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Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2004)

May 6-7, 2004
(immediately following HLT-NAACL 2004)

Boston Park Plaza Hotel
64 Arlington Street Boston
Massachusetts 02116-3912
USA
Phone: +1 617 426 2000

http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2004/

Thursday, May 6
09:00-09:05	Welcome (Hwee Tou Ng and Ellen Riloff)
Session 1: Inference and Semantics
09:05-09:35	A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in Natural Language Tasks Dan Roth and Wen-tau Yih
09:35-10:05	Semantic Lexicon Construction: Learning from Unlabeled Data via Spectral Analysis Rie Kubota Ando
10:05-10:35	A Semantic Kernel for Predicate Argument Classification Alessandro Moschitti and Cosmin Adrian Bejan
10:35-11:00	Break
Session 2: Word Sense Disambiguation
11:00-11:30	Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen
11:30-12:00	Co-training and Self-training for Word Sense Disambiguation Rada Mihalcea
12:00-12:30	Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Contexts in Vector and Similarity Spaces Amruta Purandare and Ted Pedersen
12:30-14:00	Lunch
Session 3: Parsing
14:00-14:30	Memory-Based Dependency Parsing Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall and Jens Nilsson
Invited Talk
14:30-15:30	Language Learning: Beyond Thunderdome Christopher D. Manning
15:30-16:00	Break
Session 4: Text Classification
16:00-16:30	Modeling Category Structures with a Kernel Function Hiroya Takamura, Yuji Matsumoto and Hiroyasu Yamada
16:30-17:00	A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Constructions of Category Hierarchy for Classifying Large Corpora Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki
17:00-17:30	SIGNLL Business Meeting
Friday, May 7
Session 5: Syntax and Semantics
09:30-10:00	Thesauruses for Prepositional Phrase Attachment Mark McLauchlan
10:00-10:30	Calculating Semantic Distance between Word Sense Probability Distributions Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson
10:30-11:00	Break
Invited Talk
11:00-12:00	Putting Meaning into Your Trees Martha Palmer
12:00-13:30	Lunch
Shared Task Session
13:30-14:00	Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez
14:00-14:10	Semantic Role Labelling With Chunk Sequences Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Detlef Prescher
14:10-14:20	Memory-based semantic role labeling: Optimizing features, algorithm, and output Antal van den Bosch, Sander Canisius, Walter Daelemans, Iris Hendrickx and Erik Tjong Kim Sang
14:20-14:30	Hierarchical Recognition of Propositional Arguments with Perceptrons Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Grzegorz Chrupala
14:30-14:40	Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin and Daniel Jurafsky
14:40-14:50	A transformation-based approach to argument labeling Derrick Higgins
14:50-15:00	A Memory-Based Approach for Semantic Role Labeling Beata Kouchnir
15:00-15:10	Semantic Role Labeling using Maximum Entropy Model Joon-Ho Lim, Young-Sook Hwang, So-Young Park and Hae-Chang Rim
15:10-15:20	Two-Phase Semantic Role Labeling based on Support Vector Machines Kyung-Mi Park, Young-Sook Hwang and Hae-Chang Rim
15:20-16:00	Break
16:00-16:10	Semantic Role Labeling Via Generalized Inference Over Classifiers Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih, Dav Zimak and Yuancheng Tu
16:10-16:20	Learning Transformation Rules for Semantic Role Labeling Ken Williams, Christopher Dozier and Andrew McCulloh
16:20-17:15	Summary and Discussion on Shared Task