8.1160, Confs: Natural Language Processing
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:46 +0100
From: "R. Mitkov" <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: RANLP'97 Programme
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:46 +0100
From: "R. Mitkov" <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: RANLP'97 Programme
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RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'97)
11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
Co-organised by:
* University of Wolverhampton
* University of Sussex
* University of Hamburg
* Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics
Sponsored by:
* The European Commission, DG XIII
* Evrika Foundation
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
11 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: YORICK WILKS
Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense
Disambiguation
Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
(Univ of Sheffield)
STATISTICAL TAGGING -----------------------------------------------
9.40-10.10 Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs
Christer Samuelsson
(Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
10.10-10.40 Automatically Acquiring a Language Model for POS
Tagging Using Decision Trees
Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez
(Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
LEXICON -----------------------------------------------------------
11.10-11.40 Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals
Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers,
Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves
(New York University)
11.40-12.10 Partial Evaluation for Efficient Access to Inheritance
Lexicons
Sven Hartrumpf (Univ of Hagen)
12.10-12.40 Lexicon Filtering
Frederique Segond, Max Copperman
(Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble)
12.40-3.00 Lunch break
DISCOURSE ---------------------------------------------------------
3.00-3.30 Segmentation of Expository Texts by Hierarchical
Agglomerative Clustering
Yaakov Yaari (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
3.30-4.00 Information Structure and Machine Translation:
Generating Danish Existential Sentences
Patrizia Paggio,
(Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
4.00-4.30 Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge:
High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English
and Polish
Ruslan Mitkov (Univ of Wolverhampton)
Malgorzata Stys (Univ of Cambridge)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
CORPORA, TOOLS (parallel session) ---------------------------------
5.00-5.20 Can we Improve Part-of-Speech Tagging by Inducing
Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Annotated Lexicons from
Large Corpora?
Nicolas Smith, Tony McEnery
(Lancaster University)
5.20-5.40 An Internet Agent for Language Model Construction
Peter Wyard (BT Laboratories, Ipswich)
Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, Surrey)
5.40-6.00 Term Weight Learning for an Automatic Text Categorization
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada, Atsumi Imamiya
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
6.20-6.40 Using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Method to Direct an
Agreement Error Correction Process: an Application to Arabic
Belguith Hadrich Lamia, Ben Hamadou
Abdelmajid, Aloulou Chafik
(Faculti des Sciences Economiques et
de Gestion de Sfax)
MACHINE TRANSLATION & TRANSLATION AIDS (parallel session) ---------
5.00-5.20 Gaijin: A Bootstrapping, Template-Driven Approach to
Example-Based MT
Tony Veale, Andy Way
(Dublin City University)
5.20-5.40 Aspect Calculation in MIROSLAV: a German-Russian MT System
Bernhard Staudinger, Nancy Smith
5.40-6.00 Verb Instantiation by Concept Coherence and Refinement
Abolfazl Fatholahzadeh (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite)
H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University Turkey)
6.20-6.40 Refining Domain Ontologies for Flexible Explanation
Generation
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Kalina Bontcheva (Univ of Sheffield)
12 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: SERGEI NIRENBURG
If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological
Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation
Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale
(New Mexico State University)
TOOLS -------------------------------------------------------------
9.40-10.10 Efficiency and Elegance in NLP: The EPISTEME Approach
J. Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla)
Jose F. Quesada (CICA, Spain)
10.10-10.40 Linguistic Processing using ALEP
Andrew Bredenkamp & F.Fouvry (Univ of Essex)
Thierry Declerk (DFKI Saarbruecken)
B.Music (CST, Copenhagen)
A.Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken)
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
MACHINE TRANSLATION -----------------------------------------------
11.10-11.40 Using Hybrid Methods and Resources in Semantic-based Transfer
Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna
(IMS-CL Univ of Stuttgart)
11.40-12.10 Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT
Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge,
Fred Popowich
(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12.10-12.40 Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation: Using Frame
Semantics for Expressing Systemacies in Polysemy
Bolette Sandford Pedersen
(Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
12.40-3.00 Lunch break
GENERATION --------------------------------------------------------
3.00-3.30 Aggregative Utterance Planning for Interactive Instruction
Tsuneaki Kato, Yukiko I. Nakano
(NTT Information & Communication Systems Labs, Japan)
3.30-4.00 A Question/Answer Explanation based Approach for
Customizable Text Expansion vs Summarization
Yllias Chali
(Institut de Recherche en Informatique
de Toulouse)
4.00-4.30 AMALIA - A Unified Platform for Parsing and Generation
Shuly Wintner (Univ of Thuebingen)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich & Nissim Francez
(Israel Institute of Technology, Technion)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, PARSING (parallel session) -----------
5.00-5.20 Validation of STEP/EXPRESS Specifications by Automatic
Natural Language Generation
Hercules Dalianis, Anders Hedman, Paul Johannesson
Department of computer and Systems Sciences
(Royal Institute of Technology &
Stockholm University)
5.20-5.40 A generation algorithm for f-structure representations
Toni Tuells
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
5.40-6.00 Memory-based Deep Syntactic Analysis of Unrestricted French
Emmanuel Giguet, Jacques Vergne
(Universiti de Caen)
6.20-6.40 Morphosyntactic Disambiguation for Basque Based on the
Constraint Grammar Formalism
Aduriz I., Arriola J.M., Artola X.,
Diaz de Illarraza A., Gojenola K., Maritxalar M.
