De La Salle University - Manila

The 9th Workshop On Asian Language Resources

Conference Program

One day of the workshop will be for regular paper presentations, and the other day for an ISO/TC37/SC4 meeting to discuss ISO standards for language resources.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

 

Schedule
9:00–10:00	Invited Talk: Participation in Language Resource Development and Sharing - Virach Sornlertlamvanich - Session Chair: Rachel Edita Roxas
10:00–10:30	Coffee/Tea Break
	Session 1: Language Resources Session Chair: Allan Borra
10:30–10:50	Towards a Computational Semantic Analyzer for Urdu - Annette Hautli and Miriam Butt
10:50–11:10	Engineering a Deep HPSG for Mandarin Chinese (Short Paper) - Yi Zhang, Rui Wang and Yu Chen
11:10–11:30	Experiences in Building Urdu WordNet - Farah Adeeba and Sarmad Hussain
11:30–11:50	Bantay-Wika: towards a better understanding of the dynamics of Filipino culture and linguistic change (Short Paper) - Joel Ilao, Rowena Cristina Guevara, Virgilio Llenaresas, Eilene Antoinette Narvaez and Jovy Peregrino
11:50–12:00	Panel Discussion
12:00–14:00	Lunch
	Session 2: Corpus Session Chair: Stephen Beal
14:00–14:20	Error Detection for Treebank Validation - Bharat Ram Ambati, Rahul Agarwal, Mridul Gupta, Samar Husain and Dipti Misra Sharma
14:20–14:40	Multi-stage Annotation using Pattern-based and Statistical-based Techniques for Automatic Thai Annotated Corpus Construction - Nattapong Tongtep and Thanaruk Theeramunkong
14:40–15:00	Feasibility of Leveraging Crowd Sourcing for the Creation of a Large Scale Annotated Resource for Hindi English Code Switched Data: A Pilot Annotation - Mona Diab and Ankit Kamboj
15:00–15:20	Philippine Languages Online Corpora: Status, issues, and prospects - Shirley Dita and Rachel Edita Roxas
15:20–15:30	Panel Discussion
15:30–16:00	Coffee/Tea Break
	Session 3: NLP Tools Session Chair: Mona Diab
16:00–16:20	Word Disambiguation in Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration - Tejinder Singh Saini and Gurpreet Singh Lehal
16:20–16:40	A Grammar Checker for Tagalog using LanguageTool - Nathaniel Oco and Allan Borra
16:40–17:00	Linguist’s Assistant: A Resource For Linguists - Stephen Beale and Tod Allman
17:00–17:20	Providing Ad Links to Travel Blog Entries Based on Link Types - Aya Ishino, Hidetsugu Nanba and Toshiyuki Takezawa
17:20–17:30	Panel Discussion

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Venue: Ground (first) Floor, Shangri-La, come to the registration table to locate the exact room on the same floor.

Schedule
09:00-10:00	Discourse Structures (SemAF-DS) - Koiti Hasida
10:00-10:15	Coffee break
10:15-12:30	Multilinguality fo ISO-Space, Kiyong Lee and James Pustejovsky (in absentia) Overview by Kiyong Lee Space in Time and Motion by Inderjeet Mani Annotation of Thai by Chai Wutiwiwachai Annotation of Tagalog by Rachel Roxa Annotation of Japanese by Hitoshi Isahar for Kyoko Kanzaki or Koiti Hasida Annotation of Korean or Slovene by Kiyong Lee Discussion