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Research notes and demos (15-17 April 2003)

Programme


Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3






Day 1

09.00
09.30
Introduction
09.30
10.30
Invited talk 1
10.30
11.00
Break
11.00
12.30

Main conference papers [detailed programme]
 
12.30
13.50
Lunch
 
IE
Corpora & Treebank
Demos 1
13.50
14.10
Alexiei Dingli, Fabio Ciravegna, David Guthrie, Yorick Wilks: Mining Web Sites Using Unsupervised Adaptive Information Extraction Zoltán Alexin et al: Annotated Hungarian National Corpus Greg Aist et al: Talking through Procedures: An Intelligent Space Station Procedure Assistant
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, Elena Karagjosova: A dialogue system with contextually appropriate spoken output intonation
Adam Kilgarriff, Roger Evans, Rob Koeling, David Tugwell: WASPBENCH: a lexicographer's workbench incorporating state-of-the-art word sense disambiguation
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding: An Open-Source Environment for Compiling Typed Unification Grammars into Speech Recognisers
Bogdan Sacaleanu, Paul Buitelaar, Martin Volk: A Cross Language Document Retrieval System Based on Semantic Annotation
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham: Robust Generic and Query-based Summarization
14.10
14.30
Junko Hosaka, Judice Koh, Akihiko Konagaya: Effect of utilizing terminology on extraction of protein-protein interaction information from biomedical literature Zdenek Zabokrtsky, Otakar Smrz: Arabic Syntactic Trees: from Constituency to Dependency
14.30
14.50
Thierry Poibeau: The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework Serge A. Yablonsky: The Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technologies
14.50
15.00
Minibreak
 
NLG
Lexical Resources 1
Demos 2
15.00
15.20
Helmut Horacek: A Best-First Search Algorithm for Generating Referring Expressions
Luisa Bentivogli, Emanuele Pianta: Beyond Lexical Units: Enriching WordNets with Phrasets Roger Evans, Richard Power: WYSIWYM - building user interfaces with natural language feedback
Karin Harbusch, Michael Kühn: Towards an Adaptive Communication Aid with Ambiguous Text Input
Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva: Multilingual adaptations of a reusable information extraction tool
Jose Relaño-Gil, M. Carmen Rodriguez-Gancedo, Luis Hernandez Gomez: AGORA. Multilingual Multiplatform Architecture for the development of Natural Language Voice Services
Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Jan Kuper, Thierry Declerck, Peter Wittenburg: Event-Coreference across Multiple, Multi-lingual Sources in the Mumis Project
Zhiping Zheng: Question Answering Using Web News as Knowledge Base
15.20
15.40
Paul Piwek: A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents Beate Dorow, Dominic Widdows: Discovering Corpus-Specific Word Senses
15.40
16.00
Somayajulu G. Sripada, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter, Jin Yu: Summarizing Neonatal Time Series Data
Luka Nerima, Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli: Creating a multilingual collocations dictionary from large
text corpora
16.00
16.30
Break
16.30
18.00

Main conference papers [detailed programme]
 
 

 


Day 2

09.00
10.30

Main conference papers [detailed programme]
 
10.30
11.00
Break
11.00
12.30

Student research workshop [detailed programme]

 
12.30
13.50
Lunch
13.50
14.35
EACL Business meeting
 
Grammar & Syntax
Speech & Machine Translation
Dictionary & Parsing
14.40
15.00
Frederik Fouvry: Lexicon Acquisition with a large-coverage unification-based grammar
Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Tetsushi Oka: Meaningful Conversation with a Mobile Robot Birte Lönneker, Primo Jakopin: Contents and evaluation of the first Slovenian-German online dictionary
15.00
15.20
Valia Kordoni: The key role of semantics in the development of large-scale grammars of natural language
Stefan Schaden: Rule-based lexical modelling of foreign-accented
pronunciation variants
James McCracken: Oxford Dictionary of English - current developments
15.20
15.40
Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun'ichi Tsujii: Lexicalized Grammar Acquisition
Michael Schiehlen: A Cascaded Finite-State Parser for German
15.40
16.00
Derrick Higgins: A machine learning approach to the identification of WH gaps Stephan Vogel: Using Noisy Biligual Data for Statistical Machine Translation
16.00
16.30
Break
16.30
17.00

Main conference papers [detailed programme]
 
 


Day 3

 
Q/A & Summarization
IE & Metaphor
Demos 3
09.00
09.20
Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint Dizier: WEBCOOP: A Cooperative Question Answering System on the Web Toshiaki Fujiki, Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura: Automatic Acquisition of Script Knowledge from a Text Collection Dirk Kraus: Suregen-2: a shell system for the generation of clinical documents
Graham Wilcock: Integrating Natural Language Generation with the Apache Cocoon XML Server
Paul Piwek: A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
Kiril Simov et al: Development of Corpora within the CLaRK System: The BulTreeBank Project Experience
Serge A. Yablonsky: The Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technologies
09.20
09.40
Constantin Orasan, Doina Tatar, Gabriela Seban, Dana Avram, Adrian Onet: How to build a QA system in your back-garden: application for Romanian Horacio Saggion, Katerina Pastra, Yorick Wilks: NLP for Indexing and Retrieval of Captioned Photographs
09.40
10.00
Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov, Laura Hasler: CAST: A computer-aided summarisation tool John Barnden, Sheila Glasbey, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington: Domain-transcending mappings in a system for metaphorical reasoning
10.00
10.30
Break
10.30
12.30

Main conference papers [detailed programme]
 
12.30
14.00
Lunch
 
Lexical Resources 2 & Parsing
 
Demos 4
14.00
14.20
Stefan Evert and Hannah Kermes: Experiments on Candidate Data for Collocation Extraction Caroline Brun, Marc Dymetman, Eric Fanchon, Stanislas Lhomme: Controlled Authoring of Biological Experiment Reports
Ola Åkerberg, Hans Svensson, Bastian Schulz, Pierre Nugues: CarSim: An Automatic 3D Text-to-Scene Conversion System Applied to Road Accident Reports
Thierry Poibeau: The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework
Violeta Seretan: Creating a multilingual collocations dictionary from large text corpora
14.20
14.40
Véronique Gendner, Gabriel Illouz, Michèle Jardino, Laura Monceaux, Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat: PEAS, the first instantiation of a comparative framework for evaluating parsers of French
14.40
15.00
Lars Ahrenberg, Magnus Merkel, Michael Petterstedt: Interactive Word Alignment for Language Engineering
15.00
15.30
Break
15.30
16.30
Invited talk 2
16.30
17.00
Closing and best paper award