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TMR-LCG Meeting Dublin November 1999

Location: University College Dublin, Computer Department.

Programme

Monday 15 November

09:00 Coffee and Welcome - Ronan Reilly, Dublin 

09:15 LCG Network: Motivation, Initiation, Progress
      John Nerbonne, Groningen

09:45 Shared Task Definition
      Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Antwerpen
      Miles Osborne, Groningen

10:15 Investigation of SARDSRN, a Connectionist Architecture 
      for NLP, in Noun-Phrase Identification
      James Hammerton, Dublin

10:45 Break

11:00 MDL-based Learning
      Miles Osborne, Groningen

11:30 LCG at SRI Cambridge, UK
      Rob Koeling, SRI Cambridge

12:00 Applying Explanation-Based Learning to
      Lexical Functional Grammars
      Nicola Cancedda, Xerox, Grenoble

12:30 Lunch, Main Canteen, UCD

13:30 Memory-Based Learning
      Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Antwerpen

14:00 LCG in Tübingen, Germany
      Hervé Déjean, Tübingen

14:30 Genetic Algorithms
      Anja Belz, SRI Cambridge

15:00 Break

15:30 GUEST PRESENTATION
      Marshall Mayberry, University of Texas
      Research on Language Learning in Neural Nets

16:30 Error Analysis
      Adelina Ivanova, Geneva

16:45 Inductive Logic Programming
      Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Groningen

17:00 General Discussion. Topics:
      * future meetings
      * spending early project money
      * Xerox visit
17:30 done

Tuesday 15 November: 09:00-17:00

Mid-Term Project Review.

09.00 Informal Welcome by Ronan Reilly, Dublin

09:15 OPENING   
      Christiane Bernard, DG XII (Meeting Chair)

09:45 Coordinator's Report 
      John Nerbonne, Groningen

10:45 Break

11:15 Discussion of Coordinator's Report

11:30 Tour de Table
      5 min. by each Scientist-in-Charge 

      John Nerbonne, Groningen
      Dale Gerdemann and/or Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen
      Walter Daelemans, Antwerpen
      David Milward, SRI Cambridge
      Ronan Reilly, Dublin
      Christer Samuelsson, Xerox
      Susan Armstrong, Suissetra

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Young Researchers' Reports
      10 min. each

      Postdocs
      James Hammerton, Dublin
      Miles Osborne, Groningen
      Nicola Cancedda, Xerox, Grenoble
      Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Antwerpen
      Hervé Déjean, Tübingen
      Anja Belz, SRI Cambridge
      Adelina Ivanova, Geneva
 
      Predocs
      Rob Koeling, SRI Cambridge
      Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Groningen

15:30 Break

16:00 General Discussion

17:00 Closing