Time

Tuesday 11 December 2007

08.30-09.00

Registration

09.00-09.30

Workshop & Tutorial Reportby Assoc. Prof. Asanee Kawtrakul

Franco-Thai Program Reported by Prof. Christian Boitet /  Room 204

09.30-09.45

Opening Speech of Thai Tutorial by Mr.Nontawat Jancharoen,

Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University / Room 204

09.45-10.00

Opening Speech of Franco-Thai Project by Mr.Lionel SIMEON

Charge de Mission Cooperation Scientifique et Universitaire

Ambassade De France En Thailand / Room 204

Room 204

Room 203

Franco-Thai Tutorial Chair: Christian Boitet

Presentations by 5 Franco-Thai students

Thai-NLP tutorial

Chair: Chai Wutiwiwatchai

10.00-10.30

Dependency parser for under-resourced languages By Sutee Sudprasert

HMM and Its Applications

By Nattanun Thatphithakkul

10.30-11.00

Building Multilingual Parallel Corpora

By Vee Satayamas

11.00-11.30

C o f f e e  B r e a k

11.30-12.00

Conditional Random Fields with Parser

By Chalathip Thumkanon

HMM and Its Applications (Cont.) (pdf)

12.00-12.30

SK-edit: A tool to select a translation among many proposals and postedit it. (pdf)

By Supeeti Kulchan

12.30-14.00

L u n c h  B r e a k

2 Franco-Thai Ph.D. defenses

14.00-16.00

Thai Text Structuring for Summarization

By Thana Sukwaree

Wordnet and Its Applications

By Thepchai Supnithi

16.00-16.30

C o f f e e B r e a k

16.30-17.30

Automatic Lexico-Semantic Knowledge Acquisition from Text Corpora with Syntactic Parsed Sentences

By Chalermpon Sirigayon

Wordnet and Its Applications (Cont.)(rar)

Time

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Room 204

Room 203

Tutorial on software techniques for cooperative MLDB

Chair: Gilles Sarasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat

Thai-NLP tutorial

Chair: Chai Wutiwiwatchai

09.00-10.30

Issues in cooperative web-oriented development and management of multilingual lexical resources

Named Entity Recognition

By Sarawut Kongyang

10.30-11.00

C o f f e e  B r e a k

11.00-12.30

Detailed presentation of Jibiki Hands-on: defining a new MLDB structure (macro/microstructure)

Named Entity Recognition (Cont.) (pdf)

12.30-14.00

L u n c h  B r e a k

14.00-15.30

Analysis of Jibiki-Papillon

Workbench Ontology Acquisition and Applications (pdf)

By Sachit Rajbhandari

15.30-16.00

C o f f e e B r e a k

16.00-17.30

Analysis of Jibiki-LexAlp

Workbench Ontology Acquisition and Applications (Cont.) (pdf)

16.30-17.30

Relax and Departure for Pattaya

Time

Thursday 13 December 2007

08.00-09.00

Registration

09.00-09.30

SNLP2007 Conference Report

By Assoc. Prof. Asanee Kawtrakul

Welcome Speech

By Dr.Michael Zock

SNLP2007 Conference ceremony Opening

By Asst. Mayuree Thespol

Vice President for Central Management

09.30-10.30

keynote: NLP and Knowledge Management for Services Science

by Nanda Kambhatla from IBM

10.30-10.45

C o f f e e B r e a k

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Session chair: Virach Sornlertlamvanich

Session chair: Mathieu Lafourcade

Session chair: Shigaki Matsubara

10.45 - 11.15

A Statistical Approach to Classify Nationality of Name (pdf)

By Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn, Chativit Prayoonsri, Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Cholwich Nattee, Thanaruk Theeramunkong

Inducing a DIG-based Dependency Parser from a Very Small Tree-annotated Corpus and Limited Linguistic Knowledge (pdf)

By Sutee Sudprasert, Asanee Kawtrakul, Christian Boitet, Vincent Berment

An Intensive Design of a Thai Speech Synthesis Corpus (pdf)

By Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Sittipong Saychum, Anocha Rugchatjaroen

11.15-11.45

Automatic Country Identification of Area Names Based on Surface Features (pdf)

