PROGRAM OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND INVITED TALKS
Day 1: 21.04.2005
9:45-10:30 Invited Talk I
Recent Activities within the European Language Resources Association / Khalid Choukri and
Victoria Arranz
11:00-13:00 Technical Sessions
Session 111: Speech Processing: Recognition
Efficient Phonetic Interpretation of Multilinear Feature Representations for Speech
Recognition / Daniel Aioanei, Moritz Neugebauer and Julie Carson-Berndsen / Ireland
Accessing Language Specific Linguistic Information for Triphone Model Generation: Feature Tables in
a Speech Recognition System / Supphanat Kanokphara, Anja Geumann and Julie Carson-Berndsen /
Ireland
Transcription-based automatic segmentation of speech / Marcin Szymański and Stefan Grocholewski /
Poland
Accent Variation in South-African English: Challenges for Speech Recognition Systems / Edward de
Villiers, Johan du Preez and Justus Roux / South Africa
A Multi-Layered Lexical-Tree Based Token Passing Architecture For Efficient Recognition Of Subword
Speech Units / Andreas Hagen and Bryan L. Pellom / USA
Session 112: Language Resources and Tools: Corpora
Digital Text Corpora at the AAC / Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder / Austria
The IPI PAN Corpus in Numbers / Adam Przepiórkowski / Poland
Massive multilingual corpus compilation: Acquis Communautaire and totale / Tomaž Erjavec, Camelia
Ignat, Bruno Pouliquen and Ralf Steinberger / Italy, Slovenia
From regularities to constraints: Enriching annotation in discourse corpora / Claudia Sassen /
Germany
Computational Tools for Elaboration and Functioning of a Multilingual Thematic Dictionary / Ilona
Koutny / Poland
Session 113: Natural Language Understanding
NLP Story Maker / Takako Aikawa, Michel Pahud and Lee Schwartz / USA
Analysis of the natural language means used for the representation and understanding of formal
knowledge / Elena Gennadievna Ivanova / Russia
Grounding Linguistic Quantifiers in Perception: Experiments on Numerosity Judgments / R.K.
Rajapakse, A. Cangelosi, K. Coventry, S. Newstead and A. Bacon / UK
(V)ISA: A Model for Transforming Genitive Phrases Into SQL Statements / Zsolt T. Kardkovács,
Domonkos Tikk, Gábor Magyar / Hungary
Crossing the Cognitive Barrier – Mapping Speech Streams to Conceptual Structures / Ronny Melz /
Germany
14:15-15:00 Invited Talk II
In memoriam Maurice Gross / Eric Laporte
15:05-16:30 Technical Sessions
Session 121: Language Resources and Tools: Text Processing Techniques I
Compressing Annotated Natural Language Text / Jakub Swacha / Poland
Analyzing the Effect of Dimensionality Reduction in Document Categorization for Basque / Ana Zelaia,
I. Inaki Alegria, Olatz Arregi and Basilio Sierra / Spain
Automatic Phonetization and Syllabification of Italian Texts / Mario Refice and Michelina Savino / Italy
Exploring deployment of linguistic features in Classification of Polish Texts / Jakub Piskorski and
Marcin Sydow /Poland
Session 122: Language Resources and Tools: Morphology Processing
Making the Good Taggers Even Better: Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Morphological
Tagging of Czech / Petr Nemec and Kiril Ribarov / Czech Republic
MAF: a Morphosyntactic Annotation Framework / Lionel Clément and Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie /
France
Morphological Analyser Based on Finite State Transducer: A case study for Oriya
Language / Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Prabhat Kumar Santi and Sanghamitra Mohanty / India
Morphology-based Spellchecking for Marathi, an Indian Language / Veena Dixit, Satish Dethe and
Rushikesh K. Joshi / India
Session 123: Ontologies I
Use of subject domain ontology for problem-oriented speech processing / Izolda Lee / Russia
Semantic annotation of hierarchical taxonomies / Agnieszka Ławrynowicz / Poland
Design and Implementation of Nouns in OriNet: Based on the Semantic Word Concept / Prabhat
Kumar Santi, Sanghamitra Mohanty and K.P. Das Adhikary / India
Multilingual Ontology of Proper Names / Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas, Denis Maurel and Mickaël Tran
/ France
17:00-19:10 Technical Sessions
Session 131: Language Resources and Tools: Dictionaries
Maurice Gross' grammar lexicon and Natural Language Processing / Claire Gardent, Bruno
Guillaume, Guy Perrier and Ingrid Falk / France
A Dictionary of French Verbal Complementation / Morris Salkoff and André Valli / France
Building Multilingual Terminological Lexicons for Less Widely Available Languages / Monica
Monachini and Claudia Soria / Italy
Lexicons Divided According to the Division of Labor / Yukiko Sasaki Alam / Japan
Derivational Morphology in an E-Dictionary of Serbian / Duško Vitas and Cvetana Krstev / Serbia &
