Tentative Program of Japanese-German Workshop on Natural Language Processing

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 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      

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"


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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 Udo Hahn, "Morpho-Semantic Indexing and Retrieval"

11:20 - 13:00 Lunch      

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"


  
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