NEWS2011 Workshop Program on 12 November 2011
8:30-10:00 Session 1
8:30-8:40
| Opening Remarks |
| Haizhou Li, A Kumaran, Min Zhang |
8:40-9:00
| System Paper 1: Integrating Models Derived from non-Parametric Bayesian Co-segmentation into a Statistical Machine Transliteration System |
| Andrew Finch, Paul Dixon and Eiichiro Sumita |
9:00-9:20
| System Paper 2: Simple Discriminative Training for Machine Transliteration |
| Canasai Kruengkrai, Thatsanee Charoenporn and Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
9:20-9:40
| System Paper 3: English-Korean Named Entity Transliteration Using Statistical Substring-based and Rule-based Approaches |
| Yu-Chun Wang and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai |
9:40-10:00
| System Paper 4: Leveraging Transliterations from Multiple Languages |
| Aditya Bhargava, Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak |
10:00-10:30 Morning Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2
10:00-10:30
| Research Paper 1: Comparative Evaluation of Spanish Segmentation Strategies for Spanish-Chinese Transliteration |
| Rafael E. Banchs |
10:30-11:00
| Research Paper 2: Using Features from a Bilingual Alignment Model in Transliteration Mining |
| Takaaki Fukunishi, Andrew Finch, Seiichi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita |
11:00-11:30
| Research Paper 3: Product Name Identification and Classification in Thai Economic News |
| Nattadaporn Lertcheva and Wirote Aroonmanakun |
11:30-12:00
| Research Paper 4: Mining Multi-word Named Entity Equivalents from Comparable Corpora |
| Abhijit Bhole, Goutham Tholpadi and Raghavendra Udupa |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 3
14:00-14:30
| Research Paper 5: A Discriminative Alignment Model for Name Transliteration |
| Najmeh Mousavi Nejad and Shahram Khadivi |
14:30-14:50
| System Paper 5: Forward-backward Machine Transliteration between English and Chinese Based on Combined CRFs |
| Ying Qin and GuoHua Chen |
14:50-15:10
| System Paper 6: English-to-Chinese Machine Transliteration using Accessor Variety Features of Source Graphemes |
| Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Chan-Hung Kuo and Wen-Lian Hsu |
15:10-15:30
| System Paper 7: The Machine Transliteration System Description for NEWS 2011 |
| Najmeh Mousavi Nejad, Shahram Khadivi and Kaveh Taghipour |
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break
16:00-17:00 Session 4
16:00-16:20
| System Paper 8: English-Chinese Personal Name Transliteration by Syllable-Based Maximum Matching |
| Oi Yee Kwong |
16:20-16:40
| System Paper 9: Statistical Machine Transliteration with Multi-to-Multi Joint Source Channel Model |
| Yu Chen, Rui Wang and Yi Zhang |
16:40-17:00
| System Paper 10: Named Entity Transliteration Using A Statistical Machine Translation Framework |
| Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab |