Program

Below is the provisional program for the Workshop. All talks will have a duration of 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for question time. The papers are available at the Proceedings.

8:30-9:00Registration
9:00-9:15Welcome
9:15-10:45Inductive Approaches to NLP
  • Orthographic tries in language independent named entity recognition,
    Whitelaw,C., Patrick, J. , University of Sydney (AU)
  • Learning selectional preferences for use in resolving associative anaphora,
    Meyer, J. Dale, R., Macquarie University, Sydney (AU)
  • User driven example- based training for creating lexical knowledgebases,
    Patrick, J. Palko, D. Munro, R. Zappagina, M. , University of Sydney (AU)
10:45-11:00Morning tea
11:00-12:00Syntax and Semantics
  • Dependency-based semantic interpretation for answer extraction,
    Molla-Aliod, D., Macquarie University, Sydney (AU);
    Hutchinson, B., University of Edinburgh (UK)
  • Syntax and semantics for sentence processing in English and Maori,
    Bayard, I. Knott, A. Moorfield, J. , University of Otago (NZ)
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:30NLP Systems (I)
  • Generating more natural route descriptions,
    Dale, R. Geldof, S. Prost, J.-P., Macquarie University, Sydney (AU)
  • Text classification of formatted text documents,
    Carr, O. Estival, D. , DSTO, Adelaide (AU)
14:30-14:45Afternoon tea
14:45-15:45NLP Systems (II)
  • Developing a black box specification in controlled english,
    Schwitter, R., Macquarie University, Sydney (AU)
  • An architecture for bilingual and bi-directional NLP,
    Knott, A.Bayard, I. de Jager, S.Wright, N., University of Otago (NZ)
15:45-16:00Wrap-up
16:30-17:00ALTA business meeting

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