Program

Saturday, August 25, 2018


9:00 – 9:05    Welcome

9:05 – 9:35    Learning Diachronic Analogies to Analyze Concept Change
Matthias Orlikowski, Matthias Hartung, Philipp Cimiano

9:35 – 10:05   A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online
Frank Feder, Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

10:05 – 10:35  Using relative entropy for detection and analysis of periods of diachronic linguistic change
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb and Elke Teich


10:35 – 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 – 11:30 Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels
Andreas van Cranenburgh

11:30 – 12:00 Analysis of Rhythmic Phrasing: Feature Engineering vs. Representation Learning for Classifying Readout Poetry
Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

12:00 – 12:30 Cross-Discourse and Multilingual Exploration of Textual Corpora with the DualNeighbors Algorithm
Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton


12:30 – 13:50 Lunch break


13:50 – 14:50 Invited talk by Ted Underwood Measurement and Human Perspective


14:50 – 15:50 Poster teasers and Poster session + Coffee break

One Size Fits All? A simple LSTM for non-literal token and construction-level classification
Erik-Lân Do Dinh, Steffen Eger, Iryna Gurevych

Supervised Rhyme Detection with Siamese Recurrent Networks
Thomas Haider and Jonas Kuhn

Normalizing Early English Letters to Present-day English Spelling
Mika Hämäläinen, Tanja Säily, Jack Rueter, Jörg Tiedemann, Eetu Mäkelä

Power Networks: A Novel Neural Architecture to Predict Power Relations
Michelle Lam, Catherina Xu, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

Automated Acquisition of Patterns for Coding Political Event Data: Two Case Studies
Peter Makarov

A Method for Human-Interpretable Paraphrasticality Prediction
Maria Moritz, Johannes Hellrich, Sven Büchel

Exploring word embeddings and phonological similarity for the unsupervised correction of language learner errors
Ildikó Pilán and Elena Volodina

Towards Coreference for Literary Text: Analyzing Domain-Specific Phenomena
Ina Roesiger, Sarah Schulz, Nils Reiter

An Evaluation of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis Techniques for the Plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thomas Schmidt and Manuel Burghardt


16:20 – 16:50 Automatic identification of unknown names with specific roles
Samia Touileb, Truls Pedersen, Helle Sjøvaag

16:50 – 17:20 Induction of a Large-Scale Knowledge Graph from the Regesta Imperii
Juri Opitz, Leo Born, Vivi Nastase

17:20 – 17:30 Closing words