Corpora: CLUK'5 8-9Jan2002 LAST CALL FOR REGISTRATION

[Eric Atwell]

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                    5th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

             CLUK'5,  8-9 January 2002,  University of Leeds
                         LAST CALL FOR REGISTRATION
            Please register online BEFORE 20 DECEMBER (before Xmas!):

                      http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5

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Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK.

Guest Speakers:
Mark Davies, Illinois State University
 Using Relational Databases to Create Unlimited and User-Defined Annotation on
 Large Corpora: A 100 Million Word Corpus of Historical and Modern Spanish
and
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
 Corpus Linguistics and Minority Language Engineering

The colloquium will be held at Charles Morris Hall, University of Leeds.

The cost of participation, which includes a copy of the proceedings,
B&B, lunches, and dinner, will be GBP85 (daytime-only rate GBP45).

Further details and ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM at the CLUK5 website:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5

PROGRAMME:

TUESDAY 8th JANUARY 2002:
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10:00 ARRIVAL

10:30 GUEST SPEAKER: Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster
 Corpus Linguistics and Minority Language Engineering

11:30 tea/coffee

12:00 Judita Preiss, University of Cambridge
 Anaphora Resolution with Memory Based Learning

12:20 Hazel Davies, University of Leeds
 Towards a Coding Scheme for Politeness and Impoliteness Strategies
 in English Language Corpora

12:40 Irena Spasic, University of Salford
 A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Unsupervised Learning of Context Features

13:00 LUNCH

14:00 Fang Huang, University of Sheffield
 Text Summarisation Based on Latent Semantic Analysis

14:20 Julie Weeds, University of Sussex
 The Reliability of a Similarity Measure

14:40 Gabriela Cavaglia, University of Brighton
 Measuring the Homogeneity of Different Varieties of Language

15:00 Advaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge
 Resolving Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguities
 using Machine Learning Techniques and Word-Net Hierarchies

15:20 tea/coffee

15:50 SHORT PAPER: John Elliott, University of Leeds
 The SETI Challenge

16:00 SHORT PAPER: Yasuhiro Kawata, University of Essex
 Towards a Reference Tagset for Japanese

16:10 SHORT PAPER: Hosram Moharam, UMIST
 English Learner Corpora in Foreign Language Teaching (FLT):
 The Case of Arabic (EFL) Learners in Egypt

16:20 SHORT PAPER: Darren Pearce, University of Sussex
 A Comparative Evaluation of Collocation Extraction Techniques

16:30 SHORT PAPER: Xiao Yuan Duan, University of Leeds
 Semantic Association Between Web Pages: A Lexical Knowledge Based Method

(17:00 CLUK committee business meeting)

18:00 DINNER

WEDNESDAY 9th JANUARY 2002:
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9:30 GUEST SPEAKER: Mark Davis, Illinois State University
 Using Relational Databases to Create Unlimited and User-Defined Annotation on
 Large Corpora: A 100 Million Word Corpus of Historical and Modern Spanish

10:30 Vahid Mirzaeian, UMIST
 Computational Content Based on Support for Persian Learners of English

10:50 Jon Herring, University of Brighton
 Is Morphology the Missing Link between Phonology and Orthography?

11:10 tea/cofee

11:30 Sandra Williams, University of Aberdeen
 Natural Language Generation of Discourse Connectives for Different
 Reading Levels

11:50 Christopher Brewster, University of Sheffield
 Techniques for Automated Taxonomies Building: Towards Ontologies for
 Knowledge Management

12:10 Dan Winchester and Mark Lee, University of Birmingham
 Cross-Document Co-reference of Proper Names

12:30 Linda Oxnard, University of Sheffield
 The Development of a Web-Derived Corpus for Learners of a Minoritized
 Language

12:50 CLOSING DISCUSSION

13:30 LUNCH

14:30 departure


Programme Committee
Eric Atwell - University of Leeds
John Carroll - University of Sussex
Anne De Roeck - University of Essex
John Elliott - University of Leeds
Jon Herring - University of Brighton
Elenor Maclaren -Brunel University
Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
Mark Moens - University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Ostler - Linguacubun Ltd.
Darren Pearce - University of Sussex
John Tait - University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio - Cambridge University
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield
(CLUK committee email: cluk-group at dcs.shef.ac.uk)

Local organisation:
Eric Atwell, Hazel Davies, John Elliott,
David Roberts, Clive Souter, Menno van Zaanen

email: cluk5 at comp.leeds.ac.uk
tel: 0113 233 6827/5761
fax: 0113 233 5468
Please register online BEFORE DECEMBER 20:

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5


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Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: 0113-2335430  MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk