Thursday, July 30, 2015
8:45 - 9:00
Opening Remarks
Deyi Xiong[slides]
Soochow University
9:00 - 10:30
Session 1
Chair: Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Speech: Semantic Parsing as, via, and for Machine Translation
Percy Liang
Stanford University
10:00 - 10:30
Round trips with meaning stopovers
Alastair Butler
Tohoku University
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30Session 2
Chair: Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design
11:00 - 12:00Keynote Speech: Learning Multilingual Semantics from Big Data on the Web
Gerard de Melo[slides]
Tsinghua University
12:00 - 12:30Conceptual Annotations Preserve Structure Across Translations: A French-English Case Study
Elior Sulem1, Omri Abend2, Ari Rappoport3[slides]
1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2The University of Edinburgh,3The Hebrew University
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:30Session 3
Chair: Deyi Xiong, Soochow University
13:30 - 14:30Keynote Speech: Sequence to Sequence Learning for Language Understanding
Quoc V. Le[slides]
14:30 - 15:00Integrating Case Frame into Japanese to Chinese Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Model
Jinan Xu1, Jiangming Liu2, Yufeng Chen1, Yujie Zhang1, Fang Ming1, Shaotong Li1[slides]
1Beijing Jiaotong University,2Singapore University of Technology and Design
15:00 - 15:30A Discriminative Model for Semantics-to-String Translation
Aleš Tamchyna1, Chris Quirk2, Michel Galley2[slides]
1Charles University in Prague, UFAL MFF,2Microsoft Research
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:45Session 4
Chair: Deyi Xiong, Soochow University
16:00 - 17:00Keynote Speech: Machine Translation and Deep Language Engineering Approaches
António Branco[slides]
University of Lisbon
17:00 - 17:45Panel: Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation: Gaps and Challenges
Chris Quirk (Panel Chair)1, Eduard Hovy2[slides],Percy Liang3, António Branco4, Quoc V. Le5
1Microsoft,2Carnegie Mellon University,3Stanford University,4University of Lisbon,5Google
