1st Computational Systemic Functional Grammar Conference

University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
16 July 2005

Program Schedule
09:00 - 09:30A Computational Framework for Text Processing Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics
Toru Sugimoto, Noriko Ito, Shino Iwashita and Michio Sugeno
09:30 - 10:00Lexical Chaining as a Source of Text Chaining
Alexander Mehler
10:00 - 10:30Representing SFL-Annotated Corpus Resources
Elke Teich, Peter Fankhauser, Richard Eckart, Sabine Bartsch and Monica Holtz
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30Findings in a Preliminary Study on the Rhetorical Structure of Chinese TV News Reports
Yue Ming and Feng Zhiwei
11:30 - 12:00Using Appraisal Taxonomies for Sentiment Analysis
Casey Whitelaw, Shlomo Argamon and Navendu Garg
12:00 - 12:30The UAM Systemic Parser
Mick O'Donnell
12:30 - 13:00Text Generation Based on the Constraints of the Systemic Resource
Ichiro Kobayashi and Yusuke Takahashi
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:30Shared Task Detecting Functional Clause Boundaries from CCG Parses
Matthew Honnibal
Statistical Functional Clause Boundary Detection
Tobias Hawker, Stephen Anthony and Jon Patrick
14:30 - 15:30Invited Speaker - How to Detect Clause Boundaries
Robin Fawcett
15:30 - 16:00Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00Panel - Future Directions in Computational SFG