Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics

<BODY> <center><font size="+2"><strong>Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics<br>ISCOL'01</strong></font></center> <P> Computational linguistics and natural language processing are active research fields in Israel today, as well as popular areas of activity in industry. The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics is a venue for exchanging ideas, reporting on work in progress as well as established results, forming extramural cooperations and advancing the collaboration between academia and industry. This is a continuation of the tradition that started in 1995 with a meeting at the Technion and ended after four successful meetings in 1996. <P> <center><font size="+2"><strong>Program</strong></font></center> The program is available for download in <A HREF="program.ps">PostScript</A> or <A HREF="program.pdf">PDF</A> format. <P> <dl compact> <dt>9:30-10:00</dt> <dd>Registration and coffee</dd> <dt>10:00-10:15</dt> <dd>Opening</dd> <dt>10:15-11:00</dt> <dd>Invited talk: <strong>Erhard Hinrichs</strong></dd><br> <dd><dl><dd><em>Robust Syntactic Annotation of Corpora and Memory-based Parsing</em></dd></dl></dd> <dt>11:00-11:15</dt> <dd>Break</dd> <dt>11:15-12:55</dt> <dd>Session I (4x25 minutes): <strong>Applications</strong></dd> <dl> <dt>David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Miki Herscovici and Yoelle Maarek</dt> <dd><em>Palm Pirate - An Information Retrieval System for the Palm platform</em></dd> <dt>Lev Finkelstein, Envgeniy Gabrilovich, Zach Solan and Eytan Ruppin</dt> <dd><em>Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited</em></dd> <dt>Nissim Francez, Yaroslav Fyodorov and Yoad Winter</dt> <dd><em>An Order-Based Inference System for a Natural Language</em></dd> <dt>Svetlana Sheremetyeva and Sergei Nirenburg</dt> <dd><em>A Domain-Tuned Tool For Multilingual Document Management</em></dd> </dl> <dt>12:55-14:00</dt> <dd>Lunch break</dd> <dt>14:00-15:40</dt> <dd>Session II (4x25 minutes): <strong>Hebrew and Arabic</strong></dd> <dl> <dt>Outi Bat-El</dt> <dd><em>On the Site of Vowel Deletion in Modern Hebrew Verbs and Nouns</em></dd> <dt>Gabi Danon</dt> <dd><em>The Hebrew Object Marker as a Type-shifting Operator</em></dd> <dt>Shlomo Izre'el</dt> <dd><em>Towards the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew</em></dd> <dt>Judith Rosenhouse</dt> <dd><em>Computerized Arabic Morphology and Syntax (for Teaching Purposes)</em></dd> </dl> <dt>15:40-15:55</dt> <dd>Break</dd> <dt>15:55-17:35</dt> <dd>Session III (4x25 minutes): <strong>Statistical approaches</strong></dd> <dl> <dt>Meni Adler and Miki Tebeka</dt> <dd><em>Unsupervised Hebrew Part-of-speech Tagging</em></dd> <dt>Yuval Krymolowski</dt> <dd><em>Augmenting Evaluation Schemes Using the Distribution of Performance</em></dd> <dt>Yuval Krymolowski and Ido Dagan</dt> <dd><em>Compositional Memory-based Partial Parsing</em></dd> <dt>Zvika Marx and Ido Dagan</dt> <dd><em>Conceptual Mapping through Keyword Subset Coupling</em></dd> </dl> <dt>17:35-17:50</dt> <dd>Break</dd> <dt>17:50-18:35</dt> <dd>Invited talk: <strong>Sergei Nirenburg</strong></dd> <dd><dl><dd><em>Ontological Semantics and Its Applications</em></dd></dl></dd> </dl> </P> <P> <center><font size="+2"><strong>Practicalities</strong></font></center> The Seminar will take place on Thursday, 15 February 2001, from 10:00 to 19:00, at the 29th floor of Eshkol Tower, University of Haifa. <p> For directions, please consult <A HREF="http://www.haifa.ac.il/local.information.transportation.htm">University of Haifa transportation page</A>. Seminar participants can use the University parking lots. Please print either the <A HREF="program.ps">PostScript</A> or the <A HREF="program.pdf">PDF</A> version of the program and present it at the gate. <p> After the Seminar we plan a joint dinner (not covered, approximately 80 Shekels) at a Haifa restaurant. Please consider joining us and our invited speakers for dinner, and sign up on the <A HREF="registration.html">registration form</A>. </P> <P> <center><font size="+2"><strong>Registration</strong></font></center> The Seminar is open for all to participate, and there is no registration fee. However, to facilitate the organization we strongly request that participants register as soon as possible. Registration is not committing, but it will greatly help us to plan ahead. Please register by filling and submitting the following form. <p> <form action="mailto:libi@cs.haifa.ac.il?subject=ISCOL-registration" method="POST"> <p> <H2>Register to the Seminar:</H2> <ul> <li>Name: <input type="text" size=40 name="Name"></li> <li>Affiliation: <input type="text" size=40 name="Affiliation"></li> <li>E-mail: <input type="text" size=40 name="Email"></li> <li>Will you join us for dinner after the Seminar (approx. 80 Shekels)? <input type="radio" name="Dinner" value="Yes"> Yes <input type="radio" name="Dinner" value="No"> No </li> </ul> <input type=submit value=" Send this form "> <input type=reset value=" Reset all values and start over "> </p></form> </P> <P> <center><font size="+2"><strong>Acknowledgments</strong></font></center> The organization committee of this year's meeting consists of <dl> <dt><A HREF="http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/">Shuly Wintner</A>, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa</dt> <dt><A HREF="http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~winter/">Yoad Winter</A>, Department of Computer Science, Technion</dt> </dl> <p> We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Computer Science at Haifa University. </BODY>