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Presidential Address
ACL-2000, Hong Kong5 October 2000
Wolfgang Wahlster
1. The International Conference Rotation Scheme
3. ACL‘s Ultimate Killer App for NLP
4. Selection Criteria for an ACL President
5. PR Campaign for ACL Membership Growth
Agenda Items not covered at the ACL Business Meeting
American ZoneEuropean-African
ZoneAsian-Pacific
Zone
Rotation Scheme for International ACL Conferences
ACLACLACL
American ZoneEuropean-African
ZoneAsian-Pacific
Zone
Montreal1998 Madrid
1997Maryland1999
Saarbrücken2000
COLING Conferences ACL Conferences EACL Conferences
Hong Kong2000
Rotation Scheme for CL Conferences
Toulouse2001
Milwaukee2002 ?
Edmonton2002 ?
Taipei2002
Two Alternatives for a Conference Rotation SchemeBasic Idea: every part of the world is assigned to a particular region
that ACL will visit every third year
American Zone
European-AfricanZone
Asian-PacificZone
The vertical approach (eg. IJCAI Conferences)
Arctic Zone
Antarctic Zone
CentralZone
The horizontal approach (a “cool“ idea)
A New Three-Year Rotation Scheme:The horizontal partitioning approach
Creating two new Chapters: The Arctic Chapter of the ACL: AACL (Double ACL) The Antarctic Chapter of the ACL: AAACL (Triple ACL)
Arctic Region 2003 CL for the Snow iMac
CentralRegion
Antarctic Region 2002 CL for LINUX
2001
CL forWindows
1. The International Conference Rotation Scheme
3. ACL‘s Ultimate Killer App for NLP
4. Selection Criteria for an ACL President
5. PR Campaign for ACL Membership Growth
Agenda Items not covered at the ACL Business Meeting
Y2K: The Killer App for NLP (see Marcus 1997)
Y2K Y TO K B2B B TO B(Business-to-Business)
$200 billion spent worldwide to address the Y2K problem
45 international conferences dealing with the Y2K problem
BUT: The Y2K problem is still open.
WHY? 2 [tu:] is a homophone with{to, too, two} as a homophonic set
Y2K Y TWO K B2B B TWO B
Y2K: The Killer App for NLP
Two Y2K problems (syntactic ambiguity)
Two parse trees:
Y 2 K11 Y 2 K22
11 Numerical Y2K problem: arises from early space-saving method
2000
Y 2000 ‘Y‘ to ‘K‘
22 Non-Numerical Y2K problem: arises from a major spelling reform
The Seriousness of the Non-NumericalY2K Bug
The numerical Y2K bug hype was greatly overblown
But: The non-numerical Y2K bug can cause serious economic and social harm
Extensive use of date expressions (MUC, Verbmobil)
IT that supports global capital flow
payrolls
small business inventories
is highly vulnerable.
Embedded IT systems in: aviation
health care
telecommunications
are unable to deliver services in a normal manner.
• Synchronous tree adjoining grammars
• Combinatory categorial grammar with typed feature unification
• HPSG grammar compiled to a lexicalized tree adjoining grammar
• CFG approximation of a probabilistic LFG parser
• Bidirectional cascade of chunk parsers
Various Approaches to the Non-NumericalY2K Problem
ACL‘s FST Solution for the Non-Numerical Y2K Problem
y:k
y:
S1
Simple
Very Efficient: O(n)
Java Applet
Finite-State Transducer
Single State
Two Transitions
Monday, 3 May 04
Mondak, 3 Mak 2004
Monday, 3 May 04
An example of the combined Y2K Problem
Status of ACL's Y2K Date Change Project
We have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect the new date standards:
Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak, Sundak,
Microsoft has announced a solution for the the non-numerical Y2k problem. However a Microsoft spokesman said that it will relesead not before 2004.
Thus, ACL has a key competitive advantage using its FST solution and bringing it to market right now.
Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December
ACL's non-numerical Y2K Date Change Project
We have gone through
every line of codein every program in every system.
We have analyzed
all databases, all knowledge bases all data files all backups all historic archives.
and modified all data with ACL's non-numerical Y2K technology to reflect the change.
We are proud to report that we have completed the date change mission.
The Calendar for the New Millenium
Y2K: Back to the Origins
DAGLow German, Middle English Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
TAGTAG DAYDAYGerman English
MONDAY MONDAKDAKDAKY2K version
1. The International Conference Rotation Scheme
3. ACL‘s Ultimate Killer App for NLP
4. Selection Criteria for an ACL President
5. PR Campaign for ACL Membership Growth
Agenda Items not covered at the ACL Business Meeting
How to become (male) ACL President?What have these guys in common?
Vice President
Past President 1997 Past President President
Vice President - elect
What have these guys in common ?
Vice PresidentPast President1997
Past President President
Language Learning
Semantics
Discourse
Multimodality
Corpus-basedMethods
Parsing
Discourse
Multimodality
User Modelling
Multimodality
Vice President - elect
Mitch Marcus
PhilCohen
WolfgangWahlster
Ed Hovy
JohnNerbonne
Induction of Decision Trees using Machine Learning Approaches
What have these guys in common?Using a visual ID3 approach
Vice PresidentPast President1997
Past President President
hair today,gone tomorrow
Baldness ismainly causedby stress
Vice President - elect
Induced Rule: ACL-President(x) => Bald(x)
Vice PresidentPast President1997
Past President President
Honorary Chair
Vice President - elect
1. The International Conference Rotation Scheme
3. ACL‘s Ultimate Killer App for NLP
4. Selection Criteria for an ACL President
5. PR Campaign for ACL Membership Growth
Agenda Items not covered at the ACL Business Meeting
A TV Ad Campaign for ACL Membership Growth
Language Technology Increases Employee Job Satisfaction!
TV ad campaign is less efficient than an ACL song that makes it onto the top international music
charts
What type of song? What music style?
Folk music (too old-fashioned)
Jazz (too sophisticated)
Post-Punk (too loud)
Techno (no underlying message)
Rap/Hip-Hop (Street poetry)
The Optimal PR Compaign for ACL
The ACL Rap 1. Part
CKY, TFS, and FUG CFG, ATN and LFG HMM, HTK and TTSASR, DSP and SLS DRT, MLP and RTN,TDL, MRS and ANN EDR, NLP, and HCIHLT, LRE and IUI
Verse
Acronyms, are for the machine,
When they know what we mean,
It‘s just sensational,
That's why there's ACL,
So come and take our word for it,
All those acronyms will be sentenced to life.
Chorus
The ACL Rap 2. Part
BNC, DCI and DRS XLE, RST and TMS QLF, VIT and DCGFSA, CLR and CUG CLE, FUF and CCGILL, SMT and TAG ALE, MGU and XMLBDI, CSP and XOL
Acronyms, are for the machine,
When they know what we mean,
It‘s just sensational,
That's why there's ACL,
So come and take our word for it,
All those acronyms will be sentenced to life.
Verse Chorus
ACL Rap
Original Composition: “The Fantastic Four“
Lyrics and Idea: Wolfgang Wahlster, Anthony Jameson
Vocals: Alexander Kowalski
ACL Karaoke Edition: Renato “Psycho“ Orsini
Arrangement: AK-art
Production: AK-art for ACL Production
Digitally mastered at the AK-art studios
The ACL Rap