Friday, June 5, 2009 |
| 8:45–9:00 | Opening remarks
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| 9:00–9:30 | Building Test Suites for UIMA Components
Philip Ogren and Steven Bethard |
| 9:30–10:00 | Context-Dependent Regression Testing for Natural Language Processing
Elaine Farrow and Myroslava O. Dzikovska |
| 10:00–10:30 | Using Paraphrases of Deep Semantic Representions to Support Regression Testing in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Beth Ann Hockey and Manny Rayner |
| 10:30–11:00 | Morning Break |
| 11:00–11:30 | Integrated NLP Evaluation System for Pluggable Evaluation Metrics with Extensive Interoperable Toolkit
Yoshinobu Kano, Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun’ichi Tsujii |
| 11:30–12:00 | Tightly Packed Tries: How to Fit Large Models into Memory, and Make them Load Fast, Too
Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis and Samuel Larkin |
| 12:00–12:30 | Poster Session |
| | Scaling up a NLU system from text to dialogue understanding
Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Gloria Voltolina and Vincenzo Pallotta |
| | Towards Agile and Test-Driven Development in NLP Applications
Jana Sukkarieh and Jyoti Kamal |
| | Grammar Engineering for CCG using Ant and XSLT
Scott Martin, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Michael White |
| 12:30–2:00 | Lunch Break |
| 2:00–3:00 | Invited Talk by Ted Pedersen: The road from good software engineering to good science ... is a two way street |
| 3:00–3:30 | Web Service Integration for Next Generation Localisation
David Lewis, Stephen Curran, Kevin Feeney, Zohar Etzioni, John Keeney, Andy Way and Reinhard Schäler |
| 3:30–4:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 4:00–4:30 | Distributed Parse Mining
Scott Waterman |
| 4:30–5:00 | Modular resource development and diagnostic evaluation framework for fast NLP system improvement
Gaël de Chalendar and Damien Nouvel |
| 5:00–5:30 | Integrating High Precision Rules with Statistical Sequence Classifiers for Accuracy and Speed
Wenhui Liao, Marc Light and Sriharsha Veeramachaneni |
