W04 - Third International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems – NLIS 2002

Monday, September 2, 2002

Session 1: Text Analysis

10.30 – 12.30

Discovering Relationship between Topics of Conferences by Filtering, Extracting and Clustering

Mine T., Lu S., Amamiya M.; Japan

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Chains based on WordNet

Ramakrishnan G., Bhattacharyya P.; India

Using NLP to Efficiently Visualize Text Collections with SOMs

Henderson J., Merlo P., Petroff I., Schneider G.; Switzerland

Tailoring Text using Topic Words: Selection and Compression

Euler T.; Germany

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

Session 2: HLT Architectures

14.00 – 15.30

Developing Reusable and Robust Language Processing Components for Information Systems using GATE

Bontcheva K., Cunningham H., Saggion H., Maynard D., Tablan V., Wilks Y.; UK

English as a Formal Specification Language

Schwitter R.; Australia

Balancing Conciseness, Readability and Salience in Generated Text

Eddy B., Cawsey A.; UK

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

Session 3: Information Retrieval

16.00 – 18.30

Applying Cascaded Feature Selection to SVM Text Categorization

Masuyama T., Nakagawa H.; Japan

Tokenization and Proper Noun Recognition for Information Retrieval

Barcala M., Vilares J., Alonso M. A., Graña, Vilares M.; Spain

A Combined Statistical Query Term Disambiguation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Sadat F., Maeda A., Yoshikawa M., Uemura S. ; Japan

Similarity Model and Term Association for Document Categorization

Kou H., Gardarin G.; France

Long-term Relevance Feedback using Simple PCA and Linear Transformation

Tai X., Ren F., Kita K.; Japan