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

Programme
Tutorials and Workshops

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:

				  	

Content

Tutorials and Workshops Meeting Rooms at Hotel Agro 	 2

Tutorials and Workshops Programme-at-a-Glance 	 3

Tutorials Programme 	 4

Workshops  Programme 	 5

            Sunday, 13 April 2003	 5

            Monday, 14 April 2003	 10

General Information 	 16

Registration and Information Desk 	 16

Meals 	 16

Badge 	 16

Computer Room, Internet Access, Voltage 	 16

Information for Authors 	 16

Insurance 	 16

Official Language 	 16

Getting to the Conference Site 	 17

Tickets 	 17

Bank, Currency, Credit Cards 	 17

Tutorials and Workshops Meeting Rooms in Hotel Agro

5th Floor
13-14 April

	

	

Room 1
	
Room 2	
Room 3	
Room 4	
Room 5	

	

2nd Floor	

Room 7

	

1st Floor	

Room 6

	

Ground Floor

	

Room D

	
Registration	

Tutorials and Workshops Programme-at-a-Glance
Saturday, 12 April 2003

	Room 1	Room 2	
09.30 – 11.00	Tutorial 1/1	Tutorial 2/1	
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break	
11.30 – 13.00	Tutorial 1/2	Tutorial 2/2	
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch	
14.30 – 16.00	Tutorial 3/1	Tutorial 4/1	
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break	
16.30 – 18.00	Tutorial 3/2	Tutorial 4/2	
Sunday, 13 April 2003

	WS 01 Room 6	WS 02 Room D	WS 03 Room 3	WS 06 Room 4	WS 09 Room 2	WS 10 Room 5	WS 12 Room 1	
08.45								
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09.30								
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee	
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12.30 – 14.00	Lunch break	
14.00								
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee	
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18.00								
18.10								
18.30								
Monday, 14 April 2003

	WS 02 Room D	WS 03 Room 3	WS 04 Room 1	WS 05 Room 5	WS 06 Room 4	WS 07 Room 6	WS 08 Room 7	WS 09 Room 2	
08.40									
09.00									
09.30									
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00									
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch 	
				WS 11 Room 5					
14.00									
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
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18.00									
18.30									
Tutorials

Saturday, 12 April 2003

	Room 1	Room 2	
	T1/1	T2/1	
09.30 – 11.00 
	Word Senses, Disambiguation and Parallel Corpora
Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI University of Brighton) and Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy)	Q/A Techniques for WWW
Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin (MIT Cambridge)
	
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break	
	T1/2	T2/2	
11.30 – 13.00	Word Senses, Disambiguation and Parallel Corpora
Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI University of Brighton) and Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy)	Q/A Techniques for WWW
Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin (MIT Cambridge)
	
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch	
	T3/1	T4/1	
14.30 – 16.00	Text Representation and Automatic Text Categorization
Jose Maria Gomez Hidalgo (Universitad Europea de Madrid)	Computational Dialogue Models
Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL Lausanne)	
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break	
	T3/2	T4/2	
16.30 – 18.00	Text Representation and Automatic Text Categorization
Jose Maria Gomez Hidalgo (Universitad Europea de Madrid)	Computational Dialogue Models
Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL Lausanne)	

Workshops

Sunday, 13 April 2003	
   
WS02  (Room D)  9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation                               Day I.
		             
09.15 – 09.30	Welcome	
09.30 – 10.30	Deriving the Communicative Structure in Applied NLG
Leo Wanner, Bernd Bonnet and Mark Giereth
Preserving Discourse Structure when Simplifying Text
Advaith Siddharthan	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.00	Restricting the Rhetorical Input for the Non-Hierarchical Planning of Document Structures
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha
Handling Dependencies in Reorganizing Content Specifications: A Case Study of Case Analysis
Helmut Horacek	
12.00 – 12.30	Preparatory Meetings on Evaluation	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Applied NLG System Evaluation: FlexyCAT
Nestor Miliaev, Alison Cawsey, Greg Michaelson
Corpus Analysis for NLG
Sabine Geldof
Acquiring and Using Limited User Models in NLG
Ehud Reiter, Somayajulu Sripada,  Sandra Williams	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.30	Multilingual Revision
Charles Callaway
Invited Presentation
Henk Zeevat	

WS03  (Room 3)  4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03) Day I.           
                        							 
