6. NLPRS 2001: Tokyo, Japan

Invited Talks

• Julia Hirschberg, Michiel Bacchiani, Philip L. Isenhour:
  Audio Browsing and Search in the Voicemail Domain. 3-8
  
• Benjamin K. Tsou:
  Corpus, Information Mining and the New Global Village. 9-18
  
• Sadaoki Furui:
  From Read Speech Recognition to Spontaneous Speech Understanding. 19-25
  
• Sanda M. Harabagiu:
  Just-In-Time Question Answering. 27-34
  

Panel discussion

• Jun'ichi Tsujii:
  Are NLP technologies really ready for application? (Panel). 37-38
  

Word Sense Disambiguation (I)

• Hiroya Takamura, Hiroyasu Yamada, Taku Kudo, Kaoru Yamamoto, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Ensembling based on Feature Space Restructuring with Application to WSD. 41-48
  
• Saim Shin, Yong-Seok Choi, Key-Sun Choi:
  Word Sense Disambiguation Using Vectors of Co-occurrence Information. 49-55
  
• Rebecca F. Bruce:
  A Bayesian Approach to Semi-Supervised Learning. 57-64
  

Word Sense Disambiguation (II)

• Hiroshi Nakagawa:
  Disambiguation of Compound Noun Translations Extracted from Bilingual Comparable Corpora. 67-74
  
• Qujiang Peng, Takeshi Ito, Teiji Furugori:
  Word Sense Disambiguation with a Corpus-Based Semantic Network. 75-82
  
• Nancy Ide, Tomaz Erjavec, Dan Tufis:
  Automatic Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora. 83-90
  

Summarization

• Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Akitoshi Okumura:
  Evaluating Automatic Text Summarization with Summary Results by the Experienced and the Inexperienced. 93-100
  
• Haeseung Paik, Young-Soo Kang, Key-Sun Choi:
  Analysis of Linguistic Features for Identifying Information Constituents of a Concept. 101-107
  
• Rui Pedro Chaves:
  WordNet and Automated Text Summarization. 109-116
  

Lexical Database

• Gilles Sérasset, Mathieu Mangeot:
  Papillon Lexical Database Project: Monolingual Dictionaries & Interlingual Links. 119-125
  
• Mathieu Lafourcade, Violaine Prince:
  Relative Synonymy and Conceptual Vectors. 127-134
  
• Takenobu Tokunaga, Yasuhiro Syotu, Hozumi Tanaka, Kiyoaki Shirai:
  Integration of heterogeneous language resources: A monolingual dictionary and a thesaurus. 135-142
  

Language Modeling (I)

• Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans:
  A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling. 145-152
  
• Chin-Chung Wong, Helen M. Meng, Kai-Chung Siu:
  Learning Strategies In A Grammar Induction Framework. 153-157
  
• Kentaro Inui, Satomi Yamamoto:
  Corpus-Based Acquisition of Sentence Readability Ranking Models for Deaf People. 159-166
  

Language Modeling (II)

• Weijun Chen, Fuzong Lin, Jianmin Li, Bo Zhang:
  A New Prosodic Phrasing Model for Chinese TTS Systems. 169-175
  
• Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Yusuke Inutsuka, Masato Takeichi:
  Personalization of Text Entry Systems for Mobile Phones. 177-184
  
• Khalil Sima'an:
  Enhancing the Robustness of DOP for Speech Understanding. 185-192
  

Paraphrasing

• Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Chengqing Zong, Masashi Sakamoto:
  Paraphrasing Utterances by Reordering Words Using Semi-Automatically Acquired Patterns. 195-202
  
• Kazuhide Yamamoto:
  Paraphrasing Spoken Japanese for Untangling Bilingual Transfer. 203-210
  
• Kentaro Torisawa:
  An Unsupervised Method for Canonicalization of Japanese Postpositions. 211-218
  

Nominal Extraction

• Tatsunori Mori:
  Re-interpretation of Rules for Named Entity Task by Probability Assignment. 221-228
  
• Choong-Nyoung Seon, Youngjoong Ko, Jeong-Seok Kim, Jungyun Seo:
  Named Entity Recognition using Machine Learning Methods and Pattern-Selection Rules. 229-236
  
