Call for Participation - EMNLP2 - Conf. on Empirical Methods in NLP

Claire Cardie (cardie@CS.Cornell.EDU)
Wed, 21 May 1997 21:11:56 -0400 (EDT)

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First Call for Participation

Second Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-2)

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, August 1-2, 1997
(Immediately following AAAI)

Note: The early registration deadline is June 15, 1997. All of the
information below as well as additional information on the conference
is available at:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html

Contents:

- Conference Overview
- Tentative Program
- Registration Form
- Travel and Accommodations Information
- Program Committee and Sponsors

--------------- Conference Overview ---------------

In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference offers a general forum
for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural language
processing. In addition, a number of sessions of this year's
conference are devoted to new research describing and evaluating the
strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as
applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR).
Papers will be presented in the following research areas:

- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
- language modelling
- word sense disambiguation
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure identification
- tagging multi-lingual texts
- machine learning methods as applied to problems in NLP
- term and name identification
- text categorization
- text segmentation
- lexicon construction

INVITED TALKS:

Each day of the conference will feature an invited talk.

Friday, August 1
TOM MITCHELL (CMU)
"Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web"

Saturday's talk will be announced shortly.

--------------- Tentative Program ---------------

Friday, August 1
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8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION, continental breakfast

9:00-9:15 WELCOME

9:15-10:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

An O(N) Average Time Statistical Parser Based On Maximum Entropy
Models
Adwait Ratnaparkhi

Global Thresholding and Multiple Pass Parsing
Joshua Goodman

An Efficient Distribution of Labor in a Two Stage Robust
Interpretation Process
Carolyn Penstein Rose and Alon Lavie

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK with Uncertainty in AI Conference

11:00-12:15 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Text Segmentation Using Exponential Models
Doug Beeferman, Adam Berger, and John Lafferty

Detecting Subject Boundaries Within Text: A Language Independent
Statistical Approach
Korin Richmond, Andrew Smith, Einat Amitay

Mistake-Driven Learning in Text Categorization
Ido Dagan, Yael Karov, Dan Roth

12:15-1:45 CATERED LUNCH (included in registration fee)

1:45-2:45 INVITED TALK - Tom Mitchell (CMU)
"Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web"

2:45-3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00-3:50 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Tagging Grammatical Functions
Thorsten Brants, Wojciech Skut, Brigitte Krenn

On Aligning Trees
Jo Calder

3:50-4:15 COFFEE BREAK

4:15-5:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Aggregate and Mixed-order Markov Models for Statistical Language
Processing
L. Saul and F. Pereira

Assigning Grammatical Relations with a Back-Off Model
Erika F. de Lima

Automatic Discovery of Non-Compositional Compounds in Parallel Data
I. Dan Melamed

Saturday, August 2
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8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION, continental breakfast

8:30-9:45 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Learning to Tag Multi-Lingual Texts Through Observation
Scott W. Bennett, Chinatsu Aone, Craig Lovell

A Corpus-Based Approach for Building Semantic Lexicons
Ellen Riloff and Jessica Shepherd

Inducing Terminology for Lexical Acquisition
Roberto Basili

9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK

10:15-11:05 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Name Searching and Information Retrieval
Paul Thompson and Christopher C. Dozier

Lexicon Effects on Chinese Information Retrieval
K.L. Kwok

11:05-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:15 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Attaching Multiple Prepositional Phrases: Generalized Backed-Off
Estimation
Paola Merlo, Matthew W. Crocker, and Cathy Berthouzoz

Learning Methods for Combining Linguistic Indicators to Classify
Verbs
Eric Siegel

12:15-1:45 CATERED LUNCH (included in registration fee)

1:00-1:45 SIGDAT business meeting

1:45-2:45 INVITED TALK

2:45-3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00-3:50 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Probabilistic Coreference in Information Extraction
Andrew Kehler

An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution
Janyce Wiebe, Tom O'Hara, Ken McKeever, and Thorsten
Ohrstrom-Sandren

3:50-4:15 COFFEE BREAK

4:15-5:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Structured Semantic Space
Ji Donghong and Huang Changning

Distinguishing Word Senses in Untagged Text
Ted Pedersen and Rebecca Bruce

Exemplar-Based Word Sense Disambiguation: Some Recent Improvements
Hwee Tou Ng

--------------- Registration ------------------

Registration rates:
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Registration includes proceedings and continental breakfast, lunch,
and refreshment breaks for each day of the conference. Non-member
fees also include a 1-year membership in ACL (Association for
Computational Linguistics) and a subscription to the Computational
Linguistics journal (1 year).

Early registration (received by June 15):
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ACL member Non-member*
Non-student $ 90 $ 140
Student $ 75 $ 105

Regular registration (received between June 16 and July 15):
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ACL member Non-member*
Non-student $100 $ 150
Student $ 90 $ 120

On-site registration (received after July 15 or at the conference):
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ACL member Non-member*
Non-student $135 $ 185
Student $115 $ 145

* 1996 ACL members who have not yet renewed their 1997 membership
must pay the non-member rate PLUS an additional $10 late fee
(e.g. $115 for student early registration).

