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EGK Colloquium

Speakers
Sessions
Staff and Guests
Students
Hotel and Bostalsee Information
Papers and Data


Speakers

9th (Sun)
10th (Mon)
11th (Tue)
12th (Wed)
13th (Thu)
14th (Fri)
15th (Sat)
16th (Sun)
17th (Mon)
18th (Tue)
19th (Wed)
Mark Steedman











Dan Jurafsky



Paola Merlo





Miles Osborne












Rens Bod
Bill Barry











Manfred Pinkal











Hans Uszkoreit

Martine Grice



















Sessions

Day
Session 1
9:15-11:00
Session 2
11:30-13:00
Session 3
15:00-17:00
Evening Session
9th (Sun)
Arrive at Hotel in the afternoon

10th (Mon)
Student Thesis Proposal
B. Braun, Nikiforos Karamanis
Bill Barry, Martine Grice
RC: Introduction to Intonation
Student Seminar Presentations: Dominik Heckmann, Ruli Manurung
BBQ
11th (Tue)
Student Thesis Proposal
D. Heckmann, P. Dienes
Mark Steedman
Intonation, Grammar, and Spoken Language Processing
Student Seminar Presentations: Nikiforos Karamanis
Bettina Braun
Mark Steedman
Formal Grammars for Computational Musical Analysis
12th (Wed)
Student Thesis Proposal
A. Koller, K. Striegnitz
Paola Merlo
RC: Introduction to Empirical NLP
Student Seminar Presentations: A. Koller, M. Gabsdil

13th (Thu)
Student Thesis Proposal: M. Gabsdil
Student Seminar Presentation: Ruli Manurung
Paola Merlo
Automatic Acquisition of Verb Information
Miles Osborne
Ensemble Learning; Student Seminar Presentation: J. Hockenmaier

14th (Fri)
Student Thesis Proposal
J. Hockenmaier, C. Sporleder
Dan Jurafsky
Prosodic Features in Speech Act Recognition
Student Thesis Proposal, A. Dubey; Student Seminar Presentation, Pia Knöferle
Panel Discussion
15th (Sat)
Leaving hotel, Move to Saarbrücken



16th (Sun)
"Social Event": trips to Trier and Völklinger Hütte

17th (Mon)
Student Thesis Proposal,
P. Knöferle
Rens Bod
Memory of Language: Modeling the Storage and Computation of (In)frequent Sentences
Student Seminar Presentation, Amit Dubey, Peter Dienes
Hans Uszkoreit
18th (Tue)
Student Thesis Proposal
J. Horlock,
Dan Jurafsky
Probabilistic Psycholinguistics
Student Seminar Presentation, Caroline Sporleder
Rens Bod
Computational Linguistics of Musical Sequences
19th (Wed)
Closing Session



Staff and Guests

Name
Affiliation
Department
Bill Barry
Universität Saarbrücken
Phonetics
Rens Bod
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Matt Crocker
Universität Saarbrücken
Psycholinguistik
Martine Grice
Universität Saarbrücken
Phonetics
Dan Jurafsky
University of Colorado
Linguistics, Computer Science
Paola Merlo
Université de Genève
Linguistics Department
Miles Osborne
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Manfred Pinkal
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics
Mark Steedman
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Hans Uszkoreit
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics

Students

Name
Thesis Proposal
Seminar-Talk paper
Bettina Braun
Universität Saarbrücken
Phonetics
Error Resolution in Computer-directed speech
Pierrehumbert, J. and J. Hirschberg. 1990. The Meaning of Intonational Contours in the Interpretation of Discourse. In: Cohen, P.R., J. Morgan and M.E.Pollack: Intentions in Communication. pp. 271-309
Hobbs, J.R. 1990. The Pierrehumbert-Hirschberg Theory of Intonational Meaning Made Simple: Comments on Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg. In: Cohen, P.R., J. Morgan and M.E.Pollack: Intentions in Communication. pp. 313-323
Peter Dienes
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics

