Student Research Symposium 2009

This document contains archived material from the 2009 Symposium.

2009 Winners

• First Prize : Kriti Puniyani
• Runners Up: Michael Heilman and Roger Hsiao
• Best Poster: Liu Liu

Talk Abstracts

• Kenneth Heafield "Support Features for Machine Translation System Combination"
  
  
• Michael Heilman "Extended Tree Edit Models for Paraphrase, Textual Entailment, and Question Answering"
  
  
• Roger Hsiao "Generalized Discriminative Feature Transformation for Speech Recognition"
  
  
• Runxin Li "A Hierarchical Topic Model with Automatic Model Selection Strategy"
  
  
• Alok Parlikar "Can Transliteration Help Low Resource MT?"
  
  
• Kriti Puniyani "Incorporating Population Structure in Association Mapping"
  
  
• Narges Sharif Razavian "Using Fixed Length Word Suffix as New Factors in Factored Statistical Machine Translation"
  
  
• Yi-Chia Wang "Conversational Structuring: Identification of Initiation-Response Pairs within Online Discussion Forums"

Poster Abstracts

• Gopala Anumanchipalli "Techniques for Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion"
  
  
• Bo Lin "Transliteration Alignment"
  
  
• Liu Liu "Automated Generation of Example Contexts for Helping Children Learn Vocabulary"
  
  
• Tae Yano "Modeling Political Blog Posts with Response"