27 May 2018

Venue: National Archaeological Institute and Museum

Official Opening

16:00 – 17:00 – Afternoon Lecture by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov: Linguistic Intelligence: Computers vs. Humans

17:00 – 17:15 – Award Ceremony for the Winners in the Competition in Computational Linguistics

28 May 2018

Venue: House of Europe

9:00 – 9:15 – Registration

9:15 – 9:30 – Conference Opening: Svetlozara Leseva

9:30 – 13:00 – Invited Talks

Chair: Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova

9:30 – 10:30 – Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton): With a Little Help from NLP: My Language Technology Applications with Impact on Society

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 – Dr. Sujith Ravi (Google): Neural Graph Learning

12:00 – 13:00 – Dr. Zornitsa Kozareva (Google): Building Conversational Assistants using Deep Learning

13:00 – 13:50 – Lunch

13:50 – 14:00 – Silver Sponsor Presentation – Vasil Shivachev (Identrics): Context-based Named Entity Classification

14:00 – 15:30 – Main Conference Session I

The authors of each paper accepted as an oral presentation are allotted 30 minutes – 20 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for discussion. Please provide your presentation in .pdf format in advance. If you prefer .ppt(x), have a .pdf back up just in case and provide both files.

Chair: Ivan Derzhanski

14:00 – 14:30 – Nikola Taushanov, Ivan Koychev and Preslav Nakov: Abstractive Text Summarization with Application to Bulgarian News Articles

14:30– 15:00 – Maria Gritz: Towards Lexical Meaning Formal Representation by virtue of the NL-DL Definition Transformation Method

15:00 – 15:30 – Junya Morita: Narrow Productivity, Competition, and Blocking in Word Formation

15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 – Featured Talks

Chair: Ivelina Stoyanova

16:00 – 16:30 – Vito Pirrelli (Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, National Research Council of Italy): NLP-based Assessment of Reading Efficiency in Early Grade Children

16:30 – 17:00 – Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Valentin Vulchanov (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Figurative Language Processing: A Developmental and NLP Perspective

18:30 – Conference Dinner

29 May 2018

Venue: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

9:00 – 10:00 – Main Conference Session II

Chair: Ivan Koychev

9:00 – 9:30 – Cvetana Krstev, Ranka Stanković and Duško Vitas: Knowledge and Rule-Based Diacritic Restoration in Serbian

9:30 – 10:00 – Anton Zinoviev: Perfect Bulgarian Hyphenation, or How not to Stutter at End-of-line

10:00 – 11:00; 13:00 – 14:00; 15:30 – 16:00: Poster Session

Chair: Cvetana Krstev

10:00 – 10:30 – Poster Teasers

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break & Poster Session

11:00 – 13:00 – Main Conference Session III

Chair: Marina Dzhonova

11:00 – 11:30 – Anna Roitberg and Denis Khachko: Russian Bridging Anaphora Corpus

11:30 – 12:00 – Ekaterina Tarpomanova: Aspectual and Temporal Characteristics of the Past Active Participles in Bulgarian – a Corpus-based Study

12:00 – 12:30 – Olena Siruk and Ivan Derzhanski: Unmatched Feminitives in a Corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian Parallel Texts

12:30 – 13:00 – Viktoriya Petrova: The Bulgarian Summaries Corpus

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch & Poster Session

14:00 – 15:30 – Special Session on Wordnets and Ontologies I

Chair: Tsvetana Dimitrova

14:00 – 14:30 – Natalia Loukachevitch and Boris Dobrov: Ontologies for Natural Language Processing: the Case of Russian

14:30 – 15:00 – Ranka Stanković, Miljana Mladenović, Ivan Obradović, Marko Vitas and Cvetana Krstev: Resource-based WordNet Augmentation and Enrichment

15:00 – 15:30 – Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova and Maria Todorova: Classifying Verbs in WordNet by Harnessing Semantic Resources

15:30– 16:00 – Coffee Break & Poster Session

16:00 – 17:30 – Special Session on Wordnet and Ontologies II

Chair: Maria Todorova

16:00 – 16:30 – Maria Mitrofan, Verginica Barbu Mititelu and Grigorina Mitrofan: A Pilot Study for Enriching the Romanian WordNet with Medical Terms

16:30 – 17:00 – Ivelina Stoyanova: Factors and Features Determining the Inheritance of Semantic Primes between Verbs and Nouns within WordNet

17:00 – 17:30 – System demonstration – Borislav Rizov and Tsvetana Dimitrova: Online Editor for WordNets

POSTER SESSION

The Poster Session is planned for 29 May 2018. Posters should be up to 700 mm wide and 1000 mm high.
Author(s) must be available at their posters for discussion during the coffee breaks and the lunch break.

Amir Bakarov: The Effect of Unobserved Word-Context Co-occurrences on a Vector-Mixture Approach for Compositional Distributional Semantics

Rositsa Dekova and Adelina Radeva: Introducing Computational Linguistics and NLP to High School Students

Ivan Derzhanski and Milena Veneva: Linguistic Problems on Number Names

Marina Dzhonova, Kjetil Rå Hauge and Yovka Tisheva: Parallel Web Display of Transcribed Spoken Bulgarian with its Normalised Version and an Indexed List of Lemmas

Georgi Dzhumayov: Integrating Crowdsourcing in Language Learning

Todor Lazarov: Bulgarian–English Parallel Corpus for the Purposes of Creating Statistical Translation Model of the Verb Forms. General Conception, Structure, Resources and Annotation

Branislava Šandrih: Fingerprints in SMS messages: Automatic Recognition of a Short Message Sender Using Gradient Boosting