Title: TUTORIAL SESSION
1TUTORIAL SESSION
How May I Help You? Automated Customer
Service via Natural Spoken Dialog Alicia Abella,
Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso,
Jerry Wright, ATT Shannon Laboratory
900am 1230pm Rangos I Saturday, June 2nd
2TUTORIAL SESSION
Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing What's Happened Since
the First SIGDAT Meeting? Kenneth Ward Church,
ATT Labs-Research
900am 1230pm Rangos II Saturday, June 2nd
3TUTORIAL SESSION
Building Synthetic Voices Alan W Black and Kevin
A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University
200pm 530pm Rangos I Saturday, June 2nd
4TUTORIAL SESSION
Open-Domain Textual Question
Answering Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan,
Southern Methodist University
200pm 530pm Rangos II Saturday, June 2nd
5WORKSHOP
- Automatic Summarization
- 845am 850 Opening Remarks
- 850 950 Invited speaker Jaime Carbonell
"Information Utility in Summarization and
Retrieval"
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
6WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Session I Evaluation
950am - 1015 An Inquiry into the Nature of
Multidocument Abstracts, Extracts and
Their Evaluation - Daniel Marcu and Laurie
Gerber 1015 - 1045 BREAK 1045 - 1110
Task-Based Evaluation of Summary Quality
Describing Relationships Between Scientific
Papers - Simone Teufel
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
7WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Session II
Domain-Specific Summarization
1110am - 1135 Increasing the Coherence of
Spoken Dialogue Summaries by Cross-Speaker
Information Linking - Klaus Zechner and Alon
Lavie 1135 - 1200pm Towards Generating Patient
Specific Summaries of Medical Articles -
Noemie Elhadad and Kathleen R. McKeown
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
8WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Session III
Multi-Document Summarization
1200pm - 1225 SimFinder A Flexible Clustering
Tool for Summarization - Vasileios
Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Melissa
L. Holcombe, Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan and
Kathleen R. McKeown
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
9WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Panel I Past, Present
and Future of Evaluation
Introduction Jade Goldstein 155pm - 210
Invited Speaker Inderjeet Mani, Summarization
Evaluation An Overview 210 - 225 Text
Summarization Challenge Text summarization
evaluation in Japan (TSC) - Takahiro
Fukusima and Manabu Okumura 225 - 240 Invited
Speaker Daniel Marcu, The Document
Understanding Conference A New Forum for
Summarization, Research Evaluation
(DUC) 240 - 300 DISCUSSION
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
10WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Session IV Approaches to
Japanese Text
Summarization
300pm - 325 An Extrinsic Evaluation for
Question-Biased Text Summarization on QA
tasks - Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki and
Hideki Isozaki 325 - 350 How small a
distinction among summaries can an IR- based
evaluation method identify? - Yoshio Nakao
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
11WORKSHOP
Automatic Summarization Panel II Summarization
in the Real World Panel Moderator Chin-Yew Lin
420pm - 440 WebInEssence A Personalized
Web-Based Multi-Document Summarization
Recommendation System - Dragomir R. Radev,
Weiguo Fan Zhu Zhang 440 - 500 Text
compaction for display on very small screens -
Simon Corston-Oliver 500 - 520 Summarisation
Miniaturisation Delivery of News to Hand-Helds
- Branimir Boguraev, Rachel Bellamy and Calvin
Swart 520 - 540 Invited Paper Text
Summarization of Web pages on Handheld Devices -
Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina and
Andreas Paepcke 540 - 600 DISCUSSION
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
12WORKSHOP
- WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations - 900am 915 Welcome and Introduction
- 915 1015 Keynote speaker Prof. George Miller
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
13WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
1045am 1215pm Session I Word Sense
Disambiguation
INVITED PAPER Manual and Automatic Semantic
Annotation with WordNet - Christiane Fellbaum,
Martha Palmer, Hoa Tran Dang, Lauren Delfs
Susanne Wolf Word Sense Disambiguation with an
Integrated Lexical Resource - Oi Yee Kwong Word
Sense Disambiguation in Roget's Thesaurus Using
WordNet - Vivi Nastase and Stan
Szpakowicz Enriching WordNet Concepts with Topic
Signatures - Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, David
Martinez and Eduard Hovy
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
14WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
230pm 400 Session II Semantic Relations
Their Applications
Semantic Distance in WordNet An Experimental,
Application-Oriented Evaluation of Five
Measures - Alexander Butanitsky and Graeme
Hirst Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained
WordNet - Rada Mihalcea Dan I.
