Site Visit Agenda, February 6, 2001

8:30 - 1 IRCS/TIDES

8:30 - 9 Overview

• Chris Cieri - LDC/TIDES overview
• Martha Palmer - IRCS/TIDES overview

9:00 - 12 Technical presentations by students and postdocs, covering Treebanking, Parsers, Lexical Semantics, Machine Translation Q & A, and future directions.

• 9:00 - 9:30 New directions
  Mark Liberman - Computational Morphology
  Mitch Marcus - parallel processing
  
• 9:30 - 10:30 Parsing and Treebanks
  David Chiang and Fu-dong Chiou - Facilitating Chinese Treebank annotation using a statistical parser (.pdf version)
  Fei Xia - Lextract and its applications to grammar extraction and treebanking
  Anoop Sarkar - Co-training for statistical parsing
  
• 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
• 11:00 - 11:20 Lexical Semantics and Sense Tagging
  Hoa Dang - Sense distinctions based on automatic WSD
  
• 11:20 - 12 Applications
  Tom Morton and Narae Han - English question answering and its appicability to Korean
  Chunghye Han - Korean/English parallel Treebanks and MT project
  

12 - 1 IRCS discussion with Martha, Mitch, Aravind, Mark and Chris

• Prioritization questions from Martha
  
• Suggestions for strengthening the TIDES program
  

1-3 Lunch
Charles and Bob have lunch with Breck Baldwin
Chris Cieri has lunch with Kathleen Eagan

3-5:30 LDC/TIDES and Chris Cieri (LDC)

• Arabic data issues
• LDC actions to procure Arabic data for TREC and ASR
• FBIS issues and actions needed
• Procedures and schedule for TDT-4 data annotation

5:30 - 6:30 IRCS discussion with Martha, Mitch, Mark and Chris (or break, or drinks)

6:30 - dinner w/ discussion crowd.

Project Personnel