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 will take place at a hotel in Sapporo - to be announced soon)

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

Tentative List of Presentations

Akiko Murakami and Koichi Takeda, "Mail Mining: Extracting Collaborative Activities from E-Mail" (abstract)

Yoshihiko Hayashi, "Speech-based Content Indexing System for Broadcast News" (abstract)

Hiroyuki Kaji, "Word Sense Acquisition from Bilingual Comparable Corpora" (abstract)

Takenobu Tokunaga, "Animated Agents Capable of Understanding Natural Language" (abstract)

Hiroshi Nakagawa, "Terminology Extraction Methods" (abstract)

Kyo Kageura, "Automatic Term Weighting, Lexical Statistics and Quantitative Terminology" (abstract)

Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii, "Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching" (abstract)

Takashi Miyata, "Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Structure" (abstract)

Tentative List of German Participants

Tentative List of Japanese Participants

Name Affiliation Topics
Jun'ichi Tsujii University of Tokyo Grammar Formalism, Text Management, NLP for Semantic Web, NLP for Biology
Yoshihiro Hayashi NTT Cyberspace Labs. NLP for Cross-media/Cross-Language Information Access
Hideki Hirakawa Toshiba Ontology Building
Toru Hisamitsu Hitachi Information Retrieval
Hitoshi Iida Tokyo University of Technology Speech and Language, Machine Translation
Hitoshi Isahara CRL Multilingual NLP, MT, Dialogue. Speech and Language
Hideki Isozaki NTT Information Extraction, Question Answering
Kyo Kageura NII Terminology
Hiroyuki Kaji Hitachi Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora, MT
Kunio Matsui Fujitsu NLP for Information Management and Semantic Web
Yuji Matsumoto NAIST Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition, Machine Learning Approach to NLP
Takashi Miyata AIST Information Retrieval, Grammar Formalism
Akiko Murakami IBM Research NLP for Collaborative Information
Hiroshi Nakagawa University of Tokyo NLP for WEB and Mobile Environment, Text Clustering
Kazuo Sumita Toshiba Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval
Koichi Takeda IBM Research Text Mining, Information Integration
Kumiko Tanaka University of Tokyo NLP in Multimedia, Statistical Language Models, Human Interface
Takenobu Tokunaga Tokyo Institute of Technology Information Retrieval, NLP for Multimedia
Takehito Utsuro Kyoto University Translation Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora
Kenji Yoshimura Fukuoka University Text Management

Tentative List of Japanese Observers

Name Affiliation Topics
Masayuki Sato JST