COLING 2012: Some facts and figures

Pushpak BhattacharyyaCSE Dept., IIT Bombay

Organized by

CFILT, CSE Department, IIT Bombay, and

TDIL, DIT, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Under the umbrella of ICCL (International Committee on Computational Linguistics)

Committees Program Chairs: Prof. Martin Kay, Stanford

University and Prof. Christian Boitet, University Joseph Fourier, France

Organizing Chairs: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay and Prof. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad

Workshop Chair: Prof. Laurent Besacier, University Joseph Fourier

Tutorial Chair: Prof. Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan

Publication Chair: Prof. Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK

Date, Venue etc. Main Conference: 10-14 Dec, 2012 Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 8, 9

Dec, 2012 Post-conference workshops: 15 Dec, 2012 Venue: VMCC and convocation hall, IIT

Bombay 1000+ submissions Conf URL: http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/

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COLING2012 PARTICIPATION

Total Registration: 763Total attendance: 612

Main Conference 606Tutorial 99Workshop 336

Number of accepted papers in various categories (as in the proceedings

Oral (173) Poster (138) Demo (66) Reserve (22)

Best paper award “Accurate Unbounded Dependency

Recovery using Generalized CategorialGrammars”, Luan Nguyen1, Marten Van Schijndel2 and William Schuler2

1: University of Minnesota, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN

2: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Linguistics, Columbus, OH lnguyen@cs.umn.edu, vanschm@ling.osu.edu,

schuler@ling.osu.edu

Workshops (1/3) WS1: “Advances in discourse analysis and its computational

aspects”: Eva Hajicova WS2: “Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods

(WTIM 2)”: Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Yoh Okuno WS3: “Eye-tracking and Natural Language Processing”: Michael

Carl, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Kamal Kumar Choudhary WS4: “3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural

Language Processing (SANLP)”: Virach Sornlertlamvanich, AbbasMalik

WS5: “Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)”: Michael Zock, Reinhard Rapp

WS6: “10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources”: RuvanWeerasinghe, Rachel Edita O. Roxas, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Sarmad Hussain

Workshops (2/3) WS7: “2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets

Psychology (SAAIP 2012)”: Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Manabu Okumura

WS8: “Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data”: Lipika Dey, Daniel Lopresti, Christoph Ringlstetter, Shourya Roy, L. Venkata Subramaniam

WS9: “Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media Data”: Sriram Raghavan, Ganesh Ramakrishnan

WS10: “Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)”: Radhika Mamidi, Ranjani Parthasarathi, SobhaLalitha Devi, Dipti Misra Sharma, Joseph van Genabith

WS11: “Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MT (ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task)”: Josef van Genabith, Toni Badia, Christian Federmann

Workshops (3/3) WS12: “Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education”:

Radhika Mamidi, Kishore Prahallad WS13: “Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation”: Karthik

Visweswariah, Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Mitesh M. Khapra WS14: “Question Answering for Complex Domains”: Nanda

Kambhatla Sachindra Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kiran Kate, Priyanka Agrawal

WS15: “First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology”: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Mark Johnson, Diego Molla-Aliod

Tutorials T1: “Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal

Reasoning”: Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Taylor Cassidy, Quang Do T2: “Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP”: Gerard de

Melo T3: “Multimodal Corpora”: Patrizia Paggio, Dirk Heylen,

Costanza Navarretta T4: “The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu

Natural Language Processing”: Owen Rambow, Dipti MisraSharma, Ashwini Vaidya

T5: “Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots”: Kristiina Jokinen, Graham Wilcock

T6: “Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLP”: Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa

Tutorial Participation

Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning

25%

Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced

NLP29%

Multimodal Corpora

10%

The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and

Urdu NLP9%

Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots

12%

Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for

NLP15%

Workshop ParticipationAdvances in discourse

analysis and its computational aspects

8%Second Workshop on

Advances in Text Input Methods

6%

Eye-tracking and Natural Language Processing

5%

3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural

Language Processing (SANLP)

8%

Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)

7%

10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources

5%

2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where

AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)

