LINGUIST List 12.1305

Fri May 11 2001

Confs: Comp Natural Lang Learning/ CoNLL-2001 Workshop

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1. Priscilla Rasmussen, 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)