Talks
| Name | Talk Title | |
| Invited Speakers | ||
| Chris Brew (Columbus, OH) | The breadth and depth of the computational lexicon | |
| Robin Cooper (Göteborg) | Does (Gothenburg) dialogue system technology have anything to say about cognitive systems? | |
| Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU) | Maximum likelihood set for estimating a probability mass function | |
| Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (Saarbrücken) | The Talk Project | |
| Alissa Melinger & Sabine Schulte im Walde (Saarbrücken) | Identifying semantic relations and functional properties of human verb associations | |
| Miles Osborne (Edinburgh) | Some progress in conditional random fields | |
| Saarbrücken students | ||
| Núria Bertomeu | Towards handling discourse phenomena in question answering: data and implementation | |
| Mark Buckley | Agent-based dialogue management | |
| Irene Cramer | Semi-supervised entity extraction: initial results | |
| Ciprian Gerstenberger | Output generation for dialogue systems | |
| Kerstin Hadelich | Simultaneous tracking of interlocutors in dialogue: evidence for alignment | |
| Dominik Heckmann | Ubiquitous user modeling | |
| Michael Kruppa | Towards explicit physical object referencing with virtual characters [ppt] | |
| Sebastian Padó | Cross-lingual bootstrapping of semantic lexica: the case of FrameNet | |
| Ulrike Padó | Modeling plausibility in human sentence processing | |
| Garance Paris | Lexico-syntactic influences in spoken-word recognition | |
| Oana Postolache | Experimenting with transferring information structure from Czech to English | |
| Barbara Rauch | The use of visual information in automatic speech recognition | |
| Verena Rieser | A corpus collection and annotation framework for learning multimodal clarification strategies | |
| Dan Shen | Studying feature generation from various data representations for answer extraction | |
| Lübomira Spassova | Product associated displays and SearchLight - new developments based on the fluid beam application [ppt] | |
| Juliane Steinberg | Some thoughts on the connection between vision and language | |
| Ingmar Steiner | Rhythm in speech synthesis: problems in duration modeling | |
| Yi Zhang | Statistical approach towards deep lexical acquisition [odp] | |
| Edinburgh students | ||
| Abhishek Arun | Lexicalisation in cross-linguistic parsing: the case of French | |
| Gregor Hofer | Modelling behaviour in conversational agents | |
| Sabrina Hsueh | In search of lost time: a case study on multimodal meeting records | |
| Clare Huxley | An investigation of word order effects on syntactic priming in dialogue | |
| Jochen Leidner | Applying toponym resolution to geographic information retrieval | |
| Ivan Meza-Ruiz | Dialogue system parsing with context information | |
| Sebastian Riedel | Collective relation extraction and named entity recognition with relational graphical models | |
| Andi Winterboer | Evaluating the effect of information presentation strategies on cognitive load | |
| External students | ||
| Harald Hammarström | Unsupervised learning of morphology | |
| David Vadas | Natural language programming [ppt] | |