8:45 Welcome
9:00 Adapting a synonym database to specific domains (Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Janine Toole, Dan Fass, D. Nicholson and G. Tisher)
9:35 Exploiting Lexical Expansions and Boolean Compositions for Web Querying (Bernardo Magnini and Roberto Prevete).
10:10 Coffee break
10:40 Use of Dependency Tree Structures for the Microcontext Extraction (Martin Holub and Alena Böhmová).
11:15 Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses
(Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan).
Christian Jacquemin, CNRS-LIMSI, France.
Variation
reduction in texts and queries through shallow and robust NLP.
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Discriminative Power and Retrieval Effectiveness of Phrasal Indexing Terms (Sumio Fujita).
15:05 Corpus-Based Learning of Compound Noun Indexing (Byung-Kwan Kwak, Jee-Hyub Kim, Geubae Lee, Jung Yun Seo).
15:40 REXTOR: A System for Generating Relations from Natural Language (Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin).
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 A Text Categorization Based on a Summarization Technique (Sue J. Ker and Jen-Nan Chen).
17:20 From Information Retrieval to Information Extraction (David Milward and James Thomas).
17:55 Automatic summarization of search
engine hit lists (Dragomir R. Radev and Weiguo Fan).