ICCPOL 2009

Day 1: March 26, 2009
8:30 – 9:20	Registration (Outside of Room AG710)
9:20 – 9:30	Open Ceremony (Room AG710) Welcome Speech by Kam-Fai Wong
9:30 – 10:20	Keynote Speech 1 (Room AG710) Chair: Wenjie Li Information Processing by Human and by Computer: The Case of Language Professor William S. Y. Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10:20 – 10:50	Tea Break (Room AG712)
10:50 – 12:30	Session 1: Natural Langue Processing (Room AG710) Chair: Jingbo Zhu
	10:50-11:15	Fast Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Based on Semantic Chunking Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang
	11:15-11:40	Processing of Korean Natural Language Query Using Local Grammar Tae-Gil Noh, Yong-Jin Han, Seong-Bae Park, Se-Young Park
	11:40-12:05	A Probabilistic Graphical Model for Recognizing NP Chunks in Texts Minhua Huang, Robert M. Haralick
	12:05-12:30	CRF Models for Tamil Part of Speech and Chunking S.Lakshmana Pandian, T.V Geetha
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch (On Campus, See Logistics Arrangement)
13:30 – 14:45	Session 2: Machine Learning and Web Mining for Natural Langue Processing (Room AG710) Chair: Dequan Zheng
	13:30-13:55	A Simple and Efficient Model Pruning Method for Conditional Random Fields Hai Zhao, Chunyu Kit
	13:55-14:20	A Density-based Re-ranking Technique for Active Learning for Data Annotations Jingbo Zhu, Huizhen Wang, Benjamin K Tsou
	14:20-14:45	Automatic Acquisition of Attributes for Ontology Construction Gaoying Cui, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yirong Chen
14:45 – 16:05	Tea Break and Poster Session (Room AG712)
16:05 – 17:45	Session 3: Machine Translation (Room AG710) Chair: Kevin Knight
	16:05-16:30	Lexicalized Syntactic Reordering Framework for Word Alignment and Machine Translation Chung-Chi Huang, Wei-Teh Chen, Jason S. Chang
	16:30-16:55	Validity of an Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Using a Word-alignment-based Classifier Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Takeshi Kutsumi, Ichiko Sata
	16:55-17:20	Harvesting Regional Transliteration Variants with Guided Search Jin-Shea Kuo, Haizhou Li, Chih-Lung Lin
	17:20-17:45	Found in Translation: Conveying Subjectivity of a Lexicon of One Language into Another Using a Bilingual Dictionary and a Link Analysis Algorithm Jungi Kim, Hun-Young Jung, Sang-Hyeob Nam, Yeha lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee
18:30	Banquet (See Logistics Arrangement)

Day 2: March 27, 2009
9:00 – 9:30	Registration (Outside of Room AG710)
9:30 – 10:20	Keynote Speech 2 (Room AG710) Chair: Chu-Ren Huang KOTONOHA: A Corpus Compilation Initiative at the National Institute for Japanese Language Professor Kikuo Maekawa, The National Institute for Japanese Language
10:20 – 10:50	Tea Break (Outside of Room AG710)
10:50 – 12:30	Session 4: Information Extraction (Room AG710) Chair: Jin-Shea Kuo
	10:50-11:15		A Novel Composite Kernel Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction Ji Zhang, You Ouyang, Wenjie Li, Yuexian Hou
	11:15-11:40		A Novel Method of Automobiles’ Chinese Nickname Recognition Cheng Wang, Wenyuan Yu, Wenxin Li, Zhuoqun Xu
	11:40-12:05		Research on Automatic Chinese Multi-word Term Extraction Based on Term Component Wei Kang, Zhifang Sui
	12:05-12:30		Speech Synthesis for Error Training Models in CALL Xin Zhang, Qin Lu, Jiping Wan, Guangguang Ma, Tin Shing Chiu, Weiping Ye, Wenli Zhou, Qiao Li
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch (On Campus, See Logistics Arrangement)
13:30 – 15:10	Session 5: Document Summarization (Room AG710) Chair: Takehito Utsuro
	13:30-13:55	An Extractive Text Summarizer Based on Significant Words Xiaoyue Liu, Jonathan Webster, Chunyu Kit
	13:55-14:20	Query-Oriented Summarization Based on Neighborhood Graph Model Furu Wei, Yanxiang He, Wenjie Li, Lei Huang
	14:20-14:45	Using Proximity in Query Focused Multi-document Extractive Summarization Sujian Li, Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Chen Wang
	14:45-15:10	Learning Similarity Functions in Graph-based Document Summarization You Ouyang, Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu
15:10 – 15:40	Tea Break (Outside of Room AG710)
15:40 – 17:20	Session 6: Sentiment Classification and Other Topics (Room AG710) Chair: Rufeng Xu
	15:40-16:05	Partially Supervised Phrase-Level Sentiment Classification Sang-Hyob Nam, Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Ye-Ha Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee
	16:05-16:30	Extracting Domain-Dependent Semantic Orientations of Latent Variables for Sentiment Classification Yeha Lee, Jungi Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee
	16:30-16:55	Mining Cross-Lingual/Cross-Cultural Differences in Concerns and Opinions in Blogs Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Mariko Kawaba, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara
	16:55-17:20	Probabilistic Methods for a Japanese Syllable Cipher Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight
17:30 – 17:40	Closing Ceremony (Room AG710) Closing Speech by Qin Lu

Technical Program