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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
Thursday November 30 2006
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
10.45am-11.15am: Coffee break
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
12.45pm-2.00pm: Lunch (provided by HCSNet)
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
3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee break
4.00pm-4.30pm: Session 3
- Efficient combinatory categorial grammar parsing
Bojan Djordjevic and James R. Curran
4.30pm-5.30pm: HCSNet Keynote Presentation
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Robust multimodal understanding for interactive systems
Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs Research)
5.30pm-6.00pm: Drinks (courtesy of HCSNet)
6.00pm: Music Recital (courtesy of HCSNet)
Friday December 1 2006
9.00am-10.00am: HCSNet Keynote Presentation
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Human-computer interaction based on acoustic signals, muscle movements, and brainwaves
Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University)
10.15am-10.45am: Session 4
- Computational semantics in the Natural Language Toolkit
Ewan Klein
10.45am-11.15am: Coffee break
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)
12.45pm-1.30pm: Lunch (provided by HCSNet)
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
3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee break
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
For any comments or questions about these pages please contact the
ALTA Workshop 2006
organisers.
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