Preliminary Program
| 04/27/2010 (Tuesday) (TUTORIALS) |
04/28/2010 (Wednesday) | 04/29/2010 (Thursday) | 04/30/2010 (Friday) |
| 8AM – 12PM Tutorial 1 Chair: Caroline Gasperin Automatic Speech Recognition: from the beginning to Portuguese Language |
8AM – 9AM
Registration 9:15AM – 10:30AM Session 1 Chair: Graça Nunes Paper presentations: - Language procesing |
9AM – 10:30AM Session 4 Chair: Daniela Braga Paper presentations: - Speech processing |
9AM – 10:20AM Session 6 Chair: Ivandré Paraboni Paper presentations: - Applications: information handling - Language processing and applications |
| Coffee-break | Coffee-break | Coffee-break | Coffee-break |
| Tutorial 1 | 11AM – 12PM Invited talk Chair: Carlos Augusto Prolo Robert Dale "Referring Expression Generation -- Is it Getting Easier?" |
11AM – 12PM CLARIN project special session Chairs: Thiago Pardo and Vera Strube de Lima "CLARIN: how can we link the continents?" Steven Krauwer and Antônio Branco |
10:50 – 12:00PM Steering Committee and Community Meeting Chair: Thiago A. S. Pardo |
| 12PM – 2PM Lunch |
12PM – 2PM Lunch |
12PM – 2PM Lunch |
12:00PM Closing session Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and Renata Vieira |
| 2PM – 6PM Tutorial 2 Chair: Caroline Gasperin Fundamental and New Approaches to Statistical Machine Translation |
2PM – 3:35PM Session 2 Chair: Aline Villavicencio Paper presentations: - Applications: text processing - Speech processing |
2PM – 3:30PM Session 5 Chair: Sandra Aluísio Paper presentations: - Language resources |
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| Coffee-break | Coffee-break | 3:30PM – 5PM
Demos + Posters + Special Coffee Break |
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| Tutorial 2 | 4:05PM - 5:35PM Session 3 Chair: Jorge Baptista Presentations: - PhD thesis and MsC dissertation contest 5:45PM - 6:15PM Opening Session Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and Renata Vieira |
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| 5:30PM-7PM Registration 6PM-7:30PM Welcome cocktail |
5PM – 6PM Panel Speech and Language Technologies: An Overview of Products, Services and Market. Moderators: Aldebaro Klautau, Daniela Braga and David Matos |
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| 8PM Social event: churrasco and show at Centro de Tradições Gaúchas (Center for Gaúcho's Traditions) |
8:30PM Conference dinner and awards for the best PhD thesis and MsC dissertation |
- 8AM – 12PM - Tutorial 1
Chair: Caroline Gasperin - • Automatic Speech Recognition: from the beginning to Portuguese Language
André Gustavo Adami
- 2PM – 6PM - Tutorial 2
Chair: Caroline Gasperin - • Fundamental and New Approaches to Statistical Machine Translation
Lucia Specia
- 9:15AM – 10:30AM - Session 1
Chair: Graça Nunes - Language procesing - 3 full papers (25min):
- • 9:15-9:40 - A Machine Learning Approach to Portuguese Clause Identification
Eraldo R. Fernandes, Cícero N. dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú - • 9:40-10:05 - A Hybrid Approach for Multiword Expression Identification
Carlos Ramisch, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Aline Villavicencio, André Machado,
Maria José Finatto - • 10:05-10:30 - Out-of-the-Box Robust Parsing of Portuguese
João Silva, António Branco, Sérgio Castro, Ruben Reis - 10:30AM - 11AM - Coffee Break
- 11AM - 12AM - Invited Talk
Chair: Carlos Augusto Prolo
Robert Dale - - Referring Expression Generation -- Is it Getting Easier?