09.00	Opening Session
Anne Abeillé, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Hans Uszkoreit	
09.30 – 10.30	The PARC 700 Dependency Bank
Tracy Holloway King, Richard Crouch, Stefan Riezler, Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan 
Issues in the Syntactic Annotation of Cast3LB
Montserrat Civit, Ma. Antónia Martí, Borja Navarro, Núria Bufí, Belé Fernández, Raquel Marcos	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Practical Annotation Scheme for an HPSG Treebank of Bulgarian
Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova 
Treebank Conversion - Establishing a Testsuite for a Broad-Coverage LFG from the TIGER Treebank
Martin Forst
The Annotation Process in the Turkish Treebank
Nart B. Atalay, Kemal Oflazer, Bilge Say	

Workshops

12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	

14.00 – 15.30	Automatic Multi-Layer Corpus Annotation for Evaluating Question Answering Methods: CBC4Kids
Jochen L. Leidner, Tiphaine Dalmas, Bonnie Webber, Johan Bos, Claire Grover
Text as Binary Sequence: A Case of Characteristic Constant of Text
Petar Milin, Nada Ilic
Open Mind Word Expert: Creating Large Annotated Data Collections with Web Users' Help
Rada Mihalcea, Timothy Chklovski	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.00	Limits to Annotation Precision
Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy
Which Bridges for Bridging Definite Descriptions?
Claire Gardent, Hélène Manuélian, Eric Kow	

WS06  (Room 4)  Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management                  Day I.

09.30 – 09.45	Start	
09.45 – 10.30	A Constructive View of Discourse Operators
Allan Ramsay, Helen Gaylard
An Agent Design for Effective Negotiation Dialogues
Bryan McEleney,  Gregory OhareMcEleney	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee berak	
11.00 – 12.30	Multimodal Dialogue Management in the COMIC Project
Roberta Catizone, Andrea Setzer, Yorick Wilks
Automating Hinting in Mathematical Tutorial Dialogue
Armin Fiedler, Dimitra Tsovaltzi
Discussion on the Issues Presented in the Morning Papers 	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Policies and Procedure for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Matthias Denecke
Distributed Dialogue Management on Blackboard Architecure
Antti Kerminen,  Kristiina Jokinen
Multi-Level Architectures for Natural Activity-Oriented Dialogue
Oliver Lemon,  Lawrence Cavedon	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
 16.00 – 17.00	Demonstrations 
Panel discussion: Styles of Dialogue Management - Are They Really Different?	

Workshops

WS09  (Room 2)  EACL Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing      Day I.

09.00 – 10.30	Introduction to Computational Morphology and Two-Level Morphology
Kemal Oflazer	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Multi-Level Finite-State Morphology
Kenneth R. Beesley	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 16.00	Finite State Applications for Basque
I. Aduriz, I. Aldezabal, I. Alegria, J. M. Arriola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, K. Gojenola
A Finite-State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish
Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas
Finite-state Morphological Analysis and Generation for Aymara
Kenneth R. Beesley
Building a Computational Morphological Analyser/Generator for Zulu Using the Xerox Finite State Tools 
Sonja E. Bosch, Laurette Pretorius	
16.00 –16.30	Coffee break	
16.30 – 18.00	Two-Level Engines for Salish Morphology
Deryle Lonsdale
Finite-State Morphology and Irish 
Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha
Incremental Grammar Development Using Finite-State Tools
Mike Maxwell	

WS01  (Room 6)  EAMT/EACL 2003 Workshop on MT and Other Language Technology Tools
Improving MT through Other Language Technology Tools, Resources and Tools         for Building MT
                      	       Sponsored by EAMT

09.30 – 09.45	Welcome and Introduction
Bente Maegaard	
09.45 – 10.30	Improving Machine Translation Quality with Automatic Named Entity Recognition
Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley 	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	  Two Approaches to Aspect Assignment in an English-Polish Machine Translation System
Anna Kupsc

Multi-language Machine Translation through Interactive Document Normalization
Aurélien Max	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	

Workshops

14.00 – 15.30	Computer-based Support for Patients with Limited English
Harold Somers 
  Panel Discussion on Improving MT	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00  – 18.00	Parallel Corpora Segmentation Using Anchor Words
Francisco Nevado, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal 
  An Evaluation of a Lexicographer's Workbench: Building Lexicons for Machine Translation
Rob Koeling, Adam Kilgarriff, David Tugwell, Roger Evans 
  Panel Discussion on Resources and Tools for Building MT	

WS10  (Room 5)  Language Technology and the Semantic Web: 3rd Workshop on NLP and XML    
                             (NLPXML-2003) 

