Third Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-3)
Sponsored by ACL SIGDAT
Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Granada, Spain
Following the
First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9:00-11:00 Session 1
Dynamic Coreference-Based Summarization
Breck Baldwin and Thomas S. Morton
Multilingual Robust Anaphora Resolution
Ruslan Mitkov and Lamia Belguith
Aligning Clauses in Parallel Texts
Sotiris Boutsis and Stelios Piperidis
Automatic Insertion of Accents in French Text
Michel Simard
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Session 2
Valence Induction with a Head-Lexicalized PCFG
Glenn Carroll and Mats Rooth
Metrics for corpus similarity and homogeneity
Adam Kilgarriff and Tony Rose
Word-Sense Distinguishability and Inter-Coder Agreement
Rebecca Bruce and Janyce Wiebe
1:00-2:45 Lunch
2:45-3:30 Invited Speaker
Statistical Translation: Where It Went
Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute
3:30-4:30 Session 3
Category Levels in Hierarchical Text Categorization
Stephen D'Alessio, Keitha Murray, Robert Schiaffino, and Aaron
Kershenbaum
An Empirical Approach to Text Categorization based on Term Weight
Learning
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
4:30-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 Session 4
An Empirical Evaluation on Statistical Parsing of Japanese
Sentences Using Lexical Association Statistics
Shirai Kiyoaki, Inui Kentaro, Tokunaga Takenobu and Tanaka
Hozumi
Japanese Dependency Structure Analysis based on Lexicalized
Statistics
Fujio Masakazu and Matsumoto Yuji
A Natural Criterion for Maximum Entropy / Minimum Divergence
Feature Selection
Adam Berger and Harry Printz
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PROGRAM CHAIRS
Nancy Ide (chair)
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA
Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988
Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498
E-mail: ide@cs.vassar.edu
Atro Voutilainen (co-chair)
Research Unit for Multilingual Language Technology
Department of General Linguistics
P.O. Box 4 (Keskuskatu 8, 7th floor)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel: (+358 9) 191 23 507
Fax: (+358 9) 191 23 598
E-mail: atro.voutilainen@ling.helsinki.fi
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney, AT&T Laboratories-Research, USA
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, USA
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hwee Tou Ng, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University, Turkey
Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Keh Yih Su, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania
Evelyne Viegas, New Mexico State University, USA
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