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wlv.ac.uk>_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'97) 11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria Co-organised by: * University of Wolverhampton * University of Sussex * University of Hamburg * Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics Sponsored by: * The European Commission, DG XIII * Evrika Foundation PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 11 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: YORICK WILKS Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson (Univ of Sheffield) STATISTICAL TAGGING ----------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs Christer Samuelsson (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies) 10.10-10.40 Automatically Acquiring a Language Model for POS Tagging Using Decision Trees Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break LEXICON ----------------------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves (New York University) 11.40-12.10 Partial Evaluation for Efficient Access to Inheritance Lexicons Sven Hartrumpf (Univ of Hagen) 12.10-12.40 Lexicon Filtering Frederique Segond, Max Copperman (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break DISCOURSE --------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Segmentation of Expository Texts by Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Yaakov Yaari (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 3.30-4.00 Information Structure and Machine Translation: Generating Danish Existential Sentences Patrizia Paggio, (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 4.00-4.30 Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge: High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English and Polish Ruslan Mitkov (Univ of Wolverhampton) Malgorzata Stys (Univ of Cambridge) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break CORPORA, TOOLS (parallel session) --------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Can we Improve Part-of-Speech Tagging by Inducing Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Annotated Lexicons from Large Corpora? Nicolas Smith, Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) 5.20-5.40 An Internet Agent for Language Model Construction Peter Wyard (BT Laboratories, Ipswich) Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, Surrey) 5.40-6.00 Term Weight Learning for an Automatic Text Categorization Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Method to Direct an Agreement Error Correction Process: an Application to Arabic Belguith Hadrich Lamia, Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid, Aloulou Chafik (Faculti des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax) MACHINE TRANSLATION & TRANSLATION AIDS (parallel session) --------- 5.00-5.20 Gaijin: A Bootstrapping, Template-Driven Approach to Example-Based MT Tony Veale, Andy Way (Dublin City University) 5.20-5.40 Aspect Calculation in MIROSLAV: a German-Russian MT System Bernhard Staudinger, Nancy Smith 5.40-6.00 Verb Instantiation by Concept Coherence and Refinement Abolfazl Fatholahzadeh (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite) H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University Turkey) 6.20-6.40 Refining Domain Ontologies for Flexible Explanation Generation Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Kalina Bontcheva (Univ of Sheffield) 12 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: SERGEI NIRENBURG If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale (New Mexico State University) TOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Efficiency and Elegance in NLP: The EPISTEME Approach J. Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla) Jose F. Quesada (CICA, Spain) 10.10-10.40 Linguistic Processing using ALEP Andrew Bredenkamp & F.Fouvry (Univ of Essex) Thierry Declerk (DFKI Saarbruecken) B.Music (CST, Copenhagen) A.Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break MACHINE TRANSLATION ----------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Using Hybrid Methods and Resources in Semantic-based Transfer Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna (IMS-CL Univ of Stuttgart) 11.40-12.10 Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12.10-12.40 Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation: Using Frame Semantics for Expressing Systemacies in Polysemy Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break GENERATION -------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Aggregative Utterance Planning for Interactive Instruction Tsuneaki Kato, Yukiko I. Nakano (NTT Information & Communication Systems Labs, Japan) 3.30-4.00 A Question/Answer Explanation based Approach for Customizable Text Expansion vs Summarization Yllias Chali (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) 4.00-4.30 AMALIA - A Unified Platform for Parsing and Generation Shuly Wintner (Univ of Thuebingen) Evgeniy Gabrilovich & Nissim Francez (Israel Institute of Technology, Technion) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, PARSING (parallel session) ----------- 5.00-5.20 Validation of STEP/EXPRESS Specifications by Automatic Natural Language Generation Hercules Dalianis, Anders Hedman, Paul Johannesson Department of computer and Systems Sciences (Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm University) 5.20-5.40 A generation algorithm for f-structure representations Toni Tuells (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 5.40-6.00 Memory-based Deep Syntactic Analysis of Unrestricted French Emmanuel Giguet, Jacques Vergne (Universiti de Caen) 6.20-6.40 Morphosyntactic Disambiguation for Basque Based on the Constraint Grammar Formalism Aduriz I., Arriola J.M., Artola X., Diaz de Illarraza A., Gojenola K., Maritxalar M. (University of the Basque Country) DISCOURSE (parallel session) -------------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Subject Ellipsis in Chinese News Headlines Chi-on Chin, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) 5.20-5.40 Slot Unification Grammar and Anaphora Resolution A. Ferrandez, M.Palomar, L.Moreno (Alicante University) 5.40-6.00 Reference Analysis of Deicitic Expressions to Visual Objects Hiroyasu Yamada, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Word Spotting of Radio News based on Topic Identification for Speech Recognition Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Yamanashi University, Japan) 13 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ SEMANTICS --------------------------------------------------------- 9.00-9.30 Combining Multiple Methods for the Automatic Construction of Multilingual Wordnets Jordi Atserias, Salvador Climent, Xavier Farreres, German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya) 9.30-10.00 Using Wordnet to Complement Training Information in Text Categorization Manuel de Buenaga Rodrmguez, Josi Marma Gsmez Hidalgo, Belin Dmaz Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 10.00-10.30 Probabilistic Word-Sense Disambiguation: a Portable Approach Using Minimum Knowledge Edward Teo, Christopher Ting, Hian-Beng Lee Li-Shiuan Peh (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) 10.30-11.00 Probabilistic Event Categorization Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Lei Duan (New Mexico State University) 11.00-11.30 coffee break PARSING, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, EVENT CATEGORISATION ------------- 11.30-12.00 A New Approach to the Construction of Generalized LR Parsing Algorithms Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Manuel Vilares (Universidade de Coruna, Spain) 12.00-12.30 Statistical Ambiguity Resolution for Principle-Based Parsing Cathy Berthouzoz, Paola Merlo (Univ of Geneva) 12.30-1.00 MILK: a Hybrid system for Multilingual Indexing and Information Extraction A. Bolioli, L. Dini, V. Di Tomaso, A. Goy, D. Sestero (Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio e dell'Informazione; Torino-Vercelli-Pisa) 1.00-3.30 Lunch break INFORMATION FILTERING, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION 3.30-3.50 Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness R. Chandrasekar, B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) 3.50-4.10 Exploiting Thesaurus Knowledge in Rule Induction for Text Classification Markus Junker, A. Abecker (DFKI, Kaiserlautern) 4.10-4.30 Constructing Compact Representations of Ambiguous Language Kurt Eberle, Carl Vogel (IMS-CL, Univ of Stuttgart) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break SEMANTIC PROCESSING, DISAMBIGUATION (parallel session) ------------ 5.00-5.20 Word Class Functions for Syntactic-Semantic Analysis Hermann Helbig, Sven Hartrumpf (FernUniversitaet Hagen) 5.20-5.40 Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts Sylvain Delisle (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres) Stan Szpakowicz (Univ of Ottawa) 5.40-6.00 Estimating Similarity of Word Senses by a Fuzzy Relation on a Large Dictionary YoungJa Park, ManSuk Song (Yonsei University, Korea) 6.20-6.40 An Alternative Approach to Lexical Categorical Disambiguation Joao Luis Tavares da Silva, Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul) LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (parallel session) ------- 5.00-5.20 SVENSK: A Toolbox of Swedish Language Processing Resources Mikael Eriksson & Bjoern.Gambaeck (Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Stockholm) 5.20-5.40 Reusability of NLP Tools for Detecting Rules and Contexts When Modelling Language Learners' Knowledge Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar, Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui (Univ of the Basque Country) 5.40-6.00 Learning Terminology in a Foreigh Language Vania Dimitrova (Univ of Shoumen, Bulgaria) Darina Dicheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria) 6.20-6.40 A Syllable-Based Extraction Method of Kana-Kanji Pairs from Japanese Sentences Hisahiro Adachi (Utsunomiya University, Japan) RESERVE PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------- Computation of the Preference in the Interpretation of Anaphors Soo-Yeon Kim (George Washington University) Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model Costanza Navarretta (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment Stefan Wermter, Joseph Chen (Univ of Hamburg) Bilingual parallel text segmentation and tagging for specialized documentation Raquel Martinez Unanue (U. Complutense de Madrid) Arantza Casillas Rubio (U. Alcala de Henares) Joseba Abaitua Odriozola (U. Deusto) Building of Semantico-Cognitive Representation of Different Types of Narratives in French Delphine Battistelli (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne) Nikolay Vazov (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne & LIMSI) LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Lake Batak. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. REGISTRATION Due to the limited conference facilities, registration will be carried out on a first-come, first-served basis. For further details and to check if there are still places available, contact Victoria Arranz (victoriaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue