CoNLL is the yearly meeting organized by SIGNLL, the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning. Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney (1998), Bergen (1999) Lisbon (2000), Toulouse (2001) and Taipei (2002).
The 2003 event will be held as a two-day workshop at the HLT-NAACL 2003, May 31 - June 1, 2003 in Edmonton, Canada. This will be the first time that CoNLL will take place in North America.
| Saturday, May 31, 2003 | |
|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening Remarks (Walter Daelemans and Miles Osborne) |
| Session 1: Parsing | |
| 9:15-9:40 | A model of syntactic disambiguation based on lexicalized grammars |
| Yusuke Miyao and Jun`ichi Tsujii | |
| 9:40-10:05 | An SVM-based voting algorithm with application to parse reranking |
| Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi | |
| 10:05-10:30 | Active learning for HPSG parse selection |
| Jason Baldridge and Miles Osborne | |
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK |
| Session 2: Bootstrapping (1) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Learning subjective nouns using extraction pattern bootstrapping |
| Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe and Theresa Wilson | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation |
| Gideon Mann and David Yarowsky | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Unsupervised learning of word sense disambiguation rules by estimating an optimum iteration number in the EM algorithm |
| Hiroyuki Shinnou and Minoru Sasaki | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| Session 3: Bootstrapping (2) | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Invited Talk: Understanding the Yarowsky algorithm |
| Steve Abney | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Bootstrapping POS-taggers using unlabelled data |
| Stephen Clark, James Curran and Miles Osborne | |
| 15:30-16:00 | BREAK |
| Session 4: Generic problems | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Updating an NLP system to fit new domains: an empirical study on the sentence segmentation problem |
| Tong Zhang, Fred Damerau and David Johnson | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Exceptionality and Natural Language Learning |
| Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman | |
| 17:00-17:30 | SIGNLL Business Meeting |
| Sunday, June 1, 2003 | |
| Session 5: Semantics | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Semi-supervised Verb Class Discovery Using Noisy Features |
| Suzanne Stevenson and Eric Joanis | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Preposition Semantic Classification via Treebank and FrameNet |
| Tom O'Hara and Janyce Wiebe | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Phrasenet: towards context sensitive lexical semantics |
| Xin Li, Dan Roth and Yuancheng Tu | |
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK |
| Session 6: Machine translation | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Confidence estimation for translation prediction |
| Simona Gandrabur and George Foster | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Using `smart' bilingual projection to feature-tag a monolingual dictionary |
| Katharina Probst | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Using LSA and Noun Coordination Information to Improve the Recall and Precision of Automatic Hyponymy Extraction |
| Scott Cederberg and Dominic Widdows | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| Session 7: Clustering | |
| 14:00-14:30 | An efficient clustering algorithm for class-based language models |
| Takuya Matsuzaki, Yusuke Miyao and Jun'ichi Tsujii | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Using Unlabeled Data via the EM algorithm for Semantic Disambiguation by Local Context Features |
| Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Identifying Events using Similarity and Context |
| Dominic Jones and Cynthia Thompson | |
| 15:30-15:45 | BREAK (note: shorter time) |
| Session 8: Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Introduction to CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition |
| Erik Tjong Kim Sang and Fien De Meulder | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Systems Presentations |
| 17:00-17:30 | Summary and discussion |
| Erik Tjong Kim Sang and Fien De Meulder | |
Steve Abney (Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, MI, USA).Understanding the Yarowsky Algorithm
Thorsten Brants
<brants@parc.xerox.com>,
Google Inc. (USA)
Claire Cardie
<cardie@cs.cornell.edu>,
Cornell University (USA)
James Cussens
<jc@cs.york.ac.uk>,
University of York (UK)
Walter Daelemans
<walter.daelemans@uia.ua.ac.be>,
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Ido Dagan
<dagan@cs.biu.ac.il>,
Bar Ilan University / LingoMotors (Israel)
Diane Litman
<litman@cs.pitt.edu>,
University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Rada Mihalcea
<rada@cs.unt.edu>,
University of North Texas (USA)
Yuji Matsumoto
<matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
Raymond Mooney
<mooney@cs.utexas.edu>,
University of Texas at Austin (USA)
John Nerbonne
<nerbonne@let.rug.nl>,
University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Hwee Tou Ng
<nght@comp.nus.edu.sg>,
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Grace Ngai
<csgngai@polyu.edu.hk>,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Miles Osborne
<osborne@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
University of Edinburgh (UK)
David Powers
<powers@cs.flinders.edu.au>,
Flinders University (Australia)
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
<adwaitr@microsoft.com>,
Microsoft (USA)
Ellen Riloff
<riloff@cs.utah.edu>,
University of Utah (USA)
Dan Roth
<danr@cs.uiuc.edu>,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
<erik@uia.ua.ac.be>,
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Antal van den Bosch
<antalb@uvt.nl>,
Tilburg University (Netherlands)