International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2009

Day 1 (Monday, 7 Dec 2009)

0820-0900	Registration
0900-0915	Opening Ceremony Kim-Teng Lua, Haizhou Li and Min Zhang
0915-1005	Invited Talk 1
	Semantic Post-IT, an adventure to integrate pieces of information in memos Speaker: Key-Sun Choi
1005-1030	Break
1030-1230	Session 1: Chunking, POS, SEG, NER Chair: Guo-Dong Zhou
	1030-1050	Chinese Chunking Based on Coarse-grained Part-of-Speech Features Guang-Lu Sun, Yibo Xue And Zhiming Xu
	1050-1110	Extracting Thai Compounds using Collocations and POS Bigram Probabilities without a POS Tagger Wirote Aroonmanakun
	1110-1130	Research on the Recognition of fKs based on HNC Theory Hanfen Zang
	1130-1150	The Automatic Analysis of Chunk-Extension Sentences Xiangfeng Wei And Quan Zhang
	1150-1210	A New Way for Chinese Place Name Recognition Quan Zhang
	1210-1230	An Experimental Study on Vietnamese POS Tagging Tran Oanh, Le Cuong, Ha Thuy And Quynh Le
1230-1330	Lunch
1330-1530	Session 2: Speech Processing 1 Chair: Vu Hai Quan
	1330-1350	A Lattice-based Phonotactic Language Recognition System with CMLLR Adaptation and Its Implementation Issues Cheung Chi Leung, Rong Tong, Bin Ma and Haizhou Li
	1350-1410	A Wavelet De-noising System Using Time-Frequency Adaptation for Speech Enhancement Adaptation for Speech Enhancement Kun-Ching Wang, Chiun-Li Chin And Yi-Hsing Tsai
	1410-1430	Advances in Acoustic Modeling for Vietnamese LVCSR Quan Vu And Tuan Nguyen
	1430-1450	Vietnamese Final Stop Consonants /p, t, k/ Described in Terms of Formant Transition Slopes Viet Son Nguyen, Eric Castelli And René Carré
	1450-1510	An Articulation Training System with Intelligent Interface and Multimode Feedbacks to Articulation Disorders Yeou-Jiunn Chen, Jiunn-Liang Wu, Hui-Mei Yang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chih-Chang Chen And Shan-Shan Ju
	1510-1530	Analysis and selection of prosodic features for language identification Raymond W. M. Ng, Tan Lee, Cheung-Chi Leung, Bin Ma And Haizhou Li
1530-1600	Break
1600-1740	Session 3: Machine Translation & Multilingualism 1 Chair: Mu-Yun Yang
	1600-1620	A Three-pass System Combination Framework by Combining Multiple Hypothesis Alignment Methods Jinhua Du And Andy Way
	1620-1640	Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Based on Sentence Structure Information Ding Ze-Ya And Zhang Quan
	1640-1700	Automatic Ultra-scale Bilingual Parallel Corpus Extraction from Academic Journal Yong Han, Yu Li, Haoliang Qi, Muyun Yang, Sheng Li And Guohua Lei
	1700-1720	Improved Reordering Rules for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Shu Cai, Yajuan Lv And Qun Liu
	1720-1740	Learning Method for Extraction of Partial Correspondence from Parallel Corpus Ryo Terashima, Hiroshi Echizen-Ya And Kenji Araki

Day 2 (Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009)

0820-0900	Registration
0830-0920	Invited Talk 2
	Challenging Issues in Human Language Processing Speaker: Hiroya Fujisaki
0920-1040	Session 4: Information Retrieval 1 Chair: Wirote Aroonmanakun
	0920-0940	Author Profiling for Vietnamese Blogs Giang Binh Tran, Dang Duc Pham And Son Bao Pham
	0940-1000	A Kappa Measurement of Query Consistency and Its Application Song Chao, Yang Muyun, Qi Haoliang And Li Sheng
	1000-1020	A Sogou Query Log Analysis: A Case Study for Collaborative Recommendation or Personalized IR Zhang Zhitao, Yang Muyun, Li Sheng, Qi Haoliang And Song Chao
	1020-1040	An Experimental Study of Vietnamese Question Answering System Vu Tran, Vinh Nguyen, Uyen Pham, Oanh Tran And Thuy Ha
1040-1100	Break
1100-1200	Session 5: Machine Translation & Multilingualism 2 Chair: Jin-Hua Du
	1100-1120	Ranking vs. Classification: a Case Study in Mining Organization Name Translation from Snippets Yang Muyun, Shi Zhenyong, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun And Qi Haoliang
	1120-1140	Segmenting Long Sentence Pairs for Statistical Machine Translation Biping Meng, Shujian Huang, Xinyu Dai And Jiajun Chen
	1140-1200	Stability vs. Effectiveness: Improved Sentence-level Combination of Machine Translation Based on Weighted MBR Bo Wang, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang, Hongfei Jiang, Sheng Li
1200-1330	Lunch
1330-1530	Session 6: Corpus Linguistics & Computational Linguistics Chair: Kimiko Tsukada
	1330-1350	A Bi-directional Translation Approach for Building Thai WordNet Prissana Akaraputthiporn, Krit Kosawat And Wirote Aroonmanakun
	1350-1410	BEST Corpus Development and Analysis Monthika Boriboon, Kanyanut Kriengket, Patcharika Chootrakool, Sitthaa Phaholphinyo, Sumonmas Purodakananda, Tipraporn Thanakulwarapas And Krit Kosawat
	1410-1430	Building Thai WordNet with a Bi-directional Translation Method Dhanon Leenoi, Thepchai Supnithi And Wirote Aroonmanakun
	1430-1450	Dialog-Act Recognition Using Discourse and Sentence Structure Information Keyan Zhou And Chengqing Zong
	1450-1510	Hedge-based Filtering Method for Semi-structure Documents Tong Wang, Lei Yang And Chunhui Zhao
	1510-1530	Identification of Closely Related Indigenous Languages: An Orthographic Approach Ee Lee Ng, Alvin W. Yeo And Bali Ranaivo Malancon
1530-1600	Break
1600-1800	Session 7: NLP Applications Chair: Ming-Hui Dong
	1600-1620	A Study on Eye Movement of Korean students reading Chinese texts with or without marks for word boundaries Peng Yu,Su Liu
	1620-1640	Foxinfo1.0: A Chinese Topic-oriented Search Engine Ke Sun, Lei Lin, Bingquan Liu, Chengjie Sun And Xiaolong Wang
	1640-1700	Privacy Sensitivity: Application in Arabic Sabah Al-Fedaghi And Faisal Alhaqan
	1700-1720	Automatic Chinese Essay Scoring Using Connections between Concepts in Paragraphs Tao-Hsing Chang And Chia-Horng Lee
	1720-1740	Proofreader of Mongolian Vocabulary Based on Language Model of Syllabic Statistics Ochir Ochir, Monghjiya Monghjiya And Zheng Gong
	1740-1800	Exploring the effects of text clustering on on-line military news based on quantitative association rule Liang-Chu Chen, Chyi-Bao Yang, Jih-Hsin Chen And Yen-Hsuan Lien

