ACL-2003 Main Session Conference Program

ACL 2003 Main Session Conference Program

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3
Monday, July 7, 2003
18:00	Reception Sapporo Convention Center
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
9:00	Opening session			Exhibition 9:00-18:15
9:30	Invited Talk: Layout in NLP: The Case for Document Structure Donia Scott
10:30	Break
	Question Answering	Machine Learning: Kernels	Subcategorization and Word Meaning
11:00	Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy and Abdessamad Echihabi	Fast Methods for Kernel-Based Text Analysis Taku Kudo and Yuji Matsumoto	Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation Anna Korhonen and Judita Preiss
11:25	Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda Harabagiu, John Williams and Paul Aarseth	Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki and Eisaku Maeda	Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution Malvina Nissim and Katja Markert
11:50	A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering Abdessamad Echihabi and Daniel Marcu	Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark	Clustering Polysemic Subcategorization Frame Distributions Semantically Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski and Zvika Marx
12:15	Lunch
	Alignment for Machine Translation	Parsing German	Vector Space Models
14:00	Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara	Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies Amit Dubey and Frank Keller	Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information Hua Wu and Ming Zhou
14:25	Loosely Tree-Based Alignment for Machine Translation Daniel Gildea	Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer and Ulrich Schäfer	Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata
14:50	A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin	Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German Michael Schiehlen	Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval Dominic Widdows
15:15	Break
	Statistical Machine Translation	Coreference in Discourse and Dialogue	Rule-based Parsing
15:45	A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens and Hermann Ney	A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue Michael Strube and Christoph Müller	Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar Lionel Clément and Alexandra Kinyon
16:10	tRuEcasIng Lucian Vlad Lita, Abe Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos and Nanda Kambhatla	Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan	Compounding and Derivational Morphology in a Finite-State Setting Jonas Kuhn
16:35	Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation Franz Josef Och		A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying Gerald Penn and Cosmin Munteanu
17:00	Break
17:15	Invited Talk: Economics about Language Ariel Rubinstein
18:15	Day 1 over
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