2nd Workshop on NLP and XML
(NLPXML-2002)

Taipei, September 1, 2002

Introduction Workshop Topics Paper Submission Important Dates Invited Speakers Workshop Program Program Committee

Workshop Program (revised) Session 1: Tools and Corpora (Chair: Graham Wilcock) 09:00-09:40 Featured Talk Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Alex Lascarides and Maria Lapata: XML-based NLP Tools for Analysing and Annotating Medical Language 09:40-10:05 John Bateman, Renate Henschel and Judy Delin: An Introduction to the GeM Annotation Schema for Complex Document Layout (presented by Guowen Yang) 10:05-10:30 Kiril Simov, Milen Kouylekov and Alexander Simov: Cascaded Regular Grammars over XML Documents (presented by Frank Mueller) 10:30-11:00 BREAK Session 2: Document Generation (Chair: Manfred Stede) 11:00-11:25 Guillermo Barrutieta, Joseba Abaitua and JosuKa Diaz: Cascading XSL Filters for Content Selection in Multilingual Document Generation 11:25-11:50 Invited Speaker (replacing cancelled talk by Jan-Torsten Milde) Yohei Seki: Multilingual Generation from XML-DB 11:50-12:15 Holger Stenzhorn: XtraGen - A Natural Language Generation System Using XML- and Java-Technologies 12:15-13:30 LUNCH 13:30-14:15 Posters/project notes (parallel) Guadeloupe Aguado-de-Cea, Inmaculada Alvarez-de-Mon, Antonio Pareja-Lora and Rosario Plaza-Arteche: RDF(S)/XML Linguistic Annotation of Semantic Web Pages Christian Boitet, Mathieu Mangeot-Lerebours and Gilles Serasset: The Papillon Project: Cooperatively Building a Multilingual Lexical Database to Derive Open Source Dictionaries and Lexicons Petter Karlstrom and Robin Cooper: Towards a Web-based Information Centre on Swedish Language Technology Eugene Koontz: XML in a Web-based Grammar Development Environment Chieko Nakabasami and Naoyuki Nomura: A Proposal for Screening Inconsistencies in Ontologies based on Query Languages using WSD Session 3: Discourse, Dialog and Speech (Chair: Ewan Klein) 14:15-14:40 Daniela Berger, David Reitter and Manfred Stede: XML/XSL in the Dictionary: The Case of Discourse Markers 14:40-15:05 Michael Walsh, Stephen Wilson and Julie Carson-Berndsen: XiSTS - XML in Speech Technology Systems 15:05-15:30 Kuansan Wang: SALT: An XML Application for Web-based Multimodal Dialog Management 15:30-16:00 BREAK Session 4: Semantic Web (Chair: Graham Wilcock) 16:00-16:15 Invited Speaker Paul Buitelaar: Introduction to Semantic Web 16:15-16:30 Brief Reports Antonio Pareja-Lora: Experience with RDF(S)/XML Chieko Nakabasami: Experience with DAML+OIL Beum-Seuk Lee and Barrett Bryant: Experience with DAML+OIL 16:30-17:00 Featured Talk Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin: Annotating the Semantic Web Using Natural Language 17:00-17:30 Panel Discussion Paul Buitelaar, Barrett Bryant, Jimmy Lin, Antonio Pareja-Lora: The Roles of Natural Language and XML in the Semantic Web 17:30 Closing Remarks