ACL-2003 Main Session Conference Program

ACL 2003 Main Session Conference Program

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3
Wednesday, July 9, 2003
	Information Retrieval	Spoken Dialog	Statistical Modeling	Interactive Poster / Demo	Exhibition
9:00	Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair and Milena Petrova	Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano and Kiyoaki Aikawa	Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li and Chang-Ning Huang		Exhibition 9:00-18:15
9:25	Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng and Yoong Keok Lee	Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua and Yong-Cheng Wang	Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency Mathias Creutz
9:50	An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine and Ralph Grishman	Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems Kazunori Komatani, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara and Hiroshi G. Okuno	Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data Martin Jansche
10:15	Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen and Thorsten Brants	Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture Charles B. Callaway	Self-Organizing Markov Models and Their Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging Jin-Dong Kim, Hae-Chang Rim and Jun'ich Tsujii
10:40	Break
11:20	ACL Business Meeting
12:20	Lunch
14:00	Lifetime Achievement Award Session
15:10	Break
	Machine Translation and Chunking	Named Entities and Bootstraping	Parsing and Grammar Formalisms	Interactive Poster / Demo
15:40	Chunk-Based Statistical Translation Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita and Hiroshi G. Okuno	Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm Yunbo Cao, Hang Li and Li Lian	k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Categorial Grammars are not Learnable from Strings Denis Béchet and Annie Foret	Preview Meeting Room 101 15:40-16:50 Posters / Demos Meeting Room 102 15:40-18:10
16:05	Feature-Rich Statistical Translation of Noun Phrases Philipp Koehn and Kevin Knight	A Bootstrapping Approach to Named Entity Classification Using Successive Learners Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding and Rohini Srihari	Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure Julia Hockenmaier
16:30	Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel	Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns Roman Yangarber	Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints Joachim Niehren and Stefan Thater
16:55	Break
	Summarization	Word Segmentation for Arabic	Language Acquisition
17:20	Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization Dragomir R. Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, John Blitzer, Hong Qi, Arda Çelebi, Danyu Liu and Elliott Drabek	Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus Monica Rogati, Scott McCarley and Yiming Yang	Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Daichi Hayakawa and Masato Takeichi
17:45	Analysis of Source Identified Text Corpora: Exploring the Statistics of the Reused Text and Authorship Akiko Aizawa	Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation Young-Suk Lee, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Ossama Emam and Hany Hassan	A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition William Gregory Sakas
18:15	Day 2 over
19:00	Banquet Sapporo Grand Hotel
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