International Workshop on

Language and Speech Infrastructure for Information Access in the BalkanCountries

 

Borovets, Bulgaria

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005/LSI_balkan.htm

 

Final Programme

 

9:20-9:30

Introduction

Elena Paskaleva, Stelios Piperidis

9:30-10:00

Designing a PAROLE/SIMPLE German-English-Romanian Lexicon

Monica Gavrila, Walther v. Hahn and Cristina Vertan

10:00-10:30

Resources for Processing Bulgarian and Serbian – a brief overview of  Completeness, Compatibility, and Similarities

Svetla Koeva, Cvetana Krstev, Ivan Obradovic and Duško Vitas

10:30-11:00

Building Multilingual Terminological Resources

Maria Gavrilidou, Penny Labropoulou, Monica Monachini, Stelios Piperidis and

Claudia Soria

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:00

Towards a Greek Dependency Corpus

Elina Desipri, Prokopis Prokopidis, Maria Koutsombogera, Xaris Papageorgiou and Stelios Piperidis                       

12:00-12:30

The Globe: A 3D Representation of Linguistic Knowledge and Knowledge about the World Together

Kamenka Staykova and Sergey Varbanov

12:30-14:30

Lunch break

14:30-15:00

Dictionary, Statistical and Web Knowledge in Shallow Parsing Procedures for Inflectional Languages

Preslav Nakov and Elena Paskaleva

15:00-15:30

Experimenting in Information Retrieval Systems

Veno Pachovski

15:30-16:00

Infrastructure for Bulgarian Question Answering: Implications for the Language Resources and Tools

Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov

16:00-16:30

Some Aspects of Negation Processing in Electronic Health Records            

Svetla Boytcheva, Albena Strupchanska, Elena Paskaleva and Dimitar Charaktchiev

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-17:30

BULTRA (English-Bulgarian Machine Translation System)  - Basic Modules and Development Prospects

Elena Paskaleva and Tanya Netcheva

17:30-18:15

Panel discussion : What’s next in HLT in the Balkan countries? Situation today, opportunities, R&D agenda, collaboration