09.00 – 09.15	Welcome	
09.15 – 10.30	Setting the Context: The Relevance of the Semantic Web for Language Technology
Nancy Ide, Paul Buitelaar
Semantic Web Enabled, Open Source Language Technology
Kalina Bontcheva, Atanas Kiryakov, Hamish Cunningham, Borislav Popov, Marin Dimitrov	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	A Multi-Layered, XML-Based Approach to the Integration of Linguistic and Semantic Annotations
Paul Buitelaar, Thierry Declerck, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Spela Vintar, Diana Raileanu, Claudia Crispi
The NITE Object Model Library for Handling Structured Linguistic Annotation on Multimodal Data Sets
Jean Carletta, Jonathan Kilgour, Tim O’Donnell, Stefan Evert,  Holger Voormann
OntoTag: XML / RDF(S) / OWL Semantic Web Page Annotation in ContentWeb
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Inmaculada Alvarez-de-Mon, Asuncion Gomez-Perez,  Antonio Pareja-Lora	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Enhancing XCES to xComForT : An Extensible Modular Architecture for the Annotation and Manipulation of Text Resources
Marion Freese, Ulrich Heid and Martin Emele
Cross Document Annotation for Multimedia Retrieval
Dennis Reidsma, Jan Kuper, Thierry Declerck, Horacio Saggion,  Hamish Cunningham
Lexical Databases in XML
Pavel Smrz,  Martin Povolny	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 16.30	Linguistic Parsing of Lists in Structured Documents
Salah Ait-Mokhtar, Veronika Lux,  Eva Banik	
16.30 – 18.00	Panel and Discussion	

Workshops

WS12  (Room 1)  Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages
                                 Workshop chairs: Tomaz Erjavec, Dusko Vitas

08.45 – 09.00	Welcome	
09.00 – 10.30	Relations between Inflectional and Derivation Patterns
Karel Pala, Radek Sedlacek, Marek Veber
A Large-Scale Inheritance-Based Morphological Lexicon for Russian
Roger Evans, Carole Tiberius, Dunstan Brown, Greville C. Corbett
Automatic Lexical Acquisition from Raw Corpora: An Application to Russian
Antoni Oliver, Irene Castellón, Lulís Marquez	
10.30 – 11.00	Cofffe break	
11.00 – 12.30	The MULTEXT-East Morphosyntactic Specification for Slavic Languages
Tomaz Erjavec, Cvetana Krstev, Vladimír Petkevic, Kiril Simov, Marko Tadic, Dusko Vitas
A Flexemic Tagset for Polish
Adam Przepiórkowski, Marcin Wolinski
Building the Croatian Morphological Lexicon
Marko Tadic, Sanja Fulgosi	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Unsupervised Learning of Bulgarian POS Tags
Derrick Higgins
Composite Tense Recognition and Tagging in Serbian
Duško Vitas, Cvetana Krstev
A Reconfigurable Stochastic Tagger for Languages with Complex Tag Structure
Łukasz Debowski	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.30	Some Aspects of the Morphological Processing of Bulgarian
Milena Slavcheva
Morpho-syntactic Clues for Terminological Processing in Serbian
Goran Nenadic, Irena Spasic, Sophia Ananiadou
Russian Morphology: Ressources and Java Software Application
Serge Yablonsky	
17.30 – 18.30	Round table:
Slavic Languages: Between Linguistic Descriptions and Computational Needs	

Workshops

Monday, 14 April 2003

WS02  (Room 2)  9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation		                  Day II.

09.30 – 10.30	A Phrasal Generator for Describing Relational Database Queries
Michael Minock
Dynamic Generation of Cooperative Natural Language Responses in WEBCOOP
Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint-Dizier	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee berak	
11.00 – 12.30	Porting to an Italian Surface Realizer: A Case Study
Alessandra Novello, Charles Callaway
Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing: Tactical Generation in Dynamic Syntax
Matthew Purver, Masayuki Otsuka
Adapting Chart Realization to CCG
Michael White, Jason Baldridge	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	A New Model for Generating Multimodal Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer, Ielka van der Sluis
Generation of Video Documentaries from Discourse Structrues
Cesare Rocchi, Massimo Zancanaro
Experiments with Discourse-Level Choices and Readability
Sandra Williams, Ehud Reiter, Liesl Osman	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 16.30	Learning to Order Facts for Discourse Planning in Natural Language Generation
Aggeliki Dimitrimanolaki, Ion Androutsopoulos
Plenary Session on Evaluation	

WS03  (Room D)  4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)     
	                                                                                                                                                      Day II.