Saffran, Jenny. R. 2001. Words in a sea of sounds: the output of infant statistical learning. Cognition 81:149-169.
Amit Dubey
Universität Saarbrücken
Psycholinguistics
(Corpus Linguistics)
Yet Another Thesis Proposal on Probabilistic Parsing
Freidman et. al. Learning Probabilistic Relational Models. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, August 1999 pp 1300-1307.
Malte Gabsdil
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics

J. Hirschberg, D. Litman, M. Swerts (2001). Identifying User Corrections Automaticaly in Spoken Dialogue Systems . In Proceedings of NAACL01, Pittsburg.
Dominik Heckmann
Universität Saarbrücken
Unbiquitous User Modeling for Situated Interaction
Recognizing Time Pressure and Cognitive Load on the Basis of Speech: an Experimental Study
James Horlock
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics

David Palmer, Mari Ostendorf, John Burger (to appear). Robust Information Extraction from Automatically Generated Transcripts . Speech Communication.
Julia Hockenmaier
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Statistical Parsing with CCG
Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
Nikiforos Karamanis
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Coherent Language Generation
Keller, Frank; Alexopoulou, Theodora (2001) Phonology competes with syntax: experimental evidence for the interaction of word order and accent placement in the realization of Information Structure, Cognition, pp. 301-372.
Tiina Karsikas
Universität Saarbrücken
Phonetics


Pia Knöferle
Universität Saarbrücken
Psycholinguistics
Frequency, Plausibility, and Context in Processing
Saffran, Jenny R. (2001). The Use of Predictive Dependencies in Language Learning . Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 493-515.
Alexander Koller
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics
Underspecification and how to get rid of it
Michael Brent (1993). From grammar to lexicon: Unsupervised learning of lexical syntax. Computational Linguistics, 19(2):243-262.
Ruli Manurung
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Evolutionary Programming-based Natural Language Generation of Rhyme-and-Metre Poetry
Oberlander, J. and Brew, C. [2000] Stochastic text generation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 358, 1373--1385.
Caroline Sporleder
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Learning Lexical Inheritance Hierarchies
Stephen Clark and David Weir (2000). "A Class-Based Probabilistic Approach to Structural Disambiguation", in COLING 2000, Saarbrücken.
Kristina Striegnitz
Universität Saarbrücken
Computational Linguistics


Hotel and Bostalsee Info

Seehotel Weingärtner

Information about the Bostalsee (in German):

How to get there

By car:
A1 Saarbrücken - Trier - Koblenz: "Nonnweiler/Primstal" exit to B269 heading towards Bostalsee-Bosen. A62 Kaiserslautern - Trier: "Türkismühle/Bostalsee" exit heading for Bostalsee.
By rail:
Take the train to Türkismühle and then the bus to Weingärtner, Nohfelden Bosen. You can check out the connections to the hotel here. (As destination use Weingaertner, Nohfelden Bosen). Staff from the hotel can also pick up guests at Türkismühle station. Please call the hotel (+49 6852 8890) and state your arrival time.

Excursion on Saturday

... information can be found here .

Papers and Data

Reading Circle

  • Grice, M., Ladd, R.D. and A.Arvaniti (2000). On the place of phrase accents in intonational phonology. Phonology 17:143-185. (In the library, folder EGK)
    Sound files from Martine's paper
  • Eric Brill and Raymond Mooney (1997). An Overview of Empirical Language Processing. AI Magazine.

Suggestions for Seminar Talk Papers

Paola Merlo

  • Eugene Charniak (1997). Statistical Techniques for Natural Language Parsing. AI Magazine. (Conceptual Overview of statistical parsing; parsing as learning).
  • Michael Brent (1993). From grammar to lexicon: Unsupervised learning of lexical syntax. Computational Linguistics, 19(2):243--262. (Important paper on induction of subcategorization frames).
  • Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth (1993). Structural ambiguity and lexical relations. Computational Linguistics, 19(1):103--120.
  • Maria Lapata and Chris Brew (1999). Using subcategorization to resolve verb class ambiguity. Proceedings of Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, pp. 266--274, College Park, MD. (Complementary reading to Merlo's talk on acquisition).