8%

Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy

Unstructured Text Data9%

Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social

Media Data10%

Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian

Languages (MTPIL-2012)8%

Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid

MT 4%

Speech and Language Processing Tools in

Education6%

Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

4%

Question Answering for Complex Domains

6%

First International Workshop on Optimization

Techniques for Human Language Technology

6%

COLING 2012 Participation by Nationality

USA+North America+ South

America, 82

Asia + Africa +AUS+Nz, 454

Europe, 217

India 251United States 70Japan 58China 53Germany 49France 36United Kingdom 24Ireland 17Australia 14Czech Republic 15Sweden 12Taiwan 12Hong Kong 11Canada 10Russia 9Spain 9Italy 8Korea, South 8Poland 6Singapore 6Denmark 5Hungary 5Croatia 4Portugal 4Vietnam 4Egypt 3Finland 3Iran 3Pakistan 3Others 41

Asia+Africa+Aus+Nz192

Europe67

US+Can+Brazil41

Participation by Nationality

Asia+Africa+Aus+Nz

Europe

US+Can+Brazil

(in comparison) IJCNLP2011 Participation by Nationality

T=300

Japan 61China 51United States 35India 28France 17Germany 14Thailand 12Taiwan 9Singapore 8United Kingdom 8Ireland 6Australia 5Canada 5Italy 4Korea 4Phillipines 4Netherlands 3Spain 3Iran 2Pakistan 2Sweden 2Austria 1Belgium 1Brazil 1Finland 1Ghana 1Greece 1Hungary 1Latvia 1Malaysia 1Morocco 1New Zealand 1Norway 1Portugal 1Qatar 1Saudi Arabia 1Swaziland 1Vietnam 1

Invited Talks “The adaptive brain: acquiring a complex cognitive

skill in complex contexts ”: Prof. Barbara Moser-Mercer, University of Geneva (10th Dec, Day 1)

“Digital Book, Digital Library, and Natural Language Processing”: Prof. Makato Nagao, Japan (11th Dec, Day 2)

“Minimum Description Length as the basis of Panini's grammar”: Prof. Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University (13th Dec, Day 4)

“NLP from Paninian Perspective”: Prof. Dipti MishraSharma, IIIT Hyderabad (14th Dec, Day 5)

(Day 3 was excursion day)

Social Events Reception: 10th evening (performances

by delegates and organizers) Banquet: 11th evening: Renaissance Excursion: 12th whole day: Karla and

Bhaja caves Indian classical music: 13th evening:

Prasad Padhye (tabla) and NayanGhosh (Sitar)

