7.0633 ACL'94: Workshop -- The Balancing Act (1/110)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:06:19 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0633. Friday, 29 Apr 1994.
Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide)
Subject: Congres: The Balancing Act
From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu>
ACL-1994 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
THE BALANCING ACT
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
1 July 1994, just after ACL '94
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
Organized by: Judith Klavans (Columbia), Philip Resnik (Sun)
A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has
rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist
philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic
vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside a
priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place when
symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together.
PROGRAM
INVITED TALK : Qualitative and Quantitative Designs for
Speech Translation
Hiyan Alshawi
The Noisy Channel and the Braying Donkey
Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, and Paola Velardi
Study and Implementation of Combined Techniques for Automatic
Extraction of Terminology
Beatrice Daille
Parsing with Principles and Probabilities
Andrew Fordham and Matthew Crocker
Do we Need Linguistics When We Have Statistics? A Comparative Analysis
of the Contributions of Linguistic Cues to a Statistical Word
Grouping System
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
Complexity of Description of Primitives: Relevance to Local
Statistical Computations
Aravind K. Joshi and B. Srinivas
The Automatic Construction of a Symbolic Parser Via Statistical
Techniques
Shyam Kapur and Robin Clark
Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Approaches in Speech and Natural
Language Applications
Marie Meteer and Herbert Gish
Combining Linguistic with Statistical Methods in Automatic Speech
Understanding
Patti Price
Exploring the Statistical Derivation of Transformational Rule
Sequences for Part-of-Speech Tagging
Lance A. Ramshaw and Mitchell P. Marcus
Bootstrapping Statistical Processing into a Rule-Based Natural
Language Parser
Stephen D. Richardson
Statistical versus Symbolic Parsing for Captioned-Information
Retrieval
Neil C. Rowe
Learning a Radically Lexical Grammar
Mary McGee Wood
REGISTRATION
Registration fees are $25 for participants who register by 15 May
1994. Late registrations will be $30. Registration includes a copy of
the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day. Acceptable
forms of payment are US$ cheques payable to "ACL" or credit card
(VISA/Mastercard) payment. Please submit the following form along with
payment:
name:_________________________________________________________________
institution: (for name tag)___________________________________________
address: (postal address)_____________________________________________
email:________________________________________________________________
payment: (specify cheque or credit card)______________________________
credit card info: (name on card, card number, expiration date)________
______________________________________________________________________
dietary requirements: (vegetarian, kosher,etc.)_______________________
Please send to:
Philip Resnik
Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
Mailstop UCHL03-207
Two Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA
Email: philip.resnik@east.sun.com
Fax: (508) 250-5067
This announcement can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/acl/postconference.html, and full
information about ACL-94 (plus some great photos of attractions around
Las Cruces!) can be found at http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/Home.html.