SLTC 2016 Program

Swedish Language Technology Conference 2016

Wednesday, November 16 – NLP4CALL and NLP4L A

09:00 – 09:10 Introduction

09:10 – 09:35 Lightning talks

09:35 – 11:00 Poster session 1

Neasa Ní Chiaráin and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide. Faking Intelligent CALL: the Irish

context and the road ahead

Iria Del Río, Sandra Antunes, Amália Mendes and Maarten Janssen. Towards

error annotation in a learner corpus of Portuguese

Man Gao. Perception of Mandarin Tones by Swedish Learners

Gintare Grigonyte and Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam. Language-independent

exploration of repetition and variation in longitudinal child-directed speech:

a tool and resources

Niklas Meyer, Michael Wojatzki and Torsten Zesch. Validating Bundled Gap

Filling – Empirical Evidence for Ambiguity Reduction and Language Proﬁ-

ciency Testing Capabilities

Coee break (served 10:30)

11:00 – 12:00 Keynote: Jill C. Burstein The Language Muse Activity Palette: NLP-guided

Curriculum Support for English Learners

Lunch

13:30 – 14:05 Lightning talks

14:05 – 15:00 Poster session 2

David Alfter, Yuri Bizzoni, Anders Agebjörn, Elena Volodina and Ildikó Pilán.

From Distributions to Labels: A Lexical Proﬁciency Analysis using Learner

Corpora

Laia Fibla, Charlotte Maniel and Alejandrina Cristia. Word comprehension

and multilingualism among toddlers: A study using touch screens in daycares

Hillary Ganek and Alice Eriks-Brophy. The Language ENvironment Analysis

(LENA) System: A Literature Review

Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lorena Llozhi, Baptiste Degryse and Thomas

François. SweLLex: second language learners’ productive vocabulary

Anastasia Vyrenkova, Alina Ladygina, Elmira Mustakimova, Ekaterina

Rakhilina and Ivan Smirnov. Building a learner corpus for Russian

Coee break

15:30 – 16:30 Keynote: Piet Desmet Towards the eective integration of NLP techniques in

CALL. Why? What? How?

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16:30 – 16:45 Closing remarks

17:00 – 19:00 Welcome reception

Thursday, November 17

09:00 – 09:15 Opening

09:15 – 10:15 Keynote: Jill C. Burstein

Coee break

10:40 – 12.00 Session 1 Session 2

10:40 – 11.00 Sara Stymne. The Eect of Transla-

tionese on SMT Tuning

Per Fallgren, Jesper Segeblad and

Marco Kuhlmann. Towards a Standard

Dataset of Swedish Word Vectors

11:00 – 11.20 Simon Dobnik, Christine Howes and

John Kelleher. Towards a computational

model of frame of reference alignment

in Swedish dialogue

Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Mar-

tin Hammarstedt, Dan Rosén, Anne

Schumacher and Roland Schäfer.

Sparv: Språkbanken’s corpus annotation

pipeline infrastructure

11:20 – 11.40 Yuri Bizzoni and Simon Dobnik. Distri-

butional semantic models for detection

of textual entailment

Jenna Kanerva and Filip Ginter. An On-

line Tool for Discriminative Keyword Ex-

traction from Large Text Corpora

11:40 – 12.00 Niklas Zechner. A P reliminary Study on

Text-Based Music Generation

Karin Friberg Heppin and Dana Dan-

nélls. Guest s and hosts - Achieving clar-

ity in vagueness in Swedish FrameNet

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Keynote: Mehryar Mohri

14:00 – 15.20 Session 3, Chair: S. Stymne

14:00 – 14.20 Elena Volodina, Beata Megyesi, Mats Wirén, Lena Granstedt, Julia Prentice, Mon-

ica Reichenberg and Gunlög Sundberg. A Friend in Need? Research agenda for

electronic Second Language infrastructure

14:20 – 14.40 Fabienne Cap, Yvonne Adesam, Lars Ahrenberg, Lars Borin, Gerlof Bouma,

Markus Forsberg, Viggo Kann, Robert Östling, Aaron Smith, Mats Wirén and

Joakim Nivre. SWORD: Towards Cutting-Edge Swedish Word Processing

14:40 – 15.00 Robert Östling. Shallow Learning for sequence tagging

15:00 – 15.20 Viggo Kann. Blir studenternas språk sämre?

Coee break

15:40 – 17.00 Poster session

Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Kristina Lundholm Fors, Eva Björkner and Arto Nordlund.

