The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)

Call for Paper: See this page.

Workshop Program

8:50-9:00	Opening remarks
9:00-10:40	Session 1: phrase-level
	Transforming a sentence end into news headline style Satoshi Ikeda and Kazuhide Yamamoto
	Automated generalization of phrasal paraphrases from the Web Weigang Li
	Automatic paraphrase discovery based on context and keywords between NE pairs Satoshi Sekine
	A class-oriented approach to building a paraphrase corpus Atsushi Fujita and Kentaro Inui
10:40-11:10	break
11:10-12:50	Session 2: sentence-level
	Automatic generation of paraphrases to be used as translation references in objective evaluation measures of machine translation Yves Lepgae and Etienne Denoual
	Using machine translation evaluation techniques to determine sentence-level semantic equivalence Andrew Finch, Young Sook Hwang and Eiichiro Sumita
	Evaluating contextual dependency of paraphrases using a latent variable model Kiyonori Ohtake
	Automatically constructing a corpus of sentential paraphrases William B. Dolan and Chris Brockett
12:50-2:00	lunch
2:00-3:40	Session 3: discourse-level
	Structural variation in generated health reports Catalina Hallett and Donia Scott discourse level>
	Automatic generation of large-scale paraphrases Richard Power and Donia Scott
	Towards statistical paraphrase generation: preliminary evaluations of grammaticality Stephen Wan
	Support vector machines for paraphrase identification and corpus construction Chris Brockett and William B. Dolan
3:40-4:10	break
4:10-5:10	Session 4: panel and future plans
5:10	closing remarks

Workshop Organizers

Mark Dras
Macquarie University
Australia

Kazuhide Yamamoto
Nagaoka University of Technology
Japan

Please use the following e-mail address to contact us: iwp2005-submission@nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp

Program Committee

• Caroline Brun (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
• Mark Dras (co-chair, Macquarie University, Australia)
• Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
• Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan)
• Gen'ichiro Kikui (ATR-SLT, Japan)
• Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Satoshi Sato (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Yusuke Shinyama (New York University, USA)
• Noriko Tomuro (DePaul University, USA)
• Hua Wu (Toshiba China, P.R.China)
• Kazuhide Yamamoto (co-chair, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
• Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China)

Links

• Call for Paper
• IJCNLP-05 style files for submission of papers.
• IWP2003 : The Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing
• Paraphrase Resource Survey by Ulf Hermjakob, IWP2003 co-chair
• NLPRS2001 Workshop on Automatic Paraphrasing: Theories and Applications

• IJCNLP-05 : The Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
• IJCNLP-05 Workshops
• AFNLP: : Asia Federation of Natural Language Processing