16-18 August 2017
Sedona, Yangon, Myanmar
Program Schedule
Program Schedule
Day 1, 16 August 2017
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00 – 9:40 | Opening | |
| 9:40 – 9:55 | Coffee Break | |
| 9:55 – 10:45 | Special Invitation Talk | Dr. Ye Kyaw Thu, OPU, Japan Title of Talk: Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language |
| 10:45 – 11:35 | Special Invitation Talk | Dr. Tun Thura Thet, MIT, Myanmar Title of Talk: Building Myanmar as a Knowledge Hub, Digital Hub and Innovation Hub of ASEAN |
| 11:35 – 12:25 | Paper Section I | |
| 12:25 – 13:25 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:25 – 14:15 | Poster session | |
| 14:15 – 15:05 | Paper Section II | |
| 15:05 – 15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:15 – 17:00 | Paper Section III |
Day 2, 17 August 2017
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Invited Talk | Prof. Francis Bond, NTU, Singapore Title of Talk: Linking Myanmar Meanings to the World: The Myanmar Open Wordnet and the Collaborative Interlingual Index |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 – 12:05 | Paper Section I | |
| 12:05 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Poster Section | |
| 14:00 – 14:50 | Paper Section II | |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:05 – 16:45 | Paper Section III |
Day 3, 18 August 2017
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Paper Section I | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Paper Section II | |
| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:10 – 14:25 | Paper Section III | |
| 14:25 – 18:00 | Sightseeing in Yangon Downtown and Shwedagon Pagoda | |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Culture Show at Karaweik Palace Yangon with International Buffet Dinner |
Day 1 Paper Session I
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Tatsuya Aoki, Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura. | Detecting Earthquake Survivors with Serious Mental Affliction | Tokyo Institute of Technology, IBM Research –Tokyo, Japan |
| Huy Nguyen and Minh-Le Nguyen. | A Deep Neural Architecture for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification in Twitter Social Networking | JAIST Japan |
Day 1 Paper Section II
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Duc-Hong Pham, Anh-Cuong Le and Kim-Chung Le Thi. | Learning Word Embeddings for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis | VNU, EDU, TDT, EPU Vietnam |
| Drushti Apoorva and Radhika Mamidi. | BolLy: Annotation of Sentiment Polarity in Bollywood Lyrics Dataset | IIIT, Hyderabad, India |
Day 1 Poster Section
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Yuzana Win, Tomonari Masada. | Myanmar OOV Words Extraction with Maximal Substrings and its Application to Document Clustering | Nagasaki University, Japan |
| Apichai Chan-Udom, Chan Karman and Yoshimi Suzuki. | Identification of Word Sense in Twitter Data Based on WordNet Glosses | University of Yamanashi, IIJ Innovation Institute Inc., Japan |
| Kun Chen, Hao Wang and Yves Lepage. | A Study of Analogical Relationships in N-gram Embedding Models | Waseda University Japan |
| Pavithra Rajendran, Danushka Bollegala and Simon Parsons. | Identifying argument based relation properties in opinions | University of Liverpool, King's College London, UK |
| Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Masahiro Takeda and Hiromitsu Shiina. | Short Message Classification using Tree Kernel and Random Forest with Feature Vectors based on Wikipedia Categories | Sanyo Gakuen University, Okayama University of Science, Japan |
Day 1 Paper Section III
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Nasredine Semmar and Meriama Laib. | 1. Integrating Specialized Bilingual Lexicons of Multiword Expressions for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation | CEA LIST France |
| Liang Li, Pengyu Li, Yifan Liu, Tao Wan and Zengchang Qin. | Logical Parsing from Natural Language Based on a Neural Translation Model | Beihang University China |
| Seung Woo Cho, Eui-Hyeon Lee and Jong-Hyeok Lee. | Phrase-level Grouping for Lexical Gap Resolution in Korean-Vietnamese SMT | Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea |
| Hai-Long Trieu and Le-Minh Nguyen. | Enhancing Pivot Translation Using Grammatical and Morphological Information | JAIST Japan |
Day 2 Paper Section I
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Pingping Liu, Minglei Li, Qin Lu and Buxin Han. | Norms of valence and arousal for 2076 Chinese 4-character words | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PolyU Hongkong, China |
