CBA 2010
Corpus-Based Approaches to
Paraphrasing and Nominalization

 

Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to
Paraphrasing and Nominalization

December 1-2, 2010
Barcelona


PROGRAM

Wednesday December 1


9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 11:00 Invited talk: Olya Gurevich
From verbal argument structures to nominal ones: A data-mining approach
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Kurt Eberle, Gertrud Faasz and Ulrich Heid
Approximating disambiguation of some nominalizations by use of weak structural, lexical and corpus information
12:00 - 12:30 Aina Peris and Mariona Taulé
AnCora-Nom: A Spanish lexicon of deverbal nominalizations
12:30 – 13:00 Junya Morita
Some creative aspects of nominalization: An analysis of Hapax Legomena in English
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – 15:30 Pavel Grashchenkov, Svetlana Malyutina and Maxim Ionov
How does syntactic structure manifest itself through text corpora: ossetic nominalization
15:30 – 16:00 Anthony Davis and Leslie Barret
Can lexical semantics predict grammaticality in English support-verb-nominalization constructions?
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 Invited talk: Ruth Reeves
Beyond verb centrism in event structuring
21:00 * Workshop dinner

*Subject to modification


Thursday December 2


10:00 – 11:00 Invited seminar: Eduard Hovy (1)
Toward a new semantics: Merging propositional and distributional information and using it for paraphrase generation
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 Invited seminar: Eduard Hovy (2)
12:15 – 12:45 Break
12:45 – 13:15 Andras Dobo and Stephen G. Pulman
Interpreting noun compounds using paraphrases
13:15 - 13:45 Bruno Cartoni and Louise Deleger
Alternating modifiers in nominal paraphrases: Investigation in specialised/lay comparable corpora
13:45 – 15:15 Lunch break
15:15 – 15:45 Camille Dutrey, Houda Bouamor, Delphine Bernhard and Aurélien Max
Local modifications and paraphrases in Wikipedia's revision history
15:45 – 16:15 María Auxiliadora Barrios and Luz Rello
Spanish verbs and verb-noun collocations paraphrase pairs
16:15 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:45 Invited talk: Atsushi Fujita
Typology of paraphrases and approaches to compute them
17:45 – 18:00 Closing remarks