TAC 2009 Tracks
TAC 2009 Workshop
General Info
Agenda
Notebook
NIST Visitor Info
TAC 2009
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NIST Building 101
| Monday, November 16, 2009 | ||
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| 08:00 | Bus from Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville 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. | ||
| 08:00–09:00 | Workshop Check-In | Green Auditorium area |
| Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria | |
| 09:00–09:30 | Overview of TAC 2009 | Employee Lounge |
| 09:30–10:40 | Summarization Session I | Employee Lounge |
| 09:30–10:00 |
Overview of the TAC 2009 Summarization Track H.T. Dang, K. Owczarzak (NIST) | |
| 10:00–10:20 |
HEXTAC: the Creation of a Manual Extractive Run P.-E. Genest, G. Lapalme, M. Yousfi-Monod (University of Montreal) | |
| 10:20–10:40 |
The ICSI/UTD Summarization System at TAC 2009 D. Gillick, B. Favre, D. Hakkani-Tüur, B. Bohnet (International Computer Science Institute) Y. Liu, S. Xie (University of Texas) | |
| 10:40–11:10 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:10–13:05 | Summarization Session II | Employee Lounge |
| 11:10–11:30 |
Learning to Summarize using Coherence P. Das, R. Srihari (University at Buffalo) | |
| 11:30–11:50 |
CLASSY 2009: Summarization and Metrics J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger (IDA Center for Computing Sciences) D.P. O'Leary (University of Maryland) | |
| 11:50–12:10 |
Thomson Reuters at TAC 2009: Context Chain and Fractional Conditional Compressibility of Models F. Schilder, R. Kondadadi, H. Veeramachaneni (Thomson Reuters) | |
| 12:10–12:30 |
Predicting Summary Quality using Limited Human Input A. Louis, A. Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| 12:30–13:05 |
Summarization Discussion | |
| 13:05–14:10 | Lunch | West Square Cafeteria |
| 14:10–15:30 | KBP Session I | Employee Lounge |
| 14:10–14:50 |
Overview of the TAC 2009 Knowledge Base Population Track P. McNamee (Johns Hopkins University) H.T. Dang (NIST) | |
| 14:50–15:10 |
Stanford-UBC at TAC-KBP E. Agirre (University of the Basque Country) A.X. Chang, D.S. Jurafsky, C.D. Manning, V.I. Spitkovskyz, E. Yeh (Stanford University) | |
| 15:10–15:30 |
HLTCOE Approaches to Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2009 P. McNamee, M. Dredze, A. Gerber, N. Garera, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, C. Piatko, D. Rao, D. Yarowsky, M. Dreyer (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 16:00–17:30 | KBP Session II | Employee Lounge |
| 16:00–16:20 |
Entity Linking and Slot Filling through Statistical Processing and Inference Rules D. Bikel, V. Castelli, R. Florian, D. Han (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) | |
| 16:20–17:30 |
KBP Discussion and KBP@TAC 2010 Planning Session | |
| 17:35 | Bus from NIST to Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville | |
| 18:00 | Bus from Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville to Growlers Restaurant | |
| 18:30–21:00 | TAC Dinner | Growlers Restaurant, Gaithersburg, MD |
| 21:00 | Bus from Growlers Restaurant to Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville | |
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| Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | ||
| 08:00 | Bus from Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville to NIST | |
| Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00–09:00 | Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria |
| 09:00–10:40 | RTE Session I | Employee Lounge |
| 09:00–09:40 |
The Fifth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge L. Bentivogli, B. Magnini (FBK-irst) I. Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) H.T. Dang (NIST) D. Giampiccolo (CELCT) | |
| 09:40–10:00 |
Relation Alignment for Textual Entailment Recognition M. Sammons, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, T. Vieira, N. Johri, M.-W. Chang, D. Goldwasser, V. Srikumar, G. Kundu, Y. Tu, K. Small, J. Rule, Q. Do, D. Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| 10:00–10:20 |
THU QUANTA at TAC 2009 KBP and RTE Track F. Li, Z. Zheng, F. Bu, Y. Tang, X. Zhu, M. Huang (Tsinghua University) | |
| 10:20–10:40 |
A Joint Syntactic-Semantic Representation for Recognizing Textual Relatedness R. Wang (Saarland University) Y. Zhang, G. Neumann (DFKI GmbH) | |
| 10:40–11:10 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:10–12:30 | RTE Session II | Employee Lounge |
| 11:10–11:30 |
UAIC Participation at RTE5 A. Iftene, M.-A. Moruz ("Al.I. Cuza" University) | |
| 11:30–11:50 |
Bar-Ilan University's submission to RTE-5 S. Mirkin, R. Bar-Haim, I. Dagan, E. Shnarch, A. Stern, I. Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University) J. Beranty (Tel-Aviv University) | |
| 11:50–12:10 |
EDITS: An Open Source Framework for Recognizing Textual Entailment Y. Mehdad, E. Cabrio (FBK-irst, University of Trento) M. Negri, M. Kouylekov, B. Magnini (University of Trento) | |
| 12:10–12:30 |
An Inference-Based Approach to Recognizing Entailment P. Clark, P. Harrison (The Boeing Company) | |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | West Square Cafeteria |
| 13:30–14:10 | Panel Discussion: Semantic Inference for Text Analysis | Employee Lounge |
| 14:10–14:25 | TAC Boasters | Employee Lounge |
| 14:25–15:40 | Poster/Demo Session with Break | Green Auditorium area |
| 15:40–17:20 | TAC 2010 Planning Sessions | Employee Lounge |
| 15:40–16:30 |
RTE Planning Session | |
| 16:30–17:20 |
Summarization Planning Session | |
| 17:20–17:30 | TAC 2009 Close | Employee Lounge |
| 17:35 | Bus from NIST to Crowne Plaza Hotel Rockville | |