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Tuesday September 10
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| 12:30 | Registration |
| 13:00 | Opening Remarks Kenichiro Ishii (NTT) |
| 13:15 | Keynote Speech Byron Reeves (Stanford) |
| 13:45- 16:00 |
Session 1 (Chair:
Francis Bond) |
| 13:45 | Quantifying Subjective and Objective Relationships among
Concepts Stanley Peters (Stanford) |
| 14:15 |
Break |
| 14:30 | Textual Similarity : Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition and
Constrained Clustering Dominic Widdows and Sepandar Kamvar (Stanford) |
| 15:30 | Evaluation of Computer Simulations of Human Judgement
of Semantic Similarity between Words Kaname Kasahara (NTT) |
| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:15- 17:30 |
Invited Speech (the joint auspices
of IEEE Kansai Section, Chair: Yoshifumi Ooyama) Design, compilation, and preliminary analyses of the 'Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese' Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language) |
| 17:30 |
Reception (free) |
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Wednesday September 11
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| 10:00- 12:15 |
Session 2 (Chair: Dan Flickinger) |
| 10:00 | Multiword Expressions Timothy Baldwin (Stanford) |
| 11:00 | Meaning and Expression: Countability and Concepts Francis Bond (NTT) |
| 11:30 | Invited Speech Meaning: Semantic Function and Self-organizing Map Hitoshi Isahara (CRL) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:30- 16:45 |
Session 3 (Chair: Eisaku Maeda) |
| 13:30 | Invited Speech Machine Learning of Grammatical Knowledge Pat Langley (Stanford) |
| 14:15 |
Invited Speech Precise Question Answering Dan Flickinger (Stanford) |
| 15:00 |
SAIQA-II: A Trainable Question Answering System Yutaka Sasaki (NTT) |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:45 |
Cross-Language Information Access Service on the Web
-- A Trial Report -- Yoshihiko Hayashi (NTT) |
| 16:15 | Multi-topic Text Categorization -- Parametric
Mixture Models -- Naonori Ueda (NTT) |
| 16:45- 16:50 |
Closing Remark Yoshifumi Ooyama (NTT) |