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Proceedings of CoNLL-98

The Second Conference on Computational Language Learning (CoNLL-98) was held on January 22 - 24, 1998 in Sydney, Australia.

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 editor of these proceedings is David Powers.

Invited Lecture

Abstraction is Harmful in Language Learning

Walter Daelemans
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Learning

Natural Language Learning by Recurrent Neural Networks: A Comparison with Probabilistic Approaches

Michael Towsey, Joachim Diederich, Ingo Schellhammer, Stephan Chalup and Claudia Brugman
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Learning a Lexicalised Grammar for German

Sandra Kübler
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A Lexically-Intensive Algorithm for Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition

Ren´ Schneider
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Tagging and Treebanks

Look-Back and Look-Ahead in the Conversion of Hidden Markov Models into Finite State Transducers

André Kempe
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The effect of alternative tree representations on tree bank grammars

Mark Johnson
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Automation of Treebank Annotation

Thorsten Brants and Wojciech Skut
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Implementing a Sense Tagger in a General Architecture for Text Engineering

Hamish Cunningham, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks
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Learning 2

Knowledge Extraction and Recurrent Neural Networks: An Analysis of an Elman Network trained on a Natural Language Learning Task

Ingo Schellhammer, Joachim Diederich, Michael Towsey and Claudia Brugman
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Finding Structure via Compression

Jason L. Hutchens and Michael D. Alder
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Invited lecture

Linguistic Theory in Statistical Language Learning

Christer Samuelsson
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Semantics and Pragmatics

A Bayesian Approach to Automating Argumentation

Richard McConachy, Kevin B. Korb and Ingrid Zukerman
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Automatically generating hypertext in newspaper articles by computing semantic relatedness

Stephen J. Green
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Choosing A Distance Metric for Automatic Word Categorization

Emin Erkan Korkmaz and Göktürk Üçoluk
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Sense Variation and Lexical Semantics Generative Operations

Patrick Saint-Dizier
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Multilingual analyses

An Attempt to Use Weighted Cusums to Identify Sublanguages

Harold Somers
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Cross-Entropy and Linguistic Typology

Patrick Juola
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Applications and Explanations of Zipf's Law

David M.W. Powers
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Information Retrieval, Dialogue and Generation

Proper Name Classification in an Information Extraction Toolset

Peter Wallis, Edmund Yuen and Greg Chase
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Evolution and Evaluation of Document Retrieval Queries

Robert Steele and David Powers
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Generation of Simple Turkish Sentences with Systemic-Functional Grammar

Ilyas Cicekli and Turgay Korkmaz
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Phonology and Pronounciation

Extracting Phoneme Pronunciation Information from Corpora

Ian Thomas, Ingrid Zukerman and Bhavani Raskutti
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Methodology

Modularity in Inductively-Learned Word Pronunciation Systems

Antal van den Bosch, Ton Weijters and Walter Daelemans
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Do Not Forget: Full Memory in Memory-Based Learning of Word Pronunciation

Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans
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Natural Language Concept Analysis

V. Kamphuis and J.J. Sarbo
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The Present Use of Statistics in the Evaluation of NLP Parsers

Jim Entwisle and David Powers
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A Method of Incorporating Bigram Constraints into an LR Table and Its Effectiveness in Natural Language Processing

Hiroki Imai and Hozumi Tanaka
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Grounding

Selective Attention and the Acquisition of Spatial Semantics

James M. Hogan, Joachim Diederich and Gerard D. Finn
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Towards Language Acquisition by an Attention-Sharing Robot

Hideki Kozima and Akira Ito
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A Constructivist Approach to Machine Translation

Michael Carl
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Morphology

Shallow Post Morphological Processing with KURD

Michael Carl and Antje Schmidt-Wigger
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Induction of a Stem Lexicon for Two-level Morphological Analysis

Erika F. de Lima
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Workshop on Human Computer Conversation

Introducing MegaHal

Jason L. Hutchens and Michael D. Alder
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Methods and tricks used in an attempt to pass the Turing Test

Veronique Bastin and Denis Cordier
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The Total Turing Test and the Loebner Prize

David M. W. Powers
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Language Model and Sentence Structure Manipulations for Natural Language Applications Systems

Zenshiro Kawasaki, Keiji Takida and Masato Tajima
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Position Paper on Appropriate Audio/Visual Turing Test

Bradley B. Custer
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Workshop on Paradigms amd Grounding in Language Learning

Learning Feature-Value Grammars from Plain Text

Tony C. Smith
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Morphemes as Necessary Concept for Structures Discovery from Untagged Corpora

Hervé Déjean
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The segmentation problem in morphology learning

Christopher D. Manning
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Reconciliation of Unsupervised Clustering, Segmentation and Cohesion

David M. W. Powers
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Syntactico-Semantic Learning of Categorical Grammars

Isabelle Tellier
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ANLP Post Graduate Workshop

Relative Clause Coordination and Subordination in Japanese

Timothy Baldwin
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Extracting Information from Conference Announcements: High Recall, High Precision

Kevin Cheong
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A Knowledge-Based Approach for Searching Semi-Structured Documents

Xiaoying(Sharon) Gao
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Determining PP Attachment through Semantic Associations and Preferences

Michael Niemann
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A Method of Sentence Optimizing for Chinese Text Generation

Jinqian Li, Dongmo Zhang and Tianfang Yao
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Experiments in English/Vietnamese retrieval

Van Be Hai Nguyen, Ross Wilkinson and Justin Zobel
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