PROGRAM OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND INVITED TALKS
Day 1: 21.04.2005
9:45-10:30 Invited Talk I
Recent Activities within the European Language Resources Association/Khalid Choukri and Victoria Arranz
11:00-13:00 Technical Sessions
Session 111: Speech Processing: Recognition
Efficient Phonetic Interpretation of Multilinear Feature Representations for Speech Recognition/Daniel Aioanei, Moritz Neugebauer and Julie Carson-Berndsen / Ireland
Accessing Language Specific Linguistic Information for Triphone Model Generation: Feature Tables in a Speech Recognition System/Supphanat Kanokphara, Anja Geumann and Julie Carson-Berndsen / Ireland
Transcription-based automatic segmentation of speech/Marcin Szymański and Stefan Grocholewski / Poland
Accent Variation in South-African English: Challenges for Speech Recognition Systems/Edward de Villiers, Johan du Preez and Justus Roux / South Africa
A Multi-Layered Lexical-Tree Based Token Passing Architecture For Efficient Recognition Of Subword Speech Units/Andreas Hagen and Bryan L. Pellom / USA
Session 112: Language Resources and Tools: Corpora
Digital Text Corpora at the AAC/Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder / Austria
The IPI PAN Corpus in Numbers/Adam Przepiórkowski / Poland
Massive multilingual corpus compilation: Acquis Communautaire and totale/Tomaž Erjavec, Camelia Ignat, Bruno Pouliquen and Ralf Steinberger / Italy, Slovenia
From regularities to constraints: Enriching annotation in discourse corpora/Claudia Sassen / Germany
Computational Tools for Elaboration and Functioning of a Multilingual Thematic Dictionary/Ilona Koutny / Poland
Session 113: Natural Language Understanding
NLP Story Maker/Takako Aikawa, Michel Pahud and Lee Schwartz / USA
Analysis of the natural language means used for the representation and understanding of formal knowledge/Elena Gennadievna Ivanova / Russia
Grounding Linguistic Quantifiers in Perception: Experiments on Numerosity Judgments/R.K. Rajapakse, A. Cangelosi, K. Coventry, S. Newstead and A. Bacon / UK
(V)ISA: A Model for Transforming Genitive Phrases Into SQL Statements/Zsolt T. Kardkovács, Domonkos Tikk, Gábor Magyar / Hungary
Crossing the Cognitive Barrier – Mapping Speech Streams to Conceptual Structures/Ronny Melz / Germany
14:15-15:00 Invited Talk II
In memoriam Maurice Gross/ Eric Laporte
15:05-16:30 Technical Sessions
Session 121: Language Resources and Tools: Text Processing Techniques I
Compressing Annotated Natural Language Text/Jakub Swacha / Poland
Analyzing the Effect of Dimensionality Reduction in Document Categorization for Basque/Ana Zelaia, I.Inaki Alegria, Olatz Arregi and Basilio Sierra / Spain
Automatic Phonetization and Syllabification of Italian Texts/Mario Refice and Michelina Savino / Italy
Exploring deployment of linguistic features in Classification of Polish Texts/Jakub Piskorski and Marcin Sydow /Poland
Session 122: Language Resources and Tools: Morphology Processing
Making the Good Taggers Even Better: Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Morphological Tagging of Czech/Petr Nemec and Kiril Ribarov / CzechRepublic
MAF: a Morphosyntactic Annotation Framework/Lionel Clément and Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie / France
Morphological Analyser Based on Finite State Transducer: A case study for Oriya Language/Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Prabhat Kumar Santi and Sanghamitra Mohanty/India
Morphology-based Spellchecking for Marathi, an Indian Language/Veena Dixit, Satish Dethe and Rushikesh K. Joshi / India
Session 123: Ontologies I
Use of subject domain ontology for problem-oriented speech processing/Izolda Lee / Russia
Semantic annotation of hierarchical taxonomies/Agnieszka Ławrynowicz / Poland
Design and Implementation of Nouns in OriNet: Based on the Semantic Word Concept/Prabhat Kumar Santi, Sanghamitra Mohanty and K.P. Das Adhikary / India
Multilingual Ontology of Proper Names/Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas, Denis Maurel and Mickaël Tran / France
17:00-19:10 Technical Sessions
Session 131: Language Resources and Tools: Dictionaries
Maurice Gross' grammar lexicon and Natural Language Processing/Claire Gardent, Bruno Guillaume, Guy Perrier and Ingrid Falk / France
A Dictionary of French Verbal Complementation/Morris Salkoff and André Valli / France
Building Multilingual Terminological Lexicons for Less Widely Available Languages/Monica Monachini and Claudia Soria / Italy
Lexicons Divided According to the Division of Labor/Yukiko Sasaki Alam / Japan
Derivational Morphology in an E-Dictionary of Serbian/Duško Vitas and Cvetana Krstev / SerbiaMontenegro
