Saturday, July 11, 2003 |
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9:00-9:05 |
Opening |
9:05-9:55 |
Paraphrasing Paraphrased (Invited Talk) |
Graeme Hirst |
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Session 1: Generation |
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9:55-10:20 |
Generation of Single-sentence Paraphrases from Predicate/Argument Structure using Lexico-grammatical Resources |
Raymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy and K. Vijay-Shanker |
10:20-10:50 |
Break |
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Session 2: Applications I |
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10:50-11:15 |
Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note |
Kentaro Inui, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryu Iida and Tomoya Iwakura |
11:15-11:40 |
Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-synonyms using Definition Statements |
Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kengo Sato and Hiroaki Saito |
11:40-12:30 |
Session 3: Short Presentation Session |
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Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System |
Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess and Diego Mollá |
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Interrogative Reformulation Patterns and Acquisition of Question Paraphrases |
Noriko Tomuro |
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Normalization and Paraphrasing Using Symbolic Methods |
Caroline Brun and Caroline Hagège |
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Criterion for Judging Request Intention in Response Texts of Open-Ended Questionnaires |
Hiroko Inui, Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 4: Paraphrasing Acquisition |
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14:00-14:25 |
Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora |
Ali Ibrahim, Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin |
14:25-14:50 |
Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction |
Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine |
14:50-15:15 |
Optimizing Synonym Extraction Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources |
Hua Wu and Ming Zhou |
15:15-15:40 |
Paraphrasing Japanese Noun Phrases using Character-based Indexing |
Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka and Kenji Kimura |
15:40-16:10 |
Break |
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Session 5: Applications II |
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16:10-16:35 |
Paraphrasing Rules for Automatic Evaluation of Translation into Japanese |
Hiroshi Kanayama |
16:35-17:00 |
Lexical Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval and Node Identification |
Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George and Yingying Wen |
17:00-17:50 |
Discussion and Closing |