Speciﬁcations and Methodology for Language-Related Data Acquisition and Analy-

sis in the Domain of Dementia Diagnostics

Marcus Klang and Pierre Nugues. Docforia: A Multilayer Document Model

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Viggo Kann, Lars Ahrenberg, Rickard Domeij, Ola Karlsson, Jussi Karlgren, Henrik

Nilsson and Joakim Nivre. En rekommenderad svensk språkteknologisk terminologi

Hannes Karlbom and Aaron Smith. Local Search for Creating Gold Standard Data

in Machine Translation System Combination

Malin Ahlberg, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Olof Olsson, Anne Schumacher and

Jonatan Uppström. Språkbanken’s Open Lexical Infrastructure

Luis Nieto Piña and Richard Johansson. Benchmarking word sense disambiguation

systems for Swedish

Peter Exner, Marcus Klang and Pierre Nugues. Generating a Sw edish Semantic

Role Labeler

Sharid Loáiciga, Liane Guillou and Christian Hardmeier. It-disambiguation and

source-aware language models for cross-lingual pronoun prediction

Herbert Lange. Implementation of a Latin Grammar in Grammatical Framework

Peter Ljunglöf. Towards interactive correction of speech recognition errors

Anton Södergren, Marcus Klang and Pierre Nugues. Linking, Searching, and

Visualizing Entities for the Swedish Wikipedia

Johannes Bjerva. Semantic Tagging with Deep Residual Networks

Inari Listenmaa. Outsourcing morphology in Grammatical Framework: a case

study for Hungarian

Anna Jonsson. On the Generation of Abstract Meaning Representations using

Polynomial-Time Parsable Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Michelle Ludovici and Rebecka Weegar. A Sentiment model for Swedish with

automatically created training data and handlers for language speciﬁc traits

Simon Dobnik and John Kelleher. Attention-driven Perceptual Classiﬁcation and

Reasoning

Miryam de Lhoneux and Joakim Nivre. UD Treebank Sampling for Comparative

Parser Evaluation

Evelina Rennes and Arne Jönsson. A Corpus of Easy to Read Web Texts

Alexander Sutherland, Thomas Hellström and Suna Bensch. Inferring Robot Ac-

tions from Verbal Commands Using Shallow Semantic Parsing

Johan Falkenjack, Marina Santini and Arne Jönsson. An Exploratory Study on

Genre Classiﬁcation using Readability Features

Fabienne Cap and Sara Stymne. Using Word Alignment s to Determine the Com-

positionality of Swedish Compound Nouns

Michael Minock. Using HOL Light to Reason over Second-Order MRLs

Océane Chabrol, David Norrestam and Pierre Nugues. Automatic Creation of

Multilingual Semantic Networks from Wikipedia

Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Dimitra Anastasiou and Hui Shi. A Uniﬁed Approach

to Dialogue Model for Situated Referential Grounding

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Amendra Shrestha and Lisa Kaati. Linguistic Style on Swedish Immigration Critic

Alternative Media

David Alfter and Elena Volodina. Modeling Individual Learner Knowledge in a

Computer Assisted Language Learning System

Petter Ericson. Investigating Dierent Graph Representations of Semantics

Break

18:00 – 19:00 Conference dinner at Restaurant P5 in Väven

Friday, November 18

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Alessandro Moschitti

Coee break

10:40 – 12.00 Session 4, Chair: S. Bensch Session 5

10:40 – 11.00 Tim Isbister and Lisa Kaati. Predicting

Linguistic Patterns Using ARIMA Models

Staan Larsson. Compositionality for

Classiﬁers

11:00 – 11.20 Marie Dubremetz and Joakim Nivre.

Syntax Matters for Rhetorical Structure:

The Case of Chiasmus

Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Nord-

ström. Convolutional Neural Netw orks

for Semantic Classiﬁcation of Fluent

Speech Phone Calls

11:20 – 11.40 Lars Borin, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk and

Anju Saxena. Exploring Big-Data Meth-

ods for Large-Scale Comparative Lin-

guistic Research

Yan Shao, Christian Hardmeier and

Joakim Nivre. Multilingual Named En-

tity Recognition using Hybrid Neural

Networks

11:40 – 12.00 Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam.

Part-of-speech and Morphology Tagging

Old Swedish

Ali Basirat and Joakim Nivre. Greedy

Universal Dependency Parsing with

Right Singular Word Vectors

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Keynote: Marco Kuhlmann

14:00 – 15.00 Session 6 Session 7

14:00 – 14.20 Mats Wirén, Kristina Nilsson Björken-

stam and Robert Östling. Modelling

Synchrony of Non-Verbal Cues in Par-

ent–Child Interaction

Anders Blomberg, Uminova Innovation.

Commercialization of Research

14:20 – 14.40 Ildiko Pilan and Elena Volodina. Clas-

siﬁcation of Language Proﬁciency Levels

in Swedish Learners’ Texts

14:40 – 15.00 Vida Johansson and Evelina Rennes.

Automatic Extraction of Synonyms from

an Easy-to-Read Corpus

15:10 – 15:30 Closing

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