| Saturday, July 6, 2002 | ||||||
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| Sat 8:30-8:40 | Welcome from SIGDAT | |||||
| Methods | ||||||
| Sat 8:40-9:05 | Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms | |||||
| Michael Collins | ||||||
| Sat 9:05-9:30 | Conditional Structure versus Conditional Estimation in NLP Models | |||||
| Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning | ||||||
| Sat 9:30-9:55 | An Incremental Decision List Learner | |||||
| Joshua Goodman | ||||||
| Sat 9:55-10:25 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Word Sense Disambiguation | ||||||
| Sat 10:25-10:50 | Modeling Consensus: Classifier Combination for Word Sense Disambiguation | |||||
| Radu Florian and David Yarowsky | ||||||
| Sat 10:50-11:15 | Augmented Mixture Models for Lexical Disambiguation | |||||
| Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky | ||||||
| Sat 11:15-11:40 | An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation | |||||
| Yoong Keok Lee and Hwee Tou Ng | ||||||
| Sat 11:40-11:50 | Short Break | |||||
| Sat 11:50-12:50 | Invited Talk: Learning and Inference in Natural Language | |||||
| Dan Roth | ||||||
| Sat 12:50-2:00 | Lunch break | |||||
| Parsing I / Coreference | ||||||
| Sat 2:00-2:25 | Parsing and Disfluency Placement | |||||
| Donald Engel, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson | ||||||
| Sat 2:25-2:50 | Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules | |||||
| Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie | ||||||
| Sat 2:50-3:15 | Transformational Priors Over Grammars | |||||
| Jason Eisner | ||||||
| Sat 3:15-3:45 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Information Extraction (A) / Machine Translation I (B) | ||||||
| Sat 3:45-4:10 (A) | Kernel Methods for Relation Extraction | |||||
| Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone and Anthony Richardella | ||||||
| Sat 4:10-4:35 (A) | Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques | |||||
| Bo Pang, Lillian Lee and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan | ||||||
| Sat 3:45-4:10 (B) | Extentions to HMM-based Statistical Word Alignment Models | |||||
| Kristina Toutanova, H. Tolga Ilhan and Christopher Manning | ||||||
| Sat 4:10-4:35 (B) | From Words to Corpora: Recognizing Translation | |||||
| Noah A. Smith | ||||||
| Sat 4:35-4:45 | Short Break | |||||
| Parsing II (A) / Lexicons I (B) | ||||||
| Sat 4:45-5:10 (A) | Fast LR parsing Using Rich (Tree Adjoining) Grammars | |||||
| Carlos A. Prolo | ||||||
| Sat 5:10-5:35 (A) | Handling Noisy Training and Testing Data | |||||
| Don Blaheta | ||||||
| Sat 4:45-5:10 (B) | Spectral Clustering for German Verbs | |||||
| Chris Brew and Sabine Schulte im Walde | ||||||
| Sat 5:10-5:35 (B) | Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons | |||||
| William Phillips and Ellen Riloff | ||||||
| Sunday, July 7, 2002 | ||||||
| Machine Translation II | ||||||
| Sun 8:40-9:05 | A Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation | |||||
| Daniel Marcu and William Wong | ||||||
| Sun 9:05-9:30 | Minimum Bayes-Risk Word Alignments of Bilingual Texts | |||||
| Shankar Kumar and William Byrne | ||||||
| Sun 9:30-9:55 | User-Friendly Text Prediction For Translators | |||||
| George Foster, Philippe Langlais and Guy Lapalme | ||||||
| Sun 9:55-10:25 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Machine Translation III (A) / Information Retrieval I (B) | ||||||
| Sun 10:25-10:50 (A) | Generation of Word Graphs in Statistical Machine Translation | |||||
| Nicola Ueffing, Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney | ||||||
| Sun 10:50-11:15 (A) | Bootstrapping Lexical Choice via Multiple-Sequence Alignment | |||||
| Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee | ||||||
| Sun 11:15-11:40 (A) | NLP Found Helpful (at least for one Text Categorization Task) | |||||
| Carl Sable, Kathleen McKeown and Kenneth Church | ||||||
| Sun 10:25-10:50 (B) | A Hybrid Approach to Natural Language Web Search | |||||
| Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John Prager, Yael Ravin and Christian Cesar | ||||||
| Sun 10:50-11:15 (B) | A Method for Open-Vocabulary Speech-Driven Text Retrieval | |||||
| Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou and Tetsuya Ishikawa | ||||||
| Sun 11:15-11:40 (B) | Manipulating Large Corpora for Text Classification | |||||
| Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki | ||||||
| Sun 11:40-11:50 | Short Break | |||||
| Machine Translation IV (A) / Named Entity Recognition (B) | ||||||
| Sun 11:50-12:15 (A) | Processing Comparable Corpora With Bilingual Suffix Trees | |||||
| Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu | ||||||
| Sun 12:15-12:40 (A) | Phrasal Cohesion and Statistical Machine Translation | |||||
| Heidi Fox | ||||||
| Sun 11:50-12:15 (B) | Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition for Italian Broadcast News | |||||
| Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi and Vanessa Sandrini | ||||||
| Sun 12:15-12:40 (B) | Combining Outputs of Multiple Japanese Named Entity Chunkers by Stacking | |||||
| Takehito Utsuro, Manabu Sassano and Kiyotaka Uchimoto | ||||||
| Sun 12:40-2:00 | Lunch Break | |||||
| Lexicons II | ||||||
| Sun 2:00-2:25 | Metonymy Resolution as a Classification Task | |||||
| Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim | ||||||
| Sun 2:25-2:50 | A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts | |||||
| Michael Thelen and Ellen Riloff | ||||||
| Sun 2:50-3:15 | Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction | |||||
| James Curran | ||||||
| Sun 3:15-3:45 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Language Modeling | ||||||
| Sun 3:45-4:10 | Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness | |||||
| Frank Keller, Maria Lapata and Olga Ourioupina | ||||||
| Sun 4:10-4:35 | The SuperARV Language Model: Investigating the Effectiveness of Tightly Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources | |||||
| Wen Wang and Mary P. Harper | ||||||
| Sun 4:35-5:00 | Exploiting Headword Dependency and Predictive Clustering for Language Modeling | |||||
| Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki and Yang Wen | ||||||
| Sun 5:00-5:10 | Short Break | |||||
| Question Answering / Language Understanding II | ||||||
| Sun 5:10-5:35 | An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System | |||||
| Eric Brill, Susan Dumais and Michele Banko | ||||||
| Sun 5:35-6:00 | A Machine-Learning Approach to Introspection in a Question Answering System | |||||
| Krzysztof Czuba, John Prager and Jennifer Chu-Carroll | ||||||
| Sun 6:00-6:25 | Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems | |||||
| Narendra Gupta and Srinivas Bangalore | ||||||
| Sun 6:25-6:35 | Best Paper Award and Closing Remarks | |||||
| Reserve Papers | ||||||
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| The Influence of Minimum Edit Distance on Reference Resolution |
Michael Strube, Stefan Rapp and Christoph Müller |
| Information Extraction from Voicemail Transcripts |
Martin Jansche and Steven Abney |
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Web version by David Yarowsky.