7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
March 27-31, 1995
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
PROGRAM
Registration information is available from the ftp file server:
<ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Eacl95/registration.txt.Z>.
$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
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Password: yourname@address [not echoed]
cd acl-l/Eacl95
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WEDNESDAY, March 29
9:00-9:30: Registration
9:45-10:00: Opening remarks, welcome
10:00-11:00: Stuart Shieber, invited speaker (theatre P)
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-12:30: Parallel sessions
theatre P:
11:30 Uwe Reyle
On Reasoning with Ambiguities
12:00 Anette Frank, Uwe Reyle
Principle Based Semantics for HPSG
theatre N:
11:30 Andy Lauriston
Criteria for Measuring Term Recognition
12:00 F. Wolinski, F Vichot, B Dillet
Automatic Processing of Proper Names in Texts
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Mary Dalrymple, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Vijay Saraswat
The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar
2:30 Patrick Blackburn, Claire Gardent
A Specification Language for Lexical Functional Grammars
3:00 J"urgen Wedekind
Some Remarks on the Decidability of the Generation Problem in
LFG- and PATR-Style Unification Grammars
theatre N: Student Session
2:00 Kuang-hua Chen
Topic Identification in Discourse
2:30 David Tugwell
A State-Transition Grammar for Data-Oriented Parsing
3:00 Christopher C. Huckle
Grouping Words Using Statistical Context
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:30: Parallel sessions
theatre P:
4:00 Moon J. Kim, Young S. Han, Key-Sun Choi
Collocation Map for Overcoming Data Sparseness
4:30 Brett Kessler
Computational dialectology in Irish Gaelic
5:00 Mark Davis, Ted Dunning, Bill Ogden
Text Alignment in the Real World: Improving Alignments of
Noisy Translations Using Common Lexical Features, String
Matching Strategies and N-Gram Comparisons
theatre N:
4:00 Bill Keller, David Weir
A tractable extension of linear indexed grammar
4:30 Chris Brew
Stochastic HPSG
5:00 Annius V. Groenink
Literal Movement Grammars
THURSDAY, March 30
9:30-10:30: Patrick Hanks, invited speaker (theatre P)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
11:00 Gregory Grefenstette, Simone Teufel
Corpus-based Method for Automatic Identification of Support
Verbs for Nominalizations
11:30 Rens Bod
A Statistical Model for Corpus-Based Semantic Interpretation
12:00 Francesc Ribas Framis
On Learning more Appropriate Selectional Restrictions
theatre N:
11:00 David Milward
Incremental Interpretation of Categorial Grammar
11:30 Mark Hepple
Mixing Modes of Linguistic Description in Categorial Grammar
12:00 Glyn Morrill
Higher-order Linear Logic Programming of Categorial Deduction
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Hinrich Schuetze
Distributional Part-of-Speech Tagging
2:30 Jean-Pierre Chanod, Pasi Tapanainen
Tagging French -- comparing a statistical and a
constraint-based method
3:00 Atro Voutilainen
A syntax-based part-of-speech analyser
theatre N:
2:00 Suresh Manandhar
Deterministic Consistency Checking of LP Constraints
2:30 Guido Minnen, Dale Gerdemann, Thilo G"otz
Off-line optimization for Earley-style HPSG processing
3:00 Gregor Erbach
ProFIT: Prolog with Features, Inheritance and Templates
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00 EACL Business Meeting (theatre P)
Evening: conference banquet
FRIDAY, March 31
9:30-10:30: Wolfgang Wahlster, invited speaker (theatre P)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
11:00 Jan Alexandersson, Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger
A Robust and Efficient Three-Layered Dialog Component for a
Speech-to-Speech Translation System
11:30 Andrei Mikheev, Steven Finch
A Workbench for Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge from
Natural Language
12:00 David Carter
Rapid Development of Morphological Descriptions for Full
Language Processing Systems
theatre N: student session
11:00 Pierre Sablayrolles
The Semantics of Motion
11:30 Saliha Azzam
An algorithm to coordinate anaphora resolution and PPs
12:00 Hercules Dalianis (Stockholm, Sweden)
Aggregation in the NL-generator of the Visual and Natural
language Specification Tool
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Atro Voutilainen, Timo Jarvinen
Specifying a shallow grammatical representation for parsing
purposes
2:30 Caroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson
A fast partial parse of natural language sentences using a
connectionist method
3:00 Kong Joo Lee, Cheol Jung Kwon, Jungyun Seo, Gil Chang Kim
A Robust Parser Based on Syntactic Information
theatre N:
2:00 Richard Crouch
Ellipsis and Quantification: A Substitutional Approach
2:30 Michael Strube, Udo Hahn
Anaphora in Dependency Grammar
3:00 Beryl Hoffman
Integrating ``Free'' Word Order Syntax and Information Structure
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
4:00 Janet Hitzeman, Marc Moens, Claire Grover
Algorithms for Analysing the Temporal Structure of Discourse
4:30 Rani Nelken, Nissim Francez
Splitting the reference time: temporal ansaphora and
quantification in DR
theatre N: student session
4:00 Patrick Sturt
Incorporating ``Unconscious Reanalysis'' into an Incremental,
Monotonic Parser
4:30 Tanya Bowden
Cooperative Error Handling and Shallow Processing
Reserve Student Paper:
Frank Keller
Towards an Account of Extraposition in HPSG