Language Technology: Research and Development Workshop

The final workshop will take place in 7-0043 on January 12, from 10.00-16.15.

Each student will have 12 minutes for presentation, followed by 3 minutes for questions.

Time Presenter Title

10.00 Sara Welcome and introduction

Historical texts chair: Eva Pettersson

10.15 Yuhan A Pipeline for Twitter Lexical Normalization by use of Phonetic Algorithms

10.30 Max Ranking Relevant Verb Phrases Extracted from Historical Text using a Neural Network

10.45 Yiwen Evaluating two Modern POS Taggers on Historical Novels by Daniel Defoe

11.00 Oliver Translating Middle Egyptian to Modern English with NMT

11.15 Yuchan Character-based SMT and NMT in Historical Texts Normalization

11.30 Samina Spelling Normalization: An Evaluation and Comparison of Different Approaches to Spelling Normalization for English Historical Text

11.45 Gongbo An Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Models on Historical Spelling Normalization

12.00 Lunch break

Morphology chair: Harald Hammarström

13.00 Joana Language Modeling For Compounds in German for Automatic Speech Recognition

13.15 Runfen Letter Sequence Labeling for Compound Splitting in Machine Translation

13.30 Xuefeng Compound Splitting with Conditional Random Fields with Word Clustering

13.45 Hao Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with Chi Squared test and Expectation Maximization Algorithm

14.00 Sven Transformation Vectors in High-Dimensional Word Vector Spaces

14.15 Gabi K-means Clustering on CMC Data for Tagger Improvement

14.30 Coffee break

Universal dependencies chair: Sara Stymne

14.45 Jenny A Comparative Error Analysis of Stanford's and Uppsala's submission to the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task

15.00 Zulipiye The Influence of Morphological Features on Uyghur Universal Dependency Parsing

15.15 Paola M Typological studies and large parallel corpora: Negation across languages

15.30 Yang Chinese Grammatical Error Identification

15.45 Paula P Identifying Fake News through Syntax

16.00 Greta Evaluation of Simple English Wikipedia Corpora for Automatic Text Simplification

16.15 Social event, Linguistics and Philology lunch room, house 9

Time	Presenter	Title
10.00	Sara	Welcome and introduction
Historical texts chair: Eva Pettersson
10.15	Yuhan	A Pipeline for Twitter Lexical Normalization by use of Phonetic Algorithms
10.30	Max	Ranking Relevant Verb Phrases Extracted from Historical Text using a Neural Network
10.45	Yiwen	Evaluating two Modern POS Taggers on Historical Novels by Daniel Defoe
11.00	Oliver	Translating Middle Egyptian to Modern English with NMT
11.15	Yuchan	Character-based SMT and NMT in Historical Texts Normalization
11.30	Samina	Spelling Normalization: An Evaluation and Comparison of Different Approaches to Spelling Normalization for English Historical Text
11.45	Gongbo	An Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Models on Historical Spelling Normalization
12.00	Lunch break
Morphology chair: Harald Hammarström
13.00	Joana	Language Modeling For Compounds in German for Automatic Speech Recognition
13.15	Runfen	Letter Sequence Labeling for Compound Splitting in Machine Translation
13.30	Xuefeng	Compound Splitting with Conditional Random Fields with Word Clustering
13.45	Hao	Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with Chi Squared test and Expectation Maximization Algorithm
14.00	Sven	Transformation Vectors in High-Dimensional Word Vector Spaces
14.15	Gabi	K-means Clustering on CMC Data for Tagger Improvement
14.30	Coffee break
Universal dependencies chair: Sara Stymne
14.45	Jenny	A Comparative Error Analysis of Stanford's and Uppsala's submission to the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task
15.00	Zulipiye	The Influence of Morphological Features on Uyghur Universal Dependency Parsing
15.15	Paola M	Typological studies and large parallel corpora: Negation across languages
15.30	Yang	Chinese Grammatical Error Identification
15.45	Paula P	Identifying Fake News through Syntax
16.00	Greta	Evaluation of Simple English Wikipedia Corpora for Automatic Text Simplification
16.15	Social event, Linguistics and Philology lunch room, house 9