TAC 2008
Proceedings Papers
Track overview papers:
- The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge
D. Giampiccolo (CELCT)
H.T. Dang (NIST)
B. Magnini (FBK-ITC)
I. Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)
E. Cabrio (FBK-ITC)
B. Dolan (Microsoft Research)
- Overview of the TAC 2008 Update Summarization Task
H.T. Dang, K. Owczarzak (NIST)
- Overview of the TAC 2008 Opinion Question Answering and Summarization Tasks
H.T. Dang (NIST)
- Summarization Evaluation Using Transformed Basic Elements
S. Tratz, E. Hovy (University of Southern California)
- Automatic Summary Evaluation without Human Models
A. Louis, A. Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania)
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abawakid: Summarization (Update Task)
- A Semantic Summarization System: University of Birmingham at TAC 2008
A. Bawakid, M. Oussalah (University of Birmingham)
Alyssa: QA
- The Alyssa System at TAC QA 2008
M. Wiegand, S. Momtazi, S. Kazalski, F. Xu, G. Chrupala, D. Klakow (Saarland University)
asked08: QA
- TAC 2008 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology
M.H. Heie, E.W.D. Whittaker, J.R. Novak, J. Mrozinski, S. Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
AUEBNLP: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task), Summarization (Update Task)
- AUEB at TAC 2008
D. Galanis, P. Malakasiotis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
BIU: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Efficient Semantic Deduction and Approximate Matching over Compact Parse Forests
R. Bar-Haim, I. Dagan, S. Mirkin, E. Shnarch, I. Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University)
J. Berant, I. Greenthal (Tel-Aviv University)
boeing: RTE (Three-way Task)
- Recognizing Textual Entailment with Logical Inference
P. Clark, P. Harrison (The Boeing Company)
cambridge: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Monte Carlo Semantics: McPIET at RTE4
R. Bergmair (University of Cambridge)
CCNU: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- CCNU at TAC 2008: Proceeding on Using Semantic Method for Automated Summarization Yield
T. He, J. Chen, Z. Gui, F. Li (Huazhong Normal University)
ceaList: Summarization (Update Task)
- Bag of Senses Versus Bag of Words: Comparing Semantic and Lexical Approaches on Sentence Extraction
J. Garcia-Flores (IRSN)
L. Gillard, O. Ferret, G. de Chalendar (French Atomic Energy Commission)
CERES: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- Recognizing Textual Entailment at RTE4 with CERES
D.G. Glinos (Science Applications International Corporation)
CLaC: Summarization (Update Task)
- ERSS at TAC 2008
S. Bellemare, S. Bergler, R. Witte (Concordia University)
claqa: QA
- Concordia University at the TAC-2008 QA Track
M. Razmara, L. Kosseim (Concordia University)
CLASSY: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- CLASSY and TAC 2008 Metrics
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)
CLEAR: RTE (Two-way Task)
- TAC 2008 CLEAR RTE System Report: Facet-based Entailment
R.D. Nielsen, W. Ward (Boulder Language Technologies, University of Colorado, Boulder)
L. Becker (University of Colorado, Boulder)
crchowdary: Summarization (Update Task)
- Update Summarizer Using MMR Approach
C.R. Chowdary, P.S. Kumar (IIT Madras)
csiro: Summarization (Update Task)
- Experimenting with Clause Segmentation for Text Summarization
S. Wan, C. Paris (CSIRO)
DemokritosGR: Summarization (Update Task)
- Testing the Use of N-gram Graphs in Summarization Sub-tasks
G. Giannakopoulos, V. Karkaletsis, G. Vouros (National Center of Scientific Research ``Demokritos'')
DFKI: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- An Accuracy-Oriented Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Recognizing Textual Entailment
R. Wang (Saarland University)
G. Neumann (DFKI GmbH)
DLSIUAES: RTE (Two-way Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- The DLSIUAES Team's Participation in the TAC 2008 Tracks
A. Balahur, E. Lloret, O. Ferrandez, A. Montoyo, M. Palomar, R. Munoz (University of Alicante)
EMLR: Summarization (Update Task)
