12.1305, Confs: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ CoNLL-2001 Workshop

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Subject: 12.1305, Confs: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ CoNLL-2001 Workshop

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Date:  Fri, 11 May 2001 13:14:59 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Comp Natural Lang Learning/ ACL-2001, CoNLL-2001 Workshop

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Date:  Fri, 11 May 2001 13:14:59 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Comp Natural Lang Learning/ ACL-2001, CoNLL-2001 Workshop

	     *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN CoNLL-2001 ***

	      A Workshop to be held in Toulouse, France
			    July 6-7, 2001
	       URL: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/

REGISTRATION: see http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
  * Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
  * Late registration: May 25 - June 24
  * After June 24th, registration will be on site only


INVITED SPEAKERS
- --------------
Eric Brill
John Nerbonne


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
- -----------------

                            Friday July 6, 2001

  08.45 - 09.00   Opening

                              Learning Methods

  09.00 - 09.30   Multidimensional transformation-based learning
                  Radu Florian, Grace Ngai

  09.30 - 10.00   Combining a self-organizing map with memory-based
                  learning
                  James Hammerton, Erik Tjong Kim Sang

                              Invited Lecture

  10.00 - 11:00
                  Eric Brill

  11.00 - 11.30   Coffee

                             Syntax Learning I

  11.30 - 12.00   Redundancy vs. minimality in stochastic parsing with the
                  DOP model
                  Rens Bod

  12.00 - 12.30   Automatic construction and optimisation of local
                  structural context grammars
                  Anja Belz

  12.30 - 14.00   Lunch

                                Semantics I

  14.00 - 14.30   Using selectional restrictions learned from Semcor for
                  WSD
                  Eneko Agirre, David Martinez

  14.30 - 15.00   Semantic pattern learning through maximum entropy-based
                  WSD technique
                  Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Suarez, Manuel Palomar

  15.00 - 15.30   Automatic verb classification using multilingual
                  resources
                  Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson

  15.30 - 16.00   Tea

                             Syntax Learning II

  16.00 - 16.30   Exploring evidence for shallow parsing
                  Xin Li and Dan Roth

  16.30 - 17.00   Probabilistic models for PP-attachment resolution and NP
                  analysis
                  Eric Gaussier and Nicola Cancedda

  17.00 - 18.00   Shared Task Session


                           Saturday July 7, 2001

                        Minimizing training material

  09.00 - 09.30   On minimizing training corpus for parser acquisition
                  Rebecca Hwa

  09.30 - 10.00   Morpholog: Constrained and Supervised Learning of
                  Morphology
                  Remi Zajac

                              Invited Session

  10.00 - 11.00   Learning Computational Grammars
                  John Nerbonne

  11.00 - 11.30   Coffee

                            Syntax Learning III

  11.30 - 12.00   Unsupervised induction of stochastic context-free
                  grammars using distributional clustering
                  Alexander Clark

  12.00 - 12.30   Distributional phrase structure induction
                  Dan Klein and Christopher Manning

  12.30 - 14.00   Lunch

                                Semantics II

  14.00 - 14.30   Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the
                  case of prepositional phrases
                  Paola Merlo and Matthias Leybold

  14.30 - 15.00   Learning to identify animate references
                  Constantin Orasan and Richard Evans

  15.00 - 15.30   Coreference resolution with syntactico-semantic rules
                  and corpus statistics
                  Sven Hartrumpf

  15.30 - 16.00   Tea

                              NLP Applications

  16.00 - 16.30   Inducing Probabilistic Invertible Translation Grammars
                  from Parallel Texts
                  Michael Carl

  16.30 - 17.00   A mixture-of-experts framework for text classification
                  Andrew Estabrooks and Nathalie Japkowicz

  17.00 - 17.30   Email summarization using linguistic and machine
                  learning techniques
                  Smaranda Muresan, Evelyne Tzoukermann, Judith L. Klavans

                        Cognitive models of learning

  17.30 - 18.00   A psychologically plausible and computationally
                  effective approach to learning syntax
                  Stephen Watkinson, Suresh Manandhar

  18.00 - 18.30   SIGNLL meeting


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- ---------------

     Walter Daelemans (co-chair)
     Remi Zajac (co-chair)
     Thorsten Brants (Xerox PARC, USA)
     Michael Brent (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA)
     Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA)
     James Cussens (University of York, UK)
     Herve Dejean (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
     Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Grenoble, France)
     Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
     John Nerbonne (Groningen University, Netherlands)
     Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey)
     Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK),
     David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
     Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin, Ireland)
     Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
     Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
     Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
     Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)


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