Conference Programme


Scientific programme provided by the Programme Committee.

June 9, 1999

0830 - 0930 Registration
0930 - 0940 Opening
Auditorium 2
Official opening by the Rector of the University of Bergen
Welcome by Donia Scott, EACL chair
Announcement by Henry Thompson, Programme Committee chair
0940 - 1020 Main session 1
Auditorium 2
Andrei Mikheev, Marc Moens and Claire Grover: Named Entity Recognition without Gazetteers
Auditorium 3
Richard Power: Generating Referring Expressions with a Unification Grammar
1020 - 1100 Main session 2
Auditorium 2
Didier Bourigault and Christian Jacquemin: Term Extraction + Term Clustering: An Integrated Platform for Computer-Aided Terminology
Auditorium 3
Ian M. O'Neill and Michael F. McTear: An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Dialogue Management Functionality
1100 - 1130 Break 
1130 - 1230 Invited Talk
Auditorium 2
Bruce Croft: Language Models for Information Retrieval 
1230 - 1400 Lunch 
1400 - 1430 Student session 1
Auditorium 2
Gabriela Cavaglià: The Development of Lexical Resources for Information Extraction from Text Combining WordNet and Dewey Decimal Classification
Auditorium 3
Donna K. Byron and Joel R. Tetreault: A Flexible Architecture for Reference Resolution
1430 - 1510 Main session 3
Auditorium 2
Maria Lapata, Scott McDonald and Frank Keller: Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility
Auditorium 3
Miriam Eckert and Michael Strube: Resolving Discourse Deictic Anaphora in Dialogues
1510 - 1550 Break 
1550 - 1620 Student session 2
Auditorium 2
Patrick Caudal: Result States and the Lexicon: The Proper Treatment of Event Structure
Auditorium 3
Daniel S. Paiva: Investigating NLG Architectures: Taking Style into Consideration
1620 - 1700 Main session 4
Auditorium 2
Suzanne Stevenson and Paola Merlo: Automatic Verb Classification Using Distributions of Grammatical Features
Auditorium 3
Pierre Boullier: Chinese Numbers, MIX, Scrambling, and Range Concatenation Grammars

June 10, 1999

0900 - 0940 Main session 1
Auditorium 2
Glyn Morrill: Geometry of Lexico-Syntactic Interaction
Auditorium 3
Franz J. Och: An Efficient Method for Determining Bilingual Word Classes
0940 - 1020 Main session 2
Auditorium 2
Inderjeet Mani, Therese Firmin, David House, Gary Klein, Beth Sundheim and Lynette Hirschman: The TIPSTER SUMMAC Text Summarization Evaluation
Auditorium 3
Tim Fernando: Ambiguous Propositions Typed
1020 - 1050 Break 
1050 - 1150 Invited Talk
Auditorium 2
Wolfgang Wahlster: Deep Processing of Shallow Structures: The Robust Integration of Speech, Language and Translation Technology for Intelligent Interface Agents
1150 - 1230 Main session 3
Auditorium 2
Rila Mandala, Takenobu Tokunaga and Hozumi Tanaka: Complementing WordNet with Roget and Corpus-based Automatically Constructed Thesauri for Information Retrieval
Auditorium 3
Fabio Ciravegna and Alberto Lavelli: Full Text Parsing using Cascades of Rules: An Information Extraction Perspective
1230 - 1400 Lunch 
1400 - 1430 Student session 1
Auditorium 2
Justin Picard: Finding Content-bearing Terms Using Term Similarities
Auditorium 3
Dimitrios Kokkinakis and Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis: A Cascaded Finite-State Parser for Syntactic Analysis of Swedish
1430 - 1510 Main session 4
Auditorium 2
Simone Teufel, Jean Carletta and Marc Moens: An Annotation Scheme for Discourse-level Argumentation in Academic Research Articles
Auditorium 3
Thorsten Brants: Cascaded Markov Models
1510 - 1550 Break 
1550 - 1620 Student session 2
Auditorium 2
Patrice Lopez: Repair Strategies for Lexicalized Tree Grammars
Auditorium 3
Veit Reuer: Dialogue Processing in a CALL-System
1620 - 1700 Main session 5
Auditorium 2
Dale Gerdemann and Gertjan van Noord: Transducers from Rewrite Rules with Backreferences
Auditorium 3
Giorgos S. Orphanos and Dimitris N. Christodoulakis: POS Disambiguation and Unknown Word Guessing with Decision Trees

June 11, 1999

0900 - 0940 Main session 1
Auditorium 2
Maria Wolters and Mathias Kirsten: Exploring the Use of Linguistic Features in Domain and Genre Classification
Auditorium 3
Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Eric de la Clergerie and Manuel Vilares: Tabular Algorithms for TAG Parsing
0940 - 1020 Main session 2
Auditorium 2
Efstathios Stamatatos, Nikos Fakotakis and George Kokkinakis: Automatic Authorship Attribution
Auditorium 3
Guido Minnen: Selective Magic HPSG Parsing
1020 - 1050 Break 
1050 - 1150 Poster & Demo session
4th floor seminar rooms
1150 - 1230 Main session 3
Auditorium 2
Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang and Jorn Veenstra: Representing Text Chunks
Auditorium 3
Hiroyuki Shinnou: Detection of Japanese Homophone Errors by a Decision List Including a Written Word as a Default Evidence
1230 - 1400 Lunch 
1400 - 1440 Main session 4
Auditorium 2
John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore and K. Vijay-Shanker: New Models for Improving Supertag Disambiguation
Auditorium 3
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine and Hitoshi Isahara: Japanese Dependency Structure Analysis based on Maximum Entropy Models
1440 - 1520 Main session 5
Auditorium 2
Atro Voutilainen: An Experiment on the Upper Bound of Interjudge Agreement: The Case of Tagging
Auditorium 3
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki: Word Sense Disambiguation in Untagged Text Based on Term Weight Learning
1520 - 1535 Break 
1535 - 1700 Business meeting (incl. TEI)
Auditorium 2

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