Day 1, Thursday, September 23

9:00 - 10:30 :  Registration and check-in

10:30 - 12:00

• Joel Tetreault and James Allen (University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science, USA)

Dialogue Structure and Pronoun Resolution
• Sun-Hee Lee* and Donna K. Byron** (Ohio State University, *Department of Linguistics, **Department of Computer and Information Science, USA)

Semantic Resolution of Zero and Pronoun Anaphors in Korean
• Leif Arda Nielsen (King's College, UK)

Using Automatically Parsed Text for Robust VPE Detection

• Tine Breban (KULeuven, Department of Linguistics, Belgium)

Comparative Reference: A Lexico-Grammatical Characterization of the Different Phoric Patterns
• Volker Gast (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

The Interpretation of Logophoric Self-Forms and Some Consequences for a Model of Reference and Denotation
• Peter Willemse (University of Leuven, Linguistics Department, Belgium)

Esphora as Forward Bridging in NPs of the type the N of a(n) N

12:00 - 14:00 :  Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

• Jeanette K. Gundel*, Nancy Hedberg** and Ron Zacharski*** (*University of Minnesota, **Simon Fraser University, ***New Mexico State University, USA)

Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse
• Costanza Navarretta (Copenhagen University, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark)

The Main Reference Mechanisms of Danish Demonstrative Pronominal Anaphors
• Andrej A. Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, Russia)

Zero Anaphora vs. Zero Person Marking in Slavic: A Chicken/Egg Dilemma?

• Olga Uryupina (Saarland University, Computational Linguistics, Germany)

Linguistically Motivated Sample Selection for Coreference Resolution
• Marco Rocha (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

The Classification of Anaphoric Demonstratives into Processing Strategies for Automatic Resolution: a Corpus-based Approach
• Olga Krasavina (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

Use of the Third-person Pronouns and Rhetorical Structure: A Corpus-Oriented Study

16:00 - 17:30

• Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UK)

The Influence of Personal Pronouns for Automatic Summarisation of Scientific Articles
• Caroline Gasperin*, Susanne Salmon-Alt** and Renata Vieira* (*Unisinos, PIPCA, Brazil, **ATILF-CNRS, France)

How useful are similarity word lists for indirect anaphora resolution?
• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison (The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA)

Eliminating Non-Referring Noun Phrases from Coreference Resolution

• Patrícia Amaral (The Ohio State University, USA)

Inferrables with Pronominal Subjects in European Portuguese: Implications for Theories of Discourse Anaphora
• Duygu Can*, Sylviane Cardey*, Peter Greenfield*, Richard Evans** and Ruslan Mitkov** (*Université Franche-Compté, Centre Lucien Tesniére, France, **University of Wolverhampton, Research Group in Computational Linguistics, UK)

English Made Simple: A Preliminary Study on Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution
• Philippe De Brabanter (CNRS-ENS-EHESS, Institut Jean Nicod, France)

'World-to-Language' Shifts between an Antecedent and its Pro-Form
 
 
 

9:00 - 10:00 : Invited talk

• Tony Sanford (Glasgow University, Department of Psychology, UK)

Quantifier focus and anaphora: The Supposition-Denial Theory

10:30 - 12:00

• Réjean Canac-Marquis (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Bound Pronoun Variables and Incremental Interpretation: Toward a Unified Theory of Bound Anaphora
• Anca Sevcenco (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands)

Long Distance Romanian Anaphors and the Blocking Effect
• Rose-Marie Déchaine* and Mireille Tremblay** (*University of British Columbia, **Queen's University, Canada)

Local Disjoint Reference and Reciprocal Construal

• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison (The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA)

Evaluating Optimality Theory for Pronoun Resolution Algorithm Specification
• Maria Armanda Costa*, Isabel Hub Faria* and **Michéle Kail (*Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Portugal; **CNRS, University of Paris V, France)

Semantic and Syntactic Cues' Interaction on Pronoun Resolution in European Portuguese
• Kaja Borthen (NTNU, Norway)

The Type-Anaphor 'det'

12:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 : Invited talk

• Amit Bagga (Ask Jeeves Inc., USA)
Cross-Document Coreference: Methodologies, Evaluations, and Applications
(slides)

15:30 - 17:00

• Ruslan Mitkov and Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Discourse and Coherence: Revisiting Specific Conventions of the Centering Theory
• Roland Stuckardt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Three Algorithms for Competence-Oriented Anaphor Resolution
• Kamlesh Dutta*, Nupur Prakash** and Saroj Kaushik*** (*National Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, **Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, ***Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, India)

Distributed Architecture for Possessive Pronominal Anaphor Resolution in Hindi Language

• Oana Postolache*,** and Dan Cristea**,*** (*University of Saarland, Germany; **"Al. I. Cuza" University, Faculty of Computer Science, ***Romanian Academy - the Iasi Branch, Institute of Computer Science, Romania)

Designing Test-Beds for General Anaphora Resolution
• Lucie Kucová and Eva Hajicová (Charles University, Center for Computational Linguistics, Check Republic)

Coreferential Relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank
• Susanne Salmon-Alt* and Laurent Romary** (*ATILF-CNRS, **LORIA-Inria, France)

Data Categories for Normalized Reference Annotation Scheme