Program and On-line Papers from the Tübingen East-West Computational Linguistics Meeting, Tübingen 16-27 September 1996


TIME TOPIC LECTURER or ORGANIZER
Mon. Sept 16 Tutorial: Unification Grammars Dale Gerdemann
10:00-10:15 Welcoming Remarks Dean of School of Humanities and Workshop Organizers
10:15-12:30 Unification Grammars by Example Dale Gerdemann
14:00-16:30 Logical Foundations of Untyped Unification Grammar Dale Gerdemann
18:00- Reception at Guest House (Lessingweg 3) Prof. Dr. Peter Kaiser, Vice-Rector, Univ. Tübingen
Tue. Sept 17 Unification Grammar (continued) Dale Gerdemann
9:00-11:15 Typed Unification Grammars Dale Gerdemann
11:30-12:15 Indexing of Linguistic Knowledge (indexing.ps.gz) Kiril Simov & Paul King
14:00-14:45 Demo of the ALE System Gerald Penn
15:15-16:00 Enriching typed-feature formalisms with regular patterns for representing background knowledge Andrei Mikheev
16:00- A comparison between Feature Logics and Kl-One-based Description Logics Kiril Simov
Wed. Sept 18 Workshop: Dependency Grammar (morning) Steve Abney
Workshop: General Linguistics (afternoon) Detmar Meurers
9:00-9:35 Dependency and Constituency Steve Abney
9:35-10:10 Dependency Trees and Bottom-Up Parsing (mit.html) Leonid Mitjushin
10:10-10:45 Dependency Syntax in the EATP- Linguistic Processor Igor Boguslavsky & Leonid Iomdin
11:00-11:35 The description of information structure (Topic-Focus Articulation, TFA) within a dependency framework (tfa.html) Eva Hajicova
11:35-12:10 Formal Dependency Framework for the Account of TFA Vladimir Petkevic
14:00-14:45 Issues of Discourse Eva Hajicova
14:45-15:15 The Representation of Deictic and Intrinsic Temporal Relations in Natural Language--Revisiting Modals Lazlo Imre Komlosi
15:15-15:45 The Structural Analysis of Significatum Olga Mitrofanova
16:15-17:00 Discourse Structure and Semantic Structure of Descriptions Svetlana Toldova
17:00-17:45 Cognitive and Discoursive Factors Determining the Choice of "Figure" and "Ground" in Describing Spatial Relations (koboz.arj) Irina Kobozeva
Thr. Sept 19 Tutorial: HPSG and the Syntax-Semantics Interface Erhard Hinrichs & Paola Monachesi
Research Exchange: HPSG Linguistics, and Issues of Grammar Formalization and Implementation Detmar Meurers
9:30-12:00 HPSG Tutorial Erhard Hinrichs & Paola Monachesi
14:00-15:30 HPSG Tutorial Erhard Hinrichs & Paola Monachesi
15:30-16:15 On Syntactic Verbal Negation in Polish - An HPSG Analysis (slides: ap.ps.gz) Adam Przepiorkowski & Anna Kupsc
16:15-16:40 Preliminary considerations about relative clause constructions in Polish in the context of HPSG Agnieszka Mykowiecka
17:00-17:45 Multiple WH-Extraction and Clitic Placement in Serbo-Croatian (icw.ps) Gerald Penn
Fri. Sept 20 Issues of Grammar Formalization and Implementation (continued) Detmar Meurers
9:30-10:30 Issues in German Core Grammar in HPSG (paper: interfaces.ps.gz, interfaces.ps; slides: interslides.ps.gz, interslides.ps) Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer
10:30-11:15 Implementing HPSG grammars (slides: east-west-96.ps, east-west-96.ps.gz) Detmar Meurers
11:30-12:15 Regions and Word Order (regions.ps.gz, regions.ps) Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer
14:00-14:35 Processing Polish with metamorphosis grammars Janusz Bien
14:35-15:25 Linguistic Background of the AMOS system for morphological and syntactical analysis of Polish Marek Swidzinski
15:25-16:00 AMOS System Demo Janusz Bien & Krzysztof Szafran
16:30- On an Implementation of a Grammar Checker for Czech Vladislav Kubon
Mon. Sept 23 Tutorial: Statistical Methods in Computational Linguistics Steve Abney & Jan Hajic
10:00-11:10 Intro to Probability Jan Hajic
11:30-12:30 Language Models Jan Hajic
14:30-15:40 Hidden Markov Models Steve Abney
16:00-17:00 Clustering Steve Abney
Tue. Sept 24 Statistical Methods (continued) Steve Abney & Jan Hajic
10:00-11:10 Decision Trees Steve Abney
11:30-12:30 Maximum Entropy Jan Hajic
14:30-15:30 Czech Part of Speech Tagger Barbora Hladka
15:45- Part of Speech Tagging (with demo) Andrei Mikheev
Wed. Sept 25 Research Exchange: Computational Lexicography Helmut Feldweg
9:30-10:15 An Approach to Natural Language Semantics/Association Nets Formalism (papers.html) Gregory S. Tseytin
10:15-11:00 Preliminaries to a Theory of Generalized Inheritance Networks (GIN) Laszlo Kalman, Gabor Radai & Peter Rebrus
11:15-12:00 Hierarchical Lexicon of the Czech language (czech_verb.html) Hana Skoumalova
11:30-12:45 Czech National Corpus (cnc.html) Jana Klimova
14:00-14:45 Integrated Lexicographic Environments is Personal Computer enough for them? (tueb96c.doc) Alexander Yermakov
14:45-15:30 The Acquisition of a Morphological Dictionary and Rules for Analysis and Synthesis of Wordforms from Machine Readable Dictionaries Kiril Simov
15:45-16:30 Demo of Electronic Dictionary for Polish with Built-in Morphological Analysis (from Polish Scientific Publishers) Janusz Bien
16:30-17:15 COMPASS - an Intelligent Dictionary Look-up System Helmut Feldweg
Thu. Sept 26 Tutorial: Machine Translation Marc Light & Ulrich Schatz
9:00-10:00 Introduction to Machine Translation Marc Light
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Verbmobil Sabine Reinhard
11:30-12:30 Demonstration of Verbmobil Sabine Reinhard
14:30-15:30 The Tense and Aspect Module of Verbmobil Ulrich Schatz
16:00-17:00 Partial Parsing and Robust Semantic Construction in Verbmobil Marc Light
Fri. Sept 27 Research Exchange: Machine Translation Marc Light & Ulrich Schatz
9:30-10:30 Combinatorial Dictionary for Machine Translation Igor Boguslavsky & Leonid Iomdin
10:45-12:15 1) Transit and TermStar (presentation and demo of industrial system), 2) Multilingual Thesaurus (research exchange) Nikolai Puntikov & Tatyana Skrebtsova
13:00-14:00 Machine Translation System as a Linguistic Testbed (slides: rosen.ps.gz) Alexandr Rosen
14:15- Discussion of Issues in MT and Computational Linguistics
19:00- Reception at the Wurstküche Restaurant



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