Tutorial

Alex Clark (http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/RHUL/Welcome.html)
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London

Invited Speakers

Mark Johnson (http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mj/)
Department of Computer Science
Brown University

Mehryar Mohri (http://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/)
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Workshop Schedule

7.30 - 8.15 (45 min)
Inference for PCFGs and Adaptor Grammars [Abstract]
Mark Johnson

8.15 - 8.35 (20 min)
Learning to Disambiguate Natural Language Using World Knowledge [Abstract]
Antoine Bordes, Nicolas Usunier, Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert

8.35 - 8.55 (20 min)
Language Modeling with Tree Substitution Grammars [Abstract]
Matt Post, Daniel Gildea

8.55 - 9.15 (20 min)
A preliminary evaluation of word representations for named-entity recognition [Abstract]
Joseph Turian, Lev Ratinov,Yoshua Bengio, Dan Roth

9.15 - 9.30 (15 min)
Coffee Break

9.30 - 10.30 (60 min)
Tutorial - Learnable representations for natural language [Abstract]
Alexander Clark

10.30 - 3.30
Ski Break

3.30 - 4.15 (45 min)
Learning Languages and Rational Kernels
Mehryar Mohri

4.15 - 4.35 (20 min)
Sparsity in Grammar Induction
Jennifer Gillenwater, Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Ben Taskar, Fernando Pereira

4.35 - 5.05 (30 min)
Poster Spotlights

5.05 - 6.00 Poster session (55 min)

An Empirical Study of Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Priors for Grammar Induction [Abstract]
Kewei Tu, Vasant Honavar

Using PCA for Probabilistic Grammatical Inference on Trees [Abstract]
Raphaël Bailly, François Denis, Édouard Gilbert, Amaury Habrard

Building Bilingual Parallel Corpora based on Wikipedia [Abstract]
Mehdi Mohammadi, Naser QasemAghaee

Unsupervised Part Speech Tagging Without a Lexicon [Abstract]
Adam R. Teichert, Hal Daume III

A Constructionist Approach to Grammar Inference [Abstract]
Oskar Kohonen, Sami Virpioja, Krista Lagus

Unsupervised Morphological Disambiguation using Statistical Language Models [Abstract]
Mehmet Ali Yatbaz, Deniz Yuret

Baby Steps: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing [Abstract]
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky

6.00 - 6.30 (30 min)
Discussion and Future Directions