PROGRAM

	MONDAY, AUGUST 10th
Monday 7:45 - 8:45	Coffee and registration 3200, rue Jean-Brillant
Monday 8:45 - 9:25	OPENING SESSION Jean-Lesage Amphitheater (B-2285)
Invited Paper
Monday 9:25 - 10:25	Jean-Lesage Amphitheater (B-2285)	The Production of Code-Mixed Discourse		David Sankoff (Université de Montréal)
Monday 10:25 - 10:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Anaphora	B-2245 Dependency Grammar	B-2305 Multimodal	B-2325 Lexical Semantics & WSD
Monday 10:45 - 11:15	Anaphor Resolution In Unrestricted Texts With Partial Parsing	Separating Surface Order and Syntactic Relations in a Dependency Grammar	Diagram Understanding Using Integration of Layout Information and Textual Information	Multilingual Computational Semantic Lexicons in Action: The WYSINNWYG Approach to NLP
	Antonio Ferrández, Manuel Palomar, Lidia Moreno	Norbert Bröker	Yasuhiko Watanabe, Makoto Nagao	Evelyne Viegas
Monday 11:20 - 11:50	Feasibility Study for Ellipsis Resolution in Dialogues by Machine-Learning Technique	Pseudo-Projectivity: A Polynomially Parsable Non-Projective Dependency Grammar	Unification-based Multimodal Parsing	Context-Sensitive Glossing as Prioritised Partial Tiling
	Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita	Sylvain Kahane, Alexis Nasr, Owen Rambow	Michael Johnston	Victor Poznanski, Pete Whitelock, Jan IJdens
Monday 11:55 - 12:25	Long Distance Pronominalisation and Global Focus	Using Decision Trees to Construct a Practical Parser	Confirmation in Multimodal Systems	Combining a Chinese Thesaurus with a Chinese Dictionary
	Janet Hitzeman, Massimo Poesio	Masahiko Haruno, Satoshi Shirai, Yoshifumi Ooyama	David R. McGee, Phil R. Cohen, Sharon Oviatt	Ji Donghong, Gong Junping, Huang Changning
Monday 12:25 - 12:45	Break
Monday 12:45 - 13:15	Project Notes
	B-4270	Large Scale Collocation Data and Their Application to Japanese Word Processor Technology		Yasuo Koyama, Masako Yasutake, Kenji Yoshimura, Kosho Shudo
	B-4285	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin (with demo)		Xiaoheng Zhang
	B-3205	Text Segmentation Using Reiteration and Collocation		Amanda C. Jobbins, Lindsay J. Evett
	B-3215	Babel: A Testbed for Research in Origins of Language (with demo)		Angus McIntyre
	B-3225	Separable Verbs in a Reusable Morphological Dictionary for German		Pius ten Hacken, Stephan Bopp
	B-3315	Translating Idioms (with demo)		Eric Wehrli
	B-3325	A Model for Robust Processing of Spontaneous Speech by Integrating Viable Fragments		Karsten L. Worm
	B-4205	Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representations (with demo)		Derrick Higgins
	B-4215	Robust Interaction through Partial Interpretation and Dialogue Management		Arne Jönsson, Lena Strömbäck
	B-4225	Keyword Extraction using Term-Domain Interdependence for Dictation of Radio News		Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
	B-4315	An Underspecified Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (USDRT)		Frank Schilder
	B-4345	Beyond N-Grams: Can Linguistic Sophistication Improve Language Modeling?		Eric Brill, Radu Florian, John C. Henderson, Lidia Mangu
	Student Session
	B-2245	Neural Network Recognition of Spelling Errors		Mark Lewellen
Monday 13:20 - 13:50	Project Notes
	B-4270	A Freely Available Morphological Analyzer, Disambiguator and Context Sensitive Lemmatizer for German (with demo)		Wolfgang Lezius, Reinhard Rapp, Manfred Wettler
	B-4285	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin (continued with demo)		Xiaoheng Zhang
	B-3205	Hypertext Authoring for Linking Relevant Segments of Related Instruction Manuals		Tatsunori Mori, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Nobuyuki Omori, Jun Okamura
	B-3215	Babel: A Testbed for Research in Origins of Language (continued with demo)		Angus McIntyre
	B-3225	Intelligent Multi-Dictionary Environment (with demo)		Gabor Proszeky
	B-3315	Translating Idioms (continued with demo)		Eric Wehrli
	B-3325	An Object-Oriented Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Subsegmental Primes and Phonological Constituents from Speech (with demo)		Wiebke Brockhaus, Michael Ingleby
	B-4205	Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representations (continued with demo)		Derrick Higgins
	B-4215	A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems		Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger, Dongdong Chen
	B-4225	Named Entity Scoring for Speech Input		John D. Burger, David Palmer, Lynette Hirschman
	B-4315	Veins Theory: A Model of Global Discourse Cohesion and Coherence		Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary
	B-4345	Processing Unknown Words in HPSG		Petra Barg, Markus Walther
	Student Session
	B-2245	Discovering Phonotactic Finite-State Automata by Genetic Search		Anja Belz
Monday 13:55 - 14:25	Project Notes
	B-4270	A Freely Available Morphological Analyzer, Disambiguator and Context Sensitive Lemmatizer for German (continued with demo)		Wolfgang Lezius, Reinhard Rapp, Manfred Wettler
	B-4285	Proper Name Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval		Hsin-Hsi Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Yung-Wei Ding, Shih-Chung Tsai
	B-3205	Hypertext Authoring for Linking Relevant Segments of Related Instruction Manuals (continued)		Tatsunori Mori, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Nobuyuki Omori, Jun Okamura
	B-3215	Thematic Segmentation of Texts: Two Methods for Two Kind of Texts		Olivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau, Nicolas Masson
	B-3225	Intelligent Multi-Dictionary Environment (continued with demo)		Gabor Proszeky
	B-3315	Using Language Resources in an Intelligent Tutoring System for French		Chadia Moghrabi, Christian Boitet
	B-3325	An Object-Oriented Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Subsegmental Primes and Phonological Constituents from Speech (continued with demo)		Wiebke Brockhaus, Michael Ingleby
	B-4205	Eliminative Parsing with Graded Constraints		Johannes Heinecke, Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schroeder
	B-4215	A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems (continued)		Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger, Dongdong Chen
	B-4225	A Method for Correcting Errors in Speech Recognition using the Statistical Features of Character Co-occurrence		Satoshi Kaki, Eiichiro Sumita, Hitoshi Iida
	B-4315	An Estimate of Referent of Noun Phrases in Japanese Sentences		Masaki Murata, Makoto Nagao
	B-4345	Automatic Extraction of Subcorpora based on Subcategorization Frames from a Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus		Susanne Gahl
	Student Session
	B-2245	Tree-based Analysis of Simple Recurrent Network Learning		Ivelin Stoianov
Monday 14:25 - 14:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Bilingual Alignment	B-2245 Information Retrieval	B-2305 Content-Based MT	B-2325 Lexical Semantics & WSD
Monday 14:45 - 15:15	Aligning Articles in TV Newscasts and Newspapers	A Layered Approach to NLP-Based Information Retrieval	Ambiguity Preserving Machine Translation using Packed Representations	General-to-Specific Model Selection for Subcategorization Preference
	Yasuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Okada, Kengo Kaneji, Makoto Nagao	Sharon Flank	Martin C. Emele, Michael Dorna	Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Miyata, Yuji Matsumoto
Monday 15:20 - 15:50	Bitext Correspondences through Rich Mark-up	Entity-Based Cross-Document Coreferencing Using the Vector Space Model	Syntactic and Semantic Transfer with F-Structures	How Verb Subcategorization Frequencies are Affected by Corpus Choice
	Raquel Martínez, Joseba Abaitua, Arantza Casillas	Amit Bagga, Breck Baldwin	Michael Dorna, Anette Frank, Josef van Genabith, Martin C. Emele	Douglas Roland, Daniel Jurafsky
Monday 15:55 - 16:25	Methods and Practical Issues in Evaluating Alignment Techniques	Summarization-based Query Expansion in Information Retrieval	Anchoring Floating Quantifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation	Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words
	Philippe Langlais, Michel Simard, Jean Véronis	Tomek Strzalkowski, Jin Wang, Bowden Wise	Francis Bond, Daniela Kurz, Satoshi Shirai	Dekang Lin
Monday 16:25 - 16:45	Break
Regular Papers				Panel I
.	B-2215 Learning	B-2245 Misc. Semantics / Syntax	B-2305 Morpho-Phonology	B-2325
Monday 16:45 - 17:15	Memory-Based Learning of Shallow Natural Language Patterns	Deriving the Predicate-Argument Structure for a Free Word Order Language	Consonant Spreading in Arabic Stems	EAGLES Panel on Lexical Semantic Standards for Machine Translation and Information Systems Coordinators: N. Calzolari, A. Sanfilippo Panelists: S. Ananiadou, F. Busa, R. Gaizauskas, S. Montemagni Discussants: R. Grishman, M. Palmer, J. Tsujii, R. Zajac
	Shlomo Argamon, Ido Dagan, Yuval Krymolowski	Cem Bozsahin	Kenneth R. Beesley
Monday 17:20 - 17:50	Experiments with Learning Parsing Heuristics	Time Mapping with Hypergraphs	Solving analogies on words: an algorithm
	Sylvain Delisle, Sylvain Létourneau, Stan Matwin	Jan W. Amtrup, Volker Weber	Yves Lepage
Monday 17:55 - 18:25	A Connectionist Architecture for Learning to Parse	Identifying Syntactic Role of Antecedent in Korean Relative Clause using Corpus and Thesaurus Information	Alignment of Multiple Languages for Historical Comparison
	James Henderson, Peter Lane	Hui-Feng Li, Jong-Hyeok Lee, Geunbae Lee	Michael A. Covington

	TUESDAY, AUGUST 11th
Tuesday 7:45 - 8:45	Coffee and registration 3200, rue Jean-Brillant
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Generation	B-2245 Misc. Language Modelling (Intonation, Structure, Evolution)	B-2305 Statistical Parsing	B-2325 Information Extraction & Classification
Tuesday 8:45 - 9:15	Dealing with Distinguishing Descriptions in a Guided Composition System	Constituent-based Accent Prediction	Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Language Modeling	Ranking Text Units According to Textual Relevance and Connectivity and Topic Aptness
	Pascal Mouret, Monique Rolbert	Christine H. Nakatani	Ciprian Chelba, Frederick Jelinek	Antonio Sanfilippo
Tuesday 9:20 - 9:50	Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence	Learning Intonation Rules for Concept to Speech Generation	A Stochastic Language Model using Dependency and its Improvement by Word Clustering	Information Classification and Navigation based on 5W1H of the Target Information
	Terrence Harvey, Sandra Carberry	Shimei Pan, Kathleen McKeown	Shinsuke Mori, Makoto Nagao	Takahiro Ikeda, Akitoshi Okumura, Kazunori Muraki
Tuesday 9:55 - 10:25	Generating the Structure of Argument	Learning a Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Structure from Language Data with a Bi-Multigram Model	Feature Lattices for Maximum Entropy Modelling	Using Leading Text for News Summaries: Evaluation Results and Implications for Commercial Summarization Applications
	Chris Reed, Derek Long	Sabine Deligne, Yoshinori Sagisaka	Andrei Mikheev	Mark Wasson
Tuesday 10:25 - 10:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Parsing Extended CFG's	B-2245 Misc. Language Modelling (Intonation, Structure, Evolution)	B-2305 Statistical MT	B-2325 Information Extraction & Concept Learning
Tuesday 10:45 - 11:15	An Efficient Parallel Substrate for Typed Feature Structures on Shared Memory Parallel Machines	Trigger-Pair Predictors in Parsing and Tagging	A DP based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation	A Procedure for Multi-Class Discrimination and some Linguistic Applications
	Takashi Ninomiya, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Tsujii	Ezra Black, Andrew Finch, Hideki Kashioka	S. Niessen, S. Vogel, H. Ney, C. Tillmann	Vladimir Pericliev, Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez
Tuesday 11:20 - 11:50	Parametric Types for Typed Attribute-Value Logic	Word Association and MI-Trigger-based Language Modeling	Modeling with Structures in Statistical Machine Translation	Automatic Semantic Tagging of Unknown Proper Names
	Gerald Penn	GuoDong Zhou, KimTeng Lua	Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Waibel	Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Danilo Luzi, Paola Velardi
Tuesday 11:55 - 12:25	Know When to Hold 'Em: Shuffling Deterministically in a Parser for Nonconcatenative Grammars	Spontaneous Lexicon Change	Machine Translation with a Stochastic Grammatical Channel	A Text Understander that Learns
	Robert T. Kasper, Mike Calcagno, Paul C. Davis	Luc Steels, Frédéric Kaplan	Dekai Wu, Hongsing Wong	Udo Hahn, Klemens Schnattinger
Tuesday 12:25 - 12:45	Break
Tuesday 12:45 - 13:15	Project Notes
	B-4270	Project for Production of Closed-Caption TV Programs for the Hearing Impaired		Takahiro Wakao, Terumasa Ehara, Eiji Sawamura, Ichiro Maruyama, Katsuhiko Shirai
	B-4285	JaBot: A Multilingual Java-Based Intelligent Agent for Web Sites (with demo)		Tim Read, Elena Barcena
	B-3205	Toward General-Purpose Learning for Information Extraction		Dayne Freitag
	B-3215	Accumulation of Lexical Sets: Acquisition of Dictionary Resources and Production of New Lexical Sets (with demo)		Hai Doan-Nguyen
	B-3225	Error Driven Word Sense Disambiguation		Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Frédérique Segond
	B-3315	Hybrid Approaches to Improvement of Translation Quality in Web-based English-Korean Machine Translation (with demo)		Sung-Kwon Choi, Han-Min Jung, Chul-Min Sim, Taewan Kim, Dong-In Park, Jun-Sik Park, Key-Sun Choi
	B-3325	Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains		Klaus Zechner
	B-4205	Maximum Entropy Model Learning of the Translation Rules (with demo)		Kengo Sato, Masakazu Nakanishi
	B-4215	Head-Driven Generation with HPSG		Graham Wilcock, Yuji Matsumoto
	B-4225	Group Theory and Linguistic Processing		Marc Dymetman
	B-4315	The Computational Lexical Semantics of Syntagmatic Expressions		Evelyne Viegas, Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg
	B-4345	Deriving Transfer Rules from Dominance-Preserving Alignments		Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval
	Student Session
	B-2245	Optimal Multi-Paragraph Text Segmentation by Dynamic Programming		Oskari Heinonen
Tuesday 13:20 - 13:50	Project Notes
	B-4270	Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words		Dekang Lin
	B-4285	JaBot: A Multilingual Java-Based Intelligent Agent for Web Sites (continued with demo)		Tim Read, Elena Barcena
	B-3205	A Text Input Front-end Processor as an Information Access Platform (with demo)		Shinichi Doi, Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Yamabana
	B-3215	Accumulation of Lexical Sets: Acquisition of Dictionary Resources and Production of New Lexical Sets (continued with demo)		Hai Doan-Nguyen
	B-3225	Spelling Correction using Context		Mohammad Ali Elmi, Martha Evens
	B-3315	Hybrid Approaches to Improvement of Translation Quality in Web-based English-Korean Machine Translation (continued with demo)		Sung-Kwon Choi, Han-Min Jung, Chul-Min Sim, Taewan Kim, Dong-In Park, Jun-Sik Park, Key-Sun Choi
	B-3325	The Berkeley FrameNet Project (with demo)		Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe
	B-4205	Maximum Entropy Model Learning of the Translation Rules (continued with demo)		Kengo Sato, Masakazu Nakanishi
	B-4215	A Framework for Customizable Generation of Hypertext Presentations (with demo)		Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow
	B-4225	The Logical Structure of Binding		António Branco
	B-4315	Growing Semantic Grammars		Marsal Gavaldà, Alex Waibel
	B-4345	Automatic Acquisition of Language Model based on Head-Dependent Relation between Words		Seungmi Lee, Key-Sun Choi
	Student Session
	B-2245	How to thematically segment texts by using lexical cohesion?		Olivier Ferret
Tuesday 13:55 - 14:25	Project Notes
	B-4285	Natural Language Access to Software Applications		Paul Schmid, Marius Groenendijk, Peter Phelan, Henrik Schulz, Sibylle Rieder, Axel Theofilidis, Thierry Declerck, Andrew Bredenkamp
	B-3205	A Text Input Front-end Processor as an Information Access Platform (continued with demo)		Shinichi Doi, Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Yamabana
	B-3215	Automatic English-Chinese Name Transliteration for Development of Multilingual Lexical Resources		Stephen Wan, Cornelia Maria Verspoor
	B-3225	Spelling Correction using Context (continued)		Mohammad Ali Elmi, Martha Evens
	B-3315	Universal Grammar and Lexis for Quick Ramp-Up of MT Systems		Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin
	B-3325	The Berkeley FrameNet Project (continued with demo)		Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe
	B-4205	Term-list Translation using Mono-lingual Word Co-occurrence Vectors		Genichiro Kikui
	B-4215	A Framework for Customizable Generation of Hypertext Presentations (continued with demo)		Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow
	B-4225	A Descriptive Characterization of Tree-Adjoining Languages		James Rogers
	B-4315	Vers l'utilisation des méthodes formelles pour le développement de linguiciels		Bilel Gargouri, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, Mohamed Jmaiel
	B-4345	Learning Constraint Grammar-style Disambiguation Rules using Inductive Logic Programming		Nikolaj Lindberg, Martin Eineborg
	Student Session
	B-2245	A Cognitive Model of Coherence-Driven Story Comprehension		Elliot Smith
	Tuesday 14:25 - 14:45	Break
Tuesday 14:45 - 16:25	ACL Business Meeting Jean-Lesage Amphitheater (B-2285)
Tuesday 16:25 - 16:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Bilingual Alignment	B-2245 TAG's	B-2305 Dialogue Structure	B-2325 Lexical Semantics & WSD
Tuesday 16:45 - 17:15	An IR Approach for Translating New Words from Nonparallel, Comparable Texts	Prefix Probabilities from Stochastic Tree Adjoining Grammars	Dialogue Act Tagging with Transformation-Based Learning	A Concept-based Adaptive Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation
	Pascale Fung, Lo Yuen Yee	Mark-Jan Nederhof, Anoop Sarkar, Giorgio Satta	Ken Samuel, Sandra Carberry, K. Vijay-Shanker	Jen-Nan Chen, Jason S. Chang
Tuesday 17:20 - 17:50	Automatically Creating Bilingual Lexicons for Machine Translation from Bilingual Text	Conditions on Consistency of Probabilistic Tree Adjoining Grammars	Exploring the Characteristics of Multi-party Dialogues	Redundancy: Helping Semantic Disambiguation
	Davide Turcato	Anoop Sarkar	Masato Ishizaki, Tsuneaki Kato	Caroline Barrière
Tuesday 17:55 - 18:25	Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation	An Empirical Evaluation of Probabilistic Lexicalized Tree Insertion Grammars	An Architecture for Dialogue Management, Context Tracking, and Pragmatic Translation in Spoken Dialogue Systems	Word Clustering and Disambiguation Based on Co-occurrence Data
	Hiyan Alshawi, Srinivas Bangalore, Shona Douglas	Rebecca Hwa	Susann LuperFoy, Dan Loehr, David Duff, Keith Miller, Florence Reeder, Lisa Harper	Hang Li, Naoki Abe

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12th EXCURSION TO THE LAURENTIANS
Wednesday 9:00	Departure from Hotels
Wednesday 17:30	Return to Montreal

	THURSDAY, AUGUST 13th
Thursday 7:45 - 8:45	Coffee and registration 3200, rue Jean-Brillant
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Discourse & Clause Linkage	B-2245 TAG's	B-2305 Dialogue Structure	B-2325 Segmentation & Shallow Parsing
Thursday 8:45 - 9:15	A Computational Model of Social Perlocutions	Building Parallel Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars for Italian and French	Dialogue Management in Vector-Based Call Routing	Chinese Word Segmentation without Using Lexicon and Hand-crafted Training Data
	David Pautler, Alex Quilici	Marie-Hélène Candito	Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Bob Carpenter	Sun Maosong, Shen Dayang, Benjamin K. Tsou
Thursday 9:20 - 9:50	Never Look Back: An Alternative to Centering	Restrictions on Tree Adjoining Languages	Characterizing and Recognizing Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue	One Tokenization Per Source
	Michael Strube	Giorgio Satta, William Schuler	Gina-Anne Levow	Jin Guo
Thursday 9:55 - 10:25	Recognition of the Coherence Relation between Te-linked Clauses	A Structure-sharing Parser for Lexicalized Grammars	Learning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email	Locating Noun Phrases with Finite State Transducers
	Akira Oishi, Yuji Matsumoto	Roger Evans, David Weir	Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne C. Fromer, Shrikanth Narayanan	Jean Senellart
Thursday 10:25 - 10:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Discourse & Clause Linkage	B-2245 TAG's	B-2305 Dialogue Structure	B-2325 Segmentation & Shallow Parsing
Thursday 10:45 - 11:15	Tense and Connective Constraints on The Expression of Causality	An Alternative LR Algorithm for TAGs	Evaluating Response Strategies in a Web-Based Spoken Dialogue Agent	Error-Driven Pruning of Treebank Grammars for Base Noun Phrase Identification
	Pascal Amsili, Corinne Rossari	Mark-Jan Nederhof	Diane J. Litman, Shimei Pan, Marilyn A. Walker	Claire Cardie, David Pierce
Invited Paper
Thursday 11:25 - 12:25	Jean-Lesage Amphitheater (B-2285)	A Quasi-Dependency Model for the Structural Analysis of Chinese BaseNP		Changning Huang Jun Zhao (Tsinghua University)
Thursday 12:25 - 12:45	Break
Thursday 12:45 - 13:15	Project Notes
	B-4270	On the Evaluation and Comparison of Taggers: the Effect of Noise in Testing Corpora		Lluís Padró, Lluís Marquez
	B-4285	A Multi-Neuro Tagger Using Variable Lengths of Contexts (with demo)		Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara
	B-3205	DiMLex: A Lexicon of Discourse Markers for Text Generation and Understanding		Manfred Stede, Carla Umbach
	B-3215	LiLFeS -- Towards a Practical HPSG Parser (with demo)		Takaki Makino, Minoru Yoshida, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Tsujii
	B-3225	Text Segmentation with Multiple Surface Linguistic Cues		Hajime Mochizuki, Takeo Honda, Manabu Okumura
	B-3315	Use of Mutual Information Based Character Clusters in Dictionary-less Morphological Analysis of Japanese (with demo)		Hideki Kashioka, Yasuhiro Kawata, Yumiko Kinjo, Andrew Finch, Ezra W. Black
	B-3325	Machine Translation vs. Dictionary Term Translation -- a Comparison for English-Japanese News Article Alignment		Nigel Collier, Hideki Hirakawa, Akira Kumano
	B-4205	MindNet: Acquiring and Structuring Semantic Information from Text (with demo)		Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende
	B-4215	Improving Automatic Indexing through Concept Combination and Term Enrichment		Christian Jacquemin
	B-4225	Coherence in Spoken Discourse		Heike Tappe, Frank Schilder
	B-4315	Semantic-Head Based Resolution of Scopal Ambiguities		Björn Gambäck, Johan Bos
	B-4345	Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar		Alexander Krotov, Mark Hepple, Robert Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks
	Student Session
	B-2245	Embedding New Information into Referring Expressions		Hua Cheng
Thursday 13:20 - 13:50	Project Notes
	B-4270	Discourse Cue-based Segmentation of Broadcast News		Mark Maybury
	B-4285	A Multi-Neuro Tagger Using Variable Lengths of Contexts (continued with demo)		Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara
	B-3205	Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System (with demo)		Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katherine P. Beals
	B-3215	LiLFeS -- Towards a Practical HPSG Parser (continued with demo)		Takaki Makino, Minoru Yoshida, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Tsujii
	B-3225	Easily Adjustable Japanese Morphological Analyzer (with demo)		Takeshi Fuchi
	B-3315	Use of Mutual Information Based Character Clusters in Dictionary-less Morphological Analysis of Japanese (continued with demo)		Hideki Kashioka, Yasuhiro Kawata, Yumiko Kinjo, Andrew Finch, Ezra W. Black
	B-3325	Idiomatic Object Usage and Support Verbs		Pasi Tapanainen, Jussi Piitulainen, Timo Järvinen
	B-4205	MindNet: Acquiring and Structuring Semantic Information from Text (continued with demo)		Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende
	B-4215	Machine Aided Error-Correction Environment for Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagging (with demo)		Junsik Park, Jung-Gu Kang, Wook Hur, Key-Sun Choi
	B-4225	An Empirical Investigation of Collaborative Dialogues		Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Johanna D. Moore, Richmond H. Thomason
	B-4315	Classifier Combination for Improved Lexical Disambiguation		Eric Brill, Jun Wu
	B-4345	PAT-Trees with the Deletion Function as the Learning Device for Linguistic Patterns		Keh-Jiann Chen, Wen Tsuei, Lee-Feng Chien
	Student Session
	B-2245	Detecting Verbal Participation in Diathesis Alternations		Diana McCarthy, Anna Korhonen
Thursday 13:55 - 14:25	Project Notes
	B-4270	Discourse Cue-based Segmentation of Broadcast News (continued)		Mark Maybury
	B-4285	A Connectionist Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment for Real World Texts		Joseph M. Sopena, Agusti LLoberas, Joan L. Moliner
	B-3205	Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System (continued with demo)		Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katherine P. Beals
	B-3215	Terminology Finite-state Preprocessing for Computational LFG		Caroline Brun
	B-3225	Easily Adjustable Japanese Morphological Analyzer (continued with demo)		Takeshi Fuchi
	B-3315	Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints		Gökhan Tür, Kemal Oflazer
	B-3325	Idiomatic Object Usage and Support Verbs (continued)		Pasi Tapanainen, Jussi Piitulainen, Timo Järvinen
	B-4205	Semi-Automatic Recognition of Noun Modifier Relationships		Ken Barker, Stan Szpakowicz
	B-4215	Machine Aided Error-Correction Environment for Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued with demo)		Junsik Park, Jung-Gu Kang, Wook Hur, Key-Sun Choi
	B-4225	An Interactive Domain Independent Approach to Robust Dialogue Interpretation		Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Lori S. Levin
	B-4315	Combination of an Automatic and an Interactive Disambiguation Method		Masaya Yamaguchi, Takeyuki Kojima, Nobuo Inui, Yoshiyuki Kotani, Hirohiko Nisimura
	B-4345	Transforming Lattices into Non-deterministic Automata with Optional Null Arcs		Mark Seligman, Christian Boitet, Boubaker Meddeb Hamrouni
	Student Session
B-2245	A Preliminary Model of Centering in Dialog		D. Byron, A. Stent
Thursday 14:25 - 14:45	Break
Regular Papers				Panel II
.	B-2215 Anaphora	B-2245 Logic & NLP	B-2305 DOP & Weighted Parsing	B-2325
Thursday 14:45 - 15:15	Definiteness Predictions for Japanese Noun Phrases	Constraints over Lambda-Structures in Semantic Underspecification	A Probabilistic Corpus-Driven Model for Lexical-Functional Analysis	The Role of International and National Funding Agencies in the Field of Natural Language and Speech Processing: Issues for International Cooperation PANELISTS: Antonio Zampolli (ILC-CNR), Chair Roberto Cencioni (EC-DGXIII) Patricia Clements (SSHRC) Ron Larsen (DARPA) Gary W. Strong (NSF) Charles Wayne (NSA)
	Julia E. Heine	Markus Egg, Joachim Niehren, Peter Ruhrberg, Feiyu Xu	Rens Bod, Ronald Kaplan
Thursday 15:20 - 15:50	Robust Pronoun Resolution with Limited Knowledge	Memoisation for Glue Language Deduction and Categorial Parsing	Spoken Dialogue Interpretation with the DOP Model
	Ruslan Mitkov	Mark Hepple	Rens Bod
Thursday 15:55 - 16:25	Reference Resolution beyond Coreference: a Conceptual Frame and its Application	Efficient Linear Logic Meaning Assembly	Dynamic Compilation of Weighted Context-Free Grammars
	Andrei Popescu-Belis, Isabelle Robba, Gérard Sabah	Vineet Gupta, John Lamping	Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C.N. Pereira
Thursday 16:30 - 17:30	Birds of a Feather Meetings (Organize your own meeting!)