1830-	Banquet

Special Session @ Sentosa Room

1330-1430	Clustering based models in speaker recognition Ville Hautamaki
1430-1530	Multimodal conversational interfaces in HCI - what influences their quality assessment? Andreea Niculescu

Day 3 (Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009)

0820-0900	Registration
0830-0930	Invited Talk 3
	Recent Advances in Machine Transliteration Speaker: Haizhou Li
0930-1030	Session 8: Parsing Chair: Quan Zhang
	0930-0950	A modular cascaded approach to complete parsing Samar Husain,Phani Gadde,Bharat Ambati,Dipti Misra Sharma,Rajeev Sangal
	0950-1010	A Study on Semantic Role Labeling of Korean Sentence Yude Bi
	1010-1030	Two-pass Deterministic Dependency Parsing for Long Chinese Sentences Ping Jian And Chengqing Zong
1030-1100	Break
1100-1200	Session 9: Information Retrieval 2 Chair: Shen Gao
	1100-1120	Approaches of Dimensionality Reduction for Telugu Document Classification Vijayapal Reddy P, Sashidhar B, Harinatha Reddy B, Vishnu Vardhan B, Pratap Reddy L And Govardhan A
	1120-1140	Research on Text Hierarchical Topic Identification Algorithm Based on the Dynamic Diverse Thresholds Clustering Xu Yong-Dong, Quan Guang-Ri, Xu Zhi-Ming And Wang Ya-Dong
	1140-1200	The Improved Logistic Regression Models for Spam Filtering Yong Han, Xiaoning He, Haoliang Qi, Muyun Yang And Sheng Li
1200-1330	Lunch
1330-1450	Session 10: Information Extraction Chair: Shuan-Hu Bai
	1330-1350	Automatic Domain-Ontology Relation Extraction from Semi-Structured Texts Xiao Cheng, Dequan Zheng, Yuhang Yang And Guojun Shao
	1350-1410	Research on Feature Extraction from Chinese Text for Opinion Mining Shanzong Zhu, Yuanchao Liu, Ming Liu And Peiliang Tian
	1410-1430	Combining ILP and MLN for Coreference Resolution Yabing Zhang, Junsheng Zhou, Shujian Huang And Jiajun Chen
	1430-1450	Exploring Syntactic Features for Pronoun Resolution Using Context-Sensitive Convolution Tree Kernel Fang Kong, Yancui Li, Guodong Zhou And Qiaoming Zhu
1450-1520	Break
1520-1700	Session 11: Speech Processing 2 Chair: Bin Ma
	1520-1540	Multilingual Multimodal Integration of Sketch and Speech: A Generic Speech Representation model for Spatial Description Lee-Na Teh And Alvin W. Yeo
	1540-1600	Refining Unit Boundaries for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Database Minghui Dong, Ling Cen, Paul Chan And Haizhou Li
	1600-1620	An Acoustic Comparison of Vowel Length Contrasts in Standard Arabic, Japanese and Thai Kimiko Tsukada
	1620-1640	Semi-supervised Learning of Domain-specific Language Models from general domain data Shuanhu Bai, Min Zhang And Haizhou Li
	1640-1700	A Hybrid Method of Chinese Prosodic Word Tagging Based on Keyword Anchor and Hidden Markov Model Zhou Quan, Deng Pan, Liu Hongjian, Guo Defeng And Nagamatsu Kenji
1700-1800	Closing Ceremony

Day 4 (Thurday, 10 Dec 2009)

0830-1600

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Day 1 (Monday, 7 Dec 2009)

Day 2 (Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009)

Special Session @ Sentosa Room

Day 3 (Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009)

Day 4 (Thurday, 10 Dec 2009)

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