IGK4 Programme

IGK FOURTH ANNUAL RESEARCH MEETING 2004
PROGRAMME

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Information on all participants including contact info is here
IGK 4th annual research meeting main page is here
Travel info is here
The project page is here

Schedule for the first week (Edinburgh, Sep 6-10, 2004)
Schedule for the second week (Firbush, 13-17 Sep 2004)

Schedule for the first week (Edinburgh, Sep 6-10, 2004)

Venue info

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School of Informatics

University of Edinbrugh
George Square Campus [map]

Project work: computing lab south, Appelton Tower
Lunch and Talks: conference suite, 4 Buccleuch place

Projects

Automating the Limited Domain Synthesis Voice Creation

Clustering verbs for semantic role labelling cancelled

Co-Reference meets Toponym Resolution meets Active Learning

Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora

Semantic transparency and productivity in affixation

Towards an Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar

Towards an Automated Mixed-Media Answer Summary System A Next-Generation Question Answering System

Using Distributed NLP to Bootstrap Semantic Representations from Web Resources

Venue:
computing lab south, Appelton Tower
The lab has 30 dice machines (pc-s running the same linux Red Hat 9)
Visitor accounts for non Edinburgh participants will be set up.

Invited talks

Time: every day 14:00--15.15
Venue: conference suite, 4 Buccleuch place. Edinburgh.

Lunch served at 13:00 every day in the foyer of the conference suite in 4 Buccleuch place

Monday, Sep 6

10:30-10:45    Welcome intro
Introduction of the projects (10 + 5 min each) :
10:45-11:00    Project 1 Automating the Limited Domain Synthesis Voice Creation
11:00-11:15    Project 2 Co-Reference meets Toponym Resolution meets Active Learning
11:15-11:30    Project 3 Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora

11:30-12:00   Coffee break

12:00-12:15    Project 4 Semantic transparency and productivity in affixation
12:15-12:30    Project 5 Towards an Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar

12:30-12:45 Project 6 Towards an Automated Mixed-Media Answer Summary System A Next-Generation Question Answering System

12:45-13:00 Project 7 Using Distributed NLP to Bootstrap Semantic Representations from Web Resources

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Rebbeca Hwa
Breaking the Resource Bottleneck for Multilingual Processing

Tuesday, Sep 7

13:00-14:00    Lunch
14:00-15:15    James Henderson
                       Unbounded Structures from Finite Statistical Methods

Wednesday, Sep 8

13:00-14:00    Lunch
14:00-15:15   Scott McDonald
                      Probablistic Approaches to Modelling Eye Movements in Reading

19:00-20:00   IGK Saarbrücken students' roundtable

Thursday, Sep 9

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Harald Baayen

(Ir)regularity and semantic density

Friday, Sep 10

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Dietrich Klakow

Interactive access to Spoken Content

Schedule for the second week (Firbush, 13-17 Sep 2004)

Venue info

Firbush Point Field Centre is situated on the banks of Loch Tay near the village of Killin in the Southern Highlands, about 80 miles north of Edinburgh [map]. It is administered and staffed by members of the Centre for Sport and Exercise, at the University of Edinburgh. There is also a travel map.
Its beautiful location offers a wide range of outdoor activities.