10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EACL03 

Programme
Main Conference

15-17 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary

The people behind EACL 03:

         Programme Co-Chairs	Ann Copestake (United Kingdom) 
 	Jan Hajic (Czech Republic) 

         Research Note and Demo Chair 	Alberto Lavelli (Italy) 

         Tutorial Chair 	Dan Cristea (Romania)

         Publication Chair 	Patrick Paroubek (France) 

         Student Workshop Chair		EACL Student Board (M. Gabsdil, J. Hockenmaier, 
	J. Herring)

        Workshop Chair	Steven Krauwer (The Netherlands) 

        Local Organisation Chair	Ferenc Kiefer (Hungary) 

 

The Conference, the Workshops and the Tutorials are sponsored by:

					

Contents

Main Conference Meeting Rooms in Hotel Agro 	2 

Main Conference Programme-at-a-Glance 	 3

Main Conference Programme 	 4

           Day 1: Tuesday, 15 April 2003 	 4

           Day 2: Wednesday, 16 April 2003 	 6

           Day 3: Thursday, 17 April 2003 	 7

General Information 	 9

Registration and Information Desk 	 9

Book Exhibition 	 9

Meals 	 9

Badge 	 9

Computer Room, Internet Access, Voltage 	 9

Information for Authors 	 9

Official Language 	 9

Social Events 	 10

Getting to the Conference Site 	 10

Tickets 	 10

Bank, Currency, Credit Cards 	 10

Insurance 	 10

Main Conference Meeting Rooms in Hotel Agro

5th Floor

Room A

	

Room B
	
Room C	

	

Ground Floor

Room D

	
Registration	

	

Main Conference Programme-at-a-Glance
Tuesday, 15 April 2003

	Room A	Room B	Room C	
09.00 – 09.30 	Introduction			
09.30 – 10.30	Invited Talk 			
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Parsing	Machine Learning	Machine Translation	
12.30 – 13.50	Lunch	
13.50 – 14.50	 RN: IE	RN: Corpora and Treebank	Demos 1 / Room D	
14.50 – 15.00	Mini break	
15.00 – 16.00	RN: NLG	RN: Lexical Resources 1	Demos 2 / Room D	
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break	
16.30 – 18.00	Parsing	Compositional Semantics	Machine Translation	
Wednesday, 16 April 2003

09.00 – 10.30	Machine Translation and Named Entities	Grammar Formalism	Lexicon	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Student Research Workshop: Track 1	Student Research Workshop: Track 2		
12.30 - 13.50	Lunch	
12.30 - 13.50	Student Business Meeting			
13.50 – 14.35	EACL Business Meeting			
14.40 – 16.00	RN: Grammar and Syntax	RN: Speech and Machine Translation	RN: Dictionary	
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break	
16.30 – 18.00	 Prosody and Information Structure	Algorithms	Classification	
Thursday, 17 April 2003

09.00 – 10.00	RN: Q/A Summarization	RN: IE and Metaphor	Demos 3 / Room D	
10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break	
10.30 – 12.30	 POS Tagging and Corpus Tools	Dialogue	Lexicon	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.00	RN: Lexical Resources 2	RN: PoS Tagging and Parsing	Demos 4 / Room D	
15.00 – 15.30	Coffee break	
15.30 – 16.30	Invited Talk 			
16.30 – 17.00	Closing and Best Paper Award			
Main Conference Programme
  
