Proceedings of the ESSLLI-98 Workshop on

AUTOMATED ACQUISITION OF SYNTAX AND PARSING

August 24 - 28, 1998

A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany.

Workshop Programme

August 24th: INTRODUCTION -- RULE INDUCTION
- Workshop Introduction
- Learning part of speech disambiguation rules using inductive logic programming. Nikolaj Lindberg & Martin Eineborg
- A genetic algorithm for finite state automata induction with an application to phonotactics. Anja Belz & Berkan Eskikaya
August 25th: CORPUS-BASED GRAMMAR
- A framework for grammar acquisition. Markus Schulze
- A corpus-based probabilistic unification grammar. Hugo ter Doest
- Learning unification-based phrase-structure rules with a grammar inference tool. Bernd Geistert
August 26th: GUEST LECTURE ON MEMORY-BASED LEARNING
- Memory-based language engineering for parsing. Antal van den Bosch
August 27th: SUBCATEGORIZATION AND CHUNKING
- Distinguishing complements from adjuncts using memory-based learning. Sabine Buchholz
- Automatic extraction of subcategorization frames from corpora - improving filtering with diathesis alternations. Anna Korhonen
- Chunk Tagger: statistical recognition of noun phrases Wojciech Skut & Thorsten Brants
August 28th: GRAMMAR REPAIR -- ROUND-UP
- Interactive grammar repair. Marsal Gavalda
- Workshop Round-up