiozov, Svetla Koeva, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Adam Przepiórkowski, Polivios Raxis and Cristina Vertan
The TextCoop System: processing explanations in procedures Sarah Bourse, Patrick Saint-Dizier and Marc Canitrot
The KOMODO question-answering system: providing hints in do-it-yourself and gardening activities Marc Canitrot, Sarah Bourse, Pierre-Yves Roger and Patrick Saint-Dizier
Demonstration of DTAG and Translog-II:Linking Dependency Treebank Representations with Text-production Behaviour Michael Carl and Henrik Høeg Müller
The Production of Many Voices for Tone Language Systems Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Escor Udosen and EmemObong Udoh
PLLM – Language modeling using SOM network Leszek Gajecki and Ryszard Tadeusiewicz
WUpdate – a tool for transforming WordNet-like lexical databases Marek Kubis
CESAR resources in META-SHARE repository Radovan Garabík, Svetla Koeva, Cvetana Krstev, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Adam Przepiórkowski, Mladen Stanojević, Marko Tadić, Tamás Váradi, Klára Vicsi“Duško Vitas and Sanja Vraneš
System for Transcribing and Accessing Historical Archive of Czech Radio Jan Nouza, Karel Blavka, Marek Bohac, Michaela Kucharova, Jindrich Zdansky and Ladislav Seps
UAM Text Tools Tomasz Obrębski
Polsyn, Polsem, and Polin – the deep parser, semantic analyzer, and linearizer of the Thetos translator Nina Suszczańska and Przemysław Szmal
The Thetos system, Polish text into sign language translator Nina Suszczańska and Przemysław Szmal
POLINT-112-SMS Zygmunt Vetulani and Jacek Marciniak
PolNet – Polish Wordnet Zygmunt Vetulani, Wojciech Czarnecki, Marek Kubis, Jacek Marciniak, Tomasz Obrębski, Jędrzej Osiński and Grzegorz Taberski
Session APP: Applications
17:00 - 18:20
A Humanoid Robot as a Translator from Text to Sign Language Siham Al-Rikabi and Verena Hafner
Discussing the impact of a new Assistive Reading tool on Greek Dyslexic children Theologos Athanaselis, Stelios Bakamidis, Ioannis Dologlou, Evmorfia N. Argyriou and Antonis Symvonis
Energetic Definition of a Language and Software for 3D-presentations of Notions of Natural Languages Pavel Pankov and Erkin Kasymov
Session PAR1: Parsing 1
17:00 - 18:40
A Hybrid Approach to Kashmiri Shallow Parsing Riyaz Ahmad Bhat and Dipti Mishra Sharma
Lexical Disambiguation in LTAG using Left Context Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier, Guy Perrier and Sylvain Schmitz
Parsing Coordination Extragrammatically Valmi Dufour-Lussier, Bruno Guillaume and Guy Perrier
Problems of conjunction based analysis of complicated compound sentences in the Polish language Katarzyna Bartela
Obtaining PCFG Probabilities Based on the Corpus Paweł Skórzewski
Day 3: November 27, 2011
Session SEM2: Computational Semantics 2
8:30 - 9:30
Normalization of Term Weighting Scheme for Sentiment Analysis Alexander Pak and Patrick Paroubek
Spatial reasoning and disambiguation in the process of knowledge acquisition Marcin Walas and Krzysztof Jassem
The spatio-temporal relation of the XCDC model conceptualized in a natural language Jędrzej Osiński
Session MT2: Machine Translation 2
8:30 - 9:30
A Hybrid Multi-Word Terms Alignment Approach Using Word Co-occurrence with a Bilingual Lexicon Morgane Marchand and Nasredine Semmar
Comparing CBMT Approaches for German-Romanian Monica Gavrila and Natalia Elita
Training Statistical Machine Translation with Multivariate Mutual Information Cyrine Nasri, Kamel Smaili and Chiraz Latiri
