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Date: 19-May-2009
From: Katrin Tomanek < katrin.tomanek at uni-jena.de >
Subject: NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for NLP
 

	
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:45:32
From: Katrin Tomanek [katrin.tomanek at uni-jena.de]
Subject: NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for NLP

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NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for NLP 
Short Title: ALNLP 

Date: 05-Jun-2009 - 05-Jun-2009 
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA 
Contact: Eric Ringger 
Contact Email: ringger at cs.byu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/alnlp/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing will explore the challenges and promise of active learning for NLP tasks, including classification, sequence labeling, parsing, semantics, and other more complex tasks.  Both theoretical and applied research is welcome. 

Program of NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for NLP
June, 5th 2009

8:30     
Welcome: Eric Ringger, Robbie Haertel, Katrin Tomanek

9:00    
 Invited talk: Active Learning for NLP: Past, Present, and Future 
Burr Settles, University of Wisconsin

Session 1: Anaphora Resolution

10:00     
Active Learning for Anaphora Resolution 
Caroline Gasperin

10:30     
Break

Session 2: Multiple Annotators and Cost Considerations

11:00    
 On Proper Unit Selection in Active Learning: Co-Selection Effects for Named Entity Recognition 
Katrin Tomanek, Florian Laws, Udo Hahn and Hinrich Schütze

11:30     
Estimating Annotation Cost for Active Learning in a Multi-Annotator Environment 
Shilpa Arora, Eric H. Nyberg and Carolyn P.Rose

12:00     
Data Quality from Crowd-sourcing: A Study of Annotation Selection Criteria for Sentiment Analysis 
Pei-Yun Hsueh, Prem Melville and Vikas Sindhawni

12:30    
Lunch

Session 3: Real Annotators and Experts

2:00    
Evaluating Automation Strategies in Language Documentation 
Alexis Palmer, Jason Baldridge and Taesun Moon

2:30     
A Web Survey on the Use of Active Learning to Support Annotation of Text Data 
Katrin Tomanek and Fredrik Olsson

3:00     
Invited talk: Return on Investment for Active Learning 
Robbie Haertel, Brigham Young University

3:30    
Break

Session 4: New Methods

4:00     
Active Dual Supervision: Reducing the Cost of Annotating Examples and Features  
Prem Melville and Vikas Sindhwani

4:30   
 Proactive Learning for Building Machine Translation Systems for Minority Languages 
Vamshi Ambati and Jaime Carbonell

5:00     
Discussion

5:30   
End of Workshop





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