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Proceedings of CoNLL-2001

The Fifth Workshop on Computational Language Learning (CoNLL-2001) was held on 6 and 7 July 2001 in association with ACL-2001 in Toulouse, France.

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 or from Morgan Kaufman Publishers.

The editors of these proceedings are Walter Daelemans and Rémi Zajac.

CoNLL-2001 Invited Papers

Empirical NLP: Does the web change everything?

Eric Brill
(no paper submitted)

Learning Computational Grammars

John Nerbonne
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

CoNLL-2001 Papers

Learning class-to-class selectional preferences

Eneko Agirre and David Martinez
[abstract] [pdf] [bibtex]

Inducing Probabilistic Invertible Translation Grammars from Aligned Texts

Michael Carl
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Unsupervised Induction of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars using Distributional Clustering

Alexander Clark
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

A Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Text Classification

Andrew Estabrooks and Nathalie Japkowicz
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Multidimensional Transformation-Based Learning

Radu Florian and Grace Ngai
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Probabilistic Models for PP-attachment Resolution and NP Analysis

Eric Gaussier and Nicola Cancedda
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Combining a self-organizing map with memory-based learning

James Hammerton and Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Coreference Resolution with Syntactico-Semantic Rules and Corpus Statistics

Sven Hartrumpf
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

On Minimizing Training Corpus for Parser Acquisition

Rebecca Hwa
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Distributional Phrase Structure Induction

Dan Klein and Christopher Manning
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Exploring Evidence for Shallow Parsing

Xin Li and Dan Roth
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Automatic Distinction of Arguments and Modifiers: the Case of Prepositional Phrases

Paola Merlo and Matthias Leybold
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Combining Linguistic and Machine Learning Techniques for Email Summarization

Smaranda Muresan, Evelyne Tzoukermann and Judith L. Klavans
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Learning to identify animate references

Constantin Orasan and Richard Evans
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Semantic Pattern Learning Through Maximum Entropy-based WSD technique

Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Suárez and Manuel Palomar
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Automatic Verb Classification Using Multilingual Resources

Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

A Psychologically Plausible and Computationally Effective Approach to Learning Syntax

Stephen Watkinson and Suresh Manandhar
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

Morpholog: Constrained and Supervised Learning of Morphology

Rémi Zajac
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]

CoNLL-2001 Shared Task Papers

Note: at the workshop some of the participants have presented results that are different from the ones mentioned in their paper. Whenever possible an update of the paper with the improved results is available alongside the original version.

Introduction to the CoNLL-2001 Shared Task: Clause Identification

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang and Hervé Déjean
original: [abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]
update: [abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex]
sheets: [ps] [pdf]

Boosting Trees for Clause Splitting

Xavier Carreras and Luís Màrquez
[ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]

Using ALLiS for Clausing

Hervé Déjean
[abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]

Clause identification with Long Short-Term Memory

James Hammerton
[ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]

Clause Detection using HMM

Antonio Molina and Ferran Pla
original: [ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]
update: paper not available [system output]

Boosted Decision Graphs for NLP Learning Tasks

Jon D. Patrick and Ishaan Goyal
original: [abstract] [ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]
update: paper not available [system output]

Memory-Based Clause Identification

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
original: [ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]
update: [ps] [pdf] [bibtex] [system output]