Program

Monday, June 22, 2015

09:00-09:30         Gathering and refreshments

09:30-10:40        Opening Session

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Reut Tsarfaty (The Open University)

Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Anat Lerner, Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel

Opening Keynote

Prof. Mark Steedman
University of Edinburgh

A Theory of Content

10:40-11:40        Semantics and Discourse

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Roi Reichart (Technion)

Vered Shwartz, Omer Levy, Ido Dagan, and Jacob Goldberger
Learning to Exploit Structured Resources for Lexical Inference
Jumana Nassour-Kassis, Michael Elhadad, and Arnon Sturm
Building Conceptual Maps from Scientific Articles
Yuval Pinter, Shuki Tausig, and Oren Persico
Exploring Israeli News Website Bias using Simple Textual Analysis

11:40-12:00         Coffee Break

12:00-12:30        Industry@ISCOL

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Vered Silber-Varod (The Open University)

Ran Levy, Liat Ein-Dor, Shay Hummel, Ruty Rinott, and Noam Slonim (IBM)

Raphael Cohen and Alon Grubshtein (EMC)
Shotgun Content Modeling

12:30-13:10        Quickfire Poster Presentations

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Nurit Melnik (The Open University)
2-minute presentation per poster (See list below)

13:10-14:00        Lunch Break

14:00-15:00        Poster Session

(Neuderfer Piazza)

15:00-16:00        Morphology, Syntax, and Language Modeling

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)

Amir More and Reut Tsarfaty
Transition-Based Morphological Disambiguation
Eliyahu Kiperwasser and Yoav Goldberg
Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing using Rich Lexical Features from Auto-Parsed Data
Ella Rabinovich and Shuly Wintner
Unsupervised Identification of Translationese

16:00-16:30         Coffee Break

16:30-17:10        Distributional Lexical Semantics

(Chais Auditorium)
Chair: Raphael Cohen (EMC)

Dana Rubinstein, Effi Levi, Roy Schwartz, and Ari Rappoport
How Well Do Distributional Models Capture Different Types of Semantic Knowledge?
Omer Levy, Yoav Goldberg, and Ido Dagan
Improving Distributional Similarity with Lessons Learned from Word Embeddings

17:10-17:20         Refreshment Break

17:20-18:20         Closing Keynote

(Neuderfer Auditorium)
Chair: Reut Tsarfaty (The Open University)

Dr. Stefan Frank
Radboud University Nijmegen

Your Brain on Computational Linguistics

18:20-18:30     Announcing the IBM Best Student Paper Award
                        Closing words

List of Posters

Zvi Ben-Ami, Ronen Feldman, and Benjamin Rosenfeld
Exploiting the Focus of the Document for Enhanced Entities’ Sentiment Relevance Detection
Ilia Pogrebezky, Smadar Szekely, Reut Tsarfaty, and David Harel
Bringing Textual Descriptions to Life: Semantic Parsing of Requirements Documents into Executable Scenarios
Roy Schwartz, Roi Reichart, and Ari Rappoport
Symmetric Pattern Based Word Embeddings for Improved Word Similarity Prediction
Yonatan Bilu, Daniel Hershcovich, and Noam Slonim
Automatic Claim Negation: Why, How, and When
Jey Han Lau, Alexander Clark, and Shalom Lappin
Predicting Acceptability Judgements with Unsupervised Language Models
Yuval Pinter, Roi Reichart, Avihai Mejer, and Idan Szpektor
Syntactic Analysis of Web Queries with Question Intent
Yonatan Belinkov and James Glass
Arabic Diacritization with Recurrent Neural Networks
Hila Weisman, Peter Izsak, Inna Achlow, and Victor Shafran
Text Normalization in Noisy Channels
Hillel Taub-Tabib, Yoav Goldberg, and Amir Globerson
Template Kernels for Dependency Parsing
Naomi Zeichner, Inna Achlow, and Victor Shafran
The Best of Both Worlds: Sentiment Analysis in Call Center Conversations using Audio Search Techniques
Haim Dubossarsky, Yulia Tsvetkov, Chris Dyer, Daphna Weinshall, and Eitan Grossman
A Bottom up approach to category mapping and meaning change
Yoav Binoun and Clayton Greenberg
Effects of Acoustic Noise on Learners' Use of Overt Subjects and Agreement Markers
Clayton Greenberg, Vera Demberg, and Asad Sayeed
Verb polysemy and frequency effects in thematic fit modeling
Clayton Greenberg, Asad Sayeed, and Vera Demberg
Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering
Gabriel Satanovsky, Jessica Ficler, Ido Dagan, and Yoav Goldberg
Getting more out of syntax with PropS
Oded Avraham and Yoav Goldberg
Word Embeddings in Hebrew: Initial Results
Tal Baumel and Michael Elhadad
The Role of Semantics in Automatic Summarization
Avi Hayoun and Michael Elhadad
The Hebrew FrameNet Project