Moldovan Synonymy in Collocation Extraction -
Darren Pearce Building a Lexical Knowledge-Base
of Near-Synonym Differences - Diana Zaiu Inkpen
and Graeme Hirst
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
15WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
430pm 530 Session III Frame Representations
On Mending a Torn Dress The Frame Problem and
WordNet - Sandiway Fong Frame Semantics for
Text Understanding - Charles J. Fillmore
Collin F. Baker Extracting Dependency Frames
from Existing Lexical Resources - Gosse Bouma
Rangos I Sunday, June 3rd
16WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
900am 1015 Session IV Resource Integration
Lexical Resource Integration across the
Syntax-Semantics Interface - Rebecca Green,
Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr and Philip
Resnik Comparing Terms, Concepts and Semantic
Classes in WordNet and the Unified Medical
Language System - Anita Burgun and Olivier
Bodenreider A Complete WN1.5 to WN1.6 Mapping -
J. Daudé, L. Padró and G. Rigau Alignment of
Ontologies WordNet and Goi-Taikei - Naoki
Asanoma
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
17WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
1045am 1200pm Session V WordNet Extensions
eXtended WordNet Progress Report Rada
Mihalcea and Dan I. Moldovan WordNet Enrichment
with Classification Systems - Andrés Montoyo,
Manuel Palomar and German Rigau Enriching
WordNet with Qualia Information Sara Mendes and
Rui Pedro Chaves
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
18WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
230pm 400 Session VI Multilanguage WordNets
Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionary Approaches
to the Enrichment of the Spanish WordNet with
Adjectives - Irina Chugur, Anselmo Peñas, Julio
Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo Ranking Selecting
Synsets by Domain Relevance - Paul Buitelaar
Bogdan Sacaleanu Extending, Trimming and Fusing
WordNet for Technical Documents - Piek
Vossen Using WordNet to Improve User Modelling
in a Web Document Recommender System - Bernardo
Magnini and Carlo Strapparava
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
19WORKSHOP
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
430pm 600 Session VII WordNet Applications
The Informative Role of WordNet in Open-Domain
Question Answering - Marius Pasca and Sanda M.
Harabagiu Using Lexical Knowledge to Evaluate
the Novelty of Rules Mined from Text - Sugato
Basu, Raymond J. Mooney, Krupakar Pasupuleti and
Joydeep Ghosh Event Tracking Using WordNet
Meronyms - Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyon Fukumoto and
Yoshihiro Sekiguchi Learning Lexical
Representation for Text Categorization - Fumiyo
Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
20WORKSHOP
MT Evaluation Hands-On
Evaluation
845am 600pm Rangos II Sunday, June 3rd
21WORKSHOP
- Student Research Workshop
- 1030am 1040 Opening Comments
- Session I
1040 - 1120 Building a Bilingual Dictionary
with Scarce Resources A Genetic Algorithm
Approach - Benjamin Han 1120 - 1200pm
Automatic Detection of Noun Phrases in English
and Estonian Electronic Texts - Maarika
Traat 1200 - 1240 Answer Fusion with On-line
Ontology Development - Roxana Gîrju
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
22WORKSHOP
- Student Research Workshop
- Session II
200pm - 240 APT Arabic Part-of-speech Tagger
- Shereen Khoja 240 - 320 A Probabilistic
Model for Automatic Document Categorization -
Takeshi Masuyama 320 - 400 Lynx Building a
Statistical Parser from a Rule-Based Parser -
Peter Venable
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
23WORKSHOP
- Student Research Workshop
- 430pm 530 PANEL DISCUSSION
Careers in Computational Linguistics
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
24WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- 845am 850 Welcome
- 850 945 INVITED TALK Michael Kearns
Learning, Adaptation, and Personalization in
Two (Very) Different
Dialogue Systems
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
25WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- Adaptation in Interaction
945am - 1010 Adaptive Processing in a Medical
Intelligent Tutoring System - Reva Freedman,
Byung-In Cho, Michael Glass, Yujian Zhou, Jung
Hee Kim, Bruce Mills, Feng-Jen Yang and Martha
Evens 1030 - 1055 A Decision-Theoretic
