IGK FOURTH ANNUAL RESEARCH MEETING 2004
PARTICIPANTS
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OVERVIEW OF WHO COMES WHEN (INVITED SPEAKERS & STAFF)


External
Edinburgh
Saarbrücken


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Rebbeca Hwa









James Henderson








Alex Lascarides









Scott McDonald









Dietrich Klakow







Frank Keller


Harald Baayen










Mirella Lapata









Oliver Lemon











Regina Barzilay








Johanna Moore









Michael Fourman







Matt Crocker








Bill Barry








Sabine Schulte im Walde









Ann Copestake


         

EXTERNAL INVITED SPEAKERS

Ann Copestake

    University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
    Sep 15-17
    aac at csli stanford edu
    Talk:
       
Extreme underspecification: using semantics to integrate deep and shallow processing
        Thu 16 Sep 2004, 9-10.15am, Firbush

Harald Baayen

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,   Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Sep 8-10
    baayen at mpi nl
    Talk:
       
(Ir)regularity and semantic density
        Thu 9 Sep 2004, 14:00-15.15

Regina Barzilay

    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT     
     Sep 10-15
    regina at csail mit edu
    Talk:
Learning to Model Text Structure
        Mon 13 Sep 2004, 17:45-18.30, Firbush

Rebecca Hwa

    Department of Computer Science
    University of Pittsburgh

    Sep 6-8
    hwa at cs pitt edu
    Talk:
Breaking the Resource Bottleneck for Multilingual Processing
        Mon 6 Sep 2004, 14:00-15.15

STAFF

EDINBURGH STAFF

Michael Fourman
    Sep 13-15
    mfourman at inf ED
    Talk:
Propositional probability
Wed 15 Sep 2004, 09:15-10.30, Firbush
Johanna Moore
    Sep 13-15
    jmoore at inf ED

    Talk:
       
Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue
        Tue 14 Sep 2004, 09:15-10.30, Firbush

James Henderson
    Sep 6-8
    jhender6 at inf ED
    Talk:
       
Unbounded Structures from Finite Statistical Methods
        Tue 7 Sep 2004, 14:00-15.15

Scott McDonald
    Sep 6-8
    smcdonal at inf ED
    Talk:
       
Probablistic Approaches to Modelling Eye Movements in Reading
        Wed 8 Sep 2004, 14:00-15.15

Oliver Lemon
    Sep 8-10
    olemon at inf ED

Alex Lascarides
    Sep 6-7
    alex at inf ED

Frank Keller
    keller at inf ED
Mirella Lapata
    Sep 9-10
    mlap at inf ED
 

SAARBRÜCKEN STAFF

Matt Crocker
    Sep 11-14
    crocker at SB
Dietrich Klakow
    Sep 6-10
    dietrich.klakow at lsv uni-saarland de
    Talk:
      
Interactive access to Spoken Content
       Fri 10 Sep 2004 2pm
Sabine Schulte im Walde
    Sep 11-17
    schulte at  SB
   
Bill Barry
    Sep 11-14
    wbarry at  SB

STUDENTS

EDINBURGH STUDENTS

Tiphaine Dalmas
    t.dalmas at sms ED
    Talk:
Practical Methods for Answer Comparison in Question Answering: Motivations, Techniques and Evaluation
Chris Callison-Burch
    Sep 6-10
    callison-burch at ED
Beatrice Alex
    v1balex at inf ED
    Talk:
Tracking English Inclusions in German Text
Colin Bannard
    C.J.Bannard at ED
    Talk:
A syntactic flexibility measure for learning multiword expressions
Carsten Brockmann
    Sep 13-17
    Carsten.Brockmann at ED
    Talk:
Generating Dialogue from Personality-Ranked Utterances
Markus Becker
    m.becker at ED
    Talk:
Constituent-Based Active Learning for Statistical Grammars
Viktor Tron
    v.tron at ED
    Talk:
Modelling emergence with exemplar-based iterated learning
Sasha Calhoun
    Sep 6-10
    Sasha.Calhoun at ED
Jochen Leidner
    Sep 6-15
    jochen.leidner at ED
    Talk:
Toponym Resolution in Text
Verena Rieser
    Sep 6-15
    V.T.Rieser at sms ED
Maarika Traat
    M.Traat at sms ED
    Talk:

Unificational Combinatory Categorial Grammar: A Formalism for Parsing and Generating Intonationally Annotated Text
Sebastian Riedel
    Sep 6-10
    S.R.Riedel at sms ED
Ben Hutchinson
    Sep 13-17
    B.Hutchinson at sms
    Talk:
Similarity and Substitutability of Discourse Connectives: Human judgements and modelling experiments
Harry Halpin
    Sep 6-15
    H.R.Halpin at sms

SAARBRÜCKEN STUDENTS

Nuria Bertomeu
    bertomeu at  SB
    Talk:
Resolving elliptical questions in Question Answering Systems
Ralph Debusmann
    rade at  SB
    Talk:
Groups for Surface Realization with Extensible Dependency Grammar
Michael Kruppa
    kruppa at dfki de
    Talk:
The better remote control - Multiuser interaction with public displays
Dominika Oliver
    Sep 6-16
    dominika at SB
    Talk:
Modelling prosody for speech synthesis: example from Polish
Olga Ourioupina
    ourioupi at SB
    Talk:
Coreference Resolution with and without Linguistic Knowledge
Oana Postolache
    oana at SB
    Talk:
Learning (about) Information Structure
Dan Shen
    dshen at SB
    Talk:
Answer Analysis for QA using Syntactic & Semantic Representation
Yi Zhang
    yzhang at SB
    Talk:
A HPSG Grammar for Mandarin Chinese and its Application
Irene Cramer
    Irene.Cramer at lsv uni-saarland de
    Talk:
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Question Answering
Ciprian Gerstenberger
    gerstenb at SB
    Talk:
The General Linearisation Model: A Mereological Description of the Natural Language Utterance
Marco Kuhlmann
    Sep 6-16
    kuhlmann at SB
    Talk:
Linguistic Processing as Graph Configuration
Stefan Thater
    stth at SB
    Talk:
On Dominance Nets
Ulrike Baldewein
    Sep 5-15
    ulrike at SB
    Talk:
 (Beginning to) Model Semantic Processing

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