CONFERENCE PROGRAM
(EMNLP/VLC-2000) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON
EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND
VERY LARGE CORPORA
October 7-8, 2000
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Saturday, October 7
8:45-9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00-9:05 WELCOME
9:05-9:30 Pattern-Based Disambiguation for Natural Language
Processing
Eric Brill
9:30-9:55 What's yours and what's mine: Determining Intellectual
Attribution in Scientific Text
Simone Teufel and Marc Moens
9:55-10:20 Japanese Dependency Structure Analysis Based
on Support Vector Machines
Taku Kudo and Yuji Matsumoto
10:20-10:45 Coaxing Confidences from an Old Friend: Probabilistic
Classifications from Transformation Rule Lists
Radu Florian, John Henderson and Grace Ngai
10:45-11:05 BREAK
11:05-12:15 INVITED SPEAKER
John B. Lowe, VP of Language Engineering, Ask Jeeves
Inc.
What's in store for question answering?
Prognostications based on corpus analysis
of several hundred million questions
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-13:55 A Real-time Integration Of Concept-based
Search and Summarization of Chinese Websites
Joe Zhou and Weiqian Liu
13:55-14:20 Topic Analysis Using a Finite Mixture Model
Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi
14:20-14:45 A Uniform Method of Grammar Extraction and Its
Applications
Fei Xia, Martha Palmer and Aravind Joshi
14:45-15:00 BREAK
15:00-15:25 Enriching the Knowledge Sources Used in a
Maximum Entropy Part-of-Speech Tagger
Kristina Toutanova and Christopher D. Manning
15:25-15:50 Error-driven HMM-based Chunk Tagger
with Context-dependent Lexicon
GuoDong Zhou and Jian Su
15:50-16:15 Nonlocal Language Modeling based on
Context Co-occurrence Vectors
Sadao Kurohashi and Manabu Ori
16:15-16:40 Detection of Language (Model) Errors
K.Y. Hung, R.W.P. Luk, D. Yeung, K.F.L. Chung and W.
Shu
16:40-17:00 BREAK
17:00-17:25 Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
Using Hidden Markov Models
Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel
17:25-17:50 Query Translation in Chinese-English
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Yibo Zhang, Le Sun, Lin Du and Yufang Sun
17:50-18:15 Word Alignment of English-Chinese Bilingual Corpus
Based on Chunks
Le Sun, Youbing Jin, Lin Du and Yufang Sun
18:15-18:40 Empirical Term Weighting and Expansion Frequency
Kyoji Umemura and Kenneth W. Church
Sunday, October 8
9:00-9:25 Sample Selection for Statistical Grammar Induction
Rebecca Hwa
9:25-9:50 A Statistical Model for Parsing and Word-Sense
Disambiguation
Daniel M. Bikel
9:50-10:15 Reducing Parsing Complexity by Intra-Sentence
Segmentation based on Maximum Entropy Model
Sung Dong Kim and Byoung Tak Zhang
10:15-10:40 An Empirical Study of the Domain Dependence
of Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Systems
Gerard Escudero, Lluis Marquez and German Rigau
10:40-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:00 INVITED SPEAKER
Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology
12:00-13:20 LUNCH
13:20-14:35 PANEL DISCUSSION
NLP for the Web: Critical Technology or Luxury?
14:35-15:00 A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions
for Reading Comprehension Tests
Hwee Tou Ng, Leong Hwee Teo and Jennifer Lai Pheng
Kwan
15:00-15:25 Automated Construction of Database Interfaces:
Integrating
Statistical and Relational Learning for Semantic
Parsing
Lappoon R. Tang and Raymond J. Mooney
15:25-15:50 Automatic WordNet Mapping Using Word Sense
Disambiguation
Changki Lee, Geunbae Lee and Seo Jung Yun
15:50-16:10 BREAK
16:10-16:35 Combining Lexical and Formatting Cues for Named Entity
Christian Jacquemin and Caroline Bush
16:35-17:00 A Query Tool for Syntactically Annotated Corpora
Laura Kallmeyer
17:00-17:25 Statistical Filtering and Subcategorization Frame
Acquisition
Anna Korhonen, Genevieve Gorrell and Diana McCarthy
17:25-17:50 One Sense per Collocation and Genre/Topic Variations
David Martinez and Eneko Agirre
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