NAACL-2001 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
8:30-12:00 Tutorial registration
9:00-12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
"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
2:00-5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Building Synthetic Voices
Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University
Open-Domain Textual Question Answering
Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University
SUNDAY, JUNE 3 and MONDAY, JUNE 4
WORKSHOPS
TUESDAY, JUNE 5
SESSION 1: Natural Language Generation
9:00-9:25 Instance-Based Natural Language Generation
Sebastian Varges, Chris Mellish
9:25-9:50 Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation
Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel, Chris Mellish
9:50-10:15 SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner
Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow, 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, Adwait Ratnaparkhi
11:35-12:00 Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane
Grace Ngai, 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, 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, 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, Mark Johnson
11:35-12:00 Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations
Sergey Pakhomov, Michael Schonwetter, 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, Giuseppe Riccardi
4:55-5:20 Information-Based Machine Translation
Keiko Horiguchi
5:20-5:45 Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction
Gideon S. Mann, David Yarowsky
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
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, Daniel Jurafsky
11:10-11:35 Chunking with Support Vector Machines
Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto
11:35-12:00 Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust Projection Across Aligned Corpora
David Yarowsky, 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, Marc Swerts
3:30-3:55 Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement Learning and Inductive Logic Programming
Renaud Lecœuche
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, Dirk Van Compernolle
4:55-5:20 Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?
Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding, Johan Boye
5:20-5:45 You’re Not From ‘Round Here, Are You? Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances
Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Rosie Jones