International Workshop on
Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals 1995
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 May 1995
University of Limerick
Ireland
Sponsored by the European Union
Chairs:
Heinz-Detlev Koch, University of Heidelberg
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick
Organisers:
Heinz-Detlev Koch
Annette McElligott
Gemma Ryan
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe
P R O G R A M M E
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Day One: Thursday 4 May 1995
09h00-09h45 Registration (Schuman Foyer)
Session One (Chair: Heinz-Detlev Koch, University of Heidelberg) (Room S203)
09h45-10h00 Opening of the Workshop
-- Seamus O'Shea, Head of Department of Computer Science
and Information Systems
Initial Remarks
-- Heinz-Detlev Koch and Richard F. E. Sutcliffe
10h00-10h30 Using ALICE to analyse software manuals
-- Bill Black, UMIST
10h30-11h00 The TOSCA Analysis System Applied to the Domain of Computer
Software Manuals
-- Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen
11h00-11h30 Coffee (Schuman Atrium, Top Floor)
Session Two (Chair: Atro Voutilainen, University of Helsinki) (Room S203)
11h30-12h00 AMALGAM: Automatic Mapping Among Lexico-Grammatical
Annotation Models
-- Eric Atwell, University of Leeds
12h00-12h30 Discussion Session: Is a Standard Parse Tree Possible? - Part I
12h30-12h40 Group Photograph (Front of Schuman Building)
12h40-14h00 Lunch (University Club, Plassey House)
Session Three (Chair: Annette McElligott, University of Limerick) (Room S203)
14h00-14h30 Low-Level Parsing applied to Technical Manuals
-- Gregory Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble
14h30-15h00 Customising the English Constraint Grammar Parser for Computer
Manual Analysis
-- Atro Voutilainen and Timo Jaervinen
15h00-15h30 Discussion Session: Text Pre-Processing
15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Atrium, Top Floor)
Session Four (Chair: Eric Atwell, University of Leeds) (Room S203)
16h00-16h30 A Dependency-based Method for Evaluating Broad-Coverage Parsers
-- Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba
16h30-17h00 Discussion on Evaluation
17h00-17h30 Discussion on Publication of Workshop Proceedings, I
18h30 Bus leaves Kilmurry for Dromineer
19h30 Dinner at St David's Country House
23h30 Bus leaves Dromineer for Kilmurry
Day Two: Friday 5 May 1995
Session Five (Chair: How Khee Yin, DSO, Singapore) (Room S203)
10h00-10h30 Parsing Software Manuals with a Principle-Based Parser
-- Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba
10h30-11h00 Parsing Computer Manuals using a Robust Alvey Natural Language
Toolkit
-- Miles Osborne, University of York
11h00-11h30 Coffee (Schuman Atrium, Top Floor)
Session Six (Chair: Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen) (Room S203)
11h30-12h00 Using the Link Parser of Sleator and Temperley to Analyse a
Software Manual Corpus
-- Richard F. E. Sutcliffe
12h00-12h30 Discussion Session: Is a Standard Parse Tree Possible? - Part II
12h30-14h00 Lunch (University Club, Plassey House)
Session Seven (Chair: Gregory Grefenstette,
Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble ) (Room S203)
14h00-14h30 Using the PLAIN System to Analyse a Software Manual Corpus
-- Volker Kling, University of Heidelberg
14h30-15h00 Parsing Dependency Structures without Using any Grammar Formalism
-- Christopher Ting, National University of Singapore
15h00-15h30 Discussion Session: Statistical vs. Rule-Based
Approaches to Parsing
15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Atrium, Top Floor)
Session Eight (Chair: Richard Sutcliffe, University of Limerick) (Room S203)
16h00-16h45 Panel Session: The Way Forward in Industrial Parsing
-- Alan Barrett, Lotus Development
-- Arthur Cater, University College Dublin
-- Suzanne Cobb, Rank Xerox Technical Centre
-- Patrick de Gale, Sage de Gale Information Systems Ltd
16h45-17h00 Concluding Remarks
-- Christopher Garland, CEC
17h00 Close of Workshop
17h00-17h30 Discussion on Publication of Workshop Proceedings, II
Day Three: Saturday 6 May 1995
Social Programme
09h30 Bus leaves Kilmurry Lodge for Bunratty Castle
13h30 Bus leaves Bunratty Castle for Dromineer
15h30-17h00 Boat Trip on Lough Derg
17h15 Bus leaves Dromineer for Killaloe
18h00-19h30 Reception at SIFT Official Residence
19h30 Bus leaves Killaloe for Castleconnell
20h00 Dinner at Charco's Restaurant
23h30 Bus leaves Castleconnell for Kilmurry Lodge