Workshop Program

9:30-9:40 Opening
9:40-10:30 Invited Talk I
  • Query Understanding in Web Search - by Large Scale Log Data Mining and Statistical Learning
    Hang Li
    10:30-11:00 Tea Break
    11:00-12:15 Session I: Information Access
  • Exploiting Term Importance Categories and Dependency Relations for Natural Language Search
    Keiji Shinzato and Sadao Kurohashi
  • Summarizing Search Results using PLSI
    Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi
  • Automatic Classification of Semantic Relations between Facts and Opinions
    Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Hayato Goto, Megumi Ohki, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto
    12:15-13:30 Lunch
    13:30-14:20 Invited Talk II
  • Statistical Relational Learning for Knowledge Extraction from the Web
    Hoifung Poon
    14:20-15:35 Session II: Lexical Acquisition
  • Even Unassociated Features Can Improve Lexical Distributional Similarity
    Kazuhide Yamamoto and Takeshi Asakura
  • A Look inside the Distributionally Similar Terms
    Kow Kuroda, Jun'ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa
  • Utilizing Citations of Foreign Words in Corpus-Based Dictionary Generation
    Reinhard Rapp and Michael Zock
    15:35-16:00 Tea Break
    16:00-17:15 Session III: Coreference and Semantics
  • Large Corpus-based Semantic Feature Extraction for Pronoun Coreference
    Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman
  • Mining Coreference Relations between Formulas and Text using Wikipedia
    Minh Nghiem Quoc, Keisuke Yokoi, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi and Akiko Aizawa
  • Adverse-Effect Relations Extraction from Massive Clinical Records
    Yasuhide Miura, Eiji Aramaki, Tomoko Ohkuma, Masatsugu Tonoike, Daigo Sugihara, Hiroshi Masuichi and Kazuhiko Ohe