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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
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WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html
EARLY REGISTRATION has been extended to May 7. On-line registration
will be up shortly. In the mean time, please use the hard-copy
registration form you received in the mail or print a hard copy of the
registration form from the web page.
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS: If you would like wireless internet access
throughout Carnegie Mellon's campus, please register your WaveLAN
device in advance on the conference web page.
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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 reception
at the Language Technologies Institute 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 on the conference web
page), 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.
***************** 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
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
DEMOS, June 5-7
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):
LingoMotors
Transclick
Nuance
Multicorpora R&D, Inc.
Trados
Lexiquest
Intel
Applied Technical Systems
Apptek
BOOK EXHIBITORS (to date):
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Blackwell Publishing
Cambridge University Press
MAIN SESSION, June 5-7
Invited Speakers:
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
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We would like to thank our generous sponsors:
Intelligent Information Systems Institute, Cornell
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Nuance
SRA, International
AT&T
Interactive Systems Laboratories, CMU and Karlsruhe
Clairvoyance
LingoMotors
Transclick
Trados
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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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