Friday, July 11, 2003 |
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8:20-8:30 |
Welcome |
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Session 1: Multilingual Methods, and Paraphrasing |
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8:30-8:55 |
A Projection Extension Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation |
Christoph Tillmann |
8:55-9:20 |
Statistical Machine Translation Using Coercive Two-Level Syntactic Transduction |
Charles Schafer and David Yarowsky |
9:20-9:45 |
Cross-Lingual Lexical Triggers in Statistical Language Modeling |
Woosung Kim and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
9:45-10:10 |
Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora |
Regina Barzilay and Noemie Elhadad |
10:10-10:35 |
Break |
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Session 2: Predicate-Argument Structure |
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10:35-11:00 |
Antecedent Recovery: Experiments with a Trace Tagger |
Péter Dienes and Amit Dubey |
11:00-11:25 |
Use of Deep Linguistic Features for the Recognition and Labeling of Semantic Arguments |
John Chen and Owen Rambow |
11:25-11:50 |
Maximum Entropy Models for FrameNet Classification |
Michael Fleischman, Namhee Kwon and Eduard Hovy |
11:50-12:15 |
Identifying Semantic Roles Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar |
Daniel Gildea and Julia Hockenmaier |
12:15-2:00 |
Lunch |
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Invited Talk |
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2:00-3:00 |
Knight, Kevin: Deeper Representations for Machine Translation: Ready or Not? |
3:00-3:30 |
Break |
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Session 3: New Methods |
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3:30-3:55 |
Variation of Entropy and Parse Trees of Sentences as a Function of the Sentence Number |
Dmitriy Genzel and Eugene Charniak |
3:55-4:20 |
A Plethora of Methods for Learning English Countability |
Timothy Baldwin and Francis Bond |
4:20-4:45 |
A General Framework for Distributional Similarity |
Julie Weeds and David Weir |
4:45-5:10 |
Break |
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Session 4: Parsing |
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5:10-5:35 |
Using LTAG Based Features in Parse Reranking |
Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar and Aravind Joshi |
5:35-6:00 |
Log-Linear Models for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing |
Stephen Clark and James Curran |
Saturday, July 12, 2003 |
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Session 5: Semantics and Generation |
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8:30-8:55 |
Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions |
Ellen Riloff and Janyce Wiebe |
8:55-9:20 |
Bootstrapping Coreference Classifiers with Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms |
Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie |
9:20-9:45 |
Statistical Acquisition of Content Selection Rules for Natural Language Generation |
Pablo Ariel Duboue and Kathleen R McKeown |
9:45-10:10 |
Towards Answering Opinion Questions: Separating Facts from Opinions and Identifying the Polarity of Opinion Sentences |
Hong Yu and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou |
10:10-10:35 |
Break |
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Session 6: Maximum-Entropy Methods, and Alternatives |
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10:35-11:00 |
Evaluation and Extension of Maximum Entropy Models with Inequality Constraints |
Jun'ichi Kazama and Jun'ichi Tsujii |
11:00-11:25 |
Investigating Loss Functions and Optimization Methods for Discriminative Learning of Label Sequences |
Yasemin Altun, Mark Johnson and Thomas Hofmann |
11:25-11:50 |
A Fast Algorithm for Feature Selection in Conditional Maximum Entropy Modeling |
Yaqian Zhou, Fuliang Weng, Lide Wu and Hauke Schmidt |
11:50-12:15 |
Training Connectionist Models for the Structured Language Model |
Peng Xu, Ahmad Emami and Frederick Jelinek |
12:15-2:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 7: Word Sense Disambiguation and Anaphora |
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2:00-2:25 |
Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns in WordNet |
Massimiliano Ciaramita and Mark Johnson |
2:25-2:50 |
Using the Web in Machine Learning for Other-Anaphora Resolution |
Natalia N. Modjeska, Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim |
2:50-3:15 |
Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution based on Ranking Rules and Machine Learning |
Hideki Isozaki and Tsutomu Hirao |
3:15-3:40 |
Break |
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Session 8: Asian Languages/Information Retrieval |
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3:40-4:05 |
A Maximum Entropy Chinese Character-Based Parser |
Xiaoqiang Luo |
4:05-4:30 |
HowtogetaChineseName(Entity): Segmentation and Combination Issues |
Hongyan Jing, Radu Florian, Xiaoqiang Luo, Tong Zhang and Abraham Ittycheriah |
4:30-4:55 |
Virtual Examples for Text Classification with Support Vector Machines |
Manabu Sassano |
4:55-5:20 |
Improved Automatic Keyword Extraction Given More Linguistic Knowledge |
Anette Hulth |
5:20-5:30 |
Best Paper Award |