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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