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Tony Rose (tgr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:09:45 +0000

Language Engineering for Document Analysis and Recognition
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A one-day workshop organized by Lindsay Evett & Tony Rose
as part of the AISB 1996 Workshop Series

2nd April 1996
Sussex University, England

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
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MORNING SESSION
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Introduction - Lindsay Evett

"Software infrastructure for language engineering"
Hamish Cunningham & Yorick Wilks
ILASH, Sheffield University

"Automatic content analysis of spoken discourse"
Paul Rayson & Andrew Wilson
UCREL, Lancaster University

"Domain and language independent feature extraction for
statistical text categorisation"
Ingrid Renz
Daimler Benz AG

"Which words are particularly characteristic of a text?"
Adam Kilgarriff
ITRI, Brighton University

"Domain knowledge for NLP"
Andrei Mikheev
HCRC, Edinburgh University

"Identification of functional style on unrestricted texts"
S.E. Michos et al
Patras University

AFTERNOON SESSION
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"Shallow techniques for the segmentation of news reports"
Jeremy Crowe
Edinburgh University

"Content analysis for error checking"
David Quinn
BICC Ltd

"A corpus-based approach for automatic abstracting"
Ruslan Mitkov
Wolverhampton University

"The generation of compound nominals for information retrieval"
Jennifer Norris
ITRI, Brighton University

"The use of lexical cohesion for automatic text segmentation"
Lindsay Evett & Amanda Jobbins
Nottingham Trent University

"A dynamic language model based on exponential decay"
John McMahon et al
Queen's University of Belfast

--- HOW TO REGISTER ---

Full details of the workshop series plus registration forms and
information may be found at

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/aisb/aisb96

or by emailing a request to

aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT LATE REGISTRATION APPLIES FROM 1st MARCH 1996.

Specific enquiries about this workshop may be addressed to:

Lindsay Evett Tony Rose
Dept. of Computing Interaction Technology Dept.
Nottingham Trent University Personal Systems Lab
Burton St. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK Bristol, BS12 6QZ, UK

Tel: 0115 9486018 Tel: 0117 9228488
Fax: 0115 9486518 Fax: 0117 9228925
Email: lje@doc.ntu.ac.uk Email: tgr@hplb.hpl.hp.com