I P S M ' 9 5
International Workshop on
Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals 1995
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 May 1995
University of Limerick
Ireland
Sponsored by the European Union
Organisers:
Heinz-Detlev Koch, University of Heidelberg
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick
How to register
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Registration is open to those not directly participating, subject to space. If
you would like to attend, please email Sutcliffe at the address below.
Registration costs 120 Irish Pounds (about 180 US Dollars) for the two days
including proceedings, nice lunches, conference dinner and refreshments.
Attendance is limited, so let us know your intentions soon.
What is it about?
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The aim of the workshop is to investigate the efficacy of different parsing
strategies for analysing the software manuals supplied with computer software.
Important applications of this technology include machine assisted translation,
semi-automatic product localisation and conceptual information retrieval.
Each participating group has been supplied with three technical texts in
machine readable form together with three lists of terminology occurring in
these text. Each text comprises 200 utterances. The documents being used are:
* the Dynix Automated Library Systems Searching Manual
* the Lotus Ami Pro for Windows User's Guide Release Three
* the Trados Translator's Workbench for Windows User's Guide
(Permission has kindly been granted by the copyright holders of these extracts
enabling them to be used for the purposes of the IPSM'95 workshop.)
Each group has been carrying out three experiments on the above documents,
namely Analysis I, Analysis II and Analysis III. Essentially Analysis I
involves trying the parser on the sentences while only altering the lexical
analysis component. Under Analysis II groups are permitted to add to the
lexicon or terminological database of their parser as necessary, using our list
of compounds as a starting point. Within Analysis III (optional) it is
permitted to alter the underlying grammar or parsing algorithms.
The objective within each phase it to carry out a study of the resulting parse
trees with a view to establishing the efficacy of the parsing system with
respect to the following kinds of issues:
* The resolution of prepositional phrase attachment - how accurately can this
be accomplished in this domain?
* The analysis of and/or/comma coordination - what characteristics do such
coordinations have in this domain and what techniques can be used to analyse
them accurately?
* The handling of gapping and other forms of ellipsis - to what extent is the
best approach to this problem dependent on the parsing system being used?
* Efficiency - how long does it take to analyse the sentences and what space
requirements are entailed?
At the Workshop we will be comparing the results these studies and discussing
their implications. Proceedings will be available at the workshop and it is
planned to publish this after the meeting.
Participation
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The following have already agreed to take part:
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., USA
DSO, Singapore
National University of Singapore
Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France
University College Dublin, Ireland
University of Heidelberg, Germany
University of Helsinki, Finland
University of Limerick, Ireland
University of Manchester,
Institute of Science and Technology, UK
University of Manitoba, Canada
University of Minho, Portugal
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
University of York, UK
It is still not too late to take part.
About the University of Limerick
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The University of Limerick is situated on rolling parkland beside the historic
River Shannon. The tranquil red brick campus is complemented by lakes,
fountains and sculptures.
The workshop will be based in the Robert Schuman Building, home of the Computer
Science and Information Systems Department, an airy and majestic structure
incorporating lecture theatres. meeting rooms, computer laboratories and
research centres, all equipped to the highest standards.
The Shannon Region is especially beautiful in early summer, and there are many
sights worth visiting: Bunratty Castle, the thousand foot high Cliffs of Moher,
Rock of Cashel, King John's Castle, and Aillwee Caves are all close by. In
addition there is Loch Derg, teeming with wildlife on its many islands and
surrounded by blue-green hills and lofty mountains.
The University is easily reached - Shannon International Airport is only 20kms
away, with regular direct flights to London, New York, and many other cities.
We wil provide comprehensive travel and hotel information on request.
Heinz-Detlev Koch
Lehrstuhl fuer Computerlinguistik
KarlstraBe 2
D-69117 Heidelberg
Deutschland
+49 6221 543 248 Direct
+49 6221 543 242 Fax
koch@novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de
Richard F.E. Sutcliffe
Department of Computer Science
and Information Systems
University of Limerick
Ireland
+353 61 202706 Direct
+353 61 330876 Fax
email sutcliffer@ul.ie
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