Agenda
Linguistic Coreference Workshop
26 May 1998

0800-0820  Opening Remarks and Overview of Coreference Phenomena- Sara J.Shelton
0820-0840  Confirmation in Transaction Dialogues - Joris Hulstijn
0840-0900  Event Coreference Between Two Sentences: Anaphoric Relations Between 
           Predicates, VPs, and Clauses - Laurence Danlos
0900-0925  How Much Processing Is Required for Cross-Document Coreference? - 
           Amit Bagga
0925-0950  Coreference Resolution in a Multilingual Information Extraction              
           System - Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys, and Robert Gaizauskas
0950-1015  Coreference and Anaphora in Multimedia - Kees Van Deemter

1015-1030  Break

1030-1100  Algorithms for Scoring Coreference Chains - Amit Bagga and 
           Breck Baldwin
1100-1130  Three New Methods for Evaluating Reference Resolution- 
           Andrei Popescu-Belis and Isabelle Robba
1130-1200  Automating Coreference: The Role of Annotated Training Data - 
           Lynette Hirschman, Patricia Robinson, John Burger, and Marc Vilain

1200-1215  Break/Discussion

1215-1330  Panel Session - Led by Eduard Hovy

Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications

Workshop Program

8:00 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 - 8: 50 "ASIUM: Learning subcategorization frames and restrictions of
selection" D. Faure and C. Nédellec
8:50 - 9:10 "When <> Strikes Back: Will corpus evidence bear out my
theoretical claims?" Magnar Brekke
9:10 - 9:30 "Textual Semantics and Corpus Specific Lexicons" Marc Cavazza
9:30 -9:50 "An empirical approach to Lexical Tuning"  R. Basili , R.
Catizone, M.T. Pazienza, M. Stevenson, P. Velardi, M. Vindigni, Y. Wilks
9:50 - 10:10 "Towards Inductive lexicons" W. Daelemans, G. Durieux, and A.
van den Bosch

10:10 - 10-30 coffee break

10:30 - 10-50  "Subcorpora-based tuning of Swedish generic lexical
resources" D. Kokkinakis and  S. Kokkinakis
10:50 - 11:10 "Machine Learning for Domain-Adaptive Word Sense
Disambiguation"  G. Paliouras,V. Karkaletsis, C. Spiropoulos
11:10 - 11:30 "Acquisition of Language Resources for Special Applications"
S. Sheremetyeva
11:30 - 11:50 "Electronic Dictionary management in a multiplatform
environment" L. de Yzaguirre, J. Vivaldi, M.T. Cabré
11:50 - 12:10 "Bridging the gap between lexicon and corpus: convergence of
formalisms" A. Kilgariff

12:10 - 12: 30 coffee break

12:30 - 14:00 Industrial Panel :
Will adaptive lexical resources bridge the gap between industrial and
research-oriented Information Extraction systems?
The panelists are requested to address the following issues:
*       Is there a market for IE?
*       What is the demand in domains such as  Telecommunications, New Web
Services, Consumer Electronics, etc.?
*       What are the technical requirements?
*       Is the technology near to the market?
*       Linguistic resources for IE: how to create, adapt, integrate
linguistic resources for adaptive IE system?

The Evaluation of Parsing Systems, May 26th - final programme

14:40-15:00
A survey of parser evaluation methods
  John Carroll, Ted Briscoe
  University of Sussex & University of Cambridge, UK

15:00-15:20
Evaluating parses for spoken language dialogue systems
  Wolfgang Minker, Lin Chase
  LIMSI, France

15:20-15:40
Evaluation of the syntactic analysis component of an information extraction
system for German
  Judith Klein, Thierry Declerck, Guenter Neumann
  DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany

15:40-16:00
Chunking Italian: linguistic and task-oriented evaluation
  Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli
  ILC-CNR Pisa, Italy

16:00-16:20
Evaluating a robust parser for Italian
  Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
  Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

16:20-17:00
Coffee Break

17:00-17:20
The TOSCA parsing system reviewed
  Nelleke Oostdijk
  University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

17:20-17:40
A corpus for parse pruning
  Sonja Mueller-Landmann
  IBM, Heidelberg, Germany

17:40-18:00
Dependency-based evaluation of MINIPAR
  Dekang Lin
  University of Manitoba, Canada

18:00-18:20
Break

18:20-18:40
Grammar & parser evaluation in the XTAG project
  Srinivas Bangalore, Anoop Sarkar, Christine Doran, Beth Ann Hockey
  AT&T Labs-Research & IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, USA

