NAACL 2001 Conference Program

TUESDAY, JUNE 5
8:30 5:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
8:45 9:00 OPENING REMARKS
SESSION 1: Natural Language Generation
9:00 9:25 Instance-Based Natural Language Generation
Sebastian Varges and Chris Mellish
9:25 9:50 Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation
Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel and Chris Mellish
9:50 10:15 SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner
Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow and Monica Rogati
10:15 10:45 BREAK
SESSION 2: Information Retrieval and Machine Learning
10:45 11:10 Why Inverse Document Frequency?
Kishore Papineni
11:10 11:35 Question Answering Using Maximum-Entropy Components
Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu and Adwait Ratnaparkhi
11:35 12:00 Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane
Grace Ngai and Radu Florian
12:00 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 3:00 INVITED TALK: Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University and WhizBang! Labs
"Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web"
SESSION 3: Names and Coreference
3:05 3:30 Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data
Eugene Charniak
3:30 3:55 Text and Knowledge Mining for Coreference Resolution
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Razvan C. Bunescu and Steven J. Maiorano
3:55 4:30 BREAK
SESSION 4: Word Meaning
4:30 4:55 A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of Context-sensitive Adjectives
Maria Lapata
4:55 5:20 Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy
Noriko Tomuro
5:20 5:45 A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense
Ted Pedersen


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
8:30 5:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
SESSION 5: Semantics
9:00 9:25 An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic Interpretation Using an Enhanced WordNet
Fernando Gomez
9:25 9:50 Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy
Stephen Clark and David Weir
9:50 10:15 Identifying Cognates by Phonetic and Semantic Similarity
Grzegorz Kondrak
10:15 10:45 BREAK
SESSION 6: Speech Synthesis and Recognition
10:45 11:10 Re-Engineering Letter-to-Sound Rules
Martin Jansche
11:10 11:35 Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech
Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson
11:35 12:00 Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations
Sergey Pakhomov, Michael Schonwetter and Joan Bachenko
12:00 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 3:00 NAACL BUSINESS MEETING
3:00 4:00 INVITED TALK: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
"Structure and Content in World Wide Web Search"
4:00 4:30 BREAK
SESSION 7: Machine Translation
4:30 4:55 A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation
Srinivas Bangalore and Giuseppe Riccardi
4:55 5:20 Information-Based Machine Translation
Keiko Horiguchi
5:20 5:45 Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction via Bridge Languages
Gideon S. Mann and David Yarowsky


THURSDAY, JUNE 7
8:30 12:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
SESSION 8: Parsing
9:00 9:25 A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model
John Hale
9:25 9:50 Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs
Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie
9:50 10:15 Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing
Anoop Sarkar
10:15 10:45 BREAK
SESSION 9: Morphology and Chunking
10:45 11:10 Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies
Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky
11:10 11:35 Chunking with Support Vector Machines
Taku Kudo and Yuji Matsumoto
11:35 12:00 Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust Projection Across Aligned Corpora
David Yarowsky and Grace Ngai
12:00 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 3:00 INVITED TALK: Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
"Language Modeling of Biological Data"
SESSION 10: Natural Language Dialogue
3:05 3:30 Identifying User Corrections Automatically in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman and Marc Swerts
3:30 3:55 Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement Learning and Inductive Logic Programming
Renaud Lecoeuche
3:55 4:30 BREAK
SESSION 11: Language Modeling
4:30 4:55 A Structured Language Model Based on Context-Sensitive Probabilistic Left-Corner Parsing
Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Filip Van Aelten and Dirk Van Compernolle
4:55 5:20 Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?
Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding and Johan Boye
5:20 5:45 You're Not From 'Round Here, Are You? Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances
Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo and Rosie Jones