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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Friday, September 18, 2015 | |
| 09:00–10:30 | Morning Session |
| 09:00–09:05 | Introduction Michael Roth |
| 09:05–09:50 | Invited Talk: From Distributed Semantics to Discourse, and Back Jacob Eisenstein |
| 09:50–10:05 | An Exploration of Discourse-Based Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Semantics Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark |
| 10:05–10:20 | Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross-linguistic corpus study Kleio-Isidora Mavridou, Annemarie Friedrich, Melissa Peate Sørensen, Alexis Palmer and Manfred Pinkal |
| 10:20–10:30 | Recovering discourse relations: Varying influence of discourse adverbials Hannah Rohde, Anna Dickinson, Chris Clark, Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Pre-Lunch Session |
| 11:00–11:15 | Semantics and Discourse Processing for Expressive TTS Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi |
| 11:15–11:30 | Semantically Enriched Models for Modal Sense Classification Mengfei Zhou, Anette Frank, Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer |
| 11:30–11:45 | Identification and Disambiguation of Lexical Cues of Rhetorical Relations across Different Text Genres Taraneh Khazaei, Lu Xiao and Robert Mercer |
| 11:45–11:55 | Bridging Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics through Clausal Adjuncts Rashmi Prasad, Bonnie Webber, Alan Lee, Sameer Pradhan and Aravind Joshi |
| 11:55–12:05 | Lexical Level Distribution of Metadiscourse in Spoken Language Rui Correia, Maxine Eskenazi and Nuno Mamede |
| 12:05–12:15 | Idiom Paraphrases: Seventh Heaven vs Cloud Nine Maria Pershina, Yifan He and Ralph Grishman |
| 12:15–12:25 | Where Was Alexander the Great in 325 BC? Toward Understanding History Text with a World Model Yuki Murakami and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Post-Lunch Session |
| 14:00–14:05 | TextLink: EU COST action on Structuring Discourse in a Multi-Lingual Europe Bonnie Webber |
| 14:05–14:50 | Invited Talk: What Men Say, What Women Hear: Using Semantics To Make Better Sense of Gender Differences in Social Media Rada Mihalcea |
| 14:50–15:00 | Predicting word sense annotation agreement Héctor Martínez Alonso, Anders Johannsen, Oier Lopez de Lacalle and Eneko Agirre |
| 15:00–15:10 | Distributional Semantics in Use Raffaella Bernardi, Gemma Boleda, Raquel Fernandez and Denis Paperno |
| 15:10–16:00 | Poster Session (Including Coffee Break) |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Afternoon Session |
| 16:00–16:45 | Invited Talk: The (Non)Utility of Semantics for Coreference Resolution Michael Strube |
| 16:45–17:30 | Panel Discussion Various speakers |