NAACL-HLT 2007 Conference in Rochester, NY

Doctoral Consortium Schedule

Each presentation will last 20 minutes and be followed by a 15 minute period for panelist comments.

08:30-09:00
Breakfast
Session I
Chris Brew
Mona Diab
Bob Moore
09:00-09:35
Karin Friberg
Query Expansion Using Domain Information in Compounds
09:40-10:15
Qin Iris Wang
Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing
Session II
James Allen
Graeme Hirst
Ellen Voorhees
10:20-10:55
Simone Paolo Ponzetto
Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopeodia
11:00-11:35
Alicia Tribble
Knowledge-Based Labeling of Semantic Relationships in English
Session III
Roland Kuhn
Gina Levow
Ani Nenkova
11:40-12:15
Marie-Josée Goulet
Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Experiments
12:20-13:20
LUNCH
13:20-13:55
Rajen Subba
Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structures of Natural Language Text
Session IV
Ed Hovy
Mitch Marcus
Ralph Weischedel
14:00-14:35
Joana Paulo Pardal
Dynamic Use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems
14:40-15:15
Diana Marie Trandabăț
Semantic Frames in Romanian Natural Language Processing Systems
Session V
Kevin Knight, Michael Riley, Brian Roark
15:20-15:55
J. Scott Olsson
Combining Evidence for Improved Speech Retrieval
16:00-16:35
Chris Biemann
Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models
16:40-17:00
Coffee Break
Session VI
Chris Brew
Brian Roark
Candy Sidner
Bonnie Webber
17:00-18:00
Panel Discussion