ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition

09:00-09:30 Chinese Named Entity Recognition Combining Statistical Model wih Human Knowledge
Youzheng Wu, Jun Zhao  and  Bo Xu
09:30-10:00 Multi-Language Named-Entity Recognition System based on HMM
Kuniko Saito  and  Masaaki Nagata
10:00-10:30 Learning Formulation and Transformation Rules for Multilingual Named Entities
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Changhua Yang  and  Ying Lin
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Multilingual Resources for Entity Extraction
Stephanie Strassel  and  Alexis Mitchell
11:30-12:30 Bootstrapping Multilingual Named-Entity Recognizers
David Yarowsky (Invited Talk)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (sponsored by Microsoft Natural Language Group)
14:00-14:30 NE Recognition Without Training Data on a Language You Don't Speak
Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan  and  Hamish Cunningham
14:30-15:00 Low-cost Named Entity Classification for Catalan: Exploiting Multilingual Resources and Unlabeled Data
Lluís Màrquez, Adrià de Gispert, Xavier Carreras  and  Lluís Padró
15:00-15:30 Construction and Analysis of Japanese-English Broadcast News Corpus with Named Entity Tags
Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka  and  Takahiro Fukusima
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Automatic Extraction of Named Entity Translingual Equivalence Based on Multi-Feature Cost Minimization
Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel  and  Alex Waibel
16:30-17:00 Transliteration of Proper Names in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Paola Virga  and  Sanjeev Khudanpur