Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics

Recent developments in natural language processing and corpus linguistics

Morning session in Room S9, 1st floor

  9.00 – 9.20: Welcome, opening  
  9.20 – 10.40 (Chair: Eva Hajičová)
  9.20 - 9.45 Walther von Hahn: Preserving Vagueness: the central mission of next generation Digital Humanities
  9.45 - 10.10 Wolfgang Menzel: Cross-modal Interaction between Language and Vision
10.10 - 10.30  Martin Popel: Machine Learning for Deep-syntactic MT
10.30 - 10.55 Heike Zinsmeister: Resolving non-nominal anaphora: Challenges for annotation and resolution

10.55 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.35: Chair: (Walther von Hahn)
11.15 - 11.35 Sebastian Beschke: Grammar Learning for Open-Domain Semantic Parsing
11.35 - 11.55 Arne Köhn: Predictive Dependency Parsing
11.55 - 12. 15 Amr Rekaby: Cross-Modal Integration for Improved Dependency Parsing
12.15 - 12.35 David Mareček: Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
12.35 – 14.00 Lunch (in the Faculty canteen)

Afternoon session in Room S1, 4th floor 

14.00 – 15.00 (Chair: Vladislav Kubon)
14.00 - 14.20: Petra Galuščáková: Multimodal Features for Search and Hyperlinking of Video Content
14.20 - 14.40: Vincent Kriz: RExtractor: a Robust Information Extractor
14.40 – 15.00: Lukas Zilka: Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks

15.00 – 15.20 Coffee break

15.20 – 16.40 (Chair: Wolfgang Menzel)
15.20 - 15.40: Cristina Vertan: Multilinguality in Historical Texts - Applying Language Technology for Cultural Heritage
15.40 - 16.00 Timo Baumann: Timing in Interactive Speech-to-Speech translation
16.00 - 16.25: Jan Hajič: The LINDAT/CLARIN large infrastructure: data and services
16.25 - 16.45 Closing