[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: 2nd Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC-2005)

[Xiaofei Lu]

***** Call for Participation *****

The Second Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC-2005)

The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Colloquium date:    May 14-15, 2005
Colloquium website: http://cllt.osu.edu/mclc
Registration:       Free
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COLLOQUIUM OVERVIEW

The Computational Linguistics and Language Technologies Group of the
Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering at The
Ohio State University are pleased to sponsor the second meeting of the
Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC). This colloquium
offers a less formal forum for computational linguistics researchers to
get together and present ideas and work. The first meeting of MCLC was
successfully held at University of Indiana Bloomington in 2004, and with
this second installment it is on its way to becoming an annual event.

INVITED SPEAKER

Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

-Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
-Jianguo Li, The Ohio State University
-Xiaofei Lu, The Ohio State University
-Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

-Steve Abney, University of Michigan
-Chris Brew, The Ohio State University
-Donna Byron, The Ohio State University
-Damir Cavar, Indiana University
-Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
-John A. Goldsmith, University of Chicago
-Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-Jianguo Li, The Ohio State University
-Marc Light, University of Iowa
-Xiaofei Lu, The Ohio State University
-Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University
-Victor Raskin, Purdue University

PROGRAM

Saturday, May 14, 2005

08:30-09:00am
Registration and Welcome

09:00-09:30am
Syntactic and Lexical Changes in Esperanto: A Corpus-Based Survey
Joshua Herring, Indiana University

09:30-10:00am
Predicting Obligation Dialogue Act Types from Prosodic Information
Sergio Coria and Luis Pineda, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

10:00-10:30am
Identifying Linguistic Knowledge for Textual Inference
Stacey Bailey, The Ohio State University

10:30-11:15am
Break

11:15-11:45am
The Necessity of Syntactic Parsing for Semantic Role Labeling
Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, and Wen-tau Yih, University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign

11:45-12:15pm
Extending Ontological Semantics to New Domains
Victor Reskin, Katrina E. Triezenberg, Evugeniya Malaya, Olga Krachina,
Purdue University

12:15-02:00pm
Lunch

02:00-02:30pm
Extracting Morphemes without #
Toshikazu Ikuta, Indiana University

02:30-03:00pm
Using Appraisal Taxonomies for Sentiment Analysis
Casey Whitelaw, University of Sydney
Navendu Garg and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology

03:00-03:30pm
A Computational Model of Tonal Variation
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

03:30-04:15pm Break

04:15-05:15pm
Invited talk: Named Entity Recognition and Transliteration for 50
Languages
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Sunday, May 15, 2005
09:00-09:30am
Discriminative Training of Clustering Functions: Theory and Experiments
with Entity Identification
Xin Li and Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

09:30-10:00am
On Parsing CHILDES
Aarre Laakso, Indiana University

10:00-10:30am
Utilizing Visual Attention for Cross-Modal Coreference Interpretation
Donna Byron, Thomas Mampilly, Vinay Sharma, Tianfang Xu, The Ohio State
University

10:30-11:15am
Break

11:15-11:45am
A Corpus-based Study on Abstract Anaphora Resolution
Ping Yu, University of Michigan

11:45-12:15pm
Phonetic Segment Rescoring Using SVMs
Yeojin Kim and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign

12:15-02:00pm
Lunch

02:00-02:30pm
Predicting Types of Pitch Accent and Boundary Tone Using Structural
Information
Tae-Jin Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

02:30-03:00pm
Methodology and Tools for Ontological Semantic Acquisition
John M. Spartz, Evguniya Malaya, Courtney Falk, Purdue University

03:00-03:30pm
Using Morphological and Distributional Cues for Inductive Part-of-Speech
Tagging
Damir Cavar, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues, and
Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana University

03:30-04:15pm
Break

04:15-04:45pm
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, and Mark
Sammons, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

04:45-05:15pm
Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora
Markus Dickinson and Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University

Alternates:
Statistical Learning of Semitic Using Autosegmental Orthography
Paul Rodrigues, Indiana University

Context Grammar and POS Tagging
Donald Loritz, Dick Chen, LexisNexis

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Xiaofei Lu
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
Tel: (614) 292-3802
Web: http://ling.osu.edu/~xflu
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