KyotoSchedule

This is the timetable for the [wiki:KyotoTop DELPH-IN 2008 Summit].

Each general session should have an organizer and a scribe (enclosed in brackets).

Jul-31

• Short Site Updates (15 min)

  • NICT (FrancisBond)

  • UW (EmilyBender)

  • Saarbruecken (UdS & DFKI) (HansUszkoreit)

• Agenda Setting

Lunch

More detailed updates.

• Applications
  • Acquiring Rules for Japanese→English Machine Translation (EricNichols)
• Tools (30 min)

  • Robust, Efficient Incremental (Near) Deterministic Parsing with HPSG (YiZhang)

  • Input Preprocessing with Chart Mapping (PeterAdolphs)

• Grammars (30 min)

  • Next steps in simplifying DELPH-IN MRS representations (DanFlickinger)

  • Case, person, number, and gender in the Matrix (Scott Drellishak)

  • A preliminary report: Tense and Aspect in the Matrix (Laurie Poulson)

  • Radical non-configurationality and semantic composition (EmilyBender)

Aug-01

• Robustness (FrancisBond)

  • supertagger, unknown words, ...

  • Mining Multiword Expressions for Enhancing Performance of Parsing with the ERG (ValiaKordoni)

  • Increasing Robustness and Efficiency of the PET Parser (RebeccaDridan)

• Lexical acquisition and immature grammars

  • Multilingual lexeme translation: Using mature lexicons to bootstrap immature ones (MichaelGoodman)

  • Deep Lexical Acquisition for German Grammar (ValiaKordoni & YiZhang)

• Scoring model building tutorial

  • parsing
  • generation
  • MT

Lunch - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sōmen Nagashi Sōmen]

• Shared Parsing task (EricNichols)

• Student Session (RebeccaDridan)

  • Brief presentations of student research within DELPH-IN.

Aug-02

• (R)MRS comparison tools and issues

• (Some) Applications of MRS: (RuiWang & YiZhang)

  • Recognizing/Generating Textual Entailment

  • Semantic Role Labeling

Lunch

Excursion: Nara Park and the great Buddha

Banquet at [http://www3.to/ryozan Ryozanpaku] featuring Japanese harp!

Aug-03

• Parser Evaluation/Comparison

  • especially comparing resources in different formats

  • Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations Miyao

• Breakout into small groups to work on issues raised during the summit.
• Briskly run meeting of the standing committee
  • fix policy on participants/guests

Lunch

• Plenary session: Where do we go from here
  • Applications which showcase deep grammars
  • Means for increasing intra-DELPH-IN collaboration and communication

    • Paper exchange (EmilyBender, RebeccaDridan)

    • Use of mailing lists, wiki

    • Wiki space for sharing auxiliary scripts (RebeccaDridan,EmilyBender)

  • Assessment of current visibility of DELPH-IN in the field and means for increasing it

19:00 Jazz concert in the park!