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ets.org>-------------------------------------------------------- "From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice" ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop Announcement Saturday, July 12, 1997 Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Description: Success in the marketplace is one form of validation for NLP techniques and underlying theories. The workshop will bring together researchers to discuss commercial or commercial-bound systems that use NLP for either text or speech. Systems will be discussed that show re-use of NLP techniques, and that illustrate industry-based practical considerations involving NLP technology. Experiences and problems -- technical, logistic, or cultural -- among people working on operational and commercial NLP applications will be discussed. Discussion of the issues above will create connections between both academic and industry-based research efforts to build a solid infrastructure for NLP technology re-use and lead to a deeper understanding of commercial NLP potential. ****************************************************************** Workshop Program: 9:00 - 9:30 (Coffee and Registration) Session I 9:30 - 10:00: "Re-Use of a Proper Noun Recognition System in Commercial and Operational NLP Applications" (Chinatsu Aone and J. Maloney, SRA ) 10:00 - 10:30: "Developing a new grammar checker for English as a second language" (Cornelia Tschichold, Franck Bodmer, Etienne Cornu, Francois Grosjean, Lysiane Grojean, Natalie Kubler, Nicolas Lewy and Corinne Tschumi, Universite of Neuchatel) 10:30 - 11:00: "Software Re-Use and Evolution in Text Generation Applications" (Karen Kukich and Rebecca Passaneau, Bellcore; Kathleen McKeown, Dragomir Radev, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou and Hongyan Jing, Columbia University) 11:00 - 11:20: Coffee Break 11:20 - 11:50: "Estimating the True Performance of Classification-Based NLP Technology" (James Nolan, Siena College) 11:50 - 12:20: "Tailored patient information: some issues and questions" (Ehud Reiter and Liesl Osman, University of Aberdeen) 12:20 - 1:30: Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:00: "Practical Considerations in Building a Multi-Lingual Authoring System for Business Letters" (John Tait and Huw Sanderson,University of Sunderland; Jeremy Ellman, MARI Computer Systems, Ana Maria Martinez San Jose, Sistemas y Tratamiento de Informacion, SA; Peter Hellwig, University of Heidelberg; Periklis Tsagheas, SENA, SA) 2:00 - 2:30: "A Language Identification Application Built on the Java Client/Server Platform" (Gary Adams, Sun MicroSystems Labs. and Philip Resnik, University of Maryland) 2:30 - 3:00: "Practical Experience with Grammar Sharing in Multilingual NLP" (Michael Gamon, Carmen Lozano, Jessie Pinkham and Tom Reutter,Microsoft Corp.) 3:00 - 3:20: Coffee Break 3:20 - 3:50: "NLP and Industry: Transfer and Reuse of Technolgies" (Leo Obrst and Krishna Jha, Boeing Defense and Space Group) 3:50 - 4:20: "Recycling Lingware in a Multilingual MT System" (Manny Rayner and David Carter, SRI; Ivan Bretan, Roberts Eklund and Mats Wiren, Telia Research; Steffen Leo Hansen, Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Finn Sorensen and Hanne Erdman Thomsen,Handelshojskolen i Kobenhavn, Institut for Datalingvistik) 4:20 - 5:00: Follow-up Discussion *********************************************************************** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service Claudia Leacock, Princeton University ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Jared Bernstein, Ordinate Corporation Andrew Golding, Mitsubishi Electric Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology, Inc. Kevin Knight, USC/ISI Karen Kukich, Bellcore Lisa Rau, SRA International Yael Ravin, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center Susanne Wolff, Educational Testing Service Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center ******************************************************************** Information about Workshop Registration: Please note that if you would like to attend the workshop, you must register for the workshop and the main conference. There are a limited number of spaces in the workshop. Registration materials for the main conference and the workshop are below. - ----------------------->8---cut---here--->8------------------------- *MAIN CONFERENCE AND TUTORAL REGISTRATION* APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (by 31 May) 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of theEuropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7-12 July 1997, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain NAME _______________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION (for badge) ____________________________________________________ TELEPHONE __________________________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION (circle fee) NOTE: Only those whose ACL membership is paid for the 1997 calendar year can register as members; if you have not, register at the ``non-member'' rate. REGULAR NON- STUDENT STUDENT MEMBER MEMBER* MEMBER NONMEMBER* by Feb. 28 $200 $275 $100 $140 late/onsite $260 $335 $120 $160 *Non-member registration fee includes ACL membership for 1997; do not pay non-member fee for BOTH the registration and the tutorials. TUTORIAL INFORMATION (circle fee) To attend two tutorials, pay twice the amount shown. REGULAR NON- STUDENT STUDENT MEMBER MEMBER* MEMBER NONMEMBER* EACH Tutorial: by Feb. 28 $125 $185 $85 $125 late/onsite $150 $210 $95 $135 *Non-member registration fee includes ACL membership; do not pay the non-member fee for BOTH the registration and the tutorials. Monday morning tutorials -- select at most ONE: [ ] Machine Learning of Natural Language [ ] Information Retrieval from a Linguist's Perspective Monday afternoon tutorials -- select at most ONE: [ ] Maximum Entropy Modeling for Natural Language [ ] Logical Approaches to Syntactic Theories BANQUET TICKETS ($50 each): $____________________ MEAL CHOICE: [ ] Vegetarian; [ ] Non-Vegetarian STUDENT MEMBER LUNCH: [ ] Will attend [ ] Will not attend Note: only open to student members or regular members who are students. 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