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cs.rutgers.edu>*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN EMNLP 2001 *** New: Preliminary program. Note the May 7 early registration deadline! - ------------------------------------------------------- 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html Sponsored by the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI) (a joint Cornell University/Air Force Research Laboratory institute) REGISTRATION: see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/registration-forms.html * Early registration: by May 7 (lower registration fee) * Late registration: May 8-26 * On site registration also available SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites participation at EMNLP 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2001). We have arranged an exciting program devoted to advances in all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT and related fields, as well as to this year's theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges". We'll have two days of paper presentations, plus: * An invited talk by Eric Brill, Microsoft Research. * A panel debating the efficacy of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. The panel will begin with an introduction to EM. Confirmed panelists: - Eugene Charniak, Brown University - Kevin Knight, ISI - Stefan Riezler, Xerox PARC * A panel on industrial perspectives on natural language technology. Confirmed panelists: - Adam Berger, Eizel Technologies - Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research - Lynette Hirschman, MITRE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - ----------------- SUNDAY JUNE 3 8:45-9:00 Welcome 9:00-9:25 Limitations of Co-training for Natural Language Learning from Large Datasets David Pierce and Claire Cardie 9:25-9:50 A Sequential Model for Multi-class Classification Yair Even-Zohar and Dan Roth 9:50-10:15 Learning Within-Sentence Semantic Coherence Elena Eneva, Rose Hoberman, and Lucian Lita 10:15-10:45 BREAK 10:45-11:10 Knowledge Sources for Word-Level Translation Models Philipp Koehn and Kevin Knight 11:10-11:35 Improving Lexical Mapping Model of English-Korean Bitext Using Structural Features Seonho Kim, Juntae Yoon and Mansuk Song 11:35-11:45 SHORT BREAK 11:45-12:45 INVITED TALK Eric Brill 12:45-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-2:25 Stacking classifiers for anti-spam filtering of e-mail Georgios Sakkis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos 2:25-2:50 Feature Space Restructuring for SVMs with Application to Text Categorization Hiroya Takamura and Yuji Matsumoto 2:50-3:15 Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for Text Categorization Carl Sable and Ken Church 3:15-3:25 SHORT BREAK 3:25-3:50 Question Answering Using a Large Text Database: A Machine Learning Approach Hwee Tou Ng, Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan, and Yiyuan Xia 3:50-4:15 Information Extraction using the Structured Language Model Ciprian Chelba and Milind Mahajan 4:15-4:30 SHORT BREAK 4:30-5:30 PANEL: THE EFFICACY OF EM (includes an introduction to the EM algorithm) Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, Stefan Riezler (confirmed so far) MONDAY JUNE 4 8:35-9:00 Classifying Semantic Relations between Noun Compounds using a Domain-Specific Lexical Hierarchy Barbara Rosario and Marti Hearst 9:00-9:25 The Unknown Word Problem: A Morphological Analysis of Japanese Using Maximum Entropy Aided by a Dictionary Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara 9:25-9:50 Is Knowledge-Free Induction of Multiword Unit Dictionary Headwords a Solved Problem? Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky 9:50-10:15 Latent Semantic Analysis for Text Segmentation Freddy Y. Y. Choi, Peter Wiemer-Hastings, and Johanna Moore 10:15-10:45 BREAK 10:45-11:10 Detecting short passages of similar text in large document collections Caroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson and James Malcolm 11:10-11:35 Hybrid text mining for finding abbreviations and their definitions Youngja Park and Roy J. Byrd 11:35-11:45 SHORT BREAK 11:45-12:45 PANEL: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES ON NLP Adam Berger, Joshua Goodman, Lynette Hirschman (confirmed so far) 12:45-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-2:25 Automatic Corpus-based Tone Prediction using K-ToBI Representation Jin-seok Lee, Byeongchang Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee 2:25-2:50 Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Syllabification and Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Karin Mueller 2:50-3:00 SHORT BREAK 3:00-3:25 Comparing Data-driven Learning Algorithms for PoS Tagging of Swedish Beata Megyesi 3:25-3:50 Impact of quality and quantity of corpora on stochastic generation Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen, and Owen Rambow 3:50-4:15 Corpus Variation and Parser Performance Daniel Gildea 4:15-4:30 REFRESHMENTS (CLOSE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - --------------- Program Chair: Lillian Lee, Cornell University (lleeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue