First session: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 18, 1997 (In conjunction with JSCL'97: the Fourth Joint Symposium of Computational Linguistics of China)
Second session: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China, August 20, 1997
Except for the following updates and changes, see First Call for Participation.
Final Program
Guest Speakers
Panelists
Beijing Poster Sessions
August 18, 1997 - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
| TIME | PRESENTER - SUBJECT |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Opening |
| 8:45 - 9:10 | Qiang Zhou A Statistics-based Chinese Parser |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | Thanaruk Theeramunkong and Manabu Okumura Grammar Acquisition based on Clustering Analysis and its Application to Statistical parsing |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | Seungmi Lee and Key-Sun Choi Reestimation and Best First Parsing Algorithms for Probabilistic Dependency Grammar |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break See Poster Sessions |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Tomek Strzalkowski and Ron Brandow A Natural Language Correction Model for Continuous Speech Recognition |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | Masaaki Nagata A Self-Organizing Japanese Word Segmenter using Heuristic Word Identification and Re-estimation |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Mitch Marcus Invited Talk |
| 12:20 - 2:20 | Lunch |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Hiromi Nakaiwa Automatic identification of zero pronouns and their antecedent within aligned sentence pairs |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Xuan-jing Huang, Li-de Wu and Wen-xin Wang Statistical Acquisition of Terminology Dictionary |
| 3:10 - 4:10 | John Rausch Invited Talk |
| 4:10 - 4:40 | Break |
| 4:40 - 5:40 | Panel Discussion Innovative Uses and Applications of Large Corpora |
| 5:40 - 6:05 | Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Hideya Iwasaki Clustering Co-occurrence Graph Based on Transitivity |
| 6:05 - 6:30 | Sta Jean-David Knowledge Acquisition : Classification of terms in a thesaurus from a corpus |
| 6:30 - 6:40 | Closing |
Mitch Marcus, ACL President and Chairman of Department of Compute Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
John Rausch, Chief Technologist, LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
Mitch Marcus, ACL President and Chairman of Department of Compute Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
John Rausch, Chief Technologist, LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
Howard Turtle, Chief Scientist, West Group
Tomel Strzalkowski, GE R&D Corporarion, Albany, USA
Ezra Black, ATR Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Miyata and Yuji Matsumoto
- Maximum Entropy Model Learning of Subcategorization Preference
- Scott M. Thede and Mary Harper
- Identifying Unknown Lexical Items using Morphological and Syntactic Information using the TIMIT Corpus
- Jee-sun Nam and Key-sun Choi
- LG-based Approach to Recognizing proper names in Korean
- Asanee Kawtrakul, Chalatip Thumkanon
- A Statistical Approach to Thai Morphological Analzer
- Jun Gao and Xi-Xian Chen
- Probalistic Word Classification Base on Context-Sensitive Binary Tree Method
| TIME | PRESENTER - SUBJECT |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Opening |
| 8:45 - 9:10 | Li Shiuan Peh and Hwee Tou Ng Domain-Specific Semantic Class Disambiguation using WordNet |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | Jiri Stetina and Makoto Nagao Corpus-based PP Attachment Ambiguity Resolution with a Semantic Dictionary |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | Joyce Yue Chai and Alan W. Biermann Corpus Based Statistical Generalization Tree in Rule Optimization |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | E. Black, S. Eubank and K. Kashioka Probabilistic Parsing of Unrestricted English Text, With A Highly-Detailed Grammar |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | T. Rose, N. Haddock and R. Tucker The effects of corpus size and homogeneity on language model quality |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Mitch Marcus Invited Talk |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:25 | Erika F. de Lima Acquiring German Prepositional Subcategorization Frames from Corpora |
| 2:25 - 2:50 | Pascale Fung and Kathleen McKeown Finding Terminology Translations from Non-Parallel Corpora |
| 2:50 - 3:50 | Howard Turtle Invited Talk |
| 3:50 - 4:20 | Break |
| 4:20 - 5:25 | Panel Discussion Innovative Uses and Applications of Large Corpora |
| 5:25 - 5:50 | Tadashi Nomoto and Yuji Matsumoto Data Reliability and its Effects on Automatic Abstracting |
| 5:50 - 6:15 | Andrei Mikheev Collocation Lattices and Maximum Entropy Models |
| 6:15 - 6:25 | Closing |
Mitch Marcus, ACL President and Chairman of Department of Compute Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Howard Turtle, Chief Scientist, West Group
Mitch Marcus, ACL President and Chairman of Department of Compute Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
John Rausch, Chief Technologist, LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
Howard Turtle, Chief Scientist, West Group
Kui Kam Kwok, Queens College, City University of New York, USA
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Keh-Yh Su, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Eva Ejerhed, University of Umea, Sweden
Contact: |
Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA joez@lexis-nexis.com |
| Ken Church Room 2B-421 AT&T Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA kwc@research.att.com |