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| Saturday, July 11, 2003 |
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| 9:00-9:05 |
Opening |
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| 9:05-9:55 |
Paraphrasing Paraphrased (Invited Talk) |
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Graeme Hirst |
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Session 1: Generation |
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| 9:55-10:20 |
Generation of Single-sentence Paraphrases from Predicate/Argument Structure using Lexico-grammatical Resources |
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Raymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy and K. Vijay-Shanker |
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| 10:20-10:50 |
Break |
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Session 2: Applications I |
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| 10:50-11:15 |
Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note |
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Kentaro Inui, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryu Iida and Tomoya Iwakura |
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| 11:15-11:40 |
Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-synonyms using Definition Statements |
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Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kengo Sato and Hiroaki Saito |
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| 11:40-12:30 |
Session 3: Short Presentation Session |
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Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System |
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Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess and Diego Mollá |
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Interrogative Reformulation Patterns and Acquisition of Question Paraphrases |
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Noriko Tomuro |
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Normalization and Paraphrasing Using Symbolic Methods |
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Caroline Brun and Caroline Hagège |
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Criterion for Judging Request Intention in Response Texts of Open-Ended Questionnaires |
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Hiroko Inui, Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 4: Paraphrasing Acquisition |
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| 14:00-14:25 |
Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora |
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Ali Ibrahim, Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin |
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| 14:25-14:50 |
Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction |
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Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine |
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| 14:50-15:15 |
Optimizing Synonym Extraction Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources |
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Hua Wu and Ming Zhou |
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| 15:15-15:40 |
Paraphrasing Japanese Noun Phrases using Character-based Indexing |
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Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka and Kenji Kimura |
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| 15:40-16:10 |
Break |
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Session 5: Applications II |
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| 16:10-16:35 |
Paraphrasing Rules for Automatic Evaluation of Translation into Japanese |
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Hiroshi Kanayama |
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| 16:35-17:00 |
Lexical Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval and Node Identification |
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Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George and Yingying Wen |
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| 17:00-17:50 |
Discussion and Closing |
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