REGISTRATION: see
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
* Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
* Late registration: May 25 - June 24
* After June 24th, registration will be on site only
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Welcome + overview |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | E. Breck. M. Light, G. Mann. E. Riloff, B. Brown, P. Anand, M. Rooth and M. Thelen |
| "Looking under the Hood: Tools for Diagnosing your Question Answering Engine" | |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | H. Kim, K. Kim, G.G. Lee and J. Seo |
| "MAYA: A Fast Question-Answering System Based on a Predictive Answer Indexer" | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | U. Hermjakob |
| "Parsing and Question Classification for Question Answering" | |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | G. S. Mann |
| "A statistical method for short answer extraction" | |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | R. Zajac |
| "Towards Ontological Question Answering" | |
| 12:30 - 1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45 - 2:10 | M.Pasca and S.Harabagiu |
| "Answer Mining from On-Line Documents" | |
| 2:10 - 2:35 | O. Ferret, B. Grau, M. Hurault-Plantet, G. Illouz and C. Jacquemin |
| "Terminological variants for document selection and question/answer matching" | |
| 2:35 - 3:30 | A. Fujii and T. Ishikawa |
| "Question answering using encyclopedic knowledge generated from the Web" | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Keynote Speech - John Prange |
| "Advanced Question and Answering: The Right Problem at the Right Time or a Bridge Too Far?" | |
| 5:00 - 5:45 | Panel - John Prange, Donna Harman, Sanda Harabagiu, Yael Ravin |
| "The Future of Q/A" |