Montenegro
Session 132: Information Retrival / Information Extraction I
Generation of Reference Summaries / Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis / Sweeden
Keyword-based Coreference Resolution for Enzyme Name Recognition / Chun Xiao and Dietmar
Rösner / Germany
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback with Weighted Logistic Regression / Zhaohui Zheng, Wei Dai and Rohini
Srihari / USA
Exploration of Subtopic Retrieval with Document Set Ranking / Wei Dai and Rohini Srihari / USA
Structural Ambiguity In Context / Jean-Baptiste Berthelin / France
Information Retrieval Based on Semantic Structures / Takashi Miyata and Koiti Hasida / Japan
Session 133: Rigorous Descriptions of Languages
A Simple CF Formalism and Free Word Order / Filip Graliński / Poland
Restructuring Świdziński's grammar of Polish / Maciej Ogrodniczuk / Poland
Proper treatment of some peculiarities of Polish numerals: metamorphosis approach / Marek
Świdziński / Poland
Constraint Weighting by Evolution / Henk Zeevat / Netherlands
Automatic Extraction of Polish Verb Subcategorization: An Evaluation of Common Statistics / Jakub
Fast, Adam Przepiórkowski / Poland
Lexicon Grammar within the Defining Matrix Analysis Model / Amr Helmy Ibrahim / France
Day 2: 22.04.2005
9:00-9:45 Invited Talk III
Logical Types in Grammar. The heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz / Wojciech Buszkowski
9:50-11:00 Technical Sessions
Session 211: Language Resources and Tools: Text Processing Techniques II
Automatic analysis of French newspaper headlines / Harald Ulland / Norway
Accessing Heterogeneous Linguistic Data – Generic XML-based Representation and Flexible
Visualization / Stefanie Dipper and Michael Götze / Germany
Using Category Hierarchies for Correcting Category Errors in Multi-labeled Data / Fumiyo Fukumoto
and Yoshimi Suzuki / Japan
Session 212: Information Retrival / Information Extraction II
A Survey of Freely Available Polish Stemmers and Evaluation of Their Applicability in Information
Retrieval / Dawid Weiss / Poland
Sentence Extraction using Similar Words / Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto / Japan
Making Shallow Look Deeper: Anaphora and Comparisons in Medical Information Extraction /
A. Mykowiecka, M. Marciniak and A. Kupść / Poland
Session 213: Ontologies II
Towards the Linking of two Electronic Lexical Databases of Italian / Nilda Ruimy and Adriana
Roventini / Italy
Ontological Approach to Meaning / Marek Łabuzek / Poland
Application Ontology Development - a Case Study / Jolanta Cybulka and Jacek Martinek / Poland
14:15-15:00 Invited Talk IV
Antonio Zampolli. A life for Computational Linguistics / Nicoletta Calzolari
Day 3: 23.04.2005
8:45-9:15 Invited Talk V
Challenges of Applied Linguistics in Modern Ukraine / Nadija Andrejchuk and Orest Kossak
9:20-10:25 Technical Sessions
Session 311: Speech Processing: Synthesis
The long vowels in Standard Arabic. Application for speech synthesis with Mbrola / Kamel Ferrat /
Algeria
The Etalone Method in Phonetic Research in Slavonic and Germanic Languages / Natalia Nikulina
and Usewalad Nikulin / Poland
Speech synthesis of Polish based on the concatenation phonetic-acoustic segments / Grażyna
Demenko / Poland
Session 312: Communication Technologies for Disabled People
A Model for Sign Language Grammar, Boris Lenseigne / Patrice Dalle / France
Automatic Recognition of Signed Polish Expressions / Tomasz Kapuscinski and Marian Wysocki /
Poland
DSP techniques for application to hearing aids / Adam Dąbrowski, Tomasz Marciniak and Paweł
Pawłowski / Poland
Session 313: Natural Language Interfaces I
Using software agents to personalize natural-language access to Internet services in a chatterbot
manner / Jarogniew Rykowski / Poland
FAQChat as an Information Retrieval System / Bayan Abu Shawar, Eric Atwell and Andrew Roberts /
UK
An IVR Script Design using Forward Scenario Simulation and Event Analysis / Zulikha Jamaludin and
Abdullah Embong / Malaysia
10:55-13:00 Technical Sessions
Session 321: Language Resources and Tools: Language Tools
Resources and tools for electronic legal language documentation / Paola Mariani and Costanza Badii /
Italy
Keyword Lists as Language Resources and Tools / Wiesław Babik / Poland
NooJ’s dictionaries / Max Silberztein / France
Component based lingware development using the EJB Model and XML linguistic interface / Sonia
Bouaziz, Bilel Gargouri and Mohamed Jmaiel / Tunisia
UAM Text Tools - a text processing toolkit for Polish / Tomasz Obrębski and Michał Stolarski / Poland
Session 322: Formats of Lexical Data and Language Formalisms
Towards a Formalism for the Computational Morphology of Multi-Word Units / Agata Savary / France
