| A Workshop on Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing |
Organizers: Shalom Lapin and Ido Dagan |
| Date : | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| Time : | 9:30am - 6:00pm. |
| Location : | University of Haifa, |
| Registration : | Click here for registration |
Full Schedule : |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00-10:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 10:10-11:00 | Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Global Inference and Learning: Towards Natural Language Understanding |
| 11:00-11:50 | Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Textual entailment as a framework for applied semantics |
| 11:50-12:20 | Coffee break |
| 12:20-13:10 | Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Universal Scaling of Semantic Information Revealed from IB Word Clusters |
| 13:10-14:10 | Lunch |
| 14:10-15:00 | Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University The Authorship Attribution Problem: Variations and Solutions |
| 15:00-15:50 | Shalom Lappin, King's College, London Weak Bias Language Models and Universal Grammar |
| 15:50-16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20-17:10 | Ari Rappoport, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Pattern-based Lexical Acquisition and Self-training of Statistical Parsers: Two Cases in a Construction Grammar Approach |
| 17:10-18:00 | Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv University Boosting unsupervised language acquisition with ADIOS |