• Do-Gil Lee, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim:
  An Efficient Method for Korean Noun Extraction Using Noun Occurrence Characteristics. 237-244
  

Syntax

• Mark Pedersen, Helen C. Purchase:
  A Case Study of Free Word Order Grammar Development in DG, TAG and LFG. 247-254
  
• Taisuke Sato, Shigeru Abe, Yoshitaka Kameya, Kiyoaki Shirai:
  A Separate-and-Learn Approach to EM Learning of PCFGs. 255-262
  
• Mi-Young Kim, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Resolving Ambiguity in Inter-chunk Dependency Parsing. 263-270
  

Topic Detection

• Narjès Boufaden, Guy Lapalme, Yoshua Bengio:
  Topic Segmentation : A First Stage to Dialog-Based Information Extraction. 273-279
  
• Weiquan Liu, Joe F. Zhou:
  kNN vs. Linear Support Vector Machine in Event Tracking. 281-288
  
• Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa:
  Topic-Word Selection Based on Combinatorial Probability. 289-296
  

IR/IE

• Luo Xiao, Dieter Wissmann, Michael Brown, Stefan Jablonski:
  Hierarchical Concept Description and Learning for Information Extraction. 299-306
  
• Akiko N. Aizawa:
  Linguistic Techniques to Improve the Performance of Automatic Text Categorization. 307-314
  
• Hiroko Inui, Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Classification of Open-Ended Questionnaires based on Surface Information in Sentence Structure. 315-322
  

Morphology & POS Tagging

• Tetsuji Nakagawa, Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Unknown Word Guessing and Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Support Vector Machines. 325-331
  
• Jun'ichi Kazama, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
  A Maximum Entropy Tagger with Unsupervised Hidden Markov Models. 333-340
  
• Alexander Clark:
  Partially Supervised Learning of Morphology with Stochastic Transducers. 341-348
  

Parsing

• Takahisa Murase, Shigeki Matsubara, Yoshihide Kato, Yasuyoshi Inagaki:
  Incremental CFG Parsing with Statistical Lexical Dependencies. 351-358
  
• Yong-Jae Kwak, Young-Sook Hwang, Hoo-Jung Chung, So-Young Park, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim:
  GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model(CAM). 359-366
  
• Noriko Tomuro, Steven L. Lytinen:
  Abstract Left-corner Parsing for Unification Grammars. 367-374
  

Multilingual Applications

• Kenji Imamura:
  Hierarchical Phrase Alignment Harmonized with Parsing. 377-384
  
• Tatsunori Mori:
  Segmented LSI for Fully Automated Large-scale Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 385-392
  
• Eric Brill, Gary Kacmarcik, Chris Brockett:
  Automatically Harvesting Katakana-English Term Pairs from Search Engine Query Logs. 393-399
  

Misc. Topics

• Kazuhiro Seki, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa:
  A Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution Integrating Syntactic and Semantic Features. 403-410
  
• Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Sadao Kurohashi, Satoshi Sato:
  Discovery of Definition Patterns by Compressing Dictionary Sentences. 411-418
  
• Ji-Eun Roh, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Korean Text Generation from Database for Homeshopping Sites. 419-426
  

Project Notes: IR/Text Searching

• Tsunenori Mine, Hiroki Fujitani, Makoto Amamiya:
  Japanese Information Retrieval Method Using Syntactic and Statistical Information. 429-434
  
• Satoru Takabayashi, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Toshiyuki Masui:
  Migemo: Incremental Search Method for Languages with Many Character Faces. 435-438
  

Project Notes: Text Analysis

• Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu, Xu Guowei, Hiroyuli Ishizaki:
  Language Independent Text Categorization. 441-446
  
• Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Acquisition of Sentence Reduction Rules for Improving Quality of Text Summaries. 447-452
  

Project Notes: Applications

• Wei Wang, Jin-Xia Huang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang:
  Finding Target Language Correspondence for Lexicalized EBMT System. 455-460
  
• Hideki Uematsu, Akira Shimazu, Manabu Okumura:
  Generation of 3D CG Animations from Recipe Sentences. 461-466
  

