Corpora: NAACL-2001 Preliminary Call for Participation

Priscilla Rasmussen rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu
Thu Mar 1 20:08:20 UTC 2001


   ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*******************

                Language Technologies 2001:

         Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
      of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    June 2-7, 2001
               Carnegie Mellon University
              Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

   ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*******************


The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon
University, June 2-7, 2001.  We have a diverse selection of tutorials,
workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening picnic
and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural
History.  We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop
on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1).  The
conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access
throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in
advance), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops.  While you
are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June
1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free
performances.

WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

REGISTRATION DATES:
    Early registration (on line or by mail): March 15-April 30
    Late registration  (on line or by mail): May 1-26
    On site registration: June 2-7

REGISTRATION FEES:
    Regular ACL member     $250 (early)  $300 (late, on location)
    Regular Non-ACL member $310 (early)  $370 (late) - includes ACL memb dues
    Student ACL member     $100 (early)  $125 (late)
    Student Non-ACL member $130 (early)  $155 (late) - includes ACL memb dues

    Workshops (each, 1 day)    $50 (early)   $75 (late)
    EMNLP (2 days)            $100 (early)  $150 (late)
    Tutorials (each, 1/2 day) $100 (early)  $125 (late)
               student         $75 (early)  $100 (late)

    Banquet tickets            $65 (regular) $40 (student)

***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************

TUTORIALS, June 2

 Morning:
    "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural
    Spoken Dialog.
    Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso,
    Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory

    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing:
    What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?
    Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research

 Afternoon
    Building Synthetic Voices.
    Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University

    Open-Domain Textual Question Answering.
    Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University

WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4
Please see the web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html)
for individual submission deadlines.

 Sunday, June 3

    Automatic Summarization,
    Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs

    Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation
    Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs

    WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
    Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1)
    Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
    Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

 Monday, June 4

    Student Research Workshop
    Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs

    Adaptation in Dialogue Systems,
    Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs

    WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
    Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2)
    Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
    Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4
Deadline for submissions, March 13

DEMOS, June 5-7
Deadline for submissions, March 2

INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6
A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to
industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial
trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to
participate:

EXHIBITORS (to date):
    Transclick
    Nuance
    Multicorpora R&D Inc.
    Trados Corporation

SPONSORS (to date):

 GOLD:
    LingoMotors

 SILVER:
    IISI

 BRONZE:
    Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
    Nuance
    SRA, International
    TRADOS
    AT&T

Pending and new exhibitors and sponsors, please contact Lynn Carlson
(lmcarls at super.org) or Kurt Godden (kgodden at justtalk.com).

LIST OF MAIN SESSION PAPERS, June 5-7

 Invited Speakers:
    Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University

    Other invited speakers to be announced.

 Natural Language Generation

    Instance-Based Natural Language Generation (Sebastian Varges,
    Chris Mellish)
    Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation (Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio,
    Renate Henschel, Chris Mellish)
    A Trainable Sentence Planner (Marilyn A. Walker, Owen C. Rambow,
    Monica Rogati)

 Information Retrieval and Machine Learning

    Why Inverse Document Frequency? (Kishore Papineni)
    Question Answering Using Maximum-Entropy Components (Abraham
    Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi)
    Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane (Grace Ngai, Radu
    Florian)

 Dialog

    Identifying User Corrections Automatically in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    (Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, Marc Swerts)
    Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement
    Learning and Inductive Logic Programming (Renaud Lecoeuche)

 Word Meaning

    A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of
    Context-Sensitive Adjectives (Maria Lapata)
    Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy (Noriko Tomuro)
    A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense (Ted
    Pedersen)

 Semantics

    An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic Interpretation Using an Enhanced
    WordNet (Fernando Gomez)
    Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy
    (Stephen Clark, David Weir)
    Identifying Cognates by Phonetic and Semantic Similarity (Grzegorz
    Kondrak)

 Speech Synthesis and Recognition

    Re-engineering Letter-to-Sound Rules (Martin Jansche)
    Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech (Eugene Charniak
    and Mark Johnson)
    Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations (Sergey Pakhomov,
    Michael Schonwetter, Joan Bachenko)

 Machine Translation

    A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation (Srinivas Bangalore,
    Giuseppe Riccardi)
    Information-Based Machine Translation (Keiko Horiguchi)
    Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction (Gideon S. Mann and David
    Yarowsky)

 Parsing

    A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model (John
    Hale)
    Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie)
    Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing (Anoop Sarkar)
    Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie)

 Language Modeling

    A Structured Language Model Based on Context-Sensitive
    Probabilistic Left-Corner Parsing
    (Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Dirk Van Compernolle, Filip Van Aelten)
    Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?
    (Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding,
    Johan Boye)
    Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances (Laura Mayfield
    Tomokiyo, Rosie Jones)

 Names and Coreference

    Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data (Eugene
    Charniak)
    Text and Knowledge Mining for Coreference Resolution (Sanda Harabagiu,
    Razvan Bunescu, Steve Maiorano)

 Chunking and Morphology

    Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies (Patrick
    Schone, Daniel Jurafsky)
    Chunking with Support Vector Machines (Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto)
    Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust
    Projection Across Aligned Corpora (David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai)

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
    General Chair, Lori Levin
    Program, Kevin Knight
    Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie
    Tutorials, Dekang Lin
    Workshops, Lillian Lee
    Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba
    Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl
    Demos, Ronnie Smith
    Exhibits, Lynn Carlson
    Sponsorships, Kurt Godden
    Publicity, Ralf Brown
    Web Master, Bob Frederking

SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    Eric Brill
    Ann Copestake
    Marti Hearst
    Aravind Joshi
    Andrew Kehler
    Elliot Macklovitch
    Fernando Pereira
    Owen Rambow
    Elizabeth Shriberg
    Ralph Weischedel



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