Session SP3: Speech 3
8:30 - 9:30
Affective Interaction with a Companion Robot for Hospitalized Children: a Linguistically based Model for Emotion Detection Marc Le Tallec, Jean-Yves Antoine, Jeanne Villaneau and Dominique Duhaut
Impact of Pronunciation Variant Frequency on Automatic Non-Native Speech Segmentation Denis Jouvet, Larbi Mesbahi, Anne Bonneau, Dominique Fohr, Irina Illina and Yves Laprie
Speech Segmentation for Collecting Non-Uniform Speech Units Tiberiu Boroş
Session IER: IE/IR
10:00 - 11:20
Automatic Generation Approach of Short Titles Cédric Lopez, Violaine Prince and Mathieu Roche
Information Extraction for Czech Based on Syntactic Analysis Vít Baisa and Vojtěch Kovář
Information extraction support system applied in data search in the domain of biomedical engineering Andrzej Opaliński, Wojciech Turek, Mirosław Głowacki and Anna Romanowska-Pawliczek
Stemming Finnish for Information Retrieval – Comparison of an Old and a New Rule-based Stemmer Kimmo Kettunen and Feza Baskaya
Session MT3: Machine Translation 3
10:00 - 11:20
Estimating frequencies of inflected forms using simple frequency lists Filip Graliński
CRITT NLP Resources for Translation Representation of User Activity Data in Translog-II Michael Carl and Henrik Høeg Müeller
Text Genre - an Unexplored Parameter in Statistical Machine Translation Monica Gavrila and Cristina Vertan
Using Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Machine Translation Nasredine Semmar, Christophe Servan, Dhouha Bouamor and Ali Jaoua
Session LRT3: Language Resources and Tools 3
10:00 - 11:20
Toward Integrated Lexico-Semantic Language Technology for Polish Maciej Piasecki
Construction of an electronic dictionary on the base of a paper source Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Katarzyna Głowińska, Piotr Rychlik and Jakub Waszczuk
Parallel and spoken corpora in an open repository of Polish language resources Piotr Pęzik, Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
A Bilingual Study of Knowledge-Rich Context Extraction in Russian and German Anne-Kathrin Schumann
Session OWN2: Ontologies/Wordnet 2
11:30 - 12:50
A tool for transforming WordNet-like databases Marek Kubis
Extending wordnets by learning from multiple resources Benoît Sagot and Darja Fišer
KABA Subject Heading Language as the Main Resource Subject Organization Tool in a Semantic Knowledge Base Cezary Mazurek, Krzysztof Sielski, Justyna Walkowska and Marcin Werla
Session PAR2: Parsing 2
11:30 - 12:50
Automatic Syntactic Analysis for Polish Language Marcin Adamski and Michał Zimniewicz
Chunking of Polish: guidelines, discussion and experiments with Machine Learning Marek Maziarz, Adam Radziszewski and Jan Wieczorek
Evaluation of Combining Data-Driven Dependency Parsers for Arabic Maytham Alabbas and Allan Ramsay
Programming in DISLOG: some foundational elements Patrick Saint Dizier
Session TANO: Text Annotation
11:30 - 12:50
A Memory-Based Tagger for Polish Adam Radziszewski and Tomasz Śniatowski
Application of Video Processing Methods for Linguistic Research Przemysław Lenkiewicz, Peter Wittenburg, Oliver Schreer and Stefano Masneri
Confidence measures in dialogue annotation by N-gram transducers Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos, Vicent Tamarit and Jose Miguel Benedi
Orwell’s 1984 – the Case of Serbian Revisited Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas and Aleksandra Trtovac


