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 Sapporo-shi Sangyo Shinko Center)

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"
9:40 - 10:10 Kunio Matsui, "An approach to KNOW-WHO using RDF"
10:10 - 10:40 Akiko Murakami and Koichi Takeda, "Mail Mining: Extracting Collaborative Activities from E-Mail"
10:40 - 10:50 Short Break
Session 2: Corpus Annotation
10:50 - 11:20 Anette Frank, "Multi-level Annotation for Integrated Natural Language Processing"
11:20 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Dieter Metzing, "Information Modelling of Language and Text: XML-based, multi-level, semantic-oriented."
13:30 - 14:00 Yoshihiko Hayashi, "Speech-based Content Indexing System for Broadcast News"
14:00 - 14:10 Short Break
Session 3: Parsing
14:10 - 14:40 Sandra Kubler, "Memory-Based Parsing for German"
14:40 - 15:10 Yusuke Miyao, "Feature Forest Models for Syntactic Parsing"
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"
16:50 - 17:20 Dietmar Rosner, "Exploiting Intra- and Inter-Document relations in corpus-based natural language processing"
17:20 - 17:50 Hiroshi Nakagawa, "Terminology Extraction Methods"
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"
9:40 - 10:10 Kyo Kageura, "Automatic Term Weighting, Lexical Statistics and Quantitative Terminology"
10:10 - 10:40 Takenobu Tokunaga, "Paraphrasing Japanese noun phrases using character-based indexing"
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"
11:20 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Takashi Miyata, "Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Structure"
13:30 - 14:00 Takehito Utsuro, "Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora"
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"
14:40 - 15:10 Hideki Isozaki, "Named Entity Recognition and Zero Pronoun Resolution for Question Answering"
15:10 - 15:40 Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii, "Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching"
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"
16:50 - 17:20 Toru Hisamitsu, "NLP for Bioinformatics --- Toward Knowledge Integration and Management"
17:20 - 17:50 Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, "Dictionary-based Named Entity Recognition in the Biomedical Domain"
17:50 - 18:20 Uwe Reyle, "Processing Natural Language Comments in Biological Databases"

Tentative List of Presentations by Japanese Participants

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, "Paraphrasing Japanese noun phrases using character-based indexing" (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)

Toru Hisamitsu, "NLP for Bioinformatics --- Toward Knowledge Integration and Management" (abstract)

Kazuo Sumita, "Human-human communication and knowledge management" (abstract)

Hideki Isozaki, "Named Entity Recognition and Zero Pronoun Resolution for Question Answering" (abstract)

Kunio Matsui, "An approach to KNOW-WHO using RDF" (abstract)

Takehito Utsuro, "Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora" (abstract)

Hitoshi Isahara, "Toward an objective thesaurus from semantic map" (abstract)

Yusuke Miyao, "A model of syntactic disambiguation based on lexicalized grammars" (abstract)

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, "Dictionary-based Named Entity Recognition in the Biomedical Domain" (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 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
Yusuke Miyao University of Tokyo Probabilistic Parsing Models
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
Kumiko Tanaka University of Tokyo NLP in Multimedia, Statistical Language Models, Human Interface
Takenobu Tokunaga Tokyo Institute of Technology Information Retrieval, NLP for Multimedia
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka CREST, JST NLP for Biomedical Texts, Machine Learning
Takehito Utsuro Kyoto University Translation Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora

Tentative List of Japanese Observers

Name Affiliation Topics
Masayuki Sato JST