Friday , Dec 19, 2003

9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Search Engine Technologies

Dr. Vasudeva Varma

9:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Shakti-Kit : A kit for building a Retargetable Machine Translation System

Akshar Bharati, Rajeev Sangal, Dipti Mishra Sharma, Prashant Reddy, Bhavani Sankar, Rajni Moona,

Saturday, Dec 20, 2003

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Registration

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Inaugural Session

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Keynote Address: A Customizable, Self-Learnable Parameterized Machine Translation System Achieved via Two-Way Training

Dr. Keh-Yih Su

Behavior Design Corporation

Hsinchu, Taiwan 30077, R.O.C.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Technical Session – I : Syntax and Part of Speech Tagging

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. *

Lunch

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Invited talk: : Towards Computational Processing of Sanskrit

Prof Gerard Huet, INRIA – Rocquencourt France

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Technical Session II (in parallel)

Parallel Session 1: Morphology

Parallel Session 2: Speech

4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

NLPAI meeting

Sunday, Dec 21, 2003

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Invited Talk: The Boundary Between Sentence and Discourse : Annotation of Discourse Connectives and their Arguments

Prof Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Invited Talk: Interlingua Based Machine Translation- a perspective

Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Technical Session III Lexical Semantics

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. *

Lunch

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Technical Session IV (in parallel)

Parallel Session 1: Word Sense Disambiguation and

Information Extraction

Parallel Session 2: Speech

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Machine Translation