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The Fourth International ConferenceHUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES — THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVERiga, Latvia, October 7–8, 2010 |
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The Fourth International ConferenceHUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES — THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVERiga, Latvia, October 7–8, 2010 |
Plenary, Oral and Demo Sessions - Room No. W-42
Poster Session - Room No. W-20 (Senate Room)
Coffee breaks - Ground floor
| 9.00–13.00 | Registration desk open |
| 10.00–10.30 | Conference opening |
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Prof. Tatjana Koķe, Minister of Education and Science Prof. Mārcis Auziņš, Rector, University of Latvia Prof. Andrejs Veisbergs, Chairman of the State Language Commission Dr. Rihards Balodis-Bolužs, Director of Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia | |
| Plenary Session (1) - Invited Speech Chair: Andrejs Spektors | |
| 10.30–11.20 | CLARIN - how to make it all fit together? [slides] Steven Krauwer |
| 11.20–11.40 | Coffee break |
| Oral Session (1) - Overview of National Activities in Baltic Countries Chair: Stewen Krauwer | |
| 11.40–12.10 | Developing the Human Language Technology Infrastructure in Lithuania [slides] Rūta Marcinkevičienė and Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė |
| 12.10–12.40 | National Programme for Estonian Language Technology: a Pre-final Summary [slides] Einar Meister, Jaak Vilo and Neeme Kahusk |
| 12.40–13.10 | Language Resources and Technology for the Humanities in Latvia (2004–2010) [slides] Inguna Skadiņa, Ilze Auziņa, Normunds Grūzītis, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Gunta Nešpore, Raivis Skadiņš, Andrejs Vasiļjevs |
| 13.10–14.10 | Lunch |
| Plenary Session(2) - Invited Speech Chair: Rūta Marcinkevičienė | |
| 14.10–15.00 | HFST: A new division of labour between software industry and linguists [slides] Kimmo Koskeniemmi |
| Oral Session (2) - Language Resources Chair: Heiki Jaan Kaalep | |
| 15.05–15.25 | Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language - the Standardised Way [slides] Erika Rimkutė, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Vida Melninkaitė, Andrius Utka and Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė |
| 15.25–15.45 | Digitization of Historical Texts at the National Library of Latvia [slides] Artūrs Žogla and Jurģis Šķilters |
| 15.45–16.05 | The Database of Estonian Word Families: a Language Technology Resource [slides] Ülle Viks, Silvi Vare and Heete Sahkai |
| 16.05–16.25 | Coffee break |
| Demonstration Session Chair: Kristiina Jokinen | |
| 16.25–16.40 | Processing grammatical information in a dictionary management system [slides] Ülle Viks and Andres Loopmann |
| 16.40–16.55 | The Estonian Reference Corpus: Its Composition and Morphology-aware User Interface [slides] Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek, Kristel Uiboaed and Kaarel Veskis |
| 16.55–17.10 | Latvian Text-to-Speech Synthesizer [slides] Mārcis Pinnis and Ilze Auziņa |
| 17.10–18.30 | Poster Session |
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Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus: Culture and Age in Selecting Corpus Testers Rene Altrov and Hille Pajupuu An Ensemble of Classifiers Methodology for Stemming in Inflectional Languages: Using the Example of Latvian Steffen Eger and Ineta Sējāne Enriching Estonian WordNet with Derivations and Semantic Relations Neeme Kahusk, Kadri Kerner and Kadri Vider Modelling the Temporal Structure of Estonian Speech Mari-Liis Kalvik and Meelis Mihkla SMT of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian Languages: a Comparative Study Maxim Khalilov, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Natalja Kuvaldina and Veronika Pereseina An Audio System of Electronic Texts for the Visually Impaired People and Perception of Different Speech Rates by the the Blind and the Sighted Meelis Mihkla, Indrek Hein, Indrek Kiissel, Margit Orusaar and Artur Räpp Comparison of the SemTi-Kamols and Tesniere's Dependency Grammars Gunta Nešpore, Baiba Saulīte, Guntis Bārzdiņš and Normunds Grūzītis Human-Computer Interaction in Estonian: Collection and Analysis of Simulated Dialogues Siiri Pärkson Adaptive Automatic Mark-up Tool for Legacy Dictionaries Lauma Pretkalniņa and Ilze Millere A Collection of Comparable Corpora for Under-resourced Languages Inguna Skadiņa, Ahmet Aker, Voula Giouli, Dan Tufis, Robert Gaizauskas, Madara Mieriņa and Nikos Mastropavlos A Framework for Asynchronous Dialogue Systems Margus Treumuth | |
| 19.00 | Conference dinner at restaurant “Čarlstons”, Blaumaņa street 38/40 |
| 8.30–10.30 | Registration desk open |
| Plenary Session (3) - Invited Speech Chair: Andrejs Vasiļjevs | |
| 9.00–9.45 | From corpora to ressources and tools – towards a proper treatment of Eastern European languages Andreas Eisele |
| 9.45–10.30 | META-NET and META-SHARE: An Overview [slides] Georg Rehm |
| 10.30–10.50 | Coffee break |
| Oral Session (3) - Semantics and Machine Translation Chair: Tiit Roosmaa | |
| 10.50–11.10 | Main Trends in Semantic-Research of Estonian Language Technology [slides] Haldur Õim, Heili Orav, Kadri Kerner and Neeme Kahusk |
| 11.10–11.30 | Verbalizing Ontologies in Controlled Baltic Languages [slides] Normunds Grūzītis, Gunta Nešpore and Baiba Saulīte |
| 11.30–11.50 | Semantic Analysis of Sentences: The Estonian Experience [slides] Haldur Õim, Heili Orav, Neeme Kahusk and Piia Taremaa |
| 11.50–12.10 | Improving SMT for Baltic Languages with Factored Models [slides] Raivis Skadiņš, Kārlis Goba and Valters Šics |
| 12.10–12.30 | LetsMT! Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation [slides] Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tatiana Gornostay and Raivis Skadiņš |
| 12.30–13.30 | Lunch |
| Oral Session (4) - Speech and Dialogue Chair: Einar Meister | |
| 13.30–13.50 | Estonian Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System for Radiology [slides] Tanel Alumäe and Einar Meister |
| 13.50–14.10 | Towards Spoken Latvian Corpus: Current Situation, Methodology and Development [slides] Ilze Auziņa |
| 14.10–14.30 | Remarks on the Duration of Lithuanian Consonants in a Continuous Speech [slides] Sigita Dereškevičiūtė and Asta Kazlauskienė |
| 14.30–14.50 | Using Dependency Grammar Features in Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Models for Speech Recognition [slides] Teemu Ruokolainen, Tanel Alumäe and Marcus Dobrinkat |
| 14.50–15.10 | Uncertainty in Spoken Dialogue Management [slides] Kristiina Jokinen |
| 15.10–15.30 | Coffee break |
| Oral Session (5) - Methods and Tools for Language Processing Chair: Inguna Skadiņa | |
| 15.30–15.50 | Cloud Computing for the Humanities: Two Approaches for Language Technology [slides] Graham Wilcock |
| 15.50–16.10 | Using Syllables As Indexing Terms in Full-Text Information Retrieval [slides] Kimmo Kettunen, Paul McNamee and Feza Baskaya |
| 16.10–16.30 | Internet Commentators as Dialogue Participants: Coherence Achieved through Membership Categorization [slides] Tiit Hennoste, Olga Gerassimenko, Riina Kasterpalu, Kirsi Laanesoo, Anni Oja, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson and Mare Koit |
| 16.30–17.15 | Closing session. Discussion |