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Proceedings of CoNLL-2000 and LLL-2000

The Fourth Conference on Computational Language Learning (CoNLL-2000) and the Second Learning Language in Logic Workshop were held on 13 and 14 September 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Paper copies of these proceedings can be ordered from the Association for Computational Linguistics, 75 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA, phone: +1-732-342-9100, fax: +1-732-342-9339, e-mail: acl@aclweb.org

The editors of these proceedings are Claire Cardie (CoNLL), Walter Daelemans (CoNLL), Claire Nédellec (LLL) and Erik Tjong Kim Sang (CoNLL).

CoNLL-2000 Invited Paper

Learning in Natural Language: Theory and Algorithmic Approaches

Dan Roth
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CoNLL-2000 Papers

Corpus-Based Grammar Specialization

Nicola Cancedda and Christer Samuelsson
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Pronunciation by Analogy in Normal and Impaired Readers

R.I. Damper and Y. Marchand
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

The Role of Algorithm Bias vs Information Source in Learning Algorithms for Morphosyntactic Disambiguation

Guy De Pauw and Walter Daelemans
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Increasing our Ignorance of Language: Identifying Language Structure in an Unknown `Signal'

John Elliott, Eric Atwell and Bill Whyte
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A Comparison between Supervised Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation

Gerard Escudero, Lluís Màrquez and German Rigau
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Incorporating Position Information into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model

George Foster
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Memory-Based Learning for Article Generation

Guido Minnen, Francis Bond and Ann Copestake
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Overfitting Avoidance for Stochastic Modeling of Attribute-Value Grammars

Tony Mullen and Miles Osborne
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Learning Distributed Linguistic Classes

Stephan Raaijmakers
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Modeling the Effect of Cross-Language Ambiguity on Human Syntax Acquisition

William Gregory Sakas
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Knowledge-Free Induction of Morphology Using Latent Semantic Analysis

Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Using Induced Rules as Complex Features in Memory-Based Language Learning

Antal van den Bosch
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

CoNLL-2000 Short Papers

Using Perfect Sampling in Parameter Estimation of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model

F. Amaya and J.M. Benedí
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Experiments on Unsupervised Learning for Extracting Relevant Fragments from Spoken Dialog Corpus

Konstantin Biatov
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Generating Synthetic Speech Prosody with Lazy Learning in Tree Structures

Laurent Blin and Laurent Miclet
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Inducing Syntactic Categories by Context Distribution Clustering

Alexander Clark
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ALLiS: a Symbolic Learning System for Natural Language Learning

Hervé Déjean
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Combining Text and Heuristics for Cost-Sensitive Spam Filtering

José M. Gómez Hidalgo, Manuel Maña López and Enrique Puertas Sanz
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Genetic Algorithms for Feature Relevance Assignment in Memory-Based Language Processing

Anne Kool, Walter Daelemans and Jakub Zavrel
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Shallow Parsing by Inferencing with Classifiers

Vasin Punyakanok and Dan Roth
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Minimal Commitment and Full Lexical Disambiguation: Balancing Rules and Hidden Markov Models

Patrick Ruch, Robert Baud, Pierrette Bouillon and Gilbert Robert
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Learning IE Rules for a Set of Related Concepts

J. Turmo and H. Rodríguez
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A Default First Order Family Weight Determination Procedure for WPDV Models

Hans van Halteren
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A Comparison of PCFG Models

Jose Luis Verdú-Mas, Jorge Calera-Rubio and Rafael C. Carrasco
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

CoNLL-2000 Shared Task Papers

Introduction to the CoNLL-2000 Shared Task: Chunking

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang and Sabine Buchholz
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Learning Syntactic Structures with XML

Hervé Déjean
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A Context Sensitive Maximum Likelihood Approach to Chunking

Christer Johansson
[ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Chunking with Maximum Entropy Models

Rob Koeling
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Use of Support Vector Learning for Chunk Identification

Taku Kudoh and Yuji Matsumoto
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Shallow Parsing as Part-of-Speech Tagging

Miles Osborne
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Improving Chunking by Means of Lexical-Contextual Information in Statistical Language Models

Ferran Pla, Antonio Molina and Natividad Prieto
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Text Chunking by System Combination

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
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Chunking with WPDV Models

Hans van Halteren
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Single-Classifier Memory-Based Phrase Chunking

Jorn Veenstra and Antal van den Bosch
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Phrase Parsing with Rule Sequence Processors: an Application to the Shared CoNLL Task

Marc Vilain and David Day
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Hybrid Text Chunking

GuoDong Zhou, Jian Su and TongGuan Tey
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

LLL-2000 Invited Paper

Extracting a Domain-Specific Ontology from a Corporate Intranet

Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Raphael Volz and Alexander Maedche
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

LLL-2000 Papers

Learning from a Substructural Perspective

Pieter Adriaans and Erik de Haas
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Incorporating Linguistics Constraints into Inductive Logic Programming

James Cussens and Stephen Pulman
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Learning from Parsed Sentences with INTHELEX

F. Esposito, S. Ferilli, N. Fanizzi and G. Semeraro
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Inductive Logic Programming for Corpus-Based Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons

Pascale Sébillot, Pierrette Bouillon and Cécile Fabre
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

The Acquisition of Word Order by a Computational Learning System

Aline Villavicencio
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Recognition and Tagging of Compound Verb Groups in Czech

Eva Zácková, Lubos Popelínský and Milos Nepil
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]