Approach for Selecting Tutorial Discourse
Actions - R. Charles Murray, Kurt VanLehn and
Jack Mostow 1055 - 1120 Modeling Informational
Novelty in a Conversational System with a
Hybrid Statistical and Grammar-Based Approach to
Surface Natural Language Generation - Adwait
Ratnaparkhi
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
26WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- 1135am 1225pm PANEL
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
27WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- Adaptation via On-Line Inference
130pm - 155 Real-time Handling of Fragmented
Utterances - Linda Bell, Johan Boye and
Joakim Gustafson 155 - 220 Initiative
Management for Tutorial Dialogue - Mark G. Core,
Johanna D. Moore and Claus W. Zinn 220 - 245
A Comparison of Classification Techniques for
the Automatic Detection of Error Corrections
in Human-Computer Dialogues - Katrin Kirchhoff
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
28WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- Learning and Evaluation in Adaptive Dialogue
Systems
300pm - 325 Learning Task Models for
Collaborative Discourse - Andrew Garland,
Neal Lesh and Candace Sidner 325 - 350 The
Impact of Syntactic and Planning Features on the
Performance of a Trainable Sentence Planner -
Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker and Owen
Rambow 350 - 415 Corpus-Based Dialogue
Simulation for Automatic Strategy Learning and
Evaluation - Konrad Scheffler and Steve Young
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
29WORKSHOP
- Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
- 435pm 530 Short Talks
Dialogue Pattern Generation Algorithm in
Database Search Task - Masahiro Araki, Tasuku
Ono, Kiyoshi Ueda, Takuya Nishimoto and Yasuhisa
Niimi Articulatory Adaptation in Multimodal
Communicative Action Melanie
Baljko Anticipatory Planning for
Decision-Theoretic Grounding and Task Advancement
in Mixed- Initiative Dialogue Systems - Rossana
Damiano and David Traum Dialogue as Decision
Making Under Uncertainty The Case of
Mixed-Initiative AI Systems - Michael Fleming
and Robin Cohen Adaptive Modeling of Dialogue
Initiative - Peter A. Heeman and Susan E.
Strayer Improving Spoken Dialogue System
Performance via Adaptation - Diane J. Litman A
Corpus-Based Approach Towards Automatic
Correction of Pitch Tracker Errors - Kathleen
Murray Machine Learning for User Modeling in
Conversational Recommendation Systems - Cynthia
A. Thompson
Rangos I Monday, June 4th
30- EMNLP 2001
- 845am 900 Welcome
- Session I Learning
900 - 925 Limitations of Co-Training for
Natural Language Learning from Large Datasets
- David Pierce and Claire Cardie 925 - 950 A
Sequential Model for Multi-Class Classification
- Yair Even- Zohar and Dan Roth 950 - 1015
Learning Within-Sentence Semantic Coherence -
Elena Eneva, ose Hoberman and Lucian Lita
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
31EMNLP 2001 Session II Machine Translation
1045am - 1110 Knowledge Sources for Word-Level
Translation Models - Philipp Köhn and Kevin
Knight 1110 - 1135 Improving Lexical Mapping
Model of English-Korean Bitext Using Structural
Features - Seonho Kim, Juntae Yoon and Mansuk
Song
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
32EMNLP 2001 1145am 1245pm INVITED TALK Eric
Brill Paucity Shmaucity -- What Can We
Do With A Trillion Words?
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
33EMNLP 2001 Session III Text Categorization
200pm - 225 Stacking Classifiers for Anti-Spam
Filtering of E-Mail - Georgios Sakkis, Ion
Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis
Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos and
Panagiotis Stamatopoulos 225 - 250 Feature
Space Restructuring for SVMs with Application to
Text Categorization - Hiroya Takamura and Yuji
Matsumoto 250 - 315 Using Bins to Empirically
Estimate Term Weights for Text Categorization
- Carl Sable and Kenneth W. Church
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
34EMNLP 2001 Session IV Question Answering
and Information Extraction
325pm - 350 Question Answering Using a Large
Text Database A Machine Learning Approach -
Hwee Tou Ng, Jennifer Lai, Pheng Kwan and
Yiyuan Xia 350 - 415 Information Extraction
Using the Structured Language Model - Ciprian
Chelba and Milind Mahajan