Project Notes: Morphological & Syntactic Analyses

• Mark Pedersen, Helen C. Purchase:
  A Usability Case Study of Grammar Formalisms for Free Word Order Natural Language Processing. 469-474
  
• Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans:
  A Hierarchical EM Approach to Word Segmentation. 475-480
  
• Tony Mullen, Rob Malouf, Gertjan van Noord:
  Statistical Parsing of Dutch using Maximum Entropy Models with Feature Merging. 481-486
  
• Tomaz Erjavec:
  Harmonised Morphosyntactic Tagging for Seven Languages and Orwell's 1984. 487-492
  
• Pongthai Tarsaku, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Rachod Thongprasirt:
  Grapheme-to-Phoneme for Thai. 493-498
  

Project Notes: Entity Extraction

• Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Chunfa Yuan:
  Application and Difficulty of Natural Language Processing in Chinese Temporal Information Extraction. 501-506
  
• Toshifumi Tanabe, Kenji Yoshimura, Kosho Shudo:
  Modality Expressions in Japanese and Their Automatic Paraphrasing. 507-512
  
• Chung Won Seo, Key-Sun Choi:
  Analysis and Reconstrution of Dictionary Definition Units. 513-518
  
• In-Ho Kang, Yeojin Lee, Gil-Chang Kim:
  Improving accuracy in Base Noun Phrase Identification with the variation of context length and position. 519-524
  
• Aysenur Akyuz Birturk, Sandiway Fong:
  A Modular Approach to Turkish Noun Compounding: The Integration of a Finite-State Model. 525-530
  

Project Notes: Generation/Text Planning

• Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Lucia Helena Machado Rino:
  A summary planner based on a three-level discourse model. 533-538
  
• Camilla Brandel Martins, Lucia Helena Machado Rino:
  Pruning UNL texts for Summarizing Purposes. 539-544
  
• Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen:
  Design of a Generation Component for a Spoken Dialogue System. 545-550
  
• Chengqing Zong, Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Masashi Sakamoto, Satoshi Shirai:
  Approach to Spoken Chinese Paraphrasing Based on Feature Extraction. 551-556
  
• Mitsuko Yamura-Takei, Miho Fujiwara, Teruaki Aizawa:
  Centering as an Anaphora Generation Algorithm: A Language Learning Aid Perspective. 557-562
  

Posters I

• Yasuhiko Watanabe, Shigeru Toji, Yoshihiro Okada:
  Speaker Determination in Video News by Using Acoustic Features and Transcripts. 565-570
  
• Isao Goto, Noriyoshi Uratani, Terumasa Ehara:
  Cross-Language Information Retrieval of Proper Nouns using Context Information. 571-578
  
• Yusuke Inutsuka, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Masato Takeichi:
  Thai Text Entry with Digits. 579-584
  
• Zenshiro Kawasaki, Keiji Shibata, Masato Tajima:
  Sentence Extraction by Questioning. 585-591
  
• Mamiko Hatayama, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Satoshi Shirai:
  Summarizing Newspaper Articles Using Extracted Informative and Functional Words. 593-600
  
• Takahiro Ito, Kenji Matsumoto, Yasuo Tanida, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka:
  Monologue Summarization: Extraction of Important Sentences for TV News Commentary Programs. 601-608
  
• Masami Shishibori, Kazuaki Ando, Jun-Ichi Aoe:
  A E-mail Filtering System Based on Personal Profiles. 609-616
  
• Md Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Multilingual Document Alignment - A Study with Chinese and Japanese. 617-623
  
• Mats U. Nystrand, Naoto Takahashi, Kazuhiro Ueda:
  Acquiring word meanings with questions, answers and a dynamic environment - generalizing with neural networks.. 625-630
  
• Sang-Bum Kim, Gum-Won Hong, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Myoung-Sook Ko:
  Usability Word-Pair Features for Probabilistic Text Classifiers. 631-638
  
• Seong-il Yang, Young Kil Kim, Young Ae Seo, Sung-Kwon Choi, Sang-Kyu Park:
  Korean to English TV Caption Translator: ""CaptionEye/KE"". 639-645
  