CONFERENCE FEES

Non-student participants:

  • Regular registration fee (payment before October 27, 2011) 190 EURO
  • Late registration fee (payment after October 26, 2011) 240 EURO
Student participants:
  • Regular registration fee (payment before October 27, 2011) 120 EURO
  • Late registration fee (payment after October 26, 2011) 160 EURO

To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student card (or equivalent document) valid on July 31, 2011.

Student registrations must be accompanied by proof of full-time student status (in form of scanned copy of a student ID card or equivalent document) and send by e-mail to ltc@amu.edu.pl. The e-mail subject field must have the following format:
LTC-11-StudentID- (e.g. LTC-11-StudentID-VETULANI)

The conference fee covers:

  • participation in the scientific program
  • conference materials
  • proceedings on CD and paper
  • social events (banquet,...)
  • coffee breaks

Conference fee for accompanying persons is 50 EUR. The fee covers participation in non-scientific program (banquet,session coffee breaks).

In case of multiple submission the extra fee of 50 Euro for additional paper (not covered by conference fee of a co-author) is to be payed.

The fee for an extra page (max. 1 allowed) will be charged 10 Euro.


PAYMENT PROCEDURES

By credit card (recommended):
Please do follow the following 5-step procedure:

  1. Download the form: [credit card form DOC] or [credit card form PDF]
  2. Print the form
  3. Complete the form
  4. Sign the form
  5. Send the signed form by fax to: +48 61 8279701 (Fundacja Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
By bank transfer to the account:
Name: Fundacja Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
ul. Rubież 46
PL 61-612 Poznań
Number: PL 92 1020 4027 0000 1502 0034 2394
Bank: PKO BP S.A. II O/Poznan
SWIFT: BPKO PL PW
EU VAT number: PL781-00-02-075
You may download and print bank transfer information forms: [bank transfer form DOC] or [bank transfer form PDF]
The completed and signed transfer information form is to be send (obligatorily) by fax to: +48 61 8279701 (Fundacja Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)

Important: if payment by bank transfer, all transfer fees (for both the transferring and the receiving banks) must be covered by the participant.

Important: make sure you have included the name of the conference and your family name as part of the payment reference.

The 2nd LRL WORKSHOP (A JOINT LTC-ELRA-FLaReNet-META_NET EVENT) : Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and Technologies

Name: "Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and Technologies"

Date: 25.11.2011, half-day (afternoon) + banquet
LTC Workshop paper submission deadline : 05.09.2011

Theme: Covering the existing gaps in Language Resources (LR) and Technologies (LT) is a challenging task not only for the so-called "Less-Resourced Languages" (LRL) but also for the technologically more advanced ones. Therefore we believe that this workshop will be of general interest for all. Still, the needs of the less-resourced languages are worth being specifically considered in order to reduce the unbalanced situation among languages.

The previous joint LTC-FLaReNet workshop on "Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!" (LTC 2009) aimed at drawing a picture of the Language Resources (LR) and Language Technologies (LT) availability and quality, especially for the less-resourced languages. Following its success, this second workshop aims at adding the novel topics of gap identification and their possible filling.

The workshop will draw on the inventories of all language technologies and resources that are presently being carried out, such as the ones conducted by FlaReNet, ELRA or META-NET (e.g. LRE Map, Program Surveys, Language Matrixes, Language Gaps, META-SHARE infrastructure). These are now available and help better understand the current landscape and work out the possible solutions, for each individual language and technology. The idea is to discuss availability, quality, maturity, sustainability, and gaps of the LR and LT for a number of languages and technologies.

The importance of this confrontation and analysis will be reflected by the way conclusions will be endorsed by the participants.

Topics:

  • Charting and analysis of major LT and associated LR across languages
  • Assessing Availability, Quality, Maturity and Sustainability of LT and LR across languages
  • Identification of gaps in LR and LT, and their impact on Research and Technology development
  • Recommendations on the way to address these gaps based on experience from well resourced languages
  • Experience in the production, validation and distribution of LR for less-resourced languages
  • Experience in the evaluation of LT for less-resourced
  • Use of pivot languages and language families to address the gaps
  • Processing of oral languages
  • Infrastructures for making available LR and LT in all languages, and especially in the less-resourced ones
  • Etc.

Program (general framework):The workshop will comprise presentations (including keynote talks) and a panel session, including an EC representative . The details of the program is in preparation and will be published soon at this site.

