Preliminary Program of ANLP94

• Thursday, October 13
• Friday, October 14
• Saturday, October 15

Thursday, October 13

• 9.00-9.45: Registration
• 9.45-10.00: Conference Opening
• 10.00-11.00: Text Generation
  • Bilingual Generation of Job Descriptions from Quasi-Conceptual Forms
    D. Caldwell and T. Korelsky, CoGenTex, Inc.
  • Practical Issues in Automatic Documentation Generation
    K. McKeown, K. Kukich and J. Shaw, Columbia University, Bell Communication Research
• 11.00-11.30: Break
• 11.30-12.30: Document Image Understanding
  • Content Identification from Image
    T. Nakayama, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory
  • Language Determination: Natural Language Processing from Scanned Document Images
    P. Sibun and A. L. Spitz, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory
• 12.30-14.00: Break
• 14.00-15.30: Machine Translation (Methods)
  • Machine Translation of Sentences with Fixed Expressions
    N. Katoh and T. Aizawa, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
  • TERMIGHT: Identifying and Translating Technical Terminology
    I. Dagan and K. Church, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • Symmetric Pattern Matching Analysis for English Coordinate Structures
    A. Okumura and K. Muraki, NEC Corp. Information Technology Research Lab
• 15.30-16.00: Break
• 16.00-17.30: Tagging models
  • Tagging Accurately - Don't Guess if you Know
    P. Tapanainen and A. Voutilainen, Rank Xerox Research Centre
  • Does Baum-Welch Re-estimation Help Taggers?
    D. Elworthy, Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd.
  • Improving Language Models by Clustering Training Sentences
    D. Carter, SRI International
• 17.45-19.15: Demonstrations and Videos

Friday, October 14

• 8.30-9.30: Invited Talk: The Role of Speech & Language Processing in the Future of Information Systems
  Lyn Bates, BBN Systems & Technologies
• 9.30-10.00:Break
• 10.00-12.00: Text processing
  • Probably Correct Inference Rules and Linguistic Annotation
    S. Finch, University of Edinburgh
  • Combination of Symbolic and Statistical Approaches for Grammatical Knowledge Acquisition
    M. Kiyono and J. Tsujii, Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science & Tech.
  • Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation
    D. Palmer and M. Hearst, University of California, Berkeley
  • Acquiring Knowledge from Encylopedic Texts
    F. Gomez, R. Hull and C.Segami, University of Central Florida
• 12.00-13.00: Demonstrations and Videos
• 13.00-14.00: Break
• 14.00-15.30: Machine Translation (Systems)
  • A Successful Case of Computer Aided Translation
    M. Filgueiras, Universidade do Porto
  • Three Heads are Better than One
    R. Frederking and S.Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Real-Time Spoken Language Translation using Associative Processors
    K. Oi, E. Sumita, O. Furuse, H. Iida and T. Higuchi, ATR and Electrotechnical Laboratory
• 15.30-16.00: Break
• 16.00-17.00: Robust parsing
  • Yet Another Chart-Based Technique for Parsing Ill-Formed Input
    T. Kato, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories
  • Recycling Terms into a Partial Parser
    C. Jacquemin, IUT de Nantes
• 17.15-19.15: Posters
  • Improving Chinese Tokenization with Linguistic Filters on Statistical Lexical Acquisition
    D. Wu and P. Fung, University of Science & Technology and Columbia University
  • Reference Resolution in Newspaper Articles
    T. Wakao, University of Sheffield
  • Automatic Acquisition of Semantic Attributes for User Defined Words in Japanese to English Machine Translation
    S. Ikehara, S. Shirai, A. Yokoo, F. Bond and Y. Omi, NTT Network Information Systems Labs
  • Degraded Text Recognition using Word Collocation and Visual Inter-word Constraints
    T. Hong and J. Hull, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Using Syntactic Dependencies for Word Alignment
    F. Debili, E. Sammouda and A. Zribi, CNRS
  • English Adverb Generation in Japanese to English Machine Translation
    K. Ogura, F. Bond and S. Ikehara, NTT Network Information Systems Labs
  • A Practical Evaluation of an Integrated Translation Tool during a Large Scale Localisation Project
    R. Schaeler, University College Dublin
  • Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages
    K. Oflazer and C. Guzey, Bilkent University
  • Integration of Example-based Transfer and Rule-based Generation
    S. Akamine, O. Furuse and H. Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories
  • An Evaluation of a Method to Detect and Correct Erroneous Characters in Japanese Input through an OCR using Markov Models
    T. Araki, S. Ikehara, N. Tsukahara and Y. Komatsu, Fukui University and NTT Communications Science Laboratories
  • Multifunction Thesaurus for Russian Word Processing
    I. Bolshakov, Russian Academy of Science
  • Representing Knowledge for Planning Multisentential Text
    J. Coch and R. David, GSI-Erli
  • Guided Sentence Composition for Disabled People
    R. Pasero, N. Richardet and P. Sabatier, CNRS
  • An Interactive Rewriting Tool for Machine Acceptable Sentences
    H. Hirakawa, K. Nomura and M. Nakamura, Toshiba Corporation
  • TECHDOC: Multilingual Generation of Online and Offline Instructional Text
    D. Roesner and M. Stede, FAW Ulm
  • An Inheritance-based Lexicon for Message Understanding Systems
    L. Cahill, University of Sussex
  • Industrial Applications of Unification Morphology
    G. Proszeky, MorphoLogic
  • Sublanguage Engineering in the FOG System
    R. Kittredge, E. Goldberg, M. Kim and A. Polguere, Universite de Montreal, Env. Canada, CoGenTex, Inc. and National University of Singapore
• 20.00: Banquet

Saturday, October 15

• 8.30-9.30: Invited Talk: Beyond Corpora: A language Infrastructure for Europe
  Paul Procter, Cambridge University Press
• 9.30-10.00: Break
• 10.00-12.00: Interface Applications
  • Resolving Anaphora in a Portable Natural Language Front End to Databases
    F. Barros and A. DeRoeck, University of Essex
  • Upholding the Maxim of Relevance During Patient-Centered Activities
    A. Gertner, B. Webber and J. Clarke, University of Pennsylvania
  • The Delphi Natural Language Understanding System
    M. Bates, R. Bobrow, R. Ingria and D. Stallard, BBN Systems and Technologies, Inc.
  • Understanding Location Descriptions in the LEI System
    D. Chin, M. McGranaghan and T. T. Chen, University of Hawaii
• 12.00-13.00: Demonstrations and Videos
• 13.00-14.00: Break
• 14.00-15.30: Lexical Processing
  • Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text
    K. Oflazer and I. Kuruoz, Bilkent University
  • A Robust Category Guesser for Dutch Medical Language
    P. Spyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Handling Japanese Homophone Errors in Revision Support System for Japanese Texts; REVISE
    M. Oku, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories
• 15.30-16.00: Break
• 16.00-17.30: Text categorization and retrieval
  • A Probabilistic Model for Text Categorization: Based on a Single Random Variable with Multiple Values
    M. Iwayama and H. Tokunaga, Hitachi Ltd.
  • Robust Text Processing in Automated Information Retrieval
    T. Strzalkowski, New York University
  • May a Semantic Lexicon Support Hypertextual Authoring?
    R. Basili, F. Grisoli and M. Pazienza, Universita di Roma