Friday, 30 June 1995
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
at ACL-95 (June 26-29)
Theme: Supervised Training vs. Self-organizing Methods
Organizers: Ken Church and David Yarowsky
Sponsors: ACL's SIGDAT and SIGNLL
LEXIS-NEXIS, Division of Reed and Elsevier, Plc.
Registration information below - Discounted registration deadline: June 15th.
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:15 - 8:45 Registration. Coffee, danish, etc. available
8:45 - 8:50 Welcome
8:50 - 9:35 INVITED TALK (Mark Liberman)
9:35 - 9:50 Break
9:50 - 10:15 Eric Brill
Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part of Speech Tagging
10:15 - 10:40 Carl de Marcken
Lexical Heads, Phrase Structure and the Induction of Grammar
10:40 - 11:05 Michael Collins and James Brooks
Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model
11:05 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:40 Andrew Golding
A Bayesian Hybrid Method for Context-sensitive Spelling Correction
11:40 - 12:05 Philip Resnik
Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to Wordnet Senses
12:05 - 1:05 CATERED LUNCH
1:05 - 1:30 Dekai Wu
Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing
1:30 - 1:55 Lance Ramshaw and Mitch Marcus
Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning
1:55 - 2:05 Break
2:05 - 3:00 INVITED TALK (Henry Kucera and Nelson Francis)
3:00 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 3:35 Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer and Naftali Tishby
Beyond Word N-Grams
3:35 - 4:00 Jing-Shin Chang, Yi-Chung Lin and Keh-Yih Su
Automatic Construction of a Chinese Electronic Dictionary
4:00 - 4:10 Break
4:10 - 4:35 Kenneth Church and William Gale
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson
4:35 - 5:00 Joe Zhou and Pete Dapkus
Automatic Suggestion of Significant Terms for a Predefined Topic
5:00 - 5:25 Ellen Riloff and Jay Shoen
Automatically Acquiring Conceptual Patterns without an Annotated Corpus
Reserve Papers:
Hsin-Hsi Chen and Yue-Shi Lee - Development of a Partially Bracketed Corpus
with Part-of-Speech Information Only
Pascale Fung - Compiling Bilingual Lexicon Entries From a Non-Parallel
English-Chinese Corpus
I. Dan Melamed - Automatic Evaluation and Uniform Filter Cascades for
Inducing N-Best Translation Lexicons
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PROGRAM CHAIRS:
David Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania)
Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Susan Armstrong (ISCCO, Switzerland)
Walter Daelemans (ITK/KUB, Tilburg, Netherlands)
Marti Hearst (Xerox PARC, USA)
Chang-Ning Huang (Tsinghua University, China)
Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Canada)
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)
David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
Philip Resnik (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA)
Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Joe Zhou (LEXIS-NEXIS, USA)
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REGISTRATION: Registration fees are $40 for payment received by
15 June 1995 and $45 at the door. Registration includes a copy of
the proceedings, catered lunch and refreshments during the day.
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