- Generating Update Summaries with Spreading Activation
V. Nastase, K. Filippova, S.P. Ponzetto (EML Research gGmbH)
Emory: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- Combining Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Evidence for Textual Entailment Classification
E. Agichtein, W. Askew, Y. Liu (Emory University)
fbkirst: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Combining Specialized Entailment Engines for RTE-4
E. Cabrio (FBK-Irst, University of Trento)
M. Kouylekov, B. Magnini (FBK-Irst)
FSC: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- Textual Entailment - Fitchburg State College
O. Montalvo-Huhn, S. Taylor (Fitchburg State College)
HITIRTMDS: Summarization (Update Task)
- HITIR's Update Summary at TAC 2008: Extractive Content Selection for Language Independence
R. He, Y. Liu, B. Qin, T. Liu, S. Li (Harbin Institute of Technology)
ICL08: Summarization (Update Task)
- TAC 2008 Update Summarization Task of ICL
S. Li, W. Wang, C. Wang (Peking University)
ICSI: Summarization (Update Task)
- The ICSI Summarization System at TAC 2008
D. Gillick, B. Favre, D. Hakkani-Tur (International Computer Science Institute)
ICTCAS: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- ICTCAS's ICTGrasper at TAC 2008: Summarizing Dynamic Information with Signature Terms Based Content Filtering
J. Zhang, X. Cheng, H. Xu, X. Wang, Y. Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
IIITSum08: QA, RTE (Three-way Task), Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- IIIT Hyderabad at TAC 2008
V. Varma, P. Pingali, R. Katragadda, S. Krishna, S. Ganesh, K. Sarvabhotla, H. Garapati, H. Gopisetty, V.B. Reddy, K. Reddy, P. Bysani, R. Bharadwaj (IIIT Hyderabad)
IPD: RTE (Three-way Task)
- A Belief Revision Approach to Textual Entailment Recognition
R. Krestel (University of Hannover) S. Bergler, R. Witte (Concordia University)
italica: Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- The Italica System at TAC 2008 Opinion Summarization Task
F. Cruz, J.A. Troyano, J. Ortega, F. Enriquez (University of Seville)
kkireyev: Summarization (Update Task)
- Using Latent Semantic Analysis for Extractive Summarization
K. Kireyev (University of Colorado, Boulder)
KUNLP: RTE (Two-way Task)
- RTE4: Normalized Dependency Tree Alignment Using Unsupervised N-gram Word Similarity Score
M.A. Yatbaz (Koc University)
lcc: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Workshop: Application of LCC's GROUNDHOG System for RTE-4
J. Bensley, A. Hickl (Language Computer Corporation)
LIA: Summarization (Update Task)
- The LIA Update Summarization Systems at TAC 2008 (DRAFT)
F. Boudin, M. El-Beze (Universite d'Avignon)
J.-M. Torres-Moreno (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)
LIPN: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Description of the LIPN Systems at TAC 2008: Summarizing Information and Opinions
A. Bossard, M. Genereux, T. Poibeau (Universite Paris 13)
NUS: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- NUS at TAC 2008: Augumenting Timestamped Graphs with Event Information and Selectively Expanding Opinion Contexts
Z. Lin, H.H. Hoang, L. Qiu, S. Ye, M.-Y. Kan (National University of Singapore)
OAQA: RTE (Three-way Task)
- Using Ontology Alignment for the TAC RTE Challenge
R. Siblini, L. Kosseim (Concordia University)
OGI: Summarization (Update Task)
- Query-focused Supervised Sentence Ranking for Update Summaries
S. Fisher, B. Roark (Oregon Health and Science University)
PeMoZa: RTE (Two-way Task)
- PeMoZa Submission to TAC 2008
F. M. Zanzotto (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
M. Pennacchiotti (Saarland University)
A. Moschitti (University of Trento)
PolyU: QA, Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- PolyU at TAC 2008
W. Li, Y. Ouyang, Y. Hu, F. Wei (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
QUANTA: QA, RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- THU QUANTA at TAC 2008 QA and RTE Track
F. Li, Z. Zheng, T. Yang, F. Bu, R. Ge, X. Zhu, X. Zhang, M. Huang (Tsinghua University)
RaliLatl: Summarization (Update Task)
- A Symbolic Summarizer for the Update Task of TAC 2008
