Parsing

10.00-10.30: A Larger-first Approach to Partial Parsing, Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez

10.30-11.00: Structured Parameter Estimation for LFG-DOP using Backoff, Mary Hearne and Khalil Sima'an

Information extraction, text summarisation, evaluation issues in tagging/parsing

11.30-11.55: Automatic Evaluation of Robustness and Degradation in Tagging and Parsing, Johnny Bigert, Ola Knutsson and Jonas Sjobergh

11.55-12.20: Combining Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources in E-mail Summarization, Laura Alonso, Bernardino Casas, Irene Castellon, Savador Climent, Lluis Padro

12.20-12.45: Cross-lingual Information Extraction from Web pages: the Use of a General-purpose Text Engineering Platform, Georgios Petasis, Vangelis Karkaletsis and Constantine D. Spyropoulos

Semantics

11.30-11.55: Consistent Discourse Segmentation for Rhetorical Representation Purposes, Naila. K. Mimouni

11.55-12.20: An Authoring Framework for Dialogue Forms Development in Conversational Applications, Lazaros C. Polymenakos and John K. Soldatos

12.20-12.45: A Task and Dialogue Model Independent Dialogue Manager, Marcela Charfuelan and Niels Ole Bernsen

Tagging / Parsing

15.30-16.00: Why Build Another Part-of-Speech Tagger? A Minimalist Approach, Leonid Peshkin and Virginia Savova

16.00-16.30: Parsing Without Grammar - Using Complete Trees Instead, Sandra Kubler

Information / Event Extraction

15.30-16.00: Domain-Independent Detection, Extraction, and Labeling of Atomic Events, Elena Filatova and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

16.00-16.30: Semantically driven approach for scenario recognition in IE system FRET, Svetla Boytcheva, Milena Yankova and Albena Strupchanska

Lexical semantics

17.00-17.30: Combining Independent Modules to Solve Multiple-choice Synonym and Analogy Problems, Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey Bigham, and Victor Shnayder

17.30-18.00: Roget's Thesaurus and Semantic Similarity, Mario Jarmasz and Stan Szpakowicz

Parsing/grammar

17.00-17.30: A constraint-based bottom-up counterpart to DCG, Henning Christiansen

Document similarity

10.00-10.30: Towards Deeper Understanding of LSA Performance, Preslav Nakov, Elena Valchanova and Galia Angelova

10.30-11.00: Automatic Identification of Document Translations in Large Multilingual Document Collections, Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger and Camelia Ignat

Named entity and phrase extraction

10.00-10.30: A Framework for Named Entity Recognition in the Open Domain, Richard Evans

10.30-11.00: Phrase Recognition by Filtering and Ranking with Perceptrons, Xavier Carreras and Lluis Marquez

Parsing/syntax

11.30-11.55: Description and Exploitation of BDS: A Syntactic Database about Verb Government in Spanish, Eva Ma. Muniz, Marta Rebolledo, Guillermo Rojo, Ma. Paula Santalla and Susana Sotelo

11.55-12.20: A New Language for Constraint Grammar: Estonian, Kaili Muurisep, Tiina Puolakainen, Kadri Muischnek, Mare Koit, Tiit Roosmaa and Heli Uibo

12.20-12.45:Probabilistic Modelling of Argument Structures Including Non-local Dependencies, Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya and Jun'ichi Tsujii

Knowledge acquisition, extraction of terms and named entities

11.30-11.55: Towards a Semantic Extraction of Named Entities, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham

11.55-12.20: 1220 A Three-pronged Approach to the Extraction of Key Terms and Semantic Roles, C.D. Paice and W.J. Black

12.20-12.50: Acquisition of Concept Frames: Corpus Extraction and Annotation, Birte Lonneker

Text summarisation

15.30-16.00: Latent Semantic Analysis and the Construction of Coherent Extracts, Tristan Miller

16.00-16.30: Facilitating Email Thread Access by Extractive Summary Generation, Ani Nenkova and Amit Bagga

Part-of-speech tagging

15.30-16.00: Fast and Accurate Part-of-Speech Tagging: The SVM Approach Rev, Jesus Gimenez and Lluis Marques

16.00-16.30: A Metric for the Efficiency of Accurate Tagging Procedures, Antonio Branco and Joao Silva

Ontology, lexical acquisition

10.00-10.30: Clustering WordNet Word Senses, Eneko Agirre and Oier Lopez de Lacalle

10.30-11.00: Inducing Hyperlinking Rules in Text Collections, Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Aspects of morphology and applications

10.00-10.30: Guessing Morphological Classes of Unknown German Nouns, Preslav Nakov, Yury Bonev, Galia Angelova, Evelyn Gius and Walther von Hahn

10.30-11.00: Arabic Morpho-syntax for Text-to-Speech, Allan Ramsay and Hanady Mansour

Question Answering, Information extraction, Keyword extraction

11.30-12.00: Socrates - A Question Answering Prototype for Bulgarian, Hristo Tanev

12.00-12.30: Using Parallel Texts to Improve Recall in IE, Mary M. Wood, Susannah J. Lydon, Valentin Tablan, Diana Maynard and Hamish Cunningham

12.30-13.00: Reducing False Positives by Expert Combination in Automatic Keyword Indexing, Anette Hulth

Generation, verb ellipsis resolution, treebanks

11.30-12.00: Near-Synonym Choice in Natural Language Generation, Diana Zaiu Inkpen and Graeme Hirst

12.00-12.30: Using Machine Learning Techniques for VPE detection, Leif Arda Nielsen

12.30-13.00: HPSG-Based Annotation Scheme for Corpora Development and Parsing Evaluation, Kiril Simov

Word-sense disambiguation

15.30-16.00: Exploiting Agreement and Disagreement of Human Annotators for Word Sense Disambiguation, Timothy Chklovski and Rada Mihalcea

16.00-16.30: The Role of Non-Ambiguous Words in Natural Language Disambiguation, Rada Mihalcea

Ontologies / Temporal processing

15.30-15.55: Validation and Tuning of WordNet Mapping Techniques, Jordi Daude, Lluis Padro and German Rigau

15.55-16.25: Integrating and Porting knowledge across languages, Jordi Atserias and Luis Villarejo and German Rigau

16.25-16.50: Event Ordering through Temporal Expression Resolution, Estela Saquete, Rafael Munoz and Patricio Matinez-Barco