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ACL-02 Preliminary Scientific Programme





Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3
Tuesday, 9 July 2002
  Relations and Meaning Beyond Standard CFG Parsing Demo session
9:00  Scaling Context Space
James R. Curran, Marc Moens
New Ranking Algorithms for Parsing and Tagging: Kernels over Discrete Structures, and the Voted Perceptron
Michael Collins, Nigel Duffy
Demo Session I
9:25  The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate-Argument Recognition
Daniel Gildea, Martha Palmer
Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques
Stefan Riezler, Dick Crouch, Ron Kaplan, Tracy King, John Maxwell, Mark Johnson
Demo Session I
9:50  The Descent of Hierarchy, and Selection in Relational Semantics
Barbara Rosario, Marti Hearst, Charles Fillmore
Dynamic Programming for Parsing and Estimation of Stochastic Unification-based Grammars
Stuart Geman, Mark Johnson
Demo Session II
10:15  An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora
Mona Diab, Philip Resnik
Markov Parsing: Lattice Rescoring with a Statistical Parser
Brian Roark
Demo Session II
10:40  Break
11:20  ACL Business Meeting
12:20  Lunch
  Machine Translation and Evaluation Combinatory Categorial Grammar Demo session
14:00  Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney
Coupling CCG and Hybrid Logic Dependency Semantics
Jason Baldridge, Geert-Jan Kruijff
Demo Session III
14:25  A Decoder for Syntax-based Statistical MT
Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight
Building Deep Dependency Structures using a Wide-coverage CCG Parser
Stephen Clark, Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman
Demo Session III
14:50  Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu
Generative Models for Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman
Demo Session III
15:15  Break
15:45  Invited talk

Probabilistic Models of Relational Data
Daphne Koller
  Bootstrapping Discourse and Dialogue Machine Translation Building Blocks
16:55  Word Translation Disambiguating using Bilingual Bootstrapping
Cong Li, Hang Li
An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations
Daniel Marcu, Abdessamad Echihabi
Evaluating Translational Correspondence using Annotation Projection
Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg
17:20  Applying co-Training to Reference Resolution
Christoph Mueller, Stefan Rapp, Michael Strube
MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, Amanda Stent, Patrick Ehlen, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, Preetam Maloor
Translating Named Entities using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kevin Knight
17:45  Bootstrapping
Steven Abney
What's the Trouble: Automatically Identifying Problematic Dialogues in DARPA Communicator Dialogue Systems
Helen Wright Hastie, Marilyn A. Walker, Rashmi Prasad
Using Similarity Scoring to Improve the Bilingual Dictionary for sub-Sentential Alignment
Katharina Probst, Ralf Brown
18:10  Day 2 over
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