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Call for Papers

Workshop Program

10:00-10:15	Opening
10:15-11:45	Session 1
	Paraphrasing Honorifics [PDF] Kiyonori Ohtake and Kazuhide Yamamoto ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
	Automatic Disabbreviation by Using Context Information [PDF] Akira Terada and Takenobu Tokunaga Tokyo Institute of Technology
	How to Transform Tables in HTML for Displaying on Mobile Terminals [PDF] Hidetaka Masuda *1, Daisuke Yasutomi *1, and Hiroshi Nakagawa *2 *1 Tokyo Denki University, *2 The University of Tokyo
11:45-13:15	Lunch
13:15-14:15	Invited Talk
	Automatic Rewriting for Controlled Language Translation [PDF] Teruko Mitamura Carnegie Mellon University
14:30-15:30	Session 2
	Kura: A Revision-based Lexico-Structural Paraphrasing Engine [PDF] Tetsuro Takahashi, Tomoya Iwakura, Ryu Iida, and Kentaro Inui Kyushu Institute of Technology
	Universal Model for Paraphrasing --- Using Transformation Based on a Defined Criteria --- [PDF] Masaki Murata and Hitoshi Isahara Communications Research Laboratories
15:40-16:40	Session 3
	Selecting Features for Paraphrasing Question Sentences [PDF] Noriko Tomuro and Steven L. Lytinen DePaul University
	A Nearly Unsupervised Learning Method for Automatic Paraphrasing of Japanese Noun Phrases [PDF] Kentaro Torisawa Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
16:40-17:00	Closing

Program Committee:

Satoshi Sato (Kyoto University, JAPAN) co-chair

Hiroshi Nakagawa (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN) co-chair

Kazuhide Yamamoto (ATR, JAPAN)

Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology/PRESTO, JAPAN)

Sadao Kurohashi (The University of Tokyo/PRESTO, JAPAN)

Kentaro Torisawa (JAIST/PRESTO, JAPAN)

Hideki Kashioka (ATR, JAPAN)

Katashi Nagao (IBM, JAPAN)

Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA)

Toshihiko Watanabe (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)

Hidetaka Masuda (Tokyo Denki University, JAPAN)