Co-Chairs: Khalid Choukri (ELRA, ELDA, France), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, IMMI, France), Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

LRL Workshop Program Committee :

Martine Adda-Decker (University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle & LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Nuria Bel (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Gerhard Budin (Univ. Vienna, Austria)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC, Italy)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA,ELDA, France)
Chris Cieri (LDC, USA)
Daffyd Gibbon (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)
Shuichi Itahashi (AIST, NII, Japan)
Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Alfred Majewicz (UAM, Poland)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, IMMI, France)
Asunción Moreno (UPC, Spain)
Jan Odijk (Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Stellios Piperidis(ILSP, Greece)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)
Mohsen Rashwan (Cairo Univ., Egypt)
Justus C. Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Univ. del Pas Vasco, Spain)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Marko Tadić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia)
Chiu-yu Tseng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Dan Tufiş (RCAI, Romania)
Zygmunt Vetulani (UAM, Poland)
 

Paper submission: format and templates as for the general LTC, see the Paper Submission Section , above.

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair exactly as for the general LTC but copies should also be send to the co-chairs of the Workshop, i.e. to choukri@elda.org, Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr and vetulani@amu.edu.pl. Please also put "LRL'11 submission" as Subject of your mail and "LRL" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself).

More LRL participation details : cf. the general program (the access to the program of both the main conference and the workshop (as well as the social program) is the same for all LTC/LRL participants)


EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Demos. The authors of submitted papers are invited to present demos of operational systems or language resources. However, as presentation possiblities are limited, a pre-registration before November 18 is required. Prority will be given to the first registered.

Invited lecture and tutorial. An invited lecture on Extracting, Representing, and Reasoning about Time and Space in Texts and Discourse will be given by Gerard Ligozat (France) on November 27, afternoon. This lecture will then be continued during the week after the conference in form of a tutorial, free for all registered conference attenders. Participation in the tutorial will require separate refistration (details soon).

Poster forum. Although all accepted papers will be presented by the authors in the traditional, standard way (oral presentation + discussion), the organizers will offer to the authors an additional opportunity to present (mini) posters containing the abstract and the key ideas of the paper (or related to the paper). Posters will be presented by the organizers during the LTC in the conference area. No extra fee will be charged for this form of presentation. The poster size will be A1, horizontal. In order to have your poster presented you are supposed to register it by November 18, 2011 by an e-mail send to ltc@amu.edu.pl with "LTC-poster" in the subject field.. (Notice. The Poster forum should not be confused with traditional poster sessions. In particular, there will be no limited presentation time and the posters do not have to be accompanied by the authors)

A book exhibition is intended Also, registered participants are invited to bring hard copies of their papers and books. We plan to make special presentations of the achievements of the conference participants, irrespective of whether they are directly related to the conference topic.


CONFERENCE LOCATION

LTC 2011 will be located in the: Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Al. Niepodległości 53 and in the Hotel Polonez, Al. Niepodległości 36, Poznań (oposite).

LTC Registation at Collegium Iuridicum Novum
Hotel

The closest bus stop is called "Polonez", to get there from:
  • the train station: bus 68
  • the bus station: bus 71
  • the airport: bus 59 or L to "Rondo Kaponiera", and then bus 68
Online bus timetable (with map)


GALA DINNER VENUE

Gala Dinner will be located in the: Collegium Maius, Fredry 10, Poznań.

A - Collegium Iuridicum Novum
B - Collegium Maius (Gala Dinner)

Bus lines: 68, 71 (to the "Zamek" stop)
AWARDS FOR THE BEST STUDENT PAPERS

As at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009) special awards will be granted to the best student papers. The regular or PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are concerned. Co-authored papers will be considered provided that the students' contributions exceeds 60% and that the main author(s) is (are) student(s)(this fact must be documented by a written declaration signed by all co-authors).


In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members participating in the conference, awarded this distinction to: Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig), Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe), Marcin Woliński (IPI PAN, Warsaw) (picture at LTC 2011).