Tuesday, 15 April 2003	Day 1		

	Room A	Room B	Room C	
09.00 
09.30	Introduction			
09.30 
10.30	Invited Talk
 Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives
Doug Oard, University of Maryland			
	Coffee break	
11.00 
12.30	Parsing	Machine Learning	Machine Translation	
	Neural Network Probability Estimation for Broad Coverage Parsing
James Henderson
An Efficient Implementation of a New DOP Model
Rens Bod
Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers from Small Datasets
Mark Steedman, Anoop Sarkar, Miles             Osborne, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen
Clark, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steve Baker, Jeremiah Crim	Toward Evaluation of Writing Style: Overly Repetitious Word Use
Jill Burstein, Magdalena Wolska
French Amalgam: A Quick Adaptation of a Sentence Realization System to French
Martine Smets, Michael Gamon, Simon Corston-Oliver, Eric Ringger
Combining Distributional and Morphological Information for Part of Speech Induction
Alexander Clark	Czech-English Dependency Tree-based Machine Translation
Jan Cuvrin, Martin Cmejrek, Jiri Havelka
Using POS Information for SMT into Morphologically Rich Languages
Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney
Automatic Evaluation for a Palpable Measure of a Speech Translation System's Capability
Keiji Yasuda, Fumiaki Sugaya, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Seiichi Yamamoto,
Masuzo  Yanagida	
12.30 
13.50	Lunch	
	Research Notes and Demonstrations	
	IE	Corpora & Treebank	Demos 1 / Room D	
13.50 
14.10	Mining Web Sites Using Unsupervised Adaptive Information Extraction
Alexiei Dingli, Fabio Ciravegna, David Guthrie, Yorick Wilks

	Annotated Hungarian National Corpu
Zoltán Alexin et al	Talking through Procedures: An Intelligent Space Station Procedure Assistant
Greg Aist et al
A Dialogue System with Contextually Appropriate Spoken Output Intonation
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, Elena Karagjosova, Stina Ericsson
WASPBENCH: A Lexicographer's Workbench Incorporating State-of-the-Art Word Sense Disambiguation Adam Kilgarriff, Roger Evans,
  Rob Koeling, David Tugwell
An Open-Source Environment for Compiling Typed Unification Grammars into Speech Recognisers
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding
A Cross Language Document Retrieval System Based on Semantic Annotation
Bogdan Sacaleanu, Paul Buitelaar, Martin Volk
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Robust Generic and Query-based Summarization
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham	
14.10 
14.30	Effect of Utilizing Terminology on Extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction Information from Biomedical Literature
Junko Hosaka, Judice Koh, Akihiko Konagaya

	Arabic Syntactic Trees: from Constituency to Dependency
Zdenek Zabokrtsky, Otakar Smrz		
14.30 
14.50	The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework
Thierry Poibeau	The Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technologies
Serge A. Yablonsky		
	Minibreak	
Main Conference Programme

	Room A	Room B	Room C	
	Research Notes and Demonstrations	
	NLG	Lexical Resources 1	Demos 2 / Room D	
15.00 
15.20	A Best-First Search Algorithm for Generating Referring Expressions
Helmut Horacek

	Beyond Lexical Units: Enriching WordNets with Phrasets
Luisa Bentivogli, Emanuele Pianta	WYSIWYM - Building User Interfaces with Natural Language Feedback
Roger Evans, Richard Power
Towards an Adaptive Communication Aid with Ambiguous Text Input
Karin Harbusch, Michael Kühn
Multilingual Adaptations of a Reusable Information Extraction Tool
Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva
AGORA. Multilingual Multiplatform Architecture for the Development of Natural Language Voice Services
Jose Relaño-Gil, M. Carmen Rodriguez-Gancedo, Luis Hernandez Gomez
Event-Coreference across Multiple, Multi-lingual Sources in the Mumis Project
Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Jan Kuper, Thierry Declerck, Peter Wittenburg
Question Answering Using Web News as Knowledge Base
Zhiping Zheng	
15.20 
15.40	A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
Paul Piwek

	Discovering Corpus-Specific Word Senses
Beate Dorow, Dominic Widdows		
15.40
16.00	Summarizing Neonatal Time Series Data
Somayajulu G. Sripada, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter, Jin Yu	Creating a Multilingual Collocations Dictionary from Large Text Corpora
Luka Nerima, Violeta Seretan,
Eric Wehrli		
	Coffee break	

16.30
18.00	Parsing	Compositional Semantics	Machine Translation	
	Using Grammatical Relations to Compare Parsers
Judita Preiss
AVM Description Compilation using Types as Modes
Gerald Penn
Describing Syntax with Star-Free Regular Expressions
Anssi Yli-Jyrä	Underspecification Formalisms: Hole Semantics as Dominance Constraints,
Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater
Well-Nested Parallelism Constraints for Ellipsis Resolution
Katrin Erk, Joachim Niehren
Semantic Construction in F-TAG
Claire Gardent, Laura Kallmeyer	Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora
Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Horiuchi, Takeshi Hamamoto, Kohei Hino,
Takeaki Nakayama 
Combining Clues for Word Alignment
Jörg Tiedemann
Automatic Construction of Machine Translation Knowledge Using Translation Literalness
Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yuji Matsumoto	

