Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis -- Morpho Challenge 2010

Workshop

Morpho Challenge 2010 Workshop will be held 2-3 September 2010 at Aalto University School of Science and Technology in Espoo, Finland. The workshop will take place at meeting room A346 in the Computer Science building. (Journey Planner)
The building has also a cafeteria which serves inexpensive lunch and cafe.

There is also another good workshop in Finland right before the Morpho Challenge Workshop:
2010 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning For Signal Processing (MLSP2010), which takes place in Kittilä.
However, signing up for MLSP2010 is NOT needed in order to participate in the Morpho Challenge Workshop.

Workshop proceedings are available here.

Thursday 2 September (Day 1 of the Morpho Challenge Workshop)

Before the actual workshop (for those who have arrived early):

11:00 Showing the ICS lab, demos
12:00 Lunch

Main program (small changes still possible):

13:00 Mikko Kurimo: Introduction to Morpho Challenge
13:20 Sami Virpioja: Evaluations and results of Competition 1: Comparison to linguistic morpheme analysis
13:50 Constantine Lignos: "Learning from Unseen Data"
14:20 Coffee break
14:50 Lionel Nicolas: "Unsupervised learning of concatenative morphology based on frequency-related form presence"
15:20 Bruno Golenia (co-author of Sebastian Spiegler): "DEAP: Deductive-abductive parsing for morphological analysis"
15:50 Guest lecture by Mathias Creutz, Lead NLP Engineer, AlphaSense Oy, Helsinki, Finland: Important aspects in discovering (unsupervised) morphology
16:30 Discussion: Day 1 presentations, Morpho Challenge 2010
17:00 Conclusion of the Day 1
19:00 Dinner at downtown Helsinki

Friday 3 September (Day 2 of the Morpho Challenge Workshop)

09:30 Mikko Kurimo: Introduction to applications of morpheme analysis
09:40 Ville Turunen: Evaluations and results of Competition 2: Information retrieval
10:00 Sami Virpioja: Evaluations and results of Competition 3: Statistical machine translation
10:20 Bruno Golenia: "Morphological analysis using morpheme graph and mixed-integer computation of stable models"
10:50 Bruno Golenia (co-author of Sebastian Spiegler): "Word decomposition with the Promodes algorithm family bootstrapped on a small labelled dataset"
11:20 Discussion: Algorithms and applications
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Oskar Kohonen: "Semi-supervised extensions to Morfessor Baseline"
13:30 Guest lecture by Krista Lagus, Head of the NLP group at Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Aalto University: Unsupervised Language Representation Discovery
14:00 Discussion: All presentations, next Morpho Challenges, next tasks
15:00 Conclusion of the Workshop