First Workshop on
Computational Linguistics in the North East
CLiNE 2002
Friday, May 24, 2002
9:30 - 10:00:
Welcome (coffee and croissants)
Session 1: Translation at Universite de Montreal
10:00 - 10:30
Philippe Langlais, Michel Simard, George Foster
Universite de Montreal
"Statistical MT at RALI: Techniques and Applications"
10:30 - 11:00
Michael Carl,
Universite de Montreal
"An Intelligent Terminological Database as a
Front and Backend for Statistical Machine Translation"
11:00 - 11:15 discussion
Session 2:
11:30 - 12:00
Mariana Damova, Novator Systems Ltd.
"Semantic Construction for Complex Semantic Types"
12:00 - 2:00:
lunch and networking
Session 3: Shallow Analysis Techniques
2:00 - 2:30
Stan Szpakowicz,
University of Ottawa
"Tools and techniques for shallow semantic analysis of English
documents"
2:30 - 3:00
Sabine Bergler,
Concordia University
"From Aetna to CLaC --- Computational Linguistics at Concordia"
3:00 - 3:30
Luc Plamondon,
Universite de Montreal and Leila Kosseim, Concordia University
"QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System"
3:30 - 3:45:
break
Session 4: Machine Understanding and Knowledge Extraction
3:45 - 4:15
Kornél BANGHA,
Universite de Montreal
"Lexical knowledge motivated modelling of the discourse domain for
machine understanding"
4:15 - 4:45
Caroline Barrière,
University of Ottawa
"SeRT - a tool for knowledge extraction from text"
4:45 - 5:00:
Closing Plenary Discussion