Main Conference Programme

Wednesday, 16 April 2003	Day 2		

	Room A	Room B	Room C	
09.00 10.30	Machine Translation and Named Entities	Grammar Formalisms	Lexicon	
	Efficient Search for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
Richard Zens, Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney 
Learning Translations of Named-Entity Phrases from Parallel Corpora
Robert C. Moore
Named Entity Recognition For Catalan Using Only Spanish Resources and Unlabelled Data
Xavier Carreras, Lluis Màrquez, Lluiis Padró	Rigid Grammars in the Associative-Commutative Lambek Calculus are not Learnable
Christophe Costa Florencio
Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Jason Baldridge
Topological Parsing
Gerald Penn, Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini	Evaluating and Combining Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition
Carsten Brockmann, Mirella Lapata
Experiments on the Choice of Features for Learning Verb Classes
Sabine Schulte im Walde
A General Feature Space for Automatic Verb Classification
Eric Joanis, Suzanne Stevenson	
	Coffee break	
11.00 12.30	Student Research Workshops	
	Track 1	Track 2		
	Learning to Identify Fragmented Words in Spoken Discourse
Piroska Lendvai
Clustering Adjectives for Class Discovery
Gemma Boleda,  Laura Alonso Alemany
A Dynamic Logic Formalisation of the Dialogue Gameboard
Raquel Fernandez
	Integrating Cohesion and Coherence for Automatic Summarization
Laura Alonso Alemany,  Maria Fuentes Fort
Focusing on Scenario Recognition in Infomation Extraction
Milena Yankova, Svetla Boytcheva
Reversing Controlled Document Authoring to Normalize Documents
Aurélien Max		
12.30 13.50	Lunch	
12.30 13.50	Student Business Meeting			
13.50 14.35	EACL Business Meeting			
	Research Notes and Demonstrations	
	Grammar & Syntax	Speech & Machine Translation	Dictionary	
14.40 15.00	Lexicon Acquisition with a Large-Coverage Unification-Based Grammar
Frederik Fouvry	Meaningful Conversation with a Mobile Robot
Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Tetsushi Oka	Contents and Evaluation of the First Slovenian-German Online Dictionary
Birte Lönneker, Primo Jakopin	
15.00 15.20	The Key Role of Semantics in the Development of Large-Scale Grammars of Natural Language
Valia Kordoni	Rule-Based Lexical Modelling of Foreign-Accented Pronunciation Variants
Stefan Schaden	Oxford Dictionary of English - Current Developments
James McCracken, Adam Kilgarriff	
15.20 15.40	Lexicalized Grammar Acquisition
Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun'ichi Tsujii	A Corpus-Centered Approach to Spoken Language Translation
Eiichiro Sumita et al		
15.40 16.00	A Machine Learning Approach to the Identification of WH Gaps
Derrick Higgins	Using Noisy Bilingual Data for Statistical Machine Translation
Stephan Vogel		
	Coffee break	

Main Conference Programme

	Room A	Room B	Room C	

16.30
18.00	Prosody and Information Structure	Algorithms	Classification	
	Learning PP Attachment for Filtering Prosodic Phrasing
Olga van Herwijnen, Antal van den Bosch, Jacques Terken, Erwin Marsi
Information Structure in Topological Dependency Grammar
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Denys Duchier
Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation in an Information-State Based Dialogue System
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Kepa Joseba Rodríguez, Stina Ericsson,
Elena Karagjosova 	Constraint Based Integration of Deep and Shallow Parsing Techniques
Michael Daum, Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel 
Comparison of Alignment Templates and Maximum Entropy Models for NLP
Oliver Bender, Klaus Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney
Linear Text Segmentation Using a Dynamic Programming Algorithm
Athanasios Kehagias, Pavlina Fragkou, Vassilios Petridis	Language Independent Authorship Attribution with Character Level N-Grams
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Vlado Keselj, Shaojun Wang 
Classifying the Hungarian Web
Andras Kornai, Marc Krellenstein, Michael Mulligan, David Twomey,
Fruzsina Veress, Alec Wysoker
A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Anti-Spam E-Mail Filtering
Karl-Michael Schneider	

