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Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3
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Monday, 8 July 2002
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| 9:00 |
Opening session |
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Computational Methods |
Generation |
Question answering |
| 9:30 |
Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Finite-State Transducers
Jason Eisner
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Generation as Dependency Parsing
Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz
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Performance Issues and Error Analysis in an Open-Domain Question Answering System
Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Sanda Harabagiu, Mihai Surdeanu
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| 9:55 |
Sequential Conditional Generalized Iterative Scaling
Joshua Goodman
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Machine-learned Contexts for Linguistic Operations in German Sentence Realization
Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, Simon Corston-Oliver, Robert Moore
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Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System
Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy
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| 10:20 |
Break |
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Syntactic and Semantic Theory |
Coreference Resolution and Generation |
Specialized Parsing and Grammar Induction |
| 10:50 |
OT Syntax - Decidability of Generation-based Optimization
Jonas Kuhn
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Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities
Donna K. Byron
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Parsing non-recursive CFGs
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
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| 11:15 |
Comprehension and the Compilation of Optimality Theory
Jason Eisner
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Pronominalization in Generated Discourse and Dialogue
Charles Callaway, James C. Lester
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Active Learning for Statistical Natural Language Parsing
Min Tang, Xiaoqiang Luo, Salim Roukos
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| 11:40 |
Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures
Gerald Penn
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Generating Minimal Definite Descriptions
Claire Gardent
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A Generative Consituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction
Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning
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| 12:05 |
Ellipsis Resolution with Underspecified Scope
Michael Schiehlen
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Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution
Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie
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A Simple Pattern-Matching Algorithm for Recovering Empty Nodes and their Antecedents
Mark Johnson
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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Applications |
Language Modeling |
Verb Meaning |
| 14:00 |
Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction
Kristina Toutanova, Robert C. Moore
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Improving Language Model Size Reduction using Better Pruning Criteria
Jianfeng Gao, Min Zhang
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A Multilingual Paradigm for Automatic Verb Classification
Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson, Vivian Tsang, Gianluca Allaria
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| 14:25 |
Measuring Text Reuse
Paul D. Clough, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Scott S.L. Piao, Yorick Wilks
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Exploring Asymmetric Clustering for Statistical Language Modeling
Jianfeng Gao, Joshua T. Goodman, Guihong Cao, Hang Li
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Verb Paraphrase based on Case Frame Alignment
Nobuhiro Kaji, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Satoshi Sato
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| 14:50 |
Semi-supervised Maximum Entropy-based Approach to Acronym and Abbreviation Normalization in Medical Texts
Serguei V. Pakhomov
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A Study on Richer Syntactic Dependencies for Structured Language Modeling
Peng Xu, Ciprian Chelba, Frederick Jelinek
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Inducing German Semantic Verb Classes from Purely Syntactic Subcategorisation Information
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Chris Brew
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| 15:15 |
GATE: an Architecture for Development of Robust HLT Applications
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Yorick Wilks
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Entropy Rate Constancy in Text
Dmitriy Genzel, Eugene Charniak
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| 15:40 |
Break |
| 16:10 |
The ACL: 40 Years of Publication |
| 16:25 |
Lifetime Achievement Award Session |
| 17:30 |
Day 1 over |
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