International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - NLUCS 2005

Tuesday May 24th


Chair: B. Sharp for morning session 8:30-13:00
Chair: P. Windridge for pm session 14:00-18:00



8:00 Welcome Desk / Registration
8:30
8:30 - 9:00
Natural Language Interface Put in Perspective: Interaction of Search Method and Task Complexity
QianYing Wang, Jiang Hu and Clifford Nass

9:00 - 9:30
Lexical Cohesion: Some Implications of an Empirical Study
Beata Beigman Klebanov and Eli Shamir

9:30 - 10:00
An Approach to Natural Language Understanding Based on a Mental Image Model
Masao Yokota

10:00 - 10:30
Motivations And Implications Of Veins Theory
Dan Cristea
Room Cavalier II
10:30 Coffe-break (10:30 - 11:00)
11:00
11:00 - 12:00 - Invited Talk
Computational Cognitive Semantics
Prof. Jerome Feldman, ICSI Berkeley, U.S.A.

12:00 - 12:30
A Weighted Maximum Entropy Language Model for Text Classification
Kostas Fragos, Yannis Maistros and Christos Skourlas
Room Cavalier II
13:00 Lunch (13:00 - 14:30)
14:30
14:30 - 15:00
Syntactic, Semantic and Referential Patterns in Biomedical Texts: towards in-depth text comprehension for the purpose of bioinformatics
Barbara Gawronska and Björn Erlendsson

15:00 - 15:30
Transcript Segmentation Using Utterance Cosine Similarity Measure
Caroline Chibelushi, Bernadette Sharp and Andy Salter

15:30 - 16:00
Applying a Semantic Interpreter to a Knowledge Extraction Task
Fernando Gomez and Carlos Segami

16:00 - 16:30
Identifying Information Units for Multiple Document Summarization
Seamus Lyons and Dan Smith
Room Cavalier II
16:30 Coffe-break (16:30 - 17:00)
17:00
17:00 - 17:30
Evaluating the word sense disambiguation accuracy with three different sense inventories
Dan Tufis and Radu Ion

17:30 - 18:00
A Computational Lexicalization Approach
Feng-Jen Yang
Room Cavalier II
19:00 Workshop Banquet (19:00 - 21:00)