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
35EMNLP 2001 430pm 530 PANEL When does EM
work? (includes an
introduction to the
Expectation-Maximization algorithm)Eugene
Charniak, Kevin Knight, Ted Pedersen, Stefan
Riezler
McConomy Auditorium Sunday, June 3rd
36EMNLP 2001 Session V Lexical Acquisition and
Text Segmentation
835am - 900 Classifying the Semantic Relations
in Noun Compounds via a Domain-Specific Lexical
Hierarchy - Barbara Rosario and Marti
Hearst 900 - 925 The Unknown Word Problem a
Morphological Analysis of Japanese Using
Maximum Entropy Aided by a Dictionary -
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Satoshi Sekine and Hitoshi
Isahara 925 - 950 Is Knowledge-Free Induction
of Multiword Unit Dictionary Headwords a
Solved Problem? - Patrick Schone and Daniel
Jurafsky 950 - 1015 Latent Semantic Analysis
for Text Segmentation - Freddy Y. Y. Choi,
Peter Wiemer-Hastings and Johanna Moore
McConomy Auditorium Monday, June 4th
37EMNLP 2001 Session VI Applications
1045am - 1110 Detecting Short Passages of
Similar Text in Large Document Collections -
Caroline Lyon, James Malcolm and Bob
Dickerson 1110 - 1135 Hybrid Text Mining for
Finding Abbreviations and their Definitions -
Youngja Park and Roy J. Byrd
McConomy Auditorium Monday, June 4th
38EMNLP 2001 1145am 1245pm PANEL What Works
and What Doesn't? Industrial
Perspectives Adam
Berger, David Evans, Joshua Goodman, Lynette
Hirschman
McConomy Auditorium Monday, June 4th
39EMNLP 2001 Session VII Spoken Language Output
200pm - 225 Automatic Corpus-based Tone
Prediction using K-ToBI Representation -
Jin-Seok Lee, Byeongchang Kim and Gary Geunbae
Lee 225 - 250 Probabilistic Context-Free
Grammars for Syllabification and
Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion - Karin Müller
McConomy Auditorium Monday, June 4th
40EMNLP 2001 Session VIII POS Tagging and Corpus
Analysis
300pm - 325 Comparing Data-Driven Learning
Algorithms for PoS Tagging of Swedish - Beáta
Megyesi 325 - 350 Impact of Quality and
Quantity of Corpora on Stochastic Generation
- Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen and Owen
Rambow 350 - 415 Corpus Variation and Parser
Performance - Daniel Gildea
415 430 Refreshments (close)
McConomy Auditorium Monday, June 4th
41800am 500pm Rangos II Saturday, June 2nd
Thursday, June 7th
42- NAACL Executive Committee Meeting
1200pm 200pm Rangos II Saturday, June 2nd
431200pm 200pm Rangos II Tuesday, June 5th
441200pm 200pm Hoch Commons Wednesday, June
6th
451200pm 200pm Rangos II Thursday, June 7th
46900am 500pm Rangos Wednesday, June 6th
471200pm 200pm Rangos II Tuesday, June 5th
48900am 500pm Rangos Wednesday, June 6th
49Exhibitor Presentations Session I Multilingual
and Multimedia Language Technologies
900am - 930 Chinese Text-Based Multimedia
Content Search and Retrieval Joe Zhou, Intel
930 - 1000 Integrated Foreign Language
Processing Tools for Monolingual Users Mudar
Yaghi, Apptek
Rangos Ballroom Wednesday, June 6th
50Exhibitor Presentations Session II Knowledge
Discovery, Information Search
and Retrieval
1045am - 1115 Linguistic Approach to
Information Management Margalit Zabludowski,
Manager, U.S. Linguistic Support and
Development, LexiQuest 1115 - 1145 Uberdex
Tom Bougan, Applied Technical Systems 200 -
230 Harnessing the Power of Ordinary Language in
Search Technologies Dr. Antonio Sanfilippo,
Director of Application Development David
Ellworthy, Principal Search Architect,
LingoMotors
Rangos Ballroom Wednesday, June 6th
51Exhibitor Presentations Session III Machine
Translation
230pm - 300 The Coming Boom in Real-Time
Translation Services Robert Levin, Transclick
300 - 330 A New Generation CAT Tool Dan
Gervais, Executive Director, Gerry Gervais,
Multicorpora RD, Inc. 330 - 400 Translation
Memory Technology Application, Benefits and
Limitations Christina Spies, Director of
Sales, U.S. East, Trados Corporation
Rangos Ballroom Wednesday, June 6th
52Exhibitor Presentations Session IV Question
Answering Systems
430pm - 500 Online Answering Engine with
Sentience Professor P.V.S. Rao, Adviser, Tata
Infotech
Rangos Ballroom Wednesday, June 6th
53NAACL Demos 915am - 1030 Session I
OLAC The Open Language Archives Community -
Steven Bird, Gary Simons and Eva Banik The BLS
Language Engine - Charles F. Diggins Interactive
Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes - Carolyn P.
