Workshop on Text Meaning

Saturday, May 31, 2003
at the HLT-NAACL 2003 Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Workshop Goal
The main goal of the Workshop on Text Meaning is to re-establish the research community of knowledge-based meaning processing and to help to explicate the currently implicit treatments of meaning in knowledge-lean approaches and how the advances in the latter and in formal semantics should influence the task.

Program
Saturday, May 31, 2003
0900Introduction -- Sergei Nirenburg
0930Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, and John Thompson
A knowledge-driven approach to text meaning processing
1000Len Schubert and Matthew Tong
Extracting and evaluating general world knowledge from the Brown Corpus
1030BREAK
1100Iryna Gurevych etal
Less is more: Using a single knowledge representation in dialogue systems
1130Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, and Stephen Beale
Operative strategies in ontological semantics
1200Victor Raskin etal
The genesis of a script for bankruptcy in ontological semantics
1230LUNCH
1400Cleo Condoravdi etal
Entailment, intensionality, and text undertstanding
1430Erik T. Mueller
Story understanding through multi-representation model construction
1500Van Durme, Kupsc, and Huang
Towards light semantic processing for question answering
1530BREAK
1600Manfred Stede
Surfaces and depths in text understanding: The case of newspaper commentary
1630Paul Kingsbury and Karin Kipper
Deriving verb-meaning clusters from syntactic structure
1700Discussion


Workshop and Conference Information and Registration
HLT-NAACL 2003 Conference Home Page

Organizers
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, sergei@umbc.edu
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, gh@cs.toronto.edu

Questions
Direct inquiries to either of the organizers.

Program Committee
Stephen Beale, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lynn Carlson, US Department of Defense
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas
Jerry Hobbs, USC Information Sciences Institute
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal
Tanya Korelsky, CoGenTex, Inc.
Marjorie McShane, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dan Moldovan, University of Texas at Dallas
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Victor Raskin, Purdue University
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University