In 2007 the award for the best student paper was granted to Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana).

In 2009 two awards were granted: to Mahmoud EL-Haj (University of Essex, UK) (left) and Alexander Pak (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) (right).

In 2011 the Jury decided to award three student contributions: Narayan Choudhary (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)(left), Moses Ekpenyong (University of Uyo, Nigeria)(middle) and Marek Kubis (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) (right).


VISAS

Participants from some non-EC countries may need visas to enter the Polish territory. Visa delivery is exclusively in competence of the Visa Authorities of the Schengen Convention countries. If you have any doubts, we recommend you to check your situation with the nearest Polish Consulate in your residence country. If you are author (co-author) of an accepted paper, we can confirm - if necessary - that we expect your presence at the conference for paper presentation. Upon request, we may also write a confirmation letter (in Polish) directly to the Polish Consulate indicated by you. To do this we will need a request letter (e-mail) from you in which you will provide us with the address of the Consulate you wish us to contact.

To get information about countries whose citizens are not required to have a visa when entering Poland and to find important telephone numbers you may also visit the web site of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.msz.gov.pl/index.php?document=2 (see Consular Information http://www.msz.gov.pl/Consular,Information,2345.html).


IMPORTANT NOTICE

This site is in progress. Further important practical information will be published shortly. Please consult this site again from time to time.



ACCOMODATION

There are several large scale events in Poznań at the LTC 2011 time (November 25-27, 2011). Therefore, we strongly recommend you to make the hotel reservation in advance. There are several standard possibilities to book via Internet. Also, a special offer for Conference participants has been prepared by the travel agency Zimny http://www.zimny.pl (zimny@zimny.pl). Please notice that the conference is located in Collegium Iuriducum Novum and in the Polonez Hotel Orbis (face to Collegium Iuridicum). If you prefer to stay in the Polonez Hotel you may make your reservation directly through the Hotel Polonez reservation service (reception). In that case please do remember that this hotel offers special rates to the LTC guests (mail to rez.polonez@orbis.pl putting LTC in the "subject" fiels or call them directly to +48 61 864 71 in order to benefit from this offer; the reservation link from this page is for information only /it does not offer the LTC discount/).



CITY OF POZNAŃ (updated: 2011-11-15)
Poznań

PUBLIC TRANSPORT & TAXI IN POZNAŃ (updated: 2011-11-15)

The timetable (by tram or bus line) can be viewed at http://www.ztm.poznan.pl/komunikacja/rozklad/. (After choosing the line, one has to choose the proper bus or tram stop in the right direction.)

Tickets fares are available at: http://ztm.poznan.pl/fares-tickets/fares-new/ An interactive transportation map is available at "Jak dojazde" website and provides also estimation of ticket cost for the given route.

Aprox. bus travel duration to the Polonez hotel from (except rush hours):

  • the Central Railway Station (Poznań Główny) - 6 minutes (Ticket: Normal and night service up to 15 minutes, cost: 2zł)
  • the Central Bus Station - 8 minutes (Ticket: Normal and night service up to 15 minutes, cost: 2zł)
  • the Airport (Poznań - Ławica International Airport) - 34 minutes (Ticket: Normal and night service up to 60 minutes, cost: 4zł)

You can buy tickets in one of the newspaper stands near bus stops.

TAXI in Poznań:

Aprox. taxi travel cost to the Polonez hotel from:

  • the Airport (Poznań - Ławica International Airport): - 20-35zł (depends on traffic)
  • the Central Bus Station: 15-20zł (depends on traffic)


PRACTICAL INFORMATION (updated: 2011-11-15)

Official promotional website of the Republic of Poland You could find there information about:


CONTACT
Address: The 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2011)
Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
ul. Umultowska 87
PL 61-614 Poznań
E-mail: ltc@amu.edu.pl
WWW: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl

CO-OPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

ELRA      FLaReNet      META_Net      Poznań     

 
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