Martine Grice

  • Beckman, M. E. (1996). Parsing of prosody. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 17-68.
  • Warren, P. (1999). Prosody and language processing. Hove: Psychology Press, Pp. 155-188.
  • Cutler, A., Dahan, D., & van Donselaar, W. (1997) review. Language & Speech, 40, 141-201.
  • Kjelgaard, M.M., & Speer, S.R. (1999). Prosodic facilitation and interference in syntactic closure ambiguity. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 153-194.
  • Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & White S.D. (2000). Intonational disambiguation and comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 169-182.
  • Pynte, J., & Prieur, B. (1996). Prosodic breaks and attachment decisions in sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 165-191.
  • Carlson, C., & Fraser, L. (to appear) Prosodic boundaries in adjunct attachment. Journal of Memory and Language.
  • Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2001). On the alleged existence of contrastive accents. Speech Communication, 34, 391-405.
  • Birch, S. & Clifton, C. (1995). Focus, accent, and argument structure: Effects on language comprehension. Language and Speeech, 33, 365-391.
  • Schafer, A; Carlson, K. Clifton, C. Frazier, L. (2000). Focus and the interpretation of pitch accent: Disambiguating embedded questions. Language & Speech, 43 75-105.
  • Buering, D. (2000 ms) On D-Trees, Beans, and B-Accents. [Also available as pdf file from D. Buering s web page, http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/buring]
  • Keller, Frank; Alexopoulou, Theodora (2001) Phonology competes with syntax: experimental evidence for the interaction of word order and accent placement in the realization of Information Structure, Cognition, pp. 301-372
  • H. Rump and R. Collier 1996 Focus Conditions and the Prominence of Pitch-Accented Syllables, Language and Speech 39: 1-18.
  • D. R. Ladd and Rachel Morton 1997 The Perception of Intonational Emphasis: Continuous or Categorical? Journal of Phonetics 25: 313-342.
  • Amalia Arvaniti, D. R. Ladd, and Ineke Mennen 1998 Stability of Tonal Alignment: the case of Greek Prenuclear Accents. Journal of Phonetics, 26: 3-25.
  • D. R. Ladd, Ineke Mennen, and Astrid Schepman 2000 Phonological conditioning of peak alignment of rising pitch accents in Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 107: 2685-2696.

Miles Osborne

David Milward (canceled)

  • Allen, Byron, Dzikovska, Ferguson, Galescu, Stent. An Architecture for a Generic Dialogue Shell. [paper]

Background Reading for Invited Talks

Paola Merlo

  • Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (to appear). Automatic Verb Classification based on Statistical Distributions of Argument Structure. Computational Linguistics, 27(3), 374--408.
  • Beth Levin. English Verb Classes and Alternations. Chicago UP.
  • Optional:
    • Tom Mitchell (1997). Machine Learning. Chp. 1-3. McGraw-Hill. (Introduction to machine learning and decision tress).
    • Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (2000). In Crocker, Pickering and Clifton (Eds) Lexical Syntax and Parsing Architecture. Architecture and Mechanisms in Language Processing, pp. 161--188. (Relevant psycho-linguistic background).
    • Manning and Schütze (1999). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (Cahpter on lexical acquisition).

Miles Osborne

David Milward (canceled)

  • Knight, S., Gorrell, G., Rayner, M., Milward, D., Koeling, R., Lewin, I.(2001). Comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech > understanding: a case study. PDF In Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology 3-7 September 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. [paper]
  • Milward, D. (2000). Distributing Representation for Robust Interpretation of Dialogue Utterances. PDF In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL-2000, 1-8 October 2000, Hong Kong. Pages 133-141. [paper]