NAACL 2001 TUTORIALS

All tutorials will be held Saturday, June 2, 2001. Each will be one-half day, as indicated below.
They will take place in the Rangos Ballrooms on the second floor of the University Center.

9:00am-12:30pm:

• "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural Spoken Dialog.
  Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso, Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?
  Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research, kwc@research.att.com

2:00pm-5:30pm:

• Building Synthetic Voices.
  Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, awb@cs.cmu.edu and lenzo@cs.cmu.edu
• Open-Domain Textual Question Answering.
  Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University

Call for Tutorials [Deadline past]

Tutorials Chair:
Dekang Lin, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, lindek@cs.ualberta.ca