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lmlserver.bas.bg>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ***************************************************** Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP2001) Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 5-7 September 2001 Supported by the European Commission, DGXII, Human Potential Programme,High Level Scientific Conferences Contract number HPCF-2000-00329 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001 Main Local Organisers: Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BIS-21 Center of Excellence) and The Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics Co-sponsors: MorphoLogic, Budapest, Hungary and OntoText Lab., Sirma AI Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria The conference will be preceeded by two days tutorials (3-4 September) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp / Tilburg University) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Eduard Hovy (ISI, USC) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) ***************************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ***************************** Wednesday, September 5th, 2001 ***************************** 9.00-10.00 Invited talk Eduard Hovy Morning session 1a Parsing 10.00-10.30: Parsing and GLARFing, Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman and Shubin Zhao 10.30-11.00: Phrasal Parsing by Using Data-Driven PoS Taggers, Be�ta Megyesi Morning session 1b, parallel to morning session 1a Text classification 10.00-10.30: Two-level self-organizing approach to text classification, Ioannis Triantafyllou, Iason Demiros and Stelios Piperidis 10.30-11.00: Boosting Trees for Anti-Spam Email Filtering, Xavier Carreras and Llu�s M�rquez 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break Morning session 2a Ontologies 11.30-11.55: Adapting the Generalized Upper Model to Spanish, M� del Socorro Bernardos Galindo and Guadalupe Aguado de Cea 11.55-12.20: Towards Building Bulgarian WordNet, Toma Nikolov and Krassimira Petrova 12.20-12.45: Integrating Generic and Specialized Wordnets, Bernardo Magnini and Manuela Speranza Morning session 2b, parallel to morning session 2a Semantics 11.30-11.55: Extraction of semantic representations from syntactic CMU link grammar linkages, Ian Marshall and Eva Safar 11.55-12.20: Unifying semantic relations across syntatic levels, Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz 12.20-12.45: An Unsupervised Semantic Tagger Applied to German, Paul Buitelaar, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Jaeger, Stephan Lesch, Norbert Pfleger and Diana Raileanu 12.45-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Invited talk Graeme Hirst Afternoon session 1a Anaphora and coreference I 15.30-16.00: A Methodology for Cross-Document Coreference Over Degraded Data Sources, Amit Bagga, Breck Baldwin, and Ganesh Ramesh 16.00-16.30: Anaphoric Cues for Coherence Relations, Udo Hahn Afternoon session 1b, parallel to afternoon session 1a Ontologies 15.30-16.00: Distribution-oriented extension of WordNet's ontological framework, Wim Peters and Yorick Wilks 16.00-16.30: OntoMap or How to Choose Upper-Model in One Day, Atanas Kiryakov, Kiril Simov and Marin Dimitrov 16.30-17.00 Coffee Break Afternoon session 2a Anaphora and coreference II 17.00-17.30: Semantic-driven Algorithm for Definite Description Resolution, Rafael Mu�oz and Manuel Palomar 17.30-18.00: Automatic learning and resolution of anaphora, Catalina Barbu Afternoon session 2b, parallel to afternoon session 2a Semantics, Knowledge 17.00-17.30: Integrating Multiple Knowledge for Robust Semantic Parsing, Jordi Atserias, Llu�s Padr� and German Rigau 17.30-18.00: Plurals, Time, and World Knowledge, Fran�oise Gayral, Daniel Kayser and Fran�ois L�vy 20.00 Conference Reception ***************************** Thursday, September 6th, 2001 ***************************** 9.00-10.00 Invited talk Martin Kay Morning session 1a Clustering 10.00-10.30: Weighting functions impact on LSA performance, Plamen Mateev, Preslav Nakov and Antonia Popova 10.30-11.00: Novel Properties and Well-Tried Performance of EM-Based Multivariate Clustering, Detlef