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2001 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop
Friday, 20th April 2001
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


Aims

You are cordially invited to this one-day workshop that will be held at Macquarie University (Building E6B, CSIRO Conference Room) on Friday, 20th April 2001.The aims of this workshop are to bring together the growing NLP community in Australia and New Zealand, and to provide an opportunity for people from industry working in NLP to become aware of local NLP research. The workshop also intends to attract people from industry who are not yet working in this exciting area but who are interested to hear about the potential uses of NLP techniques in real world applications. The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP has advanced to the stage where practical applications such as spoken language dialog systems, sophisticated language based Internet search engines, machine translation, and text generation systems have left the laboratory and begun to make a significant commercial impact.
 

Program Committee

Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University (Chair);
Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems;
Cécile Paris, CSIRO; and
Alistair Knott, University of Otago
 

Workshop Program

The workshop will consist of the presentations and discussions (20 + 10 minutes) of the submitted papers accepted for the workshop by the program committee.
8:30 Registration
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Encoding of Spatial Relations Semantics through Selective Attention (James M. Hogan and Joachim Diederich, Queensland University of Technology)
9:30 Linking Text to Physical Context (Sabine Geldof, Macquarie University)
10:00 Generating Personal Travel Guides - on demand, on the fly, on the go (Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson and MingFang Wu, CSIRO)
10:30 Morning tea
11:00 Developing Spoken Dialog Systems using Grammatical Inference (Brad Starkie, New Wave)
11:30 The Syrinx Spoken Language System (Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems)
12:00 Issues in Anaphora Annotation: The Case of Encyclopaedic Animal Descriptions (Josef Meyer and Robert Dale, Macquarie University)
12:30 Workshop lunch
14:00 POS Tagging in Statistical Parsing (Corrin Lakeland and Alistair Knott, University of Otago)
14:30 Producing a Cross-Language Dictionary using Statistical Machine Translation: A First Experiment with English and Indonesian (Joseph Cathcart and Robert Dale, Macquarie University)
15:00 Automatic Generation of On-line Help: a system based on practical issues (Cécile Paris, Keith Vander Linden and Shijian Lu, CSIRO & Calvin College, MI)
15:30 Afternoon tea
16:00 Merging Sentences using Shallow Semantic Analysis: A First Experiment (Stephen Wan and Robert Dale, Macquarie University)
16:30 From Plain English to Controlled English (Diego Mollá  and Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University)
17:00 End

Accommodation

For those who need accommodation while attending the workshop, here are three types of suggested accommodation that is either on or next to the Macquarie University Campus. Participants are asked to make their own bookings by contacting these establishments directly:
 
Robert Menzies College - On Campus

For reservations contact: Leonie Warner Ph: 02 9936 6012 or Vicky Deane Ph: 02 9936 6011
Your can also make your reservation by email.

$58 per night - bed & breakfast
$70 per night including bed and three meals

This is basic accommodation with single room and share bathroom. There are no phone facilities.
 

Travelodge Macquarie Nth. Ryde - On Campus

For reservations contact:  Ph: 1300 728 628

$119 single or twin - room only
$10.50 for breakfast
 

Sir Stamford - North Ryde - Off Campus (5 minutes walk)

For reservations contact: Ph: 02 9888 1077

Thursday Night Rates - Room Only:
$212 Standard
$234 Lagoon (water views)
$245 Luxury Premier (5 star)

Breakfast:
$12.90 Executive Breakfast
$18.30 Continental Breakfast
$21.60 Full Breakfast

Week-end Rates - Bed & Breakfast:
$160 Standard
$182 Lagoon (water views)
$193 Luxury Premier (5 star)
 

Registration Fee

Thanks to the generous support of CSIRO, there will only be a nominal registration fee of $50 payable in cash at the workshop; invoices will be issued. The registration fee covers the workshop lunch, tea and coffee breaks, and a printed copy of the workshop proceedings. Although the fee is payable at the workshop, please send in the registration information below as soon as possible, since we need this in order to make appropriate space and catering arrangements.
 

Registration Form


Name ___________________________________________________________

Affiliation ____________________________________________________

Address ________________________________________________________

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Email: _________________________________________________________

Phone: _________________________________________________________

Description of interest in NLP:

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If you wish  to participate, please return the registration form by email to Deanne van der Myle (deanne@ics.mq.edu.au) or send it by fax +61 2 9850 9551 no later than 10th April 2001.

Enquiries about this page should be mailed to ltinfo@ics.mq.edu.au.
Last updated: 2nd April 2001.