First Workshop on
Computational Linguistics in the North East
CLiNE 2002

CLaC Laboratory and Computer Science Department
Concordia University, Montreal
Henry F. Hall Building Room H 767

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