18:40-19:00
Modifying existing annotated corpora for general comparative evaluation of
parsing
  Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, Chris Huyck 
  University of Sheffield, UK

19:00-19:30
Plenary session

"Minimizing the
Effort for the Language Resource Acquisition"
May 26, 1998
Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Organizer


2.40-2.50 Introduction. S. Sheremetyeva

2.50-3.25 Reusing Swedish Language Processing Resources in SVENSK
          F.Olsson, B.Gamback and M.Eriksson

3.25-4.00 Using an English Corpus to Produce a Balanced Bi-lingual Lexicon
          J.Cowie, J.Longwell, C. Keller

4.00-4.30 Two Experiments on Balancing the Acquisition Effort and
          Automation Level with Needs of an Application
          S.Sheremetyeva and S.Nirenburg  

4.30-5.00 Break

5.00-5.35 Speeding-up the Building of New Ontologies using Bilingual
          Dictionaries  
          L.Griot

5.35-6.10 Minimization Strategies in NeuroTran
          N.Koncar, S.Pawlowski, D.Sipka and V.Sipka

6.10-6.45 A Cost-Effective Approach to Multilingual Lexicon Acquisition
          E.Viegas, S.Nirenburg, B.Onyshkevych and V.Raskin

6.45-7.30 General Discussion.

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE
                         FOR NL AND SPEECH.

PROGRAMME:

09:00-09:10 OPENING
             (Steven Krauwer / Joseph Mariani)

09:10-09:30 "The Darpa experience"
             (Charles Wayne)
09:30-09:40 "Ethnology and sociology of evaluation"
             (Lynette Hirschman)
09:40-09:50 "The Aupelf experience"
             (Joseph Mariani)
09:50-10:00 "Experience in Grace tagging evaluation"
             (Patrick Paroubek)
10:00-10:10 "Experiences in bilingual text alignment evaluation and
             word sense disambiguation"
             (Jean Veronis)
10:10-10:20 "Best practice and evaluation"
             (Ole Bernsen / Laila Dybkjaer)

10:20-10:40 BREAK

10:40-10:50 "Confidence measures and evaluation"
             (Lin Chase)
10:50-11:00 "Evaluation within Eagles"
             (Maghi King)
11:00-11:10 "Technology vs User-evaluation"
             (Marc Blasband)
11:10-11:20 "Evaluation for better products"
             (Christian Dugast)
11:20-11:30 "Resources for evaluation"
             (Mark Liberman)
11:30-11:40 "Organising Parser Evaluation"
             (Richard Sutcliffe)
11:40-11:50 "Specification and infrastructure for text
             summarization evaluation"
             (Beth Sundheim)

11:50-12:00 BREAK

12:00-12:10 "ELSE"
             (Patrick Paroubek)
12:10-13:00 PANEL SESSION
             (Chair: Rob Gaizauskas)

13:00       CLOSING

"Language Resources for European Minority Languages"
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              Wednesday May 27 1998 (morning), Granada, Spain
           In association with the First International Conference on
        Language Resources and Evaluation, May 28-30 1998, Granada, Spain

 8:00  Registration

 8:30  Welcome and Introduction

 8:40  "Overview of minority languages in Europe".  Marc Alemany (Catalan
       Sociolinguistic Institute).

 9:00  "VOCATEL and VOGATEL: Two Telephone Speech Databases of Spanish Minority
       Languages (Catalan and Galician)".  Luis Villarrubia, Paloma Leon, Luis
       Hernandez (Speech Technology Group, Telefonica I&D, Madrid, Spain);
       Climent Nadeu, Ignasi Esquerra, Javier Hernando (Dept. TSC, Universitat
       Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain); Carmen Garcia-Mateo, Laura
       Docio (ETSIT de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain).

 9:20  "Written Linguistic Resources in Catalan: the DCC Project". Joan Soler
       Bou (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain).

 9:40  "The MELIN project". Donncha Ó Cróinín (Institiúid Teangeolaíochta
       Éireann/Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland).

10:00  COFFEE

10:30  "A framework for the automatic processing of Basque". I. Aldezabal,
       O. Ansa, J.M. Arriola, A. Díaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, A. Maritxalar,
       M. Oronoz, K. Sarasola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain); I. Aduriz,
       M. Urkia (UZEI, Donostia, Spain).

