12.1305, Confs: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ CoNLL-2001 Workshop
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Subject: 12.1305, Confs: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ CoNLL-2001 Workshop
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:14:59 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ ACL-2001, CoNLL-2001 Workshop
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:14:59 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ ACL-2001, CoNLL-2001 Workshop
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN CoNLL-2001 ***
A Workshop to be held in Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001
URL: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/
REGISTRATION: see http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
* Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
* Late registration: May 25 - June 24
* After June 24th, registration will be on site only
INVITED SPEAKERS
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Eric Brill
John Nerbonne
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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Friday July 6, 2001
08.45 - 09.00 Opening
Learning Methods
09.00 - 09.30 Multidimensional transformation-based learning
Radu Florian, Grace Ngai
09.30 - 10.00 Combining a self-organizing map with memory-based
learning
James Hammerton, Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Invited Lecture
10.00 - 11:00
Eric Brill
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
Syntax Learning I
11.30 - 12.00 Redundancy vs. minimality in stochastic parsing with the
DOP model
Rens Bod
12.00 - 12.30 Automatic construction and optimisation of local
structural context grammars
Anja Belz
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Semantics I
14.00 - 14.30 Using selectional restrictions learned from Semcor for
WSD
Eneko Agirre, David Martinez
14.30 - 15.00 Semantic pattern learning through maximum entropy-based
WSD technique
Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Suarez, Manuel Palomar
15.00 - 15.30 Automatic verb classification using multilingual
resources
Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
Syntax Learning II
16.00 - 16.30 Exploring evidence for shallow parsing
Xin Li and Dan Roth
16.30 - 17.00 Probabilistic models for PP-attachment resolution and NP
analysis
Eric Gaussier and Nicola Cancedda
17.00 - 18.00 Shared Task Session
Saturday July 7, 2001
Minimizing training material
09.00 - 09.30 On minimizing training corpus for parser acquisition
Rebecca Hwa
09.30 - 10.00 Morpholog: Constrained and Supervised Learning of
Morphology
Remi Zajac
Invited Session
10.00 - 11.00 Learning Computational Grammars
John Nerbonne
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
Syntax Learning III
11.30 - 12.00 Unsupervised induction of stochastic context-free
grammars using distributional clustering
Alexander Clark
12.00 - 12.30 Distributional phrase structure induction
Dan Klein and Christopher Manning
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Semantics II
14.00 - 14.30 Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the
case of prepositional phrases
Paola Merlo and Matthias Leybold
14.30 - 15.00 Learning to identify animate references
Constantin Orasan and Richard Evans
15.00 - 15.30 Coreference resolution with syntactico-semantic rules
and corpus statistics
Sven Hartrumpf
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
NLP Applications
16.00 - 16.30 Inducing Probabilistic Invertible Translation Grammars
from Parallel Texts
Michael Carl
16.30 - 17.00 A mixture-of-experts framework for text classification
Andrew Estabrooks and Nathalie Japkowicz
17.00 - 17.30 Email summarization using linguistic and machine
learning techniques
Smaranda Muresan, Evelyne Tzoukermann, Judith L. Klavans
Cognitive models of learning
17.30 - 18.00 A psychologically plausible and computationally
effective approach to learning syntax
Stephen Watkinson, Suresh Manandhar
18.00 - 18.30 SIGNLL meeting
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Walter Daelemans (co-chair)
Remi Zajac (co-chair)
Thorsten Brants (Xerox PARC, USA)
Michael Brent (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA)
Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA)
James Cussens (University of York, UK)
Herve Dejean (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Grenoble, France)
Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
John Nerbonne (Groningen University, Netherlands)
Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK),
David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
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