Prescher Morning session 1b, parallel to morning session 1a Computer-aided language learning 10.00-10.30: Between linguistic semantics and domain knowledge in CALL, Galia Angelova, Svetla Boytcheva, Ognian Kalaydjiev and Albena Strupchanska 10.30-11.00: Transformation-Based Learning of Danish Grammar Correction, Daniel Hardt 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break Morning session 2a Text Summarisation, Question Answering, Parsing 11.30-11.55: Machine Learning Methods for Text Summarization, Iason Demiros, Harris Papageorgiou, Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis 11.55-12.20: SHAPAQA: Shallow Parsing for Question Answering on the World Wide Web, Sabine Buchholz and Walter Daelemans 12.20-12.45: Chunking + Island-Driven Parsing = Full Parsing, Alicia Ageno and Horacio Rodriguez Morning session 2b, parallel to morning session 2a Grammar, semantics 11.30-11.55: Learning Grammar Weights Using Genetic Algorithms, Ingo Schr�der, Horia Pop, Wolfgang Menzel and Kilian Foth 11.55-12.20: SCALP: A System for Computational Processing of Verbal Polysemy, Karim Chibout and Anne Vilnat 12.20-12.50: Duality of Syntax and Semantics - From the View Point of Brain as a Quantum Computer, Joseph C.H. Chen and Manfred Kudlek 12.45/50-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Invited talk Kemal Oflazer Afternoon session 1a Dialogue, Hypertext 15.30-15.55: Robust dialogue understanding in HERALD, Vincenzo Pallotta and Afzal Ballim 15.55-16.20: Empirical Studies for the Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Hypertext, Kalina Bontcheva Afternoon session 1b, parallel to afternoon session 1a Translation 15.30-15.55: Predicting Translations in Context, J�rg Tiedemann 15.55-16.20: The Architecture of an English-Text-to-Sign-Languages Translation System, Eva Safar and Ian Marshall 16.20-16.50 Coffee Break 16.50-18.00 Poster session ***************************** Friday, September 7th, 2001 ***************************** 9.00-10.00 Invited talk James Pustejovsky Morning session 1a Named Entity Recognition, Term Extraction 10.00-10.30: Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types, Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Cristian Ursu, Hamish Gunningham and Yorick Wilks 10.30-11.00: Modelling the syntactic contextual information for term extraction, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, R. Bazili and M. Pazienza Morning session 1b, parallel to morning session 1a Grammars, Formalisms 10.00-10.30: Polynominal tree-substitution grammars, Jean-C�dric Chappelier and Martin Rajman 10.30-11.00: Efficient Indexing for Typed Feature Structures, Thilo Goetz, Robin Lougee-Heimer and Nicolas Nicolov 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break Morning session 2a Question Answering 11.30-12.00: Document selection refinement based on linguistic features for QALC, a Question Answering system, Brigitte Grau, Martine Hurault-Plantet, Gabriel Illouz and Christian Jacquemin 12.00-12.30: The question Where? - A question of distances, Nicolas Denand and Monique Rolbert Morning session 2b, parallel to morning session 2a Part-of-speech tagging, discourse 11.30-12.00: Integrating external dictionaries into stochastic part-of-speech taggers, Jorge Gra�a Gil, Jean-Cedric Chappelier and Manuel Vilares Ferro 12.00-12.30: Any: the hearer's role in discourse update, Helen Gaylard and Allan Ramsay 12.30-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Invited talk Walter Daelemans 15.30-16.40 Poster session 16.40-17.10 Coffee Break Industrial advances in NLP in Central and Eastern Europe 17.10-17.35: MorphoLogic (Hungary), Gabor Proszeky 17.35-18.00: Rila Solution (USA-Bulgaria), Stoyan Mihov 16.40: Closing ******************************************************** For more information please visit http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001 Looking forward to welcome you in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria - ---------------------------------------------- Galia Angelova, Ph.D., Associate Professor Linguistic Modelling Department Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 25A Acad. 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