Corpora: EMNLP/VLC-2000: FINAL PROGRAM

[hinrich schuetze]

                             CONFERENCE PROGRAM

                 (EMNLP/VLC-2000) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON
             EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND
                              VERY LARGE CORPORA

                              October 7-8, 2000
                Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Saturday, October 7

8:45-9:00      REGISTRATION

9:00-9:05      WELCOME

9:05-9:30      Pattern-Based Disambiguation for Natural Language
          Processing
                Eric Brill

9:30-9:55      What's yours and what's mine: Determining Intellectual
                 Attribution in Scientific Text
                Simone Teufel and Marc Moens

9:55-10:20     Japanese Dependency Structure Analysis Based
                 on Support Vector Machines
                Taku Kudo and Yuji Matsumoto

10:20-10:45    Coaxing Confidences from an Old Friend: Probabilistic
                 Classifications from Transformation Rule Lists
                Radu Florian, John Henderson and Grace Ngai

10:45-11:05    BREAK

11:05-12:15    INVITED SPEAKER
                John B. Lowe, VP of Language Engineering, Ask Jeeves
            Inc.
                What's in store for question answering?
                Prognostications based on corpus analysis
                 of several hundred million questions

12:15-13:30    LUNCH

13:30-13:55    A Real-time Integration Of Concept-based
                 Search and Summarization of Chinese Websites
                Joe Zhou and Weiqian Liu

13:55-14:20    Topic Analysis Using a Finite Mixture Model
                Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

14:20-14:45    A Uniform Method of Grammar Extraction and Its
           Applications
                Fei Xia, Martha Palmer and Aravind Joshi

14:45-15:00    BREAK

15:00-15:25    Enriching the Knowledge Sources Used in a
                 Maximum Entropy Part-of-Speech Tagger
                Kristina Toutanova and Christopher D. Manning

15:25-15:50    Error-driven HMM-based Chunk Tagger
                 with Context-dependent Lexicon
                GuoDong Zhou and Jian Su

15:50-16:15    Nonlocal Language Modeling based on
                 Context Co-occurrence Vectors
                Sadao Kurohashi and Manabu Ori

16:15-16:40    Detection of Language (Model) Errors
                K.Y. Hung, R.W.P. Luk, D. Yeung, K.F.L. Chung and W.
           Shu

16:40-17:00    BREAK

17:00-17:25    Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
                 Using Hidden Markov Models
                Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel

17:25-17:50    Query Translation in Chinese-English
                 Cross-Language Information Retrieval
                Yibo Zhang, Le Sun, Lin Du and Yufang Sun

17:50-18:15    Word Alignment of English-Chinese Bilingual Corpus
                 Based on Chunks
                Le Sun, Youbing Jin, Lin Du and Yufang Sun

18:15-18:40    Empirical Term Weighting and Expansion Frequency
                Kyoji Umemura and Kenneth W. Church


Sunday, October 8

9:00-9:25      Sample Selection for Statistical Grammar Induction
                Rebecca Hwa

9:25-9:50      A Statistical Model for Parsing and Word-Sense
           Disambiguation
                Daniel M. Bikel

9:50-10:15     Reducing Parsing Complexity by Intra-Sentence
                 Segmentation based on Maximum Entropy Model
                Sung Dong Kim and Byoung Tak Zhang

10:15-10:40    An Empirical Study of the Domain Dependence
                 of Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Systems
                Gerard Escudero, Lluis Marquez and German Rigau

10:40-11:00    BREAK

11:00-12:00    INVITED SPEAKER
                Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology

12:00-13:20    LUNCH

13:20-14:35    PANEL DISCUSSION
                NLP for the Web: Critical Technology or Luxury?

14:35-15:00    A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions
                 for Reading Comprehension Tests
                Hwee Tou Ng, Leong Hwee Teo and Jennifer Lai Pheng
           Kwan

15:00-15:25    Automated Construction of Database Interfaces:
           Integrating
                 Statistical and Relational Learning for Semantic
            Parsing
                Lappoon R. Tang and Raymond J. Mooney

15:25-15:50    Automatic WordNet Mapping Using Word Sense
           Disambiguation
                Changki Lee, Geunbae Lee and Seo Jung Yun

15:50-16:10    BREAK

16:10-16:35    Combining Lexical and Formatting Cues for Named Entity
                Christian Jacquemin and Caroline Bush

16:35-17:00    A Query Tool for Syntactically Annotated Corpora
                Laura Kallmeyer

17:00-17:25    Statistical Filtering and Subcategorization Frame
            Acquisition
                Anna Korhonen, Genevieve Gorrell and Diana McCarthy

17:25-17:50    One Sense per Collocation and Genre/Topic Variations
                David Martinez and Eneko Agirre



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