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Main conference (15-17 April 2003)

Programme


Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3






Day 1

09.00
09.30
Introduction
09.30
10.30
Invited talk
Doug Oard, University of Maryland

Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives
10.30
11.00
Break
Parsing
Machine learning
Machine translation
11.00
11.30
Neural Network Probability Estimation for Broad Coverage Parsing,
James Henderson
Toward Evaluation of Writing Style: Overly Repetitious Word Use,
Jill Burstein, Magdalena Wolska
Czech-English Dependency Tree-based Machine Translation,
Curin, Cmejrek, Havelka
11.30
12.00
An efficient implementation of a new DOP model,
Rens Bod
French Amalgam: a quick adaptation of a sentence realization system to French,
Martine Smets, Michael Gamon, Simon Corston-Oliver and Eric Ringger
Using POS Information for SMT into Morphologically Rich Languages,
Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney
12.00
12.30

Bootstrapping statistical parsers from small datasets,
Steedman, Sarkar, Osborne, Hwa, Clark, Hockenmaier, Ruhlen, Baker, Crim

Combining Distributional and Morphological Information for Part of Speech Induction,
Alexander Clark
Automatic Evaluation for a Palpable Measure of a Speech Translation System’s Capability,
Yasuda, Sugaya, Takezawa, Yamamoto, Yanagida
12.30
13.50
Lunch
13.50
16.00

Research notes and demonstrations [detailed programme]
 
16.00
16.30
Break
Machine translation
Compositional semantics
Parsing
16.30
17.00
Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora,
Utsuro, Horiuchi, Hamamoto, Hino, Nakayama
Underspecification formalisms: Hole semantics as dominance constraints,
Koller, Niehren, Thater
Using Grammatical Relations to Compare Parsers,
Judita Preiss
17.00
17.30
Combining Clues for Word Alignment,
Jörg Tiedemann
Well-Nested Parallelism Constraints for Ellipsis Resolution,
Katrin Erk, Joachim Niehren
AVM Description Compilation using Types as Modes,
Gerald Penn
17.30
18.00
Automatic Construction of Machine Translation Knowledge Using Translation Literalness,
Imamura, Sumita, Matsumoto
Semantic construction in F-TAG,
Claire Gardent, Laura Kallmeyer
Describing Syntax with Star-Free Regular Expressions,
Anssi Yli-Jyrä
 

 


Day 2

Machine translation and named entities
Grammar formalisms
Lexicon
09.00
09.30
Efficient Search for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation,
Richard Zens, Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney
Rigid grammars in the Associative-Commutative Lambek Calculus are not learnable,
Christophe Costa Florencio
Evaluating and Combining Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition,
Carsten Brockmann, Mirella Lapata
09.30
10.00
Learning Translations of Named-Entity Phrases from Parallel Corpora,
Robert C. Moore
Multi-modal combinatory categorial grammar,
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Jason Baldridge
Experiments on the Choice of Features for Learning Verb Classes,
Sabine Schulte im Walde
10.00
10.30

Named Entity Recognition For Catalan Using Spanish Resources,
Carreras, Màrquez, Padró

Topological Parsing,
Penn, Haji-Abdolhosseini
A General Feature Space for Automatic Verb Classification,
Eric Joanis, Suzanne Stevenson
10.30
11.00
Break
11.00
12.30

Student research workshop [detailed programme]

 
12.30
13.50
Lunch
13.50
14.35
EACL Business meeting
14.40
16.00

Research notes and demonstrations [detailed programme]
 
16.00
16.30
Break
Prosody and information structure
Algorithms
Classification
16.30
17.00
Learning PP attachment for filtering prosodic phrasing,
van Herwijnen, van den Bosch, Terken, Marsi
Constraint Based Integration of Deep and Shallow Parsing Techniques,
Daum, Foth, Menzel
Language Independent Authorship Attribution with Character Level N-Grams,
Peng, Schuurmans, Keselj, Wang
17.00
17.30
Information Structure in Topological Dependency Grammar,
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Denys Duchier
Comparison of Alignment Templates and Maximum Entropy Models for NLP,
Bender, Macherey, Och, Ney
Classifying the Hungarian Web,
Kornai, Krellenstein, Mulligan, Twomey, Veress, Wysoker
17.30
18.00

Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation in an Information-State Based Dialogue System,
Kruijff-Korbayova, Rodriguez, Ericsson, Karagjosova

Linear Text Segmentation using a Dynamic Programming Algorithm,
Kehagias, Fragkou, Petridis
A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Anti-Spam E-Mail Filtering,
Karl-Michael Schneider
 


Day 3

09.00
10.00

Research notes and demonstrations [detailed programme]

 
10.00
10.30
Break
POS tagging and corpus tools
Dialogue
Lexicon
10.30
11.00
Detecting Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation,
Markus Dickinson, Detmar Meurers
A model of back-channel acknowledgements in spoken dialogue,
Cathcart, Carletta, Klein
QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources,
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
11.00
11.30
Investigating GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers,
James R. Curran, Stephen Clark
The Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue,
Core, J.D. Moore, Zinn
Detecting Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence,
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides
11.30
12.00
Finite Structure Query: A Tool for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora,
Stephan Kepser
Targeted Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems,
Hockey, Lemon, Campana, Hiatt, Aist, Hieronymus, Dowding
Empirical Methods for Compound Splitting,
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight
12.00
12.30

An Integrated Term-Based Corpus Query System,
Manios, Nenadic, Spasic, Ananiadou

Transparent combination of rule-based and data-driven approaches in speech understanding,
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey
Generalised PP-attachment Disambiguation Using Corpus-based Linguistic Diagnostics,
Paola Merlo
12.30
14.00
Lunch
14.00
15.00

Research notes and demonstrations [detailed programme]

 
15.00
15.30
Break
15.30
16.30
Invited talk
John Nerbonne, University of Groningen

Linguistic Variation and Computation
16.30
17.00
Closing and best paper award