Programme

The 7th Conference

Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective

Riga, Latvia
October 6-7, 2016

October 6
09.15-10.00	Registration	Foyer, 1st floor
10.00-10.20	Opening Welcoming address by prof. Juris Borzovs, dean of the Faculty of Computing, organiser of Baltic HLT 2016 Welcoming address by prof. Inguna Skadiņa, chair of the programme committee of Baltic HLT 2016	Small Hall
10.20-11.10	Invited speech: Josef van Genabith	Statistical and Neural Machine Translation. (video)
11.10-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-13.00	Country Presentations Session chair: Andrejs Vasiļjevs	Small Hall
11.30.-12.00	Andrius Utka, Darius Amilevičius , Tomas Krilavičius and Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė	Overview of the Development of Language Resources and Technologies in Lithuania (2012-2015). (presentation)
12.00-12.30	Kadri Vider	Estonian Language Resources and Tools: Overview.
12.30-13.00	Inguna Skadiņa, Ilze Auziņa, Daiga Deksne, Raivis Skadiņš, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Madara Gaiļūna and Ieva Portnaja	Filling the Gaps in Latvian BLARK: Case of the Latvian IT Competence Centre. (presentation)
13.00-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Machine Translation Session chair: Raivis Skadiņš	Auditorium 13
14.30-14.50	Eleri Aedmaa and Mark Fishel	Whether to English More Alike Reordered Suits Estonian Input for Statistical Machine Translation Better? (presentation)
14.50-15.10	Mārcis Pinnis	Towards Hybrid Neural Machine Translation for English-Latvian. (presentation)
15.10-15.30	Matīss Rikters	Searching for the Best Translation Combination Across All Possible Variants. (presentation)
15.30-16.00	Introduction to posters and demos (Session chair: Tomas Krilavičius)	Auditorium 13
16.00-16.20	Coffee break
16.20-18.00	Posters & Demos	Room 336 and corridor, 3rd floor
	Askars Salimbajevs	Bidirectional LSTM for Automatic Punctuation Restoration.
	Inguna Skadiņa	Multi-Word Expressions in English-Latvian SMT: Problems and Solutions.
	Kastytis Ratkevičius, Gintarė Paškauskaitė and Gintarė Bartišiūtė	Recognition of ICD-10 Codes by Combining Two Recognizers.
	Kimmo Kettunen, Tuula Pääkkönen and Mika Koistinen	Between Diachrony and Synchrony: Evaluation of Lexical Quality of a Digitized Historical Finnish Newspaper and Journal Collection with Morphological Analyzers.
	Daiga Deksne	A New Phase in the Development of a Grammar Checker for Latvian.
	Natalia Perkova and Dmitri Sitchinava	On the Development of a Latvian Russian Parallel Corpus.
	Roberts Darģis, Guna Rābante-Buša, Ilze Auziņa and Sergejs Kruks	ParliSearch – a System for Large Text Corpus Discourse Analysis. (poster and demonstration)
	Renārs Liepiņš, Guntis Bārzdiņš, Didzis Goško, Normunds Grūzītis, Roberts Darģis, Artūrs Znotiņš, Pēteris Paikens, Ieva Portnaja	Demo of SUMMA Project Platform
	Tatjana Gornostaja, Andis Lagzdiņš, Artūrs Vasiļevskis	Demo of FREME project - Open Framework of e-Services for Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment of Digital Content
	Roberts Darģis , Artūrs Znotiņš, Normunds Grūzītis and Ilze Auziņa	RuTa – an Editor for Speech Transcriptions
	Jevgenijs Strigins and Askars Salimbajevs	Demo: Solutions for Latvian Automatic Speech Recognition
19.00-	Conference Dinner

October 7
9.00-10.10	Panel discussion: Baltic languages in European Language Resource Infrastructures Jana Ķikāne (National Library of Latvia)(presentation), Sanita Reinsone (Archives of Latvian Folklore, DigArch_ICH) (presentation), Andrius Utka (CLARIN-LT)(presentation), Andrejs Vasiļjevs (META-NET/ELRC) (paper, presentation), Kadri Vider (CLARIN Estonia)(presentation)	Auditorium 13
10.10-10.30	Coffee break
10.30-11.50	Speech Technologies and Corpora Session chair: Einar Meister	Auditorium 13
10.30.-10.50	Sven Aller and Einar Meister	Perception of Audiovisual Speech Produced by Human and Virtual Speaker. (presentation)
10.50-11.10	Askars Salimbajevs	Towards the First Dictation System for Latvian Language. (presentation)
11.10-11.30	Tanel Alumäe and Ottokar Tilk	Automatic Speech Recognition System for Lithuanian Broadcast Audio.
11.30-11.50	Ilze Auziņa, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Guna Rābante-Buša, Roberts Darģis and Antonio Fábregas	Designing an Annotated Longitudinal Latvian Children’s Speech Corpus.
11.50-13.20	Lunch
13.20-14.00	Invited Speech: Jörg Tiedemann	Languages are Dialects with a Treebank and a Dependency Parser - Experiments with Cross-Lingual Parsing for Low-Resource Languages. (video)
14.00-15.40	Written Language Resources and Tools Session chair: Andrius Utka	Auditorium 13
14.00-14.20	Agnė Bielinskienė, Loïc Boizou, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė and Erika Rimkutė	Lithuanian Dependency Treebank ALKSNIS. (presentation)
14.20-14.40	Lauma Pretkalniņa, Laura Rituma and Baiba Saulīte	Universal Dependency Treebank for Latvian: a Pilot. (presentation)
14.40-15.00	Artūrs Znotiņš	Word Embeddings for Latvian Natural Language Processing Tools.
15.00-15.20	Pēteris Paikens	Deep Neural Learning Approaches for Latvian Morphological Tagging.
15.20-15.40	Justina Mandravickaitė, Erika Rimkutė and Tomas Krilavičius	Hybrid Approach for Automatic Identification of Multi-Word Expressions in Lithuanian.
15.40-	Closing