Japanese-German Workshop on Natural Language Processing:

NLP for Information Management and Semantic Web

Date: 4-5/July, 2003 (Immediately before ACL2003)

Venue: Sapporo, Japan (the workshop took place at Sapporo-shi Sangyo Shinko Center (map) )

Enquiry: tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

This workshop is jointly organized by MEXT and JST CREST.

Workshop Program

7/4
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome: Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii
Session 1: Knowledge Management
9:10 - 9:40 Kazuo Sumita, "Human-human communication and knowledge management" slides in ppt
9:40 - 10:10 Kunio Matsui, "An approach to KNOW-WHO using RDF" slides in ppt
10:10 - 10:40 Akiko Murakami and Koichi Takeda, "Mail Mining: Extracting Collaborative Activities from E-Mail" slides in ppt
10:40 - 10:50 Short Break
Session 2: Corpus Annotation
10:50 - 11:20 Anette Frank, "Multi-level Annotation for Integrated Natural Language Processing" slides in ppt
11:20 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Dieter Metzing, "Information Modelling of Language and Text: XML-based, multi-level, semantic-oriented." slides in ppt
13:30 - 14:00 Yoshihiko Hayashi, "Speech-based Content Indexing System for Broadcast News" slides in pdf
14:00 - 14:10 Short Break
Session 3: Parsing
14:10 - 14:40 Sandra Kubler, "Memory-Based Parsing for German" slides in pdf
14:40 - 15:10 Yusuke Miyao, "Feature Forest Models for Syntactic Parsing" slides in ppt
15:10 - 15:40 Christian Rohrer, "Testing a large-scale Lexical-Functional Grammar with a treebank"
15:40 - 16:20 Long Break
Session 4: Parsing and Semantics
16:20 - 16:50 Erhard Hinrichs, "Morphological Disambiguation of German Noun Phrases" slides in pdf
16:50 - 17:20 Dietmar Rosner, "Exploiting Intra- and Inter-Document relations in corpus-based natural language processing" slides in pdf
17:20 - 17:50 Hiroshi Nakagawa, "Terminology Extraction Methods" slides in ppt
17:50 - 18:20 Hitoshi Isahara, "Toward an objective thesaurus from semantic map"

7/5
Session 5: Lexical Semantics
9:10 - 9:40 Hiroyuki Kaji, "Word Sense Acquisition from Bilingual Comparable Corpora" slides in pdf
9:40 - 10:10 Kyo Kageura, "Automatic Term Weighting, Lexical Statistics and Quantitative Terminology" slides in ppt
10:10 - 10:40 Takenobu Tokunaga, "Paraphrasing Japanese noun phrases using character-based indexing" slides in pdf
10:40 - 10:50 Short Break
Session 6: Information Retrieval
10:50 - 11:20 Yuji Matsumoto and Hiroyasu Yamada, "English Word Dependency Parsing with SVMs" slides in pdf
11:20 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Takashi Miyata, "Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Structure" slides in pdf
13:30 - 14:00 Takehito Utsuro, "Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora" slides in pdf
14:00 - 14:10 Short Break
Session 7: IR and QA
14:10 - 14:40 Kieko SAITO, "Window type passage retrieval supported by German morphological analyzer" slides in ppt
14:40 - 15:10 Hideki Isozaki, "Named Entity Recognition and Zero Pronoun Resolution for Question Answering" slides in swf
15:10 - 15:40 Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii, "Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching" slides in ppt
15:40 - 16:20 Long Break
Session 8: NLP in Biomedicine
16:20 - 16:50 Manuela Kunze, "Processing Medline Abstracts: an Experiment in Resource Integration" slides in pdf
16:50 - 17:20 Toru Hisamitsu, "NLP for Bioinformatics --- Toward Knowledge Integration and Management"
17:20 - 17:50 Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, "Dictionary-based Approaches for Biomedical Term Recognition" slides in ppt
17:50 - 18:20 Uwe Reyle, "Processing Natural Language Comments in Biological Databases" slides in ppt

Tentative List of Japanese Participants

Tentative List of German Participants

Pictures - Courtesy of Prof. Dietmar Roesner