[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in NLP (Melbourne 10-14 July)

From: Steven Bird (sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 20 2006 - 03:16:11 MET DST

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          ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing

                      University of Melbourne, Australia

                               10-14 July 2006
                       (immediately before COLING/ACL)

                     http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/school

                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                                    
    The ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing will be
    held at the University of Melbourne in the week prior to the COLING/ACL.

               *** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 1 June 2006 ***

                               TUTORIAL PROGRAM

    There will be four themes, each with twelve hours of tutorials:

    NLP/IR (Convenor: Nicola Stokes)

      Sofia Ananiadou (Manchester)
        Terminology Management and Information Extraction for Biology
      Francis Bond (NTT Japan)
        (title TBA)
      Inderjeet Mani (MITRE and Brandeis)
        Temporal Information Extraction
      Alistair Moffat (Melbourne)
        Information Retrieval Nuts and Bolts

    DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE (Convenor: Lawrence Cavedon)
            
      Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Saarland)
        Information Structure and its Use for Context-Sensitive
    Information Presentation
      Diane Litman (Pittsburgh)
        Learning Optimal Strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems
      Michael Strube (EML Research)
        Recent Advances in Discourse Processing and Reference Resolution
      David Traum (USC)
        Foundations of Dialogue and Dialogue Systems

    LEXICAL SEMANTICS (Convenor: Timothy Baldwin)

      Collin Baker (Berkeley)
        Frame Semantics, Constructions, and the FrameNet Lexical Database
      Timothy Baldwin (Melbourne)
        Introduction to Lexical Semantics and Semantic Language Resources
        Learning Lexical Semantic Representations
      Paul Buitelaar (DFKI)
        Lexical Semantic Representation, Ontological Semantics (title TBC)
      James Curran (Sydney)
        Distributional Semantics
      Graeme Hirst (Toronto)
        Lexical Similarity Based on Lexicographic Resources

    PROBABILISTIC PARSING (Convenor: James Curran)

      Stephen Clark (Oxford)
        Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
      James Curran (Sydney)
        (title TBA)
      Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser)
        (title TBA)

    SPONSORS: This event is funded by the Association for Computational
    Linguistics, and the ARC Network in Human Communication Science.
    It is also supported by the Australasian Language Technology
    Association and National ICT Australia.

    Steven Bird, Nicola Stokes, James Curran (co-chairs)

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