 
Thursday, 17 April 2003	Day 3		

	Room A	Room B	Room B	
	Research Notes and Demonstrations	
	Q/A  Summarization	IE & Metaphor	Demos 3 / Room D	
09.00
09.20	WEBCOOP: A Cooperative Question Answering System on the Web
Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint Dizier
	Automatic Acquisition of Script Knowledge from a Text Collection
Toshiaki Fujiki, Hidetsugu Nanba, Manabu Okumura

	Suregen-2: A Shell System for the Generation of Clinical Documents
Dirk Kraus
Integrating Natural Language Generation with the Apache Cocoon XML Server
Graham Wilcock
A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
Paul Piwek
Development of Corpora within the CLaRK System: The BulTreeBank Project Experience
Kiril Simov et al
The Corpora Management System Based on Java and Oracle Technology                                   Serge A. Yablonsky	
09.20 
09.40	How to Build a QA System in Your Back-Garden: Application for Romanian
Constantin Orasan, Doina Tatar,
  Gabriela Seban, Dana Avram, 
  Adrian Onet
	NLP for Indexing and Retrieval of Captioned Photographs
Horacio Saggion, Katerina Pastra, Yorick Wilks

		
09.40  
10.00	CAST: A Computer-Aided Summarisation Tool
Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov, Laura Hasler
	Domain-Transcending Mappings in a System for Metaphorical Reasoning
John Barnden, Sheila Glasbey, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington		
	Coffee break	

Main Conference Programme

	Room A	Room B	Room C	
10.30
12.30	POS Tagging and Corpus Tools	Dialogue	Lexicon	
	Detecting Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation
Markus Dickinson, Detmar Meurers
Investigating GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers
James R. Curran, Stephen Clark
Finite Structure Query: A Tool for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora
Stephan Kepser
An Integrated Term-Based Corpus Query System
Kostas Manios, Goran Nenadic, Irena Spasic, Sophia Ananiadou	A Model of Back-Channel Acknowledgements in Spoken Dialogue
Nicola Cathcart, Jean Carletta, Ewan Klein 
The Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue
Mark G. Core,  Johanna D. Moore, Claus Zinn 
Targeted Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Beth Ann Hockey, Oliver Lemon, Ellen Campana, Laura Hiatt, Gregory Aist,
  Jim  Hieronymus ,John Dowding
Transparent Combination of Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches in Speech Understanding
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey	QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Generalised PP-attachment Disambiguation Using Corpus-based Linguistic Diagnostics
Paola Merlo
Detecting Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides
Empirical Methods for Compound Splitting
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight	
12.30  
14.00	Lunch	
14.00  
15.00	Research Notes and Demonstrations	
	Lexical Resources 2	PoS Tagging & Parsing	Demos 4 / Room D	
14.00  
14.20	Experiments on Candidate Data for Collocation Extraction
Stefan Evert,  Hannah Kermes
	Categorial Fluidity in Chinese and its Implications for Part-of-speech Tagging
Oi Yee Kwong
	Controlled Authoring of Biological Experiment Reports
Caroline Brun, Marc Dymetman, Eric Fanchon, Stanislas Lhomme
CarSim: An Automatic 3D Text-to-Scene Conversion System Applied to Road Accident Reports
Ola Åkerberg, Hans Svensson, Bastian Schulz, Pierre Nugues
The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework
Thierry Poibeau
Creating a Multilingual Collocations Dictionary from Large Text Corpora
Violeta Seretan	
14.20  
14.40	Word Classification Based on Combined Measures of Distributional and Semantic Similarity
Viktor Pekar, Steffen Staab	PEAS, the First Instantiation of a Comparative Framework for Evaluating Parsers of French
Véronique Gendner, Gabriel Illouz, Michèle Jardino, Laura Monceaux, Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat
		
