[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in NLP

From: Steven Bird (sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 15:54:43 MET DST

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          ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing

                      University of Melbourne, Australia

                               10-14 July 2006

                     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.

                               TUTORIAL PROGRAM

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

    NLP/IR (Convenor: Nicola Stokes)

      Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester)
        Terminology Management and Information Extraction for Biology
      Francis Bond (NTT Japan)
        Machine Translation
      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)
        Statistical Approaches to Coreference Resolution:
        Data, Representation, Knowledge
      David Traum (USC)
        Approaches to Dialogue Systems and Dialogue Management;
        Aspects of Information State for Dialogue with Virtual Humans

    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 Semantics and Ontologies
      James Curran (Sydney)
        Approximating Semantic Similarity with Distributional Similarity
      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)
        Introduction to Statistical Parsing
      Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser)
        Parsing with Tree-Adjoining Grammars

    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.

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