• Yoon-Hyung Roh, Young Ae Seo, Ki-Young Lee, Sung-Kwon Choi:
  Long Sentence Partitioning using Structure Analysis for Machine Translation. 646-652
  
• Hong-Jia Wong, June-Jei Kuo, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Headline Generation for Summaries from Multiple Online Sources. 653-660
  

Posters II

• Elliott Franco Drábek, Qiang Zhou:
  Use of a Lexical Feature Database for Partial Parsing of Chinese. 663-668
  
• Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K. Tsou:
  Automatic Corpus-Based Extraction of Chinese Legal Terms. 669-676
  
• Tom B. Y. Lai, Changning Huang, Ming Zhou, Jiangbo Miao, Tony K. C. Siu:
  Span-based Statistical Dependency Parsing of Chinese. 677-684
  
• Akshar Bharati, Rajeev Sangal, Sushma Bendre, Pavan Kumar, Aishwarya:
  Unsupervised Improvement of Morphological Analyzer for Inflectionally Rich Languages. 685-692
  
• Dirk Lüdtke:
  Chunking with Decision Trees. 693-699
  
• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Takashi Chikayama:
  Estimating Reliability of Contextual Evidences in Decision-List Classifiers under Bayesian Learning. 701-707
  
• Songwook Lee, Tae-Yeoub Jang, Jungyun Seo:
  The Grammatical Function Analysis between Adnoun Clause and Noun Phrase in Korean. 709-713
  
• You-Jin Chung, Sin-Jae Kang, Kyoung-Hi Moon, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Word Sense Disambiguation Using Neural Networks with Concept Co-occurrence Information. 715-722
  
• Shin Won Lee, Dong Un An, Seong Jong Chung:
  Korean Adverb Ordering in English-Korean Machine Translation Using Clustering. 723-728
  
• Seung-Shik Kang, Chong-Woo Woo:
  Automatic Segmentation of Words using Syllable Bigram Statistics. 729-732
  
• Young-Sook Hwang, Yong-Jae Kwak, Hoo-Jung Chung, So-Young Park, Hae-Chang Rim:
  An Empirical Study of Feature Set Selection for Text Chunking. 733-740
  
• Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, Sandiway Fong:
  Efficient Parsing for Word Structure. 741-748
  
• Dinh Dien, Hoang Kiem, Nguyen Van Toan:
  Vietnamese Word Segmentation. 749-756
  

Exhibitions and Demonstrations of NLP technologies

• Key-Sun Choi:
  A Korean Language Processing Workbench. 759-760
  
• Takaaki Hasegawa, Takefumi Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Hayashi:
  SummaryBIFF: An E-mail Summarizer for Mobile Phones. 761-762
  
• Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Tomoya Iwakura, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi:
  Kura: A Lexico-Structural Paraphrasing Engine. 763-764
  
• Jun'ichi Tsujii:
  LiLFeS/GENIA Project --- NLP Tools and A Biology Domain Corpus ---. 765-766
  
• Yohei Seki:
  XML Transformation-based three-stage pipelined Natural Language Generation System. 767-768
  
• Tatsuya Sukehiro, Mihoko Kitamura, Toshiki Murata:
  Collaborative Translation Environment 'Yakushite.Net'. 769-770
  
• Akihiko Takano, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka, Toru Hisamitsu, Makoto Iwayama, Osamu Imaichi:
  Associative information access using DualNAVI. 771-772
  
• Koichi Takeda, Hiroshi Nomiyama, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Mei Kobayashi, Takashi Sakairi, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Tohru Nagano, Akiko Murakami, Hironori Takeuchi:
  Text Mining and Site Outlining Projects. 773-774
  
• Hozumi Tanaka:
  JSPS project: Natural Language Understanding and Action Control. 775-776
  
• Naoyuki Tokuda, Liang Chen, Qing Zhong:
  AZALEA: A KE-Free ICALL (intelligent computer assisted language learning) System for Japanese-English Translation. 777-778
  
• Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Tools for Exploring Natural Language. 779-780
  
• Toshihiko Watanabe, Yusuke Inutsuka, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi Nakagawa:
  Text Entry/Conversion Systems for Mobile Phones. 781-782
  

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