Corpora: EMNLP 2001 call for participation

[Lillian Lee]

     *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN EMNLP 2001 ***

New: Preliminary program.
     Note the May 7 early registration deadline!
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2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html

Sponsored by the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI)
(a joint Cornell University/Air Force Research Laboratory institute)

REGISTRATION: see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/registration-forms.html
  * Early registration: by May 7 (lower registration fee)
  * Late registration: May 8-26
  * On site registration also available

SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites participation at EMNLP 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting
of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2001).  We have
arranged an exciting program devoted to advances in all areas of
traditional interest to the SIGDAT and related fields, as well as to
this year's theme:
  "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges".

We'll have two days of paper presentations, plus:

* An invited talk by Eric Brill, Microsoft Research.

* A panel debating the efficacy of the Expectation-Maximization (EM)
  algorithm.  The panel will begin with an introduction to EM.
  Confirmed panelists:
    - Eugene Charniak, Brown University
    - Kevin Knight, ISI
    - Stefan Riezler, Xerox PARC

* A panel on industrial perspectives on natural language technology.
  Confirmed panelists:
    - Adam Berger, Eizel Technologies
    - Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
    - Lynette Hirschman, MITRE


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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SUNDAY JUNE 3


8:45-9:00    Welcome

9:00-9:25    Limitations of Co-training for Natural Language
	       Learning from Large Datasets
	     David Pierce and Claire Cardie

9:25-9:50    A Sequential Model for Multi-class Classification
	     Yair Even-Zohar and Dan Roth

9:50-10:15   Learning Within-Sentence Semantic Coherence
	     Elena Eneva, Rose Hoberman, and Lucian Lita

10:15-10:45  BREAK

10:45-11:10  Knowledge Sources for Word-Level Translation Models
	     Philipp Koehn and Kevin Knight

11:10-11:35  Improving Lexical Mapping Model of English-Korean
	       Bitext Using Structural Features
	     Seonho Kim, Juntae Yoon and Mansuk Song

11:35-11:45  SHORT BREAK

11:45-12:45  INVITED TALK
	     Eric Brill

12:45-2:00   LUNCH

2:00-2:25    Stacking classifiers for anti-spam filtering of e-mail
	     Georgios Sakkis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras,
	       Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, and
	       Panagiotis Stamatopoulos

2:25-2:50    Feature Space Restructuring for SVMs with Application
	       to Text Categorization
	     Hiroya Takamura and Yuji Matsumoto

2:50-3:15    Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for
	       Text Categorization
	     Carl Sable and Ken Church

3:15-3:25    SHORT BREAK

3:25-3:50    Question Answering Using a Large Text Database: A
	       Machine Learning Approach
	     Hwee Tou Ng, Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan, and Yiyuan Xia

3:50-4:15    Information Extraction using the Structured Language Model
	     Ciprian Chelba and Milind Mahajan

4:15-4:30    SHORT BREAK

4:30-5:30    PANEL:  THE EFFICACY OF EM
	       (includes an introduction to the EM algorithm)
	     Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, Stefan Riezler (confirmed
	       so far)
	

MONDAY JUNE 4


8:35-9:00    Classifying Semantic Relations between Noun Compounds
	       using a Domain-Specific Lexical Hierarchy
	     Barbara Rosario and Marti Hearst

9:00-9:25    The Unknown Word Problem: A Morphological Analysis of
	       Japanese Using Maximum Entropy Aided by a Dictionary
	     Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara

9:25-9:50    Is Knowledge-Free Induction of Multiword Unit Dictionary
	       Headwords a Solved Problem?
	     Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky

9:50-10:15   Latent Semantic Analysis for Text Segmentation
	     Freddy Y. Y. Choi, Peter Wiemer-Hastings, and Johanna Moore

10:15-10:45  BREAK

10:45-11:10  Detecting short passages of similar text in large
	       document collections
	     Caroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson and James Malcolm

11:10-11:35  Hybrid text mining for finding abbreviations and their
	       definitions
	     Youngja Park and Roy J. Byrd

11:35-11:45  SHORT BREAK

11:45-12:45  PANEL: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES ON NLP
	     Adam Berger, Joshua Goodman, Lynette Hirschman (confirmed
	       so far)

12:45-2:00   LUNCH

2:00-2:25    Automatic Corpus-based Tone Prediction using K-ToBI
	       Representation
	     Jin-seok Lee, Byeongchang Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee

2:25-2:50    Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Syllabification and
	       Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
	     Karin Mueller

2:50-3:00    SHORT BREAK

3:00-3:25    Comparing Data-driven Learning Algorithms for PoS Tagging
	       of Swedish
	     Beata Megyesi

3:25-3:50    Impact of quality and quantity of corpora on stochastic
	       generation
	     Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen, and Owen Rambow

3:50-4:15    Corpus Variation and Parser Performance
	     Daniel Gildea

4:15-4:30    REFRESHMENTS (CLOSE)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Program Chair: Lillian Lee, Cornell University (llee at cs.cornell.edu)
Program Co-Chair: Donna Harman, NIST (donna.harman at nist.gov)
Publication Chair: David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
(yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu)

Regina Barzilay, Columbia University
Thorsten Brants, Xerox PARC
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
Kenneth Church, AT&T Labs - Research
Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh
Michael Collins, AT&T Labs - Research
Eric Gaussier, Xerox
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Don Hindle, AnswerLogic
Changning Huang, Microsoft
Rebecca Hwa, University of Maryland
Hitoshi Iida, Sony
Paul Jacobs, AnswerLogic
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI
Maghi King, University of Geneva
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD
Maria Lapata, Saarland University/University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Marc Light, MITRE
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
Kim-Teng Lua, National University of Singapore
Lluís Màrquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paola Merlo,University of Geneva
Rada Mihalcea, Southern Methodist University
Guenter Neumann, DFKI
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota,Duluth
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Anoop Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania
Erik Tjong Kim Sang, University of Antwerp
Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Atro Voutilainen, Conexor
Kiri Wagstaff, Cornell University
Roman Yangarber, New York University
Joe Zhou, Intel