26 June 10:30 - 12:00
Session M1R: Machine Learning and Statistical Methods
Session chair: Andrew McCallumA High-Performance Semi-Supervised Learning Method for Text Chunking
Rie Kubota Ando, Tong Zhang
Scaling Conditional Random Fields using Error-Correcting Codes
Trevor Cohn, Andrew Smith, Miles Osborne
Logarithmic Opinion Pools for Conditional Random Fields
Andrew Smith, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne
Session M1M: Word Sense Disambiguation
Session chair: Rada MihalceaSupersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns using Semantic Similarity
James R. Curran
Learning Semantic Classes for Word Sense Disambiguation
Upali Sathyajith Kohomban, Wee Sun Lee
The Role of Semantic Roles in Disambiguating Verb Senses
Hoa Trang Dang, Martha Palmer
Session M1B: Generation
Session chair: Regina BarzilayAggregation Improves Learning: Experiments in Natural Language Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Dan Yu, Susan Haller, Michael Glass
Empirically-based Control of Natural Language Generation
Daniel Paiva, Roger Evans
Towards Developing Generation Algorithms for Text-to-Text Applications
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu