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From: James Allan <allan@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: HLT 2001, final call for attendance
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:36:07 -0500
CALL FOR ATTENDANCE
Apply to Attend
See technical program below
HLT 2001, Human Language Technology Confererence
March 18-21, 2001
San Diego, California
http://hlt2001.org
Human Language Technology brings together researchers in a broad
spectrum of fields, all of which are working toward enabling computers
to better process and use with natural language. The HLT Conference
is a forum for researchers in those fields to present high-quality,
cutting-edge work, and to exchange ideas and explore directions for
further research. The Conference will also foster opportunities for
international collaboration within language technology. The
Conference and Program Chairs have selected 25 papers, 30 posters, and
18 demonstrations from over 175 submissions from researchers in
computer science, linguistics, engineering, psychology, etc., who are
exploring methods for enabling better use of language technology.
Further information is available at the Conference web site,
http://hlt2001.org.
**> Space at the Conference is restricted. Prospective attendees must
**> fill out a very simple application (it takes 30 seconds) at the
**> Conference web site. Acceptances will be made within a day or two
**> of application.
The Conference will span four days, running from Sunday afternoon
through mid-day Wednesday. It will include peer-reviewed research
presentations, posters, demonstrations, panel sessions, and time for
discussion. Sessions will cover not only research, but also
developments in related government funding programs.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
* Rapidly Retargetable Interactive Translingual Retrieval
G. Levow, D. Oard, P. Resnik, C. Cabezas (University of Maryland)
* Intelligent Access to Text: Integrating Information Extraction
R. Gaizauskas, P. Herring, M. Oakes, M. Beaulieu, P. Willett,
H. Fowkes, A. Jonsson (University of Sheffield)
* Portability Issues for Speech Recognition Technologies
L. Lamel, F. Lefevre, J. Gauvain, G. Adda (LIMSI-CNRS)
* Hypothesis Selection and Resolution in the Mercury Flight
Reservation System
S. Seneff, J. Polifroni (MIT)
* Japanese Text Input System With Digits
K. Tanaka-Ishii, Y. Inutsuka, M. Takeichi (The University of Tokyo)
* The Meeting Project at ICSI
N. Morgan, A. Janin, D. Ellis, J. Edwards (ICSI)
* SCANMail: Audio Navigation in the Voicemail Domain
M. Bacchiani, D. Hindle, J. Hirschberg, P. Isenhour, M. Jones,
A. Rosenberg, L. Start, S. Whittaker, G. Zamchick (AT&T Labs)
* Improving Information Extraction by Modeling Errors in ASR Output
D.D. Palmer (The MITRE Corporation), M. Ostendorf (University of
Washington)
* Experiments in Multi-Modal Content Extraction
L. Ramshaw, E. Boschee, S. Bratus, S. Miller, R. Stone, R. Weischedel,
A. Zamanian (BBN Technologies))
* Automatic Pattern Acquisition for Japanese Information Extraction
K. Sudo, S. Sekine, R. Grishman (New York U.)
* Japanese Case Frame Construction by Coupling the Verb and its
Closest Case Component
D. Kawahara, S. Kurohashi (Kyoto University)
* Answering What-Is Questions by Virtual Annotation
J. Prager (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), D. Radev (University
of Michigan), K. Czuba (Carnegie Mellon U.)
* Question Answering in Webclopedia
E. Hovy, L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, M. Junk, C. Lin (USC)
* The RWTH System for Statistical Translation of Spoken Dialogues
H. Ney, F.J. Och, S. Vogel (RWTH Aachen, University of Technology)
* Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual
Speech Retrieval
H. Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), B. Chen (Academia Sinica),
E. Grams (Advanced Analytical Tools), S. Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins
University), G. Levow (Univ of Maryland), W. Lo (CUHK), D. Oard (UMd),
P. Schone (DOD), K. Tang (Princeton University), H. Wang (Sinica),
J. Wang (UMd)
* Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff Translation
P. Resnik, D. Oard, G. Levow (University of Maryland)
* Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems
S. Bangalore, O. Rambow, M. Walker (AT&T Labs Research)
* Dialogue Act Tags as Qualitative DIalogue Metrics for Spoken
Dialogue Systems
M. Walker, R. Passonneau (AT&T Shannon Labs)
* A Three-tiered Evaluation Approach for Interactive Spoken Dialogue
Systems
K. Stibler, J. Denny (Lockheed Martin)
* Inducing Multilingual Text Analysis Tools via Robust Projection
across Aligned Corpora
D. Yarowsky, G. Ngai, R. Wicentowski (Johns Hopkins University)
* TuSBL: A Similarity-Based Chunk Parser for Robust Syntatic
Processing
S. Kuebler (Univ Tuebingen)
* Learning Curves for Natural Language Disambiguation
M. Banko, E. Brill (Microsoft)
* Multi-document Summarization via Information Extraction
M. White, T. Korelsky (CoGenTex), C. Cardie, V. Ng, D. Pierce,
K. Wagstaff (Cornell University)
* Sentence Ordering in Multidocument Summarization
R. Barzilay, N. Elhadad, K. McKeown (Columbia U)
* First Story Detection using a composite document representation.
N. Stokes, J. Carthy (University College Dublin)
* Fine Grained Hidden Markov Modeling for Broadcast-News Story
Segmentation
W. Greiff, A. Morgan, R. Fish, M. Richards, A. Kundu (The MITRE
Corporation)
DEMONSTRATIONS
* University of Colorado Dialogue Systems for Travel and Navigation
B. Pellom, W. Ward, J. Hansen, K. Hacioglu, S. Pradhan (University of
Colorado)
* Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system
D. Frey, R. Gupta, V. Khandelwal, V. Lavrenko, A. Leuski, J. Allan
(UMass)
* Exploring Speech-Enabled Dialogue with the Galaxy Communicator
Infrastructure
S. Bayer, C. Doran, B. George (The MITRE Corporation)
* IFE-Bio: An experiment combining diverse language technologies for
infectious disease monitoring
L. Hirschman, D. Day, l. Damianos, L. Ferro, J. Griffith,
J. Henderson, J. Kurtz, I. Mani, S. Mardis, T. McEntee, K. Miller,
J. Ponte, F. Reeder, B. Wellner, G. Wilson, A. Yeh (The MITRE
Corporation)
* Listen-Communicate-Show (LCS): Spoken language command of
agent-based remote information access
B. Bell, J. Daniels (Lockheed Martin)
* LingWear: A Mobile Tourist Information System
C. Fugen, M. Westphal, M. Schneider, T. Schultz, A. Waibel
(Interactive Systems Laboratories, Univ. of Karlsruhe and Carnegie
Mellon University)
* DARPA Communicator Capabilities for Dialogue Interaction
J. Bass, A. Sears (DARPA)
* Entry Vocabulary - a Technology to Enhance Digital Search
F. Gey, M. Buckland, A. Chen., R. Larson (UC, Berkeley)
* Linguatronic: Product-Level Speech System for Mercedes-Benz Car
P. Heisterkamp (DaimlerChrysler AG)
* FactBrowser Demonstration
S. Miller, S. Bratus, L. Ramshaw, R. Weischedel, A. Zamanian (BBN
Technologies)
* English-Chinese CLIR using Simplified PIRCS system
K.L. Kwok, N. Dinstl (Queens College, CUNY)
* LaTaT: Language And Text Analysis Tools
D. Lin (University of Alberta)
* A Demonstration of Annotation Tools Based on Annotation Graphs
(resubmission with updated information)
K. Maeda, S. Bird, X. Ma, H. Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
* Using Speech and Language Technology to Coach Reading
P. Price, L. Julia (BravoBrava! LLC)
* NewsInEssence: A System for Domain-Independent, Real-Time News
Clustering and Multi-Document Summarization (DEMO)
D. Radev, S. Blair-Goldensohn, Z. Zhang, R. Raghavan (University of
Michigan)
* Conversational Sales Assistant for Online Shopping
M. Budzikowska, J. Chai, S. Govindappa, V. Horvath, N. Kambhatla,
N. Nicolov, W. Zadrozny (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
* Integrated Information Management: An Interactive, Extensible
Architecture for Information Retrieval
E. Nyberg, H. Daume (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Spoken Language Navigation System for Drivers
R. Belvin, R. Burns, C. Hein (HRL Laboratories, LLC)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
* Finding Errors Automatically in Semantically Tagged Dialogues
J. Aberdeen, C. Doran, L. Damianos, S. Bayer, L. Hirschman (The MITRE
Corporation)
* Dialogue Interaction with the DARPA Communicator Infrastructure:
The Development of Useful Software
S. Bayer, C. Doran, B. George (The MITRE Corporation)
* Adapting an Example-Based Translation System to Chinese
Y. Zhang, R. Brown, R. Frederking (Carnegie Mellon University)
* A Server for Real-Time Event Tracking in News
R. Brown (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Robust Knowledge Discovery from Parallel Speech and Text Sources
F. Jelinek, W. Byrne, S. Khudanpur, B. Hladka (Johns Hopkins
University), H. Ney, F.J. Och, (RWTH Aechen University), J. Curin,
(Charles University), J. Psutka (University of West Bohemia)
* Facilitating Treebank Annotation Using a Statistical Parser
F. Chiou, D. Chiang, M. Palmer (University of Pennsylvania)
* Evaluating Question Answering Techniques in Chinese
X. Li, W.B. Croft (UMass)
* Amount of Information Presented in a Complex List: Effects on User
Performance
D. Dutton, M. Walker (AT&T Labs-Research), S. Chu (UC Irvine),
J. Hubbell (Human Factors International), S. Narayanan (Speech and
Image Proc Institute)
* Assigning Belief Scores to Names in Queries
C. Dozier (West Group)
* Evaluation Results for the Talk’n’Travel System
D. Stallard (BBN Technologies, Verizon)
* The Integrated Feasibility Experiment (IFE) Process
A. Sears (DARPA)
* On Combining Language Models : Oracle Approach
K. Hacioglu, W. Ward (University of Colorado at Boulder)
* Generating text knowledge bases with SynDiKATe -- Extended Abstract
U. Hahn, M. Romacker (Freiburg University)
* Automatic Title Generation for Spoken Broadcast News
R. Jin, A. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
* An evaluation scheme for summarizing topic shifts in news stream
V. Khandelwal, R. Gupta, J. Allan (UMass)
* Non-Dictionary-Based Thai Word Segmentation Using Decision Trees
T. Theeramunkong, S. Usanavasin (Thammasat University)
* Scalability and Portability of a Belief Network-based Dialog
Model for Different Application Domains
C. Wai, H. Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), R. Pieraccini
(Speech Works International Ltd.)
* Converting Dependency Structures to Phrase Structures
F. Xia, M. Palmer (University of Pennsylvania)
* Towards Automatic Sign Translation
J. Yang, J. Gao, Y. Zhang, A. Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Domain Portability in Speech-to-Speech Translation
A. Lavie, L Levin, T. Schultz, C. Langley, B Han, A. Tribble,
D. Gates, D. Wallace, K. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Architecture and Design Considerations in NESPOLE!: a Speech
Translation System for E-commerce Applications
A. Lavie, C. Langley, A. Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Interlingual-Based Broad-Coverage Korean-to-English Translation
Y. Lee, W. Yi, C. Weinstein, S. Seneff (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
* Information Extraction with Term Frequencies
T.R. Lynam, C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack (University of Waterloo)
* Guidelines for Annotating Temporal Information
I. Mani, L. Ferro, B. Sundheim, G. Wilson (The MITRE Corporation)
* Automatic Predicate Argument Analysis of the Penn TreeBank
M. Palmer, J. Rosenzweig, S. Cotton (University of Pennsylvania)
* Towards an Intelligent Multilingual Keyboard System
T. Potipiti (NECTEC)
* Is That Your Final Answer?
F. Reeder (The MITRE Corporation)
* Activity detection for information access to oral communication
K. Ries, A. Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Large scale testing of a descriptive phrase finder
H. Joho, Y. Liu, M. Sanderson (University of Sheffield)
* Advances in Meeting Recognition
A. Waibel, H. Yu, M. Westphal, H. Soltau, T. Schultz, T. Schaaf,
Y. Pan, F. Metze, M. Bett (Carnegie Mellon University and (Universitat
Karlsruhe)
* A Conversational Interface for Online Shopping
M. Budzikowska, J. Chai, V. Horvath, N. Kambhatla, N. Nicolov (IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center)
* The Use of Dynamic Segment Scoring for Language-Independent
Question Answering
D. Pack, C. Weinstein (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
General chair: James Allan, University of Massachusetts (USA)
Co-chair: Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Executive Program Committee:
Rob Gaizauskas, Sheffield University (UK)
Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS (France)
Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Eduard Hovy, ISI (USA)
David D. Lewis, Independent consultant (USA)
Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University (USA)
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington (USA)
Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo (Japan) and UMIST (UK)
Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO (Australia)
Demonstration Co-chairs:
Clifford Weinstein, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (USA)
Bob Younger, SPAWAR Systems Center (USA)
CONFERENCE VENUE
The HLT Conference will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San
Diego, California. The famous San Diego Zoo is the home of Hua Mei,
the only baby giant panda to be born in the US (she will be 18 months
old at HLT). Sea World is one of the area's better known attractions,
where you can see the killer whale Shamu. San Diego also houses
Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park. You can stroll through
the Gaslamp Quarter or through Old Town. Nearby La Jolla houses the
Birch Aquarium, and Carlsbad houses Legoland. Heading south gets you
to Tijuana, Mexico.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Up-to-date information about the Conference can be found at
http://hlt2001.org
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