13.1426, Confs: Natural Lang Processing/Parsing Systems

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-1426. Tue May 21 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.1426, Confs: Natural Lang Processing/Parsing Systems

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Date:  Tue, 21 May 2002 11:31:46 +0100
From:  John Carroll <johnca at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  LREC2002: Beyond PARSEVAL Workshop -- Call for Participation

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Date:  Tue, 21 May 2002 11:31:46 +0100
From:  John Carroll <johnca at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  LREC2002: Beyond PARSEVAL Workshop -- Call for Participation


                    Call for Participation

                        Beyond PARSEVAL
  -- Towards Improved Evaluation Measures for Parsing Systems --

             http://let.dfki.uni-sb.de/BeyondPARSEVAL/

                      LREC 2002 Workshop
                          2nd June
                Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain

                       Final Programme


9:15-9:30    Opening: Aims of the workshop

9:30-10:00   "Relational evaluation schemes"
             Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Jonny Graham, Ann Copestake

10:00-10:30  "Towards a dependency-oriented evaluation for partial parsing"
             Sandra Kuebler, Heike Telljohann

10:30-11:00  "LinGO Redwoods -- a rich and dynamic treebank for HPSG"
             Stephan Oepen, Ezra Callahan, Dan Flickinger, Christoper D. Manning

Coffee break

11:30-12:30  Panel: Parser evaluation in context
             John Carroll, Patrick Paroubek, Owen Rambow, Hans Uszkoreit

Lunch break

14:00-14:30  "A test of the leaf-ancestor metric for parse accuracy"
             Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy

14:30-15:00  "Evaluating parser accuracy using edit distance"
             Brian Roark

Short break

15:10-15:40  "Evaluating syllabification: one category shared by many grammars"
             Karin Mueller

15:40-16:10  "Towards comparing parsers from different linguistic frameworks:
             an information theoretic approach"
             Gabriele Musillo, Khalil Sima'an

16:10-16:40  "Evaluation of the Gramotron parser for German"
             Franz Beil, Detlef Prescher, Helmut Schmid, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Coffee break

17:10-17:40  "Evaluating a wide-coverage CCG parser"
             Stephen Clark, Julia Hockenmaier

17:40-18:10  "A comparison of evaluation metrics for a broad coverage parser"
             Richard Crouch, Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy H. King, Stefan Riezler

18:10-20:00  Wrap up and kick-off: Initiatives and action plans (open end)

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