NAACL HLT 2009

Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Demonstration Session

Fred Popowich and Michael Johnston Demo Chairs

June 1-3, 2009 Boulder, Colorado

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Organizers: Michael Johnston, AT&T Labs Research Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University

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Table of Contents
Cross-document Temporal and Spatial Person Tracking System Demonstration Heng Ji and Zheng Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Building Conversational Agents with Basilica Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Ros´ and Michael J. Witbrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 e STAT: Speech Transcription Analysis Tool Stephen A. Kunath and Steven H. Weinberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Morpho Challenge - Evaluation of algorithms for unsupervised learning of morphology in various tasks and languages Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville Turunen and Teemu Hirsim¨ ki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 a WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximizes Semantic Relatedness Ted Pedersen and Varada Kolhatkar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Conference Program
Monday, June 1, 2009 6:30pm­ 9:30pm Demonstration Session

Cross-document Temporal and Spatial Person Tracking System Demonstration Heng Ji and Zheng Chen Building Conversational Agents with Basilica Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Ros´ and Michael J. Witbrock e STAT: Speech Transcription Analysis Tool Stephen A. Kunath and Steven H. Weinberger Morpho Challenge - Evaluation of algorithms for unsupervised learning of morphology in various tasks and languages Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville Turunen and Teemu Hirsim¨ ki a WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximizes Semantic Relatedness Ted Pedersen and Varada Kolhatkar

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