Rosé, Michael Boettner, Pamela Jordan, Maxim
Makatchev, Uma Pappuswamy, Michael Ringenberg,
Antonio Roque, Stephanie Siler, Ramesh
rivastava, Kurt Vanlehn and Anders Weinstein
Connan Room Tuesday, June 5th
54NAACL Demos 1045am - 1200pm Session II
A Tutorial Dialogue System for Helping Students
Learn Through Self- Explanation - Vincent
Aleven, Octav Popescu and Kenneth R.
Koedinger JYAG IDEY A Template-Based
Generator and Its Authoring Tool - Songsak
Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy and Syed S. Ali The
KANTOO MT System Controlled Language Checker and
Knowledge Maintenance Tool - Teruko Mitamura,
Eric Nyberg, Kathy Baker, David Svoboda, Enrique
Torrejon and Michael Duggan
Connan Room Tuesday, June 5th
55NAACL Demos 300pm 415pm Session III
SpeechWorks Multi-Modal Dialog Engine - Bob
Carpenter, Sasha Caskey and Roberto
Pieraccini Demonstration of a Spoken Dialogue
Interface to a Mobile Semi-Autonomous Robot -
John Dowding, Jim Hieronymus, Beth Ann Hockey,
Frankie James and Manny Rayner Speech
Interaction in a Shiphandling Trainer - Bruce
Roberts
Connan Room Tuesday, June 5th
56NAACL Demos 430pm 545pm Session IV
Building Annotation Tools with the Annotation
Graph Toolkit - Steven Bird, Kazuaki Maeda,
Xiaoyi Ma and Haejoong Lee UNL A Multi-Lingual
System for Information Exchange in Internet -
Jesús Cardeñosa, Luis Iraola, Ramón Armada,
Edmundo Tovar, Igor Boguslavsky and Irina
Prodanof GoDiS - QUD-based Dialogue Management
in a Multi-Domain Dialogue System - Staffan
Larsson and Stina Ericsson
Connan Room Tuesday, June 5th
57NAACL Demos 915am 1030 Session V
Interbot A Multi-Modal Interface to Mobile
Robots - Dennis Perzanowski, Alan Schultz,
William Adams, Kenneth Wauchope, Elaine Marsh and
Magda Bugajska Contextual Dialogue Prompter -
Dan Stevenson
Connan Room Wednesday, June 6th
58NAACL Demos 1045am 1200pm Session VI
An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic
Interpretation Using an Enhanced WordNet -
Fernando Gomez A Controlled Language Checker
Based on the Ellogon Text Engineering Platform
- Vangelis Karkaletsis, Georgios Samaritakis,
Georgios Petasis, Dimitra Farmakiotou, Ion
Androutsopoulos, S. Markantonatou and
Constantine D. Spyropoulos TransType A User
Oriented Interactive Machine Translation System
- Philippe Langlais, George Foster and Guy
Lapalme SevenTones Search in Linguistics and
Languages - Zhiping Zheng
Connan Room Wednesday, June 6th
59NAACL Demos 415pm 530pm Session VII
Flexible Dialogue Management in the ADVICE
Project - Javier Calle-Goméz, Ana
Garcia-Serrano and Luis Rodrigo The FrameNet II
Tools and Frame Semantic Representation - Beau
Cronin and Collin F. Baker Variation of
Language Models in Three Spoken Dialog Systems -
Genevieve Gorrell, Manny Rayner, Beth Ann
Hockey, John Dowding and Johan Boye
Connan Room Wednesday, June 6th
60NAACL Demos 915am 1030 Session VIII
AutoTutor in Two Content Domains - Natalie K.
Person and Arthur C. Graesser Demonstration of
Collaborative Interface Applications using
Collagen - Candy Sidner Sary Reusable
Components and Tools for Searching Large Corpora
- Satoru Takabayashi
Connan Room Thursday, June 7th
61NAACL Demos 1045am 1200pm Session IX
XLFG A Parser to Learn LFG Framework - Lionel
Clément A Multi-Modal Dialogue System for
Human-Robot Conversation - Oliver Lemon, Anne
Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein and Stanley
Peters MESIA Extending Web Queries with
Linguistic Knowledge - Paloma Martinez, Ana
Garcia-Serrano and Luis Rodrigo Aguado A
Hands-on Demonstration of Project LISTEN's
Reading Tutor and Its Embedded Experiments -
Jack Mostow, Greg Aist, Juliet Bey, Paul
Burkhead, Andrew Cuneo, Susan Bossbach, Brian
Tobin, Joe Valeri and Sara Wilson
Connan Room Thursday, June 7th