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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NIST Building 101
| Monday, November 16, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 08:00/08:30 | Bus from Courtyard Gaithersburg Marriott to NIST | |
| Photo identification must be presented at check-in at the Visitor Center if you are driving to NIST. Non-U.S. citizens must provide a passport. If you are planning to drive a vehicle onto the NIST campus you will be required to show the vehicle registration or the car rental agreement before entering the NIST campus. Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00–09:00 | Workshop Check-In | Green Auditorium area |
| Continental Breakfast | West Square | |
| 09:00–09:10 | Welcome/Overview | Portrait Room |
| 09:10–10:40 | Cold Start KBP Session I | Portrait Room |
| 09:10–09:35 |
Linguistic Resources for the 2015 TAC KBP Cold Start and Tri-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking Evaluations Joe Ellis (Linguistic Data Consortium) | |
| 09:35–10:00 |
TAC 2015 Cold Start Knowledge Base Population Track Overview James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| 10:00–10:20 |
NYU at Cold Start 2015: Experiments on KBC with NLP Novices New York University (NYU) | |
| 10:20–10:40 |
Cold Start KB and Slot-Filling Approaches UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass_IESL) | |
| 10:40–11:00 | Break | West Square |
| 11:00–12:30 | Cold Start KBP Session II | Portrait Room |
| 11:00–11:30 |
Cool Stuff at Cold Start: BBN System for TAC 2015 BBN Raytheon (BBN) | |
| 11:30–12:00 |
Bootstrapped Self Training for KBP Stanford University (Stanford) | |
| 12:00–12:30 |
Neural Networks and Coreference Resolution for Slot Filling Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (CIS) | |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30–15:50 | Trilingual EDL Session | Portrait Room |
| 13:30–14:00 |
Overview of KBP2015 Tri-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) | |
| 14:00–14:30 |
The IBM Systems for Trilingual Entity Discovery and Linking at TAC 2015 IBM Research (IBM) | |
| 14:30–14:50 |
Trilingual Entity Discovery and Linking Carnegie Mellon University (CMU_Edvisees) | |
| 14:50–15:10 |
HITS at TAC 2015 Entity Discovery and Linking Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) | |
| 15:10–15:30 |
Building an EDL System Overnight for a New X (X=Language, Domain) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI_BLENDER) | |
| 15:30–17:15 | Poster/Demo Session with Break | Green Auditorium Area |
| 17:30 | Bus from NIST to Courtyard Gaithersburg Marriott | |
| 18:00–21:00 | TAC Dinner | Uncle Julio's Restaurant, Gaithersburg, MD |
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| Tuesday, November 17, 2015 | ||
| 08:00/08:30 | Bus from Courtyard Gaithersburg Marriott to NIST | |
| Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00–09:00 | Continental Breakfast | West Square |
| 09:00–10:20 | Slot Filler Validation Session | Portrait Room |
| 09:00–09:20 |
Overview of the KBP 2015 Slot Filler Validation Track Hoa Dang (National Institute of Standards and Technology) | |
| 09:20–09:40 |
University of Florida DSR Lab System for KBP Slot Filler Validation 2015 University of Florida (gator_dsr) | |
| 09:40–10:00 |
Stacked Ensembles of Information Extractors by Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches University of Texas at Austin (UTAustin) | |
| 10:00–10:20 |
Filtering without Sympathy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI_BLENDER) | |
| 10:20–10:50 | Break | West Square |
| 10:50–12:30 | Event Session I: Event Arguments | Portrait Room |
| 10:50–11:15 |
Linguistic Resources for the 2015 TAC KBP Event Argument Linking and Event Nugget Evaluations Joe Ellis (Linguistic Data Consortium) | |
| 11:15–11:40 |
TAC KBP: Event Argument Extraction and Linking Marjorie Freedman (Raytheon BBN) | |
| 11:40–12:05 |
BBN System -- TAC KBP 2015, Event Argument Linking Raytheon BBN (BBN) | |
| 12:05–12:30 |
Event Argument Extraction and Linking: Discovering and Characterizing Emerging Events (DISCERN) Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) | |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30–15:30 | Event Session II: Event Nuggets | Portrait Room |
| 13:30–14:00 |
Overview of 2015 TAC KBP Event Nugget Tasks Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| 14:00–14:25 |
State-of-the-art Event Nugget Detection and Coreference Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI_BLENDER) | |
| 14:25–14:50 |
Event Detection and Coreference Language Computer Corporation (LCC) | |
| 14:50–15:15 |
CMU LTI @ KBP 2015 Event Track Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (LTI) | |
| 15:15–15:30 |
Event Co-reference from Supervision to Dataless University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UI_CCG) | |
| 15:30–15:50 | Break | West Square |
| 15:50–17:15 | KBP 2016 Planning Session | Portrait Room |
| 17:30 |
Bus from NIST to Courtyard Gaithersburg Marriott A sign-up sheet will be available at the registration desk if you would like to be picked up from NIST by an airport shuttle or taxi at the end of the workshop. Please provide this information as early as possible. Please be aware that if you make arrangements to be picked up at NIST without first signing up at the registration desk, the taxi/shuttle will not be allowed inside the NIST gate, and you must meet the vehicle at the NIST Visitor Center (Gate A -- Main Gate), which is a 10-minute walk from Building 101. | |
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