comutational linguistics general thematic sessions acl 99 call papers 37th annual meeting association computational linguistics 20 26 june 1999 university maryland may find easier read information web http www mri mq edu au conf acl99 1 paper sessions 1 1 topics interest break tradition year acl conference experimenting new format technical sessions conference two kinds general sessions kind formed conference programme past however also number special thematic sessions somewhat like special issue journal organised around themes proposed members computational linguistics community aim incorporate intensity excitement traditional postconference workshops without replacing workshops conference structure mean thematic sessions run parallel sessions resulting smaller focussed audiences submit paper conference need consider whether want present paper general sessions one thematic sessions listed general sessions papers invited substantial original unpublished research aspects computational linguistics including limited pragmatics discourse semantics syntax lexicon phonetics phonology morphology interpreting generating spoken written language linguistic mathematical psychological models language languageoriented information retrieval information extraction corpusbased language modeling machine translation translation aids natural language interfaces dialogue systems approaches coordinating linguistic modalities multimedia systems message narrative understanding systems papers submitted thematic sessions narrowly targeted specific topics complete list thematic sessions follows information found indicated url d1 dialogue management interactive spoken dialogue systems chairs diane litman marilyn walker motivation advent realtime interactive spoken dialogue systems poses special challenges dialogue management topics evaluation dialogue strategies repair system integration learning optimizing system behavior corpus analysis robust processing requirements dialogue places generation speech recognition synthesis http www research att com diane acl99 theme html d2 discourse tagging uses results applications chairs marilyn walker julia hirschberg owen rambow motivation empirical approaches discourse processing often rely tagging texts dialogues discourse tags wide range tag sets topics discourse tagging training testing models discourse structure reference translation speech acts topic identification speech recognition http www research att com walker dtagacl 99 html d3 corpus based approaches discourse dialogue chair nancy ide theme treats corpusbased work aspect discourse dialogue analysis including coreference segmentation discourse structure parsing generation etc especially light relevance practical applications http www cs vassar edu ide calls acl99 discourse html d4 lexicon discourse connections structure semantics chairs laurence danlos alistair knott bonnie webber motivation lexicon becoming central resource computing properties sentence one may consider similar gains computing properties discourse topics lexical semantics discourse connectives focus particles discourse lexical interpretation lexicalized grammars discourse http www cogsci ed ac uk alik acltheme html i1 nlp techniques cross language information retrieval chair douglas oard motivation systems use queries examples one natural language find text speech another becoming increasingly important topics nlp techniques query translation cognate matching interlingual matching techniques crosslanguage gisting using summarization gloss translation http www clis umd edu conferences acl99clir i2 exploring limits shallow parsing chair gregory grefenstette shallow parsing techniques provide partial analysis syntactic structures theme covers research quantifying identifiable linguistic phenomena corpus evaluating accuracy dependency relations extracted shallow parsers approximation full parsing shallow parsers http www xrce xerox com research mltt dmhead acl99 i3 information extraction spoken language data chairs lynette hirschman david palmer motivation identifying relevant syntactic semantic items names dates events speech data requires robust processing misspellings transcription errors tokenization ambiguities disfluencies topics algorithms architectures evaluation techniques noisy data information extraction http raven bu edu conferences aclie99 i4 natural language processing interactive information retrieval chair hinrich sch tze theme solicits papers use nlp enable better interactive information retrieval examples include query analysis disambiguation classification queries semantic hierarchies especially interested novel ideas ftp parcftp xerox com pub qca schuetze acl99 html i5 robust sentence level interpretation chairs carolyn penstein rose alon lavie contrast information extraction shallow parsing techniques session focus robust approaches full sentence interpretation emphasis empirical evaluation topics preparsing repair robust parsing postparsing repair user interaction http www pitt edu rosecp topic html i6 topic detection chairs james allan bruce croft examine discovering structure themes across many texts finding topics underlie text includes summarization theme extraction tdt detection concept extraction highquality clustering related evaluations http ciir cs umass edu acl99 l1 parsing inflective agglutinative free word order languages chair jan hajic parsing languages displaying nonanalytical nonfixed word order behavior large extent poses specific problems expected addressed aspects dealing problems welcome including morphological syntactic semantic processing http ufal ms mff cuni cz l2 mt nlp languages low diffusion chairs doug jones boyan onyshkevych motivation adequate largescale mt nlp systems exist bulk world languages significant online resources topics build largescale mt nlp systems resources languages leverage minimal resources including native language expertise l3 word segmentation lexical acquisition asian languages chair masaaki nagata motivation exchange ideas experiences word segmentation among asian researchers well asian western researchers topics theories applications tokenization dictionary construction techniques languages put space words chinese japanese thai http www milab tsukuba ac jp wordseg acl99 m1 automated analysis evaluation free text chairs jill burstein claudia leacock motivation bring together researchers interested evaluation essays free text purposes assessment instruction topics identification analysis textual features generation feedback authors evaluation system results http www ets org research acl99 html m2 use large coverage lexical resources tagging parsing chair max silberztein motivation present dictionarybased projects results whose starting point either machine readable dictionaries raw lists large corpora topics largecoverage lexical resources construction dictionaries corpus processing http www ladl jussieu fr confs acl99 acl99 html m3 prosody modelling nlg speech generation chairs elke teich sandra williams motivation integrating natural language generation speech synthesis topics reconciling syntactic semantic prosodic representations determination intonation focus contour according context adaptations nlg architectures speech generation http www mri mq edu au swilliam acl99theme m4 design implementation uses controlled languages chairs tony hartley cecile paris motivation controlled languages increasingly used enhance readability facilitate automatic processing documents guide input generation systems important concerns development enforcement controlled languages topics authoring environments design principles corpus analysis controlled language applications http www itri brighton ac uk events acl99 clang html m5 computational psycholinguistics chair philip resnik motivation discussing empirical theoretical studies psychologically motivated computational models human language processes opposed nlp applications 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