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TAC 2008
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NIST Building 101
| 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 2008 Overview [.pdf slides] Hoa Trang Dang (NIST) | |
| 10:15–10:45 |
The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge [.ppt slides] [.pdf slides] 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 |
An Accuracy-Oriented Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Recognizing Textual Entailment [.pdf slides] Rui Wang and Guenter Neumann (DFKI) | |
| 11:40–12:05 |
UAIC Participation at RTE4 [.ppt slides] [.pdf slides] Adrian Iftene (UAIC2008) | |
| 12:05–12:30 |
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) | |
| 12:30–12:55 |
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) | |
| 12:55–14:05 | Lunch | Main Cafeteria |
| 14:05-15:20 | RTE Session III | Red Auditorium |
| 14:05–14:30 |
Application of LCC's GROUNDHOG System for RTE4 Andrew Hickl and Jeremy Bensley (lcc) | |
| 14:30–14:55 |
Monte Carlo Semantics: McPIET at RTE4 [.pdf slides] [.pdf slide notes] Richard Bergmair (cambridge) | |
| 14:55–15:20 |
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) | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Targeted Machine Reading Dan Oblinger (DARPA) | Red Auditorium |
| 15:50–16:20 | Break | West Square Cafeteria |
| 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 [.pdf slides] Hoa Trang Dang and Karolina Owczarzak (NIST) | |
| 09:30–09:55 |
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) | |
| 09:55–10:20 |
Update Summarization Based on Novel Topic Distribution [.pdf slides] Josef Steinberger and Karel Jezek (Sutler) | |
| 10:20–10:45 |
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) | |
| 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 [.ppt slides] Dan Gillick, Benoit Favre, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur (ICSI) | |
| 11:40–12:05 |
CLASSY and TAC 2008 Metrics [.pdf slides] John M. Conroy and Judith D. Schlesinger (CLASSY) | |
| 12:05–12:30 |
Summarization Evaluation Using Transformed Basic Elements [.ppt slides] [.pdf slides] Stephen Tratz and Eduard Hovy (ISI) | |
| 12:30–12:55 |
Testing the Use of N-Gram Graphs in Summarization Sub-Tasks [.pdf slides] George Giannakopoulos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, and George Vouros (DemokritosGR) | |
| 12:55–14:05 | Lunch | Main Cafeteria |
| 14:05-14:55 | Summarization Session III | Red Auditorium |
| 14:05–14:30 |
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) | |
| 14:30–14:55 |
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) | |
| 14:55–15:30 | TAC Poster Boasters | Red Auditorium |
| 15:30–16:00 | TAC Posters with Break | Red Auditorium area |
| 16:00-17:30 | TAC 2009 Planning Session | 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 [.pdf slides] Hoa Trang Dang (NIST) | |
| 14:40–15:00 |
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) | |
| 15:00–15:20 |
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) | |
| 15:20–15:40 |
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) | |
| 15:40–16:00 |
Summarization Focusing on Polarity or Opinion Fragments in Blogs [.ppt slides] [.pdf slides] 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 | |
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