09.00 – 10.00	Tectogrammatical Annotation of the Prague Dependency Treebank and its Possible Usage
Jan Hajic	
10.00 – 10.30	Step by Step: Underspecified Markup in Incremental Rhetorical Analysis
David Reitter, Manfred Stede	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Exploitation of an SFL-Annotated Multilingual Register Corpus
Stella Neumann
The Spoken Dutch Corpus and its Exploitation Environment
Nelleke Oostdijk, Daan Broeder
CGN, an Annotated Corpus of  Spoken Dutch
Ineke Schuurman, Machteld Schouppe, Heleen Hoekstra, Ton van der Wouden	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	

Workshops

14.00 – 15.30	The Unbearable Lightness of Tagging: A Case Study in Morphosyntactic Tagging of Polish
Adam Przepiórkowski, Marcin Wolinski
Stretching TEI: Converting the Genia Corpus
Tomaz Erjavec, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi, Jun-ichi Tsujii
The MetaGrammar: A Cross-Framework and Cross-Language Test-Suite Generation Tool
Alexandra Kinyon, Owen Rambow	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.00	Roadmap Discussion: Current and Future Directions in Corpus Annotation and Exploitation	

WS06	(Room 4)  Dialogue Systems: Interaction, Adaptation and Styles of Management              Day II.

09.00 – 10.30	An Indexation Algorithm for Vocal Searches in Large Databases
Christophe Dupriez, Melanie Roland
Flexibility and Efficiency Through Personalisation? Experiments with a Conversational Program Guide Information System
Peter Pal Boda, Suresh Chaude, Elvira Hartikainen, Nidhi Gupta
SesaME: A Framework for Personalised and Adaptive Speech Interfaces
Botond Pakucs	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 12.30	Machine Learning for Shallow Interpretation of User Utterances in Spoken
Dialogue Systems
Piroska Lendvai, Anatal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer
Learning to Classify Utterances in a Task-Oriented Dialogue
William Black, Paul Thompson, Adam Funk,  Andrew Conroy
Discussion on the Issues Presented in the Morning Papers	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Invited Talk 
The Interactive Navigation to the Stored Q&A data using Simple Questions
Kunio Matsui, Hozumi Tanaka
Why a Static Interpretation is not Sufficient in Spatial Communication
John Bateman, Kerstin Fischer,  Thora Tenbrink	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.00	Panel Discussion: Adaptation and Learning in Intelligent Interactive Systems	

WS09  (Room 2)  EACL Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing     Day II.
 
09.00 – 10.30	Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology 
Yael Cohen-Sygal, Dale Gerdemann, Shuly Wintner
Morphological Tagging of the Qur'an
Rafi Talmon, Shuly Wintner
Converting Linguistic Systems of Relational Matrices into Finite State Transducers
Matthieu Constant	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	

Workshops

11.00 – 12.45	From Numbers to Numerals in Finnish
Invited Talk: Lauri Karttunen
A Time-Efficient Token Representation for Parsers
Sébastien Paumier
Feature Structures as Weights in Finite State Morphology
Jan W. Amtrup	
12.45 – 14.30	Lunch	
14.30 – 16.00	Some Families of Compound Temporal Adverbs in Portuguese
Jorge Baptista
Analysis and Disambiguation of Nouns and Adjectives in Portuguese by FST
Paula Carvalho, Elisabete Ranchhod
From Extraction to Indexation. Collecting New Indexation Keys by Means of IE Techniques
Cédrick Fairon, Patrick Watrin	
16.00 –16.30	Coffee break	
16.30 – 18.00	Quadratic Alignment Constraints and Finite-State Optimality Theory
Tamas Biro
Semi-Incremental Construction of Minimal Cyclic Finite-State Automata Using Continuation Classes 
Jan Daciuk
Achieving Full Coverage of Automatically Learnt Finite-State Language Models
E. Segarra, E. Sanchis, F. Garcia, L. Hurtado, I. Galiano	

WS04  (Room 1)  Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods

08.45 – 09.00	Welcome	
09.00 – 10.30	30 Exploiting Long Distance Collocational Relations in Predictive Typing
Johannes Matiasek, Marco Baroni
Testing the Efficacy of Part-of-Speech Information in Word Completion
Afsaneh Fazly,Graeme Hirst
Discussion	
10.30 –11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 13.00	Language-Models for Questions
Ed Schofield
Automatic Acquisition of Word Interaction Patterns from Corpora
Veska Noncheva, Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Gabriel Lopes
Barriers to Adoption of Dictionary-Based Text-Entry Methods: A Field Study
Howard Gutowitz
Discussion	
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch	

Workshops

14.00 – 15.30	HMS: A Predictive Text Entry Method Using Bigrams
Jon Hasselgren, Erik Montnemery, Pierre Nugues, Markus Svensson
Word N-Grams for Cluster Keyboards
Nils Klarlund, Michael Riley
Discussion	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 17.30	Language Technology in a Predictive, Restricted On-Screen Keyboard with Dynamic Layout for Severely Disabled People
Anders S. Johansen, John P. Hansen, Dan W. Hansen, Kenji Itoh, Satoru Mashino
Domain-Specific Disambiguation for Typing with Ambiguous Keyboards
Karin Harbusch, Saša Hasan, Hajo Hoffmann, Michael Kühn, Bernhard  Schüler
Discussion	
17.30 – 17.40	Coffee break	
17.40 – 18.30	Final Discussion	

   
WS07  (Room 6)  Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: Are Evaluation Methods,       
		     Metrics Reusable?