By Tomohisa Sano, Shiho Nobesawa, Hiroaki Saito

Effective Proximity Distance for Word-Based Context (pdf)

By Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama

Automatic extraction of paralinguistic information from communicative speech (pdf)

By Mingzhao Zhu, Ke Li, Yoko Greenberg, Yoshinori Sagisaka

11.45-12.15

A Step Towards Disease Outbreak Information Extraction: Automatic Entity Role Recognition for Named Entities (pdf)

By Hutchatai Chanlekha, Nigel Collier, Ai Kawazoe

The Development of Web-based Annotaion System for Thai Treebank (pdf)

By Chatchavan Wacharamanotham, Mukda Suktarachan, Asanee Kawtrakul

Shape and Frequency Continuity Improvement in Concatenation-based Thai Text-to-speech Synthesis (pdf)

By Santi Nuratch, Panutat Boonpramuk, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

12.15-14.00

L U N C H

14.00-15.00

Keynote: The 3 1/2 Futures of NLP (pdf)

By Eduard Hovy

Session chair: Wirote Aroonmanakun

Session chair: Krit Kosawat

Session chair: Chai Wutiwiwatchai

15.00-15.30

Transliteration based Gazetteer Preparation for Named Entity Recognition in Hindi (ppt)

By Sujan Kumar Saha, Sudeshna Sarkar, Pabitra Mitra

A corpus study on the number of true proportional analogies between chunks in two typologically different languages (pdf)

By Yves LEPAGE, Julien MIGEOT, Erwan GUILLERM

Comparison of HMM Topology Estimation Approaches for Thai Phoneme Recognition

By Pattana Bhuriyakorn, Proadpran Punyabukkana, Atiwong Suchato

15.30-15.45

C o f f e e B r e a k

15.45-16.15

Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction for Thai Ontology Learning (pdf)

By Aurawan Imsombut

Hierarchical Clustering for POS Tagging of the Indonesian Language

By Derry Wijaya, Stephane Bressan

Isolated and Continuous Bangla Speech Recognition Implementation, Performance and application perspective

By Md. Abul Hasnat, Jabir Mowla, Mumit Khan

16.15-16.45

A Computational Linguistics Study of Compound Nouns in Thai (ppt)

By Kanyanut Kriengket, Krit Kosawat, Sunant Anchaleenukul

Hindi-French-English-UNL resource building for SurviTra-CIFLI, a linguistic survival system under construction (pdf)

By Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Etienne Blanc, Sanjay Meena, Sangharsh Boudhh, Georges Fafiotte, Achille Falaise, Vishal Vachani

Simultaneous Machine Interpretation using Finite State Transducer

By Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki

Time

Friday 14 December 2007

09.00-10.00

keynote: Resource and technology for language services (ppt)

by Hitoshi Isahara

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Session chair: Mickael Zock

Session chair: Vincent Berment

Session chair: Yves Lepage

10.00-10.30

LEXiTRON Vocabulary Suggestion System with Recommendation and Vote Mechanism (pptx)

By Kanokorn Trakultaweekoon, Peerachet Porkaew, Thepchai Supnithi

AnnotEd-w, a specialized editor for annotating word boundaries collaboratively (pdf)

By Vee Satayamas, Christian Boitet, Asanee Kawtrakul

Large Vocabulary Thai Isolated-Word Speech Recognition(pdf)

By Vataya Boonpium, Nattanun Thatphithakkul, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

10.30-10.45

C o f f e e B r e a k

10.45-11.15

Semi-Automatic Thai Computational Lexicon Construction : KULEX (ppt)

By Daoyos Noikongka, Mukda Suktarachan, Asanee Kawtrakul

Annotating the Facets of Procedural Texts

By Patrick Saint-Dizier, Estelle Delpech, Asanee Kawtrakul, Mukda Suktarachan, Patcharee Varasai

Sentence-Style Conversion of Japanese News Article for Text-to-Speech Application (pdf)

By Yukiko Hayashi, Shigeki Matsubara

11.15-11.45

Making people play for Lexical Acquisition (ppt)

By Mathieu lafourcade

AFAST: An Automatic Frame Acquisition System (pdf)

