Program overview
19:00—21:00
Welcome Reception
Full Program
Sunday, Sep. 18, 2011
19:00—21:00
Welcome Reception
Monday, Sep. 19, 2011
Session 1
9:30—10:00
Toward Knowledge-leveraged Computational Thinking [Slides]Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto Univ.)
10:00—10:30
Symbolic and Statistical Modelling: Time for the Twain to Meet Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Session 2
11:00—11:30
Linked data for NLP or by NLP? [Slides]Key-Sun Choi (KAIST)
11:30—12:00
Scalable Abduction for Deep NLP [Slides]Kentaro Inui (Tohoku Univ.)
Session 3
14:00—15:30
Logic, Natural Language and the Language of Thought [Slides]Robert Kowalski (Imperial College London)
Session 4
16:00—16:30
Toward Inference Rules for First-order Clauses with Uncertainty [Slides]Akihiro Yamamoto (Kyoto Univ.)
16:30—17:00
POSTECH approaches to computer assisted language learning [Slides]Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH)
17:00—17:30
From Information to Knowledge: Memory vs. Inference [Slides]Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research)
17:30—18:00
Semantic transliteration of personal namesHaizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research)
Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011
Session 5
9:30—10:00
A Linguistic Approach for Understanding and Utilization of Mathematical Knowledge [Slides]Akiko Aizawa (National Institute of informatics)
10:00—10:30
Developing a textual entailment resource towards identification of propositions in a text [Slides]Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of informatics)
Session 6
11:00—11:30
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing [Slides]Pedro Domingos (Washington Univ)
11:30—12:00
A general MCMC method for logic-based probabilistic modelingTaisuke Sato (Titech)
Session 7
13:30—14:00
Comparative Analysis of Concerns in Blogs across Languages with Wikipedia as a Multilingual Knowledge Source [Slides]Takehito Utsuro (Tsukuba Univ.)
14:00—14:30
Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation under Resource Constraint [Slides]Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)
14:30—15:00
Word Sense Disambiguation in Multiple Languages using WordnetsFrancis Bond (Nanyang Technological University)
Session 8
15:30—16:00
Acquiring Knowledge from the Web and its Application to Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis [Slides]Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto Univ.)
16:00—16:30
From Question Answering to Information Acquisition [Slides]Xiaoyan Zhu (Tsinghua University)
16:30—17:00
Extracting high-level semantic relations from unstructured web text: How much knowledge is needed? [Slides]Stijn De Saeger (NICT)
17:00—17:30
Thinking Web: Hypothesis generation based on the information in the Web [Slides]Kentaro Torisawa (NICT)
Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011