[Corpora-List] CoNLL-04 Conference Program

[Ellen Riloff]

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                           CONFERENCE PROGRAM

     Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2004)

     WHEN:  May 6-7, 2004  (immediately following HLT-NAACL 2004)
     WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts
     URL:   http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2004/

     REGISTRATION: http://www.aclweb.org/hltnaacl04reg/hltnaacl04reg.php


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Thursday, May 6

9:00-9:05   Welcome (Hwee Tou Ng and Ellen Riloff)

Session 1:  Inference and Semantics

9:05-9:35   A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in
            Natural Language Tasks
            Dan Roth and Wen-tau Yih

9:35-10:05  Semantic Lexicon Construction: Learning from Unlabeled Data
            via Spectral Analysis
            Rie Kubota Ando

10:05-10:35 A Semantic Kernel for Predicate Argument Classification
            Alessandro Moschitti and Cosmin Adrian Bejan

10:35-11:00 Break


Session 2:  Word Sense Disambiguation

11:00-11:30 Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised
            Word Sense Disambiguation
            Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen

11:30-12:00 Co-training and Self-training for Word Sense Disambiguation
            Rada Mihalcea

12:00-12:30 Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Contexts in Vector
            and Similarity Spaces
            Amruta Purandare and Ted Pedersen

12:30-14:00 Lunch


Session 3:  Parsing

14:00-14:30 Memory-Based Dependency Parsing
            Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall and Jens Nilsson


Invited Talk

14:30-15:30 Language Learning: Beyond Thunderdome
            Christopher D. Manning

15:30-16:00 Break


Session 4:  Text Classification

16:00-16:30 Modeling Category Structures with a Kernel Function
            Hiroya Takamura, Yuji Matsumoto and Hiroyasu Yamada

16:30-17:00 A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Constructions of
            Category Hierarchy for Classifying Large Corpora
            Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

17:00-17:30 SIGNLL Business Meeting



Friday, May 7

Session 5:  Syntax and Semantics

9:30-10:00  Thesauruses for Prepositional Phrase Attachment
            Mark McLauchlan

10:00-10:30 Calculating Semantic Distance between Word Sense
            Probability Distributions
            Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson

10:30-11:00 Break


Invited Talk

11:00-12:00 Putting Meaning into Your Trees
            Martha Palmer

12:00-13:30 Lunch


Shared Task Session

13:30-14:00 Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task: Semantic Role
            Labeling
            Xavier Carreras and Lluis Marquez

14:00-14:10 Semantic Role Labelling With Chunk Sequences
            Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado and Detlef
            Prescher

14:10-14:20 Memory-based semantic role labeling: Optimizing features,
            algorithm, and output
            Antal van den Bosch, Sander Canisius, Walter Daelemans,
            Iris Hendrickx and Erik Tjong Kim Sang

14:20-14:30 Hierarchical Recognition of Propositional Arguments with
            Perceptrons
            Xavier Carreras, Lluis Marquez and Grzegorz Chrupala

14:30-14:40 Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks
            Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James
            H. Martin and Daniel Jurafsky

14:40-14:50 A transformation-based approach to argument labeling
            Derrick Higgins

14:50-15:00 A Memory-Based Approach for Semantic Role Labeling
            Beata Kouchnir

15:00-15:10 Semantic Role Labeling using Maximum Entropy Model
            Joon-Ho Lim, Young-Sook Hwang, So-Young Park and Hae-Chang
            Rim

15:10-15:20 Two-Phase Semantic Role Labeling based on Support Vector
            Machines
            Kyung-Mi Park, Young-Sook Hwang and Hae-Chang Rim

15:20-16:00 Break

16:00-16:10 Semantic Role Labeling Via Generalized Inference Over
            Classifiers
            Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih, Dav Zimak and
            Yuancheng Tu

16:10-16:20 Learning Transformation Rules for Semantic Role Labeling
            Ken Williams, Christopher Dozier and Andrew McCulloh

16:20-17:15 Summary and Discussion on Shared Task