2002
International
Symposium on
Reference
Resolution for
Natural
Language
Processing
Alicante, Spain
June 3-4, 2002
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Information about Alicante and the Conference
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With the advent of the Internet and the predominant representation of
on-line information in textual form, the quality and robustness of
natural language understanding systems has become critical. A major
obstacle in building robust systems that interpret, extract
information, summarize and answer questions from texts is the need to
identify the entities referred to by pronouns or other referential
expressions from texts.
Textual reference is a pervasive phenomenon that virtually interacts with every aspect of semantic and discourse analysis. The objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers whose work focuses on the resolution of reference in natural language and to create a forum for the presentation and discussion of their current results. This call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging work/results in reference resolution. The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to: o new reference resolution algorithms, o theories and formalisms for reference resolution, o empirical methods in reference resolution, o applications of reference resolution, o multilingual and multidocument reference resolution, o evaluation of reference resolution o resources used for reference resolution. |
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Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 30 2002 Authors Notification: April 20 2002 Camera-ready deadline: May 10 2002 Conference: June 3-4 2002 |
| Monday June 3rd 2002 | |||
| 9:00--9:30 | Registration | ||
| 9:30--10:00 | Welcome | ||
| 10:00--10:30 | THIS Noun Phrases: An Hypothesis about Their Discourse Function and Empirical Evidence | Massimo Poesio and Natalia N. Modjeska | |
| 10:30--11:00 | The Role of Wor(l)d Knowledge in Pronominal Anaphora Resolution | Beata Klebanov and Peter Wiemer-Hastings | |
| 11:00--11:30 | Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Literature | José Castaño, Jason Zhang and James Pustejovsky | |
| 11:30--12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00--12:30 | Three Ways to Customize Reference Resolution | Sanda M. Harabagiu and Steve Maiorano | |
| 12:30--13:00 | Implicit Role Reference | Joel Tetreault | |
| 13:00--13:30 | From Deep to Shallow Anaphora Resolution: What Do We Lose, What Do We Gain | Rodolfo Delmonte | |
| 13:30--14:00 | An Interlingual-based Approach to Reference Resolution | David Farwell and Stephen Helmreich | |
| 14:00--16:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 16:00--17:00 | Keynote Speech | Jerry Hobbs | |
| 20:30 | Reception at San Fernando Castle | ||
| Tuesday June 4th 2002 | |||
| 9:00--9:30 | Automatic Evaluation for Anaphora Resolution in SUPAR System | Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral and Sergio Luján | |
| 9:30--10:00 | Refined Salience Weighting and Error Analysis in Anaphora Resolution | Richard Evans | |
| 10:00--10:30 | A Rule-based Reference Resolution Method for Dutch Discourse Analysis | Rieks op den Akker, Marjan Hospers, Erna Kroezen, Anton Nijholt and Danny Lie | |
| 10:30--11:00 | The Resolution and Translation of Spanish | Randy Sharp | |
| 11:00--11:30 | Solving Definite Descriptions through Dialogue Structure in Spanish | Borja Navarro, Patricio Martínez-Barco and Rafael Muñoz | |
| 11:30--12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00--12:30 | Order and Strategies in Anaphora Resolution | M. Iza | |
| 12:30--13:00 | Tools for an Annotated Database for Anaphora Resolution | R. Delmonte, L. Chiran and C. Bacalu | |
| 13:00--14:00 | Panel | ||
| 14:00--16:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 16:00--17:00 | Conclusions and Wrap-up | ||