Natural Language Processing for Question Answering

Dates and Deadlines

• Workshop: April 14
• EACL 2003: April 12-17

Program

14:00-14:05	Welcome, opening
14:05-15:05	Pierre Zweigenbaum Question answering in biomedicine [slides|paper]
15:05-15:30	Diego Mollá, Rolf Schwitter, Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, and Michael Hess NLP for answer extraction in technical domains [slides|paper]
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-16:25	Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Bonnie Webber, Claire Grover, and Johan Bos Generating annotated corpora for reading comprehension and question answering evaluation [slides|paper]
16:25-16:50	Rodolfo Delmonte Getaruns: a hybrid system for summarization and question answering [slides|paper]
16:50-17:15	Mark Greenwood and Robert Gaizauskas Using a named entity tagger to generalise surface matching text patterns for question answering [slides|paper]
17:15-17:40	Florence Duclaye, François Yvon, and Olivier Collin Learning paraphrases to improve a question-answering system [slides|paper]
17:40-18:05	Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin Selectively using relations to improve precision in question answering [slides|paper]
18:05-18:10	Wrap up

EACL 2003 Workshops

Program committee

• Steve Abney, University of Michigan
• Johan Bos, University of Edinburgh
• Eric Brill, Microsoft Research
• Sabine Buchholz, Tilburg University
• Charles Clarke, U. of Waterloo
• Oren Etzioni, U. of Washington
• Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy
• Brigitte Grau, LIMSI
• Donna Harman, NIST
• Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST
• Mark Maybury, MITRE
• Dan Moldovan, U Texas at Dallas
• Maarten de Rijke, U. of Amsterdam (co-chair)
• Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University
• Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (co-chair)