6.724, Confs: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop

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Subject: 6.724, Confs: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>

Assoc. Editor: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
Asst. Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
               Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>

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Date: Thu, 18 May 95 01:27:41 EDT
From: yarowsky at unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)
Subject: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop

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Date: Thu, 18 May 95 01:27:41 EDT
From: yarowsky at unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)
Subject: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop

         THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
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                   Friday, 30 June 1995
                     8:45 AM - 5:25 PM
             MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                       at ACL-95
       (Sponsored by ACL's SIGDAT and SIGNLL, LEXIS-NEXIS)

The workshop will present original research in corpus-based and
statistical natural language processing. Topics will include
sense disambiguation, grammar induction, part-of-speech tagging,
information retrieval, language modeling, and machine translation.
This year's theme is:

       Supervised Training vs. Self-organizing Methods

Historically, annotated corpora have made a significant contribution
to tasks such as part-of-speech tagging and sense disambiguation.
But annotated corpora are expensive and generally unavailable for
languages other than English.  Self-organizing methods offer the hope
that annotated corpora might not be necessary. Can we achieve comparable
performance using little or no tagged training data? What are the tradeoffs?

Organizers:  Ken Church and David Yarowsky

REGISTRATION: Registration fees are $35 for participants who register
by 19 May 1995, $40 for payment received by 15 June 1995, and $45 at
the door. Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, catered
lunch and refreshments during the day.  Acceptable forms of payment
are US$ cheques payable to "ACL" or credit card (VISA/Mastercard)
payment.  E-mail registrations are encouraged. Please submit the
following form along with payment:

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Please send to:

  David Yarowsky
  Dept. of Computer and Information Science
  University of Pennsylvania
  200 S. 33rd St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389  USA
  email: yarowsky at unagi.cis.upenn.edu

                        PROGRAM

 8:15 - 8:45   Registration. Coffee, danish, etc. available

 8:45 - 8:50   Welcome
 8:50 - 9:35   INVITED TALK  (Mark Liberman)
 9:35 - 9:50   Break
 9:50 - 10:15  Eric Brill
       Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part of Speech Tagging
10:15 - 10:40  Carl de Marcken
       Lexical Heads, Phrase Structure and the Induction of Grammar
10:40 - 11:05  Michael Collins and James Brooks
       Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model
11:05 - 11:15  Break
11:15 - 11:40  Andrew Golding
       A Bayesian Hybrid Method for Context-sensitive Spelling Correction
11:40 - 12:05  Philip Resnik
       Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to Wordnet Senses
12:05 - 1:05   CATERED LUNCH
 1:05 - 1:30   Dekai Wu
       Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing
 1:30 - 1:55   Lance Ramshaw and Mitch Marcus
       Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning
 1:55 - 2:05   Break
 2:05 - 3:00   INVITED TALK (Henry Kucera and Nelson Francis)
 3:00 - 3:10   Break
 3:10 - 3:35   Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer and Naftali Tishby
       Beyond Word N-Grams
 3:35 - 4:00   Jing-Shin Chang, Yi-Chung Lin and Keh-Yih Su
       Automatic Construction of a Chinese Electronic Dictionary
 4:00 - 4:10   Break
 4:10 - 4:35   Ken Church and Bill Gale
       Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson
 4:35 - 5:00   Joe Zhou and Pete Dapkus
       Automatic Suggestion of Significant Terms for a Predefined Topic
 5:00 - 5:25   Ellen Riloff and Jay Shoen
       Automatically Acquiring Conceptual Patterns without an Annotated Corpus

More Information:    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~yarowsky/wvlc3.html
ACL-95 Homepage:     http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/cgdemarc/acl/acl-info.html

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