- 2PM – 3:35PM - Session 2
Chair: Aline Villavicencio - Applications: text processing - 2 full (25min) + 1 short (15min):
- • 2PM-2:25 - Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences
Lucia Specia - • 2:25-2:50 - Challenging Choices for Text Simplification
Caroline Gasperin, Erick G. Maziero, Sandra M. Aluísio - • 2:50-3:05 - Comparing Sentence-Level Features for Authorship Analysis in Portuguese (short)
Rui Sousa Silva, Luís Sarmento, Tim Grant, Eugénio Oliveira, Belinda Maia - Speech processing - 2 short (15min):
- • 3:05-3:20 - Automatic Phone Clustering based on Confusion Matrices (short)
Carla Lopes, Arlindo Veiga, Fernando Perdigão - • 3:20-3:35 - The Role of Morphology in Generating High-Quality Pronunciation Lexica for Regional Variants of Portuguese (short)
Simone Ashby, José Pedro Ferreira - 3:35PM - 4:05PM - Coffee Break
- 4:05PM - 5:35PM - Session 3
Chair: Jorge Baptista - PhD Thesis - (15min):
- • 4:05-4:20 - Entropy Guided Transformation Learning
Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú (advisor) - • 4:20-4:35 - A Relational Approach for Word Sense Disambiguation
Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson (advisor) - • 4:35-4:50 - Transfer rule and bilingual dictionary automatic induction in the ReTraTos project
Helena Caseli, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (advisor) - MSc Dissertations - (15min):
- • 4:50-5:05 - Complex Networks and Extractive Summarization
Lucas Antiqueira, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (advisor) - • 5:05-5:20 - Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Algorithms for Mining Association Rules
André Pinto Geraldo, Viviane Pereira Moreira (advisor) - • 5:20-5:35 - Shallow Processing of Portuguese: From Sentence Chunking to Nominal
Lemmatization
João Ricardo Silva, António Branco (advisor) - 5:45PM - 6:15PM - Opening Session
Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and Renata Vieira - 8PM - Social event
Churrasco and show at Centro de Tradições Gaúchas (Center for Gaúcho's Traditions)
- 9AM – 10:30AM - Session 4
Chair: Daniela Braga - Speech processing - 3 full papers (25min) + 1 short (15min):
- • 9AM - 9:25 - A Baseline System for Continuous Speech Recognition of Brazilian Portuguese Using The West Point Brazilian Portuguese Speech Corpus
Fabiano Weimar dos Santos, Dante Augusto Couto Barone, André Gustavo
Adami - • 9:25-9:50 - Prosodic prediction in Brazilian Portuguese: a contribution to speech synthesis
Cirineu Cecote Stein - • 9:50-10:15 - Voice Quality of European Portuguese Emotional Speech
Ana Nunes, Rosa Lídia Coimbra, António Teixeira - • 10:15-10:30 - An Open-Source Speech Recognizer for Brazilian Portuguese with a Windows Programming Interface (short)
Patrick Silva, Pedro Batista, Nelson Neto, Aldebaro Klautau - 10:30AM - 11AM - Coffee Break
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11AM - 12AM - CLARIN project special session
Chairs: Thiago Pardo and Vera Strube de Lima
- • CLARIN: how can we link the continents?
Steven Krauwer (CLARIN Project Coordinator) and Antônio Branco
- 2PM – 3:30PM - Session 5
Chair: Sandra Aluísio - Language resources - 3 full (25min) + 1 short (15min)::
- • 2PM-2:25 - InferenceNet.Br: Expression of Inferentialist Semantic Content of the Portuguese Language
Vladia Pinheiro, Tarcisio Pequeno, Vasco Furtado, Wellington Franco - • 2:25-2:50 - Comparing Verb Synonym Resources for Portuguese
Jorge Teixeira, Luís Sarmento, Eugénio Oliveira - • 2:50-3:15 - Auxiliary verbs and verbal chains in European Portuguese
Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede, Fernando Gomes - • 3:15-3:30 - P-AWL: Academic Word List for Portuguese (short)
Jorge Baptista, Neuza Costa, Joaquim Guerra, Marcos Zampieri, Maria Cabral,
Nuno Mamede - 3h30PM – 5PM - Demos + Posters + Special Coffee Break
- 5PM – 6PM: Panel
- • Speech and Language Technologies: An Overview of Products, Services and Market
Moderators: Aldebaro Klautau, Daniela Braga and David Matos
- 8:30PM - Conference Dinner
- 9AM – 10:20AM - Session 6
Chair: Ivandré Paraboni - Applications: information handling - 2 full (25min):
- • 9AM-9:25 - Improving IdSay: a characterization of strengths and weaknesses in Question Answering systems for Portuguese
Gracinda Carvalho, David Martins de Matos, Vitor Rocio - • 9:25-9:50 - Assessing the Impact of Stemming Accuracy on Information Retrieval
Felipe N. Flores, Viviane P. Moreira, Carlos A. Heuser - Language processing and applications - 2 short (15min):
- • 9:50-10:05 - LXGram: A Deep Linguistic Processing Grammar for Portuguese (short)
Francisco Costa, António Branco - • 10:05-10:20 - Formalizing CST-based Content Selection Operations (short)
Maria Lucía Castro Jorge, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo - 10:20AM - 10:50AM - Coffee Break
- 10:50AM – 12:00PM - Steering Committee and Community Meeting
Chair: Thiago A. S. Pardo - 12:00PM - Closing session
Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and Renata Vieira