| TTakuya Miyauchi, Masayuki Asahara, Natsuko Nakagawa and Sachi Kato. | Information-Structure Annotation of the “Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan |
| Sokunsatya Sangvat and Charnyote Pluempitiwiriyawej. | Khmer POS Tagging Using Conditional Random Fields | Mahidol University Thailand |
| Chenchen Ding, Vichet Chea, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Sethserey Sam and Sopheap Seng. | Statistical Khmer Name Romanization | NICT, Japan NIPTICT, Cambodia |
Day 2 Poster Session
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Samarth Agrawal, Aditya Joshi, Joe Cheri Ross, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Harshawardhan M. Wabgaonkar. | Are Word Embedding and Dialogue Act Class-based Features Useful for Coreference Resolution in Dialogue? | IIT Bombay, India |
| Prathyusha Jwalapuram and Radhika Mamidi. | Keyword and Constraint Identification for Question Answering | IIIT-Hyderabad, India |
| Masayuki Ohno, Koichi Takeuchi, Kota Motojin, Masahiro Taguchi, Yoshihiko Inada, Masaya Iizuka, Tatsuhiko Abo and Hitoshi Ueda. | Construction of Open Essay Writing Data and Automatic Essay Scoring System for Japanese | Okayama University Japan |
| Hiroyuki Kameda and Saori Aida. | A Proposal of a Methodology to Acquire Syntactic Rules Gradually by Inductive Logic Programming | Tokyo University of Technology Japan |
Day 2 Paper Section II
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Chenchen Ding, Win Pa Pa, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita. | Burmese (Myanmar) Name Romanization: A Sub-Syllabic Segmentation Scheme for Statistical Solutions | NICT, Japan UCSY, Myanmar |
| Hiroyuki Shinnou, Kanako Komiya and Minoru Sasaki. | Domain Adaptation for Document Classification by Alternately Using Semi-supervised Learning and Feature Weighted Learning | Ibaraki University Japan |
Day 2 Paper Section III
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Thai-Hoang Pham and Phuong Le-Hong. | End-to-end Recurrent Neural Network Models for Vietnamese Named Entity Recognition: Word-level vs. Character-level | Alt Inc,Vietnam National University in Hanoi Vietnam |
| Son Nguyen Truong and Nguyen Le Minh. | Nested named entity recognition using multilayer recurrent neural networks | JAIST, Japan The University of Science VNUHCM, Vietnam |
| Van-Khanh Tran and Le-Minh Nguyen. | Semantic Refinement GRU-based Neural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems | JAIST, Japan University of Information and Communication Technology, ICTU Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam |
| Angrosh Mandya, Danushka Bollegala, Frans Coenen and Katie Atkinson. | Frame-based Semantic Patterns for Relation Extraction | University of Liverpool, UK |
Day 3 Paper Section I
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Katsunori Kotani and Takehiko Yoshimi. | L3. Listenability Measurement based on Learners’ Dictation Performance | Kansai Gaidai University, RyukokuUniversity, Japan |
| Hay Mar Soe Naing and Win Pa Pa. | Speaker Adaptation on Myanmar Spontaneous Speech Recognition | UCSY, Myanmar |
| Naim Terbeh and Mounir Zrigui. | Identification of Pronunciation Defects in the Spoken Arabic Language | LaTICE Laboratory Tunisia |
Day 3 Paper Section II
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu. | Exploring the Effect of Tones for Myanmar Language Speech Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) | UCSY, Myanmar OpU, Japan |
| Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu. | Myanmar Number Normalization for Text-to-Speech | UCSY, Myanmar OpU, Japan |
| Naim Terbeh and Mounir Zrigui. | A Robust Algorithm for Pathological-Speech Correction | LaTICE Laboratory Tunisia |
| Huda Hakami, Angrosh Mandya, and Danushka Bollegala | Discovering Representative Space For Relational Similarity Measurement | University of Liverpool UK |
Day 3 Paper Section III
| Authors | title | Organization |
| Lai Dac Viet, Truong-Son Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen. | Deletion-based sentence compression using Bi-enc-dec LSTM | JAIST, Japan University of Science, Vietnam |
| Aditya Joshi, Samarth Agrawal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Mark Carman. | Expect the unexpected: Harnessing Sentence Completion for Sarcasm Detection | IITB-Monash Research Academy, India |
| Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son and Isao Echizen. | Detecting Computer-Generated Text Using Fluency and Noise Features | National Institute of Informatics, Japan GraduateUniversity for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan |