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Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

CoNLL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Wednesday June 29, 2005

8:45Welcome
 Session 1: Syntax and Semantics
8:50Effective use of WordNet Semantics via Kernel-Based Learning
Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa and Alessandro Moschitti
9:15A Statistical Semantic Parser that Integrates Syntax and Semantics
Ruifang Ge and Raymond Mooney
9:40Search Engine Statistics Beyond the n-Gram: Application to Noun Compound Bracketing
Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst
10:05New Experiments in Distributional Representations of Synonymy
Dayne Freitag, Matthias Blume, John Byrnes, Edmond Chow, Sadik Kapadia, Richard Rohwer and Zhiqiang Wang
10:30coffee break
 Session 2: Semantics and Text Classification
11:00Word Independent Context Pair Classification Model for Word Sense Disambiguation
Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Rohini K. Srihari and Huifeng Li
11:25Computing Word Similarity and Identifying Cognates with Pair Hidden Markov Models
Wesley Mackay and Grzegorz Kondrak
11:50A Bayesian Mixture Model for Term Re-occurrence and Burstiness
Avik Sarkar, Paul H. Garthwaite and Anne De Roeck
12:15Domain Kernels for Text Categorization
Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava
12:40lunch
 Session 3: Information Extraction and Learning Methods
14:00Discriminative Training of Clustering Functions: Theory and Experiments with Entity Identification
Xin Li and Dan Roth
14:25Using Uneven Margins SVM and Perceptron for Information Extraction
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva and Hamish Cunningham
14:50Improving Sequence Segmentation Learning by Predicting Trigrams
Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans
15:15SIGNLL business meeting
15:40coffee break
16:10Invited Speaker: Mark Johnson
 Session 4: Discourse and Anaphora
17:10An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution
Colin Cherry and Shane Bergsma
17:35Probabilistic Head-Driven Parsing for Discourse Structure
Jason Baldridge and Alex Lascarides

Thursday June 30, 2005

 Joint Session with Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition
9:00Invited Speaker: Mark Steedman
9:50Intentional Context in Situated Natural Language Learning
Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy
10:40coffee break
 Session 6: Morphology
11:10Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure
Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson
11:35An Analogical Learner for Morphological Analysis
Nicolas Stroppa and François Yvon
12:00Morphology Induction from Term Clusters
Dayne Freitag
12:25lunch
 Session 7: Learning Methods and Architectures
14:00Beyond the Pipeline: Discrete Optimization in NLP
Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube
14:25Investigating the Effects of Selective Sampling on the Annotation Task
Ben Hachey, Beatrice Alex and Markus Becker
14:50Shared Task: Introduction and System Descriptions
15:30coffee break
16:00Shared Task: System Descriptions
17:00Shared Task: Discussion
18:00Closing
 Introduction to the CoNLL-2005 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling
Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez
 Inferring Semantic Roles Using Sub-Categorization Frames and Maximum Entropy Model
Akshar Bharati, Sriram Venkatapathy and Prashanth Reddy
 Semantic Role Labelling with Tree Conditional Random Fields
Trevor Cohn and Philip Blunsom
 A Joint Model for Semantic Role Labeling
Aria Haghighi, Kristina Toutanova and Christopher Manning
 Sparse Bayesian Classification of Predicate Arguments
Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues
 Generalized Inference with Multiple Semantic Role Labeling Systems
Peter Koomen, Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth and Wen-tau Yih
 Semantic Role Labeling via Consensus in Pattern-Matching
Chi-San Lin and Tony C. Smith
 Semantic Role Labeling System Using Maximum Entropy Classifier
Ting Liu, Wanxiang Che, Sheng Li, Yuxuan Hu and Huaijun Liu
 Semantic Role Labeling as Sequential Tagging
Lluís Màrquez, Pere Comas, Jesús Giménez and Neus Català
 Semantic Role Labeling Using Support Vector Machines
Tomohiro Mitsumori, Masaki Murata, Yasushi Fukuda, Kouichi Doi and Hirohumi Doi
 Hierarchical Semantic Role Labeling
Alessandro Moschitti, Ana-Maria Giuglea, Bonaventura Coppola and Roberto Basili
 Semantic Role Labeling Using libSVM
Necati Ercan Ozgencil and Nancy McCracken
 Maximum Entropy Based Semantic Role Labeling
Kyung-Mi Park and Hae-Chang Rim
 Semantic Role Labeling Using Lexical Statistical Information
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Michael Strube
 Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views
Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin and Daniel Jurafsky
 Semantic Role Labeling Using Complete Syntactic Analysis
Mihai Surdeanu and Jordi Turmo
 Joint Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling
Charles Sutton and Andrew McCallum
 Applying Spelling Error Correction Techniques for Improving Semantic Role Labelling
Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Sander Canisius, Antal van den Bosch and Toine Bogers
 Exploiting Full Parsing Information to Label Semantic Roles Using an Ensemble of ME and SVM via Integer Linear Programming
Tzong-Han Tsai, Chia-Wei Wu, Yu-Chun Lin and Wen-Lian Hsu
 The Integration of Syntactic Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling
Szu-ting Yi and Martha Palmer