TAC 2011 Tracks
TAC 2011 Workshop
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Agenda
Notebook
Invitation Letter
NIST Visitor Info
TAC 2011
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NIST Building 101
| Monday, November 14, 2011 | ||
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| 07:45 | Bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn 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. | ||
| 08:00–08:30 | Workshop Check-In | Green Auditorium area |
| Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria | |
| 08:30–08:45 | Welcome / Opening | Portrait Room |
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Ashit Talukder (NIST) Bonnie Dorr (DARPA) Hoa Dang (NIST) | ||
| 08:45–10:30 | Summarization Session I | Portrait Room |
| 08:45–09:15 |
Overview of the TAC 2011 AESOP and Guided Summarization Tasks | |
| 09:15–09:35 |
Exploiting Category Specific Information for Guided Summarization National University of Singapore | |
| 09:35–09:55 |
Balanced Coverage of Aspects for Text Summarization Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| 09:55–10:15 |
SemQuest: University of Houston's Semantics-based Question Answering System University of Houston | |
| 10:15–10:30 |
TJU_GSummary at TAC2011: Category-Oriented Extractive Content Selection for Guided Summarization Tianjin University | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 11:00–12:50 | Summarization Session II | Portrait Room |
| 11:00–11:35 |
TAC2011 MultiLing Pilot Overview | |
| 11:35–11:55 |
CLASSY Summarization -- English and Beyond IDA Center for Computing Sciences | |
| 11:55–12:15 |
Towards Language-Independent News Summarization Joint Research Centre | |
| 12:15–12:35 |
Global and Local Models for Multi-Document Summarization SUNY at Buffalo | |
| 12:35–12:50 |
Are These Systems Significantly Different? IDA Center for Computing Sciences | |
| 12:50–13:50 | Lunch | West Square Cafeteria |
| 13:50–15:35 | RTE Session | Portrait Room |
| 13:50–14:30 |
The Seventh PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge | |
| 14:30–14:50 |
Knowledge and Tree-Edits in Learnable Entailment Proofs Bar Ilan University | |
| 14:50–15:10 |
Using MT-Based Metrics for RTE German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence | |
| 15:10–15:35 |
Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation Anselmo Peñas (UNED) | |
| 15:35–16:45 | Poster/Demo Session with Break | Green Auditorium Area |
| 16:45–17:30 | RTE Discussion and Planning Session | Portrait Room |
| 17:30 | Bus from NIST to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
| 18:15 | Bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to Growlers | |
| 18:30–21:00 | TAC Dinner | Growlers, Gaithersburg, MD |
| 21:00 | Bus from Growlers to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn | |
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| Tuesday, November 15, 2011 | ||
| 08:00 | Bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST | |
| Attendees must wear their conference badge at all times while on the campus. | ||
| 08:00–08:45 | Continental Breakfast | West Square Cafeteria |
| 08:45–10:00 | Summarization Discussion and Planning Session | Portrait Room |
|
MultiLing Summarization George Giannakopoulos (NCSR Demokritos) | ||
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Summarization of Scientific Articles Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research) | ||
| 10:00–10:20 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 10:20–12:30 | KBP Session I | Portrait Room |
| 10:20–11:10 |
Overview of the TAC2011 Knowledge Base Population Track | |
| 11:10–11:30 |
TAC Entity Linking by Performing Full-Document Entity Extraction and Disambiguation Microsoft Research | |
| 11:30–11:50 |
I2R-NUS at TAC 2011: Entity Linking National University of Singapore | |
| 11:50–12:10 |
Supervised Learning for Linking Named Entities to Knowledge Base Entries INESC-ID Lisboa | |
| 12:10–12:30 |
Cross-Language Entity Linking Johns Hopkins University HLTCOE | |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | West Square Cafeteria |
| 13:30–15:20 | KBP Session II | Portrait Room |
| 13:30–13:52 |
Cross-Lingual Entity Linking without Source Language KB and MT City University of New York, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and SRI International | |
| 13:52–14:14 |
HITS' Cross-Lingual Entity Linking System: One Model for All Languages Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies | |
| 14:14–14:36 |
English and Cross-Lingual Cross-Document Coreference with Entity Linking Language Computer Corporation | |
| 14:36–14:58 |
NYU 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling New York University | |
| 14:58–15:20 |
Where is the Structure? Temporal Slot Filling without Manually Labeled Training Data City University of New York | |
| 15:20–15:50 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 15:50–17:20 | KBP Discussion and Planning Session | Portrait Room |
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Cross-Lingual Slot-Filling | ||
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Knowledge Base Acceleration at TREC 2012 John Frank (MIT) Ian Soboroff (NIST) | ||
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Managing Uncertainty in KBs with Probabilistic Databases Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | ||
| 17:20–17:30 | TAC 2011 Close | Portrait Room |
| 17:30 |
Bus from NIST to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn If you have made arrangements to be picked up from NIST Building 101 by an airport shuttle or taxi at the end of the workshop, a sign-up sheet will be available at the registration desk for you to give us your name, time of your pickup, and the shuttle/taxi name. Without this information the shuttle/taxi will not be allowed in the NIST gate. Please provide this information as early as possible. | |