IJCNLP - Cross Lingual Information Access- Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies

IJCNLP 2008

The Third International Joint Conference

on Natural Language Processing

January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India

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Friday, January 11

 08:45-09:00     Workshop Introduction and Opening Remarks

 09:00-10:30     Session-I

                        Cross Language Information Retrieval

                        The Effects of Language Relatedness on Multilingual Information Retrieval:
                       A Case Study With Indo-European and Semitic Languages,
                        Peter Chew and Ahmed Abdelali.

                       Identifying Similar and Co-referring Documents Across Languages,
                        Pattabhi R K Rao T and Sobha L.

                       Finding parallel texts on the web using cross-language information retrieval,
                        Achim Ruopp and Fei Xia.

10:30-11:00   Tea Break

 11:00-12:30   Session-II

                        Translation and Transliteration in CLIR

                        Some Experiments in Mining Named Entity Transliteration Pairs
                       from Comparable Corpora,
                        K Saravanan and A Kumaran..

                       Domain-Specific Query Translation for Multilingual Information Access
                       using Machine Translation Augmented With Dictionaries Mined from
                       Wikipedia,
                        Gareth Jones, Fabio Fantino, Eamonn Newman and Ying Zhang.

                       Statistical Transliteration for Cross Language Information Retrieval
                       using HMM alignment model and CRF,
                        Prasad Pingali, Suryaganesh, Sreeharsha Yella and Vasudeva Varma.

12:30-14:00   Lunch

 14:00-15:00   Session- III

                        Cross Language Information Access and Evaluation

                       Script Independent Word Spotting in Multilingual Documents,
                        Anurag Bhardwaj, Damien Jose and Venu Govindaraju.

                       A Document Graph Based Query Focused Multi-Document Summarizer,
                        Sibabrata Paladhi and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.

15:00-15:30   Tea Break

 15:30-17:30   Session-IV

                        CLIR in Indian Languages - Invited Talks

                       Hindi and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval,
                        Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive,
                       Om P. Damani and Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

                       Bengali and Hindi to English CLIR Evaluation,
                        Debasis Mandal, Sandipan Dandapat, Mayank Gupta,
                       Pratyush Banerjee, Sudeshna Sarkar.

                       Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-hoc Bilingual Task,
                        Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kumar Naskar,
                       Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Srinivasa Rao Godavarthy.

                       Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian Languages
                       Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi and A Kumaran.

                       Hindi and Telugu to English CLIR using Query Expansion,
                        Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma.

                       FIRE: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation,
                        Mandar Mitra and Prosenjit Majumdar.

17:30-17:45    Conclusions and Closing Remarks