TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

Workshop at ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon

Workshop Program

Thursday, June 23, 2011

9:00–9:15Opening Remarks
 Special Track Session: “Graphs in Structured Input/Output Learning”
9:15–9:40A Combination of Topic Models with Max-margin Learning for Relation Detection
Dingcheng Li, Swapna Somasundaran and Amit Chakraborty
9:40–10:05Nonparametric Bayesian Word Sense Induction
Xuchen Yao and Benjamin Van Durme
10:05–10:30Invariants and Variability of Synonymy Networks: Self Mediated Agreement by Confluence
Benoit Gaillard, Bruno Gaume and Emmanuel Navarro
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
 Session 1
11:00–11:25Word Sense Induction by Community Detection
David Jurgens
11:25–12:30Invited talk by Hal Daumé III: Structured Prediction need not be Slow
12:30–14:00Lunch Break
 Session 2
14:00–14:25Using a Wikipedia-based Semantic Relatedness Measure for Document Clustering
Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis
14:25–14:50GrawlTCQ: Terminology and Corpora Building by Ranking Simultaneously Terms, Queries and Documents using Graph Random Walks
Clément de Groc, Xavier Tannier and Javier Couto
14:50–15:15Simultaneous Similarity Learning and Feature-Weight Learning for Document Clustering
Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Dragomir Radev and Qiaozhu Mei
15:15–15:45Coffee Break
 Session 3
15:45–16:10Unrestricted Quantifier Scope Disambiguation
Mehdi Manshadi and James Allen
16:10–16:35From ranked words to dependency trees: two-stage unsupervised non-projective dependency parsing
Anders Sgaard
16:35–17:30Panel Discussion
17:30–17:45Closing Session