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NeMLaP-2 CONFERENCE
September 16-18, 1996
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Monday, September 16, 1996
* 9:30 - 9:45
Opening Remarks
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* 9:45 - 11:00
Invited Talk
Ken Church AT&T Research, USA
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* 11:00 - 11:30
Break
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* 11:30 - 12:00
New Methods, Current Trends and Software Infrastructure for NLP
Hamish Cunningham Department of Computer Science
Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield, England,
Robert J.Gaizauskas United Kingdom
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* 12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
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* 14:00 - 14:30
Analogy and Relevance:Paradigmatic Networks as Filtering Devices
Stefano Federici Istituto di Linguistica
Simonetta Montemagni Computazionale, CNR
Vito Pirrelli Italy
* 14:30 - 15:00
Resolving Zero Pronouns in Texts using Textual Structure
Hiromi Nakaiwa Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST
England, United Kingdom
Francis Bond NTT Communication Science Labs
Japan
Takahiro Uekado NTT Software Group
Japan
Yayoi Nozawa NTT Advanced Technology Corp.
Japan
* 15:00 - 15:30
Deriving Part of Speech Probabilities from A Machine-Readable
Dictionary
Deborah A. Coughlin Microsoft Research
USA
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* 15:30 - 16:00
Break
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* 16:00 - 16:30
Word-Pair Extraction for Lexicography
Chris Brew Centre for Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
United Kingdom
David McKelvie Language Technology Group
Human Communication Research Centre
University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
United Kingdom
* 16:30 - 17:00
A New Method of Automatically Aligning Expressions within Aligned
Sentence Pairs
Setsuo Yamada Communication Science Labs
Hiromi Nakaiwa NTT
Satoru Ikehara Japan
* 17:00 - 17:30
Some more Experiments in Bilingual Text Alignment
Harold Somers Centre for Computational Linguistics
Alan C. Ward UMIST
England, United Kingdom
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* 19:00 - 21:30
Reception
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Tuesday, September 17, 1996
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* 9:30 - 10:00
Morphological Analysis as Classification: an Inductive Learning
Approach
Antal van der Bosch Department of Computer Science
University of Limburg/Maastricht
The Netherlands
Walter Daelemans Department of Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Ton Weijters Department of Computer Science
University of Limburg/Maastricht
The Netherlands
* 10:00 - 10:30
Learning Translation Rules from A Bilingual Corpus
Ilyas Cicekli Department of Computer Engineering
H. Altay Guvenir Bilkent University
Turkey
* 10:30 - 11:00
A Machine Learning Approach to the Classification of Dialogue
Utterances
Toine Andernach Department of Computer Science
University of Twente
The Netherlands
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* 11:00 - 11:30
Break
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* 11:30 - 12:00
A Scene-based Model of Word Prediction
Hideki Kozima Communications Research Laboratory
Akira Ito Kansai Advanced Research Center
Japan
* 12:00 - 12:30
Connected Text Recognition Using Layered HMMS and Token Passing
Peter Ingels Department of Computer and
Information Science
Linkoping University
Sweden
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* 12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
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* 14:00 - 14:30
A corpus-based approach to refine a domain-independent compound
interpretation system
Pascale Sebillot IRISA
France
* 14:30 - 15:00
Stylistic Variation in an Infirmation Retrieval Experiment
Jussi Karlgren Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
USA
* 15:00 - 15:30
Extracting Japanese Domain and Technical Terms is Relatively Easy
Pascale Fung Computer Science Department
Yurie Horita Columbia University
Min-yen Kan USA
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* 15:30 - 16:00
Break
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* 16:00 - 16:30
With raised eyebrows or the eyebrows raised? A Neural Network Approach
to Grammar Checking for Definiteness
Gabriele Scheler Institute fur Informatik
Techniche Universitat Munchen
Germany
* 16:30 - 17:00
Storage of Natural Language Sentences in a Hopfield Network
Nigel Collier Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST
England, United Kingdom
* 17:00 - 17:30
Gathering Statistics to Aspectually Classify Sentences With a Genetic
Algorithm
Eric V. Siegel Department of Computer Science
Kathleen R. McKeown Columbia University
USA
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* 19:00 - 22:30
Dinner
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Wednesday, September 18, 1996
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* 9:30 - 10:00
Ambiguity, Disjunction and Constraints
Philippe Blache 2LC-CNRS
France
* 10:00 - 10:30
Parsing with Markovian Syntax
David Tugwell Centre for Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, United Kingdom
* 10:30 - 11:00
An Inductive Approach to Natural Language Parser Design
Dimitar Kazakov Department of Control Engineering
Czech Technical University
Czech Republic
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* 11:00 - 11:30
Break
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* 11:30 - 12:00
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion using multiple unbound overlapping
chunks
Francois Yvon Departement informatique
Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications
France
* 12:00 - 12:30
Isolated-word confusion metrics and the PGPHONE Alphabet
Patrick Juola Department of Psychology
Oxford University
England, United Kingdom
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* 12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
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* 14:00 - 17:00
Visit to Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
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NeMLaP -2
International Conference on New Methods in Natural Language Processing
September 16 - 18, 1996
Ankara, Turkey
REGISTRATION FORM
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
[ ] Conference registration ................................100 USD
[ ] Conference registration (Student).........................60 USD
(Current proof of student status required.)
Registration fee includes: Copy of the Proceedings,
Reception, Conference Dinner, Coffee and Tea During breaks
Visit to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.
SOCIAL EVENT
[ ] Visit to Cappadocia Region known for its lunar landscape,
fairy-chimneys and underground cities.
Includes transportation, one night at a 3* hotel, breakfast, and
dinner with a folk dance show, guided tour of all major sites.
I prefer Sept 14-15, 1996 [ ]
I prefer Sept 19-20, 1996 [ ]
(If most participants prefer one over the other option,
only one trip will be arranged.)
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Total ...........USD
ACCOMMODATION
[ ] Hotel Bilkent (4* Hotel on campus with transportation to the
Conference Site). Special prices for conference participants
are:
Single USD 70/night
Double USD 90/night
(Prices include breakfast and VAT)
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Hotel bill is payable during check-out. We still would need
know about your reservation request
[ ] University Dormitory Room within walking distance to Conference
site, with shared showers and toilet facilities.
1 Person per room Free of Charge
(** Only linens and blankets will be provided provided.**)
Payment for the conference registration and Cappadocia trip should be made
(in USD) by a bank transfer to the following USD account:
Yapi Kredi Bankasi
Bilkent Branch (641-1)
Bilkent, Ankara, TR-06533, Turkey
USD Account No: 3001415-9
All banking charges involved are the responsibility of the sender.
Please send a copy of your remittance along with this form. Please
provide a copy a current student id card or and official letter from
your department, if you are registering as a student. Electronic
submissions can be made by filling this form and e-mailing it to
This would have to be followed up with a copy of your remittance
receipt (+ proof of studentship, if applicable)
which can be sent be mail to
NeMLaP-2 Registration
c/o Kemal Oflazer
Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering and Info. Sci.
TR-06533 Ankara
TURKEY
or by Fax to
NeMLaP-2 Registration
c/o Kemal Oflazer
+90-312-266 4126
You can obviously send/fax everything in hardcopy to the addresses
above.