Japanese-German Workshop on Natural Language Processing

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

Venue: Sapporo, Japan (the workshop will take place at a hotel in Sapporo - to be anounced soon)

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

Tentative Presentation List

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)

Tentative List of German Participants

Tentative List of Japanese Participants

Name Affiliation Topics
Prof.J.Tsujii University of Tokyo Grammar Formalism, Text Management, NLP for Semantic Web, NLP for Biology
Dr.Hayashi NTT Cyberspace Labs. NLP for Cross-media/Cross-Language Information Access
Dr.Hirakawa Toshiba Ontology Building
Dr.Hisamitsu Hitachi Information Retrieval
Prof.H.Iida Tokyo University of Technology Speech and Language, Machine Translation
Dr.H.Isahara CRL Multilingual NLP, MT, Dialogue. Speech and Language
Dr.H.Isozaki NTT Information Extraction, Question Answering
Dr.K.Kageura NII Terminology
Dr.H.Kaji Hitachi Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora, MT
Dr.K.Matsui Fujitsu NLP for Information Management and Semantic Web
Prof.Y.Matsumoto NAIST Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition, Machine Learning Approach to NLP
Dr.T.Miyata AIST Information Retrieval, Grammar Formalism
Prof.H.Nakagawa University of Tokyo NLP for WEB and Mobile environment, Text Clustering
Dr.K.Sumita Toshiba Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval
Prof.K.Tanaka University of Tokyo NLP in Multimedia, Statistical Language Models, Human Interface
Prof.T.Tokunaga Tokyo Institute of Technology Information Retrieval, NLP for Multimedia
Prof.T.Utsuro Kyoto University Translation Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora
Prof.K.Yoshimura Fukuoka University Text management