Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop

Volume 4, 2006
ISSN 1834-7037

Printed (PDF) Version

Invited Presentations

• Robust multimodal understanding for interactive systems,
  Michael Johnston
• User modelling for language technologists,
  Judy Kay

Full Papers

• Efficient Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parsing,
  Bojan Djordjevic and James R. Curran
• Improved Default Sense Selection forWord Sense Disambiguation,
  Tobias Hawker and Matthew Honnibal
• Experiments with Sentence Classification,
  Anthony Khoo, Yuval Marom and David Albrecht
• Computational Semantics in the Natural Language Toolkit,
  Ewan Klein
• Classifying Speech Acts using Verbal Response Modes,
  Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, and Cecile Paris
• Word Relatives in Context for Word Sense Disambiguation,
  David Martinez, Eneko Agirre, and Xinglong Wang
• 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
• Die Morphologie (f): Targeted Lexical Acquisition for Languages other than English,
  Jeremy Nicholson, Timothy Baldwin, and Phil Blunsom
• 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
• Evidence for Gradient Salience: What Happens with Competing Non-salient Referents during Pronoun Resolution?,
  Ralph L. Rose
• 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
• Error correction using utterance disambiguation techniques,
  Peter Vlugter, Edwin van der Ham, and Alistair Knott
• Using Dependency-Based Features to Take the "Para-farce" out of Paraphrase,
  Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale, and Cecile Paris
• Verb Sense Disambiguation Using Selectional Preferences Extracted with a State-of-the-art Semantic Role Labeler,
  Patrick Ye and Timothy Baldwin
• This Phrase-Based SMT System is Out of Order: Generalised Word Reordering in Machine Translation,
  Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras

Student Posters

• Analysis and Prediction of User Behaviour in a Museum Environment,
  Karl Grieser, Timothy Baldwin, 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

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