2003 International Symposium on

Reference Resolution and Its Applications to
Question Answering and Summarization

Monday June 23rd 2003

12:15 - 14:00
Registration
11:00 - 11:15

Welcome

11:15 - 11:45

An Empirical Evaluation of Pronoun Resolution and Clausal Structure

Joel Tetreault and James Allen

11:45 - 12:15

Summarizing documents based on cue-phrases and references

Dan Cristea, Oana Postolache, Georgiana Puscasu and Laurentiu Getu

12:15 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30

From manual to automatic annotation of coreference

Renata Vieira, Caroline Gasperin and Rodrigo Goulart

14:30 - 15:00

Discovering anaphoric expressions in texts

Finley Lacatusu, Petre Alexandru, Sanda Harabagiu and Stefan Trausan

15:00 - 15:30

The Semantic Web Needs Anaphora Resolution

Rodolfo Delmonte

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00

Invited Speaker

Michael Strube

18:30 - 20:00

Dinner

20:30 - 22:30

Concert

Tuesday June 24th 2003

09:30 - 10:00

Coreference-Based Summarization and Question Answering: a Case for High Precision Anaphor Resolution

Roland Stuckardt

10:00 - 10:30

Fuzzy Coreference Resolution for Summarization

Rene Witte and Sabine Bergler

10:30 - 11:00

A Functional Approach for Resolution of Extensional Reference in Practical Dialogue

Guillaume Pitel and Jean-Paul Sansonnet

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00

Reference Resolution as a facilitating process towards Robust Dialogue Management: A Cognitive Grammar Approach

Ashwani Kunar

12:00 - 12:30

Anaphora Resolution in ExtrAns

Diego Molla, Rolf Schwitter, Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall and Michael Hess

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:00

The Contribution of Domain-independent Robust Pronominal Anaphora Resolution to Open-Domain Question-Answering

Rebecca Watson, Judita Preiss and Ted Briscoe

15:00 - 15:30

Relational Meaning Used for Processing Complex Questions

Sanda Harabagiu and Steve Maiorano

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00

Panel


For more information mail to: Rodolfo Delmonte.