| Saturday, July 6, 2002 |
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| Sat 8:30-8:40 |
Welcome from SIGDAT |
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Methods |
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| Sat 8:40-9:05 |
Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms |
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Michael Collins |
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| Sat 9:05-9:30 |
Conditional Structure versus Conditional Estimation in NLP Models |
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Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning |
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| Sat 9:30-9:55 |
An Incremental Decision List Learner |
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Joshua Goodman |
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| Sat 9:55-10:25 |
Coffee Break |
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Word Sense Disambiguation |
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| Sat 10:25-10:50 |
Modeling Consensus: Classifier Combination for Word Sense Disambiguation |
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Radu Florian and David Yarowsky |
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| Sat 10:50-11:15 |
Augmented Mixture Models for Lexical Disambiguation |
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky |
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| Sat 11:15-11:40 |
An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation |
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Yoong Keok Lee and Hwee Tou Ng |
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| Sat 11:40-11:50 |
Short Break |
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| Sat 11:50-12:50 |
Invited Talk: Learning and Inference in Natural Language |
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Dan Roth |
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| Sat 12:50-2:00 |
Lunch break |
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Parsing I / Coreference |
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| Sat 2:00-2:25 |
Parsing and Disfluency Placement |
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Donald Engel, Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson |
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| Sat 2:25-2:50 |
Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules |
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Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie |
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| Sat 2:50-3:15 |
Transformational Priors Over Grammars |
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Jason Eisner |
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| Sat 3:15-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Information Extraction (A) / Machine Translation I (B) |
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| Sat 3:45-4:10 (A) |
Kernel Methods for Relation Extraction |
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Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone and Anthony Richardella |
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| Sat 4:10-4:35 (A) |
Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques |
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Bo Pang, Lillian Lee and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan |
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| Sat 3:45-4:10 (B) |
Extentions to HMM-based Statistical Word Alignment Models |
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Kristina Toutanova, H. Tolga Ilhan and Christopher Manning |
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| Sat 4:10-4:35 (B) |
From Words to Corpora: Recognizing Translation |
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Noah A. Smith |
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| Sat 4:35-4:45 |
Short Break |
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Parsing II (A) / Lexicons I (B) |
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| Sat 4:45-5:10 (A) |
Fast LR parsing Using Rich (Tree Adjoining) Grammars |
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Carlos A. Prolo |
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| Sat 5:10-5:35 (A) |
Handling Noisy Training and Testing Data |
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Don Blaheta |
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| Sat 4:45-5:10 (B) |
Spectral Clustering for German Verbs |
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Chris Brew and Sabine Schulte im Walde |
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| Sat 5:10-5:35 (B) |
Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons |
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William Phillips and Ellen Riloff |
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| Sunday, July 7, 2002 |
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Machine Translation II |
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| Sun 8:40-9:05 |
A Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation |
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Daniel Marcu and William Wong |
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| Sun 9:05-9:30 |
Minimum Bayes-Risk Word Alignments of Bilingual Texts |
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Shankar Kumar and William Byrne |
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| Sun 9:30-9:55 |
User-Friendly Text Prediction For Translators |
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George Foster, Philippe Langlais and Guy Lapalme |
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| Sun 9:55-10:25 |
Coffee Break |
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Machine Translation III (A) / Information Retrieval I (B) |
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| Sun 10:25-10:50 (A) |
Generation of Word Graphs in Statistical Machine Translation |
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Nicola Ueffing, Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney |
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| Sun 10:50-11:15 (A) |
Bootstrapping Lexical Choice via Multiple-Sequence Alignment |
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Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee |
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| Sun 11:15-11:40 (A) |
NLP Found Helpful (at least for one Text Categorization Task) |
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Carl Sable, Kathleen McKeown and Kenneth Church |
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| Sun 10:25-10:50 (B) |
A Hybrid Approach to Natural Language Web Search |
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Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John Prager, Yael Ravin and Christian Cesar |
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| Sun 10:50-11:15 (B) |
A Method for Open-Vocabulary Speech-Driven Text Retrieval |
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Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou and Tetsuya Ishikawa |
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| Sun 11:15-11:40 (B) |
Manipulating Large Corpora for Text Classification |
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Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki |
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| Sun 11:40-11:50 |
Short Break |
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| Sun 11:50-12:50 |
Invited Talk/ Panel |
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| Sun 12:50-2:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Lexicons II |
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| Sun 2:00-2:25 |
Metonymy Resolution as a Classification Task |
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Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim |
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| Sun 2:25-2:50 |
A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts |
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Michael Thelen and Ellen Riloff |
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| Sun 2:50-3:15 |
Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction |
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James Curran |
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| Sun 3:15-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Language Modeling |
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| Sun 3:45-4:10 |
Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness |
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Frank Keller, Maria Lapata and Olga Ourioupina |
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| Sun 4:10-4:35 |
The SuperARV Language Model: Investigating the Effectiveness of Tightly Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources |
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Wen Wang and Mary P. Harper |
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| Sun 4:35-5:00 |
Exploiting Headword Dependency and Predictive Clustering for Language Modeling |
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Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki and Yang Wen |
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| Sun 5:00-5:10 |
Short Break |
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Question Answering / Language Understanding II |
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| Sun 5:10-5:35 |
An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System |
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Eric Brill, Susan Dumais and Michele Banko |
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| Sun 5:35-6:00 |
A Machine-Learning Approach to Introspection in a Question Answering System |
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Krzysztof Czuba, John Prager and Jennifer Chu-Carroll |
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| Sun 6:00-6:25 |
Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems |
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Narendra Gupta and Srinivas Bangalore |
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| Sun 6:25-6:35 |
Best Paper Award and Closing Remarks |
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Reserve Papers |
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Combining Outputs of Multiple Japanese Named Entity Chunkers by Stacking |
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Takehito Utsuro, Manabu Sassano and Kiyotaka Uchimoto |
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Processing Comparable Corpora With Bilingual Suffix Trees |
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Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu |
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Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition for Italian Broadcast News |
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Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi and Vanessa Sandrini |
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Phrasal Cohesion and Statistical Machine Translation |
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Heidi Fox |
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The Influence of Minimum Edit Distance on Reference Resolution |
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Michael Strube, Stefan Rapp and Christoph Müller |
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Information Extraction from Voicemail Transcripts |
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Martin Jansche and Steven Abney |
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