Date: 22-Jan-2007
From: Antonio Branco <Antonio.Branco di.fc.ul.pt>
Subject: The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium
The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium
Short Title: DAARC2007
Date: 29-Mar-2007 - 30-Mar-2007
Location: Lagos (Algarve), Portugal
Contact: António Branco
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium
(DAARC2007)
Lagos (Algarve), Portugal
hosted by University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences
March 29 - 30, 2007
http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/
Following the success of the previous international colloquia
on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution at Lancaster
in 1996, 1998 and 2000, at Lisbon in 2002, and at S. Miguel in 2004,
the next colloquium in the series will be held in Lagos (Algarve),
Portugal, in 2007, on the 29 - 30th March.
Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long
been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines such as
theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language,
cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. On the other
hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora has played an increasingly vital
role in real-world natural language processing applications including machine
translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering.
As a result, the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive
topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed increased interest
and attention in recent years.
In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquia
(DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and
discussion of the best research results in this area. Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster
University and taken over in 2002 by the University of Lisbon, the DAARC series
established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation
of the latest results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus studies and computational modelling.
The programme of DAARC2007 includes 2 invited talks, by Jos van Berkum and by Ruslan Mitkov and his team, and 40 contributed presentations, which reflect the most recent advances of the work on anaphora, ranging from theoretical linguistic
approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to computational modelling
of anaphor resolution.
Detailed information on the venue, accommodation and registration
can be found at: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt . February 15, 2007 is
the deadline for registration with reduced fees.
This is the colloquium programme:
Day 1, Thursday, March 29
8h30-9h30 Registration and check in
9h30-11h00
Room A
Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov
(ITC-IRST, Italy)
''Who are we talking about?'' Tracking the referent in a question answering series
R. K. Rao Pattabhi*, L. Sobha* and Amit Bagga**
(*AU-KBC Research Center, India, **Ask.com, USA)
Multilingual cross-document co-referencing
Ryohei Sasano*, Daisuke Kawahara** and Sadao Kurohashi***
(*Univ of Tokyo, **NICT, ***Kyoto Univ, Japan)
Improving coreference resolution using bridging reference resolution
and automatically acquired synonyms
Room B
Andrej Kibrik* and Evgenia Prozorova**
(*Inst of Linguistics RAN, Russia, **Moscow State Univ, Russia)
Referential choice in signed and spoken languages
Alfons Maes
(Tilburg Univ, The Netherlands)
(How) do demonstratives code distance?
Olga Krasavina*, Christian Chiarcos** and Dmitri Zalmanov***
(*Humboldt Univ of Berlin, **Univ Potsdam, Germany; */***Moscow State Univ, Russia)
Aspects of topicality in the use of demonstrative expressions in German,
English and Russian
11h00-11h30, Coffee break
11h30-12h30
Room A
Invited talk: Jos van Berkum
(Univ Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Resolving discourse anaphors -- what can the brain tell us?
12h30-14h30 Lunch
14h30-16h00
Room A
Ekaterina Jasinskaja, Ulrike Kölsch and Jörg Mayer
(Univ of Potsdam, Germany)
Nuclear accent placement and other prosodic parameters as cues to
pronoun resolution
Anke Holler and Lisa Irmen
(Univ of Heidelberg, Germany)
Empirically Assessing Effects of the Right Frontier Constraint
Ralph Rose
(Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Japan)
Pronoun resolution and the influence of syntactic and semantic information
on discourse prominence
Room B
Shana Watters and Jeanette Gundel
(Univ of Minnesota, USA)
An empirical investigation of the relation between coreference and quotations:
Can a pronoun located in quotations find its referent?
