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2009 Program Schedule

Presentations
Friday, September 25, 2009
10:30AM to 5:00PM
Newell Simon Hall 1305
Time
Speaker
Title
10:30AM
Opening Remarks
10:35AM
Roger Hsiao
Generalized Discriminative Feature Transformation for Speech Recognition
11:05AM
Runxin Li
A Hierarchical Topic Model with Automatic Model Selection Strategy
11:35AM
Kriti Puniyani
Incorporating Population Structure in Association Mapping
12:05PM
Lunch Break and Poster Presentations
1:30PM
Alok Parlikar
Can Transliteration Help Low Resource MT?
2:00PM
Narges Sharif Razavian
Using Fixed Length Word Suffix as New Factors in Factored Statistical Machine Translation
2:30PM
Kenneth Heafield
Support Features for Machine Translation System Combination
3:00PM
Coffee Break
3:15PM
Michael Heilman
Extended Tree Edit Models for Paraphrase, Textual Entailment, and Question Answering
3:45PM
Yi-Chia Wang
Conversational Structuring: Identification of Initiation-Response Pairs within Online Discussion Forums
4:15PM
Ariadna Font Llitjos (Invited Speaker)
From Refining Translation Rules to Refining Search Queries: Transitioning from the LTI into Industry
4:45PM
Announcement of Winners / Closing Remarks

 

Poster Presentations
Presenter
Title
Gopala Anumanchipalli
Techniques for Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion
Bo Lin
Transliteration Alignment
Liu Liu
Automated Generation of Example Contexts for Helping Children Learn Vocabulary
Tae Yano
Modeling Political Blog Posts with Response