Invited Talks

Afra Alishahi	A probabilistic model of early argument structure acquisition
Bill Byrne	Phrase-based statistical machine translation with weighted finite state transducers
Hal Daumé III	Predicting Structured Outputs in NLP
Victor Ferreira	What speakers do and don't do to successfully communicate
Sharon Goldwater	From sounds to words: Bayesian modeling of early language acquisition
John Hale	Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension
John McDonough	Applications of Statistics in Distant Speech Recognition: Four Simple Examples
Martin Pickering	Priming in monologue and dialogue
Geoffrey Pullum	New connections between the cognitive and computational sciences: some avenues for exploring the possibility of language acquisition
Marc Swerts	Facial expressions in human-human and human-machine interactions

Student Talks

Mark Buckley	Tutorial Dialogue Structures as Task-level Grounding Exchanges
Zhenguang Cai	The filler may be a gentleman: local coherence effect in long-distance dependency processing
Moreno Coco	Competition and cooperation in integrated visual and linguistic processing
Bart Cramer	Grammar Extraction and Induction
Vera Demberg	Incremental Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for Modelling Human Sentence Processing
Georgina Dinu	Textual inference rules for recognizing textual entailment
Rebecca Dridan	Evaluation of Deep Parsing
Emilia Ellsiepen	Memory capacity limitations on the use of visual context in human language comprehension
Friedrich Faubel	Methods for the Reconstruction of Partly Occluded Speech Spectra
Antske Fokkens	Word order phenomena in grammar development
Stella Frank	Comparing sources of information for unsupervised learning of syntactic categories
Hagen Fürstenau	Improving semantic role labeling through semi-supervised learning
Hieu Hoang	Design of the Moses Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
Zeynep Ilkin	Negation reveals preferences in long distance dependeny formation
Srini Janarthanam	User Simulations for Spoken Dialogue Interfaces in Self-Help systems
Michael Jellinghaus	A data-driven approach to deep machine translation
Judith Köhne	Situated Language Learning – Investigating the Interface of Word and Syntax Acquisition
Eva Lasarcyk	Spread Lips + Raised Larynx + Raised Pitch = Smiled Speech?
Elena Minina	Towards a Cognitive Understanding of User-Adaptivity in Intelligent Product Consulting Interfaces
Saeedeh Momtazi	Advance Language Model-based Sentence Retrieval in Question Answering Systems
Maria Staudte	Language-mediated and joint attention in human-robot interaction
Ingmar Steiner	Automatic articulatory resynthesis from EMA data
Rui Wang	(Computational) Textual Entailment
Michael Wiegand	Feature Selection for Polarity Classification
Sabrina Wilske	Authoring Dialogue Systems for CALL: System architecture and resources
Fang Xu	Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation

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