• Introduction
• Invited speakers
• Programme and on-line workshop notes
• Programme committee
• Registration details
• Programme and local chair
• Acknowledgements

Introduction

From the NLP point of view the promise of ILP is that it will be able to steer a mid-course between the two alternatives of large scale, but shallow levels of analysis, and small scale, but deep and precise analyses, and produce a better ratio between breadth of coverage and depth of analysis.

From the ILP point of view, NLP has recently been recognised as an ideal application area. The existence within NLP problems of hierarchically defined, structured data with large amounts of relevant logically defined background knowledge provides a perfect testbed for stretching ILP technology in a way that would also be beneficial in other application areas.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning language in logic. Research topics include, but are not restricted to:
 

• Explanation-based learning
• Extracting predicate-argument structure
• Grammar learning
• Higher-order logic for LLL
• Handling very complex terms in ILP
• Information extraction
• Instance-based approaches in ILP
• Logical approaches to statistical NLP
• Learning subcategorisation frames
• Morphological analysis
• Morphosyntactic tagging
• Multi-predicate learning
• Part-of-speech tagging
• Shallow parsing
• Theory revision
• Using ILP with large data sets

Invited speakers

Natural Language Processing Lab, Center for Language and Speech Processing & Department of Computer Science,
Johns Hopkins University, USA

        "Toward Linguistically Sophisticated Models of Language"

Ted Briscoe
        Natural Language Group,
        University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/ejb/

        "Bayesian Learning of (Stochastic) Grammars"
 

Ray Mooney
        Machine Learning Research Group,
        University of Texas at Austin
        http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney/

        "Learning for Semantic Interpretation: Scaling Up Without Dumbing Down"

Programme and on-line workshop notes

White Room, Grand Hotel Toplice, Bled, Slovenia

All papers are in gzipped PostScript form. All papers will be available as bound hard-copy for those registered for the workshop. (Front matter for the workshop notes here.)

Session 1 : 0900-1040

• Invited talk: Learning for Semantic Interpretation: Scaling Up Without Dumbing Down
• Ray Mooney (University of Texas)
• Unsupervised Lexical Learning with Categorial Grammars using the LLL Corpus
• Stephen Watkinson and Suresh Manandhar (University of York)
• Corpus-based learning of semantic relations by the ILP system, Asium
• Claire Nédellec (LRI)

Coffee break : 1040-1100

Session 2 : 1100-1240

• Invited talk: Toward Linguistically Sophisticated Models of Language
• Eric Brill (John Hopkins University)
• Transformation-Based Learning meets Frequent Pattern Discovery
• Luc Dehaspe and Maarten Forrier (K.U. Leuven)
• Induction of Recursive Transfer Rules
• Henrik Boström (University of Stockholm)

Lunch : 1240-1400

Session 3 : 1400-1540

• Invited talk: Bayesian Learning of (Stochastic) Grammars
• Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge)
• DCG Induction using MDL and Parsed Corpora
• Miles Osborne (University of Groningen)
•  Grammar induction as substructural inductive logic programming
• Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic & University of Amsterdam) and Erik Haas (Syllogic and Institute of Logic, Language and Computation)

Coffee break : 1540-1600

Session 4 : 1600-1740

• Experiments in Inductive Chart Parsing
• James Cussens (University of York) and Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
• Learning for Text Categorization and Information Extraction with ILP
• Markus Junker, Michael Sintek and Matthias Rinck (DFKI)
• Iterative Part-of-Speech Tagging
• Alipio Jorge and Alneu de Andrade Lopes (University of Porto)
• Towards Disambiguation in Czech Corpora
• Lubos Popelinsky, Tomas Pavelek and Tomas Ptacnik (Masaryk University)

Programme committee

Registration details

The registration fee will be:

$45 if registered for ICML-99
$70 if not registered for ICML-99

Programme and local chair

LOCAL CHAIR
Saso Dzeroski
Dept. of Intelligent Systems
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Email: Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si
Phone: +386 61 177 3217
Fax: +386 61 125 1038

Acknowledgements

• ILPNet2 - Network of Excellence inInductive Logic Programming
• The ILP2 project end-user club
•  MLnet - The European network of excellence in Machine Learning
• CompulogNet - The ESPRIT network of excellence in Computational Logic