	B-2245	Student session get-!together
	B-3205	IREX meeting (Japanese IR/IE competition)
Thursday 17:30 - 18:45	Free time
Thursday 18:45 - 22:45	Conference Banquet Marché Bonsecours, Old Montreal

	FRIDAY, AUGUST 14th
Friday 7:45 - 8:45	Coffee and registration 3200, rue Jean-Brillant
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Generation	B-2245 PP Ambiguity Resolution	B-2305 Parsing Extended CFG's	B-2325 Lexical Semantics & WSD
Friday 8:45 - 9:15	Real Time Commentary Generation for Soccer Games-Reactive Inference and Selection and Realization of Contents	Some Properties of Preposition and Subordinate Conjunction Attachments	Formal Aspects and Parsing Issues of Dependency Theory	Building Accurate Taxonomies from monolingual MRDs
	Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Kôiti Hasida, Itsuki Noda	Alexander S. Yeh, Marc B. Vilain	Vincenzo Lombardo, Leonardo Lesmo	G. Rigau, H. Rodriguez, E. Agirre
Friday 9:20 - 9:50	Multilingual Authoring using Feedback Texts	Structural Disambiguation Based on Reliable Estimation of Strength of Association	A Flexible Example-Based Parser Based on the SSTC	Noun Phrase Cooccurence Statistics for Semi-Automatic Semantic Lexicon Construction
	Richard Power, Donia Scott	Haodong Wu, Eduardo de Paiva Alves, Teiji Furugori	Tang Enya Kong, Mosleh Hmoud Adhaileh	Brian Roark, Eugene Charniak
Friday 9:55 - 10:25	An Efficient Kernel for Multilingual Generation in Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Translation	Statistical Models for Unsupervised Prepositional Phrase Attachment	Parsing Ambiguous Structures using Controlled Disjunctions and Unary Quasi-Trees	Investigating Regular Sense Extensions based on Intersective Levin Classes
	Tilman Becker, Wolfgang Finkler, Anne Kilger, Peter Poller	Adwait Ratnaparkhi	Philippe Blache	Hoa Trang Dang, Karin Kipper, Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig
10:25 - 10:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Bilingual Alignment	B-2245 Speech Translation	B-2305 Spelling Correction	B-2325 Lexical Semantics & WSD
Friday 10:45 - 11:15	Flow Network Models for Word Alignment and Terminology Extraction from Bilingual Corpora	Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition	Towards a Single Proposal in Spelling Correction	Learning Correlations between Linguistic Indicators and Semantic Constraints: Reuse of Context-Dependent Descriptions of Entities
	Éric Gaussier	Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel	Eneko Aguirre, Koldo Gojenola, Kepa Sarasola, Atro Voutilainen	Dragomir R. Radev
Friday 11:20 - 11:50	An Experiment in Hybrid Dictionary and Statistical Sentence Alignment	Managing Information at Linguistic Interfaces	Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape Similarity and Statistical Language Model	A Generative Lexicon Perspective for Adjectival Modification
	Nigel Collier, Kenji Ono, Hideki Hirakawa	Johan Bos, C.J. Rupp, Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna	Masaaki Nagata	Patrick Saint-Dizier
Friday 11:55 - 12:25	A Simple Hybrid Aligner for Generating Lexical Correspondences in Parallel Texts	Context Management with Topics for Spoken Dialogue Systems	Combining Trigram and Winnow in Thai OCR Error Correction	The Role of Verbs in Document Analysis
	Lars Ahrenberg, Mikael Andersson, Magnus Merkel	Kristiina Jokinen, Hideki Tanaka, Akio Yokoo	Surapant Meknavin, Boonserm Kijsirikul, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Cholwich Nuttee	Judith L. Klavans, Min-Yen Kan
Friday 12:25 - 12:45	Break
Friday 12:45 - 13:15	Project Notes
	B-4270	Simultaneous Interpretation Utilizing Example-based Incremental Transfer		Hideki Mima, Hitoshi Iida, Osamu Furuse
	B-4285	Improving Statistical Natural Language Translation with Categories and Rules (with demo)		Franz Josef Och, Hans Weber
	B-3205	Possessive Pronominal Anaphor Resolution in Portuguese Written Texts		Ivandré Paraboni, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
	B-3215	Automatic Text Summarization Based on the Global Document Annotation (with demo)		Katashi Nagao, Kôiti Hasida
	B-3315	From Information Structure to Intonation: A Phonological Interface for Concept-to-Speech (with demo)		Hannes Pirker, Georg Niklfeld, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost
	B-3325	HPSG-Style Underspecified Japanese Grammar with Wide Coverage		Yutaka Mitsuishi, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Tsujii
	B-4205	Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources (with demo)		Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
	B-4225	Finite State Approximation of Constraint-based Grammars using Left-corner Grammar Transforms		Mark Johnson
	B-4315	Alamet -- Mémoires de traduction multilingues pour la localisation de logiciels		Mathieu Lafourcade, Laurent Fischer, Boubaker Meddeb Hamrouni
	Student Session
	B-2245	Bridging the Gap between Dictionary and Thesaurus		Oi Yee Kwong