08.45 – 09.30	Welcome - Overview
Donna Harman (Invited Speaker)	
09.30 – 10.30	Reuse and Challenges in Evaluating Natural Language Generation Systems
Kalina Bontcheva
The PEACE SLDS Understanding Evaluation Paradigm of the French MEDIA Campaign
Laurence Devillers, Helene Maynard, Patrick Paroubek, Sophie Rosset	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break	
11.00 – 12.30	Some Statistical Methods for Evaluating Information Extraction Systems
Will Lowe, Gary King
A Quantitative Method for Machine Translation Evaluation
Jesus Tomas, Josep Angel Mas, Francisco Casacuberta
Colouring Summaries BLEU
Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion 	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch Break	
14.00 – 15.30	Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Evaluations of Parsing Systems
Diego Molla, Ben Hutchinson
Adaptation of the F-Measure to Cluster-Based Lexicon Quality Evaluation
Angelo Dalli
No-Bureaucracy Evaluation
Adam Kilgarriff	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee Break	

Workshops

16.00 – 18.00	Living up to Standards
Maghi King
Setting up an Evaluation Infrastructure for NLP in Europe
Kevin McTait (Invited Speaker)
Panel Discussion:
Evaluation Initiatives - Reuse of Evaluation Resources within and across NLP Research Areas
Evaluation Issues within Natural Language Generation
Ehud Reiter	

WS08 (Room 7) Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages: Expanding Synergies with           
                            Europe

09.00 – 10.30	Welcome
Keynote Address
Rajeev Sangal	
10.30 –11.00	Coffee break	
11.00 – 13.00	Current State of CL for South Asian Languages
Pat Hall
Corpora for Speech and Writing
Tony McEnery	
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 – 15.30	Linguistic Issues and Applications
Durgesh Rao	
15.00 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 18.00	Speech Generation and Recognition
B. B. Chaudhuri
Working Groups
Conclusion	

14 April 2003, morning

WS05  (Room 5)  EACL Workshop ‘The Computational Treatment of Anaphora'    

08.40 – 08.50	Opening, Welcome	
08.50 – 10.30	Intermediate Parsing for Anaphora Resolution?
Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe
Resolving Pronouns Robustly: Plumbing the Depths of Shallowness
Advaith Siddharthan
Doing Dutch Pronouns Automatically in Optimality Theory
Gerlof  Bouma
Incorporating Contextual Cues in Trainable Models for Coreference Resolution
Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Yuji Matsumoto	
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	

Workshops

11.00 – 12.45	Associative Descriptions and Salience: A Preliminary Investigation
Massimo Poesio
Using the Web for Nominal Anaphora Resolution
Katja Markert, Malvina Nissim, Natalia Modjeska
Associative Anaphora Resolution: A Web-Based Approach
Razvan Bunescu
Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives
Eleni Miltsakaki, Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Aravind, Joshi Webber, Bonnie Webber	

14 April 2003, afternoon

WS11  (Room 5)  Natural Language Processing for Question Answering      
                                 
14.00 – 15.30	Welcome
Question Answering in Biomedicine 
Pierre Zweigenbaum   
NLP for Answer Extraction in Technical Domains
Diego Molla, Rolf Schwitter, Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Michael Hess	
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	
16.00 – 18.05	Generating Annotated Corpora for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering Evaluation
Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Bonnie Webber, Claire Grover, Johan Bos
Getaruns: A Hybrid System for Summarization and Question Answering
Rodolfo Delmonte
Using a Named Entity Tagger to Generalise Surface Matching Text Patterns for Question Answering
Mark Greenwood, Robert Gaizauskas
Learning Paraphrases to Improve a Question-Answering System
Florence Duclaye, Francois Yvon,  Olivier Collin
Selectively Using Relations to Improve Precision in Question Answering
Boris Katz, Jimmy Li	
18.05 – 18.10	Wrap up 	

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.
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 Agro Hotel 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
Data beamers, overhead projectors and flip charts will be available in the session rooms.                                                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. 
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. 
Official Language
The official language of the Conference is English.

General Information
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).