Session 132: Information Retrival / Information Extraction I
Generation of Reference Summaries/Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis / Sweeden
Keyword-based Coreference Resolution for Enzyme Name Recognition/Chun Xiao and Dietmar Rösner / Germany
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback with Weighted Logistic Regression/Zhaohui Zheng, Wei Dai and Rohini Srihari / USA
Exploration of Subtopic Retrieval with Document Set Ranking/Wei Dai and Rohini Srihari / USA
Structural Ambiguity In Context/Jean-Baptiste Berthelin / France
Information Retrieval Based on Semantic Structures/Takashi Miyata and Koiti Hasida / Japan
Session 133: Rigorous Descriptions of Languages
A Simple CF Formalism and Free Word Order/Filip Graliński / Poland
Restructuring Świdziński's grammar of Polish/Maciej Ogrodniczuk / Poland
Proper treatment of some peculiarities of Polish numerals: metamorphosis approach/Marek Świdziński / Poland
Constraint Weighting by Evolution/Henk Zeevat / Netherlands
Automatic Extraction of Polish Verb Subcategorization: An Evaluation of Common Statistics/Jakub Fast, Adam Przepiórkowski / Poland
Lexicon Grammar within the Defining Matrix Analysis Model/Amr Helmy Ibrahim / France
Day 2: 22.04.2005
9:00-9:45 Invited Talk III
Logical Types in Grammar. The heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz/ Wojciech Buszkowski
9:50-11:00 Technical Sessions
Session 211: Language Resources and Tools: Text Processing Techniques II
Automatic analysis of French newspaper headlines/Harald Ulland / Norway
Accessing Heterogeneous Linguistic Data – Generic XML-based Representation and Flexible Visualization/Stefanie Dipper and Michael Götze / Germany
Using Category Hierarchies for Correcting Category Errors in Multi-labeled Data/Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki / Japan
Session 212: Information Retrival / Information Extraction II
A Survey of Freely Available Polish Stemmers and Evaluation of Their Applicability in Information Retrieval/Dawid Weiss / Poland
Sentence Extraction using Similar Words/Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto / Japan
Making Shallow Look Deeper: Anaphora and Comparisons in Medical Information Extraction/ A.Mykowiecka, M. Marciniak and A. Kupść / Poland
Session 213: Ontologies II
Towards the Linking of two Electronic Lexical Databases of Italian/Nilda Ruimy and Adriana Roventini / Italy
Ontological Approach to Meaning/Marek Łabuzek / Poland
Application Ontology Development - a Case Study/Jolanta Cybulka and Jacek Martinek /Poland
14:15-15:00 Invited Talk IV
Antonio Zampolli. A life for Computational Linguistics / Nicoletta Calzolari
Day 3: 23.04.2005
8:45-9:15 Invited Talk V
Challenges of Applied Linguistics in Modern Ukraine / Nadija Andrejchuk and Orest Kossak
9:20-10:25 Technical Sessions
Session 311: Speech Processing: Synthesis
The long vowels in Standard Arabic. Application for speech synthesis with Mbrola/Kamel Ferrat / Algeria
The Etalone Method in Phonetic Research in Slavonic and Germanic Languages/Natalia Nikulina and Usewalad Nikulin / Poland
Speech synthesis of Polish based on the concatenation phonetic-acoustic segments/Grażyna Demenko / Poland
Session 312: Communication Technologies for Disabled People
A Model for Sign Language Grammar, Boris Lenseigne/Patrice Dalle / France
Automatic Recognition of Signed Polish Expressions/ Tomasz Kapuscinski and Marian Wysocki / Poland
DSP techniques for application to hearing aids/Adam Dąbrowski, Tomasz Marciniak and Paweł Pawłowski / Poland
Session 313: Natural Language Interfaces I
Using software agents to personalize natural-language access to Internet services in a chatterbot manner/Jarogniew Rykowski / Poland
FAQChat as an Information Retrieval System/Bayan Abu Shawar, Eric Atwell and Andrew Roberts / UK
An IVR Script Design using Forward Scenario Simulation and Event Analysis/Zulikha Jamaludin and Abdullah Embong / Malaysia
10:55-13:00 Technical Sessions
Session 321: Language Resources and Tools: Language Tools
Resources and tools for electronic legal language documentation/Paola Mariani and Costanza Badii / Italy
Keyword Lists as Language Resources and Tools/Wiesław Babik / Poland
NooJ’s dictionaries /Max Silberztein / France
Component based lingware development using the EJB Model and XML linguistic interface/Sonia Bouaziz, Bilel Gargouri and Mohamed Jmaiel / Tunisia
UAM Text Tools - a text processing toolkit for Polish/Tomasz Obrębski and Michał Stolarski / Poland
Session 322: Formats of Lexical Data and Language Formalisms
Towards a Formalism for the Computational Morphology of Multi-Word Units/Agata Savary / France