14.40 
15.00	Interactive Word Alignment for Language Engineering
Lars Ahrenberg, Magnus Merkel, Michael Petterstedt	A Cascaded Finite-State Parser for German
Michael Schiehlen		
	Coffee break	
15.30 
16.30	Invited talk
Linguistic Variation and Computation
John Nerbonn			
16.30  
17.00	Closing and best paper award			

General Information
Registration and Information Desk
The Registration and Information Desk will operate in the Hotel Agro Conference Center as follows: 
Friday, 11 April	08:00-12:00	
Saturday, 12 April	08:00-17:00	
Sunday, 13 April	08:00-17:00	
Monday, 14 April	08:00-17:00	
Tuesday, 15 April	08:00-17:00	
Wednesday, 16 April	08:00-17:00	
Thursday, 17 April	08:00-14:00	
Any questions regarding the Conference logistics, the programme and assistance of speakers can be directed to the Registration and Information Desk.
Book Exhibition
The book exhibition takes place on the 5th floor and is open during the Conference hours on the Main Conference                (15 - 17 April).
Meals 
•	Breakfast is included in the hotel price. 
•	Optional sandwich lunches are available on April 12 - 17 (3 sandwiches, refreshment, fruit, coffee) and are served in the Restaurant of the Hotel Agro Conference Center. Each ticket costs HUF 2000/lunch. In case you wish to order the lunch on-site, you are requested to do so as early as possible but not later than the previous day. Please, note that the availability of tickets is limited.  
•	Coffee, tea and refreshments are served during the breaks.
Badge
Every conference event you participate in is indicated with badges in different colour in your badge holder (Tutorials: green, Workshops on 13 April: red, Workshops on 14 April: blue, Main Conference: white). Badges need to be changed accordingly. In case of badge loss, we charge EUR 10 for the substitution.
Computer Room, Internet Access, Voltage 
A number of PCs and plugs for your laptop  with Internet access are available: 
•	12-17 April: 5th Floor corridor.
•	15-17 April: Room D on the Ground Floor (Except for Demos hours). 
The electricity supply in Hungary is 230 V AC (50 Hz). 
Information for Authors
For the benefit of both the audience and the next speaker, all the speakers are kindly requested to strictly adhere to the time limit that otherwise will be enforced by session chairs.
Data beamers, overhead projectors and flip charts will be available in the session rooms. Authors are kindly asked to use their own laptops. In addition, computers are also available in the session rooms during the Main Conference.
Official Language
The official language of the Conference is English. 

General Information
Social Events
•	Welcome Reception (19.00, Monday, April 14) in the Restaurant of Hotel Agro Conference Center. All registered participants of the Main Conference are cordially invited. (Please, wear your white-colour badges.)
•	Banquet (19.30, Wednesday, April 16): Cruising on the Danube you can enjoy the evening colours and night-lights of Budapest with live music and dance. The conference banquet will be held on the Europa Boat (address: Budai Alsó rakpart, Batthyany Dezső tér). Special bus transfer will take the participants from Hotel Agro to the Europa Boat and back. The bus departs at 19.00 from Hotel Agro Conference Center. The banquet costs HUF 12 500.
Getting to the City Center
From Hotel Agro the City can be reached by bus #21 (written in black!). The bus stop is in a 2-3 minute walking distance at Hotel Olympia. It takes you to Moszkva tér (square), where you can choose either tram #6 or tram #4 or Metro line 2 (red) to get into the City center.
Tickets for Public Transportation
Tickets are available at METRO stations, news stands or major bus/tram termini and must be validated inside the vehicles or at the entrance of the METRO. Please, keep your ticket with you until the end of the journey/exit (Metro). 
Tickets for public transportation can also be bought at the Registration and Information Desk.
Telephone Card
Telephone cards are available at the Registration and Information Desk.
Bank, Currency, Credit Cards 
The unit of currency is the Hungarian Forint (HUF), denoted as “Ft” by the Hungarians. International credit cards (AmEx, EC/MC, Visa) are accepted at most hotels, restaurants and shops. ATMs are available all over the city           (1 EUR is approx. 250 HUF).  
Insurance 
The Organizers of the Conference do not provide insurance and do not take responsibility for any loss, accident or illness that might occur during the Conference or in the course of travel to or from the meeting site. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the participants to check their coverage with their insurance provider.