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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Sunday, July 23, 2006 | |
| 8:45–9:00 | Opening Remarks: Linguistic Distances John Nerbonne and Erhard Hinrichs |
| Session 1: Semantics I | |
| 9:00–10:00 | Invited Talk: Semantic Similarity: What for? Ido Dagan |
| 10:00–10:30 | Similarity Judgments: Philosophical, Psychological and Mathematical Investigations Claude St-Jacques and Caroline Barrière |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| Session 2: Semantics II | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Automatically Creating Datasets for Measures of Semantic Relatedness Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych |
| 11:30–12:00 | Comparison of Similarity Models for the Relation Discovery Task Ben Hachey |
| 12:00–12:30 | Sentence Comparison Using Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics and an Ontology Rebecca Dridan and Francis Bond |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Pronunciation and Language Variation | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Evaluation of Several Phonetic Similarity Algorithms on the Task of Cognate Identification Grzegorz Kondrak and Tarek Sherif |
| 14:30–15:00 | Evaluation of String Distance Algorithms for Dialectology Wilbert Heeringa, Charlotte Gooskens, Peter Kleiweg and John Nerbonne |
| 15:00–15:30 | Study of Some Distance Measures for Language and Encoding Identification Anil Kumar Singh |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break |
| Session 4: Syntax | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Towards Case-Based Parsing: Are Chunks Reliable Indicators for Syntax Trees? Sandra Kübler |
| 16:30–17:00 | A Measure of Aggregate Syntactic Distance John Nerbonne and Wybo Wiersma |
| 17:00–17:30 | A Structural Similarity Measure Petr Homola and Vladislav Kuboň |
| 17:30–18:00 | Variants of Tree Similarity in a Question Answering Task Martin Emms |
| Reserve Paper | |
| Total Rank Distance and Scaled Total Rank Distance: Two Alternative Metrics in Computational Linguistics Anca Dinu and Liviu P. Dinu | |