Transformation of WordNet Czech Valency Frames into Augmented VALLEX-1.0 Format/Dana Hlavackova and Aleš Horak / CzechRepublic
XML-Based Representation Formats of Local Grammars for the NLP/Javier M. Sastre Martínez / France
Lexicon management and standard formats/Eric Laporte / France
A formal model of Polish nominal derivation/ Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska / Poland
Reinterpreting DCG for free(r) word order languages/Zygmunt Vetulani and Filip Graliński / Poland
Session 323: Parsing I
Across-Genres and Empirical Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Treebank-style
Parsers/Vasile Rus and Christian F. Hempelmann / USA
Categorial grammar elements in the Thetos system’s parser/Nina Suszczańska and Przemysław Szmal / Poland
An efficient implementation of a large grammar of Polish/Marcin Woliński / Poland
From raw corpus to word lattices: robust pre-parsing processing/Benoît Sagot and Pierre Boullier / France
A pattern-classification based solution for the recognition of tense of the Chinese
language/Lin Dazhen, Li Shaozi, Cao DongLin and Lin Ying / China
14:15-15:45 Technical Sessions
Session 331: Systems
Virtual Environment for Interactive Learning Languages/P.S.Pankov and E. Alimbay / Kyrgyzstan
Language Archive Management and Upload System/Peter Wittenburg, Daan Broeder and Andreas Claus / Netherlands
Advanced Web-based Language Archive Exploitation and Enrichment/Peter Wittenburg, Albert Russel, Peter Berck and Marc Kemps-Snijders / Netherlands
Session 331a: Language Resources and Tools: AI Derived Methods
A Lemmatization Web Service Based on Machine Learning Techniques/Joel Plisson, Dunja Mladenic, Nada Lavrac and Tomaž Erjavec / Slovenia
Session 332: Natural Language Interfaces II
FAQFinder Question Answering Improvements Using Question/Answer Matching/Stanley J. Mlynarczyk and Steven L. Lytinen / USA
Designing a Universal Interfacing Agent/Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L Anderson and Don Perlis / USA
Lingubot for the Library - initial case study/Piotr Malak / Poland
Session 342a: Multilingual Applications
An Intelligent, Context-Sensitive Dictionary: A Polish−English Comprehension Tool/Gábor Prószéky and András Földes / Hungary
Session 333: Text generation & Knowledge Representation
Temporal Reasoning in Propositional Interval Neighborhood Logic/Guido Sciavicco / Italy
Compositional, Variable Free, Binding Free and Structure Oriented Discourse Interpretation/Maciej Piasecki / Poland
Perspective and Aspect in Narrative Generation /Greg Lessard and Michael Levison / Canada
An empirical approach toward building a soccer commentary generator/Damian Stolarski / Poland
16:15-18:00 Technical Sessions
Session 341: Language Resources and Tools: AI Derived Methods
A Multi-Agent System for Detecting and Correcting “Hidden” Spelling Errors in Arabic Texts/Chiraz Ben Othmane Zribi, Fériel Ben Fraj and Mohammed Ben Ahmed / Tunisia
Part-of-Speech tagging based on artificial neural networks/Salvador Tortajada Velert, María José Castro Bledaand Ferran Pla Santamaría / Spain
On-Line Learning with Rule Base Expert System: Implemented In RoboCup Soccer Coach Simulation/Ramin Fathzadeh, Vahid Mokhtari, Mohammad Reza Shoaei, Morteza Mousakhani, Alireza Mohammad Shahri and Reza Fathzadeh / Iran
Learning Context-Free Language using Grammar-based Classifier System/Olgierd Unold / Poland
Transformation Based Learning Applied to Noun Phrase Extraction of Brazilian Portuguese Texts: Language-specific Issues/Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Claudia Oliveira / Brasil
Session 342b: Multilingual Applications
Translation of Sentences by Analogy Principle/Yves Lepage / Japan
A Conceptual Ontology for Machine Translation from/into Polish/Krzysztof Jassem and Agnieszka Wagner / Poland
Template-Based Shake & Bake Paraphrasing/Michael Carl, Ecaterina Rascu and Paul Schmidt / Germany
Towards Development of Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Systems/Hartwig Holzapfel / Germany
Towards Automatic Translation of Support Verbs Constructions: the Case of Polish robić/zrobić and Swedish göra/Elżbieta Dura and Barbara Gawrońska / Sweden
Session 343: Parsing II
A Chinese Top-down Parser Based on Probabilistic Context Free Grammar/Ying Lin, Xiaodong Shi, Feng Guo and Dazhen Lin / China
Memory-based PP Attachment Disambiguation for Norwegian/Anders Nøklestad / Norway
Parsing Texts Written in Natural Language with CBR/Robert Papis and Przemysław Nowak / Poland
Semantics Parsing Revisited or How a Tadpole Could Turn into a Frog/Wai-Kiang Yeap / New Zealand
Can we parse without tagging?/Patrick Watrin, Sebastien Paumier and Cédrick Fairon / Belgium