Transformation of WordNet Czech Valency Frames into Augmented VALLEX-1.0 Format / Dana
Hlavackova and Aleš Horak / Czech Republic
XML-Based Representation Formats of Local Grammars for the NLP / Javier M. Sastre Martínez /
France
Lexicon management and standard formats / Eric Laporte / France
A formal model of Polish nominal derivation / Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska / Poland
Reinterpreting DCG for free(r) word order languages / Zygmunt Vetulani and Filip Graliński / Poland
Session 323: Parsing I
Across-Genres and Empirical Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Treebank-style
Parsers / Vasile Rus and Christian F. Hempelmann / USA
Categorial grammar elements in the Thetos system’s parser / Nina Suszczańska and Przemysław
Szmal / Poland
An efficient implementation of a large grammar of Polish / Marcin Woliński / Poland
From raw corpus to word lattices: robust pre-parsing processing / Benoît Sagot and Pierre Boullier /
France
A pattern-classification based solution for the recognition of tense of the Chinese
language / Lin Dazhen, Li Shaozi, Cao DongLin and Lin Ying / China
14:15-15:45 Technical Sessions
Session 331: Systems
Virtual Environment for Interactive Learning Languages / P.S.Pankov and E. Alimbay / Kyrgyzstan
Language Archive Management and Upload System / Peter Wittenburg, Daan Broeder and Andreas
Claus / Netherlands
Advanced Web-based Language Archive Exploitation and Enrichment / Peter Wittenburg, Albert
Russel, Peter Berck and Marc Kemps-Snijders / Netherlands
Session 331a: Language Resources and Tools: AI Derived Methods
A Lemmatization Web Service Based on Machine Learning Techniques / Joel Plisson, Dunja
Mladenic, Nada Lavrac and Tomaž Erjavec / Slovenia
Session 332: Natural Language Interfaces II
FAQFinder Question Answering Improvements Using Question/Answer Matching / Stanley J.
Mlynarczyk and Steven L. Lytinen / USA
Designing a Universal Interfacing Agent / Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L Anderson and Don Perlis /
USA
Lingubot for the Library - initial case study / Piotr Malak / Poland
Session 342a: Multilingual Applications
An Intelligent, Context-Sensitive Dictionary: A Polish−English Comprehension Tool / Gábor Prószéky
and András Földes / Hungary
Session 333: Text generation & Knowledge Representation
Temporal Reasoning in Propositional Interval Neighborhood Logic / Guido Sciavicco / Italy
Compositional, Variable Free, Binding Free and Structure Oriented Discourse Interpretation / Maciej
Piasecki / Poland
Perspective and Aspect in Narrative Generation / Greg Lessard and Michael Levison / Canada
An empirical approach toward building a soccer commentary generator / Damian Stolarski / Poland
16:15-18:00 Technical Sessions
Session 341: Language Resources and Tools: AI Derived Methods
A Multi-Agent System for Detecting and Correcting “Hidden” Spelling Errors in Arabic Texts / Chiraz
Ben Othmane Zribi, Fériel Ben Fraj and Mohammed Ben Ahmed / Tunisia
Part-of-Speech tagging based on artificial neural networks / Salvador Tortajada Velert, María José
Castro Bleda and Ferran Pla Santamaría / Spain
On-Line Learning with Rule Base Expert System: Implemented In RoboCup Soccer Coach
Simulation / Ramin Fathzadeh, Vahid Mokhtari, Mohammad Reza Shoaei, Morteza Mousakhani,
Alireza Mohammad Shahri and Reza Fathzadeh / Iran
Learning Context-Free Language using Grammar-based Classifier System / Olgierd Unold / Poland
Transformation Based Learning Applied to Noun Phrase Extraction of Brazilian Portuguese Texts:
Language-specific Issues / Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Claudia Oliveira / Brasil
Session 342b: Multilingual Applications
Translation of Sentences by Analogy Principle / Yves Lepage / Japan
A Conceptual Ontology for Machine Translation from/into Polish / Krzysztof Jassem and Agnieszka
Wagner / Poland
Template-Based Shake & Bake Paraphrasing / Michael Carl, Ecaterina Rascu and Paul Schmidt /
Germany
Towards Development of Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Systems / Hartwig Holzapfel / Germany
Towards Automatic Translation of Support Verbs Constructions: the Case of Polish robić/zrobić and
Swedish göra / Elżbieta Dura and Barbara Gawrońska / Sweden
Session 343: Parsing II
A Chinese Top-down Parser Based on Probabilistic Context Free Grammar / Ying Lin, Xiaodong Shi,
Feng Guo and Dazhen Lin / China
Memory-based PP Attachment Disambiguation for Norwegian / Anders Nøklestad / Norway
Parsing Texts Written in Natural Language with CBR / Robert Papis and Przemysław Nowak / Poland
Semantics Parsing Revisited or How a Tadpole Could Turn into a Frog / Wai-Kiang Yeap / New
Zealand
Can we parse without tagging? / Patrick Watrin, Sebastien Paumier and Cédrick Fairon / Belgium