*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN EMNLP 2001 ***
New: Preliminary program.
Note the May 7 early registration deadline!
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2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html
Sponsored by the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI)
(a joint Cornell University/Air Force Research Laboratory institute)
REGISTRATION: see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/registration-forms.html
* Early registration: by May 7 (lower registration fee)
* Late registration: May 8-26
* On site registration also available
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites participation at EMNLP 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting
of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2001). We have
arranged an exciting program devoted to advances in all areas of
traditional interest to the SIGDAT and related fields, as well as to
this year's theme:
"What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges".
We'll have two days of paper presentations, plus:
* An invited talk by Eric Brill, Microsoft Research.
* A panel debating the efficacy of the Expectation-Maximization (EM)
algorithm. The panel will begin with an introduction to EM.
Confirmed panelists:
- Eugene Charniak, Brown University
- Kevin Knight, ISI
- Stefan Riezler, Xerox PARC
* A panel on industrial perspectives on natural language technology.
Confirmed panelists:
- Adam Berger, Eizel Technologies
- Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
- Lynette Hirschman, MITRE
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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SUNDAY JUNE 3
8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-9:25 Limitations of Co-training for Natural Language
Learning from Large Datasets
David Pierce and Claire Cardie
9:25-9:50 A Sequential Model for Multi-class Classification
Yair Even-Zohar and Dan Roth
9:50-10:15 Learning Within-Sentence Semantic Coherence
Elena Eneva, Rose Hoberman, and Lucian Lita
10:15-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:10 Knowledge Sources for Word-Level Translation Models
Philipp Koehn and Kevin Knight
11:10-11:35 Improving Lexical Mapping Model of English-Korean
Bitext Using Structural Features
Seonho Kim, Juntae Yoon and Mansuk Song
11:35-11:45 SHORT BREAK
11:45-12:45 INVITED TALK
Eric Brill
12:45-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-2:25 Stacking classifiers for anti-spam filtering of e-mail
Georgios Sakkis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras,
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, and
Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
2:25-2:50 Feature Space Restructuring for SVMs with Application
to Text Categorization
Hiroya Takamura and Yuji Matsumoto
2:50-3:15 Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for
Text Categorization
Carl Sable and Ken Church
3:15-3:25 SHORT BREAK
3:25-3:50 Question Answering Using a Large Text Database: A
Machine Learning Approach
Hwee Tou Ng, Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan, and Yiyuan Xia
3:50-4:15 Information Extraction using the Structured Language Model
Ciprian Chelba and Milind Mahajan
4:15-4:30 SHORT BREAK
4:30-5:30 PANEL: THE EFFICACY OF EM
(includes an introduction to the EM algorithm)
Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, Stefan Riezler (confirmed
so far)
MONDAY JUNE 4
8:35-9:00 Classifying Semantic Relations between Noun Compounds
using a Domain-Specific Lexical Hierarchy
Barbara Rosario and Marti Hearst
9:00-9:25 The Unknown Word Problem: A Morphological Analysis of
Japanese Using Maximum Entropy Aided by a Dictionary
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara
9:25-9:50 Is Knowledge-Free Induction of Multiword Unit Dictionary
Headwords a Solved Problem?
Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky
9:50-10:15 Latent Semantic Analysis for Text Segmentation
Freddy Y. Y. Choi, Peter Wiemer-Hastings, and Johanna Moore
10:15-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:10 Detecting short passages of similar text in large
document collections
Caroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson and James Malcolm
11:10-11:35 Hybrid text mining for finding abbreviations and their
definitions
Youngja Park and Roy J. Byrd
11:35-11:45 SHORT BREAK
11:45-12:45 PANEL: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES ON NLP
Adam Berger, Joshua Goodman, Lynette Hirschman (confirmed
so far)
12:45-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-2:25 Automatic Corpus-based Tone Prediction using K-ToBI
Representation
Jin-seok Lee, Byeongchang Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee
2:25-2:50 Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Syllabification and
Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Karin Mueller
2:50-3:00 SHORT BREAK
3:00-3:25 Comparing Data-driven Learning Algorithms for PoS Tagging
of Swedish
Beata Megyesi
3:25-3:50 Impact of quality and quantity of corpora on stochastic
generation
Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen, and Owen Rambow
3:50-4:15 Corpus Variation and Parser Performance
Daniel Gildea
4:15-4:30 REFRESHMENTS (CLOSE)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Program Chair: Lillian Lee, Cornell University (llee@cs.cornell.edu)
Program Co-Chair: Donna Harman, NIST (donna.harman@nist.gov)
Publication Chair: David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
(yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu)
Regina Barzilay, Columbia University
Thorsten Brants, Xerox PARC
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
Kenneth Church, AT&T Labs - Research
Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh
Michael Collins, AT&T Labs - Research
Eric Gaussier, Xerox
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Don Hindle, AnswerLogic
Changning Huang, Microsoft
Rebecca Hwa, University of Maryland
Hitoshi Iida, Sony
Paul Jacobs, AnswerLogic
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI
Maghi King, University of Geneva
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD
Maria Lapata, Saarland University/University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Marc Light, MITRE
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
Kim-Teng Lua, National University of Singapore
Lluís Màrquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paola Merlo,University of Geneva
Rada Mihalcea, Southern Methodist University
Guenter Neumann, DFKI
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota,Duluth
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Anoop Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania
Erik Tjong Kim Sang, University of Antwerp
Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Atro Voutilainen, Conexor
Kiri Wagstaff, Cornell University
Roman Yangarber, New York University
Joe Zhou, Intel
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