Coling 2000 Programme

COLING 2002 Program

 

Conference program in pdf.

Session chairs are not yet confirmed.

 

Tutorials

 

Saturday, 24 August 2002

 

Auditorium I, Center for Academic Activities

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:30

T01-CLP24a: Intelligent Character Encoding

 

Ching-Chun Hsieh (Academia Sinica)

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-12:20

T01-CLP24a: Treebanking and Parsing

 

Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica)

12:20-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

T02-CLP24p: Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology

 

Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs.)

15:30-15:50

Coffee Break

15:50-17:20

T02-CLP24p: Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology

 

Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs.)

 

 

Tutorials

 

Sunday, 25 August 2002

 

Room 106, Institute of Information Science

Auditorium I, Center for Academic Activities

8:30-9:00

Registration

Registration

9:00-10:30

T03-BIO25a: Bioinformatics and NLP Issues

 

 

Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo)

Takako Takai (University of Tokyo)

Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

T05-QA25a: Open-Domain Textual Question Answering

 

Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas)

Dan Moldovan (University of Texas)

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-12:20

T03-BIO25a: Bioinformatics and NLP Issues

 

 

Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo)

Takako Takai (University of Tokyo)

Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

T05-QA25a: Open-Domain Textual Question Answering

 

Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas)

Dan Moldovan (University of Texas)

12:20-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

T04-BIO25p: Some Applications of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences

 

 

Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)

T06-PLing25p: Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics: A Tutorial on Language Processing by Humans

 

Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado)

15:30-15:50

Coffee Break

15:50-17:20

T04-BIO25p: The Application of Information Extraction in Bio-informatics

 

 

Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST)

T06-PLing25p: Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics: A Tutorial on Language Processing by Humans

 

Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado)

 


Note 1: Each regular paper has 30 minutes for presentation and Discussion. For each session, there is an extra 5 minutes allotted to allow for transitions time. For poster presenters, there is a brief oral presentation of 5 minutes at the beginning of each poster session.

 

 

Note2: All plenary sessions will take place on the 2nd floor of the Convention Hall.

 

Note 3: Rooms for parallel sessions are as follows:

Room A for all A sessions: 2F, Convention Hall

Room B for all B sessions: 1F, Convention Hall

Room C for all C sessions: Room 404 and 405

Room D for all D sessions: Room 103

Room E for all E sessions: Room 203

 

 

Main Conference

 

Monday, 26 August 2002

8:30

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10:00

Registration and Refreshment

10:00

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10:20

 

Opening Ceremony

Yuan T. Lee (President of Academia Sinica)

Martin Kay (President of ICCL)

 

10:20

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11:10

 

Keynote Speech I - Chair: Martin Kay

William S.-Y. Wang: Computer Modeling of Language Evolution

 

11:10

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11:15

BREAK

11:15

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12:05

 

Keynote Speech II ¡V Chair: Makoto Nagao

Hans Uszkoreit: New Chances for Deep Linguistic Processing

 

12:05

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13:45

LUNCH

 

Han-Tang Yuefu Ensemble, begins at 12:10, Convention Hall

 

 

2F, Convention Hall

1F, Convention Hall

Room 404 & 405

Room 103

Room 203

13:45

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 15:20

Session Mo3A: Computational Lexicons I

Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari

Dan Tufis: A Cheap and Fast Way to Build Useful Translation Lexicons

Slaven Bilac, Timothy Baldwin, Hozumi Tanaka: Bringing the Dictionary to the User: The FOKS System

 

Helmut Horacek: Varying Cardinality in Metonymic Extensions to Nouns

 

 

 

Session Mo3B: Question-Answering I

Chair: Sanda Harabagiu

 

Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Ryosuke Ito, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Efficient Dialogue Strategy to Find Users' Intended Items from Information Query Results

Dan Moldovan, Adrian Novischi: Lexical Chains for Question Answering

 

Chin-Yew Lin: The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking

 

Session Mo3C: Language Engineering

Chair: Hervé Blanchon

 

Jason Sankey, Raymond K. Wong: Effective Structural Inference for Large XML Documents

 

Hodong Lee, Jong C. Park: Natural Language Interpretations for Heterogeneous Database Access

 

Beum-Seuk Lee, Barrett R. Bryant: Contextual Natural Language Processing and DAML for Understanding Software Requirements Specifications

Session Mo3D: Generation I 

Chair: Robert Dale

John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow, Marilyn A. Walker: Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems

 

Yasuko Senda, Yaushi Shinohara: Analysis of Titles and Readers for Title Generation Centered on the Readers

 

Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara: Text Generation from Keywords

Session Mo3E: Parsing Methods I

Chair: Sergei Nirenburg

 

Markus Becker, Anette Frank: A Stochastic Topological Parser for German

 

Pascal Vaillant: A Chart-Parsing Algorithm for Efficient Semantic Analysis

 

Jean-Marie Balfourier, Philippe Blache, Tristan van Rullen: From Shallow to Deep Parsing Using Constraint Satisfaction

 

15:20

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15:35

COFFEE BREAK

 

2F, Convention Hall

1F, Convention Hall

Room 404 & 405

Room 103

Room 203

15:35

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17:10

Session Mo4A: Computational Lexicons II

Chair: Winfried Lenders  

 

Dekang Lin, Patrick Pantel: Concept Discovery from Text

 

Viktor Pekar, Steffen Staab: Taxonomy Learning - Factoring the Structure of a Taxonomy into a Semantic Classification Decision

 

Nancy Chang, Srini Narayanan, Miriam R.L. Petruck: Putting Frames in Perspective

Session Mo4B:  Question-Answering II

Chair: Dan Moldovan

 

Tsuneaki Kato, Mitsunori Matsushita, Eisaku Maeda: Answering it with Charts Dialogue in Natural Language and Charts

 

Yoji Kiyota, Sadao Kurohashi, Fuyuko Kido: "Dialog Navigator": A Question Answering System Based on Large Text Knowledge Base

 

Eduard Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepak Ravichandran: Using Knowledge to Facilitate Factoid Answer Pinpointing

Session Mo4C:  Information Extraction I

Chair: Ralph Grishman

 

Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Eisaku Maeda, Yuji Matsumoto: Extracting Important Sentences with Support Vector Machines

 

Kengo Sato, Hiroaki Saito: Extracting Word Sequence Correspondences with Support Vector Machines

 

Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li: Location Normalization for Information Extraction

 

 

 

Session Mo4D: Generation II

Chair: Robert Dale

 

Sebastian Varges: Fluency and Completeness in Instance-based Natural Language Generation

 

Laurence Danlos, Adil El Ghali: A Complete Integrated NLG System Using AI and NLU Tools