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