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5th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium
CLUK'5, 8-9 January 2002, University of Leeds
LAST CALL FOR REGISTRATION
Please register online BEFORE 20 DECEMBER (before Xmas!):
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5
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Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK.
Guest Speakers:
Mark Davies, Illinois State University
Using Relational Databases to Create Unlimited and User-Defined Annotation on
Large Corpora: A 100 Million Word Corpus of Historical and Modern Spanish
and
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
Corpus Linguistics and Minority Language Engineering
The colloquium will be held at Charles Morris Hall, University of Leeds.
The cost of participation, which includes a copy of the proceedings,
B&B, lunches, and dinner, will be GBP85 (daytime-only rate GBP45).
Further details and ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM at the CLUK5 website:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5
PROGRAMME:
TUESDAY 8th JANUARY 2002:
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10:00 ARRIVAL
10:30 GUEST SPEAKER: Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster
Corpus Linguistics and Minority Language Engineering
11:30 tea/coffee
12:00 Judita Preiss, University of Cambridge
Anaphora Resolution with Memory Based Learning
12:20 Hazel Davies, University of Leeds
Towards a Coding Scheme for Politeness and Impoliteness Strategies
in English Language Corpora
12:40 Irena Spasic, University of Salford
A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Unsupervised Learning of Context Features
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Fang Huang, University of Sheffield
Text Summarisation Based on Latent Semantic Analysis
14:20 Julie Weeds, University of Sussex
The Reliability of a Similarity Measure
14:40 Gabriela Cavaglia, University of Brighton
Measuring the Homogeneity of Different Varieties of Language
15:00 Advaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge
Resolving Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguities
using Machine Learning Techniques and Word-Net Hierarchies
15:20 tea/coffee
15:50 SHORT PAPER: John Elliott, University of Leeds
The SETI Challenge
16:00 SHORT PAPER: Yasuhiro Kawata, University of Essex
Towards a Reference Tagset for Japanese
16:10 SHORT PAPER: Hosram Moharam, UMIST
English Learner Corpora in Foreign Language Teaching (FLT):
The Case of Arabic (EFL) Learners in Egypt
16:20 SHORT PAPER: Darren Pearce, University of Sussex
A Comparative Evaluation of Collocation Extraction Techniques
16:30 SHORT PAPER: Xiao Yuan Duan, University of Leeds
Semantic Association Between Web Pages: A Lexical Knowledge Based Method
(17:00 CLUK committee business meeting)
18:00 DINNER
WEDNESDAY 9th JANUARY 2002:
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9:30 GUEST SPEAKER: Mark Davis, Illinois State University
Using Relational Databases to Create Unlimited and User-Defined Annotation on
Large Corpora: A 100 Million Word Corpus of Historical and Modern Spanish
10:30 Vahid Mirzaeian, UMIST
Computational Content Based on Support for Persian Learners of English
10:50 Jon Herring, University of Brighton
Is Morphology the Missing Link between Phonology and Orthography?
11:10 tea/cofee
11:30 Sandra Williams, University of Aberdeen
Natural Language Generation of Discourse Connectives for Different
Reading Levels
11:50 Christopher Brewster, University of Sheffield
Techniques for Automated Taxonomies Building: Towards Ontologies for
Knowledge Management
12:10 Dan Winchester and Mark Lee, University of Birmingham
Cross-Document Co-reference of Proper Names
12:30 Linda Oxnard, University of Sheffield
The Development of a Web-Derived Corpus for Learners of a Minoritized
Language
12:50 CLOSING DISCUSSION
13:30 LUNCH
14:30 departure
Programme Committee
Eric Atwell - University of Leeds
John Carroll - University of Sussex
Anne De Roeck - University of Essex
John Elliott - University of Leeds
Jon Herring - University of Brighton
Elenor Maclaren -Brunel University
Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
Mark Moens - University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Ostler - Linguacubun Ltd.
Darren Pearce - University of Sussex
John Tait - University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio - Cambridge University
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield
(CLUK committee email: cluk-group@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Local organisation:
Eric Atwell, Hazel Davies, John Elliott,
David Roberts, Clive Souter, Menno van Zaanen
email: cluk5@comp.leeds.ac.uk
tel: 0113 233 6827/5761
fax: 0113 233 5468
Please register online BEFORE DECEMBER 20:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5
-- Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT TEL: 0113-2335430 MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468 WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric EMAIL: eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk
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