1998 SALS-SIG Seminars

1998 Seminars (in reverse order):

• Modelling Verbal Humour
  Graeme Ritchie
  Division of Informatics: Artificial Intelligence
  University of Edinburgh, UK
  8th December 1998
• TWO SEMINAR SPECIAL
  
  • 10:00-11:00
    An Assistant System for E-mail Communication
    Hisako Asano
    NTT Information and Communication Systems Labs,
    Japan
  • 11:00-11:30 Break
  • 11:30-12:30
    Evaluating a dynamic hypermedia generation system
    Jon Oberlander
    Human Communication Research Centre
    University of Edinburgh, UK
  24th November 1998
• Expanding a Time-Sensitive Conversational Architecture for Turn-Taking to Handle Content-Driven Interruption
  Gregory Aist
  Project LISTEN: kids read, computer listens, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  17th November 1998
• Spoken Language Processing
  Ying Cheng
  Motorola Australian Research Centre,
  Botany, NSW, Australia
  16th November 1998
• TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French text
  Dominique Estival
  University of Melbourne
  10th November 1998
• Semantic Judgement Errors in Parkinson's Disease: The Role of Excitation and Inhibition
  Malti Patel
  Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  27th October 1998
• Synchronous TAG and Paraphrasing
  Mark Dras
  Microsoft Research Institute, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  13th October 1998
• Multimedia: a semiotic approach
  Helen Purchase
  Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
  29th September 1998
• Web document clustering using suffix trees
  Oren Zamir
  University of Washington
  10th September 1998
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SPECIAL
  
  • 10:00-11:00
    Experiments with probabilistic models in information retrieval
    Stephen Robertson
    Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge (also City University, London)
  • 11:00-11:30 Break
  • 11:30-12:30
    Digital Library Information Appliances
    Gene Golovchinsky
    FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL)
  19th August 1998
• TREND: A System for Generating Intelligent Descriptions of Time-Series Data
  Sarah Boyd
  Microsoft Research Institute
  Macquarie University
  4th August 1998
• Real-World Robots, Meet Natural Language
  Dr Graham Mann
  Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales
  21st July 1998
• Prepositions in an Indonesian-English Machine Translation System
  Helen McKay and Michael Niemann (michaeln@acadel.com.au)
  Adacel Technologies Ltd.
  7th July 1998
• The Design and Implementation of a Practical Content Server
  Licheng Zeng
  The Systemic Modelling Group, Linguistics Department, Macquarie University
  23rd June 1998
Coarticulation in the acoustic and articulatory domains: a comparison of EPG and locus equation data
Marija Tabain
Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Linguistics Department, Macquarie University
9th June 1998
• Analysis of short duration speech using time frequency methods
  Daniel Woo
  Electrical Engineering, UNSW
  12th May 1998
  
• Near-Synonymy and the Structure of Lexical Knowledge
  Professor Graeme Hirst
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  28th April 1998
• HyperLex: A Lexical Database Tool for Phonological Research
  Dr Steven Bird
  Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
  23rd April 1998
• T-tag Oriented Parsing: A Corpus-based Approach
  Hong Liang Qiao
  Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, University of Bergen
  14th April 1998
• Translating person names of other languages into Chinese
  Mr Canzhong Wu
  The Systemic Modelling Group, Linguistics Department, Macquarie University
  31st March 1998
• Exploring a Formal Grammar for Natural Semantic Metalanguage
  Dr Christopher Manning
  Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney
  17th March 1998
• Visualisation in Data Mining: Better Decisions, Faster.
  Dr Mark Grundy
  Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra
  Tuesday 3rd March 1998
  
• MRI Language Technology Group Vacation Student Report-Backs
  
  • Derek Santibanez
    Macquarie University
    CORAL Polyps - COnnecting Reasoning Action and Language: The First Stage
    
  • Stephen Wan
    University of Adelaide
    An Algorithm to Transliterate English Names into Chinese
    
  Friday 27th February 1998
• Ilex: Dynamic Generation of Museum Object Descriptions
  Mick O'Donnell
  Department of Artificial Intelligence,
  University of Edinburgh
  Tuesday 20th January 1998