Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 29-30, 2005

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CoNLL-2005 proceedings, CoNLL-2005 shared task

Program

Registration for CoNLL-2005 can be done via the ACL-2005 site. Early registration is possible until May 31, Late registration until June 18.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29
syntax and semantics 8:45awelcome
8:50aEFFECTIVE USE OF WORDNET SEMANTICS VIA KERNEL-BASED LEARNING
Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa and Alessandro Moschitti
9:15aA STATISTICAL SEMANTIC PARSER THAT INTEGRATES SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
Ruifang Ge and Raymond Mooney
9:40aSEARCH ENGINE STATISTICS BEYOND THE N-GRAM: APPLICATION TO NOUN COMPOUND BRACKETING
Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst
10:05aNEW EXPERIMENTS IN DISTRIBUTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SYNONYMY
Dayne Freitag, Matthias Blume, John Byrnes, Edmond Chow, Sadik Kapadia, Richard Rohwer, Zhiqiang Wang
10:30acoffee break
semantics and
text classification
11:00aWORD INDEPENDENT CONTEXT PAIR CLASSIFICATION MODEL FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Rohini K. Srihari and Huifeng Li
11:25aCOMPUTING WORD SIMILARITY AND IDENTIFYING COGNATES WITH PAIR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
Wesley Mackay and Grzegorz Kondrak
11:50aA BAYESIAN MIXTURE MODEL FOR TERM RE-OCCURRENCE AND BURSTINESS
Avik Sarkar, Paul H. Garthwaite and Anne De Roeck
12:15pDOMAIN KERNELS FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION
Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava
12:40plunch
information extraction and
learning methods
2:00pDISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING OF CLUSTERING FUNCTIONS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS WITH ENTITY IDENTIFICATION
Xin Li and Dan Roth
2:25pUSING UNEVEN MARGINS SVM AND PERCEPTRON FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva and Hamish Cunningham
2:50pIMPROVING SEQUENCE SEGMENTATION LEARNING BY PREDICTING TRIGRAMS
Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans
3:15pSIGNLL business meeting
3:40pcoffee break
4:10pinvited speaker: Mark Johnson
discourse 5:10pAN EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION APPROACH TO PRONOUN RESOLUTION
Colin Cherry and Shane Bergsma
5:35pPROBABILISTIC HEAD-DRIVEN PARSING FOR DISCOURSE STRUCTURE
Jason Baldridge and Alex Lascarides


THURSDAY JUNE 30
joint session with
Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of
Human Language Acquisition
9:00a GRAMMAR ACQUISITION IN CHILD AND MACHINE
invited speaker: Mark Steedman
9:50aSTEPS TOWARD DEEP LEXICAL ACQUISITION
Sourabh Niyogi (paper from Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition)
10:15aINTENTIONAL CONTEXT IN SITUATED NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING
Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy
10:40acoffee break
morphology 11:10aREPRESENTATIONAL BIAS IN UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF SYLLABLE STRUCTURE
Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson
11:35aAN ANALOGICAL LEARNER FOR MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Nicolas Stroppa and Francois Yvon
12:00pMORPHOLOGY INDUCTION FROM TERM CLUSTERS
Dayne Freitag
12:25plunch
learning methods and architectures 2:00pBEYOND THE PIPELINE: DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION IN NLP
Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube
2:25pINVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE SAMPLING ON THE ANNOTATION TASK
Ben Hachey, Beatrice Alex and Markus Becker
shared task 2:50pintroduction and system descriptions
3:30pcoffee break
shared task 4:00psystem descriptions
5:00pdiscussion
6:00pclosing
Other information: CoNLL-2005 Shared Task | Call for papers
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