10:50  "Towards the creation of new Galician language resources: From a printed
       dictionary to the Galician WordNet".  Fernando Magan (Ramón Piñeiro
       Research Center for Humanities, Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

11:10  Poster Session 1  (odd-numbered authors at posters)

11:50  Poster Session 2  (even-numbered authors at posters)

12:30  Plenary

13:30  End

Speech database development for central and Eastern European languages
PROGRAMME

 Programme
             
 Welcome, 14:30
 Peter Roach, Introduction 


 Paper 1, 14:40
 Arvo Eek, Einar Meister 
 Estonian speech in the BABEL multilanguage
 database: phonetic-phonological problems revealed in
 the text corpus
 
Paper 2, 15:00
SlawomirKula
Telephone bandwidth speech database: creation,
applications and experiences for polish language
 
Paper 3, 15:20
Henk van den Heuvel, Valery Galounov,Herbert S. Tropf
The SPEECHDAT(E) project: Creating speech
databases for eastern European languages
 
Open Forum 1, 15:40
The nature of our data

 BREAK, 16:00
                  
                                     
 Paper 4, 16:10
 Klara Vicsi, A. Vig, G.Gordos
 Experience on the development of a language
independent automatic segmentation and labeling
system on the frame of the BABEL project

 Paper 5, 16:30
Simon Dobrisek, Jerneja Gros, France
Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic
GOPOLIS: A Multi Speaker Solvenian Speech Database

 Paper 6, 16:50
 Toomas Altosaar, Matti, Karjalainen, Martti
Vainio, Einar Meister
Finnish and Estonian Speech Applications developed
An Object-Oriented Speech Processing and  Database System

Open Forum 2, 17:10
Labelling and annotation

 BREAK, 17:30
                  
 Paper  7, 17:45
 Marian Boldea, Cosmin
Munteanu, Alin Doroga
Design, Collection, and Annotation of a Romanian
Speech Database

 Paper 8, 18:05
 Tamas Varadi
 On the Spoken Corpus of the Budapest
 Sociolinguistic Interview
 Paper 9, 18:25
Zdravko Kacic, Janez Kaiser
Development of Slovenian SpeechDat database

 Open Forum 3, 18:45
 The Future
 
CLOSE, 19:30



Workshop on Distributing and Accessing Linguistic
Resources
Granada, Spain  -   May 27 1998
(afternoon)
The workshop will take place in the afternoon after the
scheduled lunch break (13.20 - 14.40). 

Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham, Wim Peters, Remi Zajac

Presentations are 15 minutes each with 5 minutes for discussion.

14.45 - 15.05
Distributed Thesaurus Storage and Access in a Cultural Domain
Application
S. Boutsis, B. Georgantopoulos, S. Piperidis
Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens

15.05 - 15.25
A New Model for Language Resource Access and Distribution
W. Peters, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks, C. McCauley
University of Sheffield

15.25 - 15.45
Reuse and Integration of NLP Components in the Calypso Architecture
R. Zajac
New Mexico State University

15.45 - 16.05
Corpus-based Research using the Internet
H. Brugman, A. Russel, P. Wittenburg, R.Piepenbrock
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen


16.05 - 16.30
The CUE Corpus Access Tool
O. Mason
University of Birmingham


16.30 - 17.00 coffee break

17.00-17.20
Linguistic Research Utilizing the EDR Electronic Dictionary as a
Linguistic Resource
T. Ogino
EDR, Japan


17.20 - 19.00 (room available until 20.00)
PANEL DISCUSSION: Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
The panel participants are:
Khalid Choukri, Eduard Hovy, Judith Klavans(chair),
Yorick Wilks, and Antonio Zampolli

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
14.00 - 14.45 and 16.30 - 17.00 

The presentation of the posters will happen in 2 sessions, at the end of
lunch and during afternoon coffee
The posters will also be on display during the workshop.  

 TRACTOR: TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources
R. Krishnamurthy
University of Birmingham

Web-Surfing the Lexicon
D. Cabrero, M. Vilares, L. Docampo, S. Sotelo
Ramon Pineiro Research Centre/Universities of Coruna and Santiago

Exploring Distributed MT
O. Streiter, A. Schmidt-Wigger, U. Reuther, C. Pease
IAI Saarbruecken

A Proposal for an On-line Lexical Database
P. Cassidy 
Micra, Inc.
14.00 - 14.45 and 16.30 - 17.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS