Venue: House of Europe

8 September 2022

MAIN CONFERENCE

9:00 – 9:15 – Registration

9:15 – 9:30 – Conference Opening

8 September MORNING SESSION (Chairs: Svetla Koeva, Ivan Koychev)

9:30 – 10:30 – Invited Talk: Prof. Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel): The Hebrew Essay Corpus

10:30 – 10:45 – Coffee Break and Demonstrations
Demonstration – Svetla Koeva, Ivelina Stoyanova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS), Yordan Kralev (Technical University of Sofia):  The Multilingual Image Corpus – Towards a Multimodal and Multilingual Dataset

10:45 – 11:10 – Elena Callegari (University of Iceland / SageWrite), Desara Xhura (SageWrite): A Corpus for Automatic Article Analysis

11:10 – 11:35 – Timofey Atnashev (HSE University), Veronika Ganeeva (HSE University), Roman Kazakov (HSE University), Daria Matyash (HSE University / Sber AI Centre), Michael Sonkin (HSE University), Ekaterina Voloshina (HSE University / AIRI), Oleg Serikov (HSE University / DeepPavlov lab, MIPT / AIRI / Institute of Linguistics, RAS), Ekaterina Artemova (HSE University / Lomonosov Moscow State University): Razmecheno: Named Entity Recognition from Digital Archive of Diaries “Prozhito”

11:35 – 12:00 – Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, Shuichiro Shimizu (Kyoto University): Filtering of Noisy Web-Crawled Parallel Corpus: the Japanese-Bulgarian Language Pair

12:00 – 12:25 – Radoslav Ralev, Jurgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich): Hate Speech Classification in Bulgarian

12:25 – 12:50 – Slavina Lozanova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski), Ivelina Stoyanova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS): WordNet-based Bulgarian Sign Language Dictionary of Crisis Management Terminology

12:50 – 13:30 – Lunch Break

8 September AFTERNOON SESSION (Chairs: Petya Osenova, Atanas Atanasov, Rositsa Dekova)

13:30 – 14:10 – Demonstration: Dr. Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre, European Commission): OntoPopulis, a System for Learning Semantic Classes

14:10 – 14:35 – Petya Osenova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski): Raising and Control Constructions in a Bulgarian UD Parsebank of Parliament Sessions

14:35 – 15:00 – Yovka Tisheva, Marina Dzhonova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski): Syntactic Characteristics of Emotive Predicates in Bulgarian – a Corpus-based Study

15:00 – 15:25 – Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Krasimira Aleksova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski): Evidential Strategies and Grammatical Marking in Clauses Governed by Verba Dicendi in Bulgarian

15:25 – 15:50 – Junya Morita (Kinjo Gakuin University): Corpus-Based Research into Verb-Forming Suffixes in English: Its Empirical and Theoretical Consequences

15:50 – 16:15 – Ivan Derzhanski, Olena Siruk (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS): Some Notes on p(e)re-Reduplication in Bulgarian and Ukrainian: A Corpus-based Study

16:15 – 16:30 – Coffee Break and Demonstrations
Demonstration – Svetla Koeva, Valentina Stefanova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS):  Curated Multilingual Language Resources for CEF.AT: Overall View

16:30 – 16:55 – Radu Ion, Andrei-Marius Avram, Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Elena Irimia, Valentin Badea (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (RACAI), Romanian Academy): An Open-domain QA System for E-governance

16:55 – 17:20 – Daria Liakhovets, Sven Schlarb (Austrian Institute of Technology): Zero-shot Event Causality Identification with Question Answering

17:20 – 17:45 – Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS): Ontology of Visual Objects

17:45 – 18:00 – Discussion and Closing Remarks

18:30 – Cocktail (venue)

9 September 2022

9:00 – 9:10 – Opening

9 September MORNING SESSION (Chairs: Ivelina Stoyanova, Irina Temnikova, Hristo Tanev)

9:10 – 10:10 – Invited Talk: Prof. Iryna Gurevych (Technical University of Darmstadt): Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

10:10 – 10:35 – Alexander Kirillovich (HSE University / Kazan Federal University), Natalia Loukachevitch (Lomonosov Moscow State University / Institute for System Programming, RAS), Maksim Kulaev (HSE University), Angelina Bolshina (Moscow State University), Dmitry Ilvovsky (HSE University): Sense-Annotated Corpus for Russian

10:35 – 11:00 – Verginica Barbu Mititelu (RACAI, Romanian Academy), Mihaela Cristescu (University of Bucharest), Maria Mitrofan (RACAI, Romanian Academy), Bianca-Madalina Zgreaban (Utrecht University), Elena-Andreea Barbulescu (University of Bucharest): A Romanian Corpus Annotated with Verbal Multiword Expressions

11:00 – 11:25 – Aleksandar Petrovski (International Slavic University in Sv. Nikole): A Parallel English – Serbian – Bulgarian – Macedonian Lexicon of Named Entities

11:25 – 11:40 – Coffee Break and Demonstrations
Demonstration – Yordan Kralev (Technical University of Sofia):  The Multilingual Image Corpus (MIC 21) Integration in 51

11:40 – 12:05 – Silvia Gargova, Irina Temnikova, Ivo Dzhumerov, Hristiana Nikolaeva (Big Data for Smart Society Institute, GATE): Evaluation of Off-the-Shelf Language Identification Tools on Bulgarian Social Media Posts

12:05 – 12:30 – Kamel Smaili, David Langlois, Peter Pribil (Loria – SMarT Universite Lorraine): Language Rehabilitation of People with BROCA Aphasia Using Deep Neural Machine Translation

12:30 – 12:55 – Travis Sorenson (University of Central Arkansas): Current Shortcomings of Machine Translation in Spanish and Bulgarian Vis-a-vis English

12:55 – 13:20 – Cvetana Krstev, Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade): A Myriad of Ways to Say: “Wear a Mask!”

13:20 – 14:00 – Lunch Break

MIC OBJECT DETECTION CHALLENGE 2022 (Chair: Maria Todorova)

14:00 – 14:40 – Invited Talk: Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez (Expert.ai): Towards AI that Reasons with Scientific Text and Images (online)

14:40 – 15:05 – Yordan Kralev (Technical University of Sofia), Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS): Image Models for large-scale Object Detection and Classification

15:05 – 15:10 – The MIC Object Detection Challenge: Results, Trends and Prospects

15:10 – 15:25 – Coffee Break and Demonstrations
Demonstration – Emil Doychev (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv):  Creating Conceptual Frames using Bulframe

SPECIAL SESSION ON WORDNETS, FRAMENETS AND ONTOLOGIES (Chair: Alexandra Bagasheva)

15:25 – 16:05 – Invited Talk: Prof. Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen): Lexical Conceptual Resources in the Era of Neural Language Models

16:05 – 16:30 – Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS), Emil Doychev (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv): Ontology Supported Frame Classification

16:30 – 16:55 – Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, BAS): Linked Resources towards Enhancing the Conceptual Description of General Lexis Verbs Using Syntactic Information

16:55 – 17:20 – Matea Birtic, Ivana Brac, Sinisa Runjaic (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics): Croatian Repository for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction – SARGADA

17:20 – 17:45 – Borislav Rizov, Tinko Tinchev (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski): Towards Dynamic Wordnet: Time Flow Hydra

17:45 – Conference Closing