WORKSHOP PROGRAMME:
Session 1
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.30 - 10.30 Mark Rogers: The value of language processing to commercial clients (invited talk)
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10.30 - 11.00 Zheng Chen and Heng Ji: A Pairwise Event Coreference Model, Feature Impact and Evaluation for Event Coreference Resolution
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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

Session 2
11.30 - 12.00 Ruslana Margova and Irina Temnikova: Catching the news: two key cases from today
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12.00 - 12.30 Shamima Mithun and Leila Kosseim: Summarizing Blog Entries versus News Texts
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12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

Session 3
14.00 - 15.00 Mike Thelwall: Detecting public news interests from blogs and MySpace (invited talk)
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15.00 - 15.30 Alexandra Balahur, Elena Lloret, Ester Boldrini, Andres Montoyo, Manuel Palomar and Patricio Martinez-Barco: Summarizing Threads in Blogs Using Opinion Polarity
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15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

Session 4
16.00 - 16.30 Ashequl Qadir: Detecting Opinion Sentences Specific to Product Features in Customer Reviews using Typed Dependency Relations
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16.30 - 17.00 David Jurgens and Keith Stevens: Event Detection in Blogs using Temporal Random Indexing
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17.00 - 17.30 Round table/Closing session
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