8.0361 Workshop: Multilingual Language Analysis (1/132)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 7 Mar 1995 20:14:05 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0361. Tuesday, 7 Mar 1995.

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:18:19 -0500
From: evelyne@research.att.com
Subject: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP


From: Evelyne Tzoukermann

FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:10 Welcome

9:10-9:35: D. Elworthy
Tagset Design and Inflected Languages

9:35-10:00 J. Hughes, C. Souter & E. Atwell
Automatic Extraction of Tagset Mappings from Parallel-Annotated Corpora

10:00-10:25 K. Gojenola
Different Issues in the Design of a Lemmatizer/Tagger for Basque

10:25-10:55 COFFEE

10:55-11:35 G. Leech (invited speaker)

11:35-12:00 S. Teufel
A Support Tool for Tagset Mappping

12:00-12:25 S. Armstrong, G. Russell, D. Petitpierre, G. Robert
An Open Architecture for Multilingual Text Processing

12:25-12:55 C. Thielen
An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German

12:55-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14:25 H. Feldweg
Implementation and Evaluation of a New German HMM
Model for POS Disambiguation

14:25-14:50 H. Schmid
Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German

14:50-15:15 E. Tzoukerman, D. R. Radev & W. A. Gale
Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning in French

15:15-15:40 J.-P. Chanod & P. Tapanainen
Creating a Tagset, Lexicon and Guesser for a French Tagger

15:40-16:00 TEA

16:00-16:25 R. Sproat
A Finite-State Architecture for Tokenization and Grapheme-to-Phoneme
Conversion in Multilingual Text Analysis

16:25-16:50 E. Giguet
Multilingual Sentence Categorization According to Language

16:50-17:15 T. McEnery & Oates
Cognate Extraction in the Crater Project: Methods and Assessment

17:15-17:30 Conclusion/Discussion

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Registration Information for EACL-95 is available from the ftp file server:
<ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Eacl95/registration.txt.Z>

$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
Password: yourname@address [not echoed]
cd acl-l/Eacl95
ftp> get registration.txt.Z
ftp> quit
$ uncompress registration.txt.Z

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ATTENTION REGISTRATION:

Registration fees are 27 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars)
for participants who register by March 1rst 1995. Late registration will
be 33 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars); it includes a copy
of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day.

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* ALL PAYMENTS IN US DOLLARS ARE TO BE SENT ONLY TO EVELYNE TZOUKERMANN;*
* ALL PAYMENTS IN OTHER CURRENCIES SHOULD BE SENT TO SUSAN ARMSTRONG. *
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- US DOLLARS: acceptable forms of payment are US$ checks payable to "ACL"
or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment.

- OTHER CURRENCIES: checks payable to "ACL" can be send to Susan Armstrong;
no credit card payment is acceptable in this case.

Evelyne Tzoukermann; Susan Armstrong
AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva
Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias
600 Mountain Avenue CH-1227 Geneve
Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 Switzerland



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