(University of the Basque Country)
DISCOURSE (parallel session) --------------------------------------
5.00-5.20 Subject Ellipsis in Chinese News Headlines
Chi-on Chin, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou
(City University of Hong Kong)
5.20-5.40 Slot Unification Grammar and Anaphora Resolution
A. Ferrandez, M.Palomar, L.Moreno
(Alicante University)
5.40-6.00 Reference Analysis of Deicitic Expressions to Visual
Objects
Hiroyasu Yamada, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Atsumi Imamiya
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
6.20-6.40 Word Spotting of Radio News based on Topic
Identification for Speech Recognition
Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
13 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
SEMANTICS ---------------------------------------------------------
9.00-9.30 Combining Multiple Methods for the Automatic
Construction of Multilingual Wordnets
Jordi Atserias, Salvador Climent, Xavier Farreres,
German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez
(Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya)
9.30-10.00 Using Wordnet to Complement Training Information in
Text Categorization
Manuel de Buenaga Rodrmguez,
Josi Marma Gsmez Hidalgo,
Belin Dmaz Agudo
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
10.00-10.30 Probabilistic Word-Sense Disambiguation: a Portable
Approach Using Minimum Knowledge
Edward Teo, Christopher Ting, Hian-Beng Lee
Li-Shiuan Peh
(DSO National Laboratories, Singapore)
10.30-11.00 Probabilistic Event Categorization
Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Lei Duan
(New Mexico State University)
11.00-11.30 coffee break
PARSING, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, EVENT CATEGORISATION -------------
11.30-12.00 A New Approach to the Construction of Generalized LR
Parsing Algorithms
Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Manuel Vilares
(Universidade de Coruna, Spain)
12.00-12.30 Statistical Ambiguity Resolution for Principle-Based Parsing
Cathy Berthouzoz, Paola Merlo
(Univ of Geneva)
12.30-1.00 MILK: a Hybrid system for Multilingual Indexing and
Information Extraction
A. Bolioli, L. Dini, V. Di Tomaso, A. Goy, D. Sestero
(Centro per l'Elaborazione del
Linguaggio e dell'Informazione;
Torino-Vercelli-Pisa)
1.00-3.30 Lunch break
INFORMATION FILTERING, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION
3.30-3.50 Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of
Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness
R. Chandrasekar, B. Srinivas
(University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
3.50-4.10 Exploiting Thesaurus Knowledge in Rule Induction for
Text Classification
Markus Junker, A. Abecker
(DFKI, Kaiserlautern)
4.10-4.30 Constructing Compact Representations of Ambiguous Language
Kurt Eberle, Carl Vogel
(IMS-CL, Univ of Stuttgart)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
SEMANTIC PROCESSING, DISAMBIGUATION (parallel session) ------------
5.00-5.20 Word Class Functions for Syntactic-Semantic Analysis
Hermann Helbig, Sven Hartrumpf
(FernUniversitaet Hagen)
5.20-5.40 Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts
Sylvain Delisle (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres)
Stan Szpakowicz (Univ of Ottawa)
5.40-6.00 Estimating Similarity of Word Senses by a Fuzzy
Relation on a Large Dictionary
YoungJa Park, ManSuk Song
(Yonsei University, Korea)
6.20-6.40 An Alternative Approach to Lexical Categorical Disambiguation
Joao Luis Tavares da Silva, Vera Lucia Strube de Lima
(Pontificia Universidade Catolica
do Rio Grande do Sul)
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (parallel session) -------
5.00-5.20 SVENSK: A Toolbox of Swedish Language Processing Resources
Mikael Eriksson & Bjoern.Gambaeck
(Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Stockholm)
5.20-5.40 Reusability of NLP Tools for Detecting Rules and
Contexts When Modelling Language Learners' Knowledge
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar,
Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui
(Univ of the Basque Country)
5.40-6.00 Learning Terminology in a Foreigh Language
Vania Dimitrova (Univ of Shoumen, Bulgaria)
Darina Dicheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
6.20-6.40 A Syllable-Based Extraction Method of Kana-Kanji Pairs
from Japanese Sentences
Hisahiro Adachi
(Utsunomiya University, Japan)
RESERVE PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------
Computation of the Preference in the Interpretation of Anaphors
Soo-Yeon Kim (George Washington University)
Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model
Costanza Navarretta (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment
Stefan Wermter, Joseph Chen (Univ of Hamburg)
Bilingual parallel text segmentation and tagging for specialized
documentation
Raquel Martinez Unanue (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Arantza Casillas Rubio (U. Alcala de Henares)
Joseba Abaitua Odriozola (U. Deusto)
Building of Semantico-Cognitive Representation of Different Types of
Narratives in French
Delphine Battistelli (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne)
Nikolay Vazov (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne & LIMSI)
LOCATION
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
on the shores of Lake Batak. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily
shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference
location at an inexpensive rate.
REGISTRATION
Due to the limited conference facilities, registration will be carried
out on a first-come, first-served basis. For further details and to
check if there are still places available, contact Victoria Arranz
(victoria at ccl.umist.ac.uk).
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Visit RANLP'97 home page at:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
RELATED EVENTS
Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in
the same location. Further information on the summer school can be
obtained from Victoria Arranz (victoria at ccl.umist.ac.uk) and
Malgorzata Stys (m.stys at cl.cam.ac.uk) or through the conference
web site: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html.
INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS/ PUBLISHING COMPANIES/ DEMOS/EXHIBITS
Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related
products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books
on NLP. All wishing to demonstrate/exhibit software, please contact
Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas at cogs.sussex.ac.uk). Publishers wishing to
exhibit/promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).
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