Schedule Overview

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Sunday, May 31, 2009 - Tutorials and Reception

9:00-12:30	Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce	Extracting world/linguistic knowledge from Wikipedia	OpenFst: An Open-Source, Weighted FST Library	OntoNotes: The 90% Solution
2:00-5:30	Distributed Language Models	Search Algorithms in NLP: Theory and Practice with Dynamic Programming	VerbNet overview, extensions, mappings and apps	Writing Systems, Transliteration and Decipherment
6:30-9:30	Welcome Reception

Monday, June 1, 2009 - Main Conference

8:45-9:00	Welcome
9:00-10:10	Invited Talk by Antonio Torralba
10:10-10:40	Break
10:40-12:20	Long Paper Sessions
	Semantics	Multilingual Processing / Morphology and Phonology	Syntax and parsing	Student Research Workshop 1
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:30	Short Paper Sessions / Student Research Workshop
	Machine Translation	Information Retrieval / Information Extraction / Sentiment	Dialog / Speech / Semantics	Student Research Workshop 2
3:30-4:00	Break
4:00-5:40	Long Paper Sessions
	Machine Translation	Semantics	Information Retrieval	Student Research Workshop 3
6:30-9:30	Poster/demo session

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Main Conference

8:00 - 9:00	Coffee
9:00-10:10	Plenary -- Paper Awards
10:10-10:40	Break
10:40-12:20	Long paper sessions
	Machine Translation	Sentiment Analysis / Information Extraction	Machine Learning / Morphology and Phonology
12:20-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:30	Short Paper Sessions
	Machine Translation	Machine Learning / Syntax	Speech Indexing and Retrieval
3:30-4:00	Break
4:00-5:15	Long Paper Sessions
	Syntax and Parsing	Discourse and Summarization	Spoken Language Systems
6:00	Buses to NCAR
7:00-9:30	Banquet

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - Main Conference

8:00 - 9:00	Coffee
9:00-10:10	Plenary -- Invited Talk by Dan Jurafsky
10:10-10:40	Break
10:40-12:20	Long Paper Sessions
	Machine Translation	Speech Recognition and Language Modeling	Sentiment Analysis
12:20-2:00	Lunch Break
12:40-1:40	Panel Discussion
1:40-2:30	NAACL Business Meeting
2:30-3:45	Long Paper Sessions
	Large-scale NLP	Syntax and Parsing	Discourse and Summarization
3:45 - 4:15	Break
4:15-5:30	Long Paper Sessions
	Machine Learning	Dialog Systems	Syntax and Parsing

Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Workshops

CoNLL (2-day)

BioNLP 2009 (2-day)

Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions(SEW-2009)

Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIAWS3)

Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing

Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity

Semi-supervised Learning for NLP

Friday, June 5, 2009 - Workshops

CoNLL (2-day)

BioNLP 2009 (2-day)

Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009)

Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics

Active Learning for NLP

Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3)