TAC 2008 Tracks
TAC 2008 Workshop
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Agenda
Notebook
NIST Visitor Info
TAC 2008
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NIST Building 101
Revised Nov. 16, 2008
| Monday, November 17, 2008 | ||
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| 08:30 | NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST | |
| On your first day at NIST only: 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. Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:30-09:30 | Workshop Check-In | Red Auditorium area |
| Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria | |
| 09:30-10:45 | TAC Overview, RTE Session I | Red Auditorium |
| 09:30–10:15 |
Welcome, TAC Overview Hoa Trang Dang (NIST) | |
| 10:15–10:45 |
The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge Danilo Giampicolo, Hoa Trang Dang, Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan, and Bill Dolan | |
| 10:45–11:15 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:15-12:55 | RTE Session II | Red Auditorium |
| 11:15–11:40 |
Application of LCC's GROUNDHOG System for RTE4 Andrew Hickl and Jeremy Bensley (lcc) | |
| 11:40–12:05 |
UAIC Participation at RTE4 Adrian Iftene (UAIC2008) | |
| 12:05–12:30 |
THU QUANTA at TAC 2008 QA and RTE track Fangtao Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Tang Yang, Fan Bu, Rong Ge, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xian Zhang, and Minlie Huang (QUANTA) | |
| 12:30–12:55 |
Deciding Entailment and Contradiction with Stochastic and Edit Distance-based Alignment Sebastian Pado, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, Anna N. Rafferty, Eric Yeh, and Christopher D. Manning (Stanford) | |
| 12:55–14:30 | Lunch | Main Cafeteria |
| 14:30-15:20 | RTE Session III | Red Auditorium |
| 14:30–14:55 |
Monte Carlo Semantics: McPIET at RTE4 Richard Bergmair (cambridge) | |
| 14:55–15:20 |
Efficient Semantic Deduction and Approximate Matching over Compact Parse Forests Roy Bar-Haim, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental, Shachar Mirkin, Eyal Shnarch, and Idan Szpektor (BIU) | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Targeted Machine Reading Dan Oblinger (DARPA) | Red Auditorium |
| 15:50–16:20 | Break | Employees' Lounge |
| 16:20-17:30 | RTE Discussion, Planning Session | Red Auditorium |
| 17:30 | NIST bus from NIST to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
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| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | ||
| 08:00 | NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST | |
| Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00-09:00 | Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria |
| 09:00-10:45 | Summarization Session I | Red Auditorium |
| 09:00–09:30 |
Overview of the TAC 2008 Update Summarization Task Hoa Trang Dang and Karolina Owczarzak (NIST) | |
| 09:30–09:55 |
Tsinghua University at the summarization track of TAC 2008 Shouyuan Chen, Yuanming Yu, Chong Long, Feng Jin, Lijing Qin, Minlie Huang, and Xiaoyan Zhu (THUSUM) | |
| 09:55–10:20 |
Update Summarization Based on Novel Topic Distribution Josef Steinberger and Karel Jezek (Sutler) | |
| 10:20–10:45 |
Thomson Reuters at TAC 2008: Aggressive Filtering with FastSum for Update and Opinion Summarization Frank Schilder, Ravi Kondadadi, Jochen L. Leidner, and Jack G. Conrad (TOC) | |
| 10:45–11:15 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:15-12:55 | Summarization Session II | Red Auditorium |
| 11:15–11:40 |
The ICSI Summarization System at TAC 2008 Dan Gillick, Benoit Favre, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur (ICSI) | |
| 11:40–12:05 |
CLASSY and TAC 2008 Metrics John M. Conroy and Judith D. Schlesinger (CLASSY) | |
| 12:05–12:30 |
Summarization Evaluation Using Transformed Basic Elements Stephen Tratz and Eduard Hovy (ISI) | |
| 12:30–12:55 |
Testing the Use of N-Gram Graphs in Summarization Sub-Tasks George Giannakopoulos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, and George Vouros (DemokritosGR) | |
| 12:55–14:15 | Lunch | Main Cafeteria |
| 14:15-15:00 | TAC 2009 Planning Session (Summarization) | Red Auditorium |
| 15:00–15:30 | TAC Poster Boasters | Red Auditorium |
| 15:30–16:30 | TAC Posters with Break | Red Auditorium area |
| 16:30-17:30 | TAC 2009 Planning Session (Information Extraction) | Red Auditorium |
| 17:30 | NIST bus from NIST to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | ||
| 08:00 | NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST | |
| Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00-09:00 | Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria |
| 09:00-10:30 | Welcome and Overview of TREC Ellen Voorhees (NIST) | Green Auditorium |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:00-12:50 | TREC Blog Session | Green Auditorium |
| 11:00–11:30 |
TREC Blog Track Overview | |
| 11:30–11:50 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | |
| 11:50–12:10 | University of Illinois at Chicago | |
| 12:10–12:30 | Indiana University | |
| 12:30–12:50 | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| 12:50–14:00 | Lunch | Main Cafeteria |
| 14:00-16:00 | TAC Opinion QA/Summarization Session | Green Auditorium |
| 14:00–14:40 |
Overview of the TAC 2008 Opinion QA and Summarization Tasks Hoa Trang Dang (NIST) | |
| 14:40–15:00 |
IIIT Hyderabad at TAC 2008 Vasudeva Varma, Sai Krishna, Harish Garapati, Kranthi Reddy, Prasad Pingali, Surya Ganesh, Hareen Gopisetty, Praveen Bysani, Rahul Katragadda, Kiran Sarvabhotla, Vijay Bharath Reddy, and Rohit Bharadwaj (IIITSum08) | |
| 15:00–15:20 |
Opinion Summarization Using Entity Features and Probabilistic Sentence Coherence Optimization: UIUC at TAC 2008 Opinion Summarization Pilot Hyun Duk Kim, Dae Hoon Park, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and ChengXiang Zhai (UIUC) | |
| 15:20–15:40 |
The DLSIUAES Team's Participation in the TAC 2008 Tracks Alexandra Balahur, Elena Lloret, Oscar Ferrandez, Andres Montoyo, Manuel Palomar, and Rafael Munoz (DLSIUAES) | |
| 15:40–16:00 |
Summarization Focusing on Polarity or Opinion Fragments in Blogs Yohei Seki (TUT) | |
| 16:00–17:30 | TREC/TAC Posters with Break | Green Auditorium area |
| 17:30 | NIST bus from NIST to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
| 18:00 | NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to Smokey Glen Farm | |
| 18:30–21:00 | TREC/TAC Barbecue Dinner | Smokey Glen Farm, Gaithersburg, MD |
| 21:00 | NIST bus from Smokey Glen Farm to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
Agenda Revisions
[Nov. 16, 2008] The follow talks originally scheduled for presentation have been canceled due to inability of the speakers to obtain travel visas:- An Accuracy-Oriented Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Recognizing Textual Entailment
Rui Wang and Guenter Neumann (DFKI) - ICTCAS's ICTGrasper at TAC 2008: Summarizing Dynamic Information with Signature Terms Based Content Filtering
Jin Zhang, Xueqi Cheng, Hongbo Xu, Xiaolei Wang, and Yiling Zeng (ICTCAS) - HITIR's update Summary at TAC2008: Extractive content selection for language independence
Ruifang He, Yang Liu, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, and Sheng Li (HITIRTMDS)