By Chaloemphon Sirikayon, Asanee Kawtrakul

Keyword Verification using Linear Feature Combinations with MCE-trained Weights (pdf)

By Sirinart Tangruamsub, Proadpran Punyabukkana, Atiwong Suchato

11.45-12.15

Identifying And Classifying Unknown Words In Malay Texts (ppt)

By Bali Ranaivo-Malan?on, Chong Chai Chua, Pek Kua Ng

Induction of Taxonomy among Concepts that Categorize Adjectives (pdf)

By Kyoko Kanzaki, Noriko Tomuro, Hitoshi Isahara

A Corpus-based Approach for Thai Romanization (pdf)

By Leung King Chiu, Natsuda Kaothanthong, Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Cholwich Nattee

12.15-14.00

L U N C H

14.00-15.00

keynote: Conceptual Vectors, Lexical Networks, Morphosyntactic Trees and Ants : a bestiary for Semantic Analysis (pdf)

By Mathieu lafourcade

Session chair: Mathieu Mangeot

Session chair: Gilles Sérasset

Session chair: Nuria Gala

15.00-15.30

Term Acquisition from Japanese Web Documents for Retrieval (ppt)

By Eiko Yamamoto and Hitoshi Isahara

PIVAX, an online contributive lexical database for heterogeneous MT systems using a lexical pivot (pdf)

By NGUYEN Hong-Thai, BOITET Christian, SARASSET Gilles

A Label-based Metadata for Schema Matching (ppt)

By Pitsanu Lousangfa, Naiyana Sahavechaphan

15.30-15.45

C o f f e e B r e a k

15.45-16.15

The Acquisition of English Articles by Thai Learners (pdf)

By Soisithorn Isarankura

Classifying clause-initial phenomena in English by Insights for Microplanning in NLG

By Eduard Hovy, Julia Lavid

Causality Knowledge Extraction based on A Single Sentence from Textual Data (ppt)

By Chaveevan Pechsiri, Asanee Kawtrakul

16.15-16.45

An interlanguage study of article acquisition by Iranian students: A semantic perspective

By Katayoon Afzali

Time Expression Normalization

By Chaiyakorn Yingsaeree, Mukda Suktarachan, Asanee Kawtrakul

A Modelling of EFL learners' communicative skills: Based on lexical error analysis (ppt)

By Emi Izumi, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara

16.45-17.15

Thoughts on Word and Sentence Segmentation in Thai(pdf)

By Wirote Aroonmanakun

I-Pats: An Intelligent Search System for Thai Patents

By Marut Buranarach, Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Alisa Kongthon

Let's get the student into the driver's seat (ppt)

By Michael Zock, Stergos Afantenos

16.55-17.20

Thai Sentence Segmentation using M-ATN (pdf)

By Ponrudee Netisopakul, Kanokwan Keawwan

Answering Definition Questions using a Statistical Method Combined with a Classifier Ensemble

By Carmen Martinez-Gil, A. Lopez-Lopez

Natural Language Query System for RDF Repositories (pdf)

By Alexander Ran, Raimondas Lencevicius

Time

Saturday 15 December 2007

09.00-10.00

keynote: Linguistic and computational MT architectures are orthogonal, elements for choice (pdf)

By Christian Boitet

Section 1

Session chair: Hervé Blanchon

10.00-10.30

A Semantic-Based Approach for Multilingual Translation of Massive Documents (pdf)

By Sameh Alansary, Magdy Nagi, Noha Adly

10.30-10.45

C o f f e e B r e a k

10.45-11.15

The Design of Lexical Information for Thai to English MT (pdf)

By Taneth Ruangrajitpakorn, Wasan Na Chai, Prachya Boonkwan, Monthika Boriboon, Thepchai Supnithi

11.15-11.45

Emphasizing Syntax for French to German Machine Translation (pdf)

By Geoffray Bonnin, Violaine Prince

11.45-12.30

Summing up and Conference Closing

12.30-14.00

L U N C H

14.00-17.00

Post-Tutorial on  

CORPUS ANNOTATION:

FRAMEWORK AND HANDS-ON EXERCISE

(pdf)

By Prof.Eduard Hovy

Co-organized by Prof.Julia Lavid