GALE Banks Workshop

February 24, 2009 — BBN (Cambridge, MA) / ISI (Marina del Rey, CA)

ET	PT
10:30	7:30	Updates on Current Resource Efforts* [talks 1:55 with 0:20 spare] · LDC English Treebanking (Ann Bies) [10] · LDC Arabic Treebanking (Mohamed Maamouri) [10] · CATiB Arabic annotation (Nizar Habash) [15] · Chinese word alignment? (LDC) [5] · Parallel Aligned Treebanks plan update (Ann Bies or Haejoong Lee) [10] · OntoNotes English Treebanking (Mitch Marcus) [10] · OntoNotes Chinese Treebanking (Bert Xue) [8] · OntoNotes PropBank (Martha Palmer) [7] · OntoNotes Word Sense (Martha Palmer and Ed Hovy) [15] · OntoNotes Ontology (Ed Hovy) [10] · OntoNotes Coreference (Lance Ramshaw) [5] · OntoNotes Data Plan (Lance Ramshaw) [10]
12:45	9:45	Lunch / Break
1:15	10:15	Experiments and Feedback 1* [talks 1:00 with 0:15 spare] · Treebank o Predicting WH placement (Ryan Gabbard) [15] o Consistency and Parsing in the Arabic Treebank (Seth Kulick) [15] o Revised Arabic trees and Arabic parsing (Chris Manning) [5] · Parallel Treebanks o Manually-parsed manually-aligned data for MT (Kevin Knight) [15] o Parallel data for MT at IBM (Salim Roukos) [10]
2:30	11:30	Break / Lunch
3:00	12:00	Experiments and Feedback 2* [talks 1:15 with 0:15 spare] · Parallel Treebanks (cont.) o Bilingual Dependency Parsing for MT (Liben Shen) [15] · OntoNotes o Using OntoNotes PropBank and Syntax (Dilek Hakkani-Tur) [15] o Joint inference with OntoNotes data (Jenny Finkel) [20] o Suggestions for improving OntoNotes (Chris Manning) [10]
4:30	1:30	Break / Break
5:00	2:00	Issues and Planning · Treebanking Issues o Review parallel data plan? · OntoNotes Issues o Tutorial plan (Sameer Pradhan and Bert Xue) [5] o Data selection plan (Martha Palmer) [10]
6:00	3:00	End

* Speakers should identify open issues for discussion during the final planning session.