P.-E. Genest, G. Lapalme, L. Nerima, E. Wehrli
Sagan: RTE (Three-way Task)
- An Approach Using Named Entities for Recognizing Textual Entailment
J.J. Castillo, L. Alonso i Alemany (National University of Cordoba)
Stanford: RTE (Three-way Task)
- Deciding Entailment and Contradiction with Stochastic and Edit Distance-based Alignment
S. Pado, M.-C. de Marneffe, B. MacCartney, A.N. Rafferty, E. Yeh, C.D. Manning (Stanford University)
Summarizers: Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- IIT Kharagpur at TAC 2008: Statistical Model for Opinion Summarization
S. Kumar, D. Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Sutler: Summarization (Update Task)
- SUTLER: Update Summarizer Based on Latent Topics
J. Steinberger, K. Jezek (University of West Bohemia)
THUSUM: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Tsinghua University at the Summarization Track of TAC 2008
S. Chen, Y. Yu, C. Long, F. Jin, L. Qin, M. Huang, X. Zhu (Tsinghua University)
TOC: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Thomson Reuters at TAC 2008: Aggressive Filtering with FastSum for Update and Opinion Summarization
F. Schilder, R. Kondadadi, J.L. Leidner, J.G. Conrad (Thomson Corp)
TUT: Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Summarization Focusing on Polarity or Opinion Fragments in Blogs
Y. Seki (Toyohashi University of Technology)
txsumm: Summarization (Update Task)
- Semantic Multi-Document Update Summarization Techniques
R. Verma (University of Houston)
D. Kent (Case Western Reserve University)
P. Chen (University of Houston-Downtown)
UAIC2008: RTE (Three-way Task), RTE (Two-way Task)
- UAIC Participation at RTE4
A. Iftene (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi)
UAms: QA
- The University of Amsterdam at TAC 2008 Question Answering Track
V. Jijkoun, M. de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
uavua: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Using Coreference Links and Sentence Compression in Graph-based Summarization
I. Hendrickx (University of Antwerp)
W. Bosma (Vrije Universiteit)
UBC: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- The University of British Columbia at TAC 2008
G. Murray, S. Joty, G. Carenini, R. Ng (University of British Columbia)
UHD: QA
- Parsing Tree Matching Based Question Answering
P. Chen, T. Simmons, C. Lacayo (University of Houston-Downtown)
W. Ding (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
UIUC: Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Opinion Summarization Using Entity Features and Probabilistic Sentence Coherence Optimization: UIUC at TAC 2008 Opinion Summarization Pilot
H.D. Kim, D.H. Park, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, C.X. Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
UMD: RTE (Three-way Task), Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions and Word-Pair Antonymy for Automatic Text Summarization and Recognizing Textual Entailment
S. Mohammad, B.J. Dorr, M. Egan, N. Madnani, D. Zajic, J. Lin (University of Maryland)
UNED: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Towards an Entity-based Recognition of Textual Entailment
A. Rodrigo, A. Penas, F. Verdejo (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
uoeltg: RTE (Two-way Task)
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Focusing on Non-Entailing Text and Hypothesis
R. Shen, T. Nahnsen, C. Grover, E. Klein (University of Edinburgh)
UofL: QA, Summarization (Update Task)
- UofL at TAC 2008 Update Summarization and Question Answering
Y. Chali, S.A. Hasan, S.R. Joty (University of Lethbridge)
UofO: Summarization (Update Task), Summarization (Opinion Pilot)
- Update Summary Update
T. Copeck, A. Kazantseva, A. Kennedy, A. Kunadze, D. Inkpen, S. Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa)
UPC: RTE (Two-way Task)
- TALP at TAC 2008: A Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment
A. Ageno, D. Farwell, D. Ferres, H. Rodriguez, J. Turmo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
F. Cruz (Universidad de Sevilla)
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