Method of Payment:
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Payment in U.S. dollars must be included with this form. Either send
an international money order or check drawn on a U.S. bank, payable to
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), or provide the
following information for credit card billing.

Registration may be submitted by e-mail, by letter, or by fax using
the form and addresses below.

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Registration Address:

E-mail: emnlp2@cs.jhu.edu

Regular mail:
EMNLP2
c/o David Yarowsky - SIGDAT
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2694

Fax: +1 (410) 516-6134

Registration form (print or type all information):

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Phone:
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Date of registration:

Total registration fee: $

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Notes:
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- To qualify for student rates, attendees must provide a proof of
full-time student status in hard copy form (e.g., photocopy of valid
student ID) at the time of registration. Students who register via
e-mail must send their proof of status by regular mail or fax to the
registration address given above, to be received within two weeks
of registration.

- All pre-registrants will receive a confirmation by e-mail and a
hardcopy receipt at the conference itself.

- Registration fees are not refundable.

For questions about registration procedures, please contact
emnlp2@cs.jhu.edu.

----------- Schedule, Travel and Accommodations --------------

Schedule: The conference will begin the morning of Friday, August 1
and end the afternoon of Saturday, August 2.

Travel: Travel information is available from the conference home page:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html

Accommodations:

Hotels: Nearby hotels include the Omni Biltmore, (800) 843-6664,
Marriott Hotel, (800) 228-9290, Holiday Inn, (800) 465-4329, the
Westin Hotel (800) 228-3000, and the Days Hotel (800) 329-7466. See
http://www.providenceri.com/as220/hotels.html for details on these
hotels as well as recommendations for other hotels in the area. Please
contact the hotels directly for reservations.

On Campus Housing: There are several options for housing on
campus. Available campus housing includes dormitory rooms and limited
numbers of hotel-style Guest Rooms.

Single and double dormitory rooms share community bathrooms. Air
conditioned single rooms are available on a first come, first serve
basis at $45.00 per night. Single rooms without air conditioning are
available at $36.00 per night, or at $34.00/person/night for a
double. Some buildings are accessible to the mobility impaired and a
handful of rooms are acceptable for use by guests in wheelchairs. Each
room in a standard dormitory is equipped with one or more of the
following: single-sized bed, pillow, desk and chair, dresser,
bookcase, closet and overhead light. Bathrooms are located on each
floor. Campus and local telephone service is provided at no charge but
telephone instruments are not provided. Guests must bring their own
telephones. For long-distance service, guests must use a credit
card. The dormitory rate includes each room made up with linen,
towels, pillow, blanket, drinking glasses and soap; daily (weekday
only) cleaning of bathrooms, kitchens, lounges and common areas and
removal of trash from common areas. This rate also includes use of the
athletic facilities and the ambulance/EMT service.

There are a limited number of hotel-style Guest Rooms (in the Thayer
Street Quadrangle) available at $85.00 per room per night, single or
double occupancy. Guest Rooms are air conditioned and have individual
heating and cooling controls, color television, telephones and daily
housekeeping service. The rate includes parking and a complimentary
continental breakfast.

To register for dormitory or Guest Room housing, please access a copy
of the Brown University Housing form from the conference home page:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html
and send the requested information directly to the Brown University
housing office by mail or fax (fax number: 401-863-7300). You also
have the option of sending your completed form via email to the EMNLP
on-campus housing address. Use the ascii form or simply copy and paste
the html form from your web browser into your email client and send
the ascii version directly to the housing office at
EMNLP_housing@brown.edu.

Reservations received before July 1 will be confirmed by Brown
University. You will receive a note confirming your reservation
directly from the Brown University housing office.

Any additional questions about on-campus housing can be answered by
the Brown Housing office at 401-863-7500.

--------------- Program Committee and Sponsors ---------------

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Claire Cardie Cornell University (chair)
Ralph Weischedel BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ted Briscoe Cambridge University
Rebecca Bruce Southern Methodist University
Mike Collins University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carl de Marcken Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua Goodman Harvard University
Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute
Nancy Ide Vassar College
K.L. Kwok Queens College, CUNY
John Lafferty Carnegie Mellon University
Steve Maiorano ORD
Kemal Oflazer Bilkent University
Philip Resnik University of Maryland
Dekai Wu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Eugene Charniak Brown University

SPONSORS: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data
and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

EMNLP is being held in cooperation with AAAI.

CONTACTS:

Claire Cardie Ralph Weischedel
Cornell University BBN Systems and Technologies
Department of Computer Science 70 Fawcett Street
4142 Upson Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA USA
cardie@cs.cornell.edu weischedel@bbn.com
(607)255-9206 (617)873-3496