Indian language

technology5%

Underresourced languages5%

Morphology & POS tagging

6%Grammar and formalisms

2%

Parsing4%

Semantics5%

Discourse and pragmatics

4%

Coreference resolution3%

Ontologies and terminology3%

Textual entailment1%

Resources and annotation

7%

Psychological and neurological modelling

2%

Empirical machine

translation6%Deployment of NLP-based

applications, software integration & quality

5%

Expert or hybrid machine translation

3%

Hybrid man+machine architectures

1%

Information & content extraction

5%

Information retrieval4%

Named entity recognition3%

Natural language generation3%

Question answering3%

Sentiment and text classification

7%

Speech recognition and synthesis

2%

Summarization5%

Word sense disambiguation4%

Area wise representation of accepted papers

Area and Countrywisestatistics

Area wise statistics

France5%

Hong KongSpecial

administrative region of China 5%

India80%

Singapore5%Spain

5%

Indian Language Technology

Australia4%

China9%

Croatia4%

Denmark4%

Ethiopia4%

Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region of

China5%

India14%

Japan9%

Lithuania5%

New Zealand5%

Russian Federation

5%

Spain9%

Sweden9%

United States14%

Under resourced languages

Bulgaria4%

China17%

Germany4%

India17%

Japan9%

Lebanon4%

Poland4%

Romania4%

Singapore4%

Taiwan4%

United Arab Emirates

8%

United Kingdom

4%

United States17%

Morphology & POS tagging

Canada20%

China10%

Egypt10%

Germany10%

Hong KongSpecial

administrative region of China

10%

Hungary10%

Poland10%

Singapore10%

United States10%

Grammar and Formalisms

Australia11%

China28%

Croatia5%France

5%

Germany17%

Japan11%

Norway6%

Singapore6%

United States11%

Parsing

Canada4% France

4%

Germany19%

India5%

Israel5%

Japan5%

Netherlands5%

Singapore5%

Spain5%

United Kingdom

19%

United States24%

Semantics

Australia5%

China17%

Czech Republic5%

Estonia5%

Finland5%

France11%

Germany6%

Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region of

China6%

Japan6%

United Kingdom

6%

United States28%

Discourse and pragmatics

Belgium9%

China8%

Germany17%

India17%Italy

8%

Japan8%

Poland8%

United States25%

Coreference resolution

Canada7%

China15%

Ethiopia7%

France7%

India7%Ireland

7%Japan7%

Poland7%

Spain7%

United Kingdom

7%

United States22%

Ontologies and terminologies

China25%

Japan25%

United States50%

Textual entailment

Brazil4% China

7%Czech Republic

3%

France10%

Germany14%

Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region of

China3%

India3%

Israel3%

Italy10%Japan

7%

Poland3%

Spain3%

Sweden3%

Taiwan7%

United States20%

Resources and annotations

Australia12%

China13%

Japan25%

United States50%

Psychological and Neurological Modelling

China31%

France9%

Germany13% Iran (Islamic

Republic of)5%

Ireland4%

Macau4%

Qatar4%

Republic of Korea4%

Spain4%

United Kingdom

9%

United States13%

Empirical Machine Translation

Canada5%

China5%

France10%

Germany5%

India5%

Japan15%

Norway5%

Qatar5%

Republic of Korea10%

Romania5%

Russian Federation

5%

Taiwan15%

United Kingdom

5%

United States5%

Deployment of NLP applications

Belgium7%

China22%

Denmark7%

France22%Germany

7%

Greece7%

Japan14%

Taiwan7%

United States7%

Expert or hybrid machine translation

Czech Republic

34%

France33%

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

33%

Hybrid man+machine architectures & human factors

Australia10%

China10%

Germany15%

India5%

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

10%Ireland

5%

Italy5%

Japan5%

Romania5%

Singapore5%

Taiwan5%

Turkey5%

United States15%

Information & content extraction

China28%

France5%

Germany11%

Hong Kong 5%

India17%

Ireland11%

Japan5%

Pakistan6%

Spain6%

United States6%

Information retrieval

Canada9%

China9%

France9%

Germany28%India

9%

Turkey9%

United Arab Emirates

9%

United Kingdom

9%

United States9%

Named entity recognition

Argentina9%

Australia9%

Canada9%

France28%

Germany18%

United Kingdom

27%

Natural Language Generation

Australia8%

China34%

India8%

Italy8%

Japan17%

United Kingdom

8%

United States17%

Question answering

Canada3%

China3%

Denmark3%

Germany18%

India11%

Ireland3%

Italy4%

Japan4%

Portugal4%

Russian Federation

7%

Singapore4%

United Kingdom

7%

United States29%

Sentiment and text classification

India14%

Japan43%

Republic of Korea14%

United States29%

Speech recognition and synthesis

Canada9%

China48%

Greece5%

India9%

Japan9%

Singapore5%

Sweden5%

United States10%

Summarization

China6%

Czech Republic6%

France13%

Germany27%

India7%

Japan7%

Taiwan7%

United States27%

Word sense disambiguation

Message for students

Clear goal Clear Technique Clear evaluation Clear error analysis and path to improve

Message (2/2)

Guide us in straight path: holy Qur’an Lead us not unto temptation: holy Bible Asato ma sat gamaya: Upanishad

Thank you

Material given in the registration kit Bag Conference handbook USB containing

Main conference proceedings Workshop proceedings Tutorial notes Help desk (internet, map, eating joints etc) Excursion pamphlet

Delegate badges with coupons Pen Pad

Observations High Quality papers, tutorials and

workshops India’s presence: commendable

219 out of 251 registered 42 papers from India (main conf) out of 193 (Oral, Poster and Demo)