Friday 13:20 - 13:50	Project Notes
	B-4270	Parole et traduction automatique: le module de reconnaissance RAPHAEL (with demo)		Mohammad Akbar, Jean Caelen
	B-4285	Improving Statistical Natural Language Translation with Categories and Rules (continued with demo)		Franz Josef Och, Hans Weber
	B-3205	Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution		Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys, Robert Gaizauskas
	B-3215	Automatic Text Summarization Based on the Global Document Annotation (continued with demo)		Katashi Nagao, Kôiti Hasida
	B-3225	Unlimited Vocabulary Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Korean TTS (with demo)		Byeongchang Kim, WonIl Lee, Geunbae Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee
	B-3315	From Information Structure to Intonation: A Phonological Interface for Concept-to-Speech (continued with demo)		Hannes Pirker, Georg Niklfeld, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost
	B-3325	Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints		Mikio Nakano, Akira Shimazu
	B-4205	Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources (continued with demo)		Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
	B-4215	Trainable, Scalable Summarization Using Robust NLP and Machine Learning		Chinatsu Aone, Mary Ellen Okurowski, James Gorlinsky
	B-4225	Similarity Metrics for Aligning Children's Articulation Data		Harold L. Somers
	B-4315	Multext-East: Parallel and Comparable Corpora and Lexicons for Six Central and Eastern European Languages		Ludmila Dimitrova, Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Heiki Jaan Kaalep, Vladimir Petkevic, Dan Tufis
	Student Session
	B-2245	Tagging Unknown Words using Statistical Methods		Scott M. Thede
Friday 13:55 - 14:25	Project Notes
	B-4270	Parole et traduction automatique: le module de reconnaissance RAPHAEL (continued with demo)		Mohammad Akbar, Jean Caelen
	B-4285	A Pattern-based Machine Translation System Extended by Example-based Processing		Hideo Watanabe, Koichi Takeda
	B-3205	Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution (continued)		Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys, Robert Gaizauskas
	B-3215	Automated Scoring Using A Hybrid Feature Identification Technique		Jill Burstein, Karen Kukich, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu, Martin Chodorow, Lisa Braden-Harder, Mary Dee Harris
	B-3225	Unlimited Vocabulary Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Korean TTS (continued with demo)		Byeongchang Kim, WonIl Lee, Geunbae Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee
	B-3325	Unification-based Multimodal Parsing		Michael Johnston
	B-4205	Combining Stochastic and Rule-Based Methods for Disambiguation in Agglutinative Languages		N. Ezeiza , I. Aduriz , I. Alegria, J.M. Arriola, R. Urizar
	B-4215	A Method for Relating Multiple Newspaper Articles by Using Graphs, and Its Application to Webcasting		Naohiko Uramoto, Koichi Takeda
	B-4225	A Tabular Interpretation of a Class of 2-Stack Automata		Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Miguel Alonso Pardo
	B-4315	Learning Tense Translation from Bilingual Corpora		Michael Schiehlen
	Student Session
	B-2245	Target word selection as proximity in semantic space		Scott McDonald
Friday 14:25 - 14:45	Break
Regular Papers
.	B-2215 Generation	B-2245 POS Tagging	B-2305 Robust Parsing, Ill-formed Inputs	B-2325 Terminology
Friday 14:45 - 15:15	Segregatory Coordination and Ellipsis in Text Generation	Improving Data Driven Wordclass Tagging by System Combination	Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners	A Step towards the Detection of Semantic Variants of Terms in Technical Documents
	James Shaw	Hans van Halteren, Jakub Zavrel, Walter Daelemans	David Schneider, Kathleen F. McCoy	Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, Cécile Gros
Friday 15:20 - 15:50	Combining Multiple, Large-Scale Resources in a Reusable Lexicon for Natural Language Generation	Tagging Inflective Languages: Prediction of Morphological Categories for a Rich Structured Tagset	Splitting Long or Ill-formed Input for Robust Spoken-language Translation	Terminological Variation a Means of Identifying Research Topics from Texts
	Hongyan Jing, Kathleen McKeown	Jan Hajic, Barbora Hladká	Osamu Furuse, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto	Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan
Friday 15:55 - 16:25	Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge	Part of Speech Tagging Using a Network of Linear Separators	Integrated Control of Chart Items for Error Repair	A Statistical Analysis of Morphemes in Japanese Terminology
	Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight	Dan Roth, Dmitry Zelenko	Kyongho Min, William H. Wilson	Kyo Kageura
Friday 16:25 - 16:45	Break
Friday 16:45 - 18:25	CLOSING SESSION Jean-Lesage Amphitheater (B-2285)

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