Programme
Sunday, July 31, 2011
| 09:00-09:10 | Opening |
| 09:10-10:10 | Invited talk by Burr Settles: Combining Learning Strategies to Make the Most of Language Resources |
| 10:10-10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30-11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Dialect Translation: Integrating Bayesian Co-segmentation Models with Pivot based SMT Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Paul R. Dixon and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 11:30-12:00 | Dialectal to Standard Arabic Paraphrasing to Improve Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation Wael Salloum and Nizar Habash |
| 12:00-12:30 | PaddyWaC: A Minimally-Supervised Web-Corpus of Hiberno-English Brian Murphy and Egon W. Stemle |
| 12:30-14:00 | lunch break |
| 14:00-14:10 | Poster flash |
| 14:10-14:40 | Poster session |
| 14:40-15:10 | Syntactic transformations for Swiss German dialects Yves Scherrer |
| 15:10-15:40 | Learning word-level dialectal variation as phonological replacement rules using a limited parallel corpus Mans Hulden, Iñaki Alegria, Izaskun Etxeberria and Montse Maritxalar |
| 15:40-16:10 | coffee break |
| 16:10-16:40 | Modeling of Stylistic Variation in Social Media with Stretchy Patterns Philip Gianfortoni, David Adamson and Carolyn P. Rosé |
| 16:40-17:00 | Final discussion |
Poster presentations:
- Adapting Slovak ASR for native Germans speaking Slovak
Štefan Beňuš, Miloš Cerňak, Sakhia Darjaa, Milan Rusko and Marián Trnka - WordNet.PTglobal - Extending WordNet.PT to Portuguese varieties Palmira Marrafa, Raquel Amaro and Sara Mendes
- Phone set selection for HMM-based dialect speech synthesis
Michael Pucher, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo and Dietmar Schabus