Workshop Program

Day 1 — 10 December, 2005
09:25-09:30	Opening Remarks
09:30-10:00	Disambiguating Conjunctions in Named Entities Pawel Mazur and Robert Dale
10:00-10:30	Learning of Graph Rules for Question Answering Diego Molla and Menno van Zaanen
10:30-11:00	A Statistical Approach towards Unknown Word Type Prediction for Deep Grammars Yi Zhang and Valia Kordoni
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Tagging Unknown Words with Raw Text Features David Vadas and James R. Curran
12:00-12:30	POS Tagging with a More Informative Tagset Andrew MacKinlay and Timothy Baldwin
12:30-13:00	Augmenting Approximate Similarity Searching with Lexical Information James Gorman and James R. Curran
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Dimensions of Deep Grammar Validation Invited Speaker — Dan Flickinger
15:00-15:15	Coffee Break
15:15-16:30	Poster Session 1
	Word Prediction in a Running Text: A Statistical Language Modeling for the Persian Language Masood Ghayoomi and Seyyed Mostafa Assi
	Using Diverse Information Sources to Retrieve Samples of Low Density Languages Andrew MacKinlay
	Faking it: Synthetic Text-to-speech Synthesis for Under-resourced Languages — Experimental Design Harold Somers
	Dual-Type Automatic Speech Recogniser Designs for Spoken Dialogue Systems Jason Littlefield and Michael Broughton
	Efficient Knowledge Acquisition for Extracting Temporal Relations Son Bao Pham and Achim Hoffmann
	Formal Grammars for Linguistic Treebank Queries Mark Dras and Steve Cassidy
	Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System Luiz Augusto Pizzato and Diego Molla
	Multimedia Presentation of Grammatical Description: Design Issues Simon Musgrave
16:30-17:00	Structuring Documents Efficiently Robert Marshall, Steven Bird and Peter Stuckey
17:00-17:30	Round-trip Translation: What Is It Good For? Harold Somers
17:30-18:00	Evaluating the Utility of Appraisal Hierarchies as a Method for Sentiment Classification Jeremy Fletcher and Jon Patrick
Day 2 — 11 December, 2005

09:30-10:00	Efficient Grapheme-phoneme Alignment for Japanese Lars Yencken and Timothy Baldwin
10:00-10:30	Statistical Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations Jeremy Nicholson and Timothy Baldwin
10:30-11:00	Paraphrase Identification by Text Canonicalization Yitao Zhang and Jon Patrick
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Text Summarization: News and Beyond Invited Speaker — Kathy McKeown
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:15	Poster Session 2
	Words and Word Usage: Newspaper Text versus the Web Vinci Liu and James R. Curran
	Automatic Induction of a POS Tagset for Italian Raffaella Bernardi, Andrea Bolognesi, Corrado Seidenari and Fabio Tamburini
	A Dual-Iterative Method for Concept-Word Acquisition from Large-Scale Chinese Corpora Guogang Tian and Cungen Cao
	Programming With Unrestricted Natural Language David Vadas and James R. Curran
	Identifying FrameNet Frames for Verbs from a Real-Text Corpus Matthew Honnibal and Tobias Hawker
	A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation Baden Hughes, James Haggerty, Joel Nothman, Saritha Manickam and James R. Curran
	Multi-document Summarisation and the PASCAL Textual Entailment Challenge Nicola Stokes and Eamonn Newman
	Design and Development of a Speech-driven Control for a In-car Personal Navigation System Ying Su, Tao Bai and Catherine I. Watson
15:15-15:45	Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue Lawrence Cavedon, Matthew Purver and Florin Ratiu
15:45-16:15	Automatic Utterance Segmentation in Instant Messaging Dialogue Edward Ivanovic
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:45	From Non-segmenting Language Processing to Web Language Engineering Invited Speaker — Virach Sornlertlamvanich
17:45-18:00	Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks

Additionally, the program can be downloaded in PDF format here.

For any comments or questions about these pages please contact the ALTA Workshop 2005 organisers.

Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne -- co-chair)
James Curran (University of Sydney -- local organiser)
Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University -- co-chair)