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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2004)
WHEN: May 6-7, 2004 (immediately following HLT-NAACL 2004)
WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts
URL: http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2004/
REGISTRATION: http://www.aclweb.org/hltnaacl04reg/hltnaacl04reg.php
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Thursday, May 6
9:00-9:05 Welcome (Hwee Tou Ng and Ellen Riloff)
Session 1: Inference and Semantics
9:05-9:35 A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in
Natural Language Tasks
Dan Roth and Wen-tau Yih
9:35-10:05 Semantic Lexicon Construction: Learning from Unlabeled Data
via Spectral Analysis
Rie Kubota Ando
10:05-10:35 A Semantic Kernel for Predicate Argument Classification
Alessandro Moschitti and Cosmin Adrian Bejan
10:35-11:00 Break
Session 2: Word Sense Disambiguation
11:00-11:30 Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised
Word Sense Disambiguation
Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen
11:30-12:00 Co-training and Self-training for Word Sense Disambiguation
Rada Mihalcea
12:00-12:30 Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Contexts in Vector
and Similarity Spaces
Amruta Purandare and Ted Pedersen
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Parsing
14:00-14:30 Memory-Based Dependency Parsing
Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall and Jens Nilsson
Invited Talk
14:30-15:30 Language Learning: Beyond Thunderdome
Christopher D. Manning
15:30-16:00 Break
Session 4: Text Classification
16:00-16:30 Modeling Category Structures with a Kernel Function
Hiroya Takamura, Yuji Matsumoto and Hiroyasu Yamada
16:30-17:00 A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Constructions of
Category Hierarchy for Classifying Large Corpora
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
17:00-17:30 SIGNLL Business Meeting
Friday, May 7
Session 5: Syntax and Semantics
9:30-10:00 Thesauruses for Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Mark McLauchlan
10:00-10:30 Calculating Semantic Distance between Word Sense
Probability Distributions
Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson
10:30-11:00 Break
Invited Talk
11:00-12:00 Putting Meaning into Your Trees
Martha Palmer
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Shared Task Session
13:30-14:00 Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task: Semantic Role
Labeling
Xavier Carreras and Lluis Marquez
14:00-14:10 Semantic Role Labelling With Chunk Sequences
Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado and Detlef
Prescher
14:10-14:20 Memory-based semantic role labeling: Optimizing features,
algorithm, and output
Antal van den Bosch, Sander Canisius, Walter Daelemans,
Iris Hendrickx and Erik Tjong Kim Sang
14:20-14:30 Hierarchical Recognition of Propositional Arguments with
Perceptrons
Xavier Carreras, Lluis Marquez and Grzegorz Chrupala
14:30-14:40 Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks
Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James
H. Martin and Daniel Jurafsky
14:40-14:50 A transformation-based approach to argument labeling
Derrick Higgins
14:50-15:00 A Memory-Based Approach for Semantic Role Labeling
Beata Kouchnir
15:00-15:10 Semantic Role Labeling using Maximum Entropy Model
Joon-Ho Lim, Young-Sook Hwang, So-Young Park and Hae-Chang
Rim
15:10-15:20 Two-Phase Semantic Role Labeling based on Support Vector
Machines
Kyung-Mi Park, Young-Sook Hwang and Hae-Chang Rim
15:20-16:00 Break
16:00-16:10 Semantic Role Labeling Via Generalized Inference Over
Classifiers
Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih, Dav Zimak and
Yuancheng Tu
16:10-16:20 Learning Transformation Rules for Semantic Role Labeling
Ken Williams, Christopher Dozier and Andrew McCulloh
16:20-17:15 Summary and Discussion on Shared Task
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