Corpora: NAACL-2001 Preliminary Call for Participation

From: Priscilla Rasmussen (rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 21:08:20 MET

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       ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*******************

                    Language Technologies 2001:

             Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
          of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                        June 2-7, 2001
                   Carnegie Mellon University
                  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

       ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*******************

    The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association
    for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon
    University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials,
    workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening picnic
    and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural
    History. We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop
    on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The
    conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access
    throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in
    advance), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you
    are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June
    1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free
    performances.

    WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

    REGISTRATION DATES:
        Early registration (on line or by mail): March 15-April 30
        Late registration (on line or by mail): May 1-26
        On site registration: June 2-7

    REGISTRATION FEES:
        Regular ACL member $250 (early) $300 (late, on location)
        Regular Non-ACL member $310 (early) $370 (late) - includes ACL memb dues
        Student ACL member $100 (early) $125 (late)
        Student Non-ACL member $130 (early) $155 (late) - includes ACL memb dues

        Workshops (each, 1 day) $50 (early) $75 (late)
        EMNLP (2 days) $100 (early) $150 (late)
        Tutorials (each, 1/2 day) $100 (early) $125 (late)
                   student $75 (early) $100 (late)

        Banquet tickets $65 (regular) $40 (student)

    ***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************

    TUTORIALS, June 2

     Morning:
        "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural
        Spoken Dialog.
        Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso,
        Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory

        Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing:
        What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?
        Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research

     Afternoon
        Building Synthetic Voices.
        Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University

        Open-Domain Textual Question Answering.
        Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University

    WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4
    Please see the web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html)
    for individual submission deadlines.

     Sunday, June 3

        Automatic Summarization,
        Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs

        Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation
        Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs

        WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
        Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1)
        Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
        Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

     Monday, June 4

        Student Research Workshop
        Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs

        Adaptation in Dialogue Systems,
        Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs

        WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
        Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2)
        Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
        Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

    EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4
    Deadline for submissions, March 13

    DEMOS, June 5-7
    Deadline for submissions, March 2

    INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6
    A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to
    industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial
    trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to
    participate:

    EXHIBITORS (to date):
        Transclick
        Nuance
        Multicorpora R&D Inc.
        Trados Corporation

    SPONSORS (to date):
        
     GOLD:
        LingoMotors

     SILVER:
        IISI

     BRONZE:
        Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
        Nuance
        SRA, International
        TRADOS
        AT&T

    Pending and new exhibitors and sponsors, please contact Lynn Carlson
    (lmcarls@super.org) or Kurt Godden (kgodden@justtalk.com).

    LIST OF MAIN SESSION PAPERS, June 5-7

     Invited Speakers:
        Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University

        Other invited speakers to be announced.

     Natural Language Generation

        Instance-Based Natural Language Generation (Sebastian Varges,
        Chris Mellish)
        Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation (Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio,
        Renate Henschel, Chris Mellish)
        A Trainable Sentence Planner (Marilyn A. Walker, Owen C. Rambow,
        Monica Rogati)

     Information Retrieval and Machine Learning

        Why Inverse Document Frequency? (Kishore Papineni)
        Question Answering Using Maximum-Entropy Components (Abraham
        Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi)
        Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane (Grace Ngai, Radu
        Florian)

     Dialog

        Identifying User Corrections Automatically in Spoken Dialogue Systems
        (Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, Marc Swerts)
        Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement
        Learning and Inductive Logic Programming (Renaud Lecoeuche)

     Word Meaning

        A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of
        Context-Sensitive Adjectives (Maria Lapata)
        Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy (Noriko Tomuro)
        A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense (Ted
        Pedersen)

     Semantics

        An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic Interpretation Using an Enhanced
        WordNet (Fernando Gomez)
        Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy
        (Stephen Clark, David Weir)
        Identifying Cognates by Phonetic and Semantic Similarity (Grzegorz
        Kondrak)

     Speech Synthesis and Recognition

        Re-engineering Letter-to-Sound Rules (Martin Jansche)
        Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech (Eugene Charniak
        and Mark Johnson)
        Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations (Sergey Pakhomov,
        Michael Schonwetter, Joan Bachenko)
        
     Machine Translation

        A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation (Srinivas Bangalore,
        Giuseppe Riccardi)
        Information-Based Machine Translation (Keiko Horiguchi)
        Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction (Gideon S. Mann and David
        Yarowsky)

     Parsing

        A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model (John
        Hale)
        Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie)
        Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing (Anoop Sarkar)
        Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie)

     Language Modeling

        A Structured Language Model Based on Context-Sensitive
        Probabilistic Left-Corner Parsing
        (Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Dirk Van Compernolle, Filip Van Aelten)
        Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?
        (Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding,
        Johan Boye)
        Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances (Laura Mayfield
        Tomokiyo, Rosie Jones)

     Names and Coreference

        Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data (Eugene
        Charniak)
        Text and Knowledge Mining for Coreference Resolution (Sanda Harabagiu,
        Razvan Bunescu, Steve Maiorano)

     Chunking and Morphology

        Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies (Patrick
        Schone, Daniel Jurafsky)
        Chunking with Support Vector Machines (Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto)
        Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust
        Projection Across Aligned Corpora (David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai)

    ******************************************

    CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
        General Chair, Lori Levin
        Program, Kevin Knight
        Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie
        Tutorials, Dekang Lin
        Workshops, Lillian Lee
        Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba
        Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl
        Demos, Ronnie Smith
        Exhibits, Lynn Carlson
        Sponsorships, Kurt Godden
        Publicity, Ralf Brown
        Web Master, Bob Frederking

    SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE
        Eric Brill
        Ann Copestake
        Marti Hearst
        Aravind Joshi
        Andrew Kehler
        Elliot Macklovitch
        Fernando Pereira
        Owen Rambow
        Elizabeth Shriberg
        Ralph Weischedel



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