Workshop Program

Wednesday November 29 2006

7.30p-11.00pm: Conference Dinner

HCSNet Conference Dinner Holme Building Refectory, University of Sydney, Cost: $30 non-students, $20 students

9.00am-10.45am: Session 1

Welcome and Opening
Evidence for gradient salience: What happens with competing non-salient referents during pronoun resolution?
Ralph L. Rose
Error correction using utterance disambiguation techniques
Peter Vlugter, Edwin van der Ham, and Alistair Knott
Classifying speech acts using verbal response modes
Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, and Cecile Paris

11.15am-12.45pm: Session 2

Verb sense disambiguation using selectional preferences extracted with a state-of-the-art semantic role labeler
Patrick Ye and Timothy Baldwin
Word relatives in context for word sense disambiguation
David Martinez, Eneko Agirre, and Xinglong Wang
Die morphologie (f): targeted lexical acquisition for languages other than English
Jeremy Nicholson, Timothy Baldwin, and Phil Blunsom

2.00pm-3.30pm: Poster Session

Accepted papers

Improved default sense selection for word sense disambiguation
Tobias Hawker and Matthew Honnibal
Automatic mapping clinical notes to medical terminologies
Jon Patrick, Yefeng Wang and Peter Budd
Pseudo relevance feedback using named entities for Question Answering
Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Diego Molla, and Cecile Paris
Web readability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
Questions require an answer: A deductive perspective on questions and answers
Willemijn Vermaat
Towards the evaluation of referring expression generation
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale

Student posters

Analysis and prediction of user behaviour in a museum environment
Karl Grieser, Tim Baldwin and Steven Bird
Using dialogue acts to suggest responses in support services via Instant Messaging
Edward Ivanovic
Probabilities improve stress-prediction in a CFG of Hawaiian phonology
'Oiwi Parker Jones
Towards cognitive optimisation of a search engine interface
Kenneth Treharne, Darius Pfitzner and David M. W. Powers
Natural language processing and XML retrieval
Alan Woodley, Xavier Tannier, Marcus Hassler, and Shlomo Geva
Extracting patient clinical profiles from case reports
Yitao Zhang and Jon Patrick

4.00pm-4.30pm: Session 3

Efficient combinatory categorial grammar parsing
Bojan Djordjevic and James R. Curran

4.30pm-5.30pm: HCSNet Keynote Presentation

Robust multimodal understanding for interactive systems
Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs Research)

6.00pm: Music Recital (courtesy of HCSNet)

9.00am-10.00am: HCSNet Keynote Presentation

Human-computer interaction based on acoustic signals, muscle movements, and brainwaves
Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University)

10.15am-10.45am: Session 4

11.15am-12.45pm: Session 5

Experiments with sentence classification
Anthony Khoo, Yuval Marom and David Albrecht
Invited Presentation: User modeling for language technologists
Judy Kay (University of Sydney)

1.30pm-2.30pm: ALTA Annual General Meeting

2.30pm-3.30pm: Session 6

Named entity recognition for Question Answering
Diego Molla, Menno van Zaanen, and Daniel Smith
Named entity recognition for astronomy literature
Tara Murphy, Tara McIntosh, and James R. Curran

4.00pm-5.15pm: Session 7

This phrase-based SMT system is out of order: Generalised word reordering in machine translation
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras
Using dependency-based features to take the "para-farce" out of paraphrase
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale, and Cecile Paris
Workshop Close

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