Workshop Programme

 


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Location: Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta

Saturday, 22 May 2010

 9:00 Opening Remarks
 


Invited Presentation
 
 9:15 Comparable Corpora Within and Across Languages, Word Frequency Lists and the KELLY Project
Adam Kilgarriff
   
10:30 Break

Session 1: Building Comparable Corpora
 
11:00 Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation
 Inguna Skadina, Andrejs Vasiljevs, Raivis Skadins, Robert Gaizauskas, Dan Tufis, Tatiana Gornostay
 
11:30 Statistical Corpus and Language Comparison Using Comparable Corpora
Thomas Eckart, Uwe Quasthoff
 
12:00

Wikipedia as Multilingual Source of Comparable Corpora
Pablo Gamallo, Isaac González López
 
12:30 Trillions of Comparable Documents
Pascale Fung, Emmanuel Prochasson, Simon Shi
 
13:00 Lunch break

Session 2: Parallel and Comparable Corpora for Machine Translation
 
14:30 Improving Machine Translation Performance Using Comparable Corpora
Andreas Eisele, Jia Xu
 
15:00

Building a Large English-Chinese Parallel Corpus from Comparable Patents and its Experimental Application to SMT
Bin Lu, Tao Jiang, Kapo Chow, Benjamin K. Tsou
 

15:30

Automatic Terminologically-Rich Parallel Corpora Construction
 José João Almeida, Alberto Simões
 

16:00

Break

Session 3: Contrastive Analysis
 

16:30

Foreign Language Examination Corpus for L2-Learning Studies
 Piotr Banski, Romuald Gozdawa-Golebiowski
 

17:00

 Lexical Analysis of Pre and Post Revolution Discourse in Portugal
 Michel Généreux, Amália Mendes, L. Alice Santos Pereira, M. Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento
 

17:30

From Language to Culture and Beyond: Building and Exploring Comparable Web Corpora
Maristella Gatto
 

 

Panel Session
 

18:00

A Roadmap for Comparable Corpora

Panel speakers:

Andreas Eisele (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)
Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
Uwe Quasthoff (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science and Technology, USA)
Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong, China)
 
19:00 End of Workshop