Shun Shiramatsu*, Kazunori Komatani*, Kôiti Hasiday**, Tetsuya Ogata*,
Hiroshi G. Okuno* (*Kyoto Univ, **AIST, Japan)
Meaning-game-based centering model with statistical definition of utility of
referential expressions and its verification using Japanese and English corpora
Caroline Gasperin, Nikiforos Karamanis and Ruth Seal
(Univ of Cambridge, UK)
Annotation of anaphoric relations in biomedical full-text articles using
a domain-relevant scheme
16h00-16h30, Coffee break
16h30-18h00, Poster Session
Room B
Mai Zaki
(Middlesex Univ, UK)
A procedural account of demonstratives in English and Arabic:
A corpus-based study
Pinar Tufekci* and Yilmaz Kilicaslan**
(*Namik Kemal Univ, **Trakya Univ, Turkey)
A syntax-based pronoun resolution system for Turkish
Itziar Aduriz*, Klara Ceberio** and Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza**
(*Univ of Barcelona, **Univ of The Basque Country, Spain)
Pronominal anaphora in Basque: Annotation issues
Dagmar Bittner, Natalia Gagarina, Milena Kühnast and Insa Gülzow
(ZAS Berlin, Germany)
Acquisition of anaphoric pronouns by German-, Russian-, and
Bulgarian-speaking children
Nguy Giang Linh and Zdenek Zabokrtsky
(Charles Univ, Czech Republic)
Rule-based approach to pronominal anaphora resolution applied on
the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 data
Peter Willemse
(Univ of Leuven, Belgium)
Direct and indirect anaphora and the possessee referent of prenominal
possessives in English
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach and Iker Zulaica
(The Ohio State Univ, USA)
Abstract reference and neuter demonstratives in Spanish
20h30 Colloquium dinner
Day 2, Friday, March 30
9h00-10h30
Room A
Advaith Siddharthan and Simone Teufel
(Univ of Cambridge, UK)
Whose idea was this: Deciding attribution in scientific literature
Dilek Küçük and Meltem Turhan Yöndem
(Middle East Technical Univ, Turkey)
A knowledge-poor pronoun resolution system for Turkish
Gordana Ilic Holen (Univ of Oslo, Norway)
Automatic anaphora resolution for Norwegian (ARN)
Room B
Ariel Cohen
(Ben-Gurion Univ, Israel)
Anaphora resolution as equality by default
António Branco
(Univ of Lisbon, Portugal)
Null subjects are reflexives, not pronouns
Erik-Jan Smits, Petra Hendriks and Jennifer Spenader
(Univ of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Using very large parsed corpora and judgment data to classify
verb reflexivity
10h30-11h00, Coffee break
11h00-12h30, Poster session
Room B
Lars Hellan
(NTNU, Norway)
Representing clause-internal binding in an HPSG/LKB grammar
Nancy Hedberg*, Jeanette Gundel** and Ron Zacharski***
(*Simon Fraser Univ, **Univ of Minnesota, ***State Univ of New Mexico, USA)
Directly and indirectly anaphoric demonstrative and personal pronouns
in newspaper articles
Adrian Brasoveanu
(Univ California Santa Cruz, USA)
Structured discourse reference to individuals
Costanza Navarretta
(Univ of Copenhagen, Denmark)
A contrastive analysis of the use of abstract anaphora
Roberta Tedeschi
(UiL OTS, The Netherlands)
Clitics at the syntax-discourse interface: The case of Italian
Joanna Nykiel
(Univ of Silesia, Poland)
When syntax won't go away: A diachronic study of verb phrase ellipsis
and sluicing.
Shigeko Nariyama
(Univ of Melbourne, Australia)
Ellipsis and markedness: Examining the meaning of ellipsis
Stefan Bott
(Univ Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Resolving backgrounds
12h30-14h30 Lunch
14h30-15h30
Room A
Invited talk: Ruslan Mitkov, Richard Evans, Constantin Orasan,
L.A. Ha and V. Pekar
(Univ of Wolverhampton, UK)
Anaphora resolution: To what extent does it help NLP applications?
15h30-16h00, Coffee break
16h00-17h30
Room A
Frederic Landragin
(LATTICE, France)
Taking situational factors into account when resolving anaphora:
An approach based on salience and events
Eleni Miltsakaki
(Univ of Pennsylvania, USA)
A rethink of the relationship between salience and anaphora resolution
Olga Krasavina
(Humboldt Univ of Berlin, Germany and Moscow State Universtity, Russia)
A multi-factorial study of referential choice on third-person pronouns
16h00-17h30
Room B
Roland Stuckardt
(Univ. Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Applying backpropagation networks to anaphor resolution
Davy Weissenbacher
(Univ Paris-Nord, France)
A Bayesian classifier for the recognition of impersonal it pronoun
occurrences: Description of the system
Iris Hendrickx, Veronique Hoste and Walter Daelemans
(Univ of Antwerp, Belgium)